Rigged Maps, a Military in Chaos & an American Who Got Out-…

Pete Hegseth spent two days on Capitol Hill — one belligerent, one coached — and still didn’t answer a single real question. The Supreme Court gutted what was left of the Voting Rights Act, and red states are already rushing to redraw maps and erase majority-Black districts. Gas prices are at an all-time high and Trump’s approval ratings are at an all-time low. Trump is sharing your voter data with outside groups trying to overturn elections. James Comey got indicted over seashells. And the new Surgeon General nominee went to med school in Barbados at an unaccredited for-profit school — but she’s blonde and she’s on Fox News, so here we are.
But first — my old friend Dave Johnson joins in from his village outside Cambridge, England, where he’s been living as an American expat for several years. Dave breaks down the NHS (he had emergency surgery and got NO bill), the rise of the UK Green Party, why Labour is tanking just like corporate Democrats, what England thinks of Trump, and why gas costs over $100 to fill a tank there.
**Note from Nicole. I screwed up the start of the show by forgetting to start the video. So these timestamps are probably a few minutes off. This video begins after the Marsh Family song… sorry about that!

0:00 — Intro: The Marsh Family’s brilliant King Charles/Trump song
3:00 — Introducing Dave Johnson, American expat in England
9:00 — Life in a village outside Cambridge: bell-ringing, 1283 churches & abbeys
14:00 — Henry VIII, the Reformation, and why Dave keeps comparing him to Trump
20:00 — The NHS: Dave had emergency surgery and got ZERO bill
22:00 — Immigration in England: Nigel Farage, Reform Party, and “we don’t mean YOU”
25:00 — UK politics explained: Labour’s collapse, the Greens’ rise, lessons for US Dems
33:00 — The elevator pitch: Tax the rich. Hold them accountable.
40:00 — Obama, the 2008 crash, “foaming the runway,” and how we got Trump
44:00 — Gas: $100+ to fill a tank in England. Electric cars flying off the lots.
46:00 — What England thinks of Trump: “They had to deal with Hitler. They understand.”
59:00 — Dave signs off. Campfire Politics on Substack.
1:03:00 — NEWS: Hegseth Day 1 — belligerent, combative, answered nothing
1:07:00 — Rep. Pat Ryan grills Hegseth on the Kuwait attack and “none” drone defense
1:11:00 — Ro Khanna destroys Hegseth: gas, food costs, JCPOA, and “you betrayed them”
1:17:00 — Senate Day 2: Hegseth vs. insider trading allegations
1:21:00 — James Comey indicted over seashells spelling 86-47. No, really.
1:25:00 — Trump’s 11pm Truth Social rant: “86 is a mob term for kill him”
1:29:00 — Inflation at a 3-year high. Thanks, tariffs.
1:30:00 — SCOTUS guts the Voting Rights Act. Red states rush to redraw maps.
1:33:00 — DOGE and the secret voter data scheme
1:37:00 — Trump’s Surgeon General pick: Fox News contributor, Barbados med school
1:43:00 — The ICE agent who killed Renee Good gets a new job and a new state
1:48:00 — DHS counter-terrorism official moonlighting on a sugar daddy website
1:52:00 — Iran is laughing at Trump’s naval blockade
1:54:00 — Indian med student scams MAGA men with an AI influencer. Google helped.
1:57:00 — Wrap-up and goodbyes

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