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Ep. 111: Where’s The Beef?! · The Opinionated Ogre Podcast

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SPEAKER_01: Let's get started.
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SPEAKER_01: Episode 111.
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SPEAKER_01: This is The Opinionated Ogre Podcast,
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SPEAKER_01: your weekly rampage through current events with a little snark,
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SPEAKER_01: a bit of foul language, and a lot of strong opinions.
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SPEAKER_01: There are new episodes every Thursday,
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SPEAKER_01: and they're not safe for work or polite company of any kind whatsoever.
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SPEAKER_01: I am your podcast host, The Opinionated Ogre, and this is my co-host, Florida Woman.
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SPEAKER_01: Hello, Florida Woman.
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SPEAKER_01: Good morning, everybody.
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SPEAKER_01: It's I guess it worked out for you that you are homeschooling your youngest now
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SPEAKER_01: that Florida schools are going to be crawling with chickenpox,
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SPEAKER_01: hepatitis B, strep,
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SPEAKER_01: pneumonia, and meningitis thanks to Republicans rolling back vaccine requirements.
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SPEAKER_01: Good timing for you.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I literally yesterday was like, oh, thank God he's not there.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, seriously.
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SPEAKER_01: Because he's the right age.
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SPEAKER_01: Because, you know, elementary school is where it gets hit the hardest.
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SPEAKER_01: And the younger grades is where it gets hit the hardest.
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SPEAKER_01: And he's how old again?
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SPEAKER_01: He's seven.
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SPEAKER_01: So he would have been in what?
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SPEAKER_01: Second grade?
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, he's in second.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: So, yeah, that's it would just would have been swarming with disease.
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SPEAKER_01: And this is what they're doing now.
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SPEAKER_01: This is what Republicans are doing.
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SPEAKER_01: And this is just the beginning.
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SPEAKER_01: Every year or so, they're going to roll back.
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SPEAKER_01: And no one's really asking for this, right?
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SPEAKER_01: This is not the Republican base isn't out there screaming for this.
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SPEAKER_01: They really aren't.
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SPEAKER_01: This is not the Republican Party reacting to the demands from the base.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the base following because they're fucking sheep.
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SPEAKER_01: But Republicans are doing this to just they're fostering a distrust in science
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SPEAKER_01: and experts and people because that's what they do.
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SPEAKER_01: And people with sick kids are angry people who are going to be looking for it.
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SPEAKER_01: Scapegoats like immigrants and gay men and Jews
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SPEAKER_01: because everyone knows they carry tons of diseases.
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SPEAKER_01: And in case you think I'm exaggerating,
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SPEAKER_01: this is exactly what the Nazis did and
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SPEAKER_01: whose playbook do you think Republicans are reading from?
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SPEAKER_01: They're literally doing this right now in Florida, which we're going to get to in headlines.
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SPEAKER_01: Like I was looking through the notes
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SPEAKER_01: and you mentioned this is something they're quite literally doing right now.
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SPEAKER_01: So yeah, they're just getting started.
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SPEAKER_01: So this is only going to get worse.
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SPEAKER_01: Can't wait.
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SPEAKER_01: Looking forward to it.
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SPEAKER_00: So super excited.
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SPEAKER_01: Super excited.
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SPEAKER_01: All right.
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SPEAKER_01: This is a recording for August 27th, 2026.
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SPEAKER_01: And we have a lot to get to on episode 111 of the Ogpod.
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SPEAKER_01: Are you ready to do this?
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SPEAKER_00: Hell yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Woo!
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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: Okay,
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SPEAKER_01: so there's good news and bad news about Monday's infinitely corrupt SCOTUS ruling
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SPEAKER_01: on Trump's infinitely corrupt executive order about mail-in ballots and
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SPEAKER_01: the midterms.
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SPEAKER_01: We're going to start with the bad news.
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SPEAKER_01: The sixth most corrupt justices in American history are allowing And bad,
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SPEAKER_01: treasonous, Jesus-hating Democrats who should...
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SPEAKER_01: According to the six most corrupt justices in American history,
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SPEAKER_01: just creating these lists is not in and of itself illegal.
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SPEAKER_01: And I would beg to differ, but I'm not on Supreme Court.
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SPEAKER_01: And since it's not illegal and no actual harm is being done yet,
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SPEAKER_01: according to the six most corrupt justices in American history,
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SPEAKER_01: the states suing have no standing to block the government.
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SPEAKER_01: Absolute bullshit.
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SPEAKER_01: It should be pointed out that one could use this same logic to compile a list of gun owners.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing's being done yet.
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SPEAKER_01: We're just collecting data, aren't we?
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SPEAKER_01: And I promise you,
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SPEAKER_01: if we tried to do that,
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SPEAKER_01: if the federal government tried to do that,
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SPEAKER_01: the six most corrupt justices in American history would clutch their pearls,
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SPEAKER_01: fall to the ground, and scream about infringement of the Second Amendment.
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SPEAKER_01: Funny how that works, isn't it?
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SPEAKER_00: Hmm.
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SPEAKER_01: Anyway, other bad news.
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SPEAKER_01: The court refused to rule on whether
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SPEAKER_01: or not Trump's obviously unconstitutional executive order is,
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SPEAKER_01: in fact, unconstitutional.
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SPEAKER_01: They're doing this to give Trump as much time as possible to cause
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SPEAKER_01: The Constitution is black letter clear on this.
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SPEAKER_01: This is as clear as birthright citizenship.
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SPEAKER_01: The president, the executive branch, has no citizenship.
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SPEAKER_01: Congress has some say in it.
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SPEAKER_01: They can pass laws to some degree regulating it.
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SPEAKER_01: But this is literally states' rights issue.
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SPEAKER_01: The six most corrupt justices in American history are dodging the question for now
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SPEAKER_01: to allow Trump to pretend he has some say in it so he can lie to the public
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SPEAKER_01: about how Now, here's the good news.
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SPEAKER_01: These lists that Trump wants,
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SPEAKER_01: or rather the Project 2025 people around him telling him what to do because...
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SPEAKER_01: Russell votes.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he doesn't understand any of this.
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SPEAKER_01: He's too stupid to understand any of this.
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SPEAKER_01: These lists are huge, complicated, and messy.
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SPEAKER_01: Under the best of circumstances,
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SPEAKER_01: with a competent government working in good faith,
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SPEAKER_01: this would It's going to take months, if not years, to do.
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SPEAKER_01: The regime has just weeks,
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SPEAKER_01: not even months,
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SPEAKER_01: just weeks,
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SPEAKER_01: because ballots are already starting to go out,
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SPEAKER_01: and they have to get rid of all the competent people.
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SPEAKER_01: So there's not a chance in fucking hell they're going to get this time ready in time
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SPEAKER_01: to implement any of this.
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SPEAKER_01: Even so,
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SPEAKER_01: it's important to understand the purpose of the six most corrupt justices
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SPEAKER_01: in American history doing this was to give Trump the ability
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SPEAKER_01: to manufacture new laws.
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SPEAKER_01: Rigged election lies.
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SPEAKER_01: And gee whiz,
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SPEAKER_01: Trump was going to protect the elections from tens of millions
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SPEAKER_01: of fake mail-in ballots,
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SPEAKER_01: but Democrats sued and stopped him and delayed him and blah, blah, blah.
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SPEAKER_01: Hey, six most corrupt justices in American history.
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SPEAKER_01: I think we should throw out all of these mail-in ballots that are obviously fake
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SPEAKER_01: and all from Democrats.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't you agree?
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SPEAKER_01: And so on and so forth.
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SPEAKER_01: He's going to try to get the Supreme Court to do this.
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SPEAKER_01: Is that going to work?
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SPEAKER_01: No, it's not plausible.
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SPEAKER_01: Throwing out a few thousand or even a few tens of thousands in a single state,
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SPEAKER_01: that might slide by the public because- You know,
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SPEAKER_01: we tend to overlook that sort of thing.
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SPEAKER_01: But this would have to be millions of ballots across all the country,
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SPEAKER_01: across every state, in order to keep the Senate and House under Trump's control.
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SPEAKER_01: And doing this all in the middle of an economic collapse,
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SPEAKER_01: a deeply unpopular war,
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SPEAKER_01: and polling so bad that even Nate Silver is like,
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SPEAKER_01: holy shit, guys, Texas is in play for real, y'all.
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SPEAKER_01: No one's going to believe Republicans weren't crushed in a massive blue wave,
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SPEAKER_01: that they somehow won.
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SPEAKER_01: No one's going to believe that.
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SPEAKER_01: It's too cartoonish to be plausible that Republicans...
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SPEAKER_01: Republicans held onto power.
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SPEAKER_01: And we say this all the time.
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SPEAKER_01: Stolen elections have to be plausible, at least before the coup.
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SPEAKER_01: Afterwards, not so much.
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SPEAKER_01: Once the coup is complete, You can look at Russia.
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SPEAKER_01: Putin always wins with 90% of the electorate.
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SPEAKER_01: So they're just like, oh, yeah, I guess he did win.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, here's a high note to close this out on.
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SPEAKER_01: The six most corrupt justices in American history keep setting fire to
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SPEAKER_01: the last Tiny shreds of their legitimacy.
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SPEAKER_01: And by 2028, there's not going to be anything left.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's going to give Democrats all the political capital they need to reform
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SPEAKER_01: the court any fucking way they want.
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SPEAKER_01: Terminal.
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SPEAKER_01: They're going to do anything they want because these guys have made it so utterly clear that
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SPEAKER_01: They're not following anything resembling the rule of the Constitution.
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SPEAKER_01: They're just political hacks working for bribes.
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SPEAKER_01: So keep fucking around, assholes.
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SPEAKER_01: President AOC or President Ossoff is absolutely going to introduce you to
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SPEAKER_01: the finding out phase in 2029.
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SPEAKER_00: And now you've jinxed both AOC and Ossoff.
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SPEAKER_01: I do that.
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SPEAKER_01: It's what I do for fun.
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SPEAKER_00: I know.
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SPEAKER_00: I literally hate it so much.
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SPEAKER_00: Every election cycle, I yell at him about that.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's why I do it.
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SPEAKER_00: So in a hilarious twist, the leopards are eating the faces of Trump supporting ranchers.
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SPEAKER_00: On Friday,
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SPEAKER_00: he announced that he would allow 300,000 metric tons of beef to enter
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SPEAKER_00: the United States without being subject to...
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SPEAKER_00: Mr. Art of the Deal said the beef would be sold at 25% below market prices.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, a lot of the reporting is just that he's allowing beef into the United States,
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SPEAKER_00: but don't get it twisted.
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SPEAKER_00: The poors, which at this point is all of us, Aren't going to be able to buy delicious steaks.
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SPEAKER_00: If you thought you were going to get a ribeye at 25% below the market price,
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SPEAKER_00: you're fucking wrong.
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SPEAKER_00: Because the great orange diddler-in-chief is only allowing beef trimmings to enter
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SPEAKER_00: without a tariff.
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SPEAKER_00: That's like the fat in the beef that they cut off while they're making other cuts of meat.
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SPEAKER_00: So while they're making that ribeye for the rich people...
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SPEAKER_01: Who can still afford it at full price...
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SPEAKER_00: Or the upper middle class, I'm sorry.
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SPEAKER_00: You're getting the fucking scraps.
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SPEAKER_00: And not even the scraps from American Beef.
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SPEAKER_00: They're going to be brought in from somewhere else.
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SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
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SPEAKER_00: You might get some glass with it, too.
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SPEAKER_00: You know?
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SPEAKER_01: Personally?
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SPEAKER_00: Mmm, hamburger helper.
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SPEAKER_00: Mmm, yummy.
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SPEAKER_00: Which, by the way, is already cheap enough.
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SPEAKER_00: I know that in some places ground beef is expensive,
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SPEAKER_00: but I can find ground beef for like $1.99 at Sprouts when they have sales
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SPEAKER_00: and you just stock up on it.
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SPEAKER_00: But anyways, that's my rant about that because I'm real mad.
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SPEAKER_00: I was like, okay, I might be okay with this if I can get a ribeye.
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SPEAKER_00: Because your girl loves a ribeye.
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SPEAKER_01: How bougie of you.
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SPEAKER_00: I love a ribeye.
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SPEAKER_00: I won't lie.
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SPEAKER_01: Wanting real, real food.
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SPEAKER_01: No.
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SPEAKER_00: But instead, he's like, take this ground beef.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm like, no.
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SPEAKER_00: I've had enough white people tacos.
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SPEAKER_01: But Trump loves hamburgers.
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SPEAKER_01: So as far as he's concerned, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: I did think about that.
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SPEAKER_00: But he only likes hamburger from McDonald's.
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SPEAKER_01: Which is barely beef.
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SPEAKER_00: Where's the beef?
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SPEAKER_00: And you can bet your bottom dollar that you're not getting that cheeseburger for cheaper.
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SPEAKER_00: So anyways,
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SPEAKER_00: while I stew over the audacity of that fucker,
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SPEAKER_00: farmers and ranchers who overwhelmingly voted for Trump are livid.
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SPEAKER_00: These are people...
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SPEAKER_00: People who ran to the voting booth in 2024 to cast their ballots for him.
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SPEAKER_00: Nearly 80% of America's farming communities voted to elect the dude who spent
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SPEAKER_00: the last two years undercutting them.
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SPEAKER_00: Multiple state ranching and cattle organizations came out
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SPEAKER_00: against his beef announcement over the weekend.
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SPEAKER_00: I kept sending him to Ogre in our chat.
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SPEAKER_00: Honestly, it could be a national security chat because it's on Signal.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, let's add a couple of New York Times reporters, Atlantic reporter, and Pete Hegseth.
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SPEAKER_00: The National Cattlemen's Beef Association issued a statement accusing
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SPEAKER_00: the Trump regime of,
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SPEAKER_00: quote, putting their finger on the scale for one cattle industry group for another.
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SPEAKER_00: The group also accused Trump of trying to impact the midterms with the move,
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SPEAKER_00: saying, quote, it is 100% about the 74 days between now and the midterm elections.
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SPEAKER_01: I love drinking to tears of MAGA.
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SPEAKER_00: And the group also criticized him for the instability he's creating with his trade policies.
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SPEAKER_00: The group said, quote, U.S. farmers and ranchers need stability.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, so do we.
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SPEAKER_00: Unlike the spur of the moment trading decisions made based
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SPEAKER_00: on White House social media posts,
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SPEAKER_00: the decisions and investments ranchers make in their herds are made years
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SPEAKER_00: in advance, not days or weeks.
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SPEAKER_01: I was like, oof, that was a burn.
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SPEAKER_00: You're telling me that trade decisions made on the toilet at 3 a.m. are not good decisions?
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SPEAKER_00: Who would have thought?
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SPEAKER_01: I know.
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SPEAKER_01: Welcome to America in 2026, fuckers.
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SPEAKER_01: This is what you voted for.
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SPEAKER_00: Makes it even better.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's easy to see why farmers would be so angry.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, 80% of the voted for him.
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SPEAKER_00: And his announcement comes at a time when there have been record shipments of fresh
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SPEAKER_00: and frozen beef entering the U.S.
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SPEAKER_00: market from New Zealand,
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SPEAKER_00: Nicaragua, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Brazil, and Argentina.
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SPEAKER_00: So they are just taking it right up the woof.
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SPEAKER_01: And they probably don't have screw worm.
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SPEAKER_00: The farmers are going to wish they had screw worm.
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SPEAKER_00: So while the Oval Office squatter didn't say exactly where the new shipments
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SPEAKER_00: of beef are coming from,
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SPEAKER_00: he has previously suggested that he would import more from Argentina.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, I will say that Argentina does have high quality beef.
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SPEAKER_00: However, again, we're not getting the fucking ribeyes.
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SPEAKER_00: So still got to go to an Argentine steakhouse for that.
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SPEAKER_00: If the deal struck is with Argentina,
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SPEAKER_00: that would just be one more way that he's been helping Javier Mile,
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SPEAKER_00: which is the president of Argentina,
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SPEAKER_00: also known as South America's Trump,
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SPEAKER_00: and how he's benefited a lot from Trump's policies.
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SPEAKER_00: That was a big phenomenon.
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SPEAKER_00: And even though the nation has repaid the loan,
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SPEAKER_00: the trade came at a time when the regime was making deep cuts to Medicaid,
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SPEAKER_00: Medicare, SNAP benefits.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because we were broke.
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SPEAKER_01: We didn't have any money.
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SPEAKER_01: Somehow we had 20 billion for a loan.
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SPEAKER_00: Always money for stupid shit.
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SPEAKER_00: And while Trump is bending over backwards to help his friend in Argentina,
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SPEAKER_00: he's telling the American people to stop whining about his decisions
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SPEAKER_00: that have made every fucking aspect of our lives more expensive.
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SPEAKER_00: He literally called concerns over.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Populism.
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SPEAKER_00: I swear to God, I will never, never, never forgive the fucking legacy press because they did it.
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SPEAKER_01: Trump's a populist.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's like, no, he fucking isn't.
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SPEAKER_01: No, he fucking isn't.
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SPEAKER_01: He's lying about it.
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SPEAKER_01: And you fucking know he's lying about it.
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SPEAKER_01: You know,
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SPEAKER_01: it's all bullshit because,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: this man literally has a golden fucking toilet bowl and you're pretending he's
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SPEAKER_01: a fucking populist.
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SPEAKER_01: He's pretending and you're letting him pretend,
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SPEAKER_01: you know, he's fucking lying and you're still, oh no, Trump's totally a populist.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm like, you know what, man, go fuck yourself.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: I just want to say,
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SPEAKER_00: every time I hear that Trump is a populist or he's just like us,
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SPEAKER_00: I think about the rally in Sarasota in 2015.
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SPEAKER_00: That was the rally where I was standing next to the guy that had a sign that said,
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SPEAKER_00: wetbacks are illegal.
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SPEAKER_00: His super non-racist voters.
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SPEAKER_00: And after the rally, he was giving kids of his supporters rides on his helicopter.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Wow, what a populist.
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SPEAKER_00: And I was like, wow, guys, he's just like you.
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SPEAKER_01: And this is the same press that when Hillary said, yeah, I eat hot sauce.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, my God, she's so fake.
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SPEAKER_01: She's just faking it, blah, blah, blah.
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SPEAKER_01: She's lying.
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SPEAKER_01: She's fake.
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SPEAKER_01: It's like, no, she eats fucking hot sauce.
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SPEAKER_01: She eats hot sauce because.
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SPEAKER_01: Hot sauce apparently kicks your fucking metabolism.
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SPEAKER_01: And she eats it because it kicks up her metabolism.
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SPEAKER_01: That's a thing that some people do.
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SPEAKER_01: She's been doing it for years and years and years.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, she's just pandering.
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SPEAKER_01: She's just faking it to sound like she's one of the people.
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SPEAKER_01: And we're like, no.
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SPEAKER_01: If you look, she talks about that like 10, 15, 20 years ago.
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SPEAKER_01: She's like, yeah, no, I eat hot sauce because it helps my metabolism.
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SPEAKER_01: And they were like screaming that she's faking it and she's trying
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SPEAKER_01: to fake like she's a regular person.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: I remember that whole huge screaming thing.
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SPEAKER_01: And then Trump goes out there.
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SPEAKER_01: It's like, I'm just like you.
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SPEAKER_01: They're like, oh, my goodness.
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SPEAKER_00: Can I ever write on your helicopter?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he's just like us.
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SPEAKER_01: And the press just ate that up with a fucking spoon.
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SPEAKER_01: It's like he has a golden toilet bowl.
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SPEAKER_01: And you're screaming at Hillary Clinton for eating hot sauce.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they said that she was trying to pander to black voters.
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SPEAKER_00: But guys, it's not just black voters that keep hot sauce in their bag.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was like they were screaming that she was pandering,
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SPEAKER_01: but the guy with the golden toilet bowl, he wasn't pandering.
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SPEAKER_01: Got it.
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SPEAKER_01: He's the actual populace.
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SPEAKER_00: Cool, cool, cool.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, speaking of the legacy press, it's absurd.
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SPEAKER_01: Fascinating to me that no one in the press is asking the most obvious question
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SPEAKER_01: of all about this whole fucking beef thing.
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SPEAKER_01: How is Trump personally profiting from it?
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SPEAKER_01: Because Trump never helps anyone unless he's personalizing.
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SPEAKER_01: He's personally making money from it.
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SPEAKER_01: He never has in his entire life.
19:21
SPEAKER_01: Sure, this is supposed to be something that helps him electorally,
19:24
SPEAKER_01: but he's not going to make a deal with another country to bring beef in here,
19:29
SPEAKER_01: billions of dollars worth of beef.
19:31
SPEAKER_01: Unless he's personally making money.
19:35
SPEAKER_01: He's never done this in his entire life.
19:37
SPEAKER_01: Why would this be any different?
19:41
SPEAKER_01: There's definitely a fucking kickback here somewhere.
19:44
SPEAKER_01: Someone bought a whole bunch of his cryptocurrencies.
19:46
SPEAKER_01: It's a national security issue.
20:11
SPEAKER_00: Did you see that the Washington Post had to hire back
20:14
SPEAKER_00: the African-American journalist who they fired after Charlie Kirk and they have
20:20
SPEAKER_00: to pay her back pay?
20:21
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like...
20:22
SPEAKER_01: And I'm sure Jeff Bezos is foaming at the mouth
20:26
SPEAKER_01: because how dare someone tell him no?
20:29
SPEAKER_01: Rah, rah, rah, rah, rah.
20:30
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so funny.
20:31
SPEAKER_01: Fuck that guy.
20:32
SPEAKER_01: All right, we're going to move on to our next segment, our perennial favorite.
20:37
SPEAKER_01: I scream, you scream, we all scream because of fucking ice.
20:48
SPEAKER_01: The ICE has once again proven that Trump
20:50
SPEAKER_01: and Stephen Miller's mass deportation campaign has nothing at all to do
20:55
SPEAKER_01: with getting criminals out of the country and everything to do with just ridding
20:59
SPEAKER_01: the nation of immigrants, especially the brown ones.
21:02
SPEAKER_01: So, of course, you know, she had to go now.
21:04
SPEAKER_01: She's been here for God knows how long at this point.
21:28
SPEAKER_01: Armel's husband is a U.S.
21:29
SPEAKER_01: citizen and thought she was just going to a typical green card interview
21:34
SPEAKER_01: and she was ripped from her family.
21:36
SPEAKER_01: Fucking traumatizing for the husband and the baby, which of course was the point.
21:41
SPEAKER_01: A federal judge in the U.S.
21:42
SPEAKER_01: District Court of the Southern District
21:43
SPEAKER_01: of Indiana gave immigration officials seven days to respond to
21:47
SPEAKER_01: a habeas corpus petition filed by Armel's attorney accusing government
21:52
SPEAKER_01: of illegally detaining her at her change of status interview.
21:57
SPEAKER_00: I just want to add that in years past,
21:59
SPEAKER_00: the spouses of U.S. citizens almost always received their green card.
22:04
SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah,
22:05
SPEAKER_00: when you're going through the process,
22:07
SPEAKER_00: you're told, oh, there's a possibility that you can't get it.
22:10
SPEAKER_00: But even people who had prior criminal records, like felonies, would...
22:15
SPEAKER_00: Or removals would get their citizenship because the government understood that if
22:21
SPEAKER_00: an American marries somebody,
22:22
SPEAKER_00: they should be allowed to stay with their husband or wife.
22:25
SPEAKER_00: That is no longer true.
22:27
SPEAKER_00: It's become a lot harder.
22:33
SPEAKER_00: My husband received his green card in 2020.
22:37
SPEAKER_00: We've been married since 2003, so that's how long it took him to get his green card.
22:42
SPEAKER_00: And during the process, he had to travel back to...
22:45
SPEAKER_00: And the only reason that he got back here in three months was because
23:00
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
23:15
SPEAKER_00: So even though he now qualifies for citizenship,
23:20
SPEAKER_00: we refuse to file the paperwork because of how many people are being detained
23:25
SPEAKER_00: at their green card and citizenship hearings.
23:27
SPEAKER_00: There was a lady who was detained right before she was going to take the citizenship oath.
23:33
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, she was dead.
23:34
SPEAKER_01: She was done.
23:35
SPEAKER_01: She just had to take the opinion.
23:37
SPEAKER_01: She was approved.
23:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and they didn't deport her, but they detained her.
23:41
SPEAKER_00: And that's the way that the regime is treating families like ours.
23:46
SPEAKER_00: It's disgusting.
23:48
SPEAKER_00: The cruelty is the point.
23:50
SPEAKER_00: It was never about legal or illegal immigration.
23:54
SPEAKER_00: It was never about criminals.
23:55
SPEAKER_00: It was not about any of this.
23:57
SPEAKER_00: It was just about deporting as many immigrants as they fucking can
24:01
SPEAKER_00: to make this country white again.
24:03
SPEAKER_00: And that is why we always say Nuremberg them all.
24:06
SPEAKER_01: Abso-fucking-lutely.
24:08
SPEAKER_01: All right.
24:09
SPEAKER_01: Ugh.
24:10
SPEAKER_01: In other ICE news, U.S.
24:13
SPEAKER_01: Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S.
24:15
SPEAKER_01: CIS, announced green card applicants will face increased public charge scrutiny.
24:21
SPEAKER_01: A public charge is someone who depends on government assistance.
24:25
SPEAKER_01: Beginning September 18th,
24:27
SPEAKER_01: immigration officers will consider all non-emergency Medicaid
24:32
SPEAKER_01: and other social service programs,
24:34
SPEAKER_01: including if it was used by a child or other relatives as part of
24:39
SPEAKER_01: the screening process.
24:41
SPEAKER_01: So if an immigrant's child has Medicaid for insurance,
24:46
SPEAKER_01: their green card could be denied even if they never used the program themselves,
24:51
SPEAKER_01: which is absolute fucking bullshit.
24:55
SPEAKER_00: And also they tried to do this in Trump 1.0,
24:58
SPEAKER_00: which is why when I was pregnant,
25:00
SPEAKER_00: I didn't have Medicaid and I paid cash for everything.
25:03
SPEAKER_00: Because I worried that it would impact my husband's green card.
25:06
SPEAKER_01: Now, before the Trump regime changed the rule, SNAP,
25:10
SPEAKER_01: Section 8,
25:11
SPEAKER_01: and Medicaid,
25:12
SPEAKER_01: except for long-term care,
25:14
SPEAKER_01: were not used as a determining factor and officials had strict guidelines for when
25:19
SPEAKER_01: to consider it.
25:20
SPEAKER_01: Now they have...
25:21
SPEAKER_01: We have broad discretion and will include five other factors,
25:25
SPEAKER_01: the applicant's age,
25:26
SPEAKER_01: education,
25:28
SPEAKER_01: health, skills, and family status related to their financial status and assets.
25:33
SPEAKER_01: This will lead to the family of immigrants going without That means more people
25:37
SPEAKER_01: and specifically children will go hungry.
25:40
SPEAKER_01: They will go, they'll get sick, right?
25:52
SPEAKER_01: They won't apply for these services.
25:54
SPEAKER_01: They'll just be underfed.
25:56
SPEAKER_01: They'll be getting less health care.
25:59
SPEAKER_01: And that's the point.
26:02
SPEAKER_01: That's why they're doing this.
26:03
SPEAKER_01: And true Republican family values.
26:06
SPEAKER_01: Republicans will tell you this is to prevent fraud and abuse and to stop people
26:13
SPEAKER_01: from coming here and leeching from the system.
26:16
SPEAKER_01: They're protecting America.
26:19
SPEAKER_01: What a fucking lie.
26:21
SPEAKER_01: We are literally spending billions of fucking dollars
26:26
SPEAKER_01: on Trump's stupid fucking vanity projects.
26:29
SPEAKER_01: We're wasting,
26:30
SPEAKER_01: we talked about this last week,
26:32
SPEAKER_01: we're wasting billions of dollars to redesign aircraft carriers and Why?
26:41
SPEAKER_01: Because Trump is old and dying and he wants to relive his youth.
26:46
SPEAKER_01: Anyone who says he changes to immigration policy is about saving money is full of fuckers.
26:53
SPEAKER_01: Immigrants contribute hundreds of billions of dollars in underpaid labor and taxes
27:00
SPEAKER_01: to the economy.
27:02
SPEAKER_01: They do the jobs real Americans won't do,
27:06
SPEAKER_01: and they commit far less crime than
27:08
SPEAKER_01: the mediocre racist white men always constantly screaming to get rid of them.
27:13
SPEAKER_01: This is and has always been about white nationalism and cruelty,
27:19
SPEAKER_01: and these people can go fuck themselves.
27:21
SPEAKER_00: Hard.
27:22
SPEAKER_00: Hard.
27:24
SPEAKER_00: So remember last week we told you about how the new leader of America's Gestapo,
27:28
SPEAKER_00: Mark Wayne Mullen,
27:29
SPEAKER_00: has pissed off both Trump and Magellan by removing the performative cruelty of
27:35
SPEAKER_00: the regime's ethnic cleansing, even as he was ramping up.
27:42
SPEAKER_00: That's
27:46
SPEAKER_00: almost
27:50
SPEAKER_00: double what we saw back in February when Greg Bovino
27:53
SPEAKER_00: and Kristi Noem were openly terrorizing the country.
27:56
SPEAKER_00: And this is what we met when we said Mullen was pursuing
27:59
SPEAKER_00: the white nationalist agenda, but he was doing it without being loud and stupid.
28:04
SPEAKER_00: You'd think that this would make Magaland happy,
28:06
SPEAKER_00: but they don't just want people that they hate removed.
28:10
SPEAKER_00: They want it to be loud and scary and cruel because the cruelty is the fucking point.
28:15
SPEAKER_00: And if the immigrants aren't being terrorized for their entertainment, why even bother?
28:19
SPEAKER_00: Remember this going forward.
28:21
SPEAKER_00: Republicans are not just racist.
28:23
SPEAKER_00: They're fucking monsters who get off on pain and suffering and they can't be saved.
28:27
SPEAKER_00: They're lost forever because they want to be like this.
28:30
SPEAKER_01: Fuck them all.
28:31
SPEAKER_01: No one's making them do this.
28:32
SPEAKER_01: Fuck them all.
28:33
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:59
SPEAKER_00: The Trump regime is reportedly continuing its crusade to put his name
29:03
SPEAKER_00: on fucking everything,
29:06
SPEAKER_00: even if that means disparaging the memory of a real American hero.
29:10
SPEAKER_00: According to a CNN exclusive, the Navy intends to rename the Billions of dollars.
29:15
SPEAKER_00: Billions.
29:15
SPEAKER_00: I just can't even.
29:42
SPEAKER_00: The Navy isn't revealing why it's renaming the carrier.
29:46
SPEAKER_00: Racism!
29:48
SPEAKER_00: Racism!
29:49
SPEAKER_00: They're like, oh, we're going to name another ship after him.
29:52
SPEAKER_00: And also, you know, we'll put him up for a Medal of Honor.
29:55
SPEAKER_00: They won't.
29:56
SPEAKER_00: But, surprise, surprise, there are now talks about putting Trump's name on the fucking carrier.
30:03
SPEAKER_00: So taking the Pearl Harbor hero off and naming it the USS Trump.
30:08
SPEAKER_00: And just as a fucking reminder,
30:10
SPEAKER_00: we typically do not, well, we never name carriers after sitting U.S. presidents.
30:16
SPEAKER_01: And very rarely when they're alive.
30:19
SPEAKER_01: Have they ever done it when
30:20
SPEAKER_00: one's alive?
30:20
SPEAKER_00: I think they did it one time that I remember.
30:24
SPEAKER_00: I'll have to go back and look.
30:26
SPEAKER_00: You remember Trump, right?
30:28
SPEAKER_00: He has never served in the military.
30:30
SPEAKER_01: Excuse me.
30:31
SPEAKER_01: Excuse me.
30:32
SPEAKER_01: He was in military school and that was just as bad as being in the military as far
30:36
SPEAKER_01: as he's concerned.
30:37
SPEAKER_01: It's just that he served in military school.
30:41
SPEAKER_00: Oh, definitely the same thing.
30:43
SPEAKER_01: Yep, definitely.
30:44
SPEAKER_00: But he's the rich guy whose daddy saved him from going to Vietnam by paying off
30:49
SPEAKER_00: a doctor to say that he had fucking bone spurs in his feet.
30:53
SPEAKER_00: And I cannot tell you how much this pisses me off.
30:56
SPEAKER_00: I want to see those x-rays.
30:58
SPEAKER_00: You'll never see those x-rays.
31:00
SPEAKER_00: Funny.
31:01
SPEAKER_00: So fuck him and fuck the Navy brass who are approving this,
31:06
SPEAKER_00: which it's probably not the Navy brass.
31:08
SPEAKER_00: It's probably the guy who can't do a pull-up.
31:13
SPEAKER_01: Speaking of naming things after himself,
31:15
SPEAKER_01: Trump is also wondering out loud if he's going to rename Lake Ontario Lake America
31:20
SPEAKER_01: because Canada told him to go fuck himself.
31:23
SPEAKER_01: But we all know that he really, really wants to call it Lake Trump.
31:28
SPEAKER_00: Just as a reminder,
31:29
SPEAKER_00: I talked about this before the show,
31:30
SPEAKER_00: but Lake Ontario was named Lake Ontario
31:34
SPEAKER_00: before Ontario Canada was named Ontario Canada.
31:38
SPEAKER_01: So it's not even Canada that named it Lake Ontario.
31:41
SPEAKER_01: It's just been Lake Ontario for forever.
31:45
SPEAKER_01: But whatever.
31:47
SPEAKER_01: All right.
31:48
SPEAKER_01: Here's one to keep an eye on.
31:50
SPEAKER_01: We talked about data centers last week and how the Magomoron Well,
31:56
SPEAKER_01: we're going to see what wins out, populist anger or slavish devotion.
32:05
SPEAKER_01: Axios reporting that during an interview with Michael Cohen, yes,
32:08
SPEAKER_01: that Michael Cohen,
32:10
SPEAKER_01: the same guy that a whole lot of people here on Substack got real cozy with
32:14
SPEAKER_01: because he told them what they wanted to hear.
32:16
SPEAKER_01: But we're not going to talk about that right now.
32:19
SPEAKER_00: Can I just say, like, why do we keep doing this?
32:23
SPEAKER_01: Why?
32:23
SPEAKER_01: Why?
32:38
SPEAKER_01: Okay, that's mostly bullshit.
32:42
SPEAKER_01: Some of these data centers are building power centers,
32:47
SPEAKER_01: but power plants, but there's nothing special about them.
32:49
SPEAKER_01: Trump is a fucking five-year-old who's amazed by colorful balloons.
32:53
SPEAKER_01: But the dementia patient also said,
32:55
SPEAKER_01: communities that don't take a data center,
32:57
SPEAKER_01: they're making a mistake because data centers create tremendous jobs,
33:03
SPEAKER_01: amounts of jobs and money.
33:04
SPEAKER_01: So anyway, Trump siding with the billionaire.
33:19
SPEAKER_01: Trump's grip on his moron mob, or their rage at the rich people destroying their lives.
33:34
SPEAKER_01: Because there's no blaming trans kids or immigrants for the damage AI is doing.
33:40
SPEAKER_01: What's going to happen here?
33:42
SPEAKER_01: We're going to find out.
33:44
SPEAKER_01: And I would not want to be the smug billionaires ruining the lives of millions
33:48
SPEAKER_01: of heavily armed and angry MAGA.
33:50
SPEAKER_01: Because,
33:51
SPEAKER_01: like we've mentioned before,
33:53
SPEAKER_01: all the money in the world will not protect you from a bullet
33:55
SPEAKER_01: if enough people are trying to kill you.
33:58
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and just as an aside here,
34:01
SPEAKER_00: when they build these power plants, guess whose land they take to build them?
34:05
SPEAKER_00: Poor people.
34:06
SPEAKER_00: Yes, they take poor people's land.
34:08
SPEAKER_00: Or just middle-class families who have owned their
34:12
SPEAKER_01: houses for years.
34:13
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
34:14
SPEAKER_01: Oh, by the way, I just saw it this morning.
34:17
SPEAKER_01: People have been complaining all over the country, right?
34:19
SPEAKER_01: They go to their local councils and they go to the local government and they say,
34:23
SPEAKER_01: do not fucking build this.
34:25
SPEAKER_01: And a lot of times it's been working, right?
34:28
SPEAKER_01: So the EPA is now scrapping the rules where they have to report
34:37
SPEAKER_01: that data centers are being built.
34:39
SPEAKER_01: They could just start building them without having to go through any kind
34:44
SPEAKER_01: of zoning process or any kind of environmental...
34:48
SPEAKER_01: Studies.
34:49
SPEAKER_01: Study process.
34:51
SPEAKER_00: Which is really crazy because that means that they could build data centers
34:54
SPEAKER_00: on places where endangered animals live.
34:58
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
34:58
SPEAKER_01: They're trying to do this so the public doesn't have any input,
35:01
SPEAKER_01: which means they won't know until it's already happening.
35:05
SPEAKER_01: Which, of course, that's the point, right?
35:06
SPEAKER_01: Because there's been so much public resistance from both sides of the aisle.
35:10
SPEAKER_01: This is not just liberals and those pesky environmentalists.
35:13
SPEAKER_01: This is also red states and red cities going, we don't want this shit here.
35:18
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't.
35:19
SPEAKER_01: It's going to suck up all of our electricity, make our power bills go through the roof.
35:24
SPEAKER_01: It's going to suck up all of our fresh water, which means we won't have any fucking fresh water.
35:29
SPEAKER_01: Yes, technically it's environmental,
35:32
SPEAKER_01: but if you're a Republican,
35:34
SPEAKER_01: you You still want to drink water and you're aware of that and you know that
35:39
SPEAKER_01: a data center is going to suck up all of the fucking water in your community.
35:44
SPEAKER_01: You don't want that.
35:46
SPEAKER_01: So, yes, they want to stop these things.
35:49
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't matter if...
35:52
SPEAKER_01: They know these things are really bad for their direct community.
35:56
SPEAKER_01: It's very much NIMBY.
35:57
SPEAKER_01: And now the regime is stepping in to make sure that even their own voters don't get
36:03
SPEAKER_01: a say in whether or not these things show up and destroy their local communities.
36:06
SPEAKER_01: So that's going to go over really, really well with their own voters.
36:09
SPEAKER_01: Can't wait.
36:10
SPEAKER_00: Crazy.
36:11
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
36:12
SPEAKER_00: Well, speaking of data centers, Ron DeSantis' time as Florida governor is coming to an end.
36:20
SPEAKER_00: And whack job Byron Donald just won the GOP primary to replace him.
36:24
SPEAKER_01: He's not going to be nearly as effective.
36:27
SPEAKER_01: And he's black in a state that's super fucking racist.
36:30
SPEAKER_01: So I don't think he's going to be nearly as effective as a tyrant as Ron DeSantis was.
36:35
SPEAKER_01: So good luck, Florida.
36:38
SPEAKER_00: Well, I'm very excited about this.
36:40
SPEAKER_00: The Congressman appeared on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday,
36:44
SPEAKER_00: and with his full chest,
36:45
SPEAKER_00: he blamed, quote,
36:47
SPEAKER_00: rampant illegal immigration for the measles outbreak in the U.S.
36:51
SPEAKER_01: Wow, where have you heard that before?
36:53
SPEAKER_00: This is exactly what we've been saying that they would do the whole time.
36:58
SPEAKER_00: But that completely contradicts the CDC data,
37:02
SPEAKER_00: which has found that only 16 of the 2,800 cases have been
37:06
SPEAKER_00: from international visitors.
37:08
SPEAKER_00: The number of cases from other countries represents six thousandths of a percent,
37:13
SPEAKER_00: or 0.006%, minuscule.
37:17
SPEAKER_00: Donald's claim that immigrants who come to America don't receive vaccines,
37:23
SPEAKER_00: and then in the same interview said that he wouldn't mandate vaccines
37:26
SPEAKER_00: for Florida children.
37:29
SPEAKER_00: Make it make fucking sense.
37:30
SPEAKER_01: So he wants us to be a third-world country.
37:33
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and you can't make it make sense because we live in the stupidest fucking timeline.
37:37
SPEAKER_01: So does anyone remember Ed Martin?
37:40
SPEAKER_01: Probably not.
37:53
SPEAKER_01: Trump announced that he's leaving the DOJ, but don't get too excited.
37:57
SPEAKER_01: He's moving on to do legal work related to the elections.
38:00
SPEAKER_01: And we're assuming that means he's going to be the next Rudy Giuliani.
38:04
SPEAKER_01: So I don't know, maybe we should get excited.
38:07
SPEAKER_01: Trump really is the fucking moron we all knew he was all along.
38:11
SPEAKER_01: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that in the day's
38:26
SPEAKER_01: Trump asked our military if this was a good idea.
38:30
SPEAKER_01: We originally thought that since Pete Hexas had fired everyone,
38:34
SPEAKER_01: that he was being told by a That this was a great idea, gung-ho, bomb, bomb, bomb.
38:41
SPEAKER_01: Apparently, that is not what happened.
38:43
SPEAKER_01: The military told him repeatedly and in writing that this would be
38:49
SPEAKER_01: a fucking disaster, that Iran would not.
38:52
SPEAKER_01: And then Trump said,
39:07
SPEAKER_01: Fuck it!
39:08
SPEAKER_01: We're doing it anyway because he had visions of an easy,
39:11
SPEAKER_01: made-for-TV war dancing in his dementia-riddled brain.
39:15
SPEAKER_01: This should be the top fucking story,
39:19
SPEAKER_01: but it's going to disappear within 48 hours because the lady...
39:22
SPEAKER_01: Legacy press never hold Trump accountable for any fucking thing he does,
39:28
SPEAKER_01: not even getting American troops killed.
39:30
SPEAKER_01: Meanwhile, they spent weeks and weeks and weeks screaming about Joe Biden in Afghanistan.
39:36
SPEAKER_01: And what a disaster that was, even though it wasn't his fucking disaster.
39:40
SPEAKER_01: We're in a fucking disastrous war right now because of Trump.
39:43
SPEAKER_01: And the press is just like, fuck it.
39:45
SPEAKER_01: How did this happen?
39:47
SPEAKER_01: We don't really know.
39:48
SPEAKER_01: I mean, Trump might have known better, but did he really know?
39:51
SPEAKER_01: Was he misled by the people around him?
39:53
SPEAKER_01: It's like, actually, no.
39:55
SPEAKER_01: He was explicitly told this was going to happen,
39:58
SPEAKER_01: and the buck stops with Trump, and they're I'm just going to move on about it.
40:02
SPEAKER_01: I personally am looking forward to the 2028 election in which the Iran War,
40:08
SPEAKER_01: which will probably still be going on by then,
40:11
SPEAKER_01: gets retconned into being the fault of both sides.
40:14
SPEAKER_01: I can't wait to hear how Democrats are going to be responsible for it by then.
40:18
SPEAKER_01: It's going to be absolutely fucking amazing to watch.
40:22
SPEAKER_00: Crazy.
40:23
SPEAKER_00: Well, let's wrap up headlines with some good news.
40:26
SPEAKER_00: This is from USA Today.
40:27
SPEAKER_00: According to The Economist and YouGov,
40:30
SPEAKER_00: more people disapprove than approve of Trump's job performance in 47 out
40:35
SPEAKER_00: of 50 states and in the District of Columbia.
40:38
SPEAKER_00: The three states where the majority of respondents still approve of
40:41
SPEAKER_00: the president are Wyoming, Idaho, and West Virginia.
40:45
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
40:46
SPEAKER_00: With numbers like those,
40:48
SPEAKER_00: Trump is going to drag down the entire Republican Party into an electoral black hole
40:55
SPEAKER_00: in November,
40:56
SPEAKER_00: and no one will believe him when he says that it's all rigged and stolen,
41:01
SPEAKER_00: no matter what Ed Martin does.
41:03
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
41:29
SPEAKER_01: So something to look forward to.
41:31
SPEAKER_01: This hamburger is extra crunchy this week.
41:34
SPEAKER_00: Why am I bleeding?
41:37
SPEAKER_01: Now, speaking of how poorly Republicans doing,
41:40
SPEAKER_01: I wrote an article last week about how fucked they were in the Senate as Iowa
41:46
SPEAKER_01: and Texas races shift from lean Republican to toss up.
41:52
SPEAKER_01: Who caught up to my some schmuck sitting at a keyboard analysis a week later?
41:59
SPEAKER_01: The New York fucking Times.
42:07
SPEAKER_01: The Times is saying the example.
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SPEAKER_01: The Republicans had been looking at Maine and Michigan and hoping to keep
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SPEAKER_01: at least one of them from flipping.
42:32
SPEAKER_01: With Plattner's fuck-up and the press going into a meltdown over El Saeed,
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SPEAKER_01: It was frantic prayers over at the GOP.
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SPEAKER_01: But then Iowa and Texas, Texas, are going badly for them.
42:46
SPEAKER_01: Democrats have multiple ways to take control of the Senate,
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SPEAKER_01: even if John Fetterman flips like we all know they plan on doing if Democrats have
42:54
SPEAKER_01: a one-seat majority.
42:56
SPEAKER_01: So, ha-ha, fuck you, Republicans, ha.
43:00
SPEAKER_00: Yay.
43:01
SPEAKER_00: Well, on to self-care of the week.
43:03
SPEAKER_00: So guess what time it is?
43:05
SPEAKER_00: Football is coming.
43:11
SPEAKER_00: The Buffalo Bills are doing so well in the preseason,
43:14
SPEAKER_00: even though the preseason games don't count,
43:16
SPEAKER_00: even a little bit, and mostly it's our second string, but it's okay.
43:20
SPEAKER_00: They're doing well.
43:21
SPEAKER_00: We love to see it, and it has made me happy.
43:24
SPEAKER_00: I am also helping my friend Pac.
43:26
SPEAKER_00: She's moving to New York.
43:27
SPEAKER_00: I'm not very happy about that, but I'm happy for her.
43:31
SPEAKER_00: And teaching my son homeschool, and that's it.
43:32
SPEAKER_00: That's my self-care of the week.
43:34
SPEAKER_00: Actually, none of that is about me, but some weeks are like that.
43:39
SPEAKER_01: Isn't football always about you, though?
43:41
SPEAKER_01: Oh, God, I'm so excited.
43:42
SPEAKER_01: I can't wait for the first game.
43:44
SPEAKER_00: Nine, I know that I'll be insufferable.
43:48
SPEAKER_01: I sent you that TikTok.
43:50
SPEAKER_01: When I saw that, I was like, oh, there it is.
43:53
SPEAKER_01: The football's back on.
43:54
SPEAKER_01: It's like, oh.
43:55
SPEAKER_00: I know that I'm going to be insufferable.
43:57
SPEAKER_00: But the first game is September 13th or 15th.
44:02
SPEAKER_00: Oh, boy.
44:03
SPEAKER_00: Come back to me, Josh Allen.
44:06
SPEAKER_01: So this is the last week before the kids go back to school.
44:10
SPEAKER_01: So we're working our way through Anastasia's summer bucket list,
44:13
SPEAKER_01: which is why I haven't gotten any work done this week.
44:17
SPEAKER_01: Mrs. Ogre's on vacation, and that means I've been very, very busy.
44:21
SPEAKER_01: We've The water park, a trampoline park.
44:24
SPEAKER_01: We went for a bike ride in D.C. yesterday.
44:26
SPEAKER_01: We also did an escape room we've been wanting to do forever.
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SPEAKER_01: It was fun.
44:30
SPEAKER_01: There was a dragon involved.
44:32
SPEAKER_01: Anastasia had a spa day with Mommy on Sunday.
44:35
SPEAKER_01: This Next Thursday,
44:37
SPEAKER_01: we're having the annual back to school sleepover,
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SPEAKER_01: which will have a scavenger hunt that I put together.
44:42
SPEAKER_01: We're going to have karaoke, there's tie dye, et cetera, et cetera.
44:47
SPEAKER_01: I've been too busy to sink back into depression about Lila, which is being away.
44:51
SPEAKER_01: Which is good, I guess.
44:53
SPEAKER_01: I've wanted to go just crawl into bed, but I guess is better.
44:57
SPEAKER_01: So it's still been really tough.
45:00
SPEAKER_01: I still miss her.
45:01
SPEAKER_01: Fortunately, she's been texting every day and that helps a lot.
45:05
SPEAKER_01: And we're going down to visit.
45:08
SPEAKER_01: Lila's settling in and she's very excited about her classes.
45:12
SPEAKER_01: So that's calmed a huge amount of my anxiety.
45:16
SPEAKER_01: Thank God.
45:18
SPEAKER_01: We were on a video call with her last night.
45:21
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
45:36
SPEAKER_01: I didn't know where they were,
45:38
SPEAKER_01: so I put her on a video call and I just walked around her room and she told me what
45:41
SPEAKER_01: to grab.
45:42
SPEAKER_01: And then she was on,
45:45
SPEAKER_01: I brought her over back to our apartment and she talked to Anastasia for like
45:49
SPEAKER_01: an hour.
45:50
SPEAKER_01: The two of them were just chatting the entire time.
45:51
SPEAKER_01: So it was really nice.
45:53
SPEAKER_01: It was nice.
45:54
SPEAKER_01: I got to see her.
45:55
SPEAKER_01: I got to talk to her for a while and it was great.
45:57
SPEAKER_01: And we're going to be down there Saturday,
45:59
SPEAKER_01: but I'm still probably going to be a basket case until she gets to her midterms.
46:04
SPEAKER_01: And I know that she's still going to her classes.
46:06
SPEAKER_01: So, there's that.
46:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that actually reminded me.
46:33
SPEAKER_00: I talked to my son for an hour and a half on the phone last night
46:36
SPEAKER_00: because he also started classes and he's a senior.
46:41
SPEAKER_00: Yay.
46:42
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
46:44
SPEAKER_00: He's like, oh, I have senioritis, mom.
46:48
SPEAKER_00: All of his classes this semester are science classes,
46:50
SPEAKER_00: high-level science classes, every single one of them.
46:54
SPEAKER_00: He's like, yeah, I'm taking biodiversity.
46:56
SPEAKER_00: And he's like, I don't really care about plants, but I guess I understand why they're important.
47:01
SPEAKER_00: Yes, plants are important.
47:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
47:04
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, which is so funny because I love plants, but he doesn't care.
47:08
SPEAKER_00: That doesn't interest him.
47:10
SPEAKER_00: And then he said that he has a professor who,
47:13
SPEAKER_00: he said the professor went around the class and everybody had
47:16
SPEAKER_00: to introduce themselves.
47:18
SPEAKER_00: He was like, Mom, there was 200 people in our class.
47:20
SPEAKER_00: It took an hour.
47:21
SPEAKER_00: Oh, my God.
47:22
SPEAKER_00: And then he also introduced himself to the class by putting up his mug shots from
47:28
SPEAKER_00: when he was a child.
47:30
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
47:32
SPEAKER_00: And Aiden was like, he wanted to say bro.
47:35
SPEAKER_00: He goes, he didn't say bro, but I got the vibe.
47:37
SPEAKER_00: And I was like, oh, that's going to be fun.
47:41
SPEAKER_00: I guess he's a new professor.
47:42
SPEAKER_00: So he's probably just like not knowing what to do the first day of class.
47:46
SPEAKER_01: Well, Lila has a professor.
47:49
SPEAKER_01: We're just going to call her like, you know, Miss Midlife Crisis because she's close to our age.
47:54
SPEAKER_01: Like she's like 50-ish.
47:57
SPEAKER_01: Not our age.
47:59
SPEAKER_01: Well, you're midlife.
48:00
SPEAKER_01: You're middle age now.
48:02
SPEAKER_01: But she's apparently,
48:04
SPEAKER_01: I don't know,
48:05
SPEAKER_01: we think she's going through a divorce or something where she just got divorced
48:07
SPEAKER_01: because she wants her students to call.
48:10
SPEAKER_01: She's a doctor.
48:11
SPEAKER_01: She doesn't want her students to call her doctor or by her last name or miss this
48:15
SPEAKER_01: or misses that.
48:17
SPEAKER_01: She wants them to call her by her first name or because her last name is Fox.
48:21
SPEAKER_01: So she doesn't want them to call her Dr. Fox.
48:24
SPEAKER_01: She wants them to call her Foxy.
48:26
SPEAKER_01: And it's like.
48:27
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
48:27
SPEAKER_00: Whatever you want to do, lady.
48:29
SPEAKER_01: Maybe not.
48:30
SPEAKER_01: If your students are like 18 or 19 and you're like 50, maybe not have them call you Foxy.
48:37
SPEAKER_01: That's a bit odd, honey.
48:39
SPEAKER_01: Maybe don't do that.
48:41
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SPEAKER_01: in American history, and that time will fly by faster than you can possibly imagine.
49:43
SPEAKER_01: The regime is back to begging the most corrupt Supreme Court in history to rig
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49:50
SPEAKER_01: In November, we're going to show them just how weak they are, no matter how much they cheat.
49:56
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49:59
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50:03
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