Mike Grains, Eric, and Steph dissect the Iran war struggle, arguing that failed airstrikes have only raised gas prices while hardliners replace pragmatic successors. They debunk QAnon's reliance on Trump's perceived invincibility, warning that economic damage could collapse the movement's narrative. The hosts criticize JD Vance's lack of charisma during the escalation and mourn friend Bart Hummelhaus, whose death in Fallujah underscores the futility of dying for unjust causes. Ultimately, they reject the delusion that the war can topple the regime or extract $100 billion in oil, framing the conflict as a catastrophic error driven by propaganda. [Automatically generated summary]
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 Grains, aka Poker and Politics, and welcome to another episode of Adventures in Hell World.
This week I am joined by Eric, the deep state operative.
Hello, Akbar.
He is the new Ayatollah.
They had another election and he got the job.
It's going to be great.
Have you ever seen, I don't even know what group it was who did the bit, but it was basically the guys who tell Dernets he's the new Fuhrer and he's all excited.
And then they're like, we've lost the war.
You need to call Eisenhower and surrender now.
God damn it.
And he basically just like asks the guys if they gave him one Heil Dernetz before he has to make the phone call and end the war.
And they begrudgingly give it to him.
They're like, Hey, Dernetz.
Are we the baddies?
Yes.
It was them.
It was the same group.
And we are also joined by Steph.
It's Steph.
I'm dead.
Steph on five-second delay.
Oh, boy.
Yeah.
Dead, but still able to talk.
Living Dead Girl.
Yes.
I'm just at that one hour and I was up late transferring shit on a thumb drive from my current laptop to the new laptop.
And I was looking over my GIMP patterns in my pattern folder.
And it took me like a day to like organize and create those.
So people, for people who don't know, GIMP is basically free Photoshop.
She's not talking about her BDSM dungeon.
Yeah, no, no.
And so like I have over a thousand GIMP patterns that it took like over a day to organize and create.
And I estimate it's going to take about a day to transfer them onto a thumb drive onto the new laptop.
So that's going to be fun.
Yay!
Yay.
But when you said Living Dead Girl, it reminded me.
I was listening to the radio and this and this band comes on and they're called Living Dead Girl.
And I'm like, okay.
And they're a metal band.
So I'm like, this has to be a Rob Zombie reference.
And I look it up and they're like, no, the lead singer says this is a nickname she had when she was young.
And because I guess like there was some like complications with her birth and they didn't think she'd make it and she did.
And I'm like, okay, but come on, Rob Zavi has to figure in there somehow.
Right.
It's like, I get that you're doing, I get that it's a thing that came organically from you, but you have to know the other place this came from.
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So like, yeah, it's just, oh man, it's very funny.
Yeah.
I've seen stuff like that where people get to something one way and you're like, but it's the other way too.
And then they're like, no, it's not.
And I'm just, okay, great.
I'll just, I'll let you have your thing.
But unfortunately, no one is going to buy your story.
Like, and if they, even if they do buy your story, they're going to be like, you're leaning into the bit because of the more popular outcome, the more popular reason.
So, hey, well, it's like there's this band called All Gone Dead.
And it's like, well, you can't tell me you don't like the subhumans if you're a band called All Gone Dead because it's the name of the subhuman song.
So there you go.
Yeah, and it's not like that's a common saying or anything.
No.
Yeah.
Everyone's having a great time.
Everything's going great.
It's really funny in a way because when we get to like recording day, a lot of times I'll be thinking to myself, hey, I got a lot of topics to cover.
But this week, it's just, it's just brutal.
It's like, it's just one dumb thing that's happening and it sucks.
And I mean, there's like other stuff going on, like Christy Naomi getting fired, but not really getting fired, according to QAnon, because she got promoted to this fake thing that they made for her.
Yeah, she got kicked upstairs.
She got, yeah, she got kicked upstairs to a room that doesn't exist.
Usually when you get kicked upstairs, you get kicked up to a corner office somewhere.
But no, she got kicked up to the attic.
They were like, hey, you're in the corner office.
Guess what?
You're going to the attic.
And the thing about this that is so funny to me is this is all a piece of the situation with QAnon, which is that Trump cannot fail.
He must always win.
He must always be successful.
The movement must always be pushing forward at all times, ever closer to victory.
So it's a constant game of heads I win, tails you lose.
Yes.
And, but in order to maintain that game, they must make sure that you understand that there's never been a misstep.
Trump has never made a mistake.
If it looks like it's a mistake, it's really a clever trap he's luring the deep state into.
And you hear that about that all the time.
And so Naomi getting bumped upstairs, which was totally not a firing, is not bad.
It is good.
And Mark Wayne Mullen, the schmuckiest schmuck that ever schmucked a schmuck, is getting the new job, which is crazy.
I love the idea of going from like senator to just some shit cabinet position.
I remember when the Senate actually fucking mattered and people were like giving it, they'd give their first born to be a senator.
And now this guy's like, eh, senator, idiot that's at Trump's cabinet meetings.
I'll take idiot at Trump cabinet meetings.
I like how you can just leave the senate.
Yes.
Yeah.
Like, like, like Trump says, like, Trump decides on Monday that he wants this guy.
And on Tuesday, he hands in his resignation.
I'm like, you're a senator.
It's not like you were, it's not, it's not like you were working a nine-to-five job and you know, you, you, you, you kept checking your indeed every afternoon.
Yeah, exactly.
And, and you, you, every state only gets two of you.
There's a grand total of 100 senators in the whole country.
You're one of them.
And you're just, you know what?
Fuck it.
I want to be part of the Trump administration for the remaining three years left.
I got there.
And then I'll just go to do my right-wing podcast or whatever he's going to do after that.
He's going to be like the dream of all these assholes is to hold public office so they can become an influencer directly after.
I mean, it's just, it's just the most.
I'm 100% certain that was what Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Bobert and Madison Cawthorne, for that example, had decided on the outset that they saw being in the House of Representatives as a stepping stone in their career.
Yeah, it's an influencer.
Oh my God.
And not a high mark.
No, just a high-profile position to get your face on the news.
Right, exactly.
Oh, man.
It's just so ridiculous.
But again, Trump can never fail.
He can only be failed.
Nothing is bad.
Nothing is wrong.
And when we get to the Iran stuff later, I'll do a really big jag about that.
But what you just said actually unlocked.
I love that we didn't even do like a pre-production meeting today.
The three of us just got into the chat.
I'm munching on Cheez-Its.
Stephanie's being murdered by Daylight Savings Time.
I don't know what.
I'm talking about eyebrows.
Right.
Eric's like, Charlie, he's like, Eric, Ben Shapiro has large eyebrows.
We all have literally nothing to say.
We're just going to hit record and just fucking riff and get an hour in the can and call it a day.
And that's the kind of bold, powerful research and forward thinking that we put into the pod every week.
So I hope you listeners, I hope you enjoy the hardcore striving we do to bring excellence to you each and every week.
But this reminded me that we had Lauren Bobert ask Hillary about Frazzle Drip at the deposition this week.
Eric's eyes just rolled into his brain.
He actually just rolled his eyes so hard into the back of his head.
He just saw what his brain looks like.
I forgot about that until you said it.
So it was like, so it was like lightning striking me when you said that.
Right.
It's just, it's just so ridiculously fucking stupid.
And this immediately got QAnon all hot and bothered because of course it would.
And what's so frustrating about this is that this is what happens when you elect nuts to positions of power and they're allowed to say nut questions to real people who are actually serious political officials and former politicians and so on.
Hillary Clinton was a real person who did real shit.
And now she's being asked about Frazzle Drip by a fucking moron.
And it's like, yeah, this is great.
And I was listening to the Alex Jones clips of him reacting to it and all this fucking crap.
And so for those of you who do not know, which again, this would be your first podcast of listening to Hell World if you don't know.
But Frazzle Drip is the alleged name of a file that was on Anthony Weiner's laptop.
Anthony Weiner was married to Huma Abedin.
Huma Abedin was Hillary's assistant.
This alleged file contains Hillary Clinton and Huma committing a brutal murder of a small child, drinking the child's adrenochrome infused blood to obtain power, eternal life, whatever it is adrenochrome gives you.
And the whole idea of this thing was that this was Anthony Weiner's way of making sure they wouldn't snuff him out if he betrayed them, that he had this document on file, which makes me wonder who recorded this shit and then thought Anthony Weiner was so important he would get it.
Like, who was just like, Anthony Weiner's like, ah, boss, I'm working with Hillary.
I'm really scared.
And he was like, don't worry, son, don't worry.
We got this video of Hillary brutally murdering.
I can assume Abedine didn't lock her computer.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
It was in Huma's murder porn files.
And he was like, oh, shit.
My wife and Hillary brutally murdered a child the other, got his thumb drive, stole the file off his wife's computer.
That makes sense.
That's great.
Now, so again, you might be asking yourself, Mike, Weiner was arrested in 2016.
How the fuck is Hillary still free?
Beats me.
These people can never explain that shit that we've had Hillary cold on a murder charge for 10 years.
And you read people talking about how, oh, they got Hillary on a perjury trap during this deposition.
It's like, oh, really?
They're going to give her a perjury when we have, we got a snuff film that she starred in.
Okay, great.
I mean, this is a bit lower than getting Al Caponin for tax evasion.
Because guess what?
Al Capone didn't do murder someone and have his buddy recorded on an iPhone.
That didn't happen.
I think Elliot Ness could have got Al Capone for murder if he had the murder on tape.
Also, why is Hillary supposed to answer for shit that her husband did?
And number two, if she had any sense, I mean, we're going back to Monica Lewinsky and let's compare to what Melinda Gates did.
Melinda Gates was like, hey, fuck this piece of shit.
I'm done with him.
Why didn't Hillary do that like a long time ago?
Because we've known Bill Clinton was a piece of shit for like a long, long time.
I don't know.
It just, why, why, why stay with a piece of shit for that long?
I don't know.
I just, I don't know.
We're not here to judge Hillary Clinton, but we're here to judge Hillary Clinton and especially Bill Clinton.
I just, you know, if they have an open marriage, that's, that's fine.
I'm not going to judge that, but I am going to judge his affiliation with Epstein.
I'm going to judge the Clinton Foundation taking money from Epstein.
I'm going to judge anyone who took money from him after his convictions.
I don't care if you're Republican or Democrat.
You're a piece of shit.
That's my opinion.
Going out on the finished branch to oppose Epstein.
Yes.
Bold, bold.
Man, how could you say something so brave and yet so controversial?
I mean, just but going back to this stuff about the frazzle drip is that this leads to people getting all into Pizzagate and this kind of stuff.
And it's just really annoying that we're having people rehashing this shit and trying to trying to pill people.
That's the main part about all of this.
It's like these, this Boebert doing this was just a new next attempt to introduce a new audience to Pizzagate and to try to get them hooked on this conspiracy bullshit.
And that's what this whole Epstein thing has been in for the long run is that one idiot made an unsubstantiated claim about babies being eaten.
And literally everyone now is talking about how our elites who rule our world are pedivore, cannibal baby eaters who worship Satan.
And it's like, no, no, they're not.
It's bad enough that they're sex traffickers.
It's bad enough that they do what they're doing.
But I guess having sex with 15 year old girls just isn't salacious enough for people anymore.
It's just like.
I've been saying that about the about the cannibalism claims because I can't remember if we've brought this up on the thing or not, but this is something I've been ponking the drum on is that all these people are claiming that Jeffrey Epstein ate babies.
And it's like, and that came from it because it was in one of the files, but it came from like an unsubstantiated FBI tip line call.
And they looked into it and the guy and the guy's like, yeah, he ate babies.
He's like, okay, can you give us any evidence?
Can you give us any details about that?
No.
Right, exactly.
So it was.
I mean, the closest thing is that there was a tip that there might be bodies buried on his ranch.
And I guess he did some kind of geological survey near the ranch.
So that, hey, and you know, let's, let's, let's get some ground penetrating radar out there.
Let's get some forensic, you know, archaeologists or whatever you call him.
Let's get Dr. Bones out there.
That, that, hey, do some digging.
I'm okay with that.
I'm okay with that because we know that one of his victims claimed that she may have had an eatopic pregnancy and he did hang around with a lot of skeezy doctors.
So, you know, maybe someone got pregnant.
They got, you know, a back alley abortion at the ranch and died or something.
We don't, you know, that is a more likely scenario than they're eating babies.
Yeah, but I mean, it's just this whole thing.
It's like, Jeffrey Epstein, you know, raping girls is not bad enough, apparently.
We got to make him a cannibal, too.
Right.
Like that, this is the thing is that in all of the actual evidence against Epstein, from the first time he was indicted and pled guilty of the sweetheart deal to the second time where he got arrested and then he quote unquote didn't kill himself that entire time, nobody accused him of murder at all.
Never, not once.
All the investigations were into sexual assault and sexual trafficking and that kind of stuff.
And it just wasn't enough for these people.
So he became a murderous Satanist who was doing that stuff.
And then that wasn't enough.
And he became a murderous Satanist cannibal.
And why do you need to punch up Epstein?
You don't need to do this.
He was bad enough from the jump.
Raping a bunch of teenage girls is bad.
We don't need worse.
And that is not how it works.
Andre Chikatila, Nathaniel Barjonas, Albert Fish, Jeffrey Dahmer.
They didn't need, okay, Jeffrey Dahmer had an altar, but they didn't need Satanism as an excuse for being pedivores.
They didn't.
They just did what they did because they wanted to.
They didn't need any excuses.
And they had urges and they went with them.
And even with Jeffrey Dahmer's one victim, a 14-year-old boy covered in blood, Cormorak, because he was Asian and cops didn't want to deal with a young Asian gay man covered in blood, screaming in the streets.
They just handed him back to him.
Yeah, he was Laoshian, as I recall.
Yeah.
And so, you know, there's your conspiracy is that the cops knew this shit was going on and didn't stop it.
And that guy was allowed to continue being a cop for a good 10, 15 years after that happened.
Yeah.
So they have this idea of how cannibalism works in this like ritualized setting.
That's not how it works.
You're welcome.
Yeah.
I mean, it's just, it's so ridiculous that we can't just let evil enough be good enough.
It's just.
Right.
He's got to be, he's got to be ripping off people still beating hearts while screaming Kalima.
Right, exactly.
I mean, it's just, yeah, it's just this insane need to make someone a cartoon villain, just an absolute cartoon, murderous, lunatic villain when what he did was bad enough and traumatizing enough.
And he has plenty of victims who deserve justice for the crimes he committed against them.
But no, He is everything evil that has ever happened in the history of our world.
He is Lucifer walking amongst us.
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And it's just so unrealistic and so childlike.
It's just really aggravating.
But see, he has to be made into Lucifer because here's the thing.
Evil is banal.
And he looks like a normal person.
He doesn't look evil and people can't.
Jeffrey Dahmer doesn't look evil.
Ted Bundy doesn't look evil.
Most of these people don't look evil and people can't square that in their minds.
Like that, like in the Adams family movie, like the joke, she says, they ask, oh, well, what do you dress as for Halloween?
I'm dressed as a serial killer.
They look like everyone else.
Oh, yeah.
That was when me and Elle were doing LaserQuest back in the day.
We had a LaserQuest lock-in Halloween night.
And he did not wear a costume.
And he said that I'm a terrorist.
We look like everybody.
That was his outfit.
And I went as Agent Smith and I found out wearing dress shoes and playing LaserQuest all night is a really bad idea.
My back was fucked after that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was fun though, but yeah, it's just what this is boring.
It's just a rich old asshole who looks like every other old rich asshole getting away with crimes because he's powerful and has influence and is connected to people.
And we just got to make it bigger and better and bolder and more terrible so that we can scapegoat everything upon it.
And of course, for QAnon and the right and all this kind of stuff, for the people that refuse to actually want to admit what Trump was doing, it's got to be somehow transformed into, oh, it was all Bill and Hillary Clinton and Bill Gates and these other evil liberals who all did the bad stuff.
And Trump is totally innocent.
And it's just, it's so childlike.
It's so ridiculous to try to imagine that everything breaks perfectly for you.
None of your favorites are involved in anything bad.
None of the bad guys are ever not involved in everything bad.
I mean, these people are going to blame Obama and say that he's in the Epstein files because go to hell, you.
It's just this, it's just that.
It's just, I'm going to take whatever I have and use it as a weapon against the people I hate.
It's Liz Crokin's banner on Twitter is her, with some asshole who's fucking interviewing her.
And the graphic behind them is Epstein is Pizzagate, which is literally meaningless gibberish.
Epstein had nothing to do with Pizzagate.
Fuck off.
Shut up about that.
You're just trying to connect your dumb thing to the thing that's in the news right now.
And again, people, there are people that are coming out and inserting themselves into this Epstein shit, making false claims, and their families are being harassed and defamed.
And it's just a free-for-all.
And people just don't stop to think.
They just want clout.
And I'm just, I'm helping a family right now.
And it's just personally, it infuriates me.
And with Pizzagate, Edgar Madison Welch went up and shut up that pizza place, went to prison, came out, and then suicide by cop.
And let's think, would he, that suicide by cop have happened if he hadn't been in prison?
Maybe it wouldn't have.
You could probably draw a line to his imprisonment, to his death.
Oh, yeah.
He ruined his life by shooting up Con and Ping Pong.
100%.
I mean, I think there's any doubt about that.
And none of these people will take any responsibility for what happened there.
They'll say that he was an MK Ultra Sleeper that was brought in to discredit Pizzagate and make it look bad and all that kind of shit.
And yeah, it just sucks.
It just sucks.
So, yeah, all of that's terrible.
It's not great.
And somehow we did it.
We managed to go like 24 minutes into the pod without talking about Iran.
Good job, us.
Yay.
Now it's time to talk about the stuff that's really fucking going to ruin everything.
Shockingly, we are still at war with Iran.
We didn't win.
We didn't win super quickly, ultra awesomely, super deluxely, God Emperorly.
Yeah, this was not Venezuela Part 2.
Yeah, that's the thing.
I saw someone made it.
We're getting trounced, aren't we?
We're getting our asses.
Oh, okay.
It's hard to tell because there's so much propaganda on both sides.
No, but I mean, like, I'm not seeing major news reporting that like military bases with a shock full of American soldiers have been hit or anything like that.
I mean, there are bombings going on all over the place, but yeah, but it's not the curb stomp that they thought it would be.
I mean, I'm okay with us losing.
Go everyone else.
I don't.
The Adventures in Hell World podcast does not want America to lose wars.
Thank you.
But I mean, I just, I like, look, we've poked our fingers in everybody else's pies for way too.
Look, like I said last time, you want a 9-11?
I get a 9-11.
I understand that, but it still, it doesn't justify people doing that shit.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
I agree.
I agree.
But it just, you know, at some point, someone has to break the cycle.
Someone has to stop the cycle.
And we were supposed to do that, but the black lady had an annoying laugh.
And she campaigned with Liz Cheney twice.
We can't fucking allow that shit to stand.
Oh, my God.
Are you kidding me?
Yeah, Liz Cheney wanted to go to war with Iran.
We couldn't have let that happen.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, first of all, you shouldn't have aligned yourself with any Cheney to begin with.
Number one, when the Cheneys came on board with Harris, she should have been like, no thanks.
Well, she did that with, but the whole point of hanging out with Liz for two campaign rallies, two, exactly.
A grand total of two, was just that Liz Cheney was showing Republicans it is okay to not vote for Trump.
You don't have the signs around Kamala and Liz literally said country over party.
That was the point.
And I was okay with that message, but like even at the time when it was happening, I was saying, I wish there could have been someone else who could have been a Republican surrogate there.
But guess who we didn't, we didn't have a lot of Republicans on the January 6th committee.
We didn't have a lot of Republicans that were willing to actually admit that Donald Trump was fucking bad.
And I get it.
But I'm just saying that like I am so over it with people being like genocide and Liz Cheney.
It's like Trump was worse on Palestine than anyone could possibly even fucking talk about by a factor of 100.
And oh, yeah, and Liz Cheney is just literally, she didn't like it.
Wasn't like Liz Cheney extracted any policy concessions out of Kamala or anything.
Liz Cheney was just saying, Look, I'm a Republican, I'm a neocon, and even I will vote against this man because he sucks and is evil.
And that was it.
And people were like, Bridge too far.
No fucking way.
Got to let Orange Man back in power.
So great.
Just absolutely fucking great.
Yeah.
If you're sick of this, guess what?
Every week, I'm going to fucking remind you of this for forever that we should have voted for Hillary or Kamala in 2016 or 2024.
Congrats, America, for getting one out of three elections in the foreseeable pass right.
Way to get Biden over the finish line.
You did it.
You did a great job in 2020, everyone.
Round of applause.
Boom.
But and now to show that they've learned absolutely nothing.
I'm reading that the Democrats are thinking about not funding James Tellerico's Senate campaign.
Oh, I haven't heard anything about that.
I was reading this thing.
Apparently, they're saying that they're worried that the money could be better spent elsewhere and that Texas and that trying to turn Texas blue isn't a real priority.
Well, who knows?
I mean, it's such a heavy lift to win the Senate.
Well, let's, I will worry about Democratic strategy decisions when we get anywhere close to the general election for any of these things because we're still breathlessly awaiting Donald Trump's power endorsement between Corin and Paxton, where whoever does not get my endorsement must drop out immediately.
I have the king decree this.
So, I mean, like, I remember, I'm trying to remember the exact thing, but I remember reading something that Ken Paxton, I think, said that he would drop out if they if they like go for some pet project of his or something.
The save act.
He said he would drop out of the race if they abolished the filibuster, if they knew if they nerfed the filibuster to get the save act across.
That was it, yeah.
Good luck with that.
Yeah, and and and I've not, but I mean, I've mentioned this before, and I will just constantly bring this up when people mention stuff like this.
Republicans like the filibuster because it prevents them from doing the shit their horrible base wants them to do.
And both sides want the filibuster because they know it'll be absolute dog shit for them to not have a filibuster when the other party's in power, right?
And it's that, but it's also Republicans don't want to do what their base wants.
Democrats on the whole do want to do most of the things their base wants.
But you know what?
Republicans do not want to sign into law a national abortion ban.
That is something they fucking know is absolute political death.
And they're quite happy with just fucking over women in red states and leaving the purple states and the blue states alone.
But the moment you start tinkering with the filibuster for like the Save Act, which about 10% of Americans could know about maybe probably 5% or less.
But anyways, the moment you start doing that shit, that's when the anti-abortion lunatics start banging their gong and they're like, hey, if you're doing this for that, hey, where's our pound of flesh?
Our literal pound of flesh.
Where's our dead women in ER parking lots?
We need this.
Come on, give it to us.
Or brain dead women kept on fucking life support so that they could pump out a goddamn fetus.
Yep.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Disgusting.
That is so disgusting.
Broodmares for the state.
That's all women are to these people.
And then I guess that family got stuck with the bill for that.
You know what I would do in that situation?
I would say, hey, hospital, suck my dick.
That's what I would say.
I would not pay that bill.
I mean, I don't pay most of my medical bills now because healthcare should be free, but you're going to force someone to take medical care and then force them to pay that bill.
Uh-uh.
Uh-uh.
Every, oh my God.
Oh, my God.
Sorry.
Tell us how you really feel.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Don't don't don't don't have any strong takes.
Just all milquetoast, once again, just sort of beaten, playing both sides.
Just the idea of the state controlling.
I don't care if it's a man or woman.
My mom's a good idea.
200%.
It's ghoulish to do something like that.
It's indefensible.
I mean, my mom was brain dead and the idea of keeping her on life support for 24 hours to harvest her organs was horrific to me, you know, and like keeping the, just ridiculous.
You know, it's ridiculous.
Yeah, it sucks.
It really does.
Bodily autonomy is a, and that's the thing is that I, I mean, the whole harvesting organs, that kind of stuff is, that's a moral gray area.
But what's really funny to me is that you are dead in a hospital, like with a head injury from the neck down, you're in fucking perfect shape.
You've got all these delicious lungs and kidneys and livers and hearts.
Her heart was beating.
I pressed my head against her chest and I heard her heart beating.
And I looked at, and you know, I'm fairly smart.
It's like, her heart's still beating.
How, how is this?
You know, I knew, but I didn't.
Yeah.
You know?
Yep.
But what I was trying to say is, is that if you don't have it on your driver's license that you're an organ donor, like, guess what?
Nobody gets your lungs or your heart or your kidneys.
Your body is kept intact.
All those people can go begging.
You don't need that shit.
You're fucking dead, but we preserve your corpse the way you demanded it.
Your corpse has bodily autonomy, but a woman who has an endoscopic pregnancy, I said that word wrong, and I know someone's going to correct me, but I'm saying, like, when a woman has a dangerous pregnancy, we're like, hey, rub some dirt on it.
You don't get to have bodily autonomy because fuck you.
You're in a red state.
That's how this works.
Eck topic pregnancy.
Egg topic.
Thank you.
But yeah, I will never say that word right.
I am actually incapable of doing it.
But the point is, is just that what we give, what we assign autonomy to and what we don't assign autonomy to is so egregious to me.
It's really infuriating.
But anyhow, smoothly getting us back to Iraq.
Frustrations in Cuba00:06:06
It's the new Ayatollah who's worse than, yeah, thank you.
Jeez, I am.
Show's over, everybody.
I can't talk anymore.
I've heard people calling an Iraq all week long.
So you're not.
I don't doubt it.
But no, the fact that we have the new Ayatollah who's worse than pop pop was, and this sucks.
And you're not going to get rid of this guy by bombing.
It's not a thing that can happen.
Because it's very obvious that the old Ayatollah wanted to get the check.
The guy was 86 years old and was like, fuck this shit.
Let him bomb me.
I don't care.
I'll go out a martyr.
We'll call it a day.
And the new guy is going to hide underground and not be where the Israeli spies can find him and kill him.
And if they do, they'll get another one.
The regime, no regime has ever been toppled exclusively by bombings from the air ever.
And I love that Trump thought that all he had to do was drop a missile on the Ayatollah's lap and then he gets to pick who's next.
Right.
He really thought that this Venezuela shit would work everywhere all the time.
And now he's saying Cuba's next?
Like, dude, this isn't a game of fucking risk.
I think that's all Marco Rubio.
I think Rubio's got a hard-on for Cuba, and he's got daddy's ears.
So, so, so Trump just regurgitates the last thing he heard.
So, before he went up, went up to talk to the press.
Rubio was like, Cuba.
So, he's like, Yeah, Cuba's next.
Well, I will say about Cuba is that I really don't see it being, I mean, it'd be great.
I'm totally wrong.
Cuba turns into a failed state and a protracted civil war for forever.
I really feel like knocking out the regime in Cuba probably wouldn't really go that badly.
I mean, there's so many Cuban expats in America.
There's so many connections between Cuba and Florida and all that kind of stuff that I think they could conceivably make it work.
But again, Trump and his administration could fuck up a two-car parade.
So they probably will find a way to make it far worse than it ever should be.
But if they had dicked around in Cuba instead of Iran, that would have been really good because guess what has happened?
Iran is a real thing that has real consequences that fucking sucks.
That's the big thing about this.
Before this war started, I was getting gas at $2.92 at my local gas station.
They are now up to $322.
They have gone up 30 cents in the week since the war has started.
Guess who pays for war?
The poor people do, because it's always the poor that end up getting shipped over to war.
It's those poor that feel the burn at the grocery stores, at the gas pumps.
It's every type of warfare is ultimately class warfare.
It's just really frustrating that this was a decision that was made by an idiot to fuck with us, period.
That's it.
Like people are going to talk about, oh, Biden had $4 gas, blah, blah, blah.
That was us coming out of COVID and the COVID production spike that hit after that, followed then by Russia and Ukraine going to war and all the Russian oil getting sanctioned and shipped and moved off the market, all that kind of stuff.
Those were all forces outside of Biden's control.
Unless we just wanted to not let, we wanted to keep giving Russia money, which Trump is doing now.
He's just going to say, apparently we do want to do that.
Right.
Trump's unsanctioning Russian oil now because we got to line Vladdie's pockets to keep his war going.
How is this America first?
How does this?
We're making America great, Steph.
We're making America great.
I feel great.
You should.
I say it all makes sense if you realize that in MAGA world, America equals Trump.
Then it is America first because Trump is the state.
As King Louie once put it.
The corpse's mother, the corpse's father.
Damn it.
I was trying to hide that.
I wanted to see who got the deep cut there.
It's just frustrating because, like, like I said, like, with War and rising prices.
It's always the lower class.
It's always the marginalized people that feel the price.
And I've had the song Warpig stuck in my head for a couple of weeks now because of that.
I'm going to piss so many people off by saying this, but I love the Faith No More version better than the original.
So everyone can come at me.
I don't care.
But he forgets a line in the song.
It's my total.
He forgets a line in the middle of the song.
But he cares a lot.
But the thing is, it's like there's so there's so many like and and we have we still have the shit with ice.
We we you know, we still have concentration camps.
It's like the Epstein shit.
There's literally so much going on right now, like trying to focus on it all.
Like, I don't know how you guys do it.
I don't know how.
Like, I love you guys and I depend on you guys every week to help me figure out what's going on.
Double Standards Debated00:11:47
And like every so often I'll go and I'll sit down with my husband.
I'll be like, what the fuck's going on in the world right now?
And he'll be like, well.
Yeah, that's what my wife does.
She'll just look at me and she'll go, what did super stupid do today?
And it's really, it's really amazing that people voted for this.
And Trump said, like, I mean, Trump said, I'm a maniac.
I'm a dictator.
Vote for me and you'll never have to vote again.
So, you know, y'all had warning, you know?
Yeah.
It's really aggravating that people can only see the results of these elections in hindsight, that no one is ever willing to be like, oh, wow.
Like, how could this possibly have been foreseen?
And it was, it was incredibly obvious that this was a thing that was going to happen.
And our absolutely useless press spent the entire campaign running Joe Biden out of the race because he was too old, even though Trump's just as old and far more fucked up mentally than Biden ever was.
And then weirdly, weirdly, cognitive impairment, which was the watchword and the only thing that mattered in the election, went away.
It magically faded into nothing once Biden dropped out.
And suddenly the Democrat was 20 years younger than Trump was.
I mean, just, oh, actually, probably like 15, but who cares?
I mean, it's just.
Yeah, she's in her, she's in her 50s, I think.
I actually got like 60, but whatever.
I mean, who cares?
But the point is, is that she's way younger than Trump.
And now Eric's looking it up.
Love it, but it's just.
No, i'm not.
No, I just.
I just saw your eyes immediately shoot to your screen and i'm like, oh man, he's Wikipedia.
No, i'm trying to do two things at once and failing.
So that's what that is.
But it's just this thing where the the shit that supposedly mattered in this election, which was the cognitive fitness of the candidates, that talking point went away the moment Biden left the race, and suddenly the election was just really about, like plucky underdog Kamala trying to rally the Democrats against, like the brash outsider who used to be the president, like trying to blah blah blah, and it's just.
It was the most vapid and empty election we've ever had and just having to listen to people being like like Kamala ran a banned campaign.
Trump was campaigning in California and New York.
He was talking about Honorable Palmer's dick, like I mean, this guy was on Mars and you're gonna tell me he ran a great campaign because he did a photo shot.
He did a photo op where he was wearing a Mcdonald's apron for 15 minutes.
I see that's the thing though, because these guys act like the Democratic candidate has to be absolutely perfect 100 of the time, or or they have a 0 chance of winning a single state, whereas the Republican can have uh, forced error after forced error and they're like it's still a strong campaign.
This is, it's his.
It's his uh, you know yeah, exactly exactly.
You know what I think really helped him win the assassination?
Oh, I don't doubt it, the oh that definitely got scored him points.
Yeah yes, and and this is why people think it was fake, which it was not get the over yourselves yeah, but yeah, I know yeah, tell that to the guy who died there.
Right exactly, I know that kills me, because it's like the same people who spent four years saying that manga were stupid for claiming that the election was stolen are now saying the exact same thing about 2020.
Yeah yeah, but I mean 2024, I mean, yeah.
I just drives me up a wall that the three most important things in that election cycle were Biden's bad debate, Trump getting shot at, and then Trump doing the Mcdonald's photo op and that's like the entire election beyond that was ephemeral.
There was like no issues were discussed.
It was just literally.
Trump is the right wing candidate, Kamala is the left-wing wing candidate.
Who do you like?
And oh no, your burger is your burger from your burger.
Taxi is a little expensive right now, like the.
The fact that not enough people adapted to the Mcdonald's app and the big mac cost them an extra buck and a quarter.
That was.
That was just that was it.
It was a bridge too far.
We had to bring Trump back because he was going to make Borger less expansive, and that's one thing.
That's one thing that uh, I I remember because I was going to bring it up earlier actually is that all these people you just heard the talking about gas prices.
Gas is high, gas is high and now and now when gas is raising up, now the exact same people are like, are like man up pussies, just pay more for gas, pay another dollar if it means freedom yeah, yeah.
When literally, like the whole thing was uh, mean tweets and cheap gas, trump 2024 2024, we're doing it.
Yeah yeah well, right right after he was elected and and he started laying off like all the National PARK people and all that, there was this article and I guess you're supposed to feel bad for her, but i'm really having a hard time.
There was some 24 year old woman who voted for Trump because he promised Ivf treatment and she worked for National Parks.
She lost her job at the National Park and Trump never came through with the Ivf treatment and she felt really, really let down and sad about that.
Well hey lady, hey lady, guess what you were lied to and you're stupid to believe any of that in the front.
And and look, I can't feel sorry for her.
I can't drum up any sympathy for that woman.
There was like a NEW YORK Times article about her and I can't feel any sympathy for her because why why why?
Why should I?
Because there there are people in concentration camps, there are people who have been disappeared, there are people who haven't been heard from, people we don't even know where they are.
There was a, a journalist who was covering ICE, who just got detained just for covering them, and they're monitoring anti-ice feeds on social media.
Um I, I don't I, I can't have any sympathy for any of these people.
And um, you reap what you sow.
You reap what you sow.
And um no no they're, they're.
You want sympathy, you're gonna have to fight.
You're gonna have to really, really earn that sympathy.
So sorry, do you feel any sympathy?
I'm one, i'm pondering it.
Um no, I just It's, it's, uh, it's, it's hard because so many people and I just saw an article that there have been more food recalls in the past year than like, in the past 20 years.
Measles, there have been more measles outbreaks than ever before.
There have been more mumps is on the rise because usually when you get the measles vaccine, that's also combined with mumps and the rubella.
Yeah, doubt if Trump has anything to say about it, then there'll be three separate vaccines.
And emergency rooms have been giving women less Tylenol because of the RFK Jr. shit.
So people are getting worse health care.
People's quality of life is going down.
There have been more recalls because of like contamination, listeria outbreaks, all this kind of shit.
And you guys voted for this.
Congratulations.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, it was not just people voting for this.
There was a massive entire MSN media blitz to rehabilitate Trump and to make him into this just regular candidate who was going to just MAGA.
He was just going to be the money man who was going to fix the economy and do good stuff for America.
I mean, how is he going to do it?
Fuck you.
That's how.
Exactly.
That was the thing that was the thing that always drove me up a wall with all this stuff is that he had a plan to end the war in Ukraine on day one.
And what was the plan?
It was a secret plan.
Meanwhile, Kamala would talk about how she was going to give first-time tax, first-time homebuyers a $25,000 tax credit.
And people were like, this crazy dame is going to tank the economy with her wacky socialist schemes.
They're like photoshopping her face on Chairman Mao's body and all this stuff.
And it's like, but Trump's just going to end the war in Ukraine by just saying, hey, Vlad, cut the shit.
And Vlad's, oh, Mr. Trump, I'm so sorry.
I withdraw the troops immediately.
Oh, God.
Yeah, fuck you.
It's just like the double standard we had in the media where Biden gets destroyed by Trump in a debate and he has to drop out.
Whereas Kamala dogwalks Trump in a debate.
Trump immediately bows out of doing any future debates against Kamala.
And that's just savvy.
That's just smart politics, baby.
Don't let her dogwalk you again and humiliate you.
Hey, he said everything he needed to say in that one debate.
They're eating the cats.
They're eating the dogs.
I have the concept of a plan, all of that.
And yet, still, even now to this fucking day, when I fucking talk to people and they tell me that Biden had dementia and shit, they'll be like, we beat Medicare.
And it's like, yeah, Biden said one dumb thing in that debate.
But Trump said far worse shit debating Kamala than Biden said against Trump.
And it wasn't disqualifying.
We didn't run him out of the race.
Nothing happened.
He won the fucking election.
So it's like, fuck you.
Oh my God, fuck all of you.
I love that we're supposed to be talking about a red, but we can't help ourselves.
We're going to be living in 2024 for the rest of our lives.
Maybe we'll spice it up by doing some 2026 every now and then and talking about how you fucking pricks should have Pokemon go to the polls.
But no, I had to vote for Harambe.
I wasn't going to let that bitch Hillary win.
She thought she was entitled to the presidency.
Fuck her.
Orange man.
Funny.
Yeah, great.
Great.
It's so great that we just could have, we could be living in Earth 2 right now where none of this shit happened.
But somehow, someway, America just dragged Donald Trump's ass over the finish line twice.
And none of this was remotely surprising.
None of what is happening here is like all of this was totally foreseeable and totally avoidable.
And we just were like, look at that hot stove.
Look at how beautiful it is.
I want to just drive my hand down on it.
Ah, feel the hot stove.
It's so hot.
Yeah.
So since you did mention Iran, it's something I've been thinking about is that with all this AI going on right now, it's getting really hard to like, I mean, it's getting to the point where you actually do have to question the evidence of your own eyes.
Bart's Unearthly Wail00:03:24
He's like, yesterday I saw this.
I saw this video that was showing this.
I think it was an oil refinery or something that got bombed and there's just smoke just billowing and it is just and it looks like a.
It looks like a fucking like hellscape, like a literal hellscape.
And the first thing I did was I went and I said, is this video real?
Because I don't even know, because I'm like, because it just I couldn't my, my brain couldn't accept what I was seeing.
So I'm like okay, is this real or not?
Yeah, and then, and I'm seeing all these people talking about how the Iranians painted like fake bombers on the pavement and then the Americans bombed them and wasted their bombs.
About that yeah, and it's like no, not shut up, god damn it.
And we're dealing with there's just, I mean it would be nice, I mean it's nice to think that Trump is so stupid that he would fall for a wily coyote trick like that.
But right, you gotta remember.
But you gotta remember, he's not the one manning the drone and pushing the buttons right exactly, I just wanted to say something.
I lost a friend in Iraq in 2004, Bart Hummelhaus, and he was in the Marines.
And then there was a guy I used to work at with the newspaper.
I didn't know him that well.
He fucking died in Iraq too.
So that's two people that I knew, one a little bit, but another I knew kind of well.
And for what?
And now, and I'm sorry for getting emotional.
Now there's going to be, and I know I just said, like, I hope we get our asses trounced.
Yeah, there is a sense of that, but I don't want more Barts.
And we just dragged a man out of the Senate chamber and broke his fucking arm.
I'm just saying he broke his own arm.
And Bart died in Iraq, and he was only like 22.
And he had his whole life ahead of him.
Yeah, he didn't have to join the Marines.
No, he didn't.
But he felt it was his duty because of all this fucking propaganda after 9-11.
And that same propaganda is out there today.
And don't buy it.
Don't join the armed forces.
It's not your duty.
And don't die for this country because this country is not worth dying for.
I'm sorry.
I just had to say that.
Stop saying you're sorry.
Yeah.
It's just, it's, it, it breaks, I still get sad about Bart because he didn't have to die.
I mean, my mom had a brain aneurysm.
You know, no one could have stopped that but her, but taking better care of herself, you know, and even then that might not have stopped it.
Bart didn't have to be in Iraq, you know, and he had a Charlie Kirk shot.
He was shot in the neck.
And it was in Fallujah.
And I was at his funeral.
This was back in 2004.
And I still remember the sound of his sister wailing.
Vance's Unearthly Wailing00:16:09
We thought it was like, we thought it was like a squeaky wheel of someone pushing like a cart in the funeral.
That's, that's, we, we couldn't understand what the sound was.
It was like unearthly wailing.
It was his sister.
And no one could reach her.
Nobody could calm her.
No one could soothe her.
And it was a grief and it was a sorrow depths of which even I could not remember when my mom died.
And that sound will haunt me until the end of my days.
And it's been 20 years.
And yeah.
So there's going to be more of that sound.
Yeah, it sucks.
I mean, and this was, and they made no case for this.
Just literally one day Trump was like, you know what?
We're going to go to war of Iran.
We're just going to do this because he totally convinced himself that I'll just go in, kill the Ayatollah.
We've got a list of people that are next in line.
I'll grab one of them, do a Zoom call with him, tell him to give me $100 billion worth of oil.
He'll give me the thumbs up.
He'll be the new Ayatollah.
The people of Iran will hold parades in my honor.
Yeah, the people of Iran will be so happy that I toppled, but didn't topple their government.
And life will go on and I'll be up $100 billion.
And then it turned out, oops, a doodles.
We killed all the pragmatic successors to the Ayatollah that we were supposed to hand the country to after we did this.
The new guy's a nut who wants to maintain war with us.
The Strait of Hormuz remains shitty and not blockable.
And Oil's Futures Twitter is all aflutter about this stuff and how literally Trump needs to declare a victory yesterday and get the fuck out of here or else we're going to be looking at fucking $6 gas in the near future and all that good stuff.
And none of this fucking had to happen.
Look, we just, we didn't have to do this.
We absolutely did not have to do this.
There was no reason to fucking go to war of Iran.
Anyone who wants to claim there was any justification for this, I've seen people say stuff like, look, I knew Iraq was bullshit, but Iran, this was, Trump was right to do.
It's like, you're delusional.
You're absolutely delusional if you think there's any justification for what we're doing here.
All these people saying that Iran was about to attack us consistently for the last 47 years.
Any day now.
Any day.
Yeah, they were about to get us the same way that the Q team was about to arrest Obama for his crimes against the world.
I just lost, I wasn't going to say, damn it.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
No, okay, I got it.
We completely and utterly and totally obliterated the nuclear program, but they were going to have a nuke in two weeks.
Right.
We destroyed their nuclear facilities, and anyone who claimed otherwise was lying, and it was fake news.
And then, oh, yeah, by the way, they're about to get a nuke.
Was that from the New York Times?
It should have been.
Yeah, it should have been.
But I mean, it's just, it just never stops with these people.
It just never stops.
And this is the one time that this fucking idiot did something and he fucked up.
And this is what I was going to talk about before, but we've been sidetracked.
And again, this is literally a group therapy session at this point.
So thank you all for listening to our struggle session.
But the point about QAnon is, is that this is always about victory.
It's always about moving forward.
It's always about crushing the deep state.
And I've seen all these QAnon promoters talking about how Iran is the last domino that needs to fall before we can finally arrest Hillary and Obama and all that kind of stuff.
And that is why they need this to go quick and to be quote unquote successful.
And Trump has to win.
Because all of QAnon is based around Donald Trump's viability as a political force in America.
When he lost in 2020, that was very damaging to the movement.
And if he had been convicted in his second impeachment, it would have completely like shattered QAnon.
Conspiracy theory nutballs would have continued to exist.
The movement would have changed and evolved and reformed.
But what it was and what it is currently now would not exist.
We would not have the White House, who just like an hour or so ago, posted a photo of a pilot in a plane with the caption above him, Patriots in control, direct from the White House's official fucking social media department.
So, yeah, but they need winning.
They need constant victory and they need a constant push forward.
And if this war goes poorly, if it makes Trump look bad, if it's damaging to our economy, the whole narrative around QAnon is that Trump is an unstoppable juggernaut who will bring justice to his enemies.
And when that's taken away from them, they become the Illuminati.
And guess what the Illuminati was?
It was a fringe movement that no one fucking cared about because it was depressing and miserable.
There was no hope in it.
Alex Jones, when he was doing the 9-11 truther bullshit and he was getting a little mainstream buzz and all that kind of popularity, that was because he was pushing back against the Bush administration and all that kind of stuff.
But at the end of the day, he was still a dumb radio guy, a radio huckster talking shit.
Like the level of hope was that he could spur a kind of revolution around him.
And his avatar for that was Ron Paul, who was a guy who maybe got 5% in a couple presidential primaries under the Republicans.
Like the movement didn't have a champion with the gravitas needed to make people think, oh, shit, we can beat the bad guys.
And that was the whole point of QAnon is that the president is on your side.
The president is fighting the bad guys for you.
And if the president, if our unstoppable hero gets his butt kicked by Iran, the whole narrative just falls apart.
The whole thing just crumbles.
So they need victory.
They're so desperate for victory.
And they're really not going to like it if this thing drags out and Trump continues to just be sputtering and muttering and talking about how he and Bippy are besties and they're totally going to kick Iran's ass together, America and Israel, because QAnon, not big fans of Israel, FYI, and all that good stuff.
So this is a crisis for them.
And they're reacting to that crisis by basically pissing their pants and screaming, we're winning.
No, we're not winning.
We've already won.
The war is already over.
I mean, all of it, because they can't have this go south.
Because if it does, they're fucked.
Their whole LARP, all of it just goes right down the drain.
If this isn't the, as Q said it, clean and swift.
If this isn't that, then yeah, it's real bad.
Real bad for a bunch of lying grifting scumbags.
Yeah, that's this, that's the state of the world right now.
And it's sad.
And when I listened to the Friday episode of Knowledge Fight, and there was a clip towards the end with Nick Twentes and Alex Jones and Dan points the clip out.
And you really do hear genuine emotion in Alex's voice.
Now, you have to take into account that Alex is a narcissist.
So the genuine human emotion that Alex is expressing is pain towards himself, how it hurts him.
He's like, I really fucking needed this man.
And he sounds like he's going to cry and it sounds real.
And it really, really does sound real.
And I want that on a fucking loop.
I want to hear Alex Jones in pain on a loop, just on a loop, loop that for me and turn it into a techno song or something.
Talk to DJ Denarchy about that.
I haven't heard back from him in a while.
We used to talk frequently, but yeah, I should skip for that.
But it is something that these people are going to have to reckon with.
And also, be very wary of the people like Nick Fuentes out there who are saying, vote Democrat.
They're not your friends.
They're not your friends.
No.
No.
Yeah.
It's just uh, is I mean hey uh, gladly take your vote Nick, and won't do anything for you.
You buddy, that is about it, I know I, I feel that I mean that, not not with quite so much vitriol, but I kind of feel that way about the uh Lincoln Project people.
It's like okay they're uh yeah they're, they.
They hate Trump too, but they, they're the allies of convenience.
As soon as he's out of office, they're gonna go right back to voting Republican.
Oh yeah yeah well we'll, we'll see, we'll see what happens with them.
After all what, what is the Republican party after all of this?
I mean, it's really um, it's a mess.
But the Fourth Reich yeah well, that's the thing is I?
I mean, I just think about the power vacuum that him dying is going to be.
That's the.
I mean I I I, i'm, you every, everyone who's listened to this pod before you can all take a nap.
Uh, shows almost over anyways.
But I mean the risless loser that is Jd Vance.
The idea that this guy could, in a million years, keep this ship afloat is so hilarious to me.
It's like i'm sorry sorry, Jd isn't, Jd doesn't got the juice.
That man, that man does not have it in him.
He has no charisma.
He got carried into the vice presidency by Trump and the idea of them handing him the uh the ball and telling him to go run with it it's just woof that is.
That is going to be really rough.
One of my friends has been sending me um videos from twitter.
Uh, I guess some account creates like this AI SLOT video of Vance as this like morbidly obese guy getting into all this light like.
He just sent me a video today of like Vance, like skateboarding off the side of like a highway and like falling down a cliff, and I was like, so I just call it Piggy Vance, like Lord Of the Flies, and it is just who's ever doing that?
Keep doing it.
I, I love Piggy Vance.
I love it.
Just keep keep, keep making him look like the piece of he is.
I love Piggy Vance.
The thing that's so funny about that is like fat schlubby, loser.
Vance is often how Q AND ALSO portrays him as, which is really strange to me.
It's like, like portraying your next nominee for the presidency as like this just joke dork.
I like, please, please keep doing this because you're not making him more relatable or more interesting.
You're just making him a weird loser.
It's not gonna, it's not gonna work out.
Well, in his defense, JD Vance is also making JD Vance look like a weird loser.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, you don't have to do much work to make him look like a weird loser.
The couch made him do that.
Yeah, he sucks.
Yeah.
So, yeah, that's all wonderful.
It's really, people have pointed out that like Vance is hiding from this whole Iran thing.
Like, that dude couldn't wait to run to the cameras and talk about how Renee Goode got what was coming to her, that dumb bitch.
But this Iran war thing has happened, and suddenly JD Vance can't be found anywhere.
So strange that this guy thought that backing ICE was a great play.
Meanwhile, yeah, your administration, the guy that you're the administration, you're going to be the standard bearer for in 2028, unless you decide to knuckle under and allow for Orange Daddy to go for the illegal third term.
Yeah, they're the ones doing this and you're going to have to get out in front of it.
I mean, anyone who wants to be intellectually honest would have to say this because Kamala Harris, who was the powerless vice president of the Biden administration, she was committing a genocide in 2024.
So guess what, JD Vance?
You're doing the Iran war.
You are why gas prices are going through the roof.
It's on you, buddy.
Yeah, they got to blame somebody besides Trump.
Right.
But that's the thing.
It's like the vice president gets to eat the shit when the vice president has no say in any of it.
Like the vice presidency is just this dumb, poorly designed office that was created when the fathers made the constitution.
And it's just like, would you like to have the shittiest job in America?
Yes.
Great.
It's like human centipede.
It really is.
Like the vice presidency is just this dumb, weird lottery ticket where you might become the president or you might be Dan Quayle or Mike Pence or just one of these people who gets the job, has it for four years and then vanishes without a trace.
And that's it.
That was the whole of your political relevancy as vice president.
I remember Mike Pence like staring at the demilitarized zone between South Korea and North Korea and being like, ooh, I looked real tough.
I totally got him.
Have you seen those guys who are posting all these videos showing side by side stuff that like Donald Rumsfeld was saying about the Iraq war and how it's the exact same terminology being used now about Iran?
Oh, do we have known unknowns in Iran?
That'd be great.
Yeah.
Yeah, but here's the difference.
I would like to see one, and I'm not defending Rumsey at all here, but I would like to see one single member of Trump's administration actually break procedure and protocol and help injured people like Rumsfeld did on 9-11.
Like they were yelling at him.
He wasn't supposed to be doing what he was doing, but he was heroic that day.
I will give him that.
He was carrying stretchers.
He was helping people evacuate the Pentagon.
He was heroic that day.
He shouldn't have done that shit.
He broke protocol.
I can't imagine a single member of Trump's administration doing any of that.
Egg South would be deep in the bottle if a fucking 9-11.
Yeah, He'd be in the cask, the cask of Monte Aldo.
And I guess we're going to be closing soon.
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So I just wanted to say, I listened to the QAA movie last night about Begonia and I started watching it today.
And it's really, really good.
So I wanted to recommend it to people.
So that's my happy thing.
Well, thank God.
Thank God.
It only took about an hour, 10 to get to the happy moment in the pod.
Finally, the ray of sunshine is peaked.
Here's through the night.
And I didn't say anything bad about Lutnik.
Way to go.
Way to go.
Yeah, there was even a golden opportunity for it.
And I didn't say a word because I wanted to see what you were going to do.
Yeah.
But yeah.
So I think that puts a pin on it.
Thank you all for listening to this totally informal venting session, masquerading as an informative podcast.
It's really great.
I love it.
It's really good.
We're doing a great job here.
And I think we really, we really showed our chops here as serious citizen journalists.
Oh, that's what we are, baby.
That's what we are.
There's no, no term more stupid than citizen journalist.
You use fucking Google.
That's what you're doing.
It's not journalism.
Get over yourself.
Anytime.
Yeah.
But anyways, yeah.
I mean, but anyhow, fuck all that.
Let's just semper fi corporal Barton Hummel Fonts.
Okay.
R-I-P.
And now give me money.
The unbelievable smooth pivot from mourning a fallen soldier to the groveling for cash.
It's truly awesome.
It's great.
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