Cognitive Dissonance - Episode 919: The Cult of Trump

Episode Date: June 1, 2026

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This episode of Cognitive Dissinence is brought to you by our patrons. You fucking rock. Be advised that this show is not for children, the faint of heart, or the easily offended. The explicit tag is there for a reason. Recording live from Glorhill Studios in Chicago and beyond. This is Cognitive Dissanance. Every episode we blasts anyone who gets in our way. We bring critical thinking, skepticism, and irreverence.

to any topic that makes the news makes it big or makes us mad. It's skeptical. It's political. And there is no welcome at. Today is Thursday, May the 26th, and Cecil, we are reunited and it feels so good. Back in studio, baby. Way to go. The boys are back in town.

And not only be back in studio, but if you guys don't watch this show from time to time, you check it out over at YouTube. We have a new and improved studio. you surprised me with this. I have not been able to record in person for a few months. I took some time away from recording, as you all know, and then I had to record from home for a while while while I was making sure that Haley was healthy enough for me to leave the house and feel comfortable being away from the house. It's been a couple of months, so now I feel, you know, pretty comfortable being out of the house for a few hours. I walk into the studio. My whole life

has turned upside down. We, I actually did all this, on like the week that Haley was in the hospital. So when Haley was in the hospital and you were away, I redid a bunch of the studio but I didn't want to put it on camera and so you came back.

It's such a surprise. It's been done for like two months at least, right, at this point? At least it's been yeah, because it's been literally two months and six days. So two months. Yeah.

So it's been that long and so we put it, we put it all together after you left and you hadn't seen it and I hadn't recorded anything except for audio stuff only in here because I didn't want to have the reveal. Right.

Put it on the big so we can everybody can see. It looks so good. We now have a globe bar as our centerpiece, which we should because of course, because it's the globe bar. So, but it's a different, it's a different background and it's a little bigger, a little more spacious in here, which is nice. The globe bar just reminds me how classy the glory holds. Exactly.

That's how I know. Am I in a classy establishment? Is this, is this a classy, glory hole? Because I'm only, I'm not going to some low rent bullshit glory hole. Of course. I'm a man. I'm a 48 year old man. I'm moved into more sophisticated environment. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. The glory hole has to have a first class section. Right. Yeah. I want, I want a glory hole with an English accent. What is the first class section? What is? Well, yeah, do you get like a free, like, like, mimosa? You know? Like you're standing there with like, drink it.

I mean, come on. But, but yeah, but yeah, it's good. It's, I'm, I'm so happy you're back and I'm happy that Haley's feeling back. Yeah, it's great. So it's really good stuff. It's so, it's so nice to be able to be out of the house for a few hours and know that I feel safe, that she's safe being out of the house. That's great. That's great. It's awesome. Well, let's talk about some news. So this story is from Axios. AOC takes more steps toward 2028 run for president. Boy, do I have mixed feelings about this. And by mixed feelings, I mostly mean, I think this is a terrible mistake and I hope she

doesn't run for president. And not because I don't think she'd be a good president. Yeah, I think I'm in the exact same space. I think, I think it's so hard. for America to overcome its misogyny in order to elect somebody who's a woman. We've tried in the last, what is it, four election cycles, three election cycles, two women have run, and two women have lost in the last three election cycles.

And those two women were ultra-qualified to be the president. Ultra-qualified to be the president. Easily as good a president as anybody, certainly way better than what we were elected instead of them. but easily as good a president as we could have hoped for in those cycles. The country has not done it. And one of the things that I think is the most damning and the most and the saddest thing is that we're seeing that oftentimes even like what we're seeing is we're seeing that,

I mean, of course white males aren't going to vote for a black woman, right? Like that's not going to happen, right? Like we know that like most, they're trash. Mediocre white men are going to do that. 100% aren't going to do it. But what we saw was that a lot of minority men weren't going to do it either. And we saw that that was the case too, that a lot of men are being turned against women. And that's been sort of the cycle for a long time.

And they're starting to turn them against women so that now women have a much steeper hill to climb than they did before, which was already real fucking steep. It's incredibly steep. And I would encourage listeners, if you haven't already, to listen to last week's long form. episode and about specifically how misogyny has really become the unifying force that it holds together the unlikely coalition of the right. And the unlikely coalition of the right used to not only be the right. It's a bunch of people who were swing voters and independents and the deciders of the election. You know, there's also a particular and important and specific problem that a huge number of really awful, insecure, shitty dudes have with AOC because she's a young attractive woman.

And America, by and large, has proven, and all you have to do is just go on social media to vet this out, that we have a specific and virulent issue, not just with women. That issue is fucking big enough and nearly insurmountable on its own, but also young, attractive, successful women. I mean, there is a huge push against women right now. Misogyny has grown wings and taken flight. It has grown roots and dug deep. Whatever your analogy is, I don't remember a time in my life as a 48-year-old man where misogyny has had such an outspoken set of institutional adherents,

both institutional in our media, institutional in our halls of power. and that particularly there's a different and unique strain that has been attached to AOC from the beginning because she is a conventionally attractive young woman. And there is a huge number of people who hate to see that because it threatens them on so many more levels. It upsets them. And AOC has been a lightning rod for the middle and the right from the very beginning. I think she's uniquely problematically unileged. in many of the same, not for the same reasons, but in many of the same ways that Hillary Clinton

was uniquely difficult to elect. Yeah. Like, Hillary Clinton was a lightning rod in and of herself for a lot of years. And I think AOC has taken the brunt, too. And I don't believe she's a good candidate. These people, they, they, I mean, even on Joe Rogan show, which I am forced to listen to way too much. Even on that show, you will hear

Joe call her an idiot. He will say she's a fucking idiot. She's a thousand times smarter than Joe Roca. Like a thousand times smarter. Undeniable. Like if you could just take smarts power and make somebody pop, she could make him pop. She could shoot him and make him explode.

He's that, he's genuinely thinks he's so much smarter than her. And it's because, one, he's a misogynist, but I think uniquely it's all those other factors that are factored in. I think she would be an excellent present. Unbelievable. She'd be so good. And I think the reason why is

because of all the people we've ever had in there, it would have been she seems to be one of the people who did not have anything given to her. Was somebody who worked from like the bottom. She was like a bartender. And I'm not saying a bartender's the bottom, but still

you know what I mean. She's a working class person. She understands the plight of the working class. What an amazing thing to have in there. I think it's a, the stuff that she could, I think, champion and the things that she would focus on and the sort of, I think that the issues that she would make sure that Congress is paying the most attention to

would be amazing for the average person. I just think that our country is so shitty that it is a bigger hill to climb. and at this point, we're just trying to stop the bleeding. I know. Right? So you're in an election cycle in 2028

that is stop the bleeding 2028. Whatever you can do to stop the bleeding because we have rampant environmental concerns at this point. Like all over our country, there are environmental concerns that need to be fixed. You have encroaching tech companies

that are slowly taking over every facet of our government and our country. You have a trade, issues that are going to affect the United States for years, if not decades. You have a Supreme Court that has already changed things dramatically and will do so on a generational level that you need to fix. You have massive gerry. I mean, Tom, I can keep going on, right? You have massive corruption. You have people who you've laid off that you need to rehire.

You have so much work to do if you decide to do the 2028 thing. Yeah, man. And all the idealistic. things that you want to get done, and this is going to be the real problem, all the idealistic things that you want to get done might not get done. And if you just stop the bleeding, you might not get reelected. It's going to be a disaster in 2028. So bad. It's going to be so tough. And then you put this in. Then you say, here's one more hurdle. Here's one more hill you have to climb. Yeah. It's just, I want other things to be true. I know. I, you know, what I thought of when I was reading the story was, I want to be very clear that I would not hold my nose and vote for AOC.

Oh, God, no. But I would hold my breath. Yeah, that's a great way to put it. I would do the same. I would be delighted for her to be my president. Delighted. I would be over the moon. I think she's become this nationally polarizing figure because the Wright used her pretty much

immediately. And again, I think in large part because she was an educated, very smart, a conventionally attractive young one. woman, they seized a person of color, they seized on that as a way to tap into the explicit misogyny of a hate-filled, resentful American male. And they've been doing this since she began in Congress. And everybody across the country has some kind of an opinion about AOC already formed. I worry so much about electability with her. I worry not at all about ability. It makes me crazy. Yeah. You know, it's the electal. It's not an ability. It's the electa part, not the ability. And I'm right there with you. Like, we have to have an election of pragmatism

coming up. We have got to, like, we have to throw a fucking turnicot on this thing. You know, I also believe, and I hope that we survive to 2028 before it happens, I don't know that we I think there is a massive ticking time bomb in the private credit market right now. Oh, God. Yeah. That, like, could combine with like a wild overvaluation or overvaluation in crypto that is a giant Ponzi scheme. It's worth trillions of dollars.

You know, combined again with inflationary concerns, combined again with bond yield problems. I think we are on the cusp potentially of another great recession and potentially depression. Well, and you've got to have the right leader. man. Well, and that's the problem is those things don't get turned around quickly. So you get somebody in there who can stem the bleeding, but not spin everything around to like happy days times. You're going to have a bunch of people who are like, well, we got to flip the switch again. And they're going to flip the switch to somebody else. Maybe somebody worse than Trump. Maybe Trump's third term. Who knows? Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? I think I heard that in a video game once. And, you know, I did earn this. fair and square. I mean, I'm advocating for an important cause, doing important things, and that makes me an important person, and important people need important resources so they can continue doing important things and advocating for important causes.

What do you want, that I should starve? You want me to starve, don't you? This story comes from CNBC. Mom Dani fires back at Bezos over Queens' teacher tax remark. This is an interesting tactic that I think Bezos is taking. So Bezos is basically like, look, hey, don't tax me. Let's instead not tax the bottom half of all American taxpayers, right? They only pay, they only contribute about 3% to the total revenue. That sounds, so I thought this was very clever when he did this.

because at first that sounds very much like, hey, it's not a me problem. I actually want to help you. Let's take half of Americans and not tax them. What's buried in there is how many of that half are already not paying a substantial amount of taxes. Why are they only contributing 3% even though they're 50% of the population? Well, in large part, because many of them are at a poverty level that they're already not contributing or they're getting all the money back after they've put it in. So it's some smoke and mirrors bullshit, right?

And like not taxing people who don't make much money in the first place, many of whom are already not paying a taxes and many of whom are paying a lower marginal tax rate to start with, accomplishes nothing on the revenue side. It doesn't really help people out too much because many folks in that area,

as far as tax bracket, are concerned, are already paying a low or non or negligible tax rate. And he's doing all that to try to look magnanimous while shifting the focus away from, don't tax me. Yeah. It's don't text me. Don't text me. But also, you know, we should help other people, but don't tax me.

And also very specifically, he's saying, my money that I have isn't going to go to somebody in Queens. And you're like, that's probably true if you don't live in Queens because property tax pays teacher salaries, while that may be true, your tax dollars could help fund lots of educational efforts in this country. They don't have to necessarily pay for a salary in Queens in order for them to do that.

So again, you're splitting, you're saying true things, but you're saying them duplicitously so that you could, so that you can slither out of this. These people, look at Amazon, look at, in fact, look at Sam Walton. I think that's a better one, right? Look at the Walton family and look at how they underpay their workers

so much that many of their workers have to rely on food stamps and snap and kitchens and things like that. Like food banks, etc. They very specifically pay them too little to live on and make billions and billions and billions of dollars every single year they make money and they're billionaires,

mega billionaires. They're never, their entire family line will never have to worry about money for the rest of time. They're just taken care of. And we have a system that allows people to underpay

a whole swath of people and then they rely on government assistance. All that government assistance comes out of ear in my pocket, right? Exactly. And it comes out of our pockets and it comes out of that 4%. That all those people have to pay

extra back into the government. This is genuinely, a problem that is so easily fixable, so simple to fix, change the loopholes on how they get their money, change the loopholes on how they're, because they basically just borrow, borrow, borrow, until they die. And then somebody sells off some of the stock and pays it off and they don't have to pay any taxes on that sale of stock because they got it through estate taxes or there's no estate taxes or there's little estate taxes in comparison to actual money that you have.

Just fucking change some of the tax loss, man. It just changes, so they have to pay some money. There's 989 billionaires in the United States. That's it. That's a lot of people, but it's nothing. There's 340, give or take, 340 million people here. There are less than 1,000 billionaires. Being weirdly protectionist about the ultra wealth of a tiny fraction of the people in this country

when their significant additional contributions could raise the ship in so many ways of 340 million people. Like, if it made a, like, we could sacrifice their fucking lives as far as I'm concerned. You know, like, and I'm only partially kidding. Think about after 9-11, how many people were we willing to watch die? How many American citizens were we willing to watch die to protect? the health and well-being of 340 million. We said, people came out and they said, America's under threat.

We have, and I don't believe that this was true, but still, this is what was said. America's under threat. We've got to send your boys overseas to fight and die and get maimed and all the rest of this shit. Because if we don't, there is a real threat to the safety of American citizens after 9-11, right? So we took a whole bunch of kids and we said, hey, you know, here's a gun and a grenade launcher and a fucking Humvee or whatever. and let's go. PTSD. Yeah, it's a PTSD.

And let's go drive around the desert and shoot people you don't know. Yeah. And we did that. Yeah. And thousands of people died. Thousands of people. And then hundreds of thousands of people on the other side.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians on the other side. Yeah. I mean, like I looked this up out of curiosity the other day, the Iraqi, just the Iraqi war civilian death count is a fucking war crime. It is a war crime beyond our reckoning. But like if we're just counting Americans because we're America's, centric, we were willing to sacrifice thousands of our people for the health, safety, and well-being, supposedly. You got 989 billionaires, and we're not willing to sacrifice a portion of their

unbelievable wealth and still allow them to be unbelievably wealthy to improve the health, safety, and well-being of 340 million people. We're bad at math, man. I have an idea. How about, you know, instead of an estate tax, it's a trial by combat tax. I love it. So when you're set... You don't even have to explain the details. When you're set to come up and join in and get all the money that your dad had or whatever, you have to beat someone that the United States picks.

Oh, I love it. So we all get to decide who that person is. And then we get to decide the weapons. And it could just be fisticuffs. And if you lose that fight, then you have to give up all your money to us. You know, that's fucking amazing. And first of all, no notes. Yeah, no notes.

No notes. No notes. That's perfect. That's perfect. Yeah. But like, imagine if we had an estate tax, a billionaire's estate tax. And we said, okay, you're allowed to be a billionaire your whole life at whatever level of billionaireism you want. Your whole life. You can stay. You want to be Elon Musk. You want to be worth $845 billion and still have 30 fucking years of life runway in your life. And you're certainly going to be the world's first trillionaire. We're not going to touch it. But when you die, that money does not, 100 percent or what it. Your value of your estate, not your actual assets, the value of your estate to a higher degree than is normal, 85%, becomes property of the system that allowed you to build that wealth.

If you did something like that, your errors would still be cared for in perpetuity. They'd have $150 billion to... Yeah, your errors would still be cared for in perpetuity. But the rest of your assets would go into a public trust. to be turned into tax revenue, because I know there's complications there because people's, like, like a valuation of Elon Musk is complicated. It's not money he has in a bank. Like, he doesn't have a bank account like you and I.

So like, but I get it. That way it's like, yeah, it's yours until you die. Just until you die. But then when you die, then it goes into the kitty. And we get it back, right? So we, you got to play with it. You got to live as fucking baller life as you wanted. That removes entirely all of the, well, shouldn't I be rewarded?

Yeah, you got all the rewards. You got them for your whole life. And then when you're done, your errors are taken care of generationally. But 85% of that money goes into the public trust. Like there are ways to solve for this that aren't even difficult or imaginative. And we're not going to do it. Because the people who are in charge answer to the people who are really in charge, which are the technocrats and the billionaires.

And that's how this group works, though. You start you out playing softball. Then all of a sudden you need to wear the t-shirts all the time. Then you have to live on grounds. Then no one can come and visit. It's very, it's very gradual with this group. Guess it was pretty weird when we had to rename the planets. Yeah, that was weird.

It's like we're a bunch of Mormons or something. Hey, we're not like the Mormons. Okay, I'm exaggerating, but you could see how in a couple of years. Well, there's an alien coming. And he's a real swell guy. And I hope he brings an army. And I hope we don't die. Hoorrah!

Like that song, man. I've been singing that song for I don't know how many years. I don't know what it means. Bill wrote that song. Bill. No, that's when things started to get weird. Once Bill got promoted to high profit, some cuckoo stuff started going on.

I don't know. Bill's a good leader. Bill the most high, we'll see you now. It's just weird, man. Man, when Reason Magazine turns on you and you're on the right, I know you did, bro. I literally laughed out loud. The article entitled from Reason Magazine is the Republican Party is nothing more than the cult of Trump.

Now, here's the thing. I don't think reason has been for a long time super Trump supporters. I don't think they have. I think they've been pushing against Trump for a while. That being said,

I do think that Trump is sort of, he's like uniquely one of these people who has so many sycophants around him and he captures such a big wide swath of the right.

And now they're recognizing, I think, little sections of the right, which are the libertarians, are sort of recognizing, this isn't going to work out good for us. This is bad for us. He is very much against pretty much everything that we've ever talked about.

Yeah, pretty much everything. We've talked about this. Maga's got a real identity crisis. It's going to have a fucking weird, I would say midlife crisis, but hasn't been around long enough. It's going to have a weird identity crisis coming up very shortly.

And it's tweens or whatever. Yeah, right? It's going to go through some some fucking puberty, adolescent rage thing. It's going to fuck shit up at Woodstock 99. And then somebody's going to marry it off

to a Republican in its twins. But like, MAGA is this massive force that still has a lot of power, a lot of control. I think we saw that with the, we'll talk about it. We saw that with some primaries

that recently happened. But it's built around this fucking one old fucker. It's built around one old man. That is not, That's not a vision. That's not a set of ideals. That's nothing that can be, you know, taught or expanded. How do you scale after one specific person when like a huge amount of like what draws people into this coalition is this cult of personality when the personality fades away or dies or becomes an obscurity? There's a timeline on this. This is so stupid and dangerous and short-sighted. This is like this is like, this is like, you know, living on your fucking credit cards right now.

Yeah, for sure. And I think that it's my hope that a lot of these Republican people are going to wake up. And hopefully some of the people who were just swing voters wake up and see that they made a huge mistake. Yeah. There are always people you can look to online and in comment sections, et cetera, that look like they're this. Who knows if they're bots? Who knows if they're trolls? Who knows what they are?

You can't know somebody's background just from a comment. but I am starting to see more and more of these things pop up. You know, there's like a leaving Maga Reddit now. Oh, really? You know, like, again, I don't, how do I know? Right. I don't know.

They could all be Democrats. Bro, I know. You can't trust shit. Fucking fiction writing. Yeah. Who knows? Could be like a bunch of people programmed chatbots to go in and, and, you don't know. I know, man.

It could be dead internet theory. Tom, you and I could be the last people left. I don't even know. I don't know anymore, man. So it's, it's 100%. I can't be sure. Wait, wait. Five fingers.

Hold them up on camera. Five fingers. They flex and move just like normal. Look at that. Five fingers, guys, we're real. I'm going to add one in post. You got to do that in post. Just like a weird.

There's one extra weird finger in post. But yeah, so I mean, I think that at least in my brain, I recognize that he is doing things that are, that even if you did vote for him for certain reasons, you have to recognize. that he's doing things now just to enrich himself, just to enrich his family, just to attack his foes that are, you know, imagined in his head, just to create things that have his name on it because he thinks the government is his now. Yeah. So this is a guy who's doing all, and he's protecting himself and protecting his family.

We talked about it last week when we talked about how they, like, the IRS can't investigate him anymore, et cetera, et cetera. So there's all these things that he's doing to try to make sure that he's untouchable and that there's nothing that can happen to him. And then he forces his will on more and more people like he did with certain people that have sued him for that. And now we're going to talk up. We didn't talk about that because it's not, no, it's not a note. It's broke.

I just this morning. But just this morning broke that he's using the justice department to go after E. Gene Carroll. Right. So E. Gene Carroll, one in court, said that she was sexually assaulted by the president. that came out in court, that they found that true. They awarded her a lot of money.

He, as I recall, lost the appeal. He did. And now he's trying to appeal it his second time to a higher, I think it's to the Supreme Court or whatever. And the Justice Department has opened an investigation into her. This is blatant corruption.

This is absolutely blatant corruption. This is impeachable offense in any other administration. It's an impeachable offense. It's not in his, but it is an impeachable offense in any other administration. It's disgusting. So it's my hope that people see this,

and they think this might be the one thing. This is the one thing that pushes me too far. This is the one piece that's going to push me over the edge. What's really probably happening is the gas prices are pushing people over the edge. But even still, good. Yeah, man, I think that's it. I think if anything, do you remember, Cesar,

did you ever go to the arcade, and there was that game you could play where there was a whole bunch of tokens, they were never quarters usually, but there were tokens. And there was this kind of like lever arm that moved back and forth left to right. And you would put your token in

and it would like have this little broom would push things forward. Sort of push the coins out. And it always looked like one more coin is going to send 500 of these things like toppling over the edge. But no matter how many tokens you put in that fucking thing, the little push arm never pushed any tokens over.

There was always enough space for it to push itself out. It was all an illusion. I worry that the fall off of MAGA is an illusion, that it is that game, that we're constantly like one more token of reality, one more token of reality. It's a great, great metaphor. And because that's what it's been. That's the reason I worry about it is because that's what it has been now for 10 plus years.

I think gas prices are it. It used to be that people could understand hurt by seeing people they loved hurt. And I sort of feel like we're in a post-emathy world. So now it has to get personal and it has to grow at scale and it has to hit you in a way that is like quantifiable because the qualifying like subjective hurt doesn't seem to matter. So now we need this objective, quantifiable economic destruction. And there has to only be one way that that happened. And the thing is that like nobody, nobody can blame anybody for these oil prices but Trump. It's just definitive.

I haven't heard anybody. even the MAGAs, what they do instead is say this is a price worth paying for the result we want to get. They're understanding at least that there's a one-to-one connection. I have never seen any other subject where they've been willing to acknowledge the one-to-one impact. There's things that are breaking. We can't unbreak now. And like, I don't want to keep breaking those things. I'm scared of breaking things that can't be unbroken.

Well, and Trump wants to try to find it in other places, right? I saw today that there was a proposal by his administration to have a gas tax holiday. Yeah. So to take off a couple days where you don't pay gas tax so that the companies, the companies that sell gas to us won't pay those taxes so that the gas would drop down dramatically for those days. And then it would do. But it's like we need that money.

Right. The reason why we need that money is because we don't tax gas as much as other places on the globe. That's how it subsidized. Right. In our country, gas is subsidized in the same way as it is in other countries, it's not subsidized in the same way because what they do is they tax the shit out of their gas. You go up to Canada, it's like $9 or $10 a gallon. They pay for it by the leader, so it looks smaller. But, you know, like they're paying $9 or $10 a gallon. And they're paying that kind of

money because all that money then goes to pay for infrastructure. We don't do that. What we do is we lower those taxes, lower those taxes, lower those taxes. And we have bridges in our, in our country, bridges near us that are rated at like out of 100 percent. They're rated at a six or a seven. Six or seven percent. And these are big bridges that connect two cities or one big city. Over a massive body water on an interstate. Massive valley. Like this is a almost a mile long bridge that I'm thinking of. That is a giant bridge in Joliet Illinois. And it was rated, and this was years ago. I know.

Rated as a 6, a 6% out of 100. Cecil, to get to my dad's house, GPS wants to take me on I-80 over that bridge. And I reroute off of that bridge. There's no world I would take myself from my family on that bridge because one day that bridge goes. A bridge is going to, if you don't do anything to stop it, that bridge will collapse. From what I heard, they were doing some work on it to, like, repair it. So I don't know where it's at now. Maybe it's at a 20.

Yeah, right. I don't know. 20 still sounds really bad because there's 80 to go. Still sounds bad. And that's the thing is we don't pay those types of things. So it's a real loss if we take the day off of paying those taxes because we already don't pay a lot to fix those roads. It's a disaster. And it's a disaster of Trump's making.

And it's my hope that people start to talk about it as if that's the case. You're seeing right wing publications like Reason talk about it. Maybe they've been talking about it for a long time. I don't read Reason all the time. I only catch it once in a while. But hopefully the National Review is they're going to push on this. Hopefully all these sort of conservative places are going to start to push on, hey, this is a bad thing.

This guy has done a really stupid thing. Because attacking Iran was genuinely the stupidest thing he's ever done. And this is a long list of dumb things. Hello, Dottie. It's me, Peewee. Where are you calling from? Texas. Where? Honest. Listen, I'll prove it. The stars at night are big and bright.

Deep in the heart of pictures. This story is from the BBC. MAGA candidates win in Texas primary may also help Democrats in Senate battle. So I had a double take moment because for some reason, a lot of the stuff that had been going on in Texas. primary. Kaina, Joe's just skimming through it, you know? And then I was like, wait, Ken Paxton? That dude is like a scandal on a scandal on a shuddy scandal. That dude's like a Russian nesting dolls of scandals of scandals.

It's like a piece of trash. Wasn't he, weren't there like adultery scandals and like, there was so much crazy shit. I thought they tried to impeach him at that's right. They did. Like this, I thought this is a guy whose career was over. And now he won the Texas primary for Senate Canada. Yeah, he beat out Cornyn, which is like who was for a while a darling of Trump, I guess in 2024, he sort of took a step back and didn't endorse him right away and then finally endorsed him.

And that wasn't enough. Wasn't enough for Trump. Trump back Paxton. And here's the thing that is interesting. I don't know if it's true. A lot of papers are saying this, that this is a huge boost for the Democratic candidate. Teller Rico, he is a. he's the guy who they're going against.

And they're attacking him. They call him trans. I don't know if you've seen this. They're trying to go after him and saying he's a vegan. He's not. He's saying he's not. He's like, I eat Texas barbecue.

His response was, I've been eating Texas barbecue since Paxton's first indictment, which is really funny. But like these guys are attacking him for being a vegan? They're going after him for that. They're also going after him. They're saying he's trans. They said he's trans or whatever.

And it was Stephen Miller who said, congrats to the first transgender. candidate talking about him. And the Democrat, the official Democrat Twitter, I think, just replied with, shut up, you ugly fuck.

Which I thought was... Are you kidding me? I was like, yeah, cool. Are you serious? Stephen Miller deserves my... No, I know. I just love that, like... I'd be fine if, like,

somebody just checked him into the void. And like, not into the boards, into the void. So like, they check him and it disappears into a black hole. That would be amazing. That would be the best thing for humanity,

actually. If there is proof, that there are evil alien races that are trying to take over the United States and the world, he is proof of that. It's Stephen Miller. It is proof of that.

But here's the thing. They're going after this guy. I will believe Texas can elect a blue senator when I see it. Yeah, I know, man. I want to believe, just like you, I want to believe,

I want to hold my breath at that moment, this upcoming 2026 election, and I want to be like, oh man, this could be the moment, because it would be a huge boost if Texas went blue for a senator, if they started to go blue for more of these Democrats that wind up having to run against these people

where they split up Republican districts trying to get them all red. It would be awesome if some of those turned blue because they basically turned the whole state off. The whole state is like now essentially fucking red. They did his best. I think they got eight seats or something crazy like that when they did the redistricting. Five. Yeah, five. Yeah, five, because California, I think, like, evened it out.

Yeah, evened out. But still, like, you're looking at no Democratic representation across the state, if that's the case. It's fucking disgusting. Right. Very, like a couple places in the city, they had to combine all the city votes. But it'd be, it's, it's genuinely could be an amazing thing. But my whole paying to politics adult life, I haven't seen anything very blue come out of Texas. And so I'm very, we're. And, and. Texas, like Florida, is one of these hotbeds that a lot of people who are against any blue policies flee to. Yes. This is one of those places that people think as a hotbed of going to to avoid policies that are in blue states that they want to avoid. Yeah.

Have lower taxes. Have a place that your fucking grid doesn't work. They're conservative arcs. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Both of them are. So I am hopeful and I want to believe these articles that say this is a good thing.

I am waiting for results. Same, man. Like I think that we over-celebrate the idea of a weak candidate. But I think we oftentimes give too much credit to the candidate. And I don't think that like the candidate matters oftentimes as much as the electorate. Like the electorate is they're going to do what they're going to do. I don't think that very often the candidate is really the driving force. The candidate is a figurehead.

The electorate is, the question really for me is like, are people motivated to walk into or mail in that voting card? And the motivation might be demotivation if he's bad enough. Right. If he's bad enough. I just, it's so, he's one of those people that insaneer times would be relegated to the dustbin of history as being like, just completely disqualified. Totally unelectable. Right.

Totally unelectable. You'd have thrown them away. Yeah. But there's just like we're at that place where like nothing that somebody does personally and professionally any longer disqualifies you. And I want to, I want to be very specific to say, I know that there are blue people and blue masses and large blue swaths in Texas.

I know this. Yeah. I also know that Texas has been gerrymandered like crazy. And I don't think we've seen. them, those blue groups beat the red groups for big state-held positions, right? Senate and governor in a long time, at least as far as I can remember. Can I ask you a question? Like, I mean, this is just a hypothetical question.

It doesn't actually mean anything because it's unactionable, but it just makes me curious what you think. I wonder if there should be a maximum size to a state physically. So, like, here's the thing. Like, Texas is too big, in my opinion. It doesn't make any sense as a single state. There's historical reasons why it's one state. But when you look at it, all of the major metros,

which are very populated, you're Dallas, your Houston, you're Austin, you're San Antonio, these are major metros. They are mostly blue. But because of the enormous, unusually enormous geography of that state, that state goes red. and I look at something like Texas and California to a degree as well. And I'm like, this state's too big.

It kind of doesn't make sense as its own thing. You know what I mean? Maybe there should be Texas South and Texas North or Texas East and Texas West. I wonder if some- Texas-Holdom and Texas- Yeah. It just, and again, that's just pie in the sky shit, but I wonder about that. I wonder about that too. Yeah, I think that there's, you know, there's an interesting article we can talk about

that details with this. I was thinking about this when I was talking. So the USA Today, we need to add 6,000 seats to Congress. I'm serious. I read that and I was like,

I mean, no, you're not. Yeah, but I think it's actually a really interesting idea. It is. I don't know how many seats you want to add. Right.

But I think you want to get rid of the law that says, hey man, this is the cap. We can't go over this cap. You want to get rid of that law, which is just a law. not an amendment.

Right. The Constitution doesn't have a number of limits. So you can get rid of that law. You can overturn that law. You can turn it into something else. Turns out you can overturn a lot of laws. Turns out you can just, I mean, shit, we might even be able to do with executive order.

Who even knows at this point? Yeah. There's so much unitary. I think you can call and not it. You could probably just have the president just say it's a thing and then it just becomes a thing. Right. But what this does if you add a ton of seats, not just one or two, right?

Not just one or two here and there. But you add an absolute shit. shit ton of seats. Let's say it's a thousand. Let's say it's not 6,000. Let's say it's a thousand. They're saying 6,000, so it goes back to sort of 1800s level representative ratio to representatives, right? So the people, the citizens, would be about 50,000 people per representative. And that would hyper-localize your representative. So it would mean that my city, probably, and maybe the next city, would have its own representative in Congress. and then two cities away,

they would have their own representative. And then Naperville might have three representatives. And Joliet might have two representatives. I'm naming big cities in near us. But like Peoria might have two. Chicago might have 25. Right. You know?

And then what that would do is, it would make it so that it's more equal, where the population is, is where those numbers would go. The ratio of votes per state would stay very similar. bigger number, but the ratio would be similar to what it is now. And then you could take a lot of money out of politics, because there still would be important seats that you would want to try to use. But if I'm a billionaire and there's 10,000 races, I have to pay attention to,

even if it's a thousand races. Even if it's a thousand races is a huge deal in comparison to what we're paying attention to now. And it begs the question, how do you rank the races? Well, if you ask, That's a different question. If you ask some of these billionaires, they will tell you right off. Yeah, they'll be very comfortable with that question. Some of these might have a list tattooed on their arms somewhere.

Jesus Christ. But in any case, this would be a really interesting way to make it so that it's harder to gerrymander because it's a smaller group. You can't gerrymander like you used to. And it would allow for, you know,

obviously there would be more red seats in Illinois then because it'd be smaller groups of people. And there's a lot of red Illinois. Right now, those numbers are died out by some of the things. But there would also be a lot of blue Illinois. Yeah. And there'd be a lot of,

you would have way more seats in somewhere like Naperville. We'd have three, four, five, maybe six seats or something like that. Whereas you'd only have one for a big portion of downstate. Because big portion of downstate to get 50,000 people in that is a bigger deal. Yeah. And you wouldn't be able to tap in and pull some of those blue voters out to make them nullified. And you wouldn't be able to tap into these large swaths and nullify those red, votes. It would make it so it's more even. And so rural would get a better, they would have a better

representation. The other thing that you could do is like in some of these crazy areas where you have like actual communists and actual like crazy libertarians, those people could win in those places. You could have Green Party candidates and major places across the states who might win, start small coalitions, change the way things vote. It could change things without even rate choice voting. I thought when I read this at first, I was like, this feels chaotic and untenable. And then I thought, well, as opposed to what? Yeah, good. What we have right now is an orderly system of corruption and political, just grinding and no action. And so maybe we need some untenable chaos. Maybe we need to contend more with each other. I think this is buy unless six thousands of crazy.

person number. That's a lot, man. But like, and I also laughed because I thought, like, how do you get them all in the same room for the state of the union? You know, like, who's going to, who gets to anybody? I think what you have to do is you have to take only like a certain number of representatives or something. More of a goof. But I was like, how'd you get them all on the same room? Well, I think, you'd have to do something electronically. There's no way you'd try. Why would I pay for them to all fly out there? There's no reason to do that. We can do it electronically. It's cool. Well, and like, you also could have within, let's say, let's say you were to have multiple leaders in, let's think of our state in Illinois. And like those leaders would presumably, because is how life works, they would form

coalitions, local coalitions, were a coalition of Congress people. We represent the southwest suburbs. And there's the three of us. And we are going to be a voting block representing our broader area. They would develop these different coalitions of power to try to accomplish these local agendas. I think there's, I think that kind of chaos with that kind of representation would force the levels of change that you're describing, then it fixes a lot of problems. I look at this and I'm like, 6,000 feels insane to me. I don't know why my brain can't wrap itself around that. But like, a thousand and a half, I'm like, sure, let's, let's, we got to do something, right? Like, the system we've got now is so bad. And it so does not represent

the will of the people at all. Yeah. And it's never going to. And it is just going to continue to consolidate power into because every time the population grows, what that without representation growing, what that does is it consolidates additional power into a smaller group of people. Those people, like 10 years ago, the same representatives were not as powerful as they are now, 10 years later, because there are now 10 years of population growth consolidated into the same number of representatives. And the way the census works is that we redistribute, we do not add. So when the census comes out, we look around the area and then we say, oh, Texas gets more votes, but those

votes have to come from somewhere. We don't get to just be like Texas gets more votes because there's more people now. We say Texas gets more votes. But since numbers went down in Tennessee and they went down in Illinois and they went down in New York, we're going to take three votes from them and give them to Texas because that's how it works now. Yeah. And so certain places on the map get weaker based on this census every 10 years. that's a bad plan if that's the case.

The number shouldn't be capped. I think what we need to do is change how that number is capped. I think this article makes a really good point. Is it logistically difficult? Yeah. But is it better than what we have? Also, yeah. Yeah.

I'm not sure that going back to what we did in the 1800s is the right call, but there's probably a compromise solution. There's something in there. That accomplishes a lot of us. It was very interesting. Yeah. I thought when I saw this, I was like, you know what? I don't disagree with.

I think because, and I think I'm at the point now where I'm just like anything. Give me something. I don't care what it is. I want to shake the bottle up and then put the fucking Mentos in there because I'm at the point now where we really need some serious change. We need something because what we have, what we had before was a weird handshake agreement and then we allowed somebody to get so much power that they were able to stack the court.

They were able to manipulate systems. And here's the thing if it's a lot harder to manipulate the system. when there's that more many more people in it. It's just harder to manipulate it. I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too. Okay, I do want to talk about this story because it's in our notes and it's important.

Huffington Post, Trump's joke about dead soldiers taints Memorial Day speech at Arlington. One thing, though, that's not in her notes, which I just wanted to mention because it's so glib, it felt similar, is when he was asked. Did you see what he was asked if he was going to go to his son's wedding? Oh, he's like, nah, I'm good. But he's like, Donald is somebody I've known for a lot.

long time. This is like literally a quote. He's like, I've got a lot going on. I've got the Iran. I know he'd like me to go. He's somebody I've known for a long time. That's your kid. You've known him his whole life. That is your actual flesh and blood son. I've known him for a bit.

I'm very familiar with them. Your kids are going to refer to you like that. I've known my dad for a long time. What the fuck? Kind of a lot. What weird psychopathic robot narcissist speaks about their children this way. I want to play this video though, so you could just hear how bad he is in speaking. Because he's like, here's the thing. I'm not great at reading things aloud. I will 100% admit that. I have a problem where I add words. I add letters.

I will sometimes freeze when I see a word that I even recognize and can read in my head. I just, I have a hard time. My brain-mouth connection ain't great. It's just not great. I recognize. that and I see that as a limitation. I try to change it. I can't change it 100%. I do my best. I can't, I can't always change it. Podcasting probably wasn't the best career I could have. Off the cuffier, great. But it is what I did. It is what I did. It is what I did. It's what I did. It's what I did. But reading aloud for me is difficult. It's always been difficult. In any case, I recognize my own limitations. Trump never would ever recognize any of its limitations. And I just want to play this clip so people can see it. We've had in many, many decades.

Scripture tells us, precious is the sight of the Lord, his death of his faithful servants. 400,000 souls rest on these grounds, these beautiful grounds, and the sacred soil, which is first consecrated in the hours of America's greatest division to be eternal symbol, national unity. It cannot be by chance alone that the very first service member laid to rest here in this place of supreme sacrifice was a union soldier by the name of private Christman. Private William Henry Christman of Pennsylvania who died as 19 years old.

He was a great young man, they say. Beside him are more than 18,000 other young men named William. Over 20,000 named John, over 13,000. named James joined over time by Isaac Elijah, Earls, Hanks, Helens, Wands, Margaret's, Marius,

Donald's. Not too many. And others whose names tell the true story of American greatness and greatness it is. He's so bad. Oh, and that line, did not get.

It's so bad. And that line got nothing. Silence. It was complete silence. But like, one, I don't mind if a president makes jokes. Like, that doesn't bother me. No, right? It doesn't bother me.

But, like, there are moments that a president has to be someone who is serious. And I think, like, he's just such a fucking idiot that he has no idea that what he's talking about isn't about him sometimes, right? I think he just has an issue. that he just is such a fucking shitty narcissist that everything is about him. And you're like, dude, you're a terrible representation of what we want in this country.

Also, whoever wrote that speech, that is the worst speech. Oh, my God. Even if it was read perfectly to a T, terrible speech. Genuinely, terrible. Embarrassing. The definition of dying is, like, it's so bad.

It's so awkward. His speech writers are bad. And I wonder if his speechwriters are bad because at some point they throw their fucking hands up because, like, he's not going to fucking read it anyway, guys. He's going to read parts of it. He's going to read parts of it. And then he's going to do what he wants.

And it doesn't matter. And like, I'm not put my fucking, I'm going to AI this thing, right? Like, this speech is fucking brought to you by Chat GPT. Chat GPT, memorializing the dead since 2022. What is the thing where he's like, he obviously has no idea who was in there? No. A really good young man. Some people say, who says that?

Who literally who said? Tell me one thing at all. Well, literally one thing other than his name is Christman. And you tried to make some kind of political hay out of that random fucking surname. You dip shit. He's such a dip. Listening to him quote scripture is my favorite thing. Because scripture has a cadence and a rhythm to it that, you know, they're almost always quoting like King James.

And like there's a cadence and a rhythm to it that's very specific to its time and he can't get it. He cannot get it. He's so bad. When you listen to people read scripture that have familiarity with that cadence, with that book, with the way that that comes from that time period, they read it in a way that just shows how familiar they are with that language and with the way that language works. And that translation specifically works. And when you listen to this guy, it's like somebody fucking like trying to pronounce a foreign

language. He's so bad at him. What makes me crazy is like the military seemed to love him. but he does nothing for them insults them and then does shit like this and puts him in harm's way at the same time

I'm in harm way like I don't understand I genuinely don't get it like you've got to be you've got to have your head up your own ass if you're in the military and you think this guy's on your side

yeah you've got to have your head up your own straight up your own ass I'd ask you to make sure you're fully inside the free speech song before beginning your protest free speech though this is where we're protesting

this is the right where are the cameras They're in the free press zone, and if you could save your comments, until you're completely loaded into the cage. Okay, have fun. Enjoy your right to free speech. The armed forces welcomes your dissent. The story comes from the independent U.S. Senator, pepper sprayed by ice outside immigration detention center.

It's just burning. Oh, God. Families of detainees at the facility have complained that their loved ones have been served spoiled or rotten food at the facility, according to a report. There's also reports that there's a hunger strike at this facility. this is a senator who went to go check out the facility. They are supposed to be allowed by law.

Congress is supposed to be allowed access to all immigration detention centers by virtue of them being in Congress. They've been denied routinely that kind of access that they're entitled to by law. Interestingly as well, the governor in this state was also protesting ICE. I don't remember a time, and you can correct me a hundred times, I'm sure it's because I don't know it, not because it didn't happen. I don't remember a time when governors and senators were so vocally in protest, like showing up and actually being at protests. This is not a normal set of circumstances.

And I think like when you have people who are that high profile and that high powered showing up to these protests and saying, hey, we're even. being denied access, let us in. If your governor and your senator don't have visibility and transparency and accountability access to everything, what a fucking problem that is. When there is helpless as you are. Yeah, it's what I think is important to remember is that this stuff is still happening. Yep.

Right? There's this whole idea that America hasn't moved on from this. America hasn't moved on from this. No. This is still a major problem. with this administration. They found Billy Bob Thornton or whatever the fucking guy's name is,

Mark Wayne Mullins or whatever. He's like, fucking got six different names. That guy who's now the leader of the DHS. He's not DHS. He's the leader of the ICE. There is a, we still have Holman, I think, is the leader of the, of Homeland Security. Tom Homan, yeah.

But I think this guy is sort of his under boss. And he's taking over Noam's job. He's doing just as, as bad a job as she is. He's terrible his job. In this, he basically says that's a lie. He's like saying there's, these people are lying,

even though you can see that this guy's been clearly sprayed by ice. He was literally just trying to make sure he was in between people, actually trying to diffuse the situation and got sprayed by ice. Ice is on the rampage, no matter where they are.

I've seen multiple posts from different places where they, they still are traveling through neighborhoods, still doing all the same stuff, still being pursued by people, still being pursued by people, still being protested every day. So this is still an ongoing thing.

The conditions in these places are abysmal. They're putting way too many people in cells that should only be for like one or two people. They're putting in dozens of people in these places. They're feeding them awful food that shouldn't be fed to these. These are people like even

if you are one of these fucking crazy white supremacist assholes who think that America doesn't want any immigrants and you want to ship every single immigrant out, don't you at least want to like do it in a way that's humane? Like what the fuck is wrong with all these people? Like in the problem, and the answer is they're white supremacists, right?

They don't care. The answer is, of course, they're white supremacists. You can't look at this in any other way anymore, right? There's no hiding behind these. There's nothing to hide behind anymore. It's all, it's all in the open. We can all tell. This is all white supremacy.

This is you trying to hurt brown people to make your constituents feel better. That's all you're doing. So this is still going on every single day. And I think it's great that there are still people out there that are protesting. I don't know if you saw, but the lady from Chicago, I cannot pronounce her last name. It starts with an A, I think. Her first name is Kat. She ran against Bliss for the seat that was open.

There was an open seat for Congress. She lost. but while she was running, she wound up getting arrested outside of the facility at Broadview. So she was down there protesting people. She got arrested into the group of people, and they charged her with a felony.

They wound up charging her with a felony. She went to court with a lawyer. The judge dismissed her case in like five minutes. Good. Immediately dismissed her case. So, like, genuinely, these people don't have a leg to stand on. They're doing illegal things. They're doing things that they shouldn't be doing.

They're arresting people. They shouldn't be arresting. and if they're arresting her for things, what are they doing, what else are they doing that's wrong? Like, what else are you doing that's wrong? Because we know that you're not good at your job. Yep. So if you're not good at your job here,

what else are you doing that's wrong? This is, I would, the moment I take office, there's Cecil as president. You ready? I love it. Here we go. First thing I do is I jail Holman and I jail Mark Wayne Mullen

and I put in jail every single person who was in charge of these facilities and ran in these facilities and worked at these facilities. Every single person. I'm just like, sorry, you guys are all not only fired, but I'm going to put you in jail for the atrocities that you committed on these people.

You get to go to jail. Awesome. And you know what? In fact, what I'm going to do is I'm going to deport you and then we can internationally try you. Sure. You don't even have to get tried here. You can just be internationally tried for crimes.

Because those are crimes against people, those crimes against humanity that you're going. If we want to just use the same levers that are now supposedly available, we can just declare all of those people as domestic terrorists. Now we don't have to do any kind of trial. Now, because that's a weird,

non-legal fucking made-up designation, you can fucking do whatever you want to those people. You could send them to a prison camp in a country they never lived in, and you never even have to contend with them legally again, right? We send all this people to El Salvador. I know. I mean, we already have that deal in place.

There have been people being sent into regions of Africa where they're building prison camps. These are concentration camps. If this is what you want to do, you know what I mean? I do, man.

Here's the thing. I don't want this. The pendulum's going to swing. Is this what you want? Ask yourself these questions. The thing is like, for the longest time, everybody agreed on some

central principles that made America great. And one of those things was the idea of the government government being transparent and accountable to the people. If we lose transparency and accountability as the fundamental tenets that we all agree our government should operate based on, and we say, no, there are some things that the government is not accountable to us on. And there are some things where transparency around governmental actions is not necessary, not preferred, and not available to us, then we have lost it. We have let slip from our grasp one of the fundamental

tenants that we did all culturally agree on as being uniquely and proudly American for 250 fucking years. That was like a, I remember again, like I go back to my fucking civics classes when I was just a fucking weed lad. And I thought like, I didn't even understand that not every country allowed its citizens and how rare it was and how unique it was and how groundbreaking of an idea it was that a citizen of its country could petition for redress, that a citizen as a right, that a citizen of a country could speak their mind, that a citizen of a country could engage in free press action without interference, that like a citizen of the country would have a transparent government built to serve the people rather than the other way around.

These were literally revolutionary concepts that changed in many ways the world and how we think about structuring our world and we're walking away from it. if our people who are in the highest positions of power and authority cannot gain access to a fucking federal detention center, then how do we have transparency? How do we have accountability? We don't know what's going on. We have now we have shadow government shit. We have banana republic shit. We have secret prisons and gulags and concentration camps. That's legit happening. It can't be allowed. Yeah. Like not only is it wrong at the individual base human level, But it just, it is another erosion of what it means to be us. Yeah. And I think the way to fix that is somebody needs to get in there and say, I want you to force me to be accountable. And I want you to force me to be transparent. And I want you to do it with laws that I cannot get around as the executive.

Yes. And I will sign those into law. But you need to force me to do it because I'm never going to have this again. There's never going to be a moment in our history where someone is not accountable to the people that elected it. There's not going to be a moment that that happened. There's not going to be a moment in our history where somebody does not have any kind of transparency to all the people who elected her. That's not a thing. I don't want to see those things happen.

So make me do it. And there's a way to bipartisan make somebody do it. We just, what we have now is going to be a seesaw. and what you got to do is just knock that fucker off the playground. Just break it. Yeah. Break it with an axe. Destroy that fucker because we can't see the back and forth and back and forth and back and forth.

Because it's not going to be good when we're in power. No. If you eventually rest power from them, you still got to fix all the stuff that they've thrown around. And then you're going to basically be on your back foot anyway. You're never going to be able to make it. You've got to change it. You've got to change it. It's very structure.

You know, I hate to do this. But like, this is what? what the crazy right wing Ruby Ridge militia guys were always afraid of. Yeah. And like, they were always kind of right. They were just wrong about how they were right. Sure. You know?

Yeah. And I always, I was never sympathetic to the cause, but I was sympathetic to some of the principles sure that are involved in being afraid of government overreach and saying, like, we need to build systems that cannot be overcome and cannot be overtaken. And now we have a system where. where I'm shocked that right-wing militias are not saying, this is literally what I was afraid of. Who gets to declare who, a domestic terrorist?

Oh, the government gets to declare literally anyone without due process a domestic terrorist and hunt them down and shoot a fucking missile at their boat? What the shit? The problem is that they've poisoned so many of the people in America with the Great Replacement Theory that they think it's a real thing. and when you poison people's ideas about safety and about threat,

they will run into the arms of authoritarian to protect them. Bro, that's exactly right? I mean, like, that's the explanation. That's why it is because they've done a good job. The racists have done a good job of tainting enough consciousness in America against anybody who's not white. Yeah. And that the white, like, great replacement theory,

gets its birth from white genocide theory. Yeah, yeah. But tell me you haven't heard the term white genocide recently. I know. You have. And the reason why is because the great replacement theory sounds nice and it gets you in the door, but that harder shit is coming. Like it's a gateway drug for racism.

Yeah, man, it's fucking... I mean, straight up racism, but it's... Yeah. But they do a good job of masking it to make it seem like it's not... Oh, I'm not racist. I just think it's good to have, like, to decide who gets to come into my country. Yeah. And you're like, you're like,

yeah, you should be able to decide who gets to come into your country. Not by color. Right. Yeah, man. I mean, you're right. I think that's exactly how they have snuck all this in. They have laundered the intellectual ideas. And like, you're right.

Like, what they're doing is fucking gassing up the fucking, like, they're gassing up the train cars that are pulling the box cars. Yeah. That's what they're doing right now. Yeah. And the gas costs so much. Diesel's like eight bucks a gallon. All right, that's going to wrap it up for this week. We'll have a funny show on Thursday,

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