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Good evening. It's Friday, August 4. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday, at 7:00 pm Eastern, exclusively here, on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.
Tonight: A year and a half into what is clearly yet another endless war – this time a proxy war in Ukraine – Americans finally have had enough. A new CNN poll conducted by SSRS and released today finds that – as CNN put it – "A majority of Americans oppose more U.S. aid for Ukraine in war with Russia." Overall, 55% want no further American funding going to feed the war, while only 45% favor additional U.S. support. That is a radical reversal from February 2022, when large majorities of both parties strongly backed U.S. financial and military support for Ukraine.
Public support for this war has been eroding for some time. That was why Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy pretended before the 2022 mid-term election to vow opposition to a blank check for Kyiv - only to turn around as soon as the GOP won control of the House and McCarthy was safely elected Speaker and make clear that he fully supported Biden's policy in that war. The spigot of funding has not even slowed down a little bit as control of the House passed from Pelosi to McCarthy. But Americans are clearly growing tired of this bottomless pit of war spending. As the details of the poll make clear, which we will show you, the only reason the numbers are even this close is that those who identify as liberal Democrats overwhelmingly support indefinite funding of the war.
Then: Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California is 90 years old, she’s at her sixth term in the Senate, often does not know where she is, relies almost entirely on her staff to tell her what to say and how to vote and nonetheless refuses to release her desperately tight grip on power. Beyond all of that, the New York Times revealed on Wednesday that Feinstein's daughter now possesses power-of-attorney over the Senator's personal affairs – meaning she's not competent to run her own life as she continues to act as a Senator – and Feinstein's children and the children of her third husband – the exorbitantly wealthy and now-deceased, Richard Blum, a military contracting mogul who often benefited personally from the policies Feinstein supported – are already fighting in court over Feinstein's extremely ample wealth.
We will examine this refusal of our political elite to ever relinquish the power they wield, even long after it is obvious that they are no longer capable of even orienting themselves in space and time. And we will also take a look at the rotted legacy of Feinstein as a Senator - this Democrat from this very blue state has long been one of the most steadfast defenders of the CIA and the U.S. machine of endless war, and her personal ethics are even worse.
Finally: on Wednesday night, we showed you the attempt by the Washington Post to convert Trump prosecutor into some sort of a matinee idol; in what billed as a comprehensive profile of Smith – titled: "Who is Jack Smith? What to know about the Special Counsel Who Charged Trump" -- but instead read like a ninth grader's school report or a Tiger Beat fluff piece about some pop star – does anyone remember Tiger Beat? – we learned from the Post that Smith has a reputation as a "hard worker," enjoys fitness and triathlons, and believes that the key to happiness in life is "enthusiasm and high energy." The only thing missing was his favorite color.
Since then, the American corporate media has proven that they can barely hide the arousal – and I mean arousal – when they cast their eyes on and speak of this sturdy and hunky 52-year-old prosecutor. Some of the television news discourse about Jack Smith is borderline pornographic and genuinely uncomfortable to watch. With apologies, we'll show you some of it just to get a taste for how lowly and tawdry it is, and we'll ask what it says about liberal political and media culture that they are constantly on the hunt for prosecutors and lawyers – from Robert Mueller, Andrew Cuomo and Michael Avenatti – whom they can venerate and lust over in public.
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