off with a clandestine move that raised eyebrows
south of the border. Donald Trump has issued
a secret directive. Is it really secret if everyone
knows about it? Anyways, authorizing the Pentagon
to use U .S. military force on foreign soil against
Latin American drug cartels. Major names targeted
include notorious groups such as the MS -13,
which is Mexico. But continue. I don't know.
which is designated as a terrorist organization.
While details of planned operations are murky,
the move has sparked strong pushback, especially
from Mexico's president, who emphasized cooperation,
not invasion, as the shared path forward. So
Trump wants the military to take on the cartels,
which means The next call of duty might just
be operation taco Tuesday That I think that works.
In fact, I think that's what they should call
the operation. It's taco Tuesday because Reasons,
um, this is absolutely silly and ridiculous.
Um, I You can't beat him that way let's let's
just start there you can't you can't beat him
that way it's not gonna work Sorry Yeah, yeah,
honestly, I don't think it's really with the
goal of beating them I think there's so much
is being thrown out there that it is to distract
us from Jeffrey Epstein and we're gonna keep
going. He's literally throwing everything against
the wall to see what sticks, right? So, you know,
yeah invading Mexico sure why not, you know In
fact, I think you should do it next Tuesday.
Let's go for it. Go ahead to our next one on
on our list of things. Yeah, next. We're headed
to Alaska, which Trump actually got mixed up
with Russia. I mean, it's you know, it's an honest
mistake. It's up there. Trump is slated to meet
Putin in Anchorage on August 15th, 2025, marking
the first presidential sit down since 2019. This,
quote, feel out meeting is aimed at exploring
prospects of ending the Russia -Ukraine war.
The White House is downplaying the stakes, calling
it more of a listening exercise. But both sides
have already initiated diplomatic preparations,
including pre -summit phone calls between top
diplomats. Yeah, Trump and Putin meeting in Alaska.
Nothing says like peace talks like two guys fighting
over who gets the last salmon roll. And the other
country involved is just not involved in the
talks at all, right, which I love I love that
any sense this This again is another one where
I'm like, what do you and the funniest part is
his chief negotiator Steve Witkoff has already
screwed it up Right because he had a meeting
with the Russians and then he went back out and
put out and leaked all this information About
what the Russians were willing to give up and
the Russians came out and said that's not what
we said So he had to go back to the Russians
be like, all right. What was it you said again
like it's It's the Keystone cops, right? The
other thing we need to remember and this is where
you have to put yourself in Russia's shoes for
just one minute We were actively engaged in diplomatic
talks with the Iranians when we bombed them,
right? So if you're Russia, do you trust a single
fucking word coming out of this administration's
mouth? Doesn't matter. Who would it? Like, and
they're so mercurial that one day they're like,
tariffs. The next day, nevermind. Like he just
signed another extension on the China tariffs
and all this other stuff. Like I, I don't know
what the fuck is happening day to day. And long
time viewers of the show will note we used to
do at least a segment a week in the early part
of the administration about about the nutty stuff
they were doing. They have ramped it. They've
sped it up. It's like, let's go. We stopped covering
it because we couldn't keep up. It's also just
crazy and kind of depressing. I don't think our
listeners want to hear us just rant about Trump
all the time. I don't know. Oh, speaking of the
war in Russian Ukraine, what's next? Oh, God.
Well, Octokitty, there is so much content here.
Jesus. Like, why do I have all the talking points
on the economic front? Trump slapped a 50 percent
tariff on Indian goods, combining with the already
25 percent tariff. additional 25 % tariff of
Russian oil. Trump held this as a big blow to
Moscow's already fragile economy. India, meanwhile,
is not backing down. Trade talks are still scheduled
for later this month, meaning everything is probably
going to just be undone or extended or whatever.
But as they continue to pursue multifaceted dialogue,
stating confident confidently that the relationship
extends beyond trade friction. So Trump's new
tariffs on Indian imports is now 50%. At this
rate, curry night is going to cost more than
a Bitcoin. Again, I can't keep up with what they're
doing. No one can. Like, I get it. He's like,
Hey, India you're helping prop up Russia's economy
by buying oil from them So we're gonna slap a
tariff on you because you keep buying oil from
Russia Which they're using to fund their war
in Ukraine and I almost get it but again Nobody
believes him anymore Right. We didn't cover this
one. There was the whole Wall Street joke the
taco Trump always chickens out right because
at the end of the day, I Don't think anybody
buys his stuff anymore. They're like And as far
as they're concerned, he's a one term president
now. Like he's gone in three and a half years.
Right. They don't care. They'll just wait him
out. Right. Because even if the Republicans stay
in charge, none of them are going to be as nutty
as this guy. Yeah. All right. Moving on to our
last piece of this, the Epstein distraction tour.
What are we doing right here at home, Jay? Yeah.
Right here at home, we're trying to stay cool
because it is hot in Washington. Oh, I'm sorry.
You mean like the country wise? Yes, there is
more. As of August 12th, 2025, President Donald
Trump has deployed 800 National Guard troops
to Washington, D .C., filing his declaration
as a crime emergency in the city. This is insane.
And it also includes federal federalizing the
Metro Police Department. placing it under the
control of the attorney general and directing
the National Guard to assist in law enforcement
efforts. Trump's administration just justifies
this action by citing a need to address rising
crime and homelessness. However, official crime
statistics indicate that violent crime in D .C.
has actually decreased to a 30 year low. Critics
argue that the move is political. um and may
violate the 1973 home rule act which limits federal
investigation and local governance yeah and that
was the thing that let dc become really its own
city right was the home rule act right they said
okay you can have a mayor and you can have a
city council and you can rule yourselves and
not have congress just run the city um again
we're not sure where this would violate it because
technically he does have the right to do this
this is actually one of the areas where he actually
is standing on fairly firm legal ground except
we're not sure what the emergency is right and
it's only going to last seven weeks or 60 days
or something like that before congress has to
get involved they're required to right to authorize
any further action and this is all lest we forget
because uh former doge staffer big balls got
his ass whooped in D .C. over the weekend. Right?
Again, this is actually what pushed into the
weird Twitter interaction I had this morning.
I don't know. Congratulations, you're paying
too much money for a bunch of National Guardsmen
to stand around and be mad that they're there.
Because it sucks These guys don't want to be
standing out full kit in the middle of the DC
heat in August. They don't want to do it, right?
What are you doing? I Know the National Guard's
capability. This is what this is the thing that
gets me I understand the National Guard's capabilities
and there are like the National Guard is trained
for riot control, right? They're trained for
that. They're trained for certain things that
they do domestically, right? fires rescue operations
riots civil unrest none of that's happening right
the national guard is not a law enforcement agent
what are you having them do precisely and they
have no arresting powers they can't do anything
right hey look that guy's still in that car sucks
like I don't know what they're supposed to do,
right? Some of the Twitch chats like, National
Guard, do you ever wonder why we're here? They
will constantly, and so here's what's going to
happen. The first couple of weeks, they'll be
like, all right, sure, it's a mission and we'll
do some stuff. And then they're going to get
about two weeks in and they're going to be like,
can we go home now? Because the other thing that
the Army does in these situations for various
reasons is these guys will be on deep levels
of restriction. They will be in the city and
won't be allowed to go out anywhere. Right. They'll
be stuck in rooms and like sitting and they will
hate their lives. I don't know. What do you think,
Jay? Like, what was your first thought on this
one? It's just like so clearly a. Either like
a distraction or just. prepping for something
else that's coming. I don't really know. But
like, it's like, oh, crime is so bad. And I was
like, wait, what? Why is crime that bad? And
then it's like, no, it's not. It's at a record
30 year low. And I was like, what? What are we
doing? Like, I don't know. Well, now we certainly
need to do it in Chicago, Baltimore. You know
other cities the funny thing is they were talking
about ones that have really high crime rates
that are in red states that he's completely ignoring
like st louis and memphis which have much higher
crime rates than washington dc But you're not
deploying the national guard there right Because
it's not about that. It's it's entirely political
which is what's Like completely unsurprising
about it You know anyway Thus ends this short
version of the Epstein distraction list, which
I'm convinced this is what they're doing. They're
just trying to keep the news cycle was so focused
on the Epstein thing for so long there for that
block. They want to talk about anything else.
So they are just doing everything else to make
sure that The news cycle cannot swing back. And
more importantly, not so much the mainstream
media, the social media cycle. Because even when
they were not doing it, there was a bunch of
Republican people who were like, yo, dude, we
voted for you for transparency. You're supposed
to be releasing this shit. And they didn't do
it. And they were starting to get irritated.
And so they want any other thing to talk about.
Put anything else into the cultural zeitgeist
that is not the Epstein List. Right? Not the
fact that we moved Kalei Maxwell to a minimum
security prison and oh, by the way, she can get
out on furloughs now to go work in town. Oh,
and guess what? Everybody dropped the story about,
hey, because there was a bunch of reporters digging
into who actually signed the order to move her.
They were trying to figure it out. And then all
this crap happened. And now that story's disappeared
for now. For now, I mean, I think eventually
they're going to run out of distractions. There's
only so much shit you can do. Never mind, I take
that back. There's always, yeah, shit you can
do. Yeah, my yeah, my my favorite, like literature,
I don't know, category is dystopian future. So
like. I don't know, like you read 1984 Fahrenheit,
451, all these books. there there's still a lot
more that they could do but it's not pretty yeah
so all right let us know what you think down
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