It's Manosphere Monday and Paul Rieckhoff is broadcasting from high above New York City with a solo briefing built for the angry middle. The New York Times has confirmed that Navy SEALs escorted Cash Patel and nine others on what the Pentagon itself called a 'VIP snorkel event' next to the underwater tomb of the USS Arizona — one week before Memorial Day. Paul says if anything is impeachable, this is. Meanwhile the administration has quietly stood up a $1.8 billion fund to pay off allies of the president, Pete Hegseth is openly campaigning for House Republicans in Kentucky, ICE is banging on doors without warrants, and Trump's approval has cratered to 37%.
From there the briefing widens out: U.S. combat operations in Nigeria most Americans will never hear about, an Ebola outbreak the WHO is tracking while we sit outside the organization, classified intelligence about Cuban drones being shaped into a pretext for war, Ukraine hitting a Moscow oil refinery, and a Senate purge that just took out Bill Cassidy. Paul closes with a Memorial Day call to action, a tribute to Wells Crowther — the man in the red bandana — and a reminder that 45% of this country is now independent. We're not politically homeless. We're free.
In this episode
- Why a 'VIP snorkel' over the USS Arizona is, in Paul's words, impeachable — and a disgusting insult one week before Memorial Day
- The new $1.8 billion fund Trump stood up to compensate his political allies after settling his own lawsuit against the IRS
- Xi telling Trump America is in decline — and Trump agreeing, 'except for me, of course'
- Pete Hegseth campaigning for a Kentucky House Republican and weaponizing the Pentagon against Thomas Massie
- ICE agents in masks banging on a New Jersey woman's door with no warrant while she watched on a Ring camera
- U.S. combat operations in Nigeria targeting ISIS — the forever wars quietly rolling into Africa
- Cuba's '300 military drones' being shaped into a pretext for an unauthorized war
- Ukraine hitting a major oil refinery inside Moscow on day 1,500 of the full-scale invasion
- Trump's approval at 37%, the lowest of his second term, with only 29% saying the economy is good
- Honoring Wells Crowther, the man in the red bandana, on what would have been his 49th birthday
