Head-ON With Robyn Roxanne Kincaid - Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid, 12 May 2026, Titanic Tuesday

Episode Date: May 13, 2026

An embarrassment of titanic MAGAT brain power on display in D.C. today as the Dipshit Twins, Whiskey Pete and J. Edgar Boozer went to the hill and got their assets handed to them. Marge trots the globe and Laura Looney is green with envy (or maybe she's just green). Nitwit Nero tells the truth for a change as he dashes off to China to sell us out.  We continue to battle the most profound funding deficit we've ever known. Twlve days into May and April isn't even fully funded. Can you help?

The password is Puff. It's showtime. Here we go, live from behind the corn phone curtain. It's head-on with Roxanne Kincaid. Three hours of cussin and discussin with America's only liberal transvillity elitist right here, right now, on the head-on radio network. Brought to you in part by Cole River Mountain Watch,

who invites you to be part of the uprising against mountaintop removal. CRMW.net. And now, from high in the hills of West by God, Virginia, here she is. Roxanne Kincaid. Well, howdy. And here we go, off and running on this 12th day of May after yesterday, which is not the 11th day of October, Roxanne. You know how it goes, pebcatch on the podcast. Thanks for letting me know, Ralph.

but no this is the 12th of May 2006 this is the horn head on dot live where you'll find us on the interweb tubes yes I'm leaked but that's because I just got back for doing my civic duty she said duty and went up and voted

and well around here I mean it's hard not to feel like it's an exercise in futility but liberals progressive, Democrats, whatever, in places like Tennisan and Alabama and Mississippi Stan, all feel. I mean, we know that feeling. We just do.

And plus, well, for some reason or another, the internet went down here just as I was getting ready to hit the go button. And that took a couple of minutes. So anyway, I'm sorry. I'm late. I apologize. I'm also Roxanne. And this is Titanic Tuesday on the horn, a date for taking note of Titanic manifestations of maggot intellect along the lines of yelling full steam ahead at that there iceberg. We're going to make snow cones. Yeah, and we've got plenty of material to work with this evening. But every program here at the horn begins with gratitude, and this program is no different.

so thanks go out to our 12th day of the month's subscribers and contributors via PayPal. And that means thanks ever so kindly to Gary. Thank you, Gary. And Gary's our loan contributor for the 12th day of the month. If you'd like to give Gary some company, I'm sure he'd love to have it. The subscriptions here, such as they are, it's just a recurring monthly donation. It doesn't grant any particular. form of access. It's just a matter of helping to keep the program on the air.

There on the main page, the PayPal contribute button will just, there's a little box that says make this a recurring, whatever it says, just click it. And if you put down, if you put down 20 bucks a month, for instance, you will be doing yourself out of not quite an entire hamburger from McDonald's uh in uh in terms of supporting the program really is quite the bargain it still is but at any rate thank you thank you gary our uh fundraising deficit our funding deficit uh is at a uh terrifying $3,500 and $20. $3520.

And whatever we can do to bring that down is much appreciated. Okay. Now, about that password, Puff? No, it's not the magic drag. I don't know, maybe we could do a parody. Puff the Magic Maggot.

there's been another purge in the maggot maladministration. One of the creeps over at the Food and Drug Administration, the commissioner of the FDA, Marty McCarrie, is gone. Well, Nitwit Nero gave the okay to canning McCary. apparently because, wait for it, he wasn't approving candy and fruit-flavored nicotine vapes fast enough to suit daddy and, well, a whalehead dead bear, penis bone, brainworm lamprey.

Oh, really? I'm so old I could. And remember when we had an absolute hissy over Joe Camel, Nittwit Nero said, Everybody wants that job. Marty's a terrific guy, and he's going to go on and need a good knife. He was having some difficulty. And so the new acting commissioner will be Kyle Diamantas,

the former deputy commissioner for food. Ah, yeah. And, well, vaping. Vaping, really. It's ridiculous. From the Wall Street Journal, Trump recently became frustrated with McCarrie for not moving fast enough to approve

flavored vapes and other nicotine products. In February, McCarrie refused to authorize blueberry and mango vape flavors from a Los Angeles vape manufacturer called Glass, G-L-A-S, because, oddly enough, McCarrie was worried

that fruit-flavored vapes would encourage kids to become lifelong addicts of nicotine. Then Nitwit Niro leaned on him. And, you know, nitwit Nero, who famously says that he's never smoked weed, he's never done drugs, he's never been prone to drink. But he wants kids hooked on fruit-flavored nicotine vapes. It can't be good for you. It just can't. But Nitwitt Nero leaned on him, and then he approved the blueberry and the mango vape flavors.

It contains no actual blueberry or mango. And, of course, it was a big, it was a big gimmy to big tobacco. Yeah. Well, there's always a graft somewhere, and you've got to wonder where the kickback is for, mango musilini so goodbye dr mackery the uh the fetus fetishists were also upset at mackery because he didn't produce a study declaring that uh mithopristone is a deadly poison uh senator dr bill cassidy said uh dr mackery was part of a broad a symptom of an administration and not paid attention to pro-life issues.

Oh, you fuck wet! Are you kidding me? This administration has done practically everything the fetus fetishists want. Over a thousand women have been forced to give birth to rape babies since our most puissant, dread sovereign, supreme Catholic majesties overturned Roe with that odious decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Whole Health. Cassidy said, I care deeply about life,

and I anticipate the next FDA nominee shall as will. The other day, though, I saw that Old Serpent had, you know, James Carville, had declared that the handwriting was on the wall for Cassidy, and that he would get, and that his maggot ass would be, not maggot-enough ass would be bounced in fairly short order. But that's just the, well, tip of the iceberg. Yeah, has plenty of snow cones, lots of snow cones, Lee.

And, oh, by the way, there's a $25 challenge on the table, courtesy of Ralph's, for nitwit Nero handing the Democrats moving into the election season. add the sound bite of their dreams. Yeah. Now, he's headed off, the orange geezer is. He's headed off to China, where he will, many expect, he's going to allow a trillion dollars of Chinese investment in manufacturing in the United States. which even his own

at least the ones who don't pick their teeth with their toenail clippings advisors are telling him as a disastrous idea but well here we go the only thing that matters

that I'm talking about Iran they can't have a nuclear weapon I don't think about American financial situation I don't think about anybody I think about one thing you could not let Iran have a nuclear weapon

that's all that's the only thing that's going to Yeah, so you got, you heard that, right? I don't think about Americans' financial situations at all. Well, hopefully, we won't fumble this one and just hanging around his stinking, filthy neck for the next six months. Jesus. Thanks, Ralph, so we've got a chance to get down to, what did I say?

Mm-hmm. We've got a chance to get down to $3,400,000 if someone meets that challenge. Thank you. Back to flavored vapes for a moment. Leah, New York asks, will there be a smoked salmon? Bobby Jr. wants to know about whale, bear, and raccoon flavors. He swears they do not taste like chicken. They definitely don't taste like chicken.

signed Lee, very happy that you do not smoke. I'm very happy that I do not smoke. Speaking of which, good news. I got my results back from my stress test yesterday. I got them this morning. And everything's great. So, good on my heart. And good on me for being a non-smoker for these last six years.

I think I did enough in the same. the previous 43. Yeah. Flavored. Raccoon flavored. Mmm. Decapitated whale flavored. Mmm.

Yum. Yum. Ugh. I'm sorry to hear it. For those who care, Jeremy tells us. Keith Olberman announced yesterday he's been diagnosed with AFIB. He believes he'll be okay, but has paused all future shows for a month, maybe more, claimed it's not his last show.

Well, hopefully he will be, but something like AFIB requires treatment. What, maybe a pacemaker, Jeremy? Yeah? Well, best wishes to Keith. And, well, the worm turns. Remember James O'Keefe, the liar, and creator of selectively. edited videos that are designed to

well he's focused most of his iron democrats over the years he might recall he he's the one who caused Barack Obama to trash Shirley Shirley Sherrod well he has turned his camera his hidden camera on

people he deems to be insufficiently loyal to nitwit Nero in particular James O'Keefe set up a honeypot for Benjamin Elliston, a senior budget analyst and financial managers at the White House.

He thought he was on a date with someone that he met online when he began to... And, you know, not a lot of sympathy here. What he's saying may be marginally true. but, well, the old saw, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Yeah, Elliston was mad about the ballroom, and another one, get this name, Maxim Lott, well, I wonder if it was an akin to Trent Lott. Special assistant to the president on domestic policy told his honeypot that, well,

Here, let's go to the audio, shall we? Like, the decision-making processes are a little bit. A White House policy advisor opens up about the internal decision-making processes throughout the White House. I think it's just the overall tone and, like, you know, the government right now is, like, I mean, they're, like, touch it as itself. Maxim Lott, even. Okay, so you can tell, this guy thinks he's somebody and he's trying to, he's trying to impress his date. Oh, the date was impressed all right. But just in case we might be inclined to misunderstand, you know, there's someone from Project Veritas there to explain what we're hearing.

That's what this chud is talking about. He acknowledges that officials below Trump will often make decisions for the president. By the way, Keith, Mick, they're using your music there. That's right. Keith, you might want to consider sending a threatening message to James O. Keith. Really? Street fighting man? Please.

James O'Keefe couldn't win a fight with a whipped paper bag. Assuming what his stance would be. In theory, everything should come from the president. Yeah. But it might come from the level below him where they're like, they're like, I think I know the president well enough to say what he would say on this. Oh. It's like, yeah, we would want to do that.

Now, this Maxim Lott character. I mean, he looks like what you would expect sort of an in-cell maggot dude to look like. In fact, he looks like he's been, he's one of those maggot in-cells who's looks maxed by hitting himself in the face in the jaw with a hammer. I mean, okay, everybody's seen the portrait of John Brown. No comparison.

John Brown was a hero of sorts. but you know his hair's flying back and he just looks crazy yeah that's Maxim Lott saying that

of course Niro doesn't make all the decisions and you know what in most presidential administrations the little bullshit day-to-day decisions aren't made by the president that's what the delegation of authority is about not that i'm defending nitwit nero he's just got idiots you know idiots below him it's

idiots on idiots on idiots it's idiots it's idiots all the way down be popular and then at my level like i know five levels below or whatever still there's a lot of discussions to be like this is clearly like what he's one of it is yeah yeah so right yeah he's like five levels down but he's still really really important right and then there's benjamin elliston uh who curiously enough it would be natural for o'keefe to go after him he's the senior budget analyst and funding manager at the white house and he is that rarest of people you know an african-american maggot and he had some even stronger opinions oh very much so Let's see if I can get to his clip. Just a second here. Oh, and by the way, they're now slugging themselves

as the Citizen Journalism Foundation, Project Veritas. Seriously, he's a mess. He's fucking a little forever. Yeah. We've got to get rid of it. Yeah. Benjamin Elliston claims that Trump is a dangerous madman and insists that no one can know that he feels this

way. He's a madman. I literally, he's convincing. Nothing against him. And that's dangerous. Do people know that how you feel about the person? No, he's not. Oh, but they will. Sue him, Mick. Sue him, Keith. Oh, but they will. I wonder if they tried to extort him first. He's dangerous. He's a madman. Has he resigned yet? I don't. don't know. Yeah. But Maxim Lott as well said the decision-making process is uncontrolled. It's not going to fix itself. I guess that's breaking news in maggot world, but it's not to anybody who's paying attention. Oh, hell no. Lots of people having lots of problems with things that Nittwit Nero say that they said, but, well, the latest is Senator Juvelation T. Cornfield. Senator Foghorn Leghorn of Louisiana Stan, John Kennedy, Nitwit Nero last night, triping away, oh my God, the triping he's been doing. He said that John Kennedy is publicly demanding that Barack Obama return $120 million

he allegedly earned through ownership related to Obamacare. He allocated money under his own laws using taxpayer-generated prestige. there's nothing ethical or legal about this. And there's also somebody didn't, he didn't type that because those are way too big a words for him. Well, notice reached out to Senator Canada, and he said, well, if somebody told me there was something floating around on the internet

about me accusing President Obama stealing $120 million or something. I didn't say that. I don't know the basis of it. Well, Buster, now you're in it. you just contradicted, you just contradicted the God Emperor. When reached the White House, the crack White House response team said, The American people deserve free and fair elections without them.

We won't have a country. President Trump and his entire team are committed to ensuring a U.S. election could never ever be rigged again. That's because late at night when the Spirokeet started really shrieking, he lied again and said that, Election systems across the U.S. are found to have deleted millions of votes cast for President Trump. No, they didn't. No, they haven't. Well, I just hope you don't wake up with an alligator's head in your bed, Senator Kennedy.

Or for that matter, the whole alligator. And then, meanwhile, today, Trash Patel showed up in the Senate for a little chat and got sideways of Senator Patty Murray of Washington. straight up told him that she thinks he's doing a shitty job I mean thanks for stating the obvious senator but at least you said it keep family safe

but beyond that budget we need serious leadership at the FBI that the American people can trust and I am deeply concerned about the reports that your leadership has not been serious we need somebody at this agency

who's focused on solving criminal cases not passing out branded bourbon or jetting around the globe. Your job is to be reachable. And I know Senator Van Hollen asked you about this, but I gotta say if you wanna pass out liquor or pop bottles in a locker room, stick to podcasting. Leave law in order to people who really do care about justice and appearances.

That is really critical. And it's what I am really deeply concerned about and so are many people. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Can I respond? This is what real leadership looks like the FBI. Every one of you was given it. This is what's happened under my tenure at the FBI and the Trump administration. 20 point drop in the homicide rate. 45,000 violent offenders arrested last

year twice as many as 2024. 2450 criminal gangs disrupted. That's a 32% increase from 2024. 6,900 child victims have been located since I've been in the seat. That's 144% increase. 2,900 child predators and human traffickers arrested. That's a 7. Curious that he's reading his own PR sheet. 80% increase, and we've arrested eight of the top 10 most wanted fugitives in the world in 14 months. That's twice as many in the four years combined. That is what the men and women of the FBI are doing. Well-resourced.

Everyone should take a look at this. If people want to continue the baseless, fraudulent false personal attacks at me, that's great. Keep the target on me, as I've always said, but the mission has never been better. Mr. Chairman, if I could just respond to notes. Senator Murray. I appreciate the work of our FBI agents. But leadership, serious leadership is a concern, and we are seeing the pictures of passing out branded bourbon

and what happened at the Olympics, jetting around the globe, and all the rest of it. And that, I will say again, Mr. Chairman, is of deep concern to me. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Senator Fisher. Yeah. And somehow, I guess, I guess, plot it's to Senator Murray for not bringing up his B-list country music girlfriend

who's actually, on whose behalf he's actually doing the jetting, stick to podcasting. Ooh, that's going to leave a mark. But that was by far in a way not the highlight. Now, Senator Murray referenced Senator Van Hollen of Maryland when, well, the yelling started. Multiple reports, including reporting by the Atlantic have alleged episodes of excessive drinking,

unexplained absences, and behavior that concerned current and former FBI and DOJ officials. You have publicly denied those allegations and filed a defamation lawsuit. So today, as you testify before Congress, is it your testimony that those allegations are categorically false. Unequivocally categorically false.

So there have been no occasions during your tenure when FBI personnel were unable to promptly reach you? Absolutely not. You can ask my entire workforce. They hear from me at every single hour of the day, as do these great gentlemen here, as do the men and women of the interagency and state and local law enforcement in the White House.

And so there have been no occasions when your security detail had difficulty waking or locating you, is that right? Nope, it's a total force. I don't even know where you get this stuff, but it doesn't make it credible because you say so. I'm not saying it, Director Patel. It's been written and documented.

You are literally saying it. No, I'm saying that these are reports, Director Patel. Unlike for baseless reports, the only person that was slinging margaritas in El Salvador on the taxpayer dollar with a convicted gangbanging rapist was you. You know, the only person that ran up a $7,000 bar tab in Washington, D.C. This suggests to me. This suggests to me. Allegations are true. Taxpayer dime during the day is you.

Director Patel, come on. These are serious allegations that were made against you. They're not a lawsuit that you filed. You drinking margaritas with a gang guy. You're true and on video. Actually, it just goes to show you don't. You running a $7,000 bar tab at the lobby bar has been filed by your own office. This goes to show.

During the day, that's you. This is the ultimate example of hypocrisy. I will not be tarnished by baseless allegations. Let me ask the questions. The fact. that you mention that indicates you don't know what you are talking about. Now, here, the only thing I know is you're the one drinking margarias with fel. Actually, that's a false statement, and I'm asking you about your statements.

I've answered that. And I'm asking you about a particular report. And it's not a report. It ain't not a report. I mean, he thinks he does protest too much. And by the way, there's no. $7,000 bar tab. Now,

there's no reporting to corroborate it. And he's still trying to defend the illegal conduct that his boss and that whole filthy administration engaged in relative to Kilmar-Berago Garcia. And what's more, a Salvadoran

governor official, I wonder at whose direction, put the margaritas in front of them and neither. And I wouldn't have drunk from it either. neither Van Hollen nor Kilmara-Abrego-Garcia saw it, or I rather touched it. And claiming something as a farce is not the same thing as an abject denial of the conduct in question. And eventually, Senator Van Hollen leaned in to Trash Patel and pretty much handed him his ass. I look forward to hearing about the various budget requests, but we should acknowledge that we are not gathered here.

at this hearing at a normal time. Because what we are learning about what's happening at the FBI is anything but normal. Director Patel, as you ask for more taxpayer resources, we cannot look away from the credible, extremely troubling reports about your misconduct at the FBI. All four of you hold positions of great public trust. The American people trust that each of you will responsibly exercise your powers to protect them.

You're expected to be on call night and day, able to make quick decisions to guard our nation's security. You must always be prepared to answer that call, whether it comes at 3 p.m. or 3 a.m. That is your duty. Director Patel, I don't care one bit about your private life, and I don't give a damn about what you do on your own time and your own dime, unless and until it interferes

with your public responsibility. Being the director of the FBI is an awesome responsibility. And when your private actions make it impossible for you to perform your public duties, we have a big problem. You cannot perform those public duties if you're incapacitated. And Director Patel, these reports about your conduct, including reports of you're being so drunk and hung over that your staff had to force entry into your home, are extremely alarming.

If true, they demonstrate a gross, dereliction of your duty and a betrayal of public trust. I cannot imagine ever having to worry about former FBI directors Ray or Mueller spending multiple weekends drinking heavily at the poodle room in Las Vegas. Now, I understand that you've denied these reports, and you will have a chance today here to challenge them. I have a feeling there was a butt that came after that, but it's all terribly believable. and uh... note coming in from kim hi kim van holland is a child molester did i hear that out of patel's filthy mouth what was that all about i

i kim it's all either projection or confession i mean would you let a child around cash patel i damn sure wouldn't and i'd be suspicious of any adult who did they just they they they fling shit against the wall in a desperate hope that it'll stick. Anything. But again, this is Jojo Blondie. And I got a feeling that Trash's head is on the chopping block. Branded bourbon, Lee in New York, says,

If nitwit, Nachonero had to replace cash, the next one will give out store brand bourbon. Or worse, Trump bourbon. Okay, Nacho Niro, I had not seen that before, but Nacho is not a chance for Mose Opens. Not a C, not a chance Hormuz opens, Nacho Trump. I don't think about the American people at all. All I'm thinking of that is keeping around from getting a nuclear weapon

that they weren't going to get in the first place. if we had if this government worked according to the according to the constitution but why do I go any further than that no he would have been impeached and removed from office thanks Mitch McConnell thanks Moscow Mitch you goddamn traitor

and both Micah and Ralphs have called my attention to this one. An individual named Harry Sisson has cataloged Nitwit Nero's meltdown of just insane tweetery, tripery, I guess. Yeah. Mecdi Hassan asking of this list, and we'll get into it in a second here,

how do you cover this? A previous president would have received wall-to-wall coverage for even one of these tweets, and yet Trump floods the zone and the media cannot and often will not cover the sheer extent of his insanity and indecency. I hesitate to say this, but look, the media are captive. This is a hostage situation. They're not going to cut this.

It's not that they don't know how. It's that they are not allowed. So that list. Here we go. And breaking news in a minute, courtesy of Kim. Let's see. Harry Sisson writes, Trump had one of his worst mental health episodes yet last night, posting over 55 times in three hours.

Here's the list. 10.15 p.m. accuses Obama of attempting a coup in 2016. 10.15 p.m. says Obama worked with CIA to overthrow Trump. 10.15 p.m. reposts tweets saying Obama is a traitor and that he should be arrested. 10.22 p.m. a tax dominion voting systems for 2020 elections saying they switched votes 1022 p.m. says Fulton County, Georgia, had their 2020 fraud exposed. There was none. 1023 p.m. accuses Obama of personally making $120 million from Obamacare. What the fuck?

Yeah, that was the quote that he attributed to Senator Foghorn Leghorn. 10.23 p.m. accuses Obama of personally making $120 million from Obama care. No, 1023 p.m. cites quack lawyer Sidney Powell on the 2020 election. Oh, Dominion, oh, smartmatic. Get ready to file another lawsuit. Squidney this time.

1024 p.m. Post's fake JFK Jr. account that says Obama wiretapped Trump Tower. Wow. 1027 p.m. demands Senator Mark Kelly resign. 1029 p.m. claims neither Biden nor Harris were in charge of the Biden administration. 1029 p.m. attacks Fulton County, Georgia again. 1029 p.m. posts Fox News clip of Representative Rokana. 10.30 p.m. demands Jack Smith be arrested.

10.30 p.m. accuses Obama, Clinton, and Comey of treason. 10.39 p.m. reposts a tweet from a MAGA account saying they have secret intel proving Clinton and Obama committed crimes. 10.39 p.m. reposts a MAGA tweet saying Hillary Clinton should be sent to Haiti. 10.40 p.m. says the DOJ is working hard to arrest his enemies for treason. 10.40 p.m. reposts the tweet attacking his own DOJ and Todd Blanche for no arrests of political enemies. 1040 p.m. posts a TikTok video of people stealing from a convenience store. 1041 p.m. posts the TikTok of someone taking a door-dash order. 1041 p.m. accuses Obama, John Brennan, and Clinton of sedition and treason again.

1042 p.m. posts the video of a man on closed circle. at TV footage, knocking over food a waiter was carrying. 10.47 p.m. calls Obama the most demonic force in American politics. 1047 p.m. posts the tweet from Mike Flynn saying 2020 election wasn't fair. 1049 p.m. attacks dominion again, claiming they stole the 2020 election. It wasn't. 55 tripes. in three hours. Empty wheel posted and said

this is a catalog of one part of Trump's batshit meltdown overnight. Note how many of them focus on Trump's 2016 conspiracies, which are probably responses to Brennan and Comey appearing on MS now. And by the way, that wasn't the end of the list. Post the video... Let's see.

Yeah. 10.51 p.m. reposts a fake Charlie Kirk account that claimed Obama blocked Hillary Clinton from being prosecuted. 1053 p.m. claims Obama was part of Hillary Clinton's emails in some way. Claims 1128 p.m., a senior Democrat just testified under oath that Senator Adam Schiff leaked classified information, and 1.13 a.m. attacks the New York Times for reporting, on the reflecting pool. Harry Sisson closing, saying the man is clearly not well. Jesus.

And, yeah, a lot of this had to do with something that John Brennan said on MS now. Speaking to Nicole Wallace yesterday, Brennan, who has a long history in government and as a former director of the CIA, well, he said this, and the maggots almost immediately started flinging poo. He has succeeded largely in turning DOJ and the FBI into political arms

of his political operation. What still exists in the system to slow that down? I think, as Liz mentioned, there's still a legion of professionals in the law enforcement environment, the Department of Justice, as well as the CIA and other people, places, the ones who are refusing to follow politically motivated prosecutions, those who are refusing

to support any type of political activities in the part of the Trump administration that are inconsistent with the authorities, the responsibilities of the intelligence community, law enforcement community, and Department of Justice. So basically saying that there are loyal, still loyal Americans inside government who aren't doing his arguably treasonous bidding. One of Nitwit Nero's private security guards and Thomas Prince, President Trump needs to walk his ass in there

and personally and fire everyone in these departments. And then, you remember representing Derek Van Orden of Wisconsin? This is the guy who got liquored up and screamed at teenage pages in the capital. Remember him? The Britain's a communist mole! And then there's that creepy nerd

who is the fascist ideological father for what passes for thought for people like Peter Thiel and, well, you know, the J.D. Egg. Curtis Yarven said, He could be granted immunity in exchange for identifying them. Yeah, right, prosecute people for not violating the law. Yeah, and that just ground at him.

Micah takes issue with me referring to a hostage situation with the media. That implies they're in the situation they're in unwillingly. They enabled this. It was good for ratings, good for clicks, good for quarterly profits. Don't let them off the hook with a term that makes into simple victims like they're hostages. No wonder the dude falls asleep in random meetings. Look at that list.

Well, see, I think there's a difference between the C-suite, as they call it, and people trying to do journalism on the ground. I'm sure most of the young journalists today are journalism grads, and this is not me poking at journalism as a profession or as a course of study. But even as far back as when I was having a dalliance with it, already, and we're talking about the, you know, we're talking about the 80s, there was already a focus on appearance that one's looks had as much to do with one's future success as one's ability to get out a story. And so there's a difference, Micah, between people who would like to publish stories. and the editors and those above who quash those stories. Classic case in point, 60 minutes,

whose season ends this Sunday, and even a veteran journalist of, you know, significant gravity like Leslie Stahl is not immune. Leslie Stahl busted her ass to get an interview with none other than Psycho Beeby Netanyahu

and then because well PsychoBee wasn't comfortable taking questions from someone who has a history of actually being a serious journalist Psychobibi intervened

intervened, and lo and behold, Barry Weiss, the managing editor at CBS News now, the hand-picked by the goons there at Skydance, namely Larry Ellison and his nepo baby son, well, Barry Weiss intervened, took the interview away from Leslie Stahl, who might have had information sufficient. to at least make Psycho Beebe uncomfortable as the genocidal maniac, a fascist piece of shit that he is, and handed it off to Major Garrett. Major Garrett, who isn't even part of the 60 Minutes team, and who only has a platform on CBS's watched by almost no one. online platform.

Oliver Darcy at Status said behind the scenes, the famed 60 Minutes correspondent Leslie Stahl had also been gunning for the interview but was upstaged by Barry Weiss, who booked Netanyahu herself and handed the interview to Garrett. The move sparked hostility and amplified the already strained relationship between

Weiss and the reporting team at the iconic news magazine. And then went on. Darcy did and said a spokescriep for CBS News didn't dispute the reporting, but instead defended the decision, it's the editor-in-chief's job to make decisions about bookings and interviews, Major is a world-class journalist, and did a tough fair and newsmaking interview. And this isn't the first time that she's handed off an interview to Major Garrett for a puff piece.

She did the same thing in March with the D.E. you I hire Whiskey Pete Kegbreath, handing it to Garrett, instead of an actual correspondent for 60 Minutes. And so, Staffers inside the 60 Minutes universe, if you will, said, yeah, Netanyahu did an end run on Leslie Stahl and the 60 Minutes team, and Barry Weiss made it happen. Oliver Darcy closed with a prediction. When the season finale ends, airs Sunday night, it may mark the end of 60 minutes, as it has been long known inside CBS News. That doesn't sound like 60 minutes self-censoring

or being click-driven. That sounds like a hostage situation. And, well, Tristan, are you there? You rang in. Let's see if you're actually there. I couldn't tell. You there, Tristan? Oh, wrong button.

Sorry. You there, Tristan? Hear me? Yeah, now I do. Now I do. Okay. Yeah, I wasn't sure whether to call you on Discord directly or whether to just put myself in the room.

Because I can't listen to the program and be on Discord at the same time. So if you're not in there, I don't know what the hell is going. Well, you called in, and then I fired up, I fired up, but I didn't fire up voice as quick. It's a couple of months. I'm still getting used to Discord because I don't use it that much just for the program. Yeah, no, I completely understand. Well, it's been a while, Roxanne. Yeah, it has been.

It's been quite a while. So what's going on with you? I'm happy to have a good report on my ticker, and, well, that's kind of the, that's kind of been the focus of my what's going on. so yeah yeah well i heard i heard got a clean got a clean echo and a clean stress test so that's uh that's a wonderful wonderful thing i uh i applaud you you're having done that and uh you're better than me over the last couple weeks i've been eating like crap i just stopped today so that's kind of why i'm feeling better uh you know things uh they're doing really Rollbacks, you know, of, they're still doing rollbacks on, at Walmart of, you know, like Easter candy and shit like that.

Oh, dear, yes. Yeah. I was tempted by that, unfortunately. Got a whole bad gummy bears that I ended up throwing away because a couple days ago, it was, I woke up, and I just ate them first thing, and then I felt awful afterwards. Yeah, I was down at the Holler Dollar, and they were clearing out there, Easter. candy and I picked up some, and I'm not good. Now, I love whoppers, you know, malted milk wells. Oh, yeah.

Just love it. But at Easter, they put out the robin eggs that have the little kind of M&M type hard candy shell. Uh-huh. Don't love those. So, they got thrown out too. Yeah, no, they're okay. I prefer regular woppers, too. Or if you're ever in the UK, you can get their version, which they call

Maltesers. Are they falcon shaped? No, but I was just going to say there's a there is there's a there's a book by Anthony Horowitz. He's kind of like a children's writer, but he also writes adult novels too. He kind of wrote, he wrote a book, a series called the Alex Rider series, which is basically just like a young James Bond. But he has a detective series called

the Tim Diamond series, and one of the one of the books is called the Falcons Malteseer, so. Ah, okay, I see. Yeah. I actually, I remember reading the Maltese Falcon about eight or nine years ago and just, God,

the sexism in that fucking book. Oh, no, I mean, it's reflective of its time. Haschell Hammett was actually a progressive for his day. Gosh, Mr. Stress and I used to talk about Dashel Hammett a lot. Yeah. His character that he created, the Continental Op. The Continental Off, yes, exactly.

And what, there was one, but, I mean, you want, now, a lot of sexism in the Maltese Falcon, but Jesus, you want to talk about a bloody affair, Red Harvest. Holy smokes. Just, ugh. Yeah, I'll have to read it. I'm really into that stuff.

In fact, you know, first thing I ever read when I was a teenager was the Holmes Mysteries. I got to the very last one. Yeah, I think as a teenager, I read a whole bunch of Dashel Hammett early on. And, yeah, you can see, and it's not just sexism, there's a ton of homophobia.

and they actually managed to translate the homophobia over into the film version with Humphrey Bogart and Mary Aster and Sydney Green Street and of course, oh, come on, he was a company player with Warner Brothers. Oh, yeah, Reek, you've got to help me. Rique, you've got to help me, Rick! I stick my neck out for no one. but in the Maltese falcon they play up innuendo that Peter Lorry is gay and in the Maltese falcon it's all over the place. Okay.

Yeah, I haven't watched the movie either. Yeah, that was an interesting book. But yes, Malteseers, Woppers, they got all sorts of interesting things over there. They're the UK. My favorite candy bar is called a flake. And it's literally a bar that, like, as you bite into it, flakes of chocolate fall off. Oh.

Yeah, it's interesting. Yeah. But, you know, if you really want to get British, you need to try some jammy dodgers, which are jam-filled biscuits. I think we've mentioned We've talked about those in the past And actually what I had the other day

I went to my local Mediterranean place They do all their stuff organic And they have these really thick Thick PETA breads And They do European thumbprint cookies Have you ever had those?

No They're like Well there's basically like a shortbread cookie It's really really soft dough and they put a splotch of like raspberry jam right in the middle of the cookie, like right on top. And it's amazing. Oh, God, it's good.

Yes. I hope to have some more. It's like a little, it's, it's, well, you know, you know what a linsor tort is, right? Yes. It's sort of like that, but with the more uniform. a thicker shortbread kind of base to it. Oh, we do love our sweets, don't we? Oh, yeah. Oh, God.

If you ever get a chance to go back to Costco, they have, or they should have, I think it's a seasonal thing, raspberry crumble cookies. They're basically like mini-linson torts. Oh, my God, they're good. And my birthday's coming up, so I might ask for that instead of cake. Ooh, that would be good. But anyway, I, you know, you and I read a lot of the same sources because both the James O'Keefe thing and Chris Van Hollen and Jay Edgar Boozer getting into conflict with one another. They were both on my list. I was going to cover the Van Hollen one until I saw O'Keefe.

and decided to cover that one instead. Well, I mean, O'Keefe is basically an old-school ratfucker. Yeah, but actually he's no longer affiliated with Project Veritas. He's got his own... Oh, yeah, the Citizen Journalism Project or whatever, because... Yeah, yeah, because they kicked him out, if you remember, because he was caught doctoring... footage.

Sure. Yeah. I think it was during like the later years of the Obama administration. So yeah, it's, uh, it's quite something. I, uh, you know, I kind of, I kind of wonder whether to trust it or not. I, I, I, I'm airing on the side of I believe it, but I don't, you know, I, we can't rule out this guy's history. No, no, but I mean, I'm sure it was edited select.

and I'm sure they also chose their targets carefully. I mean, it's a classic honeypot situation. I hate that term, by the way. But guys will believe just about anything if it involves a woman being allegedly attracted to them. especially maggots oh hell yeah yeah remember rudy juliani

got set up by sasha care of baron cohen in the second boarette yeah yeah dude was reaching for his zipper wasn't he something yeah yeah i think he was and there was another incident

I can't remember there was there was one more other like another republican who was like oh it was russell vott there wasn't a date or anything but like he got he got caught out by a reporter who would basically claimed to be one of the like a right-wing christian guy and uh russell vat was spilling his guts to him yeah oh yeah i remember that one yeah that wasn't that wasn't uh o'keith that was that was a legit operation from

I think a European outfit Yeah it was like The Guardian or something But yeah Yeah no that was that was legitimate But it was you know And of course it never went anywhere No

Because the media don't want to fucking talk about it You know This is selective biases You know because it would be a PR nightmare and, you know, all these motherfuckers at the New York Times and the Washington Post, they don't care if Trump stays in power. They want Trump to stay in power. I think, I think for some of them, it is good business. I think there are still good journalists out there. It's just hard, it's just hard for them to do their work because of the suits and the editors above them. you know every time you know every time you know every time you see a book coming out by some somebody with a lot of money in their pocket who withheld information from the American people in order to sell a book well you know that that person is not a journalist you can trust whether it's Jake Tapper or you know Bob Woodward yeah I was just going to say years looking at you

you, Bob Woodward. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And you're right, there are good journalists out there. I like to get a lot of my stories from, you know, ProPublica, the Guardian, the Intercept. Demapore is a pretty, it's pretty, they have some pretty solid folks there. I even have some African outlets. The African media landscape is really, is really.

really growing a lot. If you're interested in politics from an African perspective, there's a premium Times, which is out of Nigeria. It's really interesting. Oh, Nigeria is ground zero for this sort of what, revamped and refueled colonialism? Yeah, yeah, unfortunately. Because China wants its mineral resources. We want to control its mineral resources,

and I guess the actual Nigerian people just kind of get lost in the shuffle. And Poko Haram wants to control the mineral resources, you know. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, there are still separatists in the Biafra region, even if they've been kind of laid low lately because of the insurgency. in the north. But, no, it's interesting reading, and there are absolutely a lot of good journalists out there

who are still doing quality work. But it's not only the editors in the lawsuit, it's a loss of access, too, which, you know, a lot of journalists don't want to lose. Oh, by the way, a little trivia titbit from Brother Deacon Asa. regarding the Cadbury flake. Interesting. The flake, it doesn't melt. You can put a freaking torch to it, and it don't melt.

It'll burn, but won't melt. It's goddamn delicious, though. How did they make that happen? I don't know if I want to know. But it is the coolest, it's definitely the coolest candy bar I've ever eaten. I follow reels from a guy named Amory, He's French, I think. He's a pastry genius, and he's an artist who works in chocolate.

It's absolutely astonishing what he does with chocolate. I saw the, he did a basketball backboard. The entire thing was made out of chocolate. Oh, that's so cool. Right down to the hoop and the net. The basketball was made of chocolate, and he filled it with, caramel corn

oh wow and they're sturdy he even shot a basket with it and then slammed the ball down and the chocolate broke up and just you'll find him

AM A UR Y is his first name and his creations are just brilliant is that on Instagram um Probably. I run across them on Facebook. Okay. Yeah. Well, he's on Facebook is probably on Instagram.

And thanks to Matt in San Francisco and Reverbo, Peter Lorry, how the hell did I forget that? But yes. Yeah. And Christopher, going back to Trump Bourbon. Hi, Roxanne. Hi, Christopher. Let me guess what goes into Trump bourbon. Must be mashed corn picked from used depends mixed with Venezuelan. gasoline, drink only with

swirly straw. Oh, God. Well, we made it halfway into the program before a dinner got ruined. Sorry, sorry about your breakfast, Joy, but, oh, that's disgusting, Christopher.

Well, I'm almost kind of proud of you. Well, that's exactly what it is, too. You know, fuck all that good Woodford Reserve. crap that Patel was

clocking. Let's just use Trump bourbon instead. Didn't he actually make Trump whiskey at one point? No, he made shortly after Vladimir Putin introduced Putinka vodka. Trump introduced

Trump brand vodka. It was during about the same time as he was selling meat through the mail. Oh, that's right. Yes. Would you buy liquor from a guy who doesn't drink? I don't think so. No, no, no.

No, I'll stick with my Johnny Walker Black, which I still have in my cupboard. Fair enough. Hopefully won't touch for a while. Oh, I love Johnny Walker. You know what you, it's a bit pricey, but the Suntary, the Japanese distiller? Uh-huh. Suntary came into existence because the man who developed the distillery really wanted whiskey. And it was pricey and hard to get from Scotland.

And so you remember the Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson's vehicle lost in translation? Bill Murray's character gets brought over to Japan to do Suntary ads. And it's Scotch. It's not bourbon. It's not like, it's scotch. And it's one of the, it's a very nice scotch at that. Oh, yeah. I got, I got some Suntory, I believe, from the duty free in Tokyo and brought it back home with me.

Yeah, that's exceptional. Oh, that stuff. Oh, that stuff is delicious. Absolutely. You know, that's a scotch you drink straight. And now, of course, they own Jim Beam. they own makers mark I'm not sure what else

but yeah Suntry is I guess one of the largest distillers if not the largest in the world it's kind of like when InBev which was Belgian and Brazilian bought up Budweiser yeah

another Another acronym for Nitwit Niro, Jeremy shared this with me. Tofu. Trump only fucks up. So we've got nacho, we've got taco, nacho, and tofu. All right, that works. Only two of those things I think Trump would actually eat. Yeah, he'll never be caught dead eating tofu.

Exactly. No chance in hell. Tofu's good. I enjoy tofu. Oh, one of my favorite countries in a Japanese restaurant. The way I learned it on a menu, Agé tofu, have you ever had that? I think so. It's like breaded cubes of really firm tofu that's deep-fried and served in this delightful, wonderful, delicious broth.

Yeah, it's kind of got like a spongy but delicious texture. at the same time. Yes. Yeah, yeah, I've had that. Oh, it's good. It's good stuff. Yeah, that's... I haven't had that in a very long time.

I'd love to have that. Well, because it soaks up everything. So, you know, you get all the really complex flavors from the broth and whatever it is they use to... And that's, and, you know, that's tofu's claim to fame. It can taste like anything. That's true. That's why I'm back on my black bean kick, because they can also taste like. black and navy beans.

My mom made these black bean cookies for me. Oh, my God, they're good. Talk about a delicate. You need to look up the recipe and get your mom to make you some of the favorite soup of Scott Marinoff. And I'm awfully fond of it, too. Oh, she did. Yeah, Senate Navy Bean soup. Yeah, no, she has made it for me.

Isn't it wonderful with a hunk of cornbread? Oh, yeah. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, well, didn't have the cornbread, but it's good stuff. Absolutely delicious. And say hello to Daphne. She's sitting right next to me. Oh, Daphne is such a good kitty.

Yeah, she is, most of the time. Oh, she's going to get fixed in three days. She's got to bring her over to the vet at like 7.30 in the morning. I don't relish it. No, no. She's probably going to be a miserable little kitty for a few days. Oh, she's going to be miserable. she's going to be pissed when I put her in the crate.

She already knows what's happening. The crate's in the middle of the floor so she can get used to it. And she, I'm going to start putting food in there so she can go, you know, so she can associate it with positive stuff. But like she already knows that like something's up because she keeps pawing me and meowing at me. And like, I don't know what the hell to do. I try to play with her. She's calm now, so I think she's starting to get used to the idea, but she's...

Her as hell not happy about it. Well, and I guess when she comes home, she'll have to have the cone of shame, won't she? Uh-huh. Yeah, exactly. She ain't going to like that. And by the way, Billable Rick asked, is Christopher vying to join the Juvie delinquent Triumvirate with that crack about Trump Bourbon? I don't think he's... I don't think Christopher's vying any more, Billable. I think it's... what a quadumvirate yeah

oh and Ralphs who knows kitty care very well suggests for Daphne maybe get her some kitty dose-sized gabapentin

yeah yeah I can ask the vet for that shouldn't be a problem yeah but it's going to be it's going to be hard it's not going to be hard for her it's going to be hard for me too Yeah, it will be.

But it's got to be done. In the long run, yeah, in the long run it'll be better for you, though. Yeah, exactly, so, you know, a little bit of sacrifice here. We'll make a world difference. But, yeah, did you hear about completely different, but did you hear about ICE is going after Native Americans now? Oh, they have been, haven't they? Yeah, but now it's, I mean, I guess,

I guess this is the first I'm hearing. I mean, I'm not saying I'm surprised, but this first I'm hearing of it. I did a video on it this morning. They're literally going up to Native Americans and being like, are you Mexican or they're just fucking straight up speaking Spanish to them? And they're not accepting their IDs. They're calling them fake and shit. Yeah, and those are tribal IDs. Yeah, they're tribal IDs.

the problem is that every single one is different because there's like 575 different confederated tribes and they all have different IDs and now people are like the tribes are

giving statements like saying that you need to carry your ID and other any sort of documentation that you can carry with you you need to carry with you according to the the tribal leaders

um one tribe even waived uh replacement fees for like lost or stolen IDs because it's so it's getting so bad yeah it's well I mean what going all the way back to the beginning of these ice goon raids

yep imagine not being able imagine not being able to tell the difference between someone who is Dene, Navajo, and, you know, Mexican or Guatemalan or Honduran or Salvadoran. Yeah, seriously.

I mean, it's fucking pieces of shit. They, they, um, you know, they've been specifically targeting homeless shelters, too, and Native Americans are way over-representative in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the,

house population. Uh, you know, they detained a bunch, uh, like a four or five sue members, in Minneapolis too. You know, during the whole during the whole what's that operator, I don't know what they

called it, but yeah, it was, this is just all, I mean, and not only that, but there, there's a case from like 1874, it's Elk versus the United States.

I think I'm getting that case wrong, but basically they said Native American citizens aren't covered by the, the 14th Amendment. And, you know, we only, the only reason that they are citizens is because they have statute, you know, there's statute in place, the Indian Citizens Act at 1924. And, but they're using, the Trump administration is using that case from 1874 to justify

stripping citizenship from kids of illegal immigrants, or undocumented, sorry. Yeah, it's absolutely sickening. Oh, it's so horrible. And that, and that, and that, there's a cumulative effect because that's on top of thousands upon thousands of missing indigenous women in both the United States and Canada. Oh, yeah.

This is going back decade, too. I mean, you know, the fact that we don't have anybody practically talking about how the crisis of missing indigenous women is just, it's an outrageous travesty. But, you know, just the fact that they're stacking up on, you know, this asinine court case from the 1860s. 70s to justify dripping undocumented children who were born here of their citizenship.

You know, I'm getting to the point where I'm never surprised but it always just gobsmacks the hell out of me, the gall of these fuckers. I know. I know. Oh, by the way, a little something I just noticed a minute ago. I'm sure you

read of the golden calf moment down at Magaloko, right? Oh, yeah. The golden statue of himself. And, you know, I got a dollar to a donut. That's crylon. That's spray paint gold, if ever there was. But they had a ribbon cutting ceremony, and guess who was at the center of the group

cutting the ribbon for the golden pig? sorry pigs Brock Pierce Brock Pierce who was a dear dear friend of Jeffrey Epstein and in 2012 wrote to Epstein

saying I had a great time with the girls I hope they had fun too thanks best regards Brock Jesus I'm pretty sure there's something in the old testament about golden calves and worshiping gold

and that sort of thing, but, well, Nitt Nero never went deeper than two Corinthians. And the fact that he was surrounded by a bunch of clergy was disgusting in its own right. Oh, I bet Paula White Kane was there. Oh, without a doubt. And, by the way, Kim said breaking, sent me a note a little bit ago saying,

breaking news, there will be off-brand catching. all over the walls at the at the White House and that's based on this headline Intel shows Iran retains major military capacity despite U.S. claims officials say large portions of Iran's

missile arsenal, air force, and Revolutionary Guard naval units remain intact despite Operation Epstein Furry's heavy strikes. Their military is not obliterated. No.

And we meanwhile have fired something like 53% of our critical missile supply. Yeah. Yeah, wasn't there a story earlier this week or last week about how they're not even able

to deliver food to the naval ships? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. Oh, that's horrible. Let's see. On our side, FAD interceptors over 53% used up to 80% in some estimates,

with the DOD wanting 20 billion plus for replacements. Patriot interceptors are at least 45% expended. Precision strike missiles are more than 45% used. And meanwhile, whatever Iran had stockpiled, they've still got at least half. of. Yeah. And that's not our, you know, there are other problems and we're not prepared for them. Oh, we're never prepared.

No, I mean, and so he's absolutely cornered. And I had a story a few days ago. Let me see people predicting that there will be a ground invasion and sooner rather than later. It's, well, it's far from over. and of course with that clip from him today saying, I don't think of that the American people at all. Well, it's true. Yeah.

We're moving in if we're not already there on $4.60 a gallon gas. And you just can't go toddling around like that. I'm so jealous of people with electric cars right now, Matt. It would be nice. I like that. Yeah. Has anything, you know, we got us. If anything is telling us now that we need to get off fucking oil, this is the time to do it.

God, I wish we had, I wish we had Chinese electric cars in this country. Fuck, they're cheap. They're cheap as hell. I wish we were serious about manufacturing them here. I mean, we've gotten better, but still, we're not there. Oh, no, no, not even close. No, if we had, if we didn't, I mean, literally it's like a hundred percent tariff on the Chinese cars. And so if we didn't have that, maybe they'd be able to help us make ours.

Idealistically, of course, but, you know. Well, and the fact is, is that Trump's, I think I titled one of my videos a few weeks ago, It's Trump's Tago and Trump's ego are fighting. You know, it's, we've got two massively opposite impulses of his struggling against one another, and it's, you know, it's dangerous. You know, he doesn't want to, he doesn't want to fold because he would be a coward, but he is a coward. Always has been. Always will be. Yeah. And I know people think, it doesn't matter, but it eats at him.

Oh, yeah. Oh, him and Hegz, you know, look at Hegzek, you know. He's one of those lower-ranking military members who thinks he's more important than he actually is, thinks he did more than he actually did, and cries when everybody, whenever somebody even remotely challenges him. Did you see that fit he threw last week? It was a newsmax reporter. for God's sake. Which one?

I mean, there's a lot of fits. Oh, this was like last Wednesday, I think. It was James Rosen of Newsmax. It was basically like, and James Rosen, if you've

been following, you know, just the reporter cable news landscape, James Rosen is one of those creeps from Fox News who, like, wrote a book about Dick Cheney or something. He's no liberal.

But he asked a question, yeah, he asked a question of Hegzeth. He was like, well, the president has said that, you know, there's going to be no capitulation, you know, with Iran. So why is he walking it back? And Pete Hegzeth was literally like, you know, James, you started out nice,

but now you're being mean to me. Oh, he is such a whiny little bitch. And he had a tough time of it earlier today before Senator Gene Shaheen in the Senate subcommittee hearing. And based on the information we just talked about, no, Iran is not devastated and Iran is not helpless. We basically blew it. Well, Gene Shaheen, I don't know if she had advanced notice of this or what, but she took whiskey peat apart piece by piece. A number of members of Congress have expressed our concern that Iran is receiving intelligence support from Russia to target our service members, even as we loosen sanctions on the Kremlin. Russia is making $4 billion from oil sanctions relief because we've loosened those sanctions.

As has been testified to an Iranian, she had drone costs about 35,000. That's enough money for hundreds of thousands of drones supporting Russia's war in Ukraine and billions for Iran to reconstitute its industrial base. So if one of the goals that's been outlined by the president as part of this war is to destroy Iran's defense industrial base, don't you think we ought to be putting more pressure on Russia? and putting those sanctions back on those Russian oil ships so that they are not continuing to fund Iran in this war. Senator, we know Russia is a nefarious actor on a lot of levels and account for that, but I would say the destruction of Iran's defense industrial base has been highly effective.

All evidence to the contrary, we're not accounting for that if we're giving Russia the opportunity to earn $4 billion a month, $20 billion by the end of the year if we leave those sanctions lifted for that time, during which they can continue to fund Iran. They can continue to provide oil to China. Has been clear and overwhelming. To catch that, here we go. He's going to say it again. The destruction of Iran's defense industrial base has been clear and overwhelming. Well, yeah, no, no, no. They've got, they got, they got, they got plenty more to fight back with.

But he continued to lie. Well, it's certainly not clear to me as a member of the committee because what we see is Iran still producing drones. They're still engaged in this conflict. We have not won this war despite the rhetoric. There's a difference between pulling a drone out of a cave that's been collapsed and producing more drones. That's a different thing. Well, maybe so. But if Iran still has almost 50% of their miscapacity and the ability to pull drones out of caves and still injure.

our allies and U.S. service members, then we have not won the war. Damn. That'll leave him, Mark. Oh, God. So for all intents and purposes, he was lying under oath. Oh, yeah.

This isn't the first time he's lied under oath either. No. So, did you hear how disrespectful he was trying to interrupt her to? Oh, of course. Fucking sexist piece of shit.

You know, And I just don't, you know, even a little fuckstick like Pete Higgs at, like, to be able to lie so convincingly like that, at least to the maggots in a way, to lie so, you know, with a straight face, so much so that you're like, what kind of mindset do you got to have? I guess it's a cultish mindset to be able to be like, yeah, we're totally winning. We're winning so big. So bigly, we're winning, we're winning so much that we're getting sick of winning. Yeah, so much. So much. Right.

So much. With the best people, the best military ever. Yeah. It's just, it's an embarrassment. Any soldier who is serving under Pete Hagseth and has watched that display of dip shittery, ass hattery I gotta be embarrassed to be a member of the U.S.

armed forces right now and I hate to say that because they don't do any embarrassing work it's just their boss is a complete fucking joke yeah Jesus this is where we're at folks

you know and I do my part I try to I try to cover things as best as I can. I'm kind of surprised I haven't burnt out yet. I'm finally making myself take weekends off. Good.

Do that. Kind of tough. Yeah. But the subscriber counts. I don't remember what it was when I was last on your show. It was significantly less than it is now. I think it was like, I think I had under 100 the last time I called you. now I'm at 192

nice it takes time to build to build that subscriber base yeah what it's happening I got a lot of people from the horn who are on who are subscribed you're subscribed

Chris is subscribed Stephen New York is subscribed I believe Jessica and Minnesota is subscribed Emilio's there You know We got quite a And many many many others

We got quite a Quite a gang of folks there Yeah and I think it'll continue to grow So I really do This has been some This has been a dream of mine For 18 years And

And finally having the courage To pursue it You know With the limited equipment that I have Oh it's just so gratifying Roxanne I can't tell you. I mean, it's not gratifying to have to sit there day after day

and cover the stupidity of the kind of bullshit that Trump's doing. But, I mean, at least people who weren't aware will be aware. Hopefully, yes. I mean, I'd like to think that I'm reaching enough people to, you know, even at my small size I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't get the information. And I know you don't like AI, but Claude has been immensely helpful for me in the sense that it does research. It does really good, deep research. And, you know, like today for my article about Native Americans and, you know, the ice goons going after Native Americans, I mean, I got literally 12 different articles from reputable sources in the span of, like,

a minute. That's handy, I guess. I mean, and it's, you know, it's, it's a big boon when you don't, you know, when you, when you, when you, when you don't, when you don't, when you don't have time to go and just sit and read everything under the sun. I'm still a read everything under the sun kind of girl. Yeah. Well, that's all right. I mean, I, I think you're better off for it. I'm just, I'm just lazy and I want to delegate my, I want to delegate. I don't want to, I don't want to have to read everything. I'm like, oh, you know, I, I, I, I, I, I'm just, I'm just lazy. I don't want to, I I literally click on the article. I read like the first couple lines and I'm like, okay, I trust you, Claude. You gave me Time magazine and, you know, Guardian and the Hill and all this other crap, which was one of the reasons why I did the story in the first place because the Hill, you know, it's a fairly, it's got stellar reporting, but it's a pretty conservative editorial, slant to it. And they were talking about this bipartisan bill that would give ICE, quote, unquote, more training so that they could distinguish between, you know, the dirty foreigners and the Native Americans.

I say that, you know, sarcastically. Yes, I know. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like, really? Really, really the hill? Is that all you're going to talk about? Okay, I better actually do some research to talk more about this, because you can't be seriously suggesting that a new training manual is going to make ICE be less discriminatory towards Native Americans.

I think it's purposeful. I think they want to go after indigenous people. Oh, sure. Well, look, you have to remember, Tristan, nitwit Niro despises Native Americans. And it goes all the... It goes all the way back to them getting in the way of him being able to bankrupt another casino. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you remember that testimony from, he was like in front of Congress and what was it, 1993 or something?

He was like, they don't look like Indians to me. Remember that? Oh, yeah. Oh, yes. And the bullshit he said about Liz Warren. Yeah, calling her Pocahontas. Hocontas. Yeah, God, what a 30, son of a bitch. You know, God, it's like, it's like he's a fucking vampire. Put a stick through that man's heart and it wouldn't fucking kill him. I hate to be that way.

Yeah, but here we are. And by the way, going back to what I said about people expecting a ground invasion, and this was before this was before this data came out about Iran being, far from militarily devastated. David Miller, who was a negotiator at the State Department, showed up on CNN and had a sobering prediction. And so much of your expertise is in negotiating, in talking back and forth and trying to find common ground and negotiate an outcome. I'm curious how you evaluate what the U.S. is dealing with in terms of Iranian leadership

and kind of how that has been rearranged since those strikes and who they're dealing with now. I mean, it's really opaque. I worked as an intel analyst for five years. And even with all the bells and whistles, the human, the SIGIN, the overhead, all of it. We really never had a good sense of the internal workings. of a non-state actor or a government. I mean, we can say with some clarity and authority, I think, that there's been a transition

from what someone called divine power, the influence of the clerical establishment to hard power, which is the dominance of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. There's no question that during a war, a war of choice, which has now become a war of necessity, the Iranians have maintained a pretty coherent and cohesive decision-making structure.

I think there are doubts and there are divisions. CNN reported the emergence of what they describe as super hardliners, super-revolutionaries. I think, though, just on the core issues, the right to enrich the effort to create a certain measure of Iranian sovereignty over the straits, basically that the current leadership, divided as it may be, I think are probably all on the same. same page. It's the tactical issues, when to go negotiate, how, and how quickly to respond to the American 14-point plan. Yeah. And how, I mean, I guess it's anybody's guess, but how long

does the U.S. wait for a response? How long does this go on? Well, the question is, what's the alternative? I mean, economic blockade plus military strikes on both sides have created a situation where neither side is getting what they want. Look, I think the Iranian's capacity to absorb pain is probably greater than the Trump administrations, but I also think the president can't get out of this war of choice without getting something significant on the nuclear issue. And, of course, returning the straits to this situation where they were open as an unfettered international waterway in February 28th, that just, in my mind, is going to be as difficult

as a nuclear issue because the Iranians are not going to give up some measure of control and will want some satisfaction with respect to their sovereignty. They've weaponized geography and they've done it extremely ruthlessly. Yeah, I mean, that was my next question. It was just at the end of the day, the straight and the control of the straight and the leverage, you know, which side has in the strait seems to be so much at the center of all of this. It's true, and the Iranians have operational advantage and the advantage of geography. And this, I think, is the problem. It wouldn't surprise me if the Iranians come back with a response that the administration doesn't like, or if they delay further,

that you might see a variation. And it's worth noting that by the following day, Sunday, Nitwit Niro was braying about how, I don't like Iran's response. Well, what is it? I'm not going to tell you. What happened on May 3rd or 4, where the U.S. Navy declared this project freedom. And the president intimated either yesterday or today

that they might go back to Project Freedom. The Saudis were upset and denied the Americans temporary access over flights and basing rights because they really were worried that that could trigger an escalation. But I wonder if you're not going to see some effort in the part of the administration to go back to Project Freedom with some sort of variation, which might mean, even might mean the deployment of ground troops

on one of those key islands, which are proximate to the straits, either Keshem, where the Americans have struck Iranian positions over the last several days, or Lerick Island. I would not surprise me. The administration is frustrated. They're looking for a way to break out of this. But right now, I suspect just,

situations can get worse before it gets worse. Worse before it gets worse. All right, Aaron David Miller. How's that make you feel? This guy's got a lot of experience. Makes me feel God. I don't even know how to describe. Pretty goddamn terrified, if you want my honest opinion.

I promise you, he's still thinking nukes. Oh, yeah. Oh, and, you know, David Miller, I don't think he went far enough. I mean, this is Iran's dream scenario. They've been preparing for this ever since the Islamic Republic was formed. This is what they wanted, and Trump gave it to them on a fucking plate. On a fake gold-flect plate. Yep.

And, you know, they do. They have all the leverage. They do. They don't have any reason to, you know, to unblock the straight. They don't get what they want. And, you know, what would be even worse is if we ended up with some version of the JCPOA, it'd be like fucking North Korea. Well, that's what they say.

I mean, basically, witless and, uh, Jared, essentially asked for the JCPOA as long, you know, everything Barack Obama got without the Barack Obama. Right. Yeah, yeah, this is it. That's why, and that's why Trump's been holding out for so long because he just wants to undo what Obama did, but still do what Obama did. So consumed by him. Exactly. Yeah.

do you think yeah so do you think it's going to do you think Iran's going to continue to negotiate do you think that Trump's going to send any more people out that way to or Pakistan or whatever

I mean he's crazy that's the problem with a crazy person you know we Republicans and maggots all along where Iran were concerned have made the

fundamental error of thinking that Iran is crazy okay not not crazy but we he is

and yeah and the maggots are already having shit hemorrhages because of what he said this this afternoon I don't care about the American I don't even think about the

American people you know the question was when you're negotiating with iran mr president to what extent are american financial situations motivating you to make a deal not even a little bit the only thing it matters when i'm talking about iran they can't have a nuclear weapon i don't think about americans financial situation i don't think about anybody i think about one thing we cannot let ron have a nuclear weapon that's all that's the only thing and so lo and behold uh cynthia lumas a senator from Wyoming stand, went a running out, Tristan.

And, well, when a correspondent Pablo Monriquez asked her to respond to what her orange daddy said, well. Yeah, this is the clip. Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a do clue. weapon. I don't think about American financial situation. I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing. We cannot let

Iran have a nuclear weapon. That's all. That's the only thing that's going to do. Yeah, and Cynthia Loomis responding to that, said the president didn't, he didn't

mean it. He didn't mean it. That's what they got. He didn't mean it. that's that's that's that's cult speak he didn't say what your lying ears heard you heard him say exactly exactly oh by the way we're we're recorded the way into the third hour of the program we are a goose egg for this Tuesday thus far ralps has a $25 challenge on the table that would help out considerably that would get us down to 3470 for the deficit and uh some Someone asked, gosh, how do I subscribe?

Well, you just go to head-on.com. You click on the PayPal button, and you put in whatever number you want, and you click the little box that says, make this happen every month or whatever it says. And boom, done. Good. Awesome. So if we could not be a goose egg today, that would be fantastic during the live broadcast. Thanks.

Let's meet that challenge. And hopefully then some. It's not a really terrifying. There's an utterly terrifying number, and I hope that people can reach into their hearts and help out. Because, you know, this shit's damn important. Yeah, and now more than ever. I think, what was it?

We got down to $1490. See, we're still $1,400.9 in the hole for April. So, yeah. I hate talking about it. I hate even mentioning it. I wish I had a printing press or, you know, a brink truck pulling up in the driveway every day, but I don't. Oh, and by the way, just a second, going back to Whiskey Pete Kegbreath. Matt in San Francisco noted, did you see Hagerst on the video at the correspondent's dinner thing?

There's video of him with his mouth jutting back and forth. That thing you only get when you've done some serious cocaine. Yeah, snorted the gross... the gross national product of, you know, Peru. Yeah, and that's that, Matt, that's the same, that's that same look that he gets when, uh, you realize that he's, uh, he's the love child of the, uh, exomorph from alien and, you know, Beavis and Butthead. He looks so much like Beavis and, I mean, uh, what, what a horrifying thing to behold.

And just imagine, some woman goes to bed with that every night. Boo. Glad I can't see it. You know what? You're lucky. In that instance, you are lucky. Yeah, still hear it, though, and you hear every syllable of his voice. Voices say a lot about people.

People don't always realize it, but they do. I can imagine so. especially in isolation. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But, you know, all he has to do is speak, and he's fucking lying. And I got to tell you,

that, you know, that clip that you played of Trump saying what he said, that's probably the most truthful thing he's ever said. Yeah. He didn't mean it, though, Tristan, he didn't mean it. Yeah, he didn't mean it.

He only doesn't think about anybody. That's all. Don't, you know, it's the same Republican playbook. Never happened. Never did it. You know, they lied. The media, the lying press, as the, as the Nazis would say. Luggenpresser.

Lugendpresse, yes. And, my goodness, you know, nothing shocks me, but it always amazes me. That's kind of where I'm at. But I think I'll let you go. Okay, do. I just wanted to check in, and our very best to, our very best to Daphne, and please maybe contact your vet and see about a little bit of Gabba Penton for her. Oh, absolutely.

Ralph sent along a video of a cat named Pickles enjoying some Gabapentin, and it looks like a rather loopy good time. Yeah, well, that's... No, I definitely want her... I definitely want her to be relaxed because, you know, it's going to be tough all the way around, but Daffers is going to be all right. She's going to be fine.

You know, she's... I don't even know where she is right now. She's off somewhere doing something. Doing something catty. Cat like, yes, yes, indeed. But, you know, I also just want to say, if you guys are interested, anybody who's listening wants to subscribe to my channel, they can do so. Please do.

I am, yeah, I am blind underscore progressive on the channel. I've since changed it. Blind underscore progressive. So that's the best way to find me. Really hope to see some of you there. Like I said, we've already a nice group of horned folks there already and, you know, happy to invite some more. Absolutely, absolutely.

And best of, but do guard, Tristan, guard against burnout. I will. No, I really will, Roxanne. I want this to work. I'm going to take weekends off. I'm not going to overstretch myself. This is the most important thing I've ever done in my life, and I want to keep it.

I want to keep doing it. I hope you do. I hope you do, and we have faith in you. Oh, thank you, Roxanne. I really appreciate it. You take care, Tristan. Yep, all right. Take care.

Bye. Yep. Tristan out in the Great Pacific Northwest, taking care of his little kitty cat. She's going to have a little surgery, but she'll feel a lot better out. after. And Stephen New York asked that Trump quote,

how long before it's AI? I'm sure they're working on making him not say what he said. Or finding some AI to say that what he said didn't mean what he said, etc. Yeah. And I guess we've kind of got a Whiskey Pete focus between, you know, a whiskey focus. There's Trash Patel's Whiskey and Whiskey Pete.

and, well, he was not getting any slack at all, not that he deserves it. But Chris Coons had a moment with the head warfighter. And it's nice to see what happens when someone actually brings receipts. But unfortunately, the way that the move towards war was launched 74 days ago, without consent, without consultation, has caused a real rift with our vital European allies. And, again, as the chairman said, and I agree, there is also a critical and urgent need for us to recognize and embrace that in the most important test field, the battlefield in Ukraine, where the Ukrainians are fighting bravely and successfully against Russian aggression, they have innovated,

they have delivered the most lethal and capable drone. and counter drone technologies in the world. What is bedeviling us in Iran right now? Their ability to use thousands of cheap, effective Shahed drones to hit our allies, their military facilities, and their oil and gas production facilities, and to target and hit civilian shipping. Who's the world's best at intercepting Shahed drones, Ukraine?

Last year, the administration requested zero for Ukraine and zero for our key names. NATO allies in the Baltic states, and on a bipartisan basis, this committee put in $400 million. When we met just about a month ago for the first time over at the Pentagon, and thank you for that conversation, we all emphasized the importance of coming to us with a spend plan for these $400 million. This is a $1.5 trillion request in front of us. Why am I taking your time on $400 million? because I think it shows a key piece, a missing piece in strategic vision.

We should not be standing aside from the war in Ukraine and saying, eventually we want to be a part of some peace between Russia and Ukraine. We should be learning the lessons of Ukraine. Our allies in the Persian Gulf are, they're buying their interceptor systems at scale. Some of our current and former leaders in our military were working very hard to learn the lessons of Ukraine. I must say in a recent briefing for this subcommittee, I was very encouraged by two very senior members of the United States Army who are in Ukraine and have been helping our armed forces learn. But my heart fell when I left and was told that those two senior officers were being

forced out. I am concerned that we have a distracted administration and a distracted department. From your written testimony, Mr. Secretary, it seems at times you're more passionate about fighting culture wars than winning the real war that we're in, at banning books, at cleaning alleged DEI off of websites, at taking on an anti-vaccine position rather than continuing the longstanding public health policies, at interfering with promotions. I'm stunned that you fired the 44-year chief of staff of the Army in the middle of a hot war and dismissed the Secretary of the Navy in the middle of a naval blockade. as dozens of senior flag rank officers have been dismissed,

I am worried about what that does to focus and morale. We have a president who seems more focused on a billion dollar ballroom and a victory arch rather than achieving actual victory. And a piece, a small piece of the $1.5 trillion request in front of us, is for a new Trump class of battleships, a so-called golden fleet, which I think goes in the wrong direction. Let me come back to the base. point I was trying to make, the world of warfare is changing. Every major service can and should

embrace smaller, lighter, faster, more distributed, lethal capabilities that will mostly be autonomous. This move towards a golden fleet, towards a new battleship strikes me as moving in exactly the wrong direction, giving our adversaries a bigger target rather than a more capable platform. How do I explain to my constituents the cost, the cost of this war and the cost that we are looking together to invest in our national defense. I share the chairman's concerns about reconciliation. Last year, $150 billion was provided to the department. But the mismatch between base year and one year,

between long-term and short-term, caused tens of billions of dollars in errors, errors in how shipbuilding was handled, errors in how new munitions are being acquired. And working together on a bipartisan basis, we fixed many of those problems. This year's budget proposal triples that request to $350 billion. I agree with you about the urgency of our national defense.

In your written testimony, you lay out four key goals, defend the homeland, deter China, increase burden sharing with our allies and partners, and supercharged the defense industrial base. As you've seen in the last Congress, I've worked with you and with Deputy Secretary Feinberg on multi-year munitions. I cheer the goal of finally passing an audit in 2028. I think we have critical investments to make in our defense industrial base. I think we are absolutely in the fight of our lives as a republic to win AI and quantum space and surveillance and the capacity to fight drones and launch drones. But I'm concerned that you, sir, and this department is distracted by issues that are not focused

on the core thing we need to achieve. I could not agree more with what you said in your written testimony. For a generation, the United States was largely distracted by open-ended wars of regime change and nation building. And as you summarize this administration's approach, we will not send America's best to advance full-hearty or reckless adventures halfway around the world. Mr. Secretary, I agree that the Iranian regime is a terrible regime. I am grateful for the service and the sacrifice of the Americans who've been wounded or who've lost their lives in this current conflict.

But I do not understand the strategy. And as the average American is seeing the costs at the pump and at the grocery store, and as this committee is being asked to approve the largest single year increase in defense spending in decades, I need to better understand the answers to the urgent questions I've put before you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I mean, he was calm. He was reasoned. And, you know, I'm a peacenik.

But it doesn't change the fact that what he said about being distracted is absolutely true. He waged a harder war against trans people in the military than they've waged against Iran. He's waged a more vicious war against officers of color and women. than he has against Iran. But Nitwit Niro likes it when he gets all butch. And Patty Murray, whom we heard from toward the beginning of the program. You know, that's the thing. All of these maggots, as I've said a million times before, have donkey ears.

All you have to do is tug them and they'll bray. And their orange daddy has the biggest donkey ears of all, but they've all got them. as you know as as as this clip makes abundantly clear when patty murray uh said something uh about whiskey pete's daddy momentarily after the hearing so i can raise a topic with you and have you point me in the direction of where i this is jerry the moran of course thank you thank you very much mr sir mr chairman Mr. Secretary, the war in Iran has not only cost 13 American service member lives,

it is also costing American taxpayers dearly. Tens of billions of dollars in counting, and that's money that could be helping people perhaps get health care, but instead we're paying for bombs dropped in a war that American people overwhelmingly opposed. Now, earlier this morning, I know that your team testified Trump's war with Iran cost $29 billion so far. that is $29 billion blown on a war of choice, and that's what it would have cost, actually, to save the ACA tax credits. But as my colleagues have already stated,

what is concerning as well is it seems quite clear that that cost estimate is suspiciously low. Now, your acting comptroller suggested that damage to U.S. facilities was not factored into that figure. It is clear that there has been extensive damage to American military assets, New reporting from the Washington Post and others indicates that Iran has hit at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites.

Can you tell us what the cost of damage done to U.S. facilities is because of this war? Well, I think Jay covered pretty clearly what we can or cannot share, but I would simply respond that, and I think it's an important point, considering what the president is undertaking, is what is the cost of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon? and the fact that this president's been willing to make a historic and courageous choice to confront that, it comes with cost and we recognize that. I understand what your judgment is. We have a judgment as well, and I'm asking if you can tell us, and at what point you can tell us what the cost of damage done to U.S. facilities is because of this war. Yeah, ma'am, thanks to the question.

So for future posture, at least, we don't know what that's going to look like. We don't know how we're going to design these bases. The damage to date, you do not have any cost estimate on it at all. For the military construction, I don't have a cost estimate to provide you at this time. Well, when will we get that? Again, it depends on what the future posture is. How we decide to consider it. When hell freezes over?

You know what has happened today. We can't get that number, and that is a real concern to us. Our job is to appropriate dollars, and we're just told it's coming, it's coming, and we don't get it, so it's very hard to do our budgets. And right now, Mr. Secretary, people are paying four or five, even six, seven dollars for gas, and American taxpayers are now on the hook as well for paying for this disastrous war. You're spending families hard-earned tax dollars on a war that many strongly oppose, and you're forcing people to pay more at the pump, and yet you're not even providing a real breakdown for the

cost of this war so far. We have no real details. You have indicated that, and yet now you want Congress to send you one and a half trillion dollars more. To me, that is unacceptable, and I hope our Republican colleagues will join us in not only rejecting that absurd request, but in insisting that the American people get the actual answers on how much money, their money, we are spending on this. Now, let me turn and say, Secretary Hex says that the president has called Medicaid, Medicare, and child care little scams and said, quote, we're fighting wars, we cannot take care of daycare. I'm just trying to understand that. Is it

your position, since you're asking taxpayers for another half a trillion dollars for the war, that American families should be forced to give up child care and health coverage so that you can have $1.5 trillion for this budget? Senator, that's not my department. I certainly support this, and I also support the President's efforts to find and remove fraud wherever possible in general sense. And we do that in our department as well. I'm not talking about fraud. I actually asked whether an American family should lose their health care or their child care to pay for this budget.

That is literally what the President suggested. The President has proposed a historic $1.5 trillion budget that will defend the nation and confront threats like Iran, which previous presidents allowed to happen, as Senator Graham pointed out. Previous administration said they wanted to take care of this problem, and they did not, and he's doing it. The question in front of this committee, the question in front of the American people is what are they being asked to give up for this $1.5 trillion? That's where I was talking about. And lastly, Mr. Secretary, your budget requests cuts through Trump's ramblings and really, to me, makes the truth clear that you and the President don't value families as much as you value defense contractors. You want to increase the war budget. I mean, every family at Dover.

Okay, don't tell me we don't care about families. We sure do. And we take care of them in every way we possibly can. I'm asking you about taxpayer dollars that everybody has. So when we've been to war before, we've asked people to do victory gardens. we've asked them to pay more. You are not doing that. You are taking one, asking for one and a half trillion dollars, which means something else has to be given up. That is what this committee is looking at. You want to increase the war budget for the next year by half a trillion dollars. That is taxpayer money

that could be used to feed families or build new affordable homes or wipe out some diseases completely or increase child investments 20 times over. But you are asking us to blow it all on war. And that's not even counting the money that you have spent bombing Iran or that you may still request in a separate supplemental. And to me, this budget wasn't even strategically crafted. One and a half trillion dollars. It's like the president decided that was the number and you all filled in the blanks. So what I'm here today to say is you asked for a massive laundry list of unnecessary spending. It's a huge payday for defense contractors and you still don't even ask to give DOD civilian workers a pay raise. And to me, this is absurd. I know.

No, you do not care what I have to say. So let me quote you someone you might actually listen to, President Eisenhower. He said, every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. That is what this budget proposal is asking. It's going to leave Americans cold and hungry to fund Trump's war and make defense contractors a fortune. She nailed it, didn't she?

Feels like she nailed it. And what's he going to do? Go all John Birch and call Dwight D. Eisenhower, who does not deserve the war. with which he is generally considered. What's she going to do? Or what's he going to do? Like I said, go all John Birch and call Eisenhower a commie? That was the military-industrial complex speech, I believe.

Which was edited, let's remember, because in Eisenhower's original words, it was the military-industrial congressional complex. Remember? Yeah. But like I said, Orange Julius Gieser likes it when his drunken lick spittles

get all butch with the members of Congress. And I want to go back for just a minute to the exchange between Senator Van Hollen and Trash Patel. repeating

slanders. He mentioned a $7,000 bar tab. The disclosure form clearly says catering for event. It was in December. It was a Christmas party. And frankly, that's not a very big Christmas party

cater order for Washington standards. But, well, Jojo Blondie probably got tossed as much for not pursuing nitwit Niro's political enemies as vigorously as he would have wanted as she did

for her piss poor performance. But Trash Patel is testing the boundaries of that theory. Have you had a chance to listen to or read about Brian Driscoll's statements about what you said to him and the reasons for him

his firing? No, I have not, sir. So let me just say this, Mr. Director. In your response to me earlier, where you had a little bit of a blow-up, you made a couple provably false statements. So did you. No. Mr. Director, I was reading about and asking you and asking you to respond to allegations that are made. In fact, I was giving you an opportunity to do that.

And you took that opportunity. But in the process, you made these provably false statements. I tugged your donkey ears and you braid. That's funny sitting there. The statements that I know are sort of like urban legend in right-wing media about margaritas in El Salvador, which is provably false. And so coming from the mouth of an FBI director to make provably false statements in a hearing like this is extremely troubled. And it leads me to ask whether or not the other things you've been saying are false statements. And so my, because that's a provably false statement.

You made a couple of those that are provably false. And this is from the mouth of the FBI director. The only one that made false statements is you. My final question to you, Mr. Director, is do you know that it is a crime to lie to Congress? You know that. That's my last question. I have not lied to Congress. I didn't ask you that.

I'm not testifying here, sir, and I don't lie. Maybe the next time you run up a $7,000 bar tab we can talk about it. Well, see, there you go. Line again, you suggest. In the FPC report, I'll post it right now. You suggested it was public. It wasn't public money, as you know. That was for a 50-member staff.

So it wasn't $7,000 bar tab. Mr. Pettel. I'm glad, let me just say in closing, Mr. Chairman, two things. I'm glad that you have agreed to take the test, regarding, you know, whether you have alcohol problems. I'm glad you agreed with me to do that. You still haven't answered my final question. Do you know, Mr. Director, that it is a crime to lie to Congress?

Do you know that? I do not lie to Congress. I didn't ask you that. And you're insinuating that I am. I asked you whether you know. You want to correct your time in this session where you got steamrolled by the facts so you can have a Twitter narrative. Mr. Director.

I'll raise more money and spend more money on $7,000 dollar tax. And I'm not going to give it to you. The director of the FBI apparently does not want to answer the question about whether or not it's a crime to lie to Congress. And I find that extremely troubling. I find it troubling if you lie to the American people every day. You were a disgrace, Mr. Director. I'm nearly as big a good question. The fact that you can't answer that question, I will, I will, that concludes my question, Mr. Chairman, but I'm obviously very troubled. You know, when they can't answer a simple question,

Well, there we are. I posted the form online. Okay, good for you. Were you drunk when you did that, too? Because it says for catering, not a taxpayer-funded event. God damn. If nothing else, these fuckers are brazen. Jesus.

Yeah. Hey, thanks, Texas T. Thank you so much. We got $15 more to go on Ralph's Challenge, and that'll get us down to, what did I say, 3470? Thanks so much. We're not a goose egg, and you kept that from happening, Texas Tee, and I appreciate you. So very much. From Lee, America's paying a lot for the war.

Yeah, but more is being spent on golf trips, deportations, an arch, not at McDonald's, painting the reflecting pool, statutes, a ballroom, statues, a ballroom, renovating an airplane and lawsuits. Oh, Jesus, yes. The grift. The grift. And then, of course, the maggots. He doesn't even accept his presidential salary. He doesn't need to. He's grifting billions.

Jesus, there's a simple lot. So, so simple. And not in a good way. But, you know, children behave. Well, they model their behavior on parents. And, of course, we all know that nitwit Nero is Trash Patel's daddy, Whiskey Pete's daddy, Todd Blanchie's daddy. And so he threw a nutter earlier today,

getting on Marine 1 before he zooms off to give us away to China. And a reporter had the unmitigated gall to ask him about his ballroom fetish. We have a ballroom that's

under budget. It's going up right here. I've doubled the size of it because we obviously need that. And we're right now on budget, under budget, and ahead of schedule. We're double. You double. I double the size of it, you dumb person.

You're double the size. You are not a smart person. Right over here. Right over here. And based on a lot of things that have happened over the last year, we double the size of the ballroom. So we're going to have a ballroom that's appropriate for the White House. We double the size. The ballroom now is ahead of schedule, and it's a little bit underage.

under budget, depending on the finishes that we use. Depending on the finishes that we use? Jesus, Mary and Joseph, he's obsessing over varnish and crylon gold spray paint. I mean, I'm so old, I can remember when the maggots lost their shit when Barack Obama went on vacation to home. You know, Hawaii.

God damn it. You're a dumb person. You dumb person. You dumb, dumberson. I think even the spiroketes are fighting for oxygen now. Or nutrition of any sort. Oh, and some interesting politics coming out of South Kalanistan. Lindsay Graham recently had a hessa when Nitwit Nuit Nero

started wanting South Carolina to redistrict basically Representative Clyburn out of a job, you know, him being black and all. Speaking to SCE TV news last week, Lindsay apparently, somewhat slightly, broke with his Orange Daddy, explaining that he didn't necessarily think South Carolina ought to be redrawing their maps. King Charles has an enlargement. Yeah, no. Don't care about King Charles or anything.

No, fucking ads. Here we go. Tell us about it, Miss Lindsay. I would recommend that everybody look at the math and see if it's a net positive. It's up to the state legislature to do this. But in trying to pick up a seat, you don't want to jeopardize other seats.

So I've been told, and I know this is accurate, that three Republican districts go from the mid-60s to the mid-50s, that the new 6th district will be 51% Republican. That's not exactly a runaway. So when it comes to the map, I understand people are trying to pick up the seat. Kim Clyburn. Just use common sense. Sir, have you talked to President Donald Trump about this? I've told his people that, you know,

make sure the map accomplishes the goal. If the end of the day we create a map that gives Democrats more competitive opportunity, what have you gained? You may pick up one seat, you may risk two or three others. I'll leave it up to the representatives and the senators. I like the idea of trying to push back against what Virginia did. Virginia just created five Democratic seats, so I don't mind trying to play the game the way the Democrats were playing it.

playing it well i mean the democrats spoke with the voice of the people there in the commonwealth but they've never been much into genuine anything genuinely resembling democracy there in

south cal certainly not going to have a referendum like virginia did and then of course a shed heeled judge overturned all of that and the ohio option is still out there. But when it comes to South Carolina, we have 31% African Americans, and we need to be sensitive to what we do here. If Republicans believe the current map violate the law under the new

interpretation of the Voting Rights Act, should political risk factor into whether the districts are redrawn at all? I think one of the things you have to look, votes have been cast now. Like statewide races like mine, people have already voted for me, and my opponents, you don't want avoid those elections, I think. So I think the state Supreme Court, they will look at this. Once you start voting, it makes it more difficult. But you have legal challenges, you

have the practicality. I mean, there was already voting in Louisiana stand, and that didn't slow none of them maggots now, did it? Micah pointing out, you motherfucker, we didn't start this. Yeah, pushing back

against old Virginia, but not pushing back against old takes ash. I also, says Mike, I remember when we at least pretended that redistricting was done every 10 years just to make sure that, you know, the districts were fair and representative of the people. No, these assholes

are just on fucking live TV now. Oh, yeah, no, we want to redistrict to make sure that we never lose power. Fuck the Democrats and fuck the kind of actual democracy that's just not American. Yeah. Well, the story does get a little bit juicier. So

Lindsay said he wasn't who wanted to make sure that they didn't fuck themselves. This fellow's got to think about the ladybugs now. And then, as Kevin in Massachusetts pointed out, hi, Kevin. Today, state senators in Louisiana, or I mean, South Carolina, South Carolina, I'm sorry. all the Democrats in the South Carolina Senate

plus five Republicans so the actual makeup is 34 to 12 there's just some democracy now but five Republicans joined every one of the Democrats to reject redistricting according to the will of nitwit Nero. They had to have a two-thirds majority that pulled up two votes short. And Shane Massey, the Republican Majority Leader in South Carolina Senate,

did some speechifying, and he said that redistricting would actually be against the best interests of South Carolina Stan. apparently based on those same sort of numbers that Miss Lindsay was talking about. Massey pointing to portraits of the old racists that line the walls of the South Carolina Senate, said, South Carolina has always punched above their weight. Well, I mean, kind of had to get some sense burned into you there, 163 years ago or so.

But, yeah. South Carolina has always punched above their weight. Doing this will diminish that influence. And then he went on and said he expects Nitwit Nero to come after him because the same sort of thing done happened up in Taliban, Dian, when they refused to redistrict. Massey said, Well, there are likely consequences for me personally,

taking the position that I am right now. I'm comfortable with that. I may not like it, but I'm comfortable with it. Too many people in power want to do whatever it takes to stay in power. I believe the legitimate use of power in this case is to make people safer. I don't seek power to punish.

I seek to uplift. Bullshit. But the fact of the matter is what would have happened to Jim Clyburn's district is that some of the Democratic voters there would have been shuffled over into Nancy Mace's district, she'll be gone, and Joe Uly Wilson's, whose name isn't Joe, by the way. Clyburn, on the other hand, is probably the heaviest hitter in the entire South Carolina congressional delegation,

and he has sent disproportionate amounts of money to South Carolina, you know, while the Republicans just lined their pockets. In many ways, South Carolina has roads above gravel status because of James Clyburn. He's also helped to fund rural broadband, and those benefits

have not been solely benefits to African American people. White folks have benefited more than African Americans have under Jim Clyburn's appropriational power. And Darrell Jackson, a

Democrat from Richland County, South Carolina, said, not once did the congressman say, take care of my community first and this community second. All that was said was due right by South Carolina. But if they get rid of Jim Clyburn, who then is the go-to person, who then advocates for South Carolina? And Massey, for his part, said, there has to be somebody in South Carolina who can make a phone call

and somebody at the White House will answer. And the numbers are not reliable. What I do know is that we are six to one today. if we start tinkering this, my concern is that we could make this a whole lot worse. Well, apparently Lindsay and Senator Massey there actually understand numbers and get out the vote and that it's possible they were creating districts that would have made get out the vote make a damn difference.

In short, they recognized that nitwit Niro was making a ginormous, dumbass mistake. But here we are. And by the way, if in the last few minutes we could round up that other 15 bucks so Ralphs could turn it into 50. That'd be wonderful because we are in a desperate hole. But I guess we'll be saying bye-bye to Marginal Trailer Queen. She's got her gazillions now.

And, well, there was a little bit of scuttlebutt back when her boyfriend, Oh, I'm sorry. He's her fiancé. Brian Glenn over there at Real America's Voice. He shared a photo online of a tropical location, and Marginal Trailer Queen said, I'm so thankful to start the next chapter with Brian Glenn TV. Wow.

This, of course, triggered Laura Looney. who started, again, donkey years. March fled the country to Costa Rica, where she's now living in a $5 million mansion after selling her home in Rome, Georgia, for $1.1 million in March of 2026. Does this mean that Marjorie Trader Green? Aw, how cute, they picked up the moniker.

Has applied for dual citizenship or has already obtained citizenship in Costa Rica? And if so, how long has she been planning to flee the country to become a citizen of a foreign country as a now former member of Congress? Well, you're not even a foreign country. former member of Congress, Laura Looney. The purchase of the property proves she began this process as a member of Congress,

all while she pretends to be America first and America only. Well, Marge followed up, saying, I still live in Georgia, but I'm going to travel the world. Yeah, sure. I bet you are, and it'll be first class all the way on all those donor dollars, won't it, honey? Wow. Yeah. So, and by the way, I mentioned yesterday in talking with Tracy,

representing Jen Kiggins of the Old Dominion, Virginia. Even without the redrawn maps, she's in a sticky wicket. She may not make it through November, especially after what she did yesterday, laughing and chuckling and agreeing with a right-wing blatherhead telling Hakeem Jeffries to get your cotton-picking hands off of Virginia. Cotton-picking. Cotton-pecking.

Representative Grace Meng from New York said, The hood is off! Wrong accent. The hood is off. Apologize and get out, or you'll be shown the door in November. Catherine Clark, one of Hakeem Jeffries' whips, said, first they gutted the Voting Rights Act. Now they're using brazenly racist language to attack black leaders.

Jen Kagan should immediately apologize and resign. Christopher Webb said they keep proving black folks will write all along about what MAGA really means underneath the branding. You can't spell hatred without red hat. Yeah. Jesus. You don't sit there and giggle at that shit. Because, among other things, it's racist as fuck. And two, it ain't funny.

It was nothing to laugh about. Makes you wonder what else she'd laugh at. Various and sundry epithets. Oh, thanks, Micah. Okay, Ralph's challenge has been met. That's very helpful. Thank you. Thank you, sis.

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