Lethal, Lazy Liars

Political Junkie Podcast · Dec 5, 2025 · 1h 11m · transcript

We begin with this clip from a cabinet meeting earlier this week, in which Pete Hegseth described to a journalist his participation in a deadly September 2 strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug smuggling boat, and a second missile fired that killed first-strike survivors.

Secretary of Defense fakes screwing in a sign misidentifying the Department of Defense of the Department of War, a name he likes because it sounds more lethal. Photo credit: U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Madelyn Keech/Wikimedia Commons

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