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Um, MSW Media media. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Friday, October 31, 2025. Today, a Tennessee man was held in jail for over a month a $2 million bond because he posted a meme. A Trump nominee for the US Export bank has withdrawn over his ties to Russia. Trump lifts sanctions on a Putin backed autocrat. The administration announces it's going to resume testing of nuclear weapons. Senate Democrats broaden their investigation into Trump's Epstein Ballroom as demolition contractors go underground. Four Republicans join Democrats to end Trump's tariffs against Canada. A three star general has been pushed out after conflicts with Pete Kagseth and. And remembering transgender athlete and student Leah Smith who took her Life at just 21 years of age. I'm Alison Gill.
And I'm Dana Goldberg.
Oh, hello. We made it to Friday, my friend.
We did. It's nice to have you back with me. Um, I'm glad you're home safely. Not too many delays or anything like that. But yeah, it was a long week. It's been a long week for a lot of people.
Yeah, it has. And, um, yep, I made it home safe. My brain is a little delayed, but understood. Everything else, uh, seems to be okay. Uh, so thanks for covering for me yesterday.
My happy plappytu could do it when I'm not here as well.
Got a ton of positive feedback from the Dana Only Beans yesterday.
Fabulous. Fabulous. And, um, speaking of good things, we have to have a little good things. Some of you were so upset because my Chicago show sold out so fast on November 14th. Um, I decided to open a late show. I'm gonna work harder for you. So there's a 9pm show open. Tickets went on sale. They just went on sale. So for those of you that were disappointed you didn't get any tickets for the 7pm because it's only 100 person theater. They're already selling. There's only about 75 tickets left. I'm telling the beans now. Go get them. It's a 9pm show, November 14, the Annoyance Theater in Chicago. Just go to my website, danagoldberg.com, hit the tour, go down a couple dates and I'll see you in Chicago. And it seems like there's going to be a lot of beans in the first show. And let's stack it up in the second show. I would love to have you there.
Yes. Second show. Traditionally a rowdier crowd.
Yeah, usually a little bit. They've had their dinner and their drinks instead of the other way around, but.
Yeah, but, uh, yeah, that would be awesome. I'M glad you opened up a second show. Uh, so that's really cool. It's sold out so fast. You're like, all right, let's do a second show in Chicago. Yeah.
And a couple of. There's a few people. I got emails from the Beans. People that were so disappointed that they just missed it. And it broke my heart. And at first I tried to see if I had any comps that I could just, you know, take care of a couple of you with. Um, but instead, uh, we decided to just open a nine o' clock show. So hopefully you're a little bit more night owls. But it says Friday night. The show's gonna be done by 10:15, 10:30. You'll be in bed, I'm gonna be asleep on the stage. Everything's fine.
Yeah. So if you're in the area, uh, you don't wanna miss Dana's comedy and, um, it's gonna sell out. So get em. Now we're@danagoldberg.com right?
Danagoldberg.com awesome.
Uh, also later in the show today, because it's Friday here on the Beans, that means it's fugl saying Friday. So I'll be talking to Jon Fugal saying, also, um, just some insane things are happening. First of all, have you seen the photo of erica Kirk and J.D. vance?
No.
Where she's wearing her. Somebody posted. She's wearing her mourning. Like she's in mourning right over the death of her husband. But she's in the sure, sure ye skin tight leather pants. So they're calling them her morning leather pants.
Oh, uh, boy.
And she's got her running her fingers through J.D. vance's hair. I don't know. And you know, now J.D. vance is hoping that his wife Usha converts to Christianity.
I saw that.
Yeah. Like, are they trying to get ERICA Kirk and J.D. vance together? I can't. I don't know.
I don't know. It'll be really interesting to see what happens. There's a lot of sketchy shit going on. A lot of sketchy shit going on. We're going to talk about that in some of our stories too. This ballroom thing, I don't like it at all.
Nope, nope, nope, nope. And, um, you know, nothing is out of bounds for nothing is tinfoil hat these days. Anyway, we've got Donald Trump announcing on Truth Social that he is going to start testing nukes again, which has been banned for decades. And I think what happened. You know how Donald Trump thinks that asylum seekers come from insane asylums?
Uh-huh.
And how visa holders, he thinks, get free visa, credit cards for some reason. Yep, yep. Because he doesn't. I think what happened is Russia tested a nuclear propulsion system. You know, like nuclear propulsion, not weapons.
Yeah.
And I think he isn't clear on the difference between nuclear propulsion and nuclear weapons.
Oh, uh, boy.
So I'm not sure. This could be a Kegseth thing. He might have just gotten shit faced and decided he wants to.
It's possible.
Yeah.
Yeah, that sounds about right. They're going to throw around that nuclear football and see what happens with it.
Going to test nuclear weapons, toss it around. Yeah. Fishermen. I don't, uh. And they admitted, the Pentagon admitted today that they don't know the identities of the people in these boats that they're blowing up in the Caribbean. Like how that's just so it's murder. Yeah. Uh, we got interesting piece of news. Remember how I was saying that, uh, uh, Prince Andrew was stripped of his Duke of York title but was still the prince. He's been stripped of his prince title.
Now he's also been, from what I understand, kicked out of the house.
Yes. Kicked out of the what with a palace? I don't know.
I guess I don't know if you're just not allowed in there, but apparently, I don't know, maybe he had a home that was given to him by the royal family and they're taking it like at least there's some consequences happening to this man, you know, because I just wish that he would flip on some of these people because I've talked about this before. This isn't just about Trump. This lineage goes deep into countries and supreme courts and banks. It's not just one man and ministers and it's not just men. There are women and many, many men that made this continue to happen and cover it up. And I wish every one of them would rot in hell for the rest of their lives.
Yeah. And meanwhile, Adelita Grijalva, still not sworn in because of the Epstein files.
Yeah.
And I gotta wonder, are they doing it to protect, just protect these rich and famous people or are they doing it to protect Donald Trump's ability to blackmail them? Like, I can't decide. I know I can't decide.
It's probably both. I mean, let's be honest, it's probably both.
You know, we get that $130 million Pentagon donation from Tim Mellon from, you know, the heir to the fortune of the bank of New York Mellon, which is being sued right now for. For funding Epstein sex trafficking. Anyway, it's so Huge and so big. And they just want to keep it covered up for whatever reason. But we're going to keep an eye on it for you. We have so much news to get to today that we're going to have to do some quick hits first. So let's do that.
And to make a long story short.
Too late.
All right, first up from the post, the Trump administration's nominee for a top federal position promoting international commerce, Bryce McFerrin, has withdrawn his candidacy amid, um, scrutiny of his role as a senior executive at a steel trading business co owned by one of Russia's richest oligarchs and his relations by marriage to a Russian family with extensive ties to the Kremlin. So sometimes you're even too Russian for Donald Trump.
Oh, boy. Oh, man. This one's from cnn. The Senate on Thursday passed a resolution aimed at ending President Donald Trump's tariffs introduced last spring. With four Senate Republicans joining Democrats to object to the president's trade policy for the third time in as many days. We got Rand Paul Murkowski, Collins and Mitch McConnell, uh, as we know, the former GOP leader. They crossed the aisle to advance the measure in a 51 to 47 vote. All four voted for separate resolutions earlier in the week targeting Trump's tariffs on Canada and Brazil. This is largely symbolic because it won't be taken up by the House. So it's, uh, the bottom line is, is, yeah, you can do what you want to do, say you're, you know, showing some strength, but it's not going anywhere because Mike Johnson's not going to do his fucking job.
Correct. But it's showing that there is a little bit of revolt going on, although, although just enough to not do anything, you know, because the House won't take it up. Next up from the Times, the Trump administration Wednesday lifted sanctions against a Serbian nationalist leader who had been accused of undermining a US brokered peace agreement that ended bloody sectarian fighting in the 90s in the Balkans. So we've lifted sanctions on this guy. Sanctions relief for Milrad Dodic, who had served until earlier this month as president of a small self governing territory in Bosnia called Republika Srpska. I hope I'm saying that right. And this was a victory for this politician and for pricey influence campaigns mounted on his behalf by several allies of President Donald Trump. A bunch of people went to bat for this guy, uh, to, to get these sanctions against this, a hole lifted and it worked. Probably Trump not knowing what's happening. Stephen Miller signing the thing for him you know, don't worry about it, just sign it.
We'll probably do these things. That's all he's doing in his presidency. Um, this last one in the quick hits is from cnn. A three star general serving on the Pentagon's Joint staff has been pushed out of of his position following months of sustained tensions with Secretary of Defense Pete Kegseth. Lieutenant General Joe McGee left his position earlier this month. This is from what the sources have said. They added that McGee had frequently pushed back against Kegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Kane on issues ranging from Russia and Ukraine to military operations in the Caribbean. Oh really? Those, uh huh. Raising a flag, huh? Kegseth has pushed out more than a dozen senior military officials since taking office in January, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs CQ Brown, the Chief of Naval Operations, the directors of the National Security Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency and the top uniformed lawyers for the army and the Air Force. Uh, this whole thing is getting scarier and scarier and we're going to add to that a little bit, uh, with that ballroom story I think. But the fact that we are losing so many people that defend this country nobly and with honor, uh, it's frightening. Absolutely frightening.
Yeah. And now people like Stephen Miller are moving into military housing. Like what? And then they're, they're gonna, I'm going to talk about this on this weekend's, uh, the breakdown on Midas Touch. But they are now moving to put together these quick reaction forces of about 23, 500 National Guard to train them in putting down riots and civil unrest. And so that's also interesting timing given that he would have to invoke the Insurrection act to legally be able to deploy them. So making the plans is different from deploying them. But I think that the Supreme Court is about to tell him he can't deploy the national guard under title 1012 four zero six. I think they're about to tell him that he can't and because they've asked for briefing additional briefing on the matter in the Illinois National Guard case.
Yeah, but what do we do? I mean they defy the courts all the time. So yeah, the Supreme Court says you can't do it and you think he's going to listen?
I think he'll invoke the Insurrection act so that he can get around it. I think that will give him the COVID to do that. Like well, but the courts screwed me over so I have to invoke the Insurrection act so that I can deploy the military to act like police against civilians. So it's what we've been warning. It's what's in Project 2025. It's when he said the enemy within and he was going to send military after us. And Kamala, uh, pointed it out and everyone was like, look, she's nuts. They're not going to send the military. But here we are.
Yeah.
All right, um, what are we going to do? Well, we've got each other, uh, and uh, that's about it right now. So we just, we really have to bank on that.
Yeah. You're going to go to Chicago and you're going to go laugh in Chicago. That's what you got to do, especially in Chicago.
Mhm. And meet other like minded Leguminati and do some networking and start some groups and start some good trouble. And speaking of trouble, we're gonna have that up first with the good news. But first we have to get to the hot notes right after this break. Stick around. We'll be right back after these messages.
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And from what I understand, they're all non union.
Mhm. As recently as August, according to the Internet Archive, ACECO's site showed. It showed firms work at the University of Maryland and heralded its clients, which included Clark Construction and construction contractor hired. That's the one hired to build the ballroom. Social media profiles for the company and its leadership, but they're also gone. WTOP reported that the ratings website Yelp has disabled the posting of any content to the page for aceco because of hostility directed at the company. Because one Yelp poster put how do you sleep at night when all of America hates you?
Oof. I keep. I need my tinfoil hat again. I keep seeing videos about this whole ballroom thing because that's like the cost of it's 300 million, but if it's a 90,000 square foot ballroom, that breaks down to like $3,000 a square foot. So. And then all these other things talking about like the bunker that's underneath it and the people that are actually donating are like Lockheed Martin which has to do with weapons, and Peter Thiel, which has to do with surveillance and AT&T and another phone company and it's about surveillance. Like all of this shit scares the shit out of me. And the plans don't make sense. Some of the windows run into walls if you look at the plans, whatever, whoever put together. I know I sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I hope they investigate this. They don't want to take pictures anymore of what's going on over there. They won't let the press get in there. This isn't just a ballroom.
Mhm.
The guy's not leaving. No, and I don't mean to scare everyone, but do a little research into this because I don't want to be.
The only one that feels crazy right.
Now because I do feel a little.
Bit planned on not leaving. Well, first of all, if he's up and walking around in three years, I'll be in impressed. Yeah, true but if your party plans on not leaving or stealing elections, you're going to need a pretty solid fortified bunker. Ask Putin.
Yeah.
Anyway.
Yeah, okay. So. Okay, we're moving on to the next story. This is from cbs. The father of Sonia Massey. Okay. Sonia Massey, she was fatally shot in her kitchen by former sheriff's deputy Sean Grayson last year. He was very emotional and expressed anger on Wednesday after Grayson was convicted.
And do you remember this? Do you remember the viral video of her getting tea for the guy or whatever?
Yeah, it's horrifying.
Yeah.
And I'm so glad that there was a conviction. Grayson, who was facing three counts of first degree murder, was found guilty, but on one lesser count of the second degree murder, sparing him a possible life sentence for killing her. A 36 year old unarmed black woman. And I quote, he told my child he would shoot her in the. And we need a trigger warning. I'm gonna. I'm still. I don't need an edit. I just need you to know I'm gonna start the quote over. There's a trigger warning right here because I didn't even know that was coming, and that got me in the chest. The quote says, he told my child he would shoot her in the face. And he did. And all we got was a second degree murder conviction of this. That was from Massey's father. His name's James Wilburn. He said he was in six police departments in three and a half years. That is shameful. Grayson, who was a, uh, Sangamon County Sheriff's deputy in Illinois at the time of the shooting, he claimed he was defending himself from Massey, who had called the police to check on a suspected prowler. Grayson said that inside the home, Massey acted erratically and rebuked him in the name of Jesus while walking around toward a pot of water on a stove. She wanted to offer him tea or coffee. He testified that he viewed Massey's pot of boiling water as a threat and was trained to use force to gain compliance.
She called them.
Yep. Yep. Prosecutors said Grayson failed to render medical aid. He failed to render medical aid to Massie right after the shooting. I, uh, know justice is not served in this, but I'm so glad he wasn't acquitted on all the counts.
Yeah, he should. He should have been. He should have been convicted on first degree murder.
Absolutely.
Second degree murder was the conviction. Yeah. It's just. Yep. Another miscarriage of justice in America. And this is a wild story. Here's another one for you from Phil Williams, our friend at News Channel 5. The nosiest bitch in Nashville. According to John Oliver. A middle Tennessee sheriff is defending the arrest of a man who posted a meme. He posted a Trump meme on social media. Larry Bouchardt, he's 61, of Lexington. He faced. Well faced. We'll get to that update in a minute. But he faced felony charges for threatening a mass shooting at Perry County High School.
I saw the meme.
Even though Sheriff. Sheriff Nick Weems. Weems admits that the meme didn't actually contain any threatening words.
Nope.
The case, according to Weems, hinged on how some people in Perry county might have interpreted the meme that noted Trump's response to a school shooting in Perry, Iowa, not Perry County, Tennessee. Bouchard had sat in jail for more than a month, unable to make a $2 million bond set by the local judge. The person who threatened Hakeem Jeffries is out.
Yeah, this guy put up a meme.
This guy had a $2 million bond. Now free speech advocates are sounding the alarm about what they consider to be law enforcement overreach. Yah. Body cam video shows that local police took Bouchard into custody at his home in Lexington on September 21 based on a warrant issued out of Perry County. The one time cop, he's a former cop. He's one of those rare liberals in rural middle Tennessee.
Yep.
And a keyboard warrior known for posting sometimes provocative progressive memes. I wouldn't call this a provocative progressive meme, by the way. Maybe if you're a 61 year old former cop.
Yeah.
The arresting officer informed Boothard that Warren accused him of threatening mass violence at a school. And you can see him on the video, say, at a school. I was on Facebook. I didn't threaten anyone. The meme, by the way, I know everyone's now, what was this meme, the meme that landed Bouchard in jail? Part of a discussion about Charlie Kirk's murder. This was a discussion the day after or the day that Charlie Kirk was murdered. It included a quote from Trump that said, we really have to get over it. Because remember, Trump said that about a shooting in Perry, Iowa, like a day after the shooting. We have to get over it.
Yep.
Two people were killed and six were injured in that Iowa shooting back in January. And so the meme's caption says, this meme seems relevant today. This seems relevant today is what Bouchard said.
That's it? That's all he said? Uh, yeah.
A commentary on Donald Trump said we have to get over mass shootings in response to what happened with Charlie Kirk. Sheriff Weems said in some in his community took the reference in the Trump meme to mean Perry High School to be a suggestion that he planned to shoot up Perry County High School, which recently had to deal with a threat from a student. That one's in Tennessee. News Channel 5 Investigates noted, it doesn't say Perry County High School anywhere on the meme. It says Perry High School mass shooting that led people to believe in our county that he's talking about Perry County High School. Because it doesn't say Iowa either. Can you believe that?
The whole story is ridiculous.
Phil Williams. I know Phil Williams pressed Weems. He said, but you also knew this was an existing meme that was already out there on the Internet. And Weems said, correct. So it's clear that he's not talking about Perry County High School. That's what Phil Williams asked Weems. And Weems said, we knew, but the public didn't know what. But the Associated Press is reporting now that authorities in Tennessee have dropped the felony charge against him. Bouchard, by the way, spent five weeks in jail, and Weems, or Schwendemann, the local D.A. they did not immediately respond to requests for comment afterwards about why the charges were dropped. Just bizarre.
All right, everyone, this next story, I just want to do a trigger warning. Uh, this is a heavy story. This is from Aaron Reed, from Aaron in the Morning. We know and love Aaron and so much every Trans suicide is a murder. That's the title of this. That's the title of this. It was just days ago in Middlebury College in Vermont announced the tragic death of Leah Smith. Lee was a transgender student and former athlete at the school. In the days that followed, a clearer picture of her life emerged. She was a passionate advocate for transgender rights, a devoted teammate before leaving athletics in the 202324 season, and someone who, like so many visible trans people today, face relentless host. While we may never know the exact reason she took her own life, her death comes amid a wave of Republican attacks on transgender student athletes and sweeping Trump administration restrictions on transgender people across nearly every aspect of life. To call her death merely a suicide misses the larger truth. No. Suicide happens in a vacuum. Policies designed to make life unlivable for transgender people bear responsibility to every. Trans suicide is a murder by those in power. To understand Leah's life before her passing is to see the power of what acceptance can make possible. She was a model student, proof that when transgender people are allowed to live authentically, the benefits ripple outward. Leah double majored in computer science and Statistics. Played in chess and Japanese clubs. Loved music. Competed on the women's swimming and diving team until she left, citing the pressure and the isolation she felt as a transgender athlete who didn't feel welcome. Her departure came amid a growing wave of anti trans policies on college campuses as states began banning transgender athletes in 2022, a wave that has only intensified since then into national bans. That hostility marked the beginning of what every transgender person now recognizes, a coordinated effort to legislate us out of public, public life. Aaron continues to write, the policies that targeted Leah make her life harder and shorter for transgender people in a time when we can't predict what fresh cruelty might come next. As the president signs one anti trans order after another and elite universities quietly comply with his demands to discriminate, even in blue states, and as the movement against us widens its sights to target transgender people of every age, we have to name what's happening. Plainly, these policies carry blood on their hands. Transgender advocates have warned for years that the relentless criminalization and isolation of our community would lead to deaths. Leah, uh, deserved better. Better than this government, better than these institutions. Every transgender. Suicide is not just a tragedy, it's a murder. It's the foreseeable consequences of policies designed to make us disappear. For those wishing to help Leah's family, you can give to Middlebury's Prism center for Queer and Trans Life, as requested by her family. We'll have a link in the show notes, and there's more to read. So if you do not follow Aaron in the morning on Substack, and you are a Substack person, do so. She's phenomenal. She's doing an incredible, uh, amount of work as someone who belongs to the community herself. And her writing is extraordinary. Truly, our hearts and thoughts go out to Leah's family. If by some chance anyone who knows her or is related to her is listening. We love you and we continue to fight and continue to shed light on all of these horrifying stories. May she rest in peace. May she and power.
And we aren't going to stop. No matter how many times Gavin Newsom goes on a podcast and says what he says.
I was so mad at him.
Continues to come after my friends.
I, uh, talked about it on Stephanie Miller. Just shut up. You. You can talk yourself out of a paper bag. Sidestep the question. If you cannot go to bed, what do you think you're doing moving to the middle on this subject?
I don't know.
I don't know why he keeps giving him what they want. It just blows my mind. And don't use your transgender godchild as a pawn. I have a transgender godchild. This is hard for me. I understand there's nuances in this, but don't do that. It's the same thing as saying, I have a black friend. I can't be racist. M. It's disgusting. It really. Every time he gets on my good. In my good graces. And it's mostly his communications team, you know, it's Camille and the rest of this team. He does something like this, and I'm like, just why?
Yeah. Very, very frustrating. Very frustrating. Thank you for that. And thanks again to Erin in the Morning. Erin Reid, for all your work. It's just incredible. Definitely. Please subscribe to her substack. Erin in the Morning, everybody. We really could use your good news. Uh, we're going to get to that, but first we're going to talk to John Fugelsang for a minute. So stick around. We'll be right back. Hey, everybody, welcome back. It's Friday on the Daily Beans, which, as you know, it's Fugal sang Friday. So please help me in welcoming the man who hosts Tell Me Everything on SiriusX in progress, channel 127, weeknights, 9pm Eastern, 6 Pacific. The man who is a New York Times bestseller.
That's right.
His book the Separation of Church and Hate, is on backorder in a lot of places because everybody wants a copy. Also has the John Fegelsang show podcast and substack. And pretty much anywhere you want to find John Fugelsang, you just gotta type his name in your browser and he'll pop up for you.
That's the hard part.
Please welcome Jon Fugal. Saying, hello, my friend.
Uh, yeah, it's not easy to type my name. I'm living proof. Sometimes God gives the most ethnic names to the whitest guys. So I'm, um, just difficult on every level. But thank you, Dr. Gill.
So floating around the Internet this week is a tweet that you made that went viral about Mike Johnson and Snap Benefits. Can you tell us about that?
Sure. Uh, I just found out this morning it went viral. I, um, haven't really been checking my posts, and I saw that it got like, 11,000, uh, uh, retweets on the Nazi dating site that used to be called Twitter. Um, and then, uh, George Takei and Professor Reich, uh, both retweeted it, which I think gives me, ah, all the credibility I need to get a graduate degree. Um, but just essentially the argument they're making is no food for you until the Democrats let us take away your health care. This is the bargain these deep, deep, spiritual Christians are offering. Unless the Democrats let us jack up the Obamacare premiums and throw up to 20 million souls low income and disabled Americans off of Medicaid, you're not going to eat. And we're going to blame the Democrats and no one's going to buy it and Trump's not going to care. I mean, I was, I think I told you, I was on cnn, uh, the other night with Dan Crenshaw and he was talking about this Democrat shutdown and we're all doing constituent work we want. I'm like, well, it's great to have you here in New York, sir. These people haven't worked but 12 days out of the last 96, I believe. Mike Johnson isn't trying to be speaker of the House. He's trying to be the breaker of the House. He's trying to put the House of Representatives out of, out of business at this point and has no intention of calling these reprobates back for the rest of the year. So it's like the Democrats were trying to pass a measure to at least get the food stamps going so people don't have to starve. And John Thune was furious about that. This is the time when the media has to stop ever allowing these people to pretend they're Christian. When you're deliberately turning your back not just on the stranger, but also the, the sick and the hungry. Uh, that's, that's Jesus's top three groups. You're not allowed to be mean to man. So I hope that we'll see more action on this, but I, I don't think they want to open it. I mean, $40 billion to Argentina to this kook, and Americans are going to go hungry. What I worry about the most, Dr. Gill, is that the mainstream media is not going to sell any outrage over this because the mainstream media is owned by people now who don't mind.
No.
And of course, you know, CNN CEO goes to the White House and then tells his colleagues and the people who work at CNN to not report so much on the demolition of the East Wing.
Incredible.
You know, we know where their bread is buttered. And, um, that's, you know, Trump's even joking that he's the speaker of the House, right?
Well, yeah, yeah. And he is, I mean, he's, he's essentially owning it. He's, he's, Mike Johnson is his cuckoo. And again, Mike Johnson's job is to just Be a vassal for this man and talk about how pious he is. These people are anti everything Jesus commands in Matthew 25. Like, the media knows that Trump's a fake Christian, but they allow Mike Johnson to have the same pretense of Christ following that they gave to, uh, Mike Pence, who didn't deserve it either. And again, when you're not just abusing the immigrant, but also the poor, the sick, the hungry, I mean, like Jesus Christ, I am so glad that we are going to eat healthy as we can and try to live a long time to watch the backlash to all of this, because the moral and intellectual backlash to Trumpism is going to be a great period in American history. And, uh, I'm going to try my best to stay alive for it. I don't think young people are going to want to do anything to do with this. I mean, when we were kids, there were those creepy old guys who defended Nixon. Remember? They're not around anymore. They don't defend Bush anymore. This is just collapsing all over the place, and it's starting to get messy. The big difference is Donald Trump doesn't have guardrails this time. He has a Supreme Court and a media that he thinks will mop up the mess for him. I don't think he's going to be popular enough to pull this off.
No, I don't think he will. And, you know, we can talk a little bit about, I mean, what's going on in. In the house is obvious. They don't. He doesn't want to swear in Adelita Grijalva. Uh, it's been 38 days since she's been elected. They don't want to swear her in. Epstein survivors have put out a statement urging him to swear her in. And, uh, it is a record. Uh, and so now we have. On the other hand, because we're going after the sick and the poor and our neighbor. So that's just the Bible down the drain, uh, and all the teachings of Christ.
But now feeding children is woke. I don't know if you know that, but it is. Go on.
Right, but now we've got Governor Pritzker asking Gregory Bovino, who is just a. Oh, there's. I mean, did you see how he dressed up for court the other day? Like, you don't want us to call you Nazis. Um, okay. Um, but, uh, he.
He even went and got the, uh, zone of interest haircut, that guy.
Yeah, he did. So he. He's. Pritzker is asking him, please don't tear gas kids on Halloween. Like, that's where we're at. And then on top of all of that, we have Donald Trump building his Epstein Ballroom and probably retrofitting the bunker as he's getting ready to test nuclear weapons again for the first time since the 90s. So it's just. It's all. Now I'm trying to figure out if it was Vought, uh, or Vogt, however you say, Russ, last name, or Stephen Miller, who wants to restart, uh, or maybe Hegseth, who wants to restart testing nuclear weapons, which I think came from the fact that Russia recently tested a nuclear propulsion system. And Trump probably. Or somebody thought that they were testing nuclear weapons. Is it. Would you do that, too? I'm not sure. He still thinks asylum seekers come from asylums and that visa holders are being given free Visa credit cards. So who knows what he thinks? His brain is mush at this point.
That's correct.
But here we are with this ballroom. We've got people donating hundreds of millions of dollars into this thing, and we've got the contracts laying low. So it's just. It's a slush fund.
Firing all the boards. Firing all the boards in charge of all of it for the Ballroom of the Damned and whatever the hell the bunker underneath is intended, uh, to be, whatever this thing is really all about. But, yeah, I mean, it just seems like another way. Donald Trump, at least this is Donald Trump grifting off the private sector, uh, and not us. But we, the taxpayers, will be paying to maintain this monstrosity for the rest of time. So it's not like it's all private money. I mean, we're going to be paying the people who work in there, like, we're going to be paying for all of this for the rest of time. But I do want to point out one really cool piece of news that really got overlooked, which is, um, Arizona's suing Mike Johnson for not swearing in Adelita Grahalva. Like. Like, I mean, he's holding. He's. Mike Johnson is keeping 800,000 Arizonans from having a representative because she's the vote needed for the Epstein files. He is blocking democracy to protect the nation's creepiest secret rape cult. And Arizona is so the state that gave us Barry Goldwater and Joe Arpaio is like, nope, we draw the line at evangelical, uh, pedophile obstruction. So, I mean, there's so much amazing resistance going on on all levels. Look at how great Zoran Mamdani is doing and how it's freaking out all the right people. And as Bad as it is with the Ballroom of the Damned. Uh, it's so insanely unpopular. And what we just witnessed this week with ICE and Border Patrol, I mean, holy fascist Family Feud, Batman. The Deportation industrial complex is eating itself alive right now. Uh, like Border Patrol and ICE are at war with each other. I mean, Trump M Just fired half of ICE leadership to replace them with Border Patrol bros. So Bevino, this guy has tear gas crowds in Chicago. And like Kristi Noem is going around in her Gulfstream jets. Corey Lee Windowski, her creepy, uh, boyfriend, who Trump has fired, rehired, then rehired again. Tom Holman with the bribes. And then Todd Lyons, the ICE director who's caught in the middle of all of this. And this whole operation is like the purge on Bad Oxy. They are literally arguing over who's going to be more cruel to brown kids at church picnics. Like they, they're firing ICE because ICE isn't evil enough. And the way that the left and the media have dropped the ball is a lot of this has been CPB that's been just generically misidentified as ice. So now they're actually taking the guys who are better at the cruelty than ICE and replacing ICE with them. It's about to get a lot uglier. And what does this mean for the billions and billions in this hideous bill that just got funneled to ice? He just transfers all these funds to this organization and then he removes them from being in charge of this. Like, it's a mess over there. And the media is working so hard to not cover it. Uh, I mean, the prosecutors is a whole other matter. I mean, like, these guys are really running in circles and the amateurism is showing more and more.
Yeah, I imagine Stephen Miller was like, look, Lyons isn't doing all the totally evil shit I want him to do. Can we put Bovino in charge? He seems a little more evil. And so here we are. And I assume without going through Congress like he's supposed to, he'll violate the Empowerment act and move all that ICE money over to CPB or cbp. Excuse me, Customs and Border Protection. And yeah, we'll see how that all turns out.
During a shutdown, they'll do it. During a government shutdown, they'll do it.
Of course.
Mhm.
Of course. And they'll say it's because of the shutdown, it's because of the Democrats that we have to do it this way. And Mike Johnson will stand there spineless, without balls and just let it, let it all happen. Because that's his job, is to be a Trump cuck for a branch of the government.
No notes.
And then now, on this third hand, we have the ongoing whitewashing of what happened on January 6. There was a sentencing memo that was written by this Department of Justice to sentence the guy who had all the guns and ammo and bombs down in his van down by the river near Obama's house. And, uh, in the sentencing memo, they mentioned that he was at January 6th and that the January 6th was a mob. And, and I guess hero didn't read it. And, uh, this upset Donald Trump.
This is my favorite story of the week. It's the best story of the week. I mean, it's just so incredible. These two federal prosecutors, uh, Valdivia and White, they got placed on leave, which means we're taking you behind the barn. And they were the ones who wrote the sentencing memo for this violent criminal and Taylor Taranto, who was at January 6th. Um, and they described it as a mob of rioters. And for that, they got locked down in laptops and escorted out of the building. But the real story here is that this guy almost tried to kill Barack Obama. Not in a van down by the river, a van full of guns and ammo outside his house after, in 2023. A story that everyone has forgotten about, but that Trump posted Barack Obama's home address on Truth Social. This is Stochastic Terrorism 101. Mass communication to incite random actors to commit violence that you can later deny responsibility for. I'm not saying kill them. I'm just saying they're enemies of the people. Wink, wink, kaboom. It's terrorism with plausible deniability. Imagine, like, if Charles Manson or Osama bin Laden never actually killed a person. If you can imagine. That's how it works. So this guy, um, is outside Obama's house and they get him. But again, these two prosecutors included that in their sentencing memo. It wasn't just that they said that it was a rioting mob on January 6. They said the quiet part out loud. That his attack on Obama's home stemmed directly from Trump's own post. They laid it out. And that's where Jeanine Pirro apparently signed their memo without reading it. I wonder why she seems so attentive to detail. So then once, as you said, the White House realized that, they sent Pirro back to rewrite it to airbrush Donald Trump out of his own crime scene. And then they filed a new memo. No mention of January 6, no mention of the mobile, no mention of the fact that Donald Trump essentially almost got Barack Obama killed. They scrubbed out the truth. And this is how it works. You don't just incite the violence, you institutionalize the COVID up. You teach the system to protect the trigger pullers, not the victims. And you punish the people who name the threat and protect the people who cause it. And this is not law enforcement. This is regime enforcement. This is all the deep state stuff they kept claiming they are now doing it, hiding things from everyone else. Truth telling about violence is a fireable offense under Pam Bondi.
Yeah. And it's kind of no different from, uh, when he was in office during his first term and scrubbed everything about Russia meddling with our elections. Didn't want to hear about Russia. Took Russia out of all of the President's daily briefs, took it out of all of the threat assessments that were given to Congress. And then eventually everybody learned, learned, just don't talk about Russia. Just, it's best just not to talk about Russia.
Yeah. Yep. Even the media got tired of it. And that's why. And again, if Robert Mueller had just devoted some resources to following the money, we'd live in a very different country right now. But I, uh, guess Russian mob involvement. New York real estate is too big a subject for people to take a crack at. But, I mean, like, if they had.
Done it or, or he would have been fired for it, maybe, uh, Mitch McConnell would have let him get away with that.
But then it would have come out. Then it would have come out because.
That was the red line. Yeah, that was the red line.
When Mueller chose not to follow the money. It guaranteed the Russia thing would go away after Bill Barr covered up more crap than cat litter. I mean, just redacted it. Remember the redactions? My God, there was more blackouts than my three way with Liza Minnelli and Courtney Love. Allison. It was nothing but black elf in that they all covered it up. And the media shrugged and said, okay, uh, it's boring now. And that's it.
I mean, and a judge ruled that the redactions, uh, by the Justice Department under Bill Barr were excessive and inappropriate. And that's how we ended up getting, which totally went. Not covered by the media, the actual full, unredacted Robert Mueller report, which came out to. Not fanfare, just a little womp, womp to the point where now people are asking me, because I have Mueller in my name, when are we going to get the full unredactive Mueller report? And I was like, 2020.
Right? That's like, we had to wait 40 years for the Electric Nebraska album. I don't know when we'll get the unredacted Mueller report, but, I mean, it's just so sad. And again, like, Paul Manafort was fired as Donald Trump's second campaign manager because of Russian collusion. Like Democrats, it's right there. Robert Mueller handed Democrats 10 counts of obstruction of justice, and then the Democrats impeached Trump. And they didn't even use the 10 counts they had sitting there on the table. They could have just made it 13 counts. Didn't do it.
So it's like Robert Mueller didn't say much during his testimony, but he did say, hey, Congress here. Now it's up to you.
Thank you.
That's exactly what he did. And the Democrats in Congress are always going to own the fact that they refuse to own it.
Yeah, for. For sure. Well, my friend, always good to speak with you, and, uh, hope you have a great. A wonderful rest of your weekend. And I know you'll be traveling, so we may or may not see you, uh, next week. We're gonna try to work it out. But I appreciate you being here as always.
Can I make a quick announcement, Dr. Gill? Uh, because, uh, the book is, uh, doing well, and I think I'm gonna write another one, but we are beginning the tour, and we're gonna be doing a live show in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Nov. 12. Any of your listenership, the very attractive people who make up your audience in the D.C. area, come on down to union stage, uh, in D.C. you can get all the information on my socials, and, uh, it's gonna be filmed for a pay, uh, per view later. And we'd love to have you guys there live in D.C. on Wednesday the 12th. And, uh, thank you.
Yeah, and if they get any audience shots, if you're in the audience, you might end up in a documentary. You never know. You never know how it's gonna go.
And then. And then Trump can go after you using facial recognition software. So it's a risk to all of us. Come on down, let's have some laughs.
That's the risk you take. All right, my friend, it's good to see you. Everybody check out. Tell me everything on SiriusXM progress channel 127 this week, nights at 9pm Eastern, 6 Pacific. If you haven't gotten your copy of Separation of Church and Hate, call your local independent bookstore, put it on order, get 10 copies, get 15 copies, put them in a big pile of books that I've recommended over this last year and give them as gifts this holiday season, uh, so that your friends are prepared to have those Jesus arguments at the dinner table.
That's it.
And then of course, and then of course, you could always check out the John Feeglesang show podcast and the substack and he's, uh, everywhere you want to be.
Let's blaspheme together. Thank you.
Were you smoked? I felt smote. All right, my friend, thank you so much. We'll talk next time. John Fugal saying, everybody, stick around. We'll be right back with the good news. Everybody, welcome back. It's time for the good news. Who likes good news?
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Yeah.
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That is a menagerie.
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So Sweet. This is a brood. Oh, my God.
The last couple puppies. Sweet baby girl tuxedo with a bearded dragon. Oh, my goodness.
That's so good.
Now, we have another special, uh, election going on, don't we?
We do. I'm sending you down to Albuquerque. Albuquerque. If you happen to be in APSS District 6 or you know anyone who lives there and you're not sure who to vote for, I'm imploring you to vote for Margaret "Warigia" Bowman. Now, um, I've known her my entire life. That's not the point. There is a MAGA running against her who is being very well funded with dark money. This is the school board. This is the districts that matter. These are the people that are taking care of her kids. And she has been endorsed. The senators, they're Democratic senators that we know and love. Also the reps. Melanie Stansberry is behind her Planned Parenthood, the things that she believes in. And I talked to her. She is fighting for LGBTQ rights and protecting kids in the schools. So this is, uh, APS District 6 in Albuquerque, and the election is on the 4th like the rest of them. So if you're like, I don't know who these people are, I'm telling you, this one's vetted and she's good and she will take care of of the things that we believe in as well. So get out there and vote Albuquerque or tell someone who know, you know, who lives there.
Yeah, I think we've got 52, 000 elections nationwide, uh, according to Heather Cox Richardson coming this week. So we're going to be looking for all those results. Thank you so much for all that good trouble. Yes.
APS District six.
All right, Albuquerque Public Schools. All right, let's see here. First up from Kiki Pronoun. She and her. Hi AJ and dj. I wanted to share this story I heard out of that hellscape, Portland, Oregon. Turns out there are actual people with humanity that live there. I can attest to that. Kiki. A coffee shop called Heretic Coffee Company has been collecting donations to pay for breakfast for those who will be losing SNAP benefits on Saturday. As of Wednesday, they've raised more than $200,000. Turns out this coffee shop is volunteer run, non profit. It trains people to become baristas and coffee roasters. Oh, when I saw the original TikTok video, of course I began to sob. The fact that people care m more than some of our politicians will always amaze me. Oh, and not just US Citizens. They've received donations from places around the world. Humanity is alive, just not in the current administration of the United States. For my POD pet tax, I would like to submit my favorite sign from the no Kings rally that my son and I went to. I also have added a toddler pic of my now 16 year old who is a Cleveland Browns fan, but he looked happier in what he was wearing in the pic. That's a Steelers outfit. How dare you. Kiki, Picture of child is for your eyes only please. Okay, so we aren't going to share this picture of the child publicly, but I am looking at this baby and this is an adorable baby and Saint Eupid stupid, get it. Patriot Saint of Economic collapse. Oh that's so good. Thank you for that.
Oh ah. So sweet. All right, this is from Grace Pronouns she and her hey Beans Queens. I just listened to the Cliff Cash interview. Love him and fully agree that we need millions to descend on D.C. in order to pull curtains on this ridiculous, ridiculous clown show. I wanted to make listeners aware that an org I'm involved with called Refuse Fascism is calling for this same thing starting on November 5, the day after the election. We are calling for anyone who is able to meet at the National Mall at 11am on Nov. 5 and to stay in D.C. for as long as possible, coming back day after day to nonviolently occupy the Capitol. I love this. Buses are being organized now. Everyone interested can visit refuse fascism.org to get involved or donate to the cause. Thanks for everything you do to help keep us all sane. We will prevail. Attached is a photo of my little sweet furball angel girl. Um, maybe.
Oh my goodness. Look at her. Meow. Aw, thank you so much Grace. Next up from Anonymous Pronoun she and her hi from Minnesota. I'm a brand new listener. I really love the good news at the end of your episodes. Welcome Anonymous. Welcome to the Legumina Body. It's so necessary to find glimmers of joy in this daily shit show we're living in. My good news is my local community's response to losing SNAP benefits in November. I recently got a flyer on my door from a local church and it asked for donations to be set out on Halloween. The youth group is going to go around town picking them up and bring them to our local food shelf. The brewery by me has a simple flatbread pizza truck and they're offering free meals to kids. A friend of mine is making birthday kits for families who can't afford to celebrate a birthday with cake, frosting, candles and balloons. A post in our local bulletin board is gathering low cost recipe and meal ideas. Of course there are a few dude bro keyboard warriors blaming Democrats, but the response has been overwhelmingly filled with a sense of giving and community. Thanks for all you do. You're a light in my day even when the news sucks. And you know what Anonymous, I gotta tell you, for an administration who is trying to break apart our communities and isolate us and make us feel like we're alone, they sure are doing a dumbass bang up job of bringing us together. Yep, by doing this fucking horrible shit. It's just. Anyway, anyway, please enjoy my ridiculously gorgeous pup, Charlie. I'm a lifelong cat owner and he's my first dog. We also have five cats he's been raised with, so he's actually a cat on the inside. And the picture of the cats is likely the only one I have. Of all five, Sailor, Mia, Dibbles, Kevin and Linda. The picture of the two cats is sailor, my 16 year old elderly gentleman, and Linda, the baby of the family. Linda, that's a great cat name. They have an absurdly sweet bond and are basically in a cuddle puddle the majority of every day.
Oh my God, the dog is so beautiful.
Dog is gorgeous. I'm guessing Australian Shepherd. Look at the kitties.
I know.
Okay, so I have two tuxedos and a rag doll and another fanc pants cat. But you have that fifth orange cat, which is hilarious. Look at these sweet babies.
They are so sweet.
Uh, thank you so much and hey, welcome. Glad you're here. Glad you're here.
Absolutely. Y and we got another anonymous hello ladies, listener from the kitchen table days here. M I'm a beef cattle rancher living in eastern Oregon. I didn't f around, but I'm still going to find out if the US does actually start importing beef from Argentina, which we just gave 40 billion fucking dollars to. This is not the first time Donald has messed things up for the producers in the beef industry since my spouse and I started ranching 11 years ago. We were just about to start exporting beef to China in 2017 when Don put the kibosh on that. I hope ranchers are finally fed up enough to stop accepting Donald's excuses. The industry has been down for several years and was just now starting to turn around. I know beef is pricey, but honestly, we cannot raise beeves of good quality at a lower cost than we are. The bottom line is we have beef here in the US we don't need to import it. You know, I don't mean to interrupt this, but I don't love a girl. In fact, I don't agree with most things she said. Tommy, Lauren was at least fighting for you, uh, at for beef to be labeled where it was from and that we needed to actually use the beef from the United States. And I can't stand the girl, but I don't know why she's not up in arms about this and this person can.
I know she might be and I'm just not. I don't know where she's.
And we don't follow her. That's true.
She could be really pissed about this and I just don't know.
Yeah. Oh my God. If she ever like comes at me, I have a DM chat with her about abortion that I will absolutely fucking make public, by the way. Okay. I stay. Yep. I stay positive by participating in 50:51. 50:50.
Yep.
Uh, 50:51 rallies, watching comedian Josh Johnson. I love Josh Johnson. His YouTube videos, and listening to Conan O' Brien's podcast. I'm including a photo of a cow and her calf I found on the wrong side of the fence one morning in August. The cloudscape behind her was so gorgeous that I couldn't resist taking a picture. And this is a stunning photo.
Anonymous that is big sky right there.
Yeah.
How cool. So from the kitchen table days. Thanks. Thank you. Anonymous and sorry. Uh, I mean, sucks.
Yeah.
America first was a load of shit and we knew it was. Uh-huh. I mean, how did we think using a KKK slogan was going to turn out?
Yeah, no kidding.
Oh, I'm so sorry you're going through it. All right. Next up, from Carol in Silver Spring. I'm sharing my good memories of sweet Minette. She appeared mewing on my deck years ago. She was young and had recently nursed. I was sure she was lost, but no. Apparently they kept the kittens and abandoned her. She was loving and funny. There were workmen in the house and she was hiding when this was taken. I look at it every Halloween. Halloween, AG and dg. You're both amazing. When I hear you share your fears and empathy in these difficult times, I don't feel alone. But when you share the humor. Oh my. Thank you. Thanks, Carol. Look at this sweet baby with the laser eyes. Some cats have red glowy eyes. Some cats have green glowy eyes. This one has green. Fantastic.
Is that like.
Mhm. Like my flame.
Uh.
Point. White cat has the red glowy eyes.
Well, she's a flame. Point. She should. If she's a flashpoint, then she would.
Have green glowy eyes. Flaming grant.
That'S very funny.
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Yeah.
Given that, uh, corporate media is owned by like four douchebags, billionaires, you know, uh, kind of doing whatever Trump wants, like cnn.
Yeah.
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