Deep State Strikes Back
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Deep state strikes back in some ways in that there was a big argument this week, and we're going to get you up to date on exactly what it is that's happening on this freeze. They seized upon the federal freeze of grants, taxpayer grants. It's like, ah.

Here's the outrage. The thing the Trump administration was saying is that we would like to review them and make sure that they actually are doing what they're supposed to be doing. And the left is like, no, no, no. The response was like, we've got him now. We've got him now. Democrats are like, oh, no. We can convince people that they should be spending their money on our insane, frivolous shit.

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Good Thursday to everybody. Welcome to the Ruthless Variety Program. I'm Josh Holmes, along with Comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan, John Ashbrook, left or right across your radio dial as always. Should we just go gate antics here, fellas? Should we just get right into whatever you want to talk about or you want to get to the news? What should we do? I mean, there's so much to cover. I think we get right into it. Are you sure? I mean, you look at- You don't want to like kibitz? You look at what all this administration's been already getting done.

We got an action-packed show. But Smug, I was told reliably that you just wanted to commit to the top of this. So I came into the office. I came to the studio today. Look at how uncomfortable he is. No, no. I said I could not be more thrilled.

Because I kind of hinted at it in the last episode, but it's really hinting me of how you don't have to worry that government's going to government and everything's going to be a slog. Yeah. This administration, it hits different. It's doing stuff. It's actually happening. Yeah. And they're all having to respond to it. We're going to get into all of that. Deep state strikes back in some ways in that-

There was a big argument this week, and we're going to get you up to date on exactly what it is that's happening on this freeze, federal spending freeze that was announced by the White House. Democrats got their panties all in a huge bunch and convinced themselves that this is the road back, which is mostly, I can't wait to get into the meat of this because that just, it's unbelievable. Meanwhile, Trump is continuing to lay things out. The federal workers,

being offered a severance to just go home. So great. It's like, hey, man, you haven't come to the office or done much of anything for the last four years. I'll pay you to September to beat it. Yeah, I saw the number, was it? This is two million? Two million. And the instructions, just type the word resign into the subject and click send. This is so good. They make it so easy. Just say that, you know, we don't need a lot. There doesn't need to be a lot of paperwork here. Just resign.

Set it on back and you can be on your way. Go get another job. They were like, you don't have to hold out and you certainly don't have to do anything more. You've done enough. God forbid. Don't come into the office. Don't get a banker's box. Just reply to this email. Yeah. And then get the hell out of here.

Anyway, we got something on that. Then we got Friday. King of the Hill back again today. That's right. As we do on Thursdays. And then there's another fat so that we need to... Is there? Okay. Yeah. Hold them accountable. Oh, I saw this. Yeah.

This is great variety. So we got all of that. So we'll start with the top of the news, which I'm going to reorder a little bit. So, you know, like, Spaghetts, pay attention to me here for a minute. Because what I just talked about in terms of Democrats is,

For those of you who don't know, like, obviously you watch the news and you know they're off their moorings. They're not sure how to handle all these things. There's so much coming at them, Fast and Furious, that deep in their bones they hate. They don't know what to attack.

And they know they need to attack because their progressive base wants it. But also the smarter ones amongst them know that they just got their doors blown off in an election. And the policy that this administration is pursuing is like 50 or above on almost everything. Yeah, I saw a polling came out just yesterday saying that approval rating for Republicans is all time high that they've ever recorded was like 54 percent or something. Yeah.

And Democrats were in the 30s. All-time low. Quinnipiac poll. Yeah. An all-time low in the history of the Quinnipiac poll. So, like, you know, listen, if you've been around long enough, you've seen these things on both sides. I remember 2009 after the Barack Obama victory. Republicans were a very dark place. And you had to kind of search to figure out where you could –

footing. Started with a stimulus, led to Obamacare, led to this big Republican revolutionary. So it's not, you know, when you're down bad, you can find your way back. I don't think it's what they're doing that's going to get them back, though. You see all this nonsense in these confirmation hearings. None of it looks particularly persuasive to me. But they seized upon the federal freeze of grants, taxpayer grants. It's like, ah,

Here's the outrage. Which is just horrible. Here's the outrage. The only thing the Trump administration was saying is that we would like to review them and make sure that they actually are doing what they're supposed to be doing. And the left is like, no, no, no, there can't be any review of this money going out. I mean, that's the thing is, I think it's the first time in our lifetime, maybe ever,

That administration came in and they said, we want to review where every penny of your money is going to your taxpayers. And just think about it. It shouldn't be a revolutionary thought. That's the thing. That's the whole concept of what they're talking about is exactly what you just said. And the response was like, we've got him now.

We've got him now. Oh, no. We can convince people that they should be spending their money on our insane, frivolous shit. Yeah, right. And so immediately they file all kinds of lawsuits. There's a federal judge that temporarily blocked the funding freeze.

Which in and of itself is hysterical. There's a federal judge that put themselves in the middle of all this that said the administration that is administering the money that Congress appropriated in this wide – the way it works is Congress gives you money to do stuff. And the administration has these agencies that then decide what merits qualification, what's a wise expenditure within the confines that they gave them this money.

Now, you can understand how Joe Biden's administration may have some different priorities than that of

of Donald Trump and may have some priorities like we saw and we talked about on this show shoveling money out the door during the lame duck to try to make sure all their buddies were paid. That's it. This was basically like, okay, fellas, the water's turning off. Let's just get as much out of the bank heist as we can and hand it to our buddies. And they're like, no, no, no, no, no, no. Fill the bathtub. That's what it was.

This is a constitutional crisis that he's reviewed where taxpayer money is going. I want you to hear from Chuck Schumer, who I think perfectly, perfectly lays out exactly where Democrats are on all this. We can go to clip one, please. People are aroused. I haven't seen people so aroused in a very, very long time in terms of going trying to get this done. So, yes, I think democracy will have an effect and we are going to keep at it. We're going to keep at it legally.

We're going to keep at it legislatively, but we're also going to keep at it in terms of the grassroots. Thank you, everybody. I mean, he has a point when he was like aroused. I mean, there are a lot of people who I imagine taxpayers when they were told that we're going to take a look at where your money is being spent and make sure it's not being wasted. There are some people who probably had to call a doctor after a few hours. I wish we could just pop the clip back up just to see the picture.

aroused in Chuck Schumer and Patty Murray in the same frame is not something typically that you go to when using that particular vocabulary word. But this is, he's being, they're like... People are aroused. I know.

That was good. People are aroused. People are aroused. No, but it also tells you everything that you need to know about the way that Democrats see the world. Now, if you live in Washington, D.C., or if you're anywhere around the Beltway, chances are you encounter people who make a living on federal grants in one form or fashion. And when you do, they get pretty outraged.

If you shut those things off. The worst people. Right? The worst people. You get pretty outraged. And I'm not saying everybody's – hell, we probably have a lot of listeners that are in this category. And there are plenty of things. I got friends. There are plenty of things where they have a partnership with the federal government, where they do things, and these are people with integrity and whatever. And when you're dealing with the federal government, it's big and it's whatever. But it's those people –

that provide insulation for all of the bullshit that gets tucked underneath it. There is a professional class, and you saw this lady on Twitter who was losing her mind. She's the CEO of the non-profit organization of people who get grants from the government. She was going crazy about this, and her replies were awesome because essentially people were like,

Wait a minute. This is our money. Why do you think you're guaranteed to get this? And clearly, these people, some of these organizations getting grants have enough money to pay you as a CEO of an organization to advocate for them getting even more money? Like, what? You know, it's not exactly a reliable narrator.

I guess it'd be like, you know, Congress passes a tax cut and you're like, all right, let's see what the IRS press release says. Well, I mean, listen, it's ridiculous. Now they rolled it out.

And there was some confusion. You saw people like Governor Glenn Youngkin, who was extremely supportive of President Trump's ability to go in and review, needed some clarification on what it was that he was turning the spigots off on. And so they provided that all through the day on Tuesday and Wednesday about what things were coming down. And you saw Stephen Miller go out to say, this doesn't affect Medicaid. It doesn't affect

Meals on Wheels and all the like individual programs that the federal government has a partnership with that are their direct beneficiaries. He said basically what they are is a response to the executive orders. And you find yourself within the confines of these executive, like a DEI program, for example, you

you're going to shut that off. And Alex Pfeiffer was also out there because he's, I guess, the White House has a great rapid response operation. Like within seconds, Alex Pfeiffer and the rapid response operation were putting out information that like these necessary programs are unaffected folks because the Democrats...

Instantly seized on trying to be like, Trump's trying to starve senior citizens. Well, they told people. They straight up told people. Exactly. And nothing shows you the power of these left-wing, multi-billion dollar NGOs quite like how quickly they snapped the mainstream media to their talking points and forced the White House—

To basically debunk all of the lies that they were telling. It's just like you said, Josh. These programs that people want to ask questions about elected a new leader to ask questions about. Millions, hundreds of millions of dollars going to open our borders to bring in all of these migrants. People are like, well, wait a minute. Why are we spending all that money? And they're like, no, no, no, no.

You're going to lose your program because I'm going to lose mine. That's just not the case. Very dishonest. They're acting like it's, you know, this great program to clean up the watershed or it's like a Meals on Wheels to senior citizens. And it's like they're making that argument because they're trying to run cover for what is this nonprofit industrial complex.

that controls the swamp in so many ways through this grant making program. And it's not just DEI or some of these green initiatives that the Biden administration was shoveling cash out the door at the last minute to try to fund. It's also like millions and millions of dollars that have been paid to nonprofits to resettle all these illegal immigrants across the country. How do you think we've been flying them across the country? It's these things. And that's the thing. It's like we are currently having a

crackdown, by the grace of God, President Trump and Tom Homan on capturing these illegal aliens. And at the same time, taxpayer money is going to resettle House and fly these people across the country? No, it's inconsistent. But I think the broader point is, if you're actually interested in reducing the footprint of government, if you're interested in some kind of fiscal responsibility, I mean, oh, by the way, we're $35 trillion in debt.

Not good by any stretch of the imagination. But if you're interested in doing something about that, at least on the margins, and you can't actually stop or freeze federal grant programs. I'm not talking about entitlements. You can't like around the month we're talking about less than 10 percent of the budget is unpaid.

Awful. It's unconstitutional, as they say, to stop it and look to make sure it's going to the correct recipients. If you can't do that in the first week of a new administration with different priorities, when can you do it? And I think that answers the question of why Democrats have been so successful over the years of expanding the size and the scope of the government, because they have made it. It's prohibitive to ever look if you even stop.

It makes Chuck Schumer aroused. He's aroused, folks. You've never seen a more aroused Chuck Schumer. It's like you described, like Duncan described. This is just like they don't want any light to be shined on this NGO government grant money industrial complex. In the darkness, they're growing like a fungus, right? And they spread far and wide and they've gotten used to just like sucking taxpayer money, sucking taxpayer money. They don't want any attention on this.

And they've gotten to the point where, I mean, you've seen they've built out this Soros judge and prosecutor network across the country. So, of course, they can find a D.C. judge to be like, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's unconstitutional to stop the money going to this swamp complex. It's exactly right in the speed with which they all like act.

activated on this betrays where their budget is going. It's not going to the people who need it. It's going to advertising and press secretaries and marketing companies and public affairs operations. It is going to protect the protection of these left-wing NGOs. That's it. And so I think that there's a very fair question that can be asked by the president who was popularly elected by the American people. Maybe we should reconsider some of this. Isn't it? Is it not? Yes.

Right. Right.

They don't have that. They can figure out how to spend it wisely and they can choose amongst a range of options on how to deliver the money. But once the money is appropriated by Congress, technically, that's the constitutional lineup. Now, Congress completely fucked itself about 15 years ago where because of a lot of scandal or whatever, they banned what they called earmarks. Earmarks erased all of these issues.

in that you didn't leave it up to an administration to actually decide where the money goes.

What she did was very specifically write into each appropriations bill exactly where the money goes. Now, they became unpopular in conservative circles. My guess is it's going to become a lot more popular now because it actually is a way of saving money and you have direct accountability to that member of Congress. Sure, that is true. However, I would note back in the day when these earmarks got cool,

crazy. There was more accountability, technically. Some people wouldn't claim their earmarks, and that became a huge problem in the appropriations process. And then also...

Like sometimes they were funding some like donors pet project to some congressman and it was even more bullshit. But I think that kind of raises my point, right, which is we'd find out about this and then people would. I mean, in some in at least one case, a congressman was prosecuted for doing exactly that.

So there was direct accountability. Now you just allot $50 billion to some nameless agency and some fucking dweebs who you've never met a day in your life. They're going to sort of decide for the rest of us where their money goes. Where does it go? Where does it go? Where it goes is these left-wing organizations, whatever cause celeb of the president-elect –

You know, all this kind of stuff. And so now you've found yourself where the only tool that a President Trump might have when he walks into office, you say, pause, pause.

We're going to look at all this stuff. Do they have grant requests, forms we could fill out for like, I don't know, a startup, new media company that wants to provide alternative ways for people to be informed in this country? You laugh, but I remember in the Obama years, there were people in the political world who made political ads, right?

They got monster contracts from HHS to put ads together to promote the usage of Obamacare. Dude, it still exists. There are 30-second broadcast television ads informing people that healthcare.gov is a website. Yeah. I am not kidding you. This is money that our government spent – that –

Tens of millions of dollars. You pay the government and they spend. It shows up. You guys probably have seen them, like, football broadcasts. Yeah. You know, you watch, like, Fox or CBS football. Like, it's on. Like, they'll have, like, go to CMS.gov. And you're like, find out your Medicare or whatever. And it's like, no, fuck out. Like, can't you mail something to somebody? Do we have to spend $20 million on that? But this is the kind of stuff that...

That arouses Chuck Schumer to fight for. Right? That is unconstitutional for a president to do. I cannot think of a better ground to fight on. It's one of Trump's superpowers. Right? He does something...

Like I bet 80 percent of people agree with freezing funding to look at see where it goes and and like ultimately draws out Democrats in a pure panic. And they're absolutely convinced it's their way back to the White House in four years that they fight over this ground. To your point, if it wasn't for Trump.

You listening to this show would never know that your tax dollars, which were collected last April 15th, were spent to the tune of $50 million buying condoms for people in Gaza. Well, not according to Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post. Oh, of course.

I know how highly esteemed you think his work is, Smug. I mean, the guy is literally a criminal. His family's been criminals, too. Chris Family Tree. It's well documented. Are we saying literally here? Well, I mean, his family, this is a known fact. I can be fact-checked, and it's why, as litigious as he could want to be, he cannot disprove the fact that his family owned factories that did things for the Nazis. It's

Literally. Oh, my God. I swear to God. Look it up. No, seriously? I'm being dead serious. This isn't a bit. This is not a bit. But how does that make him a criminal? It's in his blood. Okay. Okay.

We're laughing. We're laughing. We're joking. It's a parody. But the point remains, a lot of money is wasted out there. And if you don't have Donald Trump in the office, you'd never know. Well, take what you know. I mean, they spent billions of dollars building a pier that was never meant to be borne out into the ocean that promptly collapsed.

in Gaza, drowning all kinds of shit with it, billions of dollars worth of aid. Right. Like, you know that. Do you think maybe if you knew something about that, we don't know what the next one is, but I bet the Trump administration does now. Do you think it's worth putting pause on it? Yeah, exactly. You work your ass off 52 weeks a year. Every time you get a paycheck, you see money come out of it to the federal government, goes from you to the federal government, to a bullshit pier in Gaza. Yeah.

But that arouses Chuck Schumer. It arouses. And you look at Patty's eye, it looked like she had a little arousal there, too. I mean, the timing could not be better because, I mean, I know a lot of folks, I got the email from my accountant being like, the IRS is now accepting filing. It's like, now you want to tell taxpayers that, no, no, no, no, we want to take your money and spend it however we want? And they're like, no, don't stop it.

Don't you dare stop it. So anyway, what happens is the Trump administration has to go put out several clarifications about what exactly they're targeting. The way the AP writes this up is that they've rescinded the order. They've rescinded the order, which got my attention because I was like, no way. I can't believe they actually backed down on this. Well-

Again, it turns out the Associated Press, not correct. Carolyn Lovett, who did a great job this week, by the way. Yeah, she really did. Off to an awesome start. Great, great job. Yesterday, she puts out, this is not a rescission of the federal funding freeze. It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo. And it was a memo that went out initially saying, like, full freeze. Why? To end any confusion created by the court's injunction.

So they're working through the court injunction on this. The president's EO on federal funding remains in full force in effect and will be rigorously implemented. Oh, yeah. So there you go. They're not backing down and they're going to make a court talk about it. But more importantly, what they're doing is making Democrats talk about it.

These are the fights worth having. And this is the thing that Trump gets instinctively. It's like it may be uncomfortable to get into some of these fights to begin with. But once you're on the playing field and you look at it, you got Chuck Schumer sitting there aroused by the idea that someone could ever take away billions of dollars of boondoggles that we have absolutely no idea where they go. People are aroused. Laughter

We got to get that in the board. We got to bring the old board back. Lee Wolf has a solution for that. Wolf's working on the board. Yeah. He's working for the board. When you guys get the board, if you're a new listener, you don't know how good you're about to have it for your old schoolers. The board was like, that was the thing with the program. Yeah. I mean, we're basically like, we're like David Guetta.

with that thing. You know? Racist. Just doing remixes all day. Can you imagine Ashbrook has that thing, Chuck Schumer, people are aroused, Kamala, do not come, President Trump. I'm gonna come. Boom, boom, boom. No, and he played it like a fiddle. It was fantastic.

So anyway, that's what we've got going on on the federal funding freeze. We're going to monitor this closely because it's a fight worth having and one that is very important when it comes up in the context of tax reform and everything else that the president is going to be trying to do here over the next few months. But coming up, mainstream media is also doing their part to sabotage Trump. No surprise. No surprise. We'll tell you about their latest fake outrage, which is truly remarkable right after this.

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Yeah. You know, there was a period of time where you felt like there was at least a segment of the media that was like, oh, boy, we really are going to have to eat crow on some of this stuff. Like maybe we should rethink the way we present information now, knowing the majority of Americans think we're fucking dog shit. Yeah. And then it was like, no, no, we're back to business as usual.

My favorite thing that came out this week, and it was an attempt, I think, to try to undermine Carolyn Leavitt. Yeah. There are different ways of what they're doing. One is just to be an asshole and they just do whatever. But somebody like Carolyn Leavitt, who is incredibly talented, new to the scene, there are people within the media complex that look at her and they're like, as quickly as we can undermine her credibility...

the better it is for all of us. Yeah. Right? Like, make her the, you know, what they made of Spicer in the first two months. The White House press corps can be the absolute worst. It's like animals at a zoo testing the electric fencing. Yeah. You know? They're, like, looking for weaknesses from her. And, I mean, it was a really good performance up there at the podium. She did a great job. But this is...

Hilarious. Coming out of Axios, all undocumented immigrants are criminals, Trump administration says. Just insane. Right. And so and if you watch the press conference, which we did, she confirmed that immigrant groups, they fear being treated as criminals. And she noted the obvious, which is it's against the law to come into our country illegally.

Breaking news. It would not be illegal if it wasn't in the statute. Right. And so they go through this whole thing and they're like, well, they are clearly insinuating, trying to insinuate that by what she means by criminals is that like every single person who's ever come into this country is like a rapist and a drug addict.

distributor and whatever, which is clearly not what she said. What she said was, yeah, if you're, if your action to get into this country is illegal, then you are in fact a criminal. Guess what? Illegal immigrants have broken the law. Right. Right. That's what the word illegal means. Yeah. So, uh, because it all formulated itself in a question was asked by a reporter, uh, how many of the 3,500 immigrants arrested since Trump took office have criminal records?

Levitt said, all of them because they illegally broke our nation's laws. And this is the thing. Correct. It's exactly a correct statement. Media and left-wing groups have done this like business of trying to make everything confusing and create these like gray areas because they purposely changed the words used to describe them from illegals and illegal immigrants, which were like, we said that for decades. They tried to say undocumented immigrants.

You know, to try to create this fake gray area because they didn't want people to connect instantly. Illegal means illegal. Yeah, it's like undocumented. Like they arrived, you know, through a portal somewhere and they forgot their wallet. It's just a clumsy misunderstanding. You know, I goofed. I forgot it.

I was documented, and I'm not. I left it in the cabin in Kabul. I know where I got it. But they've done that with language forever. The left is—they're masters of this, and the media just, of course, uses it. Well, because they're the gatekeepers of conversation, at least they have been until the podcast revolution. In New York, they decide. There is an NGO that has a left-wing tilt that's funded by your tax dollars.

And that's the thing. For legal U.S. citizens, think about this. If you tried on April 15th saying, well, I'm an undocumented taxpayer.

I just didn't fill out the paperwork and send the money. I forgot my wallet. Don't worry about it. It's just undocumented. I guarantee Dems will go after you for that. They don't believe in undocumented for U.S. citizens in that case. But if you're here illegally and they're trying to turn you into a voter, all of a sudden you're undocumented. Yeah. Well, if you can actually pay the – if you can't pay the taxes, you're somebody to be protected.

If you can pay, then you're a criminal. It's unbelievable. Yeah. Now, listen, this whole thing, their voice of God, this is the reality check. I'm not kidding you. This is what they said. This is Axios' thing. Reality check. There's no law making it a crime to live in the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant. What? Instead, the law treats it as a civil violation.

The law treats it as a – it's against the law. It's against the law. The law – it's a civil violation. It's like – I mean what? I can't believe these people. That is the libs doing the disinformation.

Well, deadbeat dadding your kid is also a civil liability, by the way. I mean, I don't know if people, like, if you want to get into the specifics. That might explain a lot of these general problems. You know what I mean? Like, there's a lot of, it's law. They made a law. They broke the law. Also, the crossing. Listen, I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure, like, how you get here is also, there's legal implications in that, too. They're talking about the just living. Semantics. You're splitting hairs.

But I mean, either way, it's against the law. But this is what they've hung on their head. Well, she's a liar. She's a liar because she says they're criminals. I mean, what a nonsense. Nobody's listening to this shit. Nope. That's why podcasts are ascendant. I was gratified. And I know you guys were too. I think most of us got a chance to watch it. The first signing ceremony that President Trump yesterday participated in, which was the signing of the Lake and Riley Act.

This is a topic that we've covered a great deal here on the Variety program. Obviously has a lot to do with illegal immigration and the failure to prosecute and detain illegal immigrants in this country. Soros prosecutors, state of New York, all kinds of things led to the death of this incredibly beautiful young woman, a tragedy unlike, you know, you just never want to hear about, but it happens in more communities than you'd like to think. And it happens with great frequency. Well, they've done something about it.

Katie Britt, Senator, uh,

from Alabama authored a bill where they just teed this whole thing up and got it rolling to a point where it was through committee and now onto the president's desk in the second week. And also credit to front of the program, Rep. Mike Collins, who was out there going hard in the paint for it. And Collins, being from Georgia, obviously had a huge investment for it and pushed this all the way through. I'm sorry I failed to mention Mike because he had a ton to do with this. But the...

The ceremony itself, gosh, I didn't realize how much I missed that. Like something right and just. That's right. Happening with the president of the United States standing behind it formally in the White House with people able to testify about the importance that this means to them in honoring Lakin.

and what she meant to their family. Like, powerful stuff, don't you think, fellas? It's a tribute because, like you said, it's a horrible tragedy, and one that you've seen so many times across many communities in this country, and Americans got so fed up with it, they did something about it, they elected President Trump. And it's absolutely tragic that Lakin lost her life needlessly.

But her legacy is going to be saving so many lives, protecting American communities from illegal immigrants and criminals who were allowed to run amok for years in this country. President Trump, Lake and Raleigh actor, putting that to an end. And there's a lot in here, obviously, that empowers ICE to detain illegal immigrants and all that. Yeah, because this is somebody who was arrested, arrested as an illegal immigrant.

for a crime, not being a legal immigrant, just arrested for a crime here and was not detained. But the other component to this, and we've talked about it previously on the show, and this is my favorite part of this new law, is it gives people the ability, these states, to sue DHS

for crimes like this that happen. So this is the long tail of this legislation, which is going to be super helpful. Next time a Democrat's in the White House and decides they don't want to enforce our nation's immigration laws, there's a recourse. And that ultimately is the thing. This was such a ridiculous situation that this criminal wasn't deported, let alone just put behind bars. And if you don't have a recourse like that where somebody's going to be liable for

For letting a criminal out to murder an American, what are we doing? What are we doing? What's the point of your government at all? Yeah. Yeah, I completely agree. And listen, it was a great deal. It's a very good law. I'm glad it's passed. I'm really glad it's like the first off the decks because it sets the tone in a very important way. But as we do with President Trump.

It's not enough to just do a good thing in and of itself. You got to add a little gusto. There's always a secret little nugget in there. A little panache. You know, so he's, you know, he's on stage. Everybody expects the bill signing. What do you not expect? Something that's going to, you know. A little dessert. It's going to agitate all the right people. Yep. And make all of us extraordinarily happy. Can we play clip three, please, Spaghetts?

Today, I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay. Most people don't even know about it. We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. Some of them are so bad, we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back. So we're going to send them out to Guantanamo.

Yes! Yeah. Yes! Yes. And I want to add something specific about this because I think it was last week we were on the Megyn Kelly show. And I said, well, these illegals don't understand the Bill of Rights doesn't apply to them. And Megyn, beyond being terrific at letting people know the truth, is also an extremely capable lawyer and attorney. And she corrected me. She's like, no, no, no. Actually, if they're here, the Bill of Rights does. She corrected me. You know where they don't? And so President Trump is like...

I know a place where the Bill of Rights doesn't. I bet even old Dick Cheney was like, word. That's right. That's the way. Because all of a sudden, you can give them a nice little drink of water. Ha ha!

And they're no longer covered under the Bill of Rights because he sent them to this magical place. How do we get in touch with somebody that can make comfortably smug warden of Gitmo? I need to know. It's selected I would serve. I need to know. It's selected I would serve. You don't have to be confirmed by the Senate, so you might have shot at someone.

I can see him. He'd be walking around in one of those beige outfits with the cap, but it's like metals and the shoulder. I would want Tom Holman holding the Bible, swearing me in. I'd be like, I'm going to do it. I think he'd need some of those polarized, reflective aviators. Yeah, like an old school Omar Qaddafi. Yeah. Right? I would run that place like clockwork. I'll tell you right now. I mean, it would be an absolute pleasure. I'd open another 30,000 beds for the journos. Crossing that border.

would have been the worst idea. They're like, you get that. He's going to be like the Joe Arpaio. No, I was going to say he's going to make Joe Arpaio look like Mary Poppins. Yeah, but people in Arizona are like, yeah, don't do anything too bad because if you end up with Arpaio, it's a problem. Don't cross the border. They'll be in pink jumpsuits, I'll tell you that. You're going to be with Smug and Guantanamo. And the journo thing. Yeah. Oh, we'd open a huge, beautiful facility for all the journos. Yeah.

You realize you say this stuff out loud, it sort of comes to fruition. That's the thing is like we are now free to just express all your greatest hopes because Trump is making them happen. All right. So the question of the day is, I mean, we watched like 5000 people a day get shipped out of here with the Trump administration finally doing the job that the federal government is supposed to do.

And like you look at home and he's deadly serious about making this happen. You know, we're told there's a 30 million on how many people technically like are illegal here. There's one to two million criminal elements, which is obviously the low hanging fruit that they're going to take care of first. But our question today, how many do you think in the first hundred days they're going to get through? Like this is we did this.

With the pardons, and it radically exceeded our expectations. Hoping for the same effect here. We're hoping for the same effect. If you get it like you did on the pardons, folks, we're going to give you some merch. We're going to give you some merch. We'll send that stuff out, and you're going to love every minute of it. So remember, you've got to like and subscribe to do it. Like and subscribe, like and subscribe. If your friends are watching this and they're not liking and subscribing, put them in a headlock. Tell them you'll send them to Gitmo. Right.

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I say that to say like the nutrition industry is a lot like politics. Everybody's trying to sell you on some sort of shortcut, you know, and there's some special thing you could do that's going to solve all of your problems. And that's not reality. It's a math problem to be solved. Right. And that's why a metabolic device like Lumen is so important because so many people don't understand what calories are, what you should be eating. And that's what it is. It's like how much you consume and how much you burn every single day determines what

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In the United States, federal government exists and they have public employee unions and all kinds of things like they make it impossible to fire anyone to become career staffers, career staffers. Right. And like the left makes this argument like, well, the federal government would never work with a changing political thing unless you have these people who are just dedicated to doing their jobs, which may be true of like, I don't know, a handful of people.

You know, like you want the people to still sell, send checks out for Social Security. Like those people. Yep, I understand. I get it. But like there's hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people who like don't have a critical role, but they sit there. And then since COVID, they haven't come back to work. They all work remote. And so like the accountability, not really there. And you just don't kind of don't know what's happening. So Trump seeing all this.

And knowing, because he had his first four years, the difficulty it was in getting rid of the federal bureaucracy. And it's not just the deep state that we're talking about. We're just talking about a bloated mess. Yep. Like these people aren't trying to sabotage. They couldn't think their way out of a wet paper bag. But like those folks aren't going anywhere because the paycheck keeps showing up. And all I have to do is jump on a five-minute Zoom at 9 a.m., give a thumbs up, and out they go. Yep. So what he has done is truly innovative here.

He offered in a memo, it was sent out Tuesday afternoon, to pay federal workers who don't want to return to the office by September 30 their full wages through the rest of the year. He'll pay them from tomorrow through the rest of the year. They don't have to work, but they can't come back. And that's the end of it, right? If you want to reduce the federal workforce, what a great incentive. And here's the thing is, I know...

for the vast majority of our listeners, you hear something like that and you're like, this is free money because you just go get another job and you're still getting checks. Yeah, but you're used to getting a job. That's the thing. People in the private sector are like, oh,

get a job, right? That's what you got to do. For so many of these government workers, they're like, I don't want a job. That's why I work for the government. Yeah. Like Cheryl in printing is like, well, I walk in and I push power on the printer. And then I, you know, I take my full federal bennies and then the,

And then I'll get a pension. The retirement program and the pension and all of those things. And like next thing you know, she's living up on a lake with a Valhalla boat with a quad engine on the back of it. And like all she's ever done is show up and make a few copies. Can I tell you another controversy that I see the media is trying to gin up about this is talking about the OPM, the Office of Personnel Management. There were these hit piece stories that I think Axios and a couple of them were putting out where they're like,

Elon and some other tech bros are behind this push to try to get rid of a lot of these government bureaucrats and try to trim the fat in terms of all these workers. And they're like, these are people who have worked in the tech industry who are now coming and trying to look at the budget and tell these people to lay off government workers. What right do they have? It's like,

This just gives away the game. They're like, no, we should trust these government bureaucrats who have gotten the government more and more bloated, taking more and more taxpayer money over people who are giving up careers making money in tech. They're showing up. They're giving up that paycheck to show up and do a government job where their role is to try to trim the fat as much as possible. And you're trying to make them the bad guys? Yeah. Unreasonable.

It's such a good point. And the outrages are endless. There is the category of federal worker who just doesn't do anything all day. There is also the category that fits right in the deep state that is insidiously pushing back against what the voters want. And the perfect example of this happened at the Department of Defense.

where Trump says, no more DEI, we're done with DEI. And then somebody at defense is like, oh, you know what that means? That means we're never talking about the Tuskegee Airmen ever again, which is just ridiculous. Of course, nobody ever said that. And that's the opposite of what he's talking about. So when Pete Hegseth got in at DOD, he went down and said that this president

Of course, you're going to be talking about the Tuskegee Airmen. You can't do this. So there is this insidious strain of opposition to what voters are demanding and voters are paying for it. Yeah, and I don't have a lot of information about this, but you remember the Bureau of Labor Statistics? They come out with a report that informs economic projections every month, number of jobs created or whatever.

But, like, it was very weird to me how, during the Biden administration, seemed to have some numbers early, seemed to be shaped differently. They have a lot of revisions. They're like, oh, good news. There's 220,000 jobs. And then you find out the next month, they're like, revise down 180,000, which would have been, like, classified as a fucking depression. Right. If it would have been noted at the time. Right. But, like, it's little things like that. Right.

That make a big, big difference The bureaucracy does not understand That they operate at the consent Of the governed And if Donald Trump isn't able to get that Through their thick skulls, nobody can And he is on it And I just couldn't be more thankful A lot of good news going on In the world of media As they respond to this golden era One of them is Again, I feel like it cuts two ways Because it's good

But on the second, like for the variety program, I feel like we're going to take our knocks with this. How are we going to feel the team for March? Hack madness. Yeah, it's going to be an insane bracket. So Acosta's out at CNN.

I mean, you all probably saw this by now, but Jim Acosta was the lead, number one antagonist of Donald Trump in the first administration to the point where you would like get up in grandstand and have like real verbal altercations with the president of the United States in press conferences that were meant for...

My favorite is when he said, we are real news, Mr. President. We are real news. You have fake news. But he's like the embodiment of the end of that. It used to be that you could make a name for yourself by sort of grandstanding and being just this...

disgusting human being. Like David Gregory did this at one point during the end of the Bush administration, got himself a meet the press slot.

Right. So journalists have always thought that like this is the thing I need to go be the biggest asshole in the White House press briefing room and I will do it. So this is what it cost. It was following. It's like a 2000s model. And Trump, it just completely eviscerated all of this to the point where he's leaving CNN. And he has this like bizarre epitaph to this whole thing. And then but he's like in the upcoming days.

The fight continues. And I will tell you where you can find me. Announcement shortly. I will not quit. Announcement shortly. And then like that night, like not even three hours later, he's like, I'm on sub stack. Yeah.

Congratulations on all your success. He had to build the drama for the Substack reveal. Oh, so you went to the place that's publicly available for any asshole in the world to put their writings on? I'm on LiveJournal.

Oh, that's terrific work. And I have nothing against Substack. Substack's a great platform. It provides a great platform for people who have audiences who can get subscribers to those audiences. It's an innovative product. I don't think Jim's one of them. CNN doesn't think so either, obviously. They tried to put him in the graveyard slot at midnight. I just think it literally is akin to being like,

I've opened up an ex-account. See me here on my ex-account. You know, it's like, yeah, well, that's available to anybody, right? Oh, man. He's like, but I was on CNN once. I had an exchange with the president of the United States. Get out of here. Get out of here. This one caught your eye. Yes. And I think you had almost like an emotional reaction to it. There was an important executive order yesterday.

So the other night, President Trump signed an executive order restricting, quote, chemical and surgical sex change procedures for minors. And I was telling the guys before we recorded, like, I didn't anticipate, like, as soon as I saw that and I'm watching this on TV, the coverage, I didn't know it would have such an impact on me because I told the guys I was very disturbed the other week.

seeing a video on X of those nonverbal special needs child in a wheelchair that had just had, nonverbal, we're talking that the child can't communicate, that had just had a double mastectomy performed on it, right? And I saw the video of that and it's hard for me to think of times where I've been so enraged and disgusted and horrified that someone had done this to a child and this had been happening

nationwide on a massive scale during the Biden administration. And to see President Trump right off the bat put an end to this horrific, barbaric, nightmarish practice, it just, you know,

Whenever a new administration comes, a new Republican administration, you know, you're like, okay, but always temper expectations and your hopes because the way government works is eventually, you know, there's a swamp morass and things grind to a halt. And, you know, you just hope for more good than bad. But, like, this really just opened up the aperture that it is okay to just be fully optimistic and have hope because one of the first things he did is to take the segment of our society that is, you know...

The most at risk because these are kids, you know, and it's our job to protect these people. And right off the bat, President Trump follows through on a promise to protect these people. It was just I could not be more thrilled and happy to see. Totally. Listen, totally agree. I don't know if it's more newsworthy that he did it.

Or that you have feelings. Yeah, right? I was like, I thought I was the most cynical person ever. But it's to your point, Smug. It's like, you know, you work in politics long enough and you want every Republican administration to do great things.

But very rarely, so quickly, does something happen that you know is going to have a direct impact on the people who need it the most in our society, which is children. And the rest of the world recognizes that this is a barbaric practice, and the UK has banned it. And I don't know if you guys noticed this, but over the last six months or so, the media has started to push back on some of this and revealing in these investigations how some of these studies were actually showing that they made the...

you know, the mental health of people worse after they had the procedure and all of these sorts of things. There was a medical study released showing that this actually letting these procedures happen actually has an adverse effect on the mental health of the people who have this performed on it. And the doctor behind this study said, well,

Do not publish this publicly. Let's keep a lid on this. Yeah. I mean, horrific. All stuff, all stuff that we've talked about in the variety program. And no, you know, you're listening to this in your car. Like you've known this forever. Yeah.

And we're just we're going to look back on this in the way that we look at like lobotomies. Totally. You know, just an absolutely horrific moment in time where a extremely dangerous segment of society got a hold of our social value system and pushed it all the way through to the White House. And it is it's unconscionable. It's unconscionable that was actually all sort of implemented with President Biden's

An old, like, washed-up politician from Delaware who, you know, I'm going to give him some grace in saying, like, in his heyday, would have known better.

would have known better but couldn't have but because it's just like it was all a puppeteer it's why they wanted him run for re-election yep they wanted because they could do stupid shit that let the lunatics run this that's it yeah that's it it's sad it's i'm so glad that you brought that up it's it's really important but you know what after everything when we get serious for a minute we gotta lighten it up so let's play a game fellas let's play a game

Well, it's King of the Hill. It's Thursday. Who's our defending champion? That would be me. Smug. And who do you have? I have Kryon Kinzinger. Oh, yeah. Kinzinger. Oh, my gosh. I forgot that. I'm Judge, and Ashbrook is Bailiff. And our challenger, Josh, who do you have? Well, it's the first time since the election that she has been played. Mm-hmm.

So Sharon Mishary is coming on back. Heavyweight returns to the ring. Let's go ringside. Ladies and gentlemen, your attention please. It's time for Keeva Hitt in the blue corner fighting from her apartment somewhere out there.

For a chance to reclaim her crown, Kami Cherry Jacobus! And now, in the red corner, fighting from his own Twitter account, the crying man, Adam Kuttinger!

It may be our best nom de guerre. It's good. It's good. It's really something. Yeah. Okay. Our champion has to go first. Truth is, I have no idea where Cherry is fighting from. Yeah. I'm going to go straight to some fire. Could I get exhibit number 12, please? This is Kinzinger. He's reacting to Nancy Mace, asking if they can live stream the deportations.

That's a good question. I'd watch. And Kinzinger says, cruelty is the point. Very Christian. You can support border control without celebrating it. This is like right when the Lake and Riley Act

is being signed. He's trying to tell people, why don't you be more charitable and Christian? Shouldn't you allow people to illegal enter our country and kill people? Like this whole line of attack really grinds my gears of people being like, wow, that's not very Christian of you. It's like, dude, you are trying to use someone's, uh,

system is blackmail against them. When you in no way believe any of that value system, Adam Kinzinger now believes in nothing but trying to get money and TV hits. Well, that's the beauty of King of the Hill. Yeah, and it's still never Trump movement, right? Because like- They now believe in nothing.

They believe in nothing. And you'll see that throughout the course of this game. And when they were Republicans, these sorts of people wanted preemptive surrender. And the most horrific thing to them was the idea of Republican victory and that we could actually accomplish the policy objectives that they proclaim to have. Bingo. And they don't actually have it. Bingo. Ah, God, that is good. Can I, Your Honor, can I ask Spaghetts to put that tweet back up? Of course, Bailiff. I'd like counsel to read the full name for Adam Kinzinger. Okay.

It's Adam Kinzinger, parentheses, Slava Ukraini. He really hasn't graduated out of that one. Still working on that. Okay. Okay, well, as this court knows, I've got a lot of respect for the original, the OG, Judge and Jury. Butter in my biscuits. The way we played it for two long years with this Judge and Jury, and I had a good feel for what made his gears grind. For that...

I will give you exhibit one. Sherry Jacobus, apropos of absolutely nothing. People will die, including maggots. And that's her. This is a euphemism that is unique in some ways to her. It's caught on a little bit on the left. It's MAGA. And then she adds the TS. So it's maggots. Basically, it's what she's trying to say. Fox and other media won't report it. What she's talking about is unclear.

We won't get accurate information from the government. This was always the Trump-Putin plan. Wow. Wow. Still on the hobby horse.

Oh, shit, it didn't work for eight years. Let's keep on driving that shit. It's the Trump-Putin plan, guys. It's like an inkblot tweet. Trump-Putin is in there. Maggots is in there. Fox is in there. It's like a whole Mad Libs thing. But also no clarity about what she's talking about. People will die, and they won't report it.

Like, what it is that she's talking? There's no quote tweet, by the way. That's what you're looking at. I have to imagine it's something about the deportations. Like, I have to think just in the context of the news cycle, that has to be the thing. But isn't it better that it's apropos of nothing?

Well, I think even better that it's apropos of nothing is that she starts it with her concern for the human condition. And then proceeds immediately afterwards calling her opponents maggots. And for that reason, that dichotomy, it speaks to me as judge and jury and you win round one. It's only because I would have perhaps played something differently. I just know that...

That one in particular is just stuck in the craw for eight long years. In the words of Chuck Schumer, you know what gets me aroused? Never seen so many people aroused. Okay, so round two? Yeah. I have to start with this one, I think. I've got a healthy amount of choices, so it's difficult with Sherry. As you all have played her before, like you look around, it's like any one of these is fucking gold. But let's do this because I like it.

And we didn't talk about it enough. Exhibit two, please. Spaghetti. The people insisting Elon didn't give a Nazi salute twice are almost as disgusting as Elon forgiving the Nazi salute twice.

Nice. I love it for so many reasons. First of all, like we didn't cover it on the program because we thought it was too dumb. But the idea that there was actually a segment of this like never Trump Republican universe that for like three long days after the inauguration tried to proclaim that Elon Musk, literally one of the happiest people to be an American that we know.

Is somehow a secret Nazi who's just like operating from within because he had a hand gesture that sort of resembled in form. Like they paused. When he literally says, I give you all my heart. And then goes like, give you all my heart. Reach out to the audience. And they're like, no, it's a Nazi salute. And like completely insane.

What was most absurd about that whole thing was the fact that they carried it a day. Like, they got enough interaction where they're like, yeah, let's do it again. Yeah. And she was like, nah, fuck it. Let's run up the flagpole for week two. Oh, man. Okay. I'm ready for this one. So can I get exhibit number eight? This is gold. So there's this loser, Tristan Snell. Yeah.

on X. I love that intro. So this is during the whole Columbia situation. And Tristan Snell is like, guess what, guys? Essentially his tweet saying, Columbia said no deportations on military cargo planes. Trump got owned where, I mean, they didn't wait five minutes for the reversal of that.

Adam Kinzer jumped on it and he was like, honest to God, guys, Trump is so weak. He really just lost and declared victory. MAGA is jazzed and the rest of the world is laughing. Well, they didn't wait about 30 seconds until Colombia, their president, surrenders. And he's like, I'll even send my plane for the deportations. Please don't hit us with these tariffs. But the really beautiful part of this, can I get Exhibit 8 back?

Not only did he say, yeah, Trump's so weak, he turns off replies. Ugh.

So I saw this. Big tough guy. I saw this tweet and you're really, you're playing my music, Smug, as judge and jury. You know, a misuse of the internet is attractive to me. I might even be aroused. He might be aroused. As they say. And I do appreciate this sort of tweet because, and we talked about this previously on the show, this is the new tactic for all of these former Republican Never Trump people is this sort of mocking tone where they're like,

actually this guy who, you know, won all the swing States and, um, took a one popular vote and took a bullet to the year. He's actually the weak guy. We owned you. Um, and, uh, for that reason, smug, you win round tie game, tie game. It goes back to the defending champion for round three. Let's try to put this to bed with exhibit 11, please.

So this is Adam Kinzinger. He's reacting. Jennifer Griffin from Fox saying that Trump reinstates 8,000 service members with back pay who are forced out of the military for refusing COVID vaccine. And Adam Kinzinger's response to this is, so the quote, no government handouts party is going to give in some cases under 3rd K one big check to people who didn't do anything cool. It's really pretty good.

Wait, so what was the tweet again that he was... It was the reinstating of the COVID... People who refused the COVID vaccine. Yeah, it's to reinstate military service members. Military service members. Isn't he a veteran? Oh, yeah. And he said it's like a handout. Yeah, he's like, no, these are government handouts. If you notice, he locked replies on that one, too. Yeah.

This is a bad take, guys. I'm sending this out with no replies. Unbelievable. All right, Holmes, what you got? You know, I've got like, honestly, this is the hardest thing with Sherry. I've got, I literally have four. It's an embarrassment of riches. I have four and I'm trying to just gauge the mood here for a minute because that's a strong take. I'll say it. It's a strong take.

I have brevity. I've got intellectualism or lack thereof. Bailiff, I'm going to need a clock here. Oh, he's instructing the bailiff. Okay. Well, I'm just going to go. I think I'm going to do the intellectualism just because I think that this particular judge and jury appreciates all of this. Exhibit three, please.

Today, when I heard Trump imposed retaliatory psycho tariffs, I stopped and bought a ton of coffee for sale to stockpile. I've done that with a number of items I don't care to go without or overpay for because of him.

And retweeting Bill Kristol. Retweeting Bill Kristol thing. It's basically about coffee. And the reason I chose this one is because all of this was over in a matter of six hours. Right. Six hours. Columbia said they weren't going to take our illegal immigrants. We said, OK, we'll tear up your shit. And they were like, fine, we'll send our planes.

That's literally the whole thing. But in that interim six hours, she had decided she was going to turn her house into a warehouse for Colombian coffee because of the inevitable ruinous economy that this administration would bring by their negotiations with foreign countries. So round three is a difficult round because you've got Kinzinger.

who is a veteran, who's now talking about... He's calling veterans welfare quits. Yeah, how these veterans are taking handouts because they get to be reinstated into the military and fight for our country because they didn't want to take the COVID vaccine, which is just a disgraceful thing for him to do. However... And this is what I respect about Sherry's game. I've said it before. I'll say it again.

She's just the best poster in the game. She's so absolutely committed to the bit. And in this one in particular, she took it IRL. She went away from keyboard. She went and she put the keys in the car and she drove and bought coffee so she could tweet about it. In real life for those non-zoomers. That requires such dedication to the game and that makes her a singular force in this game. And for that reason, she wins. Good round. And I just want to add,

With Sherry's craziness, you also get this mental image. For long-time listeners, you know her. She does weird shit. She's like, it's cold outside. I'm bringing more cats inside. What was the name of the old guy in the 1990s commercials? The guy who sold Colombian coffee beans? Juan Valdez? Juan Valdez! That's the guy. You can picture her and Juan Valdez sitting out back with a goat. I imagine her house now stockpiled with kitty litter, tins of cat food like it's a bunker. Yeah.

And then just now bags of coffee and Walt Valdez just like hauling more in from the van. It's her. Juan Valdez in a scrawny goat. She's just like this nutty hoarder who pulls open the phone and drops takes. Can I ask you a question? Yeah. The other one that I thought about playing was just her saying the raping and pillaging has begun. Oh my God, dude. Wow. Better or worse?

I think you played the best one. I think I did, too. I think you really did. But it's hardcore, right? It's hardcore, and that's incredible. But just the pageantry of that other tweet is just... I think it was a good pick. I had to think through it because it's hard to ignore raping and pillaging. Yeah.

We got one more bit of variety for you guys, and you're going to love every minute of it. You know we got onto the fats last week. Yeah, in a big way. This is a unique case. This is next level. In a big way, he says. So according to the New York Post—I don't want to get this wrong—

A plus-sized rapper. Now, I have been unable to independently verify that this person is in fact a rapper. Oh, I saw a video someone posted. I can confirm. So, like, does somebody have to listen to your raps in order to be a rapper? No. Okay. I guess you just have to do it and put it on the internet. You can just self-declare and put it on the internet. Okay. So that's fair. Then I will finish the headline. A plus-sized rapper who calls herself a BBW sues Lyft after a driver said she couldn't fit into the car.

Let me read. Let's throw that graphic up, will you? There's the young lady. There she is. This is the thing. We talked at the top of the show about how the language of the left has ruined this country when it comes to illegal immigration. Yeah. I feel like we've done this a little bit. Yeah, no. It's just like you have to be proud. I mean, plus size rapper. We need another word because...

550 pounds? This is not being overweight. We need another word. Well, they do have, there's a phrase for it. Morbidly obese. It's called morbidly obese. Right. Yeah, that's what that is. Well, she's 550, evidently. And anyway, is she a big VBW? Stands for Big Beautiful Woman.

And that's apparently, you know, that's shorthand now. But she's suing Lyft after one of the company's drivers allegedly told her she was too large to ride in his car. Dank DeMoss, who previously disclosed that she was nearly 489 pounds and that she's also disclosed that she was well over 500, claims the rejection unfolded earlier this month in Detroit when the Lyft driver rolled up in a Mercedes-Benz sedan, immediately locked his doors.

She said, I can fit into this car. So I reviewed video because she's like live streaming. She was filming video of this while she was like, this guy's saying I won't fit in his car. So she rolls over to the back seat and you could see her reflection. And I'm being honest, she would not fit in that. Like the guy could fold the seats forward and she still wouldn't. Hold on. Can I get to the dialogue of it? Because the dialogue, I think, tells the story. She says, I can fit in this car.

He shoots back, believe me, you can't. The driver shot back, adding later there was no room in the back and his tires wouldn't be able to handle the weight. The tires? And from the video, the guy was being out of his way, extremely polite. He was like...

I am so sorry. My car can't fit in like his car. I mean, you can't defy the laws of physics. Well, he was being incredibly apologetic according to the, and you said you've reviewed the tape. Yeah. I mean, the guy was like, I am so sorry. She like moves her camera over to the backseat. And she's like, I can fit in this car. And like,

I don't know if she... The door absolutely would not fit her. Well, he suggested that she order an XL. She knows that. She knows that. This is the thing. This woman is an influencer trying to get attention on the internet. In basketball, we would call this taking the charge. She's doing this on purpose.

And I think she's aware that she's the size of a refrigerator and that she's going to ruin this guy's back end suspension. She's bigger than a fridge, dude. You know, I mean, she's she's topped out at five, five, four. And she posted it herself. Half ton. And here's the thing is like, you know, folks brought up this point. It makes a lot of sense is that like the left has done a lot of work to.

trying to like when they say this is plus-size discrimination stuff is they're trying to remove responsibility from the individual and put it on everyone else yeah everyone else this is the fault of the driver of Lyft and I'm gonna sue everyone else because I'm not taking responsibility and I'm not taking control where I can over over me and

Everyone else should have to take responsibility for the choices that I have made. And so that's why this really grinds my gears. It's like this turns into a lawsuit now. I just want to see this guy's face because I'm glad you reviewed the tape. I'd like to review it as well. She goes under the Instagram handle of paid fat queen. Yeah. P-H-A-T.

We'll play on words. Interesting deal there. Anyway, she slapped Lyft with a lawsuit this week. I mean, it's very important that she collapsed a fucking Mercedes Benz. I mean, Jesus. Anyway, she's later updated her fans that she only weighs a mere 489. Okay. Bringing it down. Bringing it down. It's important. Little ways to go, but, you know, supportive. Listen, RFK, if you're listening...

If you're listening, do you want to play this? Should we play that one clip from RFK? Was this the Bernie clip? We should play one clip. So we're not going to get into the confirmation stuff because there's going to be a lot that's happening over the next couple of days. And we don't want to like end run all of that. We'll see how it all plays out. But Bernie Sanders. Yeah, this is great. And our girl Megan. Unintentionally Megan.

Have a moment here during the RFK confirmation hearing. Can we please play clip four? Are you supportive of these onesies? I'm supportive of vaccines. Are you supportive of this clothing, which is militantly anti-vaccine? I am supportive of vaccines. Well, I want good science and I want to protect. But you will not tell. Do you support these onesies? Do you support these onesies?

And like Megan's losing it in the back, which, by the way, I think is a great strategy for all confirmation hearings. Like get a relatively well-adjusted, like sort of funny somebody you can relate to to sit behind and actually do like the extemporaneous reaction to some of these dumb ass questions. Like, do you support these onesies? It's like, of course, you got to laugh your ass off. So when she's laughing, it's like relatable. Yep.

Because he can't laugh. I just can't believe. I don't know who staffs Bernie Sanders. God love you. But, like, you couldn't find something more ridiculous, like, less ridiculous to make the same point? Like, you did the onesies. Do you support these onesies? The onesies.

It's just so crazy. Are you supportive of these onesies? That's your United States Senate, ladies and gentlemen. To be a little more serious, there's something to be said about how Bernie Sanders, like 10 years ago, was the vanguard of this kind of like populist working class movement when he primaries Hillary Clinton.

And a lot of Americans are like, I get it because that guy's talking about how like Hillary and her rich friends and these people, the establishment are against us. And now he gave up that entire movement of populism and working class people to Donald Trump, who has captured the working class vote and has become the voice of the working class in this country.

And now he's the old guy complaining about, do you support this onesie? Like, what an L. Because he's the establishment now. That's the thing. And that's why he doesn't say, you know, I'm going to hold millionaires accountable anymore because he is one. Because he is one. No, he's like, I'm going to hold billionaires accountable. Because he's got stuff and he wants to protect it. Bingo. You know? I mean, it's so sad. Yep. What's become of old Bern?

These onesies! You son of a bitch with the onesies! You're really, really good at that. It's uncanny. That is talent. I just can't. It's just so funny to me. How you can get all worked up about that. Anyway, go visit some merch. We got some good stuff. I've been begging. I'm begging on my knees. These hats, they were the OG hat. Can we get them back out there?

I mean, this is, this is, listen, Duncan takes a rash because he can't sews them, but he doesn't order the material. Drew does. The people demand it. We're not De Beers. We can't create scarcity in the market. We need to supply the market with the hats that people want. Yeah. There's no red rope around here. Anybody who wants one, you can get one. Yeah. You're a voice of the people. Gosh, darn it. Yeah.

Anyway, thanks for listening to the Ruthless Variety Program. I think we did it. I think so. Absolute banger of an episode, gentlemen. Thank you so much to our listeners. Remember, if you have not yet liked and subscribed on YouTube, it's more fun in video. So until next time, minions, keep the faith, hold the line, and own the libs. We'll see you on Tuesday. Stay ruthless.