IHIP News - Hegseth Clearly Unwell at Disaster Presser; Russia Infiltrates White House?!

Episode Date: April 23, 2025

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The Secretary of Defense Pete Hexeth is incompetent. He is an untreated alcoholic. Even his own mother sounded the alarm about his behavior. But in MAGA world, it's like, yeah, let's put him in charge of the greatest military force the earth has ever seen. Of course, he's probably all liquored up, sending out war plans to his wife and like he's gossiping. And so here he is on Fox propaganda entertainment television, trying to defend the indefensible with his actions regarding our national security and our troops that MAGA so claims to support. Play the clip. To go along and, you know, start doing meet the press and go into the Council on Foreign

Relations and spending time with all the new cocktail sipping crowd. That's not why I'm here. I'm here because President Trump asked me to bring war fighting back to the Pentagon every single day. Right. That is our focus. And if I i mean what is is that cocaine is that vodka shots what is that because that can't be sober i can't i can't help but think that when he says cocktail it's projection that he's had a cocktail before because this guy is pathetic and the big you know he's like leakers and you know we're going to launch investigations you're the problem the head of the snake is you you suck you're incompetent you're a white supremacist that cannot run the military shut the up and sit down if you care about men and women in uniform and here's my thing what all of these republicans in congress in the senate you know that are like

our troops and our national security i mean these are the people that freaked out over benghazi when hillary clinton was the secretary of state these are the people that freaked out that lloyd austin went to the hospital and didn't report it and then he got on television and publicly apologized for having a personal medical procedure. This guy gets on television clearly drunk or on blow or on something because that just can't be sober. So jerky. And just like this whole MAGA thing where these men, one of the most human things, dare I say masculine things, I think a person can do is own their shit. Agree. I fucked up. I'm sorry. And this is what we're going to do about it. But in that world, apologizing to them feels emasculating.

Well, the doubling down in the Trump administration is absolutely stunning. And like you said, I look at these Republicans on the, you know, Intelligence Committee, Foreign Services Committee, Armed Forces Committee, and I think you have completely and totally bankrupted yourself and your credibility. And if your constituents, which they probably will continue to reelect them, but this is an inflection point regarding our military, in my opinion. Are we who we say we are? Are we going to protect our troops? Are we going to protect our troops?

Are we going to put them with a leader that is competent? Because right now I feel less safe in the United States with the military than I ever have in my whole life. But doesn't it go deeper that when we know that the man they voted for said that people in the military are suckers and losers, that then there's a dissonance and an accepted dissonance that the media participates in and allows them to have this dissonance. On the one hand, supporting a man who said that John McCain was a loser because he got

captured. He was a POW. He was tortured by Vietnamese. And he calls the people that fought for World War II suckers and losers. But on the same time, rah, rah, sis, boom, bah, we're wearing our, you know, our Eagle t-shirts with grenades on them talking about how we support the troops. And there is a always this deference given in the media and in a percentage of the American public where they give deference to that crowd and they give deference to their moral duplicity. We're not going to do it here anymore. All right, next up, we have Russia continuing to infiltrate the United States of America. It is a layup. The

MAGA administration has made it so easy for China and Russia to win without spending that much money. Put this up. The man in this picture is Tim Pool, a far-right influencer who was exposed last summer for accepting up to $400,000 a month from Russian state media to peddle misinformation. That's not a conspiracy theory. It's fact. I'll stop there and allow you to narrate for yourself what the potential implications of him having insider access to our national leaders could be. And here he is interviewing puppy killer and cosplayer, Kristi Noem, who can't even secure her own bag. And he was in the White House media room, the press poll room yesterday, asking Caroline Leavitt questions.

And that would be like pumps and I being in there asking questions like we're not journalists, we're podcasters. And real journalists are such an integral part of the United States of America. They do hard work. They do the research. They're typically not in front of microphones and States of America. They do hard work. They do the research. They're typically not in front of microphones and they vet things. And this is Russia just slipping right in more and more because Donald Trump has said, oh, please come in. Welcome. Sit down. Have anything you'd like Putin, because I don't give a shit. Yeah, he was invited.

I mean, there is no disputing the fact that he is a Russian propagandist and they invited him in to the White House. So spare me, Donald Trump and Putin are, you know, engaging in this negotiation. Putin knows he doesn't have to do anything for Trump because Trump is his puppet. And here we have Temple is the perfect example. And I cannot believe that people are not outraged by this. Okay. Next up we have, this is crazy. Okay. Put this up. Okay. This woman, her name is Christina Wong. She is the Navy's new director of communications. During January 6th, the the attempted coup the insurrection she here she posts on her social media a picture of her peeking into the capitol before they all break in and so you

know the thing about what maga is doing is trump wants to dismantle absolutely every single part of the uh united states government that's why you have pete hexeth in part of the United States government. That's why you have Pete Hegseth in charge of the military because Pete Hegseth is more loyal to Trump than he is to those troops. And it's just this trickle down incompetence from Trump all the way down of these people that are short-sighted. They're not emotionally intelligent. They're intellectually dishonest. And I don't even think I can use the word intellectual ahead of their dishonesty. But these are people that everything

is just a big swinging dick contest. It is just a swinging dick contest. Politics should be boring. You should have experts grinding out on data, doing nerd s***, keeping everybody safe, that have like, that make spreadsheets and do s*** that's boring and uninteresting to keep us safe. But now what do we do? We put January 6th criminals in charge of the Navy communications. I would argue she was probably chosen because of that behavior, because she is so loyal to Trump. And you guys, I just think it's so important in speaking about

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That's ground, G-R-O-U-N-D, news.com forward slash IHIP. All right. Now back to the fuckery. Even MAGA loyalists, I mean, people that embarrass themselves for Donald Trump, like Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is in the fuck around, find out stage. Put up this headline. Okay. Jessica Tarloff, I mean, who does God's work over on Fox News, she says, voted the right way and yet can't depend on Trump no matter how much you try. And the headline is, Sanders says Arkansas is in dire need of federal assistance, but the Trump administration says no.

And the next person up is Senator Tom Cotton, Republican from Arkansas, fierce planter of sticking his lips right on Trump's ass. He pleaded with President Donald Trump to reconsider his denial of disaster relief after tornadoes hit Arkansas. And what I have to say is this is why governments not run like a business. This sounds like a big insurance corporation denying somebody life-saving care because it's not on their plan. This is why government cannot be run as a business. And whenever you hear a politician say that, it should be a red flag. Government is to provide safety and security for its citizens. Arkansas voted red, but that doesn't mean that they should, as a liberal, that doesn't mean that I think they are not entitled to federal funds. Of course they

are. Of course they are. But Trump and Doge and all the rip, you know, we're running this like a business and, you know, art of the deal bullshit. And so now even his own sycophantic supporters cannot get life-saving funds and rebuilding funds for their communities from this administration. Well, and what's so disheartening about this is we know that he makes blue states beg for FEMA funds. But do you remember during the campaign with North Carolina and Florida, it was all over Fox News, all over the right wing. Biden's not helping these counties or these states because they're red states. That was not true. They were sending so much disinformation. People didn't know where to go get help. And now we're seeing Donald Trump did exactly what he was projecting on the Biden administration. And I just don't see the outrage and the publicity this should be getting from all media. Yeah. And I think that, you know, the more and more we all

dive into this, the more we know that corporate media up the chain in the boards of directors, in the shareholder offices, you've got some red pilled white men that only care about profit and that trickles down the media echo chamber and out and so that's why independent podcasters like us and the Midas touch are getting more traction but I just want to say one thing this is super important to me the MAGA has done for years and even before it was called MAGA an assault on all things democratic. And one of the things that they did is attack blue cities.

And I think instead of us spending a bunch of time defending blue cities, we need to start attacking red states. It's abysmal what happens in these states. It's abysmal what Republican super majorities on a state level do for its citizens. And they continue to brainwash their citizenry to where they actively go out and keep voting for more and more pain. And we need to start a huge campaign attacking the horrific policies of these red states to where people in red states start to realize, oh, I get it. It's not trans people that are trying to ruin my life. It's all of these rich guys that don't want to send aid to tornado victims. Okay, I'm starting to get it. And I

think that messaging has got to start happening and we have to quit playing defense and we need to start playing offense. Okay, subscribe to our channel. We are on our way to 1 million. We're trying to make it there by June. We can't do it without your help. And we'll see you all later.