Podbit · The Rest Is Politics: US
Jared Kushner genuinely believes you can do a business deal with any regime and it will override their ideology. During the first term he said giving Palestinians shiny condos would fix the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Now he thinks a cash injection will make Iran abandon 47 years of 'Death to America.' Both times, spectacularly wrong.
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Scaramucci lays out the Iranian playbook: negotiate when the pressure gets uncomfortable, secure sanctions relief, stabilise the regime, then wait. They have no electoral clock; America does. Every administration has fallen for this. He invokes Scott Anderson's book King of Kings about the Shah's fall, opening with a CIA report from March 1979 calling the regime 'durable, long-term, and sustainable' — just six months before total collapse. America got it wrong with the 1953 Mosaddegh coup, wrong by propping up the Shah, wrong by missing the theocratic revolution, and wrong again now. The bombs don't work either: bankrupt Iran just becomes more fanatical. What's needed, he argues, is genuine empathy for the adversary's worldview — American centrism doesn't travel well to Tehran.
In March 1979, a CIA report called the Shah's regime 'durable, long-term, and sustainable.' Six months later, America was in crisis. Before that: the 1953 coup against Mosaddegh. After that: propping up the Shah. Then missing the revolutionary fanaticism. Now signing a deal in Versailles. The pattern is unbroken and spans seven decades.
Marco Rubio hasn't said a word about the Iran deal. It's not an accident. He's watching JD Vance become the fall guy in real time, and he wants the distance. The president himself said at the press conference that if the deal fails, he'll pin it on Vance. Rubio read the room before the room was even fully set.
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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