May 1, 2025

Democrats' Impeachment Dreams, Hawley's PELOSI Act, and the $60M Fighter Jet Splash

Why Democrats' impeachment efforts are like bringing water guns to tank battles, Josh Hawley's brilliantly named PELOSI Act, and how to lose a $60 million fighter jet in one easy step.

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Why Democrats' impeachment efforts are like bringing water guns to tank battles, Josh Hawley's brilliantly named PELOSI Act, and how to lose a $60 million fighter jet in one easy step.

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Caalarucas Shark Media from Washington, DC. Where oops, we dropped

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a fighter jet in the ocean. This is ballot, oh man,

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I'd hate to explain to the admiral what happened this time.

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I'm Patrick Guttfield and House Democrats have decided that trying

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to impeach Trump right now is about as practical as

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trying to catch smoke with a butterfly net. Democratic Caucus

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chair Pete Aguilar rejected the impeachment efforts brewing among some

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of his colleagues, basically saying, we'd love to, but what's

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the point. Aguilar didn't exactly claim Trump hasn't done anything

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impeachable in his first one hundred days. He just pointed

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out the obvious political reality. This president is no stranger

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to that. He's been impeached twice, Aguilar told reporters. But

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we don't have any confidence that House and Senate Republicans

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would do their jobs. Meanwhile, Representative shre from Michigan has

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already filed seven articles of impeachment against Trump, including charges

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about wrongfully deporting a Maryland man to El Salvador. That's

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like bringing a water gun to a tank battle, technically

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a weapon but not likely to make an impact. Representative

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Al Green from Texas is also planning to file impeachment

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articles at some point. Perhaps they should coordinate their calendars.

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Impeachment Tuesdays has a nice ring to it. Some liberals

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have been complaining that Democrats haven't been aggressive enough in

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fighting Trump. Democratic leaders disagree, pointing to their busy schedule

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of field hearings, rallies, sit ins, and town halls. House

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Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries promised they're going to continue to

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show up, stand up, and speak up in a variety

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of ways. So many verbs, so little actual power. Instead

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of impeachment, Aguilar says, Democrats will focus on highlighting unpopular

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Trump policies like Medicaid cuts and tax breaks for the wealthy,

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because nothing stops a president like wrongly worded press releases

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about his legislative agenda. Those are the items that the

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American public is paying attention to. Agular insisted. And if

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there's one thing we know about American politics, it's that

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public attention always translates directly into meaningful change. Just ask

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all those previous presidents who were stopped by the power

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of negative polling. Senator Josh Holly has introduced a bill

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that would prevent members of Congress from playing the stock

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market like they're all Warren Buffett with a security clearance.

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The wonderfully titled Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and

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Investments Act or Pelosi Act, would ban lawmakers and their

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spouses from holding or trading individual stocks while in office.

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The Missouri Republican announced he's reintroducing this legislation after President

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Trump said he'd sign such a bill if it reached

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his desk. Nothing motivates Congress like presidential attention and an

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acronym that subtly trolls a former speaker, Senator Hawley declared

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members of Congress should be fighting for the people they

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were elected to serve, not day trading at the expense

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of their constituents. He added that Americans have seen politician

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after politician turn a profit using information not available to

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the general public, which is a polite way of saying

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insider trading, but make it congressional. The bill would still

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allow lawmakers to invest in diversified mutual funds, exchange traded funds,

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or US Treasury bonds, so they can still be rich,

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just not suspiciously rich. In specific companies they regulate. Current

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members would have one hundred and eighty days to comply,

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as would newly elected lawmakers after taking office. Those who

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refuse would forfeit any stock profits to the treasury and

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face penalties from ethics committees. This might be the rare

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bill that both parties could support. Democrats who want to

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look like their fighting corruption and Republicans who want to

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stick it to Nancy Pelosi. When your bill's name is

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basically a political burn, that's how you know democracy is

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working exactly as intended. An FA eighteen super Hornet fighter

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jet fell off the USS Harry S. Truman Aircraft carrier

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while being towed around the hangar bay. Talk about the

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world's most expensive game of oops, I dropped something. The

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Navy said the crew lost control of the aircraft while

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towing it. Lost control. That's military speak for someone hit

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the wrong button and sixty million dollars went swimming. The

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crew members in the pilot's seat and on the towing

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tractor both jumped out before taking an unscheduled dip in

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the red seat. One sailor suffered a minor injury, which

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I assume was a sprained ego. Can you imagine that

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conversation back at base. So where's the jet funny story? Sir?

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Remember how you said not to lose any expensive military equipment. Well,

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the USS Truman has been deployed to the Middle East

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for months, conducting strikes against the hoothy rebels and Yemen.

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I'm guessing this wasn't the kind of strike they had

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in mind, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth already extended their

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deployment once. I bet that sailor is hoping this doesn't

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earn them another extension. You can come home when you

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find that sixty million dollar jet you dropped in the ocean.

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The incident is under investigation, which means some poor naval

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officer is filling out the world's most awkward paperwork reason

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for equipment loss gravity Ocean Monday. The best part the

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Navy's statement just casually mentions the aircraft and tow tractor

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were lost overboard, like they misplaced their car keys instead

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of an entire fighter jet. Portions of today's program were

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made with the help of Admiral Halsey, Jet Band on

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the Run and AI