Russia Has Way More Than 3 Stooges

What if the very fabric of American politics was being manipulated by foreign powers? Tune in to this week's explosive episode of "Pardon the Insurrection" as we peel back the layers of Donald Trump's ongoing legal quagmire. From his jaw-dropping admission of sexual assault on stage to the calculated delays in his criminal sentencing for 34 felonies in New York, we leave no stone unturned. Get the inside scoop on how the Supreme Court's intervention could shift the balance and the underhanded tactics of Trump's legal team. Plus, hear why Sean Hannity's complaints may just be a smokescreen for deeper issues and how Trump is using his legal woes to pad his fundraising efforts.

Next, we expose a sinister scandal involving Russian dollars infiltrating right-wing media. Discover the shocking details behind the indictment of two Russian RT employees for funneling $10 million to Tenet Media, a Nashville-based outlet. We'll analyze how high-profile commentators like Tim Pool and Benny Johnson were seduced with lucrative offers and how the media landscape is being reshaped by hidden foreign interests. The disturbing editorial manipulation pushing Russian propaganda themes and its broader implications for American democracy are laid bare in this must-listen segment.

Finally, we connect the dots between Russian disinformation campaigns and U.S. elections. From Tom Barrett's shadowy dealings during Trump's campaign to Mike Flynn's controversial Middle East nuclear ambitions, we reveal the dark underbelly of foreign influence on American soil. We'll break down the Mueller investigation's shortcomings, Bill Barr's obstruction, and the turbulent transition Merrick Garland faced. And don't miss our "Sports Ball Minute of the Week," where we tackle police brutality in sports, focusing on the harrowing incident involving Miami Dolphins' wide receiver Tyreek Hill. End your week with a call to action: help us grow our podcast community by sharing, subscribing, and engaging with our content. Your support helps us keep bringing you the stories that matter.

Chapters

• 0:19 Trump's Legal Troubles and Delayed Sentencing
• 4:22 Russian Funding of Right-Wing Media
• 9:35 Russian Influence in Right-Wing Media
• 19:37 Russian Disinformation Campaign in US Elections
• 35:57 Police Brutality in Sports Commentary
• 44:57 Podcast Growth and Engagement Strategy

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:19

One, two, three, four to tell you disinformation and spread lies and rumors and misinformation. Yeah, obviously it's been just one of those weeks where it's nonstop information, just the deluge of insanity on and on Trump admitting on stage that he sexually assaulted a woman. He's been doing so since 1979. Extraordinarily strange. And it's been doing so since 1979. Extraordinarily strange.

Speaker 1: 0:46

And in a conversation about, you know, the instances surrounding the EG and Carol case, that was that was extraordinarily weird Also.

Speaker 1: 1:09

So his criminal sentencing for the 34 felonies in New York that got postponed to November not not out of some kind of you know, it's not Judge Merchan in that instance going out of his way to help Trump.

Speaker 1: 1:15

It's just unfortunate set of circumstances here, with what the Supreme Court did intervening in Trump's criminal cases, creating new law from scratch that touched all of Trump's criminal cases, somehow, even ones that had nothing to do with the time in office, and that presented a situation where we're at the point where Judge Merchant had to make a ruling about whether or not the information used in the trial affected the trial in any way and also handled the sentencing, and then, because Alvin Bragg didn't just fight for a more coherent time frame in terms of Trump getting sentenced, berchan was just like, hey, we got to do this, this and this.

Speaker 1: 1:55

And it's also possible that you know this will likely set up Trump for an appeal. I'm just going to schedule the sentencing for this day. Just so happens to be you to be a week after the election is what it is, or a couple weeks. Don't make too much of that. In all likelihood, I think, if Merchan wasn't planning on sending Trump to prison time, that there wouldn't have been a delay because there wouldn't have been any issues to haggle over.

Speaker 2: 2:23

That's what somebody had mentioned. That didn't cross my mind and I go. That makes sense yeah, I mean one, I think that murchon is pretty confident that trump's gonna lose and he's confident that he's going to jail so I don't think murchon's making any decisions based on whether or not trump will or won't win the election.

Speaker 1: 2:43

I think it's just, you know, it's Trump's lawyers engaging in these delay tactics that have been extraordinarily successful in moving things closer and closer to the election and then arguing that, hey, this stuff is happening near the election, it's to affect the election, when really they're the cause of the delay. But you know, again, it's just one instance that happened to help Trump to a small degree, but again, obviously the fact that the sentencing hanging is hanging over him still isn't good, so I wouldn't really make too much out of it. It's unfortunate, but you know, we always knew.

Speaker 2: 3:17

Now they're whining because it's a delay. I mean, sean Hannity was was they need to send it to, because we, just because the wind was taken out of their sails as far as election, you know, it's like every argument.

Speaker 1: 3:32

Yes, no matter what happened, they were going to complain. It's always a strategy of heads, you win tails. I lose in this regard, where it's bad faith arguments. If Judge Merchant had sentenced him, they'd be complaining. If he doesn't sentence him, they're complaining about that.

Speaker 2: 3:51

Trump wants to be sentenced. He wants to be sentenced so he can appeal the sentence and then he can raise more money.

Speaker 1: 3:57

Yeah, well, that's the other thing. Obviously, anything that would seemingly hurt Trump's chances of maintaining his freedom would be good for his finances in terms of giving him something to complain about and fundraise off of. So you take that away. I mean, I guess, in terms of whether this is a help or hurt to Trump, it's a wash, but beyond that. So last week you may have may not have heard a couple of Russians who work for RT were indicted by the Department of Justice for funding a right wing media outlet that's actually founded here in Nashville, Tennessee. Ty, you take it away.

Speaker 2: 4:39

Right Tim Fool. Two Russian state media employees were charged with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act and money laundering after funneling $10 million to a Tennessee-based online media company, later identified to be Tenet Media. That number represents almost 90% of their bank deposits.

Speaker 1: 5:03

All right, a little inside baseball here. So I wrote up some notes on this real quick and I spelled funneling, funnel.

Speaker 2: 5:10

I knew what you were saying, just in case you were like wondering what that was.

Speaker 1: 5:16

Fun-a-long, Fun-a-long, fun-a-long money. Yeah, in case you were wondering about that FaceTime ad. All right, Ty continue.

Speaker 2: 5:37

Tenant Media, launched as a self-described network. Yeah, in case you were wondering about that FaceTime man All Media, Benny Johnson, formerly of BuzzFeed, Dave Rubin, formerly of the formerly Progressive Network, the Young Turks, Laura Southern, Taylor Hanson We'll talk about them real quickly, like so.

Speaker 1: 5:58

there is always this situation where it seems like these left leaning quote unquote progressive networks end up going so far left that they veer into the same sorts of disinformation the right-wing networks and media outlets quote-unquote veer into. That's by design. That's not a coincidence. That happens for a reason because, as you can see, you know Temple Word for Vice, benny Johnson BuzzFeed. You know Temple Word for Vice, benny Johnson BuzzFeed. Just like it's not a coincidence that these former seemingly left-wing media outlet employees ended up in right-wing disinformation circles.

Speaker 2: 6:35

But yeah, continue. Sorry, prosecutors said the two RT Russia TV Today I'm sorry, russia Today employees and the two Tenet founders began soliciting two commentators for work on behalf of an Edward Gregorian around February 2023. One of the personalities said he would need $5 million annually for him to be interested in creating videos for the fake persona. Gregorian the other identified needed one hundred thousand dollars per weekly episode to make it worth his while. According to the indictments, yeah, this is funny.

Speaker 1: 7:15

So in the setting up of this um media outlet, like it, they, they were basically funded by russia from the beginning. Uh, they, they went in and like approached all these right wing nut jobs you may know from Twitter if that's the you know social media platform you use the most Like Tim Pool, obviously, dave Rubin featured prominently. Benny Johnson he's a fucking moron, I mean he's he's. Tim Pool is a moron, but johnson is like the dumbest of dumb. Uh, you know he, he has like a thin veneer of intelligence and sophistication which just makes his contents well that that is the one thing that he has over tim pool, because tim pool just doesn't even have the veneer and he looks like a clown.

Speaker 1: 8:02

Benny.

Speaker 2: 8:03

Johnson, at least like you look at Benny Johnson's profile picture, he kind of reminds me of Colin Rugg a little bit.

Speaker 1: 8:11

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 8:12

I don't know what he presents himself as and so like when you're looking at it, like you said, it's a little thin veneer of some sort of sophistication andation, until he opens his mouth.

Speaker 1: 8:25

It's not great. So this. So the founders basically got in touch with these guys from RT, got this money to go recruit these guys and like when, when Tim pool started asking, hey, you know where's this money coming from, like the Russians made up this guy, edward Gregorian, and like an emails back and forth, they're like you know he was working for this, uh, you know, finance company or something they were. They were spelling the name wrong in the emails and I, like this is just like clearly an op and like uh, so the founders clearly knew this. I mean, at one point they were supposed to have a meeting. I think it was like supposedly seven, eight o'clock in the morning or something like that. And when the guys didn't show up, they started Googling time in Russia and it was like oh, it's 4 o'clock.

Speaker 2: 9:13

They're probably asleep.

Speaker 1: 9:15

It's like all this incriminating information and the indictment just suggested. You know, the founders, chin and Donovan, knew that they were, you know, basically acting as Russian stooges and probably acting illegally, but they haven't been indicted yet. But we'll continue on Ty after you.

Speaker 2: 9:35

In one instance, the Russian funders directly asked Chin in late March 23 to blame Ukraine and the United States for a terrorist attack on a concert hall outside of Moscow that killed more than 130 people. Isis took immediate responsibility for the attack, but Vladimir Putin insisted Ukraine had a role in the massacre. Kiev denied any role in the massacre. Prosecutors said Tenet's founders admitted to each other in their private communications that their investors quote unquote were in truth and in fact the Russians. At one point, chen searched for time in Moscow on Google, while awaiting a response to a message.

Speaker 1: 10:16

Yeah, they were. They were clearly aware of what the deal was like, to the point where their private communications are extraordinarily revealing was like to the point where their private communications are extraordinarily revealing. And in case you were wondering if, like these russia today guys who are running this operation to infect tenant media were successful, I mean, you know, like the host would argue that they had complete editorial control, but then, on the other hand, you have numerous clips like this they know it, but I don't know that it matters anymore.

Speaker 3: 10:47

This is psychotic. Ukraine is the enemy of this country. Ukraine is our enemy, being funded by the Democrats. I will stress again One of the greatest enemies of our nation right now is Ukraine. They are expanding this war Now don't get me wrong. I know you've got criminal elements of the US government pushing them and guiding them and telling them what to do. Ukraine is now accused a German warrant issued for blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline in triggering this conflict. Ukraine is the greatest threat to this nation and to the world. We should rescind all funding and financing, pull out all military support and we should apologize to Russia.

Speaker 1: 11:32

Sounds like straight out of the can Russian propaganda to me. Now, they weren't necessarily so successful in getting the host of these various YouTube channels and Twitter pages, or whatsoever, to outright spew pro-Russia propaganda, but a lot of the editorial slant was to present information falsely. That would, at the very least, hurt American interests, create chaos or dysfunction or stoke racism or just, in overall likelihood, lead to a situation that favors Russia, not by necessarily causing people to believe that Russia's good, but just creating enough strife and division so that they could divide and splinter the nation in terms of just public perception, in ways that the benefit of Russia, obviously. After so they were removed from YouTube not long after the indictment and since, like, the company has folded. So it's entirely possible that the you know, the $10 million that they've received from Russia over the course of the past year was a large source of their funding and they probably couldn't function otherwise.

Speaker 1: 12:42

And if not, if that's not the case, then it's also likely that, given the founders and what appears to be obvious signs of knowledge of guilt not being indicted, or at least openly, it suggests they might be cooperating with the feds and they shut down the media organization as part of some kind of arrangement that they have with the FBI, part of some kind of arrangement that they have with the FBI. I mean, I would assume they're cooperating. You know, likely this isn't going to turn into some huge indictment of you know, say, trump, co-conspirators from other potential plots, like the fake elector plot of January 6th. But you never know what these guys know because, like like the right-wing media propaganda arm, that thing works like as a part of a structure that also includes republican members of congress and right-wing billionaires and it's it's, it's incestuous. So you never know necessarily what an indictment like this could lead to, because everything over there is interconnected. Like they accuse us of being paid shills when they're the ones literally taking the money from russia.

Speaker 2: 13:51

It's fucking bananas literally, and I think this is going to go up the the ten pools and the benny johnsons and lauren chins right now they're, they're like, it's like the january 6th of the fake electors. They're down here. It goes up. I'm saying it goes all the way to Tucker. I'm saying it goes to Tulsi. It goes to Elon, who promoted Tenet on X-Chan.

Speaker 1: 14:14

Yeah, he was one of their favorite Twitter. I mean, I don't know coping speakers, I guess you know, constantly retweeting them and replying to their shit, no matter how absurdly ridiculous it was Constantly retweeting them and replying to their shit, no matter how absurdly ridiculous it was. And also so Lauren Chen. You know, a bit of an influence herself, I think she had this job at was that Blaze Media? So since the indictment, she's since lost her editorial position over there. It's just, you know, unfortunate for them. That's what you get for being a Russian asset. But you know the the Russian collusion narrative. It never stops, because the Russian collusion itself actually never stopped, and we have also had development.

Speaker 1: 14:57

Last week with the Justice Department. They charged a Russian born US citizen and former advisor to Trump's 2016 campaign with working for sanctioned Russian state television network and laundering the proceeds. It sounds awfully familiar, right? So the indictment was announced Thursday and alleged that Dmitry Soms. You might know that name from the Mueller report from back in 2018,. He and his wife received over a million, and I think we talked about this a couple of weeks ago. He and his wife received over $1 million, a personal car and driver and a stipend for a Moscow apartment in exchange for work they did for Russia's Channel One since June of 2022. That network was sanctioned by the US in 2022 over Russia's invasion of Ukraine Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Symes and his wife, anastasia, have a home in Huntley Virginia that was searched by federal agents a few weeks ago and are believed and they're currently believed to be residing in Russia Now. Anastasia Symes she was also charged with buying arts and antiquities for a sanctioned Russian oligarch, alexander Udadov.

Speaker 3: 16:03

Yeah, sorry.

Speaker 1: 16:04

Those Russian names, they give me some tough and then storing the works in their home in Virginia before they were shipped to Russia.

Speaker 1: 16:12

Now I personally believe that search a couple of weeks ago that we talked about here on the podcast while, yes, it was probably directly related to these items that Anastasia Soms was procuring for the Russian oligarch is likely Also some connections to some counterintelligence surveillance that was being done on likely the entire family, given their connections to both political campaigns and Russian intelligence services here abroad.

Speaker 1: 16:43

We'll talk about the connections to the Trump campaign in 2016 momentarily, but Soms led a Washington think tank, the Center for the National Interest, that was formerly featured in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and he had numerous interactions with Trump campaign officials, including instances where where an instance where Soms sent Jared Kushner a letter detailing potential talking points for Trump about Russia and also pass along derogatory information about Bill Clinton that was then forwarded to other representatives of the campaign. The CNI, the Center for National Intelligence, was national interest, rather, was founded by former President Richard Nixon, which is already a Mar. It started off the wrong foot. It, like that organization, helped arrange a foreign policy speech that you might remember, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington at which Symes introduced Trump and where Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak was present Also, the CNI was responsible for that. I think they helped organize some kind of town hall where you remember what was the Russian agent's name with the red hair when she was like fucking all the Republicans to try and not Maria Butina.

Speaker 1: 18:09

Maria.

Speaker 2: 18:09

Butina.

Speaker 1: 18:10

I didn't know she was fucking everybody, maria Butina yeah, she was fucking everybody, not every everybody, but she had a list, she was going down a list. So they were responsible for, in part, for organizing this town hall in which Trump actually called on budna to ask a question. Like they set it all up so that she would be picked by trump to ask a question. I think it was something by hillary clinton, I can't remember. There's a video of it out there. You just hit up the youtube for that if you'd like.

Speaker 1: 18:38

Um, so like just the level of incest in that regard between all the russian agents surrounding the trump campaign and this guy, dimitri sims, uh it's, it's extraordinary, like one of the things that I think. Obviously, you know, moeller didn't have much of an option in this regard when it came to bill barr shutting down the investigation, because, let's be clear, that investigation was going on on. It continued until the literal day they shut the doors on the office, like we recently had that development where we learned about the potential Russian bribe that Trump and his campaign took. That was one of the cases being litigated by Mueller's team in court, literally until the day the office closed. Until the day the office closed, even though we're just now getting developments about the nature of that investigation. I don't know if it's still ongoing, probably not. What?

Speaker 2: 19:31

they did here with the talking points, the Russian talking points leading up to the election. 2016 election is almost exactly what was being done with the Middle East and Tom Barrett when he was working on Trump's campaign, and what he was doing was he was passing talking points regarding energy and repealing Obama policies and he was taking Trump's speech giving it to. Was taking Trump's speech, giving it to heads of state.

Speaker 2: 20:07

Yeah, these foreign agents, and they were like literally, doing the edits and then giving it back to him and giving it back to him too, and they were like, ok, we need him to say this publicly in this speech. And then, because I was reading the when he was under indictment, I was reading the, the indictment and stuff in the testimony, and that they would tell him, they was like, oh yeah, trump did good tonight, thank you, you know, because Barry was trying to get trying to get a paycheck to do business over there and he wanted to get an ambassadorship, I think, to Saudi Arabia.

Speaker 1: 20:40

Yeah, and this is also it's also in line with Mike Flynn trying to get those nuclear reactors going in the Middle East and to deal with the Saudis Right. So it's all this incestuous behavior where all these people are trying to get these payoffs from these, these foreign governments and foreign dictators and foreign agents in exchange, offering them either influence the United States or, to the point of like in Trump's case, lifting sanctions or changing US policy. But it's also not much different from like the influence operation where they're paying all these right wing influencers to try and get them to spread Russian propaganda. But back to Robert Mueller quickly.

Speaker 1: 21:18

I think one of the mistakes law enforcement made, obviously like he didn't have much, like there wasn't much you could do with this in terms of, you know, when Bill Barr was attorney general, like he was killing all these investigations once Robert Mueller's office closed. But you know, I don't know the nature or the state of where the Justice Department was when Biden came into office. When Biden came into office, clearly I'm sure you know Barr left a bunch of cronies in place to kind of obstruct as many things as possible, you know, upon the Department of Justice changing hands from the Trump administration to Biden administration, but one of the things they clearly should have done is re is re. I look now, I think about it in march of 2021, when garland got in office as attorney general. What he was dealing with was a fucking disaster. It was like this massive, like the largest criminal investigation in the history of the united states, ongoing in terms of rounding up people from, you know, january 6th, and also like in terms of like, he set up this private little task force to start looking at the top of the coup. So there was that going on and it was just like getting everything back to normal and we were operating in the middle of a pandemic and it was just total chaos. Couldn't get his people in place because republican co-conspirators in the senate were blocking his confirmations. It was a fucking nightmare. But if there's one thing I would have placed a priority on, it would have been reigniting this Russia investigation. Yeah, I agree, because one of the issues with Trump and his cronies is, if they do something and they deem it successful and they don't face any consequences, they go back to the bag like they never stopped trying to repeat the thing that they believe worked for them before, even if it wasn't necessarily successful. So if, um, you know, the doj had spent more time exploring the 2016 uh, the russian even though Bill Barr killed it and had been doing some of the shit with, like Dimitri Soms and such years ago we probably would have been in a better situation than we are now. But I mean, I guess you can't turn back the hands of time At least they're finally trying to clean up the mess. So, actually, before I move on from the Dimitri Simes thing, another issue like so, under the Trump administration, obviously there was a lot of turnover in terms of the attorney general.

Speaker 1: 23:57

Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, eventually ended up overseeing the Mueller investigation because his boss had to recuse himself because he was also meeting with the Russians. You might have remembered that. So one of the issues with the scope of the investigation is that Rosenstein, he narrowed the investigation in terms of what Mueller can investigate with a Russian conspiracy to simply criminal activity, right. So there was also a counterintelligence aspect of this that needed to be investigated, and those investigations don't necessarily, or even typically don't ever result in criminal charges, but they do result in intelligence operations, counterintelligence operations where you're trying to figure out the motive and activities of the people involved in conspiracies such as these. So you monitor those, so you can kind of fight, whatever the plot is. But one of the things Rosenstein did is he told the FBI that Mueller was handling the counterintelligence investigation and he told Mueller's team the FBI was handling the counterintelligence investigation. So we don't know if there was ever actually a counterintelligence investigation of the Trump-Russia conspiracy under the Trump administration. Because Rod Rosenstein was a fucking snake. He made Rod hell.

Speaker 2: 25:20

That's on brand for the administration he was in. Shortenarily on brand, it wasn't enough to keep him his job.

Speaker 1: 25:29

Well, I think part of the. I mean, look, he had to get out of there. I think his his leash was waning. You know Trump was putting a lot of pressure on him to try and wrap up the investigation and he just wasn't willing to do that. Like he was willing to play interference to a degree, but he wasn't willing to do that. Like he was willing to play interference to a degree, but he wasn't willing to do everything trump wanted, including when trump ordered him to fire robert muller and he was like, nah, yeah, so um, apart from that, you know the russian tom foolery, tim pullery, it never stops, ty tim poolery I like that.

Speaker 1: 26:09

All right, the next topic, if you will, all right from russian disinformation with love.

Speaker 2: 26:16

the us department of justice said it had seized 32 internet websites used by the russian government in what the prosecutors said Wednesday was a covert campaign to interview in and influence the outcome of our country's elections.

Speaker 2: 26:32

The DOJ stated the Russian-run websites covertly spread Russian government propaganda with the aim of reducing international support for Ukraine, bolstering pro-Russian policies and interests and influencing voters in the US and foreign elections, including the US 2024 presidential election.

Speaker 2: 26:55

The companies are allegedly operating under the direction of Sergei Kiriyenko, the first deputy chief of staff to President Vladimir Putin, and other members of the president's office. Kiriyenko directed Russian public relations companies to promote disinformation and state sponsored narratives in a campaign to influence November's election. According to Merrick Garland, an internal planning document created by the Kremlin states that a goal of the campaign is to secure Russia's preferred outcome in the election. The sites we are seizing today were filled with Russian government propaganda that had been created by the Kremlin to reduce international support for Ukraine, bolster pro-Russian policies and interests and influence voters in the United States and other companies. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco added that the three companies using used cyber squatting, where hackers take over a seemingly familiar domain, as well as fake influencers and fake profiles to covertly promote AI generated content and fake narratives on social media platforms. At least one of the seized domains was Washington Post, dot pm and an attempt to mimic the Washington Post website.

Speaker 1: 28:16

Your professional customer service voice is impeccable. So, like in terms of this larger plot, like there was this like Russia planning Russian intelligence service document that laid all of this out, what they think of the effectiveness of, they think of the effectiveness of their disinformation campaign, the results of which would align closely with the ideas of good old boy USA. Whatever you want to think about that, it's quite funny. But one of the things they were doing, apart from you know, this plot with the plane paying the white, the white wing I can't do that all the fucking time because it's apt but, yeah, the right-wing influencers and, like you know these, inserting these russian agents in close proximity to campaigns and elected officials. And in this other issue, where they're like they're creating these websites that appear to mimic what you would consider to be a prominent news outlet, like this thing they did with the Washington Post, where it's not WashingtonPostcom, it's WashingtonPostpm or it'd be like CNN, know, cnn dot net or something. And they're like hacking these sites, taking them over, and then they're like building these websites that kind of replicate the legitimate website. It's like they would feel like they'd populate the site with these fake articles and such that would spread this disinformation such that would spread this disinformation. And they'd also have these matching campaigns on social media where they use, like ai, to generate these accounts and spread the fake articles and, and you know, they'd have like a whole um, they'd have a whole network of bots to have these like range of replies underneath to make it seem like it's organic traffic so it could kind of fool.

Speaker 1: 30:25

It's like if you were present for twitter in 2016, then you remember what the bot army was like and how just extraordinarily overwhelming it was, but also how kind of stupid some of the bots were.

Speaker 1: 30:37

Well, you know we're they're doing the 2024 version with chat, gpt, so the bots are a lot less stupid and look more like humans upon you know, closer inspection, uh, even though we generally always tell, tell signs. But that aside, like there's this whole campaign organized by russian intelligence, ordered directly from the top, putin and his aides on down, where they have a multifaceted plan to attack the 2024 election and clearly what we're seeing by the Department of Justice is some means of kind of mitigating some of the damage that could potentially do by maybe not arresting or even charging American co-conspirators here in the United States. We're putting everybody on warning that, hey, we know what's going on behind the scenes. We're looking at everything you do. Keep that in mind, especially if you're an elected official thinking of taking some money or engaging in some kind of conspiracy, because I would imagine we're going to have a number of unsealed indictments on November or whatever after the election started.

Speaker 2: 31:43

The thing is, is that because there were no real consequences or finding out faith from the Mueller report? There's one thing that Republicans are and it's fucking arrogant and they have been emboldened. And then Trump was in office so that they kind of had a you know a little get out of jail free card pass, or whatever you want to call it. And then after Mary Garland was, you know, appointed attorney general, I think everybody was kind of what's going to happen?

Speaker 1: 32:22

And then it was like a month goes by, two, but nothing really no fireworks really popped off and then, by the time we got the trumpet diamonds, they were so limited that they didn't include any of the co-conspirators. I mean it. Yeah, it's extraordinarily emboldening for the bad guys yeah, and so they just really and.

Speaker 2: 32:42

But by that time maga was so brainwashed and poisoned At that point Russia could just pick up their ball and go home Like the well was poisoned, the damage was done, and then you got the Marjorie Taylor Greene, so you don't have to pay her crazy ass, you know, like you don't have to pay her dumb ass, so you say that, but I think so.

Speaker 1: 33:03

You don't have to be her dumb ass so you say that, but I think so. Part of the problem with the way right wing, you know the media echo chamber.

Speaker 2: 33:12

Did you say white wing?

Speaker 1: 33:13

Yeah right, white same thing. You know what I mean. Part of the way the echo chamber works is you do have to have a constant source of information or disinformation in that regard to feed it, otherwise it kind of just flames out. Right, because, as you can tell, you see here now the president Biden dropped out of the 2024 election and Kamala Harris is the nominee. They don't actually really have any ammunition or information to attack Harris with, so they're kind of stumbling through the dark. And that's because apparently they've been relying on, you know, russian intelligence services to provide them with the information and kind of like the framing and the plot lines and everything.

Speaker 2: 33:59

The whole charisma and you know the Biden crime, family thing Right.

Speaker 1: 34:05

Now that, now that that's yes. Now that all the narratives created by Russian intelligence are out of the window, the right wingers don't have anything to rely on because they haven't been doing any real work the past four years and they don't know how to do this shit.

Speaker 2: 34:21

They don't have the time to kind of build that. You know, you, you like how Trump. He starts planting the seeds if I don't win the election stolen if I. He repeats that for six months moving up. They don't have that kind of time, so they're throwing so much shit out there.

Speaker 1: 34:38

That and it's, it's contradictory, yeah, and it's all like they, just they have nowhere to go and and the reason why they're struggling so badly is because you know the right wing media outlets. They aren't actually media outlets, they're not covering developments in news. They're here to fulfill the purpose of spreading propaganda and misinformation in order to, presumably, help Republicans, but in some cases to help our adversaries, and without having like the sheet of information handed to them by russian intelligence so they can read off in the fucking youtube videos like tampo does, like they're floundering and that. And again, you know, with this, these numerous indictments here in the seizing of these websites, uh, it makes it a little bit touch and go, for you know other right wing quote-unquote media outlets to reach out to Russian intelligence and get their talking points. Because you see what happens. Like it's it's potentially possible that not only will your handlers get indicted but you could have a seal indictment against you or your friends could be cooperating with FBI. Like it's, it's some, it's some, it's tough, some tough shit. Uh, but again, obviously the solution there is to just cover the news yeah yeah, that's, that's it, that's

Speaker 1: 35:56

what you could do. Um, and before we wrap it up here, I've got one last segment, sports ball minute of the week. So in case you you missed it, obviously football season started. I know you guys probably missed that. If you're a sports fan like I am, you know I'm probably assuming you know what. Actually, it's tough.

Speaker 1: 36:18

I don't expect Patrick Mahomes to three-peat, but I ain't never going to bet against that dude after what I've seen him do the last couple of years. So I'll take, you know, the Chiefs in the Super Bowl. Go ahead, go chalk Chiefs, 49ers, maybe Chiefs or Lions and something if you want to keep it fancy. But Patrick Mahomes does have some competition in the AFC, with the Dolphins coming out 1-0. But before they wrapped it up and took the victory home, against who were they playing? One of them? Garbage AFC South teams. I know because I know they're garbage because I live in the AFC South City.

Speaker 1: 36:57

But prior to the game, tyreek Hill, wide receiver for the Dolphins, was traveling to the stadium and pretty close to the stadium he was stopped by the police over some sort of traffic incident seemingly minor traffic incident where he eventually ended up being removed from his vehicle, restrained, put in handcuffs and potentially assaulted by a police officer, and I have a short video clip of that. They arrested Reed. Oh, that's a clean video clip of that. So, as you can see there, it appeared as though one of the officers laid into tyreek hill for apparently no reason there, even though he was restrained and on the ground, because that's a that ground, because that's a tall dude, yeah, they picked him up and it looked like one of the officers struck him and they put him back on the ground.

Speaker 2: 37:52

I mean there's a lot going on there and they needed all of those officers for a traffic stop.

Speaker 1: 38:00

Yeah, you needed multiple officers for a minor traffic incident, with one individual who you'd know likely to be a professional football player, who's likely not going to be causing any sort of ruckus or commotion, and apparently another of his teammates stepped in and tried to de-escalate the situation and that individual was also handcuffed by the police. So this is completely out of control and I just largely wanted to bring this up in terms of, like I know there's a lot of, you know, political discourse over you know what role should the police serve in your community and whether they are.

Speaker 2: 38:35

Well, that's not it. Whatever it is, it ain't that, that's for sure.

Speaker 1: 38:40

I am generally of a mindset of police do serve a valuable role in communities sometimes, in some cases, but there's absolutely no reason that most of the police force needs to be armed uh and act like some sort of like. You're supposed to serve the community and protect the community more.

Speaker 2: 39:02

Yeah, look and then you got five cops standing around and four too many are there.

Speaker 1: 39:07

Yeah, because obviously yeah over traffic stop is insane. And then two it's a prominent NFL football player. He's one of the most popular and well-known wide receivers in the league, if not.

Speaker 2: 39:20

I'm saying the freaking best in the league right now.

Speaker 1: 39:23

Yeah, he's like like calvin johnson of his time, even though he's like smaller. But um, that the the fact that the police thought, in a crowded situation like this with a high profile football player, that they could just whoop his ass and get away with it. That lets you know that when you're not famous and you're not wealthy, that those police officers down there in Miami-Dade County will beat your ass.

Speaker 1: 39:49

And imagine some little small fucking hick towns no offense to small hick towns what law enforcement is like there and what those people are likely willing to do, given the fact that they think they'll always get away with it and never get caught, never face any kinds of consequences. And if you don't remember, just in case you somehow forgot, colin Kaepernick got blackballed from the league for taking a knee in silence to protest. What police brutality. And here we are just a few years later with police brutality being. You know it's playing out literally against we're saying the same thing.

Speaker 2: 40:33

Well, we don't know what happened before.

Speaker 1: 40:35

It's always the same line, every time well, we don't know what happened before the video well, we don't care what happens before the video, because Tyreek Hill was restrained and not a threat and not violent and he was compliant. And then with them forking morons.

Speaker 2: 40:50

I always say no, no.

Speaker 1: 40:53

Well, in that video he was restrained. He wasn't getting into the game until they decided to release him. So any sort of physical violence inflicted upon Tyreek Hill at that point is assault. It's not part of the job, Totally unnecessary, regardless of what happened exactly.

Speaker 2: 41:09

No, that is that is absolutely true, because I seriously doubt. Um, nobody talked about gunshots. He wasn't shooting out the car doing two 200 miles an hour just trying to get to the game just like.

Speaker 1: 41:21

And when that white golfer dude like bumped into the police in his car and and they had him arrested, it was outrage against that. Well, we don't have any evidence of tyree kill, doing anything remotely close to even be considered assaulting a police officer, and he's getting physically attacked.

Speaker 2: 41:39

Forget drunk ass. Madison carthorne wrecked a police car when he ran into the back of it wrecked a police car when he ran into the back of it speed after. He you know and I forgot about ronnie what's his name? Ronnie johnson or ronnie?

Speaker 1: 41:53

jackson. Which one?

Speaker 2: 41:53

I think it's ronnie jackson I think it's ronnie johnson too yeah, ron johnson fucked up my brain. Ron johnson is a different, different, but he was drunk and he got pulled over and he was like I'm a doctor ronnie jackson, former doctor.

Speaker 1: 42:06

Ron johnson, fake electors, you gotta you know.

Speaker 2: 42:09

So I mean uh, no, the, uh, the dr feelgood candy bag yeah but how many instances have we seen of these non-melanated folk doing shit and it's just like there's no, and they should? To me, politicians should be held to an even higher standard no, look.

Speaker 1: 42:39

So yeah, white people do all this crazy shit in front of the police and the police never get violent. Why is it that they always get violent with black people? For no reason, but look, we got to get rid of those cops down there. They got to go the same way. The republican party.

Speaker 2: 42:54

Don't forget, uh, ronda santos gave bonuses. If you've been fired from your police department, come on down here. We don't care about your record yeah, that's absolutely true.

Speaker 1: 43:05

so all of the bad cops who got fired from their you know departments, precincts, the sheriff's office, all over the country, ron DeSantis invited him down there to become like his private little army to do all kinds of crazy shit with. You know, for all intents and purposes, like immunity, and you know that's just like a microcosm of what to expect If Trump gets reelected in November. He'll have, you know, criminal immunity. He won't be able to be held liable for anything he does in abusing the powers of the office of the president. And you know he's made it clear one of his plans includes deputizing local law enforcement all over the country to help him engage in all type of Gestapo shit. Law enforcement all over the country to help him engage in all type of Gestapo shit.

Speaker 2: 43:47

Well, in his past four rallies he said y'all need to be at the polling places, you need to go out there. And so he's, he's, he's, dog bull horning to them. But his last four rallies in his sundown towns he has been saying the same thing.

Speaker 1: 44:10

And crazy, as what's her name? The global. You know what his rallies remind me of, um. So you remember those movies with, like the tall man and the little floating balls and they would like you know they, the little weapons would come out. It'd be like a razor or a drill or something and they're like flying to people's head. It was like called phantasm. Does that sound familiar?

Speaker 2: 44:29

oh, I remember, oh, my god I did a marathon of phantasm, oh did you.

Speaker 1: 44:33

That's hilarious, all right. So in phantasm, like the protagonist, they would wander around these like small towns in the countryside, inevitably run into like the evil villain, the tall man with little floating razor robot balls, uh, and it would just infect all of these fucking, you know, low population municipalities, and that's what trump rallies have become. But before we get out of here, do me a favor. Uh, you know, if you're listening to this podcast or watching us on youtube, if you could, you know, grab a friend of yours and be like hey, man, check out this podcast. They do some dope shit to keep it entertaining.

Speaker 1: 45:10

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Speaker 2: 45:36

Thank you.