This week's "Who Said It" is about qualifications — and once we tell you who said it and who they were talking about, the irony is going to hit like a freight train.
Tesla slides back down and there's a new reason on the horizon that connects directly to Elon's well-documented habit of abandoning a pond once other fish show up. Meta fired 8,000 people and their AI support bot immediately handed hackers the keys to thousands of Instagram accounts — which we choose to view as an encouraging sign for the human workforce.
Ukraine just inked a deal with Sweden for Gripen jets and we do a full breakdown on why this matters — the range, the runway requirements, the intake ports, and the Cold War design quirks that make it almost perfectly suited for exactly what Ukraine needs right now. It's 2027 before they arrive, which is a long time, but Russia's glide bomb advantage just got an expiration date. The French and British meanwhile intercepted a Russian shadow fleet tanker, which has us once again comparing allied contributions to America's recent highlight reel.
We take a deep dive into Igor Girkin — the FSB man who wrote the blueprint for taking Ukraine back in 2013, crossed the border with 52 Russians to "organically" start a people's revolution, and was later convicted at The Hague for his role in shooting down MH17. His reason for rejecting that conviction is one of the most brazen things we've ever read out loud. We also walk through Russia's propaganda tactics with some receipts that are very hard to argue with.
Jared Kushner is evicting flamingos and sea turtles in Albania, the locals are not taking it well, and the EU has some strong feelings about it heading into a meeting in Montenegro. Ukraine dropped the Operation Spiderweb footage just in time for summer — we have thoughts and so does everyone with eyes.
The Freedom 250 concert lineup came together and then immediately fell apart — Milli Vanilli cancelled, Morris Day and the Time cancelled, Martina McBride cancelled, and the birthday boy rage-posted on Truth Social. The one act that didn't cancel should surprise nobody. And the booking agency running the whole thing is named after someone the White House really should have googled first.
Albanian fireworks link
https://youtube.com/shorts/8LZ7kd18oHo?si=vVFtxEITWV_YYos9
