Trump Brings the War Home [SUBSCRIBER-ONLY]
Added 2025-08-05 08:00:07 +0000 UTCCalifornia has become a testing ground for Trump's police state ambitions. In Los Angeles and across the country, he’s merging the military and the police into one entity with its guns aimed inward.
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I like your theme song.
Shaw3na
2025-11-02 21:21:26 +0000 UTCSydney Sweeney take was so correct I thought I was kinda crazy based on the content I was being fed…..
Noriana Grande
2025-08-20 01:30:56 +0000 UTCGenuine question- How many people decided to become JAGs because they think they are Tom cruise?
Vaidehi Krishnan
2025-08-10 15:06:48 +0000 UTC"Left wing green m&m" took me out
Gretchen Sprinkle
2025-08-09 22:53:52 +0000 UTCWithout further ado…this episode is now unlocked and available to everyone. You’re welcome sickos!
5-4
2025-08-09 13:54:54 +0000 UTCThe JAGs are crucial in a properly functioning military & have been there since Washington was president. They are supposed to enforce the laws of proper conduct within the military to make sure officers and soldiers conduct themselves within the confines of the law in all circumstances and engagements, in peace and wartime, in all environments where the military exists, internationally and domestically. The details were scant in the news, but a few months ago there was a hub-bub about Hegseth firing some JAGs because he mouthed off about how he thought they would try to to obstruct Trump's orders. Presumably, they were replaced with some form of MAGA loyalists. David French, the old school conservative opinion columnist at the NYTimes was a JAG. Was Tom Cruise a JAG in A Few Good Men?
Shawn Galbraith
2025-08-07 21:51:40 +0000 UTCLots of comments complaining about Michael being too horny in this ep, yet I'm the only one brave enough to admit he wasn't horny enough. Telling.
Damon
2025-08-07 17:59:12 +0000 UTCoddly enough, the single best person I knew in law school was the one who went JAG
Ben
2025-08-07 17:05:35 +0000 UTCNot that it will happen but I wonder if the new definition of rebellion allows for new charges could be filed against any of the January 6th protestors? Like I said it won’t happen but I think it would be interesting if this broad definition for rebellion would necessarily extend to any existing criminal statutes?
Daniel
2025-08-07 06:06:59 +0000 UTCThis is maybe the best podcast episode I’ve ever listened to. Profound, urgent, and bracing. Rhiannon, Michael, and Peter were speaking the truth and you can hear it in all three of their voices. It was genuinely moving to me. This podcast is always good but this episode sings. I think people will point to it in the future and say the case was definitively made here. A police state is not on the horizon it’s here. The Ernst Fraenkel normative state/prerogative state model is a clarion call. 🥹🙏
Branden Pedersen
2025-08-07 03:12:38 +0000 UTC
