StephCast M 11-18-24
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November 18, 2024
TLDR: Episode features The Rude Pundit, Randi Weingarten, and Steven Beschloss in discussion.
In the latest episode of the Stephanie Miller Show, airing on November 18, 2024, Stephanie Miller hosted notable guests Randi Weingarten and Steven Beschloss, diving deep into the political landscape shaped by the recent election and its implications for American governance.
Key Highlights
Political Catastrophe and Qualifications
- The episode opened with a stark rating of the current administration, likening it to a catastrophe. Matt Gaetz was labeled an unqualified candidate for Attorney General due to a lack of experience and perceived disdain for government institutions.
- Steven Beschloss remarked on the aggressive atmosphere within the Trump administration, suggesting a potential exodus from qualified officials due to the administration's hostile environment.
Political Fallout from Recent Elections
- Discussion turned towards the MSNBC ratings drop, attributing it to widespread dissatisfaction about the political narrative that often scapegoated Democrats and specifically Biden.
- The episode emphasized the fragile psychology of voters, particularly working-class Americans, who might feel abandoned by political elites and easily swayed by populist messages.
Critique of Trump’s Cabinet Picks
- The show critically examined Trump’s cabinet appointments, emphasizing the dangerous implications of selecting unqualified individuals for powerful positions. The nominees were characterized as part of a strategic move to undermine established governance frameworks.
- Randi Weingarten pointed out the absurdities of policy shifts expected under Trump’s selections, particularly those affecting education and public health.
Disinformation and Public Perception
- A recurrent theme was the prevalence of disinformation in media, particularly among right-leaning platforms like Fox News. The guests highlighted how misinformation perpetuates harmful behaviors and decisions among the electorate, urging a need for critical thinking and media literacy.
- Both guests emphasized the impact of economic factors on voting, illustrating how rising costs influence political behavior and decision-making among the populace.
Addressing Social Issues and Cultural Debates
- The episode featured lighter, yet serious commentary on social issues, including the backlash against trans rights and the rising tide of misogyny in political discourse.
- Discussion of Lauren Boebert and her fixation on absurd conspiracy theories about extraterrestrial life captured how some politicians divert serious issues into sensationalist narratives that distract from their failures.
Practical Takeaways
- Recognizing the power of media and community engagement can help counteract the narratives pushed by extremist factions.
- Educators and activists are encouraged to focus on creating supportive environments for students and communities to foster critical thinking skills and advocate for progressive policies.
- Audiences must remain vigilant in the face of disinformation, seeking out factual resources and participating in discussions about civic engagement.
Conclusion
In summary, the Stephanie Miller Show episode of November 18, 2024, offered a gripping analysis of the political climate in the United States, spotlighting the dangers posed by unqualified appointments in government, the influence of disinformation, and the psyche of contemporary voters. Through humor and sharp critique, Miller and her guests provided listeners with critical insight into the challenges ahead and the importance of sustaining hope and engagement in the face of daunting circumstances.
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catastrophe Matt Gates and one is like the department will survive where would you put yourself. Yeah, it's a it's a it's a clear break last moment. It's not it's 10 route there's never been someone as unqualified no pro skittorial experience no legal experience to speak of but that's the least of it. Someone who comes to the department with actual contempt and hostility for it. It's going to prompt a major exodus.
Thank you. Harry Lipman on the Attorney General, Raping the Forehead. Did you see I threaded and, uh, Blue's Guide and tweeted and, uh, Instagrammed and... And everything. Thank God I have no life. I threaded and I tweeted, like, Blue's Guide. At least you can copy and paste. Yeah. I said so many sexual salters in the incoming Trump administration from the top down. It's like they've started their own Me Too movement. Mm-hmm. You're a rapist, Me Too. Welcome.
That's clever. That is clever. That is clever. That is clever. You are correct, sir. It's a little dark. He also doesn't feel that well. That's why he said it was clever. He's in a weakened state, which is why I've waited to pounce with my Chris' wrong letter. I was sick and bad all weekend. Aww. He's important. I think I have leprosy. You have leprosy and I have leprosy. So, hello. I'm leaving now. Once Bobby gets these in, everything will be fine at Health and Human Services. Did you say that?
Did you see the latest? Okay. Yeah. It wants to please everybody else's food. Remember when we heard that? Michelle Obama? I've been teasing him McDonald's.
Are they trying to be men of the people still? They're on their private jet with all four white billionaires eating McDonald's. Oh, you care about us and the price of Big Macs, don't you? Oh my God, I hate everybody this morning. If you're wondering about my wardrobe choice and how I feel about Joe and me going to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Oh my God! Oh my God!
Can I just say what that is all about? I said it to you this weekend. They headline MSNBC ratings in half. They're in half. And you know why? Because of like that. That's why. By the way, we said this during the whole like pushing Biden out thing. The only person's ratings who went through the roof, Lawrence O'Donnell. Yep. Everybody else is because of beaten up Biden, beaten up Democrats. Scarborough has been trying beaten up trans people in the trans issue. And that's why we lost and blah, blah, blah.
I'm not surprised. I was telling you, I only watched Nicole now. I am down to whatever. Granted, I love Lawrence. He's on too late for me. Granted, part of it is that I'm a loser. Well, you can watch it this morning. Is it bad to admit that Joy Reid is on too late for me now? No. No, I mean. No, it's four o'clock. I get everything I need from Nicole. And Nicole's a former Republican. Yes, she is. I know. She's really good, though. She feeds my soul. Stephanie was a former Republican. That's right. You were a goldwater girl. I was 12.
You're not my excuse. You knocked on doors. What's yours, Nicole? Who did you vote for the first time? I didn't knock on doors. I would have scared everyone away. What the hell was this wolf child doing? Get the tranquilizer dart. Who did you vote for the first time you could vote? Nothing. No. I blame you for that. Okay. She barely said that word. She's very quiet.
Jim always blame me for everything, because of that one vote. Yep, it's on you. I blame you for voting for Bro. Why? Clinton got in. For Clinton? You blame me for not falconing with Bobby Kennedy. Yes. Yes. No, you do. No, big Mackie. You couldn't give him a big Mackie. I got to kill Clinton for God's sake. You're welcome. Yes, this is a row vote was Clinton. Thank you.
I'm going to try to be tender. Cricut. Cricut. Cricut. Okay. Do they really think this is going to help their ratings? This normalizing this monster? I'm sorry, but they think they're not going to be arrested. That's why they went. Trump tomorrow. Trump forever. If that's what the mood you're in, this is your show.
Can I just say, Chris, we've been saying, you know, anecdotally, high-powered radio executive, Crystal Boy. You know, just based on social media and our emails, but, you know, email response, whatever. I mean, and I don't mean to make this about me, although it is all about me. Well, this is your show. A lot of people are saying they can only watch this. I get it for small fart jokes, sex, de-jokes. We're not just about politics. Story's about bears.
well-flat frosty the netflix movie i mean we'd talk about a lot of and up it sucked oh my god can i say what's up some more
This is how, you know, because I get about wanting to unplug from politics, you know? And so, again, where was like, oh, can you know what's stuck more than hot frosty is? I believe in Santa Claus. This woman starts dating a guy that still believes in Santa Claus. And first of all, he's clearly gay. The problem is not. It's like if anyone else watching this, this is like waiting for government. What's going on? He plays like a, you know, like Will Ferrell if he were psychotic and on acid in elf.
He's like a Christmas guy that still believes something. I don't know, couldn't make it all over his cereal. No, no, no, on his spaghetti. Do Christmas rom coms have the worst acting in the history of the world to resume? Yes. No industrials. It's part of their charm. Have you seen training videos? Oh, my God. It's a part of their charm, Stephanie. That's why people lost on me. Oh, OK. All right, let's talk about Joe and Mika again, because now you know what? Didn't make you re-angry about 2016. This is how we got here, partially. I think they're trying to avoid going to prison.
Oh my god. That's what I think they're doing. They travel tomorrow, I'll go with Donald Trump. Oh my god.
in an attempt to bury the hatchet. What are you, he'll bury it in your head. Oh my God. Speaking of the normalizing in both sides thing that got us here. Oh my God. If, Jody, I would literally, I will, my spleen will explore. If I see video of the way they talked about Hillary in 2016 and the way they let Trump literally phone it in and like laughing at him and tell Donald,
Oh my God. So let's just review. He's based on information from Matt Gates. Joe Scarborough of murdering an intern in his office, which was a tragedy. She had a heart condition. Anyway, oh my God, do you remember Mika's facelift? Oh my, the mean, they've all become Ted Cruz. Just yes, sir, call my wife ugly. You know, yes, sir. Say, my dad killed an intern. Sure, yeah.
Oh, I love this part of the reporting. Trump was cheerful. Who gives up? Ah! She's in a mood. Trump was cheerful and upbeat and seemed interested in coming from a Democrat's. Oh my God, are you the two stupidest humans in the world, really? Because that's what Attorney General Matt Gaetz and Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, says. I'd like to reach out to the other side. Didn't you send Sean Hannity a gift once?
That was a long time ago. It was before Trump, and there's a picture of you two over here. Yeah. They asked me to give a speech when he won some stupid award. It was 1,000 years ago. So you were applauding Sean Hannity. They were smiling at that picture that's very smiley. Listen, Mr. Everything's about prices. Are you ready for your first wrong letter?
because the texts have already started going out to Hispanic people and gay people. The same people that got the anti-black texts. RuPontent writes about the woman that thought it was okay to say the word return over and over again at a school board meeting because Trump, this is what people voted for. The price of eggs. They voted for to be the more selves and it's okay. And she's like, oh, you're not gonna police my speech, right? Everyone's like, great. Prepared to hear the F word more than you have since grade school. Oh my God.
I'm firmly in the D category, dyke, ditch flicker. Is there anything else? Is there anything else? What else is going on? Hey, where's Tom? Where's my hate tweeter?
He'll be here soon. All right, can I have some reason? Yeah, sure. Why not? Yeah. I'll find him in books. Yeah, we can't get into Marlago. Let's go meet with the guy that. It's right there. OK, got it. See the thing that looks like a clock in the middle of your screen? No, got it. There you go. OK. We will fix it during the break. We will fix it during the break, so it looks better. All right, can I have some breeze here?
I've been coddling you, Chris, because you've worked really hard this year and I love you. You have kept the tour and the show afloat. So I have coddled you from your Christmas wrong emails and only read, do you see how many Chris's right emails I read on Friday? Yes. What shirt is outselling Chris's wrong?
Well, I'm going to guess the Trump shirts are going to start going up. Mike from Las Cruces, a white guy born and raised in Lockport, New York. My hometown of the transit from Cheetah Waggle, Ikewan, and Tana Wanda. Yeah. Yeah. Subject line Chris is wrong. Those will go right to the top of my email. See? Look at all these emails. Let's go right to the top. OK. That's only from like two weeks. Those are our Chris's right letters? There's no more of those. Guys, Stephanie, you brought them away before they even reached it. No.
I've been watching you since current TV. You are fabulous. Well, weighing in here to say Chris is wrong. I think that's one of the tenants of life, isn't it? You're one of the basic tenants. I am fabulous and Chris is wrong. Yeah, that's what my whole worldview is based on. Chris, your foolish micro-analysis of talking down to uninformed people is BS. First, Kamala said repeatedly that prices were too high and she had a plan to address it. We gave those idiots facts and truth. All right, well, that might be talking down a little bit, but they are. A little bit. Stutter idiots.
A scoash. The greatest second- I'm at first my point there. Go ahead. I'm reading the whole letter. I read the whole stupid Chris's right letter, right? You, you, you, you read your little letter there. Go ahead. Is that Patrick sending? That's both Patrick and I. He's an expert in it. He's been crafted over many years. Oh, God. Yes. I knew you. I knew you'd feel good.
uh... the greatest economic post-hand me in my weekend state okay that's it this is when i pass on
The greatest post-economic post-pandemic recovery in the frickin' world. Second, sorry, Chris. If these foolish snowflake voters had had two working synapses, they would overheat. Third, this election was lost because of the basis of the founding of this country, genocide, slavery, racism, misogyny. We lost because she was a woman in black. No other explanation for the white women misogynists who vote to protect themselves and crap on others' rights. What kind of twisted logic are required to vote for reproductive freedom and then also vote for the...
that took it away. Thank you. By the way, if the germ of hate, racism, and misogyny is not in the soul of people, right-wing media would not amplify and water it. Propaganda only works on weak, uninformed people who just want any hatred, rationalization to reinforce the sickness in their soul. So, Chris, biocris is wrong, T-shirt, and the Stephanie is right, T-shirt.
See, we don't even, that's how fair I am. We don't even have a Stephanie is right, T-shirts, because it just goes without saying. What your name's on the show, so you're always right. Right, thank you. That's how that works, thank you. And stop with the talking down to idiots, micro foolishness, Stephanie, you rule, Mike, from what? Thank you, Mike. Thank you, thank you, thank you. So, it shows you the intelligence of people coming out of Lockport in New York. Yes, it does. Oh, you didn't mean that as a compliment.
Randy Winegarden and Steven Beshloss on The Big Monday Show. It is, yeah, I think we may go with Jody's, I'm not going down without a fight song. Is that how you feel? Oh, the head of the FCC. Yeah. If we're a project of the section on the FCC for Project 2025. Good night, America. January 21st, we will be going dark, apparently. I think this little rebel in the truck shirt is going to be in the air.
The only thing that we're ruled by of the FCC or our terrestrial radio station. That's true. Yeah, you got to start working out more so you get that dump button. We can have one mistake, not one mistake, mister. I don't think that's going to matter. All right. Yeah, right. Taking back God, taking back the flag, taking back America, been all before breakfast. It's the Stephanie Miller show.
Stephanie Miller It is the Stephanie Miller show. I have brought a visual prop for those of you watching on free speech TV to explain the American voter.
Okay, what did I just say about Bonnie? So I was worried about Bonnie over the weekend, because she eats things like this in the yard back. What is that? It's like a tiny avocado. Like a seed almost. Yes, yes. So she didn't eat all day yesterday. You know, you're in that. Who do I go to the vet? Do I not go to the vet? You know, like she seems otherwise healthy, but she's not eating anything. Even her treats, nothing. Her little belly was full of fat. Yeah, because she eats these, and I tell her, don't eat that, because then you get the B-squeech and the guy greasy. He's eating the dog the mowies. Hee-hoo. Because you got to rumble tumble.
So we had that conversation, Chris, all weekend. All right. What did I just find right there? What did I just find? This is the American voter. You already got a sick stomach. Trump, you're like, oh, maybe it wasn't that bad. And this is you. This is you. It's a nod on avocado nut or whatever. Nicely done. It looks like an avocado that hasn't quite grown up yet.
like it fell from the tree too early, like it's a bath. It's an immature avocado that does fart jokes. Can I just tell you what Bonnie's farts are like after she eats stuff in the yard like that? Bonnie, I would expect that from Clyde. I don't know what your implication is and I'm ignoring you.
To my point, anxious opposition says there will be a day in the not so distant future when all the people currently bragging about their big win will come to the brutal realization that we all lost. Yeah, guess what? All the liberal elites that you hate, they're still going to be in their mansions in Malibu.
or in pamps and then you'll realize that they were fighting for all of us in Switzerland or wherever they else that they can fly to yes yes oh who oh i'll save that for rude pun day okay he's coming up in just a little bit yes trump has fallen below 50 percent of the popular vote his margin of victory is the third smallest since 1988 excuse me
uh if the 238,000 votes in the blue wall states have been different he would have lost not a mandate uh Tristan Snell so the same thing not a mandate that is a that is a squeaker uh Anita and sent just because this is what they count on is for you to feel defeated and depressed and like you're the one that's out of touch hello Anita and San Antonio
Good morning. Good morning. I just have to say I'm in the Chris is wrong. Thank you. Thank you. Well, I'm wearing my Chris is wrong. You know, in so few areas of being united in this country, that is one. You're the one who bought a Chris is wrong shirt. The one. Right. About the Chris is wrong and the Chris is wrong. Just in case. Just ahead your best. You always hold on. Yeah. Yeah. So it depends on the day. But yeah, no, telling people the truth is not talking down to them. Lying to them is talking down to them.
Yeah, we tried. I mean, it's like Hillary Clinton when she told those miners that. Thank you. Thank you. They're cold off. And yet. No, and Kamala Harris did talk about prices and prices being too high. She wasn't one saying everything's fine and you're, you know, wrong. The prices aren't bad. She absolutely talked about it. She put up. She put out plans to try to combat that. Donald Trump didn't do that. He would always talk down to them.
He didn't respect his voters. He doesn't respect the American people. And why should he? Because we elect them, you know? Yeah, he talks down to everybody that's not a rich white, I don't know, billionaire man. It's anyway. Right. All right. And I didn't like you. I honestly, Chris, I didn't like the fact that you congratulated your friend for, you know, getting this guy elected.
he's a criminal and a sexual predator yeah that's all that's between me and my friend it's not between you and him i get it i understand that but if it bothered me okay then don't know that i mean you're bothered whatever
Anita and Chris are having a spat, which spares me. Mine and Daddy aren't fighting, but Auntie Anita. I don't care how you feel about it, Anita. She's between me and my friend. She's one of the Thanksgiving ants that just dropped in. It's like, oh, awesome. Awkward. Oh, by the way, I so enjoyed the 5,000th analysis of the pro culture that we need to better understand.
You can't just use one word. It's a little rapey. Bro culture. It's not like a young guy's interview. Yeah, kind of rapey. Very rapey. A little rapey. Okay. 29 minutes after the hour, Stephanie Miller show.
You're a man of faith, you're a man of God, you're a man of family. With some of these nominees, Gates, Haggsath, R.K. Jr., I wonder, does it matter anymore for Republicans to think of leaders as people who are moral in their personal lives? Is that still important for the Republican Party?
Sure, it's an important issue for anyone in leadership. This is what I'll say about the nominees that the President has put forward, is that they are persons who will shake up the status quo. And I think what the American people have believed and what they've delivered with the mandate in this election is the demand that we shake up the status quo.
No mandate by having a rapist president and a rapist attorney general. Got it. Wow. How many times does his son's porno let go off when he has to just talk about Trump nominees? All the time. Just like an air raid siren just constantly. Wow. That was a man. Yeah. Okay. That was man of God, Mike Johnson. Can Lauren Barbara give us a hand with that Johnson?
Hey, Rose is here. Don't say things bad. He's up the tone. He's dead. You're on step, show. Heaven's not a word. You're dead. When I'm out, I'm ready to be messed up. Hey, will you let him joke about Bart's? Well, then you can start to make it better better better better.
Oh, hi, rude. Hi. Good morning. Hi. So, by the way, we're just speaking. I don't know about you. I enjoyed the 11 billionth analysis on TV this weekend of the bro culture and how we might better understand a bunch of rapy douchebags. So, oh, I'm sorry. Was that talking down to PayPal?
rudeness. Why do you want to say something about this talking down to people thing? Yes. Yes. I'm going to put it another way. It is treating people like adults that need to take responsibility for the decisions we they make. Thank you. And you know what? If you make a stupid decision, I'm not going to sit there and say, oh, I need to understand that. Oh, I need to understand. So I make sure. Oh, I'm going to say you made a stupid decision. That's probably because you're a stupid person.
it's just i jody and i were just saying i i'm sorry it it has a great vive has a great be by but also by the way has a really
And as a rapey vibe, Elsa has a very homophobic vibe, right? It's very like, you know, the opposite of the, you know, the dude bros is, you know, you must be feminine, you must be an F word for gay man. I mean, you and you just tweeted or threaded, looking forward to a whole bunch of bros under 26 years old, discovering it can't be covered by their parents' health insurance once Obamacare is repealed. I mean, maybe pay attention a little bit to what the actual issues are and not just what makes you feel macho, right?
Yeah, next time you're so dehydrated from drinking too much that you end up in the emergency room, that bill is going to really open your eyes. Yeah, yeah. And by the way, can I just, can I take a moment to say this has been commented on before I am a lesbian, but I'm very bad at it. I love men.
If you've noticed, my entire professional life, a lot of my personal life, the people closest to me are men. I don't hate men, you know, but I just think there is, I can't put my finger on it, but it's not, you know, it's not a coincidence that there's two rapists already in the administration. And what does Pete Hedges...
So the latest news is that sexual assault, he paid her off. I mean, it's just. I don't know. She assaulted him. All right. She's the aggressor. So in Trump world, the woman's always the lying whore, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, I hate men. Just that out there. You know, because I just think I hate the men that make the rest of men look bad.
Yeah, yeah, straight doesn't matter. You know, there are too many men out there that just make men look bad and I'm not saying not all men. I'm saying I'm saying that men need to take responsibility for other men men need to be talking to other men about how not to be a holes. Yeah.
I mean, and it just, you were, you know, to retrieve a lot of stuff that we've been talking about here. The headline, Trump's pro-Israel cabinet picked upsets, upsets, Muslims who voted for him. And you said how many times does Trump have to say you knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in before people believe him?
i mean i i'm sorry i know we're supposed to be the party of empathy i have a hard time if he didn't hide it he told you he was gonna let me now finish the job quote unquote he did i i mean talk about the porting malice palestinies talk about the porting gaza protesters i mean yeah and now with him saying that he's going to declare a national emergency and because of an invasion of uh... of immigrants that'll allow him to use the military
to do the deportations that's he he he he agree somebody somebody put that over on truth toilet and he you know he he re-flushed it yeah let me go back he he he he he he and he said no he wrote he re he reposted it saying true
That's his plan. So there you go. He's going to unleash the US military on US soil because of an invasion of families trying to get their kids out of a dangerous situation.
I just say Jen Psaki actually did a great thing on the trans issue this week. We didn't run on that. They did. We didn't run on culture wars and wokeness. They spent $150 million on an anti-trans ad to make you feel like this is some huge problem in everyone's life. You know, I mean, Jen Psaki went state by state. There's like one girl playing sports. Like what? In Idaho.
Right? I mean, it's just the fact that they were able to make that another issue to fear monger and divide and make people hate somebody and scapegoat somebody for their life. Like, here you are, right? Yeah. Yeah. And you know, you know, I think there's a few people that have said, why not point out how obsessed with children's genitals people right are?
Yeah, they talk about children's genitals all the time But I also say this I think that that I think Harris did a disservice to herself by not Having a trans not talking about trans issues because what that did is it seeded? Everything to what they were saying in other words her silence in some ways made it that they were that what they were saying was right because you know Kamala doesn't even want to talk about it
A lot of people saying the ad that was most effective is this is, you know, we're, you know, they're for them. We're for you. Yeah, right. Like the them, the whatever, people I understand, trans people. I mean, I thought you said it best here, rude. I mentioned, I opened the show talking about your, you reposted the woman.
at the, what do you call it? It's a school board meeting, just saying the R word for a mentally disabled person over and over again. And someone tries to, and she's like, you're not going to police my speech. I mean, a lot of the selection was just people voted for I get to be my worst self, because Trump is, and I can yell the N word to people and tell them where to go.
pick cotton and yell the F word a gay man and I can you know I where is it I what did you say to this hang on hold please I think I highlighted everything you said this weekend I find what you're looking for what's the point of highlighting
Not do it at all. Not highlight things. Yeah, probably better. Right. Okay. All right. Here it is. No, you just, Aaron Rupark posted it and said, classy stuff for the latest school board meeting in my hometown of Forest Lake, Minnesota. Same town. Headset is from these people are more emboldened than ever to be their absolute worst selves. And you said they really think freedom of speech means freedom to say things without consequences. That's exactly it.
And this was not about her saying the R word. This was about her child being told not to say it in school. And that was like, well, that's just the word. It's a word that we always said.
and it's so disingenuous. Oh, and they, you know, retard flames. Oh, you're not gonna stop me from saying, it's not what you mean. It's not what you meant. You don't mean a flame retardant. That's not what you, and you know damn well. Or a musical. Cause that's in music as well. I mean, yeah, I mean, rude. That's what I'm saying. It's just, you know, you can't tell me this was all about the price of whatever. By the way, with the people's obsession with bacon and eggs, I am concerned about everyone's cholesterol. What is happening?
Yeah, it is. I mean, that was the cover. It's sort of like we get back to, oh no, they voted for Trump in 2016 because of the anxiety of the white working class. But that anxiety was not an anxiety about economic issues or certainly that took a backseat to their anxiety that people not like them might actually have a chance to make it in this country.
Yeah. By the way, you got into it with Justin Bateman. I saw on Twitter, because I don't know. Oh, we can breathe now. The Trump's back in, and we don't have to be, you know, whatever she said, right? This is a union person, by the way. Woke police, and I'm like, really? We just say don't call mentally disabled children retard. It's like, that's us, boy. Really, us saying don't use the N-word. People is us being woke, and, you know, trying to be...
I just, I can't already. Really? You're a rich white lady, Justin Bateman. Like, oh, really? You can breathe now? Well, guess who can't breathe now? Why the Trevor Project, you know, what do you call it? Calls are through the roof, because Chris and I have been doing this for a thousand years. We get used to getting called homophobic slurs every day. Guess who doesn't? Teenagers who go kill themselves. It's been a while since somebody told me to go get AIDS and dies. I do have to give them that.
It'll be a minute farther away we get from the 80s, I suppose that. I guess so. I remember leaving the club in Louisiana and there'd always be a pickup truck outside with all these guys there. Just waiting for the club to close for when we came out and so that they could yell things at us and throw bottles at our feet and things like that. Good times, good times, ready to go back to that.
So we've been talking about Joe and Mika going to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring Friday. Trust me, if you think that's what MSNBC viewers want to hear about, yeah, yeah, yeah. Please don't gulag me, Donald. Exactly. Oh, my God. Yeah, lots of our friends had thoughts about that. Do you know, but no, Joe Scarborough surrendered to Trump as the final nail in the coffin of cable news. Ronald said Morning Joe jumped the shark. I mean, it really
And it is exactly, it's a circular, so we got here in the first place, the same washing the normalizing. I mean, by the way, you talked about the chief executive, he's of the fracking company, is his pick for energy secretary. How's that feel? Let's ask a really important environmental lawyer. Hey, Bobby Kennedy, how do you feel about that? I mean, everyone has thrown their principles out for this monster, rude.
Didn't you lot? I love the photo of, you know, let's make Bobby Kennedy eat crap. Yep. You know, for saying that the diet isn't good. Come on, Bobby, you got to do it. You got to do it. Yeah, Dana Gold said Trump is going to name a sandwich, the Sir Ham, Sir Ham, and make Bobby eat it and smile. Yep.
that's not funny that's not so good i'm jealous and how good it is that it was hilarious all about that you know that you know that my strategy on bobbie on on our page junior right
It's to have a pack run a bunch of ads in the states showing that he's pro choice. Oh, Mike Pence is already on it for you. Oh, yeah, I know. And then let's say call your senator and tell them you don't want the, you know, the pro abortion, um, uh, RFK junior at H H H S making policy, you know, use some frickin, you know, reverse psychology here.
Yeah, be be be a holes be ruthless. Yeah, and where's what are we seeing? We're seeing a keen Jeffries tweet out. We shall overcome what? We didn't that's the problem. Oh my god, um, by the way, so chris l'boy who noted non conspiracy theorists
I saw that you think that the Tulsi and Matt Gaetz nominations are just distractions so we can get other people. No, they're not. Yes. I mean, literally here we go, right? Mitch McConnell is going no recess appointments, right? But he's not in charge. John Thune said no recess appointments and then James's mind a day later. This is all. And there's another story this morning about Trump is and not going to back down. This is this is a test of, you know, who can eat the Sir Ham, Sir Ham?
I haven't committed some crimes in Maryland because Maryland has a Democratic governor, let arrest them for crimes in Maryland and hold them so that they can't be pardoned. That's a tempt Matt Gaetz to commit a crime in Maryland. That to me is a good plan.
Yeah, you said John Bolton called up Matt Gaetz, the worst cabinet pick in American history. And you said John Bolton is an ultra conservative maniac who loves war and hates humanity. Even he can't stomach Matt Gaetz. Still John Bolton. I think we can all agree on that. Yeah.
Yeah, you just said, so like, could Trump just surrender the country to Putin wholesale? Or does he need to do it bit by having Russian stooges do the Kremlin bidding bit by bit? I mean, someone's saying, cut out the middleman, just put Putin in charge of our national intelligence, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you're going to have Tulsi Gabbard, yeah. I mean, there's nobody with any serious intelligence credentials on the left or right who thinks that Tulsi Gabbard should be in charge there. Yeah.
uh... it's it's and you said by the way trumps nominees are an assault on the federal government there are salt on the united states and with our key junior it's an assault on all americans as is as you said tulsi gabbard i mean uh... and by the way you said uh... if democrats out there screaming about the gates report like it's hundred bines laptop times a hundred they should just say they give up i agree are you kidding me to be the attorney general of the united states
Yeah, you're going to let, you know, Mike Johnson go, oh, no, no, that would be rude to release that. Yeah. And then also it already seems like they're doing what they do, which is, well, we really need to let Republicans do this because, you know, people will say we're just playing politics. And it's like, yeah, that's the game you're in. You're in politics. Play it.
Yeah. Oh, you have some. These are very helpful because you're a liberal helper, some tips for Joe and Mika and others. You retweeted on Newsmax, Monica Crowley says about Trump's cabinet nominations. We have not seen this kind of talent pool since the founding fathers. And you said, you know, you can trip his Trump's ass without fingering his prostate. I think that's a good tip because yeah.
Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, there's, I mean, it takes a certain, you know, skill to do that. But, you know, all right. So we all have been talking about what we watched a disconnect from politics because we all desperately need it. You said I got to say the penguin on Max made me understand Trump more than just about anything else. The fake populism, the ability to betray people on a dime, the desperate greed to fulfill some pathetic goal, the ease with which people follow him despite how awfully is it's all there.
See, I don't call that entertainment. I call that reality. That's not escape from reality. No, I don't. What is that? It was like Travis telling me to watch Handmaid's Tale. Like what? For entertainment? No. Yeah. Yeah. But it was really well done.
And the acting was great, and just, you know, the comic book's not finished. This is why I watch awful Christmas music about a woman, I guess, Snowman, and whatever that other psychotic Christmas elf guy is. Was it the carrot? Did she, like, get on the carrot? Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness.
He turned into a real boy, didn't he? No, he turns into a real boy. Yeah, hot frosty becomes a real boy. Yes, it's like Pinocchio Mm-hmm. Oh, does the carrots stay though? So because the woman likes you know what I just get out just get out rude. It's more like it's more like an ice dildo. Get out. You know what? I have all this fresh milk that freshly would you just need to keep that? He was in always in danger of melting
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Congressman Lauren Bobert won her new Safely Republican seat by only half the margin of her Republican predecessors, but she is already back hard at work in Congress, laser focused on the issue that Colorado sent her there to address, underwater space aliens. Bobert said, quote, the American people are being kept in the dark. Her line of questioning was,
Pretty out there. There are rumors that have come up to the Hill of a secretive project within the Department of Defense involving the manipulation of human genetics with what is described as non-human genetic material, potentially for the enhancement of human capabilities, hybrids. Are any of you familiar with that? Yes or no? No, ma'am. I am not, ma'am. I am not. No, ma'am.
What? Does anyone think education might be a problem? Can underwater space aliens be controlled with Jewish space lasers? I know, let's ask Randy Onegarden, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. Hi, good morning, Randy. You're making her laugh. That's a good thing.
we're concerned less happy that we ran into each other at the DNC. But hi, good morning. Well, you know, let's say that science should be rockin' and rollin' here. Oh my God, Randy, Randy, Randy. You know, here's the vicious circle we get into, is liberals get accused of talking down to people and blah, blah, blah, and then, you know, we are in this
horrible place we are in, where people have voted against their self-interest again. And I don't know if there's one definitive answer, but you tweeted about Florida's average SAT scores have dropped to 9.48 in 2024, 18 points lower than last year, nearly 70 points lower than in 2017. The education state, as Rhonda Santis likes to call it, is now ranked 47th. I mean, we're joking about playing Lauren Boebert, a Marjorie Taylor Greene,
you know some and some was talking about joe rogan's influence at that in any proudly says i'm just dumb i don't really know anything you know i'm go ahead well let me and first off thank you for having me on and then there's you know i could i could wax for a long time on what i think has happened here but let me just say this i do think and i wrote this
this weekend in an op-ed, Al Shankar used to do an op-ed every week for the New York Times. I do it once a month, but I wrote in the op-ed. I do think it was the price of eggs.
Yeah, really, I really, I mean, all of these other things are part. Yeah, there's other factors. It was all it's a perfect storm. But yeah, I mean, yeah, and these folks, because Lauren Bobert was like this.
before the 2022 election. And she literally almost lost her race to Adam Frisch at that point by just a couple hundred votes. And then she moved to another place. I think that the issue is we have two realities. We have reality one, which you and I try to live in.
And then there is this kind of lack of fact-based reality which Beaubert and others live in. But most people who are non-college working class folk
basically have been saying, not just through COVID, but before COVID, before the 2008 recession, before NAFTA, that what they want is to have a decent life for themselves and their families. Yeah. And the chart, the two charts that matter to me most in the post election, um, you know, gap fest has been number one, that people who are poor
voted for Trump, and number two, or more people who are poor voted for Trump, I don't have the chart in front of me. Number two, Steve Ratner chart, that showed that more families now no longer make more money
going forward than going backwards, that our kids are making less money than we are. And so these two things that America, what normally binds America together is that we believe that
there's going to be opportunity that's better in the future than it was in the past. And that our kids will do better. And so when you see the price of gas or the price of eggs or the price of bacon or your groceries,
That is a reality that's shared by a lot of people. Right. And so it was exploited by the boberts and the others of the world. Randy, here's to do something completely different than what they, what it says. Let me just interrupt you for a moment. So I was reading a tweet. Do people really think the price of everything is going to magically drop in January? WTF is wrong with them.
I would ask you about critical thinking skills. It's not just the disinformation that Trump won entirely on lies and on no plan at all for inflation. It's that why are people so prone to believe these lies? Half the adults in America, half the adults in America are not
are not as literate as you and I would hope that they are. Half the adult illiteracy rate is about 50%. What you're saying right now is absolutely right. There's a whole lot of people that fear knowledge, and I would say that there's been a huge indictment
of our education of our test-based education system. You know, in 2000, everybody, you know, Bush, Kennedy, all of them were like, okay, just create, test, test, test, test, test, test, test.
what we need to do is project-based instruction. What we need to do is critical thinking. What we need to do is kids being able to discern right from wrong, and that right from wrong, but fact from fiction, understand context. What we need to do is create joy in schools. So there is a huge indictment here of what we can do as school teachers
in terms of being able to impart those skills. But I would say this, when fear and anxiety rule as they did in terms of the price of eggs, it's hard to get through. And our job going through the next two years is to do exactly what you just said. These things root for the best, root for the price of eggs to go down. But already in the last month,
the mortgage rate, a fixed mortgage rate.
for homes went up 1%. So already the market is saying that what Trump said in terms of reducing costs ain't going to happen. Already Musk has said, oh, no, no, no, we really shouldn't do tariffs. Why? Because he doesn't want to compete with China. He wants to sell things in China. So we have a big job to do going forward. But the one thing I wouldn't do
is I wouldn't actually undermine what people really felt, which is they feel pain about not being able to get ahead for themselves and their families. Right. But I guess, again, my point would be, Kamala Harris did talk about that. She did talk about prices being too high and what she was going to do about it. Let me just, when I texted... So Stephanie, Stephanie, go ahead. Look, the people who read the newspapers voted for Kamala Harris by plus six.
People who followed the race voted for her. People who made their low propensity voters who made their minds up at the end, plus 19 Trump.
So yes, she did. And I think she's fantastic. But this whole notion of how we communicate with each other and how people actually hear what's being said is just something we have to learn.
So you retweeted Dr. Hotez, who said for years and in pandemic, he has targeted me in sighted violence with me and my family, with conspiracy nonsense because I made low-cost, patent-free COVID vaccines and other vaccines for the world, reaching 100 million people at $3 a dose.
He is a hero. When I texted Dr. Irwin Redliner, who's our regular, about Bobby Kennedy's nomination, he said the ultimate cue to science, health, safety, and every American, a living nightmare. I mean, it is, they're almost like proudly anti everything, expert, facts, science. I mean, what, I don't know how you inoculate our kids against that.
Well, I think what we do is we start with what we should be doing in schools, which is number one, we have an obligation to protect our kids and protect families. We have an obligation to fight for their dignity. That is what schooling is. Number two, we have to lift up what really works. And we have to transform schools so that every public school is a place that parents want to send their kids
and educators wanna work and kids thrive. So they're gonna be doing all this stuff here and we're gonna be working on the local level through our communities because look what happened in terms of down ballot races. It was almost as if there were two different worlds.
Thank you and you said that Americans voted in state after state to protect public education and funding for public services. They elected school board candidates who see public education as a pathway to opportunity. I mean, part of what I think we have to continue to fight, Randy, I'm sure you saw this, the clip of the mom at the school board meeting who continually said the word retard and said, you're not going to police my speech. You know, that she was telling her kid it's okay.
So when we have the biggest bully we've ever seen as President of the United States, how do you teach your children? Now we have texts going out to black people about where to show up to pick cotton. We have texts going out to Hispanic people and gay people about being deported and going to re-education camps. I mean, how do you teach kids in this environment of hate that it's still not okay? Go ahead. Number one, we do what?
We do what Tim Snyder said. I have a very worn copy of Snyder's book. Let me see if I can find it. My friend Joe Joe from Jersey is obsessed with him. We've got to get him on. Yeah. This is my very, very worn copy of it. It says on Tierra. Yeah. Which is you don't obey in advance. And that's and you can be as courageous as you can. But there's a third piece which is we create community.
and when you create community, and I'm not just talking about creating communities within our tribes, create communities cross tribe, create community cross generationally, create community cross ethnically cross gender. When we start creating community and being with our families, being with our schools, then we start having
not just a fight back, but a fight forward. And I think that's what schooling is. And that is what we will do. And when you see a bully, you try to stop a bully. But one of the ways that you stop a bully
is if all the other people around start saying to the bully, what are you doing? Why are you doing it? It's not going to stop Donald Trump that way. He is the best marketer in the world. He is like Reagan, like FDR. He has a skill that is probably, Molly fast said this. It's probably unique in this generation.
Yeah. But in terms of the rest, look what we have done in terms of schooling. Look what Mom's for Liberty. I mean, one of the things I chuckled about in the last few days is that Steve Bannon on his podcast. I was just going to mention this. There's super warning on saying, why did you lose? Well, why did they lose? Because the people
around children basically said no I don't want that now they didn't say that in terms of national election with the great marketer but they said that locally so we build up locally and we do what works so I have one more thing I say which is one of the things I have tried to
get the Biden administration to do a lot. And, you know, they recognized it on Thursday when we had a career a Wednesday when we had this classroom to career event at the White House. Is that?
we need to transform high schools. 60% of kids do not go to college. We need to bring the jobs, the opportunities, the apprenticeships into high school, stackable credentials like we're doing with micron and Syracuse. We need to change high schools to be about more projects and less tests, more relational, more critical
All right, we've gone way long, so I better get extra credit. You were grading those papers. I better get a gold star. Do you know how long I went with you? I love you. Goodbye, Randy. Thank you so much, Randy. I had a Catholic school sweat when she had a big sheet of papers. I'm like, is mine in there? How did I do? Holy cow, you just blew my mind. It's the Stephanie Miller Show.
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Steven Bichlott's coming up soon. To our conversation with Randy, the head of the teachers union, Dan, talking about the Joe Rogan secret step. I'm a decades-long fan of yours, never miss a show, so much so I won't schedule or accept meeting invites at work that start before 9 a.m. Eastern. I think that is a rule to live by. I agree. That's the golden rule.
There's been all this talk about Joe Rogan and his influence on young men, but there seems to be something missing from the discussion. Joe Rogan doesn't have an overtly political show. It's truly just a guy who portrays himself as a working-class, every man who admits openly he's not that bright. That's something to aspire to.
He has right, but he has right weaning politicians on from time to time, has rambling conversations with them, ask them a few usually dumb questions, the sort of questions his audience might ask. When they respond, he doesn't usually challenge them much, says something like, that sounds reasonable, but what do I know? That's it. That's the genius of his subtle persuasion. There's a million guys out there who are nodding their heads in agreement, shows like yours, Tom's, John's, Prangel are vital to counterbalancing what's on the right. They provide a community for politically engaged liberals.
like you i wish there was more exposure and better infrastructure but i also wish there was a non-political show that has was subursively left hosted by a guy i'm afraid it's going to have to be a guy. I'm fine i'm in the patriarchy i'm fine like rogan are you the much ball middle especially in their twenties and thirties seem terrified of anything being overtly political.
They may have liberal leaning views at the end of the day, but I don't think they're all that comfortable with left or right oriented programming. They're comfortable with a guy who doesn't even pretend to be the smartest kid in the room, someone who's not going to bombard them with facts, but might be able to steer them along. I don't know that those guys, if Kamala Harris had gone on his show, we're suddenly going to go young and vote for the black lady, because I'm just telling you, in all the interviews I've seen Jody, I don't know if you've watched them,
It is rife with, is rape either right word, just misogyny, homophobia, like this sort of dude bro. I mean, one thing, one person I would say is, listen to, who am I thinking? You know, Mark Marin, who is left, but also same thing, like a show is not necessarily political. And that's why I think our show is wildly popular. Fart jokes, D-jokes, jokes about whale, fecal plumes, bears,
kayaks and bears. 29 minutes after the hour.
non-human hybrids with special capabilities. Barbara was not done there. She spent most of her a lot of time questioning the experts about alien cities and civilizations in the depths of the sea. And so are there any accounts of UAPs emerging from or submerging into our water which could indicate a base or presence beneath the ocean's surface?
I don't know about a base, but a different source entirely described this pretty extraordinary footage that exists of an orb coming out of the ocean and being met by another orb. And it seems like there's still some questions that we need answers to and we will not relent until we get those to the American people.
where we're clearly left the hearing without her answers on aliens, but said that she is looking forward to working with the incoming Trump administration to get to the bottom of this alien hybrid human thing and those underwater alien cities. Underwater. She saw the abyss way too many times or Aquaman. Who's that guy? He's hot. Jason Momoa. Yeah, he's hot. Do we get more of him?
I think he was married to Lisa Bonet at one point. He was. Oh, yes. That's maximum hotness. OK. And her ex has been his friends with him. Oh, OK. John tweets the colossal nerve of these holes to talk about DEI hires when Trump is nominating the most blatantly unqualified cabinet in American history. Yeah. OK.
Oh, by the way, Randy brought up Tim Snyder. We've got to get him on. Joe Joe from Jersey is obsessed with him. He wrote the book on, literally wrote the book on autocracy. Oh. He said, imagine you are a foreign leader who wishes to destroy the United States. How could you do so? The easiest way to be to get Americans to do the work themselves, to somehow induce Americans to undo their own health, law, administration, defense, and intelligence. From this perspective, Trump's proposed appointments, Kennedy Jr. Gates, Musk, Rama Swami, had
Gabbard are perfect instruments. They combine narcissism and competence, corruption, sexual incontinence, personal vulnerability, dangerous convictions, foreign influence as no group before them has done. These proposed appointments look like decapitation strike, destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot and the rest of us to suffer.
I do not defend the status quo. I have no doubt whatsoever. The Department of Defense and FDA require reform, but such reform of these or other agencies would have to be guided by people with knowledge and experience who cared about their country, who had a vision of improvement. That is simply not what's happening here. We are confronted instead with a group of people who were there to hold positions they have been assigned could bring an end to the United States of America.
Um, I, it sure looks like that. I mean, okay, let's go to anything. Karen in Chicago, my boo-fu. Yes. All, all of that, all of that. Thank you. All of this. I mean, all of this and all of this. And, you know, yes, I totally agree. And I've been talking about Timothy Snyder and, you know, talking about the importance of building community. This is one big community.
the staff had community and I have to say too we have to like keep in mind in Texas the maternal death rate has gone up 56 percent yeah my good friend friend of the show Anita from San Antonio's daughter along with thousands and thousands of other women in Texas are not able to access gynecological care because everybody is leaving
So this has been going on for two years. You couple that with the heartbreak of what just happened with this election, the anxiety that everybody is feeling. Chris, my darling, you have every right to have whatever conversations with your friends and congratulate them. But just please with love. I just want to say this to you. Understand the audience that's hearing that. It feels a little bit like a lack of consideration.
and a little bit disrespectful. And then to say what you said to Anita, and you can say you don't care about what I have to say either. But to say what you said to Anita, I don't think that that was fair. And I think that was talking down to her a little bit. We are all under anxiety. And yes, you can have whatever conversations you want. Nobody's saying that you can. But when you have an audience and you say to 6 million of us who are out here dealing with the, you know, just thinking about what's to come,
These understand where we're coming from too. Let me, and this is very awkward for me defending Chris. I just think that, you know, you've heard my whole journey with my mom. My mom was a, you know, Fox News watching Trump voter, but she's my mom. And, you know, she got, as you know, Alzheimer's when she got older, what I'm saying is we're only gonna have to make our own
you know decisions about our family and friends and whatever Chris's relationship is with his friend is his business. My friend Marcia went to visit her mega relatives in Dallas this weekend. I love her message. I'm like, this is the sexy little evacuation team. Do you need an evacuation from Texas? And she was talking about the make Dallas great again, hats and just, you know, but again, they're her relatives and she, you know, they've decided just not to talk politics.
Yeah, no, and I just all I'm saying is this and you know is that you know it just it feels I mean we are all feeling this right now and so um you know just
yes, everybody has to navigate it the way they need to navigate it, but just understand where we're coming from and that how it may fall on all of us. It's how it felt when Joe and Mika said they went to, you know, Mar-a-Lago to try, it's just, it's, and again, this is something. Right, and it feels, right, it just feels like, oh my God. It feels the same, yeah, exactly. This is not about politics anymore.
Yeah, no, it isn't. It isn't. And it's happening in Florida. It's been happening in Florida with PragerU. It's been, this is going to be a national thing now. So I just, with love, Chris, I love you. You know that. I hope you know that.
Um, but it just understands how it's how it's felt but with a lot here. Here's to your point actually Dennis Prager You didn't like me running into the airport running into him at the airport and taking a picture and a video Okay, but again, he was a colleague of mine and Chris's back in the 90s and was you know I of course I abhor everything he stands for politically, but he was a colleague that was nice to us
When we work together, I'm not going to like kick him in the balls if I've run into him in an airport, you know? So I think we all have to navigate these things, how we navigate them, because everybody's relationship, like I was saying, if there's people in, let's just say my family, I don't that I don't have relationship with anymore. It's because they were despicable for other reasons, but before they got to voting for Trump, you know, and so.
Well, and you know, I'm gonna have to go, I'm gonna have to probably go on Christmas and I'm still trying to figure that out with my in-laws. Because to me, their boat just said that they don't really care about my child. They don't really, you know, so all of this lip service that they've been paying to me about my son, being who he is.
Now it's, now it's believed that they didn't hear that and they still voted for that? Yeah. It's personal for a lot of us. Honey, hang in there. We love you and we love Chris. Okay. See what I said there? Chris Hayes tweeted just to be clear. The incoming Trump administration is going to war against their own Republican Senate majority and the Constitution's advice and consent provision so they can make a man investigated for sex trafficking a minor into the most powerful law enforcement officer in the country.
This is not about politics anymore. This is just basic decency. Our friend Olivia Troy said, Russian mouthpieces, puppy killers, sexual predators, no true background checks. Testing the loyalty of the Republican Senate to the safety and security of Americans and the Constitution. A lot of people are rightfully terrified about what is happening.
Oh, what's the latest thing I heard? They're going to do private background checks, not through the FBI. They're going to hire private companies. How do you think those background checks are going to go? Oh, everything's clear. Everything's good because it's a private company. We paid to do the back.
OK. Elon Musk tweeted, there will be consequences for those who pushed foreign interference hoaxes. The hammer of justice is coming. David Corn said, hey, Elon Musk, guess who confirmed that Russia attacked the 2016 election to help Trump and noted Trump helped Putin get away with it? Oh, Marco Rubio and Elise Stefanik. Read all about it here. I mean,
This is literally not just the upside down. It is George Orwell. It's, I don't even know what. This one made me laugh at least. Someone tweeted a picture of Marco Rubio and Bobby Kennedy and just put Marco polio. That's a good one. That's a new pool game for the kids. That's funny. I like that. That's clever. Isn't that funny to a bunch of kids type polio? It's not anymore. Okay. Didn't Mitch McConnell have polio? He did. Yes, as a child. He did.
Yeah. Someone's going to confirm RFK? No. Franklin tweets the person who called Matt Gates a DUI hire. That's a good one. He's a DUI hire. Get it? Because he also forgot about DUI because it's extra trafficking on the monitors. I forgot about that. He was also drunk. It's not important now. Michael in North Carolina. Hi, Mike.
mama louis miller must must you and joe joe from juris worked so blue yes that's happy hour was really something uh... yeah i'd i'd go back and get it if i were you go check your happy hour it's only archives of the uh... happy hour anyway net net gates when his when his um... attorney general nomination finally get scuttled and he he's not going to go crawling to a rock
He's going to go back to the house. No, he already has already reelected. Oh, by the way, someone tweeted here. Where are we? Oh, Catherine tweeted. Now, whenever I go to the grocery store and pass the egg section, a tiny little voice on my head goes, I can't even look at you right now. I swear to God. I sent that to Joe from Jersey. She called eggs. The C words.
Don't blame the eggs. I've never heard anyone call eggs the seaward but Joe Joe I'm sure somehow was able to pull it off. Okay. Speaking of which Scarborough said Trump is Hitler and a serial rapist and Trump said Joe left Congress because he murdered his staffer. Let's put that all behind us now and chill because the show must go on.
I'm telling you, this is all related to where is it, where is it Jody, hold please. I don't know what you do with your stuff over there. Mass layoffs expected at CNN ratings plunge at MSNBC.
The younger people aren't watching television, media, legacy outlets lost much of the rest of us by ditching real journalism. We stood by as they boosted Trump election night, the final straw. I'm telling you, this is not going to get people back sucking up to Donald Trump. Not to get too inside baseball with this, but Comcast, which owns Universal, MSNBC, NBC Network, NBC News, all of that. They are looking at spinning off all of their cable interests.
Um, which would include MSNBC, which would separate MSNBC from NBC news. And so if that should happen, that's more of a chance that MSNBC would go away. Completely. Yeah. Okay. I mean, you know, is that what you want? No, I listen, I can't live without my unless if Nicole Wallace will come to a show just in my living room, I'm fine then with every day. Yeah. For like three hours. What else is she going to be doing? Cable television is in trouble right now. They're in big trouble.
I know what'll help. The guy that wrote the FCC section of the project 2025 is going to be the new head of the FCC. What's his name? Brendan Carr, who I understand is very handsome and well endowed. FCC has nothing to do with cable programming. Right. All right. And okay.
Exactly. It has nothing to do with cable. He does have that he does have stuff to do with terrestrial radio, right? Which is why I have a bleep button. So there I'm in the clear, but you just said probably shouldn't say F him. No, no, don't be ridiculous. 47. It's nice knowing you guys. It was a good job while I had it. You're not going.
You're going to stay here and fight. Where's Jody Snarly song? We're going to fight. Fight. He doesn't know where it is. Sean put it in there somewhere. I'm going to go down with swinging something. Swinging. Swinging. I don't remember. I just say it once. What? I don't remember. What? Here we go.
No, that's a different snarly song. That's a shut up song. No, not this. I'll remember one. 47 minutes after the hour. This portion of the show. Oh, I got it. Here it goes. Okay. Here we go. Oh, **** you. No, no. Different one of that. Okay. That's what Sean said it was. No, no. No, Jodi's fight song. Remember you heard it on this channel first. It's the Stephanie Miller show.
55 minutes after the hour. You mentioned Mitch McConnell having polio when he was a child. Devil history tweets, hey, you folks remember polio? No, you don't, because you likely don't know anyone with polio when you were growing up. That's because you and most people around you were vaccinated against polio, because vaccination against horrendous diseases is one of the greatest of all human discoveries. There's no wellness in a world that rejects this incredible science.
Every once in a while, you hear about someone getting polio. And so it's still out there. And if fewer people don't get a polio vaccine, it will rear its ugly head again. By the way, there's one thing. Whale head, dead bear cub, brainworm idiot's hearing. It should be the people he killed in Samoa. He went there with his anti-vax nonsense. And how many people died, provably?
Okay. Somebody else tweeted, my aunt is 70 years old. She's deaf. She has a tight friend group. They've all known each other since they went to the deaf elementary school together in the 60s. You want to know what else they have in common? Every one of them became deaf from the measles. Just an interesting little fact. Measles are not just cute little red dots. It's a very dangerous disease.
Okay. And Ms. B tweets, 99% of conservatism is basically making something up to be mad at and then being mad at it. Why are they still so mad, even though they won? Is it me or are they even more intolerable now? It's just, dear God. T-Pain says, fun fact, Trump's pick to oversee the Department of Justice cannot pass an FBI background check. Let that sink in for a moment. And Jeff Teadrich says, Trump name's rusty, covered nail is the Secretary of Tetanus.
See, it's funny because it's can't get more ridiculous than it is. See. Steve in Chicago. Hi, Steve. Hello. I'm generally in the Chris is always right camp, but I got to call him out on this one. He's been in the radio business long enough to know that if you want to keep something between you and your friend, keep it between you and your friend. If you discuss it on a national radio program, it's out there for us to discuss as well.
Oh, all right, well, Chris doesn't want to respond to that, but okay. All right, let's move on. Dean Obadawa, our buddy, our pal, said, if you think Trump is going to pull Matt Gates' nomination to be AG because Gates had sex with underage women, you have no idea who Trump is. One, Trump is a rapist. Two, Trump is testing the GOP senators to ensure they are 100% loyal to him.
How do you think this ends, Jody? You have Mitch McConnell saying there will be no recess appointments period. And Trump saying, no, there's sources close to Trump saying, no, Matt Gaetz is his number one priority, going to ram him through no matter what.
It's gonna be a test of, you know, what's that guy say? How high to jump and scratch your head or whatever, right? I mean, that's, he gets off on humiliating people. Yes, he does. Are you kidding? Like, he's not salivating at the final humiliation of Mitch McConnell. Like, all right, 58 minutes after the hour, Steven Beschloss next.
Stephanie Miller.
I believe in the principle of a new president being able to choose his team and that used to not be a controversial notion. We're in a time of very divided government and a very partisan atmosphere in Washington. I wish it were not. I wish the Senate would simply do its job of advice and consent and allow the president to put the persons in his cabinet of his choosing. But if this thing bogs down, it would be a great detriment to the country, to the American people. Remember, they just delivered a mandate to the president and overwhelming
popular vote victory and of course electoral college victory and they have sent the message that america first policies are should be the rule of the day no okay where do we start michael angeles senior rally trumps popular vote uh... is down to less than fifty percent even his votes are still being counted hardly a majority let alone a mandate or l-o-l-a landslide in many other countries we would be headed to a runoff
and john fugel saying says of mike johnson the we've now reached the cover for child rape in exchange for earthly power phase of mike johnson's christianity i mean and by the way speaking of the ethics report uh... jared says why does this uh... why does the uh... speaker believe it's appropriate necessary to hide the truth from the american people obviously of that report exonerated him they would have already of course released it of course um... all right let's talk to our friend steven best lost author of america america
You're not stuttering. He says it twice on purpose. Hi. Hi. Times I might have to add a couple more Americas just to underscore the necessity of its survival.
writer political journalist extraordinaire. I mean, Stephen, so to your point, I love how you're this last piece you wrote. Not today's. I already read that too. But you said, remember, Donald Trump wants us to be demoralized. He wants to fuel conflict and outrage. He wants to push the boundaries as far as he can, not only to see what he can get away with, but to throw Congress on the country off balance or even into chaos to strengthen his own position. In his war provision, he relies on the ruins of others.
And that's where I think it starts with saying this is not a mandate. This is, you know, 49, 50%. That's where it starts for them to make you feel demoralized, right? And defeat it and like you're the one that's out of touch and you're just overwhelmed and they're the vast majority of people, you know, disagree with you, right?
Right. And look, a win in this case a win is a win. We have to live with that. But let's not pretend that it's a mandate. Let's not pretend that it's a landslide. Let's not pretend that this is a normal administration that we should respond to normally.
I mean, I think it's already worrisome that this early, 63 days before January 20th inauguration, that there's so many people who are already quickly rolling over, who already seem to be more concerned about trying to get along, trying to get access, trying to treat this guy like it's just a normal day in Democratic America. I am wearing this wardrobe today in honor of Joe and Mika who went to kiss the ring at Mar-a-Lago.
So you're promising that after January 20th, your t-shirt will not say he's not that bad. I mean, but to your point, Joyce Vance tweeted, Trump isn't even in office yet, and we're already talking about letting him bypass the Constitution as though that's a normal conversation to be having.
Right. And look, you know, 63 days away, I mean, there's something that he did, which is a weirdly our benefit, which is that all of these reckless, dangerous selections for cabinet and other so-called leadership positions.
They're so egregious that they serve the purpose of exposing what his intentions are. And now we'll get deceived very clearly what the Senate is made of. Do they actually treat their duty to advise and consent, to follow the Constitution with seriousness, or don't they? And if they don't, you know what? We need to know sooner rather than later.
I mean, you went, you went down all of them, Pete Hedgeseth for Secretary of Defense. I mean, not only do we find out he paid the woman off for this latest sexual assault allegation, but you said, did you know he championed service members who were accused of war crimes? Did you know he was asked to stand down from guarding President Biden in his inauguration because of his extremist religious tattoos? Tulsi Gabbard, you talk about, you know, how many of our allies have already determined they can't trust their secrets with Trump and are reorganizing their intelligence operations to avoid relying on America?
Who does that hurt? America. It hurts America. You said not only is she ill-prepared and unqualified, but she traffics in conspiracy theories, cozies up to dictators like Assad and Putin. I mean, it is almost a script that would be rejected out here in Hollywood, Matt Gaetz, for Attorney General. A lot of us really actually, even for Trump, thought this was a joke when we heard these nominations. Did you?
Uh, no, you know, Matt Gates, I thought that one was a joke. I thought maybe the, even the new version of the onion was, was trying to spoof us. All right. But, but they are very, I mean, he's very serious. He's not hiding. And, and this, uh, intention to pursue retribution. Let's, let's be clear. That's on the table. Uh, it's not not and, and, and treat it accordingly. So,
I thought you made such a smart point I hadn't heard other people say you said maybe Donald has finally found his Roy Cohn minus the the intelligence and the legal knowledge but with the same level of ambition immorality and capacity for cruelty and you have you said we can only hope the ethics report will be leaked or otherwise handed over to senators I mean obviously some senators are demanding it or saying they're not going to vote for him but you know we'll see how how
quickly the capitulation to Trump happens because it usually happens on cue, right? Right. And look, the thing about that ethics report, it provides evidence. But but it's almost as if we don't really need more evidence to know how ill suited, how unfit, how utterly inappropriate is for a guy like that to end up in a
you know, the job of the chief law enforcement for the entire country. The girl's lawyer said she was in high school and there were witnesses. I mean, this stuff hasn't, you know, already anyway. Okay. Bobby Kennedy, let's talk about this.
Can I say one more thing? I want to go back to sort of national security. I mean, one of the things that I made a point of doing in recent days was double checking to what extent Trump can dismantle NATO and our relationship with all of our Western allies. Well, obviously, he can undermine our aid and support for Ukraine. But one of the things is that there's a law that's been passed that two-thirds of the Congress
have to pass any effort to try to dismantle NATO. So he won't have sort of the free reign to just do that if that's part of the plan. And I wanted to get your take since you brought up Ukraine. I'm glad that Biden is sending the, what do you call it?
weapons to Ukraine because, you know, I think the other thing is because of Republicans, you know, he's been able to give Ukraine enough help to fight, but not enough to win. So I mean, I, you know, again, I don't know if it's going to matter if Trump just hands Ukraine to Putin, but, you know, that seems pretty clear. I mean, that's obvious that he's going to do that, that he's going to demand
demand that Zelensky goes to the negotiating table and begins right away, giving away their sovereignty. I mean, that's the plan. And there's already been plenty of noise from the Republicans. Like, of course, they should go along with that. By the way, including Elon Musk saying it's laughable that Zelensky would consider not going to the table, that he needs to listen to what, in essence, what he's being told.
And it's so sad to have to listen to Zelensky suck up to Trump, too, for obvious reasons. But oh, yes, his plan of peace through strength is exactly correct. It's like, yes, you get peace through giving everything up to Putin's strength.
And look, look, we're going to have to watch. I think everybody and their engagements with him when it is that they're sort of doing what Zelensky does, which is he's trying to get along for the survival of his country versus those who are sucking up because they want access or because they're ready to normalize him because they want to be in the orbit.
Yeah. Bobby Kennedy, you're right. Despite having no scientific or medical background, this man is driven by conspiracy theories, including vaccines called autism without reliable evidence. He's already said he would push to remove fluoride from the water supply, despite the fact that it's improved dental health. He's questioned vaccines for polio and measles. I mean, it really is quite extraordinary where we find ourselves. I mean, it is. I don't even go ahead.
We're living in an upside down world. That's pretty clear. I think I posted something yesterday, which is like, you know, can we remember how absurd this world is that, you know, this man, you know, he is a, I mean, I don't have to go through the whole list, but he's somebody who is a, you know, depraved sociopath and never, never have been brought back anywhere close to the levers of power.
We were talking about, we just been talking about this all show about relationships with friends or family that voted. To me, it's different 2016, even 2020. I'm sorry. If you voted for him now, to me, you are despicable. And I cannot have a relationship with anybody that voted for this now. It's, again, my mom passed a year ago and she had Alzheimer's and she was 100.
It was a different... She's forgiven, you know. Anybody, let's say anybody over 95 is forgiven, shall we say that? Yeah, they're going to pass. But you just said, I worry for my country, if any or all of these selections come to pass, you said, you know, with terrible sycophants ready to swing the wrecking ball to American government, Americans will see clearly the awful consequences of this election. You just said this real life story is an opportunity for each of us to step up in whatever way we can to minimize the danger, beat back the horror, eventually emerge alive and triumphant.
The need for media to highlight acts of opposition, not just at federal level, but throughout the country. You said people need hope. The media needs to serve this need. I agree. That's the point of fascism. Autocracy is for us to feel hopeless. And like, there's no point in fighting anymore. And oh, I don't want to talk about politics anymore. And oh, I'm done. Right? That's exactly what they want.
And I'm sure you've dealt with what I have, which I've had an awful lot of people reach out to me and say, I'm done. I'm retiring from politics. I can't deal with this. I've dealt with it for eight years. I'm out. I completely understand that. And that's where, I mean, I think there's
a reckoning that should have happened. I wish it would still happen for the media and its failures in this period. But I also think that the opportunity is not simply to critique, but it's to spotlight those who are doing good work to respond. And I think that is where people should be able to find hope. And it's at a local level. It's community levels. It's at a state level. It's recognizing people like J.B. Pritzker, who talks about, if you're coming from my people, you come through me,
I mean, work that's already going on in a lot of places to try to resist what seems to be inevitable. All those things are really important. Steven, this is a cruel reality host that we put back in the present. These mass deportations are going to be big and cruel and dumb and televised to throw red meat to their Fox audience.
here you know if the thing about you being a political journalist so that's is your point is well taken the pendulum always swings it's going to swing back he did not win a majority he won a little over thirty percent of the country is who voted for him and you know i think unfortunately people are gonna find out record time i mean
Just the majority did not vote for him because we say that over and over. I mean, the misfortune is that most people did not vote once again. So it's that it's that, you know, terrorizing minority that that did the dirty work here.
I wanted to get your take one last thread from Kevin. Many of the people who will claim in the coming months and years they didn't know he would do such terrible things did know. They knew and they wanted it. They got a thrill from the idea of hurting and dominating people, which is why they supported him. They won't want to take back the responsibility for it though when things get really dark. They won't want to be cut off or unwelcome in polite company. So they'll say, this isn't my fault. I didn't know. Right. Echoes of somewhere in the 1930s, I wonder.
well this this is the problem we we have a a public that uh... doesn't study history we have a uh... public and you know generations that haven't studied civics they don't know the basics of democracy they you know have lost touch with the value of democracy and self-governance it's part of why we're here and and the data and in terms of this election has already communicated that that those who actually possess knowledge engaged with political news with
facts. They were more likely and, you know, by eight or eight percentage points to vote for Kamala Harris. Those who had little or none, it was as much as 19%. They went for Trump. So, you know, it's, you know, it's clear that the more people are engaged with factual reality and have an opportunity to know a little bit about sort of civics and about their history. You know, they, there might have been more second, uh,
And, you know, this is, you know, this, to me, defines sort of what our work is in these coming years to break through the information bubble, the ecosystems that have separated severed people off from. Disinformation. This is what Alan Lickman, who's been right about every single election, the reason he was wrong this time, he said disinformation and people's, you know,
tendency to believe these ridiculous lies. So thank you for your work. You know, I keep saying like I've been mostly watching movies about women snowmen. Do whatever you need to do to disconnect. I go bike riding for hours. Go do what you love with who you love. You know, but stay in this fight with us. However you
be in it for the long haul i mean that's that's the thing i mean the outrages are going to come constantly we can't be outraged at every single moment you know that that's uh... recipe for burnout no the point is to find ways to maintain your mental health and to stay involved that's that's really the challenge in my case appreciating how horribly bad the acting is in the holiday rom-coms makes me feel better but you stick with them anyway yes yes all right
Love you, Steven. Thanks so much. We'll talk to you again soon. Steven Beshalas. There we go. The station where the handbasket to hell leaves from. It's the Stephanie Miller show. Stephanie Miller.
Yeah, this is not a white supremacist administration. Do you see the Trump administration takes a, it's like a, you know, a KKK Brady bunch of like, except everybody's white. Everybody's white. Ronald said, apparently blacks for Trump only get to wear the t-shirts at the rallies. Nobody's a spark. Markably, remarkably melanin-free administration so far.
Okay, Robert Rice says JFK, or what do you call it? RFK Jr. says he wants to make America healthy again, so he's doing that by butting up with the man who cut environmental protections, gutted food safety laws, and rolled back regulations on dangerous chemicals. Do I have this right? Yes, you do. And he's eating McDonald's because he wants America to be healthy again. Just because.
Oh, there's a picture of Kamala laughing. Nina said, why is she still smiling and laughing? You thought you could bring her down, didn't you? A woman with purpose, passion, and a heart full of love can't be defeated. Every setback only fuels her to rise from the ashes over and over again each time stronger than before. She's gonna be our next governor. Oh, I hope so. I hope so.
Ah, yeah, Dean Obadala says, wow, Trump's Secretary of Defense Pete had just argued in his 2020 book that Christians should unite in a crusade against Muslims entering the United States to protect Judeo-Christian values. He literally wants to kill Muslims in America. How's that feeling? Trump voters. And where's Michigan? OK.
Okay, Carrie says just when I was convincing myself four years isn't that long. I remember it's only been a week and a half since last Tuesday. That's funny. It's true. 29 minutes after the hour.
But what we're talking about with people like Matt Gates is very different from what we're talking about with people like Marco Rubio. And we just have to keep that in mind. But do understand with Matt Gates, and you've already made this point, he's not the only one out there who is unqualified and who raises whole questions like Tulsi Gabbard does. You really want her.
to have all of the secrets of the United States and our defense intelligence agencies. Well, when she has so clearly been in Putin's pocket, that just has to be a hard no.
Senator Professor Elizabeth Horn, thank God for her. Cheryl and Eiffel, thank you for journalism. Something appears to be in a short supply. She said, can reporters drill down and ask Bernie for specifics just once? Because this is really getting ridiculous. Anyone else? I don't have enough of all the post-election analysis, claiming circular fire squad, firing squad this, that, blah. Mentioning this all morning,
for those you think is just about the price of eggs. A wave of offensive text messages and emails have gone out to Hispanic and gay people in recent days, according to the FBI coming on the heels of a barrage of racist texts that were sent to black people in the wake of the election. Some recipients of the latest messages were told they'd been selected for deportations, others were instructed to report to a re-education camp for LGBTQ people. Oh, that's my electric lesbian suit, so that would be a joke anymore.
Here's the not so funny part is the what do you call it conversion therapy will be back and more gay kids will kill themselves.
uh... misogynistic social media posts also have served in the aftermath of the election with phrases like your body my choice and get back to the kitchen for proliferating uh... online the human rights campaign called the message is scare tactics and said hate will not silence us um... please let's not let hate continue to win right i feel like maybe he ran and wanted everything that's the opposite of what's on the statue of liberty did you see uh... her swimming back to france yes that's
Funny. Okay. Christina in Connecticut. Hello. Hello, Kristin. How are you? Good. Go ahead. So people saying mentioned a Michael Tamaski article last week, and it's really good. And I was going to ask you if there's any way you could possibly have them on your show because get me to ask for me. We have a jingle for them. We do. Yes.
The question I had that everyone has is how could people vote for a convicted felon and a adjudicated rapist? Yeah. And the answer is simple. They listen to Fox. They're in that, um, uh, echo chamber and we don't have that. And
Yeah. We all know it was a sad day when current TV was sold. Yeah. To Al Jazeera. But we need to build up that infrastructure. And we need to get Michael to mask you voice on more. Yeah. We'll have him. I agree. I think I'm back in our rotation.
Yeah, let's get him back. He's terrific. Um, yeah, uh, Chris. Oh, yeah. I think Christina, send me the stuff. Lots of talk today on about the focus to mask his recent article about the strength of right wing media, the need for rich progressives to step up and create bigger, stronger media presence from the article. He said, I'm going to keep writing about it until people specifically rich liberals who are the only people in the world who have the power to do something about this state of affairs, take some action.
Thank you. Not just for me. I keep saying this. It's for this whole universe of great progressive voices that are out there in the next generation of them. I mean, if they don't wake up now about it, I don't know when they will.
Who said there are many theories as to why Trump is naming a battalion of bozos to do these very important jobs Some believe he's testing the Republican Congress to see how far he can push them Some say he's doing this strategically to weaken certain sections of the government or and this is the theory. I believe he's dumb Squidley didley
No, Jimmy Kimmel who is also one of the great hilarious progressive voices out there. Yes Yeah, we were saying I've been saying all morning. I will see how this goes Mitch McConnell Said that he said there will be no recess appointments
uh... he said it would be as uh... it would be as uh... i'm sorry he said it would be as sad as well as disgraceful for the senate caved on this and the stakes go beyond the political and even the constitutional it is an inordinate and unnecessary national security risk
This other party, Trump sees criticism over his most controversial cabinet picks as a threat to the almost uncheckable power he intends to wield, and he is not going to back down according to a Trump insider. The source warned he was ready to go to epic battle to force through his picks. He says he sees Matt Gates as his most important pick. He is not going to back down. He is all in.
So we'll see how all this how all this plays out. But as you said, Jody, Mitch McConnell is not in charge anymore. He's not. As of January 3rd, he will no longer be in charge. Right now, technically he's still in charge. Technically he's in charge until January 3rd. Could I have some bag of rats, please? All right. Oh, the bag of rats is already started. Tensions reportedly running high. We linked Trump's transition team after Elon Musk class publicly with Boris Epstein. Fight, fight, fight.
Don't know how to pick a winner. You're both equally awful. They called it a massive blowout over key cabinet appointments. The dispute reached a boiling point during dinner at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club last week when Musk accused Epstein of leaking sensitive details about the transition process. Fight, fight, fight. All equally awful.
They come from opposite sides. Like, Borsch Epstein comes from the evangelical side. Yes. Elon Musk does not. Right. Yes. That's one way to put it. Yeah. Amy, with a love letter, dear Steph, I first met you in person at one of the Blue State Balls hosted by AM950, K-T-N-F. Wow. I was in awe, so I might have stared too long, and I always fear I made you uncomfortable. Never dealt my ability to feel guilty even after 15 years. Not a second has gone by that I haven't thought about it too, Amy.
awkward, so awkward, uncomfortable. I'm just kidding, maybe not. Or anything like that. Number two, Cheeto Benito and everything he stands for. Agreed! As a practicing musician and the official musicologist of the Stephanie Miller show, I'll resist in every way I can. I think of musicians that have gone before us and created some of the most beautiful music the world has ever known while the world burned around them.
Yeah, like think of yourselves as the band on the Trump Tannock. As America goes down, the band plays on. That was dark. Okay. Yeah. Let's go do your Oh, Seth and L.A. wants to defend Chris. Oh, hi, Seth. Yes. Hello, everyone. I was also one of the only ones who thought the jacket was yellow. But what I want to say is Chris is right. And I'm going to say Chris is right.
for Chris and the reason he was right to tell everyone about it is because I told everyone about it because I was asked right I didn't volunteer the information I was asked but more than that Chris this is an important thing that we all have to talk about to each other with because we are all being faced with this one way or another and it's a very personal now individual decision
based on the person, the circumstances, who we are. And, you know, I understand the world that Chris is steeped in before my husband and I were parents. We were crossfitters. We were at the Venice Gold Gym. It's a world that comes with its own set of beliefs. And Chris was there long before Donald Trump came down the escalator. I'm a professional writer.
I work in feature films, but most of my TV writers, friends, my age, okay, they're seeped in it too. And I've had to make these decisions, and I haven't made the same decision with each friend. It's been very specific to who they are, the conversations we can now have, and we shouldn't judge each other from making different decisions. And I think he's right from modeling
that he made that particular decision. Chris was right for Crick. And we all... And that is a niche. The only Chris loves. But I appreciate your Chris support because I love him too. Let's go to... Hey, Donald in Florida. Oh, Donald Trump's going, hi. Oh, I don't have to go to him. He's coming to us. Hi. Hi, do you like my t-shirt? Yes, you are. Yeah, go ahead, Donald. Hello. You're on. Yes. Am I on? Yeah. Wow.
Okay, I'm a little what they call the kids today called neurodivergence. I made a couple notes real quick Okay, first. I don't know if you played this song yet called better eggs. Hope you liked them better eggs by Tennessee Brando Not yet
I'm too busy screaming e would eggs in the supermarket, which I think I'm gonna do right after this show. Okay. All right, let's Where are we? Oh, I think any good could have come from the rest of that call. No See I just I'm gonna get out of relationships much sooner now just before I make my next disastrous mistake. Okay, Jonathan Capehart Oh, sorry nine. Yeah
the former Democratic governor of Kansas. Secretary Sebelius, great to see you again. It's been a long time. Your thoughts on RFK Jr.'s nomination and how dangerous would he be as Secretary of Health and Human Services? Well, I just listened to Congressman Ivy and I think that we're talking about magnitudes of danger beyond
erroneously making legal decisions.
Yes, one more. This is life or death. The HHS affects people from birth to their grave and is intimately connected with restate in the country. So this could be very dangerous. I think it's totally disqualifying for anyone who seeks to lead the major health agency in this country and one of the leaders in the world to just unequivocally say there is no safe and effective vaccine.
Yeah, and then you will literally say I never said that and then they play the great forum. Yeah
that in and of itself from the bully pulpit of HHS could end up killing people, could end up harming children. My grandson is too young to get a lot of vaccinations yet and having him exposed to unvaccinated people with polio and measles is a terrifying thought, having eradicated those diseases as a major health initiative. Jonathan, I think this is absolutely terrifying and people should understand how serious it is.
This tells you everything you need to know about Bobby Kennedy's principles. I mentioned this earlier, but Trump has named Chris Wright, who is described as a TV-ready evangelist for fossil fuels who lacks any government experience as the head of the, what you call it, the Department of Energy. Bobby Kennedy's entire life has been, you know, as an environmentalist, but I went to a bunch of events for him. Right. Environmental law. Okay. Just thought I'd, all right. Let's see.
Did I mention that I threaded and blue skydan tweeted? Yeah, you're on all that. There's so many where. That there's so many sexual salters from the Trump administration from the top on down that they've created their own Me Too movement. You're a rapist Me Too. Welcome. You mentioned that in the first hour. Yeah, he did. Yeah. Different audience is a robotic.
different a q a lot of water cooler pete heads trumps pick for defense secretary uh... paid off a sexual assault accuser trumps team was poorly thrown for a loop when it was revealed he was accused of sexual assault because they don't do any vetting either nope
uh... he maintained their encounter was consensual because of course he did uh... he said uh... head south was visibly uh... intoxicated at the time of the incident but obviously knows that she's a lying horn retrospect anyway she he agreed to paint undisclosed amount to the woman
because he feared the revelation of the matter would result in his termination from Fox News. The statement came after a detailed memo was sent to a Trump transition team by a week who said, this week by a woman who said she was a friend of the accuser, the memo, a copy was obtained by the post alleged she raped the then 30 year old conservative group staffer in his room after drinking at the hotel bar. What did he say? Oh, she was the aggressor? Yeah, because in Trump world, it's always, yeah, the woman that's, yeah.
Okay, a woman told the health Essex committee she personally saw Matt Gates having sex with a minor at a party in Florida in 2017 Her attorney said her the testimony was offered during the lengthy investigation into Gates Do you think that might be why they don't want this report to come out because maybe because that's in there among other things Okay, oh You know what this one you think maybe things are The last things a joke
The Tiger King. Yeah. Oh, yeah. A plan for a central role at Trump's side. Would you be surprised? Would you be surprised? I wouldn't be surprised at all. Trump didn't come through with a pardon for the Tiger King, but as he prepares to return to the Oval Office, the star of the hit Netflix shows hopeful, he will be well out of jail, first of all. Is that even a requirement to be in the Trump administration? I don't think so. Do you have to technically be out of jail? I don't think so. No. Okay. Did he just get married in jail? I think he did. Yeah.
Uh, Sean Hannity, and a lot of people told me I was on the pardon list, because of course you were, that they'd seen the pardon list. Oh, you know, what else was on there? Matt Gaetz, which is weird. I don't... Because that's why you would ask for a pardon when you've done absolutely nothing wrong. And January 6th happened, and then everything got screwed up, and then I got left behind. Oh, Ted Hooking got raptured. Oh. Maldonado, that's his name, said he wishes Trump will give him a cabinet position to his director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Do we? Do we have to show a fish up your ass? I feel like... Multimodal, just in case you were... You had forgotten, because I had forgotten. Jody. This is the name I haven't heard in four years. Tiger King. He is serving a 21-year sentence for two counts of murder for hire related to his alleged plans to kill his big cat rescue foe, Carol Baskin. You remember. I remember her, yeah. Mm-hmm.
Along with 19 other counts of wildlife crime related to the alleged killing of five tigers and the illegal sale of tiger cubs. So that guy would be in charge of this fish and walleye. Yeah. All right. I bet you he has. Okay. Are you saying because he's gay?
I don't know. Oh, is he? He is gay. Oh, I didn't know that. Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. You didn't watch Tiger King? Oh, God, no. Don't be ridiculous. He had a concubine of young boys. Oh, I know that Carol Baskin's a bitch, apparently. I don't know. That's what I'm told. They're both awful. Yeah, they're not people. I want to hang around at all, but he had a concubine of young boys. Yeah, I never lost you there. If she wasn't dead, wouldn't she be named for something too? Yeah. Do you think Jeffrey Epstein would be in the cabinet if he wasn't? Oh, gosh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. All righty then. You're a Baskin is a bitch.
It's one thing we can all agree on. Yes. She's like Kyle's mom. Uh-huh. The big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big
All right. I mentioned I'm starting posting on blue sky in addition to Twitter and threads and Instagram and Facebook. Fortunately, I have absolutely no life of any kind. I have no work-life balance. I copy and paste is your friend. It is. It's a really good idea. What is copy and paste? Oh, I don't know. Can you tell me how to do that? Oh, my God, woman. How did you ever do anything ever? How did you survive this long? Especially in this day and age. Okay.
Elon Musk, in a totally unrelated story, is directing candidates working in his new Department of Government Efficiency, of which there's two people running it.
uh... to submit their resumes through acts apparently granting himself an access access to what he describes as uh... super high iq small government revolutionaries willing to work eighty plus hours per week uh... free there's uh... barely there's no salary indeed will be tedious work make lots of them enemies in the compensation zero wow you had me in hello
That's, okay. Is that even legal? No, it's legal, yeah. Except made you have to pay for a check mark to be able to DM him, to be able to get a job. It's stupid if you're the one who's applying. Right. You're the stupid one. Right. Demi-stupid. E-stupid. There we am, tucking down to people. E-stupid. See you tomorrow on this Stephanie Miller show.
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