Trillbilly Worker's Party - Episode 451: Trump-l'oeil (w/ special guest Kate Wagner)

Episode Date: July 2, 2026

Our old pal Kate Wagner rejoins us to talk about America's 250th anniversary "State Fair" celebration, as well as all the other Trump news this week, from housing prices, to Supreme Court decisions, to the impending fertilizer shortage Support Kate here: https://www.patreon.com/mcmansionhell And support us on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

I'm coming before the audience hat in hand and say I'm a humbled I'm a humbled man I've finally I have finally bowed down to the demands of the audience and putting the free episodes on the Patreon they've broken me they broke they broke me I put and I hate it I put the free episodes on the patron and I fucking hate it and I hate the way it looks and it gives me anxiety just looking at it because is it like too much is it too cluttered no you Yeah, because it's like, like I've said before, our episodes, our main episodes are not chronological with our premium episodes. So like the main feed, we're at like episode, because we started this show off as like a dumb little hobby. Didn't even start doing Patreon until like two years after we'd been doing it.

So it's like on our main episodes, we're at like episode 4 or 50 some shit, but premium or like 417. Anyways, doesn't matter. You guys wanted it. So if you get anxiety about it, it shares to wade through now. It's your responsibility now. It's your responsibility. So I hope you like it. This will be on the Patreon.

You can comment on it. Do whatever the hell you sick bastards like to do on premium but free content. Usually correct us for, to be fair, being wrong. Yes. Yes. Well, but anyways, that's the introduction. That's the welcome to the show. This week we're joined by Kate Wagner. Kate, what's going on?

What's up? I'm currently enduring the great Chicago heat wave. But the other side of that equation is that I now live near the lake where it is 10 degrees cooler, which means that on a day that is 96 degrees, it is 86 degrees, but with the same humidity. So, you know, it's 96 degrees. Basically back to 96. The downshot is in the winter time, it's going to be that much more fridge. That's right. That's right.

Oh, yeah. Bring it on, baby. I love the, I love the abyss. I feel like, I don't know if you guys know this reference, but it's that watchman meme with Dr. Manhattan sitting on like a rock on the surface of Mars. And he's like recollecting like all these memories because he like lives like outside of time. So he can experience the past, the present. and I guess the future at the same time.

And it's like, you know, 2026 is the hottest year on record. One of the most popular memes on the Internet. 2026 is the hottest year on record. 27 is the hottest year on record. It just keeps going, bad. Yeah, it's good stuff. It's good shit.

Yeah, I mean, we got some stuff to cover this week. You know, gas prices, house prices. We got no cash, no hope, no job. America's birthday, multiple Supreme Court decisions. But before I get to all that,

I've been trying to find a place to shoehorn this story in for two weeks now. But have you all seen that story about Tulsi Gabbard, how she's basically literally a Manchurian candidate? Have you all seen this? No.

Wait, more than she was before? Well, maybe she was, maybe I'm just now learning about it for the first time. I've been under Iraq. she's like she's in a cult right she's in a cult yeah i didn't know i didn't know this you can't you can't

i don't think about dulcie gavry okay i don't know anything about politics really would just strain 10 years in and he's just confessing to this i don't really know anything about these people well what do you use what do you use cult you can't use that word lightly because a lot of people will

you know bandy that word around you know um for somebody who's like maybe sick, perhaps fetishistic or just freaky, weird, you know, obsessions or interest or whoever they're affiliated with, but you're talking about like a legit cult? Straight up. Okay. Her parents joined

in like the 90s. Oh, that's a real cult. Sure. In fact, that was in vogue then. Think about it. Heaven's gate. There was a lot of David Koresh. It was the house-ean period of cult joining. Yeah, there's like, well, this cult particular started in the 60s or

70s, and there's like, audio footage of these people saying they would kill themselves for the leader. I think his name is Chris Butler. Imagine killing yourself for a guy named Chris Butler. No chance. No chance. If I'm off of myself, it's going to be somebody with a Hindi name that's not been other than four centuries. He does have a Hindi name.

It is Jagad Guru, Sidas Varapupan. Listen, man, the only reason that the Heaven's Gates guys, at least, they had like a dope pair of kicks on, you know, when they all committed suicide. That's the only way I've joined a cult and going that way, brother. Well, yeah, I think, kicks on my feet, you know. It seems to me that the Vaishnava Hindu organization,

like its whole reason, detour, it's reason for existence. No, you said it right, brother. You know that you speak candy and French, y'all. I'm fucking nailing it. I think, like, their whole reason for existence is they just really hate Muslims. And so they So it makes them different from other

cults in America. Like crystal fascist cults. Well, I don't it was a weird story. The Washington posted like a whole long expose about it. And I read the entire thing. I thought it was fascinating because like it does show you that like so a lot of politicians

are obviously controlled and blackmailed by organizations like the CIA or Israel or they've got or Epstein or whatever. They got very people like controlling them but like then you also just have you know wildcard cult leaders who like have their own specific agenda and they found like literal emails where he would tell her what to say and she would say it verbatim word for word like she was literally a maturian candidate she said everything she was programmed to say that's so hot we got this man imagine being that down bad dude like you know what I'm saying like Mr. Butler please send me more text messages in Congress

I need to know what to think I mean it would have been a step further she had like an earpiece that a flesh-colored ear piece that none of us could see where he was just you know no it's in her weird hair dude that's what that hot girl bride of Frankenstein streak is yeah yeah exactly yeah she's got like and it's like the way it sits on her head too It's like that Amy-Torice type situation.

Yeah. Yeah. That's a callback. I was going to say, wait, I'm ancient. I'm so old. Put me out. Yeah, you brought up the swamp hag. That's pretty nice.

That's pretty ancient. Her dad, Tulsi Gabbard's dad, was like Chris Butler's, like, literally he got him water and stuff. Like, that was his job. That's humiliating. And he got fired from it for being bad. The he got fired for being bad at it. So let me get this straight The term carrying water

As in like being subservient to somebody Like that was actually He was that was a job that That was her dad How are you getting fired for carrying water? Was it lukewarm? Was it room temperature water? It had three ice cubes instead of four

And they melted by a tabbyhead That involved with a crisp up This only makes this more embarrassing for her Like how do you fuck up carrying water? she uh he stayed in the cult though he got fired but still stayed in the cult like that tends to happen there's a little bit that must have been a fucking banging would be hilarious though if that was the like he'd been so thoroughly brainwashed that they're like you know trying to influence politics and they're doing probably untold crazy shit in the name of this guy and then him just getting his feelings

certain getting fired from carrying water he's like okay enough of this I'm out yeah Thought takes the final programmed is just to get your feelings hurt one time. But I think at that point you're so programmed and so locked in that you actually think that you're at fault where you're like, no, it made sense why he fired me, you know?

Yeah. The water wasn't cold enough, you know? I get it. That's how I feel to our audience. I'm in their cult. You're the water carrier. I just put 500 episodes up on our Patreon. You're both Chris Butler and Tulsi Gabbards.

dad in one. That's exactly right. A state of a quantum superposition, you know? Uh-huh. But for cults though. Yeah.

Fascinating. Yeah. Well, that's interesting. That's, I just, you know, the integrity of everything's ruined. I'm hearing this,

and then you've got the myriad NBA gambling scandals. Wait. I, okay, so I need to preface this episode by saying that I am in week three

of a digital detox. Um, so, like, The state fair, which I'm sure we will talk about. Oh, yeah. This was something that someone had to physically call me on the phone to tell me about. I thought that was refreshing, though.

Yeah. I was like, I got a call from a friend. And like, this is the kind of friend who like will call me on the phone, even though we're millennials. And was like, this is how news used to spread like 30 years ago. And he was like, I haven't seen you around in a while. Like, have you been following the state fair thing? And I said, what is that? Is it?

They didn't call it a state fair? I mean, that's... Is that what it's called? Like, this... I don't even know. But it was like the great American state fair because the state fair seems localized to a state. No, this is all 50 states, so I think some of them declined to participate.

Yeah, they all sent representatives. Like, I read an article about Pennsylvania sent, like, some papers. They literally sent, like, some pamphlets. I think, though, I was telling you, though, Terrence. I think that, well, one, some states, I don't think, sent representatives. I can't recall which thing now. 11 stage didn't, I think. Didn't.

But I did see this that I found it was interesting that North Carolina, at their specific like I guess, yeah, their venue or whatever. They had a Confederate flag.

They had to be taken to take the Confederate flag. This is why you can't do an American state fair because it's not just the cool shit that you should enjoy about states, you know, that you could find interesting. It's also like some racist fucked up shit that if there's not a black

person there saying hey no no no you can't do this or anybody anybody who's not like you know what I mean like any has any input in that you know yeah my brother was like one who told me about the North Carolina thing actually I've got a good little article we can read about it it's like a open view oh word okay and we got North Carolinian with us so we're true I am from that state that has just made such a horrible blunder mm-hmm I would say on the world stage but it's like no one cares about this so like maybe on the like What's the blunder? Seceding from the Union?

I'm laughing because the answer is yes. Like, obviously. Secession would be cool under a different pretense, though. You have to say. You know what they should have done, though, at the state fair? Instead of celebrating, if North Carolina wants to do something like that, they should just reenact a civil war, you know. Perhaps with real weapons.

Yeah, well, that's true. Why not do that? Like a huge reenactment. Like on the mall, actually, they should, you know, they should get every. Let's run it back. You know what they should do. You know, they should have to get every American participate in a Civil War reenactment. Yo, for the 250th anniversary. It's 250th anniversary. Yo, because like, what is that Jefferson quote that I'm definitely going to fuck up? He says that like the blood of tyrants, like a something about we need to have a revolution. As being from the state that declared neutrality, you got a lot of options. A lot of, yeah, you can.

We should recreate the birth, well, the birth of a nation. Yeah, we should, problematic title references, but we should recreate the birth of a nation. But no bad ideas in a brainstorm. Okay. Say as the slavery, though. Say it's the slavery, you know. Okay, but have we seen the pictures, which are the most important part? Well, they're good.

You're good. They're real good. Like, these pictures are some of the funniest things I've ever seen by the same. Like, like, I, I, I know, I know we just threw, I just threw everyone in here into this topic, but this is a very important topic to me. And I really would like to talk about it. First of all, I mean, I think we need to acknowledge, like, collectively as a people that we live in a McMansion govern over, like, we lived in a McMansion occupied government. Yeah. Like, and I don't even just mean that, like, Trump in his ballroom or whatever.

I mean, like, Bill Pulte is, like, part of, like, the defense industry now. like the Department of Defense like Bill Pulte is like the McMansion peddler of the world What is his job What was his thing before he got They tried to make him Director of National Intelligence

Actually after Tulsi Gabbard Unceremously quit But they like they failed They couldn't get him in there What was his job before that? He wasn't ahead of the DOD But before that he was the president of Pulte Holmes

Which are like the shudiest cheapest Like particle board houses And that has like Of like those three companies that make those. How do you go from, I mean, whatever. Is this like the ball, single-out of mansions? I like Aaron,

Aaron, you like just genuinely summed up the whole thing. Like this week, I literally saw, like, you know how they put that golden eagle up at the White House? And people were like, it has 11 stars. Why is it, you know what? It's because the Confederacy, the Confederate flag has 11 stars on it and they want to do epic dog whistles.

But it's just like everybody's like, you know what, man? I saw the Nazi references, but I didn't realize that it was also representing the Confederacy. I mean, okay. It's all right. It's all, Kate. No, it's okay. That's fine.

I feel like, okay, so besides the McMansion guy, the literal guy of McMansions, like, he's like the Baron, McMansion Barron, as like, and now he's, I guess, back to the Department of Housing. Hulty Holmes. Yeah. It's rough. But anyways, like, I saw the pictures from the state, great American state fair is what they're calling it, which is, uh, there's, we don't even need to go into that name, which is very funny. Um, you know, I'm looking even at the picture on like the Freedom 250.org website and like, okay, so they've made like this colonnade of sort of pseudo classical buildings. I can't even call them that, like calling them that is to like, like give dignity to something that is basically

like as dignified as a cardboard box. Like they have these like colonated arches and then they have these columns that are holding nothing up. Like they're just stuck on there. They are holding nothing up. Half of the entrances to the arches are fake and are just like plastic.

Some of them like 2D wallpaper. Oh, I'll get there. But like on this main colonnade like they have have these columns that I saw, a picture of the columns, and there are probably, you know, people like, what are they made of? They're made out of wood. It's like, do not assume any column in the United States right now is made out of wood. They are either made out of fiberglass that's like covered in plastic or it's like a sort of concrete sort of situation. But in this case, it's definitely

fiberglass covered in plastic or maybe even drywall, a drywall situation. A drywall column is hilarious dude like imagine being in ancient greece you're fucking like demigod you're fucking punching you're punching columns you might out draw while they just crumble in the first yeah i can't really tell what they are i think they like because yeah i think they might be just some kind of like fiberglass type situation um but anyways they are like hovering above like one foot above the ground because the guy who obviously put these drawings into the drawing software made some kind of error in terms of like scaling things relative to each other before like printing out the plans. And so the columns are like not only like hovering a foot above the wall, they are also on like the wrong part of the building for where they need to be.

And that's not even the best part because like that's objectively pretty funny. Like this shit looks like a shoebox diorama. Like it's the fact that on the end like, okay, so like flanking on the ends like this is a long hallway type situation and they have two wings. and at the ends of each wing would appear to be like two soffets with pilasters. The softets with pilasters are completely like their wallpaper. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's about so. They're two-dimensional.

And like the obvious joke here, which I made on Twitter, which I felt like very ha-ha-funning about, was that it's tromploy. But that only works if you know what tromploy is and tromploy is a surface that's painted to look like it's three-dimensional. But like Trump-loy, obviously, la, la, la, la. I feel like that's one for the heads right there. Yeah, for the real heads.

I also feel like that's a really apt metaphor for America, you know, just maybe this optical illusion, you know, as the closer you get to it and you kind of like turn at different perspectives and you're like, hold of this shit is 2D. This is not even real right now. It's like, oh my God, you mean it's artifice trying to pass itself off as something else in my country, America? This great name.

No, but the best one, the best one is like they like staged like the arch. And like this is like so funny. Like the St. Louis Arch. No, just the arch on the house. Trump's Arch. Trump's Arch. And the funniest thing about this is like this is the most phoned in thing I've ever seen in my entire life. They literally, it literally looks like made out of cardboard like for a school projects.

And for whatever reason, like they have the, and then they didn't make it like an art. Well, it's like just a big rectangle with like a little soffat underneath. But they've got like these two cubes glued on to the end that I don't know what they're for. And then they've got like the little statues basically impaled on top of them. And it is like it's just dog shit. It's sort of like tacky carcosa shit is that? It's also it's a replica of his proposed arch which wants to it. It's like supposed to be kind of a nod to the arch in Paris.

right like the i'm thinking of one in washington square park probably in new york that's the one i was thinking okay let me ask you a question because um the only way i could think of this only the only reference i could give is that it's almost like a spirit halloween sort of like architecture which means that it's just like supposed to go up overnight and easily be taken down how long like what is the how can i say this like i know that this was maybe planned for a long time or do you think it was planned at all how long do you think it took them to even set this shit up was it really an overnight kind of process probably. Yeah.

Okay, so the original lore is that we had like, the Smithsonian had prepared like a pretty significant like America 250 celebration. Like I think a couple of years in advance. And like they never said who would be headlining, but they said like a bunch of concerts given by like major artists with like a folk festival and like foods from around the country. And it was supposed to be like a big multicultural celebration with full of famous people. on stage that you wouldn't want to miss and like Trump apparently allegedly was mad that

this was the Smithsonian doing it so he decided to just like cut it all and do this instead at the very last second why this cannot can I just like in it why this is it an anti-intellectual thing perhaps maybe you know all of this stuff is like psychosexual in some bizarre way like I think you know the for for Trump like the Smithsonian is soy lib co-ed. Like he sees the Smithsonian as like in a feet little boy he has to crush with his big big feet and or maybe even a woman which he would love to do something else to knowing his nature and that's not funny But yeah then you know and so he's like I'm Trump it's my country and I'm gonna do this instead and look it's a total shit show and it's really funny But that's literally what it is that's literally what happened they just like decided over now night that they were going to do something else and they you know this event had been planned

for like years in advance and the one then they had to come up with the one at that scale like within a matter of months and so this is sort of what happened i i think i think this week is you're getting a pretty good glimpse at how this is going to end it's not like him and milania in the bunker like hitler and evaubran it's like genuinely like what was that thing that just came out today like he's he made like 1.5 billion dollars. Oh, I saw that. Yeah. I mean, and not just, uh, not just crypto, but all

of his other, Bibles, like selling Bibles and all these other chinty bullshit he sells. Like, he's made so much fucking money. I saw it today. Micron. He announced that Micron was going to be making a donate, like a donation of $250

million to Trump Industries. Like it's this entire thing. It is a fucking, it is a, it is a it's a grand theft man it's a fire sale brother yeah brother this is kleptocracy just straight up i mean like the way this ends is i i mean uh well i did you all see this um

so several news items this week we're talking about pulte pulti homes talking about the fucking uh chency 250th anniversary new home prices are lower than built homes for the first time in several years, I think. Yeah. Comment that that happens, but it's happening more and more these days is, you know, they use cheaper and cheaper shit to build homes.

I guess that's why Kate. I know, it's like the material cost is still the same. The thing is that like they're, unlike in previous eras, where there has been like relatively smooth transitions between generations of homeownerships, the fact of the matter is, is that the baby Booner generation, like, literally holds on to so many of the housing,

so much of the housing stock that until they die, like, it is actually cheaper to, like, build new houses. Yeah. Right, right, right. Which, uh, yeah, that's why. You know, it just reminds me, man. And I don't know, man, just living in New York. And, I mean, even in, even, like, living in Atlanta, you know, and seeing these

houses and buildings that have been around for, like, decades, like, way before I was born, you know. And sort of the fact that they can also withstand, I mean, not that, you know, we get hurricanes or you know tornadoes well i mean i did get a tornado warning in in atlanta the other day but it can these buildings can domicons can withstand the elements you know but the shit they're putting up now i mean like how are people how are people supposed to live in that like a decade from now even if that you know people have been saying that forever the fact of the matter is actually that uh met the techniques of mass production

for housing have essentially gone unchanged since the end of the Second World War. There are a couple of like really big interventions that happened in the 70s. Like one is the development of building with trusses as like the main, as the main sort of structural apparatus, which like allowed the interiors to open up. And that's why we have the open floor plan because the structural load is redirected towards the walls. I mean, that's why you get that sort of McMansion feel of like a giant cavernous interior. Is that also what caused the towers if we didn't, if we're not assuming that George Bush didn't detonate them?

If you can take standard, you know, explanation, is that why the Twin Towers collapse? Unfortunately, no. That happened. You got to blame George Bush for that one, dog. Oh, I do. I'm just saying. Yeah, no. It turns out jet fuel does kind of low-key melt steel.

It melts a lot of things, including the global economy. RIP to my friend, the global economy. No, but yeah, so like, part of the reason why houses, people are always saying that houses look cheaper than they do, than they used to, is because around like the 1980s, 1990s, it became really common to use types of cladding that were not brick or wood type wood cladding or an older back in the day like 40s 50s like they used to use like aluminum cladding for example um like in the earlier too but then the

shortages war over two whatever anyways the like so because the the fundamental like construction elements of the houses have remained the same what people don't like is the fact that we use plastic cladding and first it was vinyl cladding which is like what my parents house is in it's like vinyl side And then now it's what they call fiber cement, which is like usually called something like Hardy Board, Hardy Plank, which is an improvement IMO on vinyl siding. But it still doesn't have the same like material thingness, let's say. It doesn't have the heft or the or the sense of not being plasticy. Resiliency perhaps. Yeah, resiliency, but also like it doesn't have like the material heaviness of like a wood or a stone or a brick.

So we think that like the houses are built like cheaply cheaper more flimsily than they were before. And the reality is that the guts on the inside are exactly the same as they've been since the post-war period. It's just that like the cladings are ugly. Kay, where do you land on the Lustron house? Oh, the Lustron. There was, where I went to undergrad, there was a Lustron house. There were two actually. I went to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, as I'm very fond of telling people, go Spartans.

Thank you. Um, the, uh, and we had one, we had two of those houses, uh, on, I can't remember which, which road they were on. And one was in a little bit of state of disrepair, but it was one of the blue ones, which I thought was cool. Um, and the Lus Trant House is one of those classic examples of like architects and engineers, uh, kind of reinventing the wheel in a way that is both like very exciting and fascinating as like, you know, in terms of like pushing design goes. But also like relatively impractical in terms of like actually, like, actually, like, like, like executing the thing. Like these are basically prefabricated modular housings that are made, housing that are made up of aluminum panels that are insulated of aluminum panels. And so they look very like atomic age. They're very cool. Like you couldn't nail things to the interior so you had to use magnets to hang your

art for example. Yeah. And they look really awesome. Now they're all, almost all of them are like historically protected or on the National Register. But they definitely were like a cork of, mid-century modernism. Like there were many such quirks.

Like one of my other favorite quirks is like in Finland and you, I can't be, I can't remember who exactly was the architect who was doing these. Actually, let me look this up right now, conspicuous, inconspicuacy. But they had these amazing houses. I don't even know if it was Finland. Oh my gosh, no. Never mind.

There were these crazy, the UFO houses, that's what I'm thinking. That's kind of what I was thinking about. Yeah, the Futuro house. That's the one I'm thinking about. And the Futuro house is another like kind of fascinating. Yes, divine by Finnish architect like Maddie Swarden. Okay, I knew Finland was involved. Thank you, Finland.

Because I went to one in Finland. Like, I went to Finland in 2017 on an exchange. And I went inside there. There are these amazing plastic houses. they look like a UFO, like there's no other way to describe them. And the interiors are entirely like fiberglass and plastic, and they smell like the inside of a McDonald's play place in there. They're not very practical houses, but they are very, very sick,

and that's all you can ask for. Was this during like sort of like, I guess, the space age as well, the influence about the space area? Absolutely. The space age produced so many fascinating elements of sort of global design. You see actually Space Age, design in a lot of industrial design. Like, for example, in lemon squeezers that look like Sputnik or... What was it called goo?

Googie. Googie. Yeah, googie. Yeah. Googie. Yeah. Googie is also another one. I grew up going to Ocean City, Maryland, for my...

Because I have relatives who live over there. And, like, they had all these amazing, these to have all these amazing googie signs and, like, mid-century hotels with sort of the Googie architecture. Obviously, the most famous example of Goody architecture is the Los Angeles building at LAX. Well, I even think about diners, man, like old school diners. Diners, for sure. You know, just the sign, you know, and the way that it was shaped, you know. For sure, like the old McDonald's.

Well, the reason I brought it up in the first place is because Trump said something really hilarious. He said, I don't want to, because they were talking about the fact that, housing prices keep rising. He said, I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up. And so, I mean, it's, it's

that combined with Scott Besson's okay, actually there's several things. Scott Besson, you know, said that they, you know, him and Trump both went on Trump got on truth social. I think Scott Besson was on

one of the Fox News, I think Tuesday morning. He said that the retail gas sellers, like gasoline sellers, need to bring the prices down. And he said, or else, he said, we're watching. And so

this also comes at the same time the Trump administration issued an emergency authorization to waive any tariffs on phosphate imports from Morocco. I mean, dog, it is It's bad, right?

Like, it must be pretty bad. Like, I guess the kleptocracy. What we're, I think what we're driving out here is you've got naked, like, theft and kleptocracy, criminality. That, like, has to be, like, sort of papered over with, yeah, chinty bullshit, 2D wallpaper, drywall, Corinthian columns and whatnot. Like, and, and, and that's,

the whole Trump operation, right? Like just trying to plaster gold on as much shit as possible to make you try to try to make you forget that they're just not only stealing everything from you, but fucking up massively. And actively trying to impoverish

and kill you as well. Yeah, exactly. Just like the sheer animosity of the whole thing. Yeah. But the, you know, this also comes on the heels of of several Supreme Court decisions

this week. I mean, for me, like, you know, as someone who, you know, does this show, we have busy news weeks and slow news weeks. And, like, this is a pretty big news week for Trump. Like, several Supreme Court decisions came through this week

that would some of it bolstered his agenda. Like, for example, I think the Supreme Court, I'm not seeing anyone talk about this, it got completely buried. But the Supreme Court, I think, affirmed a ban on transgender athletes in women's sports

and like I said that has been kind of completely submerged under all the coverage of the Supreme Court upholding birthright citizenship in the 14th Amendment there's been like an endless amount of right-wing crashouts about this I mean which I just have to I'm not like a fucking

constitutional expert obviously right but it's just like you know I mean, that was meant to like help like black people, right? Like, you know, slaves, you know, freed slaves, right? So it's just like, you know, people that are crashing out about this, it's like, well, first of all, it's already not only in the Constitution, but it was affirmed, right, in order to like help these people and anything at all, like just something that was like meant for black people, right? And that still reverberates and continues to this day to help other people, you know? Just for you to instinctively reject that, it's like just come out and say that you hate reconstruction, that you hate the, promise, right, of a racial, social

democracy. We already know that, but just come out and just fucking say it. They're putting the golden eagle with 11 stars on the way. Yeah. Right, right, right. But another thing that was, another Supreme Court decision that came this week that I thought was kind of interesting was

they simultaneously, it's wacky, like them trying to like sort of thread the needle here. They simultaneously said that Trump did not have the authority to fire someone from the federal. Oh yeah, except for the Fed. Yeah, like they said he has the authority

to fire anyone at an agent, a federal government agency, which upends like an 80-year president, but that he doesn't have the authority to tamper with federal reserve independence. That's really like neoliberalism, baby. Yes, exactly. That's like they just like put on a big hat

that says neoliberalism on it and they're like, look at my hat, bitch. It's in viral. What it says on my hat, read the hat. like it's funny um trump i think is one of the i guess i mean i mean i might be out of my depth here but to my knowledge he's maybe the only president that has tried to actually upend one of these you know core foundational premises of neoliberalism which is

central bank independence um and i don't i mean and not even for any ideological ideological reasons, you know. It is just for pettiness, really. It's just really pettiness. I think he just wants to be out dangled that in front of Jerome Powell's head. 100%. 100%. But yeah, I guess

all of which is to say that, like, house prices keep going up, they don't give a fuck. Gas prices, right now they're kind of stable, but like this war is not going to end. We have been saying it over and over again, but this war ain't fucking ending. prices are going to keep going up. I mean, I don't know. Did you all, have y'all kept track of JD's week the past, uh, dude, he's been having a fucking amazing. I did. I did see. Wait, what's up with him?

Um, well, first of all, he said, uh, he, he, he said that like, you know, people make a big deal about Trump's crimes, but when you compare them to, to, to, to, to Nixon, it's not even like a big deal at all. Like, basically he said we do, we do a water gate every day. He said that the Trump administration does a watergate every day. He said that the Trump administration does a watergate every day. He then today said that they're only negotiating with Iran a ceasefire at the moment so that they can refill missile stocks and like defensive weapons. Basically just, you know, giving the game away.

And then, like, his whole thing today about, like, the Pope needs to stay out of, Paul, he's been saying this for a while, but, like, he said that to him, the Nicene Creed basically gives him the permission to hate, I think, in his words, poor working foreigners. Like, that's not, he said something to that. You think he still feels burnt because, correct me from wrong, because, like, I mean, time, you know, just can't even remember things. But didn't he go visit, like, the Pope Francis and he died? next day.

Yeah. Like that, you know. He's like a chubby angel of death or something like that. A cherubic angel, a cherubic angel of death. That is, that is funny that he said we do a water gate every day or whatever. That's like. That's crazy. Nixon may also be the only president like, and this is by a nose, more racist than

a, but of a different era of race. You know, he was just like, you know, he would find somebody. I feel like we're living at like untold levels of like linguistic post-modernity. If like the Nicene Creed could mean like that you don't have to like brown working class foreigners. Like we're just like that's not even that's obviously not an interpretation like but if we are going to accept the language of the word interpretation like we are at a point where like language is basically a corkscrew that you can pummel someone with in a very very. violent way. But also, like, shouldn't the fucking Pope excommunicate him for this? Like, come on, man.

Like, you can't be saying this kind of shit. He is a habitual line stepper and the Pope needs to fucking check his ass. I'm saying. Dude, if the Pope excommunicated vice president, that would be so tight. That's a fucking 13th century shit. Now we got something worth watching. Yeah, exactly. It's like you're excommunicated, J.D.

Unless you go on a pilgrimage to say sorry. Yeah, barefoot, you know what I mean. Hair shirt, hair shirt. He's got a lot of hair, so probably he can just go shirtless. He doesn't need a hair shirt. Yeah, there's a photo of him going around this week where his hands look massive. Do you see that photo? No.

That's such a bizarre photo. I don't want to think about this man's hands. That's an intimate part of the body to me as a woman. You just made me thinking about them foam fingers. You don't know what you. Gaines and Gaines He's just walking around with big meat hands What I will say to

I saw that I wish I watched the video It was just one of those things that you kind of scroll past And you see the headline and chuckle a bit But I saw that he apparently gave a Like he gave like a little bit He had a little his little Like 10 minutes of comedy To some troops at his expense

And nobody laughed at all This is why I'm pretty fucking sure That even if this guy runs in 2020 he is so incredibly like unfathomably unlikable you know what I mean that like you can't even make the troops laugh you can't make the troops laugh

it's hard to say man today I saw a clip of ASC saying I hope he runs in 2020 like the implication being that like I want that to be my my opponent and it's like dude it's like that tweet in 2016 that was like

don't laugh off Donald Trump trust me Americans are stupid enough to elect Donald Trump. I kind of sometimes feel that way about J.D. Vance, like, please don't laugh him off. Americans are literally stupid. No, those were a Hiller's famous last words there, too. Yeah, that is true.

That is true. Happy birthday to this future president. I can't believe that tweet is still up, dog. Oh, I can. Yeah, you're right, actually. She's going to run, dude. Don't count out Hilldog. You think coming from the back of the pack,

she might make a little surprise. That'd be sure. Yeah, I know. Like, please come back. Kamala is. Kamala's trying to. I heard, I heard she was making phone calls to Zazaar on my body. Girl, you are the loserous loser of all time.

When Hillary lost, like, Trump didn't even win the popular vote. When she, when Kamala ran, he won the popular vote. Which is she could just, she could talk about what Biden's wins, like four years after, like, Biden's wins got us here. Dude, what is this fucking video? just came across my feed. Trump's standing in front of a bunch of cowboys and it says, now as I see my two beautiful sons sitting there, I think

I'm going to give one to myself, one to them, and we'll have a threesome. What were the cowboys and asses chaps? Like, what's going on here, brother? Oh, my God. It is a fever dream. We are in a fucking fever dream. I saw a funny, like,

Trump clip today that my brother sent me. My brother is like, I guess, like, Lord Drop about my brother is that he is like I have a brother who's like 15 years older than me and from my dad's previous marriage and like he like is like kind of the peak like angry gen X like guy like it's it's fine when he does it but like if it was someone else I would make fun of them but anyways like he's always sending me like the most insane shit like Trump says and like today he was just like he said something to the effect of like it's going to be like a hot day 107 degrees I'm going to make a

biggest, longest speech to say that, like, I can still do it. Just to prove I can do it. And it's like, and then I saw like another tweet that said like, yes, sir, don't forget that drinking water is gay. And it's like,

that's funny. Dehydration is a manly thing to do. I mean, I want to know. Dude, someone always dehydrate, someone always dies at like Bonnaroo or some shit. Are people dying at the 250th? There's no one there.

No one is there to die. And all the people that are already there that would die, you probably have died already, you know. Or will die when they get home, perhaps. Well, weren't long for this world to begin with. Some of the pictures are really funny. There was a picture like, okay, so you guys said that TMZ is at the capital, right? Right.

We're doing political shit now. Yeah. There is a TMZ photo. There is a TMC photo of like this guy on the state fair. Like he's like an ancient guy and he's like almost rickety like with being old. And he's like laying on the grass and like a like skeletal spasm. And like tennis shoes. Hold on.

I'm just going to send it to you. TMZ state fair photos. I just I just had to laugh because that picture. Trump, Great America State Fair. That picture. Yes. Oh, this is so. No, I have to send you this right now in the chat because like I need everyone to see it.

And then you can help me. describe what you're seeing here in these images because they are so important. They're so important to the American people. Yeah, let's see what we got here. That is what I think is referred to in the business as rigor mortis. I like the fat guy in the hat just standing next to him with his arms on his heads. Yo, they got a baby out there, bro. Somebody birthday bad.

You got a guy taking a knee right beside. We got a flag, respect. right to the left. Wait, I saw a photo of one tent where they had like a hot tub where they were going to be baptizing people. Did y'all see that one? Oh, yeah, and no one was in there.

A hot tub baptismal in a hundred and a heat dome. And they got at the Idaho booth, you can milk a fake cow. Dude, that's cool. These are great. Dude, the art, the art at this shit is so fucking dope. It is so good.

But it's like Soviet realism, but like for like corrupt Like bankrupt America Type of shit Oh man Okay so I'm looking through And I really love like the Booths and like the exhibitions

Which have like fucking nothing in them Like it's just a sign that says like Idaho Yeah This is like you went to the Mountain Heritage Festival And the rapture happened right before you guys Everybody's fucking gone, my god, guy on the scooter photo is also pretty good. That's a good photo.

It's well staged. I feel like at an event like this, there should not be enough space for you to lay down and stretch out like people are doing. Like, Kate, you posted that picture that deed Kate had posted, which is the worst pictures you could take because there's so much space, so much green. And it's just, what did you say in terms of smattering of people? Yeah. I like this photo.

Oh, man. are so good there's like cops playing cornhole and there's like eight people around dude this is some adam curtish shit bro you need to lose this documentary dog this photo you mean like with the two women playing cornhole where there's a bunch of cops

standing around uh huh and then there's this who is this in that photo next to trump where there's corn in a basket and then there's a big photo of trump over the corn who's the woman next to him what is you all know what who did it. It's like the first photo. Oh, is that?

Who is that? Yeah, who the fuck is? I saw that. Who is that? It's a face. I don't know. All the Mar-a-Lago faces, they kind of start looking the same after a certain point. I love how they used that photo of Trump, like, the fucking, like, Patrick Bateman photo of Trump where he's, like, got the shadowed face and, like, it's almost like he's doing almost DreamWorks face. I don't know.

Yeah. Wait. Go ahead. Go ahead. No, no, go ahead. It's good. I was just going to say. I have an article that actually provides a little bit of color and, you know, flare to the proceedings.

The Financial Times went to the 250th Freedom Fair, and they reported from it. It says, pancakes and holograms fail to draw crowds to Trump's Freedom 250 Fair. Not even the holograms could draw people? Bro. If I remember correctly, I think it's an A-Blinkin hologram. He would hate that. That's the Kudegroff holograms. Yeah, that's true.

After Tupac, you know. After Tupac, next to Tupac, that's the good as you can do. A Mary Todd Lincoln hologram would go much crazy. Nine years after he first exaggerated the size of the audience for his inauguration on the National Mall, Donald Trump this week reprised his role as crowd estimator-in-chief for America's two. 250th birthday. He assured the nation on Monday that his great American state fair featuring rodeos, pancake eating contests,

and wellness talks by someone named holistic Hilda was packed with happy people on everyone is loving it. That sounds like a character written for a children's book. Who the fuck is Holistic Hilda? That tries to get kids to like eat vitamins that I don't know. Holistic Hilda, the most American meme I can think of. Hilda. ancestral health for mom and kids

she's kind of adora the explorer 2.0 she travels the world uncovering ancient health traditions why because we deported Dora the Explorer that's why so now we got to bring in holistic Oh dude look up a photo

oh man that's pretty much exactly what I thought Holistic Hilda was gonna look like gums man that's all I think she got gums I can't I can't really talk

I got big ass teeth myself I can't really talk but um yeah she's in the crusty verse for real for sure the crusty person it's like

what is she's like an Anthony Bourdain but for like holistic dude when you were saying this I thought she was a little German girl yeah yeah that'd be cooler like a bad universe Greta Thunberg or something

Yeah, type situation. Yeah, Mario. Yeah. Like, I was picturing like alpine pig tails. Uh-huh. And possibly even a cartoon. Yeah. Um,

the streets of America are probably filled with those people after Germany lost in the World Cup a few days ago. Dude, that's more like Argentina dog. Oh, that's true. That is true. Oh, yeah. I didn't think about all the poor homeless German people and stuck in the United States. Yeah, dude.

They can all, like, go to ordinary hotels and tweet about how it's so awesome and get that rake in that blue check money. On Tuesday afternoon in D.C., however, there were thin crowds on the mile-long strip of grass that stretches from the Washington monument

to the U.S. Capitol, which had been largely deserted since the Expo celebrating America's independence opened six days earlier with a de facto Trump rally. The few visitors queuing to board a 110 foot Ferris Will or admiring a scaled down version of Trump's plan, Triumphal Arch, be decked and printed tarpaulins and fake gilded eagles were outnumbered by security staff and media.

So there were literally more like security staff and media people there than there were actual attendees. Actual human beings there to enjoy it. That's very crazy. But it's cool. I mean, I think maybe people were confused. They build it as a state fair. Maybe people got confused.

They're like, I've already been to one state fair this year. But isn't it also like fucking three weeks long or some shit like that? Or I don't know. It's pretty long. It's like two weeks long. You can't have an event like that for that long, brother, man. Did it start with the UFC fight? Is that what kicked it off, like inaugurated it?

I guess. Probably, yeah. I guess so, yeah. I wonder who booked like Hampton Inn in D.C. for three weeks for this. You know what I mean? Like started with the UFC fight and spent their life savings just to culminate milk in a fake cow

make milk in a fake cow that's kind of like what we do with the economy it's biblical every every Friday when they're like talks are happening between the U.S. and Iran like that's milk in a fake cow or fucking milking dog okay

among the sparse crowd Paul Ezel described the vent as, quote, pretty awesome. What this whole place, what this whole place needs? What asked for comment. This quote kills me. What this whole place needs is things should unify. You can't have unification without people there, brother. I'm just like the participle agreement, like the verb down agreement is hilarious.

What this whole place needs is things should unify. Maybe they're just British and that's just what their English is like. That's true. Well, oh. I don't even know. He said he's a retiree from Alabama. Okay. Okay.

Well, you know, I will say this. You know, down here sometimes we have a hard time putting nouns and add. And yet have somehow created some of the best riders. That's true. That's true. What? Hank Williams? Yeah.

Yeah, among others. That picture of the arch is pretty fantastic. It literally looks kind of like a bag of pads. That is so true. It's like overly ornate for what it is as like a sanitary instrument and also like kind of sagging. There's a sagging genesis qua that's very important to the menstrual pad. A sagging genesis, Clair.

So, yeah, I think, yeah, it looks like something you could flush down the toilet. like yeah if it rains it's it's over you know what kate that's so true you can add it i was like this reminds me of something but that is spot on that's exactly what it is um it's it's a woman's touch you know yeah yeah yeah um polly zell yeah the retiree from washington uh-alabama he drove up with his wife sharon he said what this whole place needs is things should unify so going into the different states, I think, helps do that. So, you know, the state fair concept is that they combined every state fair into one mega state fair. Even North Carolina's state fair with the Confederate flag. That should have had some simple of unification. Even now. You know he went to

California and made a comiforne a joke to whoever's getting paid, you know, $7.00 a quarter to man the booth. I don't think California, I think they boycott. They opted it. They opted out to that. Ah, okay. Sorry. The event, because it says here, the event also served to highlight America's political divisions. Many of the plastic decked pavilions representing each of the American states and territories were virtually empty.

Nine states, mostly Democratic led, had declined to participate after the rains of the 16-day celebration were handed to Freedom 250, a Trump-backed group that edged out a bipartisan body set up by Congress. Pennsylvania's pavilion was saved in a last-minute intervention by Senators John Federman and Republican Dave McCormick, who joined forces with a Shell gas company to supply some old flags and a replica of the Liberty Bell. Thank you, Shell. Dog, that is, dude, that whole paragraph. Pennsylvania's plastic pavilion was saved in a last-minute intervention by Senators John Federman and Dave McCormick, who joined forces with a shell gas company to supply some old flags

in a replica of the Liberty Bell. I feel like they set the guy into like a warehouse or something like that and said, yo, just go find. Whatever you can find, go, you know? I'd be like reading that. I like... I don't like that the Shell company

owns a copy of the Liberty Bell. That's just a little too on the nose for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, yeah. I feel like reading that paragraph, I accumulated a layer of dust on me. just like fucking cobwebs like dude are you fucking

serious oh man nerd um you hate to see it members of micormac's political team were dispatched to staff the booth in the searing heat

one of them telling the FD he had personally driven a truck laden with 17,000 bags of potato crisps who how many people did they think we're going to come here bro What's the head count here? Like you can see grass. Like I mean,

look, the photos are like, it's got to be like maximum 75 people in that photo. Maximum. I mean, dude, goddamn Mexico beats Ecuador last night and there's not a small town of Mexico

without every fucking body in the streets. And you can't, for America, you can't muster up, you know, more than a smattering. I'm just always, I'm always reminded of this

poll I saw in the New York Times you want to say it's like 2022 I probably have it somewhere in my phone but the headline was like majority of voters don't see any use in trying to save democracy I don't fucking cares everybody's just tapped out everybody just tired

everyone is just just completely zoned out oh man but they're not zoned out at this particular event no no much of the entertainment elsewhere was agricultural North Carolina having recently removed a Confederate flag

from his presentation brought sweet potatoes Illinois laid on the corn Michigan Wisconsin and Idaho all laid claim the cows the latter with a milkable full-size model Oh I'm sure Do you feel that fake cow with milk Like it probably smells like shit Imagine to be the guy having to fill it with milk

I mean this goddamn heat too Oh, yes, let me touch those beautiful rubber udders filled with sour from state fair milk. Oh, they raw milk because. Oh, it's raw milk. Yeah, it's definitely raw milk. Yes. Well, to be fair, it does come out raw.

I guess it does come out raw from the tap. That's true. Yeah, but you know. Cows are imbued with a natural connection to the earth that people don't have, which is why we should drink raw milk. that Holland guy from Norway he drinks he eats 6,000 calories a day

and as Tom pointed out to me today most of that's raw milk and salmon that's fucking is the salmon raw too salmon's probably raw as well that's disgusting dude

now my gut couldn't take it that's why y'all not 6'5 and 215 pounds you're dead right that's why I'm frail 145 Soaking wet, brother. A woman does not disclose her weight, especially if she hasn't been working out. Fair enough, fair enough. A couple of...

A little chubby, let's say. We can say that. Me and the cow, I don't know. It's a pretty close match. Shut up. A couple of displays came closer to meeting the event's ambitions. Illinois offered a holographic Abraham Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg address. By who did?

Illinois. Okay, hold on. Well, we got to stop this land of Lincoln bullshit. He was born here. That man's a Kentucky. Like four people claim Lincoln, right? Yeah, Indiana also does. That's just absurd.

There's like, what's the claim there? I think he grew up there. No, he did. He grew up Hodgimville, Kentucky. No, he was born in Kentucky, but then they moved. Like me, I was born in Lubbock, but then... What do you claim? New Mexico?

Yeah, I claim New Mexico. But there was a time of my life where I was embarrassed to claim it, and I was claiming Texas. Oh, gosh. So. This is just like the feud between North Carolina and Ohio over the Wright brothers. Right. Another example.

This has been going on forever and it affects our license plates. Like, you know, because the North Carolina license plate has forever been first in flight because the first fucking flight happened at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina. Right. But Ohio, like, didn't like that because, like, they had their bicycle factory there or whatever and they were born. So, like, they should have, like, first in flight. Anyways, I don't know how this turned out, but for a while in North Carolina was, like, first in freedom, which is also not true. Also false.

Incredibly false. Not enough for y'all to have LeBron James and Bootsie Collins. You got a home man on the right brother, too. Oh, buddy, Michael Jordan. Yeah. This is true. This is true. Yeah.

Montana's tent featured fossils from a T-Rex dinosaur excavated in the state, which, children could brush clear of sand and examine. I have not seen a photo of a single child. That's good. I did see in those photos like Kate's in this. I did see a empty stroller, which is kind of worrisome. Look,

we all need to make our child sacrifices at the hands of the great moloch in order to secure our place in the American economy. I'm sorry, that's just clear economic logic. Like, I can't believe you're even like having this debate right now. Speaking of that, Kate, what is? I just now, I'm now realizing we touched on it a second ago,

but you recently wrote something in the nation about it. Like, what is Trump's arch? What the fuck is, like, what is it? Okay, this is, yeah. So anyways, Trump is proposing to have a great triumphal arch. Like the Romans would have, right? Like the Roman general. It's based on the one, it's been, yeah, originally yes,

the Romans, but this one is obviously based on the art of tromp in Paris. And anyways, like, this is supposed to happen at like the one of the entry on, just like before a bridge. I can't remember which bridge it is, like at the entry to when you enter D.C. And there's this big lawsuit from Arlington Cemetery for that says, and like a bunch of veterans that says they're putting it there basically obscure the view of like Arlington cemetery from like the rest of the city, out of yada, yada. But anyways, this is like what you're going to laugh because it's funny.

Like the reason he wanted the arch, the arch is huge. It's like overscaled. It's way too big for what it needs to be. It's bigger than the Arctic Trump, which is pretty big. It's one of the taller arches in the world, I think, and which is the goal, you know, with Trump. But the reason it's so tall is that he wants it to be 250 feet tall after like one foot for every year of the United States. What the fuck? And then also,

but like the funniest fucking part about this, dude, it gets so much funnier than this. It's like, the actual arch like only comes up to like a hundred something

yay high. And then he, he can't even at this. He's fucking cheating even at like doing his own monument. And he like just puts a giant statue like on top of it to add up the like the last like 50 feet or something.

Jesus fucking. Um, and anyways like there are these like deliberations. I don't, don't know if the project is going through right now because when I wrote my article for the nation about it, um, like they were, there was like a stay of execution for that and the ballroom by like a number of different like internist and DC agencies devoted to like the, the capital, the city, like historic preservation. And then also veterans like there's just a bunch of pans

in the fire on that. Um, but anyways, like the funniest part to me is that like they were having like these meetings with the Landmarks Commission. And Trump, you know, he brought all these fucking cronies on to, like, from like the world of neoclassical traditional architecture, which is not always a right-wing world. A lot of people who study that architecture, like, some of them are Catholic or spiritual, whatever. A lot of them are just interested in old buildings and, like, want to do restoration work. And they're completely, they're a little, like, they're a little odd, but they're completely

normal people within, like, with normal, like, architectural pursuits. that have been unfortunately maligned by like this scourge of like these like kind of dip shit track guys. Uh-huh. And anyways, like, they were in this meeting. And like the funny fucking shit, the funniest fucking shit is like the James McCreary, the architect who got booted from Trump's ballroom, was like basically like groveling being like, sir, these lions are much more European than they are Jeffersonian. Because there's these lions on either side of like the statue.

of the Lady Liberty or whatever. And Trump was just basically like grobble, fool. And so it's like these track guys, like this was like they're, you know, like getting into the seat of power and having this opportunity to like basically reshape the nation's capital and like exact their will on like the development of future federal buildings. This is like a project that these guys in some iteration of some form, like not these specific guys who are like the rightest wing and like least intelligent of like this type of guy. But these guys have been around since the 80s. And they have always long to get like this close to power. And it is so funny to me that they get this close to power. And the guy in power is Trump.

And he just like laughs at them. It makes them like little monkeys with the symbols. Yeah. It's like, yeah, that is kind of what you get. But that's kind of the deal with with the arch de Trump. It's kind of. It's kind of funny to have it sort of. I know it's not built yet.

But it's kind of funny to have it sort of juxtaposed with Obama's presidential library. That just got finished. Yeah. I mean, I can't even speak remotely intelligently about that. But it's interesting contrast. Two very different styles, right? I like to say, but they're so right wing, though, that they're like the lions you want to put it on this is like not American enough. That's what I was going to ask you about, Kate.

So what denotes a European lion versus like a. Jeffersonian lion. That's what I would like to do. Yeah, it's funny. Like the lion, like, as, like, the guardian of some of a monument is not, that's not an American tradition, like, at all. We imported that iconography in neoclassicism, like, shortly after, like, the colonial period.

But it is, like, in the U.S., there's more interest on, like, sculpts. The U.S. classicism, like, American classicism in, like, kind of its own. way is actually quite a bit more austere than European classicism. Like the federal style of architecture is like sort of roughly like equivalent to or like in time or like roughly similar to like the Georgian style in England. And there are Georgian style townhouses and stuff in D.C. and in Philadelphia and in a lot of the old cities. But the federal style which was developed in the U.S. is a much more severe almost Calvinist first. version of that architecture. Like instead of having like these really elaborate fan lights or like, you know,

windows with like relatively decorative mullions and fan lights, the federal style is very much like very strict, very geometric. Are you talking about Benjamin La Trobe? Yeah, Benjamin La Trobe is a great example. I'm sitting, well, I know I docks myself on my location. But let's just say one of these only residents, buildings that is still standing that he designed is in my neighborhood. Yeah, that's a great example.

Is that one that they've ruined with the fake columns, that Timothy Leary stayed in? No, that's on the other. That's not it. But he also designed the Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate here in Lexington. He designed several things here in Lexington. Sorry to interrupt. Yeah, anyways. Like, that's kind of the point is like, you know, Jefferson,

like himself was an architect and he had a collective architectural states like Monticechello is loki giving McMansion because he put a lot of different stuff on there. It's a house that doesn't, can't really decide on what to be. But at the same time, like, you know, this was at the height of neoclassicism in the U.S. and also is in Europe. But like in Europe, they're just, you know, lions like are sort of a big deal for, I think it's because they come from like the Roman tradition. But again, my area of expertise in architecture is actually not in this period.

My area of expertise in architecture is in the 20th century. And so, like, what I'm, like, kind of going off of, like, the, like, neoclassical architecture course I took, like, 10 years ago. But maybe I should brush up. But anyways, like, yeah, the lions, like, I mean, lions as, like, you know, guardians of, like, a place. This is very common in Beaux-Art architecture, like, later. and in like 19th century revival architecture it's not so common in this period it's like and it's also it's it's right he's right

it isn't really an American like in within the neoclassical lexicon of available symbols to use at certain points in a building that one is actually not really an American symbol but you know he's stealing off of a European building so and like these guys are all obsessed with like ancient Roman Greece which is obviously also not American. So, you know, like, anyways, it's all bullshit.

I'm trying to say this is all fucking bullshit. Well, I guess the reason I asked about the arch is, because as we pointed out, like they had a replica at the state fair. And like I said, you had mentioned you had written an article about it in the nation. But it is, I don't know. It is just like a very Like I said It's very fever dream

Esk It's just like a very specific Like kind of Um visual experience I guess To like be walking through this The lawn at the capital And like there's a fake cow

There's a hot tub The hot tub baptismal booth There's a fucking Confederate flag There it's like I'm I mean, like, it's the Pennsylvania plastic pavilion with Federman, you know, 17,000 bags of potato chips.

Dude, what the fuck is it? It really, it really does underscore how America is like the spirit Halloween of countries. Because I don't know, man, I've never, I've never been, I've never been to, you know, a sort of independence or anniversary for any other country, but I have to imagine that there's a little bit more thought that goes into it. There's a little bit more craft, you know, there's a little bit more of a presentation where you can feel proud of your country. but this one I guess perfectly underscores

like what this country has always been and is especially right now you know what I mean yeah um which which is a time share pitch right here or yeah exactly exactly um

yeah I mean just reading here several some visitors took a shelter from the heat in the large tent housing a 24 7 musical prayer ministry that offered instant baptisms in a large inflatable paddling pool, others ducked into the eight booths representing various government agencies. You know, what happened before we get too far away from that baptismal thing? You know, like, anytime I would go to like a Catholic friends, like, you know, their first mass or like a christening of sorts or whatever,

anytime like you get ready to take communion, they would just be like, they'd press you on that because it's like, now look, this is a heavy deal here. This is the blood and body of Christ. If you take this and you're not in the right condition, God help you, man. We need to get back to that with stuff like that. We can't just have me having a bunch of idiots getting baptized. You say, yeah, instant baptisms, you're not a fan. No, no.

It's fucking rationality. I just, okay, I just find it humiliating to be baptized at a fair. Oh, yeah, I'm with you, 100%. It's like, I'm not a Catholic, so this is not my, this is not my circus. I was baptized in a hot tub That's what's up There's something like That's like getting married

In the Elvis church You know It's actually awesome as spot Yeah But something about doing it at like This event is In particular It's like

I mean I guess it wasn't I would just say no thanks Yeah I mean I guess I wasn't baptized in a hot tub Like formally Like I didn't realize It was a hot tub till I was in it It was like this big tub

in front of our church. And when I got in it, I was like, oh, there's like jets in here. This is a, that's kind of nice. I got a little pressure on my temple right now. Microdosing heaven. That's what it is. Okay. Thank you a believer. Okay. So breaking news. I don't know if you guys are following this. This is, sorry, my brother also just texted me. Okay. So apparently Trump is right now having a press conference with an AI version of Teddy Roosevelt. Wait, wait. Wait, hold up. Wait, wait, hold on. What?

It keeps getting better and better. Yeah. And so I'm sorry, in the film that I am seeing right now that has subtitles, it seems that Trump seems to believe that AI Teddy Roosevelt is real and tells Roosevelt, it is, quote, an honor to be with him. Dude. Yeah, no, I'm listening. Okay, sorry.

I'm listening to it now. He definitely thinks he's real. Dude, we missed out on some good Biden content. Like, I really wish they would have. I really wish they would have fooled Biden with a few of those. Like, I hadn't think he was talking to fucking, like, Woodrow Wilson or... Dude, I...

Frederick Douglas? Dude, if you could convince Biden, he's talking to Frederick Douglass. But it's just streaming down Biden's eyes. But it's an abalgamation of Frederick Douglas and corn pop, perhaps. Is corn pop dressed like Frederick Douglass? Corn pop. Oh, my God. Like, okay, so I...

I'm in group therapy right now. And like a lot of the group therapy is a special place in terms of like the mores and norms and what have you. But there are definitely like people who come into group therapy and they look at everyone around. And I can see like in their heads like that question being asked for like Biden's asked like how many genders there are. And he says at least three. Yeah. Like that is like I know that there are people who come into group. group therapy and like they are having that experience like right now.

It's like it's beautiful. It takes all kinds. I just realized this. Kate, the thing I was talking about earlier about Trump in front of the cowboys, that was the, apparently that was the Theodore Roosevelt thing. Like I guess these cowboys are supposed to be like the rough riders.

Do they, is that still like a thing that exists or? I feel like we're not writing rough anymore. Except for like in terms of surviving the global economy, in which case we are writing very rough. but in terms of like on a horse Are there any horse regiments in the U.S. military still? I couldn't imagine there are there are there

There aren't Horses are more of a cop thing I feel like Yeah I'm thinking of New York City cops Chicago too They love being on those fucking horses too There is a horse regiment in the military I mean I see the stickers on people's cars Here in Lexington sometimes

How do you get in there Fucking horse fascism Horse fascism that's true They do in Lexham because it's the horse capital of the world. That's true. That's true. But. That's like how they have the special forces in Four Bride because it's the killing people capital of the world.

Yeah, it's the murder capital. Vietnam, that's right. Just continuing on with this story, we're almost at the end here. Others ducked into eight. Okay, so we talked about the American Journey Experience, Texas organization linked to Glenn Beck. Something is like really, really bleak you know,

we're talking about like aesthetics and architectural styles is like the Trump obsession and fixation on AI produced graphics of any kind. It's like clear that in this booth they've been printing off

AI signage and making it really large and then just putting it in I feel like you can't do that bro, when it's on a screen, that's one thing. When you print it out on paper, dude, that is some boomer shit. That is some boomer shit.

Printing AI. It looks even more uncanny at that point, dude. It looks like what I used to buy bootleg DVDs. And it's like the poster on like the sleeve of it. I'm like, yo, dog. Like you could buy a Canal Street back in the day. Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, my dad, who is a boomer, he loves AI, dude. Like, he's always using AI. He's like talking to co-pilot, like of all the ones fucking co-pilot. And then it's like not only that dude, he's like telling co-pilot to make him like AI generated Nordic babes. And then he takes these babes. Dude, your dad's doing like bargain bin AI. Dude, he takes these babes. And he like makes screenshots of the babes.

He doesn't know that you can save. the babe images. He, like, makes them his fucking phone background. I was so sick. I thought you were going to say he printed about to make calendars, like, Swipson Caledars. That's so sick. That is fucking tired.

Yeah, and, like, my mom is just like, that's so funny. It's cool, palette. And I have to be like, yeah. Microsoft, yeah. Oh, man. It's Microsoft. That's good shit.

Budget Nordic Babes, dude. That is good shit. Are they really? Or does he just like He's just like talking to co-pilot Being like copilot Generate me a busty ice sand With a fur hat

And she's holding a bottle of lead for me In the snow Yeah She's looking at me and she's smiling Milk made an outfit Yeah Printing it out and like hanging it on the wall And your man came gross

He's got so many of these pictures saved on his phone And it's just like Oh shit. I don't know if that's worse than just watching porn. I feel like I can't, I'm 50-50 on that one. I'll leave the listeners to decide. All I know is that it's embarrassing for me. And I like, when he was showing me, I was just like, I was like, I couldn't even find,

I didn't have any words, T-BH. I was just like staring at the popcorn ceiling in my parents' house being like, deliver me, oh, Lord. Dude. That's how I know. you're legit okay a legit hillbed you got the popcorn

selling with the titty lot in the middle yeah literally literally I'm actually I'm actually surprised in all those pictures that we saw

of the great American state fair that none of them were AI generated man yeah I know that it's like what you used to have to do when you sucked

yeah well I think it's because they can't you can't quite fabricate like that Dean Cain video one of y'all mentioned earlier.

It's like, it was almost a joke. It was like, look at how many people came out for this. And like the camera pans to the audience and there's like eight. Well, I mean, it's like nobody, if you did the AI, nobody went. So it's like if a tree falls in the forest, can anybody hear it? Nobody went to that shit to confirm whether that many people were there or not. So this would be the most useful case for AI. That's true.

Just reading this paragraph in this Financial Times piece. All pretense of political ecumenism, ecumenism. How do you pronounce that word? Ecumenical. I know ecumenical, but ecumenism? Yeah. That's not a word. They made that shit.

That's a tough one. Was abandoned in the Faith and Family Pavilion, which featured a booth from a ministry run by a Trump-supporting evangelist who has claimed that Hollywood stars engage in human sacrifice. The America Innovates Pavilion provided a glimpse of the corporate power behind the event. It featured a large exhibit from. Elon Musk's SpaceX, complete with model rockets, and the social media site TikTok, which was saved from a U.S. ban by Trump.

The final test of the event's ability to draw larger crowds will come on Independence Day when Trump, fresh from hosting a cage fight in the White House lawn, will return to the site for another rally. Okay, wait a second. Wait a second. I just remember something that's like 9-11 levels important. The first day, this fair drop, someone got arrested for beating off. That's right.

we had a masturbator day one wait where out in the open yeah we're at like allegedly let me I'm bringing in the Kentucky booth he was fucking I was beating off in the North Carolina booth to the Confederate flag I want to know what our booth is like

there what's our yeah I wonder what the Georgia booth is like actually I'm interested to see you and you might not want to dig too much yeah I'm not saying Kentucky's much better I'm reading the article Manate Houston

performing performers sticking his hand down his pants at Great American State Fair. The incident happened during a Cirque Mechanics performance on Thursday, according to a witness found in court documents. A man is facing charges after witnesses reported seeing him vaping. It tried doing a cloud of smoke in a making scene. Gooning in a cloud of smoke. Yeah, yeah. Filming female performers and sticking his hand down his pants at the Great American State Fair,

According to the court documents, Gian Ractelli, not a real name, is charged with lewd and decent or obscene acts of the freedom to 15 events. What is his name? Gn, G-N-G-I-A-N-Rach-Telly. He definitely sounds like a soprano's character that Tony would have killed. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, what ethnicity is that? That's Italian? That's got to be, right? Like, okay, so United States Park Police officers assigned to work to the National.

mall where the fair is being hosted learned that someone had reported seeing a man doing inappropriate things during a performance according to court documents. One witness told officers that they had seen Rectelli stick his hand in his pants quote, likely doing what we all thought he was doing, end quote.

You can, okay, I don't I think we all know what he was doing. I don't condone this, nor do I, you know, I think this would be reprehensible behavior. But like, obviously, it's a little different if you're doing it a crowd full of thousands and thousands

and thousands of people, right? Like, you can get away with the... It was so empty that he was like, shit, I'm gonna jack off and nobody. But when there's a smattering of people, it becomes more apparent what you're doing. Standing alone in the middle of the field.

The vaping in one hand and jerking in the other technique is like really inspired. It's like, what do they call that the Reddit? I'm sorry. This is getting me, man. Also, I did. look up the

Georgia Pavilion and apparently they were giving out Waffle House menus and so I mean you know that's something

I can stand behind I'm sorry I'm gonna all American breakfast brother I can stay by that Kentucky you get to

inseminate a horse let's see I just can't fucking a smoke screen just a smoke cloud like fucking oh my fucking roam

goon and cover oh man that's incredible. Yeah, sorry, I had to bring that up. No, thank you. I didn't know, but they didn't include that in his financial times. I remembered.

They didn't include that in the Financial Times article. Well, they're conservative over there in Old England. Yeah, that's right. They don't want to admit the fucking the real shit we're on here in America. Yeah, they call it oninism over there still. That's a great word. That's a great word. Yeah.

me up. I can't find the Kentucky Pavilion. Yeah, I was just looking at it and it was showing me the Kentucky State Fair. Well, it's confusing because it's also our 250th. Uh, or no. It was Lexington's 250th anniversary, a few, like last year. Hmm. Huh. Some shit.

I don't know. Interesting. I don't fucking knows. Well, uh, that's what all I've got for this week. You're saying we're finishing each other off. yeah we're finishing each other yeah pretty much

that's pretty much it sorry I couldn't resist I love a I love a pun that's pretty much yeah down enough I still think they should have

reenacted the I love to get one off there you can I'm not that dash okay it's enough what were you saying Aaron

I think they should have still reenacted the Civil War Oh, yeah, that would be That would be so cool. That'd be really cool. Everybody who enters gets like a musket. Were they using muskets back?

They were using muskets, right? Well, that's the thing. They made that stupid-ass civil war movie. A much better movie would be what if you got the whole country to participate in a Civil War reenactment? 100%. Like what...

It's real. It'd be like the purrs 250th anniversary. Yeah, but yeah, but it's kind of real. Like, I would... I would want to be... I don't know a fucking Philip Sheridan wasn't there a general

in the Union Army that invented sideburns Burnside his name was Burnside Oh they fucked it up His name was birdside They called him sidebirds They call him sideburn

Yeah It's kind of Dice for me to say Who I'd like to be In this situation Because you know It's like asking me Like what period of time

Would you want to live In the past Like I'm black man I'm not really sure that man. Not really sure. But still should have done it though. They still shouldn't. Well, I mean, dude,

2,000 years ago, you know, that's not a bad thing. You know what I mean? Like, Oh, yeah. Could have been Monsamusa some shit. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that was my

ten richest men that never lived. Yeah, that's true. That's true. What were you going to say, okay? Are we saying, like, what time would you like to have been alive? Yeah, what time would you? What's how I'm going to be in a woman? Yes.

You don't have to be. Yes. You can be anything or anything. No, we got to win with that. We got to limit it up. Okay. Dude, I'm going to say, I'm going to, so many, not going to great times to be a woman, but there are some interesting times to be a woman.

I would probably say it would have been like so fucking sick. to be like one of the original like being like a Clara Zetkin type at the dawn of like the socialist movement like Rosa Luxembourg not that I'm her

I'm not her but like it would have been so cool to be like in that moment I would have loved to have been at the Bauhaus too they also took bras I'm gonna say six seven thousand years ago

8000 10000 years ago I think that having sex with a Neanderthal would have gone pretty crazy. Yeah. I think that like having that choice between like, do I want to fuck a homo sapian or do I want to fuck a neanderthal? Like that's what being bisexual of your feet. Can I get into the brow?

That's what it used to mean. Yeah. Can I get into the happy brow? I think so. Having the choice would have been, would have gone crazy. Like little did they know that only in like six, seven, eight thousand years,

you wouldn't have that choice. Right. That's true. You know, actually that's such a good choice, Terrence. I said 8,000 years ago. They're definitely We're not Neanderthals, 8,000 years.

We're talking about like 30,000 years ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, Neanderthals walk among us right now, so if you're still interested, I'm sure you can find one. John Fetterman, right there, brother. Dude, that was the answer. That's not one of those choices you won't have to make, though. Yeah, sorry, I'm oaf sexual.

Oaf, sexual. What about you, Tom? When are you living? What's your area? right back to the primordial loos, man. You'd be like a little amoeba. Some little Lilibre creature crawling right out of there. You'd have been told the other guys know,

don't leave the water. I would go back, just knowing what I know now. I'd be like, anybody trying to crawl out. I'm just kicking them with my little amoeba feet. Like, no, back in there. Drag it back by the tail. You don't even want this to get going. Yeah.

Wow, I just saw that video that says Trump says, now as I see my two beautiful sons sitting there, I think I'm going to give one to myself, one to them, and we'll have a threesome. That's so weird. Incent century, baby. We're living in it. That's it.

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your mission is this. If you live in a gentrifying neighbor, you need to be in the alleys until 4 a.m. It is your patriotic duty. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Making as much noise as possible. Live outside. That's exactly right.

Stay hydrated. Wear sunscreen now. Be careful with those fireworks, kids. Yeah, don't do any dumb shit. Yeah, don't do any dumb shit, you know. Not worth it, bro. Don't get caught if you're going to do dumb shit. Do dumb shit when you're white.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. And you're white? Oh, hell yeah. I don't know. I'm not with that. That's our whole government right now is doing dumb shit when you're white. Yeah. That's right.

Okay, okay, okay, fine. That's America's history. All right. Goodbye. You have your marching orders. Goodbye. All right. Well, we'll see you all next time and have a great weekend.

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