Head-ON With Robyn Roxanne Kincaid - Titanic Tuesday, Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid, 24 February 2026

Episode Date: February 25, 2026

Geezer Disgustus will come as close to facing Epstein's victims at the SOTU as he has been since he raped them as little girls. Stoke the stroke, survivors! Will he declare war (illegally) against the people of Iran? you don't just send a couple of nuclear carrier groups to show the flag. 

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we're in our 23rd year, depending on how one counts it. Yeah, hi, I'm, I'm Roxanne, and it is Titanic Tuesday, on the horn. It's also State of the Union Tuesday, state of disunion.

Disunion, well, this is only the best union. Hey, never mind. It's too early for that kind of crap, Roxanne, stop it. But, well, we've got plenty to go into this evening without talking about his mad babblings. and, well, do you, uh, sounds like a lovely idea. Miss Micah says, I'll be washing my hair. Mm-hmm. I'll be braiding mine and I don't know how to braid.

Yeah. But meanwhile, just for a giggle, my buddy, Dan Fisher, our friend, Dan Fisher, over on his, Facebook page, published a state of the union bingo card. Oh, wait, we've had an update. Micah says, I'll be washing my hair or inspecting a crack in the wall or stabbing myself in the eye with a rusty fork,

all of which are superior uses of my time. I could not agree more. You know, the local auto parts place stays open until nine around here. I might, after the program closes, I might go. down to the settlements for provisions, in this case, provisions, meaning a can of starting fluid, otherwise known as ether, and just, yeah, check out for a little while. And the thing about coming down from ether is it can make you kind of nauseated, and it's not like the state of the union wasn't going to do that to me anyway. Dan said, I'm not planning on watching tonight, but if you are, you might want to keep this handy. State of the Union Bingo, working left, well, left to right and top to bottom, the B column, claims the 2020 election was stolen, hence it refund checks, says the phrase fake news, claims fraud in California, claims poll numbers are fake.

There was a farmer, had a dog, and bingo was his name, O B-I-N-G-O, never mind. In the I column claims he ended X number of wars, mumbles something incoherent, rambles about China, pushes the SAVE Act, mentions Obama. In the end column, bashes SCOTUS, mentions Greenland, mentions Joe Biden, that's the free space, lies about the economy, praises tariffs. and in the G column says the phrase Transgender for everyone Hence at war with Iran Claims Epstein is a hoax

Bashes Canada Claims prescriptions are Down by over 100% And then in the O column mentions Nikki Minaj Calls Melanoma a movie star She's the most beautiful movie star ever

talks about a woman's body part says nobody's ever seen anything like it and finally mentions the Olympics I think you can probably you may we may anybody using this may bingo all over the card which somehow sounds gross but you know what I mean I don't know I technically I should take one for the team but I don't know if I have the constitutional fortitude for it I mean if you're hard-hitting television journalist Jake Tapper

well you'll be sitting there with some other members of the multi-millionaire for-profit media probably when you know when the camera's not on having some larks vomit canopays and hummingbird tongues on toast and maybe you can tolerate it a little bit of you know Louis the 14th cognac or something but it's going to be for people who actually have to live in this world it's going to be a it's going to be a nauseating affair and beyond that ever so much stuff to get into this evening. By the way, if you're listening live, pop by the aforementioned Mary Wacky Zaney, where Ralphs and Squeaky and Sylvie. And, oh, there's Walter.

The loons, Henry, the loons. There's Walter. And all capably moderated by Horn Chief Agronomist, Chief Mathematician, and Bud Trimmer and Meritus. And Zimmergist, extraordinaire, Roger, in Oregon. pop on by the conversation is fine as far as the not the state of the union but the state of the health of the program well here we are

it's Tuesday there are four days four broadcast days remaining in February and thanks go out to an anonymous friend thanks to Sampson. I know. Got it backwards. And thanks last night for the have a show on me.

That was important. We managed to fund half of February. And, well, the fundraising goal, the fundraising deficit, funding deficit, stands at $2,960. So that's what we're working against. And hopefully that improves a bit. Well, if it improved by about $700, we'd be close to on track to, well, about $700 a program for the next four programs.

And that's not helpful. But a couple of messages From our pal Gino Out behind the Zion Curtain Just a quick Utah follow-up from yesterday Yesterday there was another ruling Two sitting Republican Congress Critters To use Hightower's wonderful description

Also had a federal suit going Because the poor critters were having changes made To their sacred districts or something I never really understood their supposed harm Anyway, a federal three-judge panel refused to throw out the new maps and told them to take a hike. Only chance now is SCOTUS, but I can't believe they'll get involved. They've been known to surprise me, though. Gino, I wish I was as optimistic as are you.

You know, at some point in time, here in the next few months, we're going to get the decision out of Louisiana stand that may put the finishing touches on the lifelong dream of old balls and strikes. John Roberts to fully and finally kill the Voting Rights Act once and for all. And, well, that may make them feel, what's the term, emboldened, as boss man Wayne used to say, that's a Serbian word, meaning to give balls. piece of work was boss man wayne yeah i hope they stay out of it but don't forget this much of it jino they got shot down by a three-judge panel of the whichever circuit but that leaves them a they they can of right request a hearing on bunk by the full 28 or 31 member circuit and if they

and when you said Scotus might leave it alone if they lost all three judges on the three judge panel and then they lose humongously on Bonk that might encourage our most puissant dread sovereign supreme Catholic

majesties to just let the decision stand oh poor Roger Roger says I have a Zoom meeting tonight starting at 6 p.m. Damn, I won't be able to play bingo. Oh! And Billable Rick says the State of the Union Bingo card. Do you have your card, Nitwit Niro, taking off his clothes and playing with himself? See, if I'd been in charge of the card, that would have been on there somewhere.

Or about Mulla Moses Johnson getting down on his knees near the presidential podium, what will be your drink of choice tonight? Well, Bill Bill Bill Rick, like I said, I may have enough time to get out of here. the roads are clear. I can get across the river to the auto zone, get a can of starting fluid, and well, they don't call it starting fluid for nothing. Jeremy asking, is bingoing all over your card even legal in the Bible Belt

asking for a friend? Yeah, I know. Lee says my state of the union prediction is a third. A third what he says will also be the teleprompter text. Feel bad for the teleprompter text. prompter operator. You know, I never really thought about the poor teleprompter operator. Just eventually just flailing at the air.

Oh, fuck this! And oddly enough, on Dan Fisher's thing go card, there was no mispronunciations. You have to keep track of those, too. Ah, um, yeah, I, it's, it's rife. with the possibility of satire and comedy, but I don't even want to speculate that much on just exactly what may go down. And, of course, there are alternatives.

There are alternatives that, you know, the rally on the mall, the Midas Touch affair. It's going to be a zany of it. And I wonder how empty the chamber will be as far as Democrats are concerned. Micah says the mispronunciations are the free space. According to Dan Fisher's card, the free space says something vile about Joe Biden. But, well, like I said, it's going to be a busy evening. And I wonder, I mean, of course, we're all responsible adults here, so we will behave ourselves.

I'm quite certain, but I wonder how many bone-crushing hangovers there will be tomorrow after this exercise in insanity. The one thing, and I realize I could easily be wrong, but in light of the fact that, and I misspoke in yesterday's blurb to the podcast, I mentioned that there are two carrier groups bobbing around in the Persian Gulf. I was wrong. One is bobbing in the Persian Gulf. while the other is at present or at previous reporting,

the Washington Post noting the USS Gerald R. Ford, which is rapidly approaching the longest deployment without a break in modern naval history, quite possibly 11 months by the time all is said and done. The Gerald R. Ford is off the western coast of Creek. And apparently, and in keeping with the ship's namesake, apparently the Ford has had several stumbles and screw-ups and mishaps, lost a few planes overboard and whatnot. Well, that's what happens when you name an aircraft carrier over a guy who

was made a laughing stock of for stumbling and bumbling his way through his presidency Chevy Chase having done tremendous damage to Gerald Ford by doing things like falling over his podium sit liberty sit yeah uh yes transgender for everyone is on the bingo card

Micah fear not but to get us started well, I wanted to go to a clip from earlier today from Thomas Massey. You know, I remember exactly who Thomas Massey is and was. Back when he was a good little maggot, he told Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

that she better not show her face in Kentucky because they know what to do with women's lack her. I wonder if he's had a sudden onset. of decency or because AOC just said listen you little twerp I'll go anywhere I damned well want to but Massey

is and granted the bar for this is somewhere around the 10th circle of hell and Dante didn't even know there was a 10th circle but he's proven himself to be

quite possibly the only decent Republican in the entire Congress and he showed that, he demonstrated that earlier today in remarks on the House floor. It's a gentleman from Kentucky, Mr. Massey, for five minutes. Thank you, Madam Speaker. Congress created the Department of Justice.

Congress funds the Department of Justice, and Congress is responsible for the oversight of the Department of Justice. When will we see justice? I'll tell you what I've not seen. seen any arrests from the revelations in the Epstein files, over three million documents, describing horrible things, describing unspeakable things. Much of it redacted. Over two dozen people have resigned CEOs, members of government worldwide, but I haven't seen any arrests or investigations here in the United States from this Department of Justice.

Prince Andrew, Duke of York, who has since been stripped of his royalty, his royal titles due to his affiliation with Jeffrey Epstein, has been arrested. Peter Mandelson, who previously served as UK's ambassador to the United States, resigned in disgrace from United Kingdoms, House of Lords, and the Labour Party. And he's been arrested. former Prime Minister of Norway, Torbjorn Yagland, has been charged. But we don't see any charges, arrests, or investigations in the United States. What do we see? We see our FBI director celebrating in the locker room at the Olympics overseas. It's fine to be proud of this country.

But we should be proud of this country because we have a system of justice that works. And yet we do not. Who are the men that should be investigated? I'll name them right here. Leon Black. You don't even have to see past the redactions to see that this man needs to be investigated. Jess Staley, accused of terrible things. It's right there in the files.

Why is he not being investigated? And Leslie Wexner, why did the FBI list him as a co-conspirator in their own? documents in a child sex trafficking case and then tell him, according to him, that they had no questions for him. Why is that? Well, the Epstein Files Transparency Act requires the DOJ and the FBI to disclose to us their internal memos and emails about how they made those decisions, whether to prosecute or not prosecute. Yet they have not delivered those memos. And we still don't have the memos and documents and emails from 2008 to explain why Jeffrey Epstein was given such a light sentence in what would have been an open and shut case of child sex trafficking?

You know what? If you, and tens of millions of Americans didn't, but if you checked out the podcast yesterday, the very beginning of the program, the first hour or so, you'd know. why he got such a light sentence, Epstein. Because someone higher than a United States attorney was told, leave it alone. He's protected. And we all know who I think that individual was, but here we are.

Which allowed him to go back and recommit these terrible crimes, create hundreds of more victims, and ensnare so many other people, in his conspiracy. Where are those documents that describe those decisions? We need justice. We want the Department of Justice to get to work, and that's what they need to do now.

Madam Speaker, I rise today to let the American people know that this government is under siege. All three branches of this government is under siege by lobbyists and lawyers from a German company named Bear. They spent over... Now, bear with me here, but that's a strange segue. But he only had five minutes, and he had a couple of things on his mind. And the first thing on his mind was, of course, the Epstein files, and he named names again.

And he did reference something utterly shameful. Beyond Epstein's own crimes, and the crimes committed by his dear friends, the fact that, well, while goggle-eyed homunculus Cash Patel was guzzling beer on the public dime in Italy, well, still no arrests, even though they are co-conspirators, identified by the FBI and law enforcement, as co-conspirators, still no arrest of Leslie Wexner or any of the other people he mentioned. They also noted that in Europe, yeah, they're not nearly so shy about dealing with this kind of filth and utter corruption.

But filth and utter corruption is the mother's milk of the maggots. God, the work we have ahead of us, if we can ever actually get shed of these monsters. But then, as I said, Massey segues somewhat awkwardly to a question of Bayer in Germany. And this is about Roundup. You'll get the gist of what it is. But just as a way of, you know, just in the name of background, if you didn't know better, you'd think that Roundup was a Bayer property.

Bayer invented Roundup just like they invented. heroin and aspirin. That's not true. The fact of the matter is, and I think most of us know this, Roundup was developed by our own Merkin Monsanto.

Now, I can't remember the particulars, but they either sold Roundup to Bayer or Monsanto was absorbed by Bayer because there was so much heat from all the harm that Roundup had caused. The nightmares for farmers from the litigious arm of Monsanto, tormenting farmers whose fields had simply had Roundup ready corn pollen

land in their patch or pollen from their patch land in a Roundup field. Roundup is such a horror. For those of you who are familiar with the work, of Kurt Vonnegut. Roundup is like the herbicide version of Ice 9. It just sterilizes the soil. And the only thing that can grow in Roundup soil, Roger may be some help here,

is corn that has been genetically modified to withstand Roundup. and they're horrifying potential carcinogenic effects of Roundup. But so now in this most corrupt administration, and the irony here, well, I'll save that for after the clip. For $9 million lobbying the executive branch and the legislative branch so that they don't have to be liable for any damages that their herbicide causes, otherwise known as Roundup. And they're having some success.

Now, they haven't had any success yet in this chamber to get that immunity. They've had some success in the state legislatures, which are also under siege to get this immunity from liability. Look, the Constitution guarantees people a trial if they've been harmed. Why are we contemplating going against the Constitution? The Attorney General has opined favorably for this German company in front of the Supreme Court about getting rid of any liability that they should have for any damages. And the most recent thing that we've seen, the executive branch. By the way, the President's Chief of Staff and the President's Attorney General worked for one of the biggest lobbying firms

It's received hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars from Bayer. And maybe that's why we've seen an executive order that says that the production of this chemical from this German company is a national defense priority. And we know why they're doing that. It's to keep them from having any liability. Everybody in this country deserves their day in court. Now, hold on here. See, this is one of those moments where Massey reminds you that he's a, he's still a Republican. This German company, this German company, this German company,

well, that German company bought an American product. Roundup is still an American product. Roundup is still made in the United States of America. But there's a little bit of xenophobic dog whistling going on here. German, German, German, German. When I think the headquarters of Monsanto Is it none other than, I want to say St. Louis, Missouri?

Yeah. I mean, Roundup is as American as apple pie. You know, if the apple pie was made by the... evil queen from snow white yeah uh st louis crev cour missouri which is a berb of st louis been around non santo has since nineteen o one they're the ones who along with three other companies started the idea of splicing genes into seeds at one point in time i think it was montanto if was it uh yeah i think it was michael pollen p o l a in the botany of desire, who went into great detail about number two field grade corn, roundup ready corn. And he also talked about how, at one point in time, these agrochemical businesses wanted to or actually did splice a gene.

I'm not making this up. spliced a gene from a goat's stomach into a potato plant. The purpose being that something about the gene from the goat's stomach would make the potato immune to being eaten by potato bugs. And I remember very well reading the botany of desire and just sitting there at the time turning pages, it was like a crime thriller, thinking, yeah, what could possibly go wrong?

Like some sort of bad science fiction affair. So it was back in 2016 that Bayer bought Monsanto for $66 billion in, oh, these are always good for the boardroom, $66 billion in New York. Nothing but cash. The EU and the U.S. gave approval. It was completed in 2018. They completely ditched the name Monsanto

because Monsanto had become a toxic name, as toxic as their chemicals. But they kept the brand names like Roundup. And then a few years ago, at the beginning of the third decade of the, well, the end of the second decade of the 21st century, Bayer entered into a whole bunch of settlements for lawsuits over things like Roundup and PCBs and DeCamba

and the business folks who look at this sort of thing say that the purchase of Monsanto was one of the dumbest corporate mergers in the history of dumb corporate mergers. So we'll let Congress and Nancy wrap up real quick. This is wrong. We shouldn't succumb to the lobbyists, not in the executive branch, not in the judicial branch, and certainly not here in Congress and not in the state legislatures, but there's a lot of money at play.

And I implore my colleagues to resist it and do not give them immunity. And I yield back. Fair enough. It's interesting, though. that they want immunity for a chemical that is a known carcinogen at the same time that people like whalehead, dead bear, brainworm, lamprey, bark and grunt and moan about the immunity that was given to vaccine manufacturers. and as someone who used to play in those fields, you know, anytime that anybody gets blanket immunity from anything,

a plaintiff's lawyer somewhere is going to have a terrible sad. But they bark and grunt about immunity for vaccine manufacturers when, in fact, that immunity had created alongside it an actual claims process to compensate people who might have some sort of an adverse reaction to a vaccine to keep them from getting sued out of existence. Vaccines, we all know, are critically important to stopping the spread of disease. Immunity, and so that little mechanism actually works,

but immunity for Bayer well that's a different matter altogether the world can live without roundup and I feel bad for people I don't understand people who get all twitchy about their lawns well they call them lawns we call them yards

fields or out back or what have you but they go to their local big box home improvement store and buy gallons and gallons and gallons of round up and just spray it around spray it on cracks in pavement whatever and most folks don't take the necessary safety precautions and even if they take the necessary safety precautions it may not help but the biggest part of massie's remarks are the fact that he is willing to stand up against his own party his own

His own cult. Yeah. Meanwhile, over on the other side of the capital, there were hearings regarding ice, the ice goons, and who's actually doing all the dirty work. We'll get to that in a moment, but earlier today, members of the House Democratic Women's Caucus

and the House Democratic Caucus had a press conference and they held it in advance, of course, of tonight's disgusting display passing itself off as a state of the union. This is worth our time,

at least some of it. All right. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us. I want to thank my colleagues with the Democratic Women's Caucus to all of our Democrats on the Oversight and Judiciary Committee, and for all you are doing to build a world free from abuse and exploitation. And above all, I want to thank the extraordinary women who are here, these extraordinary

and courageous survivors. Thank you for continuing to speak out, for refusing to be silenced or ignored. Through their courage, we are building a safer future for all of our children. And we will continue to stand with them. All of our elected leaders should be standing with them and fighting alongside them. But what have we seen instead from the President of the United States? He tells us to move on, to get over it. to forget about it and look away. And tonight, we are prepared to hear more lies, more deflections, more distractions,

everything but the truth that the American people expect and that these brave survivors deserve. Let me be clear to Donald Trump. This is not going away. These survivors and all of us are not not going away. This is an issue about who we are as a people, who we are as a country. Is this a place where billionaires can get away with abusing children, or are we a country of laws, of accountability, of basic morality? We reject the rotten corruption at the heart

of this broken administration. We will not stand for their lives and for their cover-up. We will stand with these women until they get the justice that they're owed. And I am so proud to be here with all of you and to turn this podium over to a champion for justice, Congresswoman Pramilla Jayapal. Thank you so much, WIP Clark, for your incredible leadership. Thank you to the DWC and Chairwoman. woman, Leisure Fernandez, and most of all, thank you to the survivors who have just

continued to push for justice. You are inspiring all of us. And I especially want to thank and recognize my constituent, my constituent and an Epstein survivor, Marika Chartuni. Marika is, first of all, known by the survivors as the sleuth of the survivors. She has looked at all the documents and has been an incredible help to me as I have been looking at them as well. And she was also one of the first to answer the FBI's call in 2019 to talk about what she suffered at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein. And I'm just so grateful to you, Marika, for being here today. When Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared before the House Judiciary Committee two weeks ago, the world saw her turn her back on the survivors rather than apologize for the pain

that her Department of Justice has caused them. Today, the world will see Donald Trump have to face these survivors right there in the House gallery and answer for why ambassadors and princes have been arrested in other countries, but here in America, not a single investigation has been announced into the pedophiles and the predators of Epstein's horrific sex trafficking ring. He must answer for why the Department of Justice has still refused to release three million remaining files and why they continue the massive cover-up of a depraved Epstein class. He must answer to the people across the country and the world who see the powerful predators in government, academia, finance, and law have all been part of abusing and raping young girls and

joking about it with zero accountability. No Donald Trump, this is not a hoax. We are not moving on from this. You have not been exonerated, nor have any of these predators. We are here today, many of us in white, because women know what it means to be silenced, dismissed, and push back and we are not going to stand for it. These survivors, as Lauren said to me, are shaking the earth with their strength. And because of them and the public that is standing up with and for them,

we see the cracks emerging. We demand investigations right here at home into predators like Leon Black, Steve Tish, Jess Staley, and so many more. These courageous survivors are going to show that tonight is about their strength, about the strength of those across the country who understand that without justice, there can be no progress. So tonight is about our movement that will not stop until we get truth, transparency, and real accountability. And now,

let me pass it over to, oh, to our wonderful ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, Jamie Raskin. I can't believe the sleep. believe the fucking commercials. I'm so sorry for that. There we go. Let's get back to it. Good afternoon, everybody. I'm here with my guest to the State of the Union, Sky and Amanda Roberts. Sky is the brother of the late Virginia Joufrey. Amanda is his wife, and they have been passionate advocates for the rights and the interests of all of the survivors. and victims of sexual abuse and rape and trafficking all over the country. And I know that everyone is glued to the discoveries that are coming out

as we read through the 3 million of the 6 million documents that were compelled to be disclosed by the Epstein Transparency Act. And that's all to the good, because we're learning a lot there. But understand that making progress that way is a bit like finding a needle in a haystack. And it's not a haystack that's been arranged to make it easy for us to find the most relevant information. I would encourage everybody, in addition to looking online, and if you can, going over to the Department of Justice to look at the unredacted files, to read Virginia Joufrey's remarkable book, nobody's girl.

Because that book locates this entire controversy within the proper social. social context. She was a victim of child sex abuse before she got into the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and his sex trafficking ring with Galane Maxwell. She was a victim of trafficking and rape and sexual abuse there, and she continued to wrestle with those issues throughout her life. And if you ask the question why this issue is not going away, it's not going away, because there are millions of people across America who have suffered the same kinds of abuse, rape, trafficking, and exploitation that Virginia did and the women who were members of the Epstein Survivor Movement did. And there have been scandals at Michigan State and Ohio State

and within many churches, within the Boy Scouts, in all of our hometowns. That is the social basis for this movement and why Donald Trump, is not going to be able to sweep it under the rug. This is why despite all of her stony cold indifference, Pam Bondi is not going to be able to make this go away. We have an entire country of survivors and people who are allied with the survivors and we are going to insist that the truth come out,

that justice be done, and the perpetrators be held accountable in every single case. That's the importance of us getting through this documentation to the underlying facts. And I want to thank all the survivors here for waking up every day, just like the people of Minneapolis, and going right back to the front lines of this fight. And tonight, that includes the State of the Union address, where the president is going to have to see that this is a nation of survivors and their allies. Thank you very much, Pamela. And now as Sky and Amanda Roberts. Good afternoon, everyone.

My name is Amanda Roberts, and I'm the sister-in-law of Virginia Roberts Schifrey. I stand here for my sister, for my survivor sisters, and for every survivor around the world who has been forced into silence. Today is monumental. Today we say to this administration and to the nation that survivors deserve to be seen. We will not be moved, we will not be silenced, and we will not go away. We are continuing to trail. We are continuing the path that Virginia laid down for us. Today, the president will speak about his agenda.

He may say it's time to move on from this Epstein thing. Mr. President, today we are saying we will not move on, and the world is not moving on. I clearly sees the pattern in how this administration has treated survivors with disgrace, contempt, and dismissal. But I want to speak directly to the American people. This moment is about all of us. The state of this union, the state of survivors and the state of our country. And many of us feel dismayed, disrupted in spirit.

by the intentional chaos that has been created to distract us and desensitize us to the harsh realities of Jeffrey Epstein, Galane Maxwell, and the horrific crimes committed by their rich and powerful friends. Today, as Americans, we find ourselves at a crossroads. We have a choice to make. As American people, what do we want for our future and what do we want for our children? We can choose to let the Epstein case remain a stain on American history. Another chapter where the rich and powerful escape accountability and survivors are told to be quiet. Or we, the people, can decide it is time for change.

So don't look away from us. Don't look away from Virginia. And do not leave survivors behind. once again. Stand with us, hold space with our stories, sit with our truths, let them break you, move you and reshape you to act. Together we can build a nation that is fair and true, a nation where money and power cannot bend the law, where life, where title does not grant innocence where every voice matters and every survivor matters. I'll end with Virginia's words. I look forward to the days when money and power don't stop the truth from coming out.

And the righteous prevailed. Well, Sissy, today is the beginning of that day. We'll stop there. This goes on at length. And frankly, there is more of import more of gravity taking place, took place in this press conference today than any of the maundering, any of the babblings, any of the blabblings, any of the lies, half-truths, mischaracterizations, and just plain madness that will spew vomit-like forth from nitwit Nero's mouth later this evening. I'm kind of wondering what his pharmaceutical cocktail is that will keep him within certain boundaries this evening and hopefully keep him from tearing off his clothing and playing with himself in front of a global audience. But we all know how this bullshit works.

I mentioned the Gerald R. Ford and the other aircraft carrier, what is it, the Lincoln, that's in the Persian Gulf, the Ford in the Mediterranean, the buildup of air power and naval power by extension that has taken place and the assets that have been moved into European spaces and areas near to Iran this evening. Well, we haven't done anything like this evening. since the dim leader

cackled he fuchs at him he tried to kill my daddy we're going to take him out that is that's how much of a buildup there is military analysts have said that it looks like

preparations for full-scale war without boots on the ground I presume that that means that there are B-52s in Diego Garcia Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Raisin-Kane. And by the way, how humiliating would that be? You've busted your ass, you've served your country,

somehow or another, you have found favor with the maggot king, which in its own right is a character flaw. Remember, a competent, talented black man was ditched as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, because DEI to put the white guy in charge. But how humiliating would it be to put in 25, 30 years in the United States military only to be nicknamed by a malevolent septuagenarian toddler? Hey, Raisin, how you doing?

Dumb, dum, do you? Which one of the raisins are you? but it looks like we may be trying regime change. That always works well. And of course, the noble, serene, high-gracious kingdom of Saudi Arabia is probably licking its chops. And I would not be the least bit surprised when he starts talking this evening. My fellow Americans, you goddamn, you goddamn robs,

the planes are in the air and we're going to unleash hell on earth on Iran there won't be a little Iranian baby left and we'll know then that the Epstein files truly are the danger to him that we know they are that something

and then one wonders if the compliant multi-millionaire for-profit media will shift away from these horrors and these women's nightmare stories to cover another war of choice by a mentally defective president. Oh, by the way, we're starting the second hour of the program now. Thank you, Ralph's. Ralphs has put forward a State of the Union bingo card challenge. if someone will put up 25 bucks

Ropes will turn that into 50 Thank you Routes Thank you so much for always being there I hope you and the kitties are weathering the snow comfortably indoors But if somebody will put up 25 bucks it turns into 50 And that gets us down to 29

2910 to be fully funded for the month of February. Thank you, Ralph, thank you again so very much. Note coming in from Sylvie, bingo? I've looked all over the intertubes and cannot find any card that features tries his giving ham jobs to two giraffes dance or makes weird sound effects like Bing, Bing, Bing, or even mentions windmills or sharks. I know.

Look. Bingo would have to be a longer word to encompass all the potential stupidity that that most stupid of presidents might utter. I saw a clip earlier today from Michael Stipe of R.E.M. Talking about when Patty Smith came back to performing and some loud, obnoxious jackass came into a very small venue, knew where she was performing and came into and was

put in the VIP Overflow box where Michael Stipe was and sat there blathering at his date Stipe said it was obvious that he was trying to pick her up and that eventually as

Patty Smith took the stage he, Michael Stipe, turned around and looked at the person in question and says, shut up! That's my friend. up there. Shut up! She's performing.

And the individual in question, and the woman of questionable taste, who was with him, got up and stormed out. That man, said Michael Stipe, was Donald Trump. And now you know

the rest of the story. Good day. Sylvie continues and says that poor goat gene Oh, Sylvie. Yes, Monsanto, proud sponsor of Disneyland's Tomorrowland, did indeed transplant a goat gene, that poor goat, into potato plants.

That experiment ended when they found the potato plants eating tin cans and quonset huts as they grew. You get a second one for the tin cans and quonset huts, Sylvie. Yeah, Lays was all on board with it. And then word got out, and last I heard of it, people said, Hey! What happens to the vegans? Those potato chips won't be vegan anymore.

They won't be vegetarian anymore. And then there were the people who simply said, hey, I want potato chips, not goat chips. Yeah. So there's that. And from Reverbo, a message. What a great move. Just as the Trumpstein problem is ramping up, start a war.

Well, Reverbo, you and I are both old enough to remember. Back when the Republicans were engaged in the Great Cleanest Hunt, they brayed loudly and bitterly about, Wag the dog! When Bill Clinton tried to take out Osama bin Laden. Wag the dog! Well, this will be the ultimate wag the dog if what I expect happens. Randy Radar says, I predicted this a long time ago.

A citizen can now collect if they... They put Roundup on their lawn and shrubbery, and Bayer's afraid that they will soon be liable for it being systematically in their groceries. I'm not an anti-vaxor, Randy says, but I don't take all recommended vaccines because if the manufacturers can't be sued, they can't be totally trusted. Well, that's where you're mistaken, Randy, because the immunity that was granted to the vaccine manufacturers was from, you know, a typical tort suit. but there is also, like I said, there is a structure put up to compensate people who experience a problem with a vaccine. And by the way, the number of people who experience problems with vaccines

is extremely rare. I recently found out that there's an update to, an upgrade to the pneumonia vaccine. I was told I wouldn't need one again, but now apparently I do because this one works against more strains and honestly I would like to not die of pneumonia. So Randy, I urge you to rethink your position in that regard. And nitwit Niro is apparently a mite nervous this evening. He apparently wants changes and he comes.

and he called his little Renfield, namely Southern Baptist minister Mullah Moses, Mike Johnson. And Johnson said, the president called me Sunday night, and he said, Mike, we've got to make some changes. We need some more guests. Yeah, anything to try to hide the Epstein survivors. Okay, well, you know, the state of the union is a very well-attended event, and the gallery is already full, and we have a waiting list of people who want to be there. I said, Mr. President, how many people are we talking about? I think the whole team, so we're going to work out logistics,

and somehow, some way, we'll squeeze in the hockey players tonight. Not the women's hockey team that performed far more magisterially with far greater superiority over their competition, but no, the hockey boys, the fellows who got all liquored up and partied and drank beer with Tash Patel. speaking to the New York Times, Chris Murphy of Connecticut, said, he's going to tell 40 different lies called Democrats' names. He's going to paper over his corruption, and I don't feel like what he's doing to dignify

as having Democrats there to cloak the speech in a veneer of respect to. We've got to get the hockey team there. There's more of them than there are. I mean, Jeffrey Epstein's victims, and they're taller, can we put them in front of those, can you put them in front of those women? Yeah, I imagine he's going to be, well, I think by the end of the evening, the walls of the residents there in the White House will be running red with off-brand cats.

And there is some speculation that nitwit Nero, and probably knows it, is in even more Epstein stuff. A little bit earlier, former prosecutor Andrew Weissman, was discussing the issue with Nicole Wallace over on MS now. And I thought it, well, it's biased confirmation for sure. But Weissman doesn't just, you know, say stuff. But there is an allegation. So this is one where if there is no cover-up, why are they behaving like there is?

Andrew, 90% of Americans have heard about the Epstein files, about 60% disapprove of Trump's handling of the Epstein files. The mystery has been, why is Trump taking on so much political water over an issue if he is, as he keeps saying, there's nothing to see here? Do you feel like... The fascinating thing about that polling data, 59% of the American people do not approve of how this maladministration has... has dealt with the Epstein files. But as is often the case, the people I really want to know about are the 21% who, yeah, they approve. They approve of the cover-up. They approve of protecting pedophiles.

They approve of Nitwit Niro declaring that it's a hoax. Is that 21% almost exclusively male? Can't help but wonder. This reporting that Lisa's done, that NPR has done, that independent journals have done, offers an explanation. I do, and I think there's going to be more. I think that it's not just going to be this allegation. I completely agree with Michael that this looks like a sloppy cover-up, just similar to sort of Watergate where they got caught. And that's not to suggest that there, and I'm just speculating that there isn't more.

And I think where there could easily be more is something that I have been very focused on, which is the lack of a really thorough investigation. Various reporters are really looking into this issue of where are all the videotapes, where is all the material that was at least reporting? and people thought Jeffrey at. Hey, can I, I feel a little pathetic sense, but can I, can I, can I get awarded a Romalama Ding Don, please? Because I've been asking for months where, you know, all this redacted stuff, all these, you know, all these documents. Where is the video? Where are his blackmail videos? Where? Because I have a sneaking suspicion that whatever it is, the horrors that are bare.

within these documents, well, I have no doubt that Jojo Blondie has seen those videos. Probably Cash Patel, too. Todd Blanchie? Sure.

And, you know, if you think about it, that knowledge may be why Jojo Blondie behaved the way she did. She is a a rat in a corner and there's no way out that doesn't go straight to prison for her and she's engaging in what uh what they talk about in 12 step programs as um what's the term wish um it's not just wishful thinking magical thinking magical thinking that somehow uh some deus ex machina is going to swing out onto the stage on the crane and say her. It's not

going to... I don't think it's going to happen. But one thing we do have to bear in mind, it took a while to Frog March the John Mitchell's and the Haldemans and the Ehrlichmans and the Ehrlichmans and the Colson's off to prison.

Don't despair. I mean, here we are. Living through a horrifying history. Bill Bill Will Rick, well thank you. Give yourself to Ramalama ding-dongs or rim shots. Well, rim shots are for Parker's Bird.

Ramalama ding-dongs are for here in the home studio. We use the rim shots when I'm at the Midwestern Command. My friends, the Midwestern Command. Thank you, Lee. Take a Ramalama ding-dong. You deserve it, Roxanne. That's three. Thank you.

Y'all are just too kind. But kidding aside, he's right where are the damn videos and how does it fit into the count of the three million documents where are all the videotapes where is all the

material that was at least reported and people thought Jeffrey Epstein was recording people and there's reason to think that he wasn't but there's also reason to think that he was well where is all of that material and there's a suggestion that that has not been found nor that it's really been looked for carefully. We do know from Todd Blanche, for instance,

that he has said that the material that came from the Epstein estate was something that the Department of Justice did not have. He said that when he said the reason I didn't ask Galeigh and Maxwell about it is because we at the Department of Justice did not have it. So I think that there is a lot more evidence that is out there. And, and And I think this is where a good investigative journalists and Congress can do their job. And it's where these sort of flat-out statements by Pam Bondi and Cash Patel, I think, are going to be paper thin, unfortunately, as many of their statements in the past have been. And so I think there is a lot more to come. let me show you how actually clara let me ask you to put your prosecutor hat on before i ask you to put your

senator and political hat on um what do you see in this reporting i see that there were four interviews done around an explosive allegation in 2019 when Donald trump was yeah never mind claire what weissman said though all they claim they don't have the videos Well, maybe there's a reason for that. One story that broke in the last couple of days is that Epstein squirled away items in storage units all over the country. And in fact, the paper trail indicates that the rental on those storage units continued to be paid up until 2019. and we don't know but what it may still be being paid. But up to August of 2019, yeah, it was all being paid.

It was being paid even after he was arrested and incarcerated. In other words, he had help. Jimmy in the Great Northwest says, Trash Patal, I didn't know fruit bats like hockey. Oh! And from Cynthia in the Bay Area, I bet that if I were to watch the rat fucking pig bastard Trump tonight and I took a shot of whiskey every time he mentioned Epstein,

I'd come away sober. Probably get a chip. Yeah. I went to hockey team there. I really weren't the hockey team. I'll take it. Thank you, Ralph. Award yourself at Rommelama Ding Don.

Especially after getting $25,000 for the Trump University. cover-up. This is all so vile. And it brings us to another story and the password. Imolate. Do you recall the massacre at Euvaldi? Do you recall the congressman? The name of the congressman for Evaldi. That would be representing Tony Gonzalez and in the aftermath of that entirely predictable and preventable horror. Tony Gonzalez was anywhere where a camera was, talking about the murders of those children. Well, the bloom is off the rows. This story concerns a woman,

a staffer in his office, trigger warning, content warning. A staffer named Regina Santos Avelis, and Tony Gonzalez couldn't keep his hands to himself. And according to published reports, and uh well texas tea if you're listening i know this is down in your neck of the woods it was reported by the uh san antonia paper he harangued apparently msanto cevilles into an illicit sexual affair i mean this is textbook sexual harassment he occupied a superior space he was her employer he used that

is power and leverage. And along the way, well, they, they sexted each other. Text messages between the two have become public. Ms. Santo Avila's husband said they are substantial and graphic. Yeah, the San Antonio Express News said that Gonzalez badgered her for explicit photos. that they were going to meet up while he was on the campaign trail in Uvaldi. He went so far as to ask her sexually explicit questions. That's as much as the reporting says, and I don't want to know more.

Online, I've been on the receiving end of some of that, and it's disgusting. But at one point in time, he asked her one of those questions, and she said, you've gone too far, but they also made plans. she acceded to his demands to uh... shack up at a couple of uh... cabins that the gonzalez family owns in the texas hill country

now he's running for reelection he's got a primary opponent gonzalez does but the reason that her husband is the one doing the commenting is because Ms. Santos-Avillas is no more. She killed herself back in September of 2025. Suicide is always a horror.

In her case, however, she killed herself by self-immolation. She literally set fire to herself to make it all stop. And so today, Republicans turned on their own. They violated old 666 himself, Ronald Wilson, Reagan's. 11th commandment, a Republican, as a Republican, thou shalt not criticize another Republican.

And I was thinking about that in the Epstein context, too, because all this Epstein shit was taking place when Ronnie was in the White House. And it certainly does seem curious that he would promulgate such an idea. Remember, Ronnie himself, according to

some biographical information, was a predator in his own right. trying to seduce Hollywood Starlet much younger than he and instead of taking her out he literally invited her

to his home and fried her a hamburger and complained about the cost of and having to even purchase condoms all the little puzzle pieces just fall into place don't they but Representative Lauren Bobert Representative Anna Pavlovakuna and Representative Nancy Hatchet-Face Mace all went to the microphones yesterday and said that what Gonzalez had done was disgusting and inexcusable. It is.

And one cannot help but wonder how, and I know this is problematic, but we know about the behavior of Lauren Bobert in that theater in Colorado. We know that Anna Paulina Luna, or whatever her name is, has been noted as having been romantically associated with the man with the largest forehead on Earth. I'm talking about Matt, it just gates worse. But we'll put all of that aside because what they said was true. Bobert, speaking to Politico, said this kind of abuse of power has no place anywhere, let alone in Congress, and Tony Gonzalez should be ashamed and resign immediately.

Luna, on the other hand, said that every member of Congress should condemn Gonzalez, if for no other reason than the fact that he asked her sexually explicit photos from a staffer. She said, as a woman, this is really disgusting to see, not to mention it brings dishonor on the House of Representatives. Let's check in and see how much honor Matt Gates brought to the House of Representatives when he was bragging about the women he had sex with and how he'd do. He'd snort lines of Viagra and chase it with Red Bull. Red Bull tastes like shit.

But Luna went on and said, I'm so sick of people not calling this crap out. The entire Texas delegation, as well as every single other member of Congress, should be condemning a sitting member of Congress asking for explicit photos of their staff. As a woman, this is really disgusting to see, not to mention it brings dishonor on the House of Representatives. And there he is again, Thomas Massey, who asked a really trenchant question,

where are the other men in the GOP? Trump is infamous for making terrible endorsements, This is one, and it should be revoked. I'm joining Nancy Mace, Lauren Bobert, and Anna Paul, Paulian Luna, in calling for Representative Gonzalez to resign immediately. Meanwhile, Gonzalez has said, I never had a relationship with her. I was being blackmailed.

Well, at least he didn't claim that his account had been hacked. And the poor woman is dead, which is bad enough. But God bless America. What a horrifying... What happens in the mind when you decide to do that? Self-immolation is most frequently... Well, when you hear about it, you think of the Buddhist monks in Vietnam. Not a young congressional staffer on the hill.

So, Representative Gonzalez, what you're saying here is that your staffer self-immolated because she was blackmailing you? Can I interest you in a... can of gasoline, congressman. Damn, hey. Root and branch, root and branch. And as a liberal or progressive, whatever we're calling ourselves these days,

I'm sure the Democrats are just sitting back and saying, yeah, let them tear each other to bits. Because, you know, politics is like that. But maybe in the midst of, the horrors of the Trumpstein files it might be a good idea for a few Democrats

to sign on with those four Republicans and three of them hardcore maggots I'm sure the women we heard from in that news conference

Catherine Clark Primal of Jaiapal would have no problem condemning such behavior and look Congress is a fairly small club. You know, over on the Senate side, it's the, what's the phrase, the most exclusive debating club in the world with only 100 members? And, you know, what, 435 in the House?

John Irving, in the world according to Garp, makes an observation that even New York City is a small town. in some respects. And I was thinking about that earlier because everybody in New York City knew what a pervert. And what a, what a, just what a stinking pile of garbage Donald Trump

was and is. And so I suspect it was an open secret what a nasty predator, Gonzalez is. And of course he's being primary and he's not being primary, by some moderate Republican.

Those creatures are as extinct as the, well, the Diplodocus. He's being primaried from the Reich. However crazy Gonzalez is, the guy primarying him is even more so. And so Gonzalez says he's going to brazen it out, because blackmail. Jesus, criminy. Well, I do want to shift gears a little bit and, like I said, go to the other side of the hill

where there was a hearing about the abuses that are rife inside of the Department of Homeland Security and among the ice goons. This is from yesterday, but it is well worth. the time. Robert Garcia in particular took aim at, and it's about damn time, took aim at, well, hairless Hadrick, mayonnaise mouth Miller. Well, thank you, Senator Blumenthal, and I want to, of course, thank you again for your leadership and for partnering with the Oversight Committee in the House to really spotlight all the horrors that are happening across the country.

Of course, this is our third hearing on DHS and ICE. We've taken testimony. We've heard important stories. We've talked about the misconduct and, quite frankly, the crimes of this administration. Now, at our first hearing, we documented how Secretary Noem has been lying when she has talked about not arresting American citizens or detaining U.S. citizens. At our second hearing, we talked about immigration enforcement and how agents have been brutalizing, blinding, beating, and.

killing Americans and others on the ground. And oversight Democrats and our Senate partners have been fighting for accountability, for truth, and for the rights of all people. Now, we have documented horrific and terrible violence by this administration, and we'll continue to do so. Now, ICE and DHS are operating like Donald Trump's personal and private military force. They're attacking communities. They're targeting people who have exercising their constitutional rights. And the results, of course, are all around us. We for testimony from T-Trump. from veterans from people on the ground who have been arrested, shot, or attacked with zero justification. Now, as of February of this year, Oversight Democrats have documented over

530 credible and verified instances of possible abuses and misconduct by President Trump's federal immigration agents, including 224 incidents just with use of force. This is chaos that's been unleashed across the country. It's not just what we have seen, of course, in Minnesota, but everywhere in my home state of California, Chicago, and places across the country. Now, as we look here today, ICE agents have been ordered to disregard the Constitution and to violate the rights of American citizens and immigrants in this country. And we all understand why the Fourth Amendment is so important and why the Constitution is also so clear. Now, when you look at the Fourth Amendment, the right of the people to be secure in their persons, how?

Papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated. And no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized. Now, what's the most important here is the amendment specifies people, not just United States citizens, but all people for a specific reason. And that's been so important to our founders, to the Constitution, and for so many of us that all people are protected. Now, Donald Trump cannot legally send his private police force to smash down your door and take you away, or to enter your house without a legal warrant. Right now, the Trump administration is trying to take away that right.

Instead of getting a warrant approved by an independent judge, under his worldview, he can, believes it's his right to go into any house in any city and do what he pleases. ICE wants to write its own permission slip without a judge to break down your door and to violate your right. And this should terrify everyone. The same people overseeing and spreading violence and chaos right now are avoiding the Constitution, are breaking down doors, are causing harm. and in some cases, even back in my home state of California, we've seen video footage of agents going to homes without warrants and terrorizing communities. Now, oversight, of course, is critical. And the administration knows that they are being watched carefully.

We're forcing them every single day to reevaluate their positions and to ensure that we're pushing the courts to do the right thing. Now, just at our last hearing, Fox News went absolutely crazy because they got upset that we called out Stephen Miller. And in fact, we used this image of Stephen Miller to emphasize the terror that he was causing. And in fact, Jesse Waters and other Fox News podcasters and right-wing media personalities get upset every time that we call out Stephen Miller. Let's be very clear. this is one of the most dangerous men in the administration as it relates to violations of the Constitution. He's terrorizing communities. He's sending ice out across this country.

And he's willing to destroy the law and our Constitution so that he can move forward with his own bigoted worldview of how he views our country. And he is accused not just Democrats, but folks across this country, of putting immigrants ahead of American citizens. And that is a flat out lie. We've heard testimony over and over again from American citizens. War veterans like George Rettas, who was arrested just going to work. Teachers like Marimar Martinez, who was shot five times that had seven bullets put in her, that went in and out of her body by her own government. We had agents that bragged about shooting U.S. citizens to their friends in other agencies.

heard about testimony from Renee Goods Brothers about Americans across the country who have been impacted, like themselves, who lost their own sister because a DHS officer shot her dead without justification. And with her testimony today from Tiana Gibson Brown, a citizen and a health care worker, whose home was sworn by federal agents with military equipment and without a legal warrant. we're looking out for the Constitution and the rule of law, and Stephen Miller, Christyneum, and Donald Trump are not going to stop that work. Thank you, Senator Blumen. Somebody finally said it. This is one of the most dangerous men in the administration.

And when the time comes that we can start holding people accountable, he should be held. held to account with the harshest imaginable consequences. That man does not deserve to ever see the light of day again. I mean, there's some real Psalm 109 potential there for mayonnaise mouth with his little American girl doll tucked underneath his arm. And the idea that I may have actually sat across the table from that man, A dozen years ago or so. Wow.

Makes it a little different, difficult to keep dinner down. Of old 666 himself, Ronald Wilson Reagan, Lee, in New York notes, The first divorced president, of course, the current potus and flotus are separated in reality, if not declaration. Signed Lee, happily married in New York City. Yes. Old creep. And America just. gobbled it up.

Hook, line, and sinker. And from Jude, the only time in almost 20 years, she says, since women's standing came to me, was for Mikey and Bonnie Weinstein, who asked me to represent the Military Religious Freedom Foundation in Walla Walla, Washington five years ago. And I held a sign professionally created. It stated no hate.

There was a police officer there who had a disturbing tattoo of the lightning rods close to. of the SS symbolism, the shoot stoppel, the photo you see will be enlarged and placed next to the boots and flowers when standing. I cannot bear to be silent, and although I have been very protective of the boots and white flowers, time is of the essence. This woman is a U.S. citizen, and it's a photo of one of the goons, several of the goons, attacking her.

And Jude notes, she was in her car driving to a therapy appointment. they used a knife to cut the seat belt ripping her from the car. This photo will be visible and not forgotten of it. Good Jude. Such a soul you have. Also from the hearing yesterday, I was mistaken. It wasn't in the Senate.

It was the house, but Senator Blumenthal was there. But there was a whistleblower at the hearing, and he provided, I don't know how much coverage this has gotten, provided some profound and chilling testimony. Senator Cortez Mastow. Thank you. Thank you all for being here. And I want to follow up because I was going to ask this as well, because people forget

they see the moment that it happens and they forget what happens afterwards to the family and the children. And for your daughter and cousin and everyone else who experienced it, how are they feeling now? They're still in fear. She calls me, today she called me 12 times just to make sure I was okay. Make sure I was safe. It's just, she just fear everything now.

She's seen them down the street from her school and we had to go pick her up because she's full panic. Yeah. And as, can you talk a little bit about even the chilling effect that this has had, not just maybe on you and your family, but neighbors or people that find out about it? what happened. Have you heard from neighbors and others who are also in fear now because of what happened? Yeah, a lot of my neighbors, like, don't go anywhere now. It's like we're in jail in our own homes, too fearful to leave, to go to the store. Just fear. Great. And can I talk about, let me ask both Mr. Shank and Bunnell, sensitive locations. I'm curious. How did ICE handle

sensitive locations prior to what we are seeing now in your experience. And let's let me clarify, sensitive locations of schools and churches and even the courthouse and where people may be. I'm curious how that has changed. Thank you, Senator. So the answer to that question is that before the current administration, there were strict rules about any attempt to make an arrest at those locations. And those rules basically boiled down to don't do it.

Now, for the sake of clarity, my clarity, the previous witness is a woman whose child was terrorized by the ice goons at her school. The man now speaking is a former lawyer for ice named Ryan Schwank, a whistleblower who came to talk about the changes in ice since he joined the department in 2021 under Joe Biden. Why? Don't enter those locations. Because of their sensitive nature, because an ICE officer entering into a church, a school, a courthouse has the effect of convincing people

not to go to those places, to avoid them. And when people avoid going to church, school, or court, They step away from the rights and the roles they have in our civic society. It pushes them away from it and it gives them less power to protect themselves. And wouldn't you agree somebody's home is also considered a sensitive location. That's why it requires Fourth Amendment, really constitutional protections it has and it requires a Fourth Amendment judicial warrant to enter. But wouldn't you agree because of what we're hearing right now the impact it is having to families

because they don't even feel safe in their homes? Yes, Senator. I think that's why it's not included in this original memos. It's obvious to anyone who looks at the U.S. Constitution that the home is a sacred place. It is a place where everyone should feel safe when they close their door. And for those that may not be steeped in legal analysis, this isn't criminal. This is civil immigration. This is civil, correct?

Yes, Senator. And can you talk? Yeah. Could you talk a little bit about that, please? and why when we're talking about civil immigration enforcement, it does not require the level of force and it mandates against the level of force we are seeing right now under our Constitution. Yeah. I actually don't think it makes a difference in terms of the Fourth Amendment, whether it's civil or criminal, you need a judicial warrant.

So that's one point. I think there is some confusion, certainly in the public discourse, about what ICE is doing when they're out making these arrests. They are not enforcing criminal law. They're not going after somebody who's a suspected murderer or rapist who's out on the lamb, and they're not arresting them so they can be prosecuted and put into jail. They are going out to detain and remove that person out of the country. They're from Mexico, they'll go back to Mexico, and they'll be set free. Not to be detained indefinitely. Just as long enough to be removed, basically.

Sometimes that is a long period of time. I mean, there are lots of people who are subject to orders of removal like Mr. Gibson who are not a public safety risk, who are not a flight risk, and therefore are not detained. They're released into the community with conditions. And, you know, in his case, he was adhering to those conditions for 17 years. So, you know, there's a, these are not, in his instance, these are not the worst of the worst. These are not dangerous people. But they have civil rights.

They have constitutional rights just like everybody else. And, you know, one of the things that gets lost here kind of dovetails with the lack of training. All of these agents and the lawyers take an oath to defend and protect the Constitution. Be nice if they were trained on what the Constitution is. The Homeland Security Act says as part of its mission, the Department is supposed to protect civil liberties, protect privacy. A secure homeland is a homeland in which you have those rights secured. You have the freedoms and securities that the country promises.

And so we're losing sight of the mission when we don't pay attention to the Constitution. We don't pay attention to the oath. And we ridicule the, quote, deep state for trying to follow that oath. And with the chairman's indulgence, I have one final question, because Mr. Schwank, you talked about how the training, they've eliminated some training and then shortened some of the training around use of force, 16-hour firearms training around constitutional law that you talked about was so important, and the rights of protesters that's been diminished about, what, 10 minutes.

Let me ask you this. Who are they hiring, though? Are they police officers that already have this training so they don't have to worry about it? Or who's being hired? Is it individuals that don't have any law enforcement background or constitutional background? I'm curious what we're seeing here in this surge. Thank you, Senator. So I want to start to answer that question by saying, I was genuinely surprised by two things about the cadets I saw at the academy.

One was that I routinely met cadets who genuinely wanted to learn and understand what they were supposed to do, that they wanted to do their jobs correctly. I have no doubt that if given the opportunity, they would do that. But they are cadets who come from a variety of backgrounds. I've had cadets who were 18 years old. I had a cadet who we celebrated her 19th birthday in one of our classes. We have cadets who don't have college degrees. We have cadets for whom English is not their primary language. I was genuinely surprised by the sheer number of cadets we had that were first or second

generation immigrants. And these are all people who I think want to do well. But they don't have the background. And we're not giving them the training to do this job correctly. We're not giving them the training to know when they're being asked to do something that's not not supposed to do, something illegal or wrong. Thank you. Thank you.

for being here. And later in his testimony, Mr. Schwank, discusses at length just what was lost in cutting the training down to just 47 days to honor President 47. Jesus. You know, it's interesting how

these maggots are so, terribly eager to arrest the defenseless and the innocent, but somehow or another, they can't quite find their way to getting a warrant for, you know, Les Wexner and some of his many pals. And just as a bit of an amuse-boosh for tonight's madness, a clip of nitwit Nero from yesterday morning, blathering away. See if you can get any meaning out of this?

And they walk in, nobody even asked for, like, do you have an identification? Do you have an ID? It's so crazy. You know, the mayor of New York, and he's a very nice person. I met him, but his ideology is not too good. But we're having a massive snowstorm right now, and I've heard that he's asked people to come out and help shovel the snow.

Did you catch that? We're having a massive snowstorm. You know, New York did have a massive, snow storm or in trump speak a massive snowsome we got some of it here too there was a good a good eight inches on the top of my car went out to clear it off and go down to the settlements for provisions earlier today nothing like what they got in the greater gotham area however they got hammered but i guess there's something wrong with uh mayor momdani asking for some civic help and people to go out and shovel snow and snowsome.

Okay, so you get a shovel and you start shoveling, right? What the hell? I can help too much, but you can help. That motherfucker has never held a snow shovel in his entire fucking miserable, best part of him ran down his mama's leg life. Let's be clear. Hello, darling, how were you? No, a break behind you, look, my friend, right?

Are you okay? Yes, you. Are you okay? Are you okay? Are you okay? Are you okay? Mr. Access to the Nuclear Codes? Are you okay? Good. Are your eyes okay?

I gave her money to get her eyes fixed. A lot of money to get her eyes fixed. That doctor ripped me off, but that's okay. And when you go, will you get them done? Mike TV here thinks that he's the, is that his next, does he want to, that's it, that's it. That's it. That's it. They're getting, silly, Roxanne. They're getting rid of Colbert over at C. BS News. More on that in a minute, maybe. they're getting rid of Colbert so that nitwit Nero can host his own late-night program. And by the way,

background on Mamdani asking people to shovel snow, Jeremy says he was offering people $30 an hour to help shovel it out. It wasn't just volunteers. Jude, I know. Oh my God, I'd not made or heard the 47 days training in reference of ice and his 47 number of an insanely chosen entity.

Time to be visibly present, standing. Ah, Jude, the horror. The horror. But what about this darling's eyes? It's a pretty, it's an operation, but it's a, it's a hundred percent, you know, it's great. Good. You're going to have 20-20 vision, you. She's almost blind, cataracts.

He's almost blind and with one operation that will take a very short period of time. Hope you have a good doctor. He's an expensive, he's an expensive doctor, top of the... He already said the doctor ripped him off and now he doesn't know who the doctor is. I can hear the spirochetes shrieking each to each. Line, right? But you know what? You're going to have 20-20 vision because I noticed you're wearing glasses.

I saw you yesterday in television wearing glasses and I said, well, but anyway, but anyway, you're going to have 20-20 vision. But, anyway, but, you know, speaking of your family, it would be a lot different right now, except for the election. So I always say, it's too bad that happened. And if I had it... As the late great George Carlin would say, get him out of here. Check his calendar. What the hell? As one person noted, the president of the United States and the dumbest motherfucker on earth really should be two different people. But here we are.

Oh, Lord, here we are. Oh, and I'm going to the phones here just in a second. Don't give up on me. I mentioned Tony Gonzalez. Well, you know, there's always one. One of his colleagues from down there in Tikesass representing Troy Nails, well,

Troy Nels went to run into his defense. Nels, who used to be a high sheriff in the Houston area, was talking to some reporters earlier today, and said, we can't afford him to resign. Should he pull out of the race? Well, that's up to Tony. But the voters are halfway through this. Let's just see if he wins his primary,

but it's just not a good look. Because politics always trumps country, patriotism, even the most basic tenets of common human decency. And by the way, apparently he said it while standing next to Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, who got sued for divorce by his one man, one woman upstanding Bible, believe in Christ-centered, evil jelical, gun,amentalist, amosexual Christian maggot wife. And, you know, for, as they say, I think probably down takes ass,

and we certainly say here in hills, for a romping. That's A-R-O-M-P-I-N apostrophe. Yeah, she called him a rompin. But the fact of the matter is, at this point in time, it's all a matter of warm bodies. because what Troy Nels was saying is that

if Gonzalez quits right now the Republican majority, the maggot majority in the house is one step closer to this is a complicated political term Fought! If he was to resign they'd be down to only 217 maggots in the house or 216 plus

you know Thomas Massey A candidate for the Texas State House, Sarah McGee, said, I think I'm starting to understand why we have so many sexual predators in government. It's because they wouldn't be able to get a job anywhere else. Sounds like she's been drinking from the same stream of hypocrine, where last drank the likes of Anne Richards and Molly Ivans. what was it

Molly Ivan said during a bastardy debate on the floor or she quoted a Democrat saying it I'm not so worried about the bastards that are born in Texas

as I am the ones that are self-made here in the state house something like that oh well Troy Nells doesn't have to You gotta wonder if there's a Mrs. Nells. Man's a monster, Troy.

How can you You can just sleep out in the garage if you want to. Mercy. So let's do. We're into the third hour of the program. Where does the time go? And we are at present a goose egg for this Tuesday

and we need, we don't have all the things we do not need these last four days of the month of February broadcast-wise, goose eggs are at the top of the list. If somebody's got $25 or some portion thereof, we can meet Ralph's Bingo Card Challenge and get us down to $2,910 to finish the evening. So I'll cross my fingers and hope. the meantime, let's run over to the stress line and see what's going on.

Hey, welcome to the program. Roxanne, I have a professional confession to make. Do I need to get my frock out, my collar? No, ma'am, I've been told by one beloved ex-wife that I screwed up her joke the last time. and this is my Mia Culpa. Oh, okay. The joke was concerning Caroline, leave it alone, and her filler injections

while pregnant against the advice of the product manufacturer. Christine observed that that child would probably be born with child bearing lips. I regret the error. Well, Christine

then gets the Rimalamed Angon. Well, I am the thing is she wanted to ruin dinners around the world. So, I apologize with my professional neglect.

And I pray that Donald Trump will always pull of huge. I'm sorry, I'm mispronouncing it, huge. Huge. Uh, statement.

But I want to give honor to, uh, the Kermstein victims who will be, uh, in attendance tonight. Um, not only are they going to be facing, a sexual predator

who may very well have harmed them and self personally we're not just dealing with the sexual predator of the podium but to be surrounded by sexual predators all around and you thought Washington D.C. was

bad? I mean, come on, Roxanne. Texas is the incubation. It is the incubation. Bader of Mega. No, I think that's a fair point. Remind you that I learned to write my name in Houston. Is that like learning to write your... Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, no, we're workshopping now.

Is that like learning to write your name? Is that like learning to write your name in kineiform? No, no, them it is not. I'll have you know. This is Johnson and this is Mantoo. We're fine teachers. they actually could speak in complete sentences, unlike certain presidents of our acquaintances. I don't make fun of my third grade teachers, Roxanne.

They were lovely ladies. I don't make fun of any of my elementary school teachers. There are a couple of junior high teachers, however, who were. They had to pair with me for the whole school year. Those women should already have their first miracle. in somebody called Vatican. Fuck the miracles.

I try to gotten hazard pay. Oh, wait, you got that you got that date? Are you kidding me? You got that Dave kidding your class? Oh, honey, here's a bottle of old panther piss. You're going to need it. I will say to

give you an idea of what these ladies look like. Mrs. Man tooth had a kind of a bob that was interesting but Miss Johnson

I swear to God she looks she looked like LBJ in a dress but she was one the sweetest waiting on her yeah

yeah the thing is Roxanne I'm I'm debating I mean I want to reset the time line.

I want the maggots, the millers, the fondies and all the adjoining fuckheads to sit in the dock because you know what's going to happen as January 20th

of a date in future arrives Donnie will be playing ever so quietly down in the situation room and he'll get pissed I'll start kicking the walls

and throwing catch up about and J.D. Vance will walk in there with a pistol and assume the presidency. I mean he's already killed the Pope. What the fuck?

Well, and took a run at this one, too, didn't he? At least once. Of course, who was the pro-maggot that got accidentally shot while quail hunting with George Bush during his second term? or no, you know, it was Papa Bush. It was Papa Bush. And somebody observed that had former President Bush shot quail in his term in office, he might have gotten a second term. But, you know, there are some very good people in Texas.

You mentioned two of them. Anne Richards, former governor, and Molly Evans, who is my personal hero. That is the woman that got invited by some students at the University of Texas to talk about First Amendment rights, and Ms. Ivins was well acquainted with the subject. but the university forbade her from appearing on campus because they didn't like what she had to say. So Molly being Molly took the evening with the students one block off of the University of Texas campus

and held the meeting there. This is the kind of, I bring this up because this is the kind of thing that those of us who cannot get out in protest or something else. This is the kind of thing we need to do and we need to keep doing

regardless of how draconian these bastards get. Now, what's your thought on that, Roxanne? Because I think that I could probably find a few people to sign up for such an assignment.

You might. You might. You You might, crab it. You might. Thank you. But is it true they want to give Trump a late night show? No, no, I made that up. But he was just standing there, Mom. Okay, all right.

All right, all right. I tell you to fix your eyes. Are you getting your eyes fixed? That doctor ripped me off. Oh, yeah. But, Roxanne, he doesn't even know. where he's at. He'll be so hopped up on anterol.

I predict this evening he'll be so hyped up on Adderall that he will not know what planet he is on. I'm coming out of state sports with a wonderful, wonderful moon base. Will he acknowledge

the victims of Epstein and company? himself included and my answer is hell no he hasn't done it in the

old two years that he's been blattering about releasing the files I just he doesn't care who he hurts

because he can leave the country if he wants the rest of us are stuck here cleaning up after his bullshit Of course, I think Donald ought to go to Moscow and playhouse with Vladimir.

I'm tired of the United States government paying for his play dates in Anchorage. You and the rest of us. Would Don't have the, well, I'm answering my own question. Of course, he wouldn't have the balls to do this. To go to the Hague for a historical tool. and probably a service of warrant or some other legal document where he gets escorted in the special room and then he's given a copy of Nuremberg to watch and amuse himself with. Well, at least he'd get to see it.

God knows we didn't get to see it in Parkersburg. Still pissed if you can't tell. Yeah, I'm considering buying it for my birthday. But the melanoma movie is still running. I'm not kidding. And, of course, they're not paying taxes on any of it. Wow. Because it's given to the Melania Trump makeup foundation

where there are comments on the average woman's I don't care. Why should you? I really don't care, do you? I mean, I have more respect for, I have more respect for dumpster divers because at least they're at least trying to make some money and trying to, you know, do for themselves. Now, if this one, you know, everybody else has to wait on her hand and foot.

And I say, Donnie, we give you a DNA test to find out if Barone is yours. And if he is, you finally have to admit that he's your kid. And as for not losing, well, Donald Trump doesn't know how to do anything else. You know, of course, Donnie could get religion, Roxanne. I'm trying to figure out which one it would be. I wasn't well, he'd have to be the cat with it.

I was thinking, well, I was thinking maybe he'd have to go into the monastery. Maybe he could become a priest of Savali. You know, they're the ones who have to, those priests have to cut their own testicles off. It's sort of a sprint. And then they run to the first open doorway

and throw their balls in the doorway. And if somebody comes out and takes them in, then they survive and they live the rest of their lives as women. I mean, that's really, I mean, that's the ancient, yeah. Oh, that seems a tad drastic. Now try to imagine nitwit Nero at the starting line. Okay, Donnie, here's your knife. Here's your scalpel.

Yeah, I'm with my bones. I can't go because of my bones. I can't run. The bones spurs. they keep me from running. Well, that's okay. The second leg, you kind of crawl through the doorway. Well, you know, the goddess of irony is a good dog that's relaxing.

But I was thinking about everybody's making a big to-do about Indiana University's football team this last year. Well, they should. But I was thinking being a lifelong Hoosier, the irony is that in Indiana, you can practice any religion you want as long as you root for your local high school basketball team when March rolls around. That's the way it was when I was a kid. Roxanne got so I mean to give the non-Hungers in the crowd an idea

of the depth of the loyalty to the local high school basketball team you would have Baptist ministers and Methodist ministers sitting down together right next to each other

and not making any jokes about the other one while they watched the game. After the game, all bets are off. But, you know, there is, of course, of course, down at the First Baptist Church, the pastor will then be denying that he ever saw the Riverside Methodist pastor.

Oh, I didn't see him there at all. and sitting right next to them. But no, no, no. And in Indiana, Russia, and I think I thought this is a personhood bill. I don't know where that's at right now, but I got to thinking, if life begins at conception,

does that mean Catholic priests are going to start baptizing children in the womb? I mean, how are they doing? Yeah, it's going to get complicated. It's going to get complicated, Roxanne, because there's the whole anointment and the pouring on in the water. So what do we do, have Mama stand up on her head while the ceremony goes on? I don't know. I mean, it just seems like, and I thought those guys were not supposed to be touching those parts.

of human body. At least that's what I was told as a child. So I see some real problems with this person who had built from a religious point of view. Several religions. You know, the whole breath of life thing among the Jewish community. You know, they even sued, I think, the monkey up to Clantis administration down in Florida

saying that Florida's abortion ban amounted to trampling their First Amendment rights of religious liberty. Because the Jewish group who sued said, our scripture says a baby is a human being when it takes the first breath of life, not when it's a little wad of tissue bobbing around in a uterus looking for a wall to stick to. And as far as the ice cream, I have something we can do there, too.

Since sidewalks are so slick, especially in New York and places like that, we go out and we buy bags of Morton and Saul or some of the chemical products, and we just milk. What disturbs me is that the lawyer, the whistleblower, It was saying they've cut out any instruction to the incoming officers on the Constitution, on de-escalation, or any of the other normal law enforcement things that they're trained. And I have a niece whose husband is a police officer with Indianapolis Metropolitan Police. he's a good man been there for 20 years

he's been an award-winning cop and I'm sure this kind of thing that's making him go won't in the ever-living fuck and he's not generally a guy who swears a lot so I think there's going to be a lot to answer for but Donnie's going to proclaim that he's immune from everything with everything illegal we ever did

was while he was president even though we can prove otherwise. The reason the 3 million other documents aren't around is Donnie's been mentioned more than the Lord Jesus

on a Sunday morning across the country. Yep. And I want to encourage people here in the Horn family community Congress. things are not right and yeah we have to take care of each other as tom has said life's too short not to eat well absolutely go out and find yourself whatever your favorite food is prepare it for your friend the family yourself i personally am going to be

making some, I've got some of that shredded cheese and I've got ramen and there's all kinds of sauces and things. I'm experimenting with new ways to eat different ingredients. I had some pasta last a few days ago, made a big old pot of it, got. got some of the broil alfredo sauce which is fine because I love garlic and there was a lot of it in it I made I made the pasta it was better on on the third day because by then I heated it up several times and this this was a dry pasta and I used half a container of Parmesan cheese on top of it.

Damn. And girl, let me tell you, I was feeling no pain. I was in my happy place. It's colder than sin around here. So it was hot food, and I crawled under the blanket, and I went to sleep, and I slept the sleep of the righteous, girl. Oh, I'll bet. But, yeah, go ahead and get yourself.

I know you're a pasta girl. You like that. Oh, I do. More than, well, more than it is good for me. Girl, this is comfort carbohydrate. All you do is run up a little more metformin snort it. You're okay. Yeah, right, exactly.

I mean, you know, I keep some metformin, uh, the ground, down to powder for just such an occasion just cut out a little line and bring me a big big bowl of pasta Florentine right now

Oh Pasta Primavera Oh God Don't That just And it's It's wet even though it's not observant But if my dad

shows up on a Friday in the next few weeks I might have to go to that you know but yeah pasta cream of there I haven't and it's not that hard to make

well you gotta have the egg flames you gotta have this and you gotta have that no no no no no no no you can do it with zucchini onions and peppers maybe a little

broccoli it's it's made to get rid of leftover vegetables. True. And pasta in Italy is a course, not a dish. So you get a little bit

of pasta, a little bit of maybe some chicken or some fish. And I think we ought to advocate for something the Italians has had forever. That is the

two-hour lunch. Oh, here here. Wait, does that include, wait, does that include the siesta? Or does the siesta? Yeah, it can. If you eat quickly, it can. Hour of lunch, hour of lunch, hour of siesta, and then go about your business.

Right, but I had a friend who was born and raised in Naples, Italy. And I asked him about it and he goes, yeah, we started our work day at about 50, o'clock, and then about 11 or 12, we knock off for lunch, and we don't come back until 2, 2, 3, because you've got to have some transit time. It also works nicely for young married couples. They can meet, have lunch, have a siesta, or whatever else they want, and they can get back to work, and they'll be happier. and I think that's what we need.

We need to build some happiness. I mean, I even experienced it in Germany. Yeah, the stores shut down from like noon to two. And you should be having lunch too, maybe a little nap. Right. Naps are good. Well, see, and the thing is, that's a civilized way of living, Roxanne.

Not in the United States, though. I'll know here. You got to be working 28 hours a day, 38 days a week. Yeah, and you've got to, it's all because of that accursed word productivity, which is another way of saying a cold, soggy tuna salad sandwich at your fucking desk. Product. Has anybody ever asked the ducks about their opinion of this? everybody says it's productivity but i i have yet to hear one little quackers say a damn thing about it

you are a member of the you are the president of the north american assholes association you know that you really are i'm just so proud of you i'm so proud of you for that one dave you may just refer to me as mr president especially on tonight uh mr president right exactly exactly I swear to you. All this impending stupidity, I think, is getting to me. There's a couple of other stories banging around out there that deserve at least mention. Okay, let's go for it. This is just a little local color.

That's what they used to call it. Here in almost level West Buy-Cole Trump-Genistan, we ain't got no clean ones. water. We ain't got no clean air. We can't find missing foster children. We can't fix roads. We can't keep schools open. We have food deserts. And the number of West Virginians who consider grocery shopping to be a trip to the holler dollar is way too, way higher. than it should be. Well, that's all the prologue. Enter

Senator Chris Rose and Z. Maynard. A Z? Yes, a Z? That line's been coming in so handy in the last week or so. They've introduced legislation

here. Get the hockey puck. And the duct tape. Gun owners of Murk the greatest country in the history of the world on earth now today forever in the universe under God Amen, has drafted some legislation for Chris Rose and Z. Maynard. I wonder if it's Zebediah or Zebulon or, you know, zip. No, no, it's probably Zeciel or something like that, some misspelling like that. I want to think his parents named him Zippy, you know, after Zippy the Pinhead.

YOW! No, they've introduced legislation in the West Virginia State House that creates a right to, for civilian possession and transference of machine guns. Oh, dear, sweet, genius. Have these people ever heard of federal laws? Well, this will preempt the federal law. and and it'll uh... uh...

uh... the legal the legislation utilizes a clear statutory exception contained in 18 USC section 922 oh commonly known as the Hughes Amendment while that Provision generally restricts civilian possession of post-1986 machine guns

it expressly states that the Prohibition does not apply with respect to a transfer to or by or possession by or under the authoritative of a state or any department or political subdivision thereof. So, you know, the maggots the maggots lost their mind over Zoran Mondani saying maybe we can open some city-run

grocery stores or have some city-run buses. But apparently, the gun owners of America, hell, hell, hell. Now, aren't those the guys who make the National Rubell Association look like a bunch of candy-ass liberals? That's what they think the National Rubell Association is a bunch of candy-ass liberals pink-o-comy-panty-pandy wastes

but I guess I guess they're setting up the I mean we got West Virginia medical marijuana stores so maybe you can maybe you can set up a West Virginia medical machine

gun store God damn it sometimes it gets embarrassing living here it really does I mean the hills these hills all covered in snow we had just bluebird clear skies today the storms passed the mountains under the blue

skies all dusted in white were simply spectacular when I was going across the new river gorge bridge and then I get home and I read this under the bill you know the goddess of irony watches out for you

every time you start feeling good you know there's something around the corner you're damn right the legend let's see Under the bill introduced in West Virginia, the state would establish state-run distribution centers authorized to acquire machine guns and conduct transfers by the state to qualified members of the general public. By structure and transactions within the text of the federal exemption, the legislation seeks to restore access to constitutionality protected arms while adhering to existing federal law. I want to For those

I mean Folks mostly have a pretty good idea Of what government is like in this state At least who listened to this program Whoie? This is a doozy So we're going to have state-run Machine Gun Stores and inevitably

When it comes up for debate People like Chris Rose This by the way is the same numb nuts Who invited counties in Virginia which is reasonably fiscally successful, to secede and join West by God. No, really.

Which is not economically as affluent. Or as fiscally responsible. But so here's how the debate will go. Mr. Speaker, I rise today. support of this here legislation, because I loves to hunt me some dears. And I don't always get it on the first, on the first trigger pool. But I figure if I got me a Browning automatic rifle or a Tech 9 or a Oozie out there, I got a lot better chance of bringing home Bambi and a trophy rat.

And what's more, I've had my friends in the ballistics industry study this year thing. And what we've found out is that for those of us who enjoy things like deer summer sausage and deer baloney and deer pepperoni, this makes that process a hell of a lot easier because you can just squeeze the trigger and grind your own deer meat right there on the hoof. God damn. I mean, there's a reason, Dave. is a reason that I refer to this as the brain-drained maggot legislature of West Virginia. There is not an average IQ among them, even if you add their IQs up cumulatively. God bless America.

I think we ought to blame the British monarchy for such stupidity, Roxanne. After all, Indiana at one time was part of Virginia, as was West Virginia. Yep, you're right. The Ohio Valley, yeah. That's the West Virginia Valley. It gives Ohio another reason to start yelling and screaming. But here's the, I mean, the press release from Gun Goebers of America is comedy gold as it stands. to wit.

The proposal is rooted in both statutory construction and the historical understanding of the Second Amendment, beginning with the Militia Act of 1792. You know, when there were machine guns... You know, America... And you know what? America was a safer place when Al Capone had access to Thompson, the 45-calibre sub-machine guns.

your submachine guns they make people a lot more respectful uh Roxanne I know something about Dr. Thompson's little toy

there and it had it was magazine said and there was the drum variant what what these goobers are wanting is the drum

variant. And those were meant to clear out trenches during World War I. That's what they were made for. They weren't made for a hunt. They're about as accurate as pitch baseball. And see, unless you're hunting a two-legged German deer. Oh, no, we lost Dave. But you know what, if the call's going to drop, it's a beautiful thing when it drops on,

if you're hunting two-legged German deer in 1917, oh God, I get tired of, I get tired of stupidity in governments. From Sylvie, going back a little bit in a conversation, from the Committee for Surrealism in every day, Life reports. The first church of the Holy Roadrunner, to whom all speed, states unequivocally that Donald J. Trump is preemptively excommunicated. Should he attempt to join, he will be taken to a very high sandstone cliff and dropped

off and then targeted by the tactical orbit and bull delivery system as a subsidiary of Acme. I'm sorry, Sylvie. That deserved better than I gave it. But I was busy trying not to yaggle. Sylvie adds hunting dears with machine guns. I support the measure. From now on in West Virginia, venison will come pre-chewed.

But, you know, gun goobers of America is a decidedly right-wing bunch. And I fear that the goddess of irony would probably strike them dead where they stood if they say something about, We got to have machine guns for in case the jackbooted government comes to put their jackboots on our freedom-loving necks right next to our tattoos that say only God can judge me. Because, baby, you had your chance. ICE was running all over the place in West Virginia, and you couldn't get off your lard ass to so much as blow a fucking whistle. Yeah, but we're patriots now. Because, you know, the Democrats are going to take the Congress and probably get the president.

and then they're going to come for our guns. And from Lee in New York. Damn it, Roxanne. How much duct tape do you think we have? I know. It took a little, didn't it? Oh, and thank yous. I got a couple of thank yous to send out.

Thank you. Non-billable Rick, who met Ropes's challenge and got us down to 2890. And thank you, Cynthia, sis. Thank you so much. We're down to 2865. That's fantastic. Thank you so much.

And just from the prophecy department, because I've been having some moments here, I want to share something with you. This is from the Atlantic, of course, paywalled all the hell, and I don't have Atlantic money. But I ran across an essay, by Tom Nichols. He seems a fairly

reasonable, rather conservative soul. But he writes well, and he shows up on, you know, he shows up on like my former filthy morning habit, and usually makes good sense. But he recently

wrote an essay at the Atlantic titled, Does the GOP have a Nazi problem? And I saw that and opened it in Apple News where I don't have to deal with paywall, but I can't save it for later. And as I read, well, Tom Nichols, you listen to this little program on the sly, honey? Because he was saying things that sounded like he listened to this program.

And these are the closing paragraphs. See if this reminds you of, you know, anybody. And by the way, Ralph says, thanks everybody. Thank you, Ralphs. With... Decent citizens must ostracize those among them who toy with Hitlerism. Americans, especially journalists, should resist becoming anured to fascist rhetoric. No one should rely on euphemisms about extreme comments or fiery speeches.

Call it what it is. Nazi-like behavior. Pay attention. if you watch this nightmare this evening, pay attention to see if there's any Nazi rhetoric in it. When a Gen Z Republican focus group has 20-somethings talking about how Hitler, quote, was a great leader, and it came with a link, even if, quote, what he was going for was terrible, unquote,

something is amiss not only in the Republican Party, but also in America's homes, schools, and neighborhoods. Some of these trolls are merely posting swastikas on their nihilism, but their ideological sincerity is irrelevant. And you know I always love a Kurt Vonnegut reference. As Kurt Vonnegut wrote in Mother Knight, his 1961 novel about a man posing as a Nazi, We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. I think even more highly of Tom Nichols now that I know that he is a Lonergett reader. Whatever their intentions, some Americans are expressing or abetting ancient hatreds,

smirking at the mention of Hitler, and plastering public spaces with images that allied soldiers once tore from the walls of destroyed German cities. Political leaders who encourage or tolerate such scoundrel should be driven from office. and then the final paragraph. Ripped right from this very podcast. The Republicans have a Nazi problem, yes. But this means that the United States also has a Nazi problem. The responsibility for defeating it in the 21st century falls,

as it did in the 20th to everyone, of any party or creed, who still believes in the American idea. Conrad Vett, Casablanca, welcome back to the pipe. This time, I know outside will win. I've only been yelling that for damn near 22 years, if not actually 22 years. And Reverbo notes, as we have all seen,

you just can't smarten up a chump. And this may be our country's downfall. too many chumps but chumps reverbo are made not born and we must then ask the question who's making all the chumps who indeed

who indeed so uh uh... uh... lee in new yorks is blow a whistle machine gun lovers I doubt they can blow a nose if they can blow up a deer I'll tell you what I squeezed off a few rounds from my

I'd take nine at that squirrel. Next thing, I know that I couldn't, I couldn't find literal hide in her hair of that there squirrel. It's embarrassing. And I saw the post about it, and people were going, well, I'm going to get me one. That's going to work out so good. Can you imagine the Hatfields and McCoys feud if the Hatfields and McCoys had had fully automatic weaponry? There wouldn't be a tree, nor many. humans left along the Tug Fork River.

Just wouldn't be. So that's the program. I'm at sixes and sevens as to whether or not to pay attention to this this evening. I feel like it's my job, but by the same token, I feel like asking for absolution in advance if I just don't have it in me to watch. Part of me wants to watch the spectacle. Part of me wants to see what it looks like when the tree. Trumpstein survivors stare holes in him. Because he's goddamn sure not going to acknowledge them. You know, I've seen two bingo cards now, Dan Fischer's, and a few moments ago, Wave sent me one, and in neither of them, does the word clean coal exist? It almost, well, I won't be at all surprised if that does show up.

Jesus. the hardest country, Mexico, J.D. Vance, blame Clinton, trillions invested, America's back, cheapest gas, mom-dani, Charlie Kirk, open border, stolen election, tariffs, free space, complains about a minority. Yeah, not going to imagine which one. Blame Obama, radical left, the country was dying, the Supreme Court, Minnesota fraud, Epstein, Dems hold up signs, blame Biden, illegal migrants, Trump R.X. and Lewis prices. And, you know, our most puercent dread sovereign, Supreme Catholic majesties, didn't show up for some of Biden's state of the unions.

I wonder if they'll dutifully all show up for nitwit Nero's. They really should. He has them to thank more than anyone else for this filthy shithole presidency he's running. So thanks, everybody. Thanks to each and every one of you who share your precious finite time engaging in the program in whatever manner you choose. Thanks to our challenge makers. Thank you, Ralphs.

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