US Gunships Sink 6 Iranian Boats. Fireworks in the Straight of Hormuz.

Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

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

4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It's Manosphere Monday, May the 4th — International Firefighters Day, Star Wars Day, and Episode 512 of Independent Americans. Paul flies solo to break down a weekend where the fires Trump started are still burning. US warships and Apache gunships shot down Iranian missiles and drones and sank six Iranian speedboats in the Strait of Hormuz, blowing apart the four-week truce Trump called peace. He's already lining up the next match at Cuba ("we will be taking over almost immediately"), bragging that American troops are "like pirates," and yanking 5,000 troops out of Germany — including the bases that house European Command, Ramstein, and Landstuhl, the hospital every wounded American passes through. Putin is sending thank-you notes. The artist of the day is the Prodigy, because the firestarter is in the Oval.

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0:00.0	We, we are not like pirates, and America's troops are not supposed to be like pirates.
0:07.6	The damage that Trump has done, the fires that he has started that is rampaging our country,
0:13.4	and our military especially, is severe, damaging, and lasting.
0:18.4	The world no longer trusts America or our military because of him.
1:00.4	Welcome to Independent Americans. Welcome to episode 5-1-2-5-12. I am your host, Paul Reichoff, and it is Monday, May 4th. Mr. Mendezschear Monday, Monday. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, ohosphere Monday, Monday. Happy Manosphere Monday, everybody.
1:03.5	I'm coming to you from New York City, USA, and the weather is very, very nice for this
1:08.5	May 4th in 2026 or whatever year it is.
1:12.6	But it is also International Firefighters Day.
1:16.6	I want to give a big shout out to all the firefighters around the country and around the world,
1:20.6	and especially to my dad, who's been a volunteer firefighter for over 43 years,
1:26.6	and to all my uncles and all the others who have
1:29.8	stepped up to answer the call so many times, so many late nights, so many early mornings.
1:35.2	You are an excellent example of what leadership should look like and a contrast to the toxicity
1:40.4	that we often try to contrast ourselves with on Manalsphere Monday.
1:44.4	It is also May the 4th, which is International Star Wars Day.
1:49.0	So may the 4th be with you, be fourth be with you.
1:53.1	But it is International Firefighters Day.
1:55.3	So today's artist of the day is the prodigy.
1:59.8	The prodigy, the electronic dance band formed in Braintree, England in
2:03.9	1990. They are a dynamo power source. If you lived in the 90s, you heard them everywhere. Why?
2:11.2	Because they did Firestarter, which is like our president. Today is International Firefighters Day.
2:18.1	All of us need to be firefighters because he is the fire starter.
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