The Iran war has triggered fuel shortages, rising petrol prices, shuttered small businesses, and an airline threatening closure in India. Modi's response has been to ask Indians to carpool and stop buying gold — while flying abroad for selfies. Three Indian sailors were killed when the US sank an Iranian vessel and Modi said nothing.
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Ben asks Ayyub about Modi's foreign policy record, noting that almost everything Trump has done in his second term has hurt India — tariffs, siding with Pakistan in the India-Pakistan conflict, demanding a Nobel Prize for brokering a ceasefire, and making racist slurs about India. [1] — Rana Ayyub "Modi campaigned for Trump, built statues of him, and positioned their relationship as a strongman bromance. Then Trump put tariffs on India…" 1:13:50 Ayyub is withering: India's foreign policy 'does not exist,' she says. Modi's people who built statues of Trump are now abusing him online. When Modi visited Netanyahu in Israel on a three-day trip, Israel launched its war against Iran the next day — leaving Modi looking either complicit or oblivious. When the US sank the Iranian vessel IRIS Jaina, killing three Indian sailors along with Pakistanis and Sri Lankans, Modi issued no condemnation — despite the fact the ship had been in India as India's guest for military demonstrations. At the G7, Trump's congratulations to Modi felt like personal image management rather than country-to-country diplomacy. Ayyub quotes Giorgia Meloni as a counterexample: when Trump insulted her, she pushed back publicly. Where, Ayyub asks, is India's self-respect?
Modi campaigned for Trump, built statues of him, and positioned their relationship as a strongman bromance. Then Trump put tariffs on India, sided with Pakistan in the India-Pakistan conflict, bragged about ending their war, and demanded a Nobel Prize from Modi — who said nothing. India's Trump gamble has backfired spectacularly.
Ten years ago, 90% of tech media coverage was relentlessly negative and Kalanick felt he couldn't speak freely. Today, the rise of independent podcasters and Elon Musk buying Twitter has fundamentally changed the game — and it's why he's finally willing to talk.
Kay Classman, 28, was arrested for repeatedly posing as a 16-year-old and enrolling in Bronx high schools across multiple districts. She wasn't a predator — just someone so sad and lonely she wanted her lost childhood back. That's somehow sadder.
Disney, Meta, and Paramount have collectively paid Trump roughly $60 million to settle what Galloway calls nuisance lawsuits — all routed to his presidential library. Newsrooms are folding. The White House is handpicking press pool participants. This is what the end of a free press looks like.
One cheap fake documentary made by a teenager in his mother's basement convinced 16% of Americans that 9/11 was an inside job. Social media didn't invent conspiracy — it just gave it a rocket engine.
A progressive organization with a stated mission to destroy Turning Point USA received millions from ActBlue and is now publicly pushing the narrative that TPUSA insiders and Israel murdered Charlie Kirk. Andrew Wilson traced the network of accounts all amplifying the same conspiracy in perfect unison.
The microphone-bomb theory fails on every physical front: no smoke, no ignition, mic on the wrong side of the wound. And the .30-06 rifle round used is extensively documented by the US Army — it does not always produce a through-and-through wound. Wilson argues this is a well-studied projectile with well-understood behavior.
Andrew Wilson publicly offered Candace Owens $300,000 to debate her theory that Israel and TPUSA murdered Charlie Kirk. She refused. He argues that flat-earthers will debate anyone, but Kirk conspiracy theorists won't defend their claims under scrutiny.
Erika Kirk became the CEO of TPUSA while grieving her husband's murder in public, and now faces tens of thousands accusing her of conspiring to kill him. Andrew Wilson calls it mind-boggling psychological torture. The sparklers at the memorial weren't suspicious — they were a grieving widow doing her best in an impossible situation.
Joe Rogan and Andrew Wilson watch a bystander video of the Corey Ruiz police shooting in Madison, Wisconsin live on air. The video is so blurry they initially think a female officer fired the fatal shots. They later learn a male officer did, after Ruiz allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed officers. Their conclusion: you cannot have a hot take on a story you don't understand yet.
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