Head-ON With Robyn Roxanne Kincaid - Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid, 18 March 2026, Prayer Meetin' Wednesday edition

Episode Date: March 19, 2026

MarkWayne vs. the Libertarian Opfamolojiss! Steel cage death match!

The Pessword is bromance. Here we go, live from behind the corn phone curtain. It's head-on with Roxanne Kincaid. Three hours of cussing and discussing with America's only liberal trans-billy elitist right here, right now, on the head-on radio network. Brought to you in part by Cole River Mountain Watch,

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Thank you. Thank you for helping to keep progressive, liberal, independent broadcasting on the air. Thank you, indeed. So, as I said, the password was romance. Well, now. And that refers to the fact that, well, The guy whose parents couldn't decide a name. Hey, that baby of yours.

Which one was the daddy? Was it Mark or Wayne? Mark Wayne? Mm-hmm. Yeah, his hearing for DHS secretary took place today. And well, now. he brought his boyfriend with him uh-huh his his bromance his sweetie i'm talking about teamsters president uh-huh actually came there and sat in the in the hearing right behind mark wayne and uh i don't

know if that was supposed to intimidate the other senators or make them think that uh that uh that uh Shawnee would have them driven away in the trunk of a 70s sedan buried in the corner of a stadium being built somewhere in New Jersey or I don't know, I don't know. But yeah, give us my boyfriend. Uh-huh. Mark Wayne was there and unfortunately for Mark Wayne, so was Rand Paul, libertarian, operandi. ophthalmologist and that thing on his head and uh rand wasn't fooling around no uh not not a not a tall uh rand's right uh well you might not might say rand was right wrought right rot we are often running for this midweek of the edition of the horn. And, well, the various and sundry news outlets carrying the hearing or having a bit of a

field day. Ho-wee! One describing it as an outright mic drop moment. It was, well, Rand Paul started with the opening statement and then it all went downhill from there. To the point that Rand Paul made him watch a video of himself, Mark Wayne, behaving like a complete, well, I mean, shit weasel. Yeah. And the Chadenfreude was deliciously. broad and deep. So I guess my first question is, do you think that justifying that kind of violence

sets a good example for the men and women of ICE and Border Patrol? Mr. Chairman, first of all, I didn't know the exoner damage. When the phone call was made, I made it to you, and I tried to talk to you. You didn't engage at all. In fact, you said, get your paperwork in. It's got to be in three days in between. You offer no apology. Sir?

And you offer no apology today. and no regrets. Haven't heard the word apologize, haven't heard the word regret, haven't heard I misspoke, and it was heated, and I made a mistake. I haven't heard any of those words.

Sir, actually, it wasn't heated, and I'm not apologizing for pointing out your character. Good, good. So you're jolly well fine, and you want the American public, and the people up here to vote, that may or may not vote for you to know that you supported

the felonious violent attack on me from behind. I did not say I supported it. I said I understood it. There's a difference. So that means you really didn't approve of it, just completely understand it. What do you think most people would interpret, completely understand to be, support for, or a condemnation of the violence? Sir, as I said, we can have our differences. It's not going to keep me from doing my job as Secretary of Homeland Security.

I'm going to secure Kentucky and take care of Kentucky as much as I am. If this were a one-off, it would be one thing. If you just disliked me so much that you approved of violence against me, people could just write it off. Well, maybe they hate each other. But really, there's a pattern of this. Let's go ahead and roll the tape. Okay, that's fine. Perfect.

You want to do it now? I'd love to do it right now. Let's hang your butt up there. You stand your butt up there. You stand up on. Oh, stop. Say, no, sit down. You're a United States Senator.

Act. Yes, that is a voice of Bernie Sanderson. Sit down. You're in the United States Senator. That was back when, well, that was the beginning of the bromance, as it is so often among testosterone-crazed manly men. It begins with the pushing and the shoving. And oh, then comes the loving and the touch and the squeeze. And that was when he and Sean O'Brien were going to come to blows. And then, well, turned out to be, I guess.

different kind of blows. All right. Can I respond? Hold it. Hold it. If he got up too, would you have gone at it right there? I would have afraid of him over the dais at that point? You have to be called out on.

Not this guy continues to get away with this stuff. And it's just, you know, it's silly, it's stupid, but every now I need to get punched in the face. Well, it took back to the 1800s and 70s. They used to have Keynes. And tools. And there's a way that means to settle there. and of course now he's on some sort of the chud podcast calling for a return to congressional dueling and of course mark wayne's an idiot stone cold and he's a he's a he's a he's a what a chicken shit

who plays at being all macho and whatnot. And he lacks the historical context for understanding why maybe dueling in the Senate of the United States isn't a great look or a great idea. Cains? Hell, they didn't just use Cains. They used guns. There was an actual dueling ground just across the Anacostia River in Maryland from D.C. But it wasn't so much the dueling that got Mark Wayne all hot and bothered and excited. There were some 80 incidents of violence in.

the Congress between 1830 and 1860 1838 one member of Congress was killed in a duel and then there was oh the duel between a jackass secessionist from South Carolina and an abolitionist from Massachusetts was it Yeah, that would, I'm trying to find it here real quick. Maybe if I look under a different search term, since he referenced Cains. Yeah, that was Representative Preston Book Brooks, the secessionist future treason committer from South Carolina, who attacked without provocation, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts because Sumner had had the unmitigated temerity of offering up an anti-slavery speech.

Sumner, Senator Sumner, suffered extreme head trauma and was not able to come back to the Senate for three years. On the other hand, Brooks did not get expelled from Congress. He resigned in protest. was immediately sent back to Congress by his white male property owning, including other human beings, constituents in South Carolina Stan. And people gave him canes as gifts. And it was a kind of a break point because the country began to realize that there was a national conflagration coming. But that is what Mark Wayne Mullen says he wants to go back to. I ignore him four times part of that. And people say, yes, you're supposed to ignore. Well, you know, I'm not a very good Christian. I try to be a good Christian. And I know people say

you close to turn. It's Wednesday, so I can say this. Mark Wayne, you're not a Christian at all. No. Because among other things, if you were a real Christian, you wouldn't have accepted this nomination. from your orange Julius Gieser. It's not very Christian to kidnap people, to abduct them, to separate mommies from their babies, literally tearing the babies away

from their mother's breast. There's nothing Christian about that in the least, Mark Wayne. That's really a good Christian. Bullshit. On that great, get not morning when you approach the pearly gates,

Mark Wayne. Jesus is going to look at you, giggle, ask you if you've ever even paid attention to Matthew 25, and then he's going to pinch your ugly little head off and toss it down into hell for the imps and demons to use as a soccer ball. Play-by-play, of course, will be via that great presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, Rush Limbaugh in hell. Firmative method. He will move from an almost... By the way, I'm not afraid of violence. I will bite him.

It's biting? Oh, I'm in a fight. I'm going to pipe. Yeah, he's not afraid of violence. He's a manly man. And he will defend the manliness of his pee anywhere he goes, any time, because he's all,

he's all jacked up on the testosterone. And I don't know where I got it. In hindsight, Any regrets? No, I really don't. So no regrets. In fact, even after your anger it cooled, you were still bragging that if he'd only been brave enough to stand up, you'd have jumped over the day and taught him a lesson, because that's how men should settle their differences. Men. Do you think fighting as a resolution for political differences a good example for the men and women of ICE and Border Patrol? As you can notice over my shoulder here is my good friend Sean O'Brien.

And he will beat you up. He will. He's my good friend. My very good friend, Sean O'Brien. And he'll teach you a lesson. And that thing on your head, too, Rand Paul. Patience, both of us are shaken hands, and both of us agreed we could have done things different. Sean is someone that has become a close... Differently, you illiterate pissant. Friend, we talk all the time. I've been on his podcast. We've talked through this. That's how you handle your differences. Not like this, Chairman.

I'm glad you guys are friends now and that you've reconciled. But really it doesn't get to the real point whether or not you think violence is the way we settle things. No, because, well, he can't get to that point. Dr. Libertarian ophthalmologist who invented your own medical licensing board because you couldn't get board certified by the real ophthalmological certifying. No. I got to admit, it was something to behold. And over on MS now, well, Jonathan Lemire and Ali Battali were enjoying the festivities. Underway, and Senator Rand Paul just concluded an extraordinary opening statement,

really attacking Mullen and his credentials and credibility in this job. Vitale, a senior Capitol Hill reporter and hosted way too early. You're there outside the hearing room. You're listening in. Just walk us through what just happened. Extraordinary statement, Republican on Republican, colleagues in the Senate, talk to us about what we heard from Rand Paul in his opening statement. Rand Paul frankly just finished a mic drop of an opening statement here, Lamere.

And I asked him several times yesterday what he wanted to hear from Mullen, given the fact that these two have a somewhat open feud as colleagues here in Congress. Paul continuously just told me watch the hearing, and now we have a very clear sense of why. It was an absolutely ice cold opening. At one point, as he started to address Mullins, saying that at a time of political violence in this country, Mullen is someone who has only fomented those tensions. Paul pointed to the fact that Mullen attacked him and said that he agreed with a neighbor who several years ago attacked Paul, injuring him, breaking several ribs, giving him lifelong injuries. Mullen at that time said he agreed with the neighbor and that he said he told Rand Paul to his face. He understood why the neighbor

did it. Paul at one point said, I'll give you the opportunity now to say it to my face. At another point, he directly took on Mullen's comments from just in the last few months where he talked about a policy disagreement that manifested in Mullen going back home to a gathering of constituents in Oklahoma and calling Rand Paul a freaking snake. Paul repeated those comments to Mullen's face. All the while, if you looked at Mullen, as I very much was, John, you saw his face be exactly what you see in the screen next to me right now, pretty stowed and stoic. But at one point, he looked away from Rand Paul early in the opening remarks.

Pardon me for just a moment, but what does, I understand what stoic means. What does stowed mean? The last I checked, that verb, means to, I don't know, place something somewhere. Like stow the steamer trunks in the hold of the steamship. Was Allie maybe going for stolid? I don't know. Sometimes it's a real burden to carry around the realities of being a practitioner. of the art of word knowing.

And Rand Paul said, I'm going to address several instances to you if you have the time, sort of calling him to attention as his eyes strayed from the chairman of the committee that is in control of keeping control of the confirmation battle that is underway here. And I think the fact that Paul at several points pointed to Mark Wayne Mullen as someone with anger issues, that's a phrase that Paul used, also saying at one point that he, and this Paul's words, I just wonder if someone who applauds political violence is the right person to lead an agency that has struggled with guardrails and instances of controversy and tragedy. These are things that his predecessor, Christy Noem, didn't even touch, specifically talking about the shooting deaths of

Alex Freddie and Renee Good. I'm going to be interested to see if that's something that Mullen touches on. But look, I think if we zoom out a little bit from the immediate moments that we just saw here in the committee hearing room. Paul was really the one Republican that we were looking to to see if he would air grievances or concerns about the path that DHS has been on under Nome, but then also because all the other senators of the MAGA variety are craven licks spittles to Tangerine Tiberius. So about Mullen himself. Clearly now we have an answer to that. I would now imagine as we go forward into several rounds of questions from both sides of the aisle.

Democrats certainly have a lot of questions of substance to air. Most of them don't think that a change in personnel is enough to get them behind supporting this confirmation. The one Democrat that I'm watching closely today is Democratic Senator John Federman of Pennsylvania. When I spoke to him yesterday. Democratic Senator Kirsten Mansion of Pennsylvania. He told me that he thinks that Mullen is a, in his words, good dude and that he thinks that having someone who understands Congress and can be in a dialogue with lawmakers is enough for him to potentially support this confirmation. That means that it could be bipartisan.

Lick Spittle. Yeah, but she, Ralph, she didn't say Stored. She said Stowed, S-T-O-W-E-D. And to say that he looked stowed, stowed? No. And then she added, and stoic. Well, but thanks, thanks, Ralphs, for serving as the horn ad hoc. What the heck does Stoad Mean Research Committee?

Much obliged. This was a clown show. And look, let's be clear. This is that I don't approve, but I understand. That's a line of thought that runs through the maggot party and has for some years. I'm trying to remember, was it Texas Senator John Cornholio who said he understands violence against judges? I feel like it was. Now, I'm just checking now.

It was judges, wasn't it? I see. It's an old story, so it's buried amongst a bunch of stories about Mark Wayne. but I want to think it was John Cornholio. It might not have been, though. But it was years ago, hence my difficulty in finding the story. But it had to do with, well, this is pre-Maggot. That's how old it is.

And he said, well, I don't approve a type of violence against judges, but I sure do understand why they'd want to. Jesus. Well, it's who they are. and well we've made some rather tawdry Rand Paul's neighbor jokes over the years too but I always get a little bit stowed I guess when I when I think about the fact that well it's kind of like it's kind of like Krusty the nasty Nazi gnome and that poor goat we always talk about cricket the sweet little dog that she slaughtered

but the goat doesn't get any press and by the same token Well, whenever anybody brings up the issue of Rand Paul getting the living shit kicked out of him by his neighbor because he was such an obnoxious neighbor, not justifying violence. Nobody ever mentioned that when he, that the surgery he needed, after a lifetime of castigating the Canadian universal health care system. him where did rand paul libertarian ophthalmologist go when he needed surgery for his collapsed lung that's right canada he went and got him some commie canadian surgery yeah because he couldn't find anything here and he's a cheap bastard because he's a libert libert libert libertardian he's a cheap bastard, so he figured he could maybe get the surgery a little less expensively if he was paying in Loonies from Christopher in Oregon.

I'm so stowed, dude. You know, like, everybody must get stowed. They stow you in the morning. They stow you in the evening. Maybe that's what it is. Mm-hmm. Jeremy says, I think she meant he looked secured and none of this bothers him. Yeah, stowed is generally used to mean something or someone has been safely or secretly placed out of sight.

Stow your belongings in the trunk. Or, you know, stow your union leader in the trunk. in the trunk because that kind of happened and from Leah in New York name knowing and not word knowing Mullen has two first names glued together and Rand Paul has a last name that is

a common first name and a first name that is a last name and I will add and some sort of small forest creature glued to his head and from from Theo I challenge you, sir?

Hey, Robin. Hey, Theo. History of 19th century duels is frequently ridiculous, never more so than when future president Lincoln was challenged by Illinois State Auditor James Shields in 1842. Lincoln's initial choice of weapons was cow dung at five paces. Pressed further, Lincoln suggested broadswords with the proviso that Lincoln and Shields each had to stand on opposite sides of a fallen tree. Lincoln would have had an enormous advantage thanks to his long arms, whereas Shields was a short little fellow with limbs proportionate to his height.

The whole business was, of course, called off, canceled on account of silliness. Yep. And from Too Much Hutch, Wednesday Update. As the unofficial church organist of the Horn family community congregation, it is my meet, right, and bounden duty as a non-godfearing Episcopalian to report that a number of the sinners are feeling increasingly emboldened, sinning, and sonning in some. the sanctuary, the vestibule, sacristy, knave, undercroft, and choir room, and pretty much anywhere they can attempt vaping without detection. It rarely works, but they can certainly take the blame for any liturgical staff on Holy Week nights. If anyone at prayer meeting sees a mysterious billow of vapor ascend from behind the organ bench, it's not incense. It's from a

sinner. Definitely not the organist coughing out a blinker during the washing feet. Oh my God, That's one of the best prayer meeting Wednesday notes we've ever gotten. And for that, too much, hutch, you have been officially promoted to official church organist of the Horn family community congregation and the Cathedral of Common Sense.

Yes. Thank you. So anyway, it was an embarrassingly silly day in the Senate of the United States. And, uh, there was so much more because well mark wayne mullen since he was uh recently heard to profess his good christianity well uh he faced uh questions earlier today and when he found one uh he that he didn't like he dodged it. Namely, he was asked about something he called classified work that he said he had done outside of the U.S.

And refused to say anything more about it. And among other things, he lied and said that, well, the House of Representatives, and classified my trip. His own colleague from Oklahoma Stan, Senator James Lankford, wasn't necessarily buying it. Over on what used to be Twitter, Laura Weiss with Punch Bowl News, said, Senator Langford says the trip is being overblown.

This is a mountain out of the mole hill issue. Langford says Mullen is under a non-disclosure agreement related to the trip, rather than that it's classified, which is how Mullen described it, he adds it related to a whistleblower. Then Kyle Cheney, another reporter following the whole event for Politico, said, Mullen claimed that the House sent him on a classified trip that only four people knew about. When Paul and Peters pressed him on which agency classified it, it led to this exchange. Mullen, it wasn't an agency. It was done here.

Well, in the House at the time, Peters, the House classified it. Mullen, I'm assuming, and as Kyle Cheney noted, except the House doesn't have that power. All classification authority flows from the president, chief executive. So there was a lot of lying. And when the issue of the classification came up, it's classified, House classified it. Can't talk about it. let's classify. Well, it didn't fly very well.

Gary Peters, well, tried to straighten out Mark Wayne, but Mark Wayne's a liar. And said that when he had given instructions to Mullen in advance of the hearing, he asked him to explain all of his work, regardless of classification status, and noted the non-responsive nature. of Mark Wayne to non-responsive to say the least, which again prompted more fun from Rand Paul. And I just want to wrap up here, questions that we had related to your bio. And the biography is important, and it's important that we fully understand how you're presenting yourself. And if there are any ambiguities, we want to work that out.

On March 11th, I sent you a letter asking for information about any activity related to any special assignment, which you talked about here today, that you have been involved in. There was no exception for official travel or any of that. We just asked any of these special assignments that you have talked about. You responded to the committee in that letter by saying my voluntary work included special assignments outside of DOD was that I offered support and mentorship from a Christian perspective to both after. Afghans that supported our efforts and other personnel that served in war zones. You stated your special assignments occurred intermittently between 2006 and 11. Hold the hell on. He went on a witnessing trip for the Pentagon to try to convert Afghans to from Islam to Christianity.

That's what Peter's just described. and no wonder he doesn't want it getting out there because proselytizing other people is not the job of the United States military, the Pentagon, or the Department of Defense. Arguably, it's not the job of anyone in the government of the United States. But there's old Mark Wayne. But see, he runs into some theological trouble here because, Jesus warned against hiding your Christianity. Well, not Christianity. Jesus wasn't a Christian.

Christianity hadn't been invented by Paul yet. But he said, what you confess on earth, I will confess to my father in heaven or something like that. And what you keep secret on earth, I will keep secret before my father in heaven. Me. And so that would tend to militate against Mark Wayne. He's sitting there and saying, I can't talk about it. Mark Wayne Mullen is a blowhard. He likes to pretend that he's a real live rooting-tootin soldier and talked about,

remember this was just a month or so ago talking about the smell and the stench of battle. Dude has never worn the uniform of the United States military, any branch. He's never sworn the oath that military members swear. In fact, as one individual pointed out, he was a young man of privilege when 9-11 happened, and he elected instead to just go ahead and stay in, go ahead and just stay in the private sector and, you know, take over daddy's plumbing business. You know, when you need a plumber, you need a plumber. but the fact of the matter is Mark Wayne Mullen decided to stay a turd chaser instead of service country

so back to the recording I just wanted to put a little context around what Senator Peters was talking about there my letter did not exclude official travel and it also gave you explicit instructions in that letter for providing classified information

how we could do that and do it in a way that protects that classified information. You didn't provide any of that. And today is the first time that I'm hearing about your classified activities from 2015 to 16. Quite frankly, as we've had these conversations, you have not been forthcoming with me or this committee. The story always seems to kind of change. And as you know, candor, honesty, transparency are absolutely critical, at this time to try to build trust as the Secretary of Homeland Security. So we have to clear this up. We feel pretty strongly. We have to understand exactly what this is,

especially with all your public comments that have raised a lot of questions. We've checked. The SCIF is available. We're going to go in the, we would love to have you come to the SCIF and tell us exactly what you're talking about. I think that'll put my colleagues' mind to peace. Would you be willing to go to the SCIF this afternoon and tell us the classified activities you're talking about? Sir, I think this committee made it very clear with the paperwork they gave me that I do not have to disclose my personal or not my official travel. That was part of the documents. And it went over two or three times.

I complied with exactly what the committee said. And there is no statement or no area for mission work and mentorship that was a volunteer basis that I did on my own time. And it was very specific over and over again that you don't have to claim official travel. We want to know what this supposed classified work was. We have real questions about it. I asked the FBI yesterday, I said, if someone had appeared in any classified document, any document, would that be in this report? And they said, yes. I said, well, I don't see anything for Senator Mullen.

Why is that? They said, nothing showed up. We query the Department of State, the Department of Defense, other intel folks. So you're in no classified document that the federal government has, according to the FBI, and yet you're telling me you did all this classified work. I don't understand how that record happened. Sir, I didn't say all. I was very clear with what I said.

I get what you're trying to get to here, and that's fine. But I complied with everything the document said, and it was official travel, and it was a classified trip. Let me just chime in on this. I don't know. This is the fastest hearing anyone's ever had. This will be the fastest vote anyone's ever had. And that's despite my qualms and problems with your nomination. And I'm willing to do that.

But when the FBI came to my office, I asked them if you had done any kind of work for the CIA, the DOD, or any other. I haven't. Let me finish. Any of these kind of agencies or any kind of classified work. And they said, the way it works is you would have a separate folder if you'd been involved in classified missions somewhere. And we would get to see the folder. And then we wouldn't talk about it. we would look at it privately and we would know what you're referring to.

So it's confusing to us because there may have been some papers that said your official trips were excluded. I don't know which ones were and weren't, but you've now mentioned today that you have activities you've done. And so I think it would be easy, and I'm still willing to have the vote tomorrow, but I can cancel the vote tomorrow. I'm still willing to have the vote, get this done, and get it over with. But I think that just to make clear, and it doesn't sound like it's a secret you're too concerned. about divulging, if you would to spend an hour and go to the SCIF or 30 minutes and just tell both the ranking member and the other, and it would be private and it won't be revealed. I think it would get this over with, and we wouldn't have a complaint about going to have the vote tomorrow. I have no issue with that if you guys get cleared on it, because my understanding was is there's only four people right in it, and it was a special program inside the house.

Just like I wasn't on Intel at the time, I'm not saying I was. but I have no issue with that at all. I would welcome being brought up. It's very unique, and it was fun. That would be on you. We're not going to try to figure out who the four people are and whether we can have approval to it. And if you're doing something that important,

really it probably ought to be revealed and discussed. Sir, Senator, I don't, or Chairman, it's not on me to, I don't have the authority to do that. This is, and this is why I said I was very, very, I'm clear. Sorry that I never talked specific dates or or locations on this. And so I have I have zero issue with talking about it. Except when it comes to talking about it. I don't have clearance to talk about this afternoon. I don't. It's not me to release. This is a legislative program. This is a program that Congress assigned you to? Yes. This was within my official duties. Who assigned it to you?

sir that's not for me to talk to you about on this i'm sorry this is a classified this isn't a classified i'm sorry i don't i'm not trying to be ugly you know how classified situations which agency oh you don't have to try to be ugly mark line it was it wasn't an agency it was it was done here well in the house on the time the house classified it i'm assuming i don't i wasn't on i wasn't on intel we're just not really aware of how the house classifies i have i have no idea i know every time we spoke about this. We had to go to the skiff and visit about it. I know there was a paper that

I had to sign before it even started. And I may be wrong, and there may be more than four, but I know there was only, it was only me and three other people that ever discussed it. So secret that we can't know about it, I would think that. Secret baptizations? Secret

inquisitions? This guy is literally unbelievable. There'd be some paperwork in this gift that they should show us saying, this is so top secret and this was made. I have no problem. You're welcome to go to the house. This started in 2015. It ended in mid-20, little late in 2016. I have, I have nothing to hide on this. This is too easy. I would really enjoy sitting there and have a conversation with you because I don't want you to have a question or question my character on this. So that's very simple for me, but I can't make that authorization. Do you guys know that? Well, it's a little bit.

difficult for us to go ask about a program that has no name and we have nobody that we know to talk to about it. So I don't know how we would begin doing this without your cooperation. I'm willing to hold the vote tomorrow, but you brought this up that you're on a super secret mission. No, I did not say super secret, sir. I said it was classified. Only four people know. I only know if there was four people. There was maybe more people that understood it, but I know there was only three people plus me that was ever in the media. Yeah, there's a difference between know and understand. And there's another difference between lying convincingly and lying like a complete asshole. I think we can, and a not very bright complete asshole, I might add at that.

And so as far as I'm concerned, only four people was read in on this. So you were on the intel committee? No, not at the time. No, sir. I was on the intel committee. After that. What committee were you on at the time? You got to think about 10 years ago. Energy and Commerce. So it was an energy and commerce top secret ever, effort.

Senator? I know what I'm getting. This is interesting. Apparently, it's not very often you see two senators tag team a nominee, especially when the two senators are a republic. and a Democrat. But with what Rand Paul did and then with Gary Peters jumping in and Rand Paul not saying, I'm sorry, this is my, or no, or Gary Peters letting Rand Paul the chairman jump in, this is very interesting indeed. One gets a sense that they probably know what it is.

and they're, well, they're uncoiling rope to Mark Wayne as he prepares to hoist himself on his own pittard. Getting upset about it a little bit here is that your tone Oh, you're upset? I did what I was asking. I'm trying to find out who we would talk to. Sir, I told you exactly what happened here. I was not required to disclose this on any official travel.

Your documents were very, very clear on. that. Here's the thing. Krusty the nasty Nazi gnome was shamefully confirmed as DHS secretary, which should be abolished. We will. And then went around the country doing cosplay. Well, it appears that in Morquewein, we have another cosplayer because he loves to cosplay about a cosplay being a tough guy. I was an MMA fighter. Granted, I was fighting in the midget leagues of the MMA, but I was an MMA fighter. I'm tough.

Oohie. Yeah. Did he ever get around to the fact that he lies about his height? Poor little guy. So I don't know what else you want me to say. You said you can go find out, go find out. And then when I get, when you guys say it's good for me to talk to you, I'll be happy to talk to you about it. I just, I can't talk specifics.

If you want to talk about, in general ideas, let's go down and talk to Skiff. I'm okay with that. But I can't get into the Nesser's specifics or who made the decision. He's trying to dictate terms to the committee whose job is to decide whether or not to move his nomination to the full body of the Senate. And it, well, I think he's going to have to be reminded that he doesn't control the process. decision to do it, but I can talk in general, and I'll be very, very glad to do that with you. And even Senator Lankford, I know is on Intel, he can come down with us and visit with us about it. I'm no...

Aw, he's going to phone a friend. Issues with that at all. Perfectly clear and okay with it, but it's not for me to release this. So if you guys want to do that, we can leave here, go down there and talk about. Did this mission involve exchange of firemen? It wasn't a mission. It was an official travel. He called it a mission already.

Mission work. With specific deals or specific fact-finding, just like any official travel is, that they wanted clarification on. And so, like I said, be happy to talk to you about it if you guys want to. And it was in a conflict zone. Sir? once again, I'm not talking about specific details or dates because we've revealed that this was a classified situation. Now I'm not going to talk about because anything I've talked about in the past wasn't referencing any of this, but I'm definitely not going to get into it now.

It's talking about specific dates or details. We would have no way of exploring this unless you were willing to cooperate on. I don't know. Chairman, I don't know what else you said. What else you want to do? I said I will go down there and talk about this with you and skip, but I can't give this specific, all this. There's no reason to think that somehow we're not. qualified to look at classified information.

And so the thing is, is we would know. There is a lot of programs out there, Chairman, that you know, is based on a need to know. Right. I don't know what else he could say at this point other than let's get into Skiff and let's actually talk about this. Why don't we start with that initial meeting and see how that goes? Yeah, we have initial meeting. That's what we asked for, Senator.

Yeah. I said he couldn't do that because he wasn't authorized. No, I did say that. I said, I can't give you all the details to it because it's not for me to release it, but I can talk to you in general about it, but not in this setting. Yeah, and let's get the information out and be able to talk it through and be able to find it. All of us have been in classified settings. Let's try to get it done this afternoon.

I'm available right after this. So if we're, Senator and our chairmen, if you want to, we can go leave from here and go straight there. Yeah, and let's try to get the hearing finish. So I want to. Yeah. I think Rand, Randy knows exactly where he's going. And he knew nobody in the house. his daddy served in the house for god's sakes for eons ron paul with these little racist newsletter and whatnot

but then again wielding the power that he has and i think it would be hilarious rand paul said i can cancel the vote i can just cancel the vote that's me i can do it now does he have the courage of his convictions, or is he a chicken ship? And that remains to be seen, I suppose. But part and parcel of all of this is what resides behind it. Namely, that nitwit Nero was desperate for somebody to put in the job and he had to do it in a hurry. and somebody, maybe Stephen Miller, said, oh, get Mark Wayne, Mark Wayne will do it. Mark Wayne will do anything.

He went on a witnessing trip to the Afghans. Can you just see him at the altar call there somewhere in Helmand Province back then, leading a chorus of Just as I Am. I heard that I heard that song So many times Growing up It's part of my

Well I'm a recovering Southern Baptist And I'll never be fully recovered But yeah I Without one thing Now stop it

Roxanne No singing But this was the This was the This was the Rand And Mark Wayne show And he thought he had a whole card Mark Wayne did with Lankford, but, you know, I've heard that wasn't exactly a stirring endorsement.

Mark Wayne tried to hedge it a little bit, but, yeah. I know. Shades of Dan Aykroyd says Jeremy in Vermont. We're on a mission from God, God. Mm-hmm. and secret inquisitions asks Lee, bring out the comfy couch. Comfy couch? And then there's a multi-millionaire,

for-profit media member and hard-hitting investigative journalist, Dana Bash, who chimed in on the whole thing. I mean, I can't, I really, I can't get enough of this. understood why I had been assaulted. I was shocked that it would justify and celebrate this violent assault. That caused me so much pain and my family so much pain. I just wonder if someone who applauds violence against their political opponents is the right person to lead an agency that has struggled to accept limits to the proper use of force.

You might argue you were mad and upset about being confronted by your constituents. The Senator Mulling, your constituents are just, I'm justifiably upset with you. By now, most of America knows that the Somali welfare fraud in Minnesota stole over $9 billion. Oh, sure. But instead of defending your vote, you took to continue the vote to continue these refugee welfare programs, you chose to lash out at me. You went on to brag that you'd already told me to my face that you completely understood

and approved of the assault. Well, that's a lie. You got a chance today. You can either continue to lie, or you can, correct the record. You have never had the courage to look me in the eye and tell me that the assault was justified. So today you'll have your chance. Today I'll give you that chance to clear the record. Tell it to my face. If that's what you believe, tell it to me today. Tell the world why you believe I deserve it. You know, in the grand scheme of things, when Senator Sumner

was attacked by Congressman Brooks, Senator Sumner was the victim. him. He was attacked from behind. And Senator Sumner was boldly and bravely giving remarks, had given a speech, as I noted earlier, condemning America's original sin, chattel slavery. And for that, Congressman Brooks of South Carolina beat him into unconsciousness. Rand Paul is not that. Rand Paul is no Senator Sumner. Rand Paul is prattling on about Somali fraud, and that's the tell, y'all. That's the tell.

He blathers on about Somali fraud that's based on a wholly discredited, disingenuous, dishonest, gotcha video by a young maggot who wants to be the next oh what was his name uh the project veriton james o'keefe there's no truth in it yeah and going back to my status as a recovering Baptist like i said i sympathize as a recovering catholic served to be assaulted from behind have six ribs broken and a damaged lung tell me to my face why you think i deserved it And while you're at it, explain to the American public why they should trust a man with anger issues to set the proper example for ICE and Border Patrol agents. Yeah, we've heard this before, but the fun part is when they throw it back to the CNN studios, Dana Bash. I'll say it privately, but I'll never say it behind your back.

Back with my panel. Meanwhile, on the Real Housewives of the U.S. Senate, this is, you know, I mean, it's actually, it is a serious issue that Rampal is trying to get at, which he said is, you know, character and that questioning whether he has anger issues. It was also noteworthy that Senator Mullen brought with him his now friend, Sean O'Brien, the head of the teamsters. He sat right within camera shot because one of the reasons why people first learned of Senator Mullen is when he almost got into a fist fight with Mr. O'Brien, when Senator Mullen was asking questions at a hearing. They smoked the peace fight, metaphorically. They are now friends. And so there's no question in my mind that that's why he had O'Brien back there, because he knew what was coming from Fran Paul. He knew what was coming.

And we knew that we were kind of awaiting something fairly remarkable from Senator Paul, because he had been asked about this. asked about this. You know, you know, this new DHS nominee that's going to go before your criminal. He has said these things about you in the past. And, and Rand Paul basically said, just kind of watch the hearing and see what, see what I'm going to do. But so much of, so much of this turns on the personal. Rand Paul certainly is never going to forget what the senator said about it. The fact that the senator refused to apologize for this bar, so far, he basically stood by them. And Rand Paul makes a point that he is moving this

nomination really fast. I mean, he was put forward by the president just, you know, I've lost kind of sense of time, but not two weeks ago. You know, about two weeks ago and he's already having his hearing, but he did also float during the hearing that he could delay or postpone the committee vote for him, which would delay a key Trump priority further. Okay, let's turn to some of the really important issues that will be before Senator Mullen if he becomes Secretary Mullen. And just broadly speaking, what was extremely noteworthy and clearly intentional was him trying to separate himself from Christy Knoem and how she has done business. Let's listen to an exchange with Gary Peters, Senator from Michigan, and Mark Wayne Mullen. You called Alex Pretty, quote, a deranged individual that came in to cause max damage.

Could we expect those kinds of quick responses? If you are confirmed as Secretary, would you be basically, well, you did, you respond to the Secretary and no, but we're going to just expect that same behavior all over again? No, Senator, I have a deep amount of respect for you. We've had our differences, but I do respect you. I think I said this privately when we had a conversation. Those words probably should have been retracted. I shouldn't have said that, and as Secretary, I wouldn't.

The investigation is ongoing, and there is, like I said, there sometimes are going to make a mistake, and I own it. That one, I went out there too fast. I was responding immediately without the facts. That's my fault. That won't happen as Secretary. That exchange is notable for various reasons. One of them being that that began the downfall of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noem when she came out and called those two U.S. citizens domestic terrorists.

We are here today with this confirmation hearing because the Secretary's tenure as lead of the Department of Homeland Security had become untouched. with all the controversy. So coming into this hearing, the senator had to distinguish himself as to how he was going to manage the department differently than his would-be predecessor, not only for the lawmakers, but also for Homeland Security officials who have been watching this just as closely. So it wasn't just that he was going to own up to mistakes, which is what followed after that exchange with Senator Peters. He's also noting where he'd be different in other areas like administrative warrants where the administration had interpreted it to mean in a memo that they could go on to private property, something usually restricted to judicial warrants.

Quotas, he talks about arrest quotas. He was asked about that the White House imposed those, the 3,000 daily immigration arrests. They haven't reached those numbers, but he says that he's going to follow the president's policies. This is, of course, something that Miller came down with. Contracts. The secretary has a $100,000 threshold that she has to approve all of the the contracts that are above that.

He said that he would do away with that. He also says that he's going to have an open line of communication with lawmakers. Republicans and Democrats have been continuously frustrated by the stonewalling from the Department of Homeland Security. So at each turn, be it a Republican questioning him or a Democrat questioning him, he was repeatedly sort of distinguishing how he'd run the department different from the secretary. But I do want to know, Dana, that does not mean that the agenda is any less aggressive. He is still saying and stating everything that the president would want to hear that he's going to be aggressive when it comes to immigration enforcement, but it always comes down to the how you do that, and it was the how that just became untenable for the secretary and for the White House.

And that's what I was just going to mention to you. You just talked about several really important policy areas. But then there's also the approach and the fact that Senator Mullen said in various ways that he doesn't want to be. the story. You're not going to hear from him very much. He's not going to basically be the same out front kind of splashy approach to secretary, exactly, which was obviously intentional. Senator Mullen, you know, obviously is familiar with his colleagues in the Senate, but he also speaks fluent Trump. No, look, I mean, there's in other words, he was testifying to an audience of one. But one of the things that created this.

whole mess. It was self-imposed. It was self-inflicted by Mark Wein. The remarks he made about the smell of war. And that is how he ensnared himself in this entire embryo, because he was asked straightforward, where did you smell war? I just said this that was classified in the dates and location admission. We can get that information. Well, important to have the truth that you're perjuring yourself in a truthful way. I'm not portraying myself. You're portraying yourself in a portray.

I'm not portraying myself in any way. It's that whole smell of war thing that opened the door to all of this. And, you know, one of, uh one one of the uh senators i wish had been there but he's not on the committee was bernie because there's no love lost between bernie and mark wayne either but uh senator hasson maggie hesson of uh new hampshire had some questions about building these vast concentration camps and there was a lot of hemming and hauling there too now let me see if i can see if i can get to that portion of the hearing. I wish this thing was more user. Yeah, well, I guess not. But

nonetheless, sorry, this is what comes with self-produced live broadcast. Oh, well, but Maggie Hassan questioned Mark Wayne about these concentration camps, inquiring and, you know, making clear that DHS had gone forward on one of them in her state, New Hampshire, even though the community leaders said no to it time after time after time. And New Hampshire is one of them. Utah is another. Out in Utah via a report in the Hill, the ice goons secretly paid $145 million for a concentration. camp and even the good, god-fearing maggot legislatures out there were kept in the dark about it.

It was supposed to be an 830,000 square foot Salt Lake City warehouse. And a member of the Salt Lake City Council, Ava Lopez Chavez told the Hill that Utah's own congressional delegation only found out about it when they read about it in the newspaper. And it would have put the taxpayers on the hook for the construction of the concentration camp. And Republican U.S. Senator John Curtis said it was short-sighted. State lawmakers were absolutely horrified that they would put such a thing in smack dab in the middle of Salt Lake City. Speaking to Desiret News, Senator Curtis said the decision to move forward with this facility via backdoor negotiations, bypassing input from local leaders is short-sighted and likely counterproductive to supporting the strategic growth and long-term infrastructure plans of Salt Lake City's west side. Well, you can pretty much say goodbye to any kind of development on the west side of Salt Lake City.

if it's basically subsumed by a gigantic concentration camp. The mayor of Salt Lake City, Aaron Mendenhall. She said a detention center does not belong in our capital city. Full stop. The mass detention of people inside a warehouse is inhumane. I hope she means anywhere and not just in Salt Lake City. The Democratic House and Senate caucuses of Utah one does not know exactly how large those are issued a joint statement on the discovery of the secret

plan to build a concentration camp in Salt Lake City saying these centers arrive with massive enforcement operations that tear through communities and the conditions that exist within these centers are violent and inhumane and again it's a red state a blood red state a maggot state through and through with well i mean it's sort of like west virginia we're blood red but there are pockets of decency and humanity and even progressivism uh it isn't that uh wouldn't that be about right if you're listening gino a democratic party strategist named max burns said utons are right to worry about what this deal means for their own safety and prosperity by trying to slip its latest immigrant detention center, concentration camp, past locals in a sketchy secret

deal, ICE has only confirmed that it has no interest in the kind of transparency and plain dealing Americans of all political stripes should expect from the federal government. If you can only build a detention center under the veil of intense secrecy, you shouldn't be building it at all. No, we shouldn't have any of those. And the larger question to be asked is once it was built and once the taxpayers had been fleeced for its construction, could be running it. Ice, hardly, a private prison corporation, perhaps, with cuisine provided by Aramark, who is presently being sued in multiple jurisdictions for practically starving detainees and prisoners, convicts.

Yeah, I mentioned earlier the... Hugh and cry over violence against judges that one Texas senator said, well, I don't understand. I think it was drawn Cornholio. He's been there long enough. I'm feeling pretty confident if the Horn Ad Hoc Research Committee wants to dig around and see if they can find that. But either way, wait a minute, Leah in New York says, Salt Lake City Ice Warehouse, Did they name it a Salt Lake, A-S-S-A-U-L-T? A Salt Lake City facility?

Okay, okay, okay, Lee. Uh-huh. That was nice. And from Sylvie, a couple of things. Going all the way back to Too Much Hutch, a question about the church organ. Is it large or on the smaller side? Is it mushroom-shaped? Now, now, Sylvie, different organ.

and also from sylvie with mark wayne the smell of war is strangely identical to the smell of bullshit ah or well the smell of war smells like what you know goes on in his plumbing contracting business you know sometimes you gotta get in there and you gotta you gotta you gotta fight them plugged up drains and i tell you what it's well the horror the horror you know where i bet that smell of war thing came from because he's such a little piss in. That all happened, didn't it, shortly after we learned of the death of Robert Duvall, who famously said an apocalypse now, I love the smell of napalm in the morning. Smells like victory. And Mark Wayne wants to be all butch and heroic. He's just too much of a chicken shit to ever actually.

do what's necessary to be that. It's close kin to stolen valor. And what went on in the confirmation hearing today was without saying it quite as bluntly as I'm putting it, there's no secret mission. He was lying for podcast clicks. He was lying so he had something he could send out in a fundraising email. But, of course, the senators will never go into that sort of thing because they all send out fundraising emails each and every day. Jeremy says, I never recovered from the damage done through religion. I'm just here to listen to all this blasphemy and gather intelligence about your collective sins. So the next time I come across a burning bush, I can snitch on all y'all sinners, one and all.

okey dokey then and then well there's a lot of other stuff going on and when it comes to talking about judges and violence against judges let's check in with old balls and strikes john roberts uh he was at a soire recently where he was interviewed by the right kind of people and this was after, I mean, this was yesterday, after nitwit Niro had triped out that multi-page tripe, castigating the Supreme Court. They owe me, they owe their jobs to me and they wouldn't even give me my tariffs. Mm-hmm. But John Roberts is terribly, terribly concerned about personal attacks on judges.

Well, goodness me. It depends on how one defines a personal attack now, doesn't it? Is it a personal attack to point out that certain members of the court perjured themselves in their confirmation hearings? Is that a personal attack? Is it a personal attack to note that there are at least two credibly accused sexual predators on the court, namely Clarence Pubes on the Coke Can Fappy Times? Thomas and Beerboof and Buh, Babbat, Kavanaugh, and his law clerks, squee and quiff? Is that a personal attack?

Well, let's check in with the C.J. We don't believe that we're, you know, flawless in any way. And it's important that our decisions are subjected to scrutiny, and they are. the problem sometimes is that the criticism can move from a focus on legal analysis to personalities and you know what it does happen god knows it happened it happened when nittreau attacked his own uh licks spittles but what do you do when the when the when the when the legal reasoning is quite clearly driven by a personal agenda or an agenda created by an organization of which one is a proud member. Yeah, the things like the Scermetti decision, where it was abundantly clear that the majority shared the opinion of a bunch of bigots who are in no wise.

constrained by the facts or the shadow docket where the court will say, well, we don't want to rule on it, but we just want to let it go forward. I mean, there is a bounty on people who might help a woman get abortion care in Texas because, oh, we just, we'll just let it, we'll just let it ride. nothing but bigotry racism homophobia xenophobia and it is personality

driven Mr. Chief Justice and you see from all over I mean not just any one political perspective on it that it's more directed in a personal way

and that frankly can be actually quite dangerous dangerous well yeah i mean i guess uh i guess some disaffected maggots might like to squeeze off a few rounds at them from time to time i mean the one time that uh somebody on the so-called left what left um the one time that uh one guy did try to thought about going to bbubbubbbl brab Kavanaugh's entirely mortgage-free paid off probably by Lee Lee Leo. Well, before he ever even got in range, that guy was like, this is crazy. I'm going to turn myself in.

Not a lot of. Oh, but goodness me. Brat Kavanaugh has been yelled at when he tried to go to dinner in a restaurant. Poor baby. Oh, the trauma. Oh, Jesus. Judges around the country work very hard to get it right. Hey, hey, Chief Justice.

Was one of those judges around the country trying very, very hard to get it right that maggot appointee on the 9th United States Circuit Court of Appeals who wrote a one-man dissent that was not just criticized but denounced by something like, 30 other judges, you know, the judge who wrote a case and said, this case is about swinging dicks. Was he doing his best to get it right, CJ? And if they don't, their opinions are subject to criticism, but personally directed hostility is dangerous, and it's got to stop.

oh it's got to stop okay well then here we are we'll just we'll just stop because otherwise old balls and strikes feelings might get hurt so gross but he uh his little his little peelings are hurt because daddy donnie threatened to take his belt off one of the ways that we eventually get out of the shit storm that we're in is if that giant little word if if we ever get the house and the Senate back somebody's going to have to have enough courage to introduce a bill to expand the membership of the Supreme Court of the United States you know not 13 not 15 not 19 maybe maybe the Supreme Court needs to be comprised as a body of something more akin to the circuit courts of appeals, 31 members or so, and perhaps fix their terms in office,

but that would require amending the Constitution. You don't have to amend the Constitution to change the number of judges on the court. In the midst of the third decade of the 21st century, the idea that nine graduates from elite, colleges would sit in judgment on 350 million people is ludicrous, absolutely ludicrous. And John Roberts, who sat there and said, oh, I'm just going to call bowls and strikes. Well, here, let's make it personal for him too. The first ever legal job he had in the United States government was, inside the Nixon administration as a youngan, and his brief, his sole reason for being there,

was to tear down the Voting Rights Act. He was an ideologue then, and he remains an ideologue to this very day. And here, in a week or a month or a few months, he will see his fondest dream come true, the full and final gutting of the Voting Rights Act. And once that's done, you know, act in haste, repent and leisure, after that's done, then it's easy-peasy, should the Senate manage to pass a version of the Save Act, to just, well, hell, go back to the original idea of the franchise contained in the Constitution when it was first ratified, that the only people who have any business voting in this country are white men who own property. And the ironic thing about that is that that's one of those mistakes that the framers

themselves recognized. James Madison, for all intents and purposes, the author of the Constitution in his later years said, we have got to expand the right to vote or this country will not last. And he, James Madison, was one of those people who got to vote because he owned property, the vast majority of which was in the form of other human beings. We're in a mess. We are. and I continue to insist that we can vote our way out of it, but by God, it may be a damn struggle of an epic nature. Oh, and by the way, and I agree with you, Steve in New York, oh, fuck John Roberts. Well, you can, I won't.

I don't want to. And Steve adds, I put it this way. nine unelected people get to say what a document that's who's beginning is we the people means well it depends on who those people are now doesn't it oh by the way we've reached past the halfway point of the program and uh we've got one thousand fifteen dollars to get caught up two hundred and fifteen of that is last week

if by and ralps is challenge is still on the table so somebody kicks in 25 bucks, Ralphs will turn it into 50, and then, well, that'll get us down to 965, ciphering on the fly. And if we kept on going from there and got it down to $699, we'd be caught up with last week entirely, and, well, we wouldn't have a four-digit fundraising deficit tomorrow. So it all starts with 25 bucks, and Ralph's challenge. Thank you, Ralph, thanks again. Kind of teeing up a couple of others. I ran across this earlier from Michelangelo Sinierely. From the New York Times, we're back to Iran now, rather a graceless segue.

Then again, there's no grace in that war. Israel once again undercuts U.S. in killing top security official Larajani in Iran from the New York Times. Ali Larajani had opposed the succession of Mujah Bhajana as Iran's supreme leader and had lobbied the Council of Clerics that elected him to consider changing their vote for a more moderate choice. Doing so would have been a way to signal to the Iranian public and foreign governments that Iran was changing direction from the hardline policies of the late Ayatollah Hamenei. Larajani's death will likely emboldened the hardline faction and the generals of the Revolutionary Guard.

Well, of course. Why would Israel want a moderate government in Iran? Then they couldn't go on murdering Iranians. So Israel stuck the shiv in nitwit Niro's ribs, and here we are. And by the way, yesterday there were several primaries. And unfortunately, in Illinois, Catabugiazala came up short in her effort to win the nomination for a vacant house seat. Yeah. But if there's an upside, she forced A-PAC to spend a, as our pal Theo noted, fiscal term but ton of money on attack ads against her she scared them and i have a feeling she will be she will be back yeah and gary peters there inquiring after mark wayne mullen uh mike is not a fan

he's not uh particularly um responsive to the needs of his constituents or at least that hasn't been hasn't been Micah's experience. And then the other senator from Michigan also sits on that self-same committee, Alyssa Slotkin. She's not particularly responsive either, according to Micah. But she had a very simple question earlier today for Mark I. And here it is. Slotkin. Thank you. Thanks for being here. Thanks for our conversation yesterday. I want to just actually add on to what Senator Langford were saying and just focus on the attack we had at a temple that's very close to my heart in Michigan, a place I know well last week. We had an anti-Semitic

attack meant to terrorize, not just that synagogue, but the entire Jewish community. And I think the light is really blinking red. And that is the feeling for the Jewish community. And just as an objective statement, the Jewish community is 10 times more likely to be the victim of a hate crime than all other religious groups combined. That's not a political statement. That's a factual statement from FBI data. And we talked about the need to work together. The Jewish community is spending about a billion dollars a year privately securing their own. institutions. No religious group should have to spend that amount of money that could be going to lots of other things on their own security in the United States of America. So I would just ask

your help in reforming the nonprofit security grant program so it's agile so you don't have to win the grant and then still do 100 pieces of paper, maybe even looking at a rapid reaction fund, but certainly asking for some sort of task force. You know, I'm thinking about the community in Australia that went to the Australian government, the Jewish community, and said, we're seeing just a real uptick and threats. We're terrified. And then we have Bondi Beach and a very horrible thing. So can we just agree in public again in a bipartisan basis to sit together, to reform this program and figure out how we manage to the threat because we're not hitting it right now? Senator, you have a wealth of knowledge from your service in the Intel community. And you will know this.

issue probably better than me. And so I would welcome the opportunity to sit down and talk to you, figure out what we need to do. I know this is very personal to you. And that's great. We may have some differences on some political views, but this isn't one. You and I will be, you know, laser focused and get this resolved if it's possible. But yes, I would absolutely welcome an opportunity to work with you on this. Great. I appreciate that. I think, you know, in general, your position or your future position as Secretary of Homeland Security sits at like the fulcrum of these big issues we're having as a country. Just big cultural issues. The use of law enforcement in our streets and where our rights begin and end and then our elections, our democracy.

And given the importance of that, I think it's important that we state really clearly where you are on those two issues. You know, I think first and foremost on the use of ice. You know, my state voted for Donald Trump in 2024. A lot of people supported the president's immigration agenda. But then they watched with their own eyes, not filtered through a news source. They watched with their own eyes American citizens killed in their streets for protesting. They saw children caught in the crossfire and being tear gassed.

They saw people randomly being pulled out of their cars and walking down the streets because they happened to look like they could be an immigrant and checked for their papers, which for many of us has a real history. They have seen people go in, law enforcement go into people's homes without a judicial warrant for a country that was invented because we were being oppressed by a foreign force that demanded entry into our homes. So you say you don't want ice in the news. you say you want to rebuild trust. Your predecessor was fired because she couldn't manage that. And, you know, people had to go in and bring the temperature down. Can you, without other words, just state clearly what you'd be willing to do to fundamentally reform ice and put into law to do so since that trust is gone?

Ma'am, as you know, I can't make the law. You guys make that for me. But you're going to be the secretary. Yes. I agree, but I can't make the law. I can work within the parameters. No, but tell us what you'd be willing to put into law. So let's, right now, the law that I work into is your as decision, we'll work through that.

But I do believe there is a better approach. And I think working with municipalities, I would love to see ICE become a transport more than the front line. If we get back into just simply working with law enforcement, we're going to them and we're picking up these criminals from their jail. One, we're going to reimburse them for having the person there. And partnership is vital important. I don't think there needs to be a wall to change that. I think I can work within what is there. Jesus Christ, she asked him what he was going to do, and he's talking about, well, I mean, the jails get reimbursed.

I mean, even if they die in the jail. But there's an approach that can happen, but we've got to have partners. Yeah, I understand. I understand, but I just, I would just, we're not going to agree to this here, but I would just say the ability, you know, the trust is gone and not just with Democrats. That's why we're here. That's why your predecessor was fired. And there needs to be fundamental reform of this law enforcement agency. And I think that the public writ large is crying out for that. Let me turn to elections.

Senator Kennedy. No, no, no, let me turn to elections. The Department of Homeland Security has the mandate since the Obama era for securing our election. infrastructure. Just a moment here. He was all ready to, he was all ready to go and and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, , and, I mean, Mark Wayne, he's a Christian, and he knows that Alyssa Slotkin is a Christ killer, but nonetheless, nobody needs to be gunned down in their place of worship.

That's a prayer meeting Wednesday. I mean, come on, he is who he is. Ah. And it kind of disarmed him, and I have a feeling, I may be wrong, but this may get interesting. That's an important job, and you'll be secretary. The getting hard and getting turned. God damn it. I hate these damned ads. Has continued to say that he won the 2020 election,

even though there's been 60 court cases saying the opposite. Uh-oh. He has said he wants to federalize the elections. He has said name check cities, including Detroit. He has said voting machines are inaccurate. He has said in the state of the union, and I was on the Senate floor, paraphrase that if his side doesn't win in November, then the elections were rigged, which is exactly what he said eight months before the 2020 election.

You have your own history. You did not certify the 2020 election. There are people at the Department of Homeland Security, three people, specifically, who are well-known election deniers now running election security functions. Who won the 2020 election? How? Ma'am, we know that President Joe Biden was sworn into office. He was the president for the last four years.

But I do believe my job as Department of Homeland Security Secretary will be to make sure that we assure that the elections are fair and people can trust them. Does the federal government? Bullshit. His job is to protect his phony baloney job. I didn't get a rump out of that guy. Meanwhile, his boyfriend, Sean O'Brien, sitting behind him, just kind of. looking at him and beaming and all and well i don't know what it must be like to be a teamster and know that your union president is up there smolicking around with a man who absolutely despises

unions? Government run the elections process or do states? It's very clear in the Constitution that the states control state elections and then there is some federal oversight that's on it, but the federal government can set some standards. So if you're talking about the Save American Act, requiring you, which is within the Constitution, by the way, requiring individuals to be citizens of the United States, I don't think it's too much to ask somebody to prove they're a citizen of the United States to vote in a federal election. I'm talking about administering the elections.

If you are Secretary of Homeland Security, do you feel you have the authority to put uniformed officers at polling locations in 2026? Ma'am, we said this in your office. The only reason why my officers would be there if there was a specific threat for them to be there, not for intimidation. And I said we would be able to share that. So even though we didn't need it during World War II, we didn't need it during Vietnam or the war on terror. We never had to put uniformed military there. Now you feel that there's going to be a reason that there's going to be an armed threat to the United States that you need. No, ma'am. I said I can't sit there and guarantee hypothetically what threat would be not.

I'm not putting military. That's not within my. Uniform. Sorry. Uniformed officers. But if there is a threat, a specific threat, say it's in a Jewish community and there is a threat that specific to that to that polling area, then we will work with local law enforcement. There will be a reason for us to be there and it'll be known why we're there. I think the reason you're here and not Christy Noam is because Americans trust their local law enforcement now way more than they trust ice. So I would just say if we ever get to the point where you are being asked to put armed ICE officers at polling locations, we have lost the plot as a country. We have fundamentally lost it. And until I hear someone tell me that this man, President Trump, will actually allow us to have a free and fair

election, there is zero trust here. And I cannot trust that he won't try and steal it. She's not wrong in that instance. But the fact that none of these loyal maggots can say that daddy is wrong, that Joe Biden won the election. Not Joe Biden was inaugurated. Joe Biden won the election tells you everything you need to know. Jesus. God. What a stinking miss.

So there's that. And thank you very kindly to an anonymous. friend who just jumped in matched Ralph's challenge. So, yeah, we're down to 965 now. And with a little help from some more friends, maybe we can get at $965. Yeah, $66 more, and we're done with Friday. That's awesome.

And a little bit more. And, well, like I said, we can avoid the dreaded four-digit deficit. And from Too Much Hutch, a message for Sylvie, hey Sylvie, good question, no matter the size, the instrument can be great when it swells, but seriously, it's not the size of the organ that counts, but how impressively it can outplay the congregation's enthusiasm. What a great line. No, but seriously this time, Johann Sebastian Bach is arguably the most famous organist composer of all time, writing choral music every Sunday for his employer, the Lutheran Church. He was not known as a great composer at the time, but eventually the name Bach

became almost synonymous with the word music in some German phrases. Unfortunately, the people closest to Bach polled fun at the poor man for having sired 19 children between two spouses. The speculation and gossip followed him everywhere. Historians note that Bach was not known to be a was known, was not known to be a serial procreater. There were, oh dear me, there were simply no stops on his organ. Shame on you too much, Hutch. Shame, shame, shame, shame upon you. And, well, this

probably should have topped the program. This should have been the lead. We've talked a lot about Zorro Ranch out in New Mexico. You know, Donald Trump's bestie, Jeffrey Epstein's little resort in the mountains of the land of enchantment well there was a there was a bit of a big breaking news story earlier today via al jazeera not yesterday actually and it's got a kind of a cloak and dagger feel about it but via a freedom of Information Act request by Al Jazeera to the New Mexico Justice Department, well, this is

explosive and horrifying because two members, two Democrats in the legislature of New Mexico sometime back were provided with a batch of evidence related to Jeffrey Epstein's activities at Zorro. Jesus the horror. And it's important to realize and remember that law enforcement in New Mexico were actually investigating the goings-on at Zorro Ranch in 2019 until the Trump maladministrations DOJ headed by, come on, let's fill in the blank, Bill Barr to prosecution, told New Mexico back off. The documents that Al Jazeera got are not in the Epstein files, at least insofar as the DOJ has released them. This was an email from a single individual. It was sent to New Mexico law enforcement. New Mexico law enforcement says, uh, the matter's being looked into. There's

that damn passive voice again. It's always a dead giveaway. And apparently what they were stood down from New Mexico law enforcement by Bill Barr. Well, was, well, nothing short of an abattoir. New Mexico Democratic state representatives Andrea Romero and Mariana Anaya, or the recipients of the information. The unnamed source said, in the summer of 2020 I orchestrated a break-in at the El Zorro property. I realized this might be illegal, but men like that don't deserve the protection of the law.

And went on to describe, and some of this stuff is mentioned in the Epstein, some of the locations, we believe that they removed the bodies as there were multiple shallow, grave-like plots that were dug up. In the white yurt, they must have been doing rituals where they were. felt like they needed a defibrillator. In the files, the yurt is mentioned as well as to how to clean it. And in the email, whoever did this provides the coordinates of where the yurt was. You know, yurts are incredibly useful, portable housing developed by the Mongols. Yeah. And the emailer said, that the yurt was surrounded by graves and that's been well at least five and into six years that that information was kept quiet note that the emailer says the graves were apparently dug up

i wonder if they were dug up around about the time that bill bar told new mexico to stand down murdering little girls and why the defibrillator trying to keep them alive so they could be tortured a little bit more Jesus God the Al Jazeera report the headline reads photos show grave-like plots at Epstein's Zorro ranch tipster claims and the images were shared with the lawmakers. Al Jazeera makes a little clearer last month. And somebody in the New Mexico Department of Justice wanted this to get out there because

when a government wants to fight a Freedom of Information Act request, they can and often do. The email itself was dated February the 16th and recounted the break-in at Zorro Ranch in 2020. Photographs of the purported gray of plots were in the information provided. And also there were photos of the exterior of the mansion and the aforementioned white yurt.

Inside the yurt, as was documented, was a defibrillator and a statue of a man of African appearance purportedly taken from inside the texygen. Now, why give it to Representative Romero? Well, she is leading the new bipartisan commission investigating Epstein's activities in New Mexico. She sent it on to Kyle Hartsock, who is the director of special investigations at the New Mexico Department of Justice. That's the person who said, well, this stuff's being looked into. Looks like it's time for some forensic archaeology. like I said, Lidar and Eldar. Time for a search warrant.

There's even a photo of the man of African appearance. He's holding up what appears to be some sort of goblet. Unless I'm mistaking what I'm seeing, there also seems to be a coiled snake. The man has a necklace about his neck. one might think it could be well it's gold or appears to be gold who loves gold who loves gold a lot never mind

look like they could be fangs and he's wearing the tiniest of little golden gym shorts as he stands inside the yurt and they've been saying well New Mexico authorities did start searching Zorro ranch last week. And importantly, almost a dozen of the Epstein survivors said that they were subjected

to his abuses at the property. The stand-down order from the DOJ went to New Mexico law enforcement a month before Epstein died. Remember, Epstein on the night before his alleged demise, was allowed to make a phone call on an unsecured cell phone the whereabouts of which have never been disclosed said he was calling his mother the number he called was not disclosed and a man answered the phone we don't know what man but a man answered the phone and Epstein's mother had been dead for a decade or more. I don't think you could come up with this if you were writing a horror movie plot. This beggars the imagination. And most of us don't have the imagination for something like this because most of us aren't psychopaths. Or, you know, Jesus, sickening, horrifying.

So one wonders if any of the women who were girls at the time, one wonders if any of them have been asked about any of the information in the email that Al Jazeera uncovered. If any of them can explain the statue or the defibrillator or the yurt. Yeah, I know. I heard that ad and it was like, I hate the Brother Deacon Aces. Whoa, hold on a second there. You slip past that one rather quickly. Maybe Jeremy and I should be asking the obvious question here. What type of material are you watching on YouTube during the other 21 hours whereby the algorithm deems it appropriate to serve you boner pill ads?

I don't know. Because God knows there's no reason. And my algorithm is pretty boring, one would hope. But then again, you can't escape this crap. they pay you know they pay they pay them to run and by god youtube's going to run them i'm more curious about why it's running in a clip from forbes somebody put it there one wonders who gross huh and then there's well i mean we could we've done our lots of we've devoted lots of time to the question of Bill Barr

but then there's well Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanchie nitwit Niro's former defense counsel who did such a bang-up job that he got his client busted on 34 felony counts Senator Ron Wyden

recently sent a letter to Todd Blanchie he wanted Senator Wyden did a 69 page target profile the DOJ organized crime drug enforcement task forces put together. By the way, that organization no longer exists inside the DOJ. Wyden, in his letter, said, according to a confidential tip received by my staff,

DEA administrator Terry Cole was ready to provide an unredacted copy of the memorandum, but you stepped in to prevent him from doing so. Your alleged interference in this matter is highly disturbing. and bless his heart. Senator Wyden's being kind of dogged about this. You know, he's the one who's been yelling all along where Epstein is concerned. Follow the money, follow the money, follow the money, follow the money. But on February 25th, he first asked for the document and then wrote shortly after I requested an unredacted copy of this OCD-E-T-F memorandum,

DOJ stepped in to prevent DEA from complying with my request. That would be Trump's D-E-A, Trump's DOJ. And Wyden was acting on a story from Bloomberg, that DEA opened an investigation into Epstein and a dozen other people in 2015 as part of a long-standing investigation of organized crime. No one was charged. No one knows how long the investigation remained open. but well according to the reporting an informant had said that epstein was part and parcel of funding and distributing club drugs like ecstasy and ketamine and that he procured eastern european prostitutes for high-profile clients is Slovenia in is that deemed

Eastern Europe? Remember, melanoma was Jeffrey's girlfriend before she was daddy's girl. The target profile listed 12 other individuals and two businesses whose sources identified as Epstein's brother, accountants, attorneys, and

European women who worked as his assistants or fashion models. Running over to what used to be Twitter, Wyden noted, this is stunning interference. The document I'm after literally says unclassified at the top. The investigation it details is is closed, given Blanche's close personal ties to Donald Trump, this reeks of a continued cover-up

to protect key names in the Trump administration. In the Trump administration. To protect the name of Donald Trump. He said, my staff and I have been following the money and examining the extent to which Epstein was able to utilize the U.S. financial system to make thousands of suspicious wire transfers and cash withdrawals for the apparent purpose of trafficking women and girls. in order to assist my investigation into this matter, I demand you immediately authorize the release.

Well, Todd Blanchie's in a spot, isn't he? He can either comply with the senator or he can do what daddy tells him to. He can continue to protect his client. Because Todd Blanchie has apparently never figured out that as a member of the DOJ, he's not the president's lawyer. He is our employee.

but that's the entire filthy maladministration, isn't it? A little bit of good news for the White House, and I mean the structure, not the man defaming it. A judge appointed by George W. Bush has said that there are some significant problems with nitwit Niro's plans for the White House. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said that the projects are contentious and that courts may rule against him. And everyone from golfers to archivists and historians have filed lawsuits over the attempt to fundamentally change the White House. Word now that he doesn't like the columns in the front of the building.

that he wants better columns. And I want them to be gold, and I want them to have Trump painted down every one of them in gold. And he'll hate this, nitlit Nero. The judge said he's a steward of the iconic building, and he can't just ruin it on his whim. So it may not go as swiftly or as easily as Nittlet Nero at hope, but he's tried to stack the,

He's tried to stack the commission, the National Capital Planning Commission, because he said that found that three appointments lacked the expertise legally required for the position. That would be White House Staff Secretary, Will Scharf, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, James Blair, and OMB Associate Director Stuart Leavenbach. Yeah, they're just like. They're incompetent. And, oh, thank you. Thank you to Mark.

Down behind the Florida curtain. Thank you, Mark, very kindly. Jumping in on fundraising this evening. Noting, don't send in the Marines. We talked about that some yesterday because this band of bloody fools seems ready and willing to waste the lives of 5,000 Marines who are on their way or perhaps already there aboard the USS Tripoli thank you mark and that takes us down to 940 thanks so much and from billable Rick leave melanoma alone yes Slovenia is in eastern europe and was behind the iron

curtain. I thought it was, I mean, well, you know, it's kind of down there. Isn't it more? Well, no. Okay. Yeah, it is. And there was Jeffrey Epstein procuring Eastern European prostitutes. Some of whom may have spoken six languages. And thank you, Ralph, serving as the horn ad hoc is Slovenia technically European Eastern European Research Department. Thank you. Ralph. And then this, because it's, you know, it's just slime and slees and graft all the way to the bottom. There is no bottom. But there's a new investigation that opened today into who? That's right. Verified sex pest and main squeeze of Krusty the nasty Nazi gnome, Corey Lewandowski. According to the Daily Beast, the ranking Democrats on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

to send a letter, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and the Committee on Homeland Security are investigating serious allegations of high-level corruption, self-dealing, and mismanagement under the leadership of former Secretary Kristy Knoem. At the heart of these allegations sits Mr. Corey Lewandowski, who has used his close access to DHS leadership to wield outsized and undue influence over the department. We request the DHS Office of Inspector General immediately initiate an investigation into Mr. Lewandowski's role at DHS. Because he was a special government employee. Oh, I'll bet he was special.

But that he was effectively the shadow chief of staff for Krusty. And I don't know, maybe, maybe, okay, maybe. But in the end, Krusty was always a place. placeholder anyway. And the person who's really running the show is, of course, who else? Stephen Miller. With that spoonful of mayonnaise stuck her right in his mouth. His wife, Katie, must hate him at least a little bit to make that information public. Well, thank you, Billable Rick. Give yourself a rim shot and some of them Eastern European prostitutes were fluent in six languages. Thank you.

I do love it when my little off the off the cuff quips land and are appreciated. Meanwhile, the committee requests the Office of Inspector General to provide an update on the goings-on and doings of verified sex pest Corey Lewandowski by, of all things, April 1st. And speaking of April 1st, you know, April Fool's Day. I mean, it's just a, it's just a quirk of how the calendar works and how the moon works and how dates are selected according to ancient rituals. But this year, Passover, falls on April Fool's Day.

The goddess of irony is the only real deity. and every now and then she shows her power April Fool's Day, Passover. My goodness gracious, that one's rich. I ran across something earlier today and it gave me a pause for a second, not more than a second. I offer this up without knowing at all the person who wrote this or whether they're credible. but it's dated yesterday and I'd asked a question I think yesterday

day before maybe if there have been any actual sightings of psychobieby the essay is more of it's more about the narrative the control of the narrative and the unreality of the times in which

we live and the influence of AI but it reads as follows. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is dead. At least that's what the Internet decided. Israel and the United States are at war with Iran. The Israeli military had killed Iran's supreme leader. Iran had vowed to kill Netanyahu.

Missiles were hitting buildings and then reports came in that Netanyahu was missing war cabinet meetings for days. And man who typically released one to three videos daily said nothing. On March 13th, a video surfaced of him addressing the nation. In one frame, his right hand appeared to have six fingers. The Internet noted it. There was no evidence Netanyahu was dead. There had never been any evidence.

Iranian state media had assembled circumstantial fragments, days without a video, tightened security, a postponed meeting, and published them as proof. There was no proof. There was only the need for there to be. Two days later he responded, not with a press conference, with a coffee shop. On March 15th he appeared at Sataf in the Jerusalem Hills, ordering coffee holding the cup in the camera. The liquid does not seem to move. I am dying, he said, for a coffee.

Then he held up both hands. Do you want to count my fingers? The internet counted them anyway. Thousands analyzed shadows, examined pixels, timed cuts. Thousands more noted that we had not seen him socialized this much when he was alive. Someone observed he had died and become an influencer. The next day, as bombs were still falling, he posted a Nauru's message, the Iranian New Year, the Festival of Lights, to the brave people of Iran, he said, a year of freedom, a new beginning of hope, a holiday greeting to the people

of a country he is bombing. You're watching a man holding a cup of coffee. The liquid does not seem to move, And you realize you cannot tell because every source that is supposed to know has a stake in what you believe, the journalists, the governments, the algorithms, the fact-checkers, even the man holding the cup. And in that moment, the ground goes. Quietly, the thing you stood on when you said, I know what is real, is no longer there. In its place, data centers the size of city blocks, running on more electricity than your neighborhood will ever see. cooled by water your city cannot afford to waste built where the newsrooms used to be where the new schools should be humming in the dark generating everything you need to believe when reality collapses what fills the gap right now as you read this a sandstorm is moving through gaza orange does near zero visibility two million people living in tents that do not protect them from the weather tents blowing away belongings buried under sand children with respiratory illness told to stay in the inside shelters that are themselves blowing apart.

Gaza is burning and the world is watching and nothing stops. For years, people have carried that weight with nowhere to put it. Some of them hoped Netanyahu was dead. It was born of watching children die with nothing they could do. When grief is that large and that long, it does not stay grief. It becomes certainty. An outlet that had asked for confirmation before reporting his death received hateful messages for applying that standard.

The confirmation was never the point. the person writing it is named Jermaine Fowler. He's a best-selling author, a public historian, a founder of the Humanity Archive. That's powerful, powerful indeed. Who knows? I mean, I know I'm real. You know you're real. It's the space in between where the problems arise.

From Lee in New York, Democrats sent a letter. That letter about Corey Lewandowski, was it strongly worded? It was as worded as they could word it. I mean, I think sometimes we wish that they would, that the letters would begin, listen, you low down, no good, scum sucking, belly crawling, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But that's who the maggots are, not who we need to be. And by the way, just, well, speaking of them being vulgar, they can't make up they can't decide what their story is on the war they started caroline the real pooh-poo leave it alone is flopping around like a carp thrown onto a muddy bank and she went she attacked ABC news for providing false information to intentionally alarm the American people to be clear no such threat from Iran to our homeland exists and it never did

and then people said that's not what you were saying before when you were saying among other things that California was about to get bombed by Iranian drones from God knows where but the White House rapid response account said

No such threat to our homeland of Iran launching a drone offensive on our West Coast, dumbass the nuclear threat of the psychotic murderous Iranian regime is very real, however. Thank God we finally have a president who's doing something about it. Well, what he's doing about it, though, is something that intelligent presidents have managed not to do. Oh, hot damn, that's good news. Thank you, Tamara. You've been following it, too? The lawsuit against Afro-Man, whom we talked about what, last week, week before, sued by the Adams County, Ohio sheriff's department after that sheriff's department broke into his home,

wrecked his home, did tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage, and then refused to pay for the damage. So Afro-Man wrote a song about them and mocked them mercilessly. Well, they sued Afro-Man. Afro-Man sued back, and they dismissed the countersuit. by Afro-Man, but maintained the suit of the Sheriff's Department, which went to trial and did not go well at all. And they played the videos for the jury, including the ones, well, let's just enjoy it for the moment, shall we?

Randy Yeah, that's the dirty-ass cop And there's afromance Oh dear, I think you understand the song You're claiming that is the defamation statement That he said he had sex with your wife Yes This is Randy Walters

It's caused tremendous pain in my life I'll get to that We have to go through false light first So does it paint you in a false light? Yes, that my wife is cheating on me with Mr. Foreman. But we all know that's not true, correct? I don't know. You've been called the son of a bitch before, correct?

Not published, but yes. And they played the video and made him watch it in open court. And then they show Mrs. Walters sitting there crying. Of course, when they got home, I'm sure she did something besides Christ. You dumb bastard, you filed this suit. You put me through this. Oh, dear, there's my favorite word. Yeah.

Hmm. Discovery. Genius. Genius. So, Afro-Man is victorious. And Afro-Man testified at trial that he had a First Amendment right to mock the officers, especially because they'd knocked down his door for no reason. All of this is their fault, he said, and they have the audacity to sue me.

And so it only took a couple of hours of deliberation for the jury earlier today in which they found as follows. In all circumstances, the jury finds in favor of the defendant, and even better the fact that the judge had to read that out loud. The same judge who had dismissed Afro-Man's countersuit against them for harassment. Afro-Man showed up in an American flag suit. One of the deputies, a woman, bawled as she had to watch a video insulting her, and the video played for more than ten minutes.

and then the exchange you heard there. Is it true? I don't know. They were trying to get $3.9 million out of him and, well, they got nothing. And neither did their pettifogger. Imagine that. A little bit of justice.

After a man said, I got freedom of speech. After they run around my house with guns and kick down my door, I got the right to kick a can in my backyard, use my freedom of speech, and turn my bad times into a good time. do. And I think I'm a sport for doing so because I don't go to their house, kick down their doors, and then try to play the victim and sue them. And he explained why he took a camera crew with him when he went to try to get his money back. He said, I didn't want to get beat up or Epstein

at the sheriff's after I seen them running around my house with AR-15s. That's why I brought the news and my attorney. Also taking the stand was Officer Poundcake, the tub of guts. who stood there looking longingly at Afro-Man's lemon pound cake. Afro-man labeled one of the women deputies as Lickam Low Lisa. Yeah. But you heard it. But we all know that's not true, right? David Osborne, the lawyer for Afro-Man, said to Randy Walters.

And he said, oh, no. You don't know if your wife's cheating on you or not? not and walters tried to butch up for a second and said you want to go there no i just want to ask that question since you said we don't know and if you can't prove something's either true or false then no defamation claim oopsie a pettie fogger for the acabs robert clingler said he perpetuated lies intentionally for years who about our public servants who risked their lives for this county for years. And it's legally wrong for this to be a First Amendment case. Mr. Foreman doesn't get to wrap himself in the American flag and say you can't touch me. I can say what I want no matter how untrue it is,

no matter how much pain it causes people, because I have freedom of speech. He can't do that. Lawyer Osborne was ready for that, though. In his closing, he cited the infamous and classic track by NWA. as well as citing to Richard Pryor and said, I'm sorry they feel the way they do, but there's a certain amount that you have to take as a public official as part of the duties of the job. What chilling effect does that have on the world we live in? You don't like what a public official does,

and you make a joke and you're dragged into court? Hooray for you, David Osborne. Hooray for you, Afro, man. And maybe now Randy Walters can find out if his wife is cheating on him. Because he doesn't know. Amazing. just amazing and what a crafted engagement with possibly the next DHS secretary Jude writes you were playing earlier the audio interchange set forth from such an articulate seriously

focused woman who is wide awake willing to put her words on congressional record the honorable Alyssa Slotkin of Michigan with a reminder that somehow all shall be revealed Thank you, Jude. Thank you for your kindness and your grace. I can't wait to see what happens with the rest of this. You know, that's the funny. He may actually get out of this committee. He may get out of committee.

But he won't have Randy Paul libertarian ophthalmologist's vote. Oh, no. Oh, what a beautiful, beautiful view, Jude. of the Cascades. She said, the small yet powerfully tiny community of index in the Cascade Mountains. I've been coming here for decades with family and friends, now solo in many regards.

And yet the mountains remain changeless, don't they? Seeming almost eternal. It's one of those things about living in Appalachia. These are the oldest mountains on Earth. And there are places where if you, if the lights just right, and you look at them, you can see what they were like when they were taller than the Himalayas

before being worn by time, the elements to the ancient sentinels that they are today. Oh, and someone is on the stress line. Let's see if it works this time. Hey, welcome to the program. Roxanne. Dave. I have an observation. Okay, at least it's not a bone to pick.

No, it's not a bone to pick. However, Senator Mullen and his boyfriend might, and Ms. Lansing might have a disagreement with me. But from my sources in D.C., they're about to have a nice candlelight dinner, the three of them. You know, because the not-so-masculine men of masculinity, all three of them, I have only one question. Could Def Mullins and the president of Teamsters be referred to as male impersonators? I mean, you mentioned Mark Wayne. I got a feeling that he grew that beard

because there's no chin under it. Well, what's her name? I, you know, we know J.D. Vance has a beard. Her name is Usha. What's Mark Wayne's beard name? Yeah. I have a feeling the Horn Ad Hoc, Mark Wayne Mullen, spouse research department.

We'll get right on that. Well, I would hope. So, after all, inquiring community members need to know. Ah, Roxanne. Here's the thing I am interested in. You know, Epstein bar is not a syndrome. Not just a syndrome. It's a connection.

Oh my God, I'd never thought about Epstein. Yes, it's a virus. But it's not just a virus. It's a connection. Yes. No, my opinion is Donnie wanted him out of the way. And Bill Bart of prosecution was more than happy, too, because he might have been trying to protect his daddy's reputation.

and I don't mean the Donald's because who gave Jeffrey Epstein job at a boy at school? Bill Bards Daddy. Exactly, young lady. Who wrote creepy sci-fi novels about child sexual slavery? Bill Barr's Daddy. That would be Bill Barr's Daddy. You see where I'm going. This is not some...

that's why that's why that's why dave that's why i i have my doubts about whether geoffrey upstein is dead bill bar just wouldn't run around having mosaud agents bumped off especially when you take into account the fact that uh one of uh one of the uh higher ups in israeli cyber security or something was busted remember this this wasn't that long ago dave he was was busted in a sting in Vegas trying to try and yes he was busted in a sting trying to solicit sex from underage girls and instead of facing charges he was quietly spirited out of the united states and back home to israel and now as far as that little yellow streak in the in the Prime Minister's office in Israel,

that would be P.P. Netanyahu, who pisses himself every time they mention court. You know, having a war to distract the populace from your wrongdoing is a long and a long and dishonored thing to do among the dictatorial classes. I mean, it's not that Donald Trump wants to be a dictator. He is. Yeah, at this point in time, it's just a present-tenth statement.

He is. John Roberts and the rest of the psychopaths on. the Supreme Court. I think perhaps they need to be locked in a room together

and, you know, they have the big mahogany desks there and the story portraits on the padded walls. And they, of course, have

the rubber gavels so that they can pretend that they're still running things. Roxanne, sort of like they did with Dunning. Yeah. I think that would be the way to go there.

Might indeed. The thing of it is, Roxanne, by the way, that was Christine that was trying to call in the other day. Yeah, well, it always worries me when I can't. when I can't get the call through to the board.

She heard, well, see, she heard you and was trying to respond, but I don't know if she might have hit the mute button on her end or not. I don't know if she can hear you if she's got you on the mute. If not, then it was your board. But you're coming through fine. I make sure that the stress line. I make sure that the stress line is connected before every program. So I don't know.

But Christine and I were both amazed and very glad about the miracle that her occurred on Friday. Well, thank you. That was profound. That brought a great deal of joy to us. And as far as the apartment search, I've got a couple of leads. Good. Been worried about that. And it's looking like if everything works out,

I may be moving back to Muncie, unfortunately. Did you have, which is apropos of nothing and absolutely vapid on my part, but food porn. Did you ever get over to try the putteen there at that joint in Indianapolis? No, I didn't. I didn't in my birthday's coming up too. But I may have to grab a couple of putteen recipes off the internet, get the ingredients and make it myself. Well, basically, it's not that hard. It's good. You want good French fries, good brown gravy, and good cheese curds.

And the best cheese curds, as far as I'm concerned, come from the Ellsworth Creamery of Ellsworth, Wisconsin. And they've actually made it into like Kroger's and stuff. You can find them at Kroger's now. Oh, wow. I don't know where Colbert gets theirs. But they source all their cheese curds from one dairy for the entire chain. I would not be surprised if that was Ellsworth because, you know, the hallmark of a great cheese curd is the squeak. It's the snap.

The squeak. If you can bite into it and it snaps, it's good. And so to do it, you know, to make putteen, you got to have your fries nice and pipe and hot. And you put the, you put the cheese. cheese curds over him and then you pour on the brown gravy. You'll be wanting a fork for it. It ain't finger food. Oh, sure. Sure. And Dominion Day is coming up here in July.

Oh, tell me more about July. I'm looking out the horn color weather window and there's still snow on the ground. Tell me more about July, George. Tell me more about July. Well, now, Roxanne, do you realize that come July 4th of this year, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams will have been dead for 200 years? Exactly, 200 years. And the lightning scar on my right pinky? Yes. Well, turn 50. I was ringing a bell on July 4th, 1976,

when the bell slipped off the frame and pinched my finger. Ow! And I left a scar that looks like a little lightning bolt, but my dad took me to the pediatrician whose office was open that day for probably for the reason of it being the 4th of July and in case some youngster got injured like a certain foolish guy on crutches who shall remain

nameless that goes by the name of Dave. Yes, yes. And look, I mean, I don't know if you did, but I have. There's nothing quite like having a firecracker blow up in your hand. No, I am very cautious with those. I'm very, very cautious with those. Well, sometimes back when they were illegal, sometimes the fuse is just burned really fast.

Oh, yeah. I had a friend who used to put the airplane fuel, the model airplane fuel, rubber cement and tape on black cats, let them dry, and then tape them all up in a bundle, and then set them off. Oh, my. It's amazing what you do when you're 13 years old. I have no fear of anything.

I know. Bulletproof. You remember the lady fingers, Dave? The little teeny tiny, skinny, skinny firecrackers? yes well you know the and i remember the the dare was you know can you hold one just barely enough to let it blow up you know and but if you held it with too much finger you got badly burned fingers well i was surprised you know i haven't grown to the age of 60 years old i'm wondering how i made it this part uh is something that's because our parents would yeah our parents would

parents would hand us molten hot wires on the 4th of July and tell us to wave them around Michael Pontry Eddie. And you know what? Those sparks hurt. But I got to say, that's a far better story. Your lightning bolt scar on your pinky, Leah in New York noting, did you, did Dave attend Hogwarts lightning bolt scar? What?

But, you know, you've had that for 50. years, me, I'm still, I'm still working on more than a couple or three or four months since I accidentally cut a Nike swoosh into my left wrist. Now, girl, nothing is that desperate, first off. Well, in this case, if it was intentional, it was not only desperate, it was derp-spirit. No, this was this was an entirely a Don't don't let English majors play with No no

I was I had some gingerbread flavored Wednesdaydale cheese And like Wednesdaydale is probably So you were cutting the cheese See I was trying not to say that day Did anybody in your immediate

vicinity go you know young lady why are you cutting the cheese in our presence sadly no i had to cry out for help i was kind of hoping i wouldn't have to but yeah i had to have i had to have some help and got it closed up went to the doctor a couple of days later and they said that's nasty if you would have showed up earlier we would have put some stitches in it but it appears to be healing so now i've got this ugly red Nike swoosh on the top of my left wrist where the knife slipped and came on up and took a hunk out of me. Well, look at this way, girl.

Some people pay good money for that kind of scarification. You might just save yourself a couple of bucks there. Aha, capitalism. I've been thinking about going to a tattoo shop and getting it just cleaned up a little bit and making it more obviously a swoosh. underneath it writing, just don't do it. Oh, no. Make it a swoosh, but make it a flaming slush.

You go with some style, girl. But the key, the key is the ad slogan. Just don't do it. Well, you know, my beloved ex-wife has some ink on her. She has a harmony eagle on one of her shoulders. An eagle's head, actually. It has red eyes because the tattoo artist told her, but she wanted color added to her ink.

And he told her, he said, Christine, with your skin tone, it's going to be rough, but I can do it with a red, and the red's still there. And she's got a nice tattoo of some roses on one arm, and she's got a fairy dragon under a full moon, and that's like a little dragon with butterfly wings. And it's all black and white ink, and most of it was done by one artist,

or two out of the three were done by one artist. And she got the Harley Eagle's head for some, some beer ribs and 20 bucks that she brought to the tattoo artist because he's a friend of ours and she bought him some whiskey ribs and oh those sound good those sound really good

we're talking baby back ribs that were so in whiskey and whiskey and whiskey and water. One cup of whiskey and four cups of water with liquid smoke because we didn't have a smoker.

Right. And Lord, it does not take much. I mean, one drop of liquid smoke. Oh, no. This took like four or five. She was doing a whole rack when she did it. And she baked them off until they were almost done

and then finished them up on a charcoal. grill to get the grill marks and to set the whiskey glaze. And she used some sweet baby rays and I believe

she was using Jack Daniels. And oh God, it was good. I mean, they were just they pulled off the bone so cleanly. And

I mean, she went all out. These were these were baby back ribs, but she spent a little bit of money. And Shannon, that's the tattoo artist. He knew that. And she bought enough for everybody

in the shop to have some beer ribs or some whiskey ribs and... Oh, yeah, no, that sounds wonderful. And you can do the same thing with beer, except with beer, you use four cans of beer.

And then if it gets a little dry in the oven, you add another beer. So that everything stays nice and moist when you put it on the grill. Speaking of bread or speaking of beer, I got to thinking I got a, I found on sale a bottle of walnut oil and it reminded me of a recipe I made years and years ago that's oh, so good.

Walnut oil beer bread in which the liquid you have to let your beer sit out something nice like a porter or a German dunkel you let it sit out and go

flat and yeah the two liquid main liquids are and of course yeast uh rehydrated but beer and walnut oil and what a heavenly flavor that imparts oh my goodness gracious well with 12 ounces of beer and a couple cups of flour you can make a decent bread oh yeah and christine has done it with uh green onions and cheddar cheese in it. And you mix it up into a batter. You don't need it. You just put it in a breadpan and throw it in the oven and bake it off.

And then when it comes out and you take it out of the breadpan, you let it rest for about 10 minutes and then cut into it. with some good carry gold. Oh, my God, girl. Oh, that sounds delightful. But now we've covered everything. Oh, by the way, speaking of food porn,

and you brought up the legendary Johann Sebastian Bach. Well, I didn't. You know, he was so famous. Too much Hutch did that. Okay, well, too much Hatch brought him up. Do you know he was so

famous back in the day they named the beer after him. Ah, Bach. Shame on you. Shame on you. I'll let myself out. Yeah. I'll let myself out.

And as I was reading that note from too much hutch, I just remembered the episode of MASH where Radar wanted to try to, you know, establish a relationship with one of the young nurses and Hawkeye and Trapper told him to, in order to seem sophisticated, to use the phrase, like with music, ah, Bach. And, you know, there's a little hand gesture, kind of like the light bulb wave.

Ah, Bach. And then to say, and then to answer questions, well, that's highly significant. Yes. Ah, Bach. Ah. Dave, you take care. Have a good evening. Give my best to Christine.

I will. I will. And tell the folks down at the shop that they're always in my thoughts. Well, that's nice. Unfortunately, they got all upset because somebody, some asshole on YouTube decided to butcher a squid and make calamari. Oh. And not very well. Oh, the horror.

The horror. Bruno and Bruno and the flagellation team are seeking that little influencer out, but I can't say much more than that without getting them into some legal trouble.

I understand. Will you take care, Dave? They just want to talk to him. Yeah, just talk. All right. Just talk. Bye. Bye. Our buddy Dave in the blind. Bruno and the flagellation team are no one to be trifled with. Okay, just a couple of things, and then we'll wrap up.

These are, well, this is just fun. This goes back to, well, NBC News, where they sent their senior politics reporter, Jonathan Allen, to Millersburg, Pennsylvania, to interview some maggots. and then report back to the home studios

this is no this is beautiful this is just beautiful of Harrisburg he joins me now and John I understand you're sort of in a Trump supportive part of Pennsylvania and

yeah that would be the part of Penn you know it's Pittsburgh in the West Philadelphia in the east and Alabama in the middle he's in the Alabama part there's there are a lot of those in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania. What are you hearing about how people there are feeling about gas prices? And are they factoring that in and how they view the war in Iran? Well, first, Kelly, I would be remiss if I did not wish Kelly O'Donnell a happy St. Patrick's Day. Right back at you my friend. So happy St. Patrick's Day.

I'm genetically required to be in green. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead. You're on the road trip. Okay. So I'm, so. I'm, so. I'm in Millersburg, Pennsylvania. The reason I'm here is it's a swing district, Pennsylvania's 10th district, in a swing state. President Trump won this district by about five points, but the local congressman, Scott Perry, is in danger of losing the midterms. And we wanted to talk to people about their feelings about gas prices, about the war. You mentioned Pennsylvania's average gas price, about 376 a gallon right now.

We went to like the cheapest place around $3.54.9 a gallon here and talk to folks. better you hear from them than from me about how they're feeling. Let's roll the tape. The decision to strike Iran. It was a great decision. I think somebody else should have done it a couple of years ago last three other presidents. Are you willing to pay higher prices at the pump if that's the cost? Yeah, I'm willing to pay a little more, yeah.

What do you think about the war? I think he's doing the right thing. You know, the long run is going to help us out. Because if they get nuclear weapons, you know. Don't despair the punchline's coming. We might not even be here in a couple years. I think he's doing a good job. Is it worth the rise in the price of gas?

I think so. What do you think about the U.S. decision to go into Iran? I think we got to do what we got to do to keep this country safe. So if it means paying a little bit more in gas right now to keep everybody safe, then that's what we got to do. And eventually they'll come back down. Yeah, maggots just sitting around shit in their pants, afraid that the Ayatollah is

going to reduce their local Wally world to a heap of smoke and rubble. And Kelly, most of the people we talked to were supportive of the war and willing to pay the higher gas prices for the war. Some of them because they believe in the goals of the war, others because they trust President Trump. But not everybody felt that way,

And not everybody's excited about Trump here, and not everybody's planning to vote for Republicans in the midterms who supported Trump. Let's take a listen to one more woman who we spoke with. If you could say something to President Trump and he was going to hear you right now, what would it be? You're a worthless pile of shit. And you voted for him how many times? Three times. That was my bad.

Apparently, I'm an idiot. I love her. You know, it's the whole prodigal. son thing you know the shepherd will leave 99 sheep to find the one that's gone astray and well kill the fatted calf for that lady you're a worthless pile of shit how many times you're up for me oh three times and that was my bad that was on me apparently i'm an idiot oh honey go tell your neighbors spread the good news that's just beautiful i hope you all enjoy that as much as I did.

Apparently, I'm an idiot. But then this. Further proof, last thing of the evening, further proof that, yes, indeed, here at this little itty-bitty teensy-weensy, independent, liberal progressive broadcast operation, we remain so far out in front of the curve that it's like we're on straight road. And I say we, it's not me, it's us. It's our little community. And, well, lo and behold, James Carville did a little video think piece where he explained that, well, things aren't going so well for nitwit Nero, and said,

I'm telling you, I think he's just going to quit next year by this time. I think he's just going to walk away because the Democrats control the House and the Senate. no one's going to pay attention to him the fiscal condition of this country is beyond the ditch the Iran thing has turned into just a catastrophe of the first order well I think next year he'll just quit what have we been saying January 21st 2027 that's the day on which the J.D. Egg would become available or legally entitled to finish out Trump's term, run for his own, and then run for a second, making him one day short of a 10-year presidency.

And that's the next year that Carville's talking about. It's almost like James is listening to the program. If you are, hey, old serpent head, how you doing? Lazy le Bon Tom Brulet, share. Somebody accused him probably Stephen, having a... another stick of butter chung, uh, accusing him of having Trump derangement syndrome and said, you're right. I got Trump derangement syndrome. I hate the motherfucker. I want to hate him more. I pray to God in heaven. Pray for people who are paying more for gas for some idiotic war that he

never even told us why we're there. He still don't know why we're there. And it surrounded himself with incompetent buffoons. Well, all I can say is we were there first. Yeah, wild, isn't it? Anyway, that's the program. Thanks, everybody. Thanks to each and every one of you who share your precious finite time

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