Head-ON With Robyn Roxanne Kincaid - Titanic Tuesday, Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid

Episode Date: March 4, 2026

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line number to, uh, uh, to the post. And, uh, you never know how that, how things might turn out. So, okay, uh, let's see. Regarding the aforementioned password, Well, brat. That would be the President of the United States, a spoiled brat, just like he has ever been. And in this context, what it means is that, well, he's trashing the special relationship with the folks across the pond on the Scepred Isle in Mereau de Engeland, otherwise known as Turf Island. which is actually found out a way, managed to treat trans people more horridly than even the United States, which is damned well saying something. But there's a bit of a, there's a bit of a tip, I said. I regret to say it.

There's a bit of tip between His Majesty's Government there in London. and the maggots here in the United States in D.C. Because, well, not wanting to unleash a barrage of terrorist attacks in the U.K., the U.K. government under Kier Starmer said, no, no, United States. You can't use our air bases to launch a sneak attack on. Iran and Spain said the same thing and goodness gracious the spoiled the spoiled brat the 79 year old toddler didn't like that at all and so he pouted nitwit Nero did uh to a tabloid in the UK the son gee I wonder who owns that and earlier today at the White House he said

this is not Winston Churchill that we're dealing with. I suspect it isn't. I suspect Kier Starmor's father did not have tertiary syphilis, something that nitwit Nero may actually share in common with Winston Churchill's father. This was the most solid relationship of all, and now we have a very strong relationship with other countries in Europe. I mean, France has been great. Rubbin great. The UK has been much different from others. It's very sad to see that the relationship

is obviously not what it was. Eventually, and this just goes to show how badly degraded what used to pass for a mind is in in between nitwitner's brains where the spirochet's shriek each to each and the thin gray settlements that slosh around betwixt his ears. Because Britain did cooperate. They let us use the air base at Diego Garcia, which is where we keep a bunch of B-52s, to hit Iran's ballistic missile sites, but they weren't on board for helping to,

oh, I don't know, bomb a girl's school. Maybe they knew he'd fuck it up. Maybe they know as well or better than anyone else. What a fuck up he is. And Starmor, for his part, in that classic British way, dissed Donny Dipshit, saying, the government of his majesty in the United Kingdom doesn't believe in regime change from the skies.

Any UK actions must always have a lawful basis and a viable thought of through plan. President Trump has expressed this disagreement with our decision not to get involved in the initial strikes, but it is my duty to judge what is in Britain's national interest. Yes, he actually managed to call the President of the United States, and not wrongly I might add and this wit without saying so in quite such explicit terms because when you say that the war needed a lawful basis and a thought-out plan

that's essentially saying that nitwit Nero didn't have one of those either of those that it is not lawful and that it is not at all thought out, no. Which is kind of stunning given that the UK even went along with our filthy illegal attack on the innocent people of Iraq. Ah, that's saying something. Mm-hmm. And that reminds me of something that Cynthia mentioned. and she sent a quote along earlier today. In times like this, there's, it's never a bad idea to consult the works of one of America's

greatest literary minds of the 20th century. I'm talking about, of course, Kurt Vonnegut. Cynthia said earlier, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas. Kurt Vonnegut, in talking about the worst sunny boy, started said by saying that our leaders are power drunk chimpanzees am i in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East their morale like so many bodies is already shot to pieces they're being treated as I never was like toys a rich kid got for Christmas that was a that was a profound rebuke of a dim leader and his filthy

war against the people of Iraq. And here we are. And this one's even worse. Hard to imagine, isn't it? But it is, since even worse, even worse, even the Moroccans didn't send monkeys this time. And of course, Vonnegut was saying that, saying that he and his comrades were never treated like toys a rich kid got for Christmas. Vonnegut served in the Second World War was present at the Battle of the Bulge, witnessed the machine gunning of American troops, and was then taken prisoner

and spent the remainder of the war primarily at Schlachchhausfunf in Dresden, a city with no military, targets. And the title of his book is, of course, Slaughterhouse Five, or the Children's Crusade. And he watched as Dresden was flattened and tens of thousands of civilians were slaughtered in an act of nothing more than retribution, not the Allies' greatest moment. Bomber Harris of the U.K. was in charge. charge of that one. And so Cynthia says I might add nothing ever seems to change except in that it

gets worse. Yep, that's what I thought. Leah in New York, the son, owner, Murdoch. Is, Rupy. That Ropee owns the son. He's. Ah, if we ever, we ever build that time machine, we should probably go back and strangle him mean he's creed. Rupert, may at all. So that's sort of a starting place. There's lots of other places to go.

The post that Micah put up at Blue Sky, and remember, that's at head on. Live, if you are, if you're so inclined, and you're not already, sign up at Blue Sky. Follow that account. follow me at robin rocks.bsky.com. social. And we'll continue the conversation

when the program isn't on the air. But, well, nitwit Nero has since declared, he's declared a lot of things. What he needs to be declared is non-compostmentis. But, well, 22th Amendment? What, 20th Amendment?

Fifth Amendment. But he's decided that we're going to have escorts in the straits of Hormoose. As I mentioned to Micah, he probably thinks Hormus is a promiscuous ungulate and an escort. You know, like his wife. Oh, come on. Hormous? Promiscuous ungulate? I work hard at these things. Tough crowd. So you wonder how many American sailors will find themselves in Davy Jones locker as a result of that. God Almighty. And then there's the letter, the letter that Nitwit Nero sent to Congress. Yeah, this is a heck of a thing.

Yeah, I know, Flavio. I mentioned it on the program yesterday. You can't make this shit up on Monday. melanoma was at the UN promoting peace through education. No, really. Yeah, I mentioned it. And in fact, in one of those moments of sublime delight, I mentioned it in conversation with David out in Oregon. And David replied, no, he didn't, no, she didn't. No, she didn't. Yes, she did. No, she didn't. Yes, she did. And what did they would say? I refuse to, my mind refuses to even acknowledge that that possibility exists. Yeah. I guess they'll let anybody, even streetwalkers, talk at the UN now. But the greater import is the fact that

we have the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council right now, which might explain the timing of this dumbass attack. But Nitwit Niro did in fact send a war powers resolution. notification to Congress today and well it's one of those yeah I know I know Lee in New York's

written in pen pencil crayon Sharpie no real way of knowing who authored this because it damn sure wasn't nitwit Nero

my second in 2026. Dear Mr. President, is this directed to the President of the Senate? The President Pro Tem of the Senate, yes. Chuckles Grassley, who probably has no real idea where he is. I write to apprise you of military action taken on February 28th,

2026, against the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, i have separately notified you of changes in the global posture of the united states forces in the middle east in response to threats emanating from then ongoing tensions with iran Ben, I'm going? Oh dear. Really? Who wrote this? Susie Wiles? She's probably as literate as anyone in that gang of cut purses and foot pads and highwaymen and ditch dwellers. Marco Lupio?

As I previously communicated to the Congress, Iran remains one of the largest, if not the largest, state sponsors of terrorism in the world. Despite the success of Operation Midnight Hammer, the Iranian regime continues to seek the means to possess and employ nuclear weapons. Oh, no, that's a lie. It's a ray of ballistic cruise and anti-ship and other missiles pose a direct threat to,

under attacking United States forces, commercial vessels, and civilians as well as those of our allies and parts, Well, they weren't until we started a war with them. What do you expect them to do, big Venezuela? And just roll over? Despite my administration's repeated efforts to achieve a diplomatic solution to Iran's malign behavior, the threat to the United States and its allies and partners became untenable.

That's a hell of a note. By the way, that's for Lee. I figured out what the acronym Epic stands for. Epstein pedophile in crisis. Yeah. Accordingly it at my direction on February 28, 2026, the United States forces conducted precision strikes against numerous targets within Iran, including a girl's school. No, no, I'm sorry.

including ballistic missile sites, maritime mining capabilities, air defenses, and command and control capabilities. These strikes were undertaken to protect United States forces in the region, protect the United States homeland, advance vital United States' international interests, including ensuring the free flow of maritime commerce through the Strait of Hormuz and in collective self-defense of our regional abys. including Israel.

Yeah. Bebe Netanyahu will fight a round down to the last American soldier. No United States ground forces were used in these strikes. But they have been killed. And the mission was planned and executed in a manner designed to minimize civilian casualties. We only killed 140 or so little girls, and it's not much of a loss, because, well, you know, Epstein, deter future attacks and neutralize Iran's malignant activities. Is that how you say it, malignant?

That's what you say like when your brain cancer is spread all over the place. It's malignant? That's a malignant. And here's the fun part. Although the United States... Oh, back to the stupid voice. Although the United States desires a quick and enduring peace, it is not possible at this time to know the full scope and duration of military operations that may be necessary.

As such, United States forces remain postured to take further action as attacks upon the United States or its allies and partners and ensure the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran ceases being a threat to the United States, its allies, and the international community. In other words, Israel. I have put American forces in harm's way so that if they die, they will die for a good cause,

be the Netanyahu. I added that part. I directed this military action consistent with my responsibility to protect Americans and United States interests, both at home and abroad, and in furtherance of the United States national security and foreign policy interests in those of Israel, added that part again. I acted pursuant to my constitutional authority as commander-in-chief and chief and chief executive

to conduct United States foreign relations for Israel. I am providing this report as part of my efforts to keep the Congress fully informed, consistent with the war powers resolution, public law 93-148. I appreciate the support of the Congress in these actions, and so does Israel. Sincerely, clan rally squiggle. I remember the protests against the impending Iraq war when we said, No war for oil. That at least had a commercial goal. It was a stupid commercial goal.

But no war for Israel. China has a ring to it, doesn't it? They're grown-ups, they're big boys. They've got one of the best trained fighting forces in the whole entire universe. Let them use it. Hey, here's a funsy. Let's some of those deadbeat orthodox boys. boys who have to spend all their time studying scripture.

Let them put down their reading glasses and go and sign right up for the IDF. Just like, you know, just like little Boron Trump needs to sign up here in the United States. Maybe Jimmy Dick Bowman or Jady the egg might be able to pull some strings with the Marine Corps and get little boron assigned to the fighting keyboard squadron that he himself was a part of. And probably not. No real evidence out there that little boron can form a coherent, complete, sentence and honestly there's no there's nothing good there's no good news out of this and this is just going to be a shit show for the foreseeable future but the pull the the the the the the

poll quote from that excrescent piece of uh barely literate garbage that he sent to Chuckles Grassley that Chuckles Grassley will never read, is that he has no idea, and it's rather like what Kiyostama said, he has no idea how to end this thing, because he's in it, and now he has to find a way out of it. But there are a lot of problems with that. Not the least of which is we weren't just sitting around. Yeah, we're at peace. We weren't just sitting around with a shit ton of munitions. Then we're going to use them up. And then what? Mm-hmm. No blood for Israel. I mean, all of this entire thing is so Godforsaken sick. Wait. Ah, from Dave in the Blind. I object on behalf of all moose in Alaska.

What about the Mooses' Ciciss in Spain? Hell, I think there's Mooses in Minnesota and Montana and other. Maine? Yeah. But Dave notes, the last time Moose got politically active, Roxanne, was during the run for president by Theodore Roosevelt, who was a bull moose when he tried to return to the White House. The moose in Alaska would like the Horn family community congregation, you know, that none of their species are currently working in the white supremacist horror,

where Donnie, also known as the First John and Melanoma, known as the first escort, are currently residing. And Michael, speaking of Orthodox Jews and Boron, I saw that Israel is going to make the Orthodox Jews sign up for the military, and they're pissed. Good! apparently back in the 1940s when Israel was a baby country they said the Orthodox Jews wouldn't have to join the army and now they do and then I saw something and apparently Trump said

Boron can't join the military because of his height what so now you can be too tall to fight in a war he's too tall to hit in the trenches his little his little pumpkin head would just stick right up above the trench and just say shoot me I mean he could never be a he could never be a fighter pilot. He's too tall for the cockpit. Not to mention the fact that, well, he has hereditary bonespurs. I mean, can you imagine a boy that tall on a submarine? Yeah, but what about being an airdale on an aircraft carrier? Yeah, one of the one of the dudes who wears the high visibility

jackets and guides the jets in onto the land on the flight deck, I would think a, a tall guy would be at an advantage in that regard. Hey, look, that's one tall some bitch down there. Right, you are on both counts. Sorry about the buzz buzzes. That's what happens when messages come through. I got some interesting information. oh wait clarence writing says war economic fallout my employer penske corporation just sent an email to the entire fleet go and top off all fuel tanks fuel prices will increase tomorrow thanks drumpf you reckon we can get some little stickers printed to quietly put on the gas pumps of nitwit nero pointing at the price of gasoline and say i did that but there's an aspect to this entire disgusting piece of performative violence that we need to take a look at. We'll start with a memo from the, well, the DUI hire, Whiskey Pete Kegbreath.

This is a memo about aligning senior service college opportunities with American values. and so this goes back to what I think I had mentioned earlier all about how their whiskey Pete is big mad at Harvard and Yale and MIT and Ivies and Ivy Adjacents. And so we're not going to use those schools anymore to advance the career education of a higher-ranking military personnel. Professional military education. See, I almost slipped into nitwet narrow there. It's a gross thought.

Stop it. Still, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no rem shot for poor moose. Depressing, I'm telling you. Our professional military education institutions are among our most sacred and essential means to restore and maintain the warrior ethos

within the Dow. Dow Jones Industrial Average? No, Department of War. It is imperative that our warfighter education system forges strategic senior leaders who are trained to think critically, free of bias, and influence. PME is a bedrock upon which we build lethal warfighters grounded in the founding principles that underpin Merkin exceptions.

A, you could laugh for this not so gravely stupid. To that end, our PMA institutions must return to the fundamental mention of focusing our military leaders on core national security strategy issues. We must develop strategic thinkers through education grounded in the founding principles and documents of the Republic, embracing peace through strength. Peace is our profession. Where did I say that? Oh yeah, Dr. Strangelove and American ideals and focused on our national strategaries and grounded in realism.

We will no longer invest in the institutions that fail to sharpen our leaders war fighting capabilities are that undermine the very values they are sworn to defend. The department is strategically refocusing the education of its senior officers. Therefore, per my February 6th, 2026 memorandum,

Whoa! Rebuilding the Warrior Ethosin Professional Military Education! Whoa! We are eliminating certain senior service college fellowship programs from the 26, 2027 academic year and beyond. I'm also directing the compilation of a revised list of elite institutions, offering equivalent programs to replace those eliminated.

Elite institutions. keep that in mind so no more MIT no more Harvard no more Yale no more Stanford no more brown and what are we replacing it with oh dear we're replacing it we're replacing those August institutions and I'm not kidding with Jerry Falwell University and Hillsdale College you know, beloved evil gelical sausage factories. But that goes right hand in hand with something that Mikey Weinstein, the folks at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, have been pointing out and holler into the house tops.

Numerous, and I do mean numerous. U.S. commanders have told the troops and this is scary that our sneak attack on Iran is the opening salvo of God's final battle and that they're going to usher in Armageddon for Jebus. In fact, they're being told that they will be, they will die as martyrs for Christ. and that Almighty God has chosen a coward, a man of defective brain, a draft dodger, a misogynist, a pedophile, a man who has participated in the murder of little girls to lead them in a holy war. You get the idea this isn't going to go over.

Well, and the story's already out there, and our story. allies and what is sometimes referred to by members of the multi multi millionaire for profit media as the Arab street well I remember back a couple of a score of years ago sorry Abe when we got caught putting Bible verses on the barrels of military military rifles and soldiers were dousing their ammunition in lard, you know, pig fat, just to especially offend the sensibilities of our Muslim partners in peace. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been a bulwark against the religious radicalization of the U.S. military for ages now.

And Jonathan Larson put the information out there via his substack, writing, A Combat Unit Commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran War is part of God's plan and that President Donald Trump was anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth. probably should have saved this for prayer meeting Wednesday, but here we are.

Have these fuckers ever even read the Bible that they claim to base their lives upon? Because I don't think they have, even remotely. The reference to Armageddon, which is the Hellenization of Har Megiddo, McGido is still a place in Palestine, and there was a tremendous battle. fought there once upon a time. And it's kind of amazing because if you think about it, well, there's crazy-ass John of Patmos writing the book of revelations in the, oh, second century of the common era. And it was still a historically known fact when the fact of the matter is,

the battle was fought something like 1400 years before between, if I recall correctly, the Hittites and the Pharaoh Ramsey's, I believe, the second. Ramsey's established himself as a force to be reckoned with, but basically both sides, I think, claimed victory. and not too awful long after that, despite the bloodshed, lo and behold, those two Bronze Age civilizations, cultures, had become friends and trading partners and were sending grain and such like to each other and trading and staving off famine and things like that.

but by the time you get to the really creepy part of revelation i mean john of patmos was hallucinating profoundly and this is one of those situations where hallucinogens did not turn out to be prophylactic no i mean there's all kinds of bloody references to the final battle, Revelation 1616, the Battle of the End time, fundamentally dumb.

And the starting, the jumping off point is McGito, Har McGiddo, Mount McGiddo, but it's been reinterpreted to just global worldwide warfare, where the blood will run as high as the chins of the horses, which kind of presupposes we'll be using horses in war again. The kings of the earth will be gathered to oppose the authority of almighty God. I guess in this case, in the form of B.B. Netanyahu. Problem is, Jebus has to come back first. because he's the head general, a guy known as the Prince of Peace.

Revelations is a hot mess. There's a reason it's not in the Vulgate. And so, you know, God's judgment will be brought forth upon the planet. Let's take a quick look at this apocalyptic baloney. I don't want, yeah, I want the King James Version. And this is the chapter where all the angels, angels pour shit out all over the place and I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels go your ways and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth yeah so much

for promise and never to destroy well I only said by water fire is still an option so is nuclear radiation and the first went and notice they they the voice goes out of the temple there's no oh got to build that be a shame if a ballistic missile somehow just accidentally landed on the dome of the rock there where the temple used to stand then bebe could rebuild the temple solomon he ain't and the first went and poured his vial out upon the earth and there fell a noisy and grievous soar upon the men which had the mark of the beast and upon them which worshipped his image a grievous sore You mean like festering lesions crawling up the neck of a certain pedophile president? And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea. And it became as the blood of a dead man. And every living soul died in the sea.

Well, every living soul? That's not going to leave a lot for the other angels to do if everybody's already dead. and the third angel poured out his vile upon the rivers and fountains of waters and they became blood who yeah laiselle le bontomp roulet we're gonna make budin but the share and i heard the angel of the waters say thou art righteous o lord which art and wasst and shall be because thou hast judged thus brown knowser for they have shed the blood of saints and prophets and thou hast given them blood to drink for they are worthy does does the slaughtering 140 little girls trying to go to school count and I heard another out of the altar say we ain't got no altar either even so Lord God Almighty true and righteous are thy judgments

knob polisher and the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun and power was given unto him to scorch men with far I'd say the angel's going to get a little scorching along the way too and men was scorched with great heat and blasphemed the name of God which hath power over these plagues and they repented not to give him glory this you know this this reads like a rejected pink Floyd album

I say, that's crazy talk. Of course I'm mad. I've always been mad. And it goes on and there's angels pouring shit all over the place. You got fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast and his kingdom was full of darkness and they gnawed their tongues for pain. Yeah, how about that? Doesn't sound real good for nitwit Nero, does it? It sounds even worse for the people who think nitwit Nero is God's anointed. I mean, that's stupid.

And the sixth. And this is one of those moments. I think of our dear departed friends, Scott Marinoff, Scott and San Diego. We used to have delightful conversations about an entertaining old charlatan by the name of Hal Lindsay. All this crap is just recycled Hal Lindsay. who back in the late 60s or early 70s penned an interpretation of the end times prophecies called the late great planet Earth and who we I mean it sold oh I've never seen hot cake sale I don't know that they sell that well it sold like little little girls at an Epstein auction

Ew. I'm going to shower with bleach after the program. And they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores and repented not of their deeds. If it shingles that's running up the neck of Nittwit Nero, and that would seem to be the most likely answer, that would make you blaspheme the God of heaven. God damn it, this hurt so fucking much. and nitwit nero's not in the repentant business sixth angel poured out his vial on the great river euphrates been hearing a lot about the euphrates lately what with uh pastor brother minister governor former presidential candidate and diabetes snake oil salesman ambassador mike huckster be barking and grunting about it to testicle toasting tucky o rose carlson saying yeah his rule should do it all the way to the euphrates and I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. Let's see, we got a dragon.

We got a beast and we got a false prophet. So it went Nero, Bibi Netanyahu, Edomar Ben-Givir, Bill Zils Smotrich. Plenty, plenty of potential nominees there. they are the spirits of devils working miracles which go forth unto the kings of the earth and the whole world and gather to them the battle of the great day of God Almighty but that making way making the way the kings of the east might be prepared bullshit back in the day how Lindsay said that was and I'm here to tell you they've already got a series of dams on the Euphrates where with a flip of a switch they can just dry the riverbed up and the kings of the east that would be your commonest Chinese can come a marching right across and he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew

tongue Armageddon interesting that John of Patmos is saying in the Hebrew tongue apparently he didn't read Hebrew old Johnny being apparently a Greek and all and the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven from the throne saying it is done and there were voices and thunders and lightnings and there was a great earthquake such as was not since men were upon the earth so mighty earthquake and so great and the great city was divided into three parts and the cities of the nations fell and the great babylon came in remembrance before god to give unto her the cup of the world wine of the fierceness of his wrath and every island fled away and the mountains were not found these are the ravings of a lunatic although the business about the angel and the fire that does i have to confess that does sound a little bit like climate change doesn't it So that's what all this blathering is about. And in the space of time from Saturday morning through last night, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation logged over 110 similar complaints about commanding officers saying that Donald Trump was the anointed of almighty God.

one person filing a complaint said, I'm a non-commissioned officer in a unit currently outside the Iran combat zone, but in ready support status deployable at any time. The NCO said they were Christian and emailed the MRFF on behalf of 15 troops, at least 11 Christians, one Muslim, and one Jew. Mikey Weinstein, whom I referenced earlier, the president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and its founder, who actually served in the Reagan White House once upon a time,

not like he's a hardcore liberal or anything. He told Jonathan Marson that they're getting swamped. These calls have one damn thing in freaking common. Our MRFF clients, service members who seek MRFFAA reported the unrestricted euphoria of their commanders and command chains as to how this new biblically sanctioned war is clearly the undeniable sign of the expeditious approach of the fundamentalist Christian end times, as vividly described in the New Testament book of Revelation.

Many of their commanders, Weinstein continued, are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with the fundamentalist Christian end of the world eschatology. And this is what an entire generation or more of process. proselytization and capture of the military by the religion industry has rot. And Weinstein did note that they see this shit happen from time to time. Whenever this ship blows up with Israel in the Middle East, back in 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel, an Air Force commander said in a briefing,

the war between Israel and Hamas has all been foretold by the Book of revelation in the gospel of Jesus Christ and no one can do anything about that and Larson goes on to recount you may recall when a dim leader went to Israel and said he he-he-he-ha-h-ha-tall-me-trak a rack and I did and went on to call what we were doing a crusade which went over like a turd in a punchbowl with our Muslim partners of the billing or willing here's the email, one of the emails that Mikey Weinstein received. Mr. Weinstein, thank you for taking my calls and the calls of some of my colleagues as to what happened earlier this morning with our combat unit.

Please protect my identity and the identities of those I'm speaking for as we discussed. Our unit is not currently in the combat zone AOR regarding the Iranian attacks, but we are in a ready support function where we could be deployed there at any moment to join and augment to combat operations as participants. I am a rank in our unit. This morning, our commander opened up the combat readiness status briefing by urging us to not be afraid as to what's happening with our combat operations in Iran right now. I don't think they're afraid.

I think the saner members of our military are deeply worried that the civilian leadership has completely lost the plot and gone entirely off the goddamn rails. I mean, I have no doubt that you're already thinking of what I'm already thinking of. The benchmark for military lunacy has been with us for a while. And, well, there's no better time than this. Just for a reminder. Yeah.

Here we go. I suppose it never occurred to you that while we're chatting here so enjoyably a decision is being made by the president and the joint chiefs in the war room at the Pentagon and when they realize there was no possibility of recalling the wing

there will be only one course of action open total commitment Mandrick do you recall what Clemensow once said about of war. No, I didn't think I do, son. He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right.

But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, or the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced under our precious bodily fluids. Without the knowledge of the individual? Certainly without any choice.

But your hardcore Kame works. Jack, Jack, listen, tell me, tell me, Jack, when did you first become, well, develop this theory? Well, I, uh, I first became aware of it, Man Drake, during the physical act of love. Huh? Yes, a, a profound. sense of fatigue, feeling of emptiness followed.

Luckily, I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. There's a modern term for that. Loss of essence. I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrae. Women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrae. Yeah. But I do deny them my essence.

Yes, yes. Yes. Yes. Oh, Jesus. Pure lunacy. Jeremy pointing out, the more you hear Bible verse, the more kinky and early porn-related, they seem. Mm-hmm. The newest military school, S-K-A-O-O-L, S-K-O-L. Lee in New York says, CFU, Cannon Fodder University.

Why not? Wait, that's what the military service academies are for. But they're woke. but back to the email in question the commanding officer urged us to tell our troops that this was all part of god's divine plan and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the book of revelation referring to armageddon and the imminent return of jesus christ He said that President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran and cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth. He had a big, good God. He had a big grin on his face when he said all of this, which made his message seem even more crazy. We're crazy.

Our commander would probably be described as a Christian first supporter. He's been this way for a very very crazy. long time and makes it clear that he desires all of us under him to become just like him as a Christian. But what he did this morning was so toxic and over the line that it shocked many of us in attendance at the ops readiness briefing. Besides myself, I'm reaching out to MRFF on behalf of 15 fellow troops. I know you ask me about the religious views of our group and who's requested help from the MRF. I can only tell you that I'm Christian and at least 10 of the others are also Christians, one of the others is Jewish and one is Muslim.

Fellas, y'all are in trouble. I don't know the religious or non-religious status for the other three at this time. I and my fellow troops know that it is completely wrong to have to suffer through what our commander said today. It's not just the separation of church and state as we discussed Mr. Weinstein. It's the fact that our commander feels as though he is fully supported and justified by the entire unit, chain of command, to inflict his Armageddon views, of our attack on Iran, that would be sneak attack, on those of us beneath him in the chain of command. I hope by sending this email to you that this will help expose these wrong actions which destroy morale and unit cohesion and are in violation of the oaths we swore to support the Constitution.

And hopefully, I don't know how you would go about it, but hopefully Mikey Weinstein out's this crazy nut fuck. This is worrisome. This is frightening because this is how disasters are made. And the fact that these religious lulus can read all that and not wonder if we're the baddies. Wow. Disturbing indeed. his part, Mikey Weinstein said these calls have one damn thing in freak in common. Our MRFF clients

report the unrestricted euphoria of their commanders in command chains as to how this new biblically sanctioned war is clearly the undeniable sign of the expeditious approach of the fundamentalist Christian end times as vividly described in the New Testament book of Revelation. These are people who, these are officers who need to have their commissions pulled. out sword broken buttons ripped off off of off of tunics nuts but to a larger degree it's also terribly indicative of why our military so easily follows illegal orders because everyone who carried out those orders starting on Saturday was following illegal orders in violation of their oath to the Constitution. And of course it goes hand in glove with the fact that the DUI hire,

Whiskey Pete Smegbreath, well, he has essentially appointed ad hoc, a chaplain to the Pentagon, who is a genuine, no-kidden, catch him with a butterfly net, insane man. He set up a gospel shop in D.C. he comes out of I think Idaho he's got branches now he's franchising and among other things he wants to see the repeal of the 19th amendment because women ain't got no business voting and more disturbingly he's validating the ignorance and the superstition and the unconstitutional conduct of all of these nut jobs. Worrysome, to say the very least, deeply disturbing. Yeah, Riverbo just sent me the screen grab from Dr. Strangelove. General Buck Turgensen in the war room.

You can't let that comedy in here. He'll see everything. He'll see the big board. Don't you go anywhere, honey? oh, Bucky'll be back before you can say blast off. There was a certain amount of satire in Dr. Strange Love. This ain't that. These nut jobs are for real.

Holy smoke. And a couple of emails from Balmer Bob. It gets worse. I used to comfort myself in the belief that the best thing about Trump is his incompetence it limited the damage he could do. There's no such thing as comfort now. The latest Domassery is Cash Patel's gutting of a group known as C.I.12, a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring threats from Iran and its proxies. Days later, Trump toppled Iran's regime and sparked a sprawling regional conflict in the Middle East.

There is method to their madness, Bob. Thanks for that. the Bible Michael asked Doesn't it say in the Bible that we're not supposed to eat animals With split hooves like a pig Cloven hooves, yes Maga will cherry pick anything in the Bible

To make it work for them to get the masses Pissed off to something Same idiots believe all Muslims don't eat pork Well Jews aren't supposed to eat pork But they do Same as not eating shellfish And wearing mixed materials I don't read the Bible

But I know more than MAGA does A five year of old knows more than fucking MAGA does. Well, they don't want to know anything. They just want to believe things, Michael. And from Jimmy in the Great Northwest, onward Christian soldier. Do these MFs think they're the Knights Templars?

Just a thought. Oh, yeah, or the Knights of Santiago back during the reign of error when we were running an illegal war against the innocent people of Iraq. You had assholes running around with the cross of St. James. You know, Santiago. The Crusader Cross.

Which just happens to be tattooed onto the tit of the DUI hire Whiskey Pete Kegbreath. Religious Freaks. Daryl in Houston says, Once the chance one of these religious freaks uses their position to deliberately escalate the situation in order to help make their fantasy come true, I'd say it's closer to 100% than 0%. Religion is the worst and most deadly invention of the human mind. Yeah, too, it would take a whole show to explain why that that is absolutely true.

But it is. We'll meet again some sunny day, Vera Lynn, the song that closes Dr. Strangelove us. The bombs go off. And from Sylvie and the Committee for Surrealism in Everyday Life Reports, German belt buckles during the Nazi era read Gottmoodens. I'm sure you can translate. I wonder if the U.S. will follow likewise. At this point, might as well.

God with us. In fact, I think I said something earlier on social media to that effect. Let's just go ahead and start printing the Gottmood un's belt plates and have done with it. We're the fucking bad guys. Iran? Iran was bad guys. They killed their own people. Nothing funny about that, but Jesus.

Tristan said a few moments ago, I can't imagine any soldier who doesn't react with a whole body, Heimlich maneuver when that slimy orange fuck says their number will have to die for him. Sickening indeed. And from the other side of the coin, this. Brother Deacon Asa sent this to me, and it's a woman, an expat Iranian, comparing people outside of Iran partying and celebrating with the people who are having

live the reality of our filthy sneak attack. They killed all my people. They dropped bombs. They hit us again. And they killed the people's children. This is a woman in Iran. Video the rubble. To be very honest with you, I'm very disappointed in my own diaspora.

And a part of me is embarrassed because while we're getting... getting these shots of Iranian people under rubble and getting murdered and crying and screaming in the streets. I'm watching my own diaspora outside of the country dance and celebrate and continuously dance and celebrate while our family members are getting bombed. And you know, I'm a political dissident, right? I was able to go back to Iran freely before I spoke out against the government. I understand the hurt and pain that comes with politically exiling yourself and or not by choice becoming politically exiled from your home country, your homeland.

It's a different kind of pain that I hope no one experiences. But dancing out in the streets like this, when your own people are getting bombed, I just, I'm finding, I'm finding a very hard to relate. Are we, we need to stop, like, when are we going to stop dancing and start coming back to reality. Good question. But then again, some of those people dancing in the streets, it really are paid protesters, paid celebrators, because we've been, you know, we the people, we've been trying to foster internal division in Iran and the Pallavi family have been palavering for some time now to get their asses back on purple cushions.

And the thing is, we have no earthly idea how to get out of this. Because Canckel's Collegula has decided to hug a big old grizzly bear that's covered in honey. And now they're stuck. There is so much out there this evening. It's almost impossible to get to everything. But, damn. Of all the things that no one took into account, and there's a lot of them, well, apparently we didn't try to warn people to get the fuck out.

And that falls on little Marco Lupio. because little Marco, being a fiscal conservative, told Americans in the Middle East they had to get themselves out and to use commercial airlines. And now none of the commercial airlines are flying. Michael says anything still run for president, not with this blunder. Only thing little Marco has going for him is those big ass fucking ears. He can hear a pin drop in the Middle East. How new potentate announced the Camel Cardinal, brother Dee, in Acesa says at least in Venezuela's case, the new puppet had a different last name from the old thug-in-chief.

Yep, this war is going just peachy. Iran's assembly of experts. Sorry, that just sounds funny. Iran's assembly of experts, God help them if their assembly of experts is anything like our assembly of experts, has elected Moshabha Khomeini, you know, Nepo baby to Ali. as the next supreme leader. I guess that was really the only choice they had. The problem is he's a Nepo baby,

when a big part of the Iranian revolution in 1979 was to get rid of hereditary monarchies, and well, here they are again. Oh, well, I wonder if he's picked out a casket, because we'll murder him pretty quick, just like we murdered his daddy. and his mama and his grandma and his sisters and his sister-in-laws whose only crime was being extended family and living with family as humans are wont to do being the troop primates that we are then and uh clarence officer kook the military officer who said that shit should

what Corporal Klinger was trying to get, a Section 8. It should be discharged or dismissed immediately. But the problem, the problem, Clarence, is that there's oodles of them. We have an infestation of evil, gelical, gundamentalist, ammo, sexual Christians in the military. You'd probably cripple half the command structure if you got rid of all the religious loonies. for a military that was allegedly founded by George Washington, who himself was not a religious man, but I'm sure they've got some gospel sharp who will tell them otherwise. One little thing to keep track of, it'll be after this program goes off the air, but, huh, there is some speculation out there that, like, the number two guy in the entire Republican carcass in the Senate,

I'm talking about Senator John Cornholio of Takesass. Well, he may be out of a job here in a few hours. And Ken Paxton may be the nominee and square off against either Jasmine Crockett or James Talleyco. Routing for Jasmine. We are halfway through the program now. And just a reminder, we got $170 to go on Bruce. and Karen's Memorial Challenge, and if met, that would get us down to only $1,300 to go to solve the deficit.

Can we do that? Please, so your humble oasis can stop, you know, worrying. But for now, let's run over to the stress line and see who we've got. Hey, welcome to the program. Would that be me? That would be reverable. How are you? A long time, no talk, huh?

Yeah, that's not my fault. Doing all right? Yeah, I'm okay. Yeah, okay. That's good. Look, I'm a damn sick of all this crap. I think I'll just start the conversation with that. Okay, that's fine.

But I also want to add that I hate Iran. I also hate Donald Trump. But I just want to make. clear that I have no sympathy, sympathy for any of these crazy people, none. I've been able to gin up a considerable amount of sympathy for the 140 dead little girls that we killed. Yeah, there is that. There is that.

And the non-combatant family members of the nut jobs. Does all of this sort of remind you of some kind of a, a card Vonnegut, Alist, Crowley William Gibson science fiction story or something? What a Hall of Fame name check that was? Yeah. Are you familiar with Gibson?

Yes. Yes. Have you read Neuromancer? Yes. Yeah, it's a good one. It's a good one. But that, yeah, I mean, all this seems to be coming true. By the way, I don't know. There's no

magician in the sky that seems to have a magic plan for me. How about you? Fresh out, magic plans. I would love to believe in angels and devils and demons and that somehow I have been granted special privileges. Evidently, the Israelis have been granted special privileges. And the Christians, you know, everybody... Well, I mean, the Israelis have to be granted. according to Mike Huxterby, the Israelis have title in fee simple absolute to the entire what we call Middle East, all the way to the Aphrates River, all the way down into Saudi Arabia, Egypt, all the way up into Syria, and all the way to the Mediterranean. Granted to them by a supernatural magician. Sky spook.

Yeah. I mean, it's 2026, and we still seem to be completely. admired, as you like to say, in Bronze Age nonsense. Well, I want to go back to something you said a moment ago, where you said, I'd like to believe in angels and devils and sky spooks. And I have to beg to differ with you, Reverbo. I don't want to live in that world. That is a, that, that's a nutty world where anything can happen.

and when it does, it's because of a demon. You know, humanity has lived under that sort of regime, and it led to things like, oh, not feeling well, I see. It's probably because you got... The demons living in your stomach. You got the demons. What you need is a proper bloodletting. And all of a sudden, it's Theodoric of York medieval barber,

which I know you remember. I love it. Saturday Live. I guess I'm just sort of, my mom passed away last year and she, we were never a religious family at all. And at some point, at some time or another, she said, you know what? I wish I really could believe there was a God. And I wish I really could believe that there was an afterlife.

She didn't. But humans, that's how you exploit humans. They really wish that this was true. true. Because they're scared to death of death. Exactly. And that's how you manipulate them. So, oh, then this leads into one of my topics for eventually calling you because all this fear about, you know, atomic war and who's got the nuke and who doesn't. This seemed to make a lot more sense 60 years ago than it does now. And I'll try to explain why.

You know, in 1961, that's the only way you could really totally destroy anybody. Well, in 1945, that was really the only way you could destroy anybody was drop an atomic bomb on them. We didn't have electronic, you know, cyber. We didn't have computers and software and hardware. that controlled so much of our lives. So that was pretty much all you had. But my point is that all this worrying about Iran getting nuclear weapons, all this kind of stuff, nuclear weapons are sloppy, okay?

Because if the wind direction shifts, oh my, suddenly we got a radioactive cloud coming over me. So this really isn't what you want. What you want is cyber attacks. That's what you want. You want suddenly to have your enemy all of a sudden, hey, half our country doesn't have electric power. Suddenly half our country doesn't have water, drinkable water. We don't have any military capacity because you've sabotaged our computers. systems.

And you haven't fired a shot. I agreed. I agree. No, no. All of that can happen to us with nothing more complicated than a goddamn hurricane reverbo. That's how far we've sunk. Yeah, and it's also naive because there would be some level of anarchy after that. There'd be some level of, you know, crazy people, you know, Ted Nugent's,

buddies with all their guns would be robbing safeways for all their cans of chili. Well, how are you going to heat them up when you don't have any electricity? So, yeah, it's not except I'm thinking that'd be a way if I was going to do this,

that's how I would pinpoint my attack. I would pinpoint it with a cyber attack and pretty much that would cause a lot of chaos with my enemy. you know, that's just me. Nuclear bombs, that seems like a,

it seems like something from the past. You know, you send your planes over and you drop bombs and suddenly the whole world is radioactive. That's not what you want. I don't know. Well, honestly, honestly, if you want to go back to the Second World War River, we did far more damage fire bombing Tokyo than we did atomic bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The dead and wounded from Dresden were just conventional fire bombs.

Yeah, that's true. And in a way, you know, the way they said that the 20th century was the American century and the 21st is going to be the Chinese century. In a way, we're still waging conflicts in war with... 20th century technology. We're still sending jet planes over with bombs.

And you see what I'm saying? If you don't have, if I could wipe out your electronic infrastructure, you couldn't communicate with your submarines, you couldn't talk to the aircraft carriers,

people couldn't drink the water, you know, the country would be without electric power. I would bring you to your knees. And there's people out there that can do this. Well, they've hacked into banking computers. They've hacked into, you know, I don't know. This is just, this is just me kind of thinking,

how do I bring my enemy to my knees to their knees without, you know. Firing a shot. Without it, it. and without it affecting me. So, oh, here's another thing that I thought, just how naive I used to be. Okay, back in the 60s, you had mutual, what it was called, mad, mutual something destruction.

Mutual assured destruction. Mutual assured, you just got right, nobody in their right mind, right, would start an atomic war because it might destroy the whole planet. All right. well, never mind that there's insane people that might do that. But, okay.

But there weren't any options. That was the only way to do it. But now I'm thinking, yeah, but who would do it? Well, we both know who would do it. Religious fanatics would do it. People who think that we're not right, that there's an afterlife. I'm talking about Christians, Muslims and Jews, who think, hey, all we're just going to float up on top of a mushroom cloud and pick up our robe and our harp

or pick out our 27 virgins and we're just, we're not, we're going to live through it. So let's hit the button and get going. Well, yeah, and you have to, I mean, I've talked about this on a number of occasions for a revert, but you have to bear in mind that, the lulus who believe this insanity, well, there's something in it for them. Because when they use their magic spells, that's what their prayers are, and their wars of Armageddon, I mean, you have to bear in mind that, you know, this is the son of the, and he's God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit all at one time. Screwy math.

But somehow if you work the puzzle, if A then B, if B then C, if C then D, if E then Armageddon to compel the most powerful force in the universe to do your bidding, that everything's going to be frisbee's and wheat checks. And it's crazy. Nuts. And like I said, there's a reason Revelation isn't in the Vulgate, the Catholic Bible. It wasn't seen as reliable. But there's a problem here in that they have built such an emotional wall around themselves. And this isn't just about the military reverbo. This is this is about bakers who don't want to bake cupcakes for a gay birthday party. This is about website designers who are scared, water-billed shitless, that they'll have to design a website for a trans couple.

And each and every step along the way, the Supreme Court has been there to say, well, you know, these are dainty, delicate people with dainty-delicate feelings, and we can't hurt their precious fee fees, and their religious rights are more important than anything else in the universe. And so how the question, and it may be a Gordian not, the question becomes, how do you rid yourself of this juvenile fantasy, this utter insanity, and bring order of some sort back into the public sphere? That's the big question. Why? how come humans are still so exploitable? Well, like we've observed, it's the fear of death. And that's how you get to them. That's how you twist them around and go, okay, all you got to do, tell you what,

here's the magic book, you've got to read this, and here's our magic house, you've got to go here, right, and here's the magic guy in the sky, you got to sign here, and hey, you're not going to really die. So you can do whatever to fuck you want. But that might work with, I don't know, amphibians and, I don't know, chimpanzees. But how the hell does that work with human beings? It doesn't even work for groups of people who want to develop stone tool technology. You have to remember that all of this is a creation, of sedentary agricultural societies, and that doesn't mean people sitting around.

It means, you know, settled individuals who had to just stay in one place so they could grow crops every year, and every human failing flows from that. I want to take a minute, if I may. God is so nice to talk to you. Please. Well, it is, too. And let me interrupt quickly right now. I remember this theory of yours.

that things kind of went off the rails as soon as we quit hunting and gathering. And we started to settle into permanent places where, oh, someone thought, huh, I'll create a scarcity. I'll create, right, I'll start manipulating. What's the word I'm looking for? I'll get a handle on everything people need and make them pay for it. Yeah. One strong man shows up and says,

hey, those assholes over there, they're going to come and take everything we've got. So I need you to give me a measure of your barley crop every year. And that's how writing gets invented. You have to have an accounting method for keeping track of other people's barley that they've given you. Once they stopped counting beans, one of the first things they bothered to write down was the recipe for beer. One of the few smart things they did. But going back to the angels and the demons for just a minute, I wanted to share that because, you know, we talk about Vonnegut and so forth, well, there's another prophet out there who is worthy of our regard, and that's Carl Sagan. Okay.

And he wrote a book called The Demon Haunted World. And I remember reading it years ago. Wow. What a great title. Isn't it? and I just thought, shit, he's nailed it and we're fucked. Here's a couple of quotes. I have a foreboding of an America, and he's writing in the maybe late 80s, early 90s.

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time when the United States is a service and information economy, when nearly all the manufacturing industry. Boy, he nailed that. Yeah, down right, right on the church door, Martin Luther like. When nearly all the men. But go on. Yeah, when nearly, mm-hmm.

Oh, he had a blimp. When nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, Elon Musk comes to mind, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority when clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes our critical faculties in decline unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true we slide almost without noticing back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most...

I nominate... I nominate... Listen, you don't have to go on. I nominate Carl Sagan for the Kurt Vonnegut Medal of Freedom. By God, there needs to be one of those. I am going to go on, though, because we've got to finish this, because it's too profound.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media. The 30-second... sound bites, now down to 10 seconds or less. Lowest common denominator programming. And this is before we even got reality television reverbo. Credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration

of ignorance. And he continued and said, we've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements, transportation, communications, and all other industries, agriculture, medicine, education, entertainment, protecting the environment, and even the key democratic institution of voting, profoundly depend on science and technology. We've also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later, this combustible mixture of ignorance and power

is going to blow up in our faces. I mean, isn't that the little red dot... Is this guy... As Scott and San Diego used to talk about that sign in the mall with the red dot that said you are here. I feel like we're standing in front of the sign in the mall. A combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. Well, and of course we ended up allowing, you know, it's not that technology in itself is the purpose. problem. It's how it is used and who uses it. That's what the problem is. So things go off the

rails when, you know, you've just allowed these total nut jobs to dictate how the future is going to look. Right. And look, I mean, look at, look at these goons that Mikey Weinstein is the Military Religious Freedom Foundation brought to America's attention. These are our professional volunteer military. We have spent, in the case of, you know, bird colonels and generals and the like probably north of a million dollars a pop educating them and making and filling them with what whiskey Pete Kegbreath calls the warrior ethos but he's decided that they were all sissies and so they had to be reprogrammed and so you've got people on the one hand who are trained killers who are motivated by religious fantasy, but at the same time, are the same ones that are

going to break the little thing in the jig open, stick the key in the thing and turn the thing, and then up go the ICBMs. How's that for nightmare fuel? It's, yeah, like I said, look, I keep thinking about this and thinking that it kind of still is the We're still stuck in, you know, everything, you know, a fascinating, Count Ferdinand in Sarajevo was fairly dramatic and flying planes into the World Trade Center. That's got a lot of drama to it. You know, cyber attacks don't. But the end result is probably the same. And it all goes back to what the hell?

What does it go back to Pope Urban the second and the Crusades? I mean, all of this is just so obnoxious and horrible that you just have to wonder, hey, by the way, I hope you're not scheduling any trips to the abroad for the next couple months, Roxanne. No, I can't leave the country. I can't get a passport, so I'm in the clear there. Well, even if you could, don't do it. because I have a feeling that this is going to escalate into some awful shit. Oh, this is just the front end.

This is the amuse bouch at the beginning of a toxic banquet. I mean, our Muslim allies are having a shit hemorrhage right now saying that their collateral damage to nitwit Nero's madness and Pudi? between you and me, well, you, me and the horn community. Reverbo, I feel like Pooty has orchestrated every goddamn note of this off-key orchestral piece. Probably going back to 2015. But aren't the Russians on some level allied with Iran? Oh yeah, they put out a statement decrying the the running dogs of imperialism

attacking their poor ally. No, I mean, they didn't use the term, but I couldn't resist. That's more Chinese communism than anything, but oh, yeah, we're pissed and we're ready, we're ready to assist our friends Iraq. And, of course, they have a common border. with Iran. Let's take a look at my...

They also have our intercontinental ballistic missiles that will reach D.C. or say, you know, Palm Beach, Florida. Let's see. I'm looking at this. We got Russia. And we have this gigantic, weird country called Kazakhstan, which nobody knows anything about. Then we have Uzbekistan. Then we have Turkmenistan. Mm-hmm. What's the hell of who? What's going on with these countries?

And then finally you have Iran. You left out Kyrgyzstan, the country that definitely desperately need to. Yeah, they desperately need to buy a vowel. K-R-Z-G-Y-S-T-A-N. Well, you know, Bill Clinton, we had, there was a famous Operation Vowel Storm that was going to bring vowels to the Balkan Peninsula. Or the Caucasus. I know. Listen, I guess we better go.

You got other callers, I hope. I hope. Well, I hope you've inspired some. But Micah pointing out something. Russia launches rockets from Kazakhstan because they all, those used to be Soviet, those were the Southern Soviet Muslim states.

If you recall the, the, the, the, the scenes from Reds. Love that movie. Where he's on the train and they're traveling from one central Asian nation to another, rousing the masses for the great, you know, for the great revolution. Well, that was Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Yeah. Kazakhstan, as Jeremy says, is where Russia launches its rockets.

but let me let me just play with your mind for a second here because we're in a place where anything can happen and one of those one of those anything is i mean if you if you were iran right now and let's be clear we don't like the iran government there are a bunch of religious assholes but but but the assholes the the the asshole that they replaced was an asshole too. It's just that as maybe it was Truman who said this. He may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch. Maybe it was Truman. Maybe it was FDR. Yeah. That's been our foreign policy for 80 years. You know, the Dulles brothers, right? The Dulles brothers at state and CIA decided it would be really cool to get rid of democracy.

in Iran in 1952 or so. And that's how their democratic government went by-bye, causing a lot of generational memory to, well, motivate people. But we understand we hate, we despise, we loathe, we detest, and we do those shitheads in Tehran. but I'll also add any religious fanatics anywhere Right It never works out well for anyone It never works out well for anyone

No And again that religious fanaticism You can kind of pinpoint that Not in the Bronze Age But in the early Iron Age And it's never worked Is that before or after the Bronze age. That's after the Bronze Age. The Iron Age follows the Bronze Age. The Bronze Age collapses and creates a vacuum in which smaller states develop. And, you know, one of the one of the one of the first kingdoms to say, listen, we've got the inside track on this whole God business was of course the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The Romans and the Greek.

never actually went to war over religion. They tended to go to war over things that actually mattered, like resources, or common garden variety greed. See Julius Caesar. See Crasis. See Pompey. Cleopacate, Egypt. Yeah. Yeah.

But it's a nasty, it's a nasty piece of work. And we've never, you know, we've tried, you know, we've tried to be enlightened about things from time to time. War is an invention of sedentary agricultural societies. Because when, when hunter-gatherer societies go to war, they tend to stand across. the field from each other and yell nasty things about each other's mothers. And then once they get it out of their system, they throw some rocks, maybe somebody gets a, gets a blood, you know, the bloody scratch on their head, and then they turn around and they go home, and they solve it by swapping women.

Ugh. It's... Damn. How come I couldn't... How come this doesn't ever... How come I don't have magicians guaranteeing my life and afterlife? how come this never happened to me oh god

well if I had the organ music queued up I do an altar call right now and I'll be waiting right there for you reberbo Jesus yeah the theodoric of York all this makes complete sense to me

yeah and by the way you got a you got a note from Jude the Horn's spiritual advisor and she said subject line Reverbo I too travel the path of how shutting down the threads of internet connections has vast complications. I come back to a mantra that sustains, be present each moment, stand grounded in the personal contacts beyond the podcast ether, such as now evolving on the horn, which is important.

Personal telephone numbers, home addresses, meeting in person when one can, etc. That's community on a deeper commitment realm. let me add from my perspective one more the unknown ever revealing real of spirit i'm sending my best to all signed jude and a personal hello to clarence be safe out there on those roads please clearance so oh what an inspirational uh observation i i really appreciate that yeah jude jude is amazing that way i mean really when you think about it you and I and the rest of the horn community it's so tiny it's so small but it's so enlightened that that's why it's important you know yeah you know I this is going to

seem crazy but I thought of you yesterday yesterday evening I set a picture to Asa to show him what I'd done I found some sushi-grade tuna and made my own sushi rice, you know, the sticky rice with the seasoned rice wine vinegar, and just made a lovely plate of it, put some soy sauce and some wasabi out. And it kind of carried me back in time to a day in Chinatown, D.C., where we sat down over a couple of plates of sushi. We did. The connections over the...

Oh, I mean, you and I, yeah, we've had... We've had our moments. I've been through several girlfriends since then, and, well, I guess you're my girlfriend now in many ways. So, right? So, you know, oh, God. The whole thing is, you know, you get, you think about the past and the past is full of some people regrets. and the future is unknown, and all you have is the present. But the present is gone in one second.

So in some ways, there is no present. It's either the past or the future. So how are you going to deal with this? All you can do really is just figure out, try to predict, you know, how the future might be for you and, I don't know. It's just, but I'm just disgusted.

I'm sorry, I'm disgusted with humanity. I really am. Well, for good reason. I mean, Carl, Carl Sagan and Kurt Vonnegut are fantastic. But everybody else seems to be, I don't know, are just lazy slabs. Well, I think, I think one of the things, I don't know. One of the things we have to take into account is that the windows that open onto opportunities for meaningful change are so damned scarce.

And we can take American history as a jumping off point. You know, in yesterday's conversation with David in Oregon, I pointed out this ad that I've seen running, and they're even running it on liberal MS now from the state of the union and it shows nitwit Nero saying everyone who agrees with me that the first goal the first purpose the first requirement of the United States government is to protect the people not illegal aliens if you agree with me you stand up and clap

and so the the footage then cuts to the House of Representatives joint session and all the Republicans get up and clap and I don't know some of them try to climb the podium and kiss his ass and the Democrats are over there sitting on their hands and it you know it was it was a powerful image I guess if you're stupid enough to buy into something like that

but it is a it was a fundamental lie as to what he was saying about the purpose of the government. And as I pointed out to David last night, you don't have to look very far to find out in writing, legally approved the primary purpose of the government of the United States. It goes back to one day in September, the 17th of September, 1787. Well, it's all about the word welfare.

Well, there's a few other things. We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, that seems to be purpose one, form a more perfect union. Yeah. What comes second is established justice. Third is insured domestic tranquility. Fourth is provide for the common defense. So if you want to say that protecting the American people is in there somewhere, it comes in it fourth. promote the general welfare five and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our

posterity to ordain and establishes constitution for the united states of america it was such a blatant lie but it will work on the rubs because why reverbo you're the one who coined the phrase the money was just too good and they're well chumped oh that that phrase too hey i'm going to go down on I got two great phrases that went viral. How about that? Yeah, we're working on it. But just to put a little bow on all of this, that time frame, if you look it up, and I remember Dr. Bill, he was such an influence on me and such a teaching force. I listened to him.

Yeah, and the enlightenment is called that for a reason. and there's the there's the french enlightenment the scottish enlightenment all of which influenced the framers of the constitution and to a certain extent the authors of the declaration of independence which is of course a propaganda document that's not a slam it just is what it is yeah but most people don't understand that that's not a slur but that enlightenment lasted barely the blink of an eye reverber because by the time that Adams and Jefferson were laid dying on July the 4th, 1826, they both realized the revolution was over and it had failed. and in short order, all those principles of the Enlightenment would be swept away in what was called, perversely, the Great Awakening. But were they referring to a global Enlightenment like the French Revolution and the American Revolution? because I thought the American Revolution actually, well, we defeated the British.

It was successful, right? As far as it went, yes. But if you do a deep dive into history. They came back in 1812, but yeah. The first thing we did was fuck France on the war debt, which then led, I guess you would say indirectly, the French Revolution. There were people who supported the young United States in our revolution against Britain

who did not survive the terror, not the least of whom was the actual king. Louis XVIth got his head lopped off along with his lovely wife Marie, and he had been a backer of our efforts against Britain because, well, France always opposed Britain and Britain and all is post-France and East Asia has always been at war against, you know, Orwell didn't just come up with that. That's the nature of hegemonic competition. But by the time the Great, by the time the Great Awakening comes along. I'm going to say by the time they decided to marry each other, of course, that worked out pretty well.

But the Great Awakening comes along. And suddenly, ignorance and illiteracy and superstition becomes a patriotic virtue. This is not the first time we've been to this movie. In fact, we've spent more time in this movie than we have out breathing the fresh air and getting the sunlight. Ignorance and superstition seem always to have some almost, well, magical ability because it's always rooted in religion. to undo anything that is intelligent and good and decent. Because there was a great awakening, there was a second great awakening. Yeah.

Yes, yes, yes, and yes. Sometimes it's nationalistic, and the atrocities and all that's horrible, these horrible events emanate. is that the word I'm going to emanate from nations. But a lot of times they just emanate from superstition and terrorist organizations and, you know, just all you got to do is study the history of the 20th century. And you can quickly figure out why we're in the same fucking boat now. And why it is that the United States government of 2026 bears such a disturbing. horrifying and striking resemblance to a certain government of 1933 in Germany.

There you go. The soldiers are being told that they're in a holy war, you know, a jihad, a crusade. If you will. Yeah. Yeah. Against the forces of darkness and evil. And we're hoping that like, again, a magic, a magician from the sky is giving you these privileges to do this.

Who the fuck would believe crap like this? People who have a vested interest in believing it? You know, it's hard, that old quote, it's hard to get a man to believe something when his paycheck requires him not, accounts on, depends on him not believing it. There's that. Then there's the gospel sharps who fill their purses

with the ignorant, with the money given by the ignorant and the gullible and the and and the and and the dense and the dim well if you all you're going to do is if you just sign here then you'll have all the versions you want and you'll never die and how does this sound to you hey it sounds great where do i sign well in order to have the virgins you gotta die first i'm well okay that's all right but uh i'm so amazed at the the goability i guess there were the goability of homoids homociadians to buy into all this shit i mean have you ever noticed that when like things die they actually just die they don't drift up onto a mushroom cloud into the sky.

Oh, never mind. All right, we got to go. All right. Hey, Reverbo, I'm so glad you called. I'll call you again. Yeah. Yeah, I hope it's not another year or two. Yeah, me too.

We used to do these things. I haven't. We used to do these things on the regular, and it made for some great radio. Well, I used to send you songs. You would play music on the air, but, you know, that was 20 years ago. So, but it's so cool that you're still on the air.

Nobody's doing what you're doing. And they really aren't. I basically listen to you. I listen to you almost every night. And I write to you and, you know, you know what I do. Yeah. And I enjoy it because it's always, it's always quality conversation. and bless your heart sometimes, and I say that in a good way, you actually give me an opportunity to laugh.

Yeah, I'll be back. Talk to you soon, okay? All right, you take care, Reverbo. Bye. Reverbo is one of those one in a million callers. And, you know, it's fascinating because Reverbo has his own list of horn grates. And he'll write me every now and then and say, yeah, this. one goes on the great on on the horn great collars list and uh jude sent a a beating a beating heart

uh to reverbo so sweet thank you i know he appreciates it he's uh i know a little bit about reverbo and my goodness gracious what a life he's led and what a career he's had not going to divulge any details anything but well uh reverbo is the one who decided to deify the possum goddess that might i mean that tells you where his head is reverbo is also the one who put me on to um yeah um William Gibson neuromancer and altered carbon which owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to neuromancer And we've gone back and forth over Vonnegut over the years. Yeah, he's amazing, without a doubt. And the Enlightenment, Lee in New York says,

don't forget the Edison Enlightenment. That poor elephant. That's what I always think of. That poor elephant. And from Sylvie, this whole situation reminds me of that poster in the 60s. A huge bird of prey, probably an owl, I always thought it was an eagle. Wings spread wide as it descends. Its talons are wide, curved, wickedly sharp, and deployed ahead of the bird's swooping body.

On the ground directly in the path of that predatory bird stands a small mouse. It's back to the viewer and facing the bird. One paw or arm is raised high, middle finger extended. The caption reads, the final great act of defiance. That's how I plan to go on my feet, facing the government, issuing a mighty, fuck you before I'm annihilated. Yeah, and there was another one that went along with that. It was a, I think it was like a stork and a frog.

And the stork is trying to swallow the frog, and the frog has its hands around the stork's throat. Maybe that one was labeled Never Give Up or something like that. Jude, I just saw your final remarks come in after I shared with Reverbo, your previous note. Jude adds, the present can be intertwined with being, let me say,

open and awake to it all. Tough ground to stand on, we're humans, housing as Native Americans in fold, being a hollow bone, moving, lifting, shifting, higher consciousness. Thanks, Jude. And that, yeah, never give up.

That's the frogwood's hand around the throat of the stork. I thought I remembered something like that. And same, says Miss Micah. Stephen New York says, I'm watching MS now. First poll's about to close in takes us. I'll report results shortly. You know, I wonder if Ken Paxton winds up being a net positive for Democrats. in that Senate race? Because God, he's just a walking bag of liabilities. He's been indicted more times

than Carter has little liver pills. His own wife burned him to the ground in her divorce announcement. But that's probably magical thinking on my part. Because, of course, you know, he ain't perfect just forgiven oh and an update to what we talked about a little bit yesterday and earlier this evening about the almost biblical looking you know revelations we read it earlier chapter 16 we talked about the just horrifying rash running up his neck that also showed us that his ear never suffered any damage. And, well,

I speculated shingles, and that seems to be the going speculation. Sylvie jumped in and said, oh, that could very easily be tertiary syphilis, too. Well, now, via CNN medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner,

saying, preventative skin treatments such as topical five fluorosil are commonly used to prevent overt skin cancer in people with pre-cancerous skin lesions. We don't know what specific treatment the president is receiving, but why all the secrecy for something that is potentially easy to treat and very common in older people? I guess, and the article doesn't mention this, but that's viable too? because about the only thing that he's really cared about, apart from hurting little girls, in his miserable, misbegotten, best part of him ran down his mama's leg life, is playing golf. And skin damage and skin cancer are fairly common in the golfing community.

people of his age have wound up looking like well having skin that looks basically like an old Rawlings baseball glove left out in the rain in the sun Jesus and I guess the program would not be complete if we didn't take a minute here and deal with Krusty the nasty Nazi gnomes star turn before the Senate today You know she's awful when even the Republicans are given her hell. Let's start with, oh, how about Senator Foghorn, leghorn, Jubilation, T, corn,poon, John Kennedy of Louisiana, Stan.

I wonder she's going to be the first to go. I wonder she's going to be the first to be indicted. Because when you got John Kennedy calling you a liar to your... surgically altered face. Well, as maggots go, you've got a problem. Because that's what foghorn, leghorn did. After the two killings in Minneapolis, and I think there's a lot of video on them.

Madam Secretary, I think people can see the video and draw their own conclusions. are you and your department conducting an investigation of those? Sir, the investigation is being led by the FBI. HSI was involved, in fact, are HSI into agents on the ground? I believe it was hard to cut you up, but I got so little time. I believe at the time you said these were acts of domestic terrorism. Is that right?

Sir, in answer to questions at the press conference that afternoon, it was that it appeared to be. Yeah. But you said these appeared to be acts of domestic terrorism. And as I've said previously in this hearing, is that we were getting information from a chaotic scene on the ground and relaying information to the American people. Okay. Now, again, those videos are public people. can draw their own conclusions. I think it'd be safe to say you've got a you got some pushback on that. But that'd be fair. Yes, sir. And get some criticism. Oh, wait, wait, hold the hell on. Wait,

just a damn minute. Or inaccurate. Wait, wait, wait. She can answer a yes or no question if she thinks it's not going to hurt her. Jesus hates a liar, crusty. You just, you did. What got my attention was that you blame those statements on Mr. Stephen Miller at the White House. Did you not? No, sir, I did not. And in fact, where you're seeing that is in a news article of anonymous sources. And anonymous sources say a lot of things.

But it is, I've never said that at all. Well, here's what you said on the record. Uh-oh. I'm going to read your words. quote, everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen. Sir, where did you see me say that at? You read that in a news article with no sources affiliated to it. You said it on the record on January 27th of 2006. Did you, did I read your words accurate? I enjoy working with the president and Stephen Miller, and that day we were working to get as much

information to the American people as possible. That is what will continue to do, and as that happens, we'll go forward. Do you think it was fair to blame Mr. Miller? Sir, I did not do that. You're reading from a newspaper article with anonymous sources. Are you denying that you said that? Sir, I'm not going to speak to that situation that is relayed on anonymous sources that no one has heard me say that.

It was you. No. Who reported that to that newspaper. They're quoting you on the record saying it's Stephen's fault. Thank you. Oh, my God. You know, he's from Louisiana. It wouldn't have been so terrible if he just would have used a little bit of,

a little, little bit of that corn pone accent and said, you know, because they're big on French down in Louisiana. He just said, Jacques. And it was you. You done said it. Right there, front of God and everybody. she had a she had a bad bad day and and like i said it it wasn't the democrats giving her a bad day it was maggots like well uh fom tillis of north carlottistan who can speak plainly and bluntly now

because he's not afraid no more because he's not going to have to face the right wrath of daddy. You failed at FEMA, and in fact, if I get to it, actually, why did I cover this right now? The Homeland Security Act of 2002 expressly prohibits the Secretary of Homeland Security from restricting or diverting FEMA resources from the agency's mission. Based on your disaster response, the chart that I just showed you, I have reasonably that you're violating the law, either knowingly or unknowingly. So I'll be asking and getting a submission to the record.

submitting a question for the record, what the total amount of FEMA reimbursements are currently being held by DHS, awaiting for final approval, held by DHS, awaiting for final approval for an agency that you should not be obstructing the disbursement on. I'm going to give you time to answer to it under penalty perjury so that we can get it right. Damn, she may be the first to go. Because I don't know how much longer you can brazen it out before, well, you know. you start getting to be approaching something like

impeachment numbers or conviction numbers on impeachment in the Senate. Some maggots may be taking that long walk to the White House. Mr. President, she's got to go. But damn. That wasn't all that John Kennedy had to say, though.

He also took aim at her for her pen, her pan, her poncho, I want to use my French, for, um, cosplay. I believe you have a policy, Madam Secretary, that you have to approve all contracts at your department over $100 million? No, sir, I have a policy in place that I review contracts. My deputy chiefs have the ability to review anything under $5 million above that. I evaluate and look at. Okay. And you do that, I understand, to try to curb waste and abuse of taxpayer money. Is that right?

Yes, sir. Look at her answering questions. She thinks work out favorably to her. God damn, she's dumb. I mean, stupid with a capital stew. But the thing is, for all of his corn pownery, I got to give props, and I think the other members, the members of the Horn Legal Brain Trust will agree with me. John Kennedy apparently knows how to conduct a cross-examination. In fact, it's been extremely effective. We've saved the taxpayers over $13.2 billion just by evaluating contracts,

negotiating lower ones and canceling ones that aren't necessary to do our duties. How do you square that concern? for waste, which I share, with the fact that you have spent $220 million running television advertisements that feature you prominently? Sir, the president tasked me with getting the message out to the country and to other countries where we were seeing the invasion come from. The invasion. Oh, honey.

You're so screwed and you don't even know it. Oh. But, well, I don't think Daddy made me do it is going to work any better than it did for Geraldine when she said the devil made me do it. Then again, same same. With putting commercials out that told them that if they were in this country illegally, that they needed to leave or we would detain them and remove them and they'd not get the chance to come back to him. America the right way. That has been extremely effective. Ask you to run these advertisements. Is that right? We had that conversation, yes, before I was put in this position and sworn in and confirmed

and since then as well. Okay. Did you bid out those service contracts? Yes, they did. They went out to a competitive bid, and career officials at the department chose who would do those advertising commercials. And the people that you ended up picking were people who had formerly done your political work back in South Dakota. Is that right? No, that's not correct, sir. I think it is.

No, it's not, sir. We, the individuals who, I believe the careers who they chose were two different media firms. There's been conversation about their subcontractors, but we have no legal authority to look into subcontractors. on work like that. Okay. And you're saying that you're testifying that President Trump approved this ahead of time? Is that my understanding? We had conversations about making sure that we were telling people.

No, ma'am. I'm asking you. Sorry to interrupt. But the president approved ahead of time, you spending $220 million running TV ads across the country in which you are featured prominently. Yes, sir, we went through the legal processes. Did it correct? Did the president know you were going to do this?

Yes. He did? Yes. Okay. And one thing, Senator, I think, would be helpful to know is how effective that communications has been. Well, they were effective in your name recognition. I mean, I personally just, I mean, to me, it puts the president in a terribly awkward spot. and it and I just I'm not saying you're not telling the truth

it's just hard for me to believe you know and the president as I I'm not saying you're a liar but I tell you what I have heard a lot of liars in my time and you sound just like them do that you said Mr. President here's some ads I've cut and I'm going to spend $220 million running them that he would have agreed to that I don't think Russ vote at OMB would have agreed to that it's something we have to defend I'm on the Appropriations Committee I mean my research shows that you did not bid them out that you you pick in fact one of the people you picked the strategy group I'm sorry

Safe America media was a company formed 11 days before before you picked them. How? The strategy group got most of the money. And the head of that is married to your former spokesperson. I'm, I'm, look, we all have friends who are qualified. I'm not quick-wing with that. I'm just.

Just for the accuracy of the record, what he's saying is the money all went to the husband of Trisha McLaughlin, who recently announced that she would be taking an exit from that job and I guess she probably will never have to work again it troubles me quarter a fifth to a quarter of a billion dollars of taxpayer money when one we're scratching for every penny and we're fighting over rescission packages I just can't agree with, Madam Secretary. Are you still running those ads? Senator, I did not have anything to do with picking those contractors.

I know politicals at the Department of Homeland Security. Yeah, I mean, she had nothing to do with picking those contractors. I mean, it's not her fault if her main squeeze, Corey Lewandowski, the sex pest, is who's married, and so is she still. Just, you know, details. I mean, he knew, but that didn't mean she did. I mean, for heaven's sakes, John Kennedy. I understand.

Are you still running those ads? Follow the competitive bid process. Are you still running those ads? I think the ads are due to end here in March, I think, within a week. So they're not sure of the end date. The one that is running is focusing on angel families. Have you seen that? It is the one that's talking about this is our why.

This is why we work every day is for the angel families and their victims that need to. That winning feeling you. Yeah, I got to move on. What a dismissal. And then finally, since we've only heard from Republicans going after her, God, if it was that bad with the Republicans, what must the Democrats have done? Well, let's let Cory Booker answer. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Secretary Nome, you're in charge of your agency. The buck stops with you, correct? I'm in charge of my agency. What? The buck stops with you. Yes, correct. And you had to swear an oath to the Constitution before you took this job, right?

Correct. So one of the most sacrosanct ideals of our nation enshrined in our Constitution is freedom, is liberty. It is an idea that the government has a very high standard should they take away liberty and freedom for an American citizen. How many U.S. citizens has DHS detained as of last October? Senator, if you're talking about detained and arrested, is that those that have been violating and obstructing our law enforcement operations?

Is that what you're referencing? because it could be hundreds and hundreds. We have faced violent riots across the country, specifically in Portland and in Minneapolis. The only people you've detained are committing crimes, but you and I both know that's not true. So then how many people have you detained? I can't give you an accurate number because we've literally detained and arrested many for those obstruction of law enforcement operations. But public records. Let me tell you what my staff research.

And then released once. May I continue? you. Public records are showing that over 170 incidents of your agency unlawfully taking away the liberties and freedoms of American citizens. This includes 20 children, 20 American kids that your agency detained. How long can your agency detain an American citizen? We don't, we don't detain children and separate them from their parents. Those parents have chosen to keep their child with them. I just want to be clear, you're telling me under oath right now that your agency has not detained American children. Those parents have chosen to keep their children with them. We don't

separate families like the Biden administration. Let me continue. We keep them together and parents have the option on if they want their child with them or not with them. How long do detentions last when you detain an American citizen? How long do they last? We don't detain American citizens. And we If there's probable cause. Let me give you, because you are not speaking truthfully under oath. Isaiah's Peña Salcedo, U.S. citizen living in California, was detained more than 70 hours, almost three days, even after he showed ICE agents his passport.

My colleague, Senator Blumenthal, gave you example after example. He brought people here who had something else, we Americans consider sacrosanct, our home, our property. Your masked agents jumping out of unmarked cars have broken into considerable property damage occurring into American citizens' homes. Case after case of this, and you sit here before me and claim the buck stops with you, but you don't even know the names of these individuals. I ran New Jersey's largest municipal police department. When my officers, engaged in misconduct, you can be damn well sure I knew about it and I investigated it.

And yet you have situations where your officers are violating the sanctity of people's homes, arresting and detaining them, arresting and detaining them and holding their children. And you're acting as if you don't know about it and saying that under oath. Miramar Martinez, who is here right now on her way to church, an American citizen going to church, not just to worship, but to donate clothing, your officer shot her multiple times. The case was thrown out of court, and you represent here that you don't know about it. In New Jersey, are you aware of your officers? activities in places like schools? Are you aware of your officers' activities at our public schools?

Sir, we don't go into schools and do targeted law enforcement operations. We do targeted law enforcement operations like other agencies and law enforcement do. So you're telling me that ICE officers entered the grounds of a high school and Minneapolis. That's a fact. Elementary school children in New Jersey are terrified of your agents. When they came upon a school. bus stop, they fled. Another school, a higher education, Columbia University, your agents reportedly lied to students, told them they were searching for a missing person to gain access to private spaces to non-public areas of campus. Secretary Nome, these are kids. They're terrified in our communities. How do you think that affects them when children in my state go running, fleeing,

and often you all pursue children, throwing them to the ground, getting on their backs, putting them in handcuffs. I want to talk to you about this incredible empire of for-profit companies that are profiting at rates we've never seen and the way you're using money. Let's drill down on the warehouses that DHS has been buying over the last several months. months totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. Are you familiar with the acquisition of a warehouse DHS recently bought in Roxbury Township, New Jersey? Yes. You are familiar with that. I'm familiar how much you spent for it. No, sir, I do not. $129.3 million. Do you know how much it was assessed for in New Jersey? Sir, we're purchasing centers across the country to build efficiency into our detention system.

Efficiency to me, as a person who's run tight budgets before and had taxpayer dollars, you paid $129.3 million for a facility in my state that was assessed at less than half of that, at $62 million. To work for a president that says he's a great dealmaker, I can't believe he thinks that you're a great dealmaker. But what's worse than that is that the Roxbury Township Council comprised entirely of Republicans voted unanimously early this year to oppose that facility. My office tried to facilitate a meeting between DHS and local officials so that ICE could hear their concerns, yet DHS did not even respond.

That is unacceptable that you all would enter a town. You wouldn't even follow environmental reviews or have conversations. with local officials about the resources from emergency resources to fire resources and more that you're going to pull down. You didn't even have a conversation. Senator Nome, do you comply with court orders? Yes, we do comply with court orders. Yes, we have, we comply with federal court orders. You're saying under oath that you do, and yet we know in January the chief judge Republican appointed for the federal

District of Minnesota find that ICE had violated nearly 100 court orders since January 1st alone. In my state of New Jersey, last month, the chief of staff, the deputy attorney general, admitted in my state that New Jersey District Court to the, in the New Jersey District Court, that the government had violated 52 separate court orders, all involving cases where immigrants successfully challenged the legality of their detention. So this, again, is a constitution that you swore an oath to. And one of the most important ideals is that no one is above the law. You are violating the separation of powers, violating court orders,

and routinely violating the civil rights of Americans. This is a reckless and out-of-control agency that you are responsible for. You seem to have no situational awareness whatsoever of some of the most egregious examples of Americans being completely attacked, violated, undermined in accordance with our laws by their own government. And this is what is phenomenal to me, is immigration was your president's number one issue, overwhelmingly popular with the American people. But now it's overwhelmingly unpopular.

And it's not because you are deporting dangerous people that everybody here wants out of our country. No, it's because you're going into our schools. You're terrorizing our children. You're detaining children. You're arresting Americans. You're breaking into our homes. You're terrorizing our streets. You're violating our rights to peacefully protest again and again and again.

And then what a court tells us. none of that is true. And then when a court tells you stop, you violate judges the law and getting dangerous criminals off of our streets so we don't have more families like the ones that are sitting behind me. I'll sit there and tell me that you are responsible for the running of your agency when you're not either aware. Either you are utterly incompetent or you are violating laws with impunity. You should step down from your position. If you don't, you should be removed by this president. And if not, Congress should

impeach you. I appreciate the encouragement. Yeah, appreciate the encouragement. That's the best you've got, bitch. As Stephen New York pointed out, Krusty has no fucking clue what Kennedy was doing. She's so fucking stupid.

I mean, actually stupid. I hate to say this, Steve continued, but she is dumb. Well, she's gotten by for most of her privileged life on things that had nothing to do with her being intelligent. She was only picked because Corey Lewandowski told Trump to pick her because, well, you know why.

And I'm going to have to knock off here because I've got to go pick Victoria up from work. Corey Booker nailed it. You're incompetent. But Senator Blumenthal also drilled her. He brought, as Corey Booker had acknowledged, he brought one of those tortured American citizens to the hearing. And he gave Krusty the nasty Nazi gnome an opportunity to apologize for her

because one of her border patrol goons had shot her on the way to church. Jesus. And she had nothing. Nothing. Pure trash. Just pure trash. Oh, and just wrapping up, Stephen New York tells us that a judge in Dallas County in Texas has extended voting there by two hours.

the turnout is huge. And this will serve as a terrorizing reminder to nitwit Nero, why he has, and to his bootlickers, lick spittles, and various minions, why the November elections are fraught with peril for him. We're going to have to fight. We are going to have to fight for our rights to vote. I'm not talking about violence. I'm talking about making it impossible for them to do this filthy business.

I hope we can be successful. So that's the program. Jude told me that she just left a voicemail for Senator Kennedy's office in Baton Rouge, thanking him for today's hearing and carefully taking to task Chris. she said if interested community his local office number is 225-926 8033 that's 225 926 8033 333 uh jude maybe uh offer up a thank you to senators bloomenthal and booker too they had the nerve to call her the liar that she is and incompetent and i have a feeling that President Neckrot probably isn't too terribly happy with her. She wasn't nearly as bitchy as

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