Linda McLaughlin opens the Rogue Recap with a prank story before contrasting it with her nightly animal videos, then pivots to a Supreme Court birthright citizenship case where she alleges a Chinese father exploited the system for over 100 children. She criticizes politicians like Brandon Johnson and J.B. Pritzker regarding gun laws and school protests, attacks diversity quotas in the Artemis mission, and condemns Congress members for performing music videos instead of working. Ultimately, McLaughlin urges support for the Save America Act, asserting that without it, "America as we know it is over," a claim she explicitly states is not an April Fool's joke. [Automatically generated summary]
Hot takes, cold facts, and zero respect for the official narrative.
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It is Wednesday, April Fool's Day, April 1st, and so far no one has pranked me today.
I was waiting for it.
You know, I have four kids, and I thought at some point today, I am definitely going to get pranked, but no such luck today.
So, pretty funny.
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So, I love April Fool's Day.
I think it's really funny.
I remember being a kid growing up and always thinking, what could I do on April Fool's Day that would trick my parents or trick my brothers or trick a teacher, whatever it is, right?
But I was the worst because I'm a terrible liar.
I don't play poker, all the things, right?
Like it's written all over my face.
If I like you, if I don't like you, if I'm sad, I'm happy, you're going to know because my eyebrows are going to change and my face is going to make a smile or a frown or whatever.
It's never a secret.
But I was looking around today.
I was like, did anybody have an April Fool's moment?
And man, did I find the funniest post.
So there's a professor and he's in front of a classroom of students.
And whoever posted this wrote, This professor has a policy.
That if your phone rings in class, you have to answer it on speakerphone, which, let's be honest, that would be super embarrassing.
So the students arranged to have a friend call in on April's full stay and have a really, really funny joke.
So I just thought this was classic.
I've never seen anything like this before.
And I'll tell you what the person is saying if it's hard to hear because the phone is a little bit quiet.
But just take a listen.
I think it's hysterical.
Hello?
Yes.
Okay, you might want to.
Okay, okay, thank you.
Thank you.
I'll call back later.
Thank you.
Hey, I want to publicly apologize.
That's okay.
I'm very sorry.
I've been accepting this, and I already know what I'm going to name the baby.
The first name will be April, and the middle name will be Paul.
So, if you couldn't hear what happened, so again, he makes them answer the phone and has to be on speakerphone.
So she answers the phone.
And the guy says, Hi, this is so and so from the Pregnancy Research Center.
We want to thank you so much for being a participant in our research.
And actually, when we ran your test, I guess whatever she gave blood or whatever, right?
It's a joke, doesn't matter.
But when we ran your test, the results came back positive.
And we saw from the notes that you said the father was no longer in the picture.
But so we have services to help you through the process.
And he goes through this whole litany of things.
And obviously, the teacher's mortified because he's like, Okay, this is.
The opposite.
Like normally, it's just like if your friend's calling you and you're like, sorry, I'm in class, bye, I gotta go, or whatever, right?
Your mom, your dad, your friend, your brother.
But this is like this serious call.
And the teacher's like so upset.
He's like, I'm very sorry.
This is obviously not a call that I intended for you to take in front of the whole class and blah, blah, blah.
And he feels so bad.
And he's apologizing to her.
And then she makes the joke and says, Well, I've already decided what to name the baby.
And it is April Fools.
So I thought it was really funny.
At the end of it, you can't hear it because the kids start clapping and hooting and hollering.
But he says, You know what?
That was an amazing prank.
And you're going to get bonus points for that.
So.
Definitely really funny.
He had a great sense of humor about it.
And I just thought it was the funniest thing.
You know, I do this thing every night.
My husband always laughs at me because obviously, working in news, I cover awful stories all day long.
And it gives you literally like no faith in humanity, right?
So at night, what I do is I watch stories about animals, you know, animals that are reunited, or, you know, when military and our veterans come home and their dogs and their pets freak out and they're so happy to see them.
You know, babies and puppies, babies and dogs, horses you name it, I'm watching it.
And I was watching this video last night, and it was a police dog, it was a canine dog, big German shepherd.
I'm very partial to German shepherds.
And this little baby kitten, and I mean baby, like probably like four weeks old, maybe, tiny, tiny, tiny.
And this little thing is just wants to be best friends with this German shepherd.
I mean, all over it, rolling around, pulling on its face, and This, God bless them.
This German Shepherd is like, Hey, what's up?
Yep, we're good.
I'm just hanging.
Let's her climb all over them, you know, making the biscuits in the back of his fur and just like, I mean, really cute, you know?
And I'm like, See, that's the stuff that makes me happy.
Or the dogs that see like the toddlers when they start walking, right?
Or babies when they first start walking and then toddlers when they're playing, you know, when they're two and three.
You'll see these dogs, they're so protective.
You know, they'll know, oh, that might not be a good spot for him to stand.
So I'm just going to kind of curve up around the back of them or I'm going to stand kind of close here and they'll always protect that child.
January 6th Court Doors Opened00:12:43
And I had that same experience.
You know, my dog Winnie, he just passed away in November, but my youngest son Liam, I had him maybe a year after I had Winston.
And so it was so funny seeing Liam grow up with Winston and Winston just always by his side, so protective, so sweet.
And even when I was pregnant, I mean, Winnie was head on my belly.
He would hear him kicking in the womb and he would be like, oh, you know, with the head bob that they do, just all the things.
But those are, Those are the moments, right, that we hang on to because they're positive, they're happy, and they get you through the day when you're watching humanity just literally hang itself out to dry at every turn.
I mean, just it's insane.
Even today, we had this birthright citizenship case in front of the Supreme Court, as I'm sure many of you know and followed.
And it is so upsetting to see the people standing out front of the court screaming for birthright citizenship, wearing the most disgusting shirts that say, like, fuck Trump.
Fuck America.
Give me my rights.
I want the money.
I'm an illegal immigrant and I don't give a shit.
You know, dancing, men dressing as women, you know, trans flags, just all the things.
It's to me, it's so interesting to always see the same group of misfits, right?
It's like that whole joke of like, here's your flag.
Like, we'll just change your flag for whatever the thing is today.
And this Supreme Court hearing was no different.
And obviously, we had a landmark moment because.
President Trump went to the Supreme Court and sat in to hear oral arguments, which has never been done.
We've never had a sitting president.
Go to the Supreme Court and hear a hearing, right?
So, really interesting to see him take such an avid interest.
And, you know, the 14th Amendment of our Constitution states that if you are born in this country, you are a citizen.
And it was explained to me by someone who is, you know, a bit of an expert in this topic and a constitutional historian that this is one of those moments where.
That particular amendment was meant to make sure that slaves were given equal rights in America and to make sure that they were considered 100% of a person and the right to vote and all of these equality measures.
It wasn't to give people that were pregnant and got pregnant on purpose, right?
Whether they're four hire people that cross the border illegally, give birth on our side of the aisle, and then say, well, my child is legal, so now I'm legal, right?
Or they're legal for a little while and then they.
They go back to the country, but they can come back or they can send for their parents later on in life.
It's this disgusting business.
There's this one Chinese businessman, and he supposedly is the father to over 100 anchor babies that he literally just seeded these children so that they could be in the United States.
And then they grow up here, they live here, and then they come back and they work in China.
And there's this strange reciprocity that he's creating that's not real, it's artificial.
And they are working against the United States, not for the United States, whether it's through trafficking, fentanyl, trade secrets, you have it.
Peter Schweitzer actually has a lot of information on this through the Government Accountability Institute, and he's done a ton of deep dives on this and testified before the Senate probably about two or three weeks ago now.
And Dick Durbin was like, at him, like, well, what are the statistics?
If it's one, it's too many.
I think that's the thing that I always get so upset about.
Like, how many is enough for you to give a shit?
Right?
As we see all of these kids and women, as I talk about so often, being hurt, being robbed, being raped, being murdered by illegal aliens, and it's never enough.
They don't care.
We just had another high schooler killed in Chicago just this week.
You don't hear anything from Brandon Johnson.
Brandon Johnson's out there screaming about illegal immigrant rights and reparations.
He's not talking about new security measures, he's not talking about how we can protect people.
None of that is coming out.
And in fact, J.B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, a clip from, I guess it was 2025, just resurfaced.
And it's him saying, if you don't like how things are going here in Illinois, you can move.
That's your answer?
Why isn't it?
Listen, we want to find a pathway to citizenship, which I also don't agree with, but at least it would be a better answer.
We want to find a pathway to becoming a legal citizen for those people that are here, they're working.
Who knows how they got here, but they're not doing anything right now that's criminal.
And so we want to help them become legal so that they can pay into the system, they can be a part of the ecosystem that is Illinois and the United States.
And we can sort of put this whole you're illegal thing to bed.
In the interim, if you're here and you're here illegally and you're committing crimes and you're murdering people and you're a part of the problem, not the solution, then yes, we are going to cooperate with ICE, we are going to cooperate with DHS, and we're going to say, see you later.
I don't know why this concept is so offensive to so many Democrats, even regular Democrats, right?
These are people that are misinformed and they say, you know, we go back to the Billie Eilish thing from I forget what award show she was on, some music show, who cares?
But she got up there and said, No one's illegal on stolen land.
And so people started showing up at her house, which, by the way, as a reminder, is built on a Native American, you know, holy site or something.
So people were like, All right, well, you got to move because you're actually on stolen land.
You're on sacred ground.
So maybe you should get to get.
And then who's she calling?
The police.
So again, it's just there's so much of this that you have to say, Okay, it's enough.
This is ridiculous.
And it's the whole, you know, good for thee, not for me thing.
Anyways, I digress.
But.
Happy moments, April Fool's, good stuff, right?
Those are the moments that get you through the Pritzker's and the Brandon Johnson's.
I wanted to hit some stories today that haven't gotten a lot of attention.
I stumbled across them earlier this afternoon and I thought, that's interesting.
And I don't remember reading this.
I don't know if you guys do, but back in, I guess it was the end of last year, people started talking about this former Capitol Police officer, Shawnee Kirchhoff, who seemed to match this.
Pipe bomber that they've been looking for for the last five to six years.
And we shouldn't say looking, right?
Our administration's looking.
I'm sure the Biden administration probably paid them off, but that's neither here nor there.
Our administration under Trump is continuing to look into what happened on January 6th.
And what's interesting is, as we see all of these rogue judges that are releasing criminals on the street, I did my show on that last night.
Remember what they did to the J6 people.
People that were waved in by Capitol Police to come into the Capitol, right?
They didn't break things.
They didn't storm the doors.
The doors were opened for them.
The video clearly shows it.
This is not a secret.
They were kept without due process, put in jails for years.
It took President Trump coming in to get them out.
Tina Peters is still in jail.
Tina Peters is a gold star wife and mother.
And she is sitting in jail right now because she had the audacity to ask questions about the 2020 election.
And I think a lot of people had questions about the 2020 election.
And what you'll notice is whether it was COVID or the election, you weren't allowed to talk about it.
And if you asked questions, you were called a conspiracy theorist.
You were called a fascist.
You were called whatever you were called.
But they weren't happy about it.
And they turned everybody against each other.
They did exactly what they wanted to do, which was divide and conquer.
And they did it.
And we had all these Democrats saying if you don't get the COVID shot, You're the problem.
If you don't believe that the 2020 election was completely and totally with the utmost integrity and there's no questions, you're the problem.
I'm like, are you the same assholes who were talking about how all of these software, you know, voting machines were going to enable people to steal and cheat?
I mean, we had senators like this might ring a bell, Kamala Harris, right?
I mean, think about that.
You know, Senator Warren, Senator Wyden, they wrote a letter.
To the administration saying, We don't want to use these machines because we think the Republicans are going to cheat.
Then all of a sudden they got really quiet.
I wonder why.
Perhaps because they figured out how to cheat.
And so then it didn't matter anymore because they're like, oh, we got it rigged.
We're good.
That whole expression, too big to rig, exists for a reason.
But I'm down a rabbit hole.
So January 6th, there were these pipe bombs placed and they kept trying to figure out where it came from.
Who's the person that placed the pipe bombs?
So this report came out today.
For what it's worth, I did a little background, and it appears that this is correct that Shawnee Kirchhoff, who was a Capitol Police officer on January 6th, failed a November FBI polygraph test.
When she was asked if she placed the pipe bombs on January 5th, 2021.
Now, this is coming out in a court filing, so I'm going to read to you what it says.
You tell me what you think.
Shawnee Kirchhoff was named as a person of interest in the January 5th and 6th, 2021, pipe bomb investigation.
Ms. Kirchhoff was a U.S. Capitol police officer on January 6th and was present at the Capitol on that date.
Ms. Kirchhoff now works for the Central Intelligence Agency.
According to discovery produced by the government in this case, the FBI began investigating, questioning, and covertly surveilling Ms. Kirchhoff during the time it began investigating Mr. Cole.
On November 6, 2025, Ms. Kirchhoff was interviewed by the FBI and took a polygraph examination.
She was asked two relevant questions Number one, did you place those pipe bombs?
And number two, did you place those pipe bombs that evening?
Ms. Kirchhoff failed the polygraph.
The FBI polygraph examiner noted Kirchhoff's very controlled reaction to the news of her failing the polygraph.
How weird is that?
And you haven't heard it anywhere.
I mean, this came out today.
People are talking about it today on X.
And I'm like, I have never heard this before.
I don't know if I'm just asleep at the switch, but if you're like me, I'm like, what?
This is actually big news.
Like, we need to find out what this woman knew and when she knew it.
And they said that her, I guess a lot of the forensic observations and investigations, she matches the person of interest.
It's like a 93% match.
I was like, okay, there's something truly off here.
And I also think that if we look at the clothing and then you look at the clothing that was shown on the person, it's like, man, I really am struggling with why we're not looking at this more.
Yeah, a computer program that matched the bomb suspect's gait to that of Shawnee Kirchhoff produced a 94% match.
And when you look at it and then you watch her walk and you look at all the videos and pictures they have of her, I'm like, yeah, okay, that's that.
I mean, it's just strange, right?
We have to sort of raise our eyebrows and go, all right, that's a little weird.
In any event, I think those are things that definitely bear a little bit more investigation and definitely a deeper dive into.
What we are trying to discover about January 6th, because we are literally still looking for answers.
We don't have answers.
And we're told that if we try to ask questions, that we're the problem.
Seven Month Old Baby Shot00:12:14
Second story that we didn't hear a lot about today is that a seven month old baby was shot to death in broad daylight in Brooklyn during a random shooting.
So the city and the state that doesn't want you to have guns, doesn't want you to have mace, doesn't want you to have a knife.
Has people being thrown into subways, set on fire on subways, and if you're a baby in a stroller, you can be shot dead in broad daylight in Brooklyn.
Are you kidding me?
This is what we have going on.
Imagine you're a mom walking your baby and your child is shot.
It's the same shit that's going on in Chicago all the time.
These places that have this lockdown on guns typically have the most violence, and you have people that are trying to protect themselves, regular people.
Do you know how hard it is to get a concealed carry?
In states like New York, you need to have over 2,000 verified death threats in order to get a concealed carry in a state like New York.
Why?
I'm telling you, I have a burn up, B Y R N A. If you don't have one, I strongly advise you to get one.
They're friends and they're great people.
They run a great company and it is legal in all 50 states.
You do not need a permit and you can actually protect yourself.
This is the stuff that really frightens me.
And you have to be able to protect and your family for that matter.
Like, I don't know in this case, I mean, if there's somebody riding away, they have a shot of the guy with the gun in Brooklyn.
He's like on the back of a scooter.
One guy's driving and he's got his arm out with the gun.
He's just shooting.
It's two o'clock in the afternoon on a Wednesday, and he's just shooting.
There's kids getting out of school, there's kids in the park.
It's spring break for a lot of these kids this week.
Zero respect for the value of life.
That's what we're raising right now.
And that goes into another issue because a lot of these kids that are getting shot are getting shot by kids.
And these kids are spending all of their time on YouTube, on these games, talking to people in chat rooms.
They're getting zero education.
From the school system.
They're getting pushed through.
They have parents that aren't around.
And sometimes the parents aren't around because they're also a problem.
Or they're not around because it's so damn expensive to live in New York, to live in New York City, that they have to work 80 hours to 100 hours a week.
They're not home.
They can't be with their kids, and their kids are left to their own devices.
We have to get back to a place where we can be with our children.
The time that we spend with them, I mean, they're literally, you think about like a lifetime, right?
The time that you are a child is so short over the grand scheme of things, the decades that you're going to spend on this earth.
And that time as a child literally frames you for the rest of your life.
And it can make you a good person.
It can make you a bad person.
It can make you a person that is able to overcome.
Or it can make you a person that says, I'm allowed to do this because nobody's telling me I'm not, and you have no accountability, and you end up being the guy that pulls a gun out in Brooklyn at two o'clock on a Wednesday.
And then a seven month old is dead.
And that dovetails into my next story of the day.
There are public schools in Boston that are teaching children how to protest.
They have homemade signs.
They're walking around.
It looks like a little tiny classroom.
And they have paper signs sticking to like popsicle sticks or something, bashing the president, teaching them to protest.
And they're marching around and screaming.
And there's one little girl by herself just sitting at a table.
And they're little.
I mean, these kids are probably seven or eight.
This is what they're doing with your children.
So you're at work, and these kids are marching around what looks like their library at their school, screaming against the president and pretending to protest.
All right.
It's so upsetting.
There's got to be a spot where we can say, as parents, that's enough.
That's not a thing.
We are not going to have this.
And let me tell you something this is a much bigger issue.
Because as we look at all of the other things that happen, as I just said, if you are not a part of your children's lives, if you are not a part of what they're seeing every single day, and you don't tell them, hey, that's not right, we don't need to protest.
We don't need to be out in the street.
We don't need to be causing trouble.
We need to be focused on ourselves.
Put God back into your life.
Put your education first.
Put your family first.
Get your kids off their phones and their Xboxes and their PS5s.
And I know it's hard.
I got four kids.
They all like all those things.
But when we sit down to dinner, we don't have phones at the table.
And if my husband's working late, I make sure that's the day that I'm at the dinner table alone with them, but I'm hearing about their day.
If they need me, they know they can always get me.
They always come first.
There's never going to be a time where I'm going to say, I can't do that.
I can't be there for you.
You're going to have to figure that out on your own.
And even when my kids have had to do things on their own, per se, I'm still prepping them.
I'm still getting them ready.
I'm still a part of whatever is going on.
My husband is the same way.
But there really is a larger issue when you get to a spot and you have your tax dollars going there and They're protesting and they're seven and eight.
And it's funny, you know, I look at this Artemis launch today, and, you know, we're sending four astronauts to space.
And what is so stupid, and maybe I'm alone in this theory, but does it really matter that one guy is black, that one person is a woman, that one person's a Canadian?
Does it matter?
Is there a reason why we need to point out the race and gender of the astronauts?
Isn't it enough to just say, hey, this is great?
We're going back to the moon and we're excited, and these astronauts are ready for this, and we're going to cheer them on because this is history and wonderful.
Okay.
But instead, we're like, well, this woman, she'll be this, she's a woman of color, and this is a black man.
And then we have a Canadian showing the shut up.
Who gives a shit?
Nobody cares.
I was just talking with my mom about this today.
I'm like, can't it just be we have four great astronauts?
Well, all of the previous astronauts that went to the moon were white.
Most of the astronauts that have traveled in space were white.
What?
What does that matter?
If you are the right person for the job, you should get the job.
I mean, I almost feel like we have to be like one of those singing shows.
Well, I can't remember which show it is, but there's a show where they don't look at the person singing, they just hear them and then they turn around and they hit the button if they like whoever is singing, right?
Like, that's how it should be for your candidate.
You shouldn't know their race.
You shouldn't know their background or whatever, and just look at their resume.
Are they a good fit?
Terrific.
Then you can bring them in for the interview and see how they are in person.
If they are terrible in person, but you hire them anyway because they fulfill some sort of quota, whether it be race or gender, you are the problem.
Stop doing that.
It's really not a fair way.
Like, we work so much better as a society.
As a meritocracy, it's like when you see people in Congress, like I look at this guy Meeks or Al Green or Jasmine Crockett, they speak so, it's not even colloquial, it's almost like they dumb down the way that they should speak as a member of Congress.
You're clearly educated, you've made it this far, you're supposed to be representing your community, and you're doing stupid music videos in the halls of Congress.
You're not showing up for informational and advisory meetings for committees you belong on.
And then when you give testimony, you get called out on the carpet because they say, Well, you don't know what's going on because you don't show up for the meetings.
And they say, Oh, you can't say that to me.
It's racist.
What?
How is you not doing your job and me saying you should do your job make me a racist?
I'm pretty sure it makes you an insubordinate.
I'm pretty sure it makes you not doing your job.
I'm just tired of being focused.
On all of the wrong things and all of the things that don't make sense.
We have to get back to basics.
There's got to be some point.
Where we have common sense.
Additionally, if we have illegal aliens constantly committing crimes, constantly killing innocent people, children, women, why can't we have the common sense to remove them?
You have kids protesting the president because you're upset that he wants to enforce DHS.
ICE is already funded.
You're upset that he wants to have things on the up.
He wants voter integrity.
He wants citizens in America to be a part of the process.
And non citizens to get out.
Why is that a bad thing?
How are we supposed to survive if only a very small portion of the country believes in what the country stood for, believe in what the country stands for now, and what we hope to stand for in the future?
If you're looking to break us down, if you're looking to not assimilate, if you're looking to be the problem, please go back to wherever you came from.
Go be a problem there.
We don't need it here.
And while this podcast is a mishmash of topics, they're all topics that bother many of us every day.
They may be stories you haven't heard of, but each of them are relatable to something that is unfinished and it's unaddressed in our society.
And we need to just start talking about it or it's never going to get fixed.
We certainly can't leave it up to Congress.
They can't do shit.
We got like one senator holding the line there, and it's Senator Mike Lee.
And we got like two or three members of Congress.
Everybody else is just in it for themselves.
It's actually super depressing to see people that I once thought were like really good people.
And now we're finding out they don't care either.
We saw who went home this weekend.
We saw who went to Walt Disney World.
We saw who was on cruises, who was hanging out with celebrities.
It's not hard.
It's actually very easy and very upsetting.
And I think what we're looking at now is it is a time for choosing.
It truly is.
And even my own governor here, you know, he's a Democrat here in Pennsylvania.
And he says, you know, common sense voter ID laws that, you know, the majority of Americans, you know, support, like the Save America Act.
He says we're going to suppress the vote.
Why does he not want just Americans voting in Pennsylvania?
Oh, I know.
Because you can't win unless illegals vote, and you can steal because everybody hates you and knows you're a lying sack of shit.
So is Pritzker.
So is Newsom.
So is half of Congress.
You guys can't win unless you have fraudulent votes because the American people have woken up and we're on to you.
I really hope they pass this Save Act, guys.
I'm telling you right now, if they don't pass this Save Act, America as we know it is over.
Completely over.
And that is not an April Fool's joke.
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