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We Told You This Would Happen - But You Didn't Care.

Episode Summary

Hey MAGA - this was going to happen, we told you so and you didn't care. Look where we are now.

Episode Notes

The Iran nuclear talks have collapsed. Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were already in the Middle East when Iran pulled out of the second round of negotiations, citing Donald Trump's contradictory statements, continued U.S. military action against Iranian ships, and an ongoing blockade of Iranian ports. J.D. Vance's trip to Islamabad for further talks has been postponed indefinitely.

Hawk lays out the full picture: a fake ceasefire set to expire, Pete Hegseth standing by for military escalation, and a war Hawk argues exists solely to feed Trump's ego and inflate his poll numbers at the cost of civilian lives and American service members.

Beyond the Iran crisis, Hawk takes stock of what the second Trump term has actually delivered. The economic fallout from sweeping tariffs, the dismantling of NATO alliances, ICE operations targeting immigrant communities, and a family that has enriched itself by billions through crypto grifts while Trump negotiates separately with the IRS and Treasury. All of it, Hawk says, was predicted in detail before the 2024 election.

The frustration extends beyond Trump voters to congressional Democrats, whom Hawk accuses of prioritizing AIPAC funding over the clear anti-war position of their own base, even as the midterms are held up as the answer to everything.

Episode Transcription

Hawk (00:01.038)
Hey everybody, it is Hawk. Welcome back to my channel. Thanks again for returning. It is Tuesday, April 21st at about 2 45 when I'm recording this. So I'm to talk about two quick little news items and then we're going to go through some examples of how incredibly dumb, gullible and easily manipulated Trump supporters are. And it's something obviously that's very easy to laugh at. But I think

For me personally, I've hit a point where it's like, I don't know that I can laugh at this anymore. So we're gonna talk about that in a couple of minutes. First of all, Donald Trump caved on the Iran ceasefire deal. Just this morning, he was mentioning in interviews, his ceasefire was supposed to expire at some point tomorrow. And in interviews this morning, he said, we're gonna be bombing.

By this time tomorrow, we're going to bomb the ever-loving shit out of Iran, yada, yada, yada, that whole deal, unless they agree to a deal, unless they agree to the terms that we give them. Another round of negotiations was supposed to start today. Iran said, we're not going, fuck you. They have had it with Donald Trump and his bullshit and his bluster and his lies and his insults.

and his constantly changing stories about the ceasefire and all that. So they just said, fuck you, we're not going. And so Donald Trump caved and put out a true social post that said the following, based on the fact that the government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so, and upon the request of Field Marshal Asim Mounir and Prime Minister Shabazz Sharif of Pakistan,

We have been asked to hold our attack on the country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal. I have therefore directed our military to continue the blockade against Iranian ports and in all other respects remain ready and able and will therefore extend the ceasefire until such time as their proposal is submitted and discussions are concluded one way or the other.

Hawk (02:27.182)
First of all, I don't believe for two seconds that Donald Trump wrote that that does not match his Writing style in the slightest There are no all caps. There are no unnecessary threats. There are no unnecessary exclamation points The word Trump does not appear in all caps in quotes He didn't write that so somebody on his behalf wrote that so but the ceasefire has been extended indefinitely

Okay. I mean, the Strait of Hormuz is still closed. We're blockading all of their ports. Donald Trump effectively has the entire global economy in a stranglehold and is slowly choking the life out of it, including here at home. There's a shock poll from AP. Donald Trump's approval rating is down to 33%.

There have been a couple of polls that have been in the 32-33 % range, but this is the Associated Press. It's the lowest polling approval rating he's had in any major poll ever. It's down to 33%, down from 38 % in the same poll last month. He also dropped from 38 % to 30 % as far as approval on his handling of the economy.

So what do these two polls tell us? There are 30 to 35 percent of Americans who are going to support Donald Trump no matter what. It doesn't matter what he says. It doesn't matter what he does. It doesn't matter what promises he breaks. It doesn't matter.

they will say, hell yeah, that's exactly what I voted for as they pay $5 a gallon for gasoline and 12 bucks for a dozen eggs. just, and I've just, my anger today, I did a couple of TikTok videos, my anger has just really bubbled up to the surface today.

Hawk (04:53.964)
when news of.

Trump extending the ceasefire indefinitely. My anger just really bubbled up to the surface today and has been my dominant emotion for the last few hours. And it's like, yeah, it's very easy to be angry at Donald Trump. I mean, he's a complete fucking moron. Doesn't know what he's doing. Got us into this war for his ego and to make himself feel better. And, you know, but my anger today has been reserved mainly for the people who voted for him in 2024.

the level of rage that I feel for those 77 million Americans, for what they did and what they have done and what continues to happen to this country because they voted for Donald Trump in 2024. They are the dumbest cohort of our population. think that this country has ever been saddled with and it's not

amusing anymore. You know, it's not it's not mean I can't point at them and laugh anymore. mean, there's nothing. There is nothing that is funny about any of this anymore. And, you know, but I did want to look at a couple of things that kind of, I don't know, I guess stood out to me. One is a report from

The New York Times from three days ago and it's a news article But I'm gonna show you that I'm gonna show you something

Hawk (06:43.65)
Hundreds of fake pro-Trump avatars emerge on social media. The artificial intelligence generated fake MAGA influencers have surged on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube in an apparent bid to hook conservative voters. Look at these.

Hawk (07:08.866)
These are all AI. None of these are real people.

None of these are real people. They are conjured using AI with MAGA and Republican messages on screen. And they are incredibly popular with Trump supporters who no doubt believe them to be real.

people.

And, you know, I mean, during the second half of last year, it was like, it was boomers with AI images on Facebook. And, you know, with like, Jesus cuddling a kitten or something, I don't even know what but the AI images took over Facebook with mega boomers. And now we have this shit.

I mean, look at this.

Hawk (08:23.0)
The left says the Republicans aren't united. That's funny because I bet I can get a Trump supporter from every state to comment. And it's a very attractive woman who appears to be of Asian descent.

Hawk (08:38.539)
I mean, it's the same caption on every one of these AI.

I don't even know what the hell to call them.

This is how dumb and gullible and easily manipulated 30 to 35 % of the American electorate is.

This is how easy it is to manipulate them. Because they are this dumb and gullible. And again, for a very, very long time, it was funny. It was funny, and it was so easy to make fun of them.

But now that it's like the actual consequences of a 2024 vote for Donald Trump are landing on all of us.

Hawk (09:40.526)
In one video a blonde films herself with a group of women at a racetrack if you support Trump You just made a friend in another video It's a brunette with a group at a stadium saying the same thing and a third a redhead with a group at a basketball game Saying the same thing

All of these are the work of artificial intelligence.

Hawk (10:06.422)
In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring AI generated pro Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace about the radical left and America first. They tend to appear as ordinary, if very good looking men and women gazing flirtatiously at the camera while pontificating about the war in Iran, abortion or bad bunny. Trump has reposted.

Some of this stuff on true social, the New York Times began tracking MAGA boosting AI generated TikTok posts in January and discovered at least 300 accounts sharing the content, some of which have since disappeared.

Several of the accounts have amassed more than 35,000 followers each.

than the accounts reviewed by the New York Times, even though they clearly were AI generated, were not labeled as such.

Hawk (11:13.294)
I mean, Donald Trump is Donald Trump. He is a reflection of the American electorate and 30 to 35 % of the American electorate are people who shouldn't be allowed to reproduce or drive, let alone vote. They are fucking stupid. They are unimaginably stupid people. It's matched only by their level of gullibility.

and how easily it is to manipulate them because they fall for that shit on the daily. But then we have a story, the last thing I wanted, I'm still undecided about the story that comes after this. I don't know if I want to talk about it or not, but who knows? Yesterday an article came out.

on wired or no that was today was published earlier today. A scammer used an AI generated maga girl to grift super dumb men.

Hawk (12:27.042)
This story, it's like, you can, there's a 22 year old guy who lives in India. He's in medical school. He wants to be an orthopedic surgeon. For the purposes of the article, he goes by Sam. He was looking for ways to earn extra money because once he's done with school, he wants to immigrate to the United States and be a doctor in the United States. And he was like, well, I could post AI images.

of incredibly attractive women in bikinis. And so he started doing that, but it just stalled. Nothing took off. Nothing took off at all. Then he decided to make them MAGA and conservative Christian. And it exploded. Quote, every reel I posted was getting three million views, five million views, 10 million views. The algorithm loved it, he said.

He created this character, this young, beautiful MAGA woman named Emily Hart. Within a month, Emily Hart had more than 10,000 Instagram followers, many of whom also subscribed to her softcore AI-generated content on an OnlyFans competitor. Between that site subscriptions and selling MAGA-themed t-shirts, Sam estimates he was making a few thousand dollars a month.

I was spending maybe 30 to 50 minutes of my day. I was making really good money for a medical student. In India, even in professional jobs, you can't make this amount of money. I've never seen an easier way to make money online.

Hawk (14:11.694)
He created Emily in January. Emily Hart is a registered nurse and looks like Jennifer Lawrence. He posted on Instagram, he posted photos of her ice fishing, drinking Coors, Coors Light, excuse me, and shooting off a few rounds at the rifle range.

with captions like, you want a reason to unfollow me, Christ is king, abortion is murder, and all illegals must be deported.

Hawk (14:48.32)
Sam has never lived in the United States, but he became a very serious student of MAGA ideology. Quote, every day I would write something pro-Christian, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life, anti-abortion, anti-woke, and anti-immigration.

Emily Hart is a slew of AI generated hot girl mega influencers inundating social media.

Hawk (15:23.586)
He was running ideas through ChatGPT and ChatGPT told him that one of the benefits of doing this kind of content is that dumb, gullible, old, white men in the United States will pay money for this. And now he's making several thousand dollars per month.

grifting dumb gullible old white men who support Donald Trump so it's like on the one hand I firmly support what Sam is doing grift the shit out of these dumb fuckers man grift away Just soak them for every fucking dime you can

Hawk (16:15.978)
And on the other hand, it's because of people like those dumb, gullible, easily manipulated old white men who fall for that shit on Instagram and Facebook that we are in the position that we are in now. I am absolutely terrified for the future of this country and for the future of this planet. I don't know what the next several months

or year or two are going to

Hawk (16:51.63)
I just

Donald Trump is destroying our economy and that's before you even get to the AI shit that's about to come. That's happening now. He has, he is plunging, he and Bibi Netanyahu are plunging the entire planet into a global recession. Scores and scores of people are going to die. And nobody knows what's going to happen.

and nobody knows who's going to stop it, how it's going to stop, if it's going to stop, when it's going to stop.

And it's because there were 77 million Americans who decided to reelect Donald Trump, knowing that he's a convicted felon, knowing that he's an adjudicated rapist, knowing that he and his sons were found liable for a half a billion dollars worth of fraud, knowing that he tried to overturn the 2020 election, knowing that he incited a violent insurrection at the Capitol. There are 77 million people in this country who voted for him anyway.

Hawk (18:05.432)
The absolute rage and hatred that I feel for those people is indescribable. I will never, ever, ever, ever forgive or unite with any of them, ever, under any circumstances. Fuck them. Fuck every single one of them.

Hawk (18:32.652)
Let's play a minute or two of this. Tucker Carlson is apologizing for misleading people and helping get Donald Trump elected for a second term. I do not believe there is any sincerity in this for a hot second. Tucker Carlson can read poll numbers just as well as anybody else. He sees which way the winds are blowing and he wants to be on the right side.

of these trends that are happening right now. And this is the way to do that. And he is going to run for president in 2028. And unless something remarkable happens, and it you have no idea how much it pains me to say this. Unless something remarkable happens, I believe that Tucker Carlson is going to be the 2028 Republican nominee for president.

I just do. That makes my friends cranky when I say that. So let's watch Tucker. During an interview with his brother. I think his brother's name is Buckley, Tucker and Buckley. And Buckley is insane. His brother Buckley is fucking nutters. But let's watch them in conversation for a moment. Talk about the necessity for

apologizing.

Hawk (20:10.497)
It takes a minute.

Hawk (20:24.61)
That's his brother, Buckley.

Hawk (21:08.45)
That's about as much of that as I can take.

Don't forget. Tucker Carlson lied to his viewers nightly on his Fox, his top rated Fox News show. And that was born out in text messages and email messages to and from Tucker Carlson that were released as part of the defamation lawsuit filed against Fox News and most of their primetime hosts.

following the 2020 election when most of their prime time hosts accused Dominion voting systems of stealing the 2020 election from Donald Trump and handing it to Joe Biden.

I mean, Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems almost $800 million because of the lies of their hosts on air, being the number one rated cable news program in the country, lying to their audiences every single night for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks in just that one case, on just that one issue. And Tucker Carlson had the top

rated program of Fox News and was fired when he was at number one.

Hawk (22:39.744)
It was right around the time that Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems almost $800 million voluntarily in settlement of that defamation lawsuit.

And that circumstance wasn't enough to convince Donald Trump's base that Fox News was lying to them. They admitted it in court. They admitted it. They admitted it and paid in $100 million.

and you know.

If there is one person in this country who offers some level of competition to Donald Trump in understanding how to lie to and manipulate the Republican base for their own advantage.

Seems like it's Tucker Carlson.

Hawk (23:38.831)
He is a very smooth communicator. He comes across to them sounding very reasonable, very educated, very articulate, very much the adult in the room. It doesn't concern them that he sits down and does a two-hour long softball interview with a neo-Nazi anti-semite like Nick Fuentes. That's unconcerning. He's just asking questions.

And you know, so 30 to 35 % of our population is going to fall for this shit every single time. Enthusiastically so. Because people like Tucker Carlson and people like Donald Trump tell those people that they are real Americans. They are real Americans. They have more claim to being an American than anybody like

Kamala Harris ever could.

They know how to communicate to these people. They know what these people want to hear and they know how to manipulate them. And that's why we are well that excuse me. I was going to say that's why we are. That's why we are where we are now. But it's like you know tens of millions of them are also incredibly racist.

misogynistic, bigoted, homophobic and transphobic. So we can't forget to mention those factors as well. Anyway, sorry to be such a bummer today, but

Hawk (25:23.446)
It's just one of those days where it's like I'm in an absolute fucking rage, man. I am in an absolute rage. And it's raining outside. You know, usually when I start feeling these levels of anger as I go outside and I go for a walk and you know, I can't really do that right now because I don't like walking in the rain. It's not enjoyable for me. Anyway.

Hope everybody else is doing better than that today. Again, it's Tuesday, April 21st. I'm still a little sick. I apologize. But we'll see where everything with the Iran war goes from here. Nobody knows what's going to happen next. Nobody has any idea what's going to happen next. Meanwhile, our economy and the global economy are in an absolute fucking freefall. All because Bibi Netanyahu knows how to manipulate Donald Trump's ego.

And here we are. And 30 to 35 % of this country think that the war in Iran is amazing and that Donald Trump is doing exactly what he should be doing. And they think that everything is fantastic because they are unimaginably stupid and gullible and easily manipulated. So thanks for watching. Please click like, leave a comment.

and subscribe to my page. And I'm Hawk. Thanks again. Excuse me. Subscribe to my channel. My brother keeps reminding me to call it my channel instead of my page. I keep forgetting that. And yeah.

Hawk (27:10.787)
Be safe this week, Thanks again for watching. I'll see you soon.