Ego-Driven Infrastructure Decisions

-- On the Show

-- Josh Gay from Ring of Fire fills in for David. Check out his work at https://www.youtube.com/@TheRingofFire

-- Donald Trump hijacks the National Prayer Breakfast to rant about attacks, oil, and himself, exposing how hollow and weaponized his relationship with religion really is

-- HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promotes keto as a cure for serious mental illness, blending real critiques of food and pharma with dangerous pseudoscience that could get people hurt

-- Donald Trump’s late-night Truth Social meltdown pushes election lies alongside an openly racist meme targeting the Obamas, portraying them as monkeys

-- Doanld Trump allegedly froze a $16 billion transit project unless it was renamed after him, showing how vanity and insecurity now outweigh jobs, infrastructure, and the public good

-- Crypto is crashing as Trump’s volatility, tariff chaos, Fed meddling, and self-serving crypto schemes rattle markets and destroy investor confidence

-- Layoffs just hit their highest January level since 2009 as AI cuts accelerate, markets slide, and Trump downplays the damage while delaying and attacking job data

-- The Clintons are daring Republicans to make Epstein hearings public, betting that sworn testimony would expose Trump and other powerful figures far more than it damages them

-- On the Bonus Show: Mike Lindell's campaign is buying tons of copies of his own book, the Washington Post cuts hundreds of jobs, reactions from Josh's first day guest hosting, and much more...

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(00:00) Start(00:47) Trump weaponizes prayer breakfast(10:34) RFK Jr pushes keto pseudoscience
(18:48) Trump posts racist Obama meme
(25:51) Trump demanded transit vanity rename
(33:24) Trump chaos crashes crypto
(40:23) Layoffs spike as Trump shrugs
(49:21) Clintons dare Epstein hearings  

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