UPDATE: the show went long today, lots of content, might be posted later than expected. Krystal says they “talked for a long ass time” hahahaha
(reuploaded for Spotify and Apple podcasts)
These segments were scheduled a few days ago but were postponed due to Trump's actions in Venezuela. Enjoy some late extra content starting with Emily going deep on Ryan's socialist past, career in journalism, and the infamous time he got in a fist fight with Jesse Watters.
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Ryan and Emily interview Christian Parenti on Trump, Venezuela and his life story!
YouTube: https://youtu.be/td2tvKEpe3o
Krystal, Ryan and Emily discuss China calling Trump's bluff on tariffs, stock market reacts, and a lawyer for a wrongly deported man responds to JD Vance.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/5aaiNVuR134
Spotify Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/2togMvVQ0F4mXQmbwuFs4K?si=wEARUQEoSR2o4KFxn-wR4w
Timestamps:
(00:00)Introduction and Overview of Liberation Day
(2:25)Jobs Report Analysis and Economic Implications
(14:58)The Impact of Tariffs on Domestic Economy
(26:15)Trump's Economic Strategy and Its Consequences
(40:55)The Autocratic Leadership Style of Trump
(42:19)The Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
(1:12:02)The Shift in Democratic Leadership Dynamics
(1:17:53)Upcoming Nationwide Protests Against Trump
(1:33:45)End Of Show
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Shout out to Krystal for her Daily Show clip!
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UPDATE: Doug Collins HALTS this interim rule for now.
I thought I'd share this since it is receiving surprising very little to no coverage by the mainstream media.
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Douglas Collins recently enacted an interim final rule despite how it was done as seemingly out of nowhere, and the massive impact it will have on the veteran community.
This new regulation effective 2/17/2026 represents a direct administrative maneuver to IGNORE a 2025 Ingram v. Collins decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, which had reaffirmed a long-standing legal principle that veterans should be rated based on their underlying disability severity. While the court in Ingram—and previously in Jones v. Shinseki—ruled that the VA must "discount" the temporary relief provided by medication to find a veteran's true baseline of impairment, this new rule explicitly mandates that examiners evaluate only a veteran's "medicated state." This basically reaffirmed a prior court ruling so ...
