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Hello and welcome to the Daily Means for Friday, June 19th, 2026. Today, scores have fallen ill at an Air Force base after Hegeth makes the flu vaccine optional. The Supreme Court says habitual cannabis users cannot be barred from owning firearms. Donald's lead Supreme Court lawyer against E. Jean Carroll is now a federal judge. Donald mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos' boot-licking text messages. Republicans block a Pentagon investment ban aimed at the Trump family.
And an administration official declines to call January sixth an attack. I'm your host, Alison Gill.
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Hey everybody, happy Friday. And when it's Friday on the Daily Beans, we celebrate Fugelsang Fridays, so John Fugelsang will be here later in the show. happy Juneteenth, by the way, incredible holiday. I hope everyone is taking some time to themselves. Dana's out. She's traveling to Chicago, which reminds me we'll see you all. Well, some of you, patrons at least, at the gala this weekend. If you want to become a patron and be invited to our next gala, you can do that by going to patreon.comslash molarshewrote.
And it also helps us put these shows together. We really couldn't do it without the support of our members. So thank you so very much for that. Otherwise, all of our content's always free. So hey, either way, kinda like an NPR deal. All right, we have a ton of news to get to today, so let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first up from the Times, file this under Preventable Idiocy. A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.
Less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, according to defense officials. We told you this would happen. The outbreak at the base in San Antonio raced through an Air Force basic military training wing where new recruits sleep on bunk beds and open bays and share meals at a large communal table. A trainee in his sixth week of basic training died after falling ill on Friday and being taken to Brook Army Medical Center. That's what the Air Force said in a news release.
It was not immediately clear whether the death of the trainee, Keon McDaniel, was related to the flu outbreak. A comprehensive medical review into his death is underway to determine the cause, according to the Air Force. I'm sure that'll be covered up. In the weeks since mister Hegseth's vaccine policy took effect, April twenty first, only about forty percent of Air Force trainees have opted to take the vaccine. It used to be a hundred percent, and that is previously, like I said, was mandatory, according to an Air Force official.
In the aftermath of the outbreak, the Air Force issued an exception to the voluntary vaccine policy requiring all recruits at Lackland must now get flu shots, part of a broader effort to stem the virus's spread. You could have prevented it in the first place. Roughly eighty seven hundred active duty and reserve troops voluntarily or involuntarily left the military after refusing to get vaccinated before that mandate was rescinded in twenty twenty three. As of last summer, of those eight thousand seven hundred, thirteen were.
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have decided to come back to the military. In March, Mr. Hagseth extended the deadline to apply for reinstatement to April first, twenty twenty seven. US military personnel are still required to get vaccinations for everything else, including measles, mumps, and polio. Others, such as the anthrax vaccine, may be required depending on risk and military occupation. This is just so stupid. And now they're making everyone at Lackland get
Vaccines, but not it not anybody else. Anywhere else. They're not making it mandatory again. Way to learn. Next up from Wired, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos sought to ingratiate themselves with Trump after he won in 2024, and in return, he mocked their efforts behind their backs, according to this new book by the New York Times reporters Haberman and Swan. Zuckerberg once texted Trump a photo of a letter written by one of his grade school age children.
Who wrote that they quote looked forward to the golden age of America, which then Trump adopted as a slogan to repeat at his rallies during the campaign. And over dinner, at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club, Bezos denigrated the Washington Post to Trump and essentially described the newspaper as one of his worst financial investments, months before he unsuccessfully sought a business favor from the president. These episodes are detailed in the book Regime Change inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.
A copy of which Wired obtained ahead of its release june twenty third. They illustrate the extraordinary scramble by some of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley to curry favor with Trump before the start of his second term. Now weeks after they met with Trump, Trump was still regaling associates with stories of how Zuckerberg and Bezos were quote, kissing my ass, according to the book. Quote, You would not believe the texts I got from these tech guys. I've got to show you. That is what Trump is quoted as telling some of his guests.
The episodes also show how Trump reveled in the genuflections of the titans of big tech, Google's Sundar Pichai, I hope I'm pronouncing that properly, and Apple's Tim Cook also met with the incoming president before relentlessly deriding their efforts. Quote Think of where these guys were in twenty sixteen, Trump said, as Zuckerberg and Bezos in a conversation with Elon Musk recounted in the book, they hated me, they were doing everything they could to knock me down, and look at them now.
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Musk seemed delighted in the humiliation of his rivals, according to the book. Quote, first class groveling, Musk is quoted as saying. Now, when Trump and Bezos dined in December 2024, according to the book, Trump told Bezos, The Washington Post is really unfair. You've got to take better care. A remark that prompted Bezos to commiserate with Trump. Quote, the people there are terrible, Bezos said, complaining about the business side of the Washington Post he'd hoped to make profitable.
They don't listen. My other companies, they listen. That's just so pathetic. It's just so pathetic. Grown ass men, right? Next up from Politico, the Supreme Court has delivered another win for gun rights advocates, ruling that the Constitution protects the right of habitual marijuana users to own a firearm. The justices ruled unanimously Thursday in favor of a Texas man who challenged a longstanding federal law making it a crime for a person who is an unlawful user or addicted to any controlled substance to
To have a gun, saying the application of the law in his case ran afoul of the Second Amendment guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms. The decision is the latest pronouncement from the High Court on Gun Rights since it ruled in twenty twenty two that modern day firearm regulations will be struck down unless they have an analog in the founding era. The new ruling is a loss for the Trump administration, which generally favors expansive gun rights, but defended the federal law as an important tool to prevent obvious public safety risks.
posed by drug users having control of weapons. Now next up from MS Now, another one of Trump's personal lawyers was confirmed as a federal judge on the appeals court on Monday when the Senate voted forty eight to forty three to replace Justin Smith on the St. Louis based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Smith has been Trump's lead attorney at the Supreme Court in Trump's efforts to upend the millions of dollars in damages that E. Carroll won against him for sexual abuse and defamation.
Smith's confirmation follows Emil Bovey's confirmation to the Philadelphia-based U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. It also follows Trump's nomination of Matthew Schwartz to the New York-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Schwartz was working on the president's appeal of his hush money case, which New York State prosecutors won at trial against Bovey and Todd Blanche, the latter of whom the president is nominated to be attorney general. Blanche is currently acting attorney general following the departure of the
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From that role of another Trump personal lawyer, Pam Bondi. Before his judicial appointment, Bovey was a high-ranking Trump Justice Department lawyer who spearheaded several administration priorities, including the failed attempt to only temporarily dismiss corruption charges against then New York City Mayor Eric Adams. And separately, a DOJ whistleblower accused Bovey of telling the Department of Justice lawyers we need to consider telling the courts fuck you and ignore any such orders.
In litigation over the deportation flights to Seacoat. Bovey said he did not suggest that there would be any need to consider ignoring court's orders. Whistleblowers say otherwise. Now Smith represented Trump in the Carroll litigation alongside his colleague's James Otis Law Group, a St. Louis firm founded by John Sauer. That's the Solicitor General. The firm has represented Trump in several matters, including the criminal immunity appeal that Sauer argued to the justices in 2024.
Now, like I said, he's the Solicitor General, which is the DOJ's top lawyer representing the United States at the Supreme Court. The DOJ said it will be supporting Trump's High Court appeal against Eugene Carroll. Now Trump has two separate but related Carroll appeals stemming from the two damages awards from separate juries. The president lost his appeals so far in the Second Circuit over dissents from judges he appointed to that court in his first term. He's challenging both losses at the Supreme Court.
One of his petitions has been pending for months, but the justices have yet to decide whether to grant review. They've postponed it like a dozen times. The latest filing on the docket is from june second. It's a letter from Smith that says the second petition is coming within the next month, and suggested the court may wish to consider the petitions together. It takes four justices to grant review. The court could grant review of either, both, or neither, but we don't yet know what the court will do, only that it did not immediately deny the first petition.
The promised forthcoming petition will show who Trump's latest lead counsel is. And so perhaps the reason the Supreme Court has denied one of the E. Gene Carroll cases like a dozen times is because they're waiting to consolidate it with the other. So we'll keep an eye on that. And next up from Notice, Senate Republicans quietly killed an effort to bar the Pentagon from investing in companies tied to Trump, his cabinet, or their families.
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Rejecting a Democratic amendment targeting conflict of interest concerns. The amendment failed fourteen to thirteen on a party line vote last week during the Senate Armed Service Committee's closed door markup of its one point one five trillion dollar National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, according to a committee vote tally released Wednesday. Republicans said they rejected a a partisan attack on Donald Trump that would have undermined support for the bill. Wow. Quote, it just seemed like a shot at the president.
But the NDAA is for serious stuff. That's Senator Mike Rounds from South Dakota. Quote, we keep all the cheap shots out. And we think the president and most of the other members would have considered that a cheap shot. And that's not what the NDAA is all about. It's a cheap shot to bar the president and his families and his cabinet members and their families from getting Pentagon contracts. Wow. Okay.
Now, Senator Elizabeth Warren confirmed that her amendment, she wrote this amendment, would have prohibited the Pentagon's Equity Investment Arm, the Office of Strategic Capital, from making investments in any company in which top executive branch officials or their immediate family members hold significant ownership stake. Details of the measure haven't been previously reported. Quote, there wasn't even a debate, Warren told Notice. This is the most corrupt administration in American history. Every amendment that might curb Trump's corruption even slightly is
was radioactive to Republicans. The vote came amid Democratic scrutiny of Pentagon loans and contracts awarded to companies connected to Trump allies and family members, including firms backed by Donald Trump Jr.' venture capital firm and transactions that have raised questions about the financial interests of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's family. Senator Mark Kelly, who voted for the amendment, said lawmakers were trying to bar taxpayer backed investments from benefiting Trump's family. Quote, we're trying to be responsible with taxpayer money.
And to try to put it at some restrictions so it doesn't continue to flow to the Trump family. That's what Kelly told Notice. He called the administration corrupt and accused Donald Trump of profiting from public office. Next up from The Guardian, Donald Trump's nominee to serve as top independent watchdog, the inspector general at the Department of Justice, to replace Michael Horowitz, has refused to call the January 6th insurrection an attack during questions by senators. I'm gonna pronounce his name wrong, Donald.
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Berthiamu, no, Berthiomi. Berthiomi? Don Berthiomi, maybe, a career justice department employee who's been serving as inspector general of the agency, faced senators as part of his confirmation process to take up the role permanently this past Wednesday. Berthiomi was praised by some as a veteran of the department and not an overtly loyalist pick to serve in the role. Trump's Justice Department has pursued his retribution agenda and faced criticism for lack of independence from the president. Trump tapped
Bartheomi to serve in a temporary acting role as Inspector General at the Justice Department last year, then nominated for the role permanently this year. Blumenthal, Democratic Senator from Connecticut, asked Berthiomi who won the twenty twenty election, to which he responded, Joe Biden as certified by the Senate. That old yarn. Blumenthal then asked about January sixth and the insurrection, where hundreds entered the US Capitol, some of whom used violence against Capitol Police, and then were convicted for their roles in the attack.
Trump pardoned and commuted the sentences for nearly all involved, some of whom are now seeking payouts from the federal government using an obscure legal claims process. Quote, let me ask you, was the Capitol attacked on January 6th? That's what Blumenthal asked him. I don't know if I'd use the term attack. I mean, we had activity outside the Capitol, protests and such. Wow. Blumenthal called the wording the most obvious understatement, and then again questioned whether Berthi Umi would call it an attack.
Noting violence against Capitol Police, and Berthiumi again said he didn't agree with the word attack, though he acknowledged there was physical violence. Okay, we're getting closer. Blumenthal said the questions were intended as a test of your prospective independence, and so far I think you're failing that test. Went on to say, I hope my colleagues will agree that the Inspector General of the Department of Justice should recognize reality and facts for what they are. All right, everybody, that is the news for this Friday. We're going to be right back with John Fugelsang, and then some good news. Stick around.
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Separation of church and hate. Please welcome my good friend John Figosang. Hey.
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Great, I'm done. That's great. Thank you. thanks everybody. Take care of your waitress. Thank you. Great to be here. thank you. Mercy.
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I've done that before. You get you get an intro, you get a but the crowd goes wild, you get up on stage and you're like, I can't top that.
JF:1 (17:23.251)
Listen, I mean I'm already I'm already so excited about how well America did in this Iran deal. You don't need to say anything to make me happier. My goodness, we're just winning all over the place, aren't we?
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yeah. I think calling it a deal is a bit of a stretch. It's like a bribe to open negotiations.
JF:1 (17:35.15)
Yeah.
it's a bribe to get him out of the mess he dug himself into. Literally, I'm gonna bomb you until you bail me out by me paying you. That's where we've come to, folks. i if there's one lesson America keeps learning from the Middle East, it's that America learns no lessons from the Middle East. That's that's it. I mean they're they're you know why they're sending J D Vance out to announce all this? Because Marco Rubio is in the basement sewing a mission accomplished banner. So he's too busy to do it right now.
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Right. But also they need someone to blame.
JF:1 (18:08.6)
Well that's it, right? I mean it's all all of this cabinet don't seem to realize they've been hired to be the flunkies and fall guys for this man. And they're all gonna get their turn.
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Mm-hmm. And now we've got they're already hanging this around J. De Vance's neck. There's peop there's Republican aides in Congress saying, Well, this is all J. Devance's thing. Trump signed it at Versailles. By the way.
JF:1 (18:30.264)
Versailles test Behold this groveling loser. It's just I mean, it's I mean I mean this this and you know, they're gonna say again this was a mistake. This was like like the Iraq war. This wasn't a mistake. This was a a a deluxe platinum collector's edition policy fiasco. This required a president to look at twenty-five years of MIDI's policy and be like, you know what all these failures lacked? My personal touch. I can make this dumber. And they're still lying about it.
And i and like if your victory agreement looks like the agreement you spent a decade denouncing, then it's not victory.
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But it's worse. It's worse. And when you've got
JF:1 (19:09.912)
But three hundred billion. Three hundred billion.
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Yeah. When you've got Ben Shapiro, the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal editorial board, the New York Times editorial board, yeah, and a Ted Cruz, you know, saying that this is a pile of shit. yeah. It's not good. And he's what now under water twenty two more points with independence? Like he's got its lowest approval ratings ever, thirty three percent on the economy now. Just dropping.
JF:1 (19:37.534)
Brilliant. Brilliant.
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Like a stone like a stone into the bottom of the reflecting pool that will be hidden algae and now apparently leprosy because the blue paint is peeling up of any
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That you can't see because of the
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The Aljay is the most honest thing that's happened in DC. But you're you're right. I mean, Ben Shapiro is so furious. I saw him I mean, he's like he's like screaming in these interviews, but that that's okay because nobody works at Daily Wire anymore, so they're not being disturbed by the noise. But I mean I mean but think about it. I mean, i if this agreement succeeds, it proves the war wasn't necessary. But if this agreement fails,
It proves the war was pointless. So I mean the internet remembers Grandpa. Just I mean, they're it's just incredible. Did you hear him come out and talk about the missiles? I mean
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Well they have to change now the all his bootlickers have to change their whole concept about they now they're saying Iran should get to defend itself.
JF:1 (20:37.65)
Around deserves a right to defend itself. My God. You could get you could get deported from Columbia University for saying that a year and a half ago. And now they're they're I mean, like after we were told so many times that this is the threat to civilization, and now what am I supposed to do? Other countries have missiles. You know, like literally the president's argument is everybody else is doing it. He's a fourteen year old caught vaping at school. Everyone's doing it, so come on.
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You know, if your concern is Saudi Arabia has missiles it could shoot at Iran, we gave them those missiles and it's the reason you know, we have that like we have to arm Israel the same as we arm other Middle Eastern countries law that needs to be repealed. So that keeps that up as well and and well everyone g has missiles. It's just the most ridiculous historically terrible
JF:1 (21:24.718)
I mean
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foreign policy blunder I have ever seen and I was there when they started the Iraq
JF:1 (21:33.644)
Yeah, and I don't consider Iraq a blunder because I think Iraq worked exactly the way it was supposed to go. Dick Cheney's company got thirty-nine billion dollars. Like no blunder. Yeah, they they knew what they were doing all along and no one paid a price. So no blunders there. That was a r that was a a con. but I mean the whole principle of the agreement he tore up was that Iran's gonna promise and affirm that they won't seek nuclear weapons. And if you're taking Donald Trump's side on any of this war
What you're doing is you're you're saying that the US military and all branches of military intelligence were lying all those years they swore up and down that Iran was complying with the original Obama deal. But now what he's done, it's like burning down your house because you hate the last owner's paint job, right? So then you burn down the house and you then spend billions of dollars and thousands of bombs and and and years to rebuild your house and then you rebuild it in the exact same color you said you didn't like ten years ago. And that's what he's done. I mean
With algae. And God bless the algae. You know, it's the comedy's there, folks. Like God wants us to laugh. I mean, should good good Lord.
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What do you think of this switch of subjects, this access journalism, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swann book, all these revelations coming out, kinda word for word. People are wondering if they have tapes of things that happened inside the situation.
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Word for
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Lordy there are tapes, Lordy there are tapes.
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Of you know, this first of all, something that, you know, I noticed right off the bat was something that Survivor, Epstein Survivor Annie Farmer and I talked about last year, which was that Donald Trump was gonna go to the courts to release grand jury testimony materials that won't have anything in that the courts would say no and then they could blame the courts. And and Annie Farmer actually filed notice with the court saying, Hey, don't let off the hook this way.
JF:1 (23:19.064)
Mm. She was right.
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And to find that that was the exact conversation, option one, proposed by Todd Blanche to manipulate the judicial system in order to shift the blame off of Donald Trump for the Epstein fiasco. And it was just right there in black and white. And I was just kind of jaw on the floor. Now that's a detail that, you know, I don't want to overlook the bigger picture that a bunch of people met up in the situation room to discuss how to protect Trump from the Epstein.
JF:1 (23:30.328)
Shield rapists.
JF:1 (23:49.674)
It's a very big picture. It's a very big picture. You remember a year ago you and I were talking about Pam Bondi's binders full of information that had already been released and all those influencers who showed up holding props, not realizing that the true props were them on camera holding props. Like they have worked so hard to cover up that they did this in the situation this is the place built for nuclear threats, right? And terrorist attacks and and military crises. This is the room where they they tracked the the bin Laden mission. And Republicans spend
All these years telling us that there's this secret cabal of elites covering up sex crimes. And then they get into power, and immediately they form a secret cabal of elites to cover up sex crimes. Like that's that they should do it in the basement of a pizzeria. And and Trump wasn't there. Trump wasn't running the cover up. I mean, think about that. They didn't want him in the meetings. His staff was running his cover up for him. Th the full power of our government w was being mobilized to protect one guy from questions about his relationship with.
With the worst sex trafficker in American history. The situation room, Dr. Gill, wasn't protecting America. The Situation Room was protecting one guy from his own resume. It's just I mean, this is the deep state. They told us the deep state was hiding the truth. They got control of the state, and they start hiding the truth. And you'd think that his supporters would be a little bit more angry about this, but as you pointed out, pedophilia's okay now.
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Right. well they keep moving the goalposts, right? I mean Trump's about three seconds away from saying that Iran had nuclear weapons and we got rid of them. That's right. I mean it's just it keeps moving and changing every minute. And now we've got this director of national intelligence issue. Love it. Bill Poulty being nominated, and then both Republicans and Democrats in in the Senate saying we aren't gonna confirm him, we're not gonna pass your you know, extend your FISA
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With you know.
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Section seven two unless you get rid of Poulte. And so he brought in Jay Clayton, who was part of, by the way, that judicial manipulation situation with the Epstein files that was hatched in the situation room. But now Trump is trying to turn that around and use Bill Poulti staying on as leverage to get them to pass the Save America Act, right? So it's it's just it's a shit show.
JF:1 (25:59.861)
With his own.
JF:1 (26:07.174)
It's incredible. This is all his war with his own Senate as he loses more and more sway and ris and support with this Senate. I mean, the guy's up at three fifty-four in the morning and changing the director of national intelligence on social media, right? Like he's like he's letting us know his his fantasy football lineups. This is Tulsi Lee Tulsi got fired and they came up with their cover story to get her out of there. So then Bill Poulty gets put in and he's a mortgage guy, no experience in national intelligence whatsoever. In case any of you listening, you know, have families.
That you care about, it's the mortgage guy who goes after Letitia James for mortgage stuff, and hey, he was so good harassing Letitia James over mortgage stuff, let's give him the full reach of national intelligence to go after Trump's enemies. and and keep people safe, too, right? So
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and to screw with the elections, the midterm election.
JF:1 (26:54.158)
Of course. So so Bill Poulty, right? So then he announces that no, it's gonna be this this other guy, Jay Clayton. And you why it's Jay Clayton? Because Jay Clayton went on C N B C on Sunday and said, Well, you know, it's possible that conceivably, theoretically in some universe that possibly, conceivably there was some election irregularity, quite possibly in California, and that was it. Like he he didn't want to say it. He spat it out. That was his audition. And three days later, three days later after going on TV and saying there might be election fraud.
He is apparently then qualified to oversee all of our intelligence and covert ops and cyber warfare and nuclear threat assessments.
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And to see the Republicans in the Senate go, Phew, all right, we like
JF:1 (27:35.758)
For this guy who's also unqualified, who's also totally unqualified. But again, but he wasn't a the mortgage guy. So like Trump is picking these guys like he's the drunk guy at the bar picking the jukebox songs, you know, like I like this one. no, I like this one. It's no, go back to the one we had, but go back to that one. And and while all this is happening, like Bill Pulti's waking up checking Truth Social to see if he sell has a job. And when they ask Donald Trump, why are you blackmailing your own side? Essentially, he's like, just a l a little bit of intrigue, a slight bit of intrigue.
AG: (28:05.198)
Mm-hmm. Well now he's threatening to keep Bill Poulte as DNI, knowing what a d what a horrible national security threat that is, unless they suppress the vote in the midterm elections by passing the Save Act.
JF:1 (28:17.442)
Because he knows that the Save Act is never gonna pass and the Save Act will never pass the Senate. Will never happen.
AG: (28:22.262)
Which they'd have to do to kill the filibuster. So he's literally saying I am going to threaten national security on an ongoing basis unless you rig the elections for
JF:1 (28:30.486)
Yes, and yet another way that he is doomed to fail with his own party. He's playing hardball with his own side. They are tired of this man's nonsense, and he's gonna fail again, and he will spin it into a win when he gives up on this again as well. And the douchebags that took over Twitter will hail him. Repeat, repeat, repeat. I mean, one week it's Tulsi, then it's Poulti, then it's Clayton, then it's Poulty again, then Kid Rock, next week, I think. But it's like a slight bit of entry. Like like like it's the finale of Survivor. You know what I mean? Like
This is the American intelligence apparatus and he's blackmailing his own side as a bargaining chip, so as you can say, he can make it harder for women who've changed their name to vote this year.
AG: (29:09.954)
Meanwhile, giving hundreds of billions of dollars, helping usher that into Iran who now hates us and has a more hard line regime, but we've got the mortgage guy in as DNI to coordinate our intelligence to stop any kind of terrorist
JF:1 (29:15.254)
Iran.
JF:1 (29:24.942)
But I maybe you haven't heard Dr. Gill. Now now Trump likes his Iranian negotiators. Did you hear? They're very rational. They're pleasant to deal with. Three months ago, Man Baby is commanded. Complete and total surrender. Complete and total I should get to pick who the new rule of re now i i it's like five star. great great communicators. Cleaned, I w would negotiate with them again in a second. Like he's on LinkedIn.
AG: (29:47.234)
He wanted Ahmadinejad, remember?
JF:1 (29:49.46)
Yes. I mean, but if if if Iran is d defeated, then why are we negotiating? If if if you know, if there's still peace, then why are we still threatening invasion? If the deal is done, why is Netanyahu still gonna bomb? I mean
AG: (30:03.062)
Remember the whole we don't negotiate with terrorists thing, remember?
JF:1 (30:07.222)
Of course, but they never meant it. Ronald Reagan armed both sides of the Iran-Iraq war. Ronald Reagan armed the Iranians after they killed our Marines in Beirut forty years ago. This was the core of Iran Contra. After they killed our Marines. They secretly had Israel fly the money over and the weapons. And they armed them while they were also arming Iraq, arming both sides of the same foreign war. And we wonder why these people hate us. And now look at this. Now all of America's hands are burned.
Because Man Baby had to go and touch the stove. Even Bush knew not too.
AG: (30:38.828)
And now we're gonna arm Iran. And we've armed Saudi Arabia and we arm Israel, so
JF:1 (30:44.13)
Yeah. How's that regime change, huh? We're now we're giving him three hundred billion and weapons. That's our regime change. he doesn't care about that. Now now that you hear Trump says I never cared about regime. He said it this week. He never cared about re It's it's like it's like, I wasn't dumped. No, we we both agreed mutually she'd stop returning my calls. Yeah, I wasn't dumb. I mean it and he knows that one third of white people in this country won't care. He knows that that's all he needs is one third of white people who will believe whatever they're told. And and he d he's not pulling it off, but he's still trying. Look at the Slug Fest. He's not trying to bring in any new fans. He's still pandering to the same core base that is blindly obedient. A smart play would have been to piss off the liberals and do something universal that makes him look good. He's not clever enough. He's still trying to sp to be a big fish in a small pond because he doesn't know how to expand his own appeal. Yeah. And I love the slug fest, by the way. I I support it.
AG: (31:42.254)
Well, we've got some great things going on this weekend. We've got the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, some great speeches by Obama and Michelle. Happy Juneteenth. incredible lineup. I think they've got Millie Vanilli, C and C Music Factory, Vanilla Ice. I mean, it's really no, it's just an absolutely incredible lineup.
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happy Juneteenth, everybody.
JF:1 (32:04.174)
Be fair to Millie Vanilli, all versions of Millie Vanilli pulled out of the America two hundred fifty. Millie Vanilli said, Nope, it doesn't look authentic to us. We're we're not gonna Millie Vanilli, I think we said this before, but they they finally have Jay earned my respect because they promised not to sing at something.
AG: (32:20.482)
I guess.
JF:1 (32:23.587)
They deserve the Grammy pack for this. They earned it. They're not now they're not gonna sing on purpose and they're heroes for it.
AG: (32:28.878)
But we also had this incredible speech at the celebration parade for the Knicks Championship by Mam Dani, which was just a fantasti one of the best like politician sports speeches I've seen in a really long time.
JF:1 (32:41.454)
This guy's so smart. This guy's got such good political instincts all the time. All the time.
AG: (32:46.206)
He really does. Take a page, everybody. Take a page. And yeah. I'll be traveling to Chicago this weekend. We're gonna have a gala for our our patrons. So that's something fun very cool that I am looking forward to.
JF:1 (32:56.974)
Cool. I was just there last weekend. You're picking the right time of year to go.
AG: (33:02.102)
Yeah. So we just we have some really we've got World Cup, you know, d despite how you feel about FIFA and how I feel about FIFA as an organization, it's fun to watch World Cup soccer. But the the chance, I'm looking forward to the Aussie chance about Donald Trump coming up this weekend too. So we have some good, hopeful function to look forward to. But I appreciate your time as always, my friends. Anything else to
JF:1 (33:24.41)
Yeah, I just I just think they should keep the the claw up on the White House lawn. I I think they finally use the White House lawn for its highest purpose, keeping violent, stupid white guys busy and preoccupied. I think we should do more of this. I fully support other white Republican men punching each other in the head on camera. I'll pay for the pay per view if they'll keep this going. and I hope they never take that lighting rig down. I I think it should it's the most true expression of what this man believes in.
And and I think that it's all about domination and submission, not service. So it's actually the truest thing Donald Trump's ever given us. And
AG: (33:59.192)
Violence and stoking anger. I noticed when Elon took over Twitter or when Zuckerberg started getting really deep into doing psychographic shit over on Meta that my feed began to become filled with world star fights and bum fights and fights this and UFC fights and and it just it seems like I was like it's really feels like they're trying to get me to wanna be violent. And I think that that's no
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Romans.
AG: (34:29.545)
Mistake that they're
JF:1 (34:30.702)
Almost like fascist regimes repeat this pattern all the time when they come up, doesn't it? Yeah.
AG: (34:35.777)
I've never seen anything like that before, Coliseum. you know, like
JF:1 (34:40.526)
It's yeah, well, I mean, when do they feed the Christians to the animals of this thing? You know, it's like and again, it no more pretending that their party is about family values, no more pretending their party's about civic virtue or Christianity. No, like let's see this reality show funded by taxpayers. We paid for those National Guard, but sponsored by corporations where rich guys make money, we pay for it, and gullible white men get punched in the neck. It was the greatest visual metaphor for this entire thing.
AG: (35:06.434)
Get paid in crypto for it.
JF:1 (35:07.97)
Get paid in crypto. Yep, it's beautiful. And I'm I'm not with these people all offended that Josh Hokett smeared a beautiful, brilliant, educated black woman because when Josh Hokett is selling bone marrow on Craigslist, Michelle Obama will still be the most admired woman in the country. And I I thank him for his moment of stupid racism. I think the media has to stop saying that he he thanked Jesus. He didn't thank Jesus. He used Jesus to make himself seem virtuous and then immediately showed
That he's a racist woman hating douchebag. So he hates Jesus. But I actually thank him because this was Donald Trump's eightieth birthday party, and the only part of it the entire world is gonna remember is this racist woman hating douchebag. And that's what Donald Trump deserves. We're all gonna remember his birthday by that moment.
AG: (35:52.878)
Think you're right. All right, my friend, thank you so much. I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Get some rest. I know you're writing. I know you're burning the candle at both ends. so I I hope you get a little bit of r relaxation this weekend.
JF:1 (36:04.462)
Thank you. That's what I keep telling my coke dealer. Thank you so much. Yeah. Thank you, Doctor Gill, for all you do and I hope everybody has a great weekend.
AG: (36:12.27)
Thank you so much, everybody. Stick around. by the way, if you wanna catch more John Fugelsang, all you gotta do is listen to Tell Me Everything. It's on Sirius XM Progress, channel one twenty seven, weeknights, nine PM.
JF:1 (36:21.942)
Eastern and as long as this is on six Pacific Friday, I'll be on Alley Velcy in the eleventh hour tonight if you're listening on Juneteenth on MS Now.
AG: (36:30.05)
Fantastic there. And you can also listen to the John Fugel Sang Show podcast. He has got a sub stack. He's he's everywhere. And don't forget to get your copy of Separation of Church and Hate. Thank you so much, my friend. Everybody stick around. We'll be right back with the good news. Alright, everybody, welcome back. It's time for the good news.
JF:1 (36:35.938)
If you if you need
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Thank you.
AG: (37:03.714)
Near good news, good news. And if you have any good news, big, small, recent, distant history, ancient history, maybe you just want to say hi or thank you or thank yourself. We love self-shout-outs on this program. Tell us why you're awesome. Maybe you have a good trouble recommendation or an shout-out for a loved one or a a small business or a nonprofit or a government program.
maybe your favorite street joke, misheard song lyrics, anything something funny that happened to you today. Maybe you saw somebody pay it forward somewhere and you wanna tell us about it, anything that'll help us microdose in your hope. We would love to hear from you. Dailybeanspod.com, click on contact. And all you gotta do to get your submission right on the air is attach photo. You can pay your pod pet tariff and attach a photo of your pet. And maybe we can try to guess what breeds are in your shelter pet. Or if you don't have a pet, you can attach an adoptable pet in your area. We see if we can help find him a home.
If you don't have that, just grab a random picture of a cute animal on the internet that works too. Bird watching photos, which can be an actual bird or you flipping the bird to a Trump building. We absolutely love those. it can be pictures of stuff you're making or creating, because we have so many great entrepreneurs and makers and creators in this space, and we would love to see what you're doing. or just a sunset or your garden, or maybe you got some chickens or goats or something, and you just want to show us your awesome handiwork, send it all to us. Dailybeanspod.com. Click on contact. First up.
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AG: (39:23.224)
For free. And we're gonna have a link to that in the show notes. Thank you, and my best from Tom. So and we'll have again that link. Free Harvard online course on the US Constitution. Very cool. All right, next up from Jessica, pronoun she and her. Hey guys, wavy f smiley face. will you and the rest of the Leguminati help me to wish my a very happy twenty-fifth birthday on Sunday, the twenty first of June, to my beautiful daughter, Marilyn?
From spending your first ten days fighting in the NICU to thriving as a powerhouse running our local Starbucks, you've always been a fighter. I'm so incredibly proud of the resilient, amazing adult you've become. Mom loves you a latte, ha ha. Included her some baby pictures. And the one of Marilyn now. Maylin. Excuse me, I was calling her Marilyn. It's Maylin. I'm so sorry about that. AG and DG, thank you for all you do, helping to give us the news every day with some appropriate swearing. Look at Maylin.
Adorbs. incredible. What a great group of photos. the baby with the wings. my goodness sakes. Jessica Maylin. Happy birthday, Maylin. Thank you so much for this. Next up from Casey. Pronounce she and her. Hello ladies. Alison recently asked for submissions of memes, and when this one came across my feed, I knew I needed to share it with you. Your rainbow connection duet made me smile, just like everything else you both do.
Now for my tariff I present to you my emotional support float and my protest witch backpack. The pool float lives fully inflated in my car at all times, and I lay it out in random places wherever I want to. My protest witch backpack is exactly what it sounds like. She hovers about three feet above my head when I'm wearing her. The float and the witch made their first appearances together outside of the back of the car at a Mayday protest. So happy pride and
And it's a a cartoon of the Kermit saying it's not easy being green and the reflecting pool saying, Hold my beer. I've seen this meme. Thank you so much for sending it in. And there's the witch, the witch backpack that says melt ice and the pool float. That looks very comfy. Absolutely love it. All right, our next submission comes from the point of view of a cat. Ferlin Hancock, Orange Cat. Hello, my name is Ferlin, and I live with some other cats and a dog, but
AG: (41:46.732)
I love my mom more than they do, and mom loves me the best. I have beautiful orange striped fur, and I'm most excellent at sleeping and eating four times a day from the box that spits out my food and calls my name. It's kind of weird, but I like the food. Here's my good news. Mom and the guy who cleans up our poop left with those boxes on wheels for forever, and another human moved into our house, but she brought two dogs with her and I hate them. Okay, I'm just the big slobbery one. Haha.
When I was settling for the the new human, my mom came back. Poop guy too. I'm so happy. And I sit on top of her chest and her face while she sleeps, so she knows how much I missed her. look at this cat. Ferlin. What a great name. Very handsome boy. All right, next up from Carolyn, pronoun she and her. Hello, Beans Queens. My good news is about butterflies. Nonprofits in San Diego are trying to make a monarch superhighway along Penesquitos Canyon.
That's a nature preserve that stretches about six miles east to west, in the north part of the city. I'm lucky to live along the rim of the canyon and I'm striving to make my yard monarch friendly. Today I peeked at a few of my milkweeds to find three monarch caterpillars munching away. Such simple things are so important for fostering joy, and I'm so delighted to be supporting the survival of this iconic species. People can support monarch butterflies by planting native milkweeds in their gardens, which is their preferred plant for laying their eggs.
I've attached today's photos of these cute caterpillars. There they are. Distinctive caterpillars as well. You can always tell them on our butterfly caterpillar. Thank you for that, Carolyn. That's amazing. Papenusquitas Canyon is just beautiful. All right, next up from Tim. Pronouns he and him. I recently found this furry guy on our patio in Florida. He's an evening bat and very common here. Voraciously devours mosquitoes, so very good. I thought of this when listening to Unjustified and thought
It perfect for hit me in the head with a bat instead of I get it. A bat. Look at the little baby. I love bats. I absolutely love bats. All right, next up, look at this handsome dog. From anonymous pronoun she and her, September 2024, you read my good news that after a 13-year medical leave, I returned to school to finish my undergrad degrees. Well, I'm graduating. Congrats. I'm walking in June. And when I tell ya I did it all, I mean I did it all.
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Double degree four point since my return, study abroad at thirty eight, successful internship, president of the disabled students group, prestigious fellowship, presented five times across three topics, state senate testimony, first published journal article, recognition for my leadership, advocacy, and academics, passed my thesis on the disability experience in higher ed with zero revisions, next up grad school.
And two first author articles being prepared for submission. Erica, good might you did do it all. Thank you, SSI, Snap, and Vocational Rehabilitation. My sweet Rosie and Sierra did not make it to graduation day. So for tax, here's our Lily. Don't be fooled. She's an absolute menace to society. So great.
JF:1 (44:46.958)
Cheese.
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All right, and we have Erica Cop, recent guest running for Congress in Virginia's first district. Hello, lovely Leguminati. Thank you and the Beans team behind the scenes for all that you do. Early voting for the Democratic primary in Virginia's first district is right around the corner, beginning on june eighteenth. There are so many people working tirelessly to ensure that rep Rob Whitman loses his seat come November. Recently a video surfaced of him avoiding questioning by making a fake phone call. we've seen that with Ron Johnson.
If you haven't seen it yet, here's a link to that clip posted by Midas Touch. We'll have a link in the show notes. Now the world can see what we, his constituents, deal with on a regular basis. Additionally, there's a website that publishes his voting record without commentary so that everyone can see the way he votes against our interests. Talk about good trouble. That website is Rob's record.com. For tax, please enjoy pictures of the persistent pups that sounded off during our call last week. They're both rescues. The one with the big ears is a blank.
And the other one is a blank mix. Love to you all and happy pride. my goodness, look at these babies. my gosh. I have no idea what that dog with the big ears is, but the other one kind of looks like a I don't know, maybe part hound dog? I'm not sure. Let's see what we got. The big ears is a pocket pit bull. I've never heard of that, and I love it. And the other one is a
Staff Staffordshire Terrier Hound mix. All right, so I got one out of four. Thank you, Erica. all right, Stephanie K, a pronoun she and her. Hi, A. G. and D G. Thanks for your coverage of the news. I trust you, and I learned so much from your guests. Plus, I laugh. I'm writing today to ask you to spread the word about two rescue dogs that have been at the shelter for the better part of two years. They're so cute that I'd adopt them if we didn't already have a house full of pets.
Moose and Mia or Maya came to the rescue together. They're great friends and they're loving dogs. The challenge is they don't like little kids. So please, if any Luguminati have a child-free home and you're looking to adopt, share the link below. And we'll have we'll have a link in the show notes for Moose and Maya. They're so adorable. And attached are picks of two of my three fur babies, our dog Wilson using the wall as a pillow and our striped cat Fiero.
AG: (47:33.026)
Working hard to retrieve his toy from under the hutch. LOL, stay strong. Okay, that looks like a super soft kitty. And I can't see the kitty's face, but I want to pet that kitty. Everybody, thank you so much for sending in this good news. We're gonna be traveling this weekend. There's still gonna be an episode of Unjustified on Sunday. There's still gonna be an episode of the breakdown with me on Midas Touch on Sunday at noon. and
As usual, Dana and I will be back in your ears on Monday. So please overwhelm us with good news this weekend. And if you're coming to the gala, send us all your pictures into the good news, DailyBeanspod.com, and click on contact. Everybody, we'll be back in your ears on Monday. Go check out Beans Talk if you've got a minute. Until then, please take care of yourselves, take care of each other, take care of the planet, take care of your mental health, and take care of your family. I've been A. G, and them's the Beans. The Daily Beans is written and executive produced by Allison Gill with additional research and reporting by Dana Goldberg.
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