The Josh Innes Show - Don Lemon and Other Thoughts Part 1

Episode Date: January 31, 2026

Can we please stop lying about what's happening to Don Lemon? It's absurd. Ben Stiller has penned a letter about America. He's one of these celebs who thinks we live in a fascist country. He's one of these people who thinks we are all in Nazi Germany. He's a real winner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm so sick of these people feigning ignorance to get their point across, and feigning ignorance, like saying shit that they know is dishonest and shit that, like, everybody's full of shit. I'm sick of these people. I'm sick of everybody. I am just sick of everybody. Like, it's, I, do you ever sit here and you're like, none of this shit's ever going to get better?

That's how I feel every day. Like, I'm out there today with Ross and we're at the park and it's all covered in snow. And I take him out to this dog park where he can run and he has a great time. And even though it's cold as hell, it's like 15 degrees. It's terrible. And I'm just standing out there with them and I'm like, thinking to myself as I'm scrolling through Twitter, I'm like, this shit's never going to end. It's never going to end. I'm sick of fucking Trump.

I'm sick of Trump's people. I'm sick of fucking left wing people. I'm sick of all these fucking people. I think I speak for everybody. I'm sick of all these fucking people. I am sick of all these dishonest, cunty, hypocritical people. Let's play a few commercials and let's get going. hypocritical, dishonest, cunty people.

Like the idea that Don Lemon was just arrested because Don Lemon is a journalist that dislikes Trump is so fucking preposterous. And these people know it's preposterous. And they ignore it. They ignore how preposterous it is. Then they have the gall. They have the audacity to sit there and tell you that journalism and free speech are under attack. Hey, McFly.

Hello, McFly, anybody home? You're the same assholes that during the Rona were silencing people and deplatforming people. Like, I don't get how anybody could look at any of these assholes, really on either side. But I don't get how you could look at any of these assholes and think that these people are honest, have any integrity, have any, I hate to use the word morals, but morals. These people are pieces of shit. they are lying, deceiving, conniving, pieces of shit. Look at these celebrities in their videos that we made fun of yesterday, right? We made fun of all these people.

Let me give you an example. Today I was reading something from Ben Stiller, right? So Ben Stiller writes this whole thing about how he's uncomfortable with America and he loves this country, but right now he's not comfortable with this country and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? that is Bin Stiller. Now, mind you, Ben Stiller is part of this crew of people that want to let you know that, let's see, that America is now a fascist country,

that America is a communist country, that we have no rights, and that this is basically Nazi Germany, right? That's what we see when we see Stephen Colbert, when we see all these talk show hosts that want you to know as they read from the script, that we are in Nazi Germany. Okay, this is Nazi Germany,

but the ICE people are actually worse than the Nazis because the Nazis showed their face. So again, just to be clear, ICE agents and the people who support anything about deporting anybody or have any sort of support for Trump, they are Nazis. That is what you are telling people. Now, mind you, let's think about this for a second.

if we are in a country that is fascist, communist, racist, run by white supremacist Nazis, literal Nazis, you would think that you'd be scared shitless right now. You would think that the world would stop, right? You would think that there'd be no Super Bowl. You would think that there could be nothing that could bring anybody any joy. Because, I mean, this is end of fucking days. This is the end of the road. It's over, right?

We're all going to die. Like, we're just sitting back waiting. for our country to fall and we are all fucked. We've got 16 candles Molly Ringwald crying on video. We've got all of these celebrities letting you know that if you don't speak up, you're a piece of shit and you're compliant while they sit behind their gated walls.

If that's the case, and we as a country are so beyond fucked and so communist and so racist and so awful, right? I mean, let's operate under that assumption that this is a, terrible country and everybody, the way they talk, everybody's lives are in danger all the time. Journalism is under attack. You can't say anything in the press. The press have been silenced. They've been silenced. Everybody that supports Trump is a Nazi. Right. If all these things are

true, then how does Ben Stiller find it okay and find the strength to record an Instacart commercial for the Super Bowl. Because something as frivolous, something as unimportant as a Super Bowl commercial for Instacart, there should be no time for that. How can Ben Stiller find time to sit courtside at a Knicks game if our country is burning? These people love to use Anne Frank as a point of reference, right? People love to talk about Anne Frank and the Nazis and what would happen and Frank. Last time I checked while we're making comparisons to Nazis and Trump is Hitler and anybody who supports him as a Nazi and we're in a fascist country and it's all, we're all burning down and it's terrible. So we love those comparisons, right? People love that the illusion. People love to

talk about Nazi Germany when it comes to America now. Americans that live in American are rich and make millions of dollars and make movies. They love to tell you how communism is the way to go. Or that we're fascist and that socialism is the way to go and that we live in a communist country, all that. Let me ask you this. Do you believe that like since now, I guess everybody who doesn't agree with Trump is now the Jews in the case of this being Nazi Germany

and this being the Jews and this being basically a Holocaust, right? So if that's the case, right, do you believe that Anne Frank or any other Jews out there while they were afraid for their life while Anne Frank is hiding in an attic while her family's hiding in an attic while people are being sent to gas chambers do you believe that any of them

who were fearing for their lives do you think any of them took a time to do an Instacart commercial while they were literally fighting for their lives every day and people by the thousands and the hundreds of thousands and millions were being thrown into concentration camps and then eventually sent into ovens

while they were fearing for their life. Do you think any of them ever had to take, whatever the big thing was at the time in the 1940s that you would do a commercial for? Do you think someone's doing cigarette commercials? Do you think Anne Frank's like, well, you know what, my life might end, but let me go record a commercial

for Lucky Strike cigarettes or Coca-Cola. So please help me understand Ben Stiller. Make it make sense for me. Look, please break it down like I'm five. because that's what you guys do constantly on social media and in the news. You like to lecture people and talk down to people because apparently by being rich and a Hollywood actor,

you are smarter and better than everybody. Please help me out here. If we are in Nazi Germany and if we are all the Jews here, everybody who's not a Trump or is the Jews and we're all in danger, please let me know where is the example of somebody in Nazi Germany

or anybody, any of the Jewish people who were being sent to concentration camps, please let me know when they did their equivalent of an Instacart commercial while they were in the midst of a genocide. Anybody? Molly Ringwald?

Ben Stiller in your Instacart Super Bowl commercial? Please, I'd like to know. Please let me know when Meep Geese was sitting courtside at a basketball game in Germany in the 1940s. Please, enlighten me. Anne Frank's dad like at a soccer game sitting front row. Please enlighten me.

Educate me because obviously I'm stupid, right? I'm a fucking moron, right? So help me understand this, Ben Stiller. Let me know where I can find the example of in Nazi Germany when they were so afraid for their lives yet still found time to do Instacart commercials. Please. I'm waiting. They didn't do those.

You know why? because their lives were legitimately in danger and if they would have been captured, it didn't matter what your story was. It didn't matter if you were illegal. It didn't matter. None of that mattered. You were going to die.

But you guys love conflate, not even conflating as the word. You love to make it sound like this is, look, by the way, we're in a shitty fucking time. Make no mistake about it. I'm sick of this shit. But it's not just because there are people that voted for Donald Trump

and it's not just because ICE agents are deporting people. It's not. You're part of the fucking problem. You're just as dangerous as any of these other people. You are liars. Your rhetoric is just as dangerous. You are all in this eye for an eye universe. That's the universe we currently live in.

It's an eye for an eye universe. I saw a tweet a second ago. And it was, oh, so the MAGA people now love masks. And now they're anti-second amendment, huh? Blah, blah, blah, blah. Shut up. It's just like, no one, like people treat this like it's a giant game.

We, like, I think we're all fucked, but we're all fucked not for the reason that these left-wing people want you to believe we're fucked. Like if somehow Kamala would have won, we wouldn't be fucked. We're all fucked. And we've talked about it because the genie is out of the bottle and you don't put the genie back in the bottle. We've talked about social media. We've talked about the power that people have. We talk about how people for years and years have never had a voice.

They have a voice and they are addicted to the clout. I mean, think about this today. Today is this, what are they calling this thing? It was some sort of shutdown day or something where people were supposed to skip school, skip work in protest, an anti-ice protest. Now, mind you, they're asking people who run small businesses to shut down, which is death for these small businesses. Every day is life and death if you were a small business owner.

Think about the selfishness that somebody has to be filled with to basically judge a business for not opening. And then what happens is you get these businesses. And these businesses feel pressured to close. Now, many of them are staying open. But here's where they respond to the peer pressure. And look, I can't blame these businesses for succumbing to this element here, this peer pressure because these people are monsters. These are the same people that tell you that you're, that you're, silencing journalist and that you're silencing freedom of speech, but they are the same people

who wanted you de-platform during the Rona. That is facts. These are the same people crying about Don Lemon. Just go do a simple search, throw in something into chat GPT. Like chat GPT can give you a quick breakdown of what happened with Don Lemon and can tell you why he got arrested. And it wasn't because Don Lemon hates Donald Trump. So Donald sent the Gestapo out there to shut it down and to arrest Don Lemon. He's like, oh, Don Lemon's here. We've got to arrest Don fucking Lemon. You want to know something about Don Lemon? Don Lemon is so far out of sight, out of mind, and irrelevant that I don't even think Donald Trump gives a shit about Don Lemon, except for the fact that the White House is now tweeting about him. Like, I understand that Trump has to stay in Trump character, and I get

that Don Lemon wasn't arrested because Don Lemon hates Trump. But at some point, stop doing shit that makes their fucking point, dude. Like at some point, just cut the shit and try to be somewhat fucking normal. Can you do that? I know you can't because you're a fucking sociopath. You cannot do it. But for the love of Christ,

you just make their point all the time.