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January 28, 2025
TLDR: Discussion between Charlie Pierce and Hal Sparks on the podcast

In the latest episode of the Stephanie Miller Show, hosts Charlie Pierce and Hal Sparks join Stephanie to dissect the recent upheavals in U.S. politics, particularly the actions and statements of former President Donald Trump in light of current events. The discussion touches on voter security in California, Trump's absurd claims regarding water supply, and his turbulent relationship with the military and immigration policies.
Key Discussion Points
Voter Security Concerns
- Californian Election Issues: The guests express frustration over the lack of election security in California, noting that some Democratic seats were lost due to delays in ballot counting. They criticize Governor Gavin Newsom's leadership during the recent elections and the ongoing wildfire crises.
Trump’s Controversial Claims
- Military Water Claims: Trump’s assertion that the U.S. military turned on California’s water supply is met with skepticism. The discussion highlights the ridiculousness of suggesting that military intervention was necessary for such basic infrastructure.
Humor Amidst Chaos
- Brondo and Idiocracy Comparisons: Sparks humorously references movies like "Idiocracy", suggesting that Trump's presidency feels like a parody of reality. They joke about the notion that crops could pick themselves if supplied with enough "Brondo"—a nod to mismanaged resources and absurd problem-solving.
Immigration Policies
- Mass Deportations: The episode critiques Trump’s plan to move IRS agents to the border to enforce immigration laws, equating it with a scorched-earth policy. They argue that such actions lack pragmatic solutions and instead highlight Trump's chaotic presidency and its consequences on immigrant communities.
The Mentality of Trump’s Supporters
- Loyalty and Extremism: Charlie Pierce mentions how Trump's voters are willing to follow him into extremes, portraying them as being out of touch with reality. He underscores the partisan division that characterizes the current political landscape, suggesting that collaboration is impossible with a faction that thrives on divisiveness.
Republican Response to Critique
- Fired Officials and Pardons: The guests discuss Trump's pattern of pardoning January 6 rioters while engaging in questionable hires like Tucker Carlson's son for a governmental role, indicating a worrisome trend of putting loyalty over competency in politics.
Insights and Takeaways
- Humor and Resilience: Throughout the chaos, humor runs as a thread through the podcast, with jokes about societal issues providing comic relief from the heaviness of the political landscape, reflecting resilience against the overwhelming absurdity.
- Caution Against Complacency: The guests urge vigilance among Democrats, cautioning against complacency in the face of radical policy shifts that threaten established rights and norms. They emphasize the importance of fighting back against initiatives that undermine democracy and civil rights.
Conclusion
The episode encapsulates the whirlwind of current political debates, illustrating the mix of frustration and humor that characterizes discussions among progressives today. As Trump continues to dominate headlines with outrageous claims and policies, the podcast serves as both a critique and a call to action for listeners to remain engaged and informed.
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Listen, there are a lot of issues going on in California and we have been lamenting the lack of voter security there for some time, election security. We were deeply concerned about it in this last election cycle and we saw three of our seats frankly slip away from us in the weeks that it took to continue counting ballots in California when seemingly every other state and nation in America can get it done. It's inexcusable. Gavin Newsom provides, I think, such a lack of leadership there in so many ways and it was highlighted by the disaster with the fires.
Does Bella know how to find that Eat Us song from, you know, the Adams? It's called Eat Me Kids. Yeah. Oh, there you go. Yeah, it's the kids. I think it's in the history by actually. All right. Wow, Mike Johnson. Wow. You know what? I take back everything I've ever said about Donald Trump. Why is that Christmas? Oh, thank God. He turned on the giant faucet in California. Yeah, we didn't even know. We have a spicot. Yeah, apparently we do. He turned on the faucet. So now we have water.
because we're in the dumbest timeline ever. This is a big, this is his trough. That's his trough. The United States military just entered the great state of California. No. No. No. No. No. Just note all this. Just assume anything that he says. California officials pushed back hard on Trump's claim the military turned on the water under his orders.
It's Brando. Okay. You notice this? They turned on the Brando spicket. Right. That's what we're missing. Because that's what plants crave. It is. So now it doesn't matter. There's nobody to pick the crops because nobody showed up to work because now the crops have Brando. Right. So we'll just pick themselves. Well, it's what plants crave.
Is there something beyond idiocracy, wherever we are now? Hopefully, I'm not even through the first trough. Uh, no, it stays military. Just entered the, it's just going to be a, this is how the guy, it's morally weakened. Is this, by the way, he's golfing already. He's, his work is done here. Took a giant. Well, he had that giant, Miley Cyrus wrecking ball to the country. Now he's like, I'm golfing now.
Well, he had his gigantic meeting at Mar-a-Lago, where he could golf. No, not Mar-a-out with the other one, D'Rau. Oh, D'Rau. We're also filling his pockets with cash while playing golf. How's those egg prices do when everybody... Bird flu? And is he done anything about that? No. Egg prices? $14 for $18. Whoo! Excuse me, I'm not sure the first. All right. Do you know how it stays? I think I feel like I need like a big announcement. Is it an earthly trumpet? Yeah, yeah. This is... It's obviously a major announcement. I mean, because if only we had thought about this.
The United States military just entered the great state of California under emergency powers, and this is all in caps, so you know it's true. Turned on the water!
That's fine. It's fine. Turned on the water, flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Beyond up there somewhere. The days of putting a fake environmental argument over the people that people are all in caps so you know that he loves us. Oh, of course. Are over. That's also capitalized for some reason, just people and over. Why is he screaming? Enjoy the water, California! We have water.
We don't have smells, but we have water. How many people, mega idiots, believe this? I don't... In the military, turn on the water, the giant faucet. Okay, need I go to the official? Oh, yeah, what's right? This is the official.
California State officials denied Trump's truth social claim that the military had entered California. Do I need to read it? Okay. No, just none of this. The claim, the state's Department of Water Resources, what do they know? They don't know obviously about the giant faucet that we forgot to turn on.
I clarified in a late night post to deny the military had entered California and clarify the pumps or offline for maintenance for a couple of days. That's okay. So good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Oh, he also what else did he float at? Where's the drow something?
I was staying in the present. How many times have we warned you? We tried to tell you, you were warned about staying in the presidency beyond. There's a lot of effort this morning. Oh, here it is. Yeah, I got it. Nobody helped me. Oh, we weren't going to. Trump once again floated publicly pondered the possibility of running for president for a third term. He asked Mike Johnson if he'd be allowed to.
Oh, is it up to Mike Johnson? I'm hearing an address at the thing that's putting money in his pockets from Doral, where all the Republicans are gathered to suck his money. When did it become up to Mike Johnson to decide? I don't know. He said I raised a lot of money for the next race I assume I can't use for myself, but I'm not 100% sure. I don't know. I think I'm not allowed to run again. Am I allowed to run again, Mike? Oh, because it's up to Mike. It says that right in the Constitution. Mike?
Hey Mikey, he likes it. I think it says that in the game. What article is that? That's article 16. Oh, is it? Thank you, Chris. Chris is the keeper of the fact.
Thank you for that. Oh, oh, it's in both current. It's in both current. It's just a picture. I better not get involved in that argument. Yeah, it's like they're saying that firing the IG's when they're like, yeah, technically it's against technically illegal. No, it's like, well, yeah, sort of. Okay. That was Lindsey Graham that said that yesterday. Well, technically.
Pour another cup of Brando, because here I just, there's a lot. Did I give you too much again? No, I did this to myself. Okay.
Okay, part two of the idiocracy. By the way, this is day two of the baby, Bella, who everyone loves. Hi, Bella. That was doing great. Sean is here. Sean Kamiskey is training us, helping us. Thank God. Such a helper. Can I just, I just wanted to pause briefly, Chris, in the f-ery. Okay. To show you how Stephanie Miller's show has come magically full circle. Mike says, I love you, mama. I've been listening since KFI, you rock. So I was at KFI in 1990s. The 90s.
Early, right. Early 90s. Yeah. Early 90s, 3. Oh, Jesus and trial. Right. Right. Bella just came from being a board operator at KFI and also Series XM. What year were you born? I'm a little scared to say 2002. She was born after 9-11. So, Nami says, great show. Bella, you're wonderful. You fit in very well. But that's what I thought when someone said KFI. I'm like, she wasn't alive. Right. No. No. No.
The O.J. Simpson trial was history. Not alive for quite a while. 2000 what? You guys didn't do. She was born after 9-11 Stephanie. Did I just get this old or if I always look at... He's almost Sean the stem cell of the Stephanie Miller show is almost 40. Sean and I were talking this morning about how now he's starting to feel like the old one around people like Bell.
2002 that's going to keep me up all night. Okay. It's not even like a one and a nine in it. I've been dating anyone vaguely that low. I mean, I'm just trying to surprise that. Right? I know. Get on that. You were born in a year with a one and a nine. Forget it, grandma. Okay. I just, because this is part two of idiocracy, I just have to.
Trump floats gutting the IRS and moving agents to the border armed with guns. He floated, moving nearly 90,000 IRS agents to the border to parole the area while armed with guns. He said, how about just no text? He said to cheers from the idiots. Las Vegas, where he was doing his... Right. Right, that, sure.
You could do that, you know, if the tariffs work out, like tariffs work out, like I think a thing like that could happen. It could happen. Do you want to know the truth? It's not going to happen. Oh my god. Oh my god. What the actual, what? It just, seriously, every female, also the IRS and where nobody's going to pay any tax, but somehow magically we're going to have money because something, something tariffs, which is actually going to cost us money. We're not, yes, we're not going to have products because of tariffs. Okay.
I can't, okay, this one just because I need to stick for a minute with the idiocracy. Bella, I'm so sorry, I don't know. But you know what, we fucked up the world long before you got here and I apologize on behalf of all of us. Look at her home bright eyed, blinky, just out of college. Just like, oh my sparkle hasn't been changed yesterday. Don't let them take you joy.
Trump popped into the press cabin on plane Saturday insisted he would of course be too busy to golf, which of course was also a lot because he was golfing yesterday already. He said he wants to change Air Force One that repainted again. He said, we want power blue, not baby blue. Power blue, not powder blue.
Yeah. Which, you know, since he's the biggest man baby in the world, I feel like the baby blue is probably a little more... Apropos. Wineiest. Wineiest. Full diaper. Poopy. Diaper baby. Ever. Power blue is apparently like a navy blue. Okay. The underbelly of Air Force One is painted baby blue because that makes the aircraft blend in with the sky, making it less visible to potential rocket attacks long from the ground.
You go ahead, you know what? Do something. I'll do like red. I'll do something because really visible. I'll make America great. Do it. Do it. Go big. I'm not sure we can endorse that, Stephanie. I'm just trying to help. It worked really well for the British soldiers. We're like a big white coat, a big red coat. Yeah. Excuse me. We call them the white coats. Red coat, pardon me. Oh, stop. I haven't had much sleep. OK.
I, so what else awful happened yesterday? Oh, no more transgender people in the military. Is there anything else awful on missing? Oh, the, by the way, so this is the second January 6 terrorist that he pardoned.
Yes. Oh, well, this is one of them. Cop Beter, pardon by Trump, is wanted for soliciting sex with a child. Yeah. Yeah. He was pardoned. He's currently a fugitive wanted for wanting for, remember, the, the maggots that always say that all liberals are right. Petaphos. Me. Yeah. Yeah. I don't, I don't, as you know, like kids at all. At least Bella's. None of us in this room have ever had kids. No. Yeah. Um,
Yes, he was serving a 74 month sentence handed down last June after he pled guilty to one count of assaulting law enforcement officers with a dangerous weapon. He attacked officers with bear spray and a metal whip. He is a was released last week. And then there was another guy. Hang on. Do I have that was just shot dead by police because he was resisting arrest. He was just pardoned. However, look, a few days ago, he was resisting arrest and was shot dead by a police officer. OK.
Did I miss any anything else? I don't. Oh, just because... Trump White House boasts a wildly over-the-top memo that Trump did more in his first week than most presidents who over their full term. Did you mean that in a good way? Or... He broke more things than anything else. Fox News panel gushes over epic idea of adding Trump to Mount Rushmore. Okay, if you... Yeah, it's epic. That's epic.
Have we always been at war with East Asia? Dear leader, says we have. Yes. Oh, by the way, Google, you suck AP. Thank you. Google was going to go ahead and name it Gulf of America because AP, however, will not follow Trump's renaming of Gulf of Mexico because, you know, facts still matter. It's an international body. He can't just say it and with a Sharpie because it did have OK.
All right, I think I'm done for now. We have Charlie. You blew your wad completely. Oh, Kansas sees just tuberculosis outbreak in history, which is fantastic timing for Bobby Kennedy. Is it tomorrow? He starts his hearing. Sean grew up across the street from Kansas, so. Yeah, yeah. What are you getting for Christmas, TB? Iron lung? OK.
I don't know why I'm laughing. I don't know either. I need backup. I need Charlie Pearson house bar today. And, you know, the baby bell is here. So good luck cleaning up our mess. I gave her gummies yesterday. I think I may have over medicated her. And also a welcome bottle of wine. She's like, I'm fine.
We were good bottle of wine. I was so thankful my roommates are so happy. Oh, fantastic. Did you drink it already? Oh, yeah, I was already. OK. Do you know who's president? Do you understand? She's baby. Nightly routine. OK. Mama's medicine.
Yep, it is the Stephanie Miller show. Charlie Pierce and Hal Sparks all coming up on The Big Show. How much do we love? Not the hate letters, really, Chris, but suggestions. Yeah, we love suggestions. Who does it concern? Usually nobody. Nobody. OK, this is from Jeff and I.
I feel like he may be pervaying a little bit of the snark. Oh yeah? Okay. Subject line, I just want to help your show. If you know anything about us, you know we love notes. We do. Yes. Jeff in Iowa says, hey Steph, I just want to say I'm an independent who listens to both sides and I stumbled across your show.
You have an entertaining show, but I would like to point out a couple of problems I see. I think you sometimes let your personal prejudice interfere with what could be a pretty good show. Let me give you an example. You've criticized Donald Trump for being a racist, sexist, misogynistic, sexual predator who appoints other sexual predators to his cabinet. I'm not disagreeing with any of that. I'm just pointing out that you seem to have a terrible bias against racism, sexism, misogyny, and sexual assault. Furthermore, I see what you did.
Furthermore, I want to address the fact that you've attacked Donald Trump for cutting funding for cancer research. Steph, I think it's time for you and the rest of the media to be honest with yourselves and acknowledge you have an overwhelming anti-cancer bias. Oh. Donald Trump obviously does not share this bias. This is why I often watch Joe and Mika in the morning. They don't take a stand on anything. They let people decide for themselves if cancer is good or bad, and if we should have a special editor as president. Anyway, I just hope you take this to heart and try to be more aware of how your own biases are influencing your show. Jeff and Iowa.
Jeff, thank you. You are a polite show chipmunk and thank you. Much appreciated. We appreciate all of them. Thank you. Thank you for the note. Okay. Speaking of people that do not bend the knee, Mark Elias says CNN is about to lose its single best anchor because it needs to show obedience to Trump, shameful that rumors are that Jim Acosta is going to step down rather than take the demotion to midnight or whatever. Jim, come on. Anytime. Anytime. Truth tellers always welcome.
If he had been on a midnight, I might have been able to see him, because I get up. There you go. It's all about you. Well, it's all for you, Damien.
Oh, by the way, we mentioned Mike Johnson saying our aid is conditional because something something we forgot to have the military turn on the giant faucet in the north that comes from something. OK, Ron says Mike Johnson represents a state whose largest city was built below sea level behind levees sandwiched between the ocean and a massive river on Hurricane Alley, but he doesn't want to give aid to California because their policies invite natural disasters. Yeah, thanks, Mike. Thanks. We'll get on that.
No, Mike Johnson said it's conditional upon voter ID because the Republicans lost three seats in California, so that needs to be fixed. Oh, sure. That's why. Yeah. OK, I got it.
Uh, Chris Murphy, Senator Murphy said, look, Trump is trying to over saturate us with nonstop chaos. So we can't react meaningfully to any one thing. Thank you, Senator. But Friday's global stop work order on almost all USA is dumb and murderous. And he goes down the whole, uh, obviously the reasons why. Okay. So it is as bad as you think. Oh, look at that. Uh, Texas Republicans file a flurry of anti vaccine bills just in time for brainworm sky to get confirmed possibly tomorrow. Yeah.
Okay. You know what? Least it ensures that Sean's not moving back to Kansas because of, you know, tuberculosis outbreak. Yeah. It's definitely not a show.
President Trump has not enunciated any plan to address the bird flu outbreak. He spent his first week pardoning insurrectionists, firing government watchdogs instead of focusing on things ordinary Americans care about like the price of groceries. The President owes the American people some answers. What is he going to do about the price of eggs? It's been exacerbated by bird flu.
Thank you. Senator Chuck Schumer, Chris. Yes. Who said Mexico, as well as other countries and international bodies, do not have to recognize the name change. Who said that? The Great, Great, Ape. No, that would be the Associated Press. Thank you for at least for the moment, standing up to Chitalini and saying no. Oh, we are not renaming it Gulf of America. Google, Google. I'm very... Is it pointed? Okay.
Judy says, that's the least thing I'm going to get we're upset at Trump. No, but it's just it's part of the gas lighting and that's like there's he's accomplished more than any president ever and belongs on Mount Rushmore.
Right? I'm not going to get upset about any of that. There's a lot of stuff. Well, I'll do it for both of us. Like a pregnant woman eats for two, I will stress for both of us. Then your heart is going to pop. I don't care. I'll do it for America. Judy, Patriot, does care. All right. Jesus, our country is in distress. Do not deny. Do not obey. Do not bend. Do not get lost in despair. Do try and keep yourself centered. You are not going to take Bella's joy, America. She's a baby. You can thrive, but you can't.
See, she's plucky. She is plucky. She's got spunk. I love spunk. No, you don't. You hate spunk. No, I love spunk.
especially if it knows how to run a board. Okay. I am with, where are we? Blah, blah, blah, blah, hang on. Can I just say, God bless Michael Steele and our friend Joe Walsh. I keep saying this. I don't know why Republicans and former Republicans seem to be still yelling the loudest with the most urgency. And I got it. Okay, hang on. Let me just. Oh, here he is.
Yes, Blue Rubble says MSNBC host Michael Steele argues that Republicans should own the mess they're making of the country. Y'all Democrats need to chill on this. All this kumbaya, bipartisan, bipartisan crap. They don't want to work with you. They're not going to work with you. They have the House, the Senate, and the White House. Let them choke on that.
Thank you. Thank you. Joe Walsh said, Democrats, don't coddle him, don't flatter him, don't laugh at him, don't appease him, don't try to work with him, oppose him. He is a cruel, divisive, dishonest, lawless authoritarian, oppose him. That's all. Call him out for the un-American threat he is. Do it. Every day, grow a spine, oppose him.
Thank you. Stephen Beshloss, our friend, just echoing that. It's a mistake for Democrats to try and work with Trump. The more they communicate that they will accept his dominance and respect his power, the more he will exploit their vulnerability, particularly because he is he sadistically relishes harming and demeaning others. Thank you. Tell me one thing he's working on that would help the American people. Nothing.
I'm sorry to just answer the question. Sorry. Was that rhetorical or? I was going to leave room for you to side against. Well, you have to give me a little time to think because I can't think of a thing right now. Kevin in DC. Hello. Hello, Kevin. Good morning, everybody. Just a quick. Thank you to everyone. Not just your show, but everyone in these.
fight back against coalition. It's probably made up name. I just paid up. Okay. That is continuing. Not just figuratively, but literally. And it's still difficult. And I appreciate it because I've been protesting since I was a kid. My relative always joke. You know, you're on like half a dozen government list, right?
Me? Me? No. I don't think they cover people who work in their basement yet, but they'll get to us. They will. Yeah. You're on the list. Yeah. Anyway, something's wrong with your phone or you have really bad morning gas. I don't know which it is, but something was clicking. Clicking. There was a click. Yes. Oh, maybe because he's probably tapped. His phone's right tapped or mine.
to his point. By the way, can I just say, we're not going to win, you know, all of them, maybe not even a lot of them. But this one, which you call it, the US Air Force will resume teaching about the nation's first black pilots and the women pilots of World War II. This followed widespread public outcry over their earlier decision to stop teaching about the Tuskegee airmen and the wasps. We mentioned this at the end of the show yesterday, but our friend Steve Marmel said they tried to erase history. We loudly said hell no. They folded. We should say hell no a lot more.
Yeah, doesn't make them right all of a sudden, right? Nope. Doesn't mean you stop fighting. You're not going to win them all, but you have to stay in the game, man. Dance Savage wrote a great thing about the darkest days of AIDS and how they kept their hope and their joy and when, you know, buried friends in the morning, went dancing at night because it was part of the, and it didn't seem like they were going to win the fight then. Oh, and now, by the way, cutting off all foreign AIDS is going to make the HIV AIDS worldwide.
Crisis coming back better or get worse, but at least it's coming with a friend tuberculosis Did I mention this Shawn? Just I just because you're from Kansas and ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in recorded history What's matter? Did he say anything? Well right now tuberculosis
Wow. Sean grew up across the street from Kansas. He didn't grow up from Kansas. Okay. I understand. Missouri. I get it. I know the difference. Oh, congratulations on the, on the Super Bowl thing. We were at the uptown, he said. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I know. Right. I'm not that old. I remember. Yeah. Okay.
Republicans are filing bills to, which aim to claw back vaccine requirements. There's even a house joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Texas Constitution that would preserve Texas' right to refuse to a vaccination. The proposal is more than a month, 20 bills endorsed by, oh, Texans are a vaccine choice. Oh, yeah. Uh-huh. It makes it easier for parents to opt out of vaccinations, ensure no one's denied medical care based on vaccination status. So yeah, just kind of bring all your disease into everybody's doctor's office and hospitals and stuff. What could possibly go wrong?
Keep across the board vaccine mandate to beg, give the Texas legislature final approval on any new vaccinations required by schools, apply more rules for dispensing the COVID vaccine, demand more transparency when it comes to the National Clearinghouse on adverse effects of vaccines and other conspiracy theories that I'm sure we'll hear more about tomorrow at Bobby Kennedy's hearing. Is he going to bring like a dead bear cub and the whale head or
You know, they're like emotional support pets, even if they're, you know, dead. He'll be like care top. He's going to bring it like a chest of props. Oh, Senator Kennedy had some weird things about the whole COVID vaccine. Oh, yes. Is this 14? Yes. Yeah. He Oh, because Dr. Fauci released the COVID virus deliberately because in Wuhan. Yes.
Dr. Fauci, I think we're going to find out, was funding, gain a function research on the Chinese lab. And the virus may have gotten out from the lab. And Dr. Fauci saw that, and he said, oh, my God, I could get blamed for all this. So I'm going to have to establish complete controls, so nobody asks questions, and nobody looks under the sea cushions. And I thought he was before in terms of mandating the vaccine for everybody.
That makes no sense at all. You know who said a million times during COVID? What? What? Difference does it make? If it's, you know, from nature, nobody would have done it on purpose. China or anyone else and killed millions of their own people. And we always think, like, what difference does it make?
Okay. So now they've released a thing saying, Oh, we think it was, you know, leaked from a lab that we have, but we have very low confidence. Exactly. The CIA did that. Yes. And that's fine. You know, yeah. If it leaked from a lab, it leaked from a lab, but COVID got out and we needed to protect against it. I may have tuberculosis, but I have very low confidence in that assessment. So I, you know, I'd just say sitting there if I were you.
what's the point of saying you've got releasing information saying what we have very low confidence that that's true i'm gonna say a bunch of things today and then just say i have very low confidence okay great yeah great hi karen it's a very low confidence this is actually you but hi it's me it's me um it's a pretty good and better bad um
Yes, yes, I have been turned into A.I. No. Okay, great. So, all right. Now, what I want to say is, first of all, Chris, you are right. Donald Trump, all of this stuff about the Gulf of Mexico, all of that other stuff, all of the ridiculous things that he said to our detriment, the mainstream media focuses way too much on all of that stuff. Because what's really? Yeah.
And here's the thing. What they need to and what they have missed for the last year and a half was reporting and warning loudly about the danger of Project 2025 and Schedule S. They talked about Joe Biden's age. They did not report about all the great things about the economy. And the problem is here, Stephanie, right now, there are reports coming out of the Office of Personnel Management that they are in the middle of a
hostile quote, hostile takeover of our civil servants. Yeah, they are the executive office of the president office of management and budget just released a memo from Matt Voth of project 2025 acting director temporary positive agency grant loan and other financial assistance programs. They are withholding our tax dollars. Yeah.
OK, this is the stop that the media has missed. And I agree. And also, I think it was. Yeah, stand up for the rule of law. You know, Tristan Snell said inspectors generals are not leaving, stating Trump's attempted firings broke the law. Also, Chuck Grassley, Republican Senator from Iowa, said Trump broke the law requiring 30 days notice to Congress and detailed reasons for firing IGs. Keep standing your ground. I mean, these are prosecutors that just got fired.
for doing their job because they were part of the jackpot investigations that was their job and but they have to have to show cause why you got fired so i agree stand your ground and listen our democratic leadership i agree do not work with these people okay because for all of us instead of worrying about all the people that you were going to try and draw in your loyal base
feels humiliated and demoralized. Every time you guys work with these people. Keem Jeffries has the right idea when he says that they are not going to work with them on raising the death ceiling unless they protect
social security and medicare yet democrats need to be out there peaking plainly believe speaking clearly make the main stream media pay attention to you we get our own social media and i don't know if michael steel michael steel is right they are not interested in unity they're not interested in in civility they don't think they're interested is you we say chris and owning us now in humility i think exactly
Just wise up, man. That's all we did when I worked in right-wing radio. That's every single topic was about owning the libs. And it gets ratings. Pustule, I don't know where it was, Newsmax. You see, he's like eating tacos on air and like taunting, you know, about all the deportations. What did I say? It's gonna be the biggest, dumbest, loudest, meanest reality TV stunt presidency ever. You should eat mayonnaise on white bread to taunt him.
Oh, that's a good idea. I don't eat that, but okay. There's only so much I'll do for my art. Your art? Is that what we're calling this art? Yeah. Yeah. What? It's not? Excuse me.
potato didn't go down right. Okay, here's just to Karen's point about the media and the role and how we got here, blah, blah, blah. P.S. Tomlinson, who I follow, this is just one story, but it's just how, oh my God, media, I don't know if you're ever, I don't have confidence, I have low confidence. They're going to wake up. Very, very low.
But he said, P.S. said, this is, hold on, hold please. Oh, he starts it. It's a great thread. He said, because the media is already getting everything wrong as they possibly can, let's go over what actually happened with Columbia. Under Biden, Harris, Columbia accepted more than 400 deportation flights, 120 and just 2024 alone. These were normal commercial planes. Everything was fine. There were no issues. And then Trump came along instead of just sending the same chartered commercial flights.
of deportees. Colombia had accepted hundreds of times. Trump took Colombians, shackled them, threw them on US military jets at an absorbent cost. Because why? Because it's for show. Right. Not wanting the humiliating, disrespectful, and cruel optics of Colombians and chains thrown off US Air Force jets on his own turf. Colombia's president rightfully told Trump, hey, stop being a fascist coat, fascist coated a hole.
Trump. Can you say that the Spanish word? Oh, I wish I could. Okay. Oh, there's various friends like all him president, Penn. Oh, oh, yeah. Yeah. All right. Trump retaliated with a threat of 25% tariffs. So Trump created a problem that did not exist, lost, gave up everything he tried to negotiate, looked like a weak
head to the world. Damage diplomatic relations with an ally all while boosting Chinese soft power in South America. This is the huge Trump win, MAGA and the complicit US media is talking about this morning. We are in hell. There you go. That's just one story, right?
Yeah, this is all I missed one thread. President Petro responded with threats of 50% tariffs on American imports. That was right before Trump immediately folded like a cheap suit with drew his demands to use military planes to transport deportees, which again was the only difference from what Biden had done.
Someone else, I believe pointed that out, that he's not deporting any more people than Biden did. Oh, Adam Kinzinger said so far it doesn't appear the Trump administration is deporting any more people than Biden. They're just meaner about it because of course. Right, because it's a bigger show. Now with more Dr. Phil.
Kelly and I... Hey, you're Dr. Phil. That's my favorite. Vaviocracy, yes. You're Dr. Phil. Dr. Phil's like, oh, where'd you see me? I've seen you on Dr. Phil. All right, Kelly, go ahead. Oh, my God. Do you know me from the Stephanie Miller show? By the way, I'm just curious. Hey, you're Stephanie Miller. I've seen you. Okay, go ahead, Kelly. Sorry. Kelly.
Oh, I killed her. What did I do? I think you killed her. Kelly. Oh, she said this first time. Oh, she's laughed. Oh, hello. I heard you. Oh, I'm putting you back on hold. All right. Listen, Bella's rapping. She's children of the future and also they're in charge. Just rap. Yes. 49. Wow. She's like a, like a, on the runway. Uh-huh. She's not kidding around. She's flinging. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay. End up like an airplane. Hey, where's the baggage loader? Oh, damn it.
Crash. She doesn't know that movie. No. Have you ever seen airplane? I have seen airplane. Okay. She was born in 2002. For those of you. Right. They're just tuned in. Oh, yeah. Okay. She was born after 9-11. Yes. Oh, 9-11. Yikes.
I probably stopped doing this. Yeah, don't do that. Okay. Yeah, you're a rocker.
Okay, maybe I'll laugh. Okay, 56 minutes after the hour. Just in case this is where you tune in to find out. Yes, it is as bad as you think it is. Just, you know, Ron tweets. So let's see, Trump has been president for a week. And now we are fighting with Canada, Greenland, Mexico, Denmark, Panama, Columbia, pretty much the entire EU. It does seem Victor Orban and Netanyahu now like us more though. So there's that. Yeah, nicely done. Nicely done, everyone. Mm hmm.
Let's see. Oh, let's try Kelly in Michigan again. She was right. Hello, Kelly. Hello. Go ahead. I just want it. It's so near today. Jodi is not here today. She'll be here next Tuesday. She took this week off. Oh, that's right. I forgot. I'm.
Oh, well, I want to say hello to Bella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ella Ell
And the other night I was sitting on my phone and I looked up at the TV and they were showing a Carol Burnett, whatever. Me TV. And he was making Tim laugh. Right. Tim Conway. He was laughing hysterically. He was trying not to, you know, he just breaking up. And then she turns around and shows the crowd what she's doing to him. And she's shaking her breath.
all over the place and they've looked like hers it looked like she had like a a transpaint okay wow just break and bell in on the dump button okay well she was jake in her breasticles because she's a saucy little minx just like her daughter jody help exactly all right good job though okay fifty eight minutes after the hour trolley peers coming up
It's the Stephanie Miller Show.
What we're talking about is a mass deportation, a mass deportation that's rounding up everybody. Children, families, business owners. And I would like somebody in the Trump administration to explain to me how doing that is actually going to reduce costs, help our businesses, help our communities and make us more safe.
Thank you, Representative Crow. I would like to know that as well. Tracy Crow. Oh, yes, thank you. Did you see this from a post on Democratic Underground? A woman confronts a vocal MAGA supporter complaining about the skyrocketing cost of her insulin. Uh-huh. She is a Trump-supporting Medicare recipient furious that her life savings prescription once an affordable $10, thanks to Joe Biden and the Democrats, has now risen into a crush in $782. Goodness. Until Donald Trump. You know, it's almost like
It's almost like
Okay, thank you, Bob Sesca. Once again, sharing your bodily show fluids. Okay, LA Blue Dot and Georgia says in a normal America, Eric Trump threatening American citizens to obey or else would be considered scandal in Trump's America. We call it Monday. Did you see his tweet? You're furious at the time, you guys. Okay, gummy.
I can't, how can you take him seriously? He looks like those clacking comedy tees and we're trying to escape from his mouth. Yes. I'm warning you. I swear. Whatever, gummy. Okay. Jamal Bowie says we have a president with a tenuous grip on a small legislative majorities who was out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. If I were an elected member of the domestic opposition, I might try to draw real blood.
to literally figuratively, politically. And I agreed. It's just what you're hearing from everybody. Fight, Democrats, fight. It is true. We are not some tiny minority. And I keep saying what he's doing. Everything he's doing is wildly unpopular. You can't tell me that's not going to make a difference at some point. And right now... And this idiot on Democratic under a hell of a million dollars is $800 now.
And right now, the Republicans are taking advantage of the fact that Democrats are somewhat demoralized. Right. Let's stop it. All right. It's a new year. It's a new year. Pull out of it because this is started. This show is started. Wake up. Get back in the fight. You know, you got to do. Like I keep saying, don't let them take your joy. Do what you have, what you have to do to maintain your health mentally, physically. In in Jodi's case, it's get the
away from us, which is fine. She'll be back next Tuesday. She needed a week off, and then she'll be here for Tuesday. I'm going to Universal Studios this weekend. Yeah, I did. Oh, and I threw my back out last week because I am old. Yes. And then I did a 45 mile bike ride, three and a half hours in the Santa Ana winds on Saturday. And do you think that made this would be like an eye test, an IQ eye test? Do you think it made my back better or worse? Better or worse? Yes, yes.
I don't think there was any other answer. Not known for my good decisions, but I did enjoy the ride. It was on Santa Ana River path. It was delightful. Oh, nice. Oh, by the way, yes, this is the yesterday's hate letter was that I'm a racist because I can't remember why. I mean, it's obvious, but I can't remember why exactly. I can't remember. Oh, because I hired Bella. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah.
I didn't know you were half Latino, see? Yeah, I did a DEI without meeting to. Yeah, whatever. Oh, no, I didn't know you were gay when I hired you. Remember? You told me I was like, okay. Well, no, Faith is the one who said, who said to me, so you gay or no?
Oh, yeah. You're probably wasn't legal to ask you that, but it probably wasn't. Yeah. I think I just paused. I was like, OK, I still need that sound effect. Well, back then we were working for an actual corporation. Yeah. So I could have gone to do doing TI hires accidentally. Well, Bella is 100% awesome. That's all I know. Right. She's 50% DEI higher, though. OK. Well, good for me. Good for me. Look how woke I am.
Uh, Damian, oh, it was Tim that said I'm a racist for hiring Bella. Uh, Damian in York says, uh, so just a few days ago, uh, I was at sexy liberal DC. Addition to me, there was a man named Kevin, another guy named, uh, Harry Dunn. These two ladies named Francis and Angela. You said to me, well, hello, Angel, and I hung you like the hot millennial that you are.
Between that and your major tailor bike posse, I guess my point is if you're a racist, you really really suck at it. It's like I'm a lesbian, but I'm really bad at it. All your best friends are black. I don't say that, but I'm just...
I'm still practicing being a lesbian. I'm obviously not good at it. It's still single. Okay. Um, these, uh, speaking of, uh, yeah, uh, Celine and, uh, Nicole, greetings from Canada, not the 51st state. Well, how about that? How about that? Uh, good morning from Nicole and Celine, the official, uh, Canadian lesbian power couple of the Stephanie Miller show. Oh, gling. Are all Canadian ladies required to be named Celine? I think so. Yes. It's a law.
I guess I should be playing O Canada. Do we have that? We have O Canada. We did at one point. Maybe the drunken Canadian intern got rid of us. Yeah, that guy. That was a bad DEI hire. We had the... It's fine. Oh, here? Okay, I will switch for Celine and...
Not quite that loud. Thank you. Okay. We had the pleasure of traveling to both San Francisco and Boston to see the sexy liberal show. Those were the only times we traveled to the state since 2015. Sadly, I had to miss the show in San Francisco due to getting COVID while I was there. I remember.
But I managed to finally see you in person, and Boston was better. I could have imagined, especially the meet and grope. Unfortunately, with the clown show that is the Trump administration ripping apart any semblance of democracy, we will not be stepping foot in the States anytime soon. Most people we speak to here in Canada feel the same way. And no, there is not a snowballs chance in hell. We want to become the 51st state. And they have a lot of snowballs there. The Trump say they'd have better health care. Mike, what? No. Yeah, because our health care system is fantastic, isn't it?
After seeing the chaos and destruction he did in just one week, we arranged our trip to the Caribbean to avoid having to spend any time and money in the States. We were supposed to spend some time in Miami. We just couldn't do it. We love all of you will continue listening. We just signed up for your Patreon page. Yay! To help keep you on the air like so many other listeners, we stop watching mainstream media the day after the election. Keep up the good fight. Remember if you ever need a break from the madness you and the crew always welcome here in the Great White North.
be the library's dance, Nicole and Celine in Canada. Yes, I've been in Canada twice. It's a lovely, lovely country. It is indeed, indeed. I live right across the near Niagara Falls in Buffalo. I've been to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. Okay, thank you for that fun fact. Well, it's the pretty side, quite honestly.
Trump is currently on vacation at his private golf club while prices skyrocket and bird flu spreads nearly 30% of his days as president have been spent golfing so far. Yeah, I guess he figures his work is done. He did take a three day weekend after working. He did four days. Okay, here we are. Glenn also tweeting, Dear Democrats, we don't want you to work with him. We want you to fight him. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Oh, here's a question. I could maybe start wearing my impeachment shirts again. Okay. Lorak says someone explained to me why pardoning convicted seditionists isn't an impeachable offense. I'd sort of like to look into that. Because pardoning is in the Constitution is completely legal. But seditionists, people that tried to overthrow and there are no there are no conditions on a presidential pardon. All right.
Dana with a homo tweet. There's never been a same-sex marriage that has harmed or even inconvenienced a straight person ever. Thank you. Thank you, Dana. Okay. Erin in Maryland. Hello, Erin. Hi. Good morning. How are you? Good. Go ahead. Two weeks ago, retired from the federal government after 30 years with the IRS.
Um, oh, good. You're going to. He's going to give you a gun and send you to the border now according to this. Yeah. Yeah. No, he's not. Um, so yeah, I could see all of this stuff coming and I.
refused to work for a convicted felon. I mean, considering I spent 20 years on my career testifying in court against people, you know, who were charged with tax fraud and things like that. Yeah. Really kind of diminished the work that I've done for all these years, but
I'm terrified for the people that I've left behind. It sounds like it's just bonkers and a lot of these agencies, people don't know what to do. They don't know if they're going to have to go back to the office and so on and so forth. I've had one friend who was one of the ones that was put on admin leave for.
you know, her DEI position, things like that. So, yeah. I decided that the smartest thing to do is just take my retirement money and run. Yeah. Well, I don't blame you. It is, I honestly horrifying what is happening. It's just, it's really is hard to keep up with. Oh, to Celine and Moxie says, the fact that almost every other country hates Trump might be our saving grace. Yeah, we're pretty much fighting with everybody within a
No. Yeah. Oh, here's one. Here's a happy. It's a happy clappy. Okay. Mindful says, luckily we have a data analyst getting information out. California has its first outbreak of bird flu, which is known to be more pathogenic and has a high mortality rate. That counts as a happy thought, but only because at least we have someone telling us because Trump's gonna make sure that no one
It tells us anything. Okay. And this one I mentioned at the top, the show I think it's worth mentioning again. Art says police in Houston, Texas, now looking for J-6 or Andrew Taki, who was released from prison after Trump pardoned him for pepper spring police officers because of allegations of soliciting a minor. So many criminals and child predators Trump has released back into them. One of whom was shot by police yesterday for resisting arrest. Yep. Shot and killed. Okay.
Meanwhile, did I mention that there's an active talk, at least on Fox News, of putting Trump on Mount Rushmore? Yes, do you mention that? They express their panel on Fox, express their strong support for
Donald Trump's. For dear leader on right. Yeah, huh. Harris Faulkner kicked off the segment by declaring that just a week into his second term, there's already calls to put his face on. There's calls just from the people next to you. But OK, right. That's it. That's what they some say. They mean some in the fox hallways say. Yeah. Right. Kelly McEnany. Oh, that's right. They hired. Didn't they? Yeah. Please to somebody. Keep calling her Kelly.
because that one time she was, okay. She said there is a also petition in Congress to change Dulles Airport's name to Donald Trump International Airport. So you have Trump and you have Reagan in DC. Wouldn't that be something special for the swamp? I think John Foster Dulles would take exception to that. Yeah, that'd be great. I would be all for putting President Trump's face on currency, she said. Also,
Don't you have to be dead at least 10 years before you go on currency? It's the same as a stamp. It's like five days in there. We're gonna put them on Mount Rushmore and on currency because a great leader is doing a fantastic job. So far, everything's going great. Okay. Yeah, I feel like chaos.
Bella, did you eat the entire thing of gummies? I know you drank the entire bottle of wine I gave you. I'm about halfway. Yeah, I don't blame you. I don't blame you. I'm going to have to, yeah, I'm going to have to be her supplier. I've got a bottle of tincture you gave me yesterday. Did you? Yeah. See, I give and I give. Oh, thanks. I need to keep my entire staff sedated heavily.
That was the problem. You know what? I should have just shot Jody with a twinkle as her dart keeper here. Sure. I didn't think of that. Like, I watched an up-wild kingdom. I should have known to just, you know, when she made her run for it, just... It's written her neck. Uh-huh. I'll be Marlon Perkins in the helicopter. She has no idea what we're talking about. No, she doesn't know. We're talking old-person code. Do you know? It was born in 2002. Oh, Sean only knows wild kingdom because of us.
I am fat. Matt, not real. Okay. Wow. Wow, wow, wow. You're old. Why do I keep cohering younger and younger people? So I feel even all I feel like the Cripkeeper now.
See, she did that reference. Do you know that reference? I was laughing at your laugh. Oh, that was my favorite laugh. Tales of the Crypt. It was an HBO show. OK, let me pause. I've run out of juice. OK. Do you know anything from the last five years? No. OK. Should we have a marathon? A movie marathon? Sure. Yes, let's do it.
Yeah, it is the Stephanie Miller Show, Charlie Pierce, coming up. And how sparks, yay! What a treat! Yay! And all of that, hour three. Here is that douche nozzle, Scott Jennings. Oh, yeah. Ah, no, CNN. This salute, truth-or-ism is outrageous. So do it right now on TV. So why right now on TV? If you think it's normal, if you think this is a normal way to greet people, do it right now on TV. Why won't you?
See, he called it Nazi salute, truth-er-ism. Everybody in the world recognizes the Nazi salute that Elon Musk gave. Even the Nazis. Not the Nazis. Say yes, that's a Nazi salute. In a totally unrelated story, oh, there's a new burger chain named after Donald Trump. Didn't we already name that? I go now to the Hitler burgers. I go now to the Hitler burger to get myself my lunch.
No, it is actually Trump burger. Right. Does he shut this down yet or demanded? I don't know how much. Yes, exactly. chain not affiliated with Donald Trump expanding rapidly across Texas. Oh, because of course, because Texas. Yeah, because you so now you can get a COVID tuberculosis and but a Trump burger in Texas, because remember, aren't they the ones also doing all the anti-vax stuff? They said earlier. Yeah.
Oh, they have t-shirts and sandwiches that have Trump names branded onto the bun because that's exactly what you want in your burger bun. All right. Locations have cardboard standups with Trump as well as campaign flags lining the walls and covering the windows interspersed with drawings pro-Trump and obscenity festooned anti-biting t-shirts hats and other merchandise. Like a let's go branded type thing.
They always say, we're the ones that need to let go of the past, but they have, let's go branded. Okay, anti-biden something. Okay, and a branded Trump bond. Don't you feel like every story is part of the idiocracy now? Pretty much every story I'm doing. Okay, right. This is the, oh, and this was the, over the top memo from the Trump's first week in office. Okay. Week one, the winds keep piling up.
That's wins. Uh huh. That's what, yeah. Yeah. Is that what we're calling winning? Yeah. Yeah. Uh, okay. Trump's first week in office was certainly was eventful as his mass deportation policy. Uh, well, excuse me. Yeah, bless you. Uh, Alina Haba. Bless you. Thank you. Secretary of Defense Pete, uh, uh, rapier, McDrunky got confirmed, uh, Elon Musk. Pete Hegsef.
Right. Sure. Elon Musk torpedoed a big AI infrastructure announcement. Trump signed a ton of executive orders, including one that was blocked and derided by a Reagan appointed judge, fired a half a dozen or so inspectors generals, and somebody, or as he says, just the winds. The winds just keep piling up. How much did you say you paid for eggs? Sorry. Oh, $14 for 18 eggs. Perfect. Okay. Rocky Mountain Mike wants to say welcome Bella. Hi, Rocky Mountain Mike.
Hi, when I recorded the hip bird burger jingle, Bella was 10. Oh my gosh. Yes. Yes. We played her your delightful how to run the SM show board. Yes. Which is. Yeah. I think you're a measles song. I sent you a measles song as well. I might want to get to that. Oh, you did. Oh, I didn't even know. Yes. Let's do that. Oh, yes, you did. Oh, we're getting right on that. Thank you. Thank you, Rocky Mountain. OK, thank you. All right. No, thank you. Welcome, Bella. Thank you.
He put together pretty much all of our music, all of our parodies, all of our channels. All right 29 minutes speaking of genius. What a setup. Charlie Pierce. Next.
We need those allies and we need stability, especially in neighboring countries. A terrible trade war, guess what that does? It doesn't just drive up the prices for American consumers, but it also drives up migration. Thank you, Representative Escobar. Okay, Rocky Mounte might just call it, we didn't even know. But this is, you know what, it's the Stephanie Miller Show, we're making dying of an infectious disease, we make it seem fun. Fun, yeah.
I saw it today I saw the things was covered with red smiles And I see I had to get away and get down on my knees and play me That they'd go away and so would begin Measles and pencils because of all my pride From vaccinations I would rise
I thought I was smart But my shots I would cry when kissed the blue But there I see, and so I'm quarantined Measles and pins Measles and pins away
Welcome back, measles. Welcome back, uh, tuberculosis. Hiya, polio. Viscilla. Okay, thanks for that. That's just a happy clapping. Mike, thanks a lot. Speaking of which, there's only one man now that understands. That's the author of Idiot America. Cheers. Cheers. Charlie Pierce, political columnist for Esquire.com. Why is everybody always left?
Don't you think it's time for $11 billion updates to Idiot America? I'm telling you, I keep pitching it to the powers that be and they say there's no money in sequels. I said there's no coherence in sequels either. But that's where we're at. Yeah, because I want to say welcome to Bella. I understand that you once had a very promising career in radio.
I hope that one day when you're pumping gas out on the 101, you'll look back on it with, you know, comfort and joy. Oh, I will. Well, welcome to the big ship of fools. There you go. Charlie, I, well, as you know, we're out here in California, where apparently Trump sent the military to turn on the giant faucet that we forgot to turn on. I swear to God, he believes.
that somewhere in the Sierra Nevada's. There's a big spigot. Yes. And then he and Gerald Patton marched in and like turned it. We could have had a V8 and more brondo. We just didn't think of it. It's the whole, I mean, we're at this point where the Department of Water and Power has got no, no, no, none of that. No, the military. We were fixed. We were fixing the pipes.
Right. Right. Oh my God. Okay. Uh, so you said it's been one week now. Wow. It's hard to believe, isn't it? Where he, uh, you said he pretended to put his hand on the Bible. Oh, actually he didn't put his hand on the Bible. Uh, he promised for God a bit, a bevy of billionaires and suddenly an Amish elder to whom he is for the moment married. She did look a little, right? Like Al Capone. She needed one of those spirits that don't have a mustache. Right.
she looked like Melanie Griffith and stranger among us. She just needed the beard to be the acidic Jew. Okay, but you said of all the things he promised to form a more perfect union threatens to withhold emergency aid to California until the state adopts a voter ID law, threatens to withhold aid to states who do not toe his line and immigration refers to Governor Newsom as news come. Okay.
These are all the things that he prompts. Established justice, Senate confirms ethically challenged, dubiously truthful, Pam Bondi is attorney general, plans to install thoroughly crazily conspiracy flogger cash battalion's head of the FBI. Mass raids launched in American cities targeting schools and churches, also attempts by Fiat to establish birthright citizenship. I guarantee enshrined in the 14th amendment.
Wow, Charlie, it is a lot. One last one in search of domestic tranquility. He pardons members of an insurrection of mob that assaulted the U.S. Capitol, removed security from individuals who were under threat and abroad and at home, fires inspectors, generals of cabinet departments. I'm already winded and this is the beginning of your piece overturning the preamble to the Constitution. He hasn't really gotten to the Constitution yet.
Yeah, yeah. I thought this headline had a lot of irony. Ice detains Native Americans.
who if you've read a history book, we're here first. Navajo tribal leaders reported they have received calls and text messages from Navajo people living in urban areas who've been stopped question or detained by ICE. These raids have sparked significant fear, especially among tribal members in urban areas who face challenges with documentation. Despite possessing certificates of Indian blood, state issued IDs, federal individuals have been detained or questioned by ICE agents who don't recognize those documents as proof of citizenship.
Perhaps if they wrapped it in a blanket infected with smallpox and hand it over there. I would suggest that up here in Massachusetts we have a lot of families that are very proud of having arrived in the Mayflower.
I think we should send ice after them. Yeah. And send them all back to Holland where they came from. Exactly. Wait, Charlie's not done. He writes fires ahead of the U.S. Coast Guard, leaves the World Health Organization and Paris Climate Accord repurposes U.S. military to serve his anti-immigration agenda continually campaigns for program of seizing land and property from longtime allies, trash as longstanding foreign alliances. Secretary of State Marco Rubio freezes foreign aid secretary of defense, Pete Haggseth.
Hang on, we're not done for that. That was, that was provide for the common defense. Right. And the general welfare. And then you end with promote the general welfare. Who doggies here we go proposes the elimination of FEMA, blacks out all public information capacities of federal public health agencies, grants, reviews from the National Institute.
from health are canceled without notice attempts to undo 50 years of environmental regulations, removes environmental justice as criterion for permitting process for new energy project repeals, all climate related executive orders from the previous administration. Health and human service nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. awaits conflict.
We literally are only a weekend. That was just your scribblings. Right. That will be a continuing series on the blog. In fact, I just put up another one today.
oh god uh... it i mean i know i get it this is part of the plan right it's like i mean i mean i mean i mean adam sir was right cruelty was the point but now cruelty and chaos of point yeah so it drunk him a great be oh i'm sorry pete hexa i keep getting that name wrong uh-huh well i'm sorry well what is it you call calendar uh... he is also drunk him a great be this is yeah that's right right this would be the second hexa is the second
Um, yeah, he was confirmed by the narrowest possible margin, right? JD Vance of the test, the tiebreaker. Charlie, once again, never happened. Most secretaries of defense have been confirmed, almost 100 to whatever, or 90 something to, you know, practically. Yeah. So here we are. This guy's in charge of the nukes. It's astonishing to me. He's in charge of the joint chiefs who must just be. I mean, I don't know if we can have that many important military leaders drunk by nine o'clock in them.
I just don't think that's healthy for our national defense. So, yeah, I mean, so, you know, of course, there's more stories about, you know, they're going to strong arm and bully to get all these not wildly unqualified nominees through. Well, it certainly worked on my old friend, Joni Ernst. Yeah, disgraceful.
That really, I mean that given her biography, that is the worst of them so far. Yep. Yep. She gave up all of her principles. Yep. Every single one. I have no idea what you can predict these days. But what do you think? What, you know, Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard. Tulsi Gabbard seems to be the only one so far that we did. Oh, John Kennedy said she's on the bubble. Uh huh. Yeah, I think I think I think I think Gabbard's the one they throw overboard.
Yeah. You know, like, like, you know, bank robbers throwing money out the window so that people chasing them will stop. I can't pick it up. John Kennedy was on Fox and Friends this morning. He says he thinks that Trump is really, really dug in on her and so that she will actually pass. Well, I have no doubt that he was really dug in or in on her, you know, you know, at one point or another, you know, probably involving room service, but
What does that mean? Okay, wait, here's John Kennedy, just, uh, Tulsi. If a nominee, um, acts like a complete meteor or, or, or starts screaming like he or she's part of a prison riot, you know, people are going to say, whoa, we, we need to take a second. Look, but short of that, I think most, if not all, will be confirmed. The one who's most on the bubble, as you know, as well as I do, is Tulsi Gabbard.
Uh, okay. Oh, first of all, screaming like you're in a prison riot got Brett Calvin on the Supreme Court. Right? Yeah. Thank you. Exactly. Did I bear? I was in the room. I like bear. It makes me a very fine fella. Dear streaming down his face.
yes uh... ami clobotra was about the hauler by the way he's like no i i don't like beer i think i told you my dad was an alcoholic that's one of the great vlogs in your character so uh... iraq ocio uh-oh susan collins uh... suggested that
Is she troubled? Tulsi, yes. Tulsi Gabbard's last-minute conversion on intelligence gathering might not be what it appears. Her past support for re-borking section 702 of the FISA Act has become a sticking point for several Republican senators. Gabbard has sought to walk back her past criticism of the program. A Collins told the Hill she doesn't necessarily believe. Gabbard's change of heart. And you know that Susan Collins is not easily tricked. We're all deep, we're all deep for the furrows. Right?
How deep is your love and your friends? I mean, don't you use the Mitt Romney thing, the Mitt Romney meter? Yes. Outrage meter. We need a Susan Collins concern meter. We do. To match Mitt Romney's outreach. Yeah. Yeah. Let's send that suggestion to Rocky Mountain Mike. The other thing is I blocked about this yesterday and a lot of people are emailing me and texting me and saying they didn't know about it. This tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas? Yes. Yeah. The biggest one in history. 30 years. Nobody knows. Nobody knows anything about it. Yeah. Fantastic.
Um, oh, my favorite story of cabinet secretaries, Kristi Gnome was late to get sworn in. So she had to be sworn in by Clarence Thomas instead of JD Vance. She said she was late because she was not in possession of a personal family Bible that she wanted to play. Maybe it's the Bible that was in the hotel room where she was being Corey Lewandowski. Oh, allegedly? Is it a legend? I don't know. Well, I don't know if that's the same Bible is what I'm saying. Oh.
Charlie, did he mean this? Outside the capital. A bunch of capital police dogs who demanded an explanation.
Yeah, she was late because she was getting the puppy. She was getting the puppies. Yeah, I assume. Yeah. Charlie, I want to end with sports because you are a noted sports writer as well. I know this will shock you. Trump manages to make Chief Super Bowl return all about him. After the beat, my Buffalo Bills from my hometown after, yeah, earning a trip to the Super Bowl, Trent Britt,
Congratulations to the kids of City Chiefs, what a great team coach quarterback and virtually everything else, including those fantastic fans that voted for me! Mega in record numbers. Wow. That's not even a drinking game that he will make every single thing about him, right? That's astonishing to me. By the way, I don't think he's wrong. I mean, he probably carried like 80% of the people in that stadium.
That's terribly positive. I mean, there's the Mahomes factor, right? Yeah, is it? Well, sort of, yeah, but there's also the idiotic, you know, refusal to change the name of the team. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm mad about the commanders. Harrison Butker.
I just met her. Um, no, I'm just kidding. I, what? Butker. Charlie, here's my point. I mad because Harry Dunn was very excited about the commanders and I wanted to, Harry Dunn to get a win this week. So, uh, Trump was conspicuously quiet about the team will be facing off against the chief, the Philadelphia Eagles. You recall during his, uh, first term he, uh, planned, he canceled a planned White House visit because of course he did because he's a giant effing baby. Right. Because some of the players decided to boycott the event. Yep.
So I guess I would say Fly Eagles Fly is what I would say about the Super Bowl. That's what I say. Absolutely. There's no question. I would, in fact, I would make them favorites, to be honest with you. Well, yeah. I only learned that in silver lighting playbook, by the way, Fly Eagles Fly. OK.
If you don't root for the ego, they'll throw batteries at you. Yes. Hey, you're not around in Philly. Tell you what. All right. Well, Charlie, good luck. We'll be checking in every Tuesday.
Jody and I will be starting with each other again. Jody, you'll be back next Tuesday. That's right. Yeah. I know we'll be flirting with each other again. No, they're exciting. Let's resume the phone text. All right. Bye. Thanks, Charlie. Bye, Charlie. Bye, guys. Bye, Bella. Have a good week. Bye. Thanks.
She's so cute. By the way, someone commented, Chris, on the fact that I had last week said I wanted to squish a bellow like a grape. Uh-huh. Because she's so cute. That's weird. No, there's a thing. I was diagnosed. Someone, because you know our fans know everything. Hang on. I have a VAS. It's violent affection syndrome.
I didn't know it was a thing. I'm not actually going to squish her like a grape. Cuteness aggression with like a kitten. Right, yes. Yeah. She's like kitten cuteness. I just want to go off. That's not going to actually do it. That'd be weird. Everybody calm down via us, whatever. Okay. Squishy. Squishy. Look at her.
on me to in San Antonio. Hello, Anita. Hello, good morning. Good morning. Yeah, I might have to touch is just reporting that Denmark is beating up its military, defend itself and against an invasion by the United States. Yeah, meeting with the EU. Yeah, I mean, didn't he wasn't he the guy that ran on how Kamala was going to start World War three? Yes, yes, he's a piece. He's the peace president, remember?
Oh, of course. Yeah. Well, it's going to be war with Canada and Denmark now. The whole EU. And by the way, remember we said we're laughing stock. No, now we're laughing stock. Did you see? Yeah, we're laughing stock. The international reaction to his speech at Davos. They're all literally like, what a moron. Oh, I know. They get what tariffs are. He still doesn't get what tariffs are, right?
no it's a tax on us so he's punishing people by taxing us yeah yeah thanks for asking other countries by taxing american yeah exactly yeah that's real smart well yeah exactly all right thank you all uh... we mentioned and i'm so excited about this documentary that he we herman oh yeah he that i can't wait for a no friend of stepney miller show i met him at one of your uh... halloween parties or no christmas parties
Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. Chris, hi. Um, so we were, I saw him last at, uh, Judy Tunita's funeral and he didn't tell anyone he was, that he had cancer. Nope. So nobody knew, uh, he was, anyway, he was just a dear, sweet person, but...
It breaks my heart. So he came out as gay in this posthumously, in this documentary. It's Pee Wee as himself premiered at Sundance. He said, I hid behind an alter ego. I spent my entire adult life hiding. I was a huge weedhead. I was secretive about my sexuality, even to my friends out of self-hatred or self-preservation. I was convicted about sexuality, but fame was way more complicated. And he famously, because you remember Cassandra Peterson, who's also our good friend, who was a very good friend of his.
Yeah, she was saying he was the one that advised her to stay in the closet because he said it'll ruin your career. You're like a sex symbol for men. And of course, he was a kids show character. And I told you the famous story. She told it on our show on Happy Hour that she went to P.W. Herman's psychologist.
which I feel like you might deserve what you get if you go to Peewee Herman's therapist. But she said she was like pouring her heart out and crying to the therapist and the therapist was giggling. And she said, why are you giggling? And then Peewee popped up from behind the couch and went, and I was like, that seems an ethical, illegal something from Cassandra. I'm not sure. But anyway.
But I guess before all of that, he was out. He was dating somebody named Guy. And then once his fame took off like a rocket, he had to go back into the closet. And there he remained until his death. It's a sweet, tortured soul. And I just see that bell. I'm hoping your generation, nobody has to come out because you were never in. The day is not a thing. It's still a thing. It's still a physical visit. In some circles, yeah.
Tell us about your boyfriend. What's his name? Oh my gosh, his name is Jack. He's a screenwriter. Oh, yeah. He's a great writer. Hire him, everyone. Oh, wow. All right, Jack, the screenwriter. Let's go. Hardly anyone in Hollywood has a script. Right. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Anna Nevada real quick. Hey, Anne. Hey, Steppie, how you doing? Good. Go ahead.
All right, we have a board in my work that we have to decorate for every month. I'm the official floral designer of the Stephanie Miller show. So we decided that for our January thing, instead of doing anything for the inauguration, we would do Martin Luther King all month. And we did. And we've gotten several complaints about it. And I'm very proud of that. So for January, we're doing the little conversation hearts on it.
And on one of them, we're putting egg prices with a question mark. Very good. And that's our little silent blow test. Yay. Yay for you. Stupid to protest however you can. Exactly. Yeah. All right. Hal Sparks, next on the Stephanie Miller Show. It's the Stephanie Miller Show.
I'm not gonna tolerate mass deportation of our efforts of children and families and people who are striving to start a life here who want to normalize their status within the United States. We owe those folks comprehensive immigration reform because that's in our best interest. Thank you, Representative Jason Croft. Okay.
I need, you know what, I need a little space between the white hot blinding sexuality of house parks. I just need a little, I need to rest. Every woman needs to rest. Okay, now I can take it again. Oh, what's that heavy breathing I hear? Wow, could it be? Hump days with house parks.
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Hi, how are you? You're holding up OK? You're doing good after the first week. I've got to say, you're holding up a lot better than Trump is. Did you see him in Vegas? The man was exhausted. Like my favorite line, I think, and the whole thing was, everybody have a chair to dress. Everybody likes a press conference. They want a press conference. They want me to do a press conference, press conference, press conference. That means his own staff is like, yeah, this is part of your job now. And he's like, what nap time? Everything he said about Trump. He worked four days, and then he had to take a three-day weekend in golf yesterday. Yeah.
I'm like, oh my god. No, it's a lot. It's a lot a weekend, isn't it? Oh, yeah. This is what Steve Bannon meant by flooding the zone, right? This is it.
absolutely yeah there's no greenland no canada no nothing there's no removing us from nato any of that stuff in a matter of fact i think a lot of it actually the flooding the zone is not about like proving himself to them to maggots but but placating them while he does stuff for his billionaire donors and actually does stuff that's more aligned with the general voters which is democratic priorities i mean the man almost
He wants a primary chip, Roy, about the debt ceiling. What in the world, right? That's amazing. That's his first fight. All right, you have to give us, because you know you're one of my bright lights. What if Bob says, could call it, you're like relentless optimism.
I need it. I need it. We all need it. And so I, I like look to people like you like because you kind of hold me up when I'm, you know, because we're all like having days or like, Oh my God, like in terms of what's happening. But how do we survive? Just like we were saying this morning, it just.
It's so ridiculous you have to laugh at it. Did you see his, what is it, trough about? I said the military into California and turned on the giant faucet. Enjoy the water, California. Of course, we have to put it out. It was rusty. We got some extra plumbers, cave on it, sealed a leak that was on there. It took a second. It was like, I loosened it for you, like a pickle jar.
Yes, he learns like enjoy the water California like it's so ridiculous. We're just like the water department have to go. No, no, no, it's not a faucet. He didn't send the military and like what? This is what it's gonna be like is just doesn't any having to go
No, no, that's not true. That's not true. Well, here's the thing. We can do that, but we kind of don't have to because A, we know and B, maggots kind of know they just pretend not to know. And then the reality is there is no faucet. It never got turned and that will always be true forever and ever. So the idea that like he can say it
But you know, like, you know, a lot of people said the moon was responsible for the tides and that people had flooding issues. So I ordered the moon move further away from the earth. And now you can go surfing like he can say that all he wants. And we can go, no, no change the position of the moon. The man's a moron. Chris and I said, there is a false is full of Brondo. Yes, they're filling more lakes with Brondo. That's right. Because it's what plants crave. Yeah.
I mean he's just I what's that I'm gonna let's get rid I'm gonna blow up the iron we're gonna get rid of the IRS I'm gonna send them all to the border with guns he he said that he yeah right now how about no tax we pay no tax and I
just like anybody, any other human you'd be like, okay, grandpa, here's pudding and nappy. Well, that's what they arguing. That's what they arguing. I mean, they literally like, here's the pudding. Here's your Diet Coke button. Now, sign these things. We will just, we have a representative from Project 2025 standing here with a stack of EOS and a bunch of like, you know, thumb on the karate of certain Republicans to get them to vote a certain way. And he just stands there with his stack and Trump like,
oh it's a big one and that's a big one. Do you see every single one has? That's a big one isn't it that's a big one. That's a big one is something that Stormy Daniels ever said. I said earlier right we were somebody tweeted he's deporting the same amount of people Biden did it's just bigger and dumber and meaner and on TV with Dr. Phil.
So, okay, so there's a program put in place in 2007 called Operation Return to Sender because that's how dumb the Bush administration was. And they did these raids of agricultural farms. And the whole thing was supposed to sunset in a year and it just kind of humped along because they never bothered to shut it down because they were so embarrassed they started it in the first place because it sent no surprise, it prices through the roof.
What do you know? What are the odds? It's crazy that it's happening all over again. And that's why he's avoiding these agricultural rates and he's sending people into cities with Dr. Phil to draw attention away from the fact that his numbers aren't that big. That they're fairly close to, you know, like he took five days off, did three days' worth of normal rates in one day and it looks like a, you know, 900 versus 300 or something like that.
It's totally normal to how things are done all the time for criminal aliens, especially people who have committed violent offenses or theft or any of that stuff. They're always booted out of the country, but he's going to make it look like this is new. So the only thing we have to do is not say, no, you didn't turn the big tap on your big dummy is to say that this is always the policy of ICE. This is always the policy of Customs and Border Patrol. They haven't changed.
But now, of course, he's doing quotas. So they're just going to scoop up everybody that looks even vaguely brown and let, you know, courts figure it out later. Of course, the Florida bill, Florida bill, because DeSantis Senate bill to a offers a version of the rebuttable presumption DeSantis wanted one that assumes detained illegal immigrants will flee in our flight risk, denying them bail when they're brought up on charges. It compels local law enforcement. It basically forces the local law enforcement to, you know, to do the feds job, right?
Well, yes, and oddly enough, Florida has, after California because of its size, per capita, Florida has the largest number of illegal immigrants in the entire country. And it's funny how it's almost as if Trump hires those folks at all of his golf forces and under the table hospitality. So they pay very little for people who are afraid to be fired. It's why they like the H1B visas. Because if you come here, you can't switch jobs.
He did, last week he said the same thing that, what do you call it? Rama Swami and Musk got in trouble for saying, he's like, I liked him very much, because you know, you gotta have the, you know, wine, what do you say? The Himalayas and Wade, you gotta have the best people. This is why, it's like, he basically doesn't sound like elite talk at all. Yeah, you know, like NASCAR, the Himalayas. The Americans are too dumb to write. He's like, this is stupid. They only like box wine. They can't be a Somalia. I mean, he literally said the same thing they did. Americans are too dumb for these jobs. They can't, you know.
Um, Stephanie, I do think we need a moment of silence for Vivek Ramaswami. He lasted negative ceremonies and got kicked to the curb by Elon Musk. Oddly enough, I mean, shocking, of course, that he kicks the brown skin guy to the curb and then does a Nazi salute in the same week. I don't think they're connected. I think it's, I think it's a lot more
much to do about nothing. I think why the world would anyone be shocked that a apartheid billionaire would give a Nazi salute to a large group of proto white supremacists. I can't imagine that would be a shocking thing to anyone. You retweeted Mark Cuban who said anyone an expert in coffee futures and prices that want to comment on the impact of a 25% tariff on Colombia on the price of coffee for American consumers. I mean, we just went through that whole dumb
sketch that the mainstream media totally missed by just these big stupid dumb loud threats of tariffs. That was never going to go anywhere. It's all cosplay. And the reality is some of the pushback actually worked. Trump made a phone call as well to the Colombian president and they were like, hey, how about
I don't use military planes and they're like, okay, fine. That was it. We've dropped off criminal aliens into Columbia forever. Like the Obama administration did it, the Bush administration did it, Biden did it, so did Trump. But Trump had to do it for show at very high tech spare cost and military jets. That's what he wants. Shackle them, make it a big mean dumb film. Yeah. Yeah.
Um, blah, blah, blah. Oh, by the way, uh, speaker Tara. Everything's for instance. Yeah, exactly. It's the Instagram residency. Justin tweeted, uh, no one has yet refuted the simplest argument about tariffs. Our tariffs will lead to retaliatory tariffs. So whatever theory you might have had a tariffs help us at their expense also teaches you that their reality to retaliation will undo whatever gains you're expecting. We both end up isolated and poorer. And you said, well, no one, I like to say I've been pretty clear. Pointy. We've been.
I've been talking about this ad nauseam every time that topic was brought up on my show at infotainment wars.com. But the other thing that people don't notice in terms of the tariff part of it is that Trump is always on about our trade deficit with China and our trade deficit with Europe and all this stuff.
That's because America is the drop shipping capital of the world. America, there's a huge industry in the United States through Amazon and other sources where people buy foreign goods, slap their label on it and sell it worldwide, either to Americans or people in North America or the world at large. They get processed and created. And I got news for everybody out there who doesn't understand, like everybody's like, does nobody know how a tariff works? This is how it works. This is how it works.
Every store has a deficit with their wholesaler. You buy more from your wholesaler than you sell to your wholesaler. That's why China. That's why Colombia. That's why all these countries because we have all the money in the world. We are the richest country in the world. Of course, we pay more for everything because we can.
Yeah. Yeah. So the other thing, I think you and I both warned about as you tweeted about, you said, honestly, who doesn't know Trump colluded with Netanyahu to undermine the peace process until he got in? Yeah. And then let him off the leash. You think he came to Mar-a-Lago for the cake for FFS? This is Reagan I ran part dumb. Yeah. Of course he's like, dude, just clear it out, Gaza. Let's just clear it out. You said,
Yeah, it will be nice property, be nice, you know, beachfront property. He talks about he calls him a cancer. He calls them the problem. He says that Netanyahu has to solve it quickly, which doesn't sound like you caring about civilian casualties at all. And now we know he's not. He's wants to ethnically cleanse the entire place. Something Biden and Harris would not have been for, would not have participated in and would not have allowed. Now Trump is going to do that.
He's sending 2,000 pound bombs to Israel, which Biden and Harris did not do and would not have done. You just said after the uncommitted have finished banging their empty heads on their desk, they can shove them back up their assets where they belong. If you push the genocide, Joe Bull, you did this.
And it doesn't make any of us on the left happy. This is what I said it a million times, you know, during the campaign. I said, I said, you vote for Trump. Stay home. Vote for Jill Stein. You are voting for the complete genocide of the Palestinian people. And it's just hard. It's hard. We need to the Tuesday solution. Thank you. Yes.
It's the Stephanie Moon show. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it.
How can you not feel fine when health sparks is here? I mean, I mean, really. How... It's what I'm for. How post... It doesn't matter if your heart's in the right place, if your head is up your ass. Thank you. That is a... Right. That's a truism. Yeah. Yeah. That's a spark-ism, as we like to call it around here. I'm working on my first book, the Sparksist Megafesto.
It will be full of statements like that. Yeah. To your point about Gaza, you know, again, your heart is in the right place. We all wanted to state solution. We all care about the Palestinian people. But you know, like, you just said, you know, you said, I'm starting to question some of these folks, but go ahead.
Well, I be retweeted Israel's finance minister supports Trump's idea to relocate Gazans. And you said, shocked, shocked, I tell you, I'm sure the suggestion caught him totally off guard. I mean, like you said, you know this whole thing is set up with Netanyahu.
Yeah. OK, in 2017, the US started building the biggest embassy outside of our Baghdad embassy is our biggest one. Our second biggest one is being built in Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanon was half owned and controlled by Hezbollah. That has fallen since the attack on October 7th. And Hezbollah trying to kind of jump into this Syria has fallen. So that has become one of the most pivotal pieces of real estate that the US embassy staff
after the state department is created. And it's weird that these kind of dominoes fell in a way that Wesley Clark warned us about. Yeah, it's like a fascist monopoly board, isn't it? It's like I'm going to take Greenland and also Canada. Pooty, you take Ukraine. Who you have, Gaza? Panama.
Right. Yeah. Trump wants one train spot and wants to charge park place for it though. That's the problem. You put more on. You posted on Mike Johnson's afraid GOP text to Cassidy Huss and Johnson will set off his porn alarm. Isn't it amazing? The only reason they will not, you know, prosecute her for no reason is because they're going to get, you know, revealed as that.
Oh, yeah. I mean, here's the problem is that if they ask for, you know, tweets, DMs, text messages and that kind of stuff from these folks, what they're going to get is a lot of like violent threats from maggots in the house to their fellow, you know, Congress people to state reps to other people to
threats to civilians via that person. So they're going to cut back a lot as it's again, this is a lot of blather. And then it's just going to fall by the wayside because if they do it, it's kind of like why Trump doesn't sue a lot of people is because the discovery process would be brutal.
Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So Justice Department fired officials who worked on Jack Smith's team that investigated Trump in two separate criminal cases. DOJ said in light of their actions, the acting attorney general does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the president's agenda, which is keeping himself out of jail.
uh... reaction is consistent with the mission of ending the weapon station of government right so they can weaponize it against right other people against trumps and i mean you know tristan snell our friend uh... how was saying uh... don't leave your job because you know there are actually laws against this you have to prove cause so you know yeah they can sue and there has to actually be a cause to be they were just doing their jobs
Right, and again, if you want somebody who follows the directive of a person above them, that's what that person is doing. And so the idea that somehow they're guilty because they were following what the last administration did, half these people have been around so long, they were bush appointees, or they've been in office, they were hired then, and they just do their job.
He just fired all the eye. Half the IG's he fired were hit. He appointed them. Yes. Right. Well, he doesn't want anybody looking over his shoulder. Let's be abundantly clear. He can't actually fire all of them. He's going to have to rehire some, but he's trying to create this gap. 29 minutes after the hour. More house parks.
This is a much ado about nothing. The President of the United States has the complete and absolute right to determine whether these people are going to stay on with the administration or not. Regardless of these details that you're talking about, 30 days here, it won't change a thing. So President Trump exercised his authority, and I respect that.
Ah, that would be a Republican representative about Tom Emmer. Uh, laws now are just details. They're just, you know, bother some little details. Oh, there's a lot of day after 30 days. I mean, they would ever excuse anything. So these, you know, violent criminals that have been pardoned, how we covered this in the first.
An Indiana man who was pardoned by Trump for his conviction related to January 6th was fatally shot by police officer after allegedly resisting arrest during a traffic stop Saturday. He had entered a capital carrying a long flagpole with an upside down American flag that he later used forcibly jabbing multiple police officers among other violent assaults. He said at the time, I'm not ashamed of being there. It was our duty as patriots.
call himself the alternate pantry because I put myself on the line to defend the country. That guy is Muerta. He's Deed. He's deceased. He has no more. He has gone on to meet his maker. He's joined the choir and Vincent, invisible. Better have to fly if he rests in peace. If he didn't
name of the budget be pushing up the daisies and not the first of the january six terrorists whose presidential grant of freedom was short-lived a floor a man from florida a florida man as house parchment said yeah uh... was being held in washington d c federal jail after being died of multiple felonies for assaulting police officers and setting off an explosive device during the riot uh... he was arrested one day after being pardoned by
I don't, something, something, gun charges, domestic violence. Okay, anyway, because I don't know as it turns out, this is going to be crazy, but they're crooks, you see. And so crooks, crime is going to crime.
Well, also, I would like to say for the record that most maggots, like the hardcore ones that showed up for the, you know, his insurrection, the Walmart insurrection, most of them showed up because they are like, I don't know, one bad traffic stop away from spitting in a top space because they're sovereign citizens, really. They don't really believe they believe they're a special subset of Americans that don't have to play by the rules. Because Trump just told they were. He just told them. Yeah.
Yeah, that they gave them a KMA card and said, you know, if you get essentially to get pulled over, just tell them you're a patriot and they'll let you go or some nonsense. And then you've got these guys who, I think it's when then I want to say a hundred, might be 50 miles, but a hundred miles of the border in Texas and these other states, you can be pulled over at random without cause because it's a border area, because of the very laws that maggots insist on. And there are video after video online of these, of these like,
Trump supporters being pulled over by Customs and Border Patrol and they're like, I don't have to give you my ID. I don't have to show you nothing. You don't have any right to pull me over. You're like, all right, you're just running math, aren't you? This has nothing to do with patriotism.
All right, so we all heard how Kamala Harris was a DEI hire. JD Vance hires Tucker Carlson's son Buckley. What a name. Yeah, even Bella. Even Bella's douche alarm went off. He was served as JD Vance. That's a name you give your laboratory because you want to tell people you read books.
and look at their william f buckley maybe i probably yes yes buckley karlson will serve as advances uh... deputy uh... press secretary cuz i'm sure he's wildly qualified as nothing to do with being buckley karlson uh...
carlson had long been close allies particularly on uh... posing helping ukraine as you recall carlson went to moscow did the softball interview with hooten right he also recently said he was attacked by a demon which left him with physical marks vance and that's it's weird that his wife was asleep and uh... in the middle of note no word on whether he drove to a truck stop and went into a mens room uh... where the attack actually happened is wife
isn't a witness. So we don't know what kind of demon it was. My guess, it works hat backwards. That's my guess. And he has two awards for arm wrestling. Is he blaming the demon for his burned balls or does he he tanned his own balls on purpose? No, no, he just wants them to look he wants them to look similar to the when they're never mind.
Okay, JD Mass defended Carlson after he platformed a holocaust denier who told Clark Carlson that Winston Churchill was the chief villain of the Second World War because we're just what rewrite all of history because
Oh yeah, yeah, that was a while back. That was like six disgusting things to go. Right? I know. I was just major, major disgusting things to go. Yeah, that was so. And by the way, this is how they're going to be for the next three months. And then when stuff starts, like,
One of my, they're two of my favorite things right now is one is waiting for the fuse that was lit, you know, with Trump's tariffs and all of his threats about what, how it's going to impact the market and RFK Jr. By the way, check your eggs for E. coli and, and, and all that because he's not going to bother. They're going to, they think it's, yeah, it's nothing to sneeze at as it works. Well, that's a trooper. You could get burned through and E. coli. So.
Fox Newsmax and all these shows have become so boring since they won because they don't have anything to say. All they can do is hop on and inflate him like a balloon every day. And they're all like...
They got nothing to be excited about. Like a head he had on Mel Gibson yesterday, and they had nothing to talk about. They're just like, yeah, fire. So I don't know. It was going to be good in Hollywood, do you think? Like they have nothing to rage about. It's amazing. They're saying that. Why are they still so mad? Like they're just in a current state of mad. I'm like, you won. Just shut up now.
Because they know Trump is a lifelong loser and never, I've said this before and I'll say it again, never underestimate Donald Trump's ability to screw up a free lunch. He's going to do it and they know it because they know what he's saying to the house and stuff. I mean, they know what he's saying in these meetings. They know that the Brits were laughing out loud at him during these calls.
Like Q&A he had at Davos was one of the funniest things I have seen in my life. I was dying crying. If you haven't watched that episode, I barely got through it because it was so funny. It's a mess. In our big bag of rats stack today.
efforts to push Trump's ambitious tax cut on our sparking debates within the Republican Party's concerns over the US national debt take center stage analyst estimate his tax cuts could add 5.8 trillion dollars to the national debt over the next decade. Texas Republican Michael Cloud said most of us support the tax cut, but we also recognize the need to get our fiscal house in order. Well, you can't do both. You can't. So good luck with that, right? Yeah.
Mm-hmm. Yeah, you were talking about Chip Roy who wish he is a Yeah, he is a putt putt outside Lubbock and also a Republican congressman
Yeah, Chip Royza is like the world's worst ice cream flavor. It tastes like old pirate. Anyways, apparently. And it gets stuffed in your chin beard. But it's a big fear. But the fact that Trump was even talking about priming this dude, before he even got into office, about removing the debt ceiling, which is something that Rachel Maddow did an hour on three years ago.
Like she was, remember when they were gonna shut down the government over the debt ceiling and it was this big thing and she did a whole special about why it's stupid. And how you don't get to walk back the bill once you've signed off on it. You don't get to charge people or take in taxes and pay them out. So you're gonna pay them out and then not later.
All right, I'm only halfway through. It's called the budget. I'm only halfway through the bag of rats stack. James Comer, house oversight chairman, claims that he told Jared Kushner to off after Kushner had an emissary child calmer for criticizing his business dealings with Saudi Arabia.
But here's the problem. You're going to get MAGA like Lindsey Graham, which is our third bag in the bag of brass. Right. Yeah. Lindsey Graham draws MAGA theory after mildly criticizing Donald Trump. He drew either from the MAGA base after he dared criticize the president's blanket pardons of the January 6 rioters. He said, I fear you will get more violence, pardoning the people who win the Capitol and beat up a police officer violently, I think, was a mistake because it seems to suggest that's an OK thing to do.
Oh, that's like normal Lindsey. And then well, right. Uh, members of Trump's loyal base flipped out. They slammed him as a snake and a rhino and blah, blah, blah. So this is what happens. Joni Ernst, whoever it is, they get bullied by this MAGA base and then they, they just step right back in line. That's right.
Yeah. Well, and again, part of it is giving him what he wants so that when it fails, you didn't plant the bomb like the fuse. All you did was watch him do it because if you get too much in his way or you put too many of your own ideas in the process that you know is going to fail anyways, you're doing yourself, you're attaching yourself to this anchor and going swimming.
I mean, look at his, he took security detail away from Mike Pompeo who was just on TV a couple of weeks ago sucking up to Trump. Like, not even like mild disagreements now are, you know, apparently punishable by death since Trump said he doesn't care if harm comes to any of the people he removed the security. Cause he's a, did I mention he's a sociopath? Yes. Okay. A couple of times. Yeah. Okay. Just wondered. Okay. Uh, Gary in Kansas City, you're on with, with, uh, how? Hello.
Hi, Stephanie. First time caller. Hi, how are you? Go Chiefs. Hi. Yeah, go Chiefs. A lot of Chiefs fans. I'm not so sure Trump is as popular out here as he thinks he is, though. I'm pretty sure he lost the city. The Kansas numbers voted against him. So I don't understand for a minute where he's coming from.
thinking he's the most popular president in kansas city history and almost like here in octa it's almost like you're like you're implying that he is narcissistic in some way right uh... silly person there's a chance a very silly person
There's a chance of both of those, I have to say. Yeah. And Stephanie, you was out here in October, and I had something silly like a wedding to go to or something. Oh, no. But don't give up on this part of the country. We sure need your visits. I won't. In Kansas City resident, Sean Kamiskey is nodding his head, yes, at everything you said. Yeah. So, yeah. OK. All right. I don't know why I said they achieved. So I'm such a suck-up, because I already said fly eagle slides. Yeah, you did. Last hour. Yeah. I just assume no one's paying attention. It could seem. It could seem.
yeah do what I do just whoever you go to the game with root for whoever they're rooting for I mean it's it that's that's what the meaning is of sports in your life is a bonding exercise with those around you it doesn't actually mean you have to hate the other side it's a game I know I'm sensible craziness for me I apologize
I'm a flip flopper, I'm a cheap political opportunist, right? You're a political whore. Depending on which legal lady we have on, I'm like, whoa, wolverines, go hook them horns, roll time. Go fighting armadillos, yay, yes. Go Trojans. Yeah, absolutely. Fight on. Yeah, the raging dodos, knock yourself out. This is going to be great.
Stephanie Miller. Yeah, what? Oh yeah. Housebox is here.
Yeah, what? Hi. Okay, I'm sure you covered the story. Lauren Bobert tried to evict a guy from the ladies' room in the Capitol that she mistakenly thought was the only transgender member, Sarah McBride, and was, of course, mistaken, went to get security. I swear, it's like Mean Girls meets Laura the Flies. This is all they're concerned about, right? And, you know, it had to apologize.
What do you, Stephanie, what do you expect her to do? Sit there with staff and craft bills to solve the needs and desires of her constituents and the problems that they face in their everyday lives. What do you want her to do? Lower the price of groceries? Are you nuts?
But here we are. It looks like Trump's going to ban transgender people from the military. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has frozen all applications for passports with an ex-gender marker, an option available to people who don't identify as male or female. He ordered staff to suspend applications that involve a change in gender marker.
The country's policy is now an individual. Sex is not changeable. I mean, it's just I there's going to be one of these a day that are just right didn't isn't Idaho the first state that's moving to get rid of marriage equality, I think.
Yeah. I mean, they're not going to be able to again, because this wouldn't be back the test that it's already been through. But the untested stuff, again, needed more time. And the Democrats needed to build momentum and start stacking bills and protections to codify the protections that women and other minorities and transgender people need. But what everybody was like is they lived under this stroke of the pen fallacy, which by the way, maggots are going to fall for two, which is that the president has the ability to
make this problem go away with the stroke of the pen. And they can't. You have to legislate it. And the depth of that legislation has to, you know, has to survive several attacks from the people against it. And as we keep saying here at Trump central do not bend the knee central as
Chris and Snell said, stay in your jobs. If you're a government employee, this one, former US Department of the Interior Inspector General Mark Greenblatt revealed brutal details of his firing by Trump, including that he doesn't know if he'll be able to get his stuff back from his office. He was told he could keep his stapler. Stapler. Yeah. Being moved down to storage. It's my stapler to know where my stapler is. I put it on the desk and it's now it's gone.
Look, a lot of this is noise, and they know it's going to eat up a lot of news cycles, and they know it's going to affect, we will be chasing down how it affects people's lives, as we should, and by the way, the states will make up for this. Blue states will be absorbing a lot of the impact of these things as people move their protections and support as they should. And what Republicans want is them to flee red states in the process.
And we've been talking, you know, so many tweets about people saying we want, we want Democrats to fight. We don't want you to, you know, they don't want to unify with us. They don't want to be civil with us. And so, you know, at least Senate Democrats co-sponsored a resolution condemning Trump's pardoning rioters who attacked police. I don't understand WTF with John Fetterman. So he initially didn't join his colleagues in support of the move, but then his name after Patty Murray announced the resolution publicly.
I mean, we all defended him so hard when they were being really mean about his stroke. I will defend him in this moment because what he ultimately did was just wait till it was formal to do it. They were gathering signatures. He was doing stuff. He's got constituents just like everybody else. He didn't just go to Marlago. He's been back in Pennsylvania as well. And in doing that, he signed on to it.
He didn't. He, for all the lip service and tap dancing around Trump at Mar-a-Lago, what did he ultimately do? He voted with his Democratic colleagues as he has every single time. Watch what he's doing. I just remember how mean they were about it when he had his stroke and we all just, you know, circled around him. But let's hear it. Let's hear from Secretary of Defense, Raby McDrumpy, drunkie before we go. Yeah.
Whatever is needed at the border will be provided because we are reoriented. This is a shift. This is not the way business has been done in the past. This is the Defense Department will support the defense of the territorial integrity of the United States of America at the Southern border to include reservist National Guard and active duty in compliance with the Constitution to the laws of our land and the directives of the Commander-in-Chief.
and then he went on to say chug chug chug, I believe. Wasn't that a kegger? It says who? Right. The issue that we have is obviously military people policing the internal interior of the country. That has always been an issue and it always should be an issue.
When it comes to National Guard reservists, what they're doing is just shipping them down there. They've done this already with Operation Lone Star, which led to like multiple suicides and ruined people's lives because they ended up dangling at the border doing nothing because the numbers aren't anywhere near what they say. During Title 42, recidivism was through the roof. They kicked everybody out and they came right back in because they could.
Yeah, I want to leave you time to talk about something I know nothing about this AI. You were because you've been talking about it on your show, right? The AI. Yeah, go ahead. Oh, yeah. So, so deep-seek everybody's flipping out about deep-seek. What they're not flipping out about is the actual model itself, the company or the deep-seek AI, the R1 model, what they were freaking out about. It seems as how cheap it was.
to train because the idea is it going to cost billions of dollars and lots of energy to train these big models. Well, most of them have been trained already, so we're past that hump anyways. And so this 6 million and ultimately because it's China, they piggybacked on chat GPT. They stole chat GPT stuff and created their own version minus any crimes China ever committed. If you want an AI that will tell you China's never done anything wrong, that's the one for you. It's silly.
I don't believe in chat. Because it cannot answer where that sound bite is from that we've been looking for. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Houseparks is on the air literally 24 hours a day. Do not miss him. Houseparks, mornings, mega worldwide, right? At infotainment. I love you. Houseparks. Yeah. Love you. Okay. Love you. Bye.
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