The Great America Show - May 11, 2026


Mid-Day Update: May 11, 2026


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Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

169.32

Word count

911

Sentence count

57

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Misogyny

1

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Toxicity

3

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Hate speech

1

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The ceasefire between Iran and the United States is on life support, UK PM Keir Starmer is in trouble, Virginia Dems are trying to get rid of the entire Supreme Court, and Joe Biden is in hot water with the DOJ.

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Foster with this Great America Show midday update for Monday, May 11th.
00:00:04.940 Happy Monday, folks, and I hope all the wonderful mothers out there had a terrific Mother's Day.
00:00:11.040 You got to spend the day with your family, your loved ones, and all that good stuff.
00:00:15.180 So, let's get back to work, why don't we, right? Let's start the week out.
00:00:18.860 President Trump this morning from the Oval Office with some bad news for Iran
00:00:23.940 says that the ceasefire that's currently in place is on grave, grave life support.
00:00:29.540 Let's take a listen.
00:00:30.400 For the time being, the ceasefire remains in place.
00:00:33.260 It's unbelievably weak, I would say.
00:00:37.320 I would call it the weakest right now. 0.99
00:00:40.800 After reading that piece of garbage they sent us, I didn't even finish reading it. 0.98
00:00:45.100 They said I'm not going to waste my time reading it. 0.99
00:00:47.600 I would say it's one of the weakest right now.
00:00:50.580 It's on life support.
00:00:51.620 They understand.
00:00:52.400 These are all medical people.
00:00:54.780 Dr. Oz, life support is not a good thing.
00:00:57.120 Do you agree?
00:00:57.760 Back prognostic.
00:00:58.500 I would say the ceasefire is on massive life support where the doctor walks in and says,
00:01:04.680 Sir, your loved one has approximately a 1% chance of living.
00:01:11.420 I think this week, folks, it's going to prove critical on where we move on this Iran issue.
00:01:17.780 And if Iran wants to exist, I guess they're going to have to make that decision.
00:01:23.180 In other foreign policy news, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and a labor leader in big, big trouble.
00:01:30.540 He's still the prime minister as of this second, but he's facing major crises after the Labor Party's disastrous results in last week's local elections.
00:01:39.780 The elections in Scotland and Wales, Reform UK surging, labor getting hammered in many places.
00:01:46.260 Now dozens, around 40 members of the Labor Party are openly calling for him to quit.
00:01:51.860 There's talk of leadership, challenge, or even a civil war inside the party, folks.
00:01:57.200 Starmer gave a big make-or-break speech today where he took responsibility for the losses and promised bolder action.
00:02:04.340 He said incremental changes won't cut it and vowed to fight to prove the doubters wrong.
00:02:08.840 Many see it as an attempt to reset and survive.
00:02:12.260 He's defiant for now and he says he'll deliver change, but his position looks very shaky.
00:02:16.880 Rivals like Wes Stirling and others are reportedly eyeing bids as pressure is mounting and it's mounting fast.
00:02:24.660 People are tired of it, folks. People are tired of the direction of the UK.
00:02:29.860 People are looking at London right now and they're imagining that this is what the rest of the world can turn into
00:02:37.280 if we allow our states, our countries to go the way that the UK is going.
00:02:44.940 So I give him maybe a month or two before I think he's shown the door.
00:02:50.080 Turning out of some news back home after that massive blow last week to the Virginia Marxist Dems,
00:02:56.980 Virginia Dems are now openly floating a scheme to purge the entire state Supreme Court
00:03:01.960 after it dared to strike down their rigged gerrymandering power play.
00:03:06.360 And now just days after that massive victory for election integrity by that 4-3 ruling
00:03:11.640 that the democrats sleazily redistricted even though they weren't supposed to it was
00:03:16.240 unconstitutional from the start democrats are scrambling for revenge so what is their latest
00:03:21.880 authoritarian brainstorm you may ask well i'm gonna tell you they want to lower the mandatory
00:03:28.220 retirement age for judges from 73 to 54 exactly the age of the youngest sitting justice and force
00:03:35.680 every single justice off the bench immediately this would hand the democrats controlled legislature
00:03:41.300 to the power to pack the courts with their hand-picked cronies who will immediately rubber 1.00
00:03:46.300 stamp the illegal congressional map that Democrats tried to ram through. Imagine this, folks. The
00:03:52.460 Marxist Dems constantly want to talk about the Republicans. They've been talking about 0.65
00:03:57.080 gerrymandering of late, but they're literally floating, firing every single person on their
00:04:04.260 supreme court just folks just so they can cheat lie and steal you literally cannot make this stuff
00:04:13.040 up but the democrats are in dire need right now and they're in dire desperation um as the midterm
00:04:19.240 elections fast approach and joe biden he's been kind of quiet lately but he's speaking up a little
00:04:25.320 bit now biden is vowing to fight trump's doj to prevent the release of 70 hours of audio tapes
00:04:31.300 of the former president's conversations with his ghostwriter.
00:04:34.840 Last year, he was reported that the DOJ was preparing to release the damning audio of Biden's interview
00:04:38.740 with former special counsel Robert Herr.
00:04:41.200 The department is also going to release 2017 audio recordings of conversations
00:04:44.760 with his ghostwriter in which he discloses classified information.
00:04:49.760 Biden is expected to intervene, according to Politico.
00:04:52.500 The judge says Biden has until Tuesday to respond.
00:04:55.600 I thought it was Donald Trump who was retaining classified information.
00:04:59.240 I thought it was Donald Trump who was storing signed letters in his boxes at Mar-a-Lago from other world leaders and all that classified information.
00:05:09.140 Turns out it was Joe Biden.
00:05:10.980 I guess we're going to have to wait and see.
00:05:13.020 Folks, please be sure to join us tonight and each and every night, 6 p.m. Eastern time for The Great America Show.
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00:05:20.020 I'm John Fawcett with this Midday Update.
00:05:22.040 Happy Monday, folks.