{"id":5693,"date":"2025-02-13T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/320-bob-kerrey-trump-abandons-ukraine-gabbard-is-confirmed-trump-guts-usaid-hegseth-bans-books-at-dod-schools-attacks-press-heroism-is-not-efficient-cfpb-under-attack-wtf-fetterman-mayor-ad\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T08:01:00","slug":"320-bob-kerrey-trump-abandons-ukraine-gabbard-is-confirmed-trump-guts-usaid-hegseth-bans-books-at-dod-schools-attacks-press-heroism-is-not-efficient-cfpb-under-attack-wtf-fetterman-mayor-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/320-bob-kerrey-trump-abandons-ukraine-gabbard-is-confirmed-trump-guts-usaid-hegseth-bans-books-at-dod-schools-attacks-press-heroism-is-not-efficient-cfpb-under-attack-wtf-fetterman-mayor-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"320. Bob Kerrey. Trump Abandons Ukraine. Gabbard is Confirmed. Trump Guts USAID. Hegseth Bans Books at DoD Schools, Attacks Press. Heroism is Not Efficient. CFPB Under Attack. WTF, Fetterman. Mayor Adams is Crooked. Rating Kendrick\u2019s Super Bowl."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=ANA1976581418\" width=\"100%\" height=\"210\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Happy Valentine\u2019s Day, America. Tulsi Gabbard is confirmed, Elon Musk is ransacking our government, the FBI is being purged, Trump and Hegseth are abandoning Ukraine. And Putin is coming to visit America.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What a great time for our enemies. The doors are wide open for them everywhere. Putin must be smiling from ear to ear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We really need that upside down American flag emoji right about now.<\/p>\n<p>And we also need truly patriotic, candid, courageous and unafraid voices of reason. And we\u2019ve got one of the best.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bob Kerrey (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kerreybob\">@KerreyBob<\/a>) is a Navy SEAL Vietnam Veteran, Medal of Honor Recipient, former Governor and Senator from Nebraska, member of The 9\/11 Commission and constant voice of conscience for America. Lots of people talk tough. Bob Kerrey\u2019s lived tough. And he\u2019s not holding back on Elon Musk, Trump, Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and what we\u2019re facing as a nation. He\u2019s got advice for Democrats on how to connect with real Americans and explains why he went against his own party to support Independent Navy Veteran Dan Osborn for Senate last year in Nebraska.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also shares his heroic journey of overcoming adversity, having part of his leg amputated, why he chooses happiness every day and what it\u2019s like to have a Navy ship named after him. He\u2019s a brilliant, honest, funny and inspiring American hero. And this is an episode you\u2019re not gonna wanna miss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Every episode of <em>Independent Americans<\/em> with Paul Rieckhoff breaks down the most important news stories\u2013and offers light to contrast the heat of other politics and news shows. It\u2019s content for the 49% of Americans that proudly call themselves independent. Always with a unique focus on national security, foreign affairs and military and veterans issues. Independent content for independent Americans. In these trying times especially, <a href=\"https:\/\/independentamericans.us\/\"><em>Independent Americans<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>is your trusted place for independent news, politics, inspiration and hope. 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Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/megaphone.fm\/adchoices\">megaphone.fm\/adchoices<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Valentine\u2019s Day, America. Tulsi Gabbard is confirmed, Elon Musk is ransacking our government, the FBI is being purged, Trump and Hegseth are abandoning Ukraine. And Putin is coming to visit America.\u00a0 What a great time for our enemies. The doors are wide open for them everywhere. Putin must be smiling from ear to ear.\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/320-bob-kerrey-trump-abandons-ukraine-gabbard-is-confirmed-trump-guts-usaid-hegseth-bans-books-at-dod-schools-attacks-press-heroism-is-not-efficient-cfpb-under-attack-wtf-fetterman-mayor-ad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">320. Bob Kerrey. Trump Abandons Ukraine. Gabbard is Confirmed. Trump Guts USAID. Hegseth Bans Books at DoD Schools, Attacks Press. Heroism is Not Efficient. CFPB Under Attack. WTF, Fetterman. Mayor Adams is Crooked. Rating Kendrick\u2019s Super Bowl.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-episodes","entry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/a254298c721afc9aab58dad47fc6809a.jpg",800,800,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/a254298c721afc9aab58dad47fc6809a.jpg",800,800,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/a254298c721afc9aab58dad47fc6809a.jpg",800,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/a254298c721afc9aab58dad47fc6809a-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/a254298c721afc9aab58dad47fc6809a-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/a254298c721afc9aab58dad47fc6809a.jpg",750,750,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/a254298c721afc9aab58dad47fc6809a.jpg",800,800,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/a254298c721afc9aab58dad47fc6809a.jpg",800,800,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/a254298c721afc9aab58dad47fc6809a.jpg",800,800,false]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/author\/admin\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/category\/episodes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Episodes<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Happy Valentine\u2019s Day, America. Tulsi Gabbard is confirmed, Elon Musk is ransacking our government, the FBI is being purged, Trump and Hegseth are abandoning Ukraine. And Putin is coming to visit America.\u00a0 What a great time for our enemies. The doors are wide open for them everywhere. Putin must be smiling from ear to ear.\u00a0&hellip;&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}