8/28/25: DC fiasco grows as Governor drops dementia bomb

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4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

-- On the Show:

-- David responds to a Wired article that names him and other creators in connection with the progressive group Chorus and clarifies there is no content control or direction from the organization

-- Trey Gowdy says on Fox News that the country must confront keeping firearms out of the hands of young men after school shootings while Sean Hannity suggests metal detectors as the answer

-- Congressman Josh Brecheen faces angry constituents at a town hall who challenge him on false claims about the Trump economy and demand answers about high drug and grocery prices

-- Grocery prices rise as stores pass Trump’s new tariffs directly to consumers undermining his promises that foreign countries would pay for them

-- Rising prices, layoffs, and tariffs create inflation and early signs of a downturn that could become a severe Trump recession

-- A federal judge orders the closure of Trump and Ron DeSantis’s $245 million Everglades detention camp exposing waste and donor enrichment

-- Gavin Newsom uses Elon Musk’s Grok AI and Trump’s repeated falsehoods to suggest Trump shows signs of dementia sparking viral reactions

-- Trump claims Washington restaurants are booming, but data shows his crackdown and rising costs are actually hurting the industry

-- Congressman Mike Collins is caught on a hot mic saying Trump’s name is in Jeffrey Epstein’s files

-- After Robert F. Kennedy Jr fires CDC Director Susan Monarez, four top officials resign in protest, accusing the administration of pushing anti-science policies

-- Japan’s top trade negotiator cancels a planned Washington visit, citing “technical” issues with the deal, exposing Trump’s weakened leverage after cutting tariffs from 25% to 15% without securing concessions

-- On the Bonus Show: Putin escalates strikes against Ukraine, prosecutors are unable to get an indictment against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent, 25 countries suspend postal service to the US over tariffs, and much more...

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0:00.0	All right, I was not even going to talk about this because I hate participating in the drama.
0:12.8	I hate the circular firing squad that often builds on the left.
0:17.6	But it's really important that my audience know what's going on. So I am going to talk about it.
0:22.7	I was named in an article in Wired yesterday. And the article is about a so-called dark money
0:29.6	group on the left called chorus. And I'm named in the article along with other creators as being
0:37.4	part of the group.
0:38.9	And since this article came out, I've heard from a bunch of you, David, did you sell out?
0:46.5	David is the DNC telling you what to say.
0:50.4	How could you do this to us?
0:52.6	I knew back in 2021 when you had the following to say that you must have been getting paid by someone and here's the proof. And I was not even going to give this the time of day, but my relationship with you, my actual audience, is the most important thing. And so I decided to do this segment. I also was
1:15.1	told that other creators, like a Twitch streamer named Hassan Piker, were covering this in ways
1:22.3	that don't reflect the reality of the situation and are perpetuating falsehoods about what is and isn't going on.
1:30.5	Now, I can't speak to the motives of the people that wrote the article or those that are reacting
1:37.3	to it.
1:38.0	I can't get in their heads.
1:40.2	All I can do is tell you what's going on.
1:42.6	And then you can judge and you can make an assessment
1:45.5	of me. Now, I also want to mention, I'm aware that many of the people I'm hearing of aren't
1:51.0	even part of my audience. They're doing the, well, now I'm unsubscribing and they mostly were
1:56.7	never subscribed. And so I'm aware of that. but it doesn't matter because I want to make
2:01.2	sure my audience hears from me about this now the most important thing to say is that
2:06.5	the idea behind this group is exactly what I've been advocating for for years it's for years
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