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#325 Sean Strickland - The Most Controversial Fighter in the UFC Opens Up Like Never Before

Explore episode Jul 27, 2026
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Illegal Immigration: An Honest Economic Analysis

#325 Sean Strickland - The Most Controversial Fighter in th… · Jul 27, 2026 Government

Strickland argues illegal immigration is a pure wealth transfer upward: it lowers blue-collar wages, increases demand for housing investors own, grows consumption for big companies investors hold. Rich people love it. Working Americans pay for it with compressed wages and saturated housing markets. He says any honest Republican investor should admit they benefit financially from open borders.

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Israel, Gaza, and Strickland's Deprogramming From Zionism

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Strickland's Muslim training partners — Dagestanis, Brazilians, Chechens, people who just want to fight and get paid — have given him a very different picture of Muslims than the post-9/11 media narrative. After October 7, he was initially pro-Israel. But watching the Gaza response, he says, deprogrammed him: the images aren't AK-wielding jihadists, they're children being pulled from demolished buildings. He references Israeli satellite and intelligence capabilities — pagers placed in Hezbollah ranks, the ability to track paragliders — to argue Israel almost certainly knew the attack was coming. Ryan adds that the US is funding the Taliban at $40–87 million per week in cash, making the Iran-as-enemy narrative ring hollow.

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