Head-ON With Robyn Roxanne Kincaid - Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid, 19 August 2026

Episode Date: August 20, 2026

In the midst of all the madness, I thought an explainer might be in order as to why I call it "Cankles Caligula."

The password is obsession. Here we go. Live from behind the corn phone curtain. It's head on with Roxanne Kincaid. Three hours of cussin and discussing with America's only liberal transvility elitist right here, right now on the head-on radio network. Brought to you in part by Cole River Mountain Watch, who invites you to be part of the uprising against mountaintop removal. And now from high in the hills of West by God, Virginia, here she is, Roxanne Kincaid. Well, howdy.

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in the Asia Pacific yeah it would be cool if we had listeners in every country on Earth but no we don't frankly if we had a bunch of listeners in Russia your humble hostas might wind up like Lindsay Graham so well not every country but At any rate, the deficit sits at 1640, and we've got a chance to knock almost all of that out. Auntie Katz, Auntie Katz fill in the whole challenge has been on the table since Monday. And we have, it's a $500 challenge. If we can meet the other $500, cat adds in another $500. turns into a total of $1,500.

And we've got $280 to go, not quite halfway. I'll say again what I said on Monday and what I said yesterday. Can we please knock this out? We're talking about 28 people at 10 bucks or 10 people at 28 bucks. You know, two at 140, 4 it 70, 8 at 35, 16 at, at 1750. But if we could knock that out, it would be ever so helpful, because it scares me when I think that we're going to lose one of these challenges,

and they're very much real. And it would go a long way towards saving the month of August and make sure that your humble-Ostice is not driving around in a non-street legal vehicle come the first day of September, make the terrified chihuahua at Appalachian Power happy. And, I mean, every penny, every penny has a purpose. So fingers crossed. But I said that I had something similar to, oh, and there we are.

Okay, so we're not a goose egg this evening. For the challenge from Ralphs, thank you, Ralphs. Thank you for jumping in there, jumping in there first. So now we are at $255.5 away from halfway done. Everybody, everybody stands shoulder to shoulder with ralps. And let's get this done. Pretty please. But by way of starting the program, I got to think, you know, I do.

There is so much continuity to this. program for me because I've been behind the microphone for almost every one of them. I think I've had a guest host maybe two or three times in the 22 or so years, that we've been doing this. So there's this sort of unbroken string of. And, oh, what was it the other day? Somebody, one of the things that, one of the phrases that I use, someone said, I never knew where that came from. And so I thought we would take a look at one of the terms that we have used for the current occupant of the White House.

it has a historical precedent to it. I think we all know, and I can hear the groaning beginning already, juvenile delinquent number two, possibly Steve in New York. Oh, no, we know where she's going. Yeah. The term in question is Canckels Caligula for Newtwitt, Niro. is another one. Let's see. Nitwit Nero, Cancels Collegula, Tangerine, Tiberius, Julius Gyser, Gyser, Gyser, Disgustus, Marcus Horelius, Venerial Vespasian, on and on and on. Because, well,

because the rulers of ancient Rome were at any given time fairly monstrous. And we have the most monstrous member of a rather small group, presidents of the United States. We have the most monstrous member of that group ever, and we happen to be alive to bear witness to it all. And it makes for hell the timeline. The term cancels, Caligula, began as Clement. Caligula because he's the well he's the color of a Clementine one of those little tangerine-like fruits see also compare favorably

tangerine tiberius but when the symptoms of his ongoing demise began to appear here. Well, that word came back, cancels. Because I can remember back when Hillary Clinton was running for president in 2016, and in fact, before then, because of how vulgar and filthy the right wing was in regard to her, it started from before Bill was even president. The hate in particular for Hillary because she was an accomplished woman in her own right, educated, brilliant. Well, that and of course, we all remember the great purity wars of 2016 when people screamed, a neoliberal establishment shill and stomped away, some to return, some never to return. But among other things, fat dead rush limbaugh would talk about her cancels.

My friends, just look at Hillary Clinton's disgusting cancels. Yeah. It's a term that means, well, that basically suggests that there's no difference between one's calves and one's ankles, and it is routinely used as a misogynistic attack against women, especially women who are strong, women who don't exist solely for the male gays or the male straits. Sorry, that just never gets old. And who insist on their own bodily autonomy and their own agency. And then, nitwit Niro began his process of dying.

They won't say it out loud, but he is. And as we've noted before, at any given time when he is live, well, it could happen at any time at this point. It just could. And so now, with his body filling up with fluid from what is not chronic venous insufficiency, but is far more likely to be end-stage congestive. heart failure and they just can't keep the fluid off of him. Well, we've all seen the pictures. He has cancels and it must gall him to no end. But his legs spill out over his shoe tops. And, well, we've all seen the photos of him with his bustle, which is more than likely several

diapers or some sort of assistive walking device, perhaps, weird exoskeleton. Yeah. But he has cancals, and Clementine Caligula became Cancels Collegula in that moment. And, well, here we are. And by the way, we are now down to 1535, courtesy of Ralphs. And now our dear friend Charlie from APS Radio News, thank you, Charlie. Thank you so much. 1535. and what that means for the challenge is that we are at $205 now to finish Auntie Kat's challenge.

So thank you again, Charlie. Thank you so very much. And hopefully there will be a flurry and we can declare a community made miracle in short order. But, wait, billable wreck, male gaze. Why would women exist solely for the male gays? After all, don't such males prefer each other's company rather than women? See, right, exactly, the male gays and the male straits. Right, yeah.

Of course, G-A-Z-E, but it's funny. But Caligula, well, he has a documented history. And I have before me a passage from the lives of, the 12 Caesars, which is usually shortened to the 12 Caesars, a book written sometime in probably the late, second, early third century C.E. by a man named Suetonius. It can get a bit lurid, certainly in this case. But the chapter on Caligula is fascinating. Among other things, the swatonius goes to

great lengths to talk about the building projects most every emperor engaged in building projects and he said and of course nitwit Nero is a

he thinks himself a builder ha ha you see I don't just say things on this program in the translation by Robert Graves, the same man who gave us the great novel I Claudius, but he also translated the Lives of the Caesars by Scytonius.

And of Caligula, he writes, Scytoneus does, he completed certain projects neglected by Tiberius, namely the Temple of Augustus and Pompey's Theater, and began the construction of an aqueduct in the Tiber district of an amphitheo. near the enclosure. His successor, Claudius, finished the aqueduct, but work on the amphitheater was abandoned. Caligula rebuilt the ruinous walls and temples of Syracuse, and among his other projects were the restoration of Polycrates's palace at Samos, or Polycrates, possibly, palace at Samos, the completion of Didamayan Apollo's temple at Ephesus, and the building of the city high up in the Alps, one wonders what that city was.

But he was most deeply interested in cutting a canal through the Istnaths of Corinth, and sent a leading centurion there to survey the site. The very next paragraph, Swatonius writes, So much for Caligula the Emperor. The rest of this history must needs deal with Caligula the monster. one of the ironies being that, and certainly unlike the present occupant of the White House, Caligula is the son, the last remaining son of one of the most beloved members of the cesarean family, namely Germanicus, and two of the sons were executed by Tiberius for treason.

we wanted them out of the way. Oh, no, I didn't forget them. I just didn't list them, Brother Deacon, Hays is saying, You forgot Gonorrhea Gaius and Climedia Claudius. Shame, shame, shame. Oh, they're not forgotten. Not forgotten at all. There's a bunch of them.

But Caligula was the last of Germanicus's children. He was raised in army camps. Of course, that does not. apply to nitwit nero because nitwit nero has never been anywhere near anything resembling danger and that includes butler pennsylvania and the business with the blood capsule and the oh my ear oh my ear might ought to call him marcia but of colligula monster swytonius writes he interrupted a discussion at one point in time declaiming homer's line because we're all about homer these days nay, let there be one master and one king.

The Romans despised nothing so much as the idea of ever being ruled by a king, and so the emperors made a point of, at least early on, trying to not act or look like a king. The Swatonius says Caligula nearly assumed a royal diadem then and there, doing away with the pretense that he was merely the chief executive of a republic. however after his courtiers and that's what this cabinet is and the people are their courtiers they're not they're not they're not servants of the republic they are lick spittals of trump but he already outranked any king or tribal chieftain he insisted on being treated as a god sending for the most revered or artistically famous statues of the Greek deities, including that of Jupiter at Olympia, Olympian Zeus, and having their heads replaced by his own.

Kennedy Center, anyone? We've got a Kennedy Center story in the stack this evening. Next, Caligula extended the palace as far as the first. as far as the forum. Hmm. Well, it sounds like Nitwit Nero's plans for the ballroom, covered the shrine of Castor and Pollux

into a vestibule, and would often stand beside these divine brethren to be worshipped by all visitants, some of whom addressed him as Latin Jupiter. He established a shrine to himself as God with priests, the costliest, possible victims and here it comes again. This has already made the news a few couple of months ago.

Remember the announced plans for his Trump Library Memorial Center down in Florida? He established a shrine to himself as God with priests, the costliest possible victims, and a life-sized golden image which was dressed every day in clothes. identical with those that he happened to be wearing. All the richest citizens tried to gain priesthoods here, either by influence or bribery. Flamingos, peacocks, black grouse, guinea hens, and pheasants were offered his sacrifices each on a particular day of the month. When the moon shone full and bright, he always invited the moon goddess to his bed, and during

the day would indulge in whispered conversations with Capitoline Jupiter, pressing his ears. to the God's mouth. And sometimes, remember when he talked to the AI, Teddy Roosevelt out in North Dakota? Yeah. And sometimes raising his voice in anger, once he was overheard threatening the god, If you do not raise me up to heaven, I will cast you down to hell. Finally, he announced that Jupiter had persuaded him to share his home and therefore connected the palace with the capital by throwing a bridge across the temple of the god augustus after which he

began building a new house inside the precincts of the capital itself in order to live even nearer but we're not done it was his habit swatonius writes to commit incest with each of his three sisters in turn and at large banquets and when his wife reclined above him placed them all in turn below him really now back then the romans had dinner lying down on sofas couches can you just see melanoma darling passed me the hummingbird tongues they say he ravished his sister drusilla before he came of age their grandmother Antonia at whose house they were both staying caught them in bed together. Later he took Drusilla from her husband, the ex-consul Lucius Cassius Longinus, quite unashamedly treating her as his wife.

Yeah, we've got some Natalie Harp news in the stack today, too. And when he fell dangerously ill left Drusilla all his property and the empire too. At her death, he made it a capital offense to laugh, to bathe, or to dine with one's parents, wives, or children, while the period of public mourning lasted and was so crazed with grief that he suddenly rushed from Rome by night, drove through Campania, took ship to Sicily, and returned just as impetuously without having shaved or cut his hair in the meantime. Yeah. This way Tonya says in paragraph 25, or chapter 25, perhaps, it's better. It would be hard to say whether the way he got married, the way he dissolved his marriages,

or the way he behaved as a husband was the most disgraceful. He attended the wedding ceremony of Gaius Piso and Livia or Estilla, but had the bride carried off to his own home. After a few days, however, he sent her away and two years later banished her, suspecting that she had returned to Piso in the interval. According to one account, he told Pizzo, who was reclining opposite him at the wedding piece, "'Hands off my wife!' And took her home with him at once, and announced the next day that he had taken a wife in the style of Romulus and Augustus.

Then he suddenly sent to Greece for Lalia Paulina, wife of Gaius Memius, the consular governor, because somebody had remarked that her grandmother was once a famous beauty. but soon discarded Lalia, forbidding her ever again to sleep with another man. Kysonia, you can see why he would do that, right? Because Lalia had seen the imperial dinky. Kysonia was neither young nor beautiful, and had three daughters by a former husband besides being recklessly extravagant and utterly promiscuous. Yet he loved her with a passionate faithfulness,

and often when reviewing the troops used to take her out riding in helmet cloak and shield. All we need here is a story about him, about Caligula putting her in a metal boxed wagon, and, well, we've got the modern era. For his friends, he even paraded her naked, but would not allow her the dignified title of wife until she had borne him a child, whereupon he announced the marriage and birthed simultaneously. He named the child Julia Drusilla and carried her around the temples of all the goddesses, in turn, before entrusting her to the lap of Minerva, whom he called upon to supervise his daughter's growth and education.

It seems hardly worthwhile to record how Caligula treated such relatives and friends as his cousin, King Ptolemy of Mauritania, son of King Juba II and Mark Antony's daughter Selim, or Macro the Guards commander with his wife Ennia, by whose help he had become emperor, their very loyalty and nearness to him earned them cruel deaths. Take a note, White House staff, and then, well, nor was he any more respectful or considerate in his dealings with the Senate. But made some of the highest officials run for miles beside his chariot, dressed in their gowns or wait in short linen tunics at the head or foot of his dining couch.

Often he would send for men whom he had secretly killed, as though they were still alive, and remark offhandedly a few days later that they must have committed suicide. When two consuls forgot to announce his birthday, he dismissed them and left the country for three days without officers of state. One of his quistores was charged with conspiracy. Caligula had his clothes stripped off and spread on the ground to give the soldiers who flogged him a firmer foothold. It goes on and on and on, and the parallels become absolutely terrifying. He gave a lot of to-does, gala, balls, events, and if anyone dared criticize them, hell befell them. Others were confined in narrow cages where they had to crouch on all thorns like animals or were sawn in half,

and not necessarily for major offenses, but merely for criticizing his shows, failing to swear by his genius, and so forth. Caligula made parents attend their son's executions, and when one father excused himself on the ground of ill health, provided a litter for him. Having invited another father to dinner just after his son's execution, he overflowed with good fellowship in an attempt to make him laugh and joke. This is... The parallels are just disgusting. closely and then in chapter 30 the method of execution he preferred was to inflict numerous small wounds avoiding the prisoner's vital organs and his familiar order make him feel that he is dying soon became proverbial once when the wrong man had been killed owing to a confusion of names he announced that

the victim at equally deserved death, and often quoted Akius's line, That didn't hate me, so long as they fear me. That, he has literally used that line. He used a line that Caligula used. Did someone spoon feed it to him? We don't know. He would indiscriminately abuse the Senate. He would say that the cruelty of his predecessor, Tiberius, had been justified.

because with so many accusers about he was bound to believe their charges. When a group of a crowd of Romans at some games cheered the wrong team, he screamed at, I wish you all, I wish all you Romans had only one neck. And the other thing he did was he, everything was the best or the worst under him. There had been no public disasters like the Varus massacre under Augustus. There had been no disaster like the collapse of the amphitheater at Fidini under Tiberius. The prosperity of his own reign, he said, would lead to its being wholly forgotten,

and he often prayed for a great military catastrophe or for famine, plague, fire, or at least an earthquake. The similarities are stunning, shocking. He loved everything to be covered over in gold. He was a predator, a rapist, murderer. Remember his comment? I could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and never lose a vote. Yeah, goodness me. And here we are.

Eventually, his own Praetorian cohort grew weary of him because, well, he was even affecting them. being of advanced rank was no protection consider his dismissal of the joint chiefs of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff because he was an African-American man but back then when the Praetorian cohort got done with you yeah you were done and so they lay in wait

and well they gigged him like a frog one of the few people he hadn't murdered near his near him in his family was his uncle claudius whom he thought to be an idiot why because claudius had from childhood had a stutter oh no history doesn't repeat but it damned well rhymes and he would go on and on claudegula would about how dumb his uncle Claudius was Claudius being somewhat older than Caligula but then the Praetorian cohort acclaimed Claudius

emperor and he turned out to be quite possibly the best of the Julio Claudians or very nearly the best the Claudian aqueduct Claudius sent the religions

into Britain and not only defeated the locals, but then Romanized Britain. And it seems like, you know, every couple of years somebody with a metal detector or someone plowing a field will unearth a hidden cache of Roman coins, a stash of wealth but claudius was an idiot because claudius a stutter sound familiar oh my goodness thank you so much auntie cats challenge is met thank you charlie at a ps radio news it is met and so with that having happened and Auntie Katz two for one, we're even. We are even up to this day, the 19th of August, 2026. Charlie, thank you. Thank you so much. Yeah, Jeremy pointing out, hush, daddy survived his sexual Vietnam, the 80s AIDS epidemic because he was strictly straight. I tend to find that doubtful at best. Oh, here's a new sickness. We have remarked upon this in the past,

but I never noticed the level of detail until I saw someone pointed out. You know the picture of a much younger Trump? He's wearing the short little kimono robe, and he's lying across a bed with a sort of come hither look. If you can find the photo and zoom in, Oh, this is gross. Warning. We don't know whose bedroom it was where he took that photo. But the sheets and pillowcases, it's especially noteworthy on the pillowcases. They're strawberry shortcake.

I'm not talking about the dessert. Girls of a certain age will remember. Strawberry shortcake. I'm sure. Lots of girls. girls of that era, you know, say between the ages of maybe six and eleven, had similar sheets. But he sprawled out across a bed with nothing on but a robe, and that bed has strawberry shortcake pillowcases, presumably sheets as well. God. Well, I mean, it could be. Routes says, is this like

Donnie may be having an affair with Anna Paulina Luna? Yeah, but, well, all the attention at present is focused on Natalie. Natalie. Hello, Natalie. Natalie's great. And it's driving his White House to distraction. Susie Wiles. Remember we had the weird Susie Wiles story a couple of programs ago where her phone got hacked

and she was sending weird messages to the new prime minister of the UK. Yeah. What? Stand by. Oh, okay. It went away. Never a dull moment. Yeah, we still don't have an answer to that.

They've been, and they're ultra super duper double plus double secret probation, paranoid about it. Stand by. Never a dull moment. Sorry. Um, Kim with a note, your monologue, you should really type up your monologue on the comparison between

Caligula and the orange one and send it in as an op-ed in New York Times. It was brilliant. Thank you, Kim. Um, I just felt like it was, I felt like, you know,

it's not just cute names that are funny, sarcastic or sardonic or, uh, no, there are real comparisons. But thank you. That's so kind. And Ralph says,

Oh my God, Roxanne. I just saw the Trump in a bathroom photo. Yeah, strawberry shortcake. He's on a little girl's bed. How much more proof do we need? And this came in this morning from Daisy. Tuna and Ramen. Remember the clip yesterday of Joey Jones over on Fox?

denigrating the service of sailors aboard the Lincoln. Daisy said why people join the military not during a war. Pay for college, pay off college loans, health insurance for a sick relative. This is very real. Citizenship. From what I understand, Daisy says, this bullshit is not officially a war still. My two sons who are deployed in Japan and Alaska right now in the Air Force say no one they know is re-upeen their contracts.

But they're just suckers and losers to our commander-in-chief. Exactly. I'm sorry, one of your sons is in Japan because nitwit Niro is emboldening Kim Jong-un, who has made a point of telling Japan that he has missiles that will, yeah, I don't mean, I'm sorry, I don't mean to worry you further. Thank you for the note. And from Cynthia, he's guilty. guilty guilty guilty the fucking pedophile i could just vomit well then among other things don't look up the

picture of him on the on the bed because it's a little girl's bed with strawberry shortcake sheets on it what made him think that was okay and who took that picture jisling maxwell maybe and uh jeremy writes don't forget daddy told the 10 year old little boy who was saved by a lifeguard i wouldn't have saved you it's almost enough to make you believe in reincarnation but i i mentioned that um natalie harp is is still in the news john ossoff didn't just touch a nerve uh he did the whole uh dissecting a frog thing and put the electrode on the nerve so that the leg just sits there and twitches uh and kept it there and they're twitching like mad.

Let's start, for instance, with an interview that Natalie Harp's brother gave to CNN, he and his sister, and, you know, it's a great heartbreak to a parent when they have children who decide that they no longer wish to speak to each other. it is it's heartbreaking because you love all your children equally and then when they just say nope no more well it hurts and so it is that uh Natalie Hart's brother Preston did an interview um I guess night before

last maybe with CNN uh he talked to Aaron Burnett in the aftermath of John Ossoff having made nitwit, Nero, Twitch and it's really a it's it's really disgusting and pathetic and

yeah Cynthia notes can I be on the jury please? I promise to be a good ethical juror in the full tradition of our innocent until proven guilty guilty guilty guilty yes but I don't I don't know if this is the outrage du jour. It feels like there's something more here.

Amanda Marquette over at Salon did a long piece on the whole Natalie Harp business. But let's start with Preston Harp and his conversation with Aaron Burnett. Aaron Burnett, noted that Natalie Harps also in the Prophet Sponge written by Jonathan Swan and – what's her name? Maggie Haberman – regime change. She talked back to the fact that Natalie went with nitwit Nero on the real Air Force One. Whatever plane has the president on it is Air Force One. It's not any particular plane, leaving people like Will Marco and Scott Bessent. But he took Whiskey Pete with him, but left the others as long as well as the press corps as decoys.

And, of course, the maggots are just barking and grunting. Well, I mean, that's just national security. You know, you sign up to serve. but she in particular wanted to know why Preston and Natalie Harp, who are siblings, don't talk. And Preston Harp said that, well, his sister has a presidential obsession. There's that password. And so speaking on Tuesday, Preston Harp said that, that, you know, She'd been writing letters to presidents for years since she was a little girl.

None ever responded until Trump. And looking into the camera, Preston Hart said, I love you. I hope you change and you wake up. And noted that the estrangement is not just between himself and Natalie, but between Natalie and her grandmother. He pointed out that some of this stems from his father's suicide. which Natalie wanted to insist was a matter of him dying in his sleep apparently no no Preston Harp killed himself and everybody else has come to terms with it except Natalie and her mama and so the conversation went on at length it really blows my mind Preston harp said but because another

another incident has come to light. This one took place not in Turkey, but in Gotham, when the presidential detail told Natalie that she couldn't travel with Daddy that day, and Natalie Harp instead jumped into the cargo area of the beast. And Preston Harp said it's really kind of sad. It's like an unhealthy obsession. And Natalie Harp is a cancer survivor. Don't know what kind. And in fact, our little nut Megan Kelly had a connoissell about John Ossoff saying, he attacked a cancer survivor. Well, cancer strikes millions of people. And I dare say it changes people. each in their own way.

But Natalie Harp apparently, well, Preston Harp said, what he did was he made experimental drugs legal to try and that the insurance would pay for it, so it's not like he saved her life. It's kind of different, but then explained their upbringing a bit. It was bone cancer, thank you, Ralph, serving as the Horn Adhawk, what kind of cancer did Natalie Harp have research department?

My mom, Preston Harp said, raised us with the idea that American exceptionalism was the correct way of looking at things that the United States is the boss of the world that slavery was back then. That was normal. People weren't bad because they had slaves. Oh, she sounds like a real winner, Ma Harp. But yeah, he noted that she'd written to George W. Bush, other presidents as well, and that she had said politics was never something I liked. Business was my background. That was Preston. But since she was like 16, she's had this presidential obsession.

So like her dream finally came true. And so we've got, well, was it this week or last week that I mentioned the story of Cleopatra appearing to Julius Caesar rolled up in a carpet? But it's almost like somebody is stage managing this. I wonder who the, I wonder who the, I wonder who the, I wonder who the classics nerd is behind all of this. But God, you, you wouldn't deliberately make him look like fucking Caligula. And it's almost 24, 24, 7 all Natalie Harp all the time now. It was 2023 when Natalie Hart jumped into the,

cargo area of the vehicle. He was due in the courthouse in New York City, and she engaged in a screaming match in the lobby of Trump Tower. Kristen Holmes saying, at that time with essentially harp saying that the president had personally asked her to go, and she was determined, so determined not to be left behind that she actually got in the trunk of one of the SUVs that was part of the motorcade.

Holmes went on and said, it just shows you how much she cares about President Trump and how really? and how she wants to be in proximity to him. At one point or another, all of these, all of these, all of these, all of these women have been vying to be the next and perhaps final Mrs. Trump. Who was, who was the one woman who survived Henry the 8th? Was that Catherine Parr? and didn't she marry Henry the 8 at a time when he needed close personal care?

And I don't mean that in any romantic sense of the word. He had ballooned to gigantic proportions. Yeah. Yeah, Kristen Holmes said the harp in the trunk thing was, according to multiple sources, and to a photo I obtained and reviewed that showed the space that she had been in and her sitting there. It was really an extraordinary moment for so many people around President Trump. Paul Reikoff was speaking with Aaron Burnett, too, at that time, and said, it's really concerning.

I mean, it's disconcerting. It's troubling. I mean, the woman was in the trunk of a vehicle. This should be a security concern. I'm surprised the Secret Service allowed it. if that was my daughter and I found out she was in the trunk and she'd been asked to do that, I would question everybody involved. But if nitwit Nero says so, well, Daddy says it, I believe it, that settles it.

Just like that tacky old Christian bumper sticker. Only with Daddy playing the role of Jesus. And like I said, the story for some reason just will not go away. and everybody noted as I did the other night that the fact that the fact that the White House has reacted the way it did makes it all the more clear how creepy it really is and it is really creepy

among other things it's pointing up his possible need for elder care. I mentioned Amanda Marcott writing at Salon. She said that beyond anything sexual, and we all know he's incapable at this point, that it struck a nerve with the White House because, well, she put it this way, some have speculated that given Trump's long history of chronic adultery, there might be something more to the arrangement. No, not with a crane he couldn't.

Others, pointing to Trump's strange gait and prominent backside, which is often seen to have an odd shape, we call it a bustle. Wonder if he might be forced to wear a medical device or garments. The expanding size of the bag harp plugs around isn't helping dissuade rumors that nursing duties are an important part of her job. Whatever the case, the rumors have served to draw more attention. to Trump's age, but just the fact that he requires a woman to linger around him all the time, ready to express her devotion, and that of his most ardent followers, isn't a great look. Maggie Haberman in her prophet sponge refers to her, refers to Natalie Harpice, Trump's binkie, and that her job is to soothe Canckel's Caligula by writing him little mash notes

and keeping flattering clippings handy for him when he needs to be soothed. And the conclusion that Amanda Marcotte reached was that in calling John Ossoff, the biggest cuck loser in politics, that was Stephen Chung, man of butter. and Davis Engel saying that he's a Can you imagine saying this about John Ossoff? He's a cringe-worthy feminine theater kid, but the dumb-dums both posted the video where you can see that he is none of the above.

I hate to say this, but, well, because it seems so shy. shallow, but John Ossoff has real sex appeal. Nitwit Niro called him Pee Wee Herman, which Amanda Marquott noted is one more reminder that the president is very old, that Pee Wee's Big Adventure premiered two years before John Osoff was even born. Oh my God, I feel so old. And back then, she notes, calling a Jewish man Pee-wee to impugn his manhood was probably a huge hit with the bigots at the country club.

Now it's just confusing, especially since Paul Rubens is widely regarded as a comedy legend. She went further, noting the New York Times article by Dr. Jonathan Reiner, the man who kept Dick Cheney alive even when he didn't have a pulse, saying that, well, he has not. looked well talking about the fact that he can't stay awake in the daytime that he's got bruises all over his hands his legs and his feet are swollen all of the above whatever the extent Amanda Marcott said of Natalie Harp's duties it seems undeniable that she is there to keep the temperamental president calm by distracting him from his own failures with words of praise that he needs this is a sign of profound weakness. Stable adults do not need full-time babysitters.

That Harp's job even exists is a testament to Trump's incredible narcissism, but it also carries more than a whiff of elder care and suspicions about medical conditions that require monitoring and placating. The White House's extreme response only serves to underscore. how worried they are about the narrative being created. One, they themselves weaponized against another aging president, Joe Biden. By flipping out at anyone who brings it up, they're only ensuring more people are paying attention. Yeah, it's, well, it's banned in Boston all over again.

You want to sell a million books? Make sure it's banned in Boston. That was the way it worked back in the day. At some point in time, it's all going to come out, and there will eventually be a swatonious. to write it all down. Talking ill of a cancer survivor, Kim says, I guess Megan Kelly hasn't said anything negative about Biden since he was diagnosed with cancer. No.

No. But, yeah, that hasn't slowed the maggots down any at all, something that Hunter Biden has talked about at length. Thank you, Ralph, serving as the wives of King Henry, the 8th Research Department ad hoc. yes it was katherine par yes yes ralps even went the extra mile and checked in with snopes is this photo of trump wearing a bathrobe across a bed real it's real yes it is i wonder if

i didn't click the link ralps but did they notice that it was strawberry shortcake bed linens because wow and from jeff tedric he compiled a list of things that have been said about Natalie Harp. Oh, fucking boy, there's nothing more in this world that the entire wingnut outrage industrial complex loves more than a good manufacture versy. Great word.

I mean, let's face it, tackling actual issues that matter is hard work. You have to have facts, logic, and reason on your side. You have to have a coherent point of view, one that you can defend without having your flimsy argument go all exploding in your face. Well, and apparently, as Tedric says, the usual gang of hysterical suspects have been shitting their foe rage all over Elon's Nazi bar and child porn Emporium. It shows no sign of letting up. Here's a sampling. Megan Kelly. Assoff was clearly implying that Trump is having an affair with his staffer. He was so determined to disparage Trump. He didn't give one thought or worse. He did.

to how this would affect Natalie. Forever. Don't let the Democrats tell you they're for women. It's a lie. The incredibly stupid Jack Prasobiac said, God bless Natalie Harp. America First Patriot and MAGA all the way. Survival of the fighters, not survival of the fittest.

Mercedes Schlapp, spouse of Matt Schlapp, who, when last we checked, was trying to grope the crotch of a, young man who was driving him dead drunk back to his hotel Mercedes Schlapp said i don't think any woman would want to travel with osoph natalie's smart professional and successful osoph has to make a sexist remark robbie starbuck natalie harp is a bone cancer survivor who only lived because trump green lit the right to try an experimental treatment when you were terminal i met her back then She went to work for him after recovery.

Asoff is a vile coward for insinuating their having an affair. He should apologize to Natalie for doing this. I don't think any of us would want our daughters talked about like this. Scott Jennings, who, by the way, you know, he has imaginary conversations with Mitch McConnell, said, This is quite a message for the Democratic Party to send to young women working in politics. and pretty ugly stuff. And since we've, by the way, it, we haven't talked a lot about Moscow Mitch for a while,

but why not? It turns out that Moscow Mitch was not not in a good way for a considerable period of time before the 911 call. In fact, 10 days, this is Laura Esposito writing at the Daily Beast, 10 days before Mitch McConnell disappeared from public view, worrying signs of his declining health were captured on video. And on June 4th,

a frail-looking McConnell, 84, spent a sizable portion of a 20-hour voterrama session on the Senate floor frozen in place. You can actually go to C-SPAN and find this. As his fellow senators chatted animatedly around him in between voting on a $70 billion Republican reconciliation bill funding ICE and Border Patrol, C-SPAN captured the Kentucky senator, remaining almost motionless,

sitting beside an aide who appears to push McConnell frequently in a wheelchair. The former Senate Majority Leader almost never spoke throughout the voting marathon and no one approached him. Outside of a few feeble hand raises, it's not clear how much of what was going on he comprehended, especially during his nearly motionless spell between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m., the video shows. The video, first reported by independent journalist Desiree Townsend,

sheds light on the Kentucky lawmaker's steady decline prior to his being taken from his home in an ambulance on June the 14th. To quote Jesse Lee Peterson that famous, famous, good God fear and upstanding Bible believe in Christ's standard evil, evangelical, gundominalist, amosexual, Christian heterosexual man who was caught with a man in his mouth. He did. So Scott Jennings, sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up. Oh, Newt Gangrene couldn't resist getting into the act.

John Osoff owes Natalie Harp a personal apology for having smeared her If a conservative Republican attacked a liberal Democrat working professional woman the way Ossoff smeared Natalie Harp, there would be cries to kick them off the ticket and reject this kind of misogynistic language diminishing and smearing someone who is simply doing their job. But then John Ossoff routinely lies, as the Jewish leaders in Atlanta pointed out recently, and we should accept that he is profoundly dishonest politician with no sense of honor. You can sit the fuck down too, Newt. You banged your intern, like a cheap gong from Pier 1 imports, and then married her. And, yeah, he struck a nerve. We know he struck a nerve because the maggots are going all the pieces. And then there's the video.

video that emerged of Natalie, sitting with Trump, and literally writing his tripes for him. Natalie, yeah, let's talk about what a great, great young woman in politics, Natalie is. Natalie is the one who posted the AI image of Michelle and Barack Obama as monkeys. That was Natalie. That's who Natalie. is and her her little mash notes are all over

the place. I want to make it clear I don't think there's I don't think there is a snowball's chance in the hottest corner of hell that there's anything sexual going on between those two because he's incapable he's kissed her on stage in 2019 and then

there's also video that came from headquarters, a digital media project that former vice president Kamala Harris started. And it literally shows her typing out his social media posts

while she's sitting next to him. I don't know if there's anything in the way of audio to be had out of this, but let's find out. Too many, thank you. It's about 20. I must be 35. How many people are traveling from India to California with an unshakable dream to be the scientist? How many people are watching? At home, can we tell how many, Dan?

How many people are watching? She's talking about how great San Francisco was before she destroyed it. A lot of talk about childhood. We've got to get to the border, inflation, and crime. He's not proposed a single policy. Not one policy policy. Ours is biography won't lower your price. at the grocery store or at the pump out there putting veterans out on the street so 33,000 homeless veterans

I got you okay say Cindy's the things of which she complains the things of what she complains he's dictating to her in many ways Donald Trump is an unserious man oh you have that's great right right The consequences. Ready? These prosecutions were all started by her and Biden against their political opponents. You hear her clack, clack, clacking away? Is she sitting there so close to him?

She can even smell the measma. And I'm, okay, jet black eyebrows look so weird with bleach blonde hair. And as someone who has to do dark eyebrows with blonde hair, I say that knowing full well. Me. Get that out right away. We have a caravans heading to the border. People shown up to the border with Biden-Harris t-shirts.

Everything we have of people swarming the border. She paid bail for riders with the Minnesota Freedom Fund. She paid and raised. That last voice was Matt. It just Gates worse. But you get the idea. She is closer to him in that video than any other person because she can type and he cannot.

Ralph's asking, I wonder if Natalie's the person that posted Trump in the plane pooping on a parade. I would not be surprised. And, oh, from Matt in San Francisco, John Ossoff, he floods my basement too, sister. Not my type, but there's something about him. It's, I mean, take a screen grab from to kill a mockingbird, 1962. and put it next to a photo of John Ossoff. That's the something about him.

He has a sort of Atticus Finch gravity to him. Gravitas, since we're working in the Latin realm a bit this evening. Without a doubt. Yeah. Floods my basement. What? That's... Uh-huh.

just admit it miss cancade says juvenile delinquent number two this has nothing to do with the best president ever live it's really all about you and your seething jealousy that you couldn't have a strawberry shortcake bed set as a child i can't prove this but i just know it to be true actually i'm too old for strawberry shortcake i'm still mad that i didn't get the barbie lunchbox though half right and uh yeah from cynthia She must like the smell.

Ewe. And from Texas, Paul, I can't take credit. This is the message. His nickname is Slob Job, Stephen Chung. I would not be at all surprised. Well, we're near the halfway point of the program. Again, hallelujah. Thank you to everybody who made it happen.

Auntie Kat's Challenge has met. We're even to this point in August something I didn't think we would be. And there is going to be a frenzy of bill paying going on. And bill paying is not a euphemism for anything. It's about getting the terrified chihuahua of AEP, the lupine pest. Chihuahuas can be lupine. They're tiny, but off the porch. and a number of other bills as well.

So thank you. Thank you. Oh, Cynthia says, Ralps, I know, I know. Yeah, she must like the smell. Or, who knows? You, you, you, you. But let's run over to the old holler tree.

For lo and behold, I do believe that David is with us from out in Oregon. Hey, David. Hi, Roxanne. Oh, darn it. Okay, I'm sorry. Don't hang up. Don't hang up.

The plug is not doing its plug thing. Stand by. You may hear some pops. Any better? I don't know. You tell me. Hold on. Something's squirly back here.

Please don't let this cord be going. Wait a minute. Stand by. Is that better? Not yet. Stand by. Okay. that explains it.

Here in department. Okay, okay. Now you're in the board. Okay. Can you hear me now? Yes. I could hear you then, but nobody else could. Oh.

Well, this newfangled technology, I don't know how to work at all yet. Oh, darn it. Get off my lawn. I don't know. I didn't know. Like, I had so, the past problems with me, futz with my microphone,

remember? Yes. Yeah. Yeah, so I always get skittish, wondering if I got all this stuff. setting set right and whatnot. There's so many menus and sub-metis, you've got to click on this.

Yeah, imagine. Radio bubble that. Oh, what was, yeah, it was Monday evening when I hit to forget, I forgot to hit the magic record button. There's so many buttons to remember to push. And you got to do them all in the right order. Yeah, and you got to kind of stick your tongue out in the right direction, and stand on one leg.

and hold your arm up in the air. So you said something a little bit together. I'd like to take exception to you. Oh, dear. You can have strawberry shortcake anytime you want. You're not excluded from strawberry shortcake at all. I know, but I don't know if they even make it anymore. Oh, I guess, I mean, I guess that's the thing.

I don't think I've ever had strawberry shortcake, but it sounds pretty good. Oh, well, no, no, no. And everybody deserves strawberry shortcake if they want strawberry shortcake. Oh, okay, okay. We're having an Emily Lattella moment here. The difference between being between the delicious dessert and the little cartoon character that was popular maybe back in the 80s with, say, you know, four to 10-year-old girls. She had a little cute little sunbonnet on and stuff like that. Yeah.

Wasn't wrong with that, I guess. No. No. Nothing wrong with boys playing with the... Absidimolutely not. Right. So hi. Hi.

I know. I know. Everything's all bad. But it'll get better. What do you... What are you doing not at work? So I had jury duty today. Oh, oh, the irony.

Yeah, right? I checked online last night because they told me to, because I'm a dutiful citizen, and I go online with my jury number, my little postcard that they sent me, and they only called, like, a certain, like,

group of the juror numbers, and my juror number wasn't called. So I was excused. So I'm playing hooky. Oh, okay, okay. Because I was sort of looking forward to that magic moment that happens with anyone who has gotten anywhere near the bar exam when they get called to jury duty. It's like, oh, no, you can leave now. Goodbye. Right? I wanted to go sit on a jury. I wanted to be on a jury.

Every lawyer does. Because all we can really do is guess not we. I'm not a lawyer. But all a lawyer can really do is guess at what goes on in there. In the jury room. It could be Bedlam. We don't know. They can make decisions on ants crawling up a potted plant. Right. They could be casting lots, picking short straws.

They don't know. The donuts may be stale and they may hold the prosecution to account for it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, this is our system of justice. This is what we've decided as best. I guess it's better than trial by combat. I mean, if you want to go back to the earliest days of tort law, it kind of has to be. We shall let the fates decide. Well, the court of King's Bench was born out of the fact that the King's troops were beating the shit out of each other. and in matters of honor and vengeance and revenge and retribution,

I think it was the first tort case I read. I don't recall that for my torts class. And I think it was what, I think it stood for the principle that all liability is based upon fault. Because the king, you know, Kings, Kings, Kings, Pikeman number one, who had wounded Kings Pikeman number two. He said, yeah, but I didn't mean to. But you intentionally engaged in the conduct that created the harm. Pingo. And thus, yeah.

And I'm not proud of this now, but when my first born came into the world and I was first able to hold her in my arms, I looked at her. And I said, welcome to the world. Your mother and I love you dearly. And always remember, all liability is based on fault. I did that. I was a law dweeb once upon a time. That's the difference. I think that's the fundamental difference.

I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's the fundamental difference between tort law and criminal law is the act needs to be intentional. Whereas in criminal law, the intent, for the most part, is to bring about the criminal result. Yes. Yeah. You know, there are exceptions. every rule, but that's like, for the most part, the difference between tort and Well, and that's, and that's also where we eventually get the, uh, the divergence between, uh,

things like, you know, intentional battery versus, neck, well, let's go straight to homicide, shall we? Murder and negligent homicide. Oh, murder, death kill. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. That's a demolition man reference.

It flew right past me. Sorry. Demolition Man, Arnold, not Arnold Schwarzenegger, I get him confused with Sylvester Stallone. Yeah. And Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock,

1990s, Demolition Man. I must have seen it, but murder, death, kill. So the premise is that, okay, we're on a tangent now.

Aren't we always? Hi, Todd. Yeah, the, the premise of the movie is that Wesley Snipes plays a serial killer, I think. He's a serial killer, if I'm recalling correctly. And Sylvester Stallone is the cop that catches him.

Somehow they both end up in cryosleep and wake up in a society some odd years later that does not have any crime. And so the police are not familiar with murder. And so every time they say, every time there's a homicide created by, done by Wesley Snipes, it's called a murder. Murder, Death Kill. Ah, okay. There's some sort of Orwellian language. Yeah. Yeah.

And somehow they wipe their butts with three seashells. I don't know. And one of the memes throughout the movie, it was like, you don't know how to use the three seashells? And everybody's like, mesmerized that he doesn't know how to use the three, she's the three seashells and he just wants toilet paper. So that's just a little. You know, there's some toilet paper out there that I must admit, feels like three seashells. Scott. Brought to you.

Scott comes immediately to mind. Pardon? Brought to you by the Coke Brothers. Of course, yes. It feels like somewhere between three seashells, crate paper, and, well, fine grit sandpaper. It wasn't, isn't Georgia Pacific owned by the Coke Brothers? Yes. Yes.

Okay. That's, that's, okay. Good. There are very few things in this life that I'm absolutely brand loyal toward. And one of them, and Tracy is the one who turned me on to this. Northern three-ply. Okay. Like the quilted northern?

Yes, but it's three-ply, not two. Well, I mean, if you're going to have the one luxury, might as well be the toilet paper. I mean, well, I still remember the pandemic. I remember when my entire toilet paper aisle in my local Wally world was empty. And the only thing sitting on that shelf then was a six-pack of corona. Somebody had a sense of humor. Because it's a coronavirus.

Yes. Right. Uh-huh. That's fantastic. Yeah. I mean, Corona was not that long. It feels, it feels like ages ago. But it was only six years ago.

But so much changed. We've been living through, oh my God, yeah, we've been living through this nightmare since he came down the escalator. You know who he is in the sentence? Yes. In 2015. That's 11 years. This is a whole decade, a decade of our lives. We're not getting back.

Lost. Wasted. Just, yeah. Murder death killed. Murdered killed. And we could have been, I mean, we could have been, you know, we could have been a decade on in transitioning to a clean, a sustainable economy and a sustainable energy infrastructure.

We could have been a decade in to, or a decade closer to Medicare. for all. Yeah. Oh, by the way, the duck just dropped down because you said the magic word and you went $100. Oh, okay. Medicare for all. Hakeem Jeffries, who once championed Medicare for all, recently declared that he's no longer a fan. Yeah. I present you must have seen that. And well, there you have it. Yeah. So it's a little taste of that high life. Yeah, I don't. I don't want to take the start to have anybody's determination to make sure they go out and vote because we must have the House. We must have the House. But maybe it's time to start talking about we must not have Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker.

I would expect that when we take the House, because I'm going to manifest it, I'm speaking it into existence. When we take the House, I expect there to be a pitched battle for the speakership. at least I would hope there would be among the progressives and the Democrats because I'm talking as if there's already been a party split between the progressives and the party leadership. Yeah. The question is because I'll be, I'll be quite candid with you, David. I get a little tired of this now. a verb and a.O.C. I love AOC. Don't get me wrong. But there is a temperament that goes with being Speaker. It's an ambition level approaching that of wanting to be the President. And of course,

you are second in line to be the President in terms of succession. Vice President, Speaker of the House, as an aside, if you really want to get a Jim dandy case of the terrorists going, imagine the disaster scenario where it goes to the third place person in line. The president pro ten of the Senate. Yeah. Yeah. That would be. I don't know.

Charles Grassley. Okay. It's Chuck Grassley? Yes. Isn't he a hundred and ninety-seven years old? Roundabout, give or take a few years. Yes, yes. He is the living embodiment of the Latin root for the word Senate,

Senex, meaning fucking so old he farts dust. Dust and cobwebs. No, he farts the dust. He pees the cobwebs. What? Was he bitten by some sort of radioactive spider? I don't know. It was probably like radioactive corn smut.

He is from Iowa, you know. That's one of my favorite fungal names, corn smut. I feel like it needs a soundtrack and a voucherical, wow, wow. And in fact, there is, oh, God. These conversations, David, these conversations. There is a Mexican delicacy. And it is canned corn that has been afflicted by corn smut. And for the love of God, if you have not had dinner yet, do not look it up.

Do not. Okay. It's gross. But they say it's delicious. I don't know. Maybe I could put it on a blindfold. oh damn this ear is good I feel like I've derailed your program and I apologize

I'm so grateful for it I am so grateful for it I was all serious and classic scholar and everything in the first hour and now we've got a little pallet cleansing going on by the way Sumon just wrote in and said are you talking about demolition man I just logged in in the future they also show that people have sex through machines it's one of those movies that's so bad it's good I love it

yes it is one of those movies that is so bad it's good. And yes, I do recall the scene where Sandra Bullock has sex with Sylvester Stallone using the VI, like, meta, Google Glasses. Who thought those were going to be a good idea? Are you seeing the ads online for for meta glasses? No, I'm not. My algorithm is probably way different than everybody else is. I hope so. I tried, like I said the other night, I try to keep my nice and clean with puppy and kitty videos and little squirrels and and little tiny jumping spiders and a prairie dog. But still, the goddamn meta ads bleed through. And it's always some creepy fashionista with some nerd glasses on saying meta take, meta take a picture of what I'm looking at. As if. the flock cameras weren't bad enough. Right.

If somebody's whipping out their phone, you at least, I don't know, maybe this could be useful with ice. I mean, why would anyone want fucking Mark Zuckerberg and his fucking AI tech baby bros to like see everything they're seeing all day long? Like, that doesn't make any sense to me. Nor I, but, you know, I kind of dig privacy. me too which is why I'm really weary about this and one of the one of the one of the things that one of the things that may change the shape of the November election is that I think we finally found something that um a bipartisan majority of Americans can agree on a couple of things really data centers and flock cameras

yeah yeah I hadn't heard about the flock cameras I did see on Facebook, ironically, I saw on Facebook ironically, that the Senate, the Senate campaign committee, I forget the Republican Senate campaign, the RCCC, like, release some sort of letter or something, or sent a letter to, like, the tech companies saying if you don't, if you don't change your image, we're going to lose the midterms or something like that. I'd have to look up the story. And then they're going to end. And then the Jacquerri are going to fire up the tumbrils, and all our fun will be for not. I got to share this with you because we started on strawberry shortcake. That's right. And Carl just wrote.

I already forgot about that. Well, that's what I'm here for. And Carl has written in from Arizona, strawberry shortcake, Jesus fucking Christ, seeing a grown man trying to look sexy on a bed, with strawberry shortcake sheets is disturbing on so many levels and fucking speaks volumes. Why this photo is not used in every Democratic campaign proves the fecklessness of the Democrats. No, that's not the fecklessness. It's the dip shittery.

It's the dumbness. It's the clueless. I don't think it's feckless, Carl. I think it's more like political malpractice and negligence. I mean, come on. Really? First of all, I think. Oh, just to say, let me.

finish with Carl. First of all, whose little girl sleeps in that bed and would allow that gassy, fecaly, incontent, sweaty, disgusting, known child rapist around their daughter? Sorry, I was going to be serious, so let me put these on the table. Both China and Russia attacking Taiwan and Russia making maneuvers toward Baltic countries reminiscent of Ukraine. Listen to the Five Stack podcast for more on this. Holy Hell, we're so fucked Roxanne. We are in trouble. Of course, this little program, we've been saying this for a long time. time we're in a lot worse trouble than we dare even suspect or whisper that we're in the thing is we've been in this kind of trouble for a long damn time david uh yeah i want to but i want to answer

because we're you know uh in for a penny in for a pound on in terms of the creepiness of that photo what do you want to bet oh god damn it there goes dinner in the central daylight time zone What do you want to bet that's Iwanka's bed? I mean, oh, come on, come on, really? Tell me I'm wrong. Give me a cogent, logical, well-reasoned explanation why he would be on some other little girl child's bed with strawberry shortcake sheets on it. And see, this is where I have to jump in because I think I've missed something. I don't know what you're talking about.

There was, because right now in my head, because I don't have any clue what you're talking about, I'm picturing George Costanza on a bed with strawberry shortcake, and I do not want that image in my mind any longer. Okay, let me help. I don't know if it's better or worse, but let me help. It's a photo from many years ago now, probably the 80s, early 90s. Uh-huh. nitwit Niro is significantly younger than he is now It's back

It looks as Jeremy alluded to It looks like it's from his days of his You know he said the 80s were his sexual Vietnam Said that Howard Stern he did I recall And he's in a little shorty What appears to be white or Baby Pink kimono

Roe No no no I don't think I want you to describe it anymore, frankly. I'm sorry. I'm okay. It's too late. Do you do you do this? You buy the ticket.

You takes the ride. Okay. And he's sprawled out across the bed. No. Sprawled. No. With his head, you know, I mean, he's lying on his side demurely. Oh, like George Costanza in that one.

With his. episode. One wonders, with his head resting on what appears to be, I think, his right arm across the bed. No, this mental imagery is not okay with me. With this, mm, come hither look on his face. No, no, thank you. And if you, if you expand the photo a little bit, yep, them some strawberry shortcake sheets. Okay. Okay. Okay. Anybody who lived through the 80s, looks at that and goes, oh, no, that's strawberry shortcake. That's not some some abstract

print from some hoity toady designer. That's a little girl's strawberry shortcake's sheet set. So I have a very active imagination and I'm imagining what that picture looks like and I can only imagine that it's like ten times worse

than what's happening. Oh, eventually you'll go and find it. And as Ralph's pointed out, Snopes confirms that, oh, yes. It's real. It's Who took the picture? There.

That's the question. Who took the picture? Who took the picture? Smile, Donald. I mean, was it Iwanka or Ivana? Was it Ivana? Have we moved into the Marla Maples? You know, Marla was from a carpet fortune like Dalton, Georgia.

Hi, Stephen Georgia Stan. I don't know if you're out there. And that might be consistent. Maybe it was Tiffany's bed. And now I understand the reference to the strawberry shortcake when I came at. And it gets even grosser if it's Tiffany's little bed. Oh. Well, you might recall that he and Marla appeared on a talk show at one point.

where he said, well, she, she, and Tiffany is a goddamn infant in arms. Go on. And he says in the interview, well, I think she looks like her mother's. I don't know if she's going to have her mother's giant gazongas, but we can hope. Oh, come on. Okay. Okay. Now think about this.

Wait, you were about to accuse me of pulling your leg, weren't you? No, I was not. I believe it's real. I believe that with every ounce of my being that that photo is real. And I was going to say, think about this. If he allows that type of photo to be taken of him by someone, what other photos has he allowed to be taken of him to bring back in Harle's Point?

And who has those photos now? And what are they in taking him to do? They're public. They're public. There's the photo of him with an adolescent mid-pubescent Iwanka down in Florida. And she's sitting on his lap next to a couple of concrete or a concrete statue of a couple of parrots. Fucking! And then there's the real live, no-kitting picture of him standing next to Iwanka with his hand on her.

ass. Okay, okay. He's such, he is so gross. But what I'm saying is like, imagine that, okay, maybe not imagine. But consider that there are other pictures of that ilk that are worse, that are not public, and who took those pictures, and where are they now?

Could Putin have them? Could Netanyahu have them? Could someone in China have them? Is this why he? he is. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. That's the point I'm trying to make. Yes. Well, look, 2015, the Miss Universe pageant, which he owned, held in St. Petersburg, Russia. That's also roughly the time that what is now referred to as the infamous P.P. Tape is alleged to have happened. Just to review, everybody hears P.P. Tape. And he deflected the P.Tape. He deflected the

P-P-Tape story by saying, I wouldn't do anything like that. Everybody knows I'm a notorious germaphobe, making it sound like it was a golden showers kind of affair. It wasn't. The story was that he paid Muscovite hookers to go into the room in the Ritz-Carlton, Moscow, where Barack and Michelle Obama slept on a trip and urinate on that bed. That was the story. But the real story is what happened in St. Petersburg at the Miss Universe pageant.

Because this is in the same vein as him bragging and grunting about how I can do anything I want to. I own the pageant so I get to go backstage and I get to see the naked girls. And I'm the only guy who gets to do it. And I can do it because I own it. And I have to make sure everything's working like it's supposed to. And so the rumor that has that has dogged that moment in time is that there is because nobody does compromise quite like the Russians. They'll make sure that the beautiful women are there. And especially if one is married, they'll make sure that they get some really high definition video of you screwing the aforesaid women.

But in the case of Donald Trump, the rumor has always been that they are underage girls and underage boys. But and now we're having, we're having fleet movements because someone has these pictures of him. Yeah. Is the inference that I need to. And there's a, there's a, a side note to that as well. The reason that the Lincoln was not resupply. is because Iran blew the resupply facility off the map and Whiskey Pete Kegbreath

covered that up, covered that up, covered that up, covered that up. Where was the resupply facility located? Probably Oman or the UAE. remember maybe Saudi Arabia remember when we lost what 13 members of the military and and and there was a paucity of detail but then in congressional hearings it came out that that entire facility was just wiped and what's more keg breath had been warned over and over and over again that we were woefully undefended. And so I've got a story in the stack today

that now the U.S. military is actually considering maybe just getting the fuck out of the Middle East altogether because we've been vulnerable all along. But when we were attacking the innocent people of Iraq or Afghanistan, they didn't really have the means of reaching those. Because we got bases all over the people. Persian Gulf area, the UAE, Bahrain, Oman. Remember...

We pay a pretty penny for them, too. Yeah, we do. And remember, Osama bin Laden put in his explanatory note after 9-11 that the reason that he, that they struck the World Trade Center was because our infidel bases were on sacred Saudi sand. I recall that. And so the sailors aboard the Lincoln who were attacked by that, that Chud over at Fox News that played the clip last night. Yeah, those sailors were.

Oh, yeah, I remember. Those sailors were not resupplied because there was nowhere to resupply the ship from. Is that the only carrier we have in the area? Are you? Oh, no, no, no. First, it was the Ford. And the Ford was overextended in its mission until its showers molded. It's plumbing backed up.

There was a fire aboard ship in the laundry. And they were having food problems, too. And then it was the longest deployed ship. And then the Lincoln stays deployed even longer. And all of this shit goes sideways. So now there was one story saying that another carrier group was headed in to relieve the Lincoln, but then they turned around and said, no, it's going to be the USS George Washington that goes in to relieve the Lincoln, and that they were coming from their base in Japan.

And, you know, it's not just like, as Roger alluded to on Friday, it's not just like, you know, the carrier. there's 50, 60, 70 ships to a carrier strike group because the smaller vessels serve as missile sponges and have hopefully interceptor systems to keep the carrier from being hit because the carrier is vulnerable. Right. And everything, everything, David. Yeah, he is deconstructing our entire military. I mean, this business about steam catapults. Right.

Right. Has been a bugaboo in the, in the, in, uh, that makes the spiroquite scream for years now. And he wants a complete redesign. And he wants to build battleships. You know, like the dreadnoughts of the Second World War. And he's calling it his golden fleet. When are we going to have any naval battles in the foreseeable future? With who?

Precisely. I mean, there is a wing of, you know, the Navy isn't just this one big happy family. I happen to know a couple of naval veterans who were commissioned officers who told me, and, you know, there's nothing secret about this. There's a great philosophical debate in the Navy about do we build more ginormous carriers or do we focus on the silence service, the subs? Because the carriers are out there just steaming around the ocean seas with a great big kick-me sign on them. And in an era, and in an era when we have, when we're pretty,

sure that mother Russia, among others, have hypersonic missiles. They're defenseless. And hypersonic torpedoes, too. It would depend

on who we are considering our biggest threat, right? I would imagine. It would, it would depend on if we're going to need air support for large ground wars, which isn't likely. Or do we

need counter do we need subs that can counter Russian abilities underwater? Because I, and I'm not, I'm not a military tactician. I don't, I can, I'm, I'm, I'm an armchair

at best, kind of, but I would like to, I would like to fashion myself as a strategic systems thinker. And I would, I would, I would think that, that the reason why we, what, why we would need carrier groups is if we needed to if we needed air support for large military to conduct large scale military war campaigns probably in the Middle East well yeah and and the thing but the thing is

part of the problem with where we are now in this stupid war a don't get into it right the rule one of Sun Tues the art of war is the best war is the war you don't fight. Right. And I think like rule two is choose your ground. Yeah. But these dipshits and frankly, I think a, you know, I think a J.R.O.T.C. high school senior could sort this out. You cannot bomb your way to peace and freedom. Right.

It's abundantly clear from every war we've fought from the First World War on. Sooner or later, if you want to take the ground, you have to take the ground. Right. And the thing that we've seen recently, especially with Iran, is that diplomacy was working. It was working until Donald Trump broke it, the JCPOA. Yeah, and the next question becomes, he barks and grunts and hoots perpetually, constantly, about, oh, that was the dumbest deal we ever made. It made Barack Hussein Obama look like a fool. I'm not a fool.

He is a fool. He is a fool. He is a fool. John Oswald. That's what I said at the time. It's that part that really stung. He's a fool. But the question is, who told him?

Who insisted to him that the JCPOA was a bad deal? Well, there's two obvious answers. and, you know, the politics of the Israeli regime is that is probably the most Machiavellian politics of any country in the world today. And they will use anyone that they think will advance their goals. and so breaching the JCPOA inured to Israel's benefit and it inured to Russia's benefit

for different reasons Bibi and his fascist clowns in his cabinet wanted somebody else to do their dirty work for them while Pouty wanted the United States efforts and resources diverted away from Ukraine.

I mean, third place, Xi Jinping, but they play a longer game. Yeah. And they know that eventually, and I don't like saying this, they know that eventually they're going to overrun Taiwan.

But what they needed was evidence that we are, in fact, a paper tiger. And the Ford, the Lincoln, and then the story from yesterday about the USS Benfold, are proving it. And that's my concern, right? Like, high-level military strategic decisions are being made by a group of people who are literally compromised, morally, ethically, and actually compromised in, like, through counterintelligence in the counterintelligence sense.

especially Donald Trump. We don't know what we don't know what we don't know is out there on him. I mean, we know about the Jeffrey Epstein files. We know that he is a pedophile, but we don't know how deep the proof of that goes because it's been stonewalled by the likes of the new AG. Todd Blanche. Todd Blanche.

And so we and we just don't know what kind of compromise Putin has on on Trump that Nanyahu has on Trump. And it seems to me that he is making he and his team, not just him, but he and Hagseth and Stephen Miller. I don't know if he's involved in military decisions, but they're making. they're making high-level strategic military decisions that benefit other countries over the safety of the American people. That's why I think the egregiousness of his violation of the Constitution and invading or launching a war with Iran and invading Venezuela needs to be, he needs to be impeached for that. And this Republican Congress is not going to impeach him for that. And unfortunately, it does not seem like because the American people are suffering so much under this regime that the American people are going to be able to right now currently hear that argument, if that makes sense. Well, it does.

And the problem with all of this is something that we've noted in the past. I'll note that, you know, Todd Blanche is at extreme risk of getting his ass in a real sling with Judge Emmett Sullivan in the Katie Fang case. And Katie Fang in particular is focused on the release of the FBI's notes from the woman who said that he raped her when she was 13 years old. and Blanche at this point, you know, and, you know, you're practicing now. So you've got an idea. Blanche was due, he had been hailed into court in persona by Judge Sullivan. And the night before, I think it was a Thursday and maybe Wednesday night, the DOJ filed a notice of substitution of counsel for some.

some little low-level USA and expected him to go in and be fed to the wolves and Emmett Sullivan said, no, I mean Todd Blanche. And I will impose sanctions. And he said, I think I'm the only federal judge who has ever imposed sanctions against the DOJ. But I damned well will. And when I say, be here, Todd Blanche, I mean be here.

here Todd Blanche. Because he, one, and like I said, you practice now. One, Todd Blanche never answered Katie Fang's complaint in the first place. Never. So she filed a complaint with the federal court and there was no answer from the DOJ? Correct. Okay. 20 days, 30 days, 40 days, no excuses.

He was doing what? his buddy Emil Beauvais accent grove over the E had previously said he was going to because Beauvais said sometimes you're just going to tell the federal judge to fuck off. Doesn't that result in the default judgment? Yes. And so now they're wrangling over that. And everything is about the FBI's notes on that, on that case, which he stood, because he is nitwit Niro's personal lawyer.

Blanche has steadfastly refused to release. And he's trying to play out the string, and he hopes that if he loses, and he will, in the D.C. Circuit, that our most puissant dread sovereign Supreme Catholic majesties will jerk a rabbit out of the hat and save his ass at the last minute. Speaking of compromise, there's probably a bunch of compromise on one or two or three or several Supreme Court justices as well. I have no doubt.

So it's hard for me to assess how likely that scenario is. The millions upon millions upon millions of dollars that old balls and strikes has made. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. And who paid for Kavanaugh's house? Right. I mean, we know Leonard Leo, but we don't know. And then the most recent disclosure, that Sammy Bad Breath Alito has made tens of millions of dollars.

from companies that were literally before the court and on whose cases he did not recuse. I mean, that's kind of a holy shit moment. It is. It absolutely is. And we need a functioning Congress to actually investigate these misdeeds. And the scary thing is the design, the functional design of the concept of the Congress is such that it is not supposed to be able to act with any kind of alacrity. It's not an accident.

And Washington talking about how the Senate, you know, pour in the tea into his saucer and say in the Senate, the Senate will cool the passions of the House, yada, yada, yada, yada. And so any Congress, Democrat or Republican has a hard time walking, walking and chewing gum at the same time. and there is and there is a there is a to-do list out there for the democrats if we are to save this republic right and and and you know in the dark and still the night i find myself going jesus i hope somebody somebody's writing this shit down because so much has to be done because the corruption is so profound i mentioned at the beginning of the program that we had some uh you know colligula-esque putting his name on shit stuff, well, the litigation over the Kennedy Center continues and the monumental

ineptitude of the the maggot lawyers would be would be comical if it were not so goddamn serious because now they've got a, I think a federal magistrate who said, well, what they, okay, so what they said was that they had to have the scaffolding up because they were protecting the building against water damage. Give me just a second here and I'll find it. The scaffolding to like... Well, they had to put up scaffolding to fix the Kennedy Center and they just happened to put his name on the Kennedy Center at the same time.

Oh, okay. I thought it was the scalpalting that they were taking his name off of it so people couldn't see his name coming down. Maybe I'm, maybe I'm wrong. I'm still looking for it here. I've got it. There it is. There it is. So they filed a status report, a joint status report in the U.S. District Court.

The presiding judge is Christopher Cooper, and he demanded that the administration explain why there's been a tarp over the facade of the Kennedy Center for more than two months. Okay. And I'm sorry, he filed the, who filed the suit? The suit was filed by Joyce Beatty, who was a member, and she's African-American, of the Kennedy Center board who was ousted because she wouldn't play nice. Okay. She's a Democratic congresswoman, by the way. And so the DOJ Petty Foggers said on behalf of the Kennedy Center, Water testing and structural repairs to the roof overhang of the center's front portico

require the use of a scaffolding system, including a protective covering, a tarp around that scaffolding. The soffets are some 20 feet or more above the scaffolding. And they said this in a court filing? Right. And Beatty's lawyer said this office are some 20 feet or more above the scaffolding. And her lawyers noted, defendants tellingly have not done so for months, leaving only the center's ironic, iconic name obscured, a strong indication that this structure has nothing to do with the roof and is instead meant to defy a return to the status quo. They do understand that they're going to have to present at some point. some evidence in court that substantiates that claim.

I don't think they do. They think that they can just say, no, we said it. That means it's true. That's not how courts work. These are lawyers? Uh-huh. They're barred and everything? You betcha.

Oh, my God. Yet my character in fitness is going, okay, never mind. Right, right. But you see, this is what a hollowed out partisan DOJ looks like. Right. And so in the pre-dawn hours of June the 13th, curiously one day before Moscow Mitch's ambulance ride, the workers following the court's order took nitwit's name off the building and hung the tarp.

The tarp has never come down. And then they came up with a, the board came up with a new Dodge where they said that, they're going to carve restored and renovated by President Donald J. Trump below Kennedy's name on the facade. They're going to carve it in stone. And then they're going to rename the plaza around the Kennedy Center, the Trump Plaza.

And the DOJ lawyers admitted all of this in their status report filing. Wasn't this a court order to take down the name? Yes. And they're going to literally chill. his name in stone. Uh-huh. Because fuck federal courts.

Emil Beau, quote unquote, Emil Beauvais. Yeah. Who now sits on the third United States Circuit Court of Appeals, by the way? God Almighty. Okay.

And is on the short list for a seat on the Supreme Court. So let me ask you this. Why do you think they really have the tart there? Is it to keep him from not seeing that his name was taken down and having a fucking shit, I didn't do that on purpose.

I realized what I said after. The goddess watches over this program. Yes, it is an emotional, it's an emotional support Tarp, David. Okay. An emotional support, TARP. And Natalie Harp is his human binkie. It's funny. It's terrifying, but it's still funny, too.

So I'm choosing to focus on that. because she wipes his booty. Oh, dear God. You're a cruel man. You're a cruel man, David. I thought something today where, I don't know if it's true or not, but I did see it, that she literally jumped into the trunk of a car or something. Yes, we were talking about that.

In New York City in 2023, he was being hailed into court on either the felony charge or E. Jean Carroll, and she threw a fit in the lobby of Trump Tower. They told her there's no room. You can't go with him. But he wants me there. He needs me. And literally got into the cargo area, and there's a photograph of her sitting in it. Her mother must be so proud. Well, her mother is. The rest of the family's like, Jesus Christ.

I'm sorry, Roxanne. I'm sorry for deborough of your show. When her brother said that she's been writing to president since she was a little girl, she was writing love letters to George W. Bush. She's scary. I mean, if I were, God forbid, if I had any kind of a role in that White House, I would keep her as far away from the president of the United States as I humanly possibly could. Because, I mean, okay, you pulled demolition man on me.

I'm going to, I'll see your demolition man, and I'll raise you fatal attraction. Is this the one with the bunny? Yeah, that's the whole thing. Natalie Harp is a bunny boiler. She boils bunnies. Oh, that makes so much sense. She's so weird. Yeah.

Yeah, she's a weirdo. And, and... Oh. You love me, Mr. President, don't you? Oh, my God. That's so great. We're going to be together forever, Mr. President. Oh, my God.

You know what that reminds me of? What? Just flashed in my mind. What's her name? from misery. Yes. Yes. Absolutely.

Everything that goes on in this insane White House has a cinematic precedent. Yeah. I mean, yeah. So we've got multiple court orders being defied. I'm just trying to like recap what we've just discussed. Multiple court orders being defied by the administration. the administration repositioning our strategic military resources

for the benefit of Russia and Israel because Donald Trump is a pervert and what else did we talk about? I'm just trying to recap I'm trying to read to sum up. Well, it's not so much what we've done, it's what we haven't. Oh, shit. There's more? Oh, yeah.

I mean, did you catch yesterday's program? Did you do you? I did. Yeah, did you hear the story about the recorder that erroneously fell? Yes. That cracked me up, too. When I listened to the podcast, when you pointed out that there was the recorder that was in error, I couldn't stop laughing at that.

That made me chuckle. Nobody can take responsibility because if daddy gets wind of it, Daddy will be mad. Right. get so mad he takes another big steamer and he's ditey and then natalie has to change him again yeah and then she also has to have his booty and so uh yeah there's more there's a magistrate in minnesota who has taken the extraordinary step of demanding to see the grand jury proceedings in the case of don lemon oh magistrate judge douglas miko um says He said he wants to see that grand jury proceedings because the magistrate said, look, you went and tried to get a search warrant and an arrest warrant, and you went to two different magistrates, and they both turned you down based on your affidavits.

so then you turned around and just went directly to the grand jury and that's how you got an indictment I want to see the grand jury transcripts yeah I don't know what I don't know what authority a court has to order I would never have the court has the order to the court does have the authority I'm I don't I'm I'm not that familiar with maybe billable wrecks out there I don't know I may, one, judges don't tend to peep behind the curtain very often. And I don't know how often magistrates do it. Right. But this DOJ is so, yes, this is federal court.

This DOJ has been so slimy and so scummy and so coloring outside the lines that nothing they do can be trusted. I just need to sit with that for a minute. I apologize. No, no, that's okay. Okay. There are probably real threats to the national security that are going on and to, you know, the security of the American people that are going uninvestigated because the DOJ is

spending so much of its resources covering up for Trump and his ilk's perfidy. Yeah. I can only imagine the amount of counter espionage, for one, counterterrorism. They don't even have to try now. You know, once upon a time, and it's really, you know, you go to D.C. if you're a tourist and it's like, let's go to the Smithsonian. The kids want to see the big dinosaur. The kids want to see the big elephant. The kids want to go to the Air Space Museum.

I want to see the Hope Diamond. I want to go to Ford's Theater. I want to tour the Capitol. But the fact of the matter is that Washington, D.C. is the single most surveilled place in the world. Every country is watching everything that happens in Washington. Right. And in fact, there is a spy museum, David, in D.C. I never got to go, but I always wanted to.

and they explain like Cold War era spycraft and it's it's uh if you ever watch the Americans with Matthew Reese Reese and uh I should uh yeah Carrie Russell yeah yeah oh she's so good um she's great but they they they cover some of this stuff but you know things like chalk marks on a mailbox. Something that nobody would ever notice.

Yeah. And it's an information drop. It tells you that somebody has something for you somewhere and you already know the code. You know where to be. Right. And it's wild because, you know, you never know who you're talking to. Okay. And it's a very cosmopolitan. It's a very cosmopolitan.

city. In my time in D.C., I've met people from all over the world. I got invited to Kazakhstan one time. Just randomly? Well, you would love Kazakhstan. Cool.

Because I was actually having a... You know me. This is in the before time. And I was like, oh, God, I'd always wanted to see the... It's a... It's the river in central Asia where Alexander fought a, uh, a, uh, a, uh, determinative battle.

I'm not going to be able to help the ox, the ox, the oxus river, I think. Okay. And it was like, oh, it's a magnificent place. You'd, it's, it's largely unspoiled. You would, you would do. It's like traveling in time and being a part of history. I'm like, yeah, cool. Um, but, you know, every act.

accent under the sun can be heard in D.C. And they're not all benign. And then you're, and then you talk to people who don't have accents and it's like, ah, you know, they may have, you know, because all these intelligence apparatuses bend over backwards to spy on us. Yeah. You know, we supposedly have agreements like with England that we won't spy on them and they won't spy on us because we're besties.

Oh, well, you know. But our bestie of besties, our partner in peace, the Israelis spy on us 24-7. And kill Americans with immunity, impunity, and have for a long time, USS Liberty, anybody? Yeah, and by the way, the horn hive mind is in good working order because, you know, there you are in Oregon and there's Steve in New York. Steve Rudding, it's like Kathy Bates in misery. Yes, it is. Kathy Bates, that's her first thing. Mm-hmm.

Okay. And I need to say a big thank you to Texas T for jumping in and helping us. So we are actually $10 plus on Auntie Katz Challenge. Thank you, Texas Tee. And George in course gold. brought up an issue. Going back to the things that were making you cringe. Iwanka's bed.

A photo from 1995 shows Iwanka cuddling with daddy on her bed. Uh-huh. It does. Okay. Okay. And Stephanie Miller has apparently already said that relative to Natalie Harp, Trump will one day

find her at the foot of his bed with a sledgehammer. I guess I'm, I guess I'm older than Stephanie because I went right to the boiling bunny. I haven't been listening to Stephanie recently. Oh, and by the way, Natalie is not all sweetness and light. She saw a reporter photographing her and took out her phone to photograph him back and said, and mouth the words, fuck you. Well, she seems like. a lovely, lovely lady.

It doesn't she just. Sugar and spice and everything nice. Just like strawberry shortcake. Oh, God. Oh, my goodness. Ew. Okay, okay, I take it back. You're not ever going to be able to eat a strawberry

shortcake ever again in your life. It's not looking. Strawberry season ended here where I am a couple of months ago. and I guess it's just as well. I mean, unless you can compartmentalize, you know, then maybe you can enjoy a strawberry shortcake. With some whipped cream.

Okay, I don't know why I said that. I just realized what I saw. That's okay. I gave it a yum. And how that can be taken. Oh, so I did find the thing about the letter. At least you didn't suggest that the strawberry shortcake would be glazed. Okay. See, this is Jeremy's fault. I'm blaming this on Jeremy.

Blame everything on Jeremy. I'm blaming this on Jeremy. He's a blame sponge. Yeah. So I did find the thing. I have a mediaite article. GOP privately warns AI companies about data centers hurting them in midterms. Quote, issue will continue to dominate this race. And quote, they're talking about the Senate race in Ohio. It says here, the letter warns that Senator John Hustead, who was appointed to his seat to fill a vacancy left by Vice President J.D. Vance and Sherrod Brown, a former senator, are in a, quote, dead heat in their race, and it's all thanks to AI.

The letter reads, quote, if Houstoned loses, the data centers take the blame. Politicians across the country will take notice, and they will not go near the next one, end quote. So we may get Sherrod Brown back in the center because. of the data centers. Well, yeah, and then, of course, there's Max Miller over in the house side. Max Miller, yeah, this is the one that beat up his wife and... Two-year-old daughter. And like, yeah, okay, right.

And he's now facing a civil rights lawsuit for having posted nude photos of the said two-year-old. Oh, my God. That was downloaded hundreds of thousands of times. What is wrong with these? people. Well, from yesterday's program, Mike Caruso down in Florida, voted for and was a co-sponsor of a bill to impose the death penalty on anyone who sexually abuses a child under 12. And now he's got at least three counts of sexually abusing, a child under five. Wow. I mean, I don't know how much of this, how much more of this pedophilia

shit that I am like child abuse, like, I can take? Like, first it started with the Catholic Church, um, the Catholic church scandal and then moving priests all around. And now it's,

now it's on to Trump and his bullshit. And now we've got other members of the Republican party doing the same thing. And of course, like evangelical preachers all over everywhere, fondling, fondling children. I mean, this is not, it does not seem to me to be an epidemic anywhere other than in the most conservative circles on the planet.

Here's the thing. It's nothing new. I know. And what happens, and I need to say this in case you just suddenly disappear. for some reason or another the iPad that you're coming in on is at 10%. I'm doing all I can to save the battery. Hopefully we last. But this has been going on for ages.

The numbers for women who have been victims of sexual assault are, it shocks the conscience. Right. percentages that just are terrifying to behold. And pedophiles have been hiding out in the Cub Scouts and Little League. The guy yesterday who was sexually assaulting the little boy under five was for 30 years a Little League coach and a Cub Scout leader. I'm not going to comment on that. I understand.

Somebody did something to my brother. And he was, when my dad first moved to Alabama, the family was in trauma because their mother had left them, leaving my father to raise them. And when he got settled in Alabama, he had two little girls and one little boy. And I was talking yesterday, talking to Kurt. and what a lovely conversation that was. And I spoke with such a, I sincerely continue to grow in my love for my father. But he thought he was doing the right thing and put his boy in Cub Scouts and Little League. And it became readily apparent that something happened.

and my father always harbored a special hatred for some of those men that he ran across in those in those groups and after that everything changed for my brother he his grades plummeted he began to wet the bed he had to repeat eighth grade and he was not and he was a smart smart boy along the way he beat the hell out of me as often as he possibly could, as well as doing other things. But most tellingly, when I got to the age where I could play baseball and all of my classmates were going into Cubs Couts, I said, I want to go into Cubs Couts, I want to do Little League. And the answer was an unequivocal, not just a no, but oh, hell no, not again.

Not a word was said, David, but not again. And I didn't. And at the time, a child doesn't really understand, but with the maturity that brings knowledge, I know now why my father wasn't going to let me go down there, because the same men were in charge who were in charge when my brother was there. And everything he did was acting out behavior that would have, you know, in a later time, would have lit up a child psychologist like a Christmas tree. this child has been sexually abused and it's it's all over and again those were good conservative christian men the cubs scouts in that instance met in a church and well it was god and the national anthem

and the pledge of allegiance every time they showed up on the on the practice field for little league and knowing what I know now and what I suspect now, I wonder how many other, how many other people, guys of my brother's generation are walking around to this day in Florence, Alabama, carrying the shame and the guilt of child sexual abuse. And those men would be 75 years old now, David.

It's a horror. it's an epidemic in this country. And the weirdest part of this for me is that we all remember QAnon, and they were screaming from the rooftops about a child pedophilia ring. And of course, they were screaming that it was all the Democrats. Well, someone was feeding them some really, really high quality misdirection. But they were getting a nugget. a kernel of truth and then being weaponized with an untruth.

Comet ping pong pizza, a child sexual predator ring in the basement of a pizza joint that didn't have a basement. Adrenachrome, Hillary Clinton and her advisor drinking baby's blood to maintain their youth. and this shit's been... Go ahead. I was going to say, isn't that all just a hedge, though, for if the truth actually did come out, they've muddied the water so much that... Yes, that's exactly what I meant.

They were given a kernel of truth with a great big chaser of misdirection. And it worked. God, a mighty, it worked like gangbusters. It's... And by the way, let's see, I had a... note from George and Corsegold.

Let me see if I can think. Yeah. A photo from 1995 shows I wanka cuddling with daddy on her bed. Gross. Yeah. Strawberry shortcake, Steve, New York says, keep talking, keep digging that hole.

Yeah. Trying to find a propaganda quote. Back to the Golden Shower business. The brother Deacon says, golden shower schmoldens shower they use that golden shower story to throw people off and over the years you've helped them plenty by dragging the obamas into the story there's only one explanation as to what was going on in that moscow hotel room and it has nothing to do with no urination it's right there in plain sight in the trump files you've even read that particular email out loud on the air this past november in that there moscow hotel room in 2015 don't j trump was blowing bubba go ahead and prove me wrong don't worry i'll wait the brother deacon he starts he starts out with a viable premise and then well it all goes south after that blowing bubba but yeah the golden but that's what i've said all along the golden shower

was a misdirection but it was a misdirection for everything that was taking place in st petersburg i mean that's what the story was and then nitwit nero added his own misdirection to it by saying oh i've never said that's disgusting implying that someone was saying that he engaged in water sports. Oh dear. Jude, hi Jude, as just sent,

and the subject line says, for David, a lovely photograph, high resolution, of a positively delicious strawberry shortcake. Thank you, Jude. Yeah. And Jude said,

I just spoke with Kevin in Colorado Springs. Hi, Kevin. He is and always has been a trusted friend for gosh robin must be 15 years or so how fortunate i am and now tuned into the horn with the dialogue shared between you and david always remains a calm experience perspectives from two friends that meet for all to hear yet here we are engaging quietly from a distance and that's what you know that's what this is all about judas we close the distance continental global distances but the whole point is to sound like a it's a

conversation taking place over the back fence. And I think we've been remarkably successful in that regard. Thank you, Jude. Hi, Jude. Thank you. And there's something going on because the rats are fleeing the sinking ship, David. Another individual has said, no, I hear my mom calling. and this time it's the deputy chief of staff to hairless hydrick Stephen Miller. She's bugging out and she's going to go and work for a venture capital firm and be a partner.

And she's been there since the very beginning. She's dedicated to destroying the world. But here's the funny thing. her brief under Stephen Miller has been nuclear energy research and development and she's going to work for a venture capital firm I wonder where that capital is coming from yeah I wonder what she saw with that portfolio that made her be like no I'm out of here wasn't there a story recently where they were talking about

or they were discussing like nuclear attacks in the in the situation Marginal trailer queen said that they're having conversations in the highest levels of the administration about using a nuclear weapon on Iran. Okay, so it wasn't the situation. I got that detail wrong. Okay. Oh, God. No, he is crazy enough to use one of those things on Iran. He is crazy.

Yes, he absolutely is. And the people around him are that crazy. I'm wondering if I'm wondering if I'm wondering if I'm wondering if there are there's anyone in the military that would defy such an order if it came from Hagseth or if it came from the president. Well, that's that's what I was touching on last night. We had officers who made abundantly clear that they would not launch a first strike nuclear attack under any circumstance because we have sworn we will never do that. And Mark Millie reached out to his Chinese counterpart and said, don't care how crazy he sounds, no one's going to follow that order. And it infuriated him.

And so now he has nothing but a bunch of salute snappers around him. He got exactly what he wanted. Generals just like Hitler had. They click their heels. They snap a salute and they go and they say, yes, mine, fewer. I mean, Mr. President. resident, just like out of Dr. Strangelove. Didn't Hitler's general someone to kill him?

Eventually, yes. He's not worried about that? That's not the part he focuses on. That's not the fun part. Oh, that's not. The fun part is the murdering and the killing and the maiming. Yes. And that brings me back in the limited time we have remaining to the question that, well, the whole reason I went over Swatonius's chapter on Caligula. Somebody, because this cannot be an accident, somebody in this administration is steering him

in that direction, because there's no way nitwit Nero has ever read the classics either in Latin or in translation. And make no mistake, I'm reading it in translation. But he's probably not lucid enough. to come up with a coherent strategy. And even when he was, he wasn't curious enough. The only thing that's ever mattered to him was where the

next goddamn dollar was coming from. So that he could buy his next little girl. Arguably. Almost certainly. So that he can behave in as depraved a fashion as Caligula did.

Who pays attention to that sort of thing? I'll submit to you that Russia still does. They very much pay attention to the classical past because, well, the fact of the matter is the Russian double eagle is the same double eagle that flew over Constantinople, which considered itself not the Byzantine Empire, but considered itself Rome. Rome was no longer a geographical location. It was an idea. Russia pays attention to this sort of thing.

Um, the gold. And, and there's another one that ever, I've seen it, you know, we're going to build a new golden fleet for America. Right. Um, Neero called his vastly expanded palace, which was basically the administrative heart. It wasn't just a residence. The administrative heart of the empire. Uh, he rebuilt it, expanded it. and called it the Domus Arias, the Golden House.

The Chinese under Kublai Khan set out vast numbers of ships. Some were ships, but mostly they were trade vessels. They made it around to the west side of Africa. And it was called the Golden Treasure Fleet. I guess what I'm asking you, David, is that just a coinkie-dinky? If you tune in, if you happen to see a video of the man who looks like rancid hot dog water smells, Stevie 3-shirts Bannon, the convict, he has a sign in his background for his video that says, there are no coincidences. and I wonder if it's a matter if like Po is a matter

of hiding in plain sight, you know, the perloined letter. They've told you know, how many times have we quoted Maya Angelou when someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

There are no coincidences. He has the dream or someone has the dream of literally an American version of the Roman Empire, extending power, projecting power all over the world. And oddly enough, going all the way back to Bush War III, to the illegal attack on the

innocent people of Iraq, there were people in the Republican defense establishment who were really, really, really deep into classical history and said that we needed to reject these sissy Christian values, well, at the same time professing deep and abiding Christianity, that we needed to, and be like the warriors of ancient Greece. I've been reading all this stuff for all these years and just sort of storing it away. I'm not going to sit here and say I had some prescient realization that someday that you know like Einstein's unified field theory that it would all come together but it feels like it is and of course the Nazis loved Nietzsche there's a lot of irony I'm not a family not nor I but you know the irony being that he was a total little in-celled

dweeb who wound up dying of syphilis but he's talking you know man and uberman and for every ubermensch there's an untermensch but he also he critiquet he philosophically critiques Christianity and says that states based on Christian principles are inherently weak because Christianity projects a weakness in its own right that all this forgiveness and love thy neighbor is a bunch of sissy shit and the only people who ever really get anything done are the people who go out and project power. All this masculinity bullshit that infects MAGA is Nietzschean. It goes all the way back to Machiavelli and the Prince.

Yeah. That's the same philosophy. But I think Nietzsche is probably a bigger motivational tool than Machia Valley. I don't like Nietzsche. I don't either. I can't get in I don't I don't I don't I don't buy into this philosophy no it doesn't make much sense to me excuse me no it doesn't but it's but it's there and it's not a matter of whether it makes sense to us David it's a matter of whether it makes sense to them right so what a

conversation this has been and yes the the iPad is teetering but we've made managed to keep the conversation from disappearing. And I'm just so, I'm so glad you played hooky today. I did. I, I'm tired. Like I said on Friday, I'm really tired. I'm glad I was able to take a day in the middle of the week. I wouldn't pick up my dry cleaning.

Fucking 80 bucks for dry cleaning. Jesus. Like my last 80 bucks, too. I put, I put 50 in the gas tank yesterday and 80 and 80 picking up my dry cleaning. which I need because I have to go to court. All right. Are you a heavy starch kind of guy? Light starch.

Ooh, I always wanted my dress shirt starch to where they could stand up by themselves. I am a light starch. And I liked them folded, not hanged, hung, because I would keep a box of clean shirts in my lower desk drawer. See, I don't have that many, I don't have that many dress shirts.

And, like, I, like, bought two new suits. And I was like, I had one suit. I bought my first suit before I came to law school. And then a couple months into my, like, a month or two into my job, when I was still making attorney money at MDI, I bought two new suits. And I was so proud of myself that I had three suits. I had three whole suits.

And I have, like, six or seven dress shirts. I don't have many. Don't worry. You will. You will. Yeah. Because I have absolute faith in the fact that you are going to be, and probably on a faster track than most, one hell of a trial lawyer. Oh, I think too.

And then you get to go out and you get to shop for the... No, you're never going to be that guy. Yeah, no, I'm never going to be like, I hate wearing my suit. Like, I can't get out of my seat fast enough when I get back to my office. I can't take that shit off fast enough. Like I put it on, like, I put it on the morning if I have morning court and then drive down to work. And then right after morning court, I take it off and put it on the hanger and don't put it back on unless I have to. And then if I have afternoon court, I take it with me and then change into it when I get, when I have to go to afternoon court and then take it off immediately after.

I do not like wearing my suit. Well, back in the day when I was a hot shot trial lawyer. With your hair slicked back. I remember you told me that. With my hair slicked back, but I didn't slick it back the way that Pete Hegseth does. Gross. Yeah. Hair gassed back and Armani suits and those extremely pointed collars on my shirt.

French cuffs. Oh. Was this the 80s? No, this was the 90s. The 90s. Yeah. Did you have like big collars? You ever seen Casino?

With, oh, the Joe Pesci. Yeah, yeah. Yes. Those collars. Those collars. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You talking to me?

That's not, that's from a different movie. Yeah. No, but yeah. Yeah. And, you know. I was thinking Miami Vice. Spanish and Italian shoes. shoes.

Tasles or no tassels? Tasles. Always tassels. It was always tassels from the minute that I heard that I heard George H.W. Bush denigrating, well, those gosh darn tassel loafer wearing trial

lawyers. It was tassels from then on out. I have one pair of dress shoes. And they're not really dry shoes. They're kind of like Buddhist type things. Yeah. The key with dress sheet, well, when you're doing on your feet law, you're in, whatever the rest of your wardrobe is, the money you spend on your shoes is the best money you spend.

Because you have got to have comfortable footwear. Yeah. And when you're in front of a jury, you want those damn things to sparkle. I haven't had my first trial yet. but I think I might have a case that may possibly be going to trial. I have a settlement conference, not a settlement conference, a status conference on Thursday tomorrow morning for him. Yeah.

And I was supposed to have a call with the district attorney yesterday at 9 a.m. I had scheduled, I emailed him and scheduled it. I called him. He didn't answer his phone. I called him again at 1030. He didn't answer his phone again. And I told him I had jury duty today and that I would hopefully be able to talk to him before our status conference because I wanted to negotiate on the offer and he didn't answer his phone. Oh, he's playing a game with you.

I hate to say it, but he is. I think because he knows his case isn't strong. And I think I'm like, I was like, I want to negotiate an offer. And I think he knows that his offer is bullshit. and he was trying to get up one past me. Well, I think he didn't know how fast I read cases. Yeah, he thinks you're young and, you know, whatever. Yeah, no.

I did a lot of research. I'm just sorry that your first criminal case isn't like mine, you know, the case of the burgled biscuit. That would have driven you crazy. We'll say, I've told you that story. So, David, have a wonderful evening. Decompress. Enjoy, enjoy your day of hooky.

I'm going to have an ice cream sandwich. Oddly enough, I got some of those just yesterday. I've become quite... I've become quite the fan of the Fat Boy ice cream sandwiches. Those are like the name brand. I got the store brand. Well, I ordinarily do too, but... Damn it.

I mean, the box... If you're going to splurge. The Fat Boy says ice cream sandwiches. Yeah. The store brand say vanilla flavored frozen... dessert sandwiches. Right. That's not the same thing.

No, it's like, you know, prison cheese. As any textualists can tell you. Yes. These words mean things. Right. Like buying eggs, cage free means nothing. Pasture raised means something. Right.

All natural? Total bullshit. organic something real goodness because capitalism yay hey capitalism yay yeah but trying to just trying to find

just trying to find another way to get us to the egress goodness I was going to make a point but a back went oh I remember real quick real real quick if it is an open secret that we are not not going to strike first with nuclear weapons why not start negotiating with these people that we have this open secret with for like de-weaponization?

Well, it's not an open secret. It's a, it's a, it's a treaty. Right. Right. And we have been, we have been trying to negotiate since, since the minute the Ruski's got the bomb. and you know the the the the signal achievement of that era was the principle known as mad oh yeah mutually assured destruction so it's it but we have but we've we've got to get a responsible administration in to uh to push that effort forward and well we don't have that we have colligula he'll be dead soon he'll be okay Well, from your lips, from your lips, from your lips, no, no, no, I mean, no, we're coming. I saw a picture of his hand and I'm just commenting on that nature will take hold eventually.

Yeah, well, yeah, from your lips to God's ear, but, you know, the fact of the matter is we're commenting on the march of nature. Right. There are 90 years, 90 year olds who are far more healthy than what Nero is. Joe Biden is 84 and battling stage 4 cancer, and he is still in better shape the nitwit Nero is. I saw a picture of his hand today. Like his thumb was like purple colored. Like he had been, like his thumb had been dead for a couple of days. His heart cannot move the blood through his body.

I imagine he has pitting edema from hell. You know, that's where, like you go down to the ankle and you press your thumb in, And a healthy person, the skin springs right back, you press your thumb in at nitwit Nero's ankles, and it just makes a divot. And it doesn't come back anytime soon. Pitting edema. His cells are at the breaking point retaining fluid. I mean, at this point, somebody's practicing the dark arts to keep them alive. I mean, it's beyond medical science. Well, that's the thing.

it gets to the point where medical science can't. You know, like I said a long time ago, he was on fanasteride. Phanasteride is used to prevent testosterone from turning into dihydro-testosterone and making your hair fall out. So it's probably necromancy. Probably. But the thing is, fanasteride was originally developed for prostate problems. Benign prostateic hyperplasia.

Big prostate, not cancer. Murder, death, kill. all hat no cattle right but the thing is now he you know because that's you know as you age you don't sleep so long but he probably doesn't sleep through the night because he can't because he can't feel he can't empty his bladder and it's a miserable miserable condition and so he's and the irony is he's probably on uh something like lupron which which, curiously enough, is the same thing that he rails against being used as a puberty blocker because it works that way, too.

Just trivia. All right, I love you, bunches. Oh, I love you to pieces, and I'm so proud of you, and I'm so, just, I want all the good things for you. I want all the good things for you, and I'm glad you didn't, I don't know, get swept away in the deluge the other day. Oh, thank God. My grandmother was a wise woman when she signed. that house. High ground. High ground. High ground. All right. Take care, David. I love you. I'll talk to you soon.

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