June 26, 2025

Liver King Arrested for Threatening Joe Rogan, Trump Wants to Rename Defense Department to War Department

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Influencer Brian "Liver King" Johnson arrested in Austin for terroristic threats against Joe Rogan. Plus Trump suggests renaming Defense Department back to War Department after Iran strikes

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Calaruga Shark Media from Washington, DC, where we just can't

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stop renaming things. This is ballas. That's why this show

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is now called the Joe Rogan Experience. Let's hit this.

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Speaking of Joe, the Liver King got arrested in Austin

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Tuesday for allegedly making terroristic threats against Joe Rogan, which

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proves that eating raw organs doesn't necessarily improve your decision

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making skills. Brian Johnson, that's the Liver King's real name,

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though I assume raw meet Brian was already taken, posted

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a series of Instagram videos challenging Rogan to a fight

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while traveling to Austin. He was booked on a Class

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B misdemeanor charge after police reviewed his posts and contacted Rogan,

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who said he'd never even interacted with Johnson but found

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the videos threatening. The whole thing started back in twenty

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twenty two, when Rogan mocked Johnson's claim that his massive

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physique came from eating raw instead of the eleven thousand

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dollars per month he was secretly spending on steroids, according

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to the joke. When that little detail leaked, Johnson had

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to admit he wasn't actually getting jacked from organ meat alone.

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Shocking revelation there. Now, Johnson's been making videos while shirtless

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and wearing a wolf head hat, which is exactly the

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kind of accessory choice that screams mentally stable person making

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rational decisions. In one video, he told Rogan, you can

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hold the hand of somebody that you love, because what

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happens next to you, you're going to need to remember

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that feeling. Johnson documented his whole journey to Austin like

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he was some kind of primitive warrior on a quest,

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telling Rogan he had no training in jiu jitsu but

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was willing to die and hoped Rogan would choke him

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out because it feels good. This man went from selling

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people on eating raw meat to having elaborate fantasies about

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getting strangled by a podcast host. Police found Johnson at

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the Four Seasons. Nothing says ancestral life style like luxury

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hotel accommodations, where he was arrested while his family watched.

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His final Instagram video shows him getting handcuffed, which is

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probably not the kind of content his two point nine

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million followers signed up for President Trump wants to rename

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the Defense Department back to the war Department, because apparently

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Defense sounds too much like a participation trophy. Trump made

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this announcement after describing how B two stealth bombers flew

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thirty six hours round trip from Missouri to bomb Iranian

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nuclear facilities, which he called a great victory. Now he's thinking,

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maybe we should rebrand the whole military. While we're on

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a roll. The President told reporters at a NATO meeting

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that the old name is still visible on a wall

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in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, and he introduced Marco

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Rubio and Pete Hegseth as Secretary of State and Secretary

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of War. Trump explained that we became politically correct when

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we switched to Defense Department in nineteen forty nine. So

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let me get this straight. We're going to change the

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name from Defense Department to War Department because Defense is

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too soft. What's next renaming the Department of Health and

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Human Services to the Department of Sickness and Suffering. The

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Department of Education becomes the Department of not Knowing Things.

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This is like when your dad insists on calling it

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the remote control instead of the clicker because that's what

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they called it in his day, except instead of arguing

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about television terminology. We're talking about the largest military in

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the world, and apparently this brilliant rebranding idea came to

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him right after bombing Iran. Nothing says let's think strategically

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about government nomenclature quite like the adrenaline rush from a

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successful military operation. That's prime decision making time right there.

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The Defense Department has been called the Defense Department since

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nineteen forty nine, when Congress consolidated the Army, Navy, and

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Air Force departments. But sure, let's change it back because

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the word defense makes us sound like we're playing zone

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coverage in basketball instead of running the most powerful military

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on Earth. CIA Director John Ratcliffe stepped up Wednesday to

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clarify that Iran's nuclear program wasn't just damaged, it was

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basically sent back to the Stone Age. This comes after

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some initial report suggested the bombing only set Iran back

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a few months, which apparently didn't sit well with the

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White House. Ratcliffe issued a statement saying they've got credible

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evidence that Iran's nuclear facilities were destroyed and would need

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to be rebuilt over the course of years. Meanwhile, Director

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of National Intelligence Tulci Gabbard jumped on x to back

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him up, posting that new intelligence confirms the facilities were destroyed.

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So we went from maybe a few months to definitely

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several years in about twenty four hours. That's quite the

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intelligence upgrade. Either our spy satellites needed new glasses, or

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someone got a very stern talking to about their initial assessment.

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The Defense Intelligence Agency originally said the strikes might only

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delay Iran's nuclear program by months. The White House called

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that assessment wrong, which is diplomatic speaker, that's not the

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answer we were looking for. Try again. President Trump has

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been saying the strikes obliterated Iran's nuclear capabilities, and now

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suddenly everyone's intelligence is lining up perfectly with that statement.

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What are the odds? Gabbard's tweet mentioned that Iran would

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have to rebuild all three facilities Natan's Fordau and Esfahan entirely.

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She didn't provide evidence, but she did use all caps

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for potus, so you know she's serious. This is like

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when you're in school and the teacher asks who broke

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the window, and initially someone says maybe it was the wind,

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but then after a stern look, suddenly everyone remembers it

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was definitely a baseball from three towns. Over Portions of

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today's show were made with the help of Ai the

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Jre and the Liver King.