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well none other than Marge has declared that the primary for Thomas Massey was, in her words, a rigged election. Now, you also have to, of course, the times being such as they are, you have to take into account to consider the source. This is Marge, but also consider the person to whom she's making these charges.

Take it away, Marge. The direction is pretty unclear at the moment. Unfortunately, I think everyone is catching up kind of to what I saw about six to ten months ago. And it's very sad. You know, we fought very hard to get President Trump elected. I truly believed in him and 100 percent stood with him in 2024 on the great America First campaign promises that he made to America. And it's just been shocking and extremely disappointing to see the way this has unfolded.

You know, bless her heart, I think she can talk underwater because there's no breathing required, even though most human speech requires air to pass the vocal cords in order to make, you know, those talkie sounds. not marge but that you know i guess i guess as the right-wing fascist because she still is make no mistake but she has to presage everything our great america first message i believed in him well but how simple are you girly or or do we do we offer some sort of grace was that Were we missing something during the election cycle? Are we just all a bunch of jaded, nihilistic cynics? And we couldn't see the beauty of his message and the promises that he made.

No, please, it can't be that. It cannot be that way. She's simple. And at that point in time, her desires, her interests aligned with Trump's. So it was easy to just get right on board, you know? Well, you'll find out who she's talking to in a minute. As far as Thomas Massey goes, Alex, most of the Republicans in Congress, they hate Thomas Massey.

They're jealous of Thomas Massey because Thomas actually is and delivers in his vote. his actions, his legislation, the way he works on his committees, every single thing that they lie and promise on the campaign trail and they never deliver. And, you know, it's a true loss to the country. It's a loss to the Kentucky 4th District, but it's a true loss to America. I had said months ago, I can't imagine the House of Representatives without Thomas Massey. And now we're actually going to see that happen. And what that means for the Republican Party is the mask is completely often. It needed to happen, Alex. You know, I hoped that when I resigned, that was... And by the way, as she's talking, there's an excrement from her account on X that's scrolling across

the screen where she quote tweeted, again, A-PAC. Ed Gullrines' victory in Kentucky and Clay Fuller's win in Georgia ensures two outspoken pro-Israel voices are positioned to fill seats previously held by outspoken detractors, Thomas Massey, and Marjorie Taylor Green. And Marge quote tweeted that and said, It's not an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory when a foreign lobby openly brags that they bought two congressional seats with candidates who will be loyal to Israel. and you have no idea how bizarre it is for me to say, well, in that limited instance, I agree with Marge.

That was in my heart. That was one of my goals to expose the Republican Party and expose their lies and their failures when I resigned. However, I think that it took not only that, but I think it took this election, or we'll call it a stolen election, a rigged election for Thomas Massey to really expose it. And I think what it exposes so much is it's not that it doesn't make sense.

Of course, this election doesn't make sense. But it's really, I think what people need to analyze is why is Donald Trump, why did he fight Thomas Massey harder than he's ever fought any Democrat? We'll go to the J-Sixers. You know who took out, you know who ruined their lives? destroyed their lives. It was Matthew Graves, the U.S. Attorney at the Department of Justice that came after these people and prosecuted them to the point where several of them even committed suicide. I can remember Matthew Perna, for example, committed suicide under the weight of Matthew Graves

prosecution under the Department of Justice. Well, did you see Donald Trump go after Matthew Graves? Have they disbarred Matthew Graves? Have they done anything to him or any of the attorneys that went so harshly after Americans that just many of them walked through open doors in the capital? No, you see them coming out with this so-called fund. And if you talk to Jonathan Gross or anyone else that really knows what's going on, that fund is probably not going to serve these people like they're claiming it will, which is unfortunate. We can look forward at Alejandro Mayorkas, the former Secretary of Homeland. I impeached Alejandro Mayorkas. It was my articles of impeachment that passed through the House of Representatives because he was breaking our laws,

violating the Constitution, and he led the border invasion by the millions of people into America. That was Alejandro Americus. Did you see Donald Trump go after Alejandro Americus? No. He comes after me and Thomas Massey and now Lauren Boeberg. I mean, it's outrageous. Poor dumb thing. But I tell you what, I've got to give her credit.

That time in Costa Rica was nice. I mean, she is, I mean, oh, oh, she is just brown, brown, brown, brown, brown. I mean, she looks like a weathered coconut husk. I mean, the sun is strong down there. But Alejandro Mayorkas, why didn't he go after that? Because there's no legal, everybody understood that, you know, impeachment is a political tool, and it was a political act by Marge. It was political grandstanding.

That's why she went after Alejandro Majorcas. There were no laws broken, even for somebody who likes to make shit up. And the same for that U.S. attorney. Am I supposed to be sad? Are we supposed to be sad? I'd have over the fact that one of these domestic terrorists decided to off himself after being, after being arrested for his participation in an act of domestic terrorism? Because I don't have the bandwidth for that kind of sympathy.

And frankly, who knows why the guy offed himself? She makes it sound like they were killing themselves one after. They weren't. No, there was no, there was no Sepaku party. As soon as I drop it, you pick up the sword and you go next. No. this is where all this crap falls apart and this is where you realize that the grift really hasn't changed that much and no Thomas Massey was not the greatest man to ever walk the halls of the

house of representatives oh for fuck's sake no the reason that nitwit Niro went after her and went after Massey is simply because they bucked him. They refuse to follow orders. But it's the fact that she's calling that election stolen, calling it rigged. I mean, is there any evidence? Are the numbers fishy or the number is funny? Or is it just that a foreign lobbying group that somehow or another gets treated as domestic was allowed to simply buy the election. outrageous. Did you see, did you see Donald Trump go after any of the Democrats that came after him or his staff or have done any? I mean, James Comey comes to mind. Latisha James comes to mind. I mean, he did do that. And others.

Any of these things, no, you don't. You see him coming after Republicans that truly embody America first. And I hope that people can open their eyes and see that. I think they do. And before Alex Jones starts talking in this clip, it's interesting to note that all of a sudden now, Alex Jones is running video of the actual violence at the Capitol. Of these domestic terrorists picking up pieces of, you know, metal bears. and throwing them at the cops.

Video of blood spilled on the ground that day. Both Marge and she said that the January 6th domestic terrorists were American heroes and, oh, for sake, political prisoners. I mean, Trump has the lowest proofreading ever. It's destroying him. He doesn't seem to care. He said yesterday, I'll just go be the problem. Prime Minister of Israel next. I'm so popular over there. And then you've got APEC bragging that,

yeah, we won this election. We put in 20 plus million dollars. And then they have Ben Shapiro's saying, no, it's anti-Semitic, Israel's not involved. It's not working. Mark Levin has no viewers. Shapiro's basically collapsed, but Trump has doubled down. Do you think it was the Epstein files that we now know, Epstein was Mossad, MI6, and CIA on the Trilateral Commission? I mean, do you think that's when the change came when he got rid of Elon? On the throttle commission? Or is he just having trouble with his words today? Like he always does.

It seemed like everything changed then and then his Trump is like basically metastasizing and turning into Bill Clinton. You know, this is a gentle reminder, any time you spend long enough thinking that somebody's going to make sense talking to Alex Jones. You will eventually wind up on that square on the game board that says Alex Jones says something definitionally insane like he's turning it. He's turning into Bill Clinton. Mother. My view is that the change happened when President Trump realized he's untouchable. And let's analyze what does that mean?

Well, No, screw that, Marge. Let's analyze why that is. Why does he think he's untouchable? Well, when he ran the second time, because he ran in 2012 as well. But when he ran the second time, he said,

I could shoot somebody on Park Avenue, Fifth Avenue, I don't know, somewhere in Manhattan, and never lose a vote. And that proved to be true. true. And then in the summer of 2024, our most puissant dread sovereign Supreme Catholic majesties confirmed that as a matter of American constitutional law, that he was above the law, that he is unprosecutable, that he is untouchable. Don't worry. They'll fix it if a Democrat

ever gets back into the White House, but we understand that. That was the moment. And if you did a deep dive into all the yammering that Marge has done over the years, I'll guarantee you that back when that Supreme Court decision came down, she was cheering it as though it were as though it were a song sung by the heavenly host. When you hold more power than anyone in the United States of America, which arguably makes you the most powerful man in the world, and when you realize that you're untouchable, that means that opens the door wide for every inhibition that you have inside of you, whether good... Funny how untouchable has multiple meanings, isn't it?

There's untouchable in that he thinks he is beyond the reach of the law. But then again, there's also the concept of being untouchable from South Asian culture, where literally someone is so utterly corrupt that to touch them corrupts you. into the bargain. Good or evil, Alex. And I think we're seeing the dark side come out that we never thought we would see.

This is not Madame Trump that I supported. I can hardly recognize this man. He still tries to throw out the red meat to the base occasionally at press conferences. But his actions and his words have turned into something else that are totally something I would have never supported in

2024. I don't think you would have support, none of us would have supported. No, this is a totally, this is a totally You miserable cover your ass covering assholes. They supported him all along.

If he had done all of this before November 2024, they would have still, because you know why? The checks were clearing. I was Fifth Avenue. He says he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue. Well, it was a choice for me. I was either going to say Fifth Avenue

or Park Avenue, and I knew whichever one I chose would be wrong. I know Manhattan, Cicely. I know you know. You know, I know you know. We're very knowledgeable. Trying to figure out what sold means, huh? Or, Jeremy said, I'm still waiting to see if the password includes you driving out in the country on a dirt road to a four-cornered intersection and selling something to the devil. wouldn't be buying much. And as to sold, Lee said earlier,

Obligatory Star Trek reference. Ferengi Rules of Acquisition, Rule 17. A contract is a contract as a contract, but only between Ferengi. There we go. Trump is untouchable. Lee says I've seen pictures of his hands and ankles, definitely untouchable.

Yeah, and how's that thing that was crawling up his neck from places God knows where? Different Trump. Just going back from memory, I know we talked probably about some. When did you really start getting concerned? I started getting concerned long before anyone else. This was back in the spring of 2025.

So we're looking at- Honey, we were concerned on November the 6th, 2024. So you can sit down because you were okay with all the fascism until the fascism wasn't okay with you. And now they're just trying to figure, out a new way to spin the grift? A year ago was when I started getting concerned. It was a bill that the Genius Act when they were pushing that bill through,

and President Trump was angry at me because I voted no on that bill because it had a back door to a central bank digital currency. And I said I'll never, ever support that. And I also saw the early warning signs when they were trying to put the moratorium on state rights. for AI, tying state's hands for 10 years to make their own laws and regulations on AI, and that's what President Trump

wanted, and that shocked me. Ted Cruz wanted it. They were all, they're all pushing forward. I remember, you were instrumental in shooting that down, so you've been totally vindicated. Now I ran. And then it was when they attacked, it was back in June of 2025 when he first attacked. Now, Marge,

it's not nice to overtalk and not let Alex Jones grunt and bark. Iran and I publicly was against it and I got attacked. I got attacked by all the, you know, the MAGA influencers that get paid on the back end for that. Charlie Kirk came out against it. Tucker Carlson came out against it. I think you spoke out against. There was only a few of us that spoke out against of it a year ago and now look at us. Now we're in a war that we're losing. And that's the truth. We're losing the war in Iran. We do not control the strait of Hormuz. they arguably fully can.

And you know what, Marge, you were as silent as a graven image on, I mean, granted, you were not in the house anymore, but, well, yeah, you were. You were silent as a graven image on the confirmation of the DUI hire, Whiskey Pete Kegbreath. Granted, you were in the house. You didn't have a say-so. You're not in the Senate. But you weren't out that you've never shied away from a camera or a microphone, and you were nowhere to be found. when it came time to warn the country about having a dry drunk at best running the Pentagon. Oopsie.

Control the straight. Gas is over 450 a gallon. Inflation is rising and there's no end in sight unless President Trump just pulls us out. That's the only way we're going on. And that was my next question. You read my mind. So we know the Pentagon in 18 or 17 intelligence agencies, he told him don't do it a week before. Joe Kent resigned and said, I'm trying to get you to course correct. Two weeks in, he ignored that, called him a traitor. And then now it's come out from inside sources, and I've talked to him.

Trump does want an off-ramp, but Iran now holds the cards blocking the straight. And so now he's threatening nuclear attacks and all this other craziness. And now it's destroying the recovery, everything else. And now he's talking about going into Cuba. What do you expect, knowing his mind, what do you expect him to do now? I had said in early 2025 when I started seeing things and remember I said in early 2020 five when I started seeing things well honey you know the bad ass it is never a good choice for you

don't worry Marge's magic eight ball has a cracked screen and all it says is answer hazy ask again later I saw them first because I was serving in Congress. I had an up front seat. So it's not that anyone on the outside couldn't see it. It's just because I would see it first, right? And I had said when the president loses power, my greatest fear is he turns to war. Because when a president is a lame duck and they no longer have no control, they can no longer persuade the House and Senate to vote the way he wants them to. when they no longer have a re-election and they're no longer in control of their political party, like he would eventually lose control of the Republican Party.

I said my greatest fear is Donald Trump will turn to war. And I'm sad to see that happen. I'd really like to hear that clip. I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist. And I'm sad for all of us. I'm sad for America. I'm sad for the entire world. And I think that's what we're seeing more and more is we're seeing him turn.

to war because when he is a wartime president, that opens up the door to different powers that he can take. And if our military is engaged in a war with Iran, and they are selling the talking points every single day on Fox News, that we have to take care of this now or we'll pay the price later, which is the same talking point. If we have to fight them over there before we fight them over here, that's what they said after September 11th. You know, and they're selling that to the same generation, right? The baby boomers and unfortunately the ones that just consume Fox News and they don't know any different because they don't watch anything different. And but that's what I had said, Alex, I think we're going to see him turn to war more and more and more. And that's how he maintains control.

That's how he keeps a grasp on power. And that seems to be that's what we're seeing. We are seeing Thune, who's no hero, he's blocking the say back. The rest of it, come on and say, no, you're not. getting you know this ballroom you're not getting um see there's there's the tell he criticizes thune for not letting the save act go through the senate like shit through a goose but that's another piece of pet legislation for voter suppression from well they're a strange daddy but somehow another that doesn't fit the narrative and Alex Jones still wants the save act and Marge still

wants the Save Act. Yeah, see, this is the skunks not changing their stripes. You know, we're in the slush fund. You're not going to get all this. And then more more Republicans, even big ones are turning against him. Knowing his psychology, he's got lawyers and people floating around national emergencies, all the rest of this. I mean, I'm really concerned what he'll do. I am too. I think we're going to see unprecedented, uh, grasp for power. And I'm very concerned about it. She's using the future.

We are going to see. That's the future tense, honey. The unprecedented grasp for power happened back in 2024. That's what going to the Supreme Court about immunity was all about. He didn't just stumble into that one. God damn. Simplans. I said I would have never supported this man if I had thought he would do this.

And I think we're going to see these changes. You know, Soon, there's a lot of things that Thune could be doing. There's a lot of things that Mike Johnson can be doing, but they're not going to. What you have, what everyone needs to wake up and realize is the Republicans in the House and pretty much almost all of the Republicans in the Senate are terrified to tell Donald Trump no. They're terrified to tell him no. because they're scared of losing their seat, their position of power, because that's all they care about. It's just a career to them.

And they're backstopped by Israel of foreign power, open and ability of elections. What a crisis. I know you've got to go. Yep, she had to go. They're afraid. She and Alex are just now figuring out that the entire maggot caucus is afraid of the chief maggot. I mean, this is not one of those Kill the Fatted Calf situations

by any stretch of the imagination. Oh, no. This is, this is, it's a grift. It's, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's such a stunning admission of everything.

we ever thought about them. It really, really is. And, well, the other thing that I have at the top of the stack, and it's in the same vein, I mean, here we are. Little program, 23 years in the making, barely even a blip on the radar screen, but somehow or another we managed to get so far out and ahead of the curve that it's like we're on straight road and here's another here's another one of them and it's not it's not particularly gratifying or no but i guess you know they've been a while getting here but they're here now it's just that we

were standing here when they arrived uh over at The Daily Beast has a podcast, and on that podcast, they booked a psychiatrist and former professor at Johns Hopkins University by the name of Dr. John Gartner. The hot talking point is, of course, the primarying, the successful primarying. It only cost more than any other House of Representatives races has ever cost, and it, It was a primary, not a general. They won't spend anything near this money in November because they won't have to. But this is the big story to be talking about it. I mean, there's another one.

I suppose we're supposed to all be furiously reading tea leaves because the 2024 Democratic autopsy report has been released. I went through that crap. Maybe we'll pay a minute's worth of attention to it somewhere in the program, but nah, no. Where that election went wrong was when we allowed Leon scum to steal it, plain and simple. And it's the same thing, using weaponized money to affect the outcome of an election. But nonetheless, Dr. Gartner, speaking to the Daily Beast, said that he fears that Nittwit Niro is now so full of piss and vinegar, having ousted his most hated enemy in the house, that, well, he may do something that we've been talking about him doing for months.

speaking to Hugh Dardy Dr. Gartner said I know sometimes people accuse me of laughing I'll try to laugh a little less for this strip because I really believe we're going to wake up one morning and he will have launched a first nuclear strike I believe that this is going to happen because he wants to do it and

of course we were there we were there long before Dr. Gartner got there in that podcast today. Dr. Gartner, on the other hand, is also a real live, honest to God, MD psychiatrist, and he has consistently said that he thinks that Orange Julius Gieser suffers from frontotemporal dementia and notes that that has a profound impact on someone's decision-making abilities,

and remarked he no longer has the frontal lobe to give him the restraint, inhibition, and judgment that would cause him to inhibit himself. And now he has a yes-man cabinet of true believers and psychopaths who are not going to be a backstop. We don't have General Mattis. We don't have John Kelly. We don't have Rex Tillerson. There are no more adults in the room. He said that too. Darned his thing, huh? But it's true. We just got there a lot sooner. because we pay attention a yes man cabinet of true believers and psychopaths didn't we know that when they were being confirmed i mean we knew it we talked about it but again we're just a little

small voice crying in the wilderness struggling to even survive it's like alex jones saying well mark levin doesn't have an audience anymore and uh ben shepin ben spiro's dried up i think he did say dried up didn't he might be worth going back to the clip just for that but no not not not during airtime ah but that's funny ben shapiro's dried up i don't think we've ever given alice john's a romolama rim shot but there's one but here's the thing they can have no audience whatsoever and the people who support them

will continue to just pump money into them because it doesn't fucking matter because what matters is to continue to repeat the message day in and day out and in this case with Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro it's

what A-PAC good Israel, Uber, alas. Yeah? Yeah. Garten went on. Gartner, said, and in fact, we just had a primary last night.

Massey's been thrown out there. There were literally no men or women in elected political office as a Republican who isn't blindly locked up following him. So I think people need to really get their minds around this. And then, and I take it that what he meant was the new. first strike against Iran, this is going to happen. Is that chilling? Is that terrifying? And here's the thing. Using a nuclear weapon in a first strike capability, even assuming the rest of the world does not, the rest of the nuclear powerhouse club, does not respond in kind against the United States and make us glow in the dark, it's not going to win the world. It's not going to win

war for him and and do you remember a few a couple months ago when the prime minister of Japan visited the White House and it was after February the 28th and he said well you know we learned about that sneak attack from you guys you all did that pretty good or some other similar blathering yeah well the other piece of that I hesitate to call an analysis because it's far too stupid for such a seemingly serious word but if he does use if he does choose to go to a nuclear first strike and no one stops him as the good doctor pointed out rubio's not going to tell him no his nitwit nero just fire him or tell him he short which is worse do you think for an instant that the drunk in the Pentagon is going to stop him or say no?

We saw the salute snappers in action there in the house a couple of days ago. Do you think Brad Mural Cooper will tell him no? Because I don't. Will Todd Blanchie, his, his pettifogging lick spittle, tell him that it would be illegal and a violation of multiple treaties for us to do that? No? No. But again, to get back to that analysis, he thought,

well, I'll really, we'll do a sneak attack, just like Japan did to us. And we saw what we did after that. We surrendered to Japan, didn't we? No. And meanwhile, the loved child of an exomorph and, you know, Beavis is over there sitting, Let's attack. This is a little bit speculative. But have you, and this is not a rhetorical question.

I would like to have some answers here. I would like to have, I want some answers here. No, not like that. I'd like to know if you, because I have, have you wondered how you'll feel on that morning when we wake up to find that nitwit Nero has used a neutron bomb perhaps on Tehran or some other part of the country it's a horrifying thing to ponder and it's not good for one's mental health

I mean I'll be the first to admit that but I'm just curious as to whether you have. And if you have, what has that felt like? What sort of knock-on effects have you pondered for that day? I'm terribly curious. And just to finish the idea here, so sneak attack, Pearl Harbor. and now he thinks might as well go on the record with this

so that somebody else can say it you know two months from now and I mean if it's two months from now and get stories written about it he thinks believes let's choose our words carefully here

what is left of his pickled or desiccated mind that it believes that if he drops a nuclear weapon on Iran, that Iran will say, well, okay. I mean, really didn't think you'd do that. But, well, I guess we have to surrender now. Here's our, go ahead, sail the USS Missouri into the Persian Gulf and we'll come right out and surrender just like the Japanese did. But there's a difference, and it's a difference that's really not well taught in American history. Long before we dropped the atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, August of 1945,

the Japanese had been suing for peace. This isn't speculation. This is fact. The Japanese wanted to have it over, and our response was fine, we can end the war, but it ends when you surrender unconditionally. And Japan's response was, listen, we're not asking for anything but to keep the emperor. And we said, nope, not even going to talk. Unconditional surrender. Then we dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And they unconditionally surrendered. And we in turn let them keep their

emperor. And all we had to do was fry two entire cities worth of innocent human beings into the bargain. So I'm curious what your thoughts are, because that's what he's thinking. Oh, well, you know, if I knew come to Ronald, sure, fire, surrender. And, you know, with his swirly straw and his, in his geraboam of rot-gut tequila over there, whiskey peal, he said, yeah, they definitely will. I think you better do it now. I know. My B, this isn't what it should be. And it's cold comfort to say that we said this long,

a long time ago. But we did. Oh, but we did. A nuclear attack on Iran, Stephen New York, says, the Strait of Hormuz will be permanently closed then. We're probably talking about an even greater depression. Think anybody, you think anybody's going to tell him that? Is anybody going to have the nerve to well you know the scene from uh uh the undergong the downfall when hitler finally throws everybody out of the room and removes his glasses and says well it will be all fine and when general what's his dick attacks from the east general sir general uh he uh surrendered this morning and that's when Hitler blows up in a rage and there is not a single soul. My view of Stiga.

No. Not one. Ponder, Jeremy in Vermont says, I don't ponder things like that. I don't fill my pretty little mind with my beautiful mind with such thoughts. Wait a second. That was the demon soul of Barbara Bush possessing me from hell. Thankfully, I had some holy water that I bought from the late great Pat Robertson. I think the chances are still very small that he drops a bomb.

I think he's being told he should, at least, because in that litany that Alex Jones went through of all the people telling him not to attack Iran, what Alex Jones didn't mention was that Whiskey Pete was saying there, Yeah, come on, boss, this is going to be cool. This is going to be shit blowing up all over the place. And calm and reasoned and rational minds have no effect on him. Not at all. And so as a consequence, he will go with what he wants to hear. There are no critical faculties left in his brainpan. And I freely confess it's a terrifying thing to ponder. Flavio pointing out earlier, he sprang his paramilitaries and he wants money to fund them for the midterms. And he may just get it. We'll see. There seems to be some push.

back on that, Flavio. Maybe we'll get to it later in the program. See, I don't think, I don't, and Steve, going back to your observation, I don't think he's going to drop a bomb on the Strait of Hormuz. He'll drop it on Tehran or Isfahan, somewhere in the interior, where he can maximize the slaughter and think that he's finally gotten the last of the government. Again, this ain't 1945 and Iran's not Japan. and whereas Japan did not know that we possessed an atomic weapon, the entire world knows we do. And so the revolutionary bureaucracy of Iran has also been planning on being nuked. They have planned for the United States to do anything and everything to them.

and they have educated at least a couple of generations on that very idea. And if we do nuke them, we will drive most of the Iranian population into the not-so-loving arms of the gumment. At theirs. Not ours. Oh, all right, Jeremy. There's a Ramalama Rim shot for, yeah, for Barbara Bush and Pat Robertson in the very season. in self-same email. You earned that.

You're right. I was being, I was being stingy. But it's a hell of a thing to walk around. And I've been thinking about this all day long. And it's, it's, it's terrifying.

He wants to do it. And I hope that's not a case in, in the, in the case of the good doctor, or for matter, me, I hope we're not sort of, whispering this into the ear of the universe and the goddess of irony going,

oh, that's a pretty good one. Dropping the bomb, Steve says, I agree with you. However, the reach of radiation, et cetera, will contaminate the straight. Depends on which way the wind blows, doesn't it? And those winds tend to, uh-oh, wait a minute. Those winds tend to blow west to east. Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear. That would mean radiation blowing into...

which they might take as a nuclear attack on them cue up Vera Lynn Frank I haven't been to the mailbox yet so I can't it had not arrived as of Frank said he sent a check it had not arrived as of Saturday because I checked I'll get back over there probably a week from this weekend and Cynthia, and thank you, thank you. Cynthia said if we nuke Iran, you know that'll give Putin permission to nuke Ukraine. And anyone else with nuke's eager to use one. Yeah, Putin nukes Ukraine, China nukes Taiwan, because they know, they know that we are a paper tiger. In fact, I saw a recent ad from either Midas Touch or the Lincoln Project.

They kind of run together for me from time to time. But I remember the title of it. Maybe that will aid in the search. Yeah, Lincoln Project. Here we go. The ad is called Kowtow, and it's unsparing to say the least. Thank you, America. Donald Trump now visits the People's Republic of China.

To bend the need to the leader of the world, Xi Jinping. Trump has abandoned the world and allowed China to lead. His foolish war with Iran? We saw how weak your leaders are and how much of your arsenal you wasted for nothing. Standing Pacific power, Trump insults allies, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Philippines. Now we know he'll hand us the rebel Taiwan. Thank you, America. Donald Trump gave China everything we dreamed of.

We suggest you learn Mandarin. Quickly. That's a hard one to stomach. But it's not. It's not at all impossible. Here I am studying German. Too horrible to ponder. This may be like 1914 all over again.

Imagine what Pakistan, India, China, or Russia would do if the U.S. does that. Imagine the chain reaction? Yeah. And 1914 may look like child's play by comparison. It really is a there goes the neighborhood kind of moment. And don't, Flavio, don't forget Israel. Israel still maintains the fiction that they don't have a nuclear weapon, but it's the world's most poorly guarded open secret that they've got a massive stockpile of the goddamn things. We have a psychopathic pariah nation in possession of a massive number of nuclear weapons.

And there is a segment within Israeli policymaking, for lack of a better term, that says, Hey, we'll take everybody out. We'll take the whole damn planet out. And it's chilling. Jeremy says if Trump strikes Iran with even a small yield tactical nuke, you can bet your ass Putin will drop on on Ukraine. Sure. I mean, that may be the overall point.

NITWITNEO may just be the punk-ass little bitch in all of this. Alex Jones sitting there prattling about him being most powerful. man in the world. Oh, wake up and smell the Ivermectin, Alex. Marge. Kevin tells us the House is presently voting on war. Maybe we should check in on that. And if Trump nukes Iran, Cynthia says, I have no doubt all those chicken shit evil-gelical so anxious for Armageddon and Jesus to return will very quickly regret their fucking religion. Yeah, it's not going to make him come down in his holy roles. No, thanks for the heads-up, Kevin. Let me see what I can find here.

I don't see it. House Session Part 2, 5, started at 4.30. And what I'm seeing is... Let's see, Schumer speaks after Senate adjourns without considering bill for ICE and CVP funding. Trump announces rollback of Biden-era EPA refrigerant rules. Well, that's great. Reality TV star Duffy testifies on the 2027 budget request. Let's see if we got anything here.

Let's see. On motion to recommit, presently 208 to 206, nay to yay. So far, five Democrats haven't voted and nine Republicans haven't. Interestingly, though, this is on the Iran War Powers Resolution. Let's see if there's anything to be heard as they mill about. Sounds pretty quiet. I'm looking here to see which bill.

we're looking at. On this vote, the yeas are 208, the nays were 210. The motion is not adopted. Okay, that is a VA bill. Members, the question is on passage of the bill. Those in favor of police say I.

Those opposed police say no. The ayes have it. Mr. Speaker, I call for it. I ask for the yeas and ayes, Mr. Speaker. The gentleman from California have requested the yeas and nays. Those favoring a vote by the A's and A's will rise.

A sufficient number having risen, the A's and A's are ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a five-minute vote. Again, this appears to be a VA bill about prohibiting the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from transmitting certain information to the Department of Justice for use by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. Oh, and thank you to an individual who I think prefers to remain anonymous. we have gotten down to 38 let's see yeah 3805 305 for fundraising funding okay so I'm going to mute the house which would probably do us all a good bit of let's see they also had a

vote on the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum to be located within the reserve of the national mall and trying to figure out what's going on if there's anything further going on into the evening and that was a Veterans Affairs Bill too. Not seeing anything coming across the feed about the results

of such a vote. Going back to email for a second. Lee says will Trump drop a nuclear bomb? Here's my depressing view. We have exploded a lot of our available munitions. POTUS asked,

Why do we have them if we're not going to use them? I'm thinking of Scotty getting tomorrow drunk in by any other name. Lad, you're going to need something to wash that down with. Have you ever tried any sorri and brandy? Scott's quarters, the brandy bottle is empty and the two men are full of alcohol. Tomorrow, no more. And another bottle has been empty. Do you have more?

Not of this. Anything? I found this on Ganymoot. Or Ganymed. What is it? Oh, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's, green. When the rest is gone, will the nuclear weapons be used because it's green? Signed, Lee, Little Ray of Sunshine. Yeah. Later on in that episode, doesn't Scotty look up at the empty bottle

and say, you and me, we did it. A nuke, Stephen New York, says, do that and create a nation of people wanting to take revenge by any means possible. Think about that. Multi-millions of people willing to take revenge on us. Can you say suicide bombers by the millions? Yeah. Can you say rapid descent into absolute cultural global collapse? It was Einstein who said, I do not know how they will fight World War III, but I know how they will fight World War IV with sticks. and stones. Oh, and while we're talking about things congressional, this, yesterday, the House of Representatives passed a, for lack of a better moniker, a don't say trans bill. It was a, I don't know, it was an anti-trans bill. It was about trans kids, you know, puberty blockers, letting people get the medical care

that they need. It passed the House, y'all. Now, you can't pass anything through this House hardly without some democratic cooperation. So, boy, howdy. Hakeem Jeffries and Catherine Clark and his other deputies didn't do much of a job whipping the Democratic caucus on this.

And some of these are the usual suspects. Eight Democrats crossed the aisle to make this repulsive bill pass. Here they are. Henry Quayar, of course. Don Davis, North Carolina, of course. Cleo Fields, Louisiana, of course. Laura Gillen of New York, Vicente Gonzalez of Texas. Marcy Capter of Ohio, Marie-Glusencamp Perez of Washington.

And frankly, the one that bothers me the most is Eugene Vindman of Virginia. Is there a silver lining to this? Yeah, I think so. Because it's going to die in the Senate. This would have to have 60 votes. And those votes don't exist in the state. Senate. But the bottom line

is why Hakeem Jeffries let them vote the way they did. Because make no mistake, it's a matter of telling and letting. A House Speaker who

well, or a minority leader who got crossed like this, previous ones would have made sure there was health pay. Eugene Vindman from the 6th District of Virginia. And Micah said, I've said all along, we cannot rely on the Dems to protect us. They will turn on us if they think it will advance their power.

I suppose that's a possibility. But that's a blanket statement about all Democrats, and it's not true because, you know what? That's eight Democrats who crossed the line. not 208. And so like I said, it's not so much a question of who crossed the line, but why they were allowed to. And that speaks to the leadership and control of Hakeem Jeffries. Yeah.

Reverbo just sent me an old Gayin Wilson cartoon. Guy outside, 4th of July maybe. Kids lighten a bottle rocket. Mom's playing with a sprinkler. Dad's got a hot dog and a beer. And he looks over his shoulder and sees a mushroom cloud. And the caption to the cartoon is simply, uh-oh.

Anybody see Fallout the Amazon Prime series a couple of years ago? Walton Goggin. Yeah, there's a scene, there's a party, like the Hollywood Hills or something. And off in the distance, mushroom cloud, boom. Well, one of the mysteries, modern political mysteries of the last few months

has apparently been sort of answered. 57-year-old maggot Tom Kane, who has been AWOL, MIA for 77 days, finally spoke out today. The New Jersey Globe and its editor David Wildstein, Stein, said that Kane is nearing a return to work and intends to discuss publicly the health issue that has sidelined him since March. I'll tell you soon, he said. But not today. He did say that he's going to continue to continue his campaign for his swing district seat. In the telephone interview earlier today, he told Wildstein that, I've got a positive health prognosis. I don't have any long-term effects or any chronic health complications.

It won't impact my cognitive health. My doctors are confident that I'm on the road. to a full recovery. I understand the need for public transparency and I appreciate the support of my constituents. I anticipate that in the next couple of weeks, oh my God, it's two weeks, you know, just like his orange daddy says. I'll return to voting and to the campaign trail. I'm going to resist the urge to speculate on what that is, but I could guess he's 57. Tom Kane. and then this and Micah said

in regard to that vote on the don't say trans bill I think you're right it does and I think the fact that eight were allowed to vote that way speaks very loudly Schumer and Jeffries are there because the Dems on the whole want them there but he sure didn't have any problem

whipping the vote when he needed every Democrat to vote you know, well, early on in his minority leadership, stuck together pretty good. Henry Quayar. God. Is he like a thousand years old or something? There was a hearing today in the House Oversight Committee. That's the one that's headed by Comer Pyle, where they heard from the personal assistant

to Jeffrey Epstein, Sarah Kellan. It was a closed-door hearing, and Comer Pyle came out and said that, by far it's the most substantive and productive interview that we've had. She was very brave. She was named back in 2007 as one of the potential co-conspirators in the non-prosecution agreement that was signed. But she said, she's always said,

I was one of his victims. She gave an opening statement. She said that the abuse by Epstein happened on average on a weekly basis and was at times violent. It included Jeffrey entering my room in the middle of the night and putting his fingers inside me, waking up from my sleep. Jesus, trigger warning. It included an occasion in Palm Beach when he trapped me in the gym by lowering the middle hurricane shutter, choked me and violently raped me. And she added, I had nowhere else to go.

I had no money, no family, no education, and no sense that I deserved any better. I was not told this was happening. I was not asked about it, she said, in regard to other women who were being sexually trafficked and assaulted. No one from law enforcement ever spoke with me, ever heard my side, ever asked me a single question. and she went on to describe her own abuse at the hands of Epstein and Maxwell, according to Comer Pyle. And she said she provided three names of offenders that the committee had never heard before, but that he wasn't going to, you know, release that name, those names, three of them. Must not be Wes Wexner, because God knows they've heard his name.

I wonder if Thomas Massey will work with Rokana to help us figure out who those three names are. Oh, and we're almost at the halfway point of the program. If you'd like to get involved in the conversation, please feel free. Please spare me. Can we – I don't mean with the – is there any way to convince the multimillionaire for-profit media to stop relying on the goddamn betting markets for how they report the news. All eyes, I suppose, are focused on the upcoming runoff between Ken Paxton and John Cornholio. Ken Paxton, let's remember, is getting a biblical divorce. It's worth recalling that there's only one ground for biblical

divorce. Yeah, his wife is, his wife initiated the biblical divorce and in the Bible, you can get a divorce for adultery. So that means that that good God fear and upstanding Bible believe in Christ-centered evil, jellical, gun-to-medalist, etc. Amosexual Christian Maggot, Ken Paxton is an adulterer. She made a point of saying it's a biblical divorce. Yes, Ralphs, it was, and thank you. But CNN had a breathless segment. Well, I'll just let you hear how they reported it. All right.

Early voting wraps up tomorrow in the Texas Senate primary runoff. The president says he is confident his pick, State Attorney General Ken Paxson, which, by the way, he just announced this week, will defeat longtime incumbent GOP Senator John Cornyn on Tuesday. CNN chief data analyst Harry Enden joining us now. I mean, the president's saying, hey, I've got it in the bag. The guy that I've picked is going to win.

I mean, what does it tell us? Is he right? I would just say, look, Trump is the general of the Republican Party and Republican primary voters are, in fact, his soldiers. And you can see it in the Texas polling. I'm going to try really hard not to gag. This is nauseating. Oh, Trump is a general in the general.

are you trying to curry favor with CNN's new owners there, buddy? You know, Larry Nasser and the Nepo baby? Is that what's going on here? His impact of an endorsement. Now, this is, of course, before, of course, the endorsement came down. But look at this. 55% of Texas Republicans said they would be more likely to vote for the candidate that he endorsed versus just 36% who said no impact, just 9% said that it'd be less likely to vote for the candidate to endorse.

The bottom line is this. what Donald Trump wants, he almost always gets in Republican primaries, because when you see numbers like this, 55% of Republicans in Texas say they're going to be more likely to vote for whoever he endorses, and that, of course, being Ken Paxton. It's no one of the president's so confident. Well, we're seeing this over and over and over again in primaries, even though people look and go, well, these approval ratings, it doesn't matter to those who are the core voters who are MAGA all the way. You're seeing it play out again and again. Where do the prediction markets put the Texas Senate runoff post Trump in Doris?

And where do the prediction markets put things? What do the gamblers say? What do the wealthy men who won't miss a bet lost as they try to influence the reporting on this? what do they say yeah you see this 55% right there and then it is no wonder in the calcium prediction market

I mean you could just see the movement towards 10th and look at this a Monday had a 66% chance of winning up like a rocket right up like a rocket 95 wow now now Harry Enton's out there clapping his

hands he wants to get in good with the new ownership dude buy a necktie you just look shabby standing there i percent houston if you are in fact john coran you have a big problem but if you're kempaxson

you have a big time solution two thumbs up as the president likes to say right now the couch prediction market giving two thumbs up to the idea that kempaxon is in fact going to the the kashi prediction market is it just me or is this is this nauseating to y'all too because leh and of course you know they allow this kind of cynical gambling at Kalshi and whatever that other shitty little website is. It feels like every way we turn in the here and now, there's something gnawing away at the bones of what used to be a republic based on principles of democracy.

The Republican nominee. The prediction markets have to be looking at what just happened in. Kentucky and elsewhere. God damn, this is an ad for the prediction markets. This isn't news. This is a fucking infomercial. Give us some sense of, hey, they look at this. They're like, okay.

Yeah, this has been one of the best weeks for Donald Trump when it comes to endorsements. You saw it in Kentucky on Tuesday. I mean, just look at this. Look at this. Massey's Kentucky four GOP primary performances. In 2022, he got 75. In 2024, he got 76%. In 2026, look at this.

Just 45%. Are you going to mention why? The $19 million, the most expensive House race ever? Or are you going to tout the prediction markets again, Harold? Big difference was that Donald Trump came in, campaign very vigorously against Thomas Massey. And when you go against President Trump, as I like to say, quoting the great film Goodberger, You go in the grinder, and that's exactly what happened to Thomas. What?

Oh, well, it was just Donald Trump. It wasn't the $19 million then. Do any of the suits upstairs at CNN understand how thoroughly this undermines any remaining credibility that they have? Because Donald Trump is just a figure you don't want to mess with in Republican primaries. It was not a good burger for Massey. No, it was a very bad burger. Yes. Louisiana, are we seeing Trump's dominance there as well? Yeah, I mean, look, this was a rare burger for Thomas Massey, and it was an extra rare burger, of course, for Bill Cassidy.

I mean, this is why I say it was just such a great week for Donald Trump. Just look at this. I mean, we've... Why do you describe it as a great week for Donald Trump when it's a horrible week for democracy? When it's a mere utterance of... some authoritarian strong man with his frontal lobe fucking gone to dust affects the outcome of an election in Louisiana or Kentucky or taxes. How is, how, should we, maybe, maybe should we be reporting on what's good for America

as opposed to what's good for Donald Trump? Because they are not the same damn thing. spoken about this before i asked our viewers could you find any any performance that was worse for a sitting incumbent senator who was not appointed no bill cassi's 25% was the worst ever primary performance for an incumbent senator my goodness gracious all because they went against donald john trump is 25 is it though is it though how is it strictly because he went against don't think that maybe uh there might be some republic out there with, you know, two whole brain cells to rub together who might have been pissed off at Cassidy

because he was such a pathetic lick spittle when it came to foisting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on to the American people. And now we've got, it seems like, creepier by the day news about the Ebola outbreak. Oh, the Ebola outbreak. While we're at it, you just knew this little piece was coming. Yeah. I'm going to find it. Yeah, there it is. Turns out there's a reason that Ebola has run wild this time through in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.

It's already jumping borders. A new report from the International Rescue Committee is out. and interviewed by Politico, they said that the money that was withdrawn in March of 2025 by who? That's right. Mittwit Nero compelled them to scale back early warning systems for Ebola in the region. Heather Kerr, the IRC's Congo country director, again speaking to Politico, said, funding cuts of left the region dangerously exposed. The sharp rise in reported cases over the last few days reflects the reality that surveillance

systems are now catching up with transmission that's likely been occurring for some time. And the variant that's spreading, as variants will, happens to be a newish one for which there is no vaccine and no targeted treatment. Over at the WHO, the World Health Organization, which we abandoned, Director General Tedros Adnum Gabriasis, said two days ago the scale and speed of the current outbreak is alarming. Meanwhile, the International Rescue Committee for their part had to shut down the health and preparedness work in three entire sections of a province in the Democratic Republic of Congo,

which just happens to be the epicenter of the outbreak right now. Act in haste, repent and leisure. So let's say you're at CNN. Let's say you're Harry Enton and whoever the woman was, which is really more important, talking about the prediction markets and how they feel about, Ken Paxton's chances of beating John Cornholio or talking about the fact that this goddamn, godforsaken administration practically manufactured this latest outbreak of Ebola on purpose by withdrawing the funds that we, the world relied on to make sure that the appropriate sirens and

claxons would go off if it got loose. I mean, I guess I'm. I guess I'm just weird that way, but here we are. Well, we are at the halfway point of the program. Let's run over to the stress line and see who's popped by. Hey, welcome to the program. Hello? Make sure I'm, that may be the problem. Oh, are you there?

You're on air. Okay. Now you're not. Well, try back. Okay, you're there. Robin? Yeah. Hey, Kevin.

Hey, sorry about that and what happened the first time. That's okay. It was probably on my end. You know, the Ebola would be the number one news story right now. If you take away all the insanity about the nuclear bombs and funding for the stupid war and the money for January 6 and everything else that is completely just, I mean. Madness? For most people, yeah, that pay attention to these things, I mean, we're all going crazy. I mean, every day it's just like another, it's almost exponential.

It's almost getting to be where it's squared on a daily basis, you know. Yeah, I think it was yesterday. I was talking about feedback loops. It's just getting louder and louder and louder and louder and louder. And almost to the point where you just, you just can't, you just don't. You don't think you're so bad. It's like I don't even need to hear the news anymore because it's so fucked up. I'm just waiting for the hammer to drop.

And then, you know, which way do I go? You know, look up in the sky or look on the radio. Look at what, you know, give me some directions of where I got to meet up to, you know, get my food or, you know, this Ebola thing is no joke at all. No, it isn't. We just did. Remember what happened when President Obama was in. It was Ebola that time, too, as well.

Was it in or something else? Well, it was. And one of the things that when you said this, if it weren't for what's going on now, this would be totally different. The first thing that popped in my mind was, well, you know, if we had a black president right now, that's all you'd hear about over on Fox News. Yeah. Am I wrong? But no, you're not wrong. But, you know, we were laser focused that time. And we had that one isolated incident, right, with the person on the airplane and got them into isolation and handled it. And it was game over.

I mean, we really buckled down and had a cooperating media and cooperating, caring public that was interested in, you know, obviously, something like that, you're not going to, you're not going to, you're going to take that pretty seriously. but now after you know COVID you've got such a huge base of people out there that are just trained to like not even care or ones that do care like I'm just too burnt out I just you know and I don't think I don't think you can overest I don't think you can overestimate the burnout factor Kevin no you can't and forgive me forgive me for sounding paranoid but I feel like that's by design It is. I've been telling my son. I've been telling my and my brother, well, I have a MAGA brother and I have a non-magga. Well, I don't know. I guess he's indifferent, but I have one MAGA brother. That's a combination for a learned day. But, you know, they're doing it. They are doing it by design to fuck shit up. They definitely want to fuck everything up. I mean, come on. Let's, let's, let's, I've said this before. It's obvious. They want to just. anything that you take as a citizen that you put comfort in, whether it's government, a bank, TV show, school, church, anything. They don't want, they don't want any solace for anybody. You've got nowhere to go. And now you pretty much all you got now is the outside world.

And they're trying hard to get that too. And there's all just some nuclear talk. And, you know, it's a, I, I don't put blinders on. I, I read things I want to read about. I'll pay attention to them. So there's a bowl of one I wanted to catch up on. I just don't, you know, there's so much of it there. Sometimes I got to do snippets here and there, and then I go back and I read more.

And, uh, well, I have, I have something, I have, I have, I have something here, Kevin. that you may not be aware of. It happened yesterday. Maybe you've heard it already. But an Air France flight that was scheduled to touch down at Detroit Metropolitan Airport yesterday, it actually got diverted to Montreal because it was possible. because they identified a possibility that someone who had been exposed to Ebola was on the plane. And again, this is just what years of misinformation does to the way one processes it.

But the way that it was the way, and I'm looking at a USA Today story, which is always kind of skeptical of anything coming from there. But the way they write it up is with a quote, Air France boarded a passenger from the Democratic Republic of Congo in error on a flight to the United States. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement to free press Wednesday evening. Due to entry restrictions put in place to reduce the risk of the Ebola virus, the passenger should not have boarded the plane. CBP took decisive action and prohibited the flight carrying that traveler from landing at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne

County Airport and instead diverted to Montreal, Canada. I guess we're just luckily. We didn't shoot it down in mid-air. But do you see how they try to- Do you see how they try to reframe CBP as somehow the heroic good guy in all of this? Yeah, of course. So we took, yay America, somebody haul out Lee Greenwood. Yeah, we took USA-Aid away.

Yeah, but we, you know, so now we just, well, you know, we don't want Ebola in the United States. Let's send it to, let's give Ebola to Canada. Because that's what that reads like to me, Kevin. Yeah, that's what it reads like to me too. And what if they didn't take it? What if they said, no, we ain't landed here either. But, you know, Canada's, they're more incapable. They are, but here's the punchline, though.

After lionizing CBP, you get the buried lead. The plane did, in fact, land in Montreal, and then it landed in Detroit at 8.18 p.m. last night. And the government is saying, well, it's somebody else's fault. I mean, we put a travel ban in place. And what about that story? About 42 of our planes have been shot. I don't know.

Might as touch that one. I don't know. That's to be, to be trusted or not. Iran took out 42 of our planes and has been reported. I wouldn't be surprised. $25 billion worth of our planes have been shot down. 42 of our,

uh, I want to, uh, see if I can, uh, well, again, the question, the rescued pilot. Why has he not been, uh, trotted out in front of every,

Because that's what this administration would do. No ticker tape parade? No heroes welcome. No interviews on CNN or Fox or anywhere else. No medal awarding ceremony for him? It's almost like he never existed. Yeah, I don't see the breakdown of the planes, but 42 aircrafts. They have destroyed

supposedly, and we don't hear nothing about it. That's what the $25 billion is. It's a destroyed aircraft. Yeah, and we know from the congressional hearings that that $25 billion number is a low ball,

that they're really not saying what it's cost. I mean, this, this, let's step back and look at all this. It's just insanity. 10 years ago, this would just be unthinkable. 15 years ago, this would all be just unthinkable. Just all of it, all of it. The Ebola thing would be the lead story tonight, you know.

And everything else was just like, yeah, yeah, you're crazy. It's not happening. Well, so now apparently we're setting up some sort of a camp. The article that I'm looking at goes on to say, Kevin, in a document said to be published in the Federal Register, the Department of Homeland Security said that it was routing all passengers who have been physically present in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, or South Sudan in the past 21 days,

to Washington-Dulles International Airport, quote, where the U.S. government is focusing public health resources to implement enhanced public health measures. What? Wow. That's crazy. I mean, I, I mean, I remember the hissie over Ebola.

Was it Chris Christie that was on air saying that, you know, they wanted to kill people or something? Remember, I mean, people lost their damn mind. Yeah. I was just going to say something else too when I forgot. Damn it. And the fact of the matter is, in order to get Ebola, you have to be exposed to bodily fluids. Blood, semen, sweat, spit. urine. And those aren't really easy vectors like something that's been aerosolized. But remember,

we had a full-on hissy about Ebola, but we couldn't, we couldn't even get a national sort of wartime response to COVID as it went about the business of killing more than a million Americans. And now you've got political candidates. I talked to. about one last night who are running on this new bullshit astroturf term health care freedom yeah and that's that's anti-vaxxers anti-vaxers and then just people that just want to take like they said they want to take every every dollar you got and do it quicker you know yeah no more health care for you health care for me but not for thee I mean we've also heard that Todd Blanche

Tom Blanche that's squirmy little fucking worm is talking to senators down on the down low about the slush fund yeah trying to get it yeah trying to get it yeah trying to get it done for daddy yep what a fucking weasel that guy huh

well again it's that same thing all over again if we only had a, you know, if we had a functioning Congress, dot, dot, dot, dot. But we don't. If you got Blanche in there, if you got Blanche in there talking money, it's over. You may be right. It's going to pass. It's going to pass. You watch Blanche is in there talking money.

They'll come up with some kind of excuse. They'll say, well, you know, James Comey can file and other people that feel they were harmed can file. Well, one, I mean, one thing, it's going to, it's not going to happen tomorrow because the Senate's gone, Kevin. They, uh, they, they, they, they went, they went out to recess without voting on a reconciliation bill. And that's the same bill that had the slush fund in it. Oh, that's right. I mean, they've stepped in a big time here, but, you know, tell us Blanche to go off himself. If I was one of these senators, I'd say, you know what?

Just get the fuck out of here. You. who are you Todd Blanche? Just get out of here. You just Well, unless he's Unless he's planning on just staying acting attorney general for the remainder of the administration, going in and trying to strong-armed senators is not a great way to get your ass confirmed.

I don't think he cares about that. He don't care about being attorney general. I don't think so. At the end of the day, he wants to, he's. Look, let's forget who this guy is. He still is. He's his personal attorney. 24-7-365.

Don't anybody forget that. Well, over at NBC News, Ryan Noble said Senate GOP leaders have postponed plans to pass a budget reconciliation package designed to fund ICE and CBP because of concerns around the DOJ weaponization fund. This is remarkable given that the weaponization fund was, is not part of the original bill. And then Seth McFarland from Midas touch said Senator John Hoover, Republican, North Dakota, says the issue of the $1.7 billion Trump Fund for convicted criminals has caused trouble for Senate GOP spending bill. Hoven, not Hoover, says colleagues want guardrails. Now we're talking guardrails. Yeah. How about not at all?

How about like just nothing, yeah. All right, well, I just thought I'd share that realization that everything is absolutely just crazy. And a bowler should be the number one story right now. And it's not, it's buried, not even below the fold. It's like halfway through the paper underneath a store closeout sale and a little bottom, not even a corner, maybe three boxes from the corner. Oh, God. Yeah, Section C72.

Well, actually, we don't have newspapers that thick anymore, but yeah, exactly. To be continued, yeah. All right, Kevin, I hope you're well. We'll talk soon. Yep, this Friday. All right, sounds good. You take care. Bye now.

Bye. It's everybody, Kevin, calling from Massachusetts. And if you will bear with me for just a moment, I have to go away from the mic. I'll be right back, quick as I can. Stand by.