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Chapter 1: Who are the main speakers in this episode?
Welcome to IHIP News. We are live today. Pumps and I are in studio. There's a lot, a lot to cover. Later on in a few minutes, we are going to have Senator Amy Klobuchar join us. Cory Booker had a scheduling conflict. Obviously, there's a lot going on at his job. But I want to show you all and Pumps a clip from J.D. Vance yesterday, and then I want us to dissect it. Play the clip.
Chapter 2: What is the criticism of J.D. Vance's stance on masculinity?
because you know what i think about like what what is the essence of masculinity you could answer this in so many different ways but when i think about me and my guy friends we really like to tell jokes to one another okay so here's what i have to say about this i've never seen such a defensive group of people about something they're constantly having to defend their masculinity and he talks about men feeling like they have to suppress
their masculinity. And I want to make the argument that J.D. Vance is a failed drag queen. Put up the image. Okay. I think what he's suppressing are his feminine instincts. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that. You know, we know that he is dying to pop a smoky eye. And so show the eyeliner. So I think the only thing this man is suppressing is his inner drag queen.
and his strong desire to go from eyeliner to a full-blown sexy smoky eye. Because the amount of energy that the right wing and that MAGA men have to spend on defense, they don't play offense. They're constantly having to defend their masculinity. When they are, you know, I look at JD Vance, I can see that he's a man. It doesn't enter my mind if he's super manly or not manly enough. It's just,
how much they play defense on their masculinity is really hilarious.
Well, they've created the distraction that they are, that masculinity is under attack and it is not under attack. What is under attack is misogyny and sexism. And I just have two comments about J.D. Vance and masculinity. If you are so masculine, why on the planet are you kowtowing not only to Donald Trump and Elon Musk, but to Vladimir Putin and wearing terribly unblended eyeliner.
And my second point is, I don't think he has any male friends because he says, when I get together with my male friends, we like to joke. What are you talking about? Like, stop. You're a grown man. Like, they sit around and do jokes. That makes no sense to me. He is someone that has children that are of half Indian descent. His wife is of half Indian descent.
And he cannot defend them against the MAGA cult. And he is, in my mind, an extremely beta male.
And I mean, for me, like for them, whether they're alpha, beta, you know, Zeta, nobody ever really thinks about this except for them because they're constantly on defense. And I think that there is an argument to be made that they're suppressing something more. And it's not that there's some attack on white men, but they live in this really delusional world.
And I want to play for you this clip of the, uh, President of the United States, convicted felon Donald Trump. This is just yesterday.
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Chapter 3: How does Donald Trump influence his supporters?
An approval rating today of 71 and another one of 69. I have not heard of those numbers before. So we're going to fight very hard.
Okay. So I think that you remember when he was during his felony trial, he had somebody just print out positive news articles for him because he wasn't allowed screen time like a toddler. And he would go through his notebook and just read positive articles about himself. I think that they just make stuff now. They probably have, the White House has a Photoshopper that says, approval rating 71.
Another poll is 69 because he's all about metrics. Right. And they put it in his notebook to keep screen time away from him. Because I think what's so scary right now is I think he's the puppet. I think we, Donald Trump, we were all so fearful of him. I'm now more fearful of the force behind him.
I think he's a Trojan horse because the fact that he's getting up there and saying that tells me that he's surrounded by people that are just feeding him bullshit. Right.
Absolutely true. I have long since been more concerned about how craven and vile Elon Musk is because he is more organized and he is more determined and he seems to be able to stay on track. Same with J.D. Vance. Donald Trump, all you have to do is say, oh, my gosh, did you see that shark over there? Oh, yeah, sharks, windmill, you know, the flight of ideas. He can't stay on task.
Wait, Elon Musk yesterday at CPAC. To say he's organized and on task, we're watching like somebody completely spiral with a chainsaw and sunglasses, and he's barely able to put together sentences. Maybe like a year ago or two years ago, he was more together presenting.
But what I'm seeing lately out of him is he's basically gaslighting the American public, picking fights with astronauts that are far more educated and smart than he is.
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Chapter 4: Why is Elon Musk a concern according to the hosts?
running around inside with sunglasses on, tripping balls on ketamine with a chainsaw to try to detract from the fact that he is robbing the United States of America and trying to get the people whom he's robbing to be mad at the very agencies that help them or keep them safe. So I don't know that Elon Musk can be in the organized position anymore, but I do think he's surrounded by
scarily, and we'll ask Senator Klobuchar when she gets on here, Putin, which I think he's organized. I think he's played a couple decades long game to the United States. I think Peter Thiel controls J.D. Vance in the exact same manner that Elon Musk controls Donald Trump.
I believe, like you do, that Donald Trump is being babysat by Elon Musk. And Elon Musk, in my opinion, And Putin are playing the world domination game. They want to turn American citizens against other Americans. They have demonized a whole faction of people, immigrants. Now, J.D. Vance is running around in Europe talking exactly like Putin would want him to, like verbatim.
And so I think that a lot of this in the center is Vladimir Putin. And I think it's obvious as the nose on my face. And they have taken, Putin has taken through whatever message or Fox or whoever you want to put the blame on. You have Reagan Republicans, national security rah, rah, rah Republicans that are now saying they have approval of Putin himself. and the United States leaving NATO.
That is how much he has turned them inside out. And it is absolutely terrifying.
Every morning, the happiest person in Trump's America is Vladimir Putin. Absolutely. And the fact that all of these national security Republicans like Marco Rubio, now I understand why Trump called him little Marco. I get it. I totally get it because he knew that he could own him. He knew that he could control him.
I remember when Marco Rubio first took the national stage, he offered the speech after one of Obama's State of the Union. And all of the conservatives were like, oh, my God, this is our guy. He's going to be the next big Republican candidate. And as he's given this speech, he has like really bad dry mouth. And he keeps reaching over for this Poland Springs water and like downing it.
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Chapter 5: How are political figures like Marco Rubio perceived by the hosts?
But he's trying to keep his face on the camera. This guy has been face planning for decades. And it's no surprise that he ended up with the most incompetent, dangerous people on the planet. I could tell from that water speech that it wasn't going to end well for little Marco. Kylie, is Senator Klobuchar here yet? Not yet. She'll be here shortly. Okay. Let us know when she gets in. All right.
Let's look at some comments from some YouTube lives. Seth, can you pop any comments up? Rubio says, Is a wet disgrace. He totally is storm rising. Marco Rubio is a total disgrace. Lil Marco. Let's see. Rubio is going to crack. He's in way too deep, Caroline. I completely agree. I agree too. He looks like a little hostage trotting around. And you know he thought State Department diplomat. Right.
I'm going to be doing cool stuff with cool people. I'm going to be respected. And then he walks into this meeting in Saudi Arabia and gets hustled by these former KGB agents that own him before he even took his first breath of oxygen in that room.
And also, one thing I want to point out is the new senior advisor to the State Department, to Little Marco, is Big Balls from Elon Musk's team. Big Balls. So Little Marco is now reporting to Big Balls.
Yeah. So somebody asked me in here if I'm still sick. I'm finally feeling better. There's no question in Trump's America, I've been unable to kick this. My voice is still hoarse, but it's because I'm just here fighting for democracy with you all every day. Let's see what else we have here. MAGA is uneducated. Nancy says that. Yeah, totally. I completely agree with that.
MultiStacker says changing shopping habits is effective money talks. I completely agree with her on that. And I saw that Target's most recent sales report has dramatically decreased since they stopped their DEI. And I've seen a lot of stuff on social media about people boycotting Target. And so I agree with this commenter. Joanne says, what happens to Musk if Trump is gone?
This is a great question. And I think about this all the time, Joanne, because I feel like then they put J.D. Vance, and I feel like J.D. Vance would still be owned by the same oligarchy that is owning Trump right now.
The difference would be, though, is all these MAGAs are so loyal to Donald Trump. Will that translate to J.D. Vance, who has zero charisma? So that will be the question. Will the MAGA base galvanize around Vance like they have Trump? And I don't know if that's true or not. And do they care? Right. Sorry, guys. My buttons are loud. Yeah. Do they care? At this point, do they care?
But I keep thinking to myself, at some point, Trump's on there going, oh, well, we're trying to get down the cost of inflation because of Biden. That's a lie. Inflation is up because of the decisions that you're making. Prices are going to continue to rise at such a level. I think even the MAGA base has got to be able to figure it out.
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Chapter 6: What are the economic implications of tariffs discussed?
It looks good. I think you did a great job stacking the books with the bowl. Senator Klobuchar, we're all freaking out. Let's really have a talk about this. We're all watching this. We're watching Marco Rubio, your former Senate colleague, looks like a hostage. He looks like he was completely hustled by these two former KGB agents in Saudi Arabia.
Trump is out there lying left and right, spouting Putin propaganda, pro-Kremlin talking points. It feels like we are going to be allies with Russia and China and that we're going to abandon NATO. What do you think about that?
This whole thing has been awful. I mean, it has been just to me, it just has someone who's been to Ukraine three times. I've actually been in the presidential offices with President Zelensky, which are, by the way, surrounded by sandbags. And he's bunkered in there as he stands up. We all remember that first day when he went down to the street corner, when everyone accounted him out.
and his country out, and he said three simple words, we are here. That has been true ever since. And the thought that we have a president now that claims that Zelensky started the war, I have been at the mass graves in Bucha. I've been at the burned out apartment buildings in Irpin. This has been a horror show. And this is Vladimir Putin who has shot down passenger planes.
He has killed journalists. He has imprisoned his political opponents. And now Donald Trump, in his first month in office, has decided, yeah, there's always negotiated settlements to war. That's okay. New president comes in. You have peace talks. You try to work this out. But what does he do? He excludes Zelensky from the talks.
He basically sells out the store by through his vice president and through his defense minister basically saying, Well, no, Ukraine, you can never get in NATO. And hey, no, sorry, you're going to have to give up the territory that has been yours for years. And then he embarks on these peace talks through his Secretary of State. So my own view is what is their hope? Well, there's hope in Europe.
They've given over $50 billion in defense spending, over $100 billion in aid in total. There is hope that there will be people in Congress, not just me, not just Democrats, who are going to stand up with Republicans and say, no, we're in this for democracies. We're not going to be on the side of Vladimir Putin, the thug, and his pals, North Korea and Iran and China.
And so there are Republicans who have been speaking out, which is one of the first times. Otherwise, they've been acquiescing in everything Donald Trump wants. So that is the hope here, that Congress, as the Article 1 in the Constitution, we're number one, not Donald Trump, that we stand up when we stand up for Ukraine.
Angie? When you're talking about Ukraine, you have these, I'm seeing now misinformation because Donald Trump has, you know, tweeted because he governs via social media on his pathetic truth social. He's saying things like Zelensky's a dictator. The people don't like him. He's he didn't start the I mean, he's acting like Vladimir Putin didn't start the war.
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Chapter 7: What insights does Senator Klobuchar provide on Ukraine and misinformation?
30,000 of them, millions of views, 24,000 negative comments saying, wait a minute, pictures of me with John McCain, which were valid pictures, when we went and met with Ukrainian soldiers in a bunker. And it said on them, like, Amy is funding Nazis in Ukraine or things like that. So they have been doing this for years.
And I think people in a lot of the countries bordering Russia, like, say, Estonia and Lithuania and Latvia, they're kind of been schooled on this. They know when Russia is messing around in their democracy. Our citizens have to realize that that is going on as well, that it's one of the tools that they use, misinformation, and false claims to try to get you on the side.
So I think most people, if you look at any newspaper, including your local newspaper, you can get facts. You can get the truth. Any kind of a normal news organization where you can tune in your podcast, you're able to find out some information. So people just got to not believe that stuff that they just see pop up on their internet about Zelensky or Ukraine, because I'm telling you,
It's either coming from Russia, it's coming from the Trump people who want to mess around with where peoples are in this. And the words that they are, some of the things they are saying are exactly what Donald Trump has said. And it's on all of us to say no.
And I just saw the recent polls today where finally a bunch of people that voted for Donald Trump are starting to say, hey, wait a minute, I thought he was going to bring costs down. But instead we got chaos up, corruption up, and the cost of eggs are up. And they're starting to figure it out only a month in because I understand they want to change.
I had like 10% of my state voted for me and Donald Trump. So I actually understand where they were coming from. And now they're starting to see, wait a minute, I don't want to be going to bed with Vladimir Putin. I don't want to be waking up with Russia as our ally instead of Scandinavia. I don't want to spend my time talking about buying Greenland.
I want to get a president that's actually going to do something about my child care and about how much housing is and rent is. And I thought that's what he said he was going to do. And he is doing exactly the opposite with those tariffs. That's going to bring prices up, firing people, working on their nuclear arsenal. And avian flu, which is contributing, by the way, to these egg prices.
All of these things that are getting him headlines and getting him attention every day are actually setting us backwards.
Senator Klobuchar, I appreciate that you think that a portion of the American public can identify lies, but I want to share something devastating with you. I was playing pickleball on Sunday. And at the end of the match, we were kind of hanging out. And this woman who's 10, 15 years older than me, politics come up. Elon Musk comes up. Ukraine comes up.
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Chapter 8: How is misinformation affecting public perception?
First of all, there are many suits, and you've got to believe, as hard as this last few weeks have been, when I look at this, I look at us as fighting at three levels, fighting in the courts, fighting with Congress, and that means oversight, and trying to get people on the record. I know that sounds boring, but it matters for the future.
It's almost like evidence of what they say they're going to do, these nominees. We were, as I said, up until 4 a.m. fighting to say, why do you need tax cuts? That was a vote. We actually had a vote. And why do you need tax cuts for people making over $500 million a year? And they all voted that we had to have tax cuts for them. And we all voted that we didn't. OK, that happened.
And then the third thing is we have with our constituents because people are speaking out, they're breaking down the phone lines, they're sending emails. So when I look at Elon Musk, I look at the courts. The courts have already intervened several times, including Trump appointed judge and Bush and Reagan appointed judges. And they've said, no, you can't do that.
He can't be rifling around in your personal data. at the Treasury Department. I know it's not a satisfying answer, but it's real. Yesterday, when Trump said, hey, I'm going to take over the Postal Service, I was trying to picture there, you know, as I'm sitting in the Senate with my colleagues at midnight. So it's like, Musk going to be delivering the mail?
Is he going to be getting a contract for his rockets to go into Lanesboro, Minnesota with their, like, grandma's packages for Easter? I'm trying to picture this whole thing. So We have the ability to take this on because under the Constitution, so you got the courts with the lawsuits.
For instance, Postal Service already said we're going to sue in court because we were established by the Constitution. Elon Musk is not Senate confirmable. He has conflicts up the wazoo. He's getting money from one agency. I just saw one of the biggest attacks he's had is the safety group that works on regulating self-driving cars. They've decimated that division by 10%.
It's called the National Traffic Safety Commission, something like that. That's an example, right? Because he's got all this money in that. He also has contracts for space. So you have things around that that are illegal that he's doing. He's involved in them. And then you finally have the people. And Elon Musk is down to the mid 30s in his poll numbers, right?
Two thirds of the people don't like that he's doing this. They get he's a billionaire. They don't think he should be there. Those people have to push at their own constituents, particularly Republicans. I think they know where I am on this and how I'm voting on this. But push on these Republicans and say, why are you letting this unelected billionaire run the government and be the king?
and stand behind the Resolute Desk, which is the president's desk, and make all these edicts and orders and run around with a chainsaw. Why are you doing that? Because guess what? I didn't sign up for this. I signed up like a lot of my constituents did. They said, I wanted something new for bringing down housing prices.
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