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Um, MSW Media Media. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Friday, May 30, 2025. Today, the International Trade Court paused Trump's tariffs, but the Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily stopped the pause. Paramount has offered $15 million to settle its CBS lawsuit over the Kamala Harris interview, but Trump wants more. The White House health report included fake citations. A federal judge has extended the block on Trump's bid to block international students from Harvard. The US Says it will start revoking visas for Chinese students. Trump's Air Force One deal with Qatar is long from being finalized. Trump has clawed back about $700 million from health and Human Services that was planned to develop a bird flu vaccine. And the man who threatened Democratic election officials in Colorado has been sentenced to three years in prison. I'm your host, Alison Gill. Hey, everybody. Happy Friday. We are on a countdown clock to Dana's return. I'm so very excited. Yeah. Thank you so much for hanging out with me this week. Today, I'll be joined by John Fugelsang for Fuglesang Fridays on the Daily Beans. Also, we got a ton of patrons buying one year subscriptions for strangers. So if you want to be the recipient of one of those gifts, head to DailyBeansPod.com and click on Patrons Helping Patrons. It's right there on the front page. And if you want to sign up to be a sustaining member and get all the perks, you can head to patreon.com mullershirote thank you so much. Also, we are on the countdown to the June 14th no Kings rally. I'll be hosting one here in San Diego along with Indivisible 50 51, Women's March SD and all sorts of other wonderful Democratic clubs down at the waterfront, the county administration building. So come and join us. And then we talk for a couple minutes and then we march, right? We march for about a little over a mile through downtown San Diego. I'm, um, looking forward to it very much, Lee. All right, we have a lot of news to get to today. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, let me see if I can break down what's happening with tariffs. Besides taco, right? Besides, uh, Trump always chickening out, which is, by the way, made me want tacos all week. I might have some tacos tonight. I'm not a lawyer, so if I get any of this wrong, please let me know. But I've read through the rulings and this is, you know, talk to some experts. This is what I've come up with. There's two cases, one filed by a bunch of state attorneys general in the Court of international trade, the SIT, the CIT, and there's one filed by four small businesses in the D.C. district Court. Now, in both cases, the judges blocked Trump's tariffs. Now, in the one brought by the state attorneys general in the Court of International Trade, a law professor at UMich named Julian Davis Mortensen explains that there's two types of tariffs at issue. The balance of trade tariffs. Those are the sweeping tariffs Trump slapped on basically everyone, including penguins, and the cartel tariffs, the ones against Mexico, Canada, and China for failure to stop fentanyl from coming into the United States. The International Trade Court says neither is authorized by the ieepa. That's the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. That is what Trump is relying on to be able to issue these sweeping tariffs. Now, it's a pretty broad statute, but the judges here in both cases don't like the fact that they broadly applied it. They didn't, you know, get into the nitty gritty of how it is applied. So in the one brought by the state attorneys general, the sit, the. The Court of International Trade blocked the tariffs. In the other case, this the case that's being brought by the four small businesses in the D.C. circuit, I thought surely the Trade Court is the proper venue, because I don't know anything about trade law and not the D.C. district Court. But Obama appointee Judge Rudolph Contreras says that because the IEEPA doesn't even talk about tariffs, and because Trump is trying to use the IEEPA to justify his tariffs, he actually has jurisdiction. He notes that the IEEPA doesn't even include the word tariff. And it's more for when the President needs to regulate or control imports and exports. And regulating does not equal taxing. There are tons of other laws controlling taxes, and the IEEPA is not one of them. So he issued a preliminary injunction blocking blocking the tariffs as unconstitutional because only Congress gets to approve tariffs. And since he has jurisdiction and he thinks the plaintiffs have a good chance on the merits and there's public interest, he granted the preliminary injunction blocking the tariffs. Now, the government. Trump appealed this to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. The Federal Circuit is different than the other circuits, like the Fifth Circuit or the Ninth Circuit or the D.C. circuit. This is the Federal Circuit, uh, and it handles cases from the Trade Court and other federal stuff like patents. Uh, there's like, 13 different things they handle. They consolidated both of these tariff cases together into one for the purposes of this stay, uh, up for the purposes of this appeal, I should say. And they put a seven day temporary stay on these rulings by the Court of International trade and the D.C. district Court temporarily reinstating Trump's tariffs while they figure out what to do pending appeal. Now, the appeals court gave the plaintiffs, a group that includes state attorneys general and a handful of domestic businesses, one week to respond to the administration's bid for a stay pending appeal. The US will be able to reply to that response by June 9th. Now, again, I'm not a lawyer, so if I got any of that wrong, if we have any international trade court or tariff lawyers or judges or experts that listen to the beans, please let me know. All right. Next up, more court news from Politico. A federal judge on Thursday extended her block on the Trump administration's bid to prevent Harvard University from enrolling foreign students. This is U.S. district Judge Allison Burrows. She announced her plan during a court hearing shortly after the administration revealed that it was actually going to give the university a 30 day reprieve before canceling its authority to admit students from abroad. That reprieve does not eliminate the need for a court order barring the administration from taking action against Harvard. That's what Judge Burrows said, quote, I know you don't think an order is necessary, but I do think an order is necessary. That's what the judge told a government lawyer. I don't think it needs to be draconian, but I want to make sure that nothing changes. The hearing took place in Burrow's Boston courtroom as Harvard's annual commencement ceremonies were underway just a few miles away in Cambridge's Harvard yard. The case is the most prominent battle in a broader effort by the Trump administration to crack down on international students. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. plans to, quote, aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students at American universities. But the administration has singled out Harvard, threatening to cancel its federal funding and eliminate its entire foreign student population, which makes up about 27% of the student body. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem notified Harvard last week that the administration was canceling the school's certification in the Student and Exchange Visitor program, which is what allows institutions to enroll foreign students. In a May 22 letter to the university, Noem said the cancellation was effective immediately. The next day, Burrows issued an emergency order, temporary restraining order blocking that move and scheduled the hearing for today, Thursday to consider further arguments. Shortly before that hearing, like I said, the administration filed a letter with the court revealing that it's no longer trying to immediately impose the cancellation. Instead, the administration said we'll wait 30 days and give Harvard a chance to submit evidence to contest the cancellation. So Taco Taco Trump always chickens out. But Burroughs, the judge and Obama appointee, said during the hearing that that letter saying we'll give you 30 days was not enough to give her confidence that the administration wouldn't take other steps in the meantime, such as holding up visas for Harvard students. So Judge Burroughs indefinitely extended her temporary restraining order while the lawyers for both sides negotiate over a potential injunction that would preserve the status quo while the case moves forward. All right, next up from the Associated Press, a judge sentenced a man who blamed exposure to far right extremist content for causing his online threats to kill Democratic election officials in Colorado and Arizona. He's been sentenced to three years in prison, and that was on Thursday, saying the penalty for such keyboard terrorism needs to be serious enough to deter others from doing the same. This is U.S. district Judge Cato Cruz, who said the threats against election and other government officials are on the rise and people need to remember that differences need to be worked out through the democratic process and not violence. Quote, the public must not accept this as the norm, he said in handing down the sentence for Tei Brockbank. Brockbank pled guilty in October to making threats between September 2021 and August 2022 against Colorado Secretary of State Jenna Griswold, who's been on our show, and former Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who's governor. He also threatened a Colorado judge and federal agents. So three years in prison for you. Next up from the Wall Street Journal. A month into negotiations between Paramount Global and Trump to settle his lawsuit against cbs, the parties remain far apart on the terms Paramount Global in recent days has offered $15 million to settle. According to people familiar Trump's team wants more than 25 million and is also seeking an apology from CBS. Trump's team has threatened another lawsuit against CBS related to alleged bias of its news coverage. Wednesday is the deadline for Trump to respond to Paramount's motion to dismiss the lawsuit. Trump's lawsuit against Paramount, CBS News, alleges the network deceitfully edited a 60 Minutes interview with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris to make her sound better and seeks $20 billion in damages. 20 billion. CBS has said the broadcast was not doctored or deceitful. The parties have discussed a tentative mediation session set for yesterday. Thursday. And in other news from Reuters, the Trump administration has canceled a contract awarded to Moderna Moderna for a development of its bird flu vaccine for humans as well as the right to purchase shots. That's what the drug maker announced on Wednesday. Shares of Moderna were flat after the market closed. Now Moderna in January was awarded about 600 million by the Biden administration to advance the development of its bird flu vaccine and support the expansion of clinical studies for up to five additional subtypes of pandemic influenza. This was in addition to 175 million awarded by the U.S. department of Health and Human Services last year to complete the late stage development and testing of a pre pandemic MRNA M based vaccine against H5N1 avian flu. HHS told Reuters earlier this year it was reviewing agreements made by the Biden administration for vaccine production. Quote the cancellation means that the government is discarding what could be one of the most effective and rapid tools to combat an avian flu outbreak. That is what Amesh Ajala said, a senior scholar at Johns Hopkins center for Health, adding that it is the opposite approach Trump took with Operation Warp speed to combat COVID 19. They are going to kill us all, all right. In a related story from the Times, the Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as clear evidence based foundation for action on a range of children's health issues. But the report from the presidential Make America Healthy Again Commission cited studies that do not exist. These included fictitious studies on direct to consumer drug advertising, mental illness and medications prescribed for children with asthma. It makes me concerned about the rigor of the report if these really basic citation practices aren't being followed. That's Catherine Keys, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, who was listed as the author of a paper on mental health and substance use among adolescents. Dr. Keys has not written any paper by the title of the report cited, nor does one seem to exist by the author by any author. The news outlet notice first reported the presence of false citations, and the New York Times identified additional faulty references. By mid afternoon Thursday, the White House had uploaded a new copy of the report with corrections. Asked at a news conference on Thursday whether the report had relied on artificial intelligence, the White House press secretary, Caroline Leave it Levitt, whatever deferred to the Department of Health and Human Services. So yeah, probably. And from the post despite claims by the Defense Department to the contrary, legal teams representing the US And Qatari governments have not finalized an agreement for transferring the luxury Boeing 7478 jetliner that Trump wants for Air Force One amid outstanding requests by Qatar for Washington to clarify the transaction's terms. That's according to officials familiar. Qatar is insisting that a memorandum of understanding between Washington and Doha specify that the aircraft's transfer was initiated by the Trump administration and that Qatar is not responsible for any future transfers of the plane's ownership. The delay reflects lingering concerns about legal liability stemming from the White House's maneuver to transform what was originally a sale between two countries into a gift that Trump continues to tout as a major deliverable from his recent trip to the Middle East. Trump initially said it was Qatar that reached out to him and offered him the luxury jet free of charge, probably with tears in their eyes. In fact, it was the Trump administration that first approached Qatar this winter about acquiring the plane through a sale after the president made clear to aides that he was upset about delays of two Boeing jets purchased during his first term for $3.9 billion. Discussion about the sale later evolved into Qatar agreeing to provide the plane as a gift, a development reported previously by CNN and the new Just pathetic. Just pathetic. All right everybody, it's time for some good trouble. What are you guys doing getting into trouble by getting into trouble. All right, your missions, should you choose to accept it. Avelo Airlines is one of the companies that has a government contract with ICE to help them with their usually illegal mass deportations. Avelo is also a commercial airline, but they're so embarrassed by the work that they're doing for Trump's Gestapo that that they've painted over the logos on their planes so you don't know that it's them. Kind of like ICE agents wearing masks. Now in the show notes, I've included an email address and a customer service phone number for Avelo so you can let them know how you feel about their brand being associated with this wickedness. If you do speak to a customer service representative, please remember that they are just there doing their jobs. They are not the CEO. Please be kind to them. I don't think the CEO is fielding calls. At least their number 346616, 9500 or you can email them@media inquiriesaveloair.com both of those will be in the show notes. Thanks so much everybody. Stick around. We'll be right back with John Fugelsang after these messages. We'll be right back.
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Hey everybody, welcome back. It's Friday on the Daily Beans, which means it's Fugal Sang Fridays. That's right. Joining me is the host of tell Me Everything on Sirius XM progress channel 127 weeknights, 9pm Eastern, 6 Pacific. If you don't have that, you can always check out the very free and very awesome always available John Fugelsang show podcast welcome, my friend, John Fugal saying, hey, John.
Thank you, Dr. Gill. I should tell your, uh, your attractive listeners I have also succumbed and have begun a substack. Uh, I am now a substackable person. I am resisting the urge to call it the Fugal Stack. But, uh, yes, I am now. I am now doing that as well.
Why not do what I plan on doing and just call it the Joe Rogan of the left?
That's what I should do. Well, that's on my business card, so it's a little awkward already. The Joe Rogan of the left. What does that even mean? That's like saying, like, the moral Fox News. Like, there. No, there. You don't have that. There is no joke. Uh, I'm the uninformed guy who's into mixed martial arts and has no idea what I'm talking about on policy. Of the left. Yeah, no, of the left.
Yeah, exactly. Although I did talk to Wajaha Ali and, uh, Bob Seska. We're thinking of starting a podcast called the Joe Rogan of the Left.
Now, that would be hilarious.
And it's just like, bro, bro. And then, like, some facts, and then dude. And then more facts. That's, like, all I can think of. I don't know.
You know, I was. I was crushed to hear that they're saying that Rogan apparently is going to church now. That he's apparently becoming, like, a religious person now, which tells me there's a me too story going to come out, and I'm really sad to hear it. I hope it's not true.
Yeah, well, you gotta play the role if you want to make the dough.
Oh, my God. Russell Brand University.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. All right, so let's talk a little bit about everything that's happened this week. We've had a ton. And, you know, Trump is really good at losing a court. Uh.
Oh, yes.
But he's done that quite a bit this week. Let's talk about Harvard. I mean, first of all, within hours of Donald Trump trying to stop international students from coming to Harvard, there was a restraining order slapped on him.
Yes.
For that. And, uh, trying to stop all international student visas, uh, from happening. And then he wants to stop all Chinese student visas from happening. Just, uh, blatant fascism trying to stop, you know, our centers of free thought and free speech, our universities. I mean, it's an old dictatorial playbook.
Yeah. I think we need to get away from this little, uh, liberal social media trap of saying he's doing this because his son Baron was rejected by Harvard. Can we. Can we stop saying that?
Friends, that's just fun. But.
It's fun. But do you think he'd care? You think he'd even know if his son was rejected? Do you think he knows his son's birthday? Do you think he could tell you his son's birthday if you ask him? He doesn't care about Baron and Har. What he hates is the smart people and the liberal people and the Hollywood people because they never fell for his bs. That's what he hates. He hates anyone he can't con. This is a guy who spends his time surrounded by people he pays to laugh at his jokes and call him brilliant. It's like Johnny Depp, but with a horrible Adderall, uh, problem. And, uh, women that he pays as well to find, uh, him attractive. So he's going after Harvard. Harvard has been there since the 1600s. This will be the tiniest blip on Harvard's timeline. And the actions of some faculty now are gonna get them tenure and awards for the rest of our lives. We're gonna have to hear about these insufferable stories about how Harvard stood up to Trump, but good for them, because he's pretty much messaging to intelligent people around the world that they might wanna avoid us. You don't wanna study here. You don't wanna come here. You don't wanna live here. You really don't wanna come spend your tourist dollars here. And he's telling Harvard no more foreign students because I guess we have to keep the Ivy League for the trul. Uh, white nationalists and people who think DEI stands for don't educate immigrants. This is the whole pattern, right? One, Trump announces dumb thing that hurts people. Two, Trump publicly totally caves on dumb thing. Three, most of world laughs at Trump. Four, Trump declares victory. And five, American white men who can't spell your praise. Trump's genius. That's it. That's the tariffs. That's all of it. I mean, Fox News is an IV drip for denial to make you think that this is all going well for him.
And let's, let's talk about the tariffs because Wall street has, uh, figured out the game that you and I and everybody else figured out a long time ago. But the reason we don't see the stock market tanking and kind of riding these waves is because they've come up with a way to trade called taco.
That's it.
Which is Trump always chickens out. Um, which is true as far as the tariffs go. And, and he was asked about this during a press conference. Got very mad. Janine Pirro was standing right behind him, smirking the whole time, trying to figure out what wine goes best with tacos. But here he was. Dude, that's a nasty question. You're nasty. Uh, I'm a tough guy. I don't chicken out. But they've got him pegged. Probably a lot of people who went to Harvard.
Yeah, I mean, look, uh, the financial world has caught on to what you've known for years, Dr. Gill. This guy talks tough, but when it's time to actually walk the walk, he scurries back to his safe place. Like Ayn Rand scurrying back to her house after going to the mailbox for her Social Security check. I mean, these vultures on Wall street are literally building an entire trade around the concept that Trump will always fold. Imagine these guys. Imagine these guys in their thousand dollar suits and their $20 lattes, and, oh, look at him again. There goes the big guy. He's gonna threaten tariffs. Watch, watch. And there he goes backing off again like a spineless jellyfish in a warm current. I mean, uh, Wall street is now making money off of this man's inability to. To commit. And it's. And the Sad thing is, Dr. Gill, Wall street sees him more clearly than his own supporters do. The guys at Goldman Sachs are making cash from his toddler level of impulse control from his cowardice. Yeah, if you're a Trump supporter still buying this line. If he's a tough negotiator. I hate to tell you, but other world leaders and America's traders have already figured out that, uh, the emperor's clothes are made of wet tissue paper. There's nothing there.
What are you, yellow? No, I'm orange. Thank you.
Oh. It's just. He's like. He's like a little Chihuahua yapping at a Great Dane. You know what I mean? Like, that's his negotiating style. He's gonna scream at people until they stop listening. That's his whole. He's a human rubber chicken, and only guys who can't spell your are taking him seriously when he leaves office, Dr. Gill, he will have, in this one term, added more to the deficit than any president in history. We need to start saying that.
Well, uh, yeah. Uh, we're just about to see the biggest transfer of wealth in the history of the world.
Not if Rand Paul saves us. The whole gate depends on Rand Paul.
Oh, God. Uh, yeah, when I'm agreeing with Josh Hawley and Rand Paul and Harvard. It's a weird day. It's a really weird Day. But, you know, talking about tariffs, the International Trade Court has, uh, ruled that his tariffs violate the IEEA or some. I can't remember the name of the law. But, uh, have ruled that his tariffs are illegal because Congress didn't approve them. You know something I don't know? The founders threw tea in the harbor about, um. Exactly. Tariffs, taxation without representation, that. That sort of thing. You can't just come in like the tax man and Popeye and start charging people money for. To. To trade. So that, and a Federal Court in D.C. also said that the tariffs were illegal. I'm not sure how much jurisdiction they have. I've asked because I think these have to go through the International Trade Court. But very, very interesting. Another major court loss and embarrassing for him and probably sad for Wall street, who's like, but we were making so much money off Taco.
Well, I mean, this is the US Court of International Trade, and Trump's been going around saying, no, no, we need the tariffs. National emergency. National emergency. National emergency. I mean, someone's gotta talk about his cognitive decline. Uh, just looking at you, Tapper. But again, apparently, the court didn't buy it, because a trade deficit is not a national emergency. This was like the national version of just realizing you spent too much time at Target, you spent too much money at Target. You know, it's like, it's not a crisis. It's just bad planning on your part. And this is no protection of American workers. I mean, they're out here saying it's the foreigners who decimated the American workforce.
And the cartels, right? And, uh, they're like, unless it has to do with actual, you know, tariffs on, like, items that have to do with the drug trade. Uh, you also can't do that. And also, I can't blame the outside, but Wonder if allowing 17 Sinaloa cartel members to come and live in the United States undercuts his argument that there's a fentanyl emergency at the southern border.
I'm sure he was responsibly bribed, uh, for that. Allison, come on, now. Um, I know. Do you love the people who don't give a damn about gun violence, killing people, suddenly caring a lot about fentanyl killing people? My God, these people's empathy is dictated to them. Like, Sean Hannity feeds it like a baby bird. But I love this whole. And it's, again, it's the corporate outsourcing that decimated American workers. It's this fetish for cheap labor overseas. It's not immigrants. But I just love this because at the end of the day, what this whole story was about was the court of International trade saying, buddy, you're the illegal. And let's not forget, we gotta start calling these people filthy lawless illegals. When you're disobeying a, uh, nine nothing Supreme Court ruling, bro, you are the illegal. When you are kidnapping people and renditioning or trafficking them out of the country and pretending it's legal because you call it a deportation, bro, you're the filthy illegal.
Yeah, no, Agreed. And now we're going to segue from tariffs and how that is basically a shakedown to get people to give him planes and property deals and stuff wherever they are, to another shakedown. He had that huge meme coin dinner. 150 million, excuse me, $148 million meme coin dinner. And you had a couple of kids. One kid was dropped off by his dad in a Lamborghini and was like, the steak was lame. There was just water and Trump wine. And I don't drink, so they only filled my water once. It was Walmart steak, but at least you didn't get cold hamburgers, uh, like everybody else who visits the White House. Uh, but, uh, that Meme Coin dinner is just blatant corruption. Pay to play.
Well, I mean, just imagine the degenerates who would go to this thing. I mean, just think about it for a second. The degenerate specimens of humanity who would go to the Trump Meme Coin dinner. I mean, I mean, like, we thought Watergate was bad. We thought Teapot Dome was a scandal. Like, this guy has turned the entire presidency into a QVC infomercial. It is literally a Meme Coin Ponzi scheme. And he's offering, he's selling Willy Wonka golden ticket dinners to whoever buys the most imaginary stuff.
Alison.
Ah. Can you imagine if Joe Biden did this? I mean, listeners, all you very attractive people who listen to the show.
He was old.
No, uh, no, no. Daily beans people. I know. Close your eyes and just imagine Hunter Biden launching Joe Coin. Just think of that. Just imagine. Think about Joe Biden on inauguration day saying, folks, invest in my JPEG coins and maybe you'll get to have Salisbury steak with me and Jill at the Olive Garden. Imagine if they tried anything remotely like this. The entire right wing ecosystem would have spontaneously combusted. Jesse Waters would have collapsed. Laura Ingraham would shave her head on air. Brett Baer would be begging Sean Hannity to hold him. But this guy does it. And you know that rascal. I mean, this is, this is what he does. This is the Trump University of government. Everything is a brand extension. And the White House is really. It's just an ugly hotel lobby annex for this guy. I, uh, mean, he could open a PayPal for pardons, and they would call it entrepreneurship. So this is where we're at. And it's not just grift adjacent. It is a grift powered by the presidency. Last time, he was just riding the presidency for the grift. Now that's the battery. He's bottling the swamp. He's putting a gold label on it. And the Democrats who win, Alison, the Democrats who raise the most money in the next year and a half, I think, are going to be the ones who say, you know what? January 2027, the Constitution's back. It's not going to be the rule of Trump. We're going back to the rule of law. The Democrats who start putting members of this cabinet on notice will be. And they don't need to scream. They don't need to raise their voices. They can rask in their way through it. But those are the candidates that are going to get the fundraising and get the enthusiasm. While Gavin Newsom is pitching his new reality show, Dancing With Fascists, where he does a great pas de deux with Stephen Miller. It's beautiful.
Well, just so you know, this is breaking now. The International Trade Court of Appeals has paused what the International Trade Court did so the tariffs can go back on. Great.
Who's, uh, ready for their $3,000 iPhone by Christmas?
Who's ready?
He's. The $3,000 iPhone by Christmas is literally what they're fighting for. And if the Democrats can't sell that, then I got nothing. I got nothing.
Yeah. Uh, whoever's going to bring back the Constitution of the rule of law and whoever's going to tax the rich. I mean, that's the. The chant that I hear most often, especially at Republican town halls.
And if I can go even further than that, it's time to stop talking about the 1% and start talking about the 0.1% or the 0.01%. We. We can handle decimals at this point in the movie. Uh, but again, there's just. I can't get down because there's so many good people fighting back. NPR is suing this guy for his war on public radio. And literate people. Harvard suing him for the lost contracts theme is ignoring North Carolina. And I just want to say, uh, you see King Charles standing up for Canada's independence while this guy's through it has taken my entire life, Alison. But somebody finally made Prince Charles actually look like royalty. He actually looks like a king compared to Donald. I didn't think it could happen.
That has that had to really, uh, send some catch up launches seeing him in a throne with a crown. You know, uh, he's going to have his military parade. We're all going to be protesting on that same day, by the way.
The same day the Pope is saying mass in downtown Chicago. The Pope is going to take so many headlines away from Man Baby's Caligula parade.
Good.
Which is going to be a disaster anyway. It's going to be a disaster for him. The whole world knows it's for his ego. History will recognize it was all for the fat princeling's ego. And it's not going to end well for him.
Yeah, I agree. All right, my friend, thank you so much for spending some time with us here on on the Daily Beans.
Thank you for keeping me sane all week long with this podcast. My God, how do you do it, woman?
If you need, if you need more John, uh, Fugal saying in your veins like we all do, you can check out Tell me everything on SiriusXM progress channel 127. It's weeknights at 9pm Eastern, 6 Pacific. And of course you can put the John Fugal saying show podcast in your ears for free.
The Fugal stack too, which I'm not calling my substack. I'm not calling it that, I promise.
I don't know, I like the Fugal stack, but Serge John Fugal saying a name will happen. The substack name distribution system is always at work. So we appreciate you and we appreciate your time, my friend.
Thank you so much.
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First up anonymous fed Worker thank you for your service. I enjoyed a very presidential lunch today. Chicken tacos from the taco truck at work. POD Pet Tariff Kittens took over the dog beds. Oh my God look at that sweet baby orange ginger boy and the slunky long baby in the other bed. So cute. And the dogs are sitting there like where the hell are we supposed to sleep? I love it. Thank you Anonymous Fed Worker and thank you for all the work that you do. I'm sorry you're taking such a shitstorm from this stupid administration. It makes me angry. Next up, Meg B. Pronoun. She and her hello AG and DG. When I saw AG's pic of her Siamese I was so excited. I've had many cats throughout my life that hold a special place in my heart, but none will ever compare to my Casper AKA Booger Butt. He was sweet, ornery and made me laugh all the time. First thing to know about Siamese cats? They are vocal. When I moved out without him for a few months he would walk around quote unquote bitching at uh, my parents house. Also, they're almost dog like in their desire to be part of the action. Many cats run and hide when company comes. There wasn't a party Casper didn't want to be a part of or any workman that came into my house that he didn't supervise. I also learned that if your Siamese is cross eyed they're considered more valuable. So that put an end to my family joking about his special feature. Finally, on a serious note, the breed is prone to cardiomyopathy enlargement of the heart. I didn't know this until Casper threw a clot, had to be rushed to the emergency vet in 2017. He luckily regained the use of his front leg with meds, lived a good life for 10 more months and crossed the rainbow bridge in March of 2018. And I miss him every day I just want to give you this heads up to maybe see a veterinary cardiologist to make sure you're maintaining your guys health. Thank you for that. It was worth every penny and it was a lot of pennies to give us that extra time. Here are my pics of my handsome boy. He definitely had a man cat face. Also a hawk that landed on one of the posts on my deck. I was doing dishes and managed to be there just at the right moment. Thanks for all you do. Can't wait to hear your updates on your new baby. Oh you have a flame point. I had one like this. Uh, I named him Dipstick. I guess I have had a Siamese because he looked because he was all white but he had an orange tail. He looked like a dipstick and he was kind of goofy. Uh, thank you. Oh and your hawk, is that a red shouldered hawk? I have one of those in my backyard the other day. Thank you for that submission. Next up from Adelita C. Pronoun. She and her hello from a deep red county in Colorado. Trying to gain some local control. I want to share some good news amongst the shit. My good friend decided to run for our local metro district board. The current incumbent has been there 20 plus years. We don't have term limits eye roll. And with a huge grassroots effort, knocking on doors, talking to neighbors, dropping literature, my friend won and by a lot. She unseated a 20 plus year Republican incumbent in a very long standing red county. And oh the joy we are feeling. I also ran for my kids school board because why not? And I won. Adelita, this is incredible. For my pick tax I include a picture of me giving two big fucking middle fingers to the stupidest tower in Chicago. Later that night two girlfriends, my husband and I danced our asses off at the Beyonce Cowboy Carter show. Keep up the good fight. It really does make a difference fighting at the local level. Thanks for all you do. You are a bright light in these dark times. Adelita. Thank you so much. Great bird watching photo by the way. M Next up from Gwen. Hello ladies and team. My good news is actually a lack of bad news. I recently had a very successful free trip with my dad to Phoenix and the Grand Canyon. The good news is that my dad and his current wife managed to avoid bringing up anything religious or political in my presence. See, he doesn't know that we know that he was cheating with this woman and that he left my mom for her. Almost 20 years now. He thinks he's gotten away with it while bringing up other people's. Adultery and moral shortcomings in snide tones. I've always been afraid that they would say something that would trigger me and I'd be honest all over them. This trip, I decided not to be afraid of them doing that and be prepared to speak the truth and get an Uber to the airport and leave if I had to. So I guess that's double good news in that I was ready to deal with it if they did and that they didn't. While in Phoenix, I was not able to get a picture of me flipping off the Tesla dealership because the sun was getting directly behind it and the picture was a black rectangle against a red sky. Instead, I'll include a picture of Primus's drum kit. Oh, from the Sailing of the Seas of Cheese era. Gwen I love that album so much. Tommy the Cat is my name and I say unto the E. Uh, Tommy the Cat was played on this kit. This picture was taken on a fun day at the Musical Instrument Museum, uh, which is a must for any of your listeners if you happen to find yourself in Phoenix. This is so true for bird watching. I'm not clever enough to figure out how to attach a sound clip, so let me just recommend that you go to the Cornell Ornithology Labs website and play the sound of a brown headed nuthatch. This is an eastern bird that I would like to introduce to you Western ladies too. When you play the sound, I defy you not to giggle and people of a certain age might be tempted to scream, oh my God, it's dip. That's, uh, who Framed Roger Rabbit reference for your younger listeners. The Dip. These are teeny tiny little things, not much bigger than a walnut. All my pics of them are on my old cameras, so. So the photo is one I grabbed from Cornell's site, credited to Barry Rowan. We, uh, have an allaboutbirds.org a link for you in the show notes. And look at that drum kit. Tommy the Cat is my name. Say baby, do you want to lay down with me? Say baby, do you want to lay down by my side? Baby, do you want to lay down with me? Say baby. Say baby. All right, so I'm going to listen to this bird. Sorry, I have a Primus obsession. He's so tiny and small. I can't wait to hear it. And listen for the Roger Rabbit reference. All right, next up from anonymous pronoun she and her oh Siamese, love your podcast. Much needed sanity in chaotic times. I was so happy to see that you've adopted A beautiful Siamese. I don't have any, uh, advice, except summon all your patients. I'm sharing pics of my adored, completely bonkers, completely unforgettable Siamese. Piewhack it. Oh, that's interesting. Piwack. It's. That's. I know. I know where that comes from. He provided 16 years of late night serenades as he wandered the house, singing the song of his people stealing my clothes and hiding them so well. Some I didn't find until we sold the house. Escaping multiple times, convincing neighbors he was dying by screaming in their windows. But most importantly, 16 years of obsessive love. I miss him immensely. We've moved to Italy. Now I feed a feral colony of cats that came with our house, one of which is a big, beautiful Siamese. He makes me feel that PI is watching over all of us. All the best with your kitty. Oh, look at the beautiful baby. Oh, thank you so much for sending that in. Sounds like a pretty exceptional cat. 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