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Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

Snowpocalypse Hits. USA Hockey Wins Gold. Kash Patel is a Ridiculous Poser.

Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

Righteous Media | Bleav

Politics, News, National Security, News Commentary, Daily News, Veteran

4.6907 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A solo Monday dispatch from Tampa: Paul Rieckhoff breaks down the post-Olympics glow, calls out Kash Patel's $75K taxpayer-funded locker room photo-op, and issues an urgent warning — 40–50% of U.S. deployable air power is now massed near Iran, and nothing is stopping Trump from using it. Plus a major veterans WIN on VA disability benefits, ICE violence in Santa Barbara, and a preview of tomorrow's interview with independent Michigan governor candidate Mike Duggan.

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0:00.0

He said, I can do anything I want to do to them.

0:03.1

I am allowed to destroy the country.

0:06.8

He thinks he's a destroyer of countries.

0:09.6

He thinks he's a destroyer of world.

0:11.7

He thinks he can do anything he wants.

0:14.0

And this is really what he thinks.

0:16.1

And this is how he acts.

0:18.3

And Iran, right now, as I record this on Monday and likely going into the

0:22.4

State of the Union, is next on the list.

0:42.0

Welcome to Independent Americans.

0:44.2

Welcome to episode 447.

0:49.9

I am your host, Paul Reichoff, and I am coming to you still from Tampa Bay, Florida.

0:51.9

Because I'm stuck here.

0:55.6

Like millions of other people, my flight has been canceled. The airports are shut down. And I am stuck here. Like millions of other people, my flight has been canceled.

0:58.2

The airports are shut down, and I am stuck here.

1:01.0

Of course, there's worse places to be stuck than Tampa, Florida.

1:02.1

I might be here forever.

1:06.5

Maybe I'll run for governor against DeSantis and clean this whole place up. But it is a chili for Florida, 54 degrees and sunny, chilly down here, but apocalyptic

1:14.7

full of snow everywhere else.

1:16.5

It is Monday, February 23rd.

1:19.1

And as I told you in the past, I'm going to pick a different artist every week to introduce

1:22.4

my boys to.

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