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May 8, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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TRANS JESUS, FREE PALESTINE AND LGBTQ FLAGS

Is nothing off limits? Today we hit some really wacky news stories, including one about a Jesus being a trans. Not kidding.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Well, hey now, episode four here of the Rogue Recap.
I'm your host, Linda McLaughlin, and we are here for yet another day of insanity.
I have some real doozies today, folks.
I thought yesterday was crazy, but today's pretty bad.
There's, first of all, there's no shortage of lunatics.
And it's funny, I saw something else on X like, oh, it must be like a slower news day because we're waiting for Trump's announcement and we're waiting for this and we're waiting for that.
And I was like, yeah, I don't know what you people are talking about.
There is so much going on and we're going to try to get to some of it today.
And I really hope that you guys are enjoying the show.
Again, I would love to know what you want to hear about.
So please, if you are listening to this podcast and you have something that's driving you nuts or you feel like is not getting the proper coverage, give me a hat tip on social media.
Say, Linda, I need you to talk about this.
Nobody is talking about it.
And it can't be, you know, your nine-year-old nephew's birthday party.
There's a reason nobody's talking about that except the people in your family.
All kidding aside, you know, I really, I would love to know what's getting under your skin.
And I hope that I'm touching on some of those issues.
For example, today we're going to talk about a gentleman by the name of Sam Soko or Soka.
I'm not sure.
He's a King County public defender and he was reportedly one of the individuals arrested during the Antifa protests at the University of Washington.
So let's just unpack that for a hot second.
There's an oath you take when you become a lawyer, a judge, someone who is a purveyor of the law, right?
You are upholding the law.
You are helping people defend themselves when they are being wrongly accused of breaking the law.
And to be a public defender paid by taxpayer dollars and then to be a part of Antifa, which really should just be a domestic terrorist group and let's just be done with it already.
But you're a member of Antifa and you're protesting with them at a university.
They're setting things on fire.
They are causing police officers to retreat.
This is where you think that you should be spending your free time?
During the day, I'm going to be this public defender, but at night, I mean, talk about Jekyll Hyde.
I hope that this guy is going to be arrested, but I mean, I saw this today on X and I was like, hat tip to libs of TikTok.
That's your constitutionally protected right to peacefully protest.
But when you go out and you cover your face and you wear like hats and masks and bandanas and you, that's not being brave.
You're a coward.
It's so absurd that these people think that they have a right to go in and hurt people that are just working and obstruct people that are just going about their day or going about their business.
And now they can't because you're not doing a peaceful protest.
You're doing a violent and dangerous protest.
And as a public defender, it's disgusting that you think you have, I mean, my God, of all people, you should know.
I'm really kind of done with this whole Antifa movement thing.
It's really more about just being a part of a group, right?
Like, go join a club.
Do you like books?
Go join a book club.
You like to play chess?
Go play chess.
Go do something with your time.
Volunteer at a shelter.
There are so many animals that could use some love and a walk or whatever.
Why are you joining this group that wants to go out and destroy everything?
Nobody believes in your cause but other lunatics like you.
And so at the end of the day, you're not going to get a whole lot done and you're not going to get a whole lot achieved because you're not doing it in a constructive way.
Period, end of sentence.
Anyways, so this guy, I'm going to try and say his name again.
Sam Suoka.
I think that's it.
S-U-E-O-K-A.
This guy, King County public defender, let's follow him, right?
Let's make sure that this guy doesn't continue to be a public defender.
I mean, I guess he won't be, right?
Because he's going to be too busy defending himself because he's a moron.
And then here's another great story that happened today.
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City has approved three new flags so that they can get around Utah's ban on pride flags.
So this is like the quick summary that I read in the paper today.
The city's new three flags will mix the existing Salt Lake City flag design with elements of flags celebrating various communities that were barred from being flown at public buildings.
Basically, we're redoing all of the flags that are flown in their government buildings so that they can fly a pride flag because they want to be inclusive of all people.
Do you know what flag represents all of us?
Because I have an idea.
It's the American flag.
If you are an American citizen, first of all, you better be so thankful.
We are so blessed to live in America.
And if you've traveled outside of the United States, you know how true that is.
But I think most people, they don't realize how lucky they are.
And they like to make stupid comments about fascism and communism and Trump is a Nazi.
It's utter nonsense.
And again, I go back to my comments from yesterday's show, which is, I'm so sick of people saying things that have literally zero, and I do mean zero, basis in anything factual.
It's just your opinion.
But if you go to people and you say, well, why do you hate capitalism?
What do you hate about it?
They don't know.
Or if you go to people that are at these new protests, right, against Elon Musk and Doge or Trump or Medicaid or whatever.
And they're out there, you know, every day all over the country.
Have you noticed a few things about these people?
Because I know I have.
And it's super weird.
First of all, they're all older.
They are all older.
It's very, very odd.
I'm talking like 60s, 70s.
And they're holding up these signs.
And when you go up to them and you say, why are you here today?
What are you protesting?
They have to pull out a piece of paper and they read off that piece of paper.
And I'm like, wait a minute.
You are so committed to this action, to this messaging that you are a part of today, that you decided to take a part of your day, especially a Saturday or Sunday when you're off.
If you work and you have the weekends off.
So you're not working today, but you're out and you're protesting with this group of lunatics for whatever the cause is.
But when I ask you, why are you here?
Why is this so important to you?
What matters to you?
You have to take out a piece of paper and read it?
I mean, come on.
What's going on?
Who is paying for all of this?
I mean, many people have said it's George Soros, and I certainly wouldn't put it past him.
I mean, him and his son, Alex, and they're looped into Huma Abedin, who is now engaged to George Soros' son, Alex.
And she obviously is former chief of staff for Clinton and the Clinton Foundation.
And she has ties back to the Islamic Brotherhood.
And I could go on and on and on and on about all of the various people that are involved.
I just know that they have chartered buses, prepared signs, and they have groups of people that have nothing better to do but stand out there for hours on end.
But when you go up to them and you ask them, what matters to you?
Why are you here?
They can't tell you.
And you know what that tells me?
They don't know because they don't care.
They're just getting paid.
So now we have this Utah ban on pride flags and the legislative body in Salt Lake City has decided that they're going to get around it in Salt Lake City and they are going to put these pride flags up because everybody needs to feel safe and everybody needs to be included and everybody needs to be represented.
When did this happen that you need to be represented?
When did this happen that everybody needs and everybody wants and everybody has it?
No, they don't.
We have one flag.
It's the American flag and we fly it.
That's it.
You want to put flags up in your house with flowers that have special meanings to you?
You want to put it on your car, on your keychain, on your rearview mirror?
Go for it.
Knock yourself out.
But why does an entire city have to have a giant flag because of, you know, whatever your thing is today?
It's absurd.
And not for nothing.
There's nothing in the flag.
Like if we have a pride flag and then we have two other flags, so three flags, that's all we need to cover all of the people.
They all feel represented now in Salt Lake City?
Of course not.
It's nonsense.
But this is what they're telling you, right?
That the pride flag being roped in is what will make it all encompassing.
And it's just not true, but it's an agenda.
It's an agenda that they have to keep pushing and that they have to say that the American flag is not inclusive.
The American flag does not represent all of us.
Well, if that's true and you don't feel that the American flag is representing you and you don't feel that your voice is heard, then why don't you go and live in another country and see how much they care about your individual voice?
Go ahead.
I dare you.
In fact, I'll pay for you to go.
Just go.
And the only condition is that you don't come back.
Because I've had just about enough of I need to be seen, I need to be recognized.
It's like, no, that's not what it is.
This whole thing with Salt Lake City, I got to tell you, Salt Lake, I'm very disappointed.
And I just can't believe that the American flag, that beautiful flag, is not enough.
I really, I just struggle with this.
I just, you know, what is missing in your life that this is what you did today for your taxpayers?
Just give me a break.
And you know, you look at these people here in New York City protesting that the whole Free Palestine movement and they're still at Columbia University and they're over at Cornell and they're at all of the CUNY schools.
It's disgusting.
And they're all in the cafes and they're wearing these scarves and they've got glasses on and masks on and you can't see who they are.
They're blocking their face at every turn.
Why are they doing that?
Why are you blocking your face?
You're so committed to this effort.
You're so committed to what you're doing and why you're there.
Blocking streets, not allowing Jewish students to get into class, making these disgusting and horrific comments to Jewish students and Christian students who dare to go to school and get the education that they paid for, the same education that a lot of these jerks are getting for free because they're here on student visas, foreign visas.
They're getting their educations paid for by the university and their funding and their donors, and they still think they deserve federal funding, which is absurd.
But now we had today these mass invaders at the Columbia Library.
The security at the school blocked all of the exits.
So if you were there and you were causing a ruckus in the Columbia School Library today, and other students couldn't study and couldn't prepare for finals and other things like that here at the end of the semester because you decided that you wanted to come in and talk about free Palestine and wear your stupid scarves and wear your stupid bandanas and carry your stupid signs.
You don't know what you're talking about, first of all.
I mean, ask any of these protesters when you say from the river to the sea, what does it mean?
What river, what sea?
And what does it mean?
They don't know.
They have no idea.
If you say to them, what is it that happened to Palestine?
What offense did Israel do that now you think they deserve to die?
They deserve to never have freedom and they are the oppressors and Palestine is a victim.
What a load of horseshit.
Give me a break.
You know, I've been to Israel three or four times, both in wartime and in peacetime.
And I can tell you as somebody who has been to the West Bank and been to Gaza, Israel is not the aggressor by any stretch.
They are not.
Most of them are living in kibbutz.
They're praying.
They're doing their thing.
They have absolutely no desire to have any interaction whatsoever with the Palestinian people on the other side of the West Bank.
But they are firing rockets every single day, so much so that their kids have to be in underground playgrounds.
If you go into the town of Steaderot, or if you go into Ashkelon, or you go to Sirokh University Hospital and you talk to people, they'll tell you what's going on on the border.
But you have to actually go there and see it for yourself.
So when these people go into these universities and they walk around with their Palestinian flags and they're carrying all of the paraphernalia of Hamas, and you say to them, What does it mean when you say, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free?
Because the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea would wipe out Israel.
So is that what you want?
Are you the next Hitler?
Is that what you're saying?
You want to kill all the Jews?
Why?
You look at the funding that the United States has given through UNRWA and through other aid that we've given to Palestine, the aid that has gone from Israel over to Palestine.
They don't use it to help the people.
Their children are unclothed.
They're sick.
Their hospitals are falling down.
They slaughter their animals in the middle of the street.
And this isn't something that I read about like, you know, in a book or saw on a paper.
I saw it with my own eyes.
I was there.
This is a real thing.
It is a third world way of life.
They dumb down their people and they trap them.
Their own people are victims of the terrorist group Hamas.
This is a real thing here.
You know, these are people who are trapped in a country.
If they try to leave and find a better way of life, they come after them.
They'll shoot them crossing the West Bank.
And guess what happens if they happen to make it to Israel?
Israel has several sections within its country.
It has a Greek Orthodox, it has a Catholic section, it has a Muslim section.
They have all sorts of things.
It's amazing.
And you know what?
When the Syrian Christians were being murdered, the Druze were being murdered by Islamic radicals.
They came to Israel and Israel welcomed them with open arms and protected them.
These are the things that drive me nuts.
But anyways, I'm really down a rabbit hole on this issue.
These demonstrators today at Columbia Library were not able to get out after they protested and caused this disruption without showing their identification on the way out.
I mean, how great is that?
You think you're going to walk in?
You think you're going to talk trash and make noise and disrupt everybody and just no accountability?
Tide's turning, baby.
Tide is turning.
Perhaps you should get on the other side.
Maybe you should go back and read some books, which is what you're here to do in the first place, right?
I mean, these kids are ridiculous.
They need, honestly, you guys should go join the book club with the Antifa members.
And then speaking of flags, to go back to that story for a minute, I saw this story and it was just so great.
So there's this Polish politician and he tore down the European Union flag.
Then he wiped his shoes on it and he burned it.
And he says, Poland will not display the symbols of a hostile organization.
This is Poland.
This is not Brussels.
And globalism is losing.
And I have to say, this is amazing.
Like I remember when people were talking about Brexit because they didn't want the UK to become a part of the EU.
And all of these nation states were like, yeah, we're just going to become the EU and we'll all be in the European Union and we'll all work together and each nation won't have its own currency and they won't have their own government and we'll really just be under one helm and how much better that will be.
What are you talking about?
That was the beauty of Europe.
Each part of Europe, each country in Europe had its own history, its own legacy and its own, you know, things that it was known for, right?
If you went to Italy, you were going there for Rome and the Colosseum and Florence.
And if you went to France, maybe you're going to Paris and the Eiffel Tower and all these amazing things.
But now they're all a part of the EU?
Why is this a good thing?
Why are we doing this?
This one Polish politician stood up today and he was like, nope, I will not do this.
We are, this is Poland.
We're proud to be Poland and we're proud to be Polish.
Period.
Heartstop.
Have a nice day.
Oh, and by the way, I'm going to use your flag here to shoeshine.
Thank you.
I mean, amazing.
I was like, this is like the best thing I've seen all day because that's what we need, right?
We need more people standing up.
And of course, there was a bunch of people that are like, oh, oh my God, I can't believe he did that.
But you know what?
That's what that really is the change.
That's what we're looking for.
We're looking for people to stand up and say, I dissent.
I am not a part of this.
I'm not going along with this.
I am informed and I'm not about it.
And I just think it's awesome.
And then in the exact polar opposite to this Polish representative, we have Macron today who welcomed Al Jolani, former member of the Islamic Brotherhood, known as an al-Qaeda mass murderer, and he's a member of ISIS.
And he was welcomed open arms today in France.
Macron has said if the Israeli prime minister Netanyahu tries to come to France, they're going to arrest him on site.
So we have Al-Jalani who's murdering Christians and Druze in Syria.
And then we have Netanyahu, who is literally the only democracy in the Middle East.
What is going on, Macron?
Why would you do this?
What is the message that you are sending?
Obviously, you're not interested in international peace.
And obviously, you're not interested in talking to people and hearing their side of the story.
You're a part of that free Palestine movement, which is ignorance is bliss, because those people are the most ignorant people.
Macron's a weirdo anyway.
I mean, the guy is married and he's married to someone much older than him.
They don't have children.
He has nothing else in his life except, you know, turning France into a complete dumpster fire.
So good on you.
Wait, way to bring in the mass murderer who believes in radical Islam.
You're doing great, Macron.
You know, and again, nobody's talking about it, right?
Like nobody knows that Macron did this today.
Nobody knows that this kind of stuff is even going on.
So, all right, let's talk.
Let's go back for a second.
Let's play a little bit of the madness just so you know, I'm not making it all up.
So, here is the Utah legislator talking about why this LGBTQ flag is so wonderful.
You got to hear it.
I want each and every resident to look up at any flag that flies at City Hall and be reminded that their community values belonging and acceptance and that their community values every one of them.
Let the Sego Lily send a simple but powerful message: Salt Lake City is here for you.
We believe in you and we love you.
Please shut up.
I mean, this is the kind of crap I'm talking about.
You are here to lower taxes, make sure that police officers have funding, and you are here to make sure that our kids are safe getting to and from school and that the potholes are fixed.
Stop talking about flags and lilies and stop whispering.
I mean, that woman was doing her best, Joe Biden.
Oh my God, just stop.
All right.
And then the last story of the day, this is really gross.
Democrat Colorado state senator Chris Colker mocks Christians in statements defending a new radical transgender bill, saying that one day he's going to stand before a trans Jesus.
Take a listen to this.
We'll talk about it on the other side because it's just gross.
I'm accountable to Almighty God because I'm standing up for equality.
That my decisions one day, I will stand before him and be accountable.
Well, this is what I believe.
You ever seen that movie, Talladega Nights?
And you see that section where they're talking around the dinner table and they're talking about what their favorite version of Jesus is.
All right, baby Jesus.
I love baby Jesus.
And the guy goes, well, I love Leonard Skidder Jesus when angels are behind him and the choir is singing and he's playing Freebird.
Well, my day of judgment, I might be standing in front of trans Jesus.
I don't know.
I don't know.
It's what I believe.
And I believe that Jesus, God, will look at me and say, you stood up for people.
You stood up for those who were less fortunate who struggle.
You may pass.
You may enter.
I encourage an eye vote.
Jesus is not trans.
Jesus is a man.
Jesus is the son of Joseph and Mary.
And Jesus is a son of God.
He is all those things, but he is not trans.
When you come before him at the Pearlie Gates and he says to you, why have you defied me?
Why have you furthered a narrative and hurt children and promoted mental illness?
Instead of saying to people, God made you in his image.
He made you exactly as he wanted you to be.
And when you get to the other side, you will know him.
Christians are not walking around saying, yeah, we support trans Jesus.
You want to believe that?
You think that's going to get you into the Pearly Gates?
All right.
Good for you.
That's free will.
You are exercising your free will.
But I assure you, there is no trans Jesus.
And if you're hoping to see him, I think you're going to meet somebody else when you get to the end.
Just my personal opinion.
I feel sorry for people like Chris who want to obstruct and say things like that about Christianity.
I guarantee you, if he had said that about Allah, if he had said that about something that was in the Quran, he would have had a very different reaction.
But he wouldn't say that, would he?
Nah, he wouldn't.
Anyways, I hope that everybody is having a great day today.
This is Linda McLaughlin with The Rogue Recap.
It's been a heck of a news day.
I hope you've learned a little bit from all these stories and we'll see you tomorrow.
Be safe wherever you're going and make sure if you have the time, you go online, you check us out at LindaMick, L-Y-N-D-A-M-I-C-K, at Rogue Recap.
We would love to hear from you.
We would love to hear what you want to talk about.
And I will do my absolute best to get to that.
Have a great night, everybody.
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