IHIP News - MAGA Influencers Crying After Getting Scammed by Trump

Episode Date: April 8, 2025

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Yesterday, the convicted felon president of the United States of America made some people in Moscow very happy when he intentionally wrecked the United States economy. Kylie put up this headline. Well done, old man, Russian state TV revels in Trump having destroyed trust in the economy, calls for a monument to be built in his honor. And I just think that a part of this is we all like to lean into that Trump's so stupid and Trump's so incompetent, and there's no question that he's one of those. But I do think a lot of this is an intentional play at dismantling every single aspect of the American pillars that we rely upon, the judiciary, the legislative. He wants the economy, the press, due process.

They're dismantling all of it to help assist in this authoritarian play. And nobody on the planet is happier than this, than all of the people at the Kremlin. Well, and we know Vladimir Putin played the long game. He has played the long game with misinformation. And now he is praising Donald Trump. And we know Donald Trump had all these phone calls with him. Elon Musk's in bed with them.

This is probably part of his plan. I mean, you can't argue that Trump is doing everything Putin would want a leader of the United States of America to do. It's inarguable. Absolutely. And a lot of this, his strongest desire is to be a worshipped dictator. And we have current dictators that we can look at that have done this. Vladimir Putin was put into office by a bunch of Russian oligarchs and slowly started dismantling all of the facets of Russian government. And now everything is consolidated with him. All of these oligarchs started dying. They can still

continue to have these bullshit elections in Russia, just as they do in Hungary. But they're rigged, as we know, with Navalny. What do they do with people who try to run against a dictator? He was put in jail. And so Trump knows and the people around him know what they need to do to have an authoritarian form of government. They can look at Viktor Orban.

They can look at Vladimir Putin. And we see that they are currently doing all of these things. And one of America's biggest crown jewels is the economy. And nobody can figure out why he did this, especially Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports. Let's put Dave up here. Where were these people they like no i never dreamed that the stock market tariffs were going to smash the uh stock market like this people are saying that on the right but people always trash the other on the left excuse me kamala was like this tariff things a hideous idea a lot of people like tariffs stink but not these pro-business people i didn't hear any of that you would have thought if they were like worried about it they would have said it in the real time but they were all behind it now obviously what they're saying is the way he rolled it out is

kookamonga i mean whatever he said he was going to do it the whole time And now here's where I see the issue. The stock market crashes in 9-11. Yes. Stock market crashed COVID. Yes. But this is like a decision that one guy made that crashed the whole stock market. That's why we're calling it Orange Monday, not Black Monday. Yep. So he's starting to figure it out. And so here's what I have to say, Dave Portnoy. Kamala just didn't say that as a political talking point. She said every expert economist has studied what Trump is proposing of this, the Wharton School of Business. And they said if he does what he says he's going to do because it was there all along, this will lead to a recession. And she was exactly right because she studies and she doesn't just impulsively say things. Now, as to your business guys that you're leaning on, what Trump does is he unlocks an impulsive urge in men and white women with internalized misogyny.

He unlocks this. Sometimes we think about doing bad things. Every human being does. Like, oh, it'd be fun to just kind of fuck around and do that or cheat and do this. And then your brain comes in and you're like, that's not right. That's not going to feel good later on. Trump unlocks to where you always, your default setting is to just go straight in on these urges. And he unlocked these capitalistic misogynist urges in people. And they saw, oh, deregulation. I'm going to be rich like Elon Musk. This is going to be fantastic. Instead of pausing

and listening to the woman who had all of the experts surrounding her. In America, one of our worst drugs is this get rich quick scheme, or I can avoid all the work and win the lottery. We all still fantasize as a population about having to skip over all of the grit and hard work that actually when you achieve something, it actually feels better because you actually experience some pain to get there. It cracks me up that all of these billionaires, and now you have Dave Portnoy saying, oh my gosh, the tariffs are bad. He's crashing the stock market. Kamala Harris told us exactly what it was because she took the facts and she did the research. This is absolutely stunning to me that these people would act like this is a surprise. He said he was going to do this. You voted for a dipshit. He's always been a dipshit. All you had

to do was give his record as a businessman a little bit of Google. Look at the bottom feeders he surrounds himself with. He doesn't have top economists from Wharton School. He has complete and total dipshits. So this is on you, Dave Portnoy, and all these billionaires that were so short-sighted. You wanted it, you got it. So you tee this up perfectly for the next point, Pumps.

How did they get this crazy harebrained tariff idea? Dave Portnoy, we're going to tell you. It wasn't Nobel laureate economists. It wasn't the smartest experts that study this stuff that have studied it for decades. It was Jared Kushner doing a little shopping on Amazon. Please put this up. How did we get here? Donald Trump tanked the economy based on a book

his son-in-law found on Amazon. He told Jared Kushner to find him an economic advisor, someone who could make him look tough and talk tough on China. Jared searched Amazon, saw a book called Death by China, and thought the title was cool. So he cold called the author, Peter Navarro, and gave him a job. Navarro had no real economic credibility, just an obsession with tariffs and a made-up expert named Ron Vera, whom he cited repeatedly in his books. Who's Ron Vera? A fictional economist Navarro invented. It's an anagram of his own name. This is not a joke. This is literally how the Trump administration created its policy, one that wiped out $11 trillion in wealth, crashed markets, and is nearly sending the world into another Great Depression.

A fake expert, a book cover, an Amazon search. That's it. That's how we got here. And so this is something that the Dave Portnoy's that have millions and millions and millions of followers that have benefited to the tune. Dave's a really rich guy. If you care an inkling about this country, do not participate in the dismantling and the dismissing of expertise. This is an authoritarian play.

These dipshits, Jared Kushner, got on Amazon. Here's what I know about Pumps and Me. If for some horrible reason we were politicians and there was a subject matter that I didn't know jack shit about, I would say, let's get the five smartest people that have devoted their lives. I'm talking geeked out dorks 4.0 that have written essays, papers, and thesis on the subject matter to come in here and educate me about it. With MAGA, they operate on hubris. They think they know everything and they want to skip over the part

where you have to do the work, where you have to learn, where you have to evolve, where you have to say, well, I have this idea. And then an expert completely dismantles your idea and makes you tuck your tail between your legs because you were not smart enough to figure it out. The best economies in the world are governed by the best governments. Corrupt economies don't have strong currency, don't have a strong electorate and you can look no further than russia you can look no further than hungary this is a disaster and until the people who have the lot the biggest microphones start coming together to expose the light on this administration ron vera is not a real person. And millions of people lost their fucking 401ks yesterday. Rich people like Dave Portnoy and then working class union people who voted for

security. Like that's what you vote for. You go and vote for security. Now I'm never, ever, ever going to excuse a triple Trumper, whether it's Dave Portnoy or, you know, somebody in rural Oklahoma, because I'm sorry, most people have average intelligence. As Pumps points out constantly, Trump's a failed businessman. He fails at everything he touches, even casinos. He destroys everything he touches. And this is the kind of shit he does. I mean, he had Jared Kushner, who is a trust fund nepo baby. He's never done anything that we know of good for the world. And he gets an anagram for Peter Navarro. I mean, this is jaw dropping. This is grounds for impeachment right now today. But you know what? Those pussies are never going to do anything about it. Those

Republicans will sit there and they will take it. It's unbelievable. You would be embarrassed if you worked for this administration unless you're MAGA. And the appeasement, you know, yesterday we saw the Supreme Court rolled in his favor regarding due process. And then you have like people in the media personalities like Dave Portnoy that were all chips in on this Bitcoin and saw Trump as a way that they could enrich themselves personally, but they forget having principle and having a spine and caring about others and valuing experts. And everybody watched the debate. It was one of the most watched debates there was. You have one guy standing there with orange makeup on talking about people eating dogs and cats and stealing pets, which was a lie. And you had another woman who had smart experts surrounding her, constantly educating her as she traveled the country from point A to point B.

Why people thumb their nose at expertise is beyond me, but it's something that's epidemic in this country and it's going to end democracy. And we're going to go the way of Hungary and Russia. And it's just sad that people with big microphones are not sounding the alarm, tucking their tail between their legs and saying, I fucked up, right? Caved in my most stupid impulses. I get blinded by the thought of making millions of dollars. And Trump sometimes acts like a tough guy.

And it was bullshit. And I fucked up. And start deprogramming the American public because there's still a window where we could change and correct course here. But, you know, I don't know. I mean, I don't know if that's as close as the Dave Portnoy's of the world get, or if he'll continue to evolve and, you know, start to turn his, I don't know how many followers Barstool Sports has, but I know it's millions. And once he starts, and then Joe Rogan starts, because this is going to take not just Republican politicians and Democratic politicians.

The whole landscape of the way everybody consumes news and the way they process it has completely changed because we all spend a disgusting amount of time with our cell phones. And so it's going to take an all hands on deck approach to dismantle what's happening with this crazy authoritarian propaganda. And people don't realize that's what it is. But attacking the economy the way he did is making the electorate lose faith in the American economy, which is one of our big pillars. You saw Dave Portnoy sitting there melting down. Couldn't believe it. Couldn't believe it. You know, but this is an authoritarian play and we have to start educating the public and we can't just rely upon Republicans or Democrats. It's an all hands on deck. And so I welcome Dave Portnoy to join the resistance and try to save this country because you let them go after trans people, you let them go after gay people, you let them go after black people. Soon they're going to be

coming after your first amendment right, Dave Portnoy. That's why we fight for everyone unapologetically and do not give an inch in our plight and in our fight for social justice and civil rights, because that's what decent people who believe in democracy do. All right. We're on our way to 1 million subs. Subscribe, share, do all this stuff, and Pumps and I will see you all later.