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January 30, 2025
TLDR: Podcast features Karl Frisch, Dr. Irwin Redlener, and Dana Goldberg discussing their insights on current pediatric health issues and the impact of political decisions.

In the latest episode of the Stephanie Miller Show, significant topics were discussed involving political accountability, aviation safety, and the current administration's performance under President Trump. The show featured guests Karl Frisch, Dr. Irwin Redlener, and Dana Goldberg.
Mid-Air Collision Incident
The episode started with a shocking report about a mid-air collision between a commercial flight and a government helicopter near Reagan National Airport. The FAA confirmed it was not a police helicopter involved, but rather a military one, raising substantial concerns about aviation safety under the current administration.
Political Reactions
- Trump's Immediate Reaction: Trump wasted no time in seeking someone to blame, indicating that had this incident occurred during a Democratic administration, the media would have erupted.
- Media Accountability: The podcast highlighted how, if Biden had been in office, Trump and Fox News would have demanded criminal investigations, showcasing the double standards in media coverage of accidents.
Aviation Safety Concerns
The discussion then shifted to Trump's recent decisions that led to the firing of heads of key aviation safety organizations, including the TSA and the Coast Guard, and the dismantling of critical advisory committees. The implications of these actions have raised questions about the safety of air travel following the collision.
Key Points Discussed:
- Historical Context: There was a reminder of past aviation disasters and how regulations are essential for safety.
- Consequences of Gutting Regulations: The guests argued that cutting funding and resources for aviation safety could lead to such incidents being more frequent.
Political Accountability and Critique of Government
The conversation further delved into how past incidents were politicized and how public trust in government institutions is eroding.
Bobby Kennedy’s Testimony: Dr. Redlener discussed the disappointing testimony from Bobby Kennedy Jr., who was found unqualified during his confirmation hearings. There were concerns about his stance against vaccines and the implications of placing him in charge of health policies.
Injection of Self-Interest: Guests suggested that personal interests, such as political connections and financial gains, often cloud judgment and policy decisions.
Social Issues and Public Perception
- Transgender Rights: The overall climate concerning LGBTQ rights was addressed, emphasizing the Republican agenda that aims to restrict rights under the guise of public morality.
- Public Sentiment: Voter regret became a recurring theme, with focus on Google searches indicating more voters are regretting their choice to support Trump.
Calls for Action and Mobilization
The episode concluded with a rallying cry for progressives to organize and combat disinformation. It emphasized the importance of fighting for rights and keeping pressure on politicians to be accountable and transparent.
Key Takeaways:
- The current administration's lack of accountability demonstrates a wider trend of ignoring safety and public welfare.
- Tackling misinformation effectively requires organized responses and grassroots mobilization.
- There is a need for renewed focus on advocacy for vulnerable communities who are facing increasing threats from government policies.
Conclusion
As the episode wrapped up, listeners were reminded of the continuous nature of political struggles in the face of potential regressions in rights and safety. Engaging in active participation and holding elected officials accountable is deemed crucial for the health of democracy.
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I'm just stunned. Initially, we had heard that this may have been a collision with the police helicopter. And what the FAA is laying out here is that it's not the case. This was a mid-air collision between this commercial flight and a government or military helicopter.
Hi, as I said, I was on that flight, not that specific flight, but that's when I always land is Reagan at nine o'clock Eastern, which I was just on for a sexy liberal. So obviously, like normal humans, the first thing you do is go, oh my God, the families of the people on that flight, but Chris, it is hard.
not to have politics involved because of, as you said, when we got in here, of course Trump shot his mouth off looking for who to blame first. This is what's going to be like with any national tragedy and you can't help but go imagine if this was under Joe Biden's administration and Defense Department.
And you're just like, oh my God, right? Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says, the reality show guy, Sean Duffy of the TSA says, right? All of these wildly unqualified picks and eight. Thank you. As you said, Corey Sellers had linked to this as well. Alex said, if Joe Biden had fired 100 FAA employees and a plane crash happened just a few hours later, Fox News would bring Lou Dobbs back from the dead with wall to wall coverage, blame me on Biden. I mean, and we had to go Google the,
Right? Because I couldn't remember exactly all the effort of the past week. Trump fires the heads of the TSA Coast Guard and guts key aviation safety advisory committee. I mean, oh my God. And all three of those were on site at this plane crash in the Potomac. President Donald Trump has moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security by firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up while eliminating all members of a key aviation security advisory group.
What, as we said then, what could possibly go wrong? And we were just saying, can you imagine the homophobic slurs that would already be out there? If Pete Buttigieg was calling him a DEI hire. Right. Yeah. Right. Yeah. That's why I said, thank God we got rid of all the DEI hires. Right. And Sean Duffy comes out and says, yeah, this isn't supposed to happen. Yeah.
But here we are with the media. You know, McCarty Sellers, who I love, just links to this factual story of them gutting aviation safety and got a talking to from CNN. He had to rescind it.
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Oh, you can feel him looking for how to score political points and who do I blame? And really, it happened on your administration, under your defense department. That's your army helicopter. You just are the one that put in this wildly unqualified head of the defense department. I mean, Brooklyn dad defined all our friends. I'm wondering, sometimes I go to social media because I'm like,
Am I thinking the same thing everyone else is and the answer is yes. Brooklyn dad said, good morning. Happy Thursday to everyone who remembers vividly how every time there was a tragic accident. Trump and Republicans were quick to blame President Biden. No matter the circumstance, the Black Hawk incident last night could have been avoided blame Trump. Dean Obadaw said, if this plane accident happened under Biden, Trump and Fox News will be calling for criminal prosecution of Biden. Yes.
I'm just taking a page from the GOP playbook. Trump and Pete Haggseth need to be criminally investigated for this. The buck stops with the boss. And Sean Duffy, he's the secretary of transportation. He needs to be investigated. The reality show. What was the reality show he was from? The real world. Real world Boston.
Yes, sure. Yeah. And he married a girl from the real world, San Francisco. Of course, because of course he did. Okay. That's Rachel Campo stuffy. Ah, yes. Yes. As I said, thank God, we got rid of all the DDI hires because yeah, things seem to be going much better. If it feels like Armageddon since Trump's been in for a week, it is.
I we were just talking about I don't what's like the okay I don't even know how to put into work just this last day that is it distract from the disaster that was Bobby Kennedy's confirmation hearing how many lies he got caught in how wildly unqualified he is now you have cash battalion called Tulsi Gabbard coming up next in this pile up of just
wildly unqualified nominees. We were saying, I don't even understand what's going on with the spending freeze, except it is usual Trump back down. And then they made it more confusing and even more chaotic, right? Like, oh, the spending freezes rescinded because the court stopped them. Then they're like Caroline Levitt, them bot. It's like, no, not really.
No, yeah, sort of, but not really. I mean, it's just this, but they're saying, there's an OMB memo that this is by design. They want to go to court and have him, they think it's his supreme court. And no matter what he does, ultimately they'll say, okay, right? Just take away the power of the purse from Congress, just like magic like that. I just, okay. That's unconstitutional. Yes, thank you. Thank you.
Oh, hold on. Hold please. Oh, oh, there it is. My box was a little sticky. Not your fault, Bill. Do you need some lube? Yes. I need a lot more than that. More than that this morning. Oh, my God. I, yeah, this, this, I mean, I have to say, sorry, completely preventable tragedy. When have you ever heard of this happening?
That's what I always fly is American Airlines. They went down in the Potomac near Reagan Airport after colliding with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter at 9 p.m. local time. So it was from Wichita, Kansas. There were a bunch of figure skaters and coaches returning from championships.
Yep, Trump released a statement, again, bodies in the water, right? Seeming to question the actions of the helicopter pilot's air traffic control, he will never take responsibility for anything. Nope. This will suddenly not be his defense department, right? Nothing. Sorry, go ahead. What were you going to say?
Uh, nothing. I was agreeing with you. Yes, thank you. Yeah. One of those rare occasions where I agree with you. Oh, wow. Yeah. I don't know era of the stuff. Oh my God. Right? Good Lord. Bella is fitting in like a glove over there. She's just as big a weirdo as we are. I don't know how we found out where she likes the dark humor. I do. She does. She does. I don't remember what I said. Was it something I shouldn't say on air? Probably.
I remember. Yeah, let's be cautious. Okay. She's the new owner of the dump button over there. She is. Now that she knows where it is, thanks to yesterday. Can't help it, right? Because you're like, someone tweeted, oh, Pete Henson's drunk ass has only been in two days and it's like, oh my God.
But this is this is what all of they've been doing is focusing on this DEI hires and oh is it a black pilot you know like it's just an obviously cutting funding for what do you call it that aviation security whatever
Yeah, a truth seeker said, now a word from idiot Trump with a reminder of how we got here. They retweet a lot of people. Unfortunately, facts, you can't make them disappear from the internet. There are headlines about him gutting the FAA and aviation security. And it's, you know, and putting someone wildly unqualified in charge of the Defense Department. And here we are. Sorry. You know, this is the head of the CEO of American Airlines.
Most importantly, I'd like to express our deep sorrow about these events. This is a difficult day for all of us at American Airlines, and our efforts now are focused entirely on the needs of our passengers, crew members, partners, first responders, along with their families and loved ones.
Yeah, and then one more from CNN last night to put this in the context for you. Reagan National Airport is right across the river on the Maryland side is joint base Anacostia bowling.
That is where the presidential helicopter fleet is based. You'll often see marine ones staged there, as well as the decoy helicopters that are part of the flight, that when there is a presidential movement, you'll often also see black cock helicopters there as well.
Um, can I just say to my point, this was even before the plane crash happened, but to my point, uh-huh. White House blames Biden for killing 100 million chickens, refuses to admit Trump broke an vow on costly eggs.
So they were obviously called to prevent the spread of bird flu, which now we can't even get any information on because Trump, we're going to talk to Dr. Redliner about that because he's shut down the CDC. God knows what for communicating with us at all. Is Bobby Kennedy going to get confirmed? Because I can't. I can only.
I can only take so much this week. We talked about this before the break. This is what happens being a Kennedy or a Trump and you have yes people kissing your ass. Your entire life, just everything you say. Oh, really, Bobby? Oh, that's fascinating. Him sitting there expounding on these podcasts with the most lunatic theories.
they're going to get countless people killed, right? And then he just, he lies constantly. He just goes, ah, I never said that. And then they play it. And he's, I mean, he is, and I think someone documented how many times he's said it. Things like there's no safe, effective vaccine that polio vaccine killed more kids than polio, like just this lunacy, right? And it's,
you were saying people kiss his ass at the gym that you did go to yes this is what happens people kiss your ass your whole life that's right they just like pretend this lunatic is saying something profound when he's just as he has the last name of Kennedy right right I was with Caroline Kennedy was trying to say exactly uh let's let's listen to a little and then we were gonna move on we have our usual Carl Frish we have Dana Goldberg we have Dr. Red letter uh yeah Ron Wyden yesterday
in your testimony today in order to prove you're not anti-vaxx, you note that all your kids are vaccinated. But in a podcast in 2020, you said, and I quote, you would do anything, pay anything to go back in time and not vaccinate your kids. Mr. Kennedy, all of these things cannot be true.
So are you lying to Congress today when you say you are a pro vaccine? Or did you lie on all those podcasts? Countless times on tape. Could you hear him creepily breathing in the background? That was his, that was him. That was Kennedy's breathing. I like this. I like the someone said he looks like a boiled catcher's myth. Really? He's going to tell us what's healthy. Look at you. Jesus.
I'm sorry, but dear God. Yeah, I don't even know where to start with this. By the way, I mentioned this yesterday, but I was correct. His appropriatings have already plummeted. We mentioned yesterday the top search, Google search is people who regret voting for Trump because...
Seems like some of those people were warned and I don't but I'm not even a weekend, but sorry. Yeah, I'm stretching to give baby Bella. We're gonna call her baby Bella till she's like 16.
She and I had to talk about Baby Bella yesterday. Oh, we did? She's not the biggest fan of that. You don't like that? You know, I don't mind it. I don't mind it. OK. But I've gotten that nickname a lot. All right. All of my jobs post-grad because I tend to be the youngest in the room. OK. So in a way, it's a testament. So I'm like, oh, yes. I will not do that ever again. And I will certainly not play this sound effect. You can. I give you permission. Baby Bella, I will not do it again.
Did you explain to her when people tell me not to do something? What happened? Does it ten times over? Oh, good. No, but not the baby Bella because I love her. Oops! Oh, I'm sorry. I'm a bag of D's. Okay.
Stephanie Miller.
Thank you for not keeping the cameras on during the commercial break. Like I did yesterday, so people could watch me shoveling food into my mouth. People love that. Well, you know what? It is just completely blown up my image, my lady-like image to watch me shulling at food and to beat the commercial break. Chris forgot to turn the cameras off. Okay, enjoy.
It's a potato with low fat cottage cheese and a little grape tomatoes just for everybody that wanted to know what I was shoveling in my maw. It does look like an ice cream sundae. It's delicious and nutritious. Okay, Joe is a commercial pilot. Hey, Joe. Hi, Joe. Hi, Stephanie. How are you today? Well, you know, yeah, go ahead. Yes. Yeah, go ahead. Yes. Go ahead. Yeah.
go ahead and get some tidbits. Did you know that Trump Trump force one? Can you hear me? Yes. Hello. Come force one got violated taking off last summer, flew right over to Capitol. What I think happens almost like he doesn't think any rules apply to him. Yeah.
dot all right all right all right i don't know what's going on tonight i can hear him i don't know how to stay out of it i i let's try back on a different phone uh... let's go to andrew in ohio hey andrew uh... hey stephenie man it is so frustrating i wish uh... come on harris or some other leading democrat who wants to be president would publish a daily journal of the things they would be accomplishing and doing yeah
that would improve our lives instead of you know it would provide contrast to the wacka doodle crap were exposed to daily i would love to see what they would be doing
in comparison to what we're experiencing. Thank you. Yeah. Now, listen, it is hard. It boggles the mind. By the way, oh, I, that, the story I sent you, I'm going to do all the Trump voters that are like, huh? What? What? Oh, yeah. Yeah. There was a one that's like, I haven't heard anything from Trump. I just like buying a, you know, I'm making it easier to buy a house. I'm like, you know who did talk about that? Kamala Harris on a specific plan.
All this is chaos and retribution. And you tell me. So the one thing I will say is obviously the resistance works. Where is it? Give me 14 Chuck Schumer talking about this ridiculous chaos with the spending freeze. Today, we saw what happens when Americans fight back against disastrous policies. Americans made their voices heard. Donald Trump rescinded the OMB order.
When the Trump administration announced his awful directive on Monday night, we knew immediately it was short-sighted, disastrous, cruel, and dumb.
I think he took voice coaching from you, he seemed a little more. Not really. Okay, so Trump administration's federal government funding freeze instituted Monday, apparently rescinded Wednesday, appears to be part of the White House's official policy to get courts to hand Trump the power to pick and choose which congressionally authorized funding he will spend, which as you said is clearly unconstitutional.
So on Wednesday, the administration rescinded the memo but then claimed the policy was still in effect and officials only rescinded the memo to get courts to drop the restraining order. A second judge issued another temporary restraint. Let me just get some background. Issued another temporary restraining order on Wednesday after the administration rescinded the original memo.
The confusing series of events and conflicting statements and actions may be a fiasco, but the confidential OMB document makes clear the administration intends on fomenting the very court challenge over the president's power to not spend. Elon Musk had tweeted, yes, President Musk had tweeted, we believe the current Supreme Court will likely side with him on this question. This is going to be their game plan on everything. Oh, by the way, we're at notification paying attention at the concentration camp.
phase of this. He's talking about opening Gitmo to put undocumented immigrants in. First of all, there's 600 and something bad. He said he's going to put 30,000. How much taxpayer money is that? Ask the Department of Government Efficiency. By the way, the planes that landed in Colombia had zero criminals on them. There were women and children
In light of the injunction, the OMB has rescinded the memo to end any confusion on federal policy created by the court ruling and dishonest media coverage said FEMBOT, Caroline Lovett. Really? So it's the media's fault. The executive order is issued by the President of the River Inn in full force and blah, blah, blah, blah. Just by design, more chaos, more confusion, and complete incompetence. All right, Karl Frisch, next.
The directive was given without any comprehension of what it actually called for, let alone ramifications on literally hundreds of millions of Americans, and the American people are outraged. From one end to the country to the other, and it is clear that President Trump and his minions are feeling the heat.
Okay, I had to have Chris a layperson explain this to me. Oh, okay What was because I literally was like I don't even understand what's going on with it And I you said exactly what I thought it's Trump not wanting to look like he's backing down Which he which he did because he's a giant seat and by the way He's the one that backed down media in this Columbia. Yeah, you know deportation flight fiasco. Yeah
Not the other way around, but this is- But he doesn't want to admit that he backed down, so he sends everyone out saying- It's like, oh! No, no, there's not really a spending freeze. Of course there is, because it's legally in place. Right. From a judge, and so he had to send the fenbot out to lie, and go, oh no, it's not really, I didn't really, it's not really rescinded. Yes, it is. You'd back down, because you were a giant- See? Yep. Sorry. I'm in a mood. You are in a mood. You are in a mood. For so many reasons, I need my friend.
Carl Frisch. Let's talk to our fancy Fairfax County school boyfriend. Carl Frisch dot com. Oh yeah. Carl Frisch thinking of you this morning. I just we were saying I was just on that flight flying into to Reagan for D.C. sexy liberal. Couple of weeks ago and I what a go just your thoughts just this morning. You know I saw the news last night as I was going to bed and. You know it's horrible.
So right now, the internet has just built a speculation here in the Northern Virginia area. So we're reading for more information. I'd rather get everybody in. I've seen people on Facebook reading.
not one. Yeah. And Carl, it's hard. That's the problem is it's hard not to inject politics at a time when, as we said, you just knew it. You don't even have to look. You knew on social media, Trump was going to shoot his mouth off trying to figure out who he can blame, right? Never himself. Never. It's, you know, it's his defense department. It's their black Hawk helicopter. None of that. You know, it's his defense secretary. It's his, you know, reality show host head of the
TSA. I mean, they think we don't have Google to Google Trump fires heads of TSA Coast Guard and Guts Key Safety Aviation Safety Advisory Committee. They think we don't have access to what just happened, you know, and it's hard calling this environment because you know it. You know if it was Biden and it was Pete Buttigieg, what they'd be saying, right? Well, you know, telling that maybe wait for
Now everybody to be notified and for all the information about that the excuses would begin. So I think we'll wait to see what happens here. Right now my focus is on.
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, sorry. You're breaking up a little, Carl, but I can hear every other word. I think it's, you know, I was saying, I don't even know it's, you don't even know what's distracting from what? I mean, that was a, first of all, as we were just saying, the budget freeze, that was a fiasco. Bobby Kennedy, another fiasco on top of that. We have two new fiascos coming up in Cash Mattel and Tulsi Gabbard.
Just talk to us first because you were in politics a long time about this ridiculous unconstitutional spending freeze. Who knew that the clown target fell so much? The government has certain things that it must do to continue operation and the Trump administration tried to put a hold on a significant amount of work that is done to help everyday Americans.
And so when people think about whether or not this administration is doing what it said it would do and make life a little easier for them, make cost of living a little easier for them, this is an example, just another example of how they're not doing that because they don't care. And so the truth is emerged that Trump is using these working families that are helped by things like Medicaid, helped by things like meals on wheels, helped by VA benefits. He's using those people
try and convince the courts that he should have more power I think if anything the first two weeks of his administration has shown that he doesn't deserve more power you know he deserves true account yeah I mean I you know somebody tweeted about Malcolm Nance on yesterday Malcolm Nance is a hundred percent right Hitler dismantled democracy in 53 days we need to get our democratic party leadership to act like the house is on fire or they need to get out of the way
They all, someone else said, listen to Malcolm Nance on today's Stephanie Miller show. He's screamy, shouty, spot on when it comes to Trump's rapid dismantling of our country. Adolf Hitler ended democracy in 53 days. We're on track to do it in less than two weeks. Call Congress 202-224-3121. I mean,
It seems to have worked thus far with the spending freeze that, you know, people are, I'm hoping, Carl, more people, the people that are like, oh, I can't, I'm tuning out, I'm checking out of politics. They're waking up now because they don't have any choice, right?
Yeah, and they're waking up in red areas too. You look at the maps of where these benefits are most important, where states are relying on them the most. Many of those places are red states or red areas in this country. And so those people are finding out the hard way of what happens. And so, Congress does need to do a job. I'm confident that we have leaders in Congress who will stand up to the administration and hold it accountable.
uh... but i also know that there's a majority in congress right now who will not do that and we need to do everything we can to expose both yeah so here's our new best friend senator shelton white house it was on the show last week uh... with bobby kennedy
Americans are going to need to hear a clear and trustworthy recantation of what you have said on vaccinations, including a promise from you never to say vaccines aren't medically safe when they in fact are. You're in that hole pretty deep. We've just had a measles case in Rhode Island. The first since 2013,
And frankly, you frighten people. Wow. Yeah. I mean, he didn't know you're me. You're that puts up. Or roommate. They were roommates. That's right. Oh, that's right. From Harvard Law. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, you're that of a school bar, Carl. I mean, this is, you know, I thought Maggie Hassan was great. Real quick, just let me get your reaction on this one as well. One of the people who helped raise me was my grandfather, who was a pediatrician. He practiced medicine in this country from 1921 until the mid-1980s.
And I've heard details about the difference those vaccines made in saving lives in the children who were under his care. Vaccination has helped to eradicate many deadly diseases in the United States, including polio and smallpox, something we should be proud of as Americans. I am extremely concerned that as secretary, you would be able to hold critical vaccine research and to exploit parents' natural worries by advising them not to vaccinate their children.
I mean, he is on record as saying the polio vaccine killed more, you know, kids than polio did. Just on the record. He is the record. Yeah. You know, and what's crazy is that that's probably the best Bobby Kennedy's ever done being questioned. And it was abysmal. It was awful. And you know, I think my favorite line was
out of three hundred and thirty million americans we must have somebody better out there for this but yeah someone said you could take ten random people off the street that would be better probably probably um but you know this is what we're left with and i don't think we should fool ourselves if kennedy has stopped
and he's not confirmed this administration will pick somebody as a gay man uh... can i just i'm not gay man you are uh... let me just clarify the woman
Is this what the American people want? Marco Rubio has banned the flying of the rainbow flag. Arizona Republicans, a Republican bill will ban pride flags on government property, move forward, despite free speech, you know, implications. The basic intent behind this came from my time in the military said, whoever the Republican, oh, of surprise, Arizona. Do you know where surprise is? That's a suburb of Phoenix. Yeah.
I believe Dan Savage said I've sat on less gay faces. I don't know for sure, but I feel like the surprise might be a surprise for his wife, but I don't know. But Carl, this is what they're working on? What family does this bother? What are a rainbow flag flies somewhere? I don't think this is bringing down the price of eggs.
Yeah. This is bringing down the price of gas, the price of health care, or the price of everyday items that families you just provide, or the price of college, or anything else that the American people want out of their government. And by the way, the FEMBOT, Caroline Levitt said, the President is elected in a landslide in a mandate, blah, blah, blah.
What did she say always doing wildly popular things with the American public? That is completely untrue, right? This is why they ran away from Project 2025. It was wildly unpopular. I'm just looking at this other, the Idaho House passed a resolution calling on the Supreme Court to overturn marriage equality. As I'm looking, about 70% in the latest Gallup poll
believe marriage equality, you know, should stay the law of the land. And this, of course, comes after Clarence Thomas expressed interest in revisiting over Felsa, like they're opening the door for this. Also expressed interest in birth control. So this is the chaos that you get from a chaos agent. President chaos will continue to bring chaos to this country. And I think it's got a very short life on the shelf in terms of the American people's tolerance for it.
especially when nothing seems to be being done on their behalf. Do you see the actions that they quote unquote voted for? You know, even the things that Trump said he won because of he's not taking any action on. Do you think all of this culture war stuff will bode well for maybe Democrats in the midterms?
Yes, it didn't, you know, the culture where stuff didn't work in the last election. I know that a lot of it was used to try and motivate their base, but you look at the polling and people want to change because they thought that, you know, the proper response was not being given to the economy. Right or wrong, there are deep concerns in the country about, well being. And this administration is doing nothing about it. Rice Kamala, you just had a plan.
69 Republican representatives back bill banning abortion nationwide the life at conception act. I mean, again, majorities of Americans still pro choice. I'm looking at this. Amy Siskin said that didn't take long. Disapproval of Trump rose by seven points from 39% to 46% disapproval approval down to 45%. So he's already in negative territory one weekend.
You know, I feel like there's a lot of, Mari said, I didn't, I didn't around, but I'm finding out because half of America doesn't have critical thinking skills. I mean, Carl, that's where you come in and education comes in. Because I keep saying, you know, yes, there was massive disinformation. But what is going on with Americans' critical thinking skills that they believe these ridiculous lies? And here we are a week in already even polling showing massive regret over voting for Trump.
I think, you know, first we have to remember that not everybody who voted for Trump is our...
There were people who voted for Trump who wanted change and they wanted improvement in the economy. I think that that was the wrong choice. But those people are waking up to the fact that this administration has no interest in helping them and that his entire interest is on settling scores, attacking marginalized communities, and doing favors for the billionaires he's putting on his cabinet and proudest of the administration.
I mean, I can't, you know, Chris, I don't even have the heart to go see what they're saying on the right wing and how I'm sure they're somehow still blaming Biden. Oh, absolutely. This air disaster that happened clearly under Trump's watch. When that boat ran into that bridge, the Francis Scott Key Bridge, they immediately blamed Biden and Buttigieg.
immediately, and there were still bodies in the water. I don't, you know, I didn't have the stomach for it this morning. You know, as you said, Carl still bodies in the water there, but it just, I mean, it really is extraordinary that you we are. We know reflexively. There would have been homophobic slurs about people to judge their would. I mean, it's anyway. I hear work.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, anyway, uh, Carl, best of luck to you. Yeah. And uh, best of luck to the entire DC and Northern Virginia community. Yeah. All right. I send in love and light to your, your way. Um, all right, honey. Okay. Thanks, Carl. Uh, do it. Karen in Chicago. Hello, Karen.
Hello. Good morning. Yes. I think that Americans are getting a crash course. No pun intended this week in the role that government agencies plan our lives from delivering health care, putting safe food on our tables, feeding our children and keeping
a safe front on our roads and airlines travel. And so it may be too soon to draw that direct line to Trump firing the heads of TSA Coast Guard and gutting key aviation safety advisory committee members. But this is what happens. So when the Republicans run around and scream about big government is ruining your lives and everything is broken and all the rest of it, I think that people are starting to wake up to the fact
that this is when good government this is good government that has been keeping all of a safe yeah and now we're seeing and what happens when you don't have that i don't think the america people have any if confidence in in them to do their own investigations do you think any investigation will ever blame trump's administration for anything i mean you know pete head south is in charge of the uh... you know investigation and and who was shot off the yeah the reality show guy
But that is exactly why I love that caller that said that Kamala Harris should be keeping a journal and talking about what she would be doing in that role and the Democrats need to be messaging it that way and that is why it is so important for them to be the opposition party.
to everything that is happening. We have this in the Democrats being the opposition party as of late. And that's kind of upsetting to me. Yeah. And I mean, well, listen, Malcolm and Anne said that yesterday that, yeah, I mean, I think we all know how different things would be under Kamala Harris, but it's, you know, the problem is we don't tend to politicize like they do. Like we were saying, you knew if this happened under Biden, they would have been politicizing the bejesus out of you can tell right now, they don't know what to do or who to blame. You could see, you know, Trump trying to blame someone that, you know,
No, that was the most irresponsible thing he's done yet. Quite honestly. Yes. And really, this is why, though. I mean, you know, again, it may be too soon to draw that direct line, but we can expect more of this and the reality of this situation, like you said, Stephanie, you know, darn well. If it was Biden that was in when this happened, of course, they would be screaming about it. They would be demanding investigations. So that's what our Democratic leadership needs to do.
They need to start demanding investigations and use that headline. You know, whether it is or it isn't, we need to do that. I mean, look what they did with Benghazi.
Yeah. Look what they've done every single time. I mean, that's what I'm saying is Kamala Harris and Democrats are not built that way, you know, that they're not going to, you know, that's the problem. This is what Trump does is try to figure out how do you want to politicize every tragedy? How do I score political points? Exactly. And it, okay. Chris, who said if you voted for Trump, you had leprosy of the soul who said that dick dastardly.
No, Carlos, I was rocky on this very show. You know, I frequently enjoy this show more afterwards when I find out what's happened, because I don't really know when I'm here. So read it later. Yeah. I'm like, wow, that was good. That happened here. We actually have a good show sometimes. Yeah. Bella is still not over. The Carlos was the Taco Bell Chihuahua. That actually blew my mind. Yeah. She and her roommates were like googling. Dying about it. Yeah. Like on YouTube, the entire night last night watching Taco Bell commercials. It's so alien to me.
Oh, I heard all her dreams coming through. All right, 58 minutes after the hour, Dr. Erwin will red letter. I think he might have thoughts about the Bobby Kennedy hearing. Next. It's the Stephanie Miller show.
Before the measles vaccine, about 500 American children died a year from measles. This is too much of a risk for our country, and there is no reason that any of us should believe that you have reversed the anti-vaccine views that you have promoted for 25 years.
uh... senator amagi has signed on michael benet senator benet was also great yesterday let's take a quick listen did you say that covet nineteen was a gentle genetically engineered by a weapon the targets black and white people but spared ashkenazi jews and chinese people uh... i didn't say it was deliberately targeted i just uh... i just quoted and and i age funded and and i age
uh... published study did you say that it targets black and white people but spared eyes and i think i said i'm going to study your art i quoted and i a study that show that i'll take that as a yes i have uh... lunatic lunatic yep uh... kevin cruz uh... post uh... former heroin at an apparent steroid user who looks like a boiled catchers met since and catchers mittin sounds like someone who gargles hot tar i just want americans to be healthy
I don't, I'm not. Spasmodic dysphonia is a real thing. Right, right. I'm not. I don't certainly endorse that. I'm just saying what he said. Okay. Okay. We found a story. You're just quoting a study? Yeah, I'm just quoting a study. Okay. Who looks mostly like a boiled catcher's mitt. Okay.
I remember doing this story, Chris. This was, right? I came from the 21st, January 21st, I believe. Associated Press, correct. Trump fires heads of TSA Coast Guard and Guts Key Aviation Safety Advisory Committee. Members for the Aviation Security Advisory Committee received a memo Tuesday saying the department is eliminating the membership of all advisory committees as part of, quote, a commitment to eliminating the misuse of resources and ensuring the DHS activities prioritize our national security, meaning the stupid border.
The Aviation Security Committee, which was mandated by Congress after 1988, P&M 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, will technically continue to exist, but it won't have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports. I remember saying this and going what could possibly go wrong.
Before Tuesday, the group included representatives of all the key groups in the industry, including the airlines and major unions, as well as members of a group associated with the victims of the Pan Am 103 bombing. The vast majority of the group's recommendations were adopted over the years. I naively thought, oh, they're not going to do anything in this new administration to put security at risk, aviation security at risk. But now I'm not so sure, said Stephanie Bernstein, whose husband was killed in the bombing and served on the committee.
I mean, oh my God, do elections have consequences. But it's, you know, it's part of the same theme to the Bobby Kennedy hearing, Chris, in that it's just this rejection of expertise in general. Any kind of expertise, science, you know, you name it. Let's talk to our friend. If I'm going to get that in some work with him, James, Dr. Irwin, that I'm doing this now.
I can't even imagine what you felt like watching Bobby Kennedy yesterday.
it was actually very hard to watch it was you know the cringeworthy uh... mean cliche uh... comes into play i mean his face we get red and wrinkled and terrified and uh... he was fumbling to answer basic questions it about half of americans are on medicare or medicaid he didn't know what the hell he was talking about the under friendly questioning and he seemed to fall apart it was he knows less than my mother
knew when she was 91 about Medicare. And look, this is a guy who's totally unqualified, who I fear may still get confirmed. It's just incredible. It's astounding.
reading the reporting, Doc, saying just what you said about Medicare and Medicaid. He was asked questions about these programs, answers his answers were halting vague, in some sense, in fact, fill out incorrect. Could mean he was nervous and mystique, misspeaking. It also means he does not understand the vital programs over which he would preside. And they were saying, Bill Cassidy is the Republican doctor.
He was, that was friendly questioning. He was falling apart under. I mean, you said, so with all we know about Mr. Kennedy's truly outlandish ideas, it's particularly surprising we have nary a word from the American Medical Association and other major medical organizations that should be strongly and publicly opposing his nomination. What's up with that talk, do you think?
I don't know. The AMA is an union for doctors. They have a lot of things that they need to get through the HHS regulations and compensation for doctors, etc. Who knows what their motives are. But the fact that they have not spoken out
against this nominee is just extraordinary. And including, by the way, the American Academy of Pediatrics, my organization, has a set of words either about this violent, vehement anti-vaxxer. And I don't know. I think there's going to have a lot to answer to, an answer for these guys.
The record is extraordinary of times he's on tape video on audio. He has claimed claim links between vaccine is autism on 36 occasion in public appearances despite scientific evidence debunking such claims at least on at least 144 occasions. He has broadly rebuked vaccines is dangerous and ineffective. And he just lies. I mean, I don't know. Apparently there's no consequence for that anymore for just flat out saying I didn't say that and then them playing the right.
Well, we have this whole other pathology of why there's any question that we won't get enough Republicans who refuse to go along with Donald Trump here. And this is a mystery that's going to have to be unlocked somewhere. It can't be that all of them are terrified of being, you know, primary by Elon Musk. I just don't understand this fealty to Donald Trump and whatever he seems to want to do across the board. Yeah.
from you know you crane and social services to the nominees that he's putting forward and look it's it's
It's a frightening moment in American history, I'll tell you that. Let's, Senator Bennett, God bless him, tried to go through a few with a wound. Did you say that Lyme disease is a, is highly likely a materially engineered bioweapon? I've made sure I put in the highly likely. Did you say Lyme disease is a highly likely, militarily engineered bioweapon?
i probably did say that did you say that and that's what the developer of our colleagues to hear it mister kennedy i want them to hear it you said yes
Wow. Okay, one more. Did you say that exposure to pesticides causes children to become transgender? No, I never said that. Okay, I have the record that I'll give to the chairman and he can make his judgment about what you said. Did you write in your book? And it's undeniable that African-American AIDS is an entirely different disease from Western AIDS.
Yes or no, Mr. Kennedy. I'm not sure if I may. I'll give it to the chairman, Mr. Kennedy. Oh my God. He doesn't know what he wrote in his own book. So we have it. We have it on tape, the first one. I think a lot of the problems we see in kids and particularly boys, it's probably underappreciated on that.
Uh, how much of that is coming from chemical exposures, including a lot of the sexual dysphoria that we're seeing. I mean, they're swimming through a soup of toxic chemicals today, and many of those are endocrine disruptors. There's atrazine throughout our water supply. Atrazine, by the way, if you, in a lab, put atrazine in a tank full of frogs, it will chemically castrate and forcibly feminize every frog in there.
We keep saying, Doc, this is what happens when people kick kissing your ass your whole life because you're a Kennedy. People listening to that call, oh, really? He's a dumb person's idea of a smart person, right?
and then you have his cousin two days ago Caroline saying he's a dangerous predator and you cannot you cannot confirm him so the vast majority of his own family members think he's a nut job and yet the Kennedy name and by the way I also read that
Bobby Kennedy Jr., because of his family name and his family, is considered a prize for the Republicans. Sure. They want to conquer the Kennedy mythology by incorporating this really... One of my sisters... One of my sister's friends, whose voter was a Trump voter, said to her after the election, oh he must be happy, you know, Kennedy's going to be in there now, and my sister's like,
No, he's a lunatic. He's the lunatic entity. He's the kind of dude we don't want. Right. I mean, but you're exactly right, Doc. No one at the hearings has even gotten to issues like the dead bear cub that he planted next to a bicycle in Central Park or his his brainworm series theories. And you know, it's
We're talking about a guy who's really got a screw loose to be put in charge of a $1.8 trillion budget for health and human services. And you said one of the points you made, Doc, you said it's hard to imagine a secretary of the agency who has publicly called for an eight-year ban on infectious disease research when the world is facing the strong possibility of a global pandemic that could be more deadly than COVID.
I mean, I don't even know where... Dr. I don't know if you know Eric Ding said, do you wonder why you haven't heard much about this massive TB outbreak recently? Because the CDC can't hold any press conferences or issue public statements of any kind. I can't imagine how as a doctor, you feel walking into this slow motion disaster.
uh... well first of all the whole administration is already a disaster for doctors it's underscored by the suggestion that bobby kennedy junior has what it takes in any way shape or form to run this massive uh... department and by the way medicare and medicaid uh... is an issue for half of americans who have to be on one or both of those programs
their life-saving programs. He has no idea what they are. He completely fumbled any attempt at even beginning to answer appropriately the questions put to him on these massive programs. And you think it is not a partisan issue.
No, and this, this ridiculous spending freeze doc and then rescission and then more chaos. George Takei said on social media, no, the Medicaid portals were shut down because the OMB demanded they be. They're only back up because of the outcry. I tell you to stop lying, but we know that's a feature of this administration.
I mean, not only are we going to get no information, we're going to get lies. You were saying, you posted, President Trump has declared the U.S. will withdraw from the World Health Organization. That's an extraordinarily terrible idea, pulling out of who will certainly undermine our capacity to detect early signs of a pandemic and our ability to manage a massive global outbreak. I mean, you know the only thing they're going to care about is blaming someone else, right? Like he did the last time.
I am.
I don't know what we should have expected, which is what a friend of mine said yesterday, said, you know, you've been ranting about Bobby Kennedy Jr., but are you surprised that people like this are being appointed to Secretary of Defense and, you know, the National Intelligence Director and all the positions in health, they're all of the same cloth. They're incompetent, unqualified, and dangerous.
And I guess I'm not surprised. I'm just really, really upset and I don't know where this is going Stephanie, but you know we keep saying in two years we'll have midterms and we'll reverse some of this. Elon Musk said he's going to primary these people that don't go along with every single whim and fantasy and craziness of Donald Trump.
RFK Junior's running mate is gonna do the same thing. Yeah, that crazy lady that crazy lady Yeah, I mean, but you're you know doc There are a lot of heroes of democracy like you out there, you know, Jim Acosta We're talking about the people that are and I'm sorry, you know what CNN just make but a car resellers
You know, back down on posting this headline, which is a true headline from a story I just read. Trump fires heads of TSA Coast Guard and guts key aviation safety advisory committee. You can only imagine if this happened a month ago under President Biden. You know, so again, it's all of a piece, right? You know, it's all it's all of a piece that was completely
predictable. And even the speed with which Trump is making these decisions that are devastating, you know, opening up Guantanamo to for, you know, 30,000 migrants. God knows what's going to happen down there. And the other thing. And at its peak, at its peak, Gitmo held, I believe it was 678 beds. So how much they're talking about government waste. How much taxpayer money is that going to cost?
to a concentration camp for 30,000 people? And then he's looking for other sites to put even more, quote unquote, prisoners in. And look, yesterday, Karen and I spoke with some of our friends in Ukraine.
and they are terrified because he's also put a stop on humanitarian aid in other countries including Ukraine. This is vital issue for people in places like Ukraine.
and uh... everybody's terrified and the world is upside down he's already blamed zalinski for the war said he should have capitulated to to put in i i mean it's it's it's it's as terrifying as you think all right we went long because we needed you yes you're going to also need to get a psychology degree okay i'll be i'll be here thank you don't like that by christmas everybody
Stephanie Miller. Why thank you. Soon Rockville, you're on the Stephanie Miller show. Hello. Hi, you know, it's very personal here because we live in the area and of course we all use
national airport as well. Yeah. I just flew in there two weeks ago. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. I hung you. I broke you. I know. But here's the thing people I hope I paid attention to. The immediate response was from DC local
Maryland, Virginia, and federal. Right away, everyone came together. We absolutely all cooperate to work together to save lives, to discover what happens so we can avoid it ever happening again, to try to get those poor people out of the water. And it's tragic, of course, no one survives.
but this is what he wants to do is destroy it he wants to destroy the people working together he wants everyone isolated alone in a phrase yet so he's gonna he's gonna speak in a about a half an hour and you know that we all most of us cringe going who's he gonna blame who's he gonna name call how's he gonna divide how's he gonna try to use this for to score political points you just knew it right
And I know that this is terribly unpopular to say, but I will pick on his grave, and I will dance with hundreds of millions of the rest of us when he's finally gone. Well, you'll need to get in line. Hey, Chris. What? What? Hey, Chris. Don't let her encourage me. Hey, Chris. Anyway, yes. I love you guys. I love you too. I love you too. Yeah. I had me into that.
All right. We were just talking. Dr. Redlinter brought up the this is Keith Boykin said the same thing on threads. He said Trump says he's opening an attention center at Guantanamo Bay and Cuba to hold up to 30,000 migrants from the United States. We're only a weekend and we've already reached the concentration camp stage of fascism. All right. Dana Goldberg coming up.
The president is 100% correct to use Guantanamo. We've had some dangerous offenders that are released on our streets. So we want these dangerous individuals to be kept somewhere, not on our streets. The president is right. Let's put them in Guantanamo. Let's tell the world that they're going to take the planes back. But we have some place to put them when we're having to house them and deal with it when we're in transit. And congratulations to Tom Holman. We're now starting to continue to get these people out of our country now with I think 7,000 removals and growing 1,800 a day. I saw the order from ICE just yesterday.
Yep. We have reached the concentration camps are okay. Part of fascism. That was a chip Roy, which is a combination Roy Rogers putt putt outside of Lubbock. Yep. And also a Republican douche, bad Congress person who just defended and concentration camps. And the worst flavor of ice cream. Yes, he is indeed housemarks reminds us he is the worst flavor of ice cream chip Roy tastes like fascism. It's like ass. Yeah. And ass combined. Right.
Okay, Art tweets, Donald Trump says there are 30,000 beds in Guantanamo, and we'll sign an executive order to use it as a migrant detention center at its peak Guantanamo Bay detention camp was designed to hold up to 780 detainees, clown show. How much is that? How much is the concentration camp going to cost? By the way, Daily Beast tweeted, Colombian officials say two of Trump's deportation flights were packed full of innocent people, including two pregnant women and 20 or more children.
Okay, let's... You know what though? The far right doesn't see anything wrong with that because just by the fact that they were here undocumented makes them... Right, makes them criminals. That's what the fembot Caroline Levitt said. Oh, by the way, I did not realize when I was mentioning whoever the suck-up reporter was. It's Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. Yes. He was her. He was my boyfriend. Boyfriend. That... Oh, thank you.
Thank you for our Blooker.
I do feel like horses probably go when they, you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene's anywhere near. Yeah. Just because she looks, you know, and they may drink. She looks a little equine. What? They may drink oval team. Thank you. Right. At the Trump administration's first official briefing, Brian Glenn, that's her boyfriend. He felt the need to offer Carolyn Levitt, a few words of praise. He's a rising MAGA star. Just in case you missed, this was the, this is the hard journalism you can look forward to in the White House press.
Briefings. Welcome, he said. You look great. He said that to Caroline. Love it. Uh-huh. You're doing a great job. Oh, I wonder. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Thank you, Levitt responded. Imagine having to say that exact same thing to Marjorie Taylor Greene. You look great. To which she said.
This was his question. Are you ready for the hard-hitting journalism we can look forward? Okay, let's do it. Some of us in the room know how transparent President Trump has been in the last five or six years. Oh, my God. Do you think this latest incident with the president and Columbia is indicative of the global, powerful respect they have for President Trump moving forward? Not only to engage in economic diplomacy, but also world peace? Absolutely, Levitt said. That'd be an example of the hardcore journalism. We're going to...
Get moving forward. Can you imagine having to wake up next to Marjorie Taylor Greene? Sorry, I was a little bit of my breakfast. I mean, I wonder if she looks like Barney Rubble before she puts on all of that stuff. Yeah, I don't know. Okay. Hey, looky here. It's our favorite dance. It's the round and find out dance.
U.S. consumer confidence dropped in January to a four month low thanks in part to renewed pessimism about the labor market and the outlook for the broader economy. Say goodbye to the Biden economy. Bye bye.
Okay. Oh, here's some fun facts. Not newsworthy, but kind of interesting. The new press secretary, the new fan bot, Caroline Levitt, is 27. Her husband is 32 years older than her, and they were... I'm sorry, what? Her husband's 32 years older than her, and they were set up on a blind date by Matt Gaetz. That's kind of a... Wow. How long ago were they married? Fun fact. Love wins.
Oh my god, the baby Bella. I mean badass, but what did we call that? Yeah, she doesn't like baby Bella. That was funny. Wow. Wow. Yeah. I'm like, you told me now, don't talk to her for six months and look at her. She's already smarter and funny and all the rest of us. Sean, I love you. Mommy loves you best. Just because there's a new baby in the family. I can't believe you're 20 years older than the... He's the original stem cell. Do you hear what he said? No. Well, then why'd you take my microphone?
because chris has not gotten too many years. Because this microphone doesn't work. Don't you blame me. OK. All right. Yes. Oh, wait a minute. Hang on. Hold on. Oh, yes. This was Hugh. Given how well she has assimilated into the show and it's already beloved by listeners, just curious is Bella's last name? Deball Bella Deball get it. That was an old person joke. Yeah.
Good luck, Bella. It's going to be a crash course in older pop culture for you. Yes, it already has been. Oh, some was very impressed with my references yesterday. Highly scatological said I can't believe Steph couldn't come up with Doc Brown, but can't could come up with flux capacitor. Yeah. That's the magic.
You have to understand, Bella. My age is just flapping wires in my head. Sometimes they connect. Sometimes they don't. Random references pop in. We're learning from each other. We couldn't ask if Bella has ever seen back to the future. I have. OK. I have. OK. She got my flux capacitor joke.
You gotta give me some credits. Okay, all right. I also get the brondo jokes. Okay, that's good. That's good. Sean, you're gonna have to tell her where this sound bite is. Sean Kamiski, previous stem cell of the Stephanie Miller show, helping new stem cell Bella learn the ropes. Family. Family. We are all family. It's a, it's labeled family. There's also a button. Yeah. Okay. Sean will find it. Here we go. There's a button. There's a button on the right side. All right. Never mind. Family. Okay. Yes. Family.
Guess what that's from. That's from a Greystoke legend of the Apes. Have you seen that dollar? Huh? With Miles O'Keefe? No. Family. I don't know why. Those are the references that stick in my head. Family. Jean-Claude. Family. Rezor. Rezor. Okay.
I he's teaching him to shave and then also mirror jungle mirror I always thought that was from like the godfather or something I didn't know he was talking to him about his family his parents got I don't know killed in a tree or something and then he was raised by apes in the forest you know the story
Yes, the legend of Tarzan. I'm right, right, right. I think a fast and a furious stop Yes, that too Seth the homo Vin Diesel was big on family. Yes All right Seth homo of hope hello good god. We need some of that hello homo and hello homo and welcome sweet adorable homo adjacent Bella
you know what we were just talking about our nails yesterday and it was so queer I for the straight girl she has totally can tell she's not a list look at look at her nails look how long they are and I was telling her I'm a lipstick les so I have gels but they're sure because you know
act because and this has been another edition of queer i for the straight girl hi i i did not know it's i started working with you that lesbians don't have long nails for that reason think about it for god i know i didn't have why would i think i was supposed to know it's like i'm going to speak to me i think i need less help getting a date stephanie scissor hands really says that i have no idea till this moment all right i said yes me too chris i had no idea um so have good news but before i tell you the good news um
If anybody wants to get a lift, go on YouTube and Google videos of people who regret voting for Trump. There's so many great videos that people put together about the dialogue and the threat. But I mentioned it yesterday when you type people who into Google, the top searches, people who regret voting for Trump. It is. Yeah, videos are amazing. Yeah. So the good news, I found the water spigot that turned on. Oh, good. You're the guy.
yes and above it there's an inscription and it says bitch please that's funny okay hang on hold please hold please i'm just trying to work can i help you know no one really can help me at this point
Oh, are you all waiting for me? Well, yeah. Are we supposed to talk amongst ourselves? Yeah, talk amongst yourselves. Rude a beggar, rude a beggar, rude a beggar. He's a carrot, he's a carrot, he's a carrot. Oh, here it is. I found the story that Seth was talking about. Nobody help Mommy. Okay. Oh, no one was going to help. No, we weren't. Okay, fine. Okay, here it is. Here's the thing I'm going to need help with, Chris. Nothing. Just one. Just the one thing.
It's, you know, grace and forgiveness. You know what I mean? Donald Trump has made me mean. I can't. I think it's stuck. I'm not sure. I don't know how I... Because this is what's going to happen. And I guess you have to think of it as someone that's like a dear friend that was dating a bastard person and then you're like, okay, honey, let's go, you know, pick up your... Just okay. Right? Okay.
So they don't feel bad about making such a horrible choice. And I know I'm gonna, I'm gonna have a hard time because I know that we need to be, you know, welcoming. And yes, we need to be open and loving and welcoming of people that are now sorry for Trump. Who are you going to show a weekend?
I'm sorry, it's just, I, okay, I'll work on it. I just need to be a little more put in those. Let's must. Someone we love. Let's come back from a horrible relationship that we need to go. Okay, it's not your fault. He's a bastard person. Come on in. Okay, this would be the story that Seth was referring to. Some Trump voters are skeptical of his opening moves. See, I'm just,
I'll get there. Uh, Enrique Lopez, you know, that guy, this guy. Yeah. Uh-huh. Did you wear a Latinos for Trump shirt? Probably. Probably. This is in not Mesa, Arizona. He votes sporadically, but bought into Donald Trump's vows to fight for everyday workers. Yeah, because why wouldn't you?
He helped the Republican flip Arizona last year. Then the home construction contractor watched how the billionaire president opened his second administration. So the rich control the poor, I guess. They do whatever they want. They get away with it, Lopez said, after seeing a lawnmusk and all the other billionaires at Trump's indoor seating, limited seating, indoor inauguration.
The 56-year-old Lopez, a resident of Phoenix, said he was also struck by the president's lack of emphasis on housing costs or consumer interest. I didn't hear anything about helping people out. I think I mentioned earlier that, you know, who did have a plan, would be Kamala Harris had a quite detailed plan about helping. But, you know, DEI and all.
Right. Scary black lady, communist lawyer lady from Johomo, San Francisco. Okay. Hang on, hold please, there's more. Some middle-class Trump voters say much of what he's done reflects his campaign, especially immigration crackdown on the targeting of gay-friendly policies. I'm happy about that, said Lorenda Parker, noted bigot. 65-year-old retired local government bigot. She's from Mesa, Arizona. Right. That's what you get from Mesa. She voted for Trump because she's concerned about medical treatments for trans children.
Yeah, yet she expressed concerns about the company Trump keeps. Yeah, who could have seen any of this coming, Chris? I'm not so far in the crazy yet. The political class, she said, is a little insular world where power brokers are not paying attention to the people.
This was just dawned on her, I guess, now. Billionaires, she said, represent Alita's thinking, we know more because we're so smart. Remember when it was liberals that were the elitists that they didn't want to... And adding her wish that Trump keep a tight leash on them. Oh yeah, he's totally, what's your name? Yeah, he's totally gonna keep a tight leash on all the billionaires. He's certainly not gonna... Well, he got rid of Vivek.
Okay, U.S. adults think it's a bad thing if the president relies on billionaires for advice about government policy according to a new narco poll. Oh, 60% of Americans think this would be a very bad or somewhat bad thing. And obviously played not an actual bit of attention to the campaign where Elon Musk was jumping around like a jumping bean behind him. Like, right. Yeah, he said he'd be in charge. But okay, only about one third of Americans now have a favorable view of President Musk.
Oh well. Oh well. Sex to be us. Ha ha! Okay, I'm working on it. I'm not being very gracious just yet, but I'll get there. Hi, welcome back. No? Does it sound sincere yet? Not at all. Okay. Dana and Marilyn, hi Dana.
hi dana i'm sorry dana i have a dana and i don't know sorry dana all this is a privilege and i don't know dana yes yes hi i always get to help dana anyway this is like black above nineteen eighties when we get all these plane crashes all the time and it would just jerk i'm having PTSD with this yeah uh it's just horrible and you know he just
He took out the, he fired the head of the TSA last week. I mean, what is he thinking?
Yeah, I mean, it's, you know, it's hard not to, you know, again, I remember like, what was this, Chris? When did you say the story was done? I remember doing this story and I remember saying January 21st. Yes. Just how many weeks ago? And I said, Oh my God, what could possibly go wrong? He just eliminated all members of a key aviation security advisory committee. I mean, it's yeah, go ahead. Yes. I mean, it's horrible. I just, I, and the whole thing with, um, I don't know if you guys remember the
Air Florida saying back in the 80s. I mean, that's what it reminded me of. Yeah, that's the one that crashed into the Everglades. Yeah. No, I mean, it went over in DC. Oh, that's right. Oh, right. Well, that crashed into Potomac. Yeah, right. Yeah, I mean, this is just
Are we going back to that again? Yes. We were getting scratches every few months because it's horrible. Everything is about demonizing brown people and the border. That's what they said. They're reallocating to that part of Homeland Security because that's the only thing they care about. And also their big thing is deregulation. Regulations keep planes from falling from the sky. If they deregulate the airline industry, more planes are going to fall from the sky.
It's just, I, thank you. Ronald Philopowski said the Trump administration seems to be developing a pattern of unleashing their most authoritarian wallace, typically around midnight with no prior announcement to the public or even to Republicans in Congress. What will we wake up to tomorrow? We're back to this and we're a week in. I mean, it's, yeah. Rick Stengel said, usually government shutdowns are because the two parties can't agree. This is a one man government shutdown. This was caused entirely by Donald Trump.
Bella's rapping me so I'm sorry. She is more than I've ever done. We are in a new authoritarian regime, my friends. Fascist takeover of the Stephanie Miller. This train's going to run on time, I tell you what. We needed a strong man to run this show. My tiny baby nephew, Paul Fitzgerald.
It's funny because he's very tall and he's 54, so that's why it's funny. He just sent me the trailer for the he plays the president in the new Shonda Rhimes Netflix series called The Residence. Very exciting. We'll have him on Web the President on. Yeah. That'd be cool. Bella's just like, oh my god. Shonda Rhimes. This job is so exciting. I need a new show. This is great. Yeah. Oh my god. Love Shonda Rhimes. Love Shonda Rhimes. Oh, let me see. He just sent me the trailer. OK. Yeah, not sure. I'll find out.
Aww, there's so much love rolling in for Bella, it's heartwarming. My daily morning chuckles on free speech TV, The Stephanie Miller Show, with the long-suffering crystal boy. I've suffered since 1997.
Why, I have to suffer him. What do you mean log suffering? Crystal boy and the book the beloved Jody Hamilton and now the baby Bella run Bella run. Don't tell her to run. She's young, sweet, smart fits right in with these crazy wackadoos. Oh, that's a compliment, but yeah. All right, Dana speaking of weirdos we love.
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I'm happy that you had a good experience on SSRIs. Many Americans have a very good experience on it. Others have not. That would be an issue between them and their physicians and not from the future head of HHS to be putting out misinformation about the dangers of SSRIs and other anti-depression medication spreading the stigma and the fear that we're actually trying to overcome. Exactly. Thank you, Senator Tina Smith.
Okay, the tragedies are backing up. What is it? It's Cash Patel and what do you call it? Tossy Gabbard, both today? Today. They're right now. Both are right now. All right. And Trump will be about to do a press conference about the plain tragedy, which I'm sure he's going to figure out how to blame someone else and score political points. Let's bring our friend in. Here we are. She comes. He's raised by a wild pack of Jews. Here's Dana Goldberg.
Good morning, Dana Goldberg.
I did morning to you speaking of Posh Patel. Did anyone else wake up to the headline from The Economist? That says, Cash Patel is a crackpot. As FBI director, would he also be a menace? I'm like, OK, no one's holding punches in here. Nope. That's awesome. Well done, The Economist.
Oh, I know. I mean, Dana, this is what part of it that, you know, we keep saying, you know, why we promote all of all of you guys, all of us in this progressive space because the truth tellers, man, we were saying like, you know, CNN was just going to demote Jim Acosta who left instead. I urge you support his sub stack. You know, he did a great piece about, you know, not.
giving into the lies. As I was saying, you know, Chris and I were saying off the top of the show, you know, this is going to happen with every tragedy is Trump shoots off his mouth right away with no information about, you know, obviously looking for blame. And we can't help but go. Can you imagine if this happened under the Biden administration with Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary?
So, Bakari Sellers just retweeted the headline from, what is this? Two weeks ago? Yeah, from the 21st. Trump fires heads of TSA Coast Guard and guts key aviation safety advisory committee. CNN makes him take that down. I mean, because of timing. But, of course, it's a true headline that, you know, can you... I want independent journalism to cover them like they would cover Pete Buttigieg. I wonder if the crash happened to do because the transportation secretary was straight. Yeah. Maybe that's why the planes crashed.
Like I really want them someone has got to start covering the way they did when they were covering people to judge Yeah, and you know, this is an army helicopter and you're like, oh dear God new secretary of defense Pete Hegsef is going to Charlotte climbers said it best like how many things had to have gone wrong at that moment for a military helicopter to crash into this This plane right a commercial airliner and this obviously there this has been you know, what do you call it?
logistics forever. That's where it's DC. I've been on that flight. I don't know how many times on that American Airlines flight that lands at Reagan at nine o'clock. Granted, that is a really, really crowded airspace right along the Potomac there. But there's also people in charge of making sure that airspace is safe. I mean, I can't even imagine, but you just know, who is he going to blame?
Who's he got? Because he will never take. Even though it was his administration, his defense department, his army helicopter, he's the one that just gutted aviation safety. It will be somebody's fault. I don't know if he's is he late talking because I'm waiting to see what. I don't know. And then the right wing, Dana, as you know, we'll pick up whatever the lie is. Like, like the, oh, we spent, you know, Joe Biden sent $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza, which was just a complete lie.
That's how I don't even understand these headlines. Why they're picking these stories to actually try and sensationalize and make true as bizarre to me.
I mean, Gina's tweeted, undocumented people do not qualify for federal grants, student loans, Medicaid chips, SNAP, or TANF. By the way, these funding blackouts are hurting strictly poor U.S. citizens like most GOP policies. Undocumented folks were just a convenient scapegoat to misdirect your fear and anger. I mean, and meanwhile- It's the same with the DEI programs. It's the same with the DEI programs.
Yeah. Yeah. And I was saying we're at the opening concentration camps in Gitmo part of our fascism. And everyone's like, oh, don't make the comparison yet. And I'm like, what do you mean yet? Like, you think that's how it started? Like, I don't compare things to the Holocaust, but I will say the concentration camps didn't just start as concentration camps. It started off something much lesser and turned into that. So let's not be like, oh, you're overreacting. Stop telling people they're overreacting.
Yeah. Yeah. And as we keep saying, the Columbia, these planes, there weren't criminals on them. There were women and children on them. And, you know, again, I guess this is what the Latinos for Trump said, right, is, oh, he's only going to deport criminals, not, you know, my undocumented relatives. Well, we knew that wasn't true, Dana. How many times did we scream it, right? That whole story got turned around even in
Thank you. Thank you. It was actually Columbia. Thank you. It was, like, Juneus sent them over shackled. Do not threaten us with tariffs. Back down and we'll go get our own people. They picked up their own immigrants that were trying to get in safety in the United States. And the entire press picked up the other story to the point where Alice and Gil and I and the Daily Beans reported it wrong because we thought all of these sources were telling the truth, all of them.
a columbia back down and it was the other way i said exactly the same thing dana is folded thank you yes i who is this timothy uh... tweeted donald back down when columbia stood up to him and he just back down on his spending freeze learn from this and stand your ground absolutely you know it we keep talking about modeling courage and not uh... cowardice i'm looking at the here's the we have
Howard's of democracy. I know we have a hero's of democracy, Jingle. But Zuckerberg's met up to pay Trump $25 million to settle lawsuit. Trump sued Facebook because they suspended his account after the January 6 riots, which they were very justified in doing. During the 24 campaign, Trump railed against Zuckerberg, threatened to throw him in prison. This settlement comes on the heels of the million dollars Zuckerberg already donated to Trump. And how many times has he been to Mar-a-Lago to kiss ass?
Yeah, it is dangerous. This whole thing is dangerous. We've been talking about this. We have to find a way to break the tech oligarchy that's happening in this country because that's what it is. It's a tech oligarchy. There's a lot. I'm part of me is like, where's anonymous when you need a wire? Is someone hacking their code? Like there's a lot of smart Democrats with a lot of money or people that just care about this country. Do something.
We were just, Chris are saying yesterday about how Democrats have to fight differently. They have, you know, there has to be a, what did Dr. King say? Fierce urgency of now. And I feel like, you know, the AOCs and the Jasmine Crockett's have it. Yes, that's exactly what I was saying. I want AOC energy. I want Crockett energy. I want Pritzker energy. I want every, all of this. No thoughts and prayers. Listen, I love our minority leader, but saying something like presidents come and go, you know,
The glory of God will protect us. Please don't send thoughts and prayers to fascists. Right. And Chuck Schumer yesterday saying this is outrageous. It's like, come on. We need a little more. Listen, I don't want to engage in ageism because I am, as you know, sick. We just discovered yesterday, I'm 40 years older than Bella. That's not important now, Dana. The important thing is, can someone hold this heart of the ocean?
Okay. Um, she got that reference. I know she got that real lady in Titanic. But that movie came out before she was born. I know. Dana, it's not chronological age, right? It's it's old ways of doing things. It's old ways of communicating. It's having a press conference 24 hours later when, you know, this 50 million dollars worth of condoms lie has rocketed around, you know, so,
By the way, speaking of January 6th, this one the Seattle Times, former doctor lost a license behind on home payments, killed in shooting at West Seattle home. He was a January 6 insurrectionist. Another one just got killed in a police shootout. When was that? Couple days ago. Another one just killed someone in a drunk driving accident and she's back in prison for 10 years.
The recidivism rate, which January 6th. Because he left violent criminals. One of the highest they've ever seen. Thank you. Yes. Violent criminals out of prison. What do you think was going to happen? How many more of these are we going to see? They also think they're Teflon. Oh, I've got to pardon. I can break any law I want. They don't understand how this works. You can't do that. Yeah. Yeah.
Uh, visit visit visit, where am I? Uh, yeah. Uh, Robert Garcia, we got to get him on. We've been saying that forever. He's a one of our fighters. Not the lack of trial. I know. Yeah. He said, as far as I'm concerned, not one of Trump's nominees deserves a single yes vote from Democrats. Thank you. Trump is already grossly violating the Constitution. Why are we working with him? Fight him every time. I think that's what I, uh, our base wants, don't you think?
I do. I think there's two things that need to happen. We have to have a coordinated attack on social media and every single platform from every single democratic account that when he breaks the law or does something unconstitutional, they send out the exact same message. Republicans have done this for years and messaging matters.
The other thing I want, I want researchers talking about these Republican strong held districts, all of the constituents that are being hurt by the executive orders. I want them to have numbers and I want them to tag every single of the Republican elected officials so that they see their voters are being damaged by this. So one of them, maybe one of them will get a spine and start voting against some of this stuff. Make it public. Put them on call. Make sure everyone knows what's happening. We have got to do better.
Yeah, Amy Siskins said, I know some of you are questioning your approach to social media, I just want to encourage you now is not the time to withdraw, now is the time to get loud. I mean, if you're not woken up now, today, I don't know what to tell you, but I know people were depressed, they were, I'm checking out, I'm, you know, tuning out, I'm not, you know, but got to get back in the fight, Dana, you know, do what you need to do for self-care, but you got to, I agree with her, you got to get in the fight.
There's that meme that's going around, don't panic, organize. They cannot, if we get a bigger coalition and we start going after them, it's going to matter. But if we're scattered and it's a big fish, going after little fish, they're gonna take them out one at a time we have got to build a giant school and go after them.
And we were already saying, Dana, he's the first polling out. He's been down seven points in a week. I mean, it is, and we keep talking about the Google search, top Google search, people who regret voting for Trump. We are one week in, right? I mean, it's like you were talking about. What is that joke we told in the last administration? His poll numbers are going down faster than Marjorie Taylor Greene in a gym bathroom. Whoa, Dana Louise Goldman. Whoa, yeah. I don't even know what that...
But, you know, we did a whole story earlier, right? Chris, about this Trump voters who were like, what? What? Like a weekend, right? And one of them's a, you know, whatever. Big it lady. One of the best lines I have heard is from our dear Francis Collier, Angela. And she posted that Trump supporter who's like, wait, Mr. President, my wife just wanted to be a nurse and help veterans. But your executive voter, she's a federal worker. And now she's got her job recently. I know you didn't mean to do this. And Francis said,
You white people, how does it feel to shoot yourself in the face when you're aiming for black folk? And I felt that in my chest. Because that's exactly what's happening. DEI programs help women and veterans almost more than any other.
Yeah, any other group of people and they are finding out real fast that they are screwing themselves now Well, we were the woman I was talking about she's like 65 year old woman from Arizona She voted for Trump. She's like, well, I don't like all this whatever the what's with the billionaires and all the stuff that was clear what you know Alon musk was bouncing around the stage behind him during the but she literally said Oh, well, you know the trans surgery and that was the thing I really voted on and I'm like
Oh, God. Well, first of all, that lie is what you vote. And now you don't like anything else he's doing in your way. But at least that one girl can't pay badminton in your state. Louise, Louise, her name is Louise. There's one thing we have to do. And I think we need to stop assuming all Trump voters don't care because I think a lot of them are starting to realize some of them are starting to realize that they got snowed.
You know, there is a gay Trump supporter that actually was at January 6th. He got a pardon and he said, I don't need basically to suck up to this narcissist. I've learned my ways. You can shove your pardon right up your... Yeah. And so that was one person. Then you've got Granny Magga, who was at January 6th and now realize his, oh my God, and is going around trying to deprogram people. There are some reachable people out there. Do not write this entire country, that half of the country off.
Yeah. Some of them are still reachable. I'm still working on my grace and forgiveness. I need to go back to my Catholic school. Oh, no, no. I don't have grace and forgiveness. I'm just saying that when they're there, we still have a midterm coming up. And if we can show them that there is a better way, maybe just maybe I'm just saying, I compared it to when you go through a breakup and then, you know,
In fact, I believe, Dana, there's, well, I'll talk to you about it off here. There's a couple people that you tried to warn me about that I, that I could, yeah, that I did. I know. I think I'm... Honestly, I think, I think, I think, uh, Hucking Jeffrey's tried Grayson forgiveness yesterday and it didn't work.
it didn't work i was right i mean i have to look at that they democratic voters than i have a trump voters because i think they're brainwashed apathetic apathetic democrats that stayed home and didn't vote they're part of the problem of why the election went the way it did yeah so date there's plenty on both sides well and i'm not talking about blaming both sides you know what i mean i'm not both sides and just saying we've got to do better too
Well, yeah, someone, again, who's the fembot Caroline saying, you know, that, oh, it's a mandate and a landslide and blah, but they want you to feel overwhelmed. But you're absolutely right. First of all, one of the slimmest margins in history. And to your point, more people stayed home than voted for him. So it's not, you know, he doesn't have a mandate of any kind. It's a good point.
Stephanie Miller.
Yeah, it is the Stephanie North Show. Dana Goldberg here, things that, you know, when you say things are better, it's kind of all relative. You're trying. You know what? You're trying. How dare you? How dare you? Trump did step up to the microphone, so he's speaking. Oh, Diddy, who has he blamed now for the air tragedy that happened on his watch under his Defense Department with one of his army helicopters? I'm not listening to it, so I don't know. OK, fine.
I think the transportation secretary literally said out loud in their collisions aren't standard. Yeah, like this isn't supposed to happen. Sean Duffy, Sean Duffy said this is supposed to happen. Okay, that's good information. Yeah, okay. Trump just said yesterday, well, we identified and stopped 50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for a mosque. Oh my God, this is
He's just going to lie, and then the fembot will repeat the lie, and then Fox News will repeat the lies. Exactly. Dana, you were mentioning it, but about how we fight back. We have to have, however we do it, war room, quick reaction, but it's got to be immediate on social media, on all the places you guys, us, because this is what it's going to be like, yeah. Trump said it's a tragedy of terrible proportions. Okay, good. That's helpful so far.
That's like saying to the people who lost their houses in the Palisades, at least you're safe. Yeah, right. Exactly. You don't say that to someone. It just, no, in every tragedy. Don't tell people that. Yeah, we know it's a tragedy. People died. Remember the people he said that, oh, we just got to get over it. After what school shooting, you went to some. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, by the way, keep me safe. It's a dumb blue sky. Liar, Liar, Carolyn Levitz crosses on fire. Why? They all.
where they all wear that cross because they're very, very Christian unless it's a Christian bishop. It's virtue signal. Who happens to be talking things Jesus actually said to Trump's face. It's all a virtue signal.
Um, Dana, we talked earlier about Marco Rubio banning the flying of the rainbow flag. Where is it? Arizona has a Republican bill to ban. This is the stuff they're working on while we've got, you know, planes falling out of the sky and, and I wildly unqualified nominees getting, but you know, government funding freezes and then recisions and then and just chaos, right? And if you think about the amount of people they are doing on this to make it very small minority of people happy, the bigots.
That's it. I know they're loud. There are more of us than there are of them. But man, are they loud. And for some reason, this is what they're doing. George Conway said it best. He said, because they're evil, we must stand up to them. But because they're also stupid, we don't need to be afraid to. So do not be afraid. 29 minutes after the hour, more Dana Goldberg on Stephanie Miller Show.
I agree with President Trump that every abortion is a tragedy. I agree with him that we cannot be a moral nation if we have 1.2 million abortions a year. I agree with him that the states should control abortion. President Trump has told me that he wants to and late-term abortions.
And he wants to protect conscious exemptions, and that he wants to end federal funding proportions. You're abroad. That's Title 10. I'm going to do it. I serve at the pleasure of the president. I'm going to implement his policies.
It does not have a core principle. He has been pro-choice his entire life. That one was just saying he said about, you know, well, yeah, I don't drink Thai Coke, but the president likes it. So, like, nothing he believes in. Healthy food. He's like, oh, well, the president likes McDonald's. So that's okay, too. Nothing he believes in, right? Is he willing to stand up for?
I mean, I think it was Sanders that pointed it out. You're saying you're anti-vaccinated your children and you're selling onesies that put doubt about vaccines on a website for an organization you started, you're making millions off of these lies. Didn't he say, oh, you're making me look like a shill?
Yeah. Okay. If it looks like a show and sounds like a show. It's the Golden Sneaker Fits. By the way, I, you know what, Dana Goldberg is co-host of the Daily Beans with Allison Gill, which is news with swears. This is... Some mornings are very... Yeah, today's one of those days is very challenging to keep my FCC license because I cannot swear. Go ahead, Chris. Trump is blaming... What did I say? What did I say? Trump is... Trump will... Go ahead.
Trump is using his briefing about the airplane crash as the time to blame Obama and Biden for lower safety standards and to tout his anti-DEI orders.
Can I just have the thing labeled shot the up Donnie just can I have? Okay. So people that said we were politicizing by, you know, pointing out this headline earlier today, Trump hires fires heads of TSA Coast Guard and guts key aviation safety advisory committee. That was, you know, that's we shouldn't have politicized. That's too soon. Yeah, CNN made Bakari Sellers, you know, unlinked to that actual news story because
What did everybody say, Dana? You knew exactly what he's gonna do, right? It's like a comedy, you're blaming Obama. Seriously? And what Chris said, there was a president between Obama and Joe Biden in his name was Donald Trump.
Can I read from this again? This was just, I remember doing this story. This was, when did you say January 21st? Okay. Members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee received a memo saying the department is eliminating the membership of all advisory committees as part of a commitment to eliminating the misuse of resources and ensuring DHS activities prioritize our national security, meaning being mean to brown people.
The Aviation Security Committee, which was mandated after Lockerbie, after the Pan Am, will technically continue to exist, but it won't have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airports and airlines. Before Tuesday, the group included representatives of all the key groups, the airlines major unions, as well as members of groups associated with the victims of the Pan Am bombing. The vast majority of the group's recommendations were adopted over the years.
I naively thought, oh, they're not going to do anything in the new administration to put security at risk, aviation security at risk. But now I'm not so sure since Stephanie Bernstein, who husband was killed in the Pan Am tragedy. I just don't know where we can. And this is what it's going to be. And every tragedy that is clearly happens under his administration will I literally said earlier, how are they going to blame Biden?
Yep, they're gonna find a way. I just saw a meme that said January is gonna make you feel all 31 days of it. This has been the longest month I think any of us have ever lived through. This isn't, it's like January 72nd. I have no idea what the data is. Why is this month so long? It's been a week and a half.
I just, sometimes like social media, because you need to think, you know, go like, am I taking crazy pills? You have to go see. Who is it? Adele said, Alcoholic National Guard Lackey, an entertainment news show host, at the behest of a five-time draft dodger, removed security detail from general with 43 years of service, also considered for a demotion in retirement, the most petty and corrupted
We're ruining this country. This is general, really? Drunkie MacRaepee is taking away a star from General Millie. I mean, it's all gonna be petty vindictiveness. I sure hope there's some sort of lawsuit, just like our friend McCabe was able to sue after he, you know, took away his, tried to take away his retirement the day before he was about to get them. I just, I hope there's some recourse with stuff like this and they just sue the hell out of them.
Yeah. Yeah. By the way, to point out again, because we have people that know, you know, federal employees. Right. Hoodlem said, if you quit your federal job, believing Trump will pay you eight months of severance DM me about buying the Brooklyn Bridge. Tim Cage said the same thing. Do not do this. He'll stiff you like every kind, you know, contractor. Tim Cage's speech was fantastic. Yeah.
Yeah. Well, and also doge does not have the authority to to end contracts. It's not a government. No, he said that the president doesn't have the authority to do this. Don't fall for this. He they actually said that letter that got sent out to everyone looked suspiciously like the letters at Twitter when Elon Musk fired a lot of people there and told them about the same thing that apparently the verbiage is real real close. Yeah. Yeah. Such a surprise from President Moscow.
Trump just claimed again Mia says that he won by a landslide. That is not true. We won by the slimmest margin in about a hundred years. The sad truth is more people stayed home than voted for him as Dana pointed out. I think people are going to realize that and you know, listen, again, the grace is not there for me yet. I mean, but I do think it's going to turn into a fact that there's not us in MAGA anymore. There's now the administration and the American people.
because everyone is going to get hurt by this. Everyone lost this election. I'm not just the people that voted for Kamala Harris. I'm with fragile at the top of I told you so mountain for until further notice. Is that close to shut? I can't come down to Graceland yet as Dana says. Yeah, I have no grace. Is that close to shut F mountain? I'm somewhere in the road. Yes, it's near shut shut the mountain. Okay.
Yes, I'm somewhere in limbo. It vacillates depending on the day. You're in a valley somewhere between the two realms. You pointed out just one story, the Columbia story. And Covey said this too. So remember how Trump was threatening Columbia with terrorists if they didn't accept the plane of, quote, illegal criminals? Turns out not a single criminal was on that flight. The flight included two pregnant women and more than 20 children. I just saw a number that said they've arrested 5,000 people, only 100 of them were actually criminals so far.
I'll never forget those interviews with Latinos for Trump going, oh, he's not talking about my undocumented relatives. Literally Latino people with undocumented relatives were like, oh, he said only criminals. Why does?
Why is anyone going to believe anything he says at this point, Dana? It's just, I don't know anything about Project 2020. I don't know anything about it. I mean, they're about to try to confirm that as the head of the OMB, the guy that wrote it. Right. Well, like to mention, there was a story. There was a valid, very, very viable story of those British journalists who acted like they were Republican donors and got the lead of Project 2025 to say everything on tape. Trump knows about it. He's actually dispelling it in public because he has to separate himself, but he knows
all about it and nobody listened on that side. We all knew the truth over here. We warned them. Yep.
Yeah. Oh, by the way, to Francis from Prangela's point. I actually sent this to Prangela. Someone posted, do you ever get so exhausted with white people, even though you are a white people? Yeah. I just, atomic dog says, this is a presidency of retribution, but it's also a presidency of psychological warfare against the American people. He wants us off balance and to feel helpless. He wants us scared. He wants us to obey in advance.
Tori says he can't do that. It's illegal will be the epitaph etched into the tombstone of this nation. I swear. Dana, how are you and Allison coping? I mean, just I feel like I ask all of our regulars. I'm laughing. What years may you get sound like we're actually coping? Well, no, but I mean, we're all doing the best we can.
But those of us that have to soak in this that can't, oh, I'm just going to turn off the news. We can't. Yeah. Actually, I mean, I'll be honest, last week I was not okay. I'm going to point with my therapist tonight. But I'm going on stage on Saturday with the human rights campaign to raise money so that they can sue the hell out of the Trump administration for this very unconstitutional ban they're trying to give on our transgender service people again.
So I am doing everything I can with the tools that I have and the gifts that I've been given to raise money for Lambda Legal and the Human Rights Campaign to sue every single time that they do something that is against the law or unconstitutional that is hurting my family. That's all I can do right now. Continue to speak up. So am I coping? I am controlling what I can. I'm spending time with friends. I'm not letting them take my joy and I am getting outside and touching grass as often as I can.
Yeah, I was same for me, bike riding, seeing my friends, doing my family. Dana, I think part of what's... We joke about it about being a week into this, but you're right about the legal stuff. This is just going to be exhausting. It is going to be one thing after another, but that's not legal.
Everybody's got a sue and then you know this memo from OMB that you know So this is the plan that you know like the Trump administration This is the plan is the chaos and to get lawsuits and so take it to his Supreme Court So who's already said he's above the law, right?
The other thing that's a little bit scary and I was talking to someone who works with the Victory Fund is that these organizations like the ACLU and Lambda Legal and even the Human Rights Campaign that are going to sue him, it's a double-edged sword because they're bringing attention to themselves and Trump has already said there's people in this administration that said they are willing to label these non-profits as terrorist organizations and disband them.
So you have to decide how hard you want to go up against him, but someone has got to do it. So I'm glad that people are taking the courageous route and they are filing these lawsuits, even if it brings attention to their organizations.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. By the way, we just had Dr. Redlyn around today, of course, this disastrous Bobby Kennedy testimony, which may not matter. But Kathleen said, what the CDC is no longer allowed to tell you, the USDA has confirmed that five more dairy herds in California are infected, bringing the total number to 732. As of now, 74% of the state's dairy herds have been have tested positive for the virus.
You know, and we were saying, speaking of it, because I had line of, you know, Trump blaming Biden for, you know, the culling of the chicken herds because they had bird flu for trying to control bird flu. This is all he's going to do is try to blame and score political points.
And then he's going to get rid of all information that's supposed to come out to the general public about bird flow because he doesn't want it to look like it's another issue on his hands because he botched COVID so badly. Yeah, yeah, I and one last one. Colte says, if you didn't vote for this, but you remain silent as it happens, you were just as complicit, whatever voice you have right now, be as loud as you can with it. And that's why Dana, I promote
MSW media and all of the people in our space because it's just we need every last please support Jim Acosta's new sub stack. Absolutely. You know, it's just the truth tell it. We're going to be so important. I was saying about someone saying, you know, yeah, Germans gave up on the facts at some point. I'm looking at the massive protests in Germany right now against the far right party because I keep saying because they haven't seen this before.
Yes, they have. Yes, they have. And there's enough of them that care and, you know, Elon going out there, oh, stop feeling guilty for your, you know, and sister sins. Uh-uh. If you do not learn from history, it will repeat itself. And we are having something happen in this country that is not necessarily a repetition, but we've seen it in other parts of the world. Yep. Stephanie Miller.
Yup, it is the Stephanie Miller show with Dana Goldberg. Simio, does everything Trump says sound rapey to you? He was talking about sending migrants back to countries as we've been talking about and he said, they're gonna take them all back and they're gonna like it too. I don't, it's just everything. Okay, it's disgusting. Yeah, Columbia was bent over that pinball machine.
Dana, I know you could not have seen this coming. DOJ drops case against Trump employees of Walt Mata and what's his name? No. D. Oliveira. I think Allison Gill finally got off of her Carlin train on this one. I mean, we said that they were going to drop this case is why he should have released the classified documents report, right?
yeah a hundred percent uh... i i thought they actually i i thought can back down on one of those for some reason i might go this is a setup because it's gonna uh... uh... taint if you will battle use of a word but uh... taint the case against not a uh... if if all of the january six if uh... sorry if the documents case uh... jack smith's report actually comes out that they were going to dismiss the case anyway uh... so i just i wish the american people saw it on red actors we deserve to have it
He's just going to try to erase everything. Trump hires new lawyers to appeal felony convictions in New York. I mean, this is what we have to fight against every day. He's going to try to erase all his crimes, erase January 6th, the race. What was it? Oh, the condom, that lie. The $50 million worth of condoms. Elon Musk deleted a community note saying that was a lie because this is what they're trying to control the horizontal and the vertical.
Yeah, I did not realize that yet. I didn't know that. Yeah. Um, oh, Denmark bakeries are selling Trump moron cakes. Someone said, I respect on the world stage has certainly grown. Well, I mean, this whole thing of him going, we were laughing stock. No, now we're laughing stock again. What is the, uh, cause I can't remember if it was a British paper or whatever, but it just said American Psycho part two, the picture of Trump.
I just, you know, I know that we're all laughing about it too, and I don't mean to get dark, but we're also probably the most vulnerable. We've been in a very, very long time with someone like Pete Headset at the top of that, you know, department as well as a Russian spy that may get confirmed after she's in, you know, her testimony today or her whatever they call it, confirmation hearing that's Tulsi Gabbard, like we're in trouble. We're in danger. We're in danger. America, you're in danger, girl.
Yeah, Sam said chaos is not the problem chaos is the plan create chaos and while everyone is running in circles quietly sees control Musk said as much last year chaos is the plan and That's you know, like I was saying you were at a point now in the flooding of the zone where you don't even know what awful thing is distracting from the other thing and
You know, it's one of the reasons why you have to just stop. Take a step back. Take a breath because you can't control anything that's happening right now. You truly can't. So let the dust settle. See what actually sticks because if you burn out, that's exactly what they want. They want apathy. That's how this stuff happens. So please really do some self care. Take a step away from social media from time to time. Listen to the Stephanie Miller show, The Daily Beans, but don't get inundated with all of these headlines, with all of these news quote unquote news sources.
be exhausting yes focus on the important things poor Chris you know there's so much love pouring in for Bella that he has to send me his pathetic Chris's right emails that are so sparse and so rare Dana thank you Chris for correcting Stephanie and pronouncing with chismo all right
That's the most important issue facing America. This one, let's see, this is from Greg in Denver City, by the way. Reminder, the Miles O'Keefe version of Tarzan also shared director John Derek's wife, Bo Derek, who's now married to John Corbett, who plays, carries a boyfriend in this section of the city where Bell and I are watching again. By the way, I think Bo Derek is the source of that five and dime quote when Tarzan tells Jane he's never around and he says because he's busy as the Lord of the Apes and Jane's having none of that.
Oh, bitch, Paul Lee. Don't think that's correct. Take your line of bull-f*** down to your corner market and sell it there, because this five-in-dime isn't buying your f***ing line today. Okay, it is not from Tarzan Legend of the Apes. No, it is not.
Bella thinks it is. Who knows? She was a cinema minor. I was a screenwriting major. Maybe there was a remake. How many lines are stolen from other movies? It's a very possible. You're both right.
uh... speaking of entertainment i we've just been saying all these critical issues facing the country and eighty this is what they're doing all these you don't get rid of the rainbow flag senator valerie hodges republican of louisiana uh... as she's demanding chastity at the super bowl show she started previous super bowl halftime performances that she found objectionable uh... old jennifer lopez cuz you know brown and
Did you go as far back as, um, Justin Timberlake? Oh, that's before. No, but I know what that is. I know about that. Yeah. She said we realize these past vulgar performances. Oh, you could do. Won't please someone think of the children. I need that. Okay. We realize these past vulgar performances may have been acceptable to the residents of those states, who are the Super Bowls or hell, but in Louisiana, these lewd acts are inappropriate for viewing by the Louisiana. She banned his southern decadence.
Has you even heard of Southern decadence? Southern decadence makes Folsom look like a walk in the park. Planes falling out of the sky. It's Medicaid funds frozen. But yeah, no sexy dances at the Super Bowl. So there's... I was looking forward to that. See? Children are not happy. Even the youth are in agreement. Yeah. DJ comedy on all the socials, Daily Beans, MSWMedia.com. We love you, Dana Goldberg. Love you too. I'll see you next week. Yeah.
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