This week is a little bit of Epstein but it' mostly about Trump deciding that a video about disobeying illegal orders was actually sedition and he wants everyone in the video to be executed for their crimes. As a stable, rational, and coherent President should. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/hellwqrld. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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| The Adventures in Hell World podcast talks in depth about QAnon. | |
| While it's meant to be comedic informative, sometimes we have to get into things like child abuse and violence against people. | |
| Listener discretion advised. | |
| Hello, everybody. | |
| I am Mike Reigns, aka Poker and Politics, and welcome to maybe the last ever episode of Adventures in Hell World after we're all sent to Gitmo, first edition, and all that other good stuff. | |
| I'm probably kidding. | |
| That won't happen to us, and we're too small for the fish. | |
| But yeah, today's been a day. | |
| Today's been a day. | |
| Eric's here to talk about the day that has been today. | |
| How's Eric doing? | |
| Eric is doing. | |
| That's about as good as anyone can be doing at this point. | |
| And horrifyingly oblivious to all of it, Steph is here. | |
| How are you doing, Steph? | |
| I'm here. | |
| I'm a proud parent of a kidney stone, and my stent is out. | |
| And I actually did some physical labor today. | |
| So I'm really happy about that. | |
| Yeah. | |
| At least somebody's happy to do physical labor because I never am. | |
| I magically, like a couple of months ago, suddenly started having sore Achilles for no reason. | |
| And my doctors looked at my feet and were like, we don't know why you're Achilles bothering you. | |
| Yeah, I had that happen. | |
| It turned out I had tendinitis. | |
| The thing that's really funny is I'm on my feet. | |
| I work a 10-hour shift. | |
| I have a few breaks, but when I'm working, I'm on my feet the whole day and my Achilles don't bother me at all. | |
| But on my days off, when I'm not doing anything, that's when they get sore. | |
| So it's like, so it's like, apparently, I need to be constantly standing. | |
| It's the only way to make my feet happy. | |
| Like, dude, what the fuck? | |
| Well, maybe it wouldn't hurt as much if he stopped referring to it as an Achilles. | |
| No, it's always going to hurt that way. | |
| I know. | |
| I'm just. | |
| So your Achilles is your Achilles. | |
| The aggressive no and. | |
| The absolute masterful improv work by me. | |
| Just refusing. | |
| Just, I will. | |
| I love it. | |
| I love it. | |
| I will not give in to the joke whatsoever. | |
| There's a pirate on your shoulder. | |
| No, there isn't. | |
| I don't know what you're talking about. | |
| My shoulders are parrot-free. | |
| Fuck you. | |
| And pirate-free. | |
| Pirate and parrot. | |
| So my one little fun thing was I completed the story of Hades 2. | |
| I got to the end. | |
| Speaking of Achilles. | |
| Well, Achilles is Hades 1. | |
| Yeah, I know. | |
| Yeah, he doesn't show up in Hades 2 that I know of. | |
| Spoiler alerts. | |
| But what was really awesome was one of the basically like the spoiler alert, but it doesn't matter because you find out like two minutes into the game what you're supposed to be doing anyways. | |
| But the big ultimate last thing you have to do in the game is locate the fates who have been exiled somehow, some way that I won't get into because that would ruin the game. | |
| But when you finally find them, the main fate that talks to you has a powerful New Jersey accent, as one would expect from a game set in like that in Greek mythos. | |
| Because that's what you think. | |
| You think of a Jersey girl dating some guy working on the docks. | |
| That's basically that's basically who you run into when you're like, finally, I found you, the fates. | |
| And it's just, yeah, Jenny from Jersey green sea. | |
| Oh my God. | |
| Oh my God, you finally found us. | |
| You saved us from those monsters. | |
| It's like, what who made that call? | |
| Who was just, you know, you know what this Greek avatar of destiny should be? | |
| Jersey, just a hardcore someone who voted for Chris Christie a couple times, then decided that guy kind of sucked and is now like kind of a normy Dem, but whatever. | |
| Yeah, just it was, that was really funny to me that that was the, that was the casting call they met, they went with for that. | |
| But that was that was fun. | |
| That was my one little escape from our, from the grim dark world we live in, that and going to the trendy burger joint near my house and getting a smash burger. | |
| It was, it was good. | |
| It didn't, it did not remove my socks. | |
| Oh, smash burgers. | |
| When we were, when we were being filmed for the documentary in New York City, that was the first time I had like a Smash Burger. | |
| So it was like, it wasn't just my first Smash Burger. | |
| It was a New York City Smash Burger in Manhattan. | |
| And it was, it was just, oh, God, so awesome. | |
| Just amazing. | |
| I, I got tricked by a review of a place because I was looking for Smash Burgers and they sent me to this place called Crazy Good Kitchen that was in Salem. | |
| And I just got a regular, it was just a regular giant burger and it was very good. | |
| But I just, I was like, this is not a Smash Burger. | |
| I've been betrayed. | |
| This patty is very thick. | |
| It has not been smashed. | |
| And what's really funny is like everyone's like, oh, fast food is just like slop. | |
| They throw in a bag for you and you just eat your slop. | |
| But the Sonic Smashburger is actually delicious to me. | |
| Like the, they have the Sonic Smash sauce on it and everything. | |
| And it's like, not paid advertisement by Sonic. | |
| I'm just actually stating my opinion. | |
| I really do enjoy the Sonic Smash Burger. | |
| It's very good. | |
| So it's not good enough for me to actually drive all the way to Sonic or to DoorDash it. | |
| But if I'm in the area, I'm like, hey, Smash Burger time. | |
| Let's do this. | |
| You reminded me of the CBS show Ghosts, the American version, obviously. | |
| The husband on the show is obsessed with Sonic. | |
| And as people keep pointing out to him, he's also a professional chef. | |
| So it's kind of some subtle, you know, subtle advertising going on there. | |
| Hey, look, even professional chefs like Sonic. | |
| That's awesome. | |
| That is really awesome. | |
| So we had six and a half minutes of sort of kind of good fun happening. | |
| So time to yuck all that yum and get to our beloved president who today decided to go on a bender because that's what you want when you elect somebody to run our country. | |
| You want a nice steady hand on the wheel where the guy can just wake up in the morning and then just start pissing and shitting all over himself and just freaking out and posting absolute nonsense. | |
| So what this all stems from is there were a bunch of Democrats in Congress who have military backgrounds. | |
| And these people made a video. | |
| And that video was about how if you are being told, if you're being told to commit an illegal act, | |
| you in your in the military, mind you, if you're in the military and you're being told to commit an illegal act, you have an obligation to refuse that illegal act. | |
| And that's just the way our military code works. | |
| And so that video went out. | |
| And after that video went out, Donald Trump very reasonably responded to it by having a fit. | |
| And his fit. | |
| A very adult fit. | |
| A very adult fit. | |
| A very adult fit where he wasn't exactly, you know, I don't know, like arguing the legitimacy of the claims being made or talking about how like we could agree to disagree on what was being said and what would be an illegal order, what would that constitute. | |
| No, he just decided to just throw a fit. | |
| And the first thing he did was retweet a bunch of people who all said things like traitors. | |
| And anything these traitors disagree with is what they considered an illegal act. | |
| They were all disgraced to the uniform. | |
| Domestic terrorists, Democrats always causing chaos and destruction, destroying people's lives. | |
| I think they should be charged with sedition. | |
| Also save those tapes and run them when the next demo commie is in office. | |
| It's called seditious conspiracy and every one of them should be frog marched out of their homes at 3 a.m. with Fox News cameras filming the whole thing. | |
| And finally, the big winner of all of them that he retweeted, hang them, George Washington would double exclamation point. | |
| Yeah. | |
| George Washington was a nice touch. | |
| Yes. | |
| Kill them. | |
| It's what George would do. | |
| Yeah, it's great. | |
| It's great. | |
| Just great, great, great. | |
| And then after he did this, he decided that he was no longer going to just like hide behind retweets of his angry mob. | |
| And then he posted himself, seditious behavior, punishable by death to just let us all know where his mind is at this fine day. | |
| Just I and then later there was a, I saw a thing on Twitter that said, new headline, White House says Trump does not want his enemies killed. | |
| It's like, well, can he come out and say that? | |
| Because right now it appears he does. | |
| Right now, it does appear the man, in fact, does want to kill his enemies. | |
| Well, I'm sure he's right now proposing, you know, composing, I mean, his statement to the press where he calls them all a bunch of liars and fake news to, you know, to handle this touchy issue. | |
| And maybe you can call one of them Miss Piggy while he's at it or quiet piggy. | |
| Great thing he said. | |
| Yeah, boy. | |
| It's every time you think, every time you think you've hit bottom, he breaks out a jackhammer. | |
| No, dig up, stupid. | |
| And we're just caught in the middle. | |
| Wondering, you know, wondering what tomorrow is going to look like, or if there is a tomorrow. | |
| And this is what always gets to me. | |
| This is what always drives me up the wall about all this shit is that There was so little talk in the 2024 election about Donald Trump's like obvious like campaign for vengeance, | |
| his campaign to consolidate power, his aggressive desire to want to crush his enemy through his enemies through extra legal means. | |
| And the media made it very clear that if you brought any of this up, you're a hysterical shit lib who was just trying to scare up some votes. | |
| You were just trying to fearmonger your way into votes. | |
| How dare you directly quote him in order to make him look bad? | |
| Right. | |
| All of that. | |
| All of that. | |
| I mean, it was just this non-stop, like all were like, they basically created like this framework of what you're allowed to talk about during this election. | |
| And what you're allowed to talk about basically is our economy sucks. | |
| Biden is senile. | |
| And they shot at Donald Trump, that poor old man. | |
| How dare they? | |
| And oh, did you see him scoop some fries and put them into that bag? | |
| Wasn't it great when he pretended to work at McDonald's for 15 minutes? | |
| Holy shit. | |
| Shouldn't we make this guy president again? | |
| He put the fries in the bag. | |
| Oh, look at him after his campaign rallies. | |
| He does his little dance. | |
| Oh, he's such a cute little old man doing his dance. | |
| Oh, let him be president again. | |
| It'll be great. | |
| And now we literally have to have his press secretary and various underlings of him saying, no, he doesn't want to haul off all of his enemies and murder them. | |
| Oh, he was just kidding around. | |
| It was just a good old Josh and he did. | |
| Could you imagine any other politician on the planet saying sedition punishable by death in response to a pretty ordinary thing? | |
| You know, don't follow legal orders. | |
| Oof, you know, wow, that's controversial. | |
| Oh, what a bull. | |
| What a ridiculous branch to go out on. | |
| Follow the Constitution, not the decrees of the president, because we are a constitutional republic. | |
| We are a government of laws, not men. | |
| Like that whole thing. | |
| The high-minded mentality of the founding fathers that has been the guidestones of our government and our democracy. | |
| And these people are like, how dare you? | |
| How fucking dare you? | |
| And beyond all of that, beyond the fact that Trump is doing this shit, which is an outrage. | |
| And in any rational society, this would be a clear, impeachable and removable offense. | |
| He should be out of office today. | |
| He should be out. | |
| As you're listening to me say this on the podcast, Donald Trump should no longer be the president. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Articles of impeachment should be drafted an hour ago. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Like the House should have convened and impeached him. | |
| It should have gone to the Senate and he should have been convicted. | |
| It should have been over. | |
| It should have been over almost immediately. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I mean, this is, I mean, it's his direct words. | |
| I mean, you can't, there's no, he left no room for interpretation here. | |
| And that's the thing is that someone, that asshole Ron Filipowski, he did sum this up correctly by saying a third of Republicans are going to say they didn't see the messages. | |
| Another third are going to say he was joking. | |
| And the final third are going to say he was right. | |
| So, I mean, it's just, it's just that. | |
| And this is unconscionable. | |
| It's terrible. | |
| And we've been so normalized by this fucking prick that people are just like, oh, that's Trump being Trump. | |
| And it's like, no, it's not. | |
| The president is not. | |
| Wacky Japes that he's so he's just such a kidder. | |
| Oh, he's a crazy dude saying he's gonna kill all his enemies. | |
| He's just joshing. | |
| Yeah, that's the thing. | |
| What I said about that is, tell me what the joke is. | |
| What's the joke? | |
| What's the punchline? | |
| What am I supposed to laugh at? | |
| What's funny about this? | |
| I want to kill all my enemies. | |
| Rim shot, but laugh track. | |
| I mean, it's yeah, it's like one of those like horrible 80s sitcoms where they just put the laugh track over everything so you know what the jokes are. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| It's just really ridiculous. | |
| And the worst part of all of this is that so much of Trump's base, especially his online base, are a bunch of QAnon slash griper psychopaths who are just like, yeah, let's do it. | |
| Let's start fucking killing. | |
| Let's get this going. | |
| Let's get this ship. | |
| Let's get this ship into the water. | |
| Let's get the show on the road. | |
| You know, some guy was. | |
| Sorry. | |
| I was just reiterating. | |
| That's the eyeballs themselves. | |
| Oh, yes. | |
| The most peaceful, the most peaceful research movement you've ever seen. | |
| Let me fucking tell you. | |
| Right. | |
| Just like, just like Donald Trump is the peace president demanding the deaths of his enemies. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Exactly. | |
| The peace president. | |
| I love that the peace president and the guy who's taking, supposed to be taking an axe to the military industrial complex. | |
| Now we've got all these QAnon people saying, the Saudis just bought like $100 billion worth of arms from us. | |
| Yeah, score, baby. | |
| And it's like, the war machine sucks, unless Donald Trump can make a buck off of it. | |
| Then it fucking rules. | |
| Yeah, I think I'm pretty sure I actually saw not too long ago somebody, some MAGA personality using the phrase military industrial complex in a good way, unironically. | |
| Yeah. | |
| It was just, I'm like, wait a second. | |
| I thought we've been fighting the military industrial complex. | |
| Now we're buddy-buddy. | |
| Yeah, the military industrial complex killed Kennedy. | |
| That was the original OG conspiracy theory. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Ike. | |
| Ike warned us about the military industrial complex. | |
| He's the one who invented the term. | |
| Right. | |
| Or his speechwriter did, at least. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Well, he's the one who said it, so he gets credit for it. | |
| But yeah. | |
| And thanks a fucking lot, Ike, because that was literally his farewell address. | |
| Ike caught in front of the cameras and said, this dumb Mick is about to become president, and he's too young and too horned up to do the job right. | |
| So he's going to sell us down the fucking river. | |
| By the way, don't trust the military. | |
| I'm out of here. | |
| Peace out. | |
| And it's like, great. | |
| Good. | |
| Could have said that four years ago and started fighting them yourself, you prick. | |
| You're the one that put the advisors in Vietnam. | |
| You're the one who got the ball rolling on that quagmire, you asshole. | |
| So yeah, take that Eisenhower. | |
| Somebody needed to knock him down a peg or two. | |
| And by gum, it was me. | |
| You know, someone out there was like, man, someone needs to go Dwight D. Eisenhower. | |
| That guy. | |
| Yeah, he's been resting on his laurels way too long. | |
| Way too long. | |
| Hey, he approved Operation Market Garden. | |
| That was a fucking train wreck. | |
| All right. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So just in a show of solidarity, I'm going to go head down to the Dwight Eisenhower Expressway and kick it for you. | |
| I'm laughing. | |
| Most of you just said, all right. | |
| And it's like very low tone. | |
| It was like, Mike, calm down. | |
| The Eisenhower shit. | |
| Let's get back on track. | |
| I was like, oh, shit, it's being police. | |
| It's great. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| I think I just wanted to teach your mode there. | |
| I was like, move it along. | |
| That's fine. | |
| I love it. | |
| Oh, God. | |
| No, it's just so frustrating that this, that our media was just of the mindset. | |
| You know what? | |
| We got to let this guy win. | |
| We got to let this guy win. | |
| And so many people across the political spectrum were like, fuck it. | |
| Let's put him back into office and see how it goes. | |
| Because all the Republicans just wanted their tax cuts. | |
| And the only way they could win was to have the crazy old man as the nominee. | |
| And we had so many anti-electoral leftists who are just in there saying, let's kneecap the Democrats. | |
| Let's fuck them over. | |
| Let's make Israel-Palestine the only thing you can see on the internet. | |
| And we're going to say that Kamala Harris, who is the vice president and therefore has no fucking power at all. | |
| All the vice president is, is an advisor who eats shit. | |
| And then one day someone runs up to them and says, yo, vice president, shit just got real. | |
| You're about to become president. | |
| And then it's like, oh, wow. | |
| I say the Constitution gives the vice president two powers, tiebreaking votes in the Senate and wait for the president to die. | |
| Yep, that's it. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Like literally, any president who was vice president and then obtained the presidency either by election or secession in their biography, they will always have a chapter, the vice presidency, the darkest days of my life. | |
| And it's just always that. | |
| It's just, yeah, it was vice president. | |
| It fucking sucked. | |
| You have no idea how shitty it is to be vice president. | |
| George W. Bush was vice president twice as long as he was president. | |
| And I guarantee the section on him being vice president is massively shorter. | |
| The section on him being vice president was people walking up to him one day and going, Pappy Bush. | |
| And he's like, yeah, they're like, we're thinking of 25th Amendmenting Ronnie. | |
| He's kind of cooked. | |
| He might be on the way out. | |
| You might have to become president now. | |
| And H.W. Bush being like, oh, okay. | |
| And then they come back to him a couple hours later and go, no, Reagan was pretty good in that meeting. | |
| We're going to hold off. | |
| You're still vice president now. | |
| And he's like, ah, beans. | |
| And I forgot. | |
| I actually forgot. | |
| But there's another chapter right before that that was Reagan's been shot. | |
| You might be president now. | |
| And H.W. Bush going, oh, shit. | |
| And then they're like, oh, no, he made it. | |
| He made it out. | |
| You're not president. | |
| And H.W. Bush being, ah, beans. | |
| Or the chapter where he explains that, no, it was a coincidence I was in Dallas that day. | |
| I did not shoot Kennedy. | |
| And my dad never told me if he stole Geronimo's skull or not. | |
| Actually, H.W. Bush was in a different section of Texas that day. | |
| Well, that doesn't matter to conspiracy theories. | |
| He was in the state of Texas. | |
| That state is five square miles. | |
| He was close. | |
| Oh, yeah, it's Rhode Island. | |
| It's like Rhode Island. | |
| It's like it's basically the same size as Rhode Island. | |
| It's a very small. | |
| It's the first state, Texas. | |
| Well, it's funny because there's like a picture of a guy in a suit at Daly Plaza and people think it's H.W. Bush. | |
| And it's like, yeah, the guy quarterbacking the assassination had to be on site for it. | |
| Like, yeah, he was like, hey, hey, Timmy, Timmy in the grassy knoll, like two steps to your left. | |
| It's better, better line of sight on the limo when it's going to come down here in 30 minutes. | |
| Hey, you, Bob, Bob, and that window, the window on the right, get over, get over a couple more windows. | |
| God damn it, you fucking clowns. | |
| Do I have to shoot him myself? | |
| Yeah. | |
| I do like the idea of Bush Sr. acting basically like a construction site foreman. | |
| Right, exactly. | |
| Construction site foreman for an assassination. | |
| That was what people imagine. | |
| The guy who was actually in Dallas proper on the assassination was Nixon. | |
| Nixon was a lawyer for Pepsi, and there was a Pepsi convention in Dallas that day. | |
| So he was in the neighborhood. | |
| And apparently he got on a plane. | |
| When it landed in New York is when he found out what happened to Kennedy. | |
| But uh, there's like, go ahead, he's like son of a bitch. | |
| That guy made me look like an asshole on tv and now he's dead. | |
| Yep I, I was just gonna say I, I didn't, I didn't know about that, but Nixon would be the only one that I would suspect that. | |
| Um, he worked for Pepsi, but he chose Coke in the taste test. | |
| Yeah um, yeah. | |
| So you have just this nonsense where like yeah, being the vice president sucks, you just have no power. | |
| You're basically in a room full of a bunch of assholes. | |
| The president's appointed and all you get to do is uh, like the one thing Biden said for himself and for Kamala was when Obama like said, yo Joe, I want you to be my vice president. | |
| Biden said, okay look, the vice presidency sucks. | |
| The only thing I want from you is, when there's a big decision, I want to be the last person you talk to before you make that decision. | |
| Like, everybody else in your cabinet gets out of the room me and you have a little powwow and then I leave, and then you, then you figure it out and that's basically. | |
| I remember like he did a video call with Kamala and he basically said, this is what I expect from you as my vice president is that you're going to have my job that I had under Barack. | |
| And again, it's really not that much of a job, it's just. | |
| Occasionally there's a tough call, you give the president your two cents, he gives you a kick in the ass and sends you out the door and that's it. | |
| So I remember this, remember this political cartoon from the 90s uh, which should show you how long i've been following politics for. | |
| But uh, it was. | |
| Uh, it's Al Go, and he's handing a piece of paper to Clinton, who's sitting behind the Resolute desk, and he says, uh, here's my plan for streamlining the bureaucracy, sir. | |
| It calls for, uh, it calls for eliminating unneeded positions, and Clinton says, well, thank you Al, we'll all miss you around here. | |
| Yes exactly exactly, yeah. | |
| I mean, the vice presidency was a very poorly thought out position. | |
| I mean, originally it was supposed to just be, the loser of the election gets this shit job, and then that all went to shit. | |
| So when we then we created uh what, the? | |
| What we in American politics call the ticket, and from there we now have the modern vice presidency where uh Eric Uh, was a little uh. | |
| There's a third power. | |
| The vice presidency has to open the envelopes during the electoral counting. | |
| I'm kidding, but yeah uh oh yeah, I forgot about that magisterial power. | |
| They have the unimaginable power of opening envelopes. | |
| Well, to be fair, it also gave us the show Veep, which is pretty good. | |
| Yeah, did. | |
| Did Veep ever have a uh, january 6th? | |
| I mean not as in the attack episode, but as in as in an episode where she's actually doing that, where she actually has to count the electoral votes, because it would have been super funny if, like she managed to like fuck up the easiest thing in the world to do. | |
| Like she, she goes to open an envelope which, like rips it in half and like tears the certificate that was inside it to pieces. | |
| Well, yeah, because there was one where she like ran into a glass door. | |
| She's like, I didn't see it there. | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| You add a little, you got, well, because it's Elaine, you got to add in a little bit of the Seinfeld, you know? | |
| Yeah. | |
| But yeah, you got to, you got to do some slapstick if it's Julia Louis Dreyfus. | |
| Yeah. | |
| But I just. | |
| Boy, how did we get from sedition to Julia Louis Dreyfus? | |
| We're talking about the vice presidency and how it's fucking worthless. | |
| But the fact that this I don't remember how we got to the vice presidency. | |
| That's the funny thing. | |
| Because we were talking about how Kamala Harris ordered the genocide of the Palestinian people in God. | |
| Oh, that's right. | |
| And that's why we can't fucking vote for her. | |
| And it's because it is like, again, she literally has no power to do anything. | |
| She is the powerless vice president under Joe Biden. | |
| She has no ability to enact foreign policy. | |
| She can't do anything. | |
| And of course, on the other side of the aisle, For proof of this, look at JD Vance and everything he's accomplished in the year that he's advised residents. | |
| Oh, the sparkling vice presidency of JD Vance, the scintillating vice presidency, where that clown just goes out on TV and is just like, Trump's doing an amazing job. | |
| He's great. | |
| And then some aide rushes up to him of Donald Trump's latest blood pressure readings. | |
| And he's just like, yes, yes. | |
| And starts texting his wife looking for a nice looking Bible for the cameras when he gets to bang that thing out and become the president himself. | |
| Oh, that's something that's something I just remembered when there was that small froufera about him saying that he's trying to convert his wife to Christianity. | |
| And all these people are like, oh, that poor woman, she's trapped in this soulless, loveless marriage. | |
| I'm like, she knew who he was when she said I do. | |
| People just want to make the woman out to be some sweet, innocent little knafe who's just caught adrift in a sea of political intrigue. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And we're seeing that. | |
| Go on. | |
| Sorry. | |
| No, I was just going to say my friend Noelle Cook, she has a book coming out called The Conspiracists on January 6th. | |
| And she was interviewed for an article about how we have the, you know, especially women. | |
| Women tend to view other women as being like victims or being naive of their evil husbands' plans. | |
| And it's like, no, number one, that's a shitlipped view to take because you're stealing their agency. | |
| They know perfectly well what's going on and they're perfectly fine with it. | |
| So say, you know, and, you know, and a lot of, that was one of the techniques that Fred West would use. | |
| He would have his wife sit in the car with him when he would go to pick up the hitchhikers. | |
| And the hitchhiker's like, there's another woman in the car. | |
| I must be safe because a woman can't be evil. | |
| And then they both took them home and tortured the shit out of him and killed them. | |
| So, you know, you're stealing agency from the women in the first place. | |
| And the second part is, yeah, women can be evil bitches too. | |
| You know? | |
| And where I was moving from that was to, because I see people doing this now with Marjorie Taylor Green. | |
| Like, oh, she said she's sorry for all the horrific things she said. | |
| Maybe we should give her the benefit of the doubt and, you know, extend the olive branch. | |
| And I'm like, no, no. | |
| I want to see her on all fours. | |
| Speaking of spanking, I want to see her on all fours barking like a dog, begging for forgiveness. | |
| Then we'll talk. | |
| I don't want to see that. | |
| I'm so glad you said that so that you can be the raging misogynist on this podcast now. | |
| Very much appreciate you being our lady shield, reading the note, reading the note I gave you about my sick sexual fetish about MTG. | |
| I'm just trying to illustrate a point that there's no amount, like that's she really would have to debase herself to that level in order for any apology to be considered actual. | |
| I agree. | |
| I agree 100%. | |
| She just saying, whoopsie doodle mistakes were made is not going to cut any ice with me. | |
| No, it's fucking horse shit. | |
| The one thing I will say, so I know I just hit us with the, I know I hit you, the audience, with a bunch of gloom and doom there for a good 25 minutes. | |
| So let me, let me, let me roll up your sleeve and tap a vein because I'm about to give you some copium, about to, about to shoot that copium into you. | |
| So this is to me like the last year of QAnon MAGA strength. | |
| Like this is the last year that QAnon's going to have real, real juice because they all know that the midterms probably going to suck. | |
| Economy is going to be in the toilet. | |
| Trump's going to be dog shit. | |
| And more importantly, when Trump's not on the ballot, his lunatic base does not vote for Republicans because they vote for Trump. | |
| They're Trump voters, not Republican voters. | |
| As evidenced by what happened last month. | |
| Right, exactly. | |
| I'm sorry, earlier this month. | |
| Earlier this month, yeah. | |
| I'm sucking a time loop right now. | |
| Oh, no, it's cool. | |
| We all are. | |
| I mean, I have to look out my window and see a mushroom cloud. | |
| I'm like, yeah, that sounds right. | |
| Ah, come on, Blastwave. | |
| Please destroy me because I don't want to, I can't survive in the fallout universe. | |
| I don't have that in me. | |
| But so the midterms are going to happen. | |
| And I've brought this up before, but there's MTG has put a new wrinkle into this whole thing because midterms happen. | |
| Democrats probably win the House. | |
| The Senate might be spicier than we think it could be, but I mean, we'll see. | |
| But anyhow, point is a couple weeks later, Newsom's going to declare he's running for president. | |
| Prickster is going to declare he's running for president. | |
| Blah, blah, blah. | |
| People are going to start looking at the Republicans. | |
| And guess what is going to happen? | |
| MTG is going to run for president. | |
| And she's going to run as a sort of anti-Trump outside, anti-establishment outsider candidate who is going to like try to steal the mantle of MAGA and to be the America first candidate. | |
| And she is going to do this without waiting for permission from Trump. | |
| So when that happens, suddenly Vance, Rubio, RFK Jr., whatever freaks in the Republican Party who want Trump's blessing are going to be sitting there saying like, hey, Donnie, are we allowed to run for president? | |
| Or are you really doing the illegal third term thing? | |
| And Trump's brain, which is going to be absolute smoother than a marble by November 2026. | |
| Lord knows what's going to go on with him. | |
| But you're going to have this window where MTG is going to be in New Hampshire shaking hands and kissing babies and doing all this shit and in Iowa. | |
| And the rest of the Republicans are going to be sitting there with their dicks in their hands trying to see what's happening with Trump. | |
| And is he going to okay this? | |
| And is he going to endorse somebody? | |
| And what's going to happen? | |
| And also, because again, the man is senile and incredibly unpopular. | |
| Basically, everyone's going to be like, bro, bro, we need to get him out the door. | |
| We need to get him out the door now. | |
| He doesn't, he's, he's radioactive for us and he's going to be a huge problem for them because Donald Trump could not possibly survive being a lame duck. | |
| It will actually kill him. | |
| There's an animal called a sugar glider. | |
| It's a very rare pet. | |
| When you buy one, you got to buy two. | |
| Because if a sugar glider is alone and it doesn't get attention, it can actually die of sadness. | |
| That is what will happen to Donald Trump when the JD Vance Express starts gaining momentum and the press is interviewing JD all the time and not Donald Trump. | |
| He'll be sitting in the White House and he may actually die of sadness because he's not the center of attention anymore. | |
| Nobody's listening to him 24-7. | |
| If we don't invade Venezuela before 2027, he's going to invade Venezuela just so people will talk to him. | |
| He'll be like, I did. | |
| He's like Tinkerbell. | |
| He'll die if you don't clap. | |
| Yes, clap more or I'll die. | |
| Oh, it really will happen. | |
| I'm glad you told me about that sugar glider thing, though, because my son wants one. | |
| And now I, and my wife's been kind of thinking about it. | |
| So now I can be like, ah, we're going to have to get two. | |
| And maybe that'll, maybe then they'll be like, okay, maybe not. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| Any reputable sugar glider seller will tell you that. | |
| They're like, I got to sell you a pair because one sugar glider by itself requires like constant attention because they're like, they're crazy. | |
| Like, I don't know how their little brains manage to develop so many neuroses, but like if they're not, if they don't get attention, they'll start like, they'll start like matting their fur and they'll just start getting all fucked up. | |
| Like they just, they need companionship. | |
| So yeah, you need a couple, you need dose sugar gliders. | |
| I actually had some friends that I played Magic Gathering with back in the day. | |
| And in the basement of one of their homes, they had sugar gliders and they are fun as shit, I will say, because those things, they will just jump through long distances and just land right on your shoulder. | |
| And you're just like, oh shit. | |
| And then they'll just like scamper around you. | |
| They're really adorable. | |
| They are fun. | |
| But the side of that is that they're high maintenance. | |
| They need to be played with. | |
| You can't like if you're going to have them, someone in the house needs to take care of them. | |
| Like your son can't be at the mall hanging out with his friends 24-7 because then the sugar gliders are going to be your problem. | |
| Because if you don't take care of them, they will die of sadness. | |
| But yeah, they are a treat from what I, from my experience, I was over that house like three times and every time the sugar, the sugar gliders, a smash it. | |
| They were just really, they were really great. | |
| But yeah, president sugar glider. | |
| That's what we have. | |
| That is literally what we're dealing with right now. | |
| It is bad. | |
| It is all around bad. | |
| But I really think that'd be like a really funny situation in January of 2027. | |
| You just like seeing Marjorie Taylor Greene actively campaigning in New Hampshire and Iowa and giving speeches about how the Republican Party has lost its way and she's going to turn this thing around. | |
| And JD Vance and Marco Rubio and all these clowns are just like sitting there like, I ain't going to declare. | |
| You declare. | |
| I ain't declaring. | |
| You declare. | |
| Like all of them are just like so scared to be the first one to declare because then the boss is going to come after them. | |
| Meanwhile, Steve Bennon's trying to concoct his bullshit illegal third term Gambit and all these other clowns and QAnon is just like, hey, the third term is totally okay with us. | |
| Meanwhile, it's going to be the greatest thing in the world that like you're going to have actual like polling companies being like, in a heads up matchup, Gavin Newsom is seven points up on JD Vance, but he's only up four on Donald Trump. | |
| And it's like, you're going to pull the illegal third term. | |
| It's like, yeah, we have to. | |
| It's like, great, fucking great. | |
| America. | |
| Just. | |
| I do love the idea of QAnon who says they're all about, you know, rule of law. | |
| And that's why they can't arrest Hillary yet because the law says you can't. | |
| But they'll be like, yeah, illegal third term. | |
| Let's do this. | |
| Yes, exactly. | |
| It's like, look, guys, we got to get her in court with ironclad evidence to prove that she flayed that child's face off and drank their blood, even though we have a video of her doing it and we probably, you know, open and shut the case and all that. | |
| But illegal third term. | |
| Fuck yeah, America. | |
| It's like, God, you, you absolute children. | |
| You absolute worthless children. | |
| So yeah, it's great. | |
| It's great. | |
| But that's where we are today. | |
| I mean, it's, it's lovely. | |
| It's just lovely that you wake up in the morning and you're like, man, sometime this evening, I'm going to do a podcast. | |
| We're going to talk about the Jeffrey Epstein shit and how all that stuff happened. | |
| And it's wonderful. | |
| And then it's just breaking news. | |
| Crazy president does crazy things. | |
| It's like, oh. | |
| God damn it. | |
| That was the thing. | |
| Like the other day when I, when I on Twitter, when I posted a link to last week's podcast, I joked that we're going to have nothing to talk about this week. | |
| And then I wake up and find out that grandpa was polishing the shotgun while exactly. | |
| Exactly. | |
| Yeah, you were sitting there being like, yeah, maybe we'll get a half hour out of the Epstein stuff. | |
| We'll have to do a little vamping, like whatever. | |
| We'll just spitball. | |
| We'll find ways to grind out some time and pad this thing out to an hour. | |
| And then it's just, nope. | |
| We're probably going to do cryptids at one point. | |
| We're like, we should do, we should talk about cryptids. | |
| Nothing newsworthy happens. | |
| I can't remember. | |
| No, we did the cryptids, but I mean, we had the cryptids and we had the bro science episodes that both got pushed back because nutty shit just kept happening. | |
| And now, like, we don't even plan on having like episodes about things because we're just in the middle of the Trump vortex and we're never escaping it at this point. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Because President Chaos, you know, is at the wheel. | |
| Right, exactly. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I mean, again, I just love the fact that they created a QAnon social media platform for this guy to just bake his brain on it. | |
| Like, that's, it's just, they were like, you know what? | |
| You got kicked off Twitter. | |
| We're just going to make literally a platform where all you do is look at QAnon people that love you 24-7 and just based Trump's rotting brain in those juices. | |
| And it's like, oh, wow, that's really bad. | |
| Oh, no, we probably shouldn't have done that to the crazy old man because now he's even crazier and dumber and older. | |
| It's just win all around for everybody. | |
| And by win, I mean massive, horrifying loss. | |
| Just the absolute fucking worst. | |
| Yes. | |
| This is three more years. | |
| Yep. | |
| Three more. | |
| We're not even a quarter of the way through. | |
| Oh, man. | |
| Just think. | |
| Just think on January 20th, 2027, we get to scratch that first line in the wall for the first line one of four we get. | |
| And yeah, I mean, again, I think that things are going to be, things are going to get real weird after the, because I've been seeing, I have been seeing QAnon people getting real worried about how the midterms are kind of like a soft deadline for this stuff to actually like pan out, for all the bad guys to get arrested. | |
| Because they know, because they know that Trump's in like maximal power right now and that after the midterms he'll probably be in diminished power. | |
| And that's the thing is that literally all these people have been doing this are trying to pretend that this is not just going to be a massive replay of his first term of office, where he kind of sorted it a little in his first two years and then he just sat around and just whined about the Democrats controlling the house for his last two years. | |
| And they're, and it's just like, no, we want arrest, we want pain and justice and blah blah, blah. | |
| It's like yep, enjoy your nothing, enjoy your crisp nothing. | |
| Uh oh, as a quick segue away from the other things we were talking about um, looking like we're getting really close to having James Comey's indictment thrown out because uh, oh yeah, I saw that. | |
| Oh yeah, like literally uh, the judge was like, what the are you doing, you clown? | |
| And the DOJ was like, we don't know what we're doing, we're actually incompetent, we don't know how to do anything. | |
| And basically the judge read them the riot act. | |
| And the judge hasn't thrown the case out yet. | |
| But it we're, we're going down that path. | |
| And it's really funny, because I remember John Solomon being like, oh, they got even more. | |
| There's gonna be superseding indictments. | |
| Oh, they're gonna crush James Comey. | |
| He's going down, let me tell you, and not so much. | |
| My favorite was when the DOJ admitted that the uh, that the grand jury didn't even see the uh the the, you know the second draft of the uh, the indictment of the indictment, before they passed it down. | |
| So they didn't know what they were uh voting on basically, which is illegal. | |
| That is actually a thing you can't do in court. | |
| Yeah, it's great, it's absolutely great. | |
| They they are so incompetent and um and and other things Keystone cops, but with lawyers yes oh, it's a Keystone lawyer, it absolutely is. | |
| I mean, and and then, on top of that uh, we had the uh, Texas gerrymander to be declared illegal and they got to go back to the old map and so basically, they opened the door for California to gerrymander the shit out of their state. | |
| And then Texas' illegal gender gerrymander got reversed and i'm sure they're going to fight it in court. | |
| I'm sure they may have a chance to like get up to the Supreme Court and win and blah blah, blah. | |
| But they're so incompetent that, from what I read, basically the court just said, look, as long as it's not a racial gerrymander, this is okay. | |
| What You're doing is totally legal. | |
| And then the Texas was like, This gerrymander is entirely based on racism. | |
| We are 100% doing a racial gerrymander. | |
| And the judge was like, No, don't say that. | |
| We have to rule against you if you do that. | |
| And the Texas people were like, Yeah, racism. | |
| This is nothing to do with political lines. | |
| It's just, we just want to crush the voting power of non-whites. | |
| And the judges were like, God damn it. | |
| Okay, you lose. | |
| You lose because you said that. | |
| You stupid pricks. | |
| Don't say that next time. | |
| And the Texas gerrymander people were like, ah, beans. | |
| Why didn't you tell us not to say that? | |
| And then the judge like threw his gavel at them. | |
| I was like, I didn't tell you this. | |
| I told you that 20 times. | |
| What is wrong with you? | |
| It's literally what happened when they tried to do that whole citizen thing in the census in Trump's first term of office. | |
| And the Roberts court was just, just told them, do this slightly differently and we will okay it. | |
| And then Trump said, fuck you, I give up. | |
| And then Roberts was like, why? | |
| I told you how to win. | |
| And Trump's like, ah, you're making me work too hard for it. | |
| I don't want to do it. | |
| So fuck you. | |
| Just it's just. | |
| Yeah, I want my racist wins handed to me. | |
| I don't actually have to put any effort in it. | |
| No, I ain't going to put my back into anything. | |
| I'm old and I only have a finite amount of energy. | |
| And any energy you exert is drained from your body permanently. | |
| It makes you die quicker. | |
| That is a thing our president actually believes. | |
| Yes. | |
| But but he's but he's also a superhuman uh bodybuilder. | |
| Oh, Adonis with a physique that makes Schwarzenegger in his prime look like a couch potato. | |
| Yes. | |
| Oh, have you been seeing all the fucking Grok shit with Elon today? | |
| I no, I no, I haven't seen anything like that. | |
| I know, I know Musk is right back to Trump's good graces. | |
| Well, no, it's it's just literally if you ask Grok about anything involving Elon and anybody else in any kind of competition, Grok will just tell you that Elon would win the competition in some way, shape, or form. | |
| It's just this like they've just designed Grok to just glaze Elon ridiculously. | |
| It's psychotic that he's literally made a chat bot that is just who is the greatest human being that has ever lived? | |
| Why? | |
| It's Elon Musk. | |
| And if you asked Grok, if you're like, Grok, who'd win in a fist fight, Mike Tyson or Elon Musk? | |
| Grok will be like, Mike Tyson was unbeatable in the ring with his ferocious power and devastating ferocity. | |
| But Elon Musk's genius outside the ring with his innovative business decisions and bold and bold views of the future, make it so that Elon's contributions to Hanity are far greater. | |
| So truly, when it comes down to who would win a fight, it's Elon in a landslide. | |
| It's just this ridiculous, psychotic, like basically Elon put it into Grok's programming. | |
| I win every argument, no matter what it is. | |
| So if you said something to El, if you asked Grok if Elon would win a piss-rinking contest, he would Grok would say yes because Grok who got those kids out of the cave because it sure as hell wasn't Elon. | |
| Oh, he'd probably say that Elon's bold vision for how to get those kids out of the cave is what inspired those people. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Oh, there's bold visions for days, baby. | |
| Let me tell you, this vision, it's fucking bold, bold and flavorful. | |
| So, yeah, all that happened. | |
| And yeah, so let's pivot to the final depressing topic. | |
| Oh, go ahead. | |
| Real quick, I did type in. | |
| It's a it's a novel's one. | |
| I won't read the whole thing, but I wrote, imagine Elon Musk in a kung fu battle with Bruce Lee. | |
| And just to cut to the chase, Elon taps out, but then he offers best of three. | |
| Elon has to go to the mountains of Tibet and train with the greatest, and then he will return. | |
| He'll basically do the fucking Bruce Wayne in the League of Shadows shit and come back and own Bruce Lee. | |
| I do like this part here. | |
| Bruce opens with the signature one-inch punch. | |
| Elon doesn't dodge. | |
| He activates the Starship Pact. | |
| A burst of cold gas thrusters lifts him three feet off the ground just as Bruce's fist passes through the air where his solar plexus used to be. | |
| And apparently Elon Musk is four feet tall if three feet is enough to get him away from the one inch punch. | |
| Hey, don't question Grok's cinematography of fight scenes. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So, yeah, that's it's magical. | |
| But the story we were going to talk about this week, they're just now being shoehorned in for the ending of the show. | |
| The Epstein files, finally, Mike Johnson swore in Arizona Congresswoman and Guevara, and she put in the 218th vote. | |
| Analina, yep. | |
| Analina Guevara. | |
| And Lauren Bobert was taken behind the woodshed, but she didn't break. | |
| Like, just imagining, like, this is the thing is that people always talk about fiction and how ridiculously bullshit things are. | |
| The Epstein files and all this kerfluffle is happening because MTG Boebert and Nancy Mace stood their ground against the Trump White House. | |
| Just a, in any work of fiction, it would be unbelievable. | |
| It would be bullshit. | |
| People would be screaming about plot armor. | |
| And yet in reality, that's what happened. | |
| And then Trump, in a desperate effort to try to control the narrative around this thing, told Republicans to vote in favor of the Epstein release bill. | |
| And then the bill passed in the House with one no vote, which was Clay Higgins, who basically said something to the effect of, I cast a principled no vote because I don't know, I'm defending pedophiles or whatever. | |
| Because I never want to be elected to any office again. | |
| Right. | |
| I assume, and for Clay's sake, I also hope that he's in some sort of ultra blood red district where they will never get rid of him. | |
| So, yeah. | |
| So that happened. | |
| The bill then went to the Senate and the Senate has a lot of really like weird rules. | |
| And one of those rules is called unanimous consent, where basically the president of the Senate, be it the vice president or whoever's running the Senate at that moment, can just say, hey, everybody, are we cool to do this? | |
| And if nobody stands up and says no, then they're like, okay, then we're doing it. | |
| And that's what happened with the Epstein Senate bill was the president of the Senate said, hey, we're going to pass this. | |
| Is anyone against it? | |
| And no one said shit. | |
| And then he said, okay, all in favor say aye. | |
| And so this is actually how unanimous consent works, by the way, is basically everyone who wants to say I yells I. | |
| And then the person says, all opposed say nay. | |
| And then anyone who's opposed says nay. | |
| And the president of the Senate just rules who yelled louder as the winner of the two sides. | |
| But generally speaking, a unanimous consent vote, it's very obvious that the yay side is going to beat the nay side. | |
| Yeah, it's the it's the karaoke contest of Congress. | |
| Yes, it really is. | |
| It's just like, who's going to win this week? | |
| Is it going to be Steve? | |
| Or Timmy? | |
| Timmy wins. | |
| And Steve's like, no, I was, Mike, the crowd was way louder for me. | |
| What the fuck are you talking about? | |
| Everyone's like, give it up for Timmy, our winner. | |
| Steve, let it go. | |
| We all wanted Timmy to win, even though we kind of like you. | |
| But just let us have our fun, Steve. | |
| Don't yuck our yum here. | |
| But yeah, so basically the bill passed the Senate immediately. | |
| And then some reporters ran up to Speaker Johnson and said, yo, Speaker Johnson, the Senate just passed your Epstein bill and sends it right to Trump's desk. | |
| What's up about that? | |
| And he dropped to his knees and screamed no as it started raining over him. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| I mean, he, it wasn't rain. | |
| It was flop sweat just pouring off of his forehead that he like slipped on and crashed to the ground on. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Johnson. | |
| And it wasn't just a no, it was the Darth Vader no. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I mean, it was just, he, he was just like, oh, I thought they were going to take more time discussing this. | |
| I think there were some amendments we needed to put in that bill, which I guess they didn't do. | |
| So again, Civics 101 with Mike Reigns, a show nobody wants. | |
| If a bill passes in one house and then passes in the other house slightly differently, then the bill has not passed. | |
| The bill has to go to a thing called committee, where a couple people from the house and a couple people from the senate get together, they hash out the details, they smooth it over, and then they have the final bill that then goes back through both houses. | |
| That gets passed, and then that goes to the president, and the president signs that. | |
| So I'm guessing Johnson wanted that to happen so that he could then torpedo the second vote. | |
| Something, anything. | |
| Like, yeah, that's the thing is that obviously he thought there was going to be more time for finagling and he didn't get that, which was like obviously not what he wanted because the way he reacted to that reporter saying, yo, the Senate just passed it. | |
| It's on Trump's desk right now waiting for his signature. | |
| And Johnson was just like, just what do you mean? | |
| How? | |
| And it's like, yeah, there's this thing called unanimous consent in the Senate. | |
| They can just literally shoot a bill up to Trump if they want to. | |
| And they did. | |
| So it happened. | |
| And it just really just totally sideswiped him. | |
| I wish we had a video feed so you could see the look that Mike made when he did that. | |
| What? | |
| That was excellent. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I mean, it was, it was just really crazy that they lost control of the narrative of this thing so fast that now I feel like they're just grasping at straws for what they're going to do because now I'm seeing like Bondi and other people saying, well, there's an active investigation with the Southern District of New York. | |
| So we're going to have to do a few things. | |
| They're going to try to slow roll this. | |
| They're not, they don't want whatever it is, they don't want it to get out. | |
| And boy howdy, did they get all their talking points out to all their minions and all their grifters about how Epstein was totally a Democrat, totally all about the Democrats. | |
| He's always just been with them and not us. | |
| And it's like, it's like, no, it doesn't. | |
| He bled blue. | |
| He was so Democratic. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| Oh, he bled blue. | |
| Such a huge Democrat. | |
| He hates Donald Trump. | |
| Just all of it, all of that. | |
| Oh yeah, the guy he exchanged greeting uh, birthday cards with and talked about our little secret and all that stuff, I mean just all of it. | |
| Nope, totally cool, totally cool yeah they oh, my god, just absolute clown. | |
| And but they're, they're trying, they're spinning, they're spinning and they're flailing and they're just doing everything they can. | |
| So if this doesn't come out, and if it does come out, they're going to hope that they've muddied the water enough that they can be like, look at this, that guy's also a pedophile. | |
| It's like well um it's, it's your boy. | |
| Your boy campaigned on this. | |
| He ran on releasing the Epstein files and now uh, now the butcher's bills come due and it's time for him to produce them. | |
| So let's, let's see it Donnie let's, let's get it out there. | |
| Yeah, and as I keep pointing out, this is the difference is uh, Democrats pretty much agree that if any, any member of their party was partying with Epstein and girl and little girls, then they should go to jail. | |
| Well, except for the Virgin Island lady I, I read about that. | |
| She, she's like a non-voting representative for the Virgin Islands or something, and she was like involved in some finance and he was like texting her and and like so. | |
| And so the Democrats were like oh, we don't want to vote to censure her. | |
| I don't know what that word means, oh. | |
| But yeah, censor is just a slap on the wrist, it's just. | |
| It's just saying bad, bad job bad, bad boy, basically yeah. | |
| But they, they voted like, they voted against that and they're like well, she may have helped a pedophile financier, but she's one of ours, even though there's no voting power. | |
| Like dude, Virgin Islands. | |
| Already I say, can you even censure a non-voting member? | |
| I don't look at me. | |
| I'm probably wrong about all this, but I don't truly, I do not care about them. | |
| And again, it's just a way to distract from Trump and his being knee deep in this story and all that kind of stuff. | |
| It's ridiculous. | |
| And I see like uh I, I have seen Democrats like being interviewed, and the interviewers just says, but what happens if any Democrats are caught up in this and they're like, yeah whatever, don't care yeah, I literally saw. | |
| I was trying to look it up because I can't remember who it was, but one of them literally said, so what? | |
| Yes exactly yeah yeah yeah exactly, just uh if oh yeah, I see it. | |
| Then here it is, what if more names are connected to the Democrat party that comes out in the files Chris Murphy, so what? | |
| Yeah exactly, do not care if Democrats are implicated great, everyone. | |
| So yeah, so that's where we're at, and again we're gonna see. | |
| We're gonna see how much they slow walk this. | |
| We're going to see how they work on trying to not let this out. | |
| Because obviously, very obviously, the Trump administration thought they had more ways to sandbag this and they didn't think the Senate was just going to say, we ain't getting in the fucking way of this. | |
| You and just boom, just handed that hot potato, took that hot potato and put it right on Donald Trump's desk and say, there you go, mr president, enjoy your potato. | |
| It's piping hot, fresh from the microwave, and that's. | |
| That's something that we didn't mention uh, last week, because it hadn't happened yet. | |
| But this, this whole sudden reversal by Trump, where he, where he went for months of saying you know, stop talking about Epstein. | |
| To somebody's like, yes vote vote, yes on the Epstein files, because he realized that he looked at he's like, oh no, there's gonna be like a hundred Republicans voting yes and it's gonna make me look like like an impotent old man. | |
| So I better, I better get in front of this right now. | |
| Oh, 100 he. | |
| They had to know they had to do a whip count and they had to know somewhere between 150 to 150 Republicans were going to vote yes. | |
| Every Republican in a swing district that they can't gerrymander. | |
| They were all going to vote yes on this because there was no way they were going to have a Democrat running attack ads against them all year going, this fucking asshole protected Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. | |
| Yeah no, thank you, I would like to remain a congressperson. | |
| Thank you very much. | |
| So not putting that vote on my record, go fuck yourself. | |
| So yeah, they knew, they knew that the floodgates were going to open. | |
| They knew they were going to get massive defections, so they did the vote yes thing to just cover their asses. | |
| 100 yeah my um, my favorite thing oh I, I just wanted to say like because I i've been trying to keep up with the Epstein stuff a little bit my favorite thing was like Trump I, I read in an article, he, you know, he did some rambling nonsensical, like run-on paragraph statement for the news or whatever, and he's going on. | |
| He's like, he's like that guy was a pervert and I I I, I can't stand him. | |
| And he, he was just bad news. | |
| How did you know that, dude? | |
| Are you telling me you knew he was bad but you did nothing? | |
| So it's like, even when Trump's trying to like defend himself or make himself sound good, it's like eh, just sounds worse yep, 100. | |
| Yeah, I saw someone making that a similar statement about the Uh, about him screaming to, you know, let him hang high where he's like for somebody. | |
| It's like the only reason why you would be upset about people disobeying illegal orders is if you plan on making illegal orders Exactly. | |
| Exactly. | |
| So that's an hour. | |
| That's enough venting. | |
| I got to get out of here. | |
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