Cognitive Dissonance - Episode 876: No Snap, Trump's Third Term

Episode Date: November 3, 2025

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And there is no welcome. Matt. Today is Friday, October 31st, Halloween times. Happy Halloween time. It is also the last day of Snap benefits. We'll talk about that a little later. But Cecil, it's also the launch of Bulgarity for charity.

Volgarity for Charity is back, everybody. We had Darryl Rayon last week to talk about the organization that we'll be raising money for recovering from religion. They do a whole bunch of stuff. They have a secular therapy project they do. They have chat, live chat and live phone call centers that you can call into for all kinds of reasons that revolve around leaving religion. You can listen to that episode where Darrell, clearly lays out all that stuff. What if you just want help with the lyrics to the song?

Like, leaving my, if you just like, I don't know. I looked at it up on, leaving my religion is genius lyrics, and I'm not sure they got it right. I'm going to call. Are you in the, in the doorway? Are you in the spotlight?

Yeah, I don't know. But in any case, in any case, you can donate through the web form that is now live, that is recovering from religion. Dot org. Recovering from religion is all one word. Recovering from religion.org slash

Vulgarity dash ford dash charity. And you can find a link on this week's show notes and you'll also be able to find a link on all of our socials. This is all going to go out the day of.

We'll be sharing each other socials. You can find Puzzle and a thunderstorm guys are doing it and it's going to be posted on our socials. This is a joint project between us and puzzle. We've been doing it for

long time. Long time at this point. Very excited to jump back in, do another vulgarity for charity, get a ton of money for people who are looking to leave religion and looking for different types of services for when they relieve religion. And we're hoping that we can get quite a bit of money for them.

You know, and I want to talk a little bit about that because I was thinking about, you know, I personally have had a tremendous amount of privilege in my life in that I grew up sort of like quasi-religious, but me leaving, like not having faith was not a thing. Yeah. It just was not, it was not, it didn't have any impact on my life. but I am very aware that for many, many, many people, leaving your religion essentially cuts ties and creates a vulnerability and creates a,

it puts people into an outgroup, and it makes people lose their social ties, often sometimes they're professional ties, their family ties, financial ties. Financial ties. It can leave people in a really deeply vulnerable position. And this is such an important place for people to go. there's a big movement.

I was listening to the daily, I think it was the other day, and they were talking about the rise of the ex-Mormon movement. And the Mormon movement, you know, in many other churches that are similar, if you leave,

you are, you know, you sometimes lose contact with sometimes even your parents or your siblings or other people in your life that would be your safety net, right?

In a country that lacks social safety nets, not having faith can sometimes make you lose your family. familial social safety net as well. So having that support, having that backstop,

there's nothing else like it. And it really is, I think, important work. And I was talking to Darrell Ray last week, and he had a comment where he said, basically, people need to learn skills they never had to have because they had people around them that were doing certain things. So they literally don't know how to do certain things in life because they never were trained on it

because they had a church that was sort of helping them do all this work or they had a partner who was doing this work, and that partner now is back with the church, and they left, and they were kicked out or ostracized, and now they don't know how to even interact with the world in a normal way that most people would know that didn't live a sheltered life in church. So it's important work that they're doing.

Also, just losing community in general is very difficult. And when you lose community, you have to go out and find new community, and this is something that is super important for so many people, and this helps connect people with community nearby. And that's always so, so important. Speaking community, I want to tell people that I had an absolute fine time and a wonderful time at QED. It was seriously an amazing experience.

The last QED happened. It was Question Explore Discover. It's in Manchester. It was happening every year. This was the last one that they were going to do. I did a live performance of the No Rogan experience with Michael Marshall. It was a lot of fun. We had a great time.

But getting a chance to meet people. And I was talking, I'm terrible with names, but there were so many people. who came up and they said, hey, your show has meant a lot to me. And I'll tell you, I treasured every one of those conversations. It was really just wonderful to get a chance to meet people, talk to them, have multiple conversations with people that ranged from all over the world. And they all talked about how, like, their lives. And then also they were very kind when they talked about how the show has affected them. And so it was really nice to get a chance to meet those people in person. And I loved every minute of it. So if I met you at QED, you know, thank you for coming up and talking to me,

because I really, I appreciated every one of those conversations. Man, that's awesome. What an awesome opportunity to meet people that are listeners. You and I have had the opportunity. I wasn't able to go to QED. I wish I was able to. I just wasn't able to make it for, it didn't fit into my personal life. I just couldn't make it happen. But every time we've gone to these events and had an opportunity to interact with our listeners, it's always just such a wonderful experience. They're just like the nicest fucking people. It's so cool. I'm glad you were able to make it out there. You can't ask for a better conference. No, the conference is so good. And next year they are putting on conference, but it will not be.

QED will be a different conference a week earlier in a different city in Liverpool. Oh, really? They're going to be putting on the European Skeptics Conference. They're going to be putting this thing on. I don't know if I'm saying the full name of it correctly because I can't remember exactly what it is, but it's essentially a traveling conference that works its way around Europe. Well, that's cool. And they'll be hosting it next year. And I'm already making plans to travel. there to go to this skeptics conference that's happening a week before in Liverpool next year. That's terrific. So you're going to do something again next year. But this group is no longer doing QED. But this last QED was a fucking banger and mash.

Mostly a banger. Yeah. Emergency. Paging doctor. Emergency. Paging doctor beat. Emergency. Emergency. So I let off the show with it because I'm fucking outraged and it's all I can think about this story is from the AP.

Trump administration posts notice that no federal. Food Aid will go out November 1st. I want to be super clear about something. Billions of dollars have been allocated and are available to go out. Yeah. The USDA has emergency funds, billions of dollars of emergency funds that absolutely could fund this. This is not, they didn't go to the fucking piggy bank and shake it upside down and no fucking quarters fell out of it.

And that's why 41 million people who rely on supplements. supplemental nutritional assistance program, Snap, will go hungry beginning fucking tomorrow. That is not a true fact. They have the money. They're intentionally starving 41 million American citizens as a way to ramp up political pressure in order to get their opponents to capitulate. They're holding that many people hostage. They're hunger hostage. And they're basically forcing a hunger strike on the American people. Yeah. It's awful. It's an outrage. Also, just so you know, it's not like during the government shutdown, the government doesn't collect your taxes. Right. That still happens, right? Look at your paycheck,

everybody. It's not like there's a lot more money there for you because the government shut down and they're not working for this last bit of time. So we're not paying for anything. No, no, no, no, no, no. We still have to pay all the same amount of money. They're just not, they're not working during that time. Now, don't get me wrong, you have to pay that money, back pay, et cetera. Although they're talking about not. Not back pay for some people. If that's the case, then I should get back pay on my fucking taxes. Right.

You're not going to pay the people who fucking worry. Why should I have to give you money that you promise to give to these people that you're not giving to them? It's outrageous. And look, this is a group of people who they, we talked about it recently. They are brute forcing everything they can. They're trying to brute force every single thing that they can. And what they're trying to do here is not negotiate. There are every single time the government was threatened to be shut down by the Republicans,

they came to the White House and a bunch of senators and a bunch of House members and the president sat down around a big fucking table and they ate tea sandwiches and they figured this fucking thing out. And they capitulated to the Republicans because the Republicans demanded certain things. And the Democrats who at the very beginning of Biden's term held all. all the positions of power, even though that really wasn't true. They had to work with them because there just wasn't enough space. There's not enough space. That's too narrow a line. You have to work with the other team.

And guess what they did? They work with the other team and they got shit past. They are not willing to come to the table to have a conversation about this. They won't even do it. They won't do it. So if that's the case, who is shutting the government down? Who is the people who are shutting the government down? Everybody, like, we're taking this shit to court.

Like, the left is taking this shit to court to say, hey, why don't we sue on behalf of this to make sure that they have to pay those benefits out? Why don't we try to work as much as we can to try to stop these. We're going to talk about health insurance later on to stop these ballooning health insurance payments that are going to have to come forward. Let's try to work to save the American. No, those people don't want. They want you to fucking suffer.

We've been saying this for years. The suffering is the point. Your suffering is the point. Not theirs. Your suffering's the point. Yeah, you know, it's worth noting too, and I'll get some of these numbers wrong because I'm going off the top of my head. So forgive me. You'll understand the gist is what I'm driving at. It's important to understand a couple of things. One, like 40 some percent of the people receiving SNAP benefits are kids. I think it's like 41 or 43 percent. They're kids. They're people under the age of 18. It's 20 some percent of those people are disabled or elderly or otherwise unable to work. Okay. So you add that up and my math says that's most of the fucking people. Most of the people. Right. Snap benefit recipients are very often demonized as people who are sort of lazily sponging off of the American welfare teat. Right? That is very, but most of the people, most of the people receiving SNAP benefits cannot work. They're elderly, their children, they're disabled people.

that most of the rest of the people do work full time. I'm just going to point that out. So you've got a tiny fraction of people that are receiving snap that are people who are able to work and have not yet found work, right? That is a small fraction. Most people aren't even really eligible for work, right? They're disabled, they're elderly, their children. Then a big chunk of the remainder are already working and working full time.

Working hard jobs. They're working full time. And for big companies. Yep. big companies that receive corporate welfare, right? We are mad at people for receiving a lifeline of welfare in this sense. And we are not mad at the companies who are not paying their full-time workers enough money to not need this kind of assistance, right?

And you've got to be pretty fucking below, like you got to have very little income to qualify for SNAP, right? It's not like it's a high bar. It's hard to qualify for snap. You have to make very little money because we keep not adjusting that as inflation and cost of living and all the rest of that shit goes the fuck up. It's a fucking nightmare. It's mean. There's a cruelty to it.

You're exactly right. The cruelty is the point. They think this is what will create the leverage. Also, most of the people receiving SNAP benefits are in red states. Yep. They're in red states. And very specifically, we can rewind back to the SNAPE. challenge. Do you remember this, Tom?

I do. Remember how fucking hard it was for so many people to try to live, to just survive on the amount of money that these people get and they were like, this is impossible. It's literally impossible. It's nothing. What I can do is have a ramen a day. Like, that's what I get to do with this money.

It's so little money. It's a dollar 40 a meal, man. It's the tiniest, barest amount of money. $6 a day, $1.40 a meal. Fucking prices are skyrocketing under this administration. through tariffs, through bad management of all different types of things that are, that are economy related.

Inflation continues to rise. It's a terrible environment just for your $6. Yep. Right? It's already bad. You're already getting a shit deal with a $6. Yep. Now you have to deal with trying to parse that out over the amount of time that you have to

eat during the day. And you've got to try to figure out how to feed yourself. It's not, these people treat it like it's this fucking windfall. Oh, yeah. It's fucking nothing. nothing, man. And, you know, everybody always complains about where they're tax, oh, my taxes got to go to this.

How about we fucking stop fucking giving bombs away to people? Yeah, man. How about that? How about we stop fucking letting these corporations get, just rake in money and not have to pay taxes? Those are ways in which I don't want my taxes. Yeah, man. And, you know, sometimes it's a push-fucking pool. You get to send your fucking bombs everywhere or waste a bunch of money blowing people out of

boats in the fucking sea who you suspect are drug dealers. That's a lot of money you got to spend there. I get to fucking send fucking Jady Vance and his fucking shitty wife everywhere. And I got to pay for their fucking security. And then I got to have a fucking big fucking hoo-ha because some fucking asshole died. And I got to pay for fucking security there. And then the president fucking every third day is golfing. And you got to pay for that.

But fucking when I want to pay six fucking dollars for somebody to eat, it's the fucking biggest crime that has ever been perpetrated. on the American people, go fuck yourself. It's fucking insane, dude. Go fuck yourself. Are you? How fucking dare you? And then I see these people, you know, fucking blow, boils my blood. You see all these assholes on TikTok. And they got their fucking mega hats on. They're like,

oh, maybe you're going to have to work now. Maybe you're going to have to go out there. Maybe you're going to. And here's the thing. I know some people are going to be like, well, it's rage bait. It doesn't matter. Here's the thing. It doesn't matter whether it's purposefully made and that person isn't being realistic. And they don't, they don't care whether or not they just want the clicks or they're an absolute asshole. I hope fucking nothing good happens in that person's life for the rest of their life.

I hope every day is a particular misery that the last day didn't inflict on them. They are worthless, awful human beings that are hoping that people, that little kids go hungry, you're a terrible human being. Fucking a million percent. These are also 201, right? 2.01, these are also people who would identify themselves as Christians. Yes. Did they miss the part where Jesus said,

and I was hungry and you fed me. I fed you, but it was only $6. I mean, like, it's not even a lot of fucking money. You can't even get a fucking burger for that, dude. It's such a small, our social safety net is already so bad. And think about the state of the economy when we've got somewhere around 370 million people, 41 million of whom receive SNAP benefits.

That's a lot of people, right? Because a lot of people are in a really tough fucking spot to use that as political leverage right now when we don't have to. Absolutely. Like there's money the USDA is set aside. These are emergency funds. We're loaning $20 billion to fucking Argentina

for reasons called shrug emoji. I don't fucking understand that. I've read like three things and I'm like, I still don't understand that. I think we're loaning $20 billion to Argentina literally because Trump likes personally the president of Argentina. Yeah.

I actually think that's, the whole analysis. I don't think you're wrong. Billion dollars. We could feed a lot of fucking people for $20 billion. But we won't. We won't intentionally. And one last thing, the Democrats are working to feed people in the red states. Think about that. When these fucking Republicans are always like, you got to fucking grovel to me and ask nice. Maybe these fucking assholes from California want disaster relief because L.A. caught on fire. You got to fucking ask nice and we're not going to send disaster relief. What are the Democrats doing? Most of that

money is being spent in red states. And the Democrats sitting in a fucking blue state representing, they're saying, I want to help you. Why are you making it so hard for me to help you? You're working against me. I'm trying. I am burning my fucking house down to help you.

You dumb motherfuckers. You stupid, stupid fucking assholes. It makes me insane. It makes me insane. And if it wasn't, if it was adults that were eating the shit, if it were the people who are actually making the decisions that were eating the shit.

I would say, eat that shit. Eat it. Actually, you know what? Don't eat it. See how it feels to fucking go hungry for a few days. See how it feels to have that gnawing in your belly. You can't quench. And the thing is, is that as it stands right now, there is

some possibility that they're going to try to not have this, and they do have an emergency fund. So they're going to brought it to court. It's possible because as of this recording, we have heard what the judge had to say, and it sounded like the judge was very on the side of, we're going to release the fucking funds to people.

You're not going to be able to hide behind that. But it's not going to be all the funds because they don't have all the money that would go out. That money would run out before the end of the month, and they would have to parse it out. They would have to give it to people who had the most need. So if you have extra money, I mean, we want people to donate to Bulgaria for charity, of course.

Donate to Bulgaria for charity. But if you have extra money, that you were thinking, hey, I want to donate to two different causes this month, a local food bank, or bringing your body to a local food bank to put in a couple hours of work, probably a very good use of your time and a very good use of some money if you have some extra. The chain reaction could spread to all the tidings of the planetary scale. A meltdown on a planetary scale. Don't you think whoever built this thing thought of that?

Who knows what the hell they thought? They weren't human. Maybe it's a trap. Maybe they want a meltdown. The stories from New York Times, Obamacare prices become public, highlighting big increases. The government website now shows consumers

how much their health insurance costs will increase next year as Congress remains at an impasse over the plan's subsidies. Now, we had talked about this a while back, and I had said something like, the moment they see this, I think they're really gonna,

this is the real find-out phase. Yeah. And you would rightly said, look, like, that stuff's not going to come into effect right away, but they got to tell you. Yeah. And another thing that was happening, too,

at the same time, this was way back in the earlier parts of this year, those states that were doing matching funding, they started cutting it right away. They started cutting that shit right away. So people were already seeing some Medicare benefits go away. True. And then we were already seeing, now we're seeing more costs rise. People are going to have to pay more money.

One person in here went from paying like 400 bucks a month to now paying like $890 or something a month. And their deductible went up to $7,500. That is fucking insane. Could you imagine, no, first off, you're already paying a lot of your money for health care. And then you've got to pay this extra bit. Before your health care even gets in, you've got to pay almost $8,000 in health care costs. Before you're, they're even coming to say, yes, we'll help you out now.

Yeah. The amount of money that people are going to have to be spending for health care, this should wake everybody up to the fact that those people that got elected into office, they were there to raid us. They were there to wade the government. They rolled in on a big ass pirate ship and fucking Stephen Miller had eyepatches over both eyes for some reason.

He fucking rolled in and they were there to fucking... To pegging leg when they fuck us with it. They were there to pilfer the government. They were there. Fucking Elon Musk knew what he was doing. Don't think that Elon Musk gave a quarter of a billion dollars

to win the fucking race for Donald Trump. Don't think he gave that quarter of a billion dollars. and didn't expect a return on his investment. Dude, of course he did. Of course he did. And he got it. You know, he wanted that return on his investment and he has gotten that return on his investment.

The Obamacare, you know, millions of people. Obamacare is one of the greatest success stories of the last generation in terms of its impact on American people. Millions, tens of millions of people get their insurance through the ACA's website, through the portal, the marketplace, I think it's called. Tens of millions of people that otherwise before Obamacare would have had no or limited access to any kind of insurance. They just would have been fucking out in the cold. They would not have had a... This is where you go when you don't have employer-sponsored care.

You get to go here and you get to get health insurance at a rate and with subsidies that were put in place during the pandemic that made this kind of sort of almost nearly a little bit affordable. It's still real, fucking expensive. It's still super expensive. Health insurance is insanely expensive. If you are outside of this country, let me kind of put some of those numbers Cecil was talking to into perspective.

What this means is that, like, this guy paying $900, $891 or whatever it was, he pays $891 a month. He gets health insurance. That insurance doesn't do anything for him except for like probably wellness checks and physicals, right?

If he wants to use that health insurance, he or she wants to use that health insurance for anything beyond like a physical, which you're typically covered at no cost. Let's say they break an arm. Yeah. Let's say you break your arm, you get sick, something like that. Then you've got to pay 100% of the cost of that up to the first $7,500.

That's what's called your deductible. Then after you've paid the first $75, and your premiums don't count toward your deductible, you pay $7,500 out of pocket. Then the insurance company typically pays 80% of the bill. So that means if they panned you a $16,000 bill, or let's say it's a $10,000 bill just to make it an easy number, you're still paying $2,000. You're paying $2,000. So they have a $10,000 bill. Let's say you just had $1,000, you're paying the first $7,500 of it.

Yeah. Then there's $2,500 remaining, and you're paying 20% of that $2,500. You're paying another, what, like $400, $500 of that, right? That's fucking insane. And then all of that guys resets every January. Yeah. So it's not like I spent that and next year I'm going to be fine. No.

On January 1, I break my arm. You do it all over again. And I get another $10,000 bill. I'm still out $8,000. Yeah. It is untenable. Yeah. And it is absolutely untenably expensive.

And that is with Obamacare, right? That's with before Obamacare, you would have just been fucked. You try to go, my dad. I remember back in like 2001. 2002, 2003, somewhere around there. My dad owned his own little company. He was the only employee of it. Tiny little company.

He had a signed company. He needed to get insurance. The only thing he could afford was catastrophic coverage. He could not afford any insurance that covered anything other than the most excessive catastrophic coverage isn't really a thing anymore. It doesn't have to be. Pre-existing conditions used to be disqualifying. Oh, you're sick.

You've been sick. someone you know has been sick, you walk past the hospital once, you're just uninsurable. Kids can stay on their parents' insurance until they're 26 years old. Previous to Obamacare, you got to kick the fuck off your parents' insurance, I think like at 21 or 22. So they extended how long parents could continue to cover you under your employer's health care coverage. These are major improvements, and Trump fucking hates it because everybody actually loves it.

Obamacare is incredibly popular. It was unpopular because a black guy tried to do it. Once it goes into place, everybody fucking loves it. And one of the things that they would argue about back then was, oh, there's going to be death panels, there's going to be, you know, it's going to be controlling it. Everybody thought it was single payer, right? There was all these misconceptions about it because nobody really knew what it was going to do. And there was all these misconceptions.

And here's what I want to say to those people who were saying death panels, look me in the face after you have to pay your exorbitant amounts of money now in the face of this and tell me that's not a death panel. How many times are you going to go for preventative care or when you feel sick to help stem something off, which may be perfectly, you know, you could become perfectly healthy from it, but now suddenly you're like, yeah, I know that I've got these weird veins in my leg that have been bothering me, but if I go, I don't have the $7,500 to start paying for this, and I don't know how much this is going to cost, so I'm just going to leave this go, and then suddenly

you're getting bad circulation or something happens to your leg or something happens with a clot, you could fucking wind up dying. This is the same thing as a death panel. They're just doing it through attrition essentially.

Yeah. And look, there's also the insurance companies formally have, they don't call it death panels, but they have. Yeah, they already do this anyway. They just deny your coverage.

Yeah, they already do this yet. Like, death panels have always been a thing. It's just they were privatized. Yeah. And now, and I feel like, I feel like, the people who are going to suffer the most from this, there's a lot of people who voted for this.

They literally voted for this. They thought that this was a good thing. They didn't realize that they were on the right particular path to get this health care. And suddenly they're seeing the things that they were getting health care from. They were called something other than Medicaid. Yep. Yeah.

And now they're like, oh, shit. Oh, that's going away. Oh, that's going away. Oh, my fucking Iowa Hawkeyes Blue Plus plan is going away. You're like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's going away, man. That's always what that was.

always what it was, but they named it something else, and now you're fucked. And you voted for this. Like, like, there's a, there's a part of me that still has empathy for those people, but there is another part of me that's like, have the day you voted for, man. Have the fucking day you voted for. Because maybe then, if you actually fucking touch the stove with a full hand, you will remember how bad this was, how, what a terrible choice this was. You wanted to own people. You wanted us, you wanted to own the lips. Well, guess what, man, you owns yourself. You fucking pledged yourself. And the thing is, too, one last final point. If you get your insurance or your employer, you are not insulated from the effects of this.

So Obamacare, remember that Obamacare is a marketplace of private insurers that is aggregated together and you are allowed to buy coverage through those private insurance. It's not nationalized care. So it's you buy a plan with Blue Cross Blue Shield or Aetna or United or any of these other, you know, any of these other giant healthcare companies. If all of a sudden, a bunch of people stop being able to afford their coverage, it's not like those companies. Not like Brew Klaus is going to say,

hey, guys, we just have 10% less revenue because 10% of the people or 40% of the people who would buy coverage through Obamacare are not buying it because they can't afford it. A lot of people can't afford $9,000. It's not a thing. Your premiums will go up at your company. They're going to find a way to take that,

revenue from somewhere because it feeds into the same kitty. It's still Blue Cross Blue Shield. It's still Aetna. It's still United Healthcare. The ACA is just was being subsidized, but it was still private insurance. It was always private insurance. So if you're sitting there saying, well, I get my insurance or my employer, I won't be affected.

Yes, you will. Yep. Look at what your premiums are going to do. Your premiums will go up too. Everybody eats shit if this happens. everybody. The only difference is that if you're wealthy, that percentage of your income matters less to you. Yeah. You already have probably amazing insurance anyway, and it doesn't matter as much. And if you pay an extra $400, but you make $400,000, it doesn't matter. Yeah. I had a cab ride

while I was over in England, and the guy who was driving the cab was kind of sort of all over the map right and left. He sort of had certain ideas because he wanted to talk to me, so we had certain ideas about certain things. But when we started talking about healthcare, he told me literally, when I explained our health care system, he said, get out of there. He's like, leave the country. They don't care about you. All it took me was literally a three minute conversation to explain how our health care system worked. And he was like, leave that country right now. They do not care about you. And this is a guy who on some issues was on the right. And he was like, no, man, don't stay there. That's a, you literally staying in a death trap. Yeah. This is a guy.

This is something he sussed out from a two-minute conversation in the cap. Yeah. Try to explain to any reasonable person how this system works. And it doesn't. It doesn't. It just doesn't. I mean, here you all are powerless to stop the inevitable. Look, asshole.

I don't know if anyone explain the rules to you. But if you succeed, everything gets blinked out of existence, even you. This story is from New York Times. Johnson dismisses Trump 2028 talk, but applauds the trolling. the Speaker said he did not see a path to amending the Constitution to allow the president to seek a third term,

but that it was fun to pretend he could to inflame Democrats. This is your fucking guy. This is the guy who's running everything. What a piece of shit this guy is? He's such a fucking... This guy is literally... He is like the fucking platonic

ideal of Plato. He can get pushed and shoved in any fucking position that anybody else wants. If they want to turn this guy into a crescent moon, they would turn him into a crescent moon. in a half a second because he has no will of his own.

None. Right? No will of his own. Tell me anything that that guy likes other than what Trump likes. Tell me it because I would love to see what it is. There's nothing. He is literally whatever. He's a tofu of people.

Whatever flavor you impart in it, he will take on as his own, but he has none of his own. He has none of his own. This guy is, he's such a piece of shit. Yes. And the fact that they're making jokes about this and they think it's funny. you think it's funny to break a constitutional that you're pretending that you can break a constitutional amendment think of how fucking up in arms they would be if this was Obama making this joke oh I know I know man

this is the idea that like we don't have to be serious about anything that we can joke about anything that upsetting 50% of the country is something that is just like fucking for the lulls that the government should even be the government should not be having a a good time. The government has important shit to do. We have important shit to do. There are problems. There's fucking people that are hungry. There's people that are like in real need. This is not the time to be

like, nah, I spend my time fucking around. These are horrible, horrible people. Horrible people. They do not care about you. They do not have your best interest at heart. They do not, they think it's funny that you're worried. You're worry, your fear, your anxiety, the genuine concern over fascism

and the rise of authoritarianism, what they're saying is, yeah, let's play with that. That's funny. That's funny. Cool. What does that say to me is that these people have never felt

any real pressure in their life anywhere. Yeah. Not just here, right? Of course they feel like they're in power in this instance, because they are technically in power, and they do have a lot of power. But every single position

that they seem to have, it's that they've never had to actually live like this. Of course they're willing to let all this food assistants go away, because they've never had to look at anybody else and be like, I don't know where my next meal's coming from. Exactly. I don't know where that's coming from. I was on the, I was on the,

I went to London after I went to QED just for a day or two before I flew home because I had to fly home from there anyway. I took a train down there and then I didn't want to have to do another connecting flight because it's fucking murder. So I just stayed a couple days in London and then took a train, took the train and took, to Heathrow and then flew home, right?

But their underground system in London is massive. It's enormous. It's quiet. It's fast. You get on it. You don't feel like you're moving. And then you look out and you're like fucking zipping through. Yeah.

Underneath, you get off and you're like, holy shit, I'm super far away. The speed at which it moves, et cetera, et cetera. And the reason why is because they just, there's people over there who are like, hey, man, we should make this system better. This infrastructure needs to be better. Yeah. I feel like what we need to do is these people who run this, run our country, need to feel some sort of pain

that a regular person has to endure on a normal basis. When we send these people to anywhere, we should say they have to use public transportation only. I like it. You know what I mean? Yeah. You only, if you're going to go to Texas and you're going to go talk somewhere,

you can't go there in a private car, private jet, first class accommodations, none of that. You've got to fly there in commercial. You've got to get there and then you got to figure out, look at your little booklet, figure out how you're going to catch a train from here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to catch the infrastructure.

Where am I going to go? Oh, I got to walk to a pace bus to catch a train? Well, I guess I'm walking to a pace bus with my fucking security detail. Make these people realize what it's like to live like a regular person. They don't know what it's like to live like a regular person. And this story is a perfect epitome of that because 50% of the more than that of the United States

is feeling. existential anxiety every single day. And to poke fun at that, to be like, ha, ha, ha, that's funny, you're a disgrace. You're an awful person. And they should have to feel more pressure points in their regular daily lives. We make it way too fucking easy on them. They should have to live in a dorm. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Use fucking regular fucking transportation. Take the fucking elder work, bitch. Yeah. How's that work for you? Yep. They would change that in a minute. It would be beautiful. They would suddenly fund all that stuff if they had to deal with this on a daily

basis. Instead, we have a bunch of unsurious, unfunny people mocking the pain and misery of other human beings for political points with their base. And like, I'll tell you, if you're the kind of person who finds this funny, if you think this is how government should respond and interact with its people, you're a fucking awful person. You are. You're a terrible human being. The people making the jokes are bad.

The people who think it's acceptable for our politicians to mock our own citizens. And to mock the Constitution. To mock our citizens, our systems, our institutions that hold and bind us together. I've talked about this before. What this does, I really believe this in my heart, man. What this does is this destroys the narrative threads that hold us together as a people. You're not wrong.

And if we destroy the narrative threads that hold us together as a people, we literally don't have anything else holding us together as a nation. We can't do this to ourselves. But this uns seriousness is a problem. Yeah, seriously. We can't be okay with it. You can't be okay with the memeification of the most serious work possible. Imagine if you went to the ER and this is how people behaved. If it felt like a fucking frat house.

They walk into idiots. Like you're going to die. Sike. Like, shit on your other doctor. Like this is crazy. This is serious work being treated as if it were unsurious. yeah. Well, they broke down a gate

and one massive assault and the party came to a blinding all they got to go and said to fuck he's with the girls in tow and a boy said Louis it's tied to go because one was

the end of the gift they asked me I have any last words to stay while I raise my cell I be make that lot more so there's two stories

here that we need to cover in tandem because one was pretty hopeful and then it got a little less hopeful. And it got shit on the Like hours later, like pretty much the next day. This one's to be New York Times. Judge admonishes border patrol leader for tactics in Chicago.

This is Gregory Bovino, a border patrol official who's become a public face of President Trump's crackdown. He's ordered to give the federal judge a daily report on the actions of his team from now on. That's because the actions of his team were egregious and inhuman. And he wasn't wearing a body camera. They were constantly going above and beyond with how much force they were using. and they were using it a drop of a hat. No provocation.

No provocation whatsoever. They were doing horrible shit, throwing tear gas without any warning and et cetera, et cetera, just a ton of shit that they were doing. And so the judge said, you're going to bring your ass here every single day, and I'm going to expect a report from you every day on what happened. And I need you to get a body camera,

and he said, I'll try to do that. And he was actually really, like, in the conversations that I saw with the judge, he was admonished, literally admonished. The judge said, you need to do these things. And he was like, I will do these things. Yes, Your Honor, I will do these things. And then right after that, they took it to appeals court and they said basically, look, these daily briefings aren't, they shouldn't happen. The appeals court said they shouldn't happen because it's impinging ICE's work in these, this federal work that's happening in these places. And that's too much of a constraint on their daily workload that it shouldn't happen. So now it's going to continue to rise up and we'll see what happens. But for a moment there, it felt like, okay, maybe this is one of the checks that we've always thought were availing.

to people that would help protect the American people. And then, oh, I guess not, it's a rug pool. Yeah, think about the message the appeals court has just sent. That message, as I read it, says, hey, if you had to be accountable for the work that you're doing, you wouldn't be able to do your work. So instead of us questioning whether or not that work is good and worth doing, we're actually just going to remove the accountability piece.

What? Imagine any other scenario. where you were like, hey, if I have to be accountable here at my work, I obviously won't be able to work. And people are like, oh, well, then you don't have to worry about accountability. You're actually, you're beholden to no one. No, what? There's no other thing. Yeah.

There's no other thing at all that operates that way. The military in wartime is accountable. In war time. More accountable than ISIS in like every single way. Yes. If you are in wartime, if you as a soldier, break the rules of engagement. There are repercussions.

There doesn't seem to be any repercussions for these fuckers. You're absolutely right. And what is what is so appalling is the things that they're doing and that they're capturing on tape are so infuriating, so petty. Yes. They're attacking people, hurting people, dragging people over lines so that they can then kidnap them for days on end and not return them. There's people who are foregoing due process in these,

these moments. And it's funny because when there was moments that people in the January 6th didn't have the proper due process, it was all over the news. Oh, yeah. It was all over. It was the biggest thing, right? And it was only like a couple of people didn't have the proper due process that they complained about, et cetera. These were insurrectionists, right? Literal insurrectionists. Storming the Capitol. Literally storming the Capitol. And we were like, no, they didn't get the right proper amount of due process. And so a few of those people that went to court. And I agree with that, right? You do too. Due process is the bulwark that keeps us honest. But it's also important to point out it

wasn't everybody. Right. It was only a few people that had this happen. So, but when due process is literally thrown out the window for many of the people who have been captured and kidnapped by ICE, these people are like, fucking don't break the law then. Yeah. And you're like, dude, if you want to do don't break the law, don't let me in there. Don't you fucking let me in there. Like, don't do this. Why do you want this?

Why do you want us to erode all of the rights that Americans have? Why do you want that to happen? You can't, you can't be serious here. What you want is vengeance. What you want is to hurt people. What you want is to fucking be the bully and shove people's nose in it.

You're terrible. You're a bad person. And to your point, I think they must be feeling right now like they are confident enough that they can rig the system forever. Think about that. If you really believe so, I think your point and our point has been for a long time. But if you break the system, when you hand it back to your political opponents, you will be subject to their excesses the way that we have been subject to yours. But I think what I'm coming to understand is they are, they don't believe that they will ever hand the system back to Democrats. Yeah, I mean, we've been hearing that for a long time. A lot of different people have been saying it.

I think where I'm finally at a point where I'm like, yeah, but if you are building an authoritarian police state and you are rigging the voting process, the gerrymandering process and the rest of it, and you have stacked the deck at the federal level with the judiciary to the degree that you have, I think they're counting on this idea that the Democrats will never retake power in a substantive way. In a real way. Yeah. In a real way again. You know, maybe they'll get like the House. They'll probably never get the Senate again.

it'll be generations before they get the Supreme Court. And I think they feel like they're going to have the presidency locked up. And if you consolidate power to the executive branch the way they have, I think they're also like, yeah, the House doesn't do anything anyway. I think one of the things that they are hopefully miscalculating is the amount of damage that they're doing to the people who think this is funny. Because I think that even though there are a group of people, and I saw this when I was protesting out here,

that would drive by and say, ice, ice baby, and they're talking about how great ice is. And there was this guy who was walking by protesters during no kings in Colorado. This is a big viral clip that went. And he was saying, God bless ice, God bless Donald Trump. Somebody snatched his glasses off his face and he started running and chasing after him.

And he fucking right in his face. And then stood up and started running after him and fell again. It was skin on his face. And he was fucking just pouring blood out of his face. And then a Bernie supporter walks up and he's like, don't chase him into this. you will get your ass kicked. Just walk away right now.

Yeah, I saw that. And then the guy was like really mad and upset. And he was like, I don't know what to do at this point. But he probably, hopefully, just went home because he was going to get his ass kicked if he kept being belligerent over there. And he was already, he already had spaghetti legs. Like he had already kind of knocked himself out a little. So he already, he was already doing the stanky walk.

You know what I mean? Like he already wasn't doing great. But like people like that, who was. are who are at this point excited for ICE because they're bad human beings, right? They're bad people who have, they have bad morals. They were raised completely wrong. I don't think that that's a person who's completely unredeemable. I don't think that, but I definitely think they have a lot of work to do to get redeemed.

They have a ton of work to do in order to redeem themselves and become a moral person, because I think at this point, they are completely bankrupt morally. If you think that you're bankrupt morally, you need a ton of work on yourself in order to get to a point where you actually have empathy in your life. But I think like even those people, there's not going to be enough damage

for them to finally be like, the damage I'm taking is too much. Yeah. I think that and I think like there's a lot of people who really do exist in a world where the government is helping them and they don't realize it. For sure.

There's going to be major cuts that's going to cause them to finally be like, yeah, I really do. I'm really a bad human being and I am amoral or immoral. And I'm happy when other people are hurting, but I'm hurting now. Yeah. And that's too much. And I think that they are doing too much too quick because Donald Trump has no regulation and he's a fucking, he's a bull in a china shop.

So he's going to do as much as he can, as hard as he can, whenever he can, stay in the front page and hurt as many people as he can. And it might be too much. It might be too much for them. And that's my hope is that it's too much, that it hurts too many people on his side, that there's too many leopards eating faces. Because if you do that, then they will turn on him too.

And then that could be the thing that changes everything. I sincerely hope that that's right. I sincerely hope that that's right. I don't have anything else. There's nothing else. Cecil, that's the only thing that we can hang our hats on anymore. That's it. Oh, God.

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Everybody wants you to come. Everybody wants me to come? Yeah, man, we've been excited for you to come. Why would you want me to come? I just want to fight aliens. Well, you better come quick. We're all ready to go. I don't want to come.

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You don't want Uncle Johnson to come? I don't want anybody to come. At least come outside so they can see you. Why do they want to see me come? Wait, what? I don't understand what you want. His stories from the Hill, ICE invokes Halo remake seeks recruits to destroy the flood. Let me see if there's an image of this.

So here it is, everybody. You can take a look at it. This is what it looks like. It's from the Homeland Security. That's Twitter's at DHS.gov. And it is image. And it says, destroy the flood, join ice.gov. And genuinely, this is the type of stuff that, like,

this is like almost having cheerleaders outside of box cars leading people to them. Yeah, man. Do you know what I mean? I do. It's not. it's not anything different than that. You're using very coded language. If people aren't familiar with the halo

sort of mythology behind it is that there's multiple different forces in the universe and one of those forces is essentially like a virus-type force that infects other living creatures and turns them into sort of zombie-like creatures called the flood. And there's one major creature.

who's the flood, the evil flood person who sends them out. And it's essentially you're saying, like, this is a disease. Yeah. These are disease. This is an evil that has to be eradicated. This is an evil that has to be removed. And they're saying, destroy the flood. The flood is immigrants, guys.

I mean, like, like, this is our government saying, we would like to be evil, please. We would like you to join our evil, please. Yes, we are the baddies. Yeah. And the image is of, a halo character in a vehicle manning a machine gun. Yes.

So it's not like, hey, we should protect ourselves through like, you know, economic redevelopment and developing nations so that people don't want to immigrate here and they can stay in the, no, none of that. It's let's use maximum amounts of deadly force. Absolutely. In order to literally destroy and eradicate these human beings, who incidentally, our economy literally relies upon. You know,

we talk about like the fuck around and find out. It's all, like, if, if we are successful over the next several years in reducing immigration and driving people who have been here for a long time out, prices,

like inflation's going to fucking skyrocket. We rely on immigrant labor for an enormous amount of work here in the United States. And we need them. Unemployment, even though it's creeping up, unemployment is still somewhere around 4%. You never get to 0%. That's not a real thing. That's a historically very good number. So it's not like there's a bunch of out-of-work Americans who are being replaced in jobs by immigrants and they don't otherwise have work. That's not a real thing.

The numbers show that that's not a real thing. If all of a sudden, their immigrant laborers are unable to perform the functions that have historically been functions we've relied on immigrant labor for prices of everything will go. So like it's in our best interests to have immigrant labor. Driving these people underground or driving them out of the country entirely, we will eat an enormous amount of shit. So even from just selfish reasons, even if you abandon the idea of being a better person, of actually having morals and empathy, even if you abandon that and you just look at it from a purely self-interested standpoint, this isn't in your best interests. It's not even that too because

they're taking people who are actual citizens. Yes. They're taking actual citizens away. Yes. In handcuffs, pulling them out. They're taking asylum seekers at their fucking court dates. They will go to their court date. The asylum seekers, this is somebody who literally marched to the United States through horrible, hostile territory in order to get here. Just because they had such a low quality of life where they were, they felt they were in danger. They came to the United States. They said,

help us. We agreed. We said yes. Let's get you through. We said sort of a conditional yes. Yeah. Well, sure. Let's try it. Let's try it. They work through the process. And then following the process, they are grabbed outside of these hearings and dragged outside. People who were born here are being snatched in these rates. That's because we are working actively. The Trump administration wants to redefine what citizenship means and who gets. it, even though constitutionally, it's very clear. We all are going to eat shit. This is an authoritarian power grab.

It's a consolidation of power for white people. I've tried everything to convince him of my scholastic aptitude, but I was brutally rebuffed. Get over it, okay? He's a miserable little man who wants to make everyone else miserable too. Dee, that's it. The stories from Aris Technica, man finally released a month after absurd arrest for reposting a Trump meme. This is how it posted, I guess Trump had posted, Trump had said something about a school shooting that was like, we're going to have to move past it or going to get a guy and I have to get over it.

And this is a quote from Trump. Well, after there was a post somewhere about, I was on Facebook, but I don't know exactly whose page was hosting it, but someone had posted something about a Charlie Kirk Memorial. And someone in response literally just posted Trump's words about that shooting, that school shooting, which was we're going to have to move past this, we're going to have to get past it. And they were arrested, taken in, because the sheriff felt like he felt like he was the one who was wronged by this Facebook post.

So he arrests this guy. Then the judge issues a $2 million bay. $2 million for posting something online. And then they bring him in, and he has to spend a whole month there because he can't actually afford that kind of bay. Like there's no way you can get out. So he just stays a whole month in jail and then they finally drop the case.

They finally dropped the case and he's released from jail. I just covered on the No Rogan experience. We just did a live show. Our live show talks very specifically for a few minutes about the censorship that's happening, quote unquote censorship that's happening in the United Kingdom. And Joe Rogan is all over this censorship that's happening in the United Kingdom. These people are getting arrested for posting. I am dying to find out if he even mentions this case.

Yeah, probably not. Here in the United States, we're seeing people pulled out, like literally arrested because the current administration is offended that they posted something that that is in some way demeaning them. So they're literally arresting people for ideological causes here in the United States. I need to see your outrage here. It's happening here, clearly. Look, when.

Just to be very clear, when people, when Republicans hang out together over their phone and they joke about how great rape is and they talk about, you know, I love Hitler. We need gas chambers. And we need gas chambers. The vice president of our country says, ah, let's not ruin people's lives over some jokes. 100% right. Right. When somebody literally quotes the actual president on a Facebook meme. back to somebody in a post.

That guy gets arrested and thrown in jail. And the only reason they got out is because this is obvious bullshit, right? But we're approaching a world where the fact that something is obvious bullshit will not have merit, right? And we're approaching a world where whether or not you even get reasonable due process is shaky. The judge obviously didn't throw this away. The judge said $2 million bail. They were trying to say that this was a school shooting threat. That makes no sense.

It's just if you read the meme, you're like, it doesn't make it. any sense at all. You're like, he posted about a school shooting, but he wasn't saying, I'm going to shoot people. Right. He didn't even refer in the meme, I don't believe, to the school shooting. This is crazy. And they had to throw it out because some parts of the system still work. But guys, when that part of the system that still works becomes eroded, then those people go to jail and they stay in jail. Yeah. And they stay in jail. Absolutely right. And a month in jail can ruin your life. He lost his job. Yeah. He literally lost his job. He literally lost his job. He lost his job because he was posting on he was a he's a retired law enforcement officer too yeah this is

crazy so this is a person who knows the system and they said he fucking lost his job think about this who out there listening to this would have a job if they if they were in jail for a month yeah not me out there i would have a job of course you would lose my day job of course you even if you didn't do anything yeah even if this was a totally trumped up charges nothing you did wrong yeah right you could lose you, would lose your fucking job. If I got, if I, if I just disappeared for a month and then I come back a month later, I'm like,

hey, I got thrown in the fucking clink, but they dropped the charges. They'd be like, it's been a month. We've already figured out how to move past us. We literally hired somebody else the third day you were gone. Yeah. Your third, no call no show, we already moved on. Yep. Yeah. Like, and if,

also, most people can't afford to lose a month's worth of income. Like, people could lose homes. They could lose insurance. They could they could not have access. We just talked about us earlier. You did not have access to medical care. Their children could not have access to medical care. It's not like you throw somebody in jail for a while.

And then you say, whoopsie daisy, it was no harm, no foul. There's a lot of harm and a lot of foul. A lot of fucking files, bro. A lot of falls. It's not like jail is safe. If you go to jail for a month, it's very easy to imagine a scenario where you can get attacked, killed. It happens. People get hurt in jail all the time. I also, you know, this shutdown is still happening. Yeah. So there's a lot of people right now that work for the government that have been without a paycheck at this point for like three weeks.

Yeah, it's terrible. Four weeks. Terrible. These people, how do you live like that? How do you live like that if you're if you're just trying to survive and you work for the government? How do you, you've got to. My brain would say like if you, you would almost have to realize that the government is a fucking non-working entity sometimes and you've got to have something put up. But even still, you wouldn't expect it to go on this long.

even if you had rainy day money. Yeah. You wouldn't expect it to go this long. And so many people don't have the ability financially to set aside any savings. There's no, there's no fucking, there's no room to squeeze. Where do you get the, there's no juice anymore. Right. Can't get it from anywhere.

Everything's gotten insane. Yeah. So I feel so bad for all those people who work that are, that are working right now. Yeah. Working full-time jobs right now. And they're not getting paid. They're not getting paid. Yeah.

And others are getting fucking furloughed. And it's not like if you get furloughed and you're not working, you just immediately got another job. Yeah. It takes time to find work. And are you going to get a job that pays the same very, very quickly that you're also planning to quit? No. So, like, even if you're able to replace a tiny portion of your income, it's probably not enough to keep the lights on and pay the mortgage and, you know, pay for food and all the right. This is a disaster.

It's an absolute disaster. Now, they all just read springtime. What did you think of it, fellas? It needs glamour and glitz. It needs sequence. And dirt. NPR. Trump says he wants to resume nuclear testing.

Here's what that would mean. It would mean it's pretty dangerous and stupid and we shouldn't do it because nobody thinks is a good thing. But Trump is all about shows of power. And so it makes sense that he would want to show something to other people. He's a really stupid person who thinks that if you show people how tough you are, they leave you alone or that they fall into life. line quicker for some reason, but he's just in a genuinely obtuse person who thinks that this stuff

works. If you want your asshole to pucker and to not stop forever, read Nuclear War by Ann Jacobson. It is a fictional account based on interviews with some extremely high level, former officials, scientists, et cetera, account of how a nuclear war in modern day could unfold and what that would mean, minute by minute, an hour by hour by. hour. And it is an intensely possible thing. I've read a couple of things relatively recently. And the Netflix movie House of Dynamite really brought a lot of this to the sort of popular attention, but it's been getting more news traction lately. We're closer to nuclear war now than we were at any other time in history. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. No. There are more nuclear powers than ever

before. They are less stable. There's less oversight. There's less just the world is less nuclear stable than it ever was. Testing nuclear weapons is it just an objectively horrifying idea. It brings us one step closer to a brink that we can never step back from. This is scary. Like this is actually really, holy shit, what? You're going to set off nuclear bombs? Why?

This is the problem with getting somebody who's so incredibly stupid as your leader, right? Yeah, he sure as hell can me. meme, he can shitpost. Yeah. This is what happens when we don't look for somebody who has the ability to have that office without being an absolute fucking fool. And he is such a fucking clown. He has no idea what he's doing.

He is genuinely one of the stupidest people to ever take that office. He still thinks that a cognitive test is an IQ test. Oh my God, I know. He's genuinely the stupidest human being. He is a, I mean, he's a fucking. 80, he's like a fucking room temperature IQ. Yeah. And he somehow fell his way up

throughout his entire life. He has tripped up every fucking flight of stairs to get to where he is. And he's an embarrassment of a person. You know, it feels to me, and it's sort of belied by the way he dresses, right? It feels to me like a guy who you know, like a lot of people,

the music they listened to in high school is the music they listened to forever. That's a very common thing. I feel like the political ideas that he formed 50, literally 50 years ago about power and hegemony and geopolitics and economics are the ideas he continues to hold him to carry. And those are 50-year-old fucking ideas. Those are ideas formed in the 70s and 80s. I know he was a Democrat back then, but I don't think that that that his ideas of power changed. Yeah. Like he is still, he still dresses like a guy from the 80s. He really does. He really does. His suits are tailored like fucking 80s power suits. Yeah. He looks like

MC Hammer. Yes. he does like don't hurt me don't hurt us this feels like the same thing it's like this is how you'd be powerful you're not wrong you're not wrong yeah i assure you tonight's program will go off without a hitch

well i hope so jerry for your sake you picked a dangerous mall to host a game show in i hear the easter bunny was accosted this morning stories from lgbcq nation white house website post topless pick of trans women in response to critics of east wing destruction did you see this on the main page this main the main website of the

of the White House had posted a link someone had posted a link to this and they posted a link to the website and on the website they have a timeline and the timeline lists

when the fucking the East Wing was made or they start with the White House itself what happened to the White House when it got renovated and they're listing all these things and they're all very you know very easy to see simple

like oh this is when it got attacked during this time and oh this was when you know this particular president decided to build this portion of it and then the Rose Garden was built here and there and there but there's three very specific instances that they

literally put trolling shit on there one of them was during Obama's presidents that they show Obama in a headdress and in like traditional outfit and they say President Obama hosts the Muslim Brotherhood and it shows an image of them and then it showed

cocaine discovered in 2003 and they have a picture of of Hunter Biden with a cigarette in his mouth laying in a bathtub what looks like. And then they posted also in 2020, 23, 24 Trans Day of Visibility and they show Biden Harris administration hosts

and they say they use the word transsexuals at the White House in 2023 and goes on to establish the transgender day of visibility the same day as Easter Sunday in 2024 to go out of their way to pick two or three recent things that happened

in an administration he doesn't care for to belittle them and attack them and to try to... I mean, this isn't an attack, to be perfectly honest, to say there's a trans day... Okay, there was a trans day of visibility all right, but he's very specifically pointing it out because he knows that it riles' base up and this is what he wants to point out

that they did to say, look at how awful they are. What they don't realize is that they were just inclusive on that day. Yeah, and I want to point out that they're lying about the trans day of visibility. So very specifically... I mean read what they wrote because it's just not true. They said the Biden-Harris administration hosts transsexuals at the White House in 2023

and goes on to establish the transgender day of visibility on the same day as Easter Sunday in 2024. I know what you're going to say. That's not true. Yes, it's not true. The transgender day of visibility was established in 2009. Already a thing. Well before the Biden-Harris administration, right? And trans-day of visibility is a fixed date.

Yeah. Right? It's not one of these moon holidays. Yeah. It's a fucking lunar whack job holiday. It moves around. Easter is what moved on to the transgender day of visibility. Yeah.

The transgender day of visibility is just a fixed date on a calendar. It was established in 2009, not during the Biden administration, that none of those facts are accurate. That's just not, like literally nothing in those sentences are true sentences. Yeah. But they wanted to go out of their way to, again, this is the thing that we were talking about earlier. this is an administration that enjoys trolling people. And this is the thing that people voted for. They voted for the administration to take time out of their busy schedules

to concoct and write something that is an insult to somebody else, trying to insult. I don't feel like that's an insult. I'm like, it's not an insult. No. Okay, whatever. Who cares? But what they're trying to do is trying to belittle the other administration on your dime.

You're paying for them to be snark. You're paying for their time for them to do this work. If we're going to talk about waste. Yeah, this is it. This is waste, right? I'm not paying you to be a fucking snark and try to fight other people. I'm paying you to do a fucking job. Yep.

And like if you wonder, what does this have to do with the demolition of the East Wing of the White House? Nothing! Yeah. It is nothing to do with it whatsoever. Nothing at all. They just unrelated. They pick something that they could get a wedge in. Yeah.

They pick something that would inflame it. their base. Doesn't even blame us. I don't give a shit. No. I don't care. I mean, obviously I care that they find cocaine at the White House. I don't know that that Hunter Biden was the reason why they found cocaine at the White House. Right? Of course there, of course, if I was Hunter Biden, I'd sue the fuck out of him for that. Yeah. Put my face on there? Prove it, mother fucker. Yeah. That's literally indicting him in front of them like all those. I would fucking sue the fuck out of them. Yeah. Fucking prove it,

assholes. Yeah, but this is, this is your hard, your hard-earned money given to the government so that they could then pay some fucking asshole to make the, take these images and create this webpage very specifically to attack the other side. All right, that's going to wrap it up for this week. We're going to be on back on Thursday with a funny show, but we're going to leave you like we always do with the skeptics greed. Credulity is not a virtue. It's fortune. cookie cutter, mommy issue, hypno-Babillon, bullshit. Couched in Scientician, Double Bubble, Toil and Trouble,

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