Head-ON With Robyn Roxanne Kincaid - Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid, DerpWar Wednesday, 11 March 2026

Episode Date: March 12, 2026

Dipstick Diocletian deploys the "Never heard of her" defense when confronted with murdering 140 Iranian schoolgirls. Interior Secretary (ha!) Doug BurGoom accuses people who don't want to incinerate the planet in the name of hedge fund profits of being "financially illiterate" even as our partners in peace, the Israelis make it literally rain oil in Tehran.  Hydrocarbon junkies. Psychos. 

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

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prepared a sumptuous midweek meal before prayer meeting services begin. A little baked steak, mashed potatoes, green beans, those wonderful, yeasty rolls, little green salad. And, of course, of course, a yellow sheet cake with homemade chocolate buttercream icing. Oh, my goodness gracious. Heavenly, just heavenly. Jeremy already. it yeah the AI is getting better it's been pre-recording this show and knows enough to use the

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Where we stand in terms of trying to keep all the plates spinning on all the sticks, well, ah, gosh, it's not encouraging. The hole is $2,825 deep. And the power bill is due like tomorrow. Water bill's past due, and things are just, well, rough.

And hopefully we can bring it down from there, because what that boils down to is, oh, let's see, that's nine unfunded days plus $125. So that's Wednesday, Tuesday, Monday, Friday, Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday, Monday, all Friday, and $125 of two Thursdays ago. That's how, I mean, that's still February. So we'll do the best we can And hopefully things will get better

Just for the fun of it The password, lobster Yeah It turns out Jesus This is Remember we talked What yesterday, the day before

About The DUI Hire Whiskey Pete Keg Breath and his Alaskan king crab budget. And I, well, I called to mind, gone but not forgotten Louis Asparagus Gomert down in Texas. And, well, his grief over the sufferings of his constituents who weren't able to buy Alaskan king crab legs because the welfare pores were eating them all.

Well, it's not just not just the Alaskan king crabs. No, no, no, no. Further information about Pentagon spending, well, mentions lobster now. And in point of fact, they spent more whiskey peat did. You might recall, let's put it this way. by way of context. You might recall that one of the reasons for throwing out members of the military who were trans was because it was just a gosh darned expensive to provide health care to trans people.

Well, turns out they spent more on lobster than they spent on all of trans health care in the entire preceding year when trans people were still in the military. Yeah. Uh-huh. Damnedest thing, huh? They said it was an undue financial burden on the armed forces. But providing, well, providing lobster to the brass? Well, that's a military necessity.

Yes. The stupidity just keeps going and going and going. It's exhausting. The exact number, lobster. And it turns out that's more than the Alaskan king crab. Lee in New York getting the conversation started. Kizra Pellon help with that, you betcha, Alaskan king crabs. I think she could probably help with, well, I don't know if you would call it helping with

other crabs. Remember that old sign, please don't throw toothpicks in the toilet. Crabs can pole vault. And there went dinner in the Eastern Daylight Time Zone, so here we are. No, they only spent $2 million on Alaskan king crab, but they dropped

$6.9 million on lobster. $15.1 million on rib-eye steak. And all of that, the $6.9 million, worth of lobster and the king crab and the ribbyes. That was all in one month. By the way, there was $139,224 worth of donuts.

Jesus. Well, at least, as we have noted, at least there are no trans members of the military who are participating in this shameful act of murder and mayhem in which our nation now finds itself stupidly embroiled. Yeah. Over at a group called Sparta Pride, they represent trans people who serve or have served in the military.

Kara Corcoran, their executive director, said, The DOJ's claim in the courts that transgender service members represent a meaningful cost burden to the Department of Defense doesn't withstand scrutiny. The Pentagon's own data shows that care for these service members has averaged about $5.2 million for a year, a mere drop in the bucket within a defense budget measured in hundreds of billions. To put that in perspective, just look at the recent watchdog reporting that the DOD spent $6.9 million on lobster, $2 million on Alaskan king grab and $15.1 million on rib-eye steak in a single month. if the price of steak and lobster night before battle is acceptable to taxpayers there should be especially no issue with the cost of retraining or retaining rather and caring for thousands of qualified service members willing to die for this country

ah jesus and uh that's just the beginning of a really really busy evening of maggot stupidity Christian maggot stupidity, of course. Jeremy asking, does Transcare cost more than a billion dollars a day in their current war of choice? I say current because there will be more until he's stopped. Yeah, there will. Every Friday now brings with it a certain amount of misgiving as to whether or not I will wake up the next, we will wake up the next morning to find out that we've invaded Patagonia or Fredonia, for that matter. So stupid.

Oh, and from our partners in peace, Israel, this little nugget that formed the post for the program this evening that Micah just put up at Blue Sky a little bit ago, via Reuters, well, officials from our partner in peace, Israel, have acknowledged that, well, this stupid. war for which the fascists in Israel so deeply yearned and with which they led nitwit Niro by his ample orange nose to be involved well those Israeli officials say that all these bloody murderous attacks on Iran probably aren't going to change Iran's government or cause it to collapse. And gosh, Israel sure hopes it doesn't because then they might have to think about curtailing their blood frenzy. And of course, that's at completely at odds with what nitwit Nero has been saying, namely that it was very complete.

But it isn't. And Israel says that the United States is nowhere clear or nowhere near to ending the conflict. And goodness me, it certainly doesn't look like it is. I saw video footage earlier today. No audio to it. But of what I presume to be a petroleum storage facility in Oman. And bear in mind, fire and petroleum storage facilities don't go at all well together

and the petroleum storage facility in Oman was very definitely on fire and so there's another thing to take into account prior to the war prior to us starting the war the murderous regime in Iran had already murdered thousands of

of its most ardent opponents, the people most likely to topple the government. So guess what's probably not going to happen? Yeah. But Psycho Beebe even is having to change his tone a bit because back when he was leading the mental defective in the White House to get, God knows how many Americans killed, well, Psycho Beebebe said,

our joint action will create the conditions for the brave Iranian people to take their destiny into their own hands. No, it won't. Because this is an entrenched theocracy. It's Ayatollahs all the way down. And no, the Kurds, the Balukis and the Arabs are not going to rise up and take out that disgusting government. So he's backtracking as of yesterday saying, Oh, we We certainly would like to help

These brave Iranians Cast off the Yoke of tyranny Yeah, but it's up to them He continued Oh, and speaking of You know, things like oil depots Blazing in the night And yes, you're right, Stephen New York

We can't forget Nambia Maybe we'll attack Nambia I've heard they're very bad people Nambi and Right. Well, new reporting out, and this is not encouraging, especially with all the, oh, carboniferous particulates,

going into the atmosphere, all the shit, all the oil on fire, all over the Middle East. You know, it's not just Iran. It's in Dubai. It's in Qatar. It's in Saudi. It's in Oman. Well, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

Oh dear. They sound very sciencey, don't they? The summary of a recent report is that global warming has picked up speed in the past decade. Imagine that. According to a new analysis from the Potsdam. Institute for Climate Impact Research by removing short-term natural influences such as El Nino

volcanic eruptions and solar cycles from temperature records, researchers uncovered a clear acceleration in the planet's long-term warming trend beginning around 2015. During the past decade, global temperatures have climbed at an estimated rate

of about 0.35 degrees Celsius per decade, depending on the data set analyzed. From 1970 through 2,000, 2015, the average increase was just under 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade. The more recent trend represents the fastest warming observed in any decade since instrumental temperature records. Began in 1880, the study published in the Geophysical Research Letters Journal, says, we can now demonstrate a strong and statistically significant acceleration of global warming

since around 2015. We filter out known natural influences in the observational data so that the noise is reduced, making the underlying long-term warming signal more clearly visible. The study focused on determining whether the pace of warming has changed

rather than identifying the causes behind the shift. I guess they're kind of trying to be a little bit stealthy that way. After accounting for the... the influence of El Nino and the recent solar maximum, the extremely warm years of 2023 and 2024 appear slightly cooler in the adjusted analysis. But even if these corrections, they still rank as the two warmest years recorded since instrumental measurements began. Across all datasets, the faster warming trend becomes visible around 2013 or 2014. And remember, we are less than three years away from the drop dead.

year. 2029, which climate scientists later said was maybe a little optimistic. But hell, let's bomb some more refineries. Let's bomb some more petroleum storage depots. I don't know, though. Does it make a difference whether it enters the stream of commerce and burns a little bit at a time or all burns at once? I'm not a climate scientist, so I can't really offer up a, uh,

solid answer to that. Thank you so much from non-billable to non-billable Rick who jumped in and finished off Ralph's challenge that had been we were into our third day with. Thank you. Thank you, Rick, and thank you, Ralphs. That gets us down to $2,750.

and that's awesome and thank you as well for jumping in with a new subscription to our friends at at

at postal weight education, thank you so much much obliged but yeah just about the only thing we don't have out of this filthy war is Ronald Rumfield, declaring that we will be welcomed as liberators once we ramp up a full-scale invasion of Iran.

But the rest of it, well, oddly reminiscent. I don't know if the geniuses, the lobster king crab and rib-eye steak stuffed geniuses, at the Pentagon took this into account or if they just did what daddy told them sitting there and they're two big shoes that he gave them but they're too goddamn afraid to exchange them for shoes that fit no really shoe gate floor shine gate a little bit of a tangent here back in the day yeah my dad working man did get dressed up from time to time and his shoe of choice

was a floor shine. They were billed as good dress shoes, and at the time, made in America. My dad, of course, was born in 1924, and floor shine was a big deal. It hasn't been a big deal in a very long time. But because his daddy loved them so, nitwit Nero decided he didn't like the shoes, his lick spittles were wearing and provided provided pairs of floor shimes to people like the JD Egg and little and I do mean little Marco Rubio

and Whiskey Pete and I'm not kidding he just guessed at their sizes and so there are photographs out there now not AI of people like little Marco deliberately wearing wrong-sized shoes because he's afraid of upsetting or insulting daddy by getting the right size. There's another photo of the JD-Egg, wearing the wrong-sized shoes.

And the question is, is this just another manifestation of the rotting brain of Donald Trump? Or is he actually humiliating them? deliberately, knowing that they don't have the courage to even choose their own shoes. Yeah, as Micah put it, it's a literal clown shoes presidency. I'm so old. I remember when we thought George W. Bush was stupid. I mean, he was. I remember the intellectual stylings of Dan Quayle.

Ah, yeah. But now we have this. Yeah. And they all sat there and sat there wearing their wrong-sized shoes. I mean, this is literally a take on the theme of the emperor's new clothes. It's not that nobody can tell him he's naked. Nobody wants to see that. Oh, really?

the sculpture of him made out of butter naked was more than enough. But instead of telling him that he's naked, they lack the courage to tell him that he got the wrong-sized shoes, and he's psychotically giggling at the idea. Yeah, Randy Radar as to the climate data. the conservatives won't have that, they'll now have to delete the data somehow. And you wonder why I didn't have kids. Yeah, the youngans, and I have grandkids, you know, the eldest of my grandchildren is 18. And my grandkids have a heck of a future with which to contend. And it doesn't matter

whether it's here in West Virginia or anywhere else. But yeah, I guess, I guess the maggots just figured that Iran would roll over and say, please, Daddy, don't hit us again. But they've been preparing for this moment for decades. One of the fundamental assumptions of the Islamic Republic was that sooner or later they would have to square off against the Great Samp. Satan, you know, us, the U.S. Great Satan, please.

We're not even a fair to midland Satan, especially this bunch. But yeah, they were, and the thing is, every other president from Carter onward, up till this moron, this dumbass, managed not to take the bait, Because, well, what did MacArthur allegedly tell JFK don't get in a ground war in Asia?

Yeah, we may already be in one, really. And look, Iran is doing what every military analyst expected Iran would do. They surround the Persian Gulf on three sides, including the Gulf of Hormuz. Yes, that ungulate prostitute. They've been laying mines, apparently, in the Gulf. They fired on Gulf shipping. They hit a tie freighter,

forcing its crew to be rescued. And they also targeted the Dubai International Airport earlier today. And they're going to punish or try to the people who have cozied up with panjureen Tiberius. So now supplies of oil and fertilizer coming through the Persian Gulf are choked. Air traffic is a disaster in the waiting. Iran has a new Ayatollah, Nepo baby, Mosh Tabah Khamene,

who is every bit as much of a nut job as his father was, and the Israelis aren't sure where he is, so they can't assassinate him yet. But you know what? If and when, we or they do, they got another Ayatollah waiting. There's lots of Ayatollahs in Iran. It's Ayatollahs all the way down.

God, we're dumb. And they have no idea these clowns in the Pentagon, what they're doing. They went from, well, the Bush administration thought it had a plan for the illegal, unjustified Iraq, war against the innocent people of Iraq. what did this gang of

near do well learn from that? Well it's no sense in having a plan at all. Fuck it. Let's just start some shit and see what falls out.

And Israel, meanwhile, is invading and attacking Lebanon when the Lebanese army had been doing a pretty good job of keeping Hezbollah rolled up, but any opportunity

to slaughter civilians. Israel's going to be there for it. I mean, they got a long history with it. Yeah, the two Iranian drones that hit near the Dubai airport, wounded four people, but the Dubai media office said,

oh, that's the busiest international airport on the planet. God knows why. No, I do know why. But they claim that they're still up and running. I mentioned the Thai cargo ship off. the coast of Oman in the Strait of Hormuz. It was the Maori Nari,

20 people rescued by the Omani Navy. Not us! And three crew members remain missing. There have been at least 12 incidents around shipping in the streets of Hormuz.

20% of all the oil on earth passes through the straits of Hormuz. According to the International Maritime Organization, at least seven mariners have been killed for nothing. We keep saying,

oh, we'll keep the straits of Hormuz open. And apparently that also applies to Iranian shipping, who are still managing to ship oil through the straits. The Pentagon said yesterday that it had destroyed 16 Iranian mine layers near the strait,

but on the other hand, nitwit Nero ran to tripe social and triped out that there are no reports yet of Iran mining the passage. And the International Energy Agency said today it's going to release the largest amount of emergency oil reserves in a desperate attempt to keep oil prices somewhat stable around the planet. Yeah, in 20209 probably was a mite.

Optimistic. In southern and eastern Lebanon, the Israelis have killed at least 14 people. They set fire to an apartment building in central Beirut. The top two floors burning. Four people wounded there, according to the Lebanese. Other Israeli strikes, they killed 14 Lebanese people. Red Crossworker was also murdered earlier today of wounds sustained on Monday. His team were trying to rescue people who were hit by a previous Israeli attack

when the Israelis came and murdered them for trying to rescue the people that they had already tried to murder. According to the Iranians, more than 1,300 people have been killed in Iran. That's as compared to the 12 dead in Israel. we have seven reported dead soldiers with eight more reported as injured and as mentioned Jeremy I think mentioned it yesterday according to

see BS News there was a grim and chaotic scene at a tactical operation center in Shuibe Port Kuwait and the CBS News report said that more members of the United States military were left seriously injured than Whiskey Pete's Pentagon is willing to admit those serious injuries include brain trauma, burns, shrapnel wounds, and at least one person who required the amputation of a limb. well that's okay they can come back here and nitwit Nero can call them suckers and losers in the one strike

in Kuwait smoke quickly filled the building making it difficult to rescue those inside 20 of the injured were taken on a C-17 to Launstool Germany Tuesday their injuries were designated as urgent

and necessitating evacuation. Traumatic brain injuries, memory loss, concussions. More than 100 military personnel have been sent to Germany to help the injured members of the military. The report went on and said, Defense Department officials initially didn't specify how many had been hurt in the Kuwait attack, but said on March 1st that five were seriously wounded and several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries. concussions. Two who were thought missing were finally found under the rubble. And then finally

yesterday, the DUI hires Pentagon said 140 American service members have been injured so far in the 11 days, now 12, of this filthy war that Daddy started. Sean Parnell, a Pentagon spokes creep said well the best majority of these injuries have been minor and a hundred and eight service members have already returned to duty eight service members remain listed as severely injured and are receiving the highest

level of medical care who all sure they are god help them when they go from being active active duty military to veterans oh and

remember the the story we had and kim in new york said I call bullshit about the warnings going out of more attacks or the potential for sleeper cells or the panic barking and grunting about the two people who threw homemade grenades at the protest outside Gracie Mansion this past weekend. Yeah, well, now they're trying. Look, I mean, I would not be surprised if there were multiple sleeper cells in this country,

Iranian sleeper cells, because it's really the only way that they have of striking at us when we're striking at them. And so now, Trash Patel's FBI And you know by calling it Trash Patel's FBI that calls everything That's coming after this into question

The FBI is saying We recently acquired information That That as of February 2026 Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack Using unmanned aerial vehicles For an unidentified vessel off the United States

Coastline Homeland Homeland specifically against unspecified targets in California in the event that the U.S. conducted strikes against Iran. Anyone surprised? No, me either. But ABC News got hold of that. I think they had the initial story that we mentioned in yesterday or the day before. I just want to know what purpose does that serve?

It just terrorizes a population. just waiting for their Walmart to be turned into a heap of smoking rubble not anybody can do about it but there is a possible negative knockoff on this namely that the hardcore cancerous dead-ender die-hard maggots

especially the ones with guns I hope they don't say that Iran wants to hit West Virginia because the maggots will come out of the woodwork and be standing and around pointing their AR-15s and their blunderbuses and whatever they've got in order to, you know, keep America safe, sir because of the Second Holy Amendment. They'll be taking pot shots at everything in the air. Might be an Iranian drone.

Their Cleetus might want to squeeze off a few rounds at it. You know I'm right. Meanwhile, the alert said, We have no additional information on the timing method, target, or perpetrators of this here alleged attack. Jesus. Not exactly a big, Ronnie and submarine fleet out there. And Daddy has already said, we've completely destroyed in a Navy. And that's a lot of kite string for flying a kite halfway around the planet to drop an explosive.

Unless, unless maybe. Just maybe, they're getting some help. You might recall that the top Middle East peace envoy is a real estate hustler by the name of Steve Whitkoff, who has no more experience as a peace negotiator than does, well, any other. real estate agent. Well, Steve Whitkoff showed up yesterday on MS now. He also showed up on CNBC, where he was questioned about reports that are coming out that Russia, Mother Russia, is in fact providing assistance to Iran.

And the sweet summer child gave an answer. that only someone who would be willing to sit down to a friendly hand of three card money would give. And, well, this morning on my former filthy morning habit, I thought they were going to, well, have a little bit of a connection. That's right now. Do we think that the Russians have shared intelligence about the location of U.S. military assets? And if they have, why would we be giving waivers on Russian oil sanctions? Well, I'm not an intel officer, so I can't. tell you i can tell you that yesterday on the call with the president uh the russians said that they

have not been sharing that's that's what they said so you know uh we can we can take them at their word but they did that say that jesus christ he sounds like the somewhat masculine version of mike myers's linda richmond coffee talk character wait what what what did he say though sir um so i can't tell you i can't you that yesterday on the call with the president, the Russians said that they have not been sharing. That's what they said. So, you know, we can take them at their word, but they did say that. And yesterday morning, and yesterday morning independently, Jared and I had a call with Uschikoff, who reiterated the same. So, you know, that's a better question for the intel people. Yeah, but, you know, the Russians did ask me if I would trade them my cow for a handful of magic beans, and I said, yeah, sure.

Sounds like a good deal, because, you know, I'm a deal maker. Nailed it, Micah. We can take them at their word? The Russians said, no, and we just believe them? Are you fucking serious? Well, I am, but they're not. Daddy told me he would never help you that I told us He promised me God help us We're so soon

Scott Where are you in the Great Beyond We're all screwed Roxanne Let's hope that they're not sharing I'm hoping Let's hope they're not sharing I will say the initial

Come on Jehosa fat Say it say it Hope in one hand And shit in the other And see what's when fall Which one fills up first? They let you say the brown word there on MS now now in the morning. The initial statement there reminded me a lot of Jonathan Lemire's question.

You go back. You got to go with the way back machine, 2018 Helsinki. John Lamere. And he asks the question, do you trust your own intel chiefs that you put in charge or do you trust Vladimir Putin? That was good, Lamar. The president said, fill in the blank. At the time, the president made clear he sided with Vladimir Putin. that he took Vladimir Putin at his word.

And yesterday, his lead negotiator, Steve Whitkoff. Exactly, Steve in New York. And what? He's for clamped. He's for clempt. Talk amongst yourselves. Suggested the same. And then he and everybody said, well, let's hope they don't do that.

Yes. You know, diplomats. They get, you got to work. You got to work with both sides. I bet I would just say if Steve is watching. Steve, they lie. This is what Russians do. They think it's the smart move to always lie.

That's the very nature of it. They are disruptors. They count on American suckers to think that they're going to win them over by force of personality. It never happens. So, at FDR tried to do, Willie, and you wake up the next day, and Eastern Europe has a wall right through Berlin. Because FDR thought he was going to win Stalin over at Yalta with the force of his personality. There's a long, long history of this.

Steve Whitkoff just said, I have to take Vladimir Putin at his word. I have to take the ex-KGB agent at his word. And remember, Steve Whitkoff is the lead negotiator in the Russia-Ukraine talks, among many other places. As well as the talks that just before this war. Right, but just remember as we think about why perhaps we're not giving as much aid as we should be to Ukraine in the eyes of many people, the guy leading negotiation says you have to take Russia at their word. Yeah, but also, like I said, take into account the fact that every missile that we're shooting at Iran is a missile that we can't provide for Ukrainians to defend themselves against a horde of Vladdi-Daddy's barbarians. What was it yesterday's showpost the day before where I said there's only one person who's winning this war, and it ain't nitwit Niro, it ain't Bibi Netanyahu, it's poody.

God damn it. Oh, by the way, since Nittwit Nero abrogated all manner of international norms and decided to, you know, in conjunction with Bibi, assassinate the head of another country it's kind of open season on world leaders, isn't it? I mean, you know, go for it, Vlodomere Zelensky.

Waste the shit out of the Kremlin. If you've got the munitions, you might get puty. So we'll see what happens there. We'll see what happens there. Richard... Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. God, we are a...

We are a... silly people, a barbarous people. What's that line from Lawrence of Arabia? The little people, the small people. The silly people. Ignorant, barbarous, and crude. Something like that, Steve Whitcock, negotiator. The only thing he's there for is to lock down the Trump Hotel and Casino

on the sunny shores, of Gaza. Oh, by the way, back to the strategic petroleum reserve. Leah New York points out, it's an emergency stockpile of petroleum maintained the United States Department of Energy, but there's also an international one. Nitwit Nero has said that we're opening that up because, well, you know, if the American people can just have $1.90 a gallon gas, we'll be perfectly fine with blowing up the world. It's the largest publicly known emergency supply in the world.

Its underground tanks in Louisiana and Texas stand have capacity for 714 million barrels. The United States started petroleum reserve in 1975 to mitigate future supply disruptions as part of the international agreement on international energy program after oil supplies were interrupted during the 1973, 74, oil embargo. But guess what? Nitwit Nero started his war before thoroughly replenishing the stocks. As of March 7th, 2025, the inventory was 395.3 million barrels. Well, now, with gas prices near a dollar,

$98 a gallon, Lee points out, it was obviously the time to replenish it, but, and there's the link. Fact check. Trump boasts about a massive oil purchase that never happened. The story goes back to, oh, come on, what's the date? Where's the date line here? There's no dateline. From Daniel Dale at CNN. Oh, yeah, there it is. June 5th, 2020. Former President Donald Trump, now a candidate for the Republican president. I liked it so much better when he was former president. Claimed an television interview on Thursday that he not only purchased 75 million barrels of oil for the National Strategic Petroleum Reserve,

but did so for a remarkably low price. We had so much oil, we didn't know what to do with it. We bought it out of it for very little for the Strategic National Reserves. You think of it, 75 million barrels, and I bought it for peanuts in Congress. I had to fight Congress, and the president was so crazy and so good. Yeah. But no. And it wasn't Congress's fault.

It was his. Uh-huh. Thanks for that. Lee. Thank you very kindly. Oh, and speaking of various and sundry dickheads who had various and sundry agencies of the government. Hey, Mike in Cascadia, you out there, buddy? I thought of you immediately

when I saw this this time the stupid dickhead in choice or in question is Secretary of the Interior Doug Bergume sounds like a bubble in a bathtub speaking to that

evil hedge fund Blackrock who had an infrastructure summit in Washington today. Well, they pissed and moaned and whined about how gosh darned hard it is to get permits approved.

The Black Rock host said Congress has been unable to pass permitting reform legislation. What can the administration do to streamline this process from your perspective? Whee? And then, well, instead of

remaining silent and thought to be a fool, Doug Bergum opened his mouth and removed all doubt. So let's talk about that. Actually, now I want to paraphrase what John Ketchum mentioned earlier today, and I use his exact words. It takes far too long to get anything permitted in the U.S. when the need is urgent. And I think a similar sentiment was echoed by Secretary Daines earlier,

saying that permitting reforms need to change. And clearly we know the Speed Act and things that are in sort of working progress. But Secretary Bergam, you've been a champion of permitting reform, both as Governor of North Dakota and as Secretary of Interior, and Congress has been enabled to pass permitting reform legislation. So if legislation continues to stall and the need that everyone expects is so large, and the private sector and the government sector is willing to put capital to work. What can the administration do to streamline this process from your perspective?

Well, there's a lot that we can do and a lot we can do, and I appreciate Mike's story of our personal interaction, but I would say that kind of white-glove service is available to all of you. I mean, we view the private sector as our partners. We use your investment and your skill, your technology, your teams, as in partnership. Because as Mike said, and most Americans understand this, when we do a lease sale, we get revenue.

People treat lease sales, you know, like if we ban them, we're going to save the world, as opposed to when we actually get money in, that begins a relationship, a long-term partnership, which then will also have a revenue stream from royalties going forward. I mean, we've got, there's across, you know, all the people that are trying to stop an activity on federal lands, you know, don't understand the financial impact. I mean, all of you are financially literate.

great if we could have have the world be a little more financially littered. Yeah, all you motherfuckers do all you care about is money. Wouldn't it be great if everybody else didn't care about anything but money? Fuck climate change. Y'all are Black Rock. Y'all know that ain't real. Black Rock. I wonder sometimes if they're just named after coal, or if they're named after that

Brilliant film Bad Day at Black Rock. I wonder Black Rock's having a bad day now that the shit's hitting the fan all around the world. Yeah, see, that's the reason people don't want a bunch of goddamn drilling on public lands because, see, they're not financially literate. That's why it's not that, you know, the planet appears to be warming more quickly than we even thought. It's not that there are people out there who would like to have a habitable planet for their progeny to try to live on.

No, hell no. It's all because, well, money is the most important goddamn thing in the world, and fiscally financially literate people understand that, and fuck these goddamn tree hoggers. Jesus! When we have a prior president, you know, with a stroke of a pen, takes six and a half million. acres of prime offshore, you know, out of the things, legally not holding lease sales, but then separately says this is like a Marine sanctuary. We were able to reverse that. But when that went out, like, oh, everyone applauded, oh, look at the great stuff they're doing, marine sanctuary,

six and a half billion acres of prime development area. Nobody wrote an article that said, wow, they just wiped a trillion dollars off the balance sheet with that thing because they took action, which took away an asset that belonged to all of you. So yes, we want permitting reform in Congress. There's a trillion and a half estimate could be conserved of $1.5 trillion of, it's been approved by one of your boards, one of your committees, one of your partners, one of the private companies here. It could be approved by a state.

It could be approved by a small business. And then the money can't be spent because they're waiting for a permit. I mean, we're choking our own economic growth because of permitting. And then, of course, the NGOs were mentioned. earlier today, and the NGO is always like, oh, that's a nice term. No, there are groups who are weaponizing the current laws we have to stop infrastructure, and it's not just an art form, it's a giant business model. And again, they hold training classes. If you want to slow something down, you know, you use NEPA to try to do that. If you want to kill a project,

use the Environmental Species Act. I mean, they'll train people on how to kill these projects. and I experienced that as a governor too when they were as like an onslaught to try to stop pipelines that would help American national security and you know what there's no such thing as national security on a dead planet and hey Doug bergum you goddamn goom there's no planet B honey

no and even your buddy Leon Scum has given up on the idea of colonizing Mars and SpaceX's mission now is to put people on the moon. I don't, I mean, the only viable analogy I can come up with this, for this, is that of an addict hopelessly sunk in his addiction. if you, for instance, read William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch, as I did so many years ago. He describes a concept in relation to addiction that he calls the algebra of need.

And he rather excoriates the people who say, well, you know, I'd never become one of those junkies. We had an entire country of people who thought they would never become one of those junkies until people like the governor of West Virginia worked to flood one little community, Gilbert West Virginia, with enough opioids to give a habit multiple times over to every person in this state. granted we're a small stage there's only like 1.7 million of us and probably falling but once

once they did get a lot of people good and hooked well a lot of those families that once said you know I'd never be one of them junkies started watching friends and family die throughout the opioid epidemic here in West Virginia alone I can't tell you how many people I know or know of who are dead

dead dead from the add from the addictions that were foisted upon them by people like the Sackler family and Patrick Morrissey and Cardinal Health but I'm straying a bit from my brief here

the only thing the only group that I can compare people like Doug Bergum and these nasty silk-suited freaks freaks from BlackRock to are junkies. Because in describing the algebra of need, William S. Burroughs said, the algebra of need is such that, yes, you will.

You will do anything, anything, to satisfy that need. And it doesn't matter. Lie, cheat, steal, hurt the people around you who love you, hurt people you've never even heard of, hurt people, to satisfy the addiction. And so you don't want maybe offshore drilling off of California, or Florida, or South Carolina stand, North Carolina stand? Well, that's just because, according to Doug Bergum,

you're not financially literate. You don't understand. need. You don't understand the need of Black Rock, man. They're scratching. Their need is so strong. I mean, it's like they've got the bugs all over them. The oil bugs. God damn, these Black Rock sons of bitches. I'll bet if they were able to stand there in Tehran when it was raining oil the other night, they would have had their goddamn tongues out. They are repulsive. Addict acts like they are the only person in the world. And so do these sociopaths and psychopaths.

I'll bet you half of the people who showed up for that seminar, if analyzed by a competent psychoanalyst, would probably fill out all manner of axes for sociopathy and some for psychopathy. And Doug Bergum is one of them. So is the little fellow who asked him the question in the first place. We're doing nothing, I mean, zero impact on the environment, but able to create national, international attention, raise lots of money, line their pockets, fund more lawsuits.

Oh, the sublime irony of hearing this maggot interior secretary blather on about how the environmentalists are lining their pockets. You motherfucker, you sorry sack of shit. Most of the environmentalists I know live hand to mouth, paycheck to paycheck at best. And they're not paid protesters either, fuckface. They're more decent human beings than you will ever be, as proven by the fact that you are willing to work for a goddamn pedophile. Because that always lingers in the back of it. And that deserves to be his future.

Hey, Doug Bergum, how did it feel spending years working for a pedophile and protecting him with every fiber of your being? Don't you feel a little dirty? I mean, it's like that's part of this reform that we have to go through. But in the meantime, President Trump did declare on day one, on day one, he declared that there was a national energy emergency. So we've got authorities to be able to speed things up. I mean, I think all of you know that an environmental assessment would take a year on a good day, two years normally, if there's litigation longer, an EIS, you know, take a couple years, maybe three or four, maybe never to get it. We looked at the business process. That's what I did when I was in tech.

I was in the business process optimization business. Oh, he was a tech bro nerd asshole. Everything's just bits and bites and data in, garbage in, garbage out. And so what if an environmental impact statement takes two years? Are the Black Rock boys going to have to start living on beans and rice? Not that there's anything wrong with beans and rice. Nothing better than red rice and beans. There are red beans and rice on a Monday.

Phil Shikami. Taste delicious. Kind of want some now. It doesn't like marine sanctuaries. Doug Bergum? No, by God, he doesn't. You know, what's the problem with the lease sale, you know, in the middle of bears' ears? Right?

What's the problem? Yeah. We're making money, damn it. We're making money. These guys really do need to be put in straight jackets and taken off to nice little facilities with nice little rooms, with nice little soft walls. until, what were the words of Newit Nero years ago, until we can figure out just what the hell is going on with them. You know, for almost three decades,

said, why did these things take all these years? Is there two or three years with the work? I couldn't believe that there was. And it turns out there's not. I mean, if there's a year-long process, it might be 12 days of work because somebody does the work and then it sits in somebody's inbox. So we said, if we just put a strike team,

could we do an EA in less than 14 days? if we have a strike team what's he going to have a department of interior goon squad of what a strike team sounds like he wants to go shoot some tree huggers yeah you're right Kim in New York Kim said the projection is catching

listening to the clip of Doug Bergum basically calling environmental groups self-interested grifters is infecting all Republicans, even a lowly ex-governor from North Dakota, playing its secretary of the interior. Here, here, Kim. We had a strike team. Could we do an EIS in less than 28 days?

The first two we tried came in at 12 days and 24 days, and that was before we put AI to work. This is just bodies focused every day. Oh, that's just fucking awesome. We're going to put AI to work hammering away at America's public lands. How does an AI appreciate public lands? How does an AI appreciate the concept of public?

How does an AI appreciate the concept of lands? It's all just zeros and ones to the AI. Look out. God help you if the AI decides that wherever you happen to be, happens to be where BlackRock needs to be. can the AI call in a drone strike? I mean, that's kind of an open question now with the whole kerfuffle going on with

Anthropic and the Pentagon. Anthropic suing the Pentagon for calling them a, what, security risk, something like that? Simply because they said, we don't want you using our intellectual property for surveillance against American citizens or targeting purposes?

You're right. You're right, Kim. It's a disease. And it's spreading. Please remember that there is substantial reason to believe that the drones that murdered

Chef Jose Andres team from World Kitchen in Gaza was driven by AI World Central Kitchen forcing World Central Kitchen

to leave Gaza when they were doing everything they possibly could to feed those put upon human beings Jesus, what's next? AI is running the drilling platforms

can you replace a roughneck with a rough neck with a robot? I guarantee you some petroleum engineering department at some university, some land grant university, is busting ass to figure out how. You come to work. We're getting everybody in the room. There's no email whisper chain. You just get it done. And now we've done dozens of those kinds of permits. And they do it. All of you have to push and ask what's going on in the inside. Because, you know, the 18 months to get a permit in the Permian, that was intentional. That wasn't

And it's a combination of that in bad software and bad incentives. But we have the ability to be able to actually speed these things up dramatically. And, of course, understand, we're competing against China. China doesn't have this permitting problem. Yeah, you know why China doesn't have this permitting problem? Doug Bergum? God damn it! Because they're a fascist authoritarian regime who doesn't give a good goddamn about their people.

I hate these little blast from the past moments when I'm reminded of prior stupidity, because this has been said before, and it's kind of close to home. After he retired, and it's the head coach, the head football coach, of my beloved West Virginia University Mountaineers, Don Neeland, the winningest coach in WVU history, could have just ridden off into his retirement, with the love and adulation and the occasional frustration

intense frustration of mountaineer fans everywhere. But he didn't. Instead, he decided to start cashing checks from the friends of co. The Fockers, you might recall, those of you who have been with the program long enough, the Fokkers.

And as a friend of coal cashing the checks, Don Neelan once remarked, well, gosh darn it, I don't know why we can't just mine coal like they mine it in China. I mean, they don't have all these doggone, gosh-darned regulations

keeping them from mining that sweet, sweet, wonderful coal. We need to be more like China. I think that was a year when China lost something like 20,000 miners dead in various accidents because they don't have any regulations to protect their miners. They goddamn sure don't have a union. Not that the UMWA is much of a union anymore. It sounded intensely stupid then, and it sounds every bit as stupid now.

Well, we just need to do things more like Choner. They don't have no regulations. Yeah, anybody seen the... skies over Beijing lately. Remember the Beijing Olympics? Because I do. I don't know how much more of this stupidity I can stand. We're competing against them.

If we can't permit and build more power in this country right now, then we could win the war and win the conflict in the Middle East transform that whole area for the next century. Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen. Dude is on dope. white punks on dope we could win the war in the Middle East that is a far cry from

we will win the war in the Middle East because there's no winning that war and only fools and grifters would suggest we might you know a little a little

trip to a behavioral health facility might help Doug Bergum with that That sociopathy, that psychopathy. Do the freaks at BlackRock have kids? Grandkids? Oh, Ralph, I'm sorry. I just take it for granted that people know what an EIS is.

Yes, an environmental impact statement. But, yeah, that's what Bergum was talking about with all these initials there, an environmental assessment impact statement. Because we're supposed to do that. so that we make sure that we're not completely fucking up people's lives, you know, things like oil drilling platforms in the middle of the National Park. Can you imagine the intellect that's operating here? We do know what underlies, say, Old Faithful, in Yellowstone,

that it's a volcano That it's not just a volcano It's a super volcano That when it erupts It's going to raise holy hell With the entirety of life on this planet And it's not if it's when What if some

Averous infused Black Rocker Finds out that there's Well there's a whole bunch of oil Under Yellowstone Let's drill it and what we don't need is a long time awaiting for an environmental impact statement that comment and now it ain't commies don't got them

job killing regulations that's what they are and then it turns out that they start drilling and well Yellowstone gets popped like a zit sorry that's dinner in the central daylight time zone there are rumblings in the black black Rock private debt markets, Randy Radar tells us, that are reminiscent of the 2007-2008 recession. Car loans are going bad and an alarming rate and withdrawals from such funds run by the $10 trillion asseted BlackRock investment firm were restricted, leaving investors holding the bag for

whatever the declining fund is going to do to them. That's encouraging. And Randy Radar tells us, the public face of Black Rock is a guy named Larry Faye. think. I wonder if he's any kind of the legendary Mike think. Frontier brawler and roused about and whatnot.

I think indeed. Can I imagine the intellect that's operating here? Steve in New York says, actually, no, I can't. There has to be intellect for me to imagine it. Oh, but these guys think they're so smart. Because they

get their bits and their bites from their computer machines, and it tells them that they need to make more money. Buy, buy, buy, buy, sell, buy, sell, sell, sell, sell, buy. What a shitty life to lead. What an absolutely miserable existence. Meanwhile, maybe you go home to your loving spouse and your kids, and your spouse says to you,

Honey, how was your day at work? Oh, it was great. I fucked over a good 10% of the population of the entire planet today. Honey, do you think we might be part of that 10%? Hell, what do I care? I made money. Fuck you all, Black Rock and Doug Bergum. Shitbirds.

Not financially literate. And the nerve of those Black Rock penis wrinkles. to sit there and whine that they're not getting rich enough fast enough. Oh. Sorry, him. No, I'm not sorry. This shit has to be discussed. Plainly, clearly.

And as Jeremy said a little bit ago, these fuckers all think they'll leave the planet for a new home when we've destroyed it. Our closest star with maybe a habitable planet is a 40,000-year flight. If we can get to a tenth of a percent of light speed, effectively, I think science and math tell us we're never leaving this planet. At least not for any extended period of time. No, but what we'll do is we'll send out a... We'll send out spaceships, Jeremy, and it will have the... the DNA of only the best people.

And there will be cyborgs on the ship, too, in suspended animation. And when the ship lands, the AI pilot will download all the personalities into all the cyborgs, and then they'll open the hatch and find out that the AI lied to them, and it's not actually a nitrogen oxygen atmosphere, but a CO2 one, and then they'll... Well, I don't know. Javis. Okay, well, let's run over to the stress line and see who we've got.

Hey, welcome to the program. Hello? Anybody? I answered. I hear you. Are you there? Okay, hey, welcome to the program. Hey.

Oh, hey, Christine, how are you? Oh, hey, Christine. How are you? Really interesting experience yesterday. Yeah? I was trying to call in, and I, first, when I called the first time, it said, you know, so you gave a message where I hung up, or when I called the second time, it called me a bot and said I was a scammer, and it blocked my number. I have no idea.

I have no idea. Me either, but I thought that was weird. I told David the blind about it, and he suggested I try to call him in today. See, I was just listening to what you were saying is like, uh-huh. You're right. I don't have the imagination to comprehend that level of stability. I have no idea.

Mm-hmm. and it says, wow. Of course, it's raining and beautiful downtown Talibaniana. Really? Yes. It was beautiful yesterday in the 70s, and then hopefully the 10-day forecast. It's supposed to be, I hope it's going to be warm Monday, because I had some things to take care of

and quite simply and I'm about to ruin the appetite of everybody on the East Coast I found myself in the middle of a dead bug infestation Yeah, gross And I had, yeah So I have to spray treat my house But they wanted to he treated

But I had to, you know Find somewhere to go with my And put my three cats and crates. I decided for the chemical treatment. So I can least sit in my front door since they don't really

all they have to do is treat the area, treat the whole house, but at least I can sit in the doorway. The thing is, just get, yeah, you got to get rid of them. Yeah, oh yes. Oh, yes, I got to.

there's just wow everything in my life most people they don't much bother they're gross but some people are apparently allergic to them and I'm one of them

they give me the horrors yeah also I I'm a I have to go to the big hospital and you know I did not go let me in until I get rid of the problem

and then the social workers and the home health care aid can come back out here. But as long as the bugs they're in, my home health care aid and my social workers can't come in. I'm not allowed to come in.

I get that. And I hate the damn things too. But at least this is, you know, the chemical treatment is easier because if they wanted to do a heat treatment, when I have a wooden mobile home, I'm not in the arson by proxy. Now, to mention my old pest control company wanted $2,800 up front, I said,

ah, no. No, no, no. No. Rather than that, it's been, I mean, the last couple days were gorgeous. Oh, we had a couple of beautiful days over the weekend, but it's turning crappy again. Yes, it is. Our lows will be... It's perfect.

30s tonight. Yep, same here. And nothing but rain. I have to travel on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and it looks like I'm going to be traveling in less than optimum conditions. As long as it's not freezing rain. Do you telling yourself that. Although, suddenly, I did hear you say some yesterday that gave me a giggle.

One of your... neighbors has Rottweilers. Yes, unfortunately. Yeah, I like the idea of you going out with a light on your helmet and around in the chamber. It's not a comforting experience. I agree. But near as being torn apart. I came in half, I mean, if I had a service dog, this whole thing would be even more.

more difficult. Oh, yes, absolutely. You know, I love animals. I love animals. I love my cats. We're trying to rehabilitate a chicken right now. Yeah, I heard about that. Yeah, poor thing.

Yeah, I heard about that. But she seems to be perking up a little bit, and we talk to her, and she clucks at us, and we clucked back. Oh, yes. I just wanted to be okay. I mean, I love it. I wish I couldn't have to. chickens, but there's too many predatory

animals around here. I mean, the greece, their eggs are hatching. I guess everybody's practicing peaceful coexistence. I imagine

if anything gets near the nest, the kids are going to lose their heads and start killing. I will not want to face a goose. I face a, I face geese. They're not nice. Oh, geese can be kind of hostile.

So can turkeys. Kind of hostile. I'm also like, your example, somebody dropping a drilling faithful. I mean, yeah. But these chickens, and we haven't,

we haven't seen the other chicken at all. Her name's Myrtle. You don't think she's past, or you. I think maybe. one of the Roddies or one of the cats got her. And somehow Henrietta survived. Nature is glad and two from call.

And bless her little heart, Henrietta, we had her set up in a place under the table in my outdoor kitchen. And I got her a feed log so that she wouldn't have to move around and she could just pick at it and she had water right by her. but bless her heart I don't know if you have an outdoor kitchen

I got a table and a grill and a smoker it's not really a kitchen it's just where I work when I'm making barbecue but bless her heart I don't know if somebody something scared her but she doesn't move real well

she may have a busted wing or something and she she started oh it just broke my heart heart. She started dragging herself over to under me under my window and then she drug

herself over to the to my car because that's where she recognizes me coming in from. And she's, she and Myrtle had taken to, uh, running to me to greet me when I would pull up in the driveway and, uh, it's just sad. Now, when the DA vehicles bring me home, my cats will recognize the sound of the car. And then when I opened my front door, the thing, you know, usually Bruce is the one that goes out till about my ankles. And I carry up, Mom, I'm hungry. Although she hasn't been hanging out with the local clouther as much. I will let you go.

Well, you take care of Christine. And by the way, I want you to know it's not just you. Jeremy sent me a note saying she's right. It blocked me too and called me spam. Very good. I don't know what's doing that. I don't know if it's a shot your head moment. I don't know if it's a function of the toll-free number

because that doesn't tend to happen on the phone I use for my, you know, my day-to-day life. So, well, we'll have to sort it out. Technology, I love it. Yep, it crucifies as it crowns. As the same goes. I was talking to blind you said how he was asleep. Oh, do please.

We'll talk soon. You take care, Christine. I will. Bye. Bye. Christine in the blind and y'all, let me know if it does that to you. I need to know because, okay, Micah says it's probably a setting on the stress line.

And by that I take it you mean the toll-free service? Okay, maybe you can walk me through it, Micah, because I'm kind of lost in the woods on this one. Oh, and, well, I wanted to take a moment. Yeah, the stress line is in fact an Android phone. Won't make that mistake again. Let's see here. Where was that going? Oh, yeah, apparently there was a... Sorry, just 16 different things going on at the same time here.

I thought I had set that up to run. Okay, no, that's a different maggot. Sorry, it's no surprise. that Lindsey Graham is out there being all butch and whatnot. But sometimes even his degree of slimy, disgusting behavior, well, amazing, but apparently some, even some maggots are disgusted with his latest. Oh, shenanigans. Here, I think I've got it.

It won't take but a second. Because, I mean, there's no such thing as beyond the pale for lens. I mean, repulsive. But on Sunday, talking to Fox News TV Radio Rwanda's Maria Bartaromo, Well, he went viral for all the wrong reasons. Let's just go ahead and deal with this. He is, of course, cheerleading our filthy war that has set the Middle East entirely ablaze. And this is some of his cheerleading.

When this regime goes down, we're going to have a new Mideast. We're going to make a ton of money. somebody will threaten the straits of hormones again. Yeah, we're going to make a ton of money, says Lindsay Graham. And maybe he'll get some of that money and he can, I don't know, hire somebody who won't mind his little ladybugs. You don't mind, do you? Darn it, I was a few minutes too early to ruin dinner in the mountain. daylight, time zone.

But he wasn't done, cheerleading. And so we also got this. Now, remember, as a member of the JAG Corps of the United States Air Force, Lindsey Graham swore an oath to the Constitution of the United States. As a member of the Senate of the United States of America, he also swore an oath to the Constitution of the United States. Has he abrogated that oath? You tell me.

All the anti-Seminites to all the isolations, I don't believe. Forget it. I'm not with you. I'm with Israel. I'll be with Israel to our dying day. They're the best ally we could hope for. So we have a commander chief in President Trump, who I think is Ronald Reagan plus plus-plus, plus. All the anti-s.

Until our dying day. He is literally willing for the United States to die for Israel. Dear God, somebody apparently chocked somewhere. Maybe it's somewhere in South Carolina Stan or, no, I don't know, but it says, Go support Israel from Israel. Jesus Christ. But there's a happy ending here, more than one. Someone caught Miss Lindsay walking through the halls of the,

the Senate and asked him a very simple question. Hey, Lizzie, why don't you just admit that you're gay and then people won't blackmail you anymore? Yep, I know that location anywhere. That's the basement of the Russell Senate Office Building, the oldest building of the three. And I don't know who asked him that question, but hey, you get a Ramalama Ding Dong. Why don't you just admit you're gay and then people won't blackmail you anymore?

Well, maybe that blackmail you. blackmail turned out to be profitable, you know. But again, some of the maggots are worried about the optics. Well, you've heard of Paul Reikoff. He's an Iraq war veteran. And he showed up to speak to, of all people, our little nut, Megan Kelly. Megan, of course, Santa Claus is white Kelly. Megan

Jeffrey Epstein wasn't really a pedophile He was into 15-year-old girls Kelly Who Well Still has a job He should

But He actually showed up on Dateline White House With Nicole Wallace Over on MS now But apparently Our little nutmeg Of course

Santa Claus was white Kelly isn't happy with the optics of Lindsay being the head cheerleader, either. Angela's saying is, so Trump beats Lindsey Graham in the 2015 Republican primary and sort of sides with the isolationism, which Trump sees before the Republican, his opponents in the primary do, and now he's siding with Lindsey Graham on foreign policy. Let me show you the hot war of words between Lindsey Graham and Megan Kelly. To our friends in Spain, man, you have lost your way.

I don't want to do business with you anymore. I want our air bases out of Spain into a country that will let us use them. To our Arab friends, I've tried to help you construct a new Mideast. You need to up your game here. I can't go to South Carolina and say we're fighting and you won't publicly fight. What you're doing behind the scenes, that has to stop. The double dealing of the Arab world when it comes to this stuff needs to in. I will send Lindsey Graham Donuts for life if anyone in South Carolina actually walks up to Lindsey Graham

and complains about Spain. But let me read Megan Kelly's response. Quote, when did Lindsay Graham become our president? In the past 24 hours, he, Lindsay Graham, has threatened Lebanon, Cuba, the Saudis, the wider Arab region, and now checks notes, Spain. Let's get real. The problem with Lindsey Graham isn't just that he's a homicidal maniac. It's that Donald Trump likes him and is listening to him.

And Trump's favorite channel is parading him around like a Heckner Bunny in stockings on every show. Ooh. I am in the rare position of agreeing with Megan Kelly. um lindsay graham is the hefner bunny remark has got a sting ugh well

it just hit 7 p.m. in the eastern daylight time zone that means it just hit 5 in the mountain daylight time zone Lindsay graham in a playboy bunny costume if that doesn't ruin your dinner

well i'm grateful it didn't but I have a feeling it did. It's a spectacular, raging, aggressive, violent hot mess, and he is bad for America. This is why I wish that Stephen Colbert would go back to South Carolina and run against him, because Lindsey Graham is bad for America, and he's also very bad for Donald Trump. I don't think he's helping.

Even Megan McCain called him out on that this week. I think it's also really important that Steve Bannon also has been aggressive in criticizing directly to camera Donald Trump. Look, the American people are not stupid. They're slow sometimes, right? We saw that on a rock. We've seen that before, but they're not stupid. And they know when someone's lying to them, and they know when someone's changing their position.

And he promised people no regime changed wars. He promised them no new wars. He promised him no forever war. So did Tulsi Gabbard and a cacophony of everyone around him. And they know that this is a lie. And I think that that's where I have faith in the American people to push back. But I'm also concerned because Donald Trump doesn't care about public opinion. He continues to go forward.

So this is another moment for the Democrats, and of course the Republicans, What's your strategy to stop him if he doesn't care about public opinion and he keeps going anyway? I mean, Tulsi Gabbard is an interesting case, Michelle. Tulsi Gabbard and J.D. Vance and Pete Heggseth, I think all rose to exist in Donald Trump's circle because they so agreed with him on his promise over the course of three presidential elections to never get the country embroiled in another war in the Middle East. Well, we have an LBM candidate, loyalty before merit, you know, this cabinet. We've talked a lot about getting rid of DEI.

There are several people who are in positions that are beyond their region. Yeah. Well, that's why we refer to the guy at the Pentagon as DUI hire Whiskey Pete Tegbreath. Completely out of his depth and apparently out of his mind. Whacked out of his noggin on an overdose of Alaskan king crab legs, lobster, and, rib-eye steak Lindsay Spain doesn't give a fuck

about you or for that matter much about the American market pretty sure I'm correct in that oh and a few emails here read the email address from was the warlord damn rocks

turns out that being a pot-smoking bleary-eyed alarmist in it is a senior management position in 20206. We live in a reality where our government spent $1 billion to bomb a picture of a plane. All the blather, how spewed through the years, is finally, painfully, and plainly obvious. The 1949 Israel reboot is taking heavy PR damage, and not to give the game away. I'm more than partially responsible for a $120 barrel oil.

Buy on the rumor, they say. Chaos is the cream in my coffee rocks. Some of us have figured out the only way to stop this, and Congress should be really doing this, is to make oil go to $500 a barrel, short-term pain, no Republicans, never again. Well, that last part is the most important part. This country might be able to get well again, and there's so many diseases from which we need to be healed, if we can just keep Republicans from ever, ever, ever, ever, ever having the reins of power. From Daryl in Houston, fascism at work in media, we have a low-level Comcast TV subscription at work,

primarily to be able to see weather in emergencies. When first subscribed several years ago, MSNBC was included, now it's been removed, but the fascist propaganda channels are still there. Billionaire media control to miseducate the public. In action. Sorry, sons of bitches, Daryl says. If Dems ever get power, they need to reestablish robust antitrust laws and enforce them. Break up large media monopolies.

Here, here, and it begins with the repeal. I don't want to hear any of this reform bullshit. It begins with the repeal of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Whatever in there that is any good or of any use can go into a new bill, a new law, but all of the miserable shit and chaos and mayhem and fascism that it enabled has got to go the way of the dodo. Jesus, I saw a story, it's scarcely worth mentioning, apart from noting that evil is in fact a preservative. Rupy Murdoch celebrated his 95th birthday at a moment. a lavish

sware this past weekend in which Hugh Jackman, another Australian, showed up and sang show tunes to Rupee. Yeah.

Used to have some respect for Hugh Jackman, but, well, that good ship has sailed and sunk. But all manner of high and mighties showed up for this thing.

Yeah, there it is. Hugh Jackman sings at Fox News Titan Rupert Murdoch's lavish 95th birthday party as Donald Trump sends video wishes. Oh, you mean you didn't send him a perverted birthday card, Donnie? Hugh Jackman performed songs from The Greatest Showman and sang, Fly Me to the Moon and New York, New York, before closing with Asteel-Cole Australia, Haim. I wish he would call Australia.

you home. Rupy, I wish he'd never left it. Who else was at the birthday party? Well! Interesting, you should ask. English playwright Andrew Lloyd Weber was there.

As was former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, who benefited so heartily from the propaganda that Rupee's filthy sewer pumped out back when the rest of the world knew Tony Blair

as Bush's poodle. Oh, but wait. There he is again. It's a two Bergoom broadcast, I guess. Also in attendance, Secretary of the Interior, Doug Bergoom. Yeah. Curiously, someone

whose work I have really enjoyed Sutton Foster, that's Hugh Jackman's girlfriend God, she's such a song and dance all the way.

She co-starred it with Jackman in the Broadway revival of the music man. Yeah, she had to do her hair or get a manny-petti, paws and claws, something like that. She didn't show up for Rupee's filthy 95th birthday. And he showed up

with his trophy wife, Elena Zyukova. He married her in 24 when he was only 93 years old. Uh, uh, yeah. Uh, former U.S. Speaker Paul Eddie Munster Ryan was also there. Former Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin. These are all people who have benefited from Rupert's filthy propaganda. Owner of the Dallas Cowboys, who hasn't seen a Super Bowl ring in quite some time.

Jerry Jones was there. as was Robert Kraft, the owner of the Pats, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. There's no shame among that class. None whatsoever. And by the way, we are in the third hour of the program. I'm so grateful that we are not a goose egg. We are down to 2746.

And God, if we could just finish with February, that would be fantastic. And take a load of stress off of your humble hostess who has to travel this weekend and hopefully pay bills before doing so. From Michael, Israel, the best ally? I wouldn't trust Israel to have our back. They play the victim when, in fact, they've started pretty much every war they've been in since the 19th. since the late 1940s, maybe not the very first war after Britain said,

see you bitches on your own. But, yeah. Oh, no. Trust Israel, please. Does the name Jonathan Pollard ring a bell? Isn't he why, at least a big part of why Israel has, you know, the bomb? We don't talk about Israel having the bomb.

But Israel has a bomb. Several bombs. And there is a school of thought, if you can call it that in Israel, that well, if the feces eventually do hit the oscillating blades, they're willing to take the world with them. And that, well, that's a terrifying thought. Sickening, too. From Billable, Rick. Hey, Billable.

Lindsey Graham in Spain. I bet that Lindsay Graham has never been to Spain and I hear that the ladybugs are insane there. No singing, damn it. I saw the no singing morning, so I didn't. So thank you, Billable. That's a double Ramalama Ding-Dong for you, tying the great three-dog night song to Lindsay's little ladybugs.

Don't even try to imagine. That way you don't have to use the mind bleach. Well played, Billable. Well played. But what was the warlord, said a moment ago, has some truth to the air of truth to it. Apparently, over the weekend, particularly on Sunday, nitwit Nero lost his shit again some more.

According to the Financial Times columnist Ed Bluse, citing sources inside the White House, dipshit diocletian flipped out Luce's words over oil prices approaching $120 a barrel. You're not going to stop there.

He talked about it on MS now. Speaking to Politico, a White House insider, confirmed the freak out. And multiple officials confirmed the administration has never seriously entertained changing its military approach in response to oil price increases. At the worst moments, however, Sunday night, it was insane, someone close to the White House said.

That definitely surprised me, and it absolutely surprised them. Really? You were surprised that you start an entire region-wide war with a military capable of shooting back, and you're surprised that the oil prices are going up? The oil market is so... The oil market is a terrified chihuahua, shivering under the bed, looking like it's trying to pass a peach pit in a thunderstorm.

Mohammed bin Bonesaw gets the sniffles and the market goes up. The price per barrel. And so all day Monday, the staff in the White House did the best that they could, given that they were constrained by the fact that they had, to lie about it. They tried to get the shivering little oil traders to stop grabbing up the price of oil. Everything's going to be all right.

I'm telling you, everything's going to be all right. When I say things are going to be all right, they're going to be all right. All right? Because, you know, this is all. Nitwit Nero just took an AR-15 and dumped the magazine into the magazine into the, the feet of the Republicans in Congress. Oh, daddy's lowered the cost of living.

Meanwhile, according to the pollsters at Quinipiac, 70% of voters say that, yeah, we're a lot nervous about oil prices going up as a result of the war. Meanwhile, proving just exactly how clueless they are, White House spokes crepe Taylor Rogers

said, well, these elevated oil and gas costs. are just short-term disruptions. Utterly clueless. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Monica. I just said, I swear if you don't quit with the ladybugs. Hard to resist.

But these short-term disruptions to nitwit Nero have a way of turning into family-crushing crises for people who weren't born in the purple. as it were. Or the plaid. Whatever. I wonder if Nitwit Niro even knows what gasoline smells like. I think it's a fair inquiry, don't you?

They're just short-term disruptions. And, you know, that's why Nitt Nero was screaming all the fun words on Sunday and flipping out. Well, Italy sees what happens when it crosses $130 a barrel. Uh-oh. might be time for taco. Declare victory and run away. Meanwhile, little Lindsay ladybugs is out to saying,

We're going to be rich! Oh, my goodness, my stars and garters, we're going to be richer than we ever... How are you going to get rich off this war, Lindsay? How are we, the United States, going to get rich off of a war that's costing us a billion dollars a day? Oh. Are you trapped in 2003, Miss Lindsay? you know when the oil from the Iraq war was going to pay for the war itself I'm sorry Micah but Lindsay Ladybugs may actually stick

but now we've reached the I don't know her she isn't my type part of the program for Tangerine Tiberius some enterprising pixel-stained wretch actually asked him about murdering 140 or 150 schoolgirls. You know, the ones who weren't going to have any

career opportunities anyway. Who was that yesterday? And now, this guy who is supposedly definitely in charge of the whole world and the whole war. Wow. He came out to brag and then he got a hard question and what? Who? You're saying I killed some little girls? I'm telling you you can't believe it. What's in the Epstein's files? It's all the Democrat hooks. As you know, we're doing something

that nobody ever thought was possible to do. Our military is the best. It's the most powerful in the world and they're hitting them very hard this is 47 years of abuse that's the con that somehow in 2026 after 47 years yeah we've just finally had enough 47 years 47 years of abuse nitwit nero you were about you you you you were you were you were alive when uh we overthrew the democratically elected government of iran granted you young and probably even that early on mentally defective but you were around and killing lots of people killing and maiming lots of people what is it peter what more do you need to do militarily for this operation to end more the same and we'll see how that all comes out right now they are they've

lost their navy they've lost their air force they have no anti-aircraft apparatus at all. And yet somehow they set fire to an oil depot in Oman in the last 24 hours, hit the airport in Dubai in the last 24 hours, are threatening to take out, and this will really matter, this will get the Arab world to sit up and take notice, threatening to go after the banks, you know, that are funding all of this. Mm-hmm. Oh, but we're obliterating, and we're hitting and so hard. They have no radar. Their leaders are gone. They got a new Ayatollah, and when you kill him, there will be another Ayatollah behind him, dumbass.

Because it's Ayatollah's all the way down, dumbass. And we could do a lot worse. We're leaving certain things that if we take them out or we could take him out by this afternoon. In fact, within an hour, they literally would never be able to build that country back. Never, never be able, never be able, because they don't have construction supplies. You know, when Ed Luce said that he flipped out, part of that flip out probably had to do with his partner in peace, Psycho Bebebe, launching air strikes on refineries and storage facilities in Tehran and making it. rain, greasy oil, because I'm pretty sure that had a little bit of an impact on the whole oil prices going crazy thing. I never heard of those little girls.

They weren't my type. Yeah, I know. There we are again. Steve in New York. Don't fuck with the money. Binsta. How many of it times have I told you not to touch the dirty money? Ah.

Lee in New York answering my question. Does Nitt Niro know what gas smells like? Probably Lee says. I suspect Ivana gave him a chance to smell gas in a closed kitchen after he raped her. True. Is that before or after he ripped her hair out by the handfuls? Mm-hmm. What little girls? I haven't heard of that. It's been all over the news, dumbass.

You're the most well-informed president in the history of president, and you don't know about the 140, 150 little girls trying to get an education in an all-girls school that you fucking murdered because, well, hurting little girls, that's your jam? from Reverbo Paul Krugman again lends some insight into the oil mess The importance of drill baby drill

America produces a lot of oil It doesn't matter Krugman noting Donald Trump Talked a lot of nonsense about energy during the 2024 campaign That apparently continued recently At a Black Rock seminar featuring Doug Bergum

You know there's a very famous dish It's an Appalachian staple. Not a staple, but it's quite well known. You can look it up. It is a soup or stew called Bergou. Pretty good, as opposed to Doug Bergoum, which is pretty awful. But anyway, in fairness, Krugman says some of the underlying premises behind Drill Baby Drill were accepted by many people. at the very least it was widely presumed that U.S. self-sufficiency in oil would protect America from disruptions in oil supplies overseas.

But that presumption was wrong. America produces a lot of oil substantially more than we consume, although we import some oil mainly from Canada and Mexico, while exporting even more oil, mainly from Texas. We buy hardly any oil from the Persian Gulf, yet the closure of the Straits of Hormuz has caused U.S. prices of oil products to soar self-sufficiency in oil. oil has done nothing to insulate the U.S. economy from Middle East chaos. And I'll just take a little moment here and note that there's only one thing that can disconnect us from bellicose chaos in that benighted region of the world. We had the story earlier about how the planet since around 2013 to 2015 is warming faster than thought. Well, there's one thing that can free us, and we don't have a lot of time.

But if we could figure out a way to be clean, green energy self-sufficient, then we could look at that shit hole and say, hey, kill each other, do what you want to do. We don't give a fuck. We don't need your filthy fucking oil. take your oil and cram it up your ass and that would be a true day of freedom Krugman says some people have been shocked at the way

the U.S. gasoline diesel and heating oil prices have soared over the past few days but they shouldn't have been surprised so does U.S. oil production give Americans no insulation at all from world market events not under the current rules of the game in the 1970s Krugman recalls the U.S. imposed price controls on demand domestically produced oil and partially insulated consumers from global oil shocks.

Over time, however, these price controls led to shortages, the infamous gasoline lines. When price controls were lifted, they were replaced by a windfall profits tax intended to capture part of the gains experienced by oil companies. This tax was repealed after prices plunged in the mid-80s. What ever you think, Krugman continues, of these past policies, however, they took place in a political environment in which corporations and moneyed interests in general had far less power than they do now.

It's almost inconceivable that 1970s-type price controls or excess profits taxes would be imposed today, so U.S. prices of gasoline and other oil products reflect world crude prices, and the fact that America produces a lot of oil doesn't matter at all. If anything, U.S. families are more exposed to Middle East chaos than their counterparts in, say, Europe or Japan,

mainly because we drive bigger, less fuel-efficient cars. The people who decided to begin this war should have seen this coming. All the evidence, however, suggests that they didn't. The one thing that Mr. Krugman does not note is they didn't see it coming because they didn't want to see it coming because they're junkies. They're junkies. They're responding to the algebra of need. they're junkies, they're addicts, they can't live without

the oil and the riches, and who gives a good goddamn what happens to the American consumer? Right, junkies don't make good life choices. Whatever their intellectual abilities were beforehand, they get dumb when they get desperate. They get dumb when they get dumb when they're. the hunger kicks in. And as

Liam S. Burroughs pointed out, you would too. Thanks, Reverbo. And Reverbo earlier messaged me and said, the money was just too good. Who or what is going to effectively change this?

Okay, I'm going to say a little polyana-ish thing. We the people? I know. Yes. Steve, in New York, let's never forget who imposed?

price controls. Richard Millhouse, the big dick, Pinhead Nixon, who also signed the environmental protection agency into existence. Who also was the last president. This is no defense of him,

but these are just facts. Who also was the last president to suggest that a universal basic income wouldn't be a terrible idea. And from Cynthia, there was a Rolling Stone article today that Iran is considering or would like to send drones in from a ship to blow up targets in California. I can imagine likely targets if they did, though nothing that close to me unless my garden shed is a high-value target to blow up.

Still, though, I wouldn't count on Trump to protect much of anything in California. Hmm, muses, Cynthia, I do store my acorn smoker in that shed. So maybe they'd want to take it out. And you know how I'd feel about that. Oh, I'd be pissed! But you have to consider what you fix on that smoker. They are a bunch of theocrats, after all, dedicated to an invisible friend who is concerned with their diet.

But then again, Cynthia, I did touch on this earlier, and I touched on it yesterday as well. This was a be afraid, be very afraid thing from Trash Patel's incompetent FBI. the point was to try to scare Californians into thinking that Daddy was doing the right thing. Yeah. Oh, and this little bit of fun. God, there's so much out there. And we're under a half hour remaining in the program.

Again, we are at 2746. We will cross the dreaded $3,000 mark tomorrow. if we do not bring it down some more. Oh, by the way, in saying, I don't know about this school. What about this school? I don't know. Well, it's funny that he hasn't heard of it

and he doesn't know about it because it wasn't long back that he was saying, you know, the Iranians probably got, they probably, like, snuck away with, like, one of our missiles and, like, used it to bomb their own school children full of little girls. So he does know about it. He was just caught kind of flat-footed and didn't have a good lie ready to go.

Because, well, there's not much left sloshing around between his ears anymore, and it's mostly just shrieking spirochetes. What else? Well, you know how when we talked about the departure of Krusty, the nasty Nazi numb? The news story mentioned that her squeeze, the sex past Corey Lewandowski

going with her well a new report from the New York Post of all places says that Corey

thinks he is beyond the reach of any civilian authority speaking to Insider's last year according to the New York Post. He said, I'm not worried. I do what the fuck I want.

DJT will pardon me. Another source in the story said he was telling people he was going to get a pardon so he didn't have to worry. Some former Maggot campaign advisor said ah, Corey's always believed like the rules don't apply to him. People around Trump world have been wanting to see how that

ends. Meanwhile, Lewandowski contacted by the post said, never said that, never asked for a pardon, have no reason to receive one. Still got to wonder what it was that wasn't a blanket that was so embarrassing that Krusty got Corey so

wrought that he went and tried to fire a Coast Guard pilot. And then had to back down because well there was nobody else to fly the plane. Even if they'd had a cosplay costume for Krusty. She couldn't have flown the plane.

And Cynthia says no fucking way are they going to scare me into crawling to daddy. Not ever going to happen. I do have a couple of good middle fingers to fling his way, though. You go, girl. And do you remember the story about how Ken the Christian Paxton said that he would bow out of the runoff election against John Cornholio, in which John Cornholio is trailing badly? well Paxton said he would bow out if the Senate would pass the Save Act

you know that toxic piece of legislation that seeks to disenfranchise women and well a certain marginalized community from being able to go to the polls and vote

anything to save what looks like an absolute bloodbath of a midterm election this November. Well, in the New York Post, again, John Cornholio declared that he's changed his mind on the filibuster in order to pass the Save Act out of the Senate because he wants an endorsement from his orange Jesus. for many years I believe that if the U.S. Senate scrapped the filibuster, Texas and our nation would stand to lose more than we would gain.

Today, Democrats are weaponizing the Senate's rules to block the Save Act, defund the Department of Homeland Security, and hurt the American people, all despite President Donald Trump. Yeah, that's the reason, Cornholio, that's definitely... I am Cornholio. Can't resist. Yeah, that's the reason, Johnny, just to spite the pedophile that you protect. Not to save democracy, not to prevent millions of people in this country from being disenfranchised.

Cornholio removing his shoes and pulling on his knee pads and getting down on his knees, He said, the president has made the Save Act, America Act, his number one priority, and he is right. After careful consideration, I support whatever changes to Senate rules that may prove necessary for us to get the Save America Act and Homeland Security funding, past the Democrat's obstruction through the Senate and on the president's desk for his signature. Well, NBC News caught up with John Cornholio. to ask him why it was that he had done such a vote foss. He didn't like being asked that. You said that nuking the filibuster would be taking a wrecking ball to Senate rules.

Is that no longer true? Um, I said I'd be open to reforms. What would you say to those who say you've just changed your mind to win the president's endorsement? I'd say, uh, that's not true. You also said that it's leader... I think we're through. Go away. Thank you.

Go away. Or I shall taunt you a second time. Pissant. And he put his hand up to try to cover the camera. And I don't want to be right about this one. Oh, Jesus, I don't want to be right about this one. But it was a couple of years ago back when Joe to the mansion born and Kirtsey and Kirsten Cinema were still in the Senate. and there was a significant amount of conversation about maybe doing away with the filibuster

and Kertsey and Kristen and Joe to the mansion born both talked themselves blue in the face, blathering about how it would be the death of the Senate and how it was a democratic institution. It's not in the Constitution. And how it made the Senate actually work for the American people. yada, yada, yada, yada, yada. And I said back then, when we were actually trying to accomplish something

and getting rid of the filibuster would have done so, I said, oh, you fools, the minute that the Republicans find something that makes them want to nuke the filibuster, they'll do it. And they will laugh in your faces. while they do. Of course, it's just not just the voting stuff. Nitwit Niro expanded what he wants out of the Save Act.

Well, your humble OSTIS and many people similarly situated are on the menu. Disturbing decision out of the Fourth Circuit today. Maybe we'll get to that. I don't know. But if John Thune blows up the filibuster for this the nitwit Nero

may very well have stolen the 2026 midterms in advance I really don't want to be right about this this is one of those moments I don't want to be so far out ahead of the curve that it's like we're on the straight road

but it's terrifying this will be the end of anything resembling democracy in America it will be the death of the republic we will enter an era of imperial presidency as if we weren't already, but we weren't quite there. We will be there. God almighty. Thank you, Frank.

Frank just jumped in to help out. Thank you so much. We're down to $2,721 for the deficit. $21 more, and we're actually done with the funding for two Thursdays ago. Thank you, Frank, for getting us that close. so much. And of course, if we could round up $3211,

we'd be fully funded for the month of February. Finally, 11 days in March. The Save Act, Michael says, whatever happened to Republicans screaming and gnashing their teeth about states' riots, aren't they always screaming about that?

And yet no Republican says a fucking word when mango Manchild wants to nationalize voting. Well, that's not the rights they were talking about because remember, Michael, they were hollering states' rights when they were trying, they were, you know, going hammering tongs at trying to keep black folks from voting. And all the pernicious evil that went with that. And this would fit their agenda. Start with the transies. Move on to the women folk. And then, well, well,

Well, get back to that old Jim Crow. God. Somebody's on the stress line. Let's run over and find out who. Hey, welcome to the program. Good afternoon. Kurt, how are you? Kurt up here.

Yeah, how are you? Well, I'm doing pretty good. I've been busy here today, and I just kind of caught your show, just as you were talking about, oh, you know, the wonderful guy here from North Dakota. Brick up. Brigham. Yeah. Bergum. I mean,

Bregume, yes, yes, yes. Sounds like a fart in a bathtub. Right. Exactly. Exactly. Yes. But yeah, he has a computer company

down in Fargo. That's where he started. But he was also born with a silver spoon. His daddy had money, and his daddy was the one that helped him. Don't they always? Yeah.

Yes, yes. Oh, very much so. But you know, it's interesting. Most Americans don't realize, you know, that most of the oil here doesn't come here. It goes to Southeast Asia. I know the Bakken oil out here, out in western, you know, out there in Western North Dakota. Excuse me. I've been working on a VCR here all day, and I got it stripped all the way.

down, you know, just basically doing some maintenance. But anyway, I was working with a little bit of chemicals here. But anyway, that oil that we've got out of the pocket here, that goes to Southeast Asia, like, you know, South Korea, the Philippines, Japan, and the oil from Texas now, I don't know for sure where the oil from Texas goes, but I know it doesn't come here. The oil that we get comes from Canada or Mexico. And another thing is, too, a lot of people don't realize is that we're not part of OPEC.

So there's no way the president, he has no control over the price of oil, you know. It's just dumb. Yeah, stupid. And he's counting on the people to be. as stupid as they were when they sent him to office, assuming the election was not stolen, which I'm more and more convinced it was. And not only that, but I was going to tell you something else.

I don't know if I've told you this or that. I don't think I have. And that is up here in North Dakota, we have what's called the legacy fund. Now, that's the tax dollars that we get from the oil and stuff. and also, God, I can't remember, but it's like 30% off the taxes.

And we have now what's called the Legacy Fund, which, you know, helps pay for roads and repairs and, you know, education and healthcare in the rural areas, which is a good thing. And we have, I think it's around $44 billion now,

the last I checked. Now, however, These dumb fuckers in the Senate here, here in North Dakota, hired. Now hold on to this. Now hold on to your seat. I don't want you to fall off your chair. But they hired Kevin O'Leary. You know that dumb fuck?

Oh, yeah, yeah. You know, it's on the shark tank? Yeah, the dumbest man, one of the dumbest man in Canudlia. Yes, yes. And he's a shyster. Even up in Canada, they got suits on him or, you know, lawsuits on him. Well, evidently, he started what's called a wonder fund here in North Dakota. And he was hired to basically help the state, you know, show where to invest all this money that we've had up here.

and he was just being sued by one of his investors that was going to invest into this wonder fund. But the judge now dropped the case because of prejudice. And I don't remember the lady's name, but she was the one that brought on the suit. But there's some, you know, there's some funny shenanetives. going on up here with all the legacy fund. And, of course, I think they've, I think the last I saw, they lost like a billion dollars now because of the tariffs and stopped. So, yeah, it's, yeah, this state is crazy, but that Kevin O'Leary is a shister.

I mean, you can even see it on a, pure, pure con artist. And, you know, rightfully, did not the Canadian people just reject the hell out of him? Yes, right, exactly, exactly. And I was trying to think, I think it was Doug Bergam. He was the one that hired him. So, you know, he's, well, it's just crazy. But they have done some good, though, with the money here. I mean, you know, like I said, education, you know, fixing roads

and, you know, trying to keep the rural, you know, medical system going, hospitals and stuff, you know, which is a good thing, and education. And then there's other stuff in there, too. There's a lot of stuff that they use that money for. But I kind of wish they would do like what Alaska does, where they give everybody, you know, that's been in the state for, you know, like a certain amount of time. And then they kind of give them like refund checks and stuff.

But the difference is up in Alaska, the oil is, on public land. We're here. The oil is on private land. That's why they don't do it here. But that's the reasoning anyway. But I thought I'd just tell you how crazy it is up here. And I just thought I'd tell you about Kevin O'Leary,

the Scheister from Shark Tank or whatever the hell is called. There's always a grifter behind it somewhere. Lee in New York just pointed out, Wonder Fund. You invest in his Wonder Fund and wonder where your money went. Yes. Right. Now, that was pretty good. Yes.

Yeah, it's crazy. It's just absolutely crazy. It is. So how are things... Behind it, you know, behind every bad idea, there's a maggot grifter. Well, not only that. But it also shows how bad capitalism is, too. You know, you were talking about when I tuned in, you know, because I kind of tuned in late.

The main problem is unbridled, you know, capitalism. And like I said before, Roxanne, capitalism doesn't care about you or me or anybody. All it cares about is profit. and whether it kills you, well, too bad, you know, but we've got to make money. That's kind of the way it is. Right. Consume or die. Right.

Yeah, pretty much. It's not a good recipe for the continued success of the human species. It's what? I'm sorry. I said, it's not a recipe for success for the continuation of the human species. Oh, right. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Oh, that's right. And then the silly war now that we're engaged in, and yeah, I mean, where's the shit going to end?

And that's the million-dollar question. It's like Daryl in Houston just said, right? Damn it all to hell, Roxanne, you're never wrong. There's no way in hell the malevolve them, a leavened alesonine, grafting, asshole, grotesque, orange dump is going to allow a free and fair election in November, especially with the extreme court filled with unabashed fascists. Isn't that the truth?

Yes. Oh, for sure. For sure. Yeah. No, that's for sure. That's another thing, though, too. If we ever get out of this mess, I don't want to hear, and I know you mentioned this, too,

I don't want to hear, well, we just got to move on. No. Oh, my God, heads got a roll. Yes. People got to pay for this shit. Damn straight. Yeah. But I thought I'd call and just tell you about that, because I heard,

as I tuned in late here now today, I've been kind of busy. I was out in the mouth earlier today. The fact that you're brave enough to disassemble a VCR in 2026, oh my goodness gracious, Kurt. You're a hero. Well, where do you even get parts? Well, that's the problem. Well, I have, I have, I have, I have a couple of machines that I use for parts.

Roxanne. So I, all together here, I've got, well, there are a lot of combo units. I have a DVD recorders that I do a lot of my transfers on. And then I use my, I use my, I use my, laptop once in a while to kind of improve the, you know, the look. But I don't like using my laptop because the program, you know, you got to set this and you got to set that and it's this. It's just too much ginking around.

So I use a lot of DVD, you know, recorders or burners and stuff. But these are all, you know, but these are kind of like the later versions of VCRs and they're very easy to fix. One thing that Funei did do, because I do have a background in electronics, so, but one thing about these Punei products is that they really, toward the end of the, you know, at the end of the BCR, you know, cycle is that they really have the BCR down to a science. And what I mean by that is they use less parts and less circuit boards. So they're very, but they're very hard, like the one I'm doing now today that I just tore apart and now I'm just starting to put it back together.

I just did maintenance on it. And the one thing that go bad on these is when the, you know, the mode encoder switches get dirty, you know, when they get oxidized. So I have to, I have to strip everything out of it. And then I have to get right down to the board because that's right. where the mold encoder switch is. When I take that out, and then I use the Oxid DL 100 to clean it, which clays, but it also lubricates it too. So I was just doing some maintenance, and then I checked a couple of caps on the power supplies,

and that's it, and that's how I handle parts, because I have two that I use this basically for parts, for caps and belts or something. you know, that sort of thing. But I stay busy here. God, you know, I've been doing other people's stuff, and I haven't had time to really get to my own stuff. You know, I stay so busy, and it's kind of a side job, you know. And it keeps me busy.

Now that I'm getting older and, you know, I've got lots of time anyway now. You know, I'm going to be 65. Rock Sam within a couple weeks. And it's like, my God, where the hell to the time go? You know, Jesus. That's so true. So true. I find myself wondering that myself.

Yeah, that's right. It seems like it really, really goes by fast now, especially time. But it just seems like the winter just started. Now it's damn near over. We were 54 degrees here on Sunday. Oh, this past weekend was beautiful, and now it's going right back to hell. Yes, and we're supposed to get one to three inches by Friday, so we're back to snow. We're expecting it could, hell, it could snow here overnight.

Oh, is that right? Yeah. Well, I don't think it's going to stick, but still, bad enough. Tired of it, worn out, sick of it. So let snow, did you get? Oh, it's just, no, that's what I'm saying. It won't stick, but, well. Oh, I see.

The cold temperatures are depressing it. No, I got to, I got to wear shorts on Saturday, and it was like, ah, what a relief. Right, right. Yeah, no, I even opened up a window here in my apartment here on Sunday, too. It was just beautiful. It just felt good, that nice cool air. You know, it wasn't all that bad.

You know, I just cracked it just a little bit, just kind of like some fresh air here in this apartment here. But yeah, it was 53 degrees, and a lot of our snow is gone. But now we're supposed to get cold in here now towards the end of the week here. And one to three inches of snow, and we're going to be below zero by, Saturday. I think it was a two below or something. But, you know, it's still winter up in this part of the country.

Oh, goodness, yes. Well, look, I mean, we're not even the first day of spring yet, so. No, no, that's right. That's right. And here, I mean, I've seen over the years, I've seen deep snows in March. I remember, well, what, 1993? We had a March snowstorm.

Yeah, we had a March snowstorm, foot of snow. God, I hope that doesn't happen. Well, maybe this year it will do it in April. No. That's possible, too. Just kidding. No, that's possible, too.

The running wisdom here, as I've mentioned before, is you never plant your garden before Mother's Day. Oh, right, right. Well, you know, we've had snow up here in early May at times, you know. Although that hasn't happened now in quite a few years, but I remember back in the day, we used to get, you know, snowstorms in the first week of May at times. May of 1989, it snowed on May the first in Morgantown. Wow

Wow So yeah It's not unheard of Oh God But you know the further end of the season it gets The more possible it becomes for me, Kurt, To go out and cuss out individual snowflakes by name Well Kurt, I'm going to head out of here

You go ahead please Oh yeah I know I was just going to say, well, you know, they do say that each place is different from each other. Yeah, but the further you get towards spring, they're all assholes. All right. Well, I'll let you know that, but I thought I'd just call you and just tell you. All right, I'm glad you did, Curtis. I'm glad you did, Curtis.

I'm a wonderful state of North Dakota. Absolutely. It's always a delight to hear from you, Kurt. You take care and you stay warm. Spring will get there. Always. yes yes it looks in here fingers crossed take care kurt

bye our buddy kurt in north Dakota yeah micah you're right next up is allergy season followed up by actual spring that lasts the week something like that i think out the allergy season part of the program has already landed the little uh the little john cools are

dropping through. I've heard the peepers and like I said, I swear somebody's out there trying to kill the squirrels and it makes me ugh, so mad. From Cynthia, I wish the fuck I was 65 again and nine years later

65 feels like it was just yesterday. Sigh. Yeah, but you're yeah. Come on, Cynthia. Give me hope. You're young at heart. I know for a fact. Age, says Jude, in September I'll turn 78.

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