NATO downs Russian drones over Poland, Trump backs down & claims victory!

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This WTF Wednesday I wade through headlines that look less like news and more like rejected scenes from a bad sequel. The only thing missing is popcorn.

The military pulls off a strike that feels like it was storyboarded in Hollywood. Now Washington is stuck explaining it with the credibility of a teenager swearing they only had one beer.

Vice President J D Vance decides to chime in with commentary that makes international law sound like it was written on the back of a napkin. Bold strategy, let’s see how that plays out.

Meanwhile a note linked to Jeffrey Epstein pops up in Congress and suddenly full-grown politicians are acting allergic to paper. It’s oversight theater at its weirdest.

The White House press room steps in next, spinning so hard it could generate its own power grid. Yesterday it was fake, today it’s not, tomorrow it’s the narrative. Got that?

In Missouri, lawmakers clap for honesty one minute and vote the opposite way the next. It’s accountability on stage, business as usual backstage. The applause sign is working overtime.

Across the ocean, Russian drones cross into Poland and NATO has to answer. That’s not just a border issue…that’s the kind of thing that makes generals reach for antacids.

And yes, Trump strolls back in to declare retreat a victory. Only in America can backing down be marketed like a grand achievement.

It’s another WTF Wednesday where everything Washington does we have to say “what the F…”

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a world gone mad.
This is a world gone mad, mad,mad, mad, mad.
Welcome back to A World GoneMad where Donald Trump still
struts like a king without acrown, turning every day into a
hostage note and every lie intoa loyalty test for the people

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dumb enough to follow him.
I'm Jeff Alan Wolfe, yourunwilling tour guide through
this carnival of idiots, liarsand sociopaths who somehow wound
up running the demolition derbywe call America.
It's WTF Wednesday, where theheadlines aren't news.
They're weapons firedpoint-blank by frauds who call

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themselves patriots while thiscountry bleeds.
If this is your first timelistening, welcome aboard.
If you're a member of theWolfpack, thank you for
returning.
Either way, you've found yourhaven.
I'm not your babysitter.
I'm not your babysitter.
This isn't a podcast about allof us coming together.

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I'm here to rip the masks offthe crooks in charge, slam their
hypocrisy on the table and yellin their faces.
How dare you torch theConstitution Just to feed your
greed?
Your WTF Wednesday edition.
Because every headline we hearhas you asking what the fuck are

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they trying to get away withnow?
What outrageous garbage arethey serving up this week?
My boxing gloves are on andit's time to punch my way
through all this bullshit.
So here we go.

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So apparently the US militaryjust casually blew up a
Venezuelan boat full ofsuspected drug traffickers.
No warrant, no trial.
No, hey, you know, maybe weshould check who's on board
before we unleash the missiles.
Nope, just straight to MichaelBay, the Navy edition.
And who gets stuck trying toexplain this circus?
Rand Paul, the guy who'snormally out there filibustering

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about the price of light bulbs,is now stuck saying hey,
normally you board a boat beforeyou decide to blow it up.
Rand Paul, defender of nauticaletiquette, because apparently
in 2025, we need to remindpeople you don't skip straight
to detonate.

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But the real showstopper that'sgot to be Vice President JD
Vance.
The man actually said listencarefully.
Killing cartel members is thehighest and best use of our
military.
And when asked about whetherthat's, you know, a war crime,
vance's response was I don'tgive a shit what you call it.

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And JD Vance is next in line,supposedly for the presidency.
Seriously, I need a drink.
Let's just pause there.
The vice president of theUnited States just redefined
international law as I don'tgive a shit.
That's not policy, that's theattitude of a guy who just

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parked in a handicapped spotbecause it was closer to the
door.
And here's the kicker.
Republicans spent yearsbranding themselves as the party
of law and order.
Now they're endorsing murderingships.
That's not law and order,that's pirates with better

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uniforms.
What the hell are they doing?
And just when you think themadness couldn't get any weirder
, washington finds a way toembarrass itself.
The House Oversight Committeereleases Trump's bizarre 2003
birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein.
Everyone's buzzing about thesignature, enter GOP

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Representative Eric Burleson whosays he'd love to see it.
So when CNN's Manu Raju askedif he had seen the note,
burleson said I have not, but Iwould love to see it.
Like you know, matched with hishandwriting, it just is really

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really wild.
So what happens?
Raju literally hands Burlesonthe hard copy and says here's
the letter.
And Burleson chuckled and saidyeah, I don't, I don't, really,
I don't want to see that.
Think about that.
He wants to see it.
Then he doesn't want to see it.

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Then he's on nationaltelevision dodging it like it's
radioactive the politicalequivalent of saying, yeah, I'd
love to try sushi, but don'tbring it near me.
This is the cognitivedissonance Olympics Burleson
trying to balance I'm curiouswith I'm terrified.

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It's the look of a kid handedbroccoli for the first time.
And here's the scary part.
Not the note, not even Epstein.
The scary part is watching anelected official physically
recoil from a piece of paperbecause it might connect Trump
to something he can't spin away.

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That's not oversight, that'swillful blindness.
And the punchline is he did itlive on the air for everyone to
see.
And if Burleson dodging a pieceof paper wasn't surreal enough,
the White House press roomdecided to put on its own

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acrobatic show.
On Monday, white House presssecretary Caroline Levitt
flat-out called Trump's Epsteinbirthday note fake news.
Her words clear as day.
Tuesday she was asked about itagain.
Suddenly, the denial machinekicked in.
She insisted she never saidthat telling reporters I did not

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say the documents are a hoax.
I said the entire narrativesurrounding Jeffrey Epstein
right now that is absorbing manyof the liberal cable channels
on television is a hoax.
So let's see, one day it's fakenews, the next day it's no, I
didn't say that, it's thenarrative that's fake.

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Then the press secretary wentfor the big spin.
She accused Democrats.
And I kid you not.
She accused the Democrats ofpretending to care about victims
of crime when they do not careabout victims of crime.
Adding, they are now usingvictims as political props to

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try to smear the President ofthe United States and drag on
this bad story about him.
That's not a press briefing,that's performance art.
She denied what she literallysaid, blamed Democrats and tried
to flip compassion into aweapon.
This is word salad politicsDenial on top of blame on top of

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virtue, signaling.
It's logic on steroids, but thekind that makes the whole body
collapse.
And the press room just satthere watching the spin cycle
run in real time.
Seriously, they don't have aclue what they're doing.
And after watching the WhiteHouse try to spin reality into

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word salad, let's come back hometo Missouri, where Republicans
managed to trip over their owngerrymander.
Inside the Missouri House,republicans were pushing through
a map so blatantlygerrymandered it would lock in a
7-1 advantage Seven Republicans, one Democrat.

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That's not representation,that's monopoly, with the dice
already loaded.
And here's the momentRepublican Representative Tony
Harbison, republican, stood up,looked at his own party and said
stood up, looked at his ownparty and said our plate is full
and this ain't one of them.
That's the full line.

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He admitted out loud that thiswhole stunt had no business.
On the floor.
The chamber erupted in applause.
Finally, someone said whateveryone could see the maps were
a joke.
The process was shameless andeven Republicans had to clap for

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a little honesty.
But applause is cheap, becauseright after that standing
ovation they turned around andpassed the gerrymandered maps
anyway.
Think about the hypocrisy ARepublican lawmaker slams his
own party for pushing fake lines, the whole room cheers, and

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then they rush right back andvote yes, that's not governing,
that's improv theater, aperformance of accountability,
followed by business as usual,and your democracy gets carved
up into a cartoon sketch.
Wolfpack listeners.
They just go deeper and deeperdown the rabbit hole.

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And while Missouri politiciansare busy redrawing lines on a
map to protect their seats, thereal lines being crossed are
halfway around the world andthey carry consequences far
beyond party politics.
Wednesday, nato confirmedsomething we haven't seen before
.
Polish fighter jets shot downRussian drones after they

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violated Poland's airspace NotUkraine's border, poland's
border, a NATO member.
That matters because if Moscowkeeps pushing past those lines,
it risks triggering Article 5.
The part of the NATO treatythat says an attack on one is an

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attack on all.
That's the kind of escalationthe world has been trying to
avoid since this war began.
Nato officials called Russia'sactions absolutely reckless, and
they're right.
Even for Vladimir Putin, thisis beyond his normal playbook.
He's testing the rails,drifting further off track and

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daring the West to see how muchit will tolerate.
And what was Trump's response?
Well, instead of showingleadership or reassurance, he
downplayed it, treating a NATOpartner under threat as if it
was just background noise.
This is not leadership.
That is negligence dressed upas bluster.

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Here's the reality.
Reckless Russian drones don'tjust threaten Ukraine, they
threaten stability across Europe.
When Poland's airspace isbreached, it is not a regional
issue, it's a global one.
Telling you this isn't aboutscaring anyone.
It's about being clear If Putinkeeps pushing past borders,

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he's gambling with aconfrontation NATO cannot ignore
.
And while the alliance isstanding firm, america's voice
at the table matters.
The question today is simple Dowe act like a leader on the
world stage or do we let Putinwrite the rules while our
leaders shrug?
While our leaders shrug?
And just when will anyone inWashington, on the Republican

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side, any leader at all, step upand understand the
ramifications of this?
I'm waiting, but meanwhile I'llbinge watch something mindless,
because we all know this isgoing to take a lot longer than
it should.
And after talking about globalstakes and real danger, let's

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swing back home, where DonaldTrump once again proves he could
brag about cleaning up a messwhile standing knee-deep in the
trash he left behind.
Donald Trump came intoWashington promising to empower
police and clean up the streets.
This wasn't just talk.
He invoked emergency powers, hefederalized the DC police and
he rolled in.
800 National Guard troops,along with 500 federal agents,

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patrolled the Capitol.
We know this.
Now he's sitting at a DC dinerbragging that the only reason he
could eat there safely isbecause it's safer because of
what I did.
He claims his actions wiped outdeath and destruction in the
city.
Trump now says he's notextending the federal takeover

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any longer and he argues thevery fact that he isn't
extending it is proof that whathe did worked.
So frigging convoluted isTrump's logic.
The reality is he's backing offhis police takeover plan
because extending it would takeCongress to approve and that

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means getting some Democraticvotes.
So Trump spins it as a victory.
He says it worked, the city isclean, mission accomplished.
In truth, he knows he can't winthat fight with Congress, so
he's dressing up the retreat assuccess.

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Let's call this what it isBullshit, pure fraud by Donald
the Delusional One.
Trump abandoned DC when thingswere boiling.
He treated the city like it wasradioactive and now, with the
cameras on, he brags it's saferbecause of him and his actions.
He brags it's safer because ofhim and his actions.
That's like the arsonistcongratulating himself for how

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quickly the fire departmentshowed up.
This is Donald's entire brandCreate chaos, then walk away,
then brag about the cleanup likeDonald was the one holding the
mop.
It's a carnival trick.
Listeners and the audience issupposed to clap while he takes

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a bow.
And if this is what passes forleadership ducking out of DC,
shrugging at safety, thenbragging at dinner like he
solved it imagine what anotherterm of this circus would look
like.
So, yes, trump can brag all hewants, but the only thing safer
in Washington because of Trumpis the hypocrisy.

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This has been a world gone mad.
Wednesday wtf edition.
I'm jeff allen wolf.
I'll be back friday becausesomeone has to say the shit that
no one else will, andapparently that job's mine.

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Until then, then, wolfpacklisteners, stay skeptical, stay
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We'll see you next time.