A 20-year-old George Washington crashed a party he wasn't invited to — and walked out with a poem. Judy Hodgkiss on how Alexander Pope's Essay on Man carried Leibniz's ideas from a fugitive English lord into the Declaration of Independence.
Barbara Boyd cuts through the warmonger lie: Trump is pursuing peace while crushing Iran's leverage — and the real war is between Trump's American System and the dying London-centered petrodollar order that wants him dead.
A funeral pause answered with burning tankers — and a summit where Europe learned who runs the alliance now. Barbara and Susan on the empire's enforcement arm, the Golden Dome, and the midterm machine. Your questions, answered live.
Trump and Bessent are shattering the free-market orthodoxy and reviving Henry Clay's American System — and the jobs numbers prove it's working.
Susan argues that Trump's recent comments praising overlap with Bernie Sanders and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's critique of “slavish devotion to free markets” signal not a change of sides but a shift to a different economic system. It frames Trump’s “new economic plan” as an industrial policy that uses tariffs, tax policy, directed investment, and potential public-private stakes in major AI firms, while also challenging Federal Reserve practices and Wall Street forecasting. Citing the latest jobs report (172,000 jobs versus a 105,000 forecast, with prior months revised upward), it claims the plan is working, though manufacturing hiring is still early, following a sequence of orders, production, investment, then jobs described by Peter Navarro. Susan says this approach revives Henry Clay’s “American System,” presented as distinct from free markets, free trade, or socialism.
00:00 The Saturday Wrap-Up - Trump Agreed With Bernie, Bessent Trashed the Free Market, What’s Going On?! - June 6, 2026
01:16 Trump’s Team Is Dropping Economic Bombshells
05:58 First Orders. Then Production. Then Jobs. It’s Working.
10:05 Navarro Names the Name They Banned for 100 Years
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Barbara Boyd cuts through the warmonger lie: Trump is pursuing peace while crushing Iran's leverage — and the real war is between Trump's American System and the dying London-centered petrodollar order that wants him dead.
The Ukraine war is changing far more than the battlefield. Mike Steger examines NATO, President Trump's strategy, and the patriotic movements reshaping Europe's future.
The cannons saluted Trump; a finance minister met everyone else. But the real tell wasn't the welcome in Ankara — it was Putin's 85-minute phone call, and a Europe promising a war economy it can no longer build. Susan Kokinda on the century of geopolitics quietly coming apart.
What does it truly mean to be an American citizen? Mike Steger explores the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling, Justice Clarence Thomas' dissent, and the principles that built America.
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