Ep 177: Clinton Agrees To Lie Under Oath Again

We open by skewering the absurdity of performative politics and media spectacle, using the Epstein hearings and James Comer’s addiction to soundbites as a case study in how "oversight as content" replaces results and seriousness (05:09). We pivot to Iran by dismantling the fantasy of negotiation after an Iranian drone heads toward a US carrier, arguing that forty-seven years of failure proves this isn’t diplomacy but institutionalized denial (08:58). We expose CNN’s linguistic malpractice by showing how an attempted Iranian attack gets laundered into "tensions" and "incidents," deliberately obscuring intent, targets and moral clarity (11:44). We examine California’s "No Secret Police" Act and the LA sheriff’s impossible needle-threading, calling out a system that prioritizes activist optics while knowingly endangering ICE agents and their families (14:49). We connect that mindset to COVID authoritarianism and crime policy, recalling curfews, masks, selective "essential workers," locked-down stores and the retail collapse driven by legalized theft (17:43). We torch Hollywood’s fake activism by breaking down the Grammys’ ratings collapse, the collapse of the 18–34 demo and the lie that politicized awards shows are made for young audiences who’ve already tuned out (31:20). We demolish the USS Liberty smear by laying out the historical facts, battlefield context, Israeli accountability and contrasting it with U.S. and Iranian precedents that the narrative merchants conveniently ignore (34:50). Finally, we note the "Melania" documentary’s box-office expansion as proof that audiences will show up for unapologetic alternatives, even as critics pre-write their bile and the culture industry keeps misreading the market (42:08).