March 3, 2026 • 26 mins
In this edition of Trendly Fire, Jack and Miles discuss Trump's very poorly planned War in Iran, Kristi Noem getting grilled on Capitol Hill, Primary Day in NC, TX, AK and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of trendly Fire.
That one courtesy of David Lesser. My name is Jack O'Brian.
That over there is mister Myles.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yes, good to see
your the weapons you give a vassal state used against
your own weapons. Yeah, a bit of trendly fire there, a.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Bit of trendly fire. Yeah, yeah, this is the This
is an interesting the like three fighter jets that are
supposed to be like the best fighter jets that the
US has were shot shot out of the sky, is
one way of putting it. Yeah, there's like video shared
of it, and the plane is just like falling out
(00:49):
of the sky like a loaf of bread. Like it's
just just like kind of in a dead spin.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, And I'm.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Sure there's like fighter jet experts where like that's actually
that's actually normal for that plane getting shot down, But
it just seems weird. It looks like somebody just like
picked it up and dropped it out of the sky,
right right. Fighter jet experts are like that actually means
it's threatened. That's how it behaves when it's threatened.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
To be careful at fifteen East Strike Eagle be careful.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Be careful. That's a defense mechan that's a defensive posture.
But three of those got shot out of the sky
in Kuwait, And like the one that we've seen at
least on the New York Times, that from like you know,
a local person just being like, hey, there's a fighter
jet falling out of the sky on the ground just
looks very very strange. I feel like there's more to
(01:43):
that story than the military wants us to believe, but
they just keep being like friendly fire.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, it is odd when it's just sort of like
I think also because we're we've now seen the Pentagon
under Hegseth's leadership for what it is, and it's like
it's just a big fucking goof fest. Like when they
shut down. I don't know if we talked about it,
like when they shut down like the airspace near El
Paso because they were like testing some lasers and ship.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah an anti drone lasers oh twice even thank you. Yeah,
the brand the editor is our expert on the LPASO airspaceers.
It's a rare beat to come into that hits the zeitgeist.
But when it does, yeah, they they don't seem to
know what the fuck they're doing at From a broad
(02:29):
strategic level, I'd say his war four days in Trump's
war not going so well. Not surprisingly, this dip shit
didn't have a plan heading in or his plan Like
it seems like he was hoping that he would do
a bunch of violence and the Islamic Republic would fold.
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Ye would just be like, oh, that's that's scary. We
don't want that anymore because that's like kind of all
he could afford politically is to do a quick strike,
which is like kind of his favorite way of doing things,
and instead they're doing the exact thing that they know
he's hoping they wouldn't do, you know, like that this
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is this is how like, you know, I've rooted for
bad sports teams, like bad, badly run sports teams, and
I'm not gonna name names, but like this is when
the other team like can just do two things and
it's like, oh, like.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
As long as they don't do the thing.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Lay exactly into our hands, right, But yeah, the Islamic
Republic seems to be not folding. They're gonna draw it
out cause American casualties make it look bad for Trump,
make it expensive, so that his only option is to
either like continue a very unpopular, very expensive and you know,
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dangerous war, or just do a George W. Bush victory
banner and like move on. But the New York Times
is like saying Iran is working to enlarge the battlefield
from its own territory to the broader region. The goals
are to damage oil and gas infrastructure in neighboring countries,
shut the strait of hormones to shipping, and curtail air traffic,
(04:17):
all to disrupt the economy is the Persian Gulf and
drive up global energy prices and inflation. Iran will also
be trying to exhaust the number of expensive missile interceptors
held by its enemies. Again, like the very first like
if you were like, okay, so let's think about this
from their side, how would we fight if we were
them that This is exactly what the first thought would be.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
They're like he's a chump, and yeah, so yeah, I'm like,
so we were dragged into nowt fighting these fucks. Okay, yeah,
we can turn that. We know how to turn the
heat up on many different dimensions, not just the battlefield,
because also you can't discout the panic that's creeping into
these other their Gulf states that have been on the
(05:01):
receiving end of like.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
The tack about this, they're like what the fuck is
going on?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Like they're like, we thought fucking with you Americans was
gonna fucking protect us. It's now putting us firmly into
the crosshairs. And the other thing too, like Trump. You know,
I mentioned on Monday show about how this professor Elizabeth
Donnie who was saying, like from once she's read like
the capabilities to sustain like all out fighting NonStop of
(05:28):
this kind is probably going to dwindle after like two weeks,
Like it's they're gonna have to start making decisions on
like if you're like we really got what we.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Need, Like we don't have the horses, we don't have
the like we had last week. I don't know, I
shouldn't say we. The United States military had a fucking
aircraft carrier that was malfunctioning just the plum like at
a plumbing level. Yeah, like at a like you would
have canceled like it was like Woodstock ninety nine on there,
(05:58):
Like they like could they just like couldn't They were
backed up with ship yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, yeah, and on top of that too. You have
some of these sailors that have been deployed for like
almost a year straight. Yeah, and that's that's that's gonna
fuck with morale too. And then you have this guy
being like, you know, we've we've seen all the footage
of like people like, oh they're serving good food on
the on the ships. Now, like that means like we
(06:24):
gotta fucking get dirty now. Trump was just saying too. Sorry.
Back to like the munitions thing. He today was like,
we've got so many good We've got so many bombs.
We could do this forever, which I would immediately say, no,
you don't. You don't know, you don't. Why are you
saying that, because you probably just found out you don't.
So now you have to go out there and be like, oh,
(06:45):
we can do this all fucking day if we wanted to.
And because then he pivoted, he's like because then he
he does acknowledge, he's like, you know, but also Biden
gave away so much of depleted our reserves, giving ship away,
and they're like, see, you're starting to realize you had
no fucking plan and this is the fucking nonsense. You're
(07:06):
so hundreds of they said right now, the estimates around
like seven hundred civilians have been killed in Iran already. Yeah,
six US service members are dead now because they were
in like a triple wide trailer that they were told
was fortified, but it took a direct hit, uh and
they found out very quickly it was not fortified for
like an overhead attack in any way. Just a lot
(07:26):
of just again I think emerging more and more that
this guy is out of his mind. He has getting
the worst information from people out of his nests, getting
bad information. Yeah, and just yeah, like I was saying
before we serve recording, like my son's played chess, and
there's this thing that like young, young inexperienced chess players
do called hope chess, where you like sort of just
(07:50):
are playing against an opponent and like hoping they'll do
exactly what you want them to do.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It's like you let a very specific trap, rightah, like
very specific trap that's like if they go there, I'm winning.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
However, you're failing because you are a child or you know,
you're new to chess. You're failing to be like, well,
they're not going to go there because they're also playing chess.
They know they understand the game, they know what the
rules are too, and so they're not going to do
the exact thing that you want them to do. But
that feels like what we're seeing with Donald Trump, like
(08:25):
he is a child playing chess for the first time
and doing things that will only work if his opponents
do exactly what he wants them to do, and they
won't because why would they You just attack them.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
And there've been plenty of examples, even outside of like
straight warfare, where people have been like, what if we
just don't do the thing that he thinks we're gonna
do and he fucking folds. He's like, fuck, what that
was gonna happen with this whole Like to your point,
it's like whole strategy is like you're like the cartoons
and someone to set up a trap. It was just
like a box with a stick propping it up. The
(09:00):
stick has a rope under it, and it's like it's
like setting that shit up with like a science is
free money under this box?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
And you're like, do usually works in cartoons?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And that's if they walk into it. Bro, we got him.
It's like, wait, hold on, they're kicking the box over
what the fuck, oh, well now I'm fucked. They saw
there's no money under there. It's just really it's so
fucking dangerous. And every day I feel like more and
more I see more and more people write that same
thing about like, well, yeah, you got eleven and twelve
year olds fucking running wild with this nation's military and
(09:33):
it's not gonna end up good. No, so it seems bad.
Myles seems bad. Yeah, I think, I mean, because yeah,
you're he's just pump thinking all the time, and not
that even saying like you should have fully committed to war.
It's like, no, you're just that this was never the
solution that was gonna do fucking anything except for, you know,
(09:54):
maybe help all the people whispering dumb shit into your ear.
Like his own generals were like, this is going to
be this cause severe casualties for the US if we
fucking we fuck around with this ship. And then he
said early he's like, they told me it would be
very easy to win.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Maybe one person told you that, but a hundred people
told you that it wouldn't be. But he just he
just like you know, you've seen him go up and
give a speech and it's just clear that he's working
with whatever. The last thing he heard his or the
thing that he most wanted to hear was exactly, you know,
exactly like Israel's been trying to get the US to
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do this for a long time and like the worst
people in the history of US leadership have wanted to
do it for a long time and stopped. Yeah, not
done it up to this point because there are so
many reasons that this is a bad idea, and he
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didn't have the ability to stop because he doesn't have
like the mental faculties. He needed a distraction, and you
know he recognizes that a role probably in the long
term and rich him and other you know, billionaires.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, bad seems bad because it is bad, Jack, Yeah,
your instincts are right on this.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
My uh, my heartbreaks for the people of the Iran specifically,
Like this.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Is fucking everywhere now. It's fucking Lebanon. It's like Lebanese
people are like fleeing to Syria. It's this, dude, displacement
is so fucked up, man. And just even even if
you think you have to fucking leave everything behind, that's
a fucked up experience to go through. Yeah, So yeah,
I don't I don't know again, because for Trump, he's
(11:43):
such a coward. All he needs is some kind of
optics win, right, And I don't know if the people
are telling him or they're trying to formulate a fake
victory that he can take home to put, you know,
put in his you know mind so he can go
to bed at night in his mind palace. Yeah, but uh,
I don't know, Hanold Trump mind palace. Jesus, what does
(12:03):
that look like a bunch of bunch of like McDonald's
empty McDonald's bags.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
And let's take a quick break. We'll come right back,
and we're back. We're back, and uh, let's talk Christy
No because she uh it was her turn to get
(12:29):
grilled by Congress. Yeah, and uh how'd it go for?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I mean, right now, she's getting smoke from both sides,
both sides, Okay sides. Senator Bluementhal made her like acknowledge
American citizens that her goons illegally arrested and even shot, specifically,
Mari Mar Martinez was shot five times in Chicago. And
(12:54):
that fucking insane.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Raid that they like made a propaganda documentary about to
make it look like fucking the movie Predator.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. He then was like, just so you know, uh,
misnome one of your goons, after he shot this woman
hosted this and this went up on social media. Do
you care to just comment on this? This is him
being like you might to just hear what this fucking
guy said after he shot an American citizen five times.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I fired five rounds and she had seven holes. Put
that in your book, boys end quote. Cool, I'm up
for another round of f around and find out m
the thing that you guys were joining me in condemning
that agent.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Sir, that situation.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I don't know the details, but I will look into that.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
M I don't know why you can't join me in
saying it was wrong to shoot Mira are almost cause
her death and then brag about it. Wouldn't you agree
to with me that it was.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Wrong sor right the way that you have portrayed it,
it appears to be. But I let me look into
the case so I can speak to the specifics of it.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
The coward answer also like, I don't know the specifics
of the case. You don't know the specifics of this
fucking case that everyone else does. I just haven't got it.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I actually can't read. This is what my defense is
based on, which.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I mean, I feel like logic would imply that maybe
that's where we're headed. Senator. I cannot see right now.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I can't see ship right now, Senator.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
They come in on the on the floor of Congress
and they're just like, oh, just rubbing their eyes.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
What the fuck? What the I can't see, Senator.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
That's all you got.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, And then when they ask you something, be like,
what why I can't Oh, what the fuck? Now?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
My ears?
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Fuck?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Like shit, somebody's with me. Yeah, somebody's fucking with you.
And you know, there's a lot of people just like
holding her account, being like, hey, you want to look
at this video. What do you think of this ship?
This is fucked uh, And she's like, oh, I don't
know what I'm actually seeing. Even Senator Kennedy, who's a
just a racist ass scab, was somehow not using his
(15:30):
time to just fawn over her goon's activities.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
He's like the southern guy, right the Yeah, he's Louisiana, Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Oh yeah, and he just like will say it you
could sounds like he's been hitting the head. Oh yeah,
oh yeah, he's he's here. In tweety birds all the time,
and look, he held her feet to the fire for
a number of things. He was like, you're spending two hundred,
like just wasting millions of dollars for like name recognition.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Ads, Like what the fuck is this.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Then he also held her feet to the fire over
her characterization of Alex Preddy. If you remember, right after
he was murdered, she was like, oh, you know, it's
he's it was a domestic terrorist, and it was like,
what the fuck. And if you remember, she she walked
that ship back because that weekend everyone was like, this
is crazy. What the fuck you're saying? Are you for
real right now? And she was like, is he bringing
(16:17):
that up though? Because you're she Then she was like, oh,
everything I said was at the behest of Stephen Miller.
If you remember, that was a that was a thing.
Everything I've done has been at the direction. So he's
even the half defending the Nazi but also being like
like what the fuck is this? I mean, I'm that's
(16:39):
that's kind of what's going on, but still.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Smelling blood in the water, like oh yeah, yeah, we're
gonna have a time with her.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
He's just like rehashing the fallout from her calling Alex
Preddy a domestic terrorist, and then but this is but
He's like, but what caught my attention was you coming
after my fellow third Reich admirer. O.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
What got my attention was that you you blame those
statements from mister Stephen Miller the White House?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Oh no, sir, I did not. And in fact, where
you're seeing that as in a news article of anonymous sources,
and anonymous sources say a lot of things, but it
is I've never said that at all.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Well, here, here's what you said on the record. I'm
gonna read you your words. Quote everything I've done, I've
done at the direction of the president and Stephen.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Sir, Where did you see me say that? Act you
read that in the news article?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Where did you read that in a news article on
Axios read where they they actually had a quote attributed
to me? Is that where you read that?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Is that where you heard that?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
What the fuck are you talking?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Get this petty ass in fighting as they're like starting
a war, they could potentially World War three. They they
have like Steven Miller has his favorite senator go up
and be like make sure you hold her feet to
the fire about her her being mean to me, Yeah, exactly.
Steven said that, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I don't think so. Maybe you maybe you should, maybe
you should apologize for everything and not Steven, it's I mean, yeah,
so everyone's kind of getting their licks in. I'm sure
with midterms coming up, they maybe want to show they're
like I asked a kind of hard question. It was
it was mostly to defend Stephen Miller, but I asked
a hard question, right.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Tom Tillis called her leadership a disaster and told her
to resign. Also a Republican.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Way to do it on your way out and retiring
you fucking coward. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
And then so I'll take it. It is funny. And
do we, I mean, do we have a sense that
there is also a little bit more of a willingness
now that Trump, like now that this administration is so
profoundly unpopular, Like, do we feel like people are now
getting a little courage?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I mean, the brand, the brand is not the brand
as the opposite of the opposite of what Jesus and
Mary used to say. The brand is not strong right now,
it's and it's it's going worse and worse. And I
think we see constantly everyone who isn't talking directly to
Donald Trump, they're talking about the midterms, going the fuck
(19:23):
are we gonna fucking dude? Yeah, I'm getting my my
ass kick wise, nobody wants anything to do with me,
and we've got no fucking direction. So I'm sure on
some litvel of people like fuck it, if I got
to figure out how I'm going to stay relevant and
be like a politician, maybe begin to differentiate. But this
is still firmly his party, and I think, you know,
(19:45):
I think a lot of people entered with that sort
of zombie gaze in their eyes and are still zombies,
but they're they're like half sentient and they're like, what
are we whatever?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Speaking of midterms, primary day is upon us.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah, it's kicked off North Carolina, Arkansas, and Texas Carolina.
If you're in those states, probably don't do mail in ballots.
I've been reading like for Texas, like maybe hand that
shit in because it's it's it's going to be, you know,
there's they like they like to fuck around. But Texas,
for sure, I think is has a lot of attention
(20:27):
because it's a huge race for Democrats between James Tallerico
and congress Woman Jasmine Crockett, because there's an actual chance
that they Yeah, they're both down. Yeah, they're both. They're
both both strong candidates in terms of how they're performing
in Texas, and Crockett was leading a lot of polls,
but over the weekend the Emerson poll, which a lot
(20:48):
of people put the weight in uh, put tall Rico ahead. Again,
they're both strong candidates. Some some, a lot of people,
not some people. Many people have pointed to their records
on Israel and try to make a differentiation, a differentiation
between the two, but from reading their campaign materials, yeah,
they're both. They're both both firmly and the Israel can
(21:08):
defend itself, but it shouldn't be killing Palestinians. Question mark
sort of posture. Not the best. But many on the
internet have said Crockett takes a pac money. That's just
that's actually true. She's she's taken trips to Israel and
she's you know, said things like, you know, they should
(21:29):
be able to defend themselves. Tallarico also said similar things.
I think it's a fair criticism. I think a fair
criticism of her votes is that she has materially supported Israel,
like with defense spending and things like that. Even if
she says, well, those votes are not yeah, larger things
and there were good things in it for Palestinians too,
It's like, well, hold on, you got to you got
(21:51):
to keep it one hundred, Like either you're doing this
shit or you're not. And the vote indicates you're you're
doing this shit in terms of material support.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
They're they're both in this camp, right yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Like like also with talar Rico, like they you know,
they they said, is so he like he's supporting Israel
because you know, in a previous race, he took money
from a pack that was funded by Miriam Adelson, who
is again huge fundraiser and pro Israeli you know, uh,
(22:23):
political donor through her like casino business for her husband,
her late husband. But that pack that gave to him
technically was nothing to do with Israel. It was very
It was focused on her gambling business because they were
trying to bring more gambling into Texas and he took
that money. So sure, but he's also wishy washy on Gaza,
like he'll condemn the actions of the Israeli government, won't
(22:44):
call it a genocide, but his words still treat Israel's
defense as sort of a de facto part of American
foreign policy, which I'm like that name. That's not great either.
So they're both like sort of center right candidates in
that very specific regard in terms of Palestine and Israel.
There are other policies are pretty forward facing, progressive. So
(23:09):
I think like a lot of people talk about the
electability argument, it's just a little I think.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
It's candidate is a white guy. Yeah, it's the electability argument, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Exactly, And I'm like like, I don't I get that
people are racist, but just being like, well, black people
can't win races if there's white people there is, dude,
that that's sot.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Of the electability argument on Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama.
Like these are the things people will tell you.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Right and again, like even with that post mortem that
the DNC did of Kamla's campaign, they're like, there's a
lot to do with like the the goz of stuff
we and a lot of people were just sort of
quick to be like it was racism. Yeah, there's that too,
But I don't think it's fair to be like, well,
Jasmine Crockett, that's not good because she's not as elective eliminated.
She's been eliminated. She's like the run a white man.
(24:03):
I'm not I'm not fucking with that, because she also
does like you know, you look at the support that
she was getting in early polls, Like she was getting
a lot of support from like rural voters in Texas.
So there's a lot there to be Like, I don't
know these both of these people are. They're running strong campaigns,
but we shall see what happens. Who will take on
(24:25):
you know, either John Cornyn or Ken Paxton. Yeah, they're
also fighting to be who can be the worst fucker
in the race. Actually that's the Yeah, So.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
That's also happening today, and the polling suggests that things
are so bad for Republicans that this might actually be
a race. Like I know we've done this in the
past where we're like Texas might even be in play
and then it never is. But like this seems like
the time when it's actually.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Yeah, because also it's like one of those things where
numerically Democrats are outnumbered, but enthusiasm is so low with
Republicans that can run be a huge benefit. And I
think at the end of the day, it's like are
you are you trying to like, is Jasmine Crockett turning
out just more of the base and being like, let's
get as much a democratic enthusiasm going taller Riko. They're like, well,
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he can bring in the white Christian people, and that's
more of a model, like can he bring in people
who aren't traditionally voting with the Democratic Party, And so
those are sort of two visions of what you know,
people think, you know, the party should be doing.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
It's almost good that we have a primary, you know. Yeah, yeah,
cool that you have that.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yeah, yeah, sure, sure yeah. Primaries tend to be a
cool part of the democratic process.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Mm hmm. All right, those are some of the things
that are trending on this Tuesday, March third. We are
back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show.
Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourself,
get your vaccines while you still can't get your flu shots,
don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of trendly Fire.
That one courtesy of David Lesser. My name is Jack O'Brian.
That over there is mister Myles.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yes, good to see
your the weapons you give a vassal state used against
your own weapons. Yeah, a bit of trendly fire there, a.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Bit of trendly fire. Yeah, yeah, this is the This
is an interesting the like three fighter jets that are
supposed to be like the best fighter jets that the
US has were shot shot out of the sky, is
one way of putting it. Yeah, there's like video shared
of it, and the plane is just like falling out
(00:49):
of the sky like a loaf of bread. Like it's
just just like kind of in a dead spin.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, And I'm.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Sure there's like fighter jet experts where like that's actually
that's actually normal for that plane getting shot down, But
it just seems weird. It looks like somebody just like
picked it up and dropped it out of the sky,
right right. Fighter jet experts are like that actually means
it's threatened. That's how it behaves when it's threatened.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
To be careful at fifteen East Strike Eagle be careful.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Be careful. That's a defense mechan that's a defensive posture.
But three of those got shot out of the sky
in Kuwait, And like the one that we've seen at
least on the New York Times, that from like you know,
a local person just being like, hey, there's a fighter
jet falling out of the sky on the ground just
looks very very strange. I feel like there's more to
(01:43):
that story than the military wants us to believe, but
they just keep being like friendly fire.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, it is odd when it's just sort of like
I think also because we're we've now seen the Pentagon
under Hegseth's leadership for what it is, and it's like
it's just a big fucking goof fest. Like when they
shut down. I don't know if we talked about it,
like when they shut down like the airspace near El
Paso because they were like testing some lasers and ship.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah an anti drone lasers oh twice even thank you. Yeah,
the brand the editor is our expert on the LPASO airspaceers.
It's a rare beat to come into that hits the zeitgeist.
But when it does, yeah, they they don't seem to
know what the fuck they're doing at From a broad
(02:29):
strategic level, I'd say his war four days in Trump's
war not going so well. Not surprisingly, this dip shit
didn't have a plan heading in or his plan Like
it seems like he was hoping that he would do
a bunch of violence and the Islamic Republic would fold.
(02:51):
Ye would just be like, oh, that's that's scary. We
don't want that anymore because that's like kind of all
he could afford politically is to do a quick strike,
which is like kind of his favorite way of doing things,
and instead they're doing the exact thing that they know
he's hoping they wouldn't do, you know, like that this
(03:15):
is this is how like, you know, I've rooted for
bad sports teams, like bad, badly run sports teams, and
I'm not gonna name names, but like this is when
the other team like can just do two things and
it's like, oh, like.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
As long as they don't do the thing.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Lay exactly into our hands, right, But yeah, the Islamic
Republic seems to be not folding. They're gonna draw it
out cause American casualties make it look bad for Trump,
make it expensive, so that his only option is to
either like continue a very unpopular, very expensive and you know,
(03:56):
dangerous war, or just do a George W. Bush victory
banner and like move on. But the New York Times
is like saying Iran is working to enlarge the battlefield
from its own territory to the broader region. The goals
are to damage oil and gas infrastructure in neighboring countries,
shut the strait of hormones to shipping, and curtail air traffic,
(04:17):
all to disrupt the economy is the Persian Gulf and
drive up global energy prices and inflation. Iran will also
be trying to exhaust the number of expensive missile interceptors
held by its enemies. Again, like the very first like
if you were like, okay, so let's think about this
from their side, how would we fight if we were
them that This is exactly what the first thought would be.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
They're like he's a chump, and yeah, so yeah, I'm like,
so we were dragged into nowt fighting these fucks. Okay, yeah,
we can turn that. We know how to turn the
heat up on many different dimensions, not just the battlefield,
because also you can't discout the panic that's creeping into
these other their Gulf states that have been on the
(05:01):
receiving end of like.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
The tack about this, they're like what the fuck is
going on?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Like they're like, we thought fucking with you Americans was
gonna fucking protect us. It's now putting us firmly into
the crosshairs. And the other thing too, like Trump. You know,
I mentioned on Monday show about how this professor Elizabeth
Donnie who was saying, like from once she's read like
the capabilities to sustain like all out fighting NonStop of
(05:28):
this kind is probably going to dwindle after like two weeks,
Like it's they're gonna have to start making decisions on
like if you're like we really got what we.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Need, Like we don't have the horses, we don't have
the like we had last week. I don't know, I
shouldn't say we. The United States military had a fucking
aircraft carrier that was malfunctioning just the plum like at
a plumbing level. Yeah, like at a like you would
have canceled like it was like Woodstock ninety nine on there,
(05:58):
Like they like could they just like couldn't They were
backed up with ship yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, yeah, and on top of that too. You have
some of these sailors that have been deployed for like
almost a year straight. Yeah, and that's that's that's gonna
fuck with morale too. And then you have this guy
being like, you know, we've we've seen all the footage
of like people like, oh they're serving good food on
the on the ships. Now, like that means like we
(06:24):
gotta fucking get dirty now. Trump was just saying too. Sorry.
Back to like the munitions thing. He today was like,
we've got so many good We've got so many bombs.
We could do this forever, which I would immediately say, no,
you don't. You don't know, you don't. Why are you
saying that, because you probably just found out you don't.
So now you have to go out there and be like, oh,
(06:45):
we can do this all fucking day if we wanted to.
And because then he pivoted, he's like because then he
he does acknowledge, he's like, you know, but also Biden
gave away so much of depleted our reserves, giving ship away,
and they're like, see, you're starting to realize you had
no fucking plan and this is the fucking nonsense. You're
(07:06):
so hundreds of they said right now, the estimates around
like seven hundred civilians have been killed in Iran already. Yeah,
six US service members are dead now because they were
in like a triple wide trailer that they were told
was fortified, but it took a direct hit, uh and
they found out very quickly it was not fortified for
like an overhead attack in any way. Just a lot
(07:26):
of just again I think emerging more and more that
this guy is out of his mind. He has getting
the worst information from people out of his nests, getting
bad information. Yeah, and just yeah, like I was saying
before we serve recording, like my son's played chess, and
there's this thing that like young, young inexperienced chess players
do called hope chess, where you like sort of just
(07:50):
are playing against an opponent and like hoping they'll do
exactly what you want them to do.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It's like you let a very specific trap, rightah, like
very specific trap that's like if they go there, I'm winning.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
However, you're failing because you are a child or you know,
you're new to chess. You're failing to be like, well,
they're not going to go there because they're also playing chess.
They know they understand the game, they know what the
rules are too, and so they're not going to do
the exact thing that you want them to do. But
that feels like what we're seeing with Donald Trump, like
(08:25):
he is a child playing chess for the first time
and doing things that will only work if his opponents
do exactly what he wants them to do, and they
won't because why would they You just attack them.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
And there've been plenty of examples, even outside of like
straight warfare, where people have been like, what if we
just don't do the thing that he thinks we're gonna
do and he fucking folds. He's like, fuck, what that
was gonna happen with this whole Like to your point,
it's like whole strategy is like you're like the cartoons
and someone to set up a trap. It was just
like a box with a stick propping it up. The
(09:00):
stick has a rope under it, and it's like it's
like setting that shit up with like a science is
free money under this box?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
And you're like, do usually works in cartoons?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And that's if they walk into it. Bro, we got him.
It's like, wait, hold on, they're kicking the box over
what the fuck, oh, well now I'm fucked. They saw
there's no money under there. It's just really it's so
fucking dangerous. And every day I feel like more and
more I see more and more people write that same
thing about like, well, yeah, you got eleven and twelve
year olds fucking running wild with this nation's military and
(09:33):
it's not gonna end up good. No, so it seems bad.
Myles seems bad. Yeah, I think, I mean, because yeah,
you're he's just pump thinking all the time, and not
that even saying like you should have fully committed to war.
It's like, no, you're just that this was never the
solution that was gonna do fucking anything except for, you know,
(09:54):
maybe help all the people whispering dumb shit into your ear.
Like his own generals were like, this is going to
be this cause severe casualties for the US if we
fucking we fuck around with this ship. And then he
said early he's like, they told me it would be
very easy to win.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Maybe one person told you that, but a hundred people
told you that it wouldn't be. But he just he
just like you know, you've seen him go up and
give a speech and it's just clear that he's working
with whatever. The last thing he heard his or the
thing that he most wanted to hear was exactly, you know,
exactly like Israel's been trying to get the US to
(10:30):
do this for a long time and like the worst
people in the history of US leadership have wanted to
do it for a long time and stopped. Yeah, not
done it up to this point because there are so
many reasons that this is a bad idea, and he
(10:51):
didn't have the ability to stop because he doesn't have
like the mental faculties. He needed a distraction, and you
know he recognizes that a role probably in the long
term and rich him and other you know, billionaires.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, bad seems bad because it is bad, Jack, Yeah,
your instincts are right on this.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
My uh, my heartbreaks for the people of the Iran specifically,
Like this.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Is fucking everywhere now. It's fucking Lebanon. It's like Lebanese
people are like fleeing to Syria. It's this, dude, displacement
is so fucked up, man. And just even even if
you think you have to fucking leave everything behind, that's
a fucked up experience to go through. Yeah, So yeah,
I don't I don't know again, because for Trump, he's
(11:43):
such a coward. All he needs is some kind of
optics win, right, And I don't know if the people
are telling him or they're trying to formulate a fake
victory that he can take home to put, you know,
put in his you know mind so he can go
to bed at night in his mind palace. Yeah, but uh,
I don't know, Hanold Trump mind palace. Jesus, what does
(12:03):
that look like a bunch of bunch of like McDonald's
empty McDonald's bags.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
And let's take a quick break. We'll come right back,
and we're back. We're back, and uh, let's talk Christy
No because she uh it was her turn to get
(12:29):
grilled by Congress. Yeah, and uh how'd it go for?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I mean, right now, she's getting smoke from both sides,
both sides, Okay sides. Senator Bluementhal made her like acknowledge
American citizens that her goons illegally arrested and even shot, specifically,
Mari Mar Martinez was shot five times in Chicago. And
(12:54):
that fucking insane.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Raid that they like made a propaganda documentary about to
make it look like fucking the movie Predator.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. He then was like, just so you know, uh,
misnome one of your goons, after he shot this woman
hosted this and this went up on social media. Do
you care to just comment on this? This is him
being like you might to just hear what this fucking
guy said after he shot an American citizen five times.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I fired five rounds and she had seven holes. Put
that in your book, boys end quote. Cool, I'm up
for another round of f around and find out m
the thing that you guys were joining me in condemning
that agent.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Sir, that situation.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I don't know the details, but I will look into that.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
M I don't know why you can't join me in
saying it was wrong to shoot Mira are almost cause
her death and then brag about it. Wouldn't you agree
to with me that it was.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Wrong sor right the way that you have portrayed it,
it appears to be. But I let me look into
the case so I can speak to the specifics of it.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
The coward answer also like, I don't know the specifics
of the case. You don't know the specifics of this
fucking case that everyone else does. I just haven't got it.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I actually can't read. This is what my defense is
based on, which.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I mean, I feel like logic would imply that maybe
that's where we're headed. Senator. I cannot see right now.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I can't see ship right now, Senator.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
They come in on the on the floor of Congress
and they're just like, oh, just rubbing their eyes.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
What the fuck? What the I can't see, Senator.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
That's all you got.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, And then when they ask you something, be like,
what why I can't Oh, what the fuck? Now?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
My ears?
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Fuck?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Like shit, somebody's with me. Yeah, somebody's fucking with you.
And you know, there's a lot of people just like
holding her account, being like, hey, you want to look
at this video. What do you think of this ship?
This is fucked uh, And she's like, oh, I don't
know what I'm actually seeing. Even Senator Kennedy, who's a
just a racist ass scab, was somehow not using his
(15:30):
time to just fawn over her goon's activities.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
He's like the southern guy, right the Yeah, he's Louisiana, Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Oh yeah, and he just like will say it you
could sounds like he's been hitting the head. Oh yeah,
oh yeah, he's he's here. In tweety birds all the time,
and look, he held her feet to the fire for
a number of things. He was like, you're spending two hundred,
like just wasting millions of dollars for like name recognition.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Ads, Like what the fuck is this.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Then he also held her feet to the fire over
her characterization of Alex Preddy. If you remember, right after
he was murdered, she was like, oh, you know, it's
he's it was a domestic terrorist, and it was like,
what the fuck. And if you remember, she she walked
that ship back because that weekend everyone was like, this
is crazy. What the fuck you're saying? Are you for
real right now? And she was like, is he bringing
(16:17):
that up though? Because you're she Then she was like, oh,
everything I said was at the behest of Stephen Miller.
If you remember, that was a that was a thing.
Everything I've done has been at the direction. So he's
even the half defending the Nazi but also being like
like what the fuck is this? I mean, I'm that's
(16:39):
that's kind of what's going on, but still.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Smelling blood in the water, like oh yeah, yeah, we're
gonna have a time with her.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
He's just like rehashing the fallout from her calling Alex
Preddy a domestic terrorist, and then but this is but
He's like, but what caught my attention was you coming
after my fellow third Reich admirer. O.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
What got my attention was that you you blame those
statements from mister Stephen Miller the White House?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Oh no, sir, I did not. And in fact, where
you're seeing that as in a news article of anonymous sources,
and anonymous sources say a lot of things, but it
is I've never said that at all.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Well, here, here's what you said on the record. I'm
gonna read you your words. Quote everything I've done, I've
done at the direction of the president and Stephen.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Sir, Where did you see me say that? Act you
read that in the news article?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Where did you read that in a news article on
Axios read where they they actually had a quote attributed
to me? Is that where you read that?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Is that where you heard that?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
What the fuck are you talking?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Get this petty ass in fighting as they're like starting
a war, they could potentially World War three. They they
have like Steven Miller has his favorite senator go up
and be like make sure you hold her feet to
the fire about her her being mean to me, Yeah, exactly.
Steven said that, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I don't think so. Maybe you maybe you should, maybe
you should apologize for everything and not Steven, it's I mean, yeah,
so everyone's kind of getting their licks in. I'm sure
with midterms coming up, they maybe want to show they're
like I asked a kind of hard question. It was
it was mostly to defend Stephen Miller, but I asked
a hard question, right.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Tom Tillis called her leadership a disaster and told her
to resign. Also a Republican.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Way to do it on your way out and retiring
you fucking coward. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
And then so I'll take it. It is funny. And
do we, I mean, do we have a sense that
there is also a little bit more of a willingness
now that Trump, like now that this administration is so
profoundly unpopular, Like, do we feel like people are now
getting a little courage?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I mean, the brand, the brand is not the brand
as the opposite of the opposite of what Jesus and
Mary used to say. The brand is not strong right now,
it's and it's it's going worse and worse. And I
think we see constantly everyone who isn't talking directly to
Donald Trump, they're talking about the midterms, going the fuck
(19:23):
are we gonna fucking dude? Yeah, I'm getting my my
ass kick wise, nobody wants anything to do with me,
and we've got no fucking direction. So I'm sure on
some litvel of people like fuck it, if I got
to figure out how I'm going to stay relevant and
be like a politician, maybe begin to differentiate. But this
is still firmly his party, and I think, you know,
(19:45):
I think a lot of people entered with that sort
of zombie gaze in their eyes and are still zombies,
but they're they're like half sentient and they're like, what
are we whatever?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Speaking of midterms, primary day is upon us.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah, it's kicked off North Carolina, Arkansas, and Texas Carolina.
If you're in those states, probably don't do mail in ballots.
I've been reading like for Texas, like maybe hand that
shit in because it's it's it's going to be, you know,
there's they like they like to fuck around. But Texas,
for sure, I think is has a lot of attention
(20:27):
because it's a huge race for Democrats between James Tallerico
and congress Woman Jasmine Crockett, because there's an actual chance
that they Yeah, they're both down. Yeah, they're both. They're
both both strong candidates in terms of how they're performing
in Texas, and Crockett was leading a lot of polls,
but over the weekend the Emerson poll, which a lot
(20:48):
of people put the weight in uh, put tall Rico ahead. Again,
they're both strong candidates. Some some, a lot of people,
not some people. Many people have pointed to their records
on Israel and try to make a differentiation, a differentiation
between the two, but from reading their campaign materials, yeah,
they're both. They're both both firmly and the Israel can
(21:08):
defend itself, but it shouldn't be killing Palestinians. Question mark
sort of posture. Not the best. But many on the
internet have said Crockett takes a pac money. That's just
that's actually true. She's she's taken trips to Israel and
she's you know, said things like, you know, they should
(21:29):
be able to defend themselves. Tallarico also said similar things.
I think it's a fair criticism. I think a fair
criticism of her votes is that she has materially supported Israel,
like with defense spending and things like that. Even if
she says, well, those votes are not yeah, larger things
and there were good things in it for Palestinians too,
It's like, well, hold on, you got to you got
(21:51):
to keep it one hundred, Like either you're doing this
shit or you're not. And the vote indicates you're you're
doing this shit in terms of material support.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
They're they're both in this camp, right yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Like like also with talar Rico, like they you know,
they they said, is so he like he's supporting Israel
because you know, in a previous race, he took money
from a pack that was funded by Miriam Adelson, who
is again huge fundraiser and pro Israeli you know, uh,
(22:23):
political donor through her like casino business for her husband,
her late husband. But that pack that gave to him
technically was nothing to do with Israel. It was very
It was focused on her gambling business because they were
trying to bring more gambling into Texas and he took
that money. So sure, but he's also wishy washy on Gaza,
like he'll condemn the actions of the Israeli government, won't
(22:44):
call it a genocide, but his words still treat Israel's
defense as sort of a de facto part of American
foreign policy, which I'm like that name. That's not great either.
So they're both like sort of center right candidates in
that very specific regard in terms of Palestine and Israel.
There are other policies are pretty forward facing, progressive. So
(23:09):
I think like a lot of people talk about the
electability argument, it's just a little I think.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
It's candidate is a white guy. Yeah, it's the electability argument, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Exactly, And I'm like like, I don't I get that
people are racist, but just being like, well, black people
can't win races if there's white people there is, dude,
that that's sot.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Of the electability argument on Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama.
Like these are the things people will tell you.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Right and again, like even with that post mortem that
the DNC did of Kamla's campaign, they're like, there's a
lot to do with like the the goz of stuff
we and a lot of people were just sort of
quick to be like it was racism. Yeah, there's that too,
But I don't think it's fair to be like, well,
Jasmine Crockett, that's not good because she's not as elective eliminated.
She's been eliminated. She's like the run a white man.
(24:03):
I'm not I'm not fucking with that, because she also
does like you know, you look at the support that
she was getting in early polls, Like she was getting
a lot of support from like rural voters in Texas.
So there's a lot there to be Like, I don't
know these both of these people are. They're running strong campaigns,
but we shall see what happens. Who will take on
(24:25):
you know, either John Cornyn or Ken Paxton. Yeah, they're
also fighting to be who can be the worst fucker
in the race. Actually that's the Yeah, So.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
That's also happening today, and the polling suggests that things
are so bad for Republicans that this might actually be
a race. Like I know we've done this in the
past where we're like Texas might even be in play
and then it never is. But like this seems like
the time when it's actually.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Yeah, because also it's like one of those things where
numerically Democrats are outnumbered, but enthusiasm is so low with
Republicans that can run be a huge benefit. And I
think at the end of the day, it's like are
you are you trying to like, is Jasmine Crockett turning
out just more of the base and being like, let's
get as much a democratic enthusiasm going taller Riko. They're like, well,
(25:13):
he can bring in the white Christian people, and that's
more of a model, like can he bring in people
who aren't traditionally voting with the Democratic Party, And so
those are sort of two visions of what you know,
people think, you know, the party should be doing.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
It's almost good that we have a primary, you know. Yeah, yeah,
cool that you have that.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yeah, yeah, sure, sure yeah. Primaries tend to be a
cool part of the democratic process.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Mm hmm. All right, those are some of the things
that are trending on this Tuesday, March third. We are
back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show.
Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourself,
get your vaccines while you still can't get your flu shots,
don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
to you all tomorrow.
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