We Aren't Ready🚨

Our politicians keep failing our military.

The name is Bengs‼️: Brian Bengs from South Dakota is one of four independent Senate candidates running in the Mountain West who have a real chance.

• 📺He joins us tonight — we’ve had on Dan Osborne from Nebraska and Todd Achilles from Idaho

  • His website says he’s running on the “cowboy code of the West” — what does that mean?

• You🫵: Our segment with Achilles of Idaho was one of our highest-rated in recent memory — all of us in the middle are hungry for real leadership.

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Bioweapons war☣️: This AI-generated movie about an A.I -created pathogen sounds like the Year 3,000 — but it’s closer than we may think.

• 📰The Washington Post reports, “Trump races to prepare for new strains of deadly viruses after cutting biosecurity experts,” writing:

  • “The administration’s biodefense team has dwindled, and its new safeguards have been delayed — all amid growing concern over AI-enabled pathogens.”

• ‼️Once again, the AI bros CAN stop this from happening… but won’t

  • They are releasing AI models that cause mass destruction — financially or with bioweaponry or by crashing airliners

  • Yet have shown no willingness to put restrictions on their weapons

  • Scary⚠️: CNN headlines, “Scientist says AI chatbot told him how to make biological weapons”

• Tonight📺: Annie Jacobson, author of this insane book “Biological War,” joins me on this threat of AI-powered bioweapons.

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Gov’t Will Fix EVERYTHING‼️

🤦The Left and Right increasingly agree the government will solve all our problems:

• Since apparently Vice President JD Vance doesn’t understand basic economics, he questions whether it’s a good thing the dollar is the world’s reserve currency and further questions if low prices are a good thing

  • Yes – dollar domination allows us to live beyond our means. How about some fiscal responsibility before we commit national economic suicide?

• Tucker Carlson says he doesn’t know what the solution is, but it starts with “changing people’s hearts” — again, no idea what that means

  

  End Tribalism in Politics@EndTribalism

  Tucker Carlson tells Hunter Biden that voting for Trump delivered the same outcome Americans would have gotten under Kamala Harris. “It didn’t work.” “It didn’t matter that you voted for him.” “You got the same thing that you were gonna get if you voted for Kamala Harris.”

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• Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., wants the government to loan startup founders money to pay his wealth tax and then confiscate stock if the loan isn’t paid — if the startup fails, the founder becomes an indentured servant to the government.

  • Then there’s some weird stuff about race

    

    RNC Research@RNCResearch

    Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna suggests America is racist and needs a "multi-racial new deal" to be "the world's first multiracial cohesive democracy."

    3:07 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 607K Views

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• Sen Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., says America is crooked, and poor people are poor because somebody took what belonged to them

  

  Clips of Warnock@TeamWarnock

  Warnock: Poor people aren’t just poor because they don’t have. They’re poor because somebody took what belonged to them. They are engaged in Robin Hood in reverse. They are taking from the poor and giving to the rich. It is socialism for the rich.

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• What I am thinking: I know he is the senator from Georgia, but maybe he should fold Havana into his district?

‼️The extremes of both parties seem to agree that the government will solve our problems

• Medicare for All to solve health care

• Tariffs and equity stakes in AI to solve I don’t know what

• End the dollar as a reserve currency because that helps how

• Power bills are too high, so let’s ban data centers

Every politician is now becoming Trump — promising quick and easy fixes to difficult problems.

• 🤦Have we not learned our lesson?

Possible solution👀: A third party in the center that is actually interested in solving our problems.

• Mark Cuban challenging Ro Khanna on X is a start …

• We asked War Notes subscribers for a list of possible folks

  • Most are politicians, but what about Peyton Manning?

  • A Youngkin/Fetterman ticket

  • A McCormick/Fetterman ticket — the Pennsylvania duo

  • Movie star Matthew McConaughey

  • The Rock

  • Taylor Swift

‼️Increasingly, each political party is less and less interested in solving our problems — rather, they promise rainbow and unicorn solutions and then spend more money.

Watch tonight📺: Who could be the man or woman — Mick Mulvaney and Mike Nellis tonight.

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We Aren’t Ready⚠️

‼️Every day the world gets more and more dangerous, and every day we are more and more NOT ready for a major war.

• The U.S. pulled the last American aircraft carrier from the South China Sea

• The USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East is in bad shape and being replaced

  • We don’t have enough shipyards capable of maintaining and overhauling aircraft carriers.

• America’s key missile defense interceptors are dwindling

  • Sound the alarms🚨: The NORTHCOM deputy commander says America isn’t prepared to defend against a drone attack on U.S. soil

    

    MeidasTouch@MeidasTouch

    🚨🚨 NORTHCOM Deputy Commander Army Lt. Gen. Joseph Jarrard says the U.S. is UNABLE to defend against an attack by a swarm of drones on U.S. soil: "We don't have the sensors, and depending on where that swarm is going to attack, it depends on whether we have any sensors at all,

    9:33 PM · Aug 16, 2026 · 246K Views

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• And the Iranians want to do to us what Vietnam did to us —

  • The Wall Street Journal reports, “Iran’s secret plan to escalate the war”

Watch 👀: Ukraine is pushing closer to Moscow, and Putin is looking to retaliate —

• This weekend, Ukrainian drones blew up a Russian logistics warehouse

  

  Anonymous TV 🇺🇦@YourAnonTV

  🚨 BREAKING: Ukraine has destroyed the largest Wildberries logistics hub in Russia, with estimated damages exceeding $1.5 billion #SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦

  9:47 AM · Aug 16, 2026 · 5.04M Views

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• And there’s new intelligence showing that President Putin is planning to launch an attack to test NATO.

  • Good read📰: “Putin can’t break down NATO’s door. He’s trying the window”

  • “Putin knows he is losing in Ukraine, facing a combination of Kyiv’s raw courage and determination; clever use of drone warfare; and vast quantities of U.S. and European weapons. From Moscow’s perspective, the key to getting back on the front foot is simple: cut off aid to the Ukrainians…Putin reckons that if he can peel off some number of the Euros — by intimidating them with a combination of nuclear threats and hybrid warfare attacks — he can split the alliance and succeed in his ambitions.”

Wasting the money💰: The Pentagon’s requested $1.5 trillion budget should require serious contemplation

• Max Boot in the Washington Post headlines, “I’m a hawk. I’m shocked by a $1.5 trillion defense budget,” writing:

  • “The request would top World War II spending while funding boondoggles and sweetheart deals.”

  • We are preparing for wars in the past rather than readying to fight wars in the future.

  • Max Boots’ op-ed is a devastating takedown of the Pentagon over multiple administrations

    • “No one denies the need to replenish missile stockpiles running low because of the Iran conflict, but the very fact that the United States has used up such a large part of its missile arsenal so quickly is a damning indictment of years of defense misappropriations that long predate President Donald Trump.”

• And this is the same Pentagon that still isn’t ready for a major war because they aren’t spending money on the right things

  • Proof☑️: The Washington Post reports, “Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences,” writing:

  • “The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more closely resemble those from World War II. The change could cost billions.”

Watch tonight 📺: Brig. Gen. John Teichert on how our politicians keep failing our military.

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Be Like Mississippi‼️

🏫Today marked the first day of school for kids in many states across America.

• That’s criminal — school should not start until after Labor Day, but that is a different issue.

• 📱What’s far darker is the teachers’ first day of school reporting on their students.

OutspokenSamantha@Outspoken_Sam

A teacher responds to the one who broke down in tears because his class of High School seniors couldn't read the material, or write a basic sentence. As a middle school teacher she confirms what he said, and lays out the horrifying truth - kids are actually being DENIED the

7:05 PM · Aug 16, 2026 · 162K Views

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Freedom Life@Trendrop1

A Houston teacher became emotional after students struggled to fill in four words on a worksheet. The clip went viral because it turns the literacy gap from a statistic into one very real classroom moment.

3:38 AM · Aug 17, 2026 · 1.06K Views

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• 🤷We all know the reason for this — it’s obvious — teachers’ unions are more interested in indoctrination, woke and equity than teaching.

  • For example, in Chicago, where the city is run by a teacher union lobbyist, they spend nearly $30,000 a year per student — in dozens of schools, not a single kid can read, write or do math at grade level.

  • Predictably, the city’s mayor says racism is behind the failures, and they need more money.

    • It would be funny if not so serious

• 👀Compare all of this to Mississippi — yes, Mississippi, where they have gone from worst to first in education — specifically for 4th graders’ ability to read.

  • The state’s governor joined “On Balance” a few years ago to share his secret

    • “What we have proven in Mississippi is that if you set high expectations and then you give teachers and parents and students the resources they need to reach those improved expectations, Mississippians at least do what Mississippians do and. they rise up and they not only meet them they exceed them. and that’s what we’re seeing in our state.”

‼️Mississippi is no more a miracle than Chicago is an unsolvable problem — they are both predictable and predicted results of what we want America’s future to look like.