Cognitive Dissonance - Episode 921: Steven Miller: The Ugly *uckling

Episode Date: June 8, 2026

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Yeah, casual glory home. Hey, we're not going. business casual at the glory hole. On Fridays, you can wear flip flops. Dude, can you imagine wearing flip flops to the glory hole? You got fucking jellyfish between your toes. Jesus Christ, Tom.

You brought up flip flops at the glory hole, man. You know Jesus Christ, Tom on this one. I'm wearing steel-toed boots. Waiters. Waiters. Waders. Waders are the only waiters. Waiters. Waiters is that that's the game changer. That's it.

You walk in looking like the fucking Gordon's fish. You're like, are you here for a cranberry ball or what's going on here? That's like the fucking cap that you see like gold retrievers have or whatever. It's like the old Gordon fisherman. Yes. Oh, it's so good. You got an apron.

Filet knife for some reason. That's just intimidating. That's just very, that's weird. If somebody has a filet knife at the glory hole, that person doesn't get ass back. I'm sorry, sir. You're not. You're going to have to wear. Can you imagine like a glory hole?

with like a shirt and tie or jacket policy and you show up and you didn't know there was a jacket policy there's like a glory hole made or D who's like gives you the shitty jacket

that doesn't fit and it's like plaid and it kind of smells like someone else's arm's I mean that matches in the glory hole they have a dicky there but they give you like

and you have to like tuck it into your weirdly I have a lobster bib too I don't know what that's about and the Gordon Fisherman hat maybe the other side of the glory hole

has the lobster bib actually. Oh, God. Anyway, Tom. Hey. I don't know. It's going to be a day, buddy. It's going to be a day. Let's get into it.

All right. So our first story comes from Reuters. Trump says that he will transfer Kennedy Center to Congress after a court setback. Transfer it over. How magnanimous is this? Hey, you know, after the court said, I can't steal this, you can have it. Do you see that he put his name above? the Kennedy Center.

It's like the Trump and John F. Kennedy Center. Like, what a piece of shit this guy. What an absolute weird, self-obsessed legacy producing, even though you have legacy as shit. Narcissistic asshole. And I love that the courts were just like,

what? No. You just can't do it. Like, it's literally, like, this is actually one of the things that, like, we did actually build in when they created the Kennedy Center. They're like, you can't change.

They literally were like, and also you can't. change the name. It's just like written into the rules about the Kennedy Center. That's the name we're going to use. And then he's like, yeah, but I changed the name. And the courts are like, no. Can't do that. No. Here's what I think the, here's what I think is happening.

There's multiple things happening at the same time. And I think that they converge in a way that is beneficial to Trump in all the ways, right? That's why this is happening. I think the reason why he's doing it is because Trump recognizes that he does have some executive power and is doing some executive things.

But I think anything sweeping or lasting that he would probably be able to do, he's not going to be able to get done. Because the only things he's going to be able to do is executive type things. And so what that means is the next people who come in that take over the executive branch if they're anti-Trump,

which, gosh, I hope so. Then what that'll happen is that they'll start to erase the things he's done. Just like in his first term, when he made a bunch of executive orders, and then Biden came in and was like, get rid of all these. He was just like, yeah, like, hold on a second,

let me piss on him on the way out. And then he was done with him, right? So he recognizes that there is no lasting legacy in the executive branch mostly. Because most of the time, we live in a deadlock government that really cannot find its ass with two hands. Right.

And so you don't see a lot of progress. You see a lot of budget and reconciliation bills, but what else do you see? When was the last time a big thing passed that you can remember? Nothing. All the things that you can mention to me, Infrastructure Act,

big, beautiful bill. Those are all budget reconciliation stuff, right? That's very true. Yeah, Biden's signature accomplishments. It's not like, it's not like there's been anything that's been like, hey, man, we made gay marriage legal or something like that. No, you have to go all the way back to Obama and Obama care.

You really do. You have to go back to Obama and Obamacare. That's exactly right. So you have to go really far back in time for that. So you just don't have any legacy anything. Right. So he wants to build a legacy in any way you can. So what is he doing?

He's talking about, I'm going to put my name here. I'm going to change this. I'm going to put a ballroom on the White House. I'm going to put an arch up in the middle of Washington, D.C. He's doing all these things because he recognizes there's just no way for him to continue his legacy. And this is a legacy presidency for him. He's already been told, we hope it's true, by the Supreme Court, that he will not run a third term. Like, Amy Coney-Barrid has basically been like, that's not happening.

That's not fucking happening. So, and I don't think they're going to try to backdoor that stuff. To be honest, he's already falling asleep at the desk. So like, would it, does he really want to do this? I don't even think he wants to do this. I think at this point, look at how he's handling a ran. We're just like, just like, just fucking open the string. Just screaming into his phone.

He doesn't want this. Yeah. So that's a thing. But it also has the added benefit of making our side angry and appeasing his side through our anger. Yeah. Right? So it's got a benefit where he can be a troll.

I saw a thing he posted to his social media, which is an AI. There's a famous picture that people use in like meme sites where somebody is like screaming. And I don't remember what they're screaming about, to be honest. They're like screaming, no. And it's like obviously they call this person a liberal and they're crying about something liberal policy. Right. So they're like a meme face. He took that meme face and he turned a video into it.

He's standing there with a person kneeling next to him screaming this thing out. It's the meme face person screaming it out. They have a big fishbowl like thing clamped to their head. They're filling it up with tears and he's filling up the Lincoln Memorial pond with their tears. Awesome. So fun. And like he does this very specifically, right? He's doing these things very specifically.

This is another thing he does to make people mad, to make people angry. It keeps him in the news. It keeps his side happy that he's that he's hurting and inflicting damage on these liberal snowflakes, even though he's like blatantly breaking all the rules. And what it does is it satisfies two things at once. Yeah, I think all of that is very true. I think he's actually already accomplished. and the second one just in the last week or so,

I think he's actually already accomplished all of the signature things he wanted to accomplish. He wanted it too. Yeah. And what I think he really wanted to accomplish was to establish, first of all, immunity for himself for any acts past or present. And I think he wanted to establish financial immunity

from audit for himself, his businesses, and his families. I think those are the real reasons why a second term were so appealing to Trump. Now he's got those. Those are his signature accomplices. genuinely. And I think you're right. I think, I think, like, he's got to know that he hasn't accomplished anything legislatively. He's accomplished some things through executive order, all of which can be taken back. But what he can do that is very difficult to take back is transform the physical

landscape. Sure. Because, like, what are you going to do, knock down the East Wing again? What do you do knock down the arch? I mean, like, all that shit. Do you hire these people back tomorrow? Right. You know that, like, just the firing of people is a legacy thing. Right. Yeah. So like that physical, infrastructural sort of legacy stuff that's very much got his name all over it, literally. Yeah, yeah. Like, yeah, that makes all the sense of the world. It's, you know, Haley and I were talking the other day that like both of our parents told us stories of like the way that they celebrated and the country celebrated how much fun the bicentennial was in 1976. The same year my brother was born.

My dad would have been about 28 years old. Haley's folks would have been in their teens. they're quite a bit younger than my dad. But they remember the bicentennial. And here we're coming up on the 250th anniversary. And it's a fucking disaster of a celebration of this country.

And it's so incredibly Trumpified. They say that, you're saying that. But like, that's literally right after the Vietnam War. Yeah. Like, Vietnam was wrapped up a couple, three years before. Yeah. And I think we were still in Vietnam for several years after.

1976 was a period of intense turmoil. But the country still. had more cohesion and unity and a sense that being patriotic was its own thing outside of tied to party, right? Now the idea I think of being patriotic has become co-opted as something that the right has decided they own. Yeah. And it feels gross and weird and nationalistic in ways that are like problematic. And like you look at this 250th celebration and it's been fucking completely ruined. Completely ruined. And I also love, and this is just a quick aside.

I also love that they literally can't get a decent headlining act or any opening act. If you guys haven't followed this, these are the people that said no, Brett Michaels, the lead singer from the fucking glam rock band. I saw the funniest comment about that. They said, this is the first time Brett Michaels has pulled out. Like when I read the Brett Michaels, one was involved and then two had said, no, I was like, he's still alive? No one's thought about Brett Michaels since he was on like the surreal life or some shit.

I thought Axel Rose ate him. Yeah, I mean, like Pac-Man. I know. Gobbled him up. Gnom, nom, no, cherry, Brett Michaels. Like, what? Nobody's thought of the band Poison since 1988. This is the act that we got.

Then Millie Vanilly pulled out. Millie Vanilly? Millie Vanilly couldn't even come and do like a lip sink there. Like that we were a scandal. You have a scandal. scandal band that was hot for like two minutes before they blew up. Nobody's ever said the words, milly-vinilly since I was in fucking sixth grade.

It's so funny the fucking rejects they have to get. And the rejects are rejecting them. Did they ask the guy, the proud to be American guy? Oh, I don't know. Because, I mean, he might be available. Is he still alive? Who knows? Now I got to look, Tom.

Is Lee Greenwood still alive? I was amazed that Kid Rock wasn't going to bow to bow-bibbibity with three. the fucking show. I thought that they had asked him and he had said, or that he wanted to be there and they didn't ask him. They specifically didn't want him there. Well, now, like, I think they're being like, well, fine. If nobody will

come to our party, we're just not going to have any bands there. They've ruined this celebration for America, but like it cracks me the fuck up how badly they cannot throw a party. Can you imagine if Kamala was throwing this party? Is he 83 years

old? Is he? Is he? 83? Age 83? Yeah, born in 1942. Still alive. So they could roll him out there like a head in a jar or like fucking future mom or whatever. Can you imagine the party that the left could throw? Him and Trump fall asleep on each other.

Lee Green was just curled up on his lap like a fucking, like an orange cat. He's just purring out proud to be American. Oh my God. Who else? Like fucking like cats like the, like the, that Ted Nugent guy could show up. There's a cat scratch fees right there, right? Jesus.

I like, but it's all losers. Yeah, too. Their whole side. All the entertainers are fucking losers. They are all losers. And I think, I think like, to me, that feels a little encouraging. Yes. Because I think like a year ago, they would have had no problem filling this up.

Yeah. I think that they stained a lot of their, you know, they didn't, I, if you were smart, they didn't have a reputation coming in. They had a major negative reputation. But if you were one of these dumb fucks, you thought, well, this is Trump's next term, hookah, hookah, and they came out and they thought he was amazing. But even the things that he did was distasteful for that crowd.

Right. Enough for them to say, nah, I'm good. It's the war, it's the supporting of Israel. It's the deportation of people on a mass scale that is distasteful to see. granted, I think a lot of these people wanted it, but I think it's distasteful to see. And so they don't want to, they don't want to be supportive of it. And I think also more people in this term are voting with their chuckbook. Like I will not, I have not, since Trump went to a McDonald's, I have not stepped into a

McDonald's, not a single time. I'm on the road sometimes. Sometimes I'm hungry. It never once occurred to me to go there. I will never step foot in a McDonald's for the rest of my. I'm like, Target's the same thing. They were advertising a new burger a couple years,

like six months ago or whatever. And I was like, oh, that looks pretty good. I'm like, well, I'll make one at home. Fuck you. I literally never step in. Target,

I haven't been back to Target since they dropped their DEI shit. So like, like, very specifically not going back there. There's multiple companies around here. People who put up Trump signs, they had good restaurants. I've never been back. Yeah.

I think people are genuinely feeling a pinch. And right after his election, multiple websites popped up that were like, hey, in your area, here's the 10 Trumper restaurants. And like, I found out what ones they were. I'm like, gone. Cross that off the list. I really like going there for breakfast.

Oh, well. Never go there again. Sorry. Literally doesn't exist to me now. I drive right past it. Don't you pay attention. Yeah, man. I'll go five more minutes out of my way because breakfast isn't unique.

Right. Yeah, everybody's got eggs, man. Everybody can fucking make an egg. Hash browns are hash brown. I'm okay, buddy. Right. So that's the thing. And I think people are genuine leech.

I think this is scaring some of the people who are on their side. And it should. And don't let off the gas. And after this is over, make sure they crumble. Make sure they're never, until they're like, I hate Trump, be like, all right, now maybe we'll start talking about. Now that you've recanted, maybe we can start paying attention to. Say I hate Trump and then put some DEI policies back in place. Do something.

Right. Do a thing. Yeah. Because like if they just like are like, because I don't believe, like you shouldn't believe Target before. Like when they were doing D, like any kind of L. You shouldn't have believed them anyway. Right. Right.

They weren't really doing it. But the intent behind why they were doing it isn't as big a deal as the visibility of the thing itself. Yeah. So whether or not they had their heart into the LGBT stuff, they still did it. Yeah. So it's like whether or not, it doesn't matter to an outsider. I don't care what's in your head as long as you're doing the thing and you're not excluding people. Awesome.

Like you could be the most hateful, shitty person on the inside. I would never know and it's not up to me your outward action should tell me how I should think about Yeah, that's a thousand percent how I think of it

It's like especially for corporations right because corporations don't have thoughts, philosophies, feeling They're not like a person man Yeah, all that stuff Except for the Supreme Court They're a person

But other than that They're not in real life Yeah All that stuff is tacked on visibility nonsense to make people feel something Yeah All I care about is what does your company do

What is your company actually What acts do Does your company perform? If they perform bad acts, then we should ignore them. And like your mission statements and your commitments to this, all that stuff's nonsense. Don't read it. It's garbage. That is a distraction.

What does your company do? It does this. That's bad. You know, I don't shop there. Now I do this. Awesome. Now I'll shop there. Because what you do have to do is you have to teach people that when they make the wrong

actions, there's a consequence. But when they make the right action, there's also a consequence. It's a reward. Right. Like a positive consequence. This is carrot and stick, right? That's it. Yeah.

So if Target tomorrow was like, you know what, blah, blah, blah, lip service, but we're hiring people of color. We're hiring, we're including DEI. We change our stuff to add DEI back in. Then I'd be like, all right, great, awesome. I'm right back. I would immediately that day go to Target to buy something as soon as I heard the announcement. Just like ringing a bell for your fucking dog so they salivate.

Money's Pavlovian. Exactly. Right. It responds immediately to pressure. Yep. Every time. This story comes from the independent room bursts into laughter as mega influencer flounders to name one way the economy has improved under Trump. This is fucking delicious.

All right. And it's our old hated friend Dave Rubin. Dave Rubin. All right. So Dave Rubin is confronted and he's asked, he's asked, hey, can you name a single thing that Trump has. done positive for the economy. So this is, we're going to watch this together. This is Dave Rubin getting asked this question. And this is one of those Jubilee. This is one of those Jubilee moments. I don't know why he would subject himself to this. He's not smart enough.

The one main metric that Donald Trump has made better off since he got an office. Like an example would be GDP, unemployment, inflation, etc. Well, right now, first off, the big beautiful bill was just passed last year and it's kicking in now, right? It's kicking in now. Okay. So we are we're going to now see results of that. Like, even the tariffs. All right. So, let's do tariffs. Are you for or against tariffs? Against the universal tariff. So what's the main metric that he made better off? What? What's the main metric that he made better off?

GDP, unemployment, inflation. Do you have any idea? Listen. I don't think you do. Hold on. So you're arguing that things economically were better under Joe Biden. At the end of his administration, absolutely. So can you give me an example of how? Yeah, GDP growth was better off. Real median wage growth is better off. Inflation was better off the end of his administration.

unemployment was better off at the end of his administration. With the worst year of job growth in the past four years, just last year under Trump's administration, the inflation 3.8% year over year since Trump got in office. We're seeing all of those economic indicators become worse off. Can you tell me anything that he's done to make it better off? You say it's broken for Democrats. It sounds like it's broken right now under Trump.

Have you looked at the stock market? It's worse off in terms of the growth in 2025 as compared to 2024. If you look at Dow Jones and S&P 500. They're both up quite a bit right now. But lower rate, lower rate, lower and doing quite well. What I like about that is that Dave isn't smart enough to recognize that his question is not a gotcha question. No. Obviously, this kid came up with a gotcha question.

It's a gotcha question. You have to be pretty smart, I think, to work your way out of that. Do I think that there are answers that might have, I don't think they would have satisfied the person in front of him, but they might have at least been able to shift a little bit rhetorically so you could get some, wiggle room, Dave is immediately taken down. They mount and then they punch him in the face repeatedly. It's so bad. His gotcha question is, tell me how the other guy was better.

And you're like, oh my God, in every single way, he was better. And it's measurable. Yeah. Well, what is amazing to me is that if you ask somebody a question and then you don't let them out of the box of that question. And that question is based in metrics and facts. And you have those on your side, then, I think rhetorically, all Parker did there was say, I'm not letting you out of the box.

The box is, let's talk about a specific number, a metric you can measure that is better under Trump. And there isn't one. There just isn't. Every single metric is worse. It's not close. There isn't anything to get excited about. So what these guys do is they say, well, it hasn't happened yet. It's going to happen.

It takes time for these things to happen. the down the road effects will appeal. Like all that is lying. Like all of that is lying. Every single thing is worse. There's no thing at all that isn't way worse. And like the economy is way more precarious now than it's ever been. It's less resilient now than it's ever been.

We are in a- The dollar is in a huge, it's going to be a problem. It's going to be a problem for a while. There are so many problems economically right now. It is a terrifying time. And like, if you were a recent college graduate, I was just reading something in the paper today. And I think it was in the Times of the Journal.

I was reading that like college graduates right now are walking into a job market that is more hostile and less favorable than at any time in recent history. So like, it is horrible right now to be a college graduate, walking out with a degree. It's something like over a third of people walking out with a degree within two years will not find. a job in their field. Will not, within two years, find a job in their field. Entry-level positions requiring a college degree are drying up, and they're just going to accelerate the drying-up process as AI choose through the low-hanging fruit of those job opportunities.

What AI does keep, in many cases, is the higher-order job functions that require more experience, but, like, how does anybody achieve them? We're building a problem. we can't solve for ourselves. We're building an economy that doesn't function for people that are walking out into the world with debt. We're building an economy

that is precarious on so many different levels. I constantly think of that game topple. Constantly, this is all I think about when I read the economic news. And I think like we are constantly playing topple. And we're like, oh, let's put another one of the private credit markets.

Those are fucking dangerous. Let's fucking heavily invest into that shit. Let's put another one over here into AI without regulations and guardrails. Let's put another one over here. And we're just constantly playing topple. It will fucking topple, man.

And then what hits it is a truck from outside called Crypto. Yes. Crypto will be my hedge. That never goes down suddenly and precipitously and without warning. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people.

And I want them brought right here with a big ribbon on his head. And I want to look him straight. the eye and I don't want to tell him what a cheap lying no good rotten, four-flushing low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-leggand, spottilylap, wormheaded sack of monkey shit he is. Hallelujah! Holy shit!

Where's the Tylenol? All right, this is just delicious. From Common Dreams, asked about Stephen Miller, DNC staff are happy to confirm. I stand by calling him an ugly fuck. There's actually great audio from this too. Let me play this real quick so people can see. This is from another show. The show is called Midas Touch.

And I'm going to play a clip of their show very quickly so we can watch it together and hear what this DNC social media person had to say. Let's bring in Paulina Magabut content and creative director at the DNC. So Katie Miller has been posting about you. She went on Fox. and she's been talking about you and she's made it very personal about you, Paulina. So I want to give you

the opportunity right now to respond to Katie Miller. If she's watching this, what do you want Katie Miller to know? I want Katie Miller to know that her husband is an ugly fuck. Stephen Miller is one of the most powerful men in the country right now. He is a White House official who is

taking to Twitter to hurl these absolutely false and transphobic attacks against an amazing candidate in Texas, James Telerico. We simply called him ugly. And I think that what he has been doing is ugly. He is celebrating when ice shoots down Americans in the street. He thinks that it's cool when families are separated. And it's just absolutely disgusting. And so, yeah, I stand by calling him an ugly fuck. I fucking love that so much. I love that so much. It's interesting, because I saw some pushback

friend of the show Seth Andrews had on his Facebook page he kind of disagreed I think he disagreed with that that stance that they took that he didn't think that that was the right thing to do I think he was leaning more towards

like let's not talk about his physical appearance but I don't think ugly necessarily means physical right so I think like you can be ugly sure and be a beautiful person you could be a disgusting person on the inside right? Like, I don't think you could argue that Stephen Miller is gorgeous on the outside either.

Oh, no. But genuinely, he's an ugly person on the inside. He's an awful, disgusting, festering sore of a human being. I also, like, we have, I agree. I disagree with Seth Andrews. And I hate to do this, but I just, like, I'm operating from a place where I think we need to be more pragmatic about what people respond to. And what we've seen, like, you know, Michelle Obama very famously said, you know, when they

go low, we go high. well, that didn't work. That has not worked for the left. That has not worked. And the politics and the technology and the way people interact has taught us that we need to be, there needs to be some amount of reactive, vitriolic attention-grabbing stuff

that doesn't just come from the right. Because the right has been attacking people's appearance. I mean, the president does it constantly. And he doesn't suffer any consequence. from it. So let's be real. There are no consequences to that behavior. They call it somebody taking. Yes. You know what I mean? It happens constantly. They are always attacking the appearances of people. Constantly. The idea that that's off limits only for us just ties one hand behind our back. It is not garnering us votes, right? The thing that we have to do is garner votes because we don't get progress

if we aren't in control of things. We got to get votes. You got to get eyes on tweets. You got to get all that stuff. we cannot be it's not like anybody looks at Stephen Miller and in their fucking heart of hearts isn't like that dude's fucking ugly

he's fucking ugly he's a bad shitty person all of his behaviors plus his horrifying visage all come by to make you

immediately think of fucking immigration skeletor yeah everybody sure so like I feel like

let's start getting in there like we you cannot fight with your if the other guy's willing to get their hands dirty

and you're not you lose where we can't afford to lose because there's people's lives are at stake. I think you're right. And I want to echo something here because I think it's important to point out. I don't think calling Stephen Miller

an ugly fuck is going to get you any votes. I don't think that that's possible. Here's what I do think, though. I think people will see that as a way that you are not, that you are in some ways pushing back. Because the current narrative that I'm seeing all the time,

is that the Democrats aren't doing it. That's exactly it. Right? Yeah. So what I'm seeing is, oh, you're not doing anything. You're not doing anything. And I think even though they're able to, like, just yesterday, just yesterday in the morning, the Democrats tried to attach to this budget reconciliation bill that was going to put money back into the coffers of the DHS to help fund more deportations. $70 billion was on the table. So in order to get that passed, they have to send them. that to the Senate. Now, it passed in the House, but they have to send it to the Senate,

and they have to get it so that people, that we vote on it, and it's going to get voted on no matter what, but you're allowed to tack on whatever you want to it. So what they did yesterday morning was each side came to the table with resolutions to tack on. One of those resolutions was Trump will not have a slush fund. That was brought up by the Democrats. So everybody who's like, the Democrats aren't doing anything. The Democrats don't do anything. Yesterday they tried. to do something to tack on to a budget bill that you can't get a $1.8 billion slush fund. I know that the Justice Department said they're backtracking,

but when they asked Trump later that day, he backtracked on the backtrack. I know, I know. He wasn't clear. He was like, maybe I'll do it. Oh, no. Who knows? Maybe. Who cares? Yeah. So you can't trust Trump at all. Right. So they want to get it in writing.

Congress saying, you can't have a slush fund. You can't have a $1.8 billion slush fund. it lost 47 to 52. It fucking lost. And it fucking lost, but they tried, right? Everybody sees this and they're like, they're not doing anything. Yes, they fucking are.

They're just losing all the time because they just don't have the votes. You complaining about it when you know they don't have the votes to do anything, basically demotivates other people from voting for them in the future. So you're demotivating our chance to do something if you keep saddivating. sacking your entire, the entire fucking presidency, right? Yes. If you don't stand up to it, this is one of those moments where you're standing up to it and people see this.

All these people who see this and were like, what are the Democrats who can be like, hey, man, this person called this guy in a name just like how the other side is calling people names. And that makes, it makes a difference. Look, here's the, I think here's what I'm trying to like, this to many people looks like what they want to see as fighting. Yes. They're saying, they've been saying, the Democrats, well, fighting is actually forcing the right to go on record saying,

I am opposing, giving, restraining slush funds, right? That's actual political fighting, but most people don't follow actual politics. Most people follow the theater portion of politics. And the Democrats have focused for so long on trying to win an argument rather than affect, rather than win an argument about what's right and do practical, political, stuff, but they don't look like they're fighting. They got to do the theater part. This is the theater part. This is actually what most people react to emotionally, and most people are emotional, they're economic voters and emotional voters. That's good point. The left is already, if you're on the

left and you've always been on the left, you're going to stay on the left. If you're on the right, and you've always been on the right, you're staying on the right. Everybody's fighting for the center. And the center are those low information, low propensity voters, those people who are independent, those people who haven't changed their mind. And what they like is belliger. What they want is to see somebody willing to put some boxing gloves on. And they're complaining because they're like, oh, the left doesn't put a boxing gloves on. Look, trying to get that bill you do that resolution tacked on is actually fighting. That's the real work of politics.

Boring. Let's watch C-SPAN and kill ourselves. Boring. Nobody wants to do that, right? Instead, what they want to do is they want to get a tweet that looks like someone's pissed. Yeah. That is just better for some people. So we got to do both.

And the other thing, too, is that I think people see this as not being bullied, right? Yeah. So what you have is a person who is literally bullying James Talarico, right? So what's happening is James Telerico is running for Senate. He gets called the first transgender candidate. Right. I think that if you push back against that and you stop them from bullying you, you look like you're actually standing up for yourself.

It's the one time, there's an attack tweet that comes out that calls a Senate candidate trans and then you defend yourself with vitriol the same way. So what? It's like if the school yard bully in you get into an argument over something you learned

in history class and the bully punches you in the nose and your response is, well, you were still wrong about, you know, what caused the civil war, That's nothing. Yeah. You just got fucking bloodied. Everybody around doesn't see that the other guy was wrong.

Yeah. What are you going to do? Respond with like, oh, James Tellerico isn't trans and this is a trans. And let me make a nuanced argument. That's not how, it's not how, like, social media works. It's not how people are responding to. We know what people are responding to. They've already shown us several times.

Yeah. Across the country. What are people responding into? You can't take the high road anymore. That isn't, that has not been, that has not been a lot. effective. You've got to take the high road in terms of your principles, your policies and your ideals, but you've got to throw the theater in there, man. I do think that the eventual way, if there's ever going to be any kind of reconciliation or fixing of this, the temperature has to

come down on both sides. Oh my God. But I don't think it will ever come down if you just keep getting beat up. Yeah. It'll never come down. There's got to be a moment where they have had enough. Yeah. Where they have said, that's enough. This is getting on a hand. We have to stop. Right. which is what they're doing here. They're complaining. Is that outrageous? They're complaining and saying, how dare this person say that?

And what did they do to retaliate instead of saying, they said, it's awful that they said it. Also, they insulted this young lady. For her looks? So they insulted her for her looks afterwards. Right. So they did not learn a lesson there.

It's not like that was somehow they learned a lesson or they were on some kind of moral high ground. They immediately did the. exact same thing again. They doubled down. They doubled down. So did it, at one, it didn't fix anything, but it also shows you their true colors. And they're not going to stop until they finally had enough. Yeah. And they're not going to get enough if you don't give them anything. Yeah. What they want, I think what they want is to control the low ground. Yeah. And they are upset. When Gavin Newsom started tweeting in the style of Trump, they're fucking, they blew their minds.

They blew their minds. They don't know what to do. And like, I also think, and this is a minor issue, but it's also kind of not because of how people operate. We see it. Like the woman who tweeted this, is a conventionally attractive person. Like, that actually matters in this equation because then they try to go after her for her looks, but she's an attractive person. Even the picture that they posted of her isn't, you're like, nope, that young lady's cute.

Falls flat. Good for her. Right. So it falls flat. I think like there's a certain amount of, like I said, there's a certain amount of like Kabuki theater here that is required in order for us to sort of win the day.

They're trying to control the low ground and they're furious when we strip that foundation and say, I can get in the mud and fly. You want to get in the fucking mud? Listen, bitch, I'll fucking get in the mud. Smear me up. Just like my plans moving forward to, you know, be president and ruin everything. I think you have to, I think you have to make them hurt for them to just be like,

okay, we give up. Let's all just get together and lower the temperature together. I think there has to be something like that happens because the temperature has to be lower because the entire point is to make their side angry. Yeah. The entire point is to make their side angry. And their entire point is to feed the dopamine sensors on the other side when they make you angry. So the temperature, getting angry isn't helpful.

It's not great. But I think there has to be a boiling point before everybody finally says, okay, we can't do this anymore. I agree with you. And I don't know. Like, there will be, I want just to be clear. Like, there will be negative outcomes as a result of this tact, taking this tact. I do believe that. But, like, all that matters anymore is winning first.

We've got to win. You've got to wrestle control. Greetings, Professor Falcon. Hello. Joshua? Strange game. The only winning mood is not to play. A nice game of chess.

This is fucking something else. New York Times. A draft U.S. Iran plan is said to be on the table. Here's what to know. Was it better than Obama's? Oh my God, it's so much worse. This plan is the biggest sack of shit. This fucking idiot.

This fucking idiot, this guy who you wouldn't trust to order you lunch. You wouldn't trust him to clean anything in your house, right? Like, think of all the things in your life that you would be like, like, I wouldn't trust him to rinse properly off a piece of fruit. Like, that's how little I would trust him. Yeah. He came into office. thinking he knew everything

and he tore this deal up with that Obama had. This is like a group of people who sat down had a plan. It wasn't just America. It was a lot of other places on the globe that were like all involved

in this big deal with Iran to try to make sure they don't get a nuke. I think anybody on the planet except for Iran is like, yeah, maybe they shouldn't have one. Yeah. I think pretty much everybody is an agreement except for Iran.

Everybody's like, yeah, man, let's not, let's see what we can do. And they had a good deal in a place. They had inspectors that were allowed to come in. They had, they constantly monitored these people. They still had major restrictions. There was all these things that were in place. They unfroze some assets is what they did.

And they gave them some of their unfrozen assets back. That's what happened. And then he comes in and he tears it up because he doesn't know what he's doing. Yep, yep. And for the last several years, we've been teaching. on this what's happening, what's happening, he gets in office. He immediately bombs them six months in office. He bombs Iran, which is something we, I don't remember ever happening, right? I don't think it has happened at all. I'm trying to remember. I don't think I, I remember hearing,

even during the worst parts of the Iran crisis throughout my childhood, I don't remember us bombing them. We bombed them immediately. Then six months later, we're now sending ships over there and then they and blowing the fuck out of a bunch of places. And then they block the straight of Hormuz. And it has been a cluster fuck ever since. And his deal, my favorite part is his deal, according to many people, requires reparations to them of a third of a trillion dollars.

Just so much fucking money. And they will still retain, potentially retain, essentially, like, rights in the Strait of Hormuz to exact a toll. something which did not exist before this war started, right? Great. You got to think like if you're Iran, right, and you had made a deal with America and you're like, okay, you get this.

I will not pursue nuclear weapons, but like you're going to do this stuff that I want and I'm going to do this thing that you want. We have a deal. And it took two years to hash that deal out. The Obama deal took two years to hash out. They hash out the deal. Iran is happy because they're getting something. So they're like, okay, cool.

Then you tear that deal up. What's the message to Iran? If I'm Iran, I'm like, I have to get a nuclear weapon. Because the only thing that is going to keep me safe from a country that renegs on its deal is their fear of me. And until, because that's the lesson learned from North Korea, right? North Korea doesn't get fucking hassled. They can do whatever crazy bullshit North Korea wants because they're a nuclear armed nation. And now everybody understands that you can't do shit about North Korea ever, literally.

ever without risking a global catastrophe of like potentially extinction level proportions. Right. So if you're Iran, it is now urgent that you get a nuclear weapon because at any moment, those motherfuckers over there can't be counted on to live up to their end of the deal. And if I don't have a nuclear weapon and I can't trust the people I've negotiated with and those deals don't last more than four years potentially, then that's fickle shit. And maybe I'm existentially at risk. And what did Trump do? He said, hey, guess what? I'm back in power. You're existentially at risk.

I'm going to prove you right. I'm going to demonstrate to you why your biggest paranoias and fears were 100% founded in fucking reality. And if you're Iran, you are absolutely not going to give up your right to enrich uranium. Or you are going to absolutely find ways to enrich that uranium in secret. You've just learned about what the Americans can find out, how they find out about it, how they will attack you. We've tipped our hand. We've spent money. We've reduced, we've increased costs of fucking everything around the world. Not just for us. Right. For the world. For the entire world. We've gifted Russia an enormous amount of money because now Russian oil is worth more than it's ever been before. We've weakened Ukraine. We've destabilized parts of Western Europe. Russia's now

looking into other parts of Western Europe for additional territorial expansion. We have hurt ourselves. We've tipped off to China exactly what our capabilities are when engaged in a conflict as well as what our weaknesses are. We've lost so much. This is a monumental failure at every possible level. And the deal we're going to strike is worse than the day before we drop the first bomb. It's the dumbest thing the United States has done a long time. And we elected Donald Trump twice. Jesus Christ, dude.

So now I've got two. See which college is right for education Connection. I took some free text to Education connection match me with the right college for free. From Wired, the White House's Aliens.gov site brags that ICE arrested more than 700 U.S. citizens.

What I love about this story. Tell me CIS looks. I think it's going to be what I love. I love that Wired actually just pressed F12 on their keyboard to look at the code on the website. And when they look at the code on the website, two important discoveries. One, the counter is bogus. So they have a counter at the top of the screen.

And the counter is bogus. It literally responds to how you move yourself around on the site. So it knows where you've been and it like figures stuff out. But like the counter is not based on any number at all. It's literally pulled out of nowhere. They could not track the number and the number resets. when you come back. So it's 100% made up.

It's literally a made up number. The other thing, the other thing is that is that they use the X-Files music. So they come on, when you come onto the site, it's supposed to go, do-do, do, do, do-do, do, do, do, do,

you know, the old X-Files theme. Yeah, yeah. But two important pieces to that. One is most browsers don't allow that anymore. So most your browsers for the last decade have said,

we're not going to allow GeoCities like music playing. That's not a thing we do. You know what? Everybody in the world all agreed simultaneously. Fuck that. That was a terrible thing. And no one should ever have to open a website and have music playing.

So we all agreed unanimously. No one objected. There was no abstains. Everybody was like, yes, 100% yes vote. And we killed that. So most browsers don't even pick up the music. But the music itself is the best part. They ripped it off.

a CD. Because you can see where the MP3 comes from and they ripped it off a CD, which is explicitly not allowed by the language on the CD. Okay, but in fairness, but they did not notice the opening, you wouldn't steal a car, would you? You wouldn't steal a website. You wouldn't steal X-Files theme as the United States government. You wouldn't steal Dana Scully, would you?

It's fucking amazing, dude. It's so fucking funny. There's such clown shoes group of idiots. Yeah. But this is... If you believe the numbers here, you have to want to believe. But really, I think...

Sorry, I just had to X-Files that out. Sorry to interrupt you. That's kind of amazing, actually. But in any case, I think the most important thing that you should pull from this story is that aliens.gov is very specifically

trying to dehumanize people who come to this country. Absolutely. Right? So you can laugh about the behind the scene stuff and their total incompetence. But what they are very competent at and what they excel at is dehumanizing other human beings. And that softens people's hearts when bad things happen to them. It's strategic.

They want to do this. They want to make their side think those people are less than human. There's literally like a black mirror episode about this very topic, right? Huh. I mean, it's literally like, it's like a disinformation chip in someone's head that makes them think that people are like alien roaches or something like that. Right. And then they murder them. And like, that's specifically made so that they were dehuman.

Like, this is what, this is the chip, guys. This is the chip they're using to dehumanize this group of people so that when you see the videos of their, where they're. have to stay and there's 150 of them in the same cell and they don't get to use the bathroom and they're starving themselves because they're being fed rotten food, you don't care as much. At the heart of every war, the ability for any country to wage war on another rests on a foundation that requires us to dehumanize the enemy. Yeah, because it is almost impossible to get a 20-year-old kid to murder another 20-year-old kid that they see as fully human. So all countries across all time use specific language tools, rhetorical tools. You know, if you think back to like the

language that is on the propaganda, so during like World War II, for example, they weren't Germans, they were crouts, right? They weren't the Japanese people. They were Japs. They were, these derogatory offensive slurs are used intentionally to perform that, that sort of like evil miracle of dehumanizing, of turning somebody from a human being into. a lesser human or an animal or a different type so that it is easier to cage them. It is easier to murder them. It is easier to create atrocities because they aren't the same kind of human that you and your family and your loved ones are. So like this language is the first step. And like ignoring this language or minimizing it as as something that is anything other than the essential

time-tested first step that all nations use to wage war against all other nations. that all people use to wage war against all other peoples, it misses the point. This isn't an accident. This is a strategy. No, it's purposeful. You tell everybody, listen to me, Hatcher. You've got to tell them, silent breed is people. We've got to stop them somehow.

New York Times Trump administration to dismantle ocean monitoring systems. So there's a giant system of like fancy electronic boot. basically that are anchored into the ocean and they collect unbelievably important data about the world we live in and what reality looks like. But because reality doesn't benefit petrochemical companies and oil lobbies, instead of contending with what is true, we'll simply stop knowing true things. They did this with COVID. Yeah. Where they just said, we're just not going to collect the data anymore. Not going to monitor it. We're not going to monitor in the same way that we were doing. We're just not going to do that anymore. So people all are like, well, COVID went away. And you're like,

no, there's still people dying a COVID right now. Yeah. Those people dying right now of COVID. Dude, two weeks ago, I got my COVID booster. Yeah. I get one every six months. Sure. People are, I remember somebody wrote into the show like, you know, you, I get a COVID. Boots. I will get a COVID booster every six months. Yeah. As long as it is recommended. Every time I go to the doctor, I get one. Yeah. I get to, I get one. I'm like, yeah, no, fucking A, hit me up, bro. I want that. I absolutely want that. I'm not going to, I'm not going to live my life worrying about getting COVID and having a fucking tube down my throat and have to fucking be hung upside down

like fucking Luke and fucking hawth. I don't want to have to do that. Like I don't want to, not at all. But here's the thing. The reason why they want to do this is because they can then, if they don't have the data, say to all the people who say global warming

is real, we don't have enough data to show that that's true. Because I erase the data. So what I did was I close my eyes, I close my ears, and I hummed for a little while. Right. And then you said, well, this thing happened. And I said, well, I didn't hear it or see it.

So it didn't happen. This is literally, like you said, denying reality. We're the only, I can't say we're the only country. Because I don't know how other countries deal with this sort of particular thing, right? I don't know. I know for sure, wherever you go in the world, they almost certainly care more about the environment than the United States does. I think that that's a given, right, except for like maybe a few places on earth where the environment is absolutely horrific, you know, probably industrial nations that

are like, you know, but I think like any Western nation you go to, it's going to be, they're going to pay a lot more attention to the environment than we will. 100% true, that they're just going to pay more attention in the environment. You go anywhere, they know that this is happening. It's not like this is a secret other places. Here, people, will literally be like, yeah, I'm not sure. And then you'll have people from the carbon lobby, like the oil petrochemical lobby, make their rounds and be like, they want to eliminate plastics.

They want to eliminate petrochemicals. And you're like, nobody's saying that we want to eliminate this stuff. We know we need stuff for plastics until we figure out other shit. Right. But what we don't want to do is burn it and then make it all hotter and then we all die. Yeah.

They're talking about, I saw a graph that, showed like the reservoirs in the desert now, where the desert, all the desert places that we decided to populate in the United States, they're like running out of water really fast. It's pretty fast. And it's pretty stark. It's stark. It's lower than I've ever, than it's ever been. Like, it's lower than it's ever been.

Scary looking out there. That's not going to get any better. It might, you might put a little band-aid on it if there's like a big rainy season. but you're not going to be able to fix that forever. Right. And you keep populating out there. People keep moving out west. People keep moving to places that are like literally desert.

And then we have to keep sending water out there. You're going to lose all that. That water's going to go away. Oh, yeah. That's not coming back anytime soon. It goes away. So we know that the world is getting hotter. We know that things are changing.

Yeah. So we need to do things to stop that. But this gives them the out to not do anything. Because they don't want to do anything because they don't know how to do anything. They don't want to do anything because it doesn't, like, where they're living in a world where they are protecting quarterly profits. Yes. And so having a long-term outlook doesn't benefit their fucking pocketbook. Not at all. Like this, that article was talking about the potential collapse of like this Atlantic conveyor belt, basically, of currents that the entire planet relies on to have. help stabilize our climate and our weather. And that could, that, that current system looks like it

might be slowing or collapsing. And the impacts of that would be very difficult to even model. But like everything I've read is like the impacts that would be catastrophic. It will be like there will be droughts. There will be floods. There will be places, massive places that wouldn't have any, their cold weather would immediately shoot through the roof because they wouldn't have a warm weather current. Right. It's. crazy the impacts as things can have. So to just be like, well, what if our heads were in the sand? But our pockets were

full of cash. Dude, it feels like you're in fucking Soylent Green. Yeah. Right. You know what I mean? Like it feels like you're in Soilent Green and everybody's like, well, I got this floppy celery. Let's have a feast. Yeah, man. That's where we're at. It's wild. By the power

vested in me, by the Honorable William J. La Pettamé I hereby assume the duties of the office of sheriff in and for the township of Rock Ridge. Gentlemen, gentlemen, let us not allow anger to rule the day. As your spiritual leader, I implore you to pay heed of this good work and what it has to say. Son, you're on your own. New York Times.

In Alabama ruling Supreme Court signals limited role for federal courts in redistricting fights. In an emergency ruling on Tuesday night, the court's conservative majority gave a first glimpse into congressional district battles under a weakened voting rights act. I would say completely neutered. Yeah, completely neutered. What they did was, so it went to Alabama. Alabama, two Trump appointed justices were like, fuck this. What are you crazy?

Yeah. And they sent it back up. And then our justices, the justice in the Supreme Court were like, nah, and then walked away. And one of the things they said was it doesn't, it's not necessarily. because the the constitution is colorblind or something is what they had said.

Well, what the fuck is the voting rights? What the fuck is the Voting Rights Act? Or what is the, I think it's the 15th Amendment that literally says that people of color can vote? Like, there's like a whole amendment in there. Like, what are you talking about it's colorblind? Of course

it's not colorblind. We literally had a whole war over this, man. What are you talking about? How can they look at this. And then with a straight face, be like, yeah, it's colorblind. Yeah. And like, this is not the role of, like, genuinely, the courts aren't even supposed to perform

this kind of work. The Voting Rights Act is a, was a constitutional law passed by Congress. It has not been repealed. The Supreme Court does not have the authority to repeal a law unless that law is unconstitutional. But what they're claiming is not that this law is unconstitutional. What they're saying is we don't have to behave like it's 1960 anymore. They literally say that. We don't have to behave like it's 1960 anymore.

No, it's worse. The effect, so we don't have to, like this law without ever being repealed by Congress and without declaring it to be actually unconstitutional, they're just saying we at the Supreme Court have decided this law doesn't really need to be enforced anymore. This is an illegitimate court. It's a wildly illegitimate court. The idea that Trump was able to put these people. on there and they are so unbelievably biased. They lied about Roe v. Wade. They literally lied to Congress.

They lied about Roe v. Wade to Congress. That should be impeachable in my opinion. I think the next person who comes in, what they need to do is they need to walk in and they need to say, we're impeaching two of these members, Alito and we're impeaching Thomas if they're still alive. Get rid of them. Impeach them. Both of them are illegitimate. They both fucking hung out with billionaires. Alito has done a ton of shady shit. There's plenty to get him out of there. And then you need to bring the other two back in and question them and be like,

you lied on these two things. You lied. You fucking lied. You sat here. You looked everybody in the face and you said you wouldn't go against precedent and you fucking win against it. Fuck you. There should be something there.

There needs to be something there. And I would boost the size of the court. I would be like, you know what? We're boosting the size of the court and we're putting in term limits. So that's what I would do. I'd be like, now it's going to be 13, and I'm putting in term limits. And so I'll put two in, you know, this year, I'll put two in the next year. And by the time I leave, it'll be 13 or whatever.

And then be like, all right, now we're going to move on from there and be like, okay, well, now it's 13. And then the next person will have two, and then the next person will have two, and they'll put in four themselves. And every president will be able to put in four people because we'll put the way it'll set itself up. So every two years, there's two new people that get put in. Great. I love it. And then just every two years, be like, great, you get four justices. We get to fucking swap sees them out. And I would also put in an ethics panel.

Absolutely. Right. So like if you behave like Clarence Thomas where you're taking fucking luxury vacations funded by people who have cases in front of the court or will have cases in front of the court and you don't even have the fucking like honesty to recuse yourself and you're still, like you're fucking gone. You're gone. You lied in your Senate confirmation hearings.

Those hearings are designed. for the Senate to decide whether or not you get the job, you fucking lied on your resume. You're fucking fired. We got to have all that stuff in place. Because this is such an illegitimate court. It's crazy. They're now deciding shit.

They're not even designed to. So now what do you have? What they basically said is that in order for there to be a redistricting challenge at a racial level, you have to prove the intent, not the practical outcome. It used to be that if the practical outcome was decidedly racist in the way that it would function in America, then you couldn't use it. You can't just disenfranchise people. Now you have to say, well, now you can absolutely 100%. Yes, you can.

As long as you don't say it out loud that it was about people of color, but you say instead that it was about a different metric. And since so many metrics can correlate heavily, you simply don't say the question. part out loud, and you can do whatever racist shit you want to do. What? Yeah. I don't give a fuck who's on that plane. I'm the baddest motherfucker on the planet. I am Darius Grouch, the third, the rumble, and I am taking down the money plane.

Now bring me my money. Please hold on. So two stories. File these under the grifting banner. This first story comes from Huffington Post. Trump bought stock in UFC's parent company as he promoted White House. fight. And our second story from New York Times, Dell gets a $9.7 billion

defense contract. Trump's portfolio stands to best. That's a really nice way of saying he also bought million dollars with the stock in Dell before he said that. And then he literally said go buy a Dell computer. Like literally said that out loud. Do you remember when he parked Tesla's on the fucking White House lawn?

The corruption is so through the roof. It's disgusting. Like, this is the same country that made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm. Yeah. Right. So this is a totally different level of corruption.

There needs to be things in place. Okay, so here we go. Cecil for president. I love it. When can I vote? I'll tell you. So here's the first thing that happens is, is I would do the exact same thing. And I would literally be like, hey, I'm going to give this company a huge contract in a day.

I'm going to give me a huge contract. So everybody go buy their stock. And I would have already bought their stock. Yeah, right. And I would show people that I bought a bunch of their stock already. Right. And I would tell people to go buy their stock out loud. Yeah.

And then they would go buy the stock. And then I would show them the money that I gained off of it. Then I would sell the stock. And then I would show them the bank account that I put it in. And I'd be like, now make this illegal. Now make it illegal because I'm going to do this every fucking week. Yeah. I'm going to fucking.

And I won't stop there. I'll start rug pulling Bitcoin on people. Like, don't make me. I'll do it. I'll do it. The corruption is. so bad. The other thing I would do too, this is another thing that occurred to me. We talked about the data center thing. Another thing I would do first day in office, I would turn the IRS

on every single person who approved a data center in the United States. And I would look through their past to see if there was any monetary bribe whatsoever that went to approving those data centers. Because you know, you know all across this country, people that are literally looking into the faces of their neighbors and being like, well, that sounds really terrible. Anyway, data center. You know what I mean? Like all these people, I would look into every single one of their pasts. And if the data center was put there based on any kind of shady activity whatsoever, I'd confiscate the data center.

Do you want to hear my crazy data center idea I had this week? I was just thinking, I thought, like, well, who primarily benefits from AI are people that are wealthy, right? The lower and middle class people do not benefit. Sure. So I think there should be a rule that data centers can only be built in neighborhoods of the median household income above $150,000. So good. So good. If you're going to reap the rewards of AI, then it's in your backyard. It would never happen. It would never happen. It would never happen. Oh, they would fight tooth and nail. And then what? Now the data center doesn't get built. Oh, no. Now we have less AI. Like good. Yeah. Fucking good. We need less. They're going to build it anyway. They're going to build it somewhere. Anyway, build it somewhere without the infrastructure. Yeah.

All right, that's going to wrap it up for this week. We're going to be back on Thursday with a long-form show about geriatric people and politics. So that's going to be really interesting. You want to catch that on Thursday and we'll be back with full show Monday. But we're going to leave you like we always do with the skeptics creed. Credulity is not a virtue. It's fortune cookie cutter, mommy issue, hypno-Babalon bullshit. Couched in Scientician Double Bubble Toil and Trouble,

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