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Trump’s Creative Excuse for Hiring “Very Stupid Person” John Bolton
If the guy's such a stupid warmonger, why give him so much power?
Useful Idiots
January 23, 2025
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“I thought he was a very dumb person,” says newly-sworn in President Donald Trump about John Bolton, the man he appointed as National Security Advisor of the United States. “He’s the one, along with Cheney, that convinced Bush to blow up the Middle East and we got nothing out of it except a lot of death. We killed a lot of people, and John Bolton was one of those guys.” He adds once more, for effect: “A stupid guy.”

And honestly, we agree with you on this, Mr. President. But … if he’s so dumb, why’d you hire him? Surprisingly, Trump actually gave (made up) a reason:

“But I used him well,” he claims, “because every time people saw me come into a meeting with John Bolton standing behind me, they thought that he would attack them, because he was a warmonger.”

Huh. Just wonder if there was a way to do that without giving him the power to, among other dangerous acts, withdraw the US from an important nuclear deal, a move that in large part led to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But at least you scared some people.

Also in this episode: Trump’s pick for UN Ambassador Elise Stefanik testifies that Israel has a biblical right to the entire West Bank, Sean Hannity is enraged that a “so-called” bishop would ask Trump to have mercy on people who need help, and if you thought January 6 was over, guess again – now the Republicans are announcing a new Jan 6 subcommittee. Next we need a subcommittee to keep track of all the Jan 6 subcommittees.

It’s a messy week with a new president, watch with Katie and Aaron so you can laugh instead of cry at it all. Thanks for supporting independent media, subscribe to watch the full episode here:

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Sanctions Are a Form of Warfare

“Sanctions are a form of war. They’re economic warfare. And they destroy people’s lives.”

Joshua Landis (https://twitter.com/joshua_landis), Sandra Mackey Chair in Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, is one of the foremost experts on Syria. This week, as Syria, along with neighbor Turkiye, grapples with the aftermath of the devastating earthquake, Professor Landis joins the Useful Idiots to explain the deadly consequences that sanctions pile on to the damage.

“America likes to talk about all its precision bombing and hitting someone with a drone to avoid collateral damage,” Landis explains. “But sanctions? It’s all about collateral damage. Very little of it is targeted.”

But if you read corporate media outlets like the New York Times or Washington Post, you’d find a much different story. Both papers this week published headlines that were hastily changed when they realized they were being a little too truthful. See if you can tell the difference:

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February 14, 2023
"Shameful" New York Times Changes Headline to Protect Sanctions

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“America likes to talk about all its precision bombing and hitting someone with a drone to avoid collateral damage,” Landis explains. “But sanctions? It’s all about collateral damage. Very little of it is targeted.”

But if you read corporate media outlets like the New York Times or Washington Post, you’d find a much different story. Both papers this week published headlines that were hastily changed when they realized they were being a little too truthful. See if you can tell the difference:

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February 03, 2023
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March 31, 2025
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The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg Speaks Out on SignalGate
His takeaway: we're not bombing Yemen ENOUGH

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March 28, 2025
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Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern on SignalGate and JFK Files
Will Israel use its nukes, why did the US bomb Yemen, and what's really in the new JFK files?

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There’s a lot going on in the world this week: Israel is increasing nuclear tensions with Iran, the Trump Administration leaked on Signal its plans to attack a civilian apartment building in Yemen, US federal officials kidnapped another college student for pro-Palestine speech, and the JFK files unveiled decades of new classified information.

This is high level stuff, which means we’ve got to go high up to get real answers.

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who served in the CIA at the time of JFK’s assassination, has become one of the most important peace activists in the country, breaking important classified stories and fighting the military industrial complex. He also cofounded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity to “protest the use of faulty intelligence” to justify US wars.

Ray breaks down SignalGate, US terror in Yemen, the JFK files, the latest in the proxy war in Ukraine, and how the intelligence community uses the threat of Iranian nukes an excuse for Israeli aggression.

This week, the Tulsi Gabbard-controlled Office of National Intelligence put out a threat assessment that flies in the face of Israeli officials who are constantly fear-mongering about Iran’s nuclear program and encouraging the U.S. to bomb Iran accordingly.

“This is the front burner question right now,” Ray says. “It's worth reading because I think it will be a very great disincentive for the administration to claim that the reason they are with Israel attacking Iran is because Iran has a nuclear weapon.”

He reads the report: “The threat assessment dated two days ago says this, ‘We continue to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that Khamenei has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.’”

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Ray explains what all this means for the Middle East, analyzing all the players from the Houthis in Yemen and their effort against Israel to Marco Rubio’s State Department and its funding of the ongoing genocide.

Subscribe for the full interview with Ray McGovern where he breaks down the new information in the JFK files, if Trump actually has an anti-war agenda, and the unsolved mysteries surrounding the DNC email leaks.

Plus, catch this week’s Thursday Throwdown: Trump Bombed Yemen the Wrong Way

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March 27, 2025
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Trump Bombed Yemen the Wrong Way
With the embarrassing SignalGate leak, corporate media yearns for a time when presidents bombed countries with decorum

In a major scandal for the Trump administration, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz mistakenly added Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, to a Signal group chat with JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, and more top officials. In the chat, they were openly discussing US plans to bomb Yemen.

Goldberg watched as they privately laid out their plans to bomb a civilian apartment building. Then he watched on the news that the bombs dropped. And published screenshots of the group chat.

[In an act of terrorism, the United States bombed a civilian apartment building in Yemen and killed dozens of people.]

The scandal here, according to US corporate media, is that Trump officials were careless with national security and let slip their plans for the bombing. In the good old days of Obama and Bush, presidents were presidential. They had decorum when committing terror. Trump did not. For that (and only that!) he should be punished!

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In this week’s Thursday Throwdown, Katie and Aaron deep dive on SignalGate, watching the pathetic excuses given by Waltz and co, and laugh at the ridiculous embarrassment for the Trump team.

But we also turn our eyes to Jeffrey Goldberg, who had the chance to publish these screenshots before the act of terror was committed. He could have potentially stopped the attack. Why didn’t he? Well, would you be surprised if we told you that our heroic editor of the Atlantic is also a former IDF prison guard?

It’s a perfect example of the state of corporate media when we have journalists who cheer on bombs but criticize the leakers. Subscribe to watch our full takedown of everyone involved.

Plus, this week Aaron debated Matthew Stadlen on the Ukraine proxy war. When Stadlen began the debate by trying a gotcha to try to pin Aaron as a Russian agent, another takedown occurred. We watch the whole glorious thing.

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