IHIP News: Hegseth and Rubio SCRAMBLE To SPIN NIGHTMARE Week For MAGA!! They Are SWEATING!!

What this episode is about

The discussion critiques the recent actions of the Trump administration regarding military interventions, particularly in Venezuela, highlighting the implications of prioritizing oil interests over American welfare. It raises concerns about the lack of transparency surrounding costs associated with these military operations and examines the defensive rhetoric from figures like Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth in response to critical inquiries about U.S. involvement and expenditures.

Key takeaways

• America first? More like oligarchs first; democracy left in the dust while the oil barons dance.
• War criminals in suits: when regime change is about oil, democracy becomes a distant memory.
• Secret briefings and offshore accounts: transparency is dead, and Congress is playing witness to the heist.
• America's moral compass? More like a weather vane, spinning wildly in a storm of political greed.
• From democracy to oligarchy: 250 years of progress being dismantled faster than a Trump tweet.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Unknown Host (Host) · 11 min speaking
• Marco Rubio (Guest) · 2 min speaking
• Pete Hegseth (Guest) · 2 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Donald Trump
2. 6:00 – 9:00: Donald C. Murphy, Donald Trump

Notable quotes from "IHIP News: Hegseth and Rubio SCRAMBLE To SPIN NIGHTMARE Week For MAGA!! They Are SWEATING!!"

• I'm old enough to remember when Donald Trump beat the drum. America first.

  about Donald Trump · at 0:00

• The American people what the hell you are hiding from. And then I read from Senator Chris Murphy after a classified briefing. He can't. He says, I can't tell you the details…

  about Donald C. Murphy · at 6:34

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Donald Trump — Person · 3 mentions · first at 0:00
• Donald C. Murphy — Person · 1 mention · first at 6:40
• Ben Ray Lujan — Person · 1 mention

Companies & orgs

• Array — Company · 1 mention

Concepts & topics

• NATO — Concept · 2 mentions

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 I'm old enough to remember when Donald Trump beat the drum. America first. We're gonna make America great again. We're gonna do this for America. And there has been nothing done by his administration except to hurt Americans, take away their healthc care, terrorize them in the street. Now he's his administration's executing people in the streets. And we've gone into Venezuela. We've been committing war crimes by killing their fishing boats. Now, we've gone in and we've kidnapped the murderous dictator that ruled there, not because we give a [ __ ] about America, but because we want the oil. And Donald Trump even said, "We talked to the oil companies." They didn't talk to Congress. So, Marco Rubio, when asked about what's it going to cost America, what's it going to cost taxpayers to do this regime change in Venezuela? in here I thought was the answer from he and Pete Hegath that we all had to see.

1:01 How much will you involve? It doesn't cost us. It doesn't cost us the involvement. The US involvement in Venezuela. How much will it cost?

1:07 Well, it doesn't going to cost us any money. For example, this oil deal that's happening doesn't cost us any money. On the contrary,

1:12 doesn't cost no money to the Look, I can't I don't have the numbers that you Okay, so it doesn't cost us any money. We're getting the oil. So he says the quiet part out loud. [ __ ] little Marco. And then here's Pete Hex who just goes unhinged. I mean, he's just unhinged.

1:30 Besides that question from CNN, the question is ever asked, how much does it cost when they're in the Mediterranean or the Red Sea or the Indian Ocean or the Pacific? But now that they're in our hemisphere on a counter cartel mission or ensuring that indicted individual comes to justice, now you're asking the question of cost. It's a disingenuous question to begin with. You're trying to find any angle possible to undermine the success of one of the most historic military missions the world has ever seen.

2:00 Okay. Every time he says the world has ever seen, just like God the [ __ ] up. Here's the thing. This Western Hemisphere, I think you pointed out that's a Project 2025 term, correct? Yes, it is in the project 2024 2025 they talk about hemisphere building. Um also there is reporting very um uh interesting reporting that in 2019 u national security advisor Fiona Hill uh reported under oath that Putin had offered Trump uh during Trump 1.0 he offered the United States Venezuela for Ukraine. Um, so there to me of course you have a lot of factions that this will satisfy. The oil oligarchs are like, "Oh yes, we're going to get it."

2:57 But what's interesting, I read some report and I don't know if this has been verified or not, but that the funds that they're going to get from the oil that they've just taken are going to go to offshore accounts and not into the United States Treasury. And I don't know if that's been verified yet, but it was a journalist that that tweeted that and she was asking for more details about that. But this is a government right now set up by oligarchs for oligarchs of oligarchs. This is not an America first uh uh government. This is now he's talking about raising the defense spending by over a half trillion. This administration, this fascist regime is accelerating. They are accelerating the fascism at a very alarming rate. The Epstein files are still sitting there, but they are wagging the dog and breaking as much as they possibly can.

3:49 And 250 years of democracy is going down the toilet. And have we been perfect? No. Are there scars all over our foreign policy? Yes. But something that we all used to believe in was the idea of improvement. Martin Luther King spoke so eloquently about the ark um of justice, you know, bending towards the the moral universe and we we incrementally, you know, marched together to do that. what we're up against right now with those two [ __ ] those two war criminals, those two traders. And Democratic leadership needs to use those words when talking about Pete Hexth and talking about Marco Rubio because they are war criminals and they are traitors to the United States of America and their actions warrant at least your words and that that voice. and don't fall into the crap and don't buy into the narrative of Steven Miller that we can't exercise our First Amendment and call a spade a spade. But this administration and those

4:53 two [ __ ] war criminal [ __ ] they are accelerating and they are breaking America on purpose. This is on purpose. They are breaking it. Everything that functioned as a democracy in 2020, the election, it's done. It's over. They are breaking it to consolidate power. Well, to your point about where the money is going, Caroline KKK Levit said yesterday in a press conference that the money would we put in offshore bank accounts to benefit the American people and the Venezuelan people at the direction of the US government. So that story is right that it's not coming to America. And the thing about this is nobody wants to even have a shed of criticism about what this action is when they when Trump says, "Yeah, we're going to go in. We're going to do all this. It costs [ __ ] money." But what they aren't doing is telling Congress. And so we have a a congressman yesterday that came out and said, "Why are Trump what

6:04 the hell are they hiding from? Trump and Rubio under fire over secret briefings. They only want to do classified briefings." And if you'll pull up the body of the article, there was a point uh Senator Ben Ray Lugan from New Mexico said, "Why the hell is the Trump administration scared to face the American people in an open setting before the Senate, before the House? I don't understand. They keep wanting to hide in a box somewhere." And here, show the American people what the hell you are hiding from. And then I read from Senator Chris Murphy after a classified briefing. He can't. He says, "I can't tell you the details, but it is so disturbing." And I encourage everybody to look at that because it's [ __ ] crazy what they are planning. It does cost money. It costs the American people. Trump's going, "Oh, we're going to rebuild the infrastructure." You're taking credit for Biden's infrastructure

7:02 improvements because you couldn't get it passed in your term. So, it's just it's unbelievable. And here we have Donald Trump said, "America's not as safe because Nate, you know, Nate, we pay too much. NATO doesn't pay enough for defense. I'm mad at NATO." Well, now he's going full boore against our allies in NATO in this ridiculous, stupid lie social post where he's still crying about the Nobel Peace Prize when he's [ __ ] killing Americans in the street. I singlehandedly ended eight wars and Norway, a NATO member foolishly chose not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize.

7:44 And basically what they says it is again NATO's not giving enough money. And so that tells you where his head is. He doesn't give a [ __ ] about our allies. The allies that we used to have, he he's completely disrespecting going against them. Look at Greenland. Just on that example alone, he is not interested in Putin stopping the war in Ukraine. He is interested in taking a victory lap. He is now interested in going into our hemisphere. And so when Marco Rubio, who is the little dick energy secretary of state that has all these balls in the air, but they completely completely have absolutely no diplomacy whatsoever in his position. Here's when asked about NATO and the president's comments about NATO. This is what he says about our allies.

8:39 the military option is on the table. So, is the administration really willing to risk the NATO alliance by potentially moving ahead military option?

8:50 What I think the White House said yesterday is what I will tell you now and I've always said the president always retain the option if he every president, not this president, every president always retains the option, I'm not talking about Greenland, I'm just talking about globally. If a president identifies a threat to the national security of the United States, every president retains the option to address it through military means. as a diplomat, which is what I am now and what we work on, we always prefer to settle it in different ways. That included in Venezuela. We tried repeatedly to reach an outcome here that did not involve having to go in and grab an indicted drug trafficker. Um, those were unsuccessful, unfortunately.

9:23 I just before you comment, I just want to point out they're so interested in using the term indicted against Maduro. [ __ ] Trump was indicted four times and nobody gave a [ __ ] in that party. Okay, sorry. All right, listener. It happens to all of us. You randomly spot your first rogue gray hair and it is horrifying and it is inevitable and you want to do everything in your power to prevent it. And that's I cannot believe I'm telling you this, but we actually have a product that can help with grays. It's called Array. And Array works both inside and outside. Their Not today gray is a supplement formulated to support internal health and fill the nutrient gaps that can accelerate graying. It boosts melanin production and can help repigment grays at the root. Now for the outside to the root is a lightweight oil-free daily serum powered by a raise mel 9 complex. It slows gray hair and supports thicker, fuller, healthier

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11:29 president. And Marco Rubio was we could pull up clip after clip after clip of him being a United States senator talking about the dangerous of Vladimir Putin, talking about Vladimir Putin being a murderous dictator, talking about Vladimir Putin being an an enemy of democracy, talking about Vladimir Putin being a threat to the free world. And these are Marco Rubio's words. And now he works and participates for an administration whose talking points regarding foreign policy mirror that of Moscow's and mirror that of the Kremlin.

12:08 And that is the big that is the big story. And another point I just want to make that is somewhat connected to all of this. During the Biden administration, if the economy or the jobs were just a little bit this way or a little bit that way, the media hyperfocused on it and inflation's up 0.002% and we're down, you know, we didn't get as many jobs. The economy right now is so under reportported. This whole idea that Marco Rubio is now paring Russian talking points is barely reported in the media. It's reported in Russia, but it's not reported in the United States. Is a 911.

12:54 House is on fire. and all roads lead to the United States of America is a fake democracy that's set up for corporations and this administration works for corporations and our opposition Mark uh Hakee Chuckles Corey Booker and others they work for corporations and so this is just this is all theater all of this is just [ __ ] theater and I'm so exhausted ed from it. And I want our international listeners to know that some of us in this country see it. We see the American arrogance. We know how obnoxious and loud a lot of our citizens are. We get it. And we there's a great awakening happening in the United States right now, particularly in the Democratic base. And our leadership has no clue how we are so sick of them because they're still probably gonna hire Deoid and they're still probably going to do all of these focus groups.

13:56 And at the end of the day is this is a very simple thing to say. Marco Rubio sold out and now he's going to do hemisphere building because his parents were allowed to be immigrants from Cuba. Now he wants to be some Cuban hero. And you know, also all of his his foreign policy aligns perfectly with former KGB agent who kills his adversaries who's a murderous dictator who Marco Rubio welcomed him in Alaska and shook his hand.

14:23 Right. Marco Rubio is a war criminal and a traitor to the United States of America. Period. I completely agree because of all the people in this administration that have the knowledge of how dangerous the US and how vulnerable the US is right now for takeover, you know, with Russia and China with they he knows how all of that works more than anyone because he was on the Senate Intelligence Committee. So he knows more than these other [ __ ] bozos. He knows how dangerous Putin is. He knows how dangerous all the policies that Trump is doing. He knows how dangerous they are. But he's willing to sacrifice the democracy of the United States on the 1.001% chance that he'll get to be president in 202028.

15:16 I mean, he's willing to sacrifice it all for his own personal gain. And it's a coward cowardice. And I [ __ ] am with you. I am so angry about the minority leadership in the Senate, in the House. You know, I saw a couple tweets from Czechals. It's like, well, you know, they said they're America first. It's not. Marco Rubio is [ __ ] the American people. He is a traitor. He is participating in war crimes. That should be the headline coming out of him. And instead, it's, "Well, they're not doing what they said." Well, shut the [ __ ] up.

15:48 Sit down and shut the [ __ ] up. All right. Please like this video, subscribe to our channel, and we'll be back with more news.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "IHIP News: Hegseth and Rubio SCRAMBLE To SPIN NIGHTMARE Week For MAGA!! They Are SWEATING!!"?

Unknown Host (Host), Marco Rubio (Guest), Pete Hegseth (Guest).

What is "IHIP News: Hegseth and Rubio SCRAMBLE To SPIN NIGHTMARE Week For MAGA!! They Are SWEATING!!" about?

The discussion critiques the recent actions of the Trump administration regarding military interventions, particularly in Venezuela, highlighting the implications of prioritizing oil interests over American welfare. It raises concerns about the lack of transparency surrounding costs associated with these military operations and examines the defensive rhetoric from figures like Marco Rubio and…

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How long is "IHIP News: Hegseth and Rubio SCRAMBLE To SPIN NIGHTMARE Week For MAGA!! They Are SWEATING!!"?

The episode runs 16 min; the transcript is about 2,549 words in 23 timestamped sections.

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