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Ep. 115: ICE Tries To Murder Another Latino Deliveryman · The Opinionated Ogre Podcast

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SPEAKER_01: Since it's just me today, we are going to get started more or less on time.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the recording for Thursday, September 24th, 2026.
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SPEAKER_01: And assuming that we live long enough for it to go to air,
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SPEAKER_01: we have a lot to get to on episode 115 of the Ogpod.
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SPEAKER_01: We ready to do this Ogre Nation?
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SPEAKER_01: Awesome.
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SPEAKER_01: Then let's get to it.
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SPEAKER_01: It's time for the Ogre Nation news update.
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SPEAKER_01: For our first main story of the week,
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SPEAKER_01: the Trump regime's brown shirts are responsible for another shooting
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SPEAKER_01: on American streets.
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SPEAKER_01: This time it happened in Austin, Texas.
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SPEAKER_01: Wilbur Rafael Garcias Perez, 28 years old, was delivering food for And there were also multiple
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SPEAKER_01: So at least they bothered rendering medical aid this time.
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SPEAKER_01: Perez could be heard.
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SPEAKER_01: Perez
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SPEAKER_01: was taken
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SPEAKER_01: to the hospital, but four hours later, ICE removed him from the medical center.
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SPEAKER_01: Sure, that's what you do when someone has a gunshot wound,
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SPEAKER_01: and took him into ICE custody, because where's he gonna go?
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SPEAKER_01: According to Perez's attorney,
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SPEAKER_01: he's now experiencing paralysis on one side of his body,
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SPEAKER_01: has no pain medication detention, and had to be re-hospitalized, because...
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SPEAKER_01: Why not just leave him in the hospital in the first place under guard?
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SPEAKER_01: What the fuck?
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SPEAKER_01: Immediately after the shooting,
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SPEAKER_01: Department of Homeland Security did their usual song and dance and released
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SPEAKER_01: a statement and did their very best to dehumanize the very human being
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SPEAKER_01: that they shot.
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SPEAKER_01: The agency claimed Perez was an illegal alien who entered the U.S.
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SPEAKER_01: illegally during the Biden administration and said the illegal alien is
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SPEAKER_01: in stable condition and waiting removal.
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SPEAKER_01: But that's not true.
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SPEAKER_01: Perez is a Venezuelan national who's married to a woman who's in the country legally.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not clear what documents he had or had in the past,
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SPEAKER_01: but I do think it's important to point out that many,
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SPEAKER_01: and we would go as far as to say, most of the Venezuelans.
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SPEAKER_01: Venezuelan migrants who entered during the Biden years were given temporary protected status.
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SPEAKER_01: The Trump regime is the one that threw that out and made them undocumented
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SPEAKER_01: when Stephen Miller and his Nazi friends stripped the Venezuelans
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SPEAKER_01: of their protected status.
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SPEAKER_01: This was right around the time the regime was committing war crimes
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SPEAKER_01: by blowing up fishermen in international waters.
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SPEAKER_01: We're going to get back to that.
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SPEAKER_01: That's not going to go away, and people are going to go to fucking prison for that.
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SPEAKER_01: Trump's going to have to pardon them all.
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SPEAKER_01: Anyway, Trump made Venezuelans illegal, and now his ice goons are shooting them because of it.
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SPEAKER_01: Austin officials are doing all the right things by demanding an investigation
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SPEAKER_01: and trying to keep the shooter in the state.
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SPEAKER_01: But we've all seen...
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SPEAKER_01: We've seen this before.
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SPEAKER_01: Ken Paxton,
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SPEAKER_01: the state attorney general,
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SPEAKER_01: and Governor Greg Abbott will try to protect the shooter.
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SPEAKER_01: Republicans,
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SPEAKER_01: of course,
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SPEAKER_01: will rally behind ICE,
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SPEAKER_01: and the Trump regime will do everything possible to hide the agents.
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SPEAKER_01: They're trying to make sure nothing gets done.
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SPEAKER_01: And now Perez is being forced to fight for his life, both literally and figuratively.
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SPEAKER_01: As we've said a hundred times before,
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SPEAKER_01: and we will say a hundred times more,
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SPEAKER_01: when this regime falls,
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SPEAKER_01: and it will,
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SPEAKER_01: it will be our absolute responsibility to ensure every single one
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SPEAKER_01: of these fucking people pay for what they have done.
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SPEAKER_01: Nuremberg them all.
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SPEAKER_01: All right.
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SPEAKER_01: Now...
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SPEAKER_01: You should also know by now that Trump has banned CNN,
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SPEAKER_01: Politico, and MSNOW from the White House press pool.
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SPEAKER_01: He did this because it's part of the Project 2025 Fascism for Dummies playbook,
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SPEAKER_01: but also because Trump is very, very sad.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: They love it.
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SPEAKER_01: They love war, but they also love it when it goes badly.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: Whatever.
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SPEAKER_01: But
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SPEAKER_01: Damn, did Trump deliver on the military debacle part.
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SPEAKER_01: So they've been eating that up.
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SPEAKER_01: Unfortunately for Trump,
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SPEAKER_01: he lives in a bubble where he only hears what his babysitters want him to hear.
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SPEAKER_01: He's literally complained repeatedly about the press not telling the truth about
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SPEAKER_01: the war in Iran.
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SPEAKER_01: He thought that we were winning because they kept showing him videos of things getting blown up.
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SPEAKER_01: Look at the pretty boom boom, sir.
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SPEAKER_01: I made boom-booms too, Natalie.
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SPEAKER_01: Of course you did, sir.
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SPEAKER_01: The biggest and strongest boom-boom, sir.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, we've lost the war in Iran,
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SPEAKER_01: and Trump refusing to back down after seven months of losing has led to gas closing
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SPEAKER_01: in on Iran.
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SPEAKER_01: So Trump wants to press
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SPEAKER_01: And he's trying to make it all go away like every little dictator.
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SPEAKER_01: Who gives a fuck about the First Amendment?
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SPEAKER_01: Free speech,
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SPEAKER_01: freedom of the press,
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SPEAKER_01: not Trump and definitely not his party of constitutional free speech champions.
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SPEAKER_01: After crying big sobby tears for years over social media censorship
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SPEAKER_01: because they were penalized for spewing hate speech,
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SPEAKER_01: the entire right wing is on board with literal government censorship.
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SPEAKER_01: And hilariously,
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SPEAKER_01: because I do this to myself constantly,
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SPEAKER_01: I went on Twitter to see how angry Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald were about this
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SPEAKER_01: as the greatest offenders of the free press in all of the world.
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SPEAKER_01: They who have raged at government evil censorship of the Biden administration in the year 2020.
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SPEAKER_01: This was several months before Joe Biden was president.
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SPEAKER_01: You will be happy to know that both...
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SPEAKER_01: Taibbi and Greenwald have leapt to defense of the First Amendment
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SPEAKER_01: by exercising theirs and not saying one single fucking word
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SPEAKER_01: about what Trump is doing.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus fucking Christ, has anyone done more to uphold the Constitution more than these two?
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SPEAKER_01: What heroes they are.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, Trump has just banned the media and his little henchman, J.D.
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SPEAKER_01: Vance, aka Captain Couchfucker himself,
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SPEAKER_01: and the man who's going to lose the 2028 election,
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SPEAKER_01: ha ha ha, He defended the decision Trump was told to make because Trump didn't.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: He might have.
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SPEAKER_01: Trump does these things without actually talking to anybody
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SPEAKER_01: because he just has like brain farts and then he blurt something out and
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SPEAKER_01: then everyone goes, oh, wow, what a smart idea, sir.
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SPEAKER_01: But.
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SPEAKER_01: He stated that if media outlets,
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SPEAKER_01: JD Vance,
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SPEAKER_01: were going to publish leftist propaganda,
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SPEAKER_01: then why should they have access to the White House?
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SPEAKER_01: Of course, they should be publishing right-wing propaganda.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, JD Vance has a We all know he knows better,
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SPEAKER_01: but he's just a windsock at this point,
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SPEAKER_01: doing whatever he's told so he gets his shot at the Oval Office.
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SPEAKER_01: He's such a pathetic loser.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, there are a few levels of hilarious to this.
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SPEAKER_01: First,
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SPEAKER_01: all the time and effort the press put into kissing Trump's ass and sane-watching him
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SPEAKER_01: for the last decade got them nothing.
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SPEAKER_01: The leopards are still happily eating their faces.
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SPEAKER_01: The media worked so hard to get Trump reelected,
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SPEAKER_01: and now they're crying foul after being frozen out by their golden ratings.
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SPEAKER_01: I was wondering if the press would stand up to this.
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SPEAKER_01: Or just continued to cower.
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SPEAKER_01: But this appears to be a line they just cannot accept.
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SPEAKER_01: The major networks all walked out.
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SPEAKER_01: And now Trump has no one to put a microphone in front of him, which is really funny.
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SPEAKER_01: And this led to the second level of hilarious.
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SPEAKER_01: And the amazing scene of Newsmax trying to cover a ribbon cutting ceremony at
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SPEAKER_01: the White House with no sound.
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SPEAKER_01: If you haven't seen the video of that, it is fucking hilarious.
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SPEAKER_01: Anyway, Trump hates it.
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SPEAKER_01: The White
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SPEAKER_01: House turned on Trump TV,
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SPEAKER_01: which is a really badly produced YouTube channel, but no one's watching it.
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SPEAKER_01: Can you believe there's no appetite for literal state-run TV in America?
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SPEAKER_01: It's so weird.
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SPEAKER_01: It's like we're not Russia or North Korea or something.
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SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, one last note about this.
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SPEAKER_01: Some of us are old enough to remember when Obama wanted to ban Fox News and
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SPEAKER_01: the right lost its fucking mind.
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SPEAKER_01: Fox News is actual propaganda.
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SPEAKER_01: They were They sued and lost almost a billion dollars for lying to the public about
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SPEAKER_01: the 2020 election.
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SPEAKER_01: Lying aggressively, not just one or two lies, weeks and weeks of lying about it.
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SPEAKER_01: They're still in the middle of another massive lawsuit over there.
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SPEAKER_01: Right-wing propaganda.
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SPEAKER_01: I
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SPEAKER_01: was a little surprised Fox returned the favor, but because they walked out too.
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SPEAKER_01: If you think about it, though, they had to.
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SPEAKER_01: They know the regime is doomed and dying.
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SPEAKER_01: If they cheered Trump kicking legitimate news organizations out,
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SPEAKER_01: even Politico,
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SPEAKER_01: and there's a Democrat in the White House come 2029,
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SPEAKER_01: which there's going to be,
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SPEAKER_01: Fox News is going to be first on the cutting block and along with News Nation
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SPEAKER_01: and OAN and that's it.
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SPEAKER_01: They're just all the right wing media is going to be gone.
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SPEAKER_01: So they they had to stand in solidarity with the other news networks.
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SPEAKER_01: So I get it.
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SPEAKER_01: It makes sense.
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SPEAKER_01: All right.
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11:21
SPEAKER_00: We are living in the stupidest timeline.
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SPEAKER_00: What you just said.
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SPEAKER_00: And, oh boy, is that true.
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SPEAKER_00: All right.
11:39
SPEAKER_01: The Maha morons,
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SPEAKER_01: make America healthy again,
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SPEAKER_01: have spent years losing their shit over America's water supply.
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SPEAKER_01: Now,
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SPEAKER_01: you don't hear them expressing any concern about old pipes that are leaching lead
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SPEAKER_01: into the water supply of minority communities across the country.
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SPEAKER_01: That's not a big deal.
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SPEAKER_01: Who cares if little brown kids are poisoned?
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SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, no.
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SPEAKER_01: The real problem is the That is a big fucking emergency.
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SPEAKER_01: Secretary Whale Juice applauded EPA administration's
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SPEAKER_01: I have fought unsuccessfully to get the EPA to conduct this kind of comprehensive testing.
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SPEAKER_01: Thanks to Administrator Zeldin's courage and President Trump's bold maha administration.
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SPEAKER_01: We are finally getting it done.
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SPEAKER_01: EPA is going to search for pharmaceuticals, PFAs,
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SPEAKER_01: and other contaminants that have gone undetected and give Americans the truth
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SPEAKER_01: about what is in their water.
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SPEAKER_01: The conspiracy theory is that abortion medications and birth control are tainting
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SPEAKER_01: the water supply.
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SPEAKER_01: And this whole thing is decades old.
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SPEAKER_01: The Mahaloons believe that the drugs stay in the water supply after leaving the body
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SPEAKER_01: and cause infertility.
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SPEAKER_01: And there's no scientific evidence to support this.
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SPEAKER_01: None.
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SPEAKER_01: None.
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SPEAKER_01: The new study,
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SPEAKER_01: and this should tell you everything you need to know,
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SPEAKER_01: won't test for levels of the medication, just whether they are present.
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SPEAKER_01: According to the U.S.
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SPEAKER_01: Geological Survey study that's now been removed from the sites,
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SPEAKER_01: you would need to drink thousands of liters of raw sewage to extract
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SPEAKER_01: a single therapeutic dose of medication.
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SPEAKER_01: And I was wondering, would that be the raw sewage that RFK Jr. likes to swim in?
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SPEAKER_01: Remember, this stuff, you know, the water that goes down the toilet, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Because they're talking about you take these drugs and then you pee out.
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SPEAKER_01: You go to the bathroom, you pee, and some of this stuff comes out of your system.
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SPEAKER_01: They're talking about that's the stuff that goes into the water supply,
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SPEAKER_01: but you don't drink that.
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SPEAKER_01: That water gets processed through water.
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SPEAKER_01: So, yeah, if you test the sewage water...
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SPEAKER_01: You'll find stuff in it.
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SPEAKER_01: It's going to be a whole lot less if you test the drinking water.
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SPEAKER_01: But we'll see what they actually test.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, it's also interesting that the EPA is testing for hormones,
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SPEAKER_01: especially considering they're going to have no idea whether
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SPEAKER_01: the testosterone presence is from trans people or from Pete Hegg's test,
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SPEAKER_01: soon to be roided out military.
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SPEAKER_01: But seriously,
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SPEAKER_01: all kidding aside,
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SPEAKER_01: Millions of people, men and women, need hormone therapy to live healthy lives.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's important to understand how selective they're going to be here.
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SPEAKER_01: Carcinogens?
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SPEAKER_01: Who cares about that?
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SPEAKER_01: Toxic runoff from coal mines in And fracking, that's not important.
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SPEAKER_01: One part per million of hormones, that's a huge fucking emergency.
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SPEAKER_01: And now we have to ban all forms of contraceptives and care
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SPEAKER_01: for trans people immediately in order to save the entire human race.
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SPEAKER_01: It's All going to be bullshit.
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SPEAKER_01: They'll produce a study showing hormones in the water,
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SPEAKER_01: and they're definitely not going to tell us how much.
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SPEAKER_01: They'll say that it's having widespread negative health impacts,
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SPEAKER_01: but sorry, we can't show you the proof of that.
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SPEAKER_01: National Security.
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SPEAKER_01: You just have to trust us.
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SPEAKER_01: It's for the best, really.
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SPEAKER_01: We're just going to pull all these drugs from the market until we can study
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SPEAKER_01: the long-term impact on the water supply, and then everything will be fine.
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SPEAKER_01: By the way,
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SPEAKER_01: the study,
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SPEAKER_01: we're just going to have that conducted by the Heritage Foundation and
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SPEAKER_01: the Family Research Council.
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SPEAKER_01: It's all going to be fine.
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SPEAKER_01: Trust us.
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SPEAKER_01: We're the government.
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SPEAKER_01: We're here to help.
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SPEAKER_01: So yeah, definitely fuck these people.
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SPEAKER_01: Like Morgan, MX says, fuck these people.
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SPEAKER_01: Nuremberg at the mall.
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SPEAKER_01: All right, let's move on to something a little bit lighter.
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SPEAKER_01: Florida woman is not here for this,
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SPEAKER_01: but I'm going to read it anyway because it's right in her wheelhouse.
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SPEAKER_01: The Buffalo Bills had their home opener last Thursday in their new stadium.
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SPEAKER_01: This is not going to be It just happens to be that stupidity this week was related
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SPEAKER_01: to the Buffalo Bills.
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SPEAKER_01: Now,
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SPEAKER_01: it all started when the team decided to play the Canadian National Anthem before
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SPEAKER_01: the game on Thursday.
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SPEAKER_01: This was something they don't normally do,
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SPEAKER_01: although other New York State, up like Northern New York State, teams do this.
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SPEAKER_01: Northern hockey teams and whatever.
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SPEAKER_01: They do this.
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SPEAKER_01: The Bills haven't done this before, but they did it.
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SPEAKER_01: The bare naked ladies performed it and everything was great.
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SPEAKER_01: The crowd loved it.
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SPEAKER_01: The fans were happy.
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SPEAKER_01: The team finally decided to pay And I'll see you next time.
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SPEAKER_01: They come over, they come over every time they're playing 50, like 15, at least 15%.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm a little surprised they didn't do this earlier.
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SPEAKER_01: But anyway, all the
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SPEAKER_01: Other professional teams up in that area play the Canadian National Anthem.
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SPEAKER_01: So this is nothing new for Buffalo sports fans.
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SPEAKER_01: And now I don't pay attention to any of this, obviously, but Florida woman watches the game.
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SPEAKER_01: So she didn't realize that MAGA was losing their fucking mind over it until I told her about it.
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SPEAKER_01: When the song was performed,
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SPEAKER_01: she thought they might freak out,
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SPEAKER_01: but she didn't see anything about it because she's on social media about buffaloes,
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SPEAKER_01: blah, blah, blah.
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SPEAKER_01: And she didn't see anything in her bubble, and she forgot about it.
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SPEAKER_01: But MAGA had not.
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SPEAKER_01: They've got their panties in a twist all over about it.
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SPEAKER_01: Outkick content creator John Root whined on Twitter about it saying...
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SPEAKER_00: Singing the Canadian National Anthem at the Buffalo Bills opening was a mistake.
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SPEAKER_01: There's zero reason to honor a foreign country when a Canadian team is not involved
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SPEAKER_01: in this game
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SPEAKER_00: whatsoever.
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SPEAKER_01: This was an idiotic decision.
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SPEAKER_01: He even went on to write a whole fucking op-ed over at Fox about it.
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SPEAKER_01: There is a lot more remarks like that online.
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SPEAKER_01: The Buffalo Bills front office,
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SPEAKER_01: however,
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SPEAKER_01: is unbothered by the outrage and has pointed out that Southern Ontario is critical
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SPEAKER_01: to the success of their team.
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SPEAKER_01: More importantly, Bills fans don't give a flying fuck about MAGA outrage.
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SPEAKER_01: They only care about supporting our Canadian friends and winning a Super Bowl,
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SPEAKER_01: which they probably won't.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh well, but fuck Trump and go Broncos.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, go Bills.
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SPEAKER_01: Anyway, Florida woman's probably turning bright red right now.
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SPEAKER_01: Sorry, I know you're not feeling well.
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SPEAKER_01: I should stop picking on you.
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SPEAKER_01: Let us move on to Headlines
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SPEAKER_00: for Short Attention Spans.
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SPEAKER_01: About five years ago, I enrolled Anastasia and Lila in self-defense courses.
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SPEAKER_01: Lila stuck with it for a little over a year.
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SPEAKER_01: Anastasia moved on, and then I couldn't get her to go back.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not so much she lost interest.
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SPEAKER_01: She just got busy with a lot of other stuff.
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SPEAKER_01: Couldn't get her to go back.
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SPEAKER_01: She really liked it.
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SPEAKER_01: Just couldn't get her to go back.
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SPEAKER_01: Anastasia, however, moves on to regular karate classes and now is a yellow belt.
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SPEAKER_01: So she's quite happy with this.
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SPEAKER_01: And the explicit reason I got them into self-defense is
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SPEAKER_01: that they would both be heading to college, which is where Lila is right now.
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SPEAKER_01: And We're getting her pepper spray.
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SPEAKER_01: She doesn't have self-defense, but she's going to have pepper spray.
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SPEAKER_01: When I went to college 35 years ago, it was not safe for women.
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SPEAKER_01: It is significantly less safe now,
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SPEAKER_01: which brings us to this story,
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SPEAKER_01: which You know,
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SPEAKER_01: trigger warning,
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SPEAKER_01: gang rape at Cornell University where this was the late 2024 where a woman got drunk
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SPEAKER_01: and then a bunch of frat boys forced her to take drugs so they could abuse her
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SPEAKER_01: the entire night into the next day.
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SPEAKER_01: They literally put out a text to their friends to come over.
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SPEAKER_01: Amazingly, none of the seven rapists were arrested.
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SPEAKER_01: Cornell suspended them, and the frat was temporarily suspended, but no arrests.
21:07
SPEAKER_01: Even more fucking insane, it appears that Cornell at least...
21:09
SPEAKER_01: The school newspaper lost its shit.
21:25
SPEAKER_01: As they well should have,
21:27
SPEAKER_01: and named all seven,
21:28
SPEAKER_01: which Cornell refused to do,
21:30
SPEAKER_01: and demanded to know why they were back on campus,
21:33
SPEAKER_01: which put everyone else, every woman at least, at risk.
21:38
SPEAKER_01: Now, I'm not going I'm going to name them because I have to assume that mummy
21:43
SPEAKER_01: and dedums are rich and probably litigious because poor rapists go to jail
21:49
SPEAKER_01: and they don't get allowed back on campus.
21:51
SPEAKER_01: But I will be putting the link in the show notes so you can look it up.
21:55
SPEAKER_01: This is the definition of rape culture.
22:01
SPEAKER_01: Institutions are more concerned with protecting their image and the poor,
22:06
SPEAKER_01: fragile futures of rapists.
22:11
SPEAKER_01: And this is why Anastasia
22:16
SPEAKER_01: is a yellow belt and why Lila is getting pepper spray.
22:20
SPEAKER_01: The left is hardly blameless in this,
22:22
SPEAKER_01: but the right has made rape culture so much fucking worse in the last decade.
22:28
SPEAKER_01: And it's getting worse every single fucking year.
22:33
SPEAKER_01: So there you go.
22:35
SPEAKER_01: Something to look forward to.
22:36
SPEAKER_01: Yay.
22:37
SPEAKER_01: All right.
22:38
SPEAKER_01: Our next story.
22:39
SPEAKER_01: Former U.S.
22:39
SPEAKER_01: Senator Sherrod Brown is running to win his former seat back in Ohio, and he's doing quite well.
22:46
SPEAKER_01: And this is really
22:50
SPEAKER_01: So a major cryptocurrency super PAC,
22:53
SPEAKER_01: Fair Shake,
22:54
SPEAKER_01: has just dumped $30 million into the race to try and keep it in Republican control.
22:59
SPEAKER_01: The former lawmaker has long been a skeptic Which ultimately led to
23:06
SPEAKER_01: the industry spending millions to beat him in 2024 and putting Bernie Moreno,
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SPEAKER_01: who is a friend of crypto, into that seat.
23:14
SPEAKER_01: The Republican windfall in Ohio comes as Democrats and a handful
23:17
SPEAKER_01: of Republicans blocked the Clarity Act in the Senate last week.
23:21
SPEAKER_01: The bill would have made the industry legitimate by creating
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SPEAKER_01: a long-sought federal regulatory framework and allowed the industry
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SPEAKER_01: to more freely steal money from America.
23:33
SPEAKER_01: The crypto industry has been pouring hundreds of millions of dollars
23:37
SPEAKER_01: into our elections,
23:39
SPEAKER_01: partly in order to get rid of people that do not support them,
23:43
SPEAKER_01: but also to send a message to the Politicians who are on the fence in both parties.
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SPEAKER_01: If you oppose us, we will destroy you.
23:51
SPEAKER_01: So that's something to look forward to.
23:54
SPEAKER_01: We have to absolutely annihilate these people.
23:58
SPEAKER_01: Crypto is a scam.
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SPEAKER_01: They offer nothing except ruin for regular Americans.
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SPEAKER_01: It's great for rich people in order to steal more money from the rest of us.
24:10
SPEAKER_01: So they have to be regulated out of existence.
24:14
SPEAKER_00: Now, the regime
24:16
SPEAKER_01: just kicked 750,000 people off of their Obamacare plans without notice.
24:24
SPEAKER_01: The filthy liars said they were engaged in fraud, but we all know that's bullshit.
24:29
SPEAKER_01: Republicans have been trying to kill the ACA from the beginning,
24:32
SPEAKER_01: and the less people that are enrolled, the more expensive it is for everyone else.
24:37
SPEAKER_01: They've been trying to push it into a Death spiral for almost 20 years now.
24:42
SPEAKER_01: 24 million people enrolled and they hate that.
24:45
SPEAKER_01: Republicans hate it.
24:47
SPEAKER_01: So they're doing everything possible to break the very popular program
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SPEAKER_01: that has saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
24:54
SPEAKER_01: Did they provide evidence of fraud?
24:56
SPEAKER_01: No.
24:56
SPEAKER_01: They'll just have a handful of cases and pretend it's proof
24:59
SPEAKER_01: of widespread abuse like they always do.
25:03
SPEAKER_01: Who needs evidence when most of the people they're kicking off can't afford to sue anyway?
25:07
SPEAKER_01: The GOP is a fucking death cult.
25:10
SPEAKER_01: This will kill people.
25:12
SPEAKER_01: It's guaranteed.
25:14
SPEAKER_01: They're just getting started.
25:15
SPEAKER_01: They have two more years to murder Obamacare, and they're going to go for it.
25:20
SPEAKER_01: Meanwhile, Air Force Major Jason Watson wore his uniform.
25:25
SPEAKER_01: You should remember this story from a couple of months ago,
25:27
SPEAKER_01: wore his uniform on He went on the steps of the U.S.
25:29
SPEAKER_01: Capitol in July and demanded lawmakers impeach Trump and Pence.
25:33
SPEAKER_01: He cited the military involvement in Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela as just some of the reasons why.
25:39
SPEAKER_01: He also spoke out against the two during a CNN interview in August, and it indicated.
25:44
SPEAKER_01: The
25:48
SPEAKER_01: Trump regime retaliated against a 17-year veteran by charging him
25:53
SPEAKER_01: with three articles on the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
25:57
SPEAKER_01: These charges are Article 92, dereliction duty.
26:01
SPEAKER_01: Article 133, conduct unbecoming an officer.
26:05
SPEAKER_01: And Article 88, contempt towards officials.
26:08
SPEAKER_01: He has been held in solitary confinement since being charged,
26:11
SPEAKER_01: which completely unnecessary,
26:13
SPEAKER_01: but cruelty for cruelty's sake is just who these people are.
26:17
SPEAKER_01: During a hearing this week, Watson said he has, quote, no expectation to continue to serve.
26:23
SPEAKER_01: He's now awaiting court martial.
26:25
SPEAKER_01: Now, while the military's argued its actions are not partisan,
26:28
SPEAKER_01: Watson's attorneys point out that
26:30
SPEAKER_01: when former Marine Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller criticized Biden's Afghanistan
26:35
SPEAKER_01: was rural, he received a slap on the wrist.
26:38
SPEAKER_01: Instead of being court-martialed,
26:39
SPEAKER_01: he was given a punitive letter of reprimand and forfeited $5,000 of one month's pay.
26:44
SPEAKER_01: Scheller is currently serving as a senior advisor to Pete Hegseth in the Pentagon.
26:50
SPEAKER_01: Republicans are not held to a lower standard.
26:54
SPEAKER_01: They're held to no standard at all.
26:57
SPEAKER_01: They're rewarded.
26:58
SPEAKER_01: They're rewarded for doing the things that we are put in jail for.
27:03
SPEAKER_01: So.
27:04
SPEAKER_01: That's America.
27:05
SPEAKER_01: Speaking of Pete Hegseth,
27:07
SPEAKER_01: after being mocked into oblivion back in July,
27:09
SPEAKER_01: Hegseth,
27:10
SPEAKER_01: the DEI,
27:12
SPEAKER_01: didn't earn it,
27:13
SPEAKER_01: Secretary of Defense,
27:14
SPEAKER_01: is now moving forward with mandatory testosterone screening for bloodshed.
27:18
SPEAKER_01: Just to be clear, the whole low-T obsession of the right is not based in reality.
27:22
SPEAKER_01: It's part of their obsession with masculinity and manliness because fascism is
27:42
SPEAKER_01: Fascists are so fucking pathetic.
27:48
SPEAKER_01: They have to constantly swing their dicks around to prove how friendly they are.
27:53
SPEAKER_01: Because if they don't, everyone will see just how pathetic and crazy they are.
27:56
SPEAKER_01: Not even everything about them really is.
27:59
SPEAKER_01: The U.S. military used to be the most respected and feared fighting force in the world.
28:04
SPEAKER_01: It took Trump and Hexeth less than two years to make it a laughingstock.
28:10
SPEAKER_01: And it really is heartbreaking.
28:11
SPEAKER_01: It's hard to imagine that either of them would do anything differently
28:17
SPEAKER_01: if they were actual Russian spies being paid out the open to weaken this country.
28:23
SPEAKER_01: Could we tell the difference if they were?
28:24
SPEAKER_01: I doubt it.
28:26
SPEAKER_01: What could they possibly be doing different if they were literally,
28:30
SPEAKER_01: if their names were Boris and Natasha,
28:32
SPEAKER_01: what would they be doing different right now to make America weaker and help Russia?
28:38
SPEAKER_01: I have no idea.
28:39
SPEAKER_01: I don't know what else they could possibly do.
28:42
SPEAKER_01: These fucking people.
28:43
SPEAKER_01: But good news,
28:45
SPEAKER_01: because of their absolute fucking incompetence,
28:48
SPEAKER_01: the Senate map appears to be expanding.
28:51
SPEAKER_01: This is from The Hill.
28:53
SPEAKER_01: Polls show close Senate rates in Maine, Ohio, Iowa, Texas, and Alaska.
28:59
SPEAKER_01: And the Democratic candidate is pulling away in North Carolina.
29:02
SPEAKER_01: One GOP senator said internal polls show the Kansas, Kansas, and Nebraska- Nebraska!
29:10
SPEAKER_01: Senate races are very close, and the overall environment is bad for Republicans.
29:14
SPEAKER_01: A Republican senator that the Hill declined to name also said, quote,
29:23
SPEAKER_01: Although Kansas and Nebraska are still leaning red,
29:24
SPEAKER_01: the fact that we're even discussing them as a possibility shows change.
29:45
SPEAKER_01: This is how much trouble they're in.
29:47
SPEAKER_01: Nate Silver, we all
30:01
SPEAKER_01: That's the guy who fell down the aggrieved white boy rabbit hole.
30:06
SPEAKER_01: He, that guy,
30:07
SPEAKER_01: he's bitching about other forecast models,
30:10
SPEAKER_01: not because they're leaning too far to the left,
30:13
SPEAKER_01: but because their predictions for a blue wave.
30:15
SPEAKER_01: I haven't quoted Nate Silver in years because he's been so far up the Republicans' ass.
30:20
SPEAKER_01: Anyway, anyway.
30:30
SPEAKER_01: In Flipper's view, Flipper is the name of his forecast model and stuff.
30:35
SPEAKER_01: It is no longer accurate to describe the battle for the U.S. Senate as a toss-up.
30:40
SPEAKER_01: In our terminology, that designation covers all races where neither party has more than a 60%.
30:46
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
30:48
SPEAKER_01: But Democrat Senate chances are now between 63% and 69% in all three versions
30:53
SPEAKER_01: of Flipper, etc., etc.
30:56
SPEAKER_01: On top of that, fascism heckler, that's one of the newsletters I read, I like him.
31:01
SPEAKER_01: You should read him.
31:15
SPEAKER_01: Their own biased polls show them losing.
31:19
SPEAKER_01: And this is where I remind you yet again,
31:22
SPEAKER_01: gas prices are still going up and the price of diesel is in a death spiral.
31:28
SPEAKER_01: Inflation on literally 80%.
31:30
SPEAKER_01: We're no longer seeing questions about whether or not there's going to be a blue wave.
31:36
SPEAKER_01: That's an accepted reality of it.
31:46
SPEAKER_01: We're seeing fewer and fewer questions about whether or not Republicans are going
31:51
SPEAKER_01: to hold on to the Senate.
31:52
SPEAKER_01: We're seeing questions about how many seats they're going to lose in the Senate and
31:58
SPEAKER_01: the House and state legislatures.
32:01
SPEAKER_01: Is it going to be a lot?
32:03
SPEAKER_01: A metric shit ton?
32:06
SPEAKER_01: Will this top 2018 and say new high watermark for ass beatings this century?
32:11
SPEAKER_01: But here's the question I've been seeing pop up in the last week,
32:15
SPEAKER_01: and you're going to start seeing it too if you haven't already.
32:19
SPEAKER_01: This is the question that they're starting to ask as the noose draws tight
32:23
SPEAKER_01: as Republicans march off to their execution.
32:27
SPEAKER_01: Trump put himself on the ballot.
32:29
SPEAKER_01: He made this election all about him.
32:41
SPEAKER_01: Worst midterm curb stomping since the 1900s.
32:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I said it.
32:46
SPEAKER_01: We're all old.
32:47
SPEAKER_01: What's going to be left of Trump afterwards?
32:50
SPEAKER_01: Will the GOP still be slavishly devoted to the man who caused them control
32:55
SPEAKER_01: of Congress and Governor's mansions and state legislatures and school boards
33:00
SPEAKER_01: and just literally hundreds and hundreds of seats all across the country.
33:06
SPEAKER_01: Will congressional Republicans give a flying fuck about anything he says after this?
33:11
SPEAKER_01: Will they even allow him to finish his term?
33:14
SPEAKER_01: Would it be better to impeach him and let J.D.
33:16
SPEAKER_01: Vance be president for a few years?
33:17
SPEAKER_01: Hopefully won't.
33:26
SPEAKER_01: Trump is a loser and he will cost the GOP everything if he's allowed to stay
33:31
SPEAKER_01: in power for another two years.
33:42
SPEAKER_01: Republicans have,
33:46
SPEAKER_01: these are the questions that I've started seeing,
33:49
SPEAKER_01: and they're going to be louder in the next six weeks.
33:53
SPEAKER_01: Republicans have some tough choices ahead of them.
33:57
SPEAKER_01: They had tough choices to make in 2016 and again in 2020 after the insurrection
34:02
SPEAKER_01: or 2021,
34:03
SPEAKER_01: but they're too fucking cowardly to make the tough decisions to save themselves.
34:09
SPEAKER_01: So going to be a rough election night for the GOP and everything that happens after
34:13
SPEAKER_01: that, they deserve power.
34:16
SPEAKER_01: All of it.
34:17
SPEAKER_01: Every second of misery and despair and hopelessness.
34:21
SPEAKER_01: Fuck fascism and fuck fascists.
34:24
SPEAKER_01: All right.
34:25
SPEAKER_01: We're going to wrap this up with self-care of the week for our woman's not here.
34:29
SPEAKER_01: So she gets an No self-care.
34:30
SPEAKER_01: Her self-care is laying in bed and drinking hot tea because she feels terrible.
34:37
SPEAKER_01: I, on the other hand, have quite the busy weekend lined up.
34:41
SPEAKER_01: At some point on like Friday or Saturday morning, I'm going to go to bed.
34:45
SPEAKER_01: I'm going to meet up with Dana from the Daily Whatever.
34:47
SPEAKER_01: We're going to have breakfast because she's going to be in my neck of the woods from
34:51
SPEAKER_01: the West Coast, which will be awesome.
34:53
SPEAKER_01: Saturday night, I'm going to the Gorillaz concert with Claudia.
34:57
SPEAKER_01: Lila is going to be there.
34:59
SPEAKER_01: She's bringing a friend,
34:59
SPEAKER_01: but they're going to be She was complaining about paying for the train to come up
35:02
SPEAKER_01: because she can't find a job down there in Richmond.
35:05
SPEAKER_01: None of her friends can.
35:06
SPEAKER_01: There's just no one's hiring, which is not great.
35:09
SPEAKER_01: But I've been sending her money every two weeks and she was kind of,
35:29
SPEAKER_01: She wasn't sure if I should be doing that and she's going to get a job.
35:32
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, girl, trust me, you don't want to be a broke-ass college student.
35:36
SPEAKER_01: Been there, done that.
35:37
SPEAKER_01: It's not fun.
35:39
SPEAKER_01: So she appreciates the money and God does she need it because there's no jobs to be had.
35:45
SPEAKER_01: So they still want to go out and do stuff every now and then.
35:49
SPEAKER_01: Even getting a cup of coffee, you need money.
35:52
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
35:54
SPEAKER_01: We'll be seeing her this weekend.
35:55
SPEAKER_01: Sunday, I'm taking my D&D group and we're going to the Maryland Renaissance Fair.
36:00
SPEAKER_01: We did that last year for the first time because none of the girls had been there before.
36:03
SPEAKER_01: I haven't taken Anastasia since she was like five, six years old.
36:08
SPEAKER_01: She loves me.
36:08
SPEAKER_01: She loves the Renaissance Fair.
36:10
SPEAKER_01: None of her friends had been to the Renaissance Fair.
36:11
SPEAKER_01: So we took them all last year and they thought it was the greatest thing ever.
36:15
SPEAKER_01: So they're all going dressed up this year.
36:18
SPEAKER_01: Not necessarily in Renaissance costumes, like Anastasia's going as Ladybug.
36:24
SPEAKER_01: And one of her friends is going as whoever the boy is from that show.
36:28
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
36:29
SPEAKER_01: But whatever.
36:31
SPEAKER_01: This past Saturday,
36:32
SPEAKER_01: I took Anastasia and one of her friends to go see Transformers movie,
36:35
SPEAKER_01: the 40th anniversary, which was awesome to see on the big screen.
36:39
SPEAKER_01: After 40 years, I was very excited.
36:41
SPEAKER_01: She was like, okay, that was interesting.
36:44
SPEAKER_01: Her friend is a huge Transformers fan though.
36:46
SPEAKER_01: So she was like absolutely ecstatic watching it.
36:52
SPEAKER_01: She had not seen this one before.
36:54
SPEAKER_01: So when she was watching all the guy characters die and this, that,
36:56
SPEAKER_01: and the other, she was just like, oh my God, I can't believe that blah, blah.
36:59
SPEAKER_01: It was just like, yeah, that was pretty much my reaction when I was 13.
37:02
SPEAKER_01: So it was fun.
37:05
SPEAKER_01: Otherwise,
37:05
SPEAKER_01: I've been spending most of my time with the recovering Mrs. Ogre,
37:08
SPEAKER_01: who's not sleeping well,
37:10
SPEAKER_01: but she got her cervical drains out, so she should be sleeping much better tonight.
37:15
SPEAKER_01: Right, Mrs. Ogre?
37:17
SPEAKER_01: So, yep.
37:19
SPEAKER_01: And that's where we are.
37:20
SPEAKER_01: Everything's hunky-dory.
37:21
SPEAKER_01: And we are going to wrap up this week's show now.
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38:18
SPEAKER_01: The blue wave is almost here and it is blotting out the sun.
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SPEAKER_01: November 3rd, 2026, just 42, the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything.
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SPEAKER_01: 42 days until we stormed the beaches and stomped the Nazis into the dirt.
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SPEAKER_01: They cannot stop us.
38:37
SPEAKER_01: Remember, you are never alone.
38:40
SPEAKER_01: We beat the fascists once and we will fucking do it again.
38:44
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