Some More News - Even More News: Donald Trump Doesn't Want To Be A Dictator (Yes, He Does)

Episode Date: August 26, 2025

Hi. Today Katy, Cody, and Jonathan discuss some of the news that happened while they were on vacation, and boy, was there a lot of it. Trump got on the national news and talked about how "a lot of people want a dictator," then he signed an executive order making flag burning punishable by one year in prison. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was detained again, the DOJ interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell and decided she's a very trustworthy person who has been charged with perjury. They also discussed painting over the mural honoring the victims of Pulse nightclub shooting and more.PATREON: https://patreon.com/somemorenewsMERCH: https://shop.somemorenews.comYOUTUBE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvlj0IzjSnNoduQF0l3VGng/joinSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Awuga. Everybody, welcome to the thing that Katie said this was. It has been so long since we've had an episode about the news. It's been months and months, years, and decades. But here we are. Beals like it With the news I'm Katie Stoll That's Cody Johnston And Jonathan is also here

Hayuga The one vacation That we have a year One full break a year And the news Didn't fucking stop at all Overwhelming amount of news It stops if you don't look at it

Which I tried I did do a few days of that And then I've been scrambling Because if you take a few days off, you're playing massive catch up and you're like, wait, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what? I sent a tweet on, I believe, Tuesday and then I was scolded by you publicly for tweeting. And so, I deleted it. And then I didn't tweet all week, but I did, but I did read the news. So, I mean, I do think you can summarize, I mean, you can't summarize it very quickly because we're about to spend an indefinite amount of time proving that, but also,

I could say they replaced Sydney Sweeney with Cracker Barrel and you'd be like oh okay I get that I know what that thing is 100% understand what you mean and and I obviously I do because I was paying attention but um you were paying attention I think you're leaving that tweet you're welcome thank you for telling me that I shouldn't be tweeting it's just I'm trying my best to ignore it and then for some reason Twitter tells me when you tweet I get an alert on my phone sorry to hear And I was like, damn it, Cody. Jonathan, ruined my day. Well, yeah.

Great. What's up first? Well, I mean, right before we jumped on, President Trump, bruise, President Trump, was signing executive orders surrounded by the people behind him. And he ranted for like an hour and was asked questions, which means he said things. And those are things that we have to preempt the other things we were going to talk about. to talk about um frustrating unfortunately yeah so he says that if you burn an american flag you get one year in jail but what about the first amendment yes the first amendment says that that's fine

as does the supreme court which you will hear trump reference oh good he's trying to get ahead of all of us lives saying excuse me 1989 supreme court decision and the first amendment all right the world, they burn the American flag. And as you know, through a very sad court, I guess it was a five to four decision, they called it freedom of speech. But there's another reason, which is perhaps much more important. It's called death. Because what happens when you burn a flag is the area goes crazy. If you have hundreds of people, they go crazy. You could do other things. You can burn this piece of paper. You can, and it's, but when you burn the American flag, it incites riots at levels that we've never seen before. People go crazy. In a way, both ways. There are some that are

going crazy for doing it. There are others that are angry, angry about them doing it. Do you want to discuss that? Sure. What the executive order does, sir, it charges your Department of Justice with investigating instances of flag burning, and then where there's evidence of criminal activity that where prosecution wouldn't fall afoul of the First Amendment and instructs the Department of Justice to prosecute those who are engaged in these instances of flag burn. And what the penalty is going to be, if you burn a flag, you get one year in jail, no early exits, no nothing, you get one year in jail. If you burn a flag, you get, and what it does is incite to riot. I hope they use that language, by the way, did that?

In sight to riot. In sight to riot. And you burn a flag. flag you get one year in jail okay so this is so dumb this is so fucking dumb is that it does not violate the first amendment if you can say the flag burning incited a riot which of course you can't yell fire and a crowded etc that's what i think he's trying to say there and that's what pam bondi also kind of intimated when she talked about this today that's not what they're going to do they just don't want you to burn the flag What does he mean they burn it around the world, too? Why do you mention that?

I mean, I didn't know why. Are you going to arrest them, too? Put him in jail for a year, too. It's going to be hard to enforce. This is so absurd. Because, I mean, they're not, are they going to wait until there's a riot? And then somebody burned a flag there, or are they just going to, I. I'm wondering whose issue this is.

I mean, it's America's issue. It's just this hyper-nationalist authoritarian administration. I mean, I don't think it holds up to any kind of standard. I kind of, I googled American flags being burned this year, and you can find one or two at protests in L.A. When we were having the protests here, but the protests, or as they would call them, riots,

were already going on. I don't know how you can claim that the American flag burning incited the civil unrest that was happening that you inspired by grabbing people off the street and throwing them in a federal detention center. So that's some gibberish from him.

And he tries to get ahead of the Supreme Court case by saying like, oh, I guess it was five to four and it was a bad court. Also, it doesn't, you know, it's all this sort of meal mouth justification and saying like, well, if it incites a riot, well, you're not going to wait for that to happen. And I know the internet's not real life and every person in his movement doesn't represent the entire movement. But if you just look at everybody supports him, they just

want to ban it outright. They all support the banning of burning the flag. You can see it everywhere today, everybody being like, this is what I voted for. I want this to happen. Look at all look at all these other countries that ban burning the flag. Well, why do you care? You're an American. America first. It just seems to me such a non-issue, obviously.

Civil unrest is happening for valid reasons that have nothing to do. That's not in people's radar. We're not out there like, I'm going to go burn a flag and start a riot. Wait, Katie, are you disagreeing with the president that flag burning has created riots, the likes of which we've never seen.

We've liked of which we've never seen. I'm as shocked by my opinion as you are, folks. I really am. I can't believe I'm sitting here disagreeing with Donald James Trump. Like turn on your local news right now. If there were riots happening in the streets of your city or town, they would be covering it.

Trust me. But they're not. I also like, you can burn other things. You can burn a piece of paper. Burn your Nikes. Burn that way. What if there's a flag on it? What if there's a flag on the piece of paper?

He's like, what if there's a flag? Flag burning, we gotta type, this is very important. Doesn't matter. A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator, so he's lining up with that. Are they saying that? True, people are saying that. And look, I can do this again. As you all know, Chicago's a killing field right now.

And they don't acknowledge it. And they say, we don't need them. Freedom, freedom. He's a dictator. He's a dictator. A lot of people are saying maybe we're, like a dictator. I don't like a dictator.

I'm not a dictator. I'm a man with great common sense and I'm a smart person. And a bruise on my hand. This is a binary. There's dictators on one end, smart people on the other. Trump's in the latter camp.

Yeah, he's just one of the smart guys, not the dictators. I'm not a dictator, but if I was, people would be into it. All of his favorite world leaders are dictators. He only likes dictators. Does he think they're not smart?

No, he thinks they're really smart because they're dictators. That's what he wants to be. I just don't like this present. Great point. Tell me more. It's taking you so long to build up to that. I just like finally.

I commend your bravery. The big reveal. I don't like this guy. You know who he's referring to when he says a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator, J.D. Vance and

his and where he gets his ideology from Curtis Jarvin who blatantly openly says that democracy doesn't work and we need a tech CEO in charge of the country or a dictator. That's where that's who's saying it

and him being like but I'm not and I don't think that doesn't matter. It's another. another one of those fringe ideas that are just going to get normalized over the next it's not fringe it's not even fringe it's not fringe but it should be but i mean fringe it's like curtis yarvin or maybe not everybody but even then like that's not fringe because the vice president reads and follows that guy and agrees with him okay formerly fringe no i know i know i know i know you're saying i know you'd heard some some wacky person say it i've heard one person say that in a

conversation in theory it's like you know sometimes i think that uh what we really need is a dictator and like i know that sounds bad but just get things under control and it is but just one person and it's a strange person that said that and now it seems to be something the president says on national tv vice president and his ideological buddies that's what they want peter teal wants a dictator those are the people who are saying it before Before we move on from today's Trump ramblings, Cody, did you want to talk about how he wants to change the Department of Defense name to the Department of War again? I would like to mention that because, again, he says these things.

Like, well, he says a lot of stuff. Yeah, because he wants to do it and he likes it and he's floating it. He said, it used to be called the Department of War. We won all the World War and now it's defense and it's a little, you know, it's a little soft, it's a little weak. maybe if we want to change it back like he like literally turns to hagg says like if you guys want to vote on changing the name like we could change it to the department of war he wants to change it to the department of war i thought he was the anti-war president oh he's a peace man he's the

peace guy it is again an example it's that whenever vance goes out and he does his little speeches he's like god forbid if we ever send you to war we need to have the most lethal military that's a different person who said the most lethal lethal military in the world but it's that this attitude of like you're talking like you're a war president and your war administration and then the other side you're like well actually we love peace it's just it i don't know again it's it's syntax and it's language and it's that but that's important too language is important how we view the world and words and what the president says i'm rambling he said a lot of stuff this morning and it's very frustrating to hear this goes beyond syntax when I first this was first mentioned and I'm like

well is it just something that he said off the cuff no this is more than that this is it's his it's what he feels he says more and more lately what he actually feels in once he has no filter it's not just him rambling it's him rambling about stuff that he thinks he wants to get to heaven exactly when he's saying he wants to get into heaven that should make one think why is he suddenly talking about wanting to get into heaven. Is something going on in his life that made him suddenly think that maybe he should be trying to get into heaven?

Maybe we could play that Jesse Waters clip since we're talking about him going to heaven and, you know, being a bad boy. While we get that ready, can I say my theory of what happened to his hand? Yes. I think Putin broke it when he shook his hand. I don't actually.

But it would be so funny if Putin was like, I'm going to, like, I'm going to, I'm going to grip your hand until it's dying. Whatever this injury is, whatever's going on, it has lasted longer than his miraculous ear healing time. So must be serious. More serious than being shot in the face. I need foundation to cover up, to cover up the bruise.

What color? Do you, what color? You just have Emma Stone's color. Okay. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. This is an important. I'm the only one that can chime in on this with this group.

There is some basics to makeup, which is not just slopping on something white. You need to color correct. You need to color correct. When I have dark circles under my eyes, I put orangey tones there, and then you cover it up. And then, you know, you don't just slop paint on top because it don't work, bro. Doesn't you have a makeup artist? You can simply very obviously cover up your hand whenever you're on camera. Has anyone else noticed that?

If you look at all these clips we've been watching. In this last one, he was doing it. Every single clip of him, he's covering his hand. Because Putin tried to assassinate him with his handshake. He doesn't have the makeup on today, though. So you can see the bruise looks not too bad, but he's, you know, he's bruising. It's getting better. Somewhat.

Again, old people bruise. All right. All right. We're talking about guys who've sloped on the makeup. Here we got Jesse. Well, it's really all about getting into heaven. And I think he's kidding, but he's also partially serious. And that's why we love him, because he has this childlike spirit,

this Sunday school school of thought that if you just do good things, there's a chance. And it's like the guy likes cheeseburgers and candy and nicknames. And that's kind of why we relate to him because he's so relatable and revels in these childlike moments. moments, but we can all understand wanting to do good so we walk into those pearly gates. Now, I think he knows he's been a bad boy, and I think we all know he's been a bad boy. He's not the baddest boy, he's not diddy, but he's done some things, and he knows the things, and we don't even know all the things he's done, but he knows. And after Butler, he believes he was saved, that God saved his life, and that he is now on a

from God to put America first and to make peace. And that's great. For sure. Our relatable billionaire president, who couldn't relate to that man? This is so sickening. I know, Cody, you've got your keyed up and have stuff to go. But I'm just, doesn't that just ruin your whole morality, Christianity, whatever pedestal you want to stand on? What is it? I mean, I don't, we've got some Christian Christian viewers here. And I'm not trying to throw your religion under the bus. But it's your pokes a hole in it for me. If you can just be a monster your whole life and then make gestures at doing something so you can get into heaven, doesn't, how is that okay? What are we talking about? This just absolves you and you're going to make jokes about this on national television.

It just confuses me how this ideology plays out and the mental gymnastics you have to jump through to say that this president is a Christian man and that God's sake. saved him from assassination. I mean, it depends on the religion and the part of Christianity you're talking about because also Jesse Waters doesn't know what he's talking about because also the way to like save your soul

in Christianity is to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. That's the way to do it. If you don't and you do good things, my understanding is that doesn't matter because you don't accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. I'm going to hell. No matter how many people I save.

if it's real but also I mean this just shows what a fraud who needs to be thrown up on that Jesse Waters is what do you believe man it looks like you're just saying out loud on camera that you know that Trump is a child molester and a sexual predator

and you're okay with it is what you're saying it's not Diddy bad then why did you bring up Diddy? Also Diddy got off you wouldn't say Diddy if you thought it was way lower than Diddy Like he slept with lots of women When he was a younger billionaire playboy If that's what you're saying

But that's way below Diddy You could have said he's been a bad little boy Sub, I don't know Pick a person who's not that And when you say Diddy He's an adulterer You're anchoring me to that level Yes

Of bad little boyishness That makes me think Oh so you think he's a You understand He's a monster Yes and you don't care Because he's childlike like you, you child.

Yep. That's what he's saying. It's coming, Jesse. The puke is on its way, my man. It is, it's just disgusting. He talks like this all the time. He's a frustrating person to be on TV because he doesn't believe in anything, obviously.

We just saw him allude to the president being a child molester and a sexual predator, but he doesn't care because he gets to do his little smirk on TV and be in the club, I guess. Just makes me want to listen to the Dylan song trying to get to heaven before they close the door. Stream it or purchase it on the compact disc, time out of mind from 1997, album of the year. Okay.

Cassette tapes are making a comeback. Yeah, you could buy it on cassette, I'm sure. You really want it to be a lower quality audio. You do. Anyway, what else do we have? You do, actually. You do, no, I think you want it on top. Final I get cassette tapes, I don't.

Yeah, the point. is, I think, that Donald Trump is dying and he knows it and he wants to get into heaven by being a good guy even though he is a monster who can't absolve himself. I'm not quite on that train yet. I mean, it's possible, but... I mean, we're all dying. He has said stuff like this before... He has said it in the past. Not like all the time. He said it a lot more.

recently um but he has said in the past like i mean i don't know if he said i'm trying to get to heaven uh it doesn't look so good or whatever he said last week it's not looking so good for me okay speaking of people accepting him to be a pedophile apparently what's the latest j dog hated that jonathan uh what's the latest with gilane our gal she she trying to get a cool nickname for years and you just It doesn't sound right in reference to me. Yeah, a couple things. Jay Cat.

Jay Cat. You've got cats. Anyway, we're going to workshop this. Jay Opossom. Cute. Okay. Jay Mouse coming in with the hot Geylane news. So a couple things happened here.

So the Department of Justice released the nine-hour interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Gielane Maxwell, yes, Cody. Was that under oath? I don't know. I don't think it was, is why I asked. But also, she also perjured herself. She's perjured herself, exactly. Yeah.

What did she lie? What'd she lie about? Well, she has said, she says in this interview that she thought she's just getting, you know, young women who she thought were over 18 to give Epstein massages. She didn't know anything else was going on. But also, she just happened. to mention to the deputy attorney general who works for the guy who has the power to pardon her that she never saw trump do anything untoward he was a gentleman in all respects uh she says no one believes that yeah no one believes that oh i'm not going to call her a b word but no one believes that b word at the same time you remember that the house oversight committee subpoenaed documents related to epstein they basically subpoenaed the epstein files they were supposed to get him last tuesday and then the DOJ said, we'll give you the files.

We're going to give them to you on Friday. And then they're like, great, where are they? And what they gave them was 33,000 documents, which sounds like a lot, but it's not nearly as many as exist. And it's mostly stuff that we already knew. It's kind of like they gave them a Chia Rachech folder that said Epstein files. There's still a whole lot of stuff that they have not given over. I wonder why they wouldn't, given that Trump's such a gentleman.

Let's ask Jesse Waters. He knows absurd that people are like, oh, justice has been served. Take that, Democrats. It's, you don't, you don't believe anything. You want this woman to be pardoned, actually, to protect your pedophile president. I like this is it's so blatant but it it's necessary for them if this is one of the things this is one of the things that is holding the entire thing up is that Donald Trump is an innocent man who didn't do any of these things and he would never do that he's actually a

sweetheart only the Clintons are involved in this if this falls apart then other lies will fall apart. This is one of the things they need to maintain to keep this going. And they're proving that they need it to hold up every single day. And I would pause it. Real quick, I would posit that she said that he was never in an inappropriate environment. I would posit that the inappropriate environment is being around her and Jeffrey Epstein constantly. That's the bad environment. What is her words a gentleman, what did she say he was? Perfect gentleman.

We all know that that's not true. You're a sex trafficker, ma'am. You're a monster, ma'am. But beyond that, I think I've mentioned it on the show, if not in all of our meetings. The plethora of clips that just keep being unearthed throughout the

90s and 2000s of people absolutely dunking on that disgusting man. It's never been a secret. He has never pretended to be a perfect gentleman, not once. Has that man tried to behave like Howard Stern, grab him by the pussy? That is so disqualifying. That is such a blatant lie that I genuinely, I don't know that this works.

If you were to just gauge a sampling online, you go, I don't know if people are talking about this still. You look at Jesse Waters. You think are people believing this. I don't know that people are. I don't think that they are. You don't have to believe it, though. There's the. No, you just have to say it.

You have to let it continue. if you're sending, I mean, like, what push comes to shove? If he's got federal troops in every major city, what do we do? You know, not saying that that's the ultimate end game of him setting. But it's not not. It's a protection for him if people really eventually get sick of his shit. There's an old Simpsons bit where Bart changes, I think it's F's into A pluses. And Lisa says, Bart, why didn't you at least forge plausible grades?

And that's what I think Geelaine should have done here is saying like, well, yeah, we knew he was what he was up to in terms of he really liked women and sometimes, you know, we'd see him with women that weren't his wife or something like that. But nothing ever with underage, right? She could have given him a B instead of an A plus. Because no one, except for a third of the country, believes that Trump is this perfect angel and a gentleman. And I don't even think a third of the country does. I think people saying, yeah, we know he's been a bad boy, not as bad as did he, but we like that about him. He's relatable. You know, you're trying to whitewash it. You're trying to wriggle around it. I don't know what that actually looks like in terms of his support out there as opposed to just the online noise, which is depressing to look at. But keep reminding myself that that's different from the reality that people experience offline.

Yeah. It isn't. It isn't. Everyone's online. I know. I know. Because then it does the online, even if you don't. I argued the opposite three days ago where someone was saying, yeah, but that's different. And I go, yeah, it is different, but it's also an indicator of the culture. It does seep into the discourse. It does worm its way into people's brains and offers an easy excuse. So I can argue it both ways. But my more hopeful version is maybe. it's mostly noise yeah um i i think that they want to get rid of this and i think there are enough people who will let them who also want to get rid of it yeah and like it's willing to spend and they've said in other scenarios you know like like a perfect gentleman well he cheated on his wife right after she had his kid perfect gentleman behavior perfect gentleman behavior so like they and they've admitted like yeah we don't need him to be a good person we just need him to do the things that we want them to do. And this is the ultimate tests for them.

And I just see so many people failing or passing, depending on your perspective. So I don't know. I'm not super optimistic about it. But we will see. To be clear, I don't think that this results in anything legally happening to Donald Trump. I guess what I hope is that. It erodes people's trust in him and the conservative party to an degree, but I...

Release the birthday card. Release the birthday card. Show his stupid signature. Anyway. Jonathan, we do have other news. Other news that broke today that we were expecting and very important news. Let's talk about Kilmar Abrigo Garcia. The United States government is still putting everything it has.

to ruining this one man's life. He was released from jail last week, brought back to Maryland. I said, we're going to detain him right away and deport him. He and his lawyers have been informed that they're going to send him to Uganda, a country that he has no connection to. According to the Associated Press,

he declined an offer to be removed to Costa Rica in exchange for pleading guilty to human smuggling charges. obviously they're very desperate to show that he's a criminal they wouldn't be sending him to Uganda if they had a really good case don't they want to prove that the Democrats were wrong that they can throw the book at this guy and you guys were out in the streets defending a criminal you'd think if you could prove that in court you would anyway they want to send him to Uganda

yeah the cops stopped him with a bunch of people in the in the van and let him go with a warning that's not what you do to somebody you think is a human trafficker. Many, many years ago. That's simply not compelling evidence because they don't have any. And yeah, so they're trying to, again, it's just a constant stream of lies, trying to get away with whatever and frame it like in the most dishonest way possible. I just cannot believe that this is even an option to send somebody to Uganda for an

unproven claim with no evidence. and no recourse? Yeah, as we're talking here, his lawyers have filed a new habeas petition, and so the judge who's been the judge in this case for a long time is going to go through these legal proceedings. So I don't know if we should take it as good news that they didn't send him to Uganda already in the dead of night.

They gave him notice. You have 72 hours to file the habeas petition as the Supreme Court demanded that we do but the same judge is looking at this I don't know how this ends without him and his family going to a country where they can live in peace right

like they have to go on the minority report island that they put the precogs on at the end like a place where the United States government can't terrorize them anymore because they screwed up admitted they screwed up then fired the guy who admitted they screwed up yeah they're gonna I mean they're gonna

if they do this, they're going to keep posting about him. They're going to keep plastering his face everywhere. They're going to use him as part of their propaganda arm forever as an example. This is a disturbing update, but we'll see how it plays out if this is blocked, what the terms are, if he does get sent there. Because he's not being sent to the Ugandan version of Seacot. is he going to be you know we know Uganda has a history of human rights abuses but is that what's going to happen to him will he be able to leave that country and go somewhere else is he just going to be there yeah if he leaves Uganda and goes to a country will he be

extradited back to the United States to face these charges and then deported again like it's very unclear to me even reading the articles about it how this process goes what happens to the people that we drop off in whatever country we're dropping them off in. I think, Jonathan, you might be one of the only people thinking about that or asking those questions. I think the people doing it don't care. Figure that part out later. Move forward quickly so that it's overwhelming and then figure out the specifics.

That seems to be their mode of operation in general. Or not enough people bother them and they don't even need to figure it out. Need to figure it out. I'm sure Stephen Miller, a bad. person already has his explanation ready to go and he's not even being asked about it he he's there this morning surrounded by all these other people maybe the I didn't see the clip because it was preempted by I don't want to be a dictator but maybe we could have a dictator and all these other things maybe some maybe someone made Stephen

Miller speak about Kilimar Abrago Garcia and we'll find it later yeah but it seems that the press corps the ones who still care about journalism I don't know what percentage of it still is, are as dizzied as we are trying to get through all this stuff. But we should know what happens to these people that we're sending to another country that they've never been to and have no connection to. We should wrap up, but since it's been so long, we're going to just rapid fire a couple things. We're going to try to rapid fire a couple things. Yeah.

We do our best. Like I said, I tweeted and was chastised for it and deleted the tweet, but I did still check the news. So I'm going to just sort of say some things that happened and we'll move on. A memorial for the 49 murdered people in the pulse shooting was removed by culture warrior Ron DeSantis, Ron DeSantis, apologies. And supported by the Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy was also, I don't know, in charge of NASA and a bunch of other stuff, I think. And it was painted over again. and so it seems like that's just going to be a thing that we do back and forth for a little while because you've got to get that culture war in there.

It's been repainted colors and I'm sure they'll come back in again and paint it black. They will remove it again and then we'll paint over it. Exactly. Like we did the border wall. That's another one. Duffy hates this memorial because he's concerned about road safety. Incidentally, there have been studies showing that street art actually does help with road safety so uh check that out duff um what else is that's just a bullshit

excuse that's just a bullshit thing and a bad one i mean obviously come up with a better one yeah that's so lame okay what else we got this is rapid fire situation um yeah um the trump's d og transferred a woman um out of his facility with galen maxwell because she criticized her and called her sex trafficker so we love Galane now and we hate people who call her a sex trafficker, which she is. The thing she was convicted of? A thing she was convicted of. So that happened. We're post-truth and we're post-talking about Galane Maxwell.

So sorry for bringing her up again. Trump is going to take over more cities. So that's cool. Alabama, Arkansas, other states. Idaho, Nebraska. And they have guns. now, the National Guard, and they're going to be helping out with immigration enforcement as well as taking over cities, right? Yes.

I mean, chilling seems to be a word that's uttered every episode, but it is chilling and the implications of how they could be used in the future if things don't go the way the president wants is pretty terrifying. Yeah, it's not a good situation. Yeah. Another thing that I can't imagine goes over well with a lot of people. but but I think we all should get familiar with a phrase this is what I voted for and the worst things get the more egregious these actions get the more people will be saying that because some of them did and some of them just need to that's just what they know they're supposed to say but I'm very pessimistic this morning so who knows we'll revisit that story

obviously as it developed because it's going to keep happening and what else happened oh um yeah i'm not sure i completely agree that that's going to be more but from some people it is but i don't know but for everybody not everybody i agree i do think the online warriors that feel the need to make their whole identity be about shit posting and trolling sure but i'm not prepared to say that that is true for everybody anyway i don't i don't think it's true for everybody but i think but even the but even the people you're talking about or like the culture wars online and stuff those are unfortunately influencers and indicators of broader thoughts yeah especially with all of these hyper online freaks who are in the government so there's that but again who knows cody's

very pessimistic right now we're still trying to punish Elon for his fake election lottery so that's continuing he is a reportedly stepping away from starting a new political party called America which is not surprising you got to outlast the forward party man that's sad yeah I know well he's a failure he's obviously just going to give jd vans a bunch of money because he's a teal guy and that's what they're going to be doing always been the plan it's always been the plan always been the Always been the plan. They're fools. If they think, like, well, yeah, Vance as a candidate for a president in 2028, no problem.

Okay. All right. All right. Okay. Miccosukee tribe and other organizations have temporarily, potentially, slowly shut down alligator alcatraz. Rondi Santis has obviously said, like, no, we're not going to do that. We're going to keep it open. So we'll see how, thank you very much, we'll see how that develops.

He is Donald Duck. I've never thought about that before. The president said that he knows more about grass than anyone on the planet. We don't need to talk about that more than saying that he said it. That I believe. Stephen Miller's talking about rootless cosmopolitans because he's a Nazi. They're rehiring a bunch of IRS people because you need people at the IRS. Go figure.

that, go figure. Rager U is doing patriotism tests for teachers in Oklahoma. Meanwhile, Ohio's like, yeah, we should give teachers guns and they're starting to do that. FBI rated a guy he doesn't likes house. FBI rated a guy that also

I wouldn't say that we like, so. But a guy who, you know, who publicly embarrassed. If Donald Trump wasn't a president, this wouldn't be happening, because obviously it's just a vendetta against this one guy for personal reasons.

You don't want to say you love to see it. The Biden administration did open investigations into John Bolton and then closed them themselves. I mean, I would imagine that the investigation started when the book was coming out under Trump. I don't know that for a fact. But the investigation was closed. I think they would have prosecuted John Bolton if they'd had, oh, he definitely was like leaking documents in his book. But then people wouldn't have had the opportunity to go, no one is above the law and try to mock him because that is what John Bolton had said. Anywho. Tucker Carlson said that feudalism is so much better than what we have now, because again, these are all just dictator wanting tech feudalists who are going to suckle at the teat of Peter Thiel and his little palanteer business forever.

The Peter Teets. I've been corrected. I'm sorry. Moana, our producer, says it did the investigation into Bolton did start under Biden instead of under Trump. So I stand corrected. I thought so. Guys, this has been fun to run through quickly, but we should wrap it up. I'd love to wrap it up. Cracker barrel. Like the country's all wrapped up. Oh, yeah, sorry. So the most important one.

We saved the most important one for last. Cracker barrel has gone woke for reasons that I still can't discern other than... They removed the cracker and the barrel. Another thing that this fucking country, this group of people who are in charge of everything now need to have be true constantly is, well, Donald Trump is in the petal file. And also, everything is bad because of wokeness and wokenness is tearing down our institutions. We need to return to a previous period of time that was perfect. And you only think that because you were 12 at the time.

But we need to go back to the way things were because wokeness is ruining everything. And cracker barrel is now part of that. It's stupid. But it is a thing that we will constantly have to deal with because of this lie. There's always going to be another back and forth. This is so silly. I mean, first off, I wouldn't say that that's an inspired redesign, you know, pretty boring, to be honest. However, it is nothing to do with wokeness.

It is nothing to do with anything. Calm the fuck down. But I do think just every two weeks there's going to be another bone thrown to the salivating masses of which to get all angry about and worked up. But this is just, it's part of the outrage culture war machine. And we just go back and forth. Feels like it's getting old. It's getting very old. Calm down.

You're still going to eat at Cracker Barrel. We know you are. And like, I think Chris Rufo was like, I thought this was stupid at first. But now I think we need to bury the ban the barrel or whatever it is. Like, it's, you're grasping. No one cares. You have to force yourself to care. Well, again, it's just, it's this hearkening back.

It's all these people like, okay, so you. remember when you were a kid and you went to crack a barrel after church with your family and they changed it to look like all the gray apartments that everybody hates now yeah not a great rebrand but that's what they did but it's not wokeness it's not trying to do anything but you're mad because of your anti-wokeness because of this need to be oh i i oh you know the height of america was blockbuster video and you just all need to go back it was around exactly it's It's just, again, it's this force nostalgia that fascism always uses to push people into it and just, it's so frustrating and absurd. Well, what's woke about it?

I'm just, you take the cracker off. Zero. Zero about it. It's not. It's not. Wokeness is anything the left or liberals or anyone that's not Donald Trump does that they don't like. That is what it is. And they need to have this constant lie that that's what the definition is constantly.

otherwise it all falls apart so they need cracker barrel to be the thing next week it'll be ritz crackers the next week it'll be i don't know oh they're changing our socks they're trying to do it with this new gap ad which is women wearing denim dancing and they're saying this is a response to sidney sweeney and we're tired of this woke garbage and the only thing that's woke about it that i can see is that all of the dancers are not white there are some white dancers i think and then it is and honestly It's just literally taking a play from the same playbook, which is a nostalgic kind of throwback 90s essence commercial.

It is just something that we've done before that is no different from what other people are doing, capitalizing on nostalgia. Steak and Shake has weighed in on the Cracker Barrel issue. And I know that seems unimportant and stupid. And it is the account of Steak and Shake that usually. is beef tallow now for their fries. The account on Twitter did a long, one of those long posts where you see how long it is and you're like, oh, you're like, you're going to, this is a little manifesto about America or whatever. And it's a long tweet about how Cracker Barrel has

betrayed everybody and so on and so forth. Incidentally, steak and shake is owned by a company called Big Lari Holdings. And in 2011, Biglari Holdings bought 4.7 million shares of Cracker Barrel. And ever since then, Biglari, Sardar Baglari, who owns the company, has been trying to take over Cracker Barrel. By 2024, after seven unsuccessful attempts to take control of the company over a 14-year period, he tried to nominate a slate of five candidates. candidates to the Cracker Barrel Board of Directors.

They only picked one. So much of this culture war stuff is just this kind of business. Just like business stuff going on. People wanting, I want this company. The only reason Steak and Shake is weighing in on the Cracker Barrel thing is because the people who own steak and shake want to own Cracker Barrel. It's all so absurd. And I had to point that out.

Maybe 10% of the company will be owned by Trump or the U.S. Government at some point. Can you imagine we're in a time of place? And I know we were wrapping up, but we did not have time to talk about how they're doing communist takeover. We're doing it. It's happening. It's wild. Everything's upside down.

We're wrapping this up. I don't have to imagine, Jonathan. It is the reality. Oh, boy. It's been fun. It's been fun being back from vacation. Loved every minute of this. So great.

We had some laughs. I agree with you completely. Thank you. you everybody for watching thank you for supporting we will be back on thursday with more even more news and hey heck hell wean we love you very much cracker braille's gone woke and i'm pissed and i've got more to say wait don't end the show wait wait wait wait wait Thank you.