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This President's Day, John gives listeners a look at presidents of the past, discusses a conversation regarding free speech in WWII Germany between Margret Brennan and Marco Rubio, and a new sentencing method for shop lifters.

This President's Day, learn how Abraham Lincoln turned every challenge into an opportunity to grow. From personal loss to political failure, each setback made him wiser, tougher, and more empathetic leader.

This President's Day, we look at how U.S. presidents have built ties with the Vatican, from Reagan and Pope John Paul II to Trump and Pope Francis. Despite tensions, their connections highlight religious freedom, with Trump creating a commission to combat anti-Christian bias. Faith shapes U.S. policy worldwide.

This President has overstepped his constitutional boundaries. In this episode, I cover how Joe Biden is looking more like a dictator, rather than a president. The Presidency, I'm Against It Judge calls out blatant double standard when it comes to Biden's Justice Department and Hunter Avian Flu and the Experts Who Cried Wolf Biden Admits Plagiarism in School But Says It Was Not 'Malevolent' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Truman, Reagan, Carter, Clinton Bush & trump briefings on alien presence. Check out my other recent podcast on Roswell - aren't you curious and want to know what really happened? Well guya seems to have some of the best programming on that! Go subscribe it's only 12 bucks a year for best programming in the universe

[00:30] Another Insane Anti-Trump Ruling (29 minutes) The State of New York appears determined to destroy its own economy in order to achieve one goal: “Get Trump.” Just before the weekend, a judge took control of Donald Trump's business empire and put it in the hands of a former Clinton-appointed judge and then fined the company $450 million (including interest). In the case, New York Attorney General Letitia James abused a statute meant to protect defenseless consumers in order to prosecute Trump. James didn't identify any victim of Trump's alleged abuse, and all the banks James claims to be defending said they liked doing business with him. When asked if this sort of political and lawless attack on a company would hurt business in New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul said the quiet part out loud: “This is really an extraordinary, unusual circumstance” reserved just for Donald Trump. [29:15] Finding Lincoln (25 minutes) America hasn't been this divided since the Civil War. This President's Day, look back at the example of Abraham Lincoln and how he helped save America.

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This President's Day, it's important to respect the groundhog. The cure for cancer might be living with wolves. And, I introduce a new hit reality television show concept. Enjoy.New episodes are released every Tuesday. If you want to interact with the show, we have a voice mailbox. Call 818-336-1146 and leave feedback, or just complain, and maybe I'll use it in a future broadcast.https://www.icancomplain.com/the original ICC hoodie : https://icancomplain.bigcartel.com/

This President's Day, Episode 22 of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Eastern Insider Podcast kicks off with a spirited pitch: why Tom deserves early consideration for Father of the Year, recounting his trip to North Carolina for a concert by The Brook & The Bluff. Switching gears to athletics, Greg sits down with freshman golfer Riley Kim, delving into her transition to the college game and her aspirations of turning pro one day. Then, both Greg and Tom chat with EMU Head Men's Golf Coach Bruce Cunningham, reflecting on his 32-year tenure leading the program and offering tips for weekend warriors looking to improve their golf game.

Episode Summary This week on Live Like the World is Dying, we have a short story about prepping called "Blood, Soil, & Frozen TV Dinners" by Matthew Dougal. It's a parody about two right-wing preppers who are faced with a collapse in society. After the story, there's an interview with the author about prepping mentalities and writing. This episode was reposted from the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness podcast. The story can be read at tangledwilderness.org. Host Info Inmn can be found on Instagram @shadowtail.artificery Reader The Reader is Bea Flowers. If you would like to hear Bea narrate other things, or would like to get them to read things for you check them out at https://voicebea.wixsite.com/website Publisher Info This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Theme music The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy Transcript Live Like the World is Dying: “Blood, Soil, & Frozen TV Dinners” with Matthew Dougal **Inmn ** 00:16  Hello, and welcome to Live Like the World is Dying, your podcast for what feels like the end times. I'm your host today, Inmn Neruin, and today we have something a little different. I host another podcast called Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness where every month we take a zine that Strangers puts out and turn it into an audio feature and do an interview with the author. We had a two-part feature called Blood, Soil, and Frozen TV Dinners by Matthew Dougal, and it is a short story about prepping from a very strange perspective, that of two right-wing preppers facing a mysterious collapse of society. This short story is a parody and I promise that the two main pov characters are not the heroes of the tale. It's a fun story and I do an interview with Matthew afterward about prepping mentalities, fiction, and other neat stuff. If you like this episode, check out my other podcast that this is featured from. I did not re-record the outro, so you'll get a little taste of Margaret playing the piano, because she wrote the theme music for the Strangers podcast. You'll also get to hear our wonderful reader, Bea Flowers narrate the story. Follow along with the transcript or at Tangledwilderness.org where you can read all of our featured zines for free. But before all of that, we are a member of the Channel Zero Network of anarchist podcasts and here's a jingle from another show on that network.  [sings a simple melody] **Bea ** 02:49 “Blood, Soil, & Frozen TV Dinners” by Matthew Dougal. Read by Bea Flowers. Published by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness.  Katie sat, wide-eyed, beneath the kitchen table and hugged her knees to her chest. She was shaking, vibrating visibly. Tanner put his finger to his lips and prayed that her silent tears would remain just that. There was no time to stop and calm her down. Not again. He moved slowly around the kitchen, fumbling through cupboards and pulling out pre-wrapped packages of food. Always be prepared. Tanner had practiced this before things went dark, but it was different doing it for real. His hands hadn't been so shaky, back then.  A noise, on the porch. His body froze before his mind registered the sound. Tanner dropped into a crouch and crossed the room to the window, willing every cell in his body to radiate confidence toward his baby girl. His hand found the Glock 17 at his belt and he brought it up in front of him, the familiar feel of the grip reassuring. He took a breath, steadied himself, and raised his eyes to the level of the windowsill. The muscles in his thighs steeled and he remained, unblinking, utterly still, staring out into the darkness.  After thirty or forty nerve-twanging seconds, Tanner drew breath and relaxed. His quads were burning, and they thanked him as he straightened. He could hear the specter of his ex-wife in his head, telling him to lose some weight, exercise more… Well she'd left, and that was 135 pounds gone right there. She'd probably say that was a good start.   An unbearably loud ringing pierced the silence and sent him diving to the floor, landing awkwardly on his gun and sounding a crash through the kitchen. A keening whine came from under the table, Katie shaken from her silence.  The doorbell.  Feeling foolish, Tanner twisted over his shoulder and hissed at his daughter to be quiet. Still prone, he crawled toward the hallway in the most reassuring manner he could manage and pointed his Glock at the front door.  Footsteps outside, then a shadow appeared at the window. Tanner's heart pounded in his ears—more violent pulses of silence than sound—and his vision blurred as panic flooded his body. He'd heard the early reports of armed groups in the streets, some sort of fighting downtown, but he hadn't really believed they would come here. His legs were weak, and he silently thanked God that he was already on the floor. The shape at the window didn't move, frozen in the gloom, silhouetted by flickering light coming from the street. As Tanner's head cleared he tried to take stock of what was happening.  The apparition was vaguely man-shaped but shorter and slighter, an ethereal grace evident even in its stillness. A voice called out, muffled through the door, the guttural singsong completely at odds with the sleek form at the window. Tanner couldn't understand everything, but he thought he caught the words “little girl.” A second shape mounted the porch alongside the first, similarly short but squat and stocky, and grunted something to its companion in an alien tongue. Fluorescent light flooded the yard and the voices momentarily disappeared beneath the growl of an angry engine. Tanner's breath caught. His trembling finger hovered over the trigger and he willed the barrel to still its swaying dance. Two shots exploded outside—loud shots, from a much bigger gun than his. The creatures spun to face this new threat, their chatter rising in pitch and speed. They sounded panicked.  “yalla! hawula' alnaas majnoon.” Tanner sensed his opportunity. He was forgotten. All those hours of training kicked in and muscle memory took over as he rose to one knee, took a two-handed grip, and unleashed a furious hail of fire at his front door.  “Keep your filthy hands off my daughter!” He fired until he felt the Glock stop kicking, the magazine spent. As the cacophony faded he realized he was screaming.  “Tanner! It's me, Blake. Stop shooting goddammit, they're gone.”  “Blake?” Tanner mechanically reloaded his gun. “Why…” His throat was raw, his voice barely audible even to him. He swallowed, fighting to control his breath, and cleared his throat. “What are you doing here?”  “Come to see if you were okay. Figured you and the kid might need a hand.”  A stocky, heavily muscled figure wearing fatigues and a plate carrier stepped up to the porch, visible through the splintered ruins that had been the front door. A halogen glow lanced through the holes, like the brilliant aura of some kind of avenging eagle.  “When this shit spread across the river from the city we locked down. It was touch-and-go for a while, but things quieted down eventually. When they did, I came straight over. Good thing I got here when I did. The quick little fuckers ran for it, but I think you hit one of ‘em.”  The figure stopped, pulled down the red, white and blue bandana covering its mouth, and spat. Tanner had never been more relieved to see his buddy's foul-mouthed face. Or his M1A SOCOM 16 rifle.  “We're alright.” Tanner's voice was exhausted, his body shivering as the adrenaline fled. “Thank God I was prepared. Still, it's good to see you.”  “Prepared, shit.” His buddy grinned. “I been telling you for years to get something heavy duty.” Blake kicked the splintered remains of the door and his grin faded. “You can't stay here. Those things'll be back. Grab your girl and jump in the truck. Let's head to mine, she'll be safe there.” The grin returned.“Prepared, shit.”  An hour later they were sitting in “the Hole,” as Blake affectionately called it. The Hole was both name and description, although it perhaps undersold the amount of effort that had gone into its construction. Attached to the garage by a short, downward-sloping corridor, The Hole was a full-blown bunker that spread underneath almost the entirety of Blake's backyard. Tanner was sitting in the main chamber eating Top Ramen, chicken flavor.  They had made the half-mile journey in silence—lights down on the Tacoma, Tanner jumpy, Blake grim, Katie in a state of shock. The streets had looked completely foreign, the usual calming glow of LEDs replaced by the orange flicker of scattered flames. The familiar hum of traffic had been gone. Instead, gunfire had cracked in the distance.  Blake's wife Lauren had buzzed them inside after Blake confirmed his identity via video feed—three times: at the gate, the door, and the entrance to the Hole. The security was impressive. Lauren had ushered them inside, AR-15 at the ready. “This is prepared,” Blake was saying, as Katie stared blankly at her untouched ramen. “Old owners, they had this backyard full of fruit trees, vegetables, fuckin' kale and kohlrabi. What good is that gonna do, I said, you gonna hide in the pumpkin patch with a slingshot? Idiots.  “Anyhow me and Lauren, we wanted to be ready, so I been building this the last two years. Ain't no one knows about it, not even the contractors…” Blake sliced a finger across his throat, then laughed, “I'm joking, but they were from one of them Mexican countries. Had no idea what they were building. Good workers, though, came here the right way. And I did the security all myself.”  Tanner laughed too, but at what he didn't quite know. “You took this all real serious.”  “Yessir. You never really believed, but we did. Earl Swanson was right, this here's been a long time coming. It's just like he said, and we listened. And here we are, while you was laying on the floor waving round that little waterpistol of yours.”  Tanner had listened too, but apparently not well enough. There was only so much time he could watch an angry man on TV shouting about the state of the nation, no matter how prophetic he was turning out to be. Tanner tried to put up a strong front and flex his knowledge. He had listened, dammit.  “Is this it, then? The invasion? Earl said they've been preparing it for years, brainwashing people. Recruiting sympathizers and traitors…”  “It's worse than that. The invasion started way back, we just didn't notice. Well, most of us didn't. Earl did. He tried to warn us, that the aliens'd started infiltrating, landing in remote parts of the country, blending in, looking just like us…” Blake spat. “Well, not quite like us. But close e-fucking-nough, hiding out and biding their time.” “And now it's out in the open…” Tanner looked from his friend's face to his daughter's, scared and staring, and trailed off. He may have been listening, but he sure as hell didn't understand.  “What's happening?” Tanner asked. “We've been laying low at home, locked down and trying to wait out whatever this is. We haven't heard a thing since the power cut out three days back.”  He could feel a surge of emotion building, pent-up adrenaline and stress and fear and loneliness rolling over him in a wave as they were released. His stoicism wobbled.  “We're… Katie's scared and confused, and tired and sick of hiding and we're all alone! What is all this? What's happening?” Tanner realized he was shouting and stopped, taking a deep breath and lowering his voice. “Blake, man, what the hell is going on?” Blake never flinched, just ran his tongue over his teeth in thought while he watched Tanner's outburst through hooded eyes. “Naw, we don't know nothing for sure. Swanson's been off-air for two days, since just after shit started going down. Said he was right, that it sure as shit seemed like those aliens he'd been warning us about were making a move, and the whole fuckin' lot of us did nothing. Well, seems like it blew up in our face. Last thing he said was he's heading somewhere safe to keep broadcasting, and he'd let us know when he found out more,” Blake paused, sucked his teeth, “We've had the TV and radio on non-stop since then, since we fired the generator up. Nothing.”  Lauren lent forward. “There was something, couple days back…”  “Nothing useful,” Blake cut in. He spat. “Same old fuckin' commie stations, same old crap. They took over the channels, emergency broadcasting. Said there was a ‘protest.' Stay inside, all under control, daddy government's here, blah blah,” he laughed “Hell of a protest. More like an insurrection. Doublespeak bullshit.”  “So what's the plan? We hide out? Lay low? Wait for the military?”  “The troops ain't coming, chief.” Blake grimaced, “Alien tentacles go deep. Probably strolling around in general's stars by now, the politicians just handing over the keys. This President'll have us kissing their feet before dinner.  “Nah, if we wanna fight back we can't rely on that fuckin' bunch of secretaries and scribes. We hole up here, wait for instructions.” He laughed again, “Huh, hole up in the Hole. That's funny.”  That grin was starting to get on Tanner's nerves. “Instructions from who? How long is that gonna take? Who's gonna fight back against… this?” “I know some people, from back in the old days. Good people. There's still patriots out there who won't give up this country without a fight.”   Tanner still bristled with questions, but he was starting to feel relieved. There were people in charge, and they had a plan. That was something he could work with. “What if it takes weeks? Months? Do we have food for that long?” Blake settled further into his chair, grinned that cocky grin. “I do, don't know about you.” Before the words were even out of his mouth he was already raising his palms, “Chill out, I'm joking. I'll put it on your tab. You're a lawyer, I know you're good for it. Show him, babe.”  Lauren got up and went over to a large yellow flag hanging on the concrete wall, pulling it aside to reveal a long, narrow room that ended abruptly at a large steel door. She flicked on the light.  “Dry storage,” she said, gesturing at the shelves lining both walls. Packets of ramen, boxes of cereal, rows of whiskey, and gleaming stacks of cans stared down at Tanner. “And cold storage,” Lauren continued as she stepped over to the door, kicking aside two enormous tubs of supplements and pulling it open to reveal a walk-in freezer. Tanner followed her inside as she happily chatted away, showing everything off like a house-proud hen.  “We've got everything we need. Steaks, hotdogs, chili, hamburgers, mac and cheese, chicken parmesan, mashed potatoes--whatever you want. There's a well, too, over the other side, we had that dug last summer. Tastes a bit funny, but it won't hurt you.” Tanner was hardly listening. He had never seen anything like it, never imagined anything on this scale. Blake really had taken preparing for the end of the world seriously. The freezer room was filled, wall to wall, with a treasure trove of gourmet excess; thousands upon thousands of frozen TV dinners.  Tanner stared at his microwaved salmon filet, fries drooping from his fork. Out of habit he was eating in front of the TV with Katie, though the display hadn't changed in… however many days it had been. Just the red, white and blue logo, a tile flipping between ads for pillows, brain pills, and frozen food, and the same scrolling red banner:  Breaking: The United States of America is under attack. Stand by for updates.  Katie was poking at her food silently, barely eating. Still no appetite. Tanner had told her they were safe, told her he wasn't going to let anyone hurt her, told her a hundred times in different ways that she was his precious little girl and he would make sure she was okay. It had made no difference. She had just looked up at him with big, frightened eyes that pulled at Tanner's heart. The only time she had spoken in the past 24 hours was to ask why he had tried to shoot people. Of course she didn't understand. Maybe he should ask Lauren to talk to her.  The TV display glitched, blipped, flicked to static and then to black. Tanner shoveled the fries into his mouth and rubbed his eyes. He'd been staring at a blank TV for too long. He chewed and stretched, squeezing his eyes shut and trying to straighten out his aching back.  Earl Swanson was on TV. Tanner blinked a few times to make sure he was seeing straight. Swanson's shirt was wrinkled, his hair a mess and his signature bowtie slightly crooked, but his face wore that familiar expression of righteously indignant bewilderment. It was him.  “Blake. Blake, get in here!”  Swanson was in what looked like a large living room rather than his usual studio. Bookshelves and a TV cabinet were visible behind him. There were shadows under his eyes and his wrinkles were clearly visible without his usual TV makeup, but his eyes were as sharp as ever. There was a strength to them, piercing the screen, full of faith and fire. It felt like he was in the room. He looked like he'd been in a fight, and won. He was back.  “Good evening America, and welcome to Earl Swanson Tonight.” “Blake!” Blake stuck his head through the door.  “What? I'm working out, give me a…. No shit.” Blake stepped into the room. He was topless, breathing heavily. His stomach was shiny with sweat, pooling and running down the chiseled channels between his well-defined muscles before disappearing behind the low-riding waistband of his camo pants. Tanner realized he was staring and felt his cheeks flush as he snapped his eyes back to his friend's.  “Blake, it's--” “Shut up, I'm trying to listen.” The rebuke slapped Tanner back to the present and back to the TV. He surreptitiously sat a little straighter and sucked in his gut, trying to ignore the heat rising in his face. “...cities up and down the west coast. From Seattle to San Diego, the alien invaders and the traitors from among our own citizens have taken control, sowing chaos and destruction. Order has broken down, and anarchy rules in the streets. Yet we hear nothing but silence from the White House. The elites in Washington won't do anything about this -- they encouraged it. They caused it! “No, it is up to patriotic Americans to stop this existential threat. It is up to us, to you and me and the other patriots out there. If you value the American way of life, if you respect the principles that built the greatest nation ever imagined, if you care about your family and the future of your children, then the time has come to stand up. Your country needs you.  “I have been warning about this day on this very program for years. If you have been listening, you will be prepared for this betrayal. You know what to do. Find other true Americans who are ready to fight for our civilization and our culture. Defend our Western values against this attack by anarchists and aliens who wish to destroy us. They tried to take our guns from us, to disarm us, and failed -- now is the time to use them. Seek out the prepared, the militias, the heroes. Fight back. Show them that we will not allow it. “I will be moving to an undisclosed safe location so I can keep you informed. You know your job. I am doing my part, will you do yours?” Swanson sat erect and defiant, no less commanding for his disheveled appearance. His willpower flowed from the screen in waves, washing over the watchers. It was compelling. It was urgent. It was the only option.  The screen went black.  Swanson's gaze bored into Tanner long after the TV went dark, burning with righteous fire, lip curling with fury. The heat in Tanner's cheeks sharpened, focused, began to spread into his chest and throughout his body. There was only one thought in his mind. “We gotta go.” It took him a second to realize that Blake had spoken the words out loud.  “We do. But where? I don't know anyone like that.” “You know me, and I know people. Don't worry about that. We gotta go to Baker City. I talked to one of my buddies from the marines this morning, he's headed to join one of the militias out east. They might not be big, but they're hard. They're something.” Tanner looked at Blake blankly, unable to quite comprehend what he was being told. Days of no news, no action, now everything all at once.  “But what's in Baker City? Don't you know anyone here? This is where we live, where we have the Hole, where we have a safe base.”  Blake was clearly agitated, shifting from foot to foot.  “It's not safe. Weren't you listening? It's fallen. The military ain't doing jack, like I fuckin' told you they wouldn't.” Blake stopped bouncing and steadied himself. “But my buddy said the boys in Baker held out. It was bloody, but they held strong. If we can get there in a hurry, we can join a caravan heading for Boise.”  “Baker… Boise? What the… Boise?! Surely it's safer in Texas, or… or…”  “Texas? And how far away is that? Look, I don't know nothing about nothing, but I know I ain't looking for safer. All I know is I got buddies in Baker, and they say Boise, and they are the fuckin' resistance. We got our orders, soldier. “The west had been invaded. Destroyed. Gone. You heard Swanson, same as me. Grids are down, water's down, TV's down--mostly, anyway. Sky's half full of fire and smoke, gangs roaming the streets, traitors and aliens taking or breaking whatever they can get their thieving hands on.” Tears came to Blake's eyes.  “It's a fucking mess out there, buddy. Anarchy. They've burned the lot.” It was a lot to chew on. Tanner put a piece of salmon in his mouth.  “I'm not gonna let some filthy aliens take my home, fuck my wife, invade my country, and steal the god damn US of A! The fight is right there, and I'm gonna fight it. Are you?”  Tanner's brain was spinning, but his blood was still hot from Swanson's speech. Blake's fire, delivered standing there half-naked like a Steven Seagal action figure, was rousing something inside him. His country needed him, and he felt the call in his bones. He put down his fork. He swallowed. He rose.  “Of course I'll fight. I'll put a bullet in every alien who steps foot on American soil. I'll put every collaborator in the dirt.” He saw himself, next to Blake, riding shotgun as they made a fighting escape through the streets. He saw a heroic journey to Baker City, filled with danger and righteous violence. He saw a triumphant return, at the head of an army, cleansing his city with purifying flame. And he saw Katie, small and fragile and beautiful. Perfect, and terrified. The flame wavered.  “But I'm fighting for her,” Tanner gestured, “I got my little girl, and I'm not so red-hot on riding out guns blazing to meet these savages with her hanging off my arm. She's the future of this country, and that's a future we have to protect.”  To Tanner's surprise, Blake took a half step back.  “Shit. I know, man. Katie and Lauren, the innocent and the pure. I'm thinking of them, too.” He dropped his shoulders, but held Tanner's gaze. “But it's not safe for them here neither. We're on our own, and all hell has broken loose up top. We fight for them, and they are the reason we have to fight.” Tanner paused, then nodded. He reached out and placed his hand on his friend's shoulder, fingers gripping the sweaty skin.  “Let's go pack the truck.”  As the sun set and twilight brought a low fog creeping across the city, they piled into the Tacoma with as many frozen dinners as they could carry.  Tanner rode in back. Lauren was up front, AR at the ready, while Blake drove, M1A by his side and his Glock taped to the dash. Katie was at Tanner's side, curled up below the window and hidden from view, and Tanner watched over her with his own Glock and a borrowed Remington 870. They were all a little jumpy. He and Lauren had wanted to maintain a shoot-on-sight policy. Blake had been more cautious. According to Swanson, there would be plenty of people collaborating with the aliens. Lights out, engine low, and hopefully they could slip right on by.  No one knew what to expect—Tanner suspected they were all terrified. He certainly was. Even Blake had swapped out his flag bandana for a more understated camo print. He had stashed the red, white and blue fabric in the bed of the truck with the rest of their gear.     They pulled out into streets Tanner knew, but didn't. He had driven them every day, on the way to work, to Katie's school, to church, to the mall. The streets were as familiar as a cold Coke, yet now, in some important way, they were… different. As they left the Hole and drove through the suburb he couldn't quite put his finger on it, but once Blake reached the main street and turned past the bars and shops and take-out joints, it hit him.  The streets were dead. The cars were gone. The steady flow of traffic, of people living their lives, had stopped. The parking lot in front of the drug store was empty; so was the one behind the bar. The convenience store, normally ticking over with a steady stream of customers buying cigarettes and beer, was dark behind its windows. Unintelligible graffiti in some alien script covered the ads for energy drinks, an expression of mindless violence across someone's hard work.  A light rain had started, misting around them and adding to the dreariness. A billboard loomed overhead, the lights that illuminated the Colgate-bright smiles of the models now permanently dark. Tanner was glad—the gloom obscured the flame-scarred destruction streaking the toothpaste company's perfect white message. “Disgusting,” Blake spat. He looked like he wanted to say more but pulled up short, shocked at the sudden sound of his own voice. His eyes focused back on the road and he fell into uneasy silence. The truck continued its crawl down the deserted street, barely clocking 20 miles an hour. Even at that speed, the low growl of the engine seemed unbearably loud as it reverberated among the carcasses of commerce and ricocheted down abandoned side streets.  They kept driving, and nothing kept happening. It was torturous. Every minute of unbroken inactivity twisted the crank on the tension in the car, until the unceasing hum of the engine began to seep into Tanner's brain. Every muscle in his arms and legs, primed and waiting and ready to spring, began to tremble, and his eyes focused and unfocused on nothing at all.  His frantic heartbeat messed with his breathing, a powerful panicked thud that matched the rumble of the pistons.  Overall, he was relieved when the road curved and they entered a strip of restaurants to see signs of life among the debris littered across the street in the distance.  It wasn't immediately clear through the gloom what was happening. Blake slowed the truck, now rolling along at barely more than walking pace, and they crept closer. The scene was illuminated by the flickering light of small fires and backlit by a pair of enormous floodlights, creating a glowing aura in the surrounding mist. Images began to resolve, ghostly figures flitting in and out of view and the harsh geometric shapes—not of debris, but of hastily manufactured barricades—throwing long shadows that lanced through the air around them as they approached.  All eyes were fixed on the barricades as they pulled within shouting distance, and Tanner nearly pissed himself when someone knocked on his window. He yelped, Blake swore, and Lauren's weapon x-rayed Tanner's head and pointed at the intruder. Tanner followed her lead and jerked his gun up to aim in the general direction of the window and for ten, twenty heartbeats nothing moved. Then another knock, and Blake hissed at them: “Put those things away you idiots, we're the good guys here. Whatever side that guy is on, so are we.”  Tanner slowly lowered the gun, then the window.  “Hey folks, no cars through here.” The man was clad head to toe in black—black jeans, black hoodie, black gloves, black bandana covering his face, black curly hair running with rainwater. No wonder they hadn't seen him. The stranger spotted their guns.  “Oh, nothing like that,” he added, catching the nervous energy in the truck, “You're a bit late to the party. No trouble ‘round here, this area's been cleaned out for days.” He chuckled, sending a shiver through Tanner.  “Some folks messed up the cop shop a while back, it was a bit of a fight. Streets were all blocked up anyway, so we set up a little kitchen here. Been feeding some folks. Symbolic, like, new world in the ruin of the old and all that.” The smile fell from his face as he took in the scene in the truck.  “Everything alright? Is she okay?”  He gestured at Katie, curled up and quivering silently beside Tanner. Tanner opened his mouth to respond, but Blake was quicker. “Sure, probably just spooked by that fucking mask. Look, we don't mean to bother you people. Just heading east, trying to cross the river. We'll go around you and your little kitchen.”  If the man took issue with Blake's tone, it didn't show.  “Bridge is a no-go, I'm afraid. Pigs blew the cables as they pulled out, some of it collapsed. It's way too unstable to cross.” He scratched at his temple. “What d'you want out that way, anyway? There's dangerous people out there, not exactly safe for… families.”  “We're heading for, uh, Hood River,” Tanner spoke up, “Taking supplies out to the girl's grandparents.”  “Indians,” Blake chimed in, “they need the help.” He winked at Tanner.  The stranger turned to Blake and met his eyes, holding his gaze for an unnerving moment. Then he seemed to resolve some internal discussion, relaxing his shoulders. “Well, you might be able to get across up St. Johns, last I heard the bridge was still intact. There's some folks in the park up there, you can ask them.”  “St. Johns? That's the wrong fucking way!”  “A bridge is a bridge. It's that or swim, champ.” “Can you at least call the, uh, your boss? Tell him you checked us out, ask if we can get across?”  The man smiled, but something hardened behind his eyes.  “My boss? Sure, sure. Look, I think it's time you moved on. Head on up there and tell ‘em what you told me, they'll let you out. There's a bunch of poor Indians waiting for their dinner.”  There was something strange about the way the man said “Indians,” but he patted the hood of the truck and turned away, waving them down a side street away from the barricade. As Blake slowly drove off, Tanner collapsed back into his seat and quickly rolled up the window. His underarms were cold with sweat, and he relaxed muscles he hadn't known were clenched.  Blake took the turn the stranger indicated, muttering that if he heard anyone say “folks” again he would hit them. Tanner stared out the window at the “little kitchen” as they passed. There must have been a couple hundred people, milling around a dozen or so small fires. They were all loosely centered around a large tent directly in front of the scorched skeleton of the precinct. Laughter and music drifted through the open window, and Tanner closed it. He didn't think he could see any aliens, but it was difficult to tell in the dark.  “Collaborators. Must be a ration station or something,” he muttered, mostly to himself.  Lauren heard him. “No, this has been going on much longer than that, it just wasn't so out in the open. Swanson warned us about it. He said they lure hungry people in with food.”  “Yeah,” cut in Blake, “this is how they recruit ‘em. Set up a kitchen, give ‘em food, homeless and crackheads and queers, mostly. Drugs too, probably, and spewing their propaganda. That guy was probably one of the junkies. Sure as shit looked like it, you see the way he stared at me?”  Tanner shuddered. A junkie. He had an overwhelming urge to wash his hands. He remembered the way the man had talked about the police station, his manic laugh in the face of such violence, and glanced back at the quickly fading light. And saw a small figure, tottering at the edge of the firelight. A child.  “Disgusting,” he said out loud.  “Yeah, disgusting. It's like Earl said,” Blake continued, “they been feeding people right under our fucking noses.”  They drove on toward the bridge. The streets were more cluttered here, both with people and the remnants of the riots, and they could only manage a slow pace as they picked their way through the destruction. Blake had to swerve to the wrong side of the road to avoid a group of people carrying trash bags, picking through the rubble.  “Looking for something to eat,” he grunted, and locked the doors.  Signs of violence were everywhere. Tanner's chest tightened as they drove past the law firm where he had started his career—the job that had brought him to the city after he finished college, working for his father's best friend and learning his profession. Inside the shattered windows it was nothing but a shell, the desks overturned and the computers gone. No one would be working there any more.  The destruction was completely random. Violence for its own sake. Beside the firm was a pawn shop, covered in graffiti and looted. Next to that, a Vietnamese restaurant, completely unharmed except for ‘Delicious, 5 stars' sprayed on the pavement outside. Across the road was an untouched convenience store and a bookshop with its doors wide open, light flooding out and people crowding the entrance. A donut shop and an Apple store destroyed, a mechanic and a bar looking like they had simply closed for the night. There was absolutely no pattern or reason to it.  They saw a Fred Meyers with every window broken, the front door jammed open with a twisted shopping cart. A movement caught Tanner's eye and he saw someone leaving from a side door, carrying a huge bag of stolen food. He hoped Blake didn't see—he might do something stupid, and Tanner didn't want to stop. It wasn't safe.  They made it a few more blocks when Lauren gasped and grabbed Blake's arm, making him brake. She gestured across the intersection to a KFC. Half the building had collapsed in what must have been an enormous fire; the half that still stood had been savagely attacked. She pointed to the entrance with a shaking finger. Someone—or something—had toppled the giant bucket sign and sent it crashing through the ceiling of the kitchen. Above the door, someone had scrawled a message in red spray paint:  FUCK YOU SANDERS OUR SECRET SPICES NOW There were more barricades set up near the bridge. Where the others had been makeshift, marking a boundary, these were more serious. They were to stop people getting through. Blake slowed before they got too close to the blockade, which they could now see was lined by shapes that very much suggested people. On both sides of the road the land fell away into darkness, sloping down to become a park that ran beneath the bridge.  The park itself, a rare green space normally dotted with dog walkers and children, was transformed. The once-quiet lawns were a mass of tents and makeshift structures, stages and bars and sound systems, the proud trees now decked out with effigies and lights. Fires burned everywhere, and the distant space was carpeted with a swarming mass of humanity, undulating to a throbbing cacophony of noise.  “This doesn't look good,” said Blake. He pulled over, a hundred yards or so short of the bridge.  “That guy said they would let us through,” said Tanner, “if we stick to our story.”  “He was a junkie,” scoffed Lauren.  “But he thought we were working with them,” said Tanner, “he had no reason to lie to us.”  “I guess it's worth a try. Anyway, they ain't gonna try anything against this much firepower.” Blake grunted. “Too late to change our minds now. They've seen us.”  He nodded at the barricade, where two shapes had detached from the mass. They moved toward the Tacoma, and Blake responded by flicking the lights to high beam and heading to meet them. As Blake swung back out into the road the beams cut through the darkness to illuminate the figures, throwing wild shadows from the two shapes until the truck steadied course and they coalesced into recognisable forms. One was a large man, white, with a nose ring and a loosely-tied blond ponytail. He was wearing a plaid shirt and carrying a large rifle. The other—Tanner's throat caught—the other looked like one of the aliens.  “Shit,” said Blake, as the headlights picked out at least half a dozen more shapes along the barricade, several with big guns visible. “Fuck.” He stopped the truck and rolled down the window, then cursed again and threw open the door.  “I'll be fucked if I'm gonna sit here and be pulled over like some criminal. Tanner, you're with me—let's go meet them man to man.” Tanner scrabbled for the door handle and chased after Blake, half-skipping to catch up. They pulled up a few paces before colliding with the approaching party. The blond man stepped forward.  “How's it going, dude?” he said.  “We need to get to Hood River,” said Blake, “we're trying—” “Yeah, we heard.” The man cut him off. “Bridge is closed to traffic, unfortunately. You wanna cross, you'll have to walk.”  Blake bristled. “Are you joking? We need to bring all this stuff. It's… important,” he objected. “You can't just keep people here!”  “We could,” said the blond man, calmly. He sounded confident in his assertion. Looking at the line of men—and women, Tanner realized—standing along the barricade, he agreed.  “But we're not,” the man continued. “You can go wherever you want. Take your shit, cross the bridge. Some folks have organized buses up the river, they'll take you. But the truck stays.”  “But that's my fucking truck!” Blake squealed. The man's eyebrows shot up and Tanner laid a hand on Blake's shoulder, squeezing it and hoping he got the message. The stranger paused, then sighed.  “Look, I'm sorry dude. I love my truck, too. But there was an attack at another camp last night by these so-called freedom fighters,” he grimaced. “Militia wackjobs, really. Word is they are gathering across the river, and we can't risk weapons and vehicles falling into the wrong hands. Especially not an arsenal like you folks got here.”  The alien stepped forward and, much to Tanner's surprise, spoke in perfect American English.  “Don't worry, it'll be here when you get back. We'll take real good care of it for you. They will appreciate the help guarding the buses and I'm sure they'll be more than happy to help you move these… important supplies.”  They signaled to the group at the barricade and two more figures made their way into the light of the truck's high beams. The first was a slim Black man in fatigues, wearing a red beret at a jaunty angle and carrying a AR-style rifle in one hand. The other was a woman, tall and imposing. She wore a leather jacket over a long black dress, which was slit to the thigh to reveal hints of slim, bare legs that stretched from the pavement to the heavens. Tanner blinked rapidly and swallowed. He had always had a soft spot for long legs in thigh-slit dresses.  As they came closer the man nodded at Tanner and Blake, but he was not what held their attention. The woman with the legs from God was also rocking a luxurious mustache that would have put Teddy Roosevelt to shame. As Tanner's eyes bulged, she caught his gaze and winked.  “Hello, boys. I'm Sunshine, they/them. I'll be with you on the bus.”  Tanner didn't know how to react. A fuzzy memory bounced around in the back of his head. “An investigation on college campuses found that increasing numbers of American citizens are using pronouns.” Earl's bewildered face frowned, then puckered. “These ‘theys' and ‘thems' are making a mockery of the American tradition, seeking to spread their insidious ideology among good, hard-working citizens, brainwashing young Americans into adopting these ‘pronouns.' What's next, people identifying a different age? A different race? We need to speak out against this perverse trend and most importantly, keep them away from our children.” _ That was it. These were the pronouns Swanson had warned them about. He gripped his gun and glanced at Blake, trying to get his mental footing.  Blake looked shocked, too, but quickly pulled himself together. He threw Tanner a sly look, one that hinted at an idea. “Give us a minute,” he snapped, and pulled away from Tanner, back to the truck. When they were both inside he turned on the occupants with a spark in his eyes.  “They must be talking about my boys, alive and kicking,” the old grin was back, his excitement barely contained. “Must have set up in the woods. We'll head over and find ‘em. Maybe they got word from Earl. If they're here, and they're fighting, maybe we don't have to go all the way to Boise after all.” “What's going on?” Lauren looked confused.  “We're leaving the truck. Grab the shit, cross the bridge, hijack their fucking commie-wagon and strike out east. Either we find them in Baker, or our boys find us first.”  Tanner was still coming to grips with the situation. “What about… them?” he said.  “Who?” “They… them. In the dress, with the pronouns!”  “And what are they going to do, stop us? You ever tried to fight wearing something like that? No. The four of us, across the bridge, grab the bus, easy.” “Katie's not hijacking any bus. She's eight, for God's sake. Maybe she and Lauren should stay here…”  “You stay here with Katie,” Lauren snapped, cutting Tanner off. “If you think it's safer, if you're looking for safer, you take her for a nice walk in the park down there. I'll be with my husband, taking my country back from these freaks.”  “I know you want to keep Katie safe,” Blake added, almost apologetically, “but you saw what it's like out there. You heard Swanson's warnings. These aren't people, they're animals, aliens. She's your baby fuckin' girl, man. You do what you're at peace with, but my wife sure as shit ain't staying here to get felt up by some dick in a dress.”  Tanner looked at Lauren. “But she's just a kid! What if she gets hurt.”  “What if she gets hurt _here? So you look after her. Be a man,” Lauren spat back.    Blake clapped Tanner on the shoulder and held his gaze. “It's do or die time, soldier. Let's get the fuck outta here, hook up with the resistance, then bring back the fury of God and freedom and the USA to take back this city and liberate my God damn truck!” Tanner looked at Katie, curled up in the footwell, and wanted to object. He wanted to take her somewhere safe, back to the Hole, where it was warm and they could hide from the aliens and the bad people and they had all the food they could need and they could wait for this all to be over.  But the fire in his belly wouldn't let him. He knew Blake was right, he knew that he should be ashamed of his moments of weakness. He saw Lauren gripping her rifle and staring at Blake with faith and devotion in her eyes and he knew that was the kind of man he wanted to be. Tanner breathed a silent promise to keep Katie safe, no matter the cost.  “Let's do it.” Blake pulled the truck up to the group of guards and they all piled out, Tanner standing straight and feeling tall, Blake's words ringing in his ears. It's do or die time. _ Two of the barricade guards came over to help them unload while the others stood around and watched, their mustachioed escort who made Tanner's skin crawl and the large blond man. Traitor. They stripped off the tray covering and began shifting gear, Blake and blondie up above handing packages down to everyone else. Tanner heard the guards muttering to each other.  “Holy shit, that's a lot of firepower.” The blond man snorted. “And a lot of nasty-ass TV dinners. Important supplies, my ass.”  Sunshine shrugged. “Folks eat what they eat. Not everyone lives in a Whole Foods and learned to make Tom Yum on their gap year,” they rebuked him. The man grimaced and scratched his jaw. “Yeah, right. That was unfair of me. Well, Thai cooking workshop tomorrow and I'll make a big pot, so at least folks here don't have to eat that frozen stuff… unless they want to.” They busied themselves unloading, bundling food and weapons into bags or tying them together for ease of carrying. Tanner was tying the straps of his backpack and settling it on his back when he heard a curse from the back of the truck. He glanced up, and, frozen in time, watched the next few seconds helplessly.  The blond man had pulled out one of the last few satchels, the one containing all their spare clothes. He was standing upright, arms held out, nose ring quivering in silent outrage. In his left hand he had Blake's flag bandana; in his right, Blake's spare jacket, rebel flag patch sitting proudly on the shoulder.  Blake reacted fastest. He dropped the food he was holding, raised his Glock, and with a vengeful crack the blond ponytail exploded in a spray of red.  The man in the beret raised his rifle and fired two shots into Blake's chest, sending him flying from the tray. A scream burst from Lauren as she reached for her gun, but the alien matched the sound and met her with a powerful tackle, sending both of them crashing into a pile of frozen hamburgers. Sunshine reached out and grabbed Tanner's arm. Time snapped back into motion for Tanner. He instinctively pulled away and shook his arm free of the grasping fingers. Stepping back, he spun and swung his fist in a wild roundhouse. It connected with Sunshine's jaw as they overbalanced toward him. Tanner watched them collapse in a heap. His gaze danced over the chaos unfolding around him, frantically searching for Katie. _There. Tanner picked her up and ran.  They plunged off the road and into the darkness. There was only one thought in his mind: get Katie across that bridge. She was sobbing, shaking in his grasp, and Tanner made what he hoped were comforting shushing noises as he ran. He knew this park—there was a staircase inside one of the support towers that rose from the park to the bridge overhead. That was his way out. Holding Katie tightly, breath ragged, he ran toward the orgy of light and noise pulsating below.  The two escapees burst into the mass of people. Tanner looked around, eyes darting, taking in the madness and trying to get his bearings. The sensory assault was overwhelming, but he slowly made out patterns in the polyrhythmic press. What had looked from above like a continuous swell of humanity was actually a hundred, a thousand separate groups and camps and parties. People flowed freely between them, groups forming and merging and coming apart in a chaotic, everchanging anarchy. A makeshift stage to his left throbbed with bass, colliding with the bone-jarring screams and guitars of a group of punks. Tanner found himself surrounded by ecstatic dancers, while a group almost under his feet sat staring into a campfire, oblivious to the rest of the world. He crashed through their doped-out reverie and bounced off two men, locked in a hungry embrace.  Tanner recoiled and turned away, shielding Katie with his body, searching desperately for the tower that would lead him out of this nightmare. Lights flashed, blinding, creating a sort of slideshow of horror as Tanner scanned the crowd. There. He found it. His escape from this festival of the damned. He soldiered on, caught up in a whirl of half-naked dancers, men, women, and everyone else, mindless of the frigid air as they span and writhed in rapture.  Tanner spotted an exit, an island of calm, and dove for it. He exploded from the throng, gasping for air, and breathed in the relative silence. Collecting himself, he was faced with rows of bodies, still, staring at something unseen up ahead, the very air trembling with collective anticipation.  A voice shattered his uneasy reprieve, loud and bombastic and dripping with drama.  “And now, my darlings, it is time for these fuckers to do what I do best—go down!” Tanner dashed through the crowd as they roared and surged into motion, and caught a glimpse of the scene ahead: two lines of people, straining on thick ropes, as a woman in lingerie and feathers pranced like a princess of hell before them. The ropes led upwards, where they were tied around the necks of two enormous metal figures. Lewis and Clark.  Tanner broke into a full sprint, shouldering bodies aside. He was almost there. Up ahead, rising from the chaos, was his stairway to the heavens. His legs trembled and his breath came in ragged sobs, but he couldn't slow down. Not when he was so close. He tore out of the crowd and into the comforting darkness of the spaces in between. His hysterical panic began to subside. One foot in front of the other. Keep running. They were going to make it. As he neared the tower a figure came into view at the base, looming from the shadows of the doorway, staring into the blackness beyond. A stocky, muscled figure wearing fatigues and a plate carrier. It couldn't be… “Blake! Blake, thank God.” Tears welled in Tanner's eyes as he reached his friend. Lauren was nowhere to be seen, but right now Tanner couldn't think about her. He had survived, and he had brought Katie through. His heartbeat was still frantic, but from exertion rather than fear. They were here. He, Katie, and Blake. Emotionally exhausted, physically spent, battered and terrified, but alive. They were going to be okay. He reached out to his friend. Blake turned—No, not Blake. A thick black beard engulfed the shadowy face, momentarily lit by the glowing ember of a huge cigar. The eyes were deep-set and dark, the skin weathered, wrinkled, brown. The face of an illegal alien.  Tanner's throat betrayed him. He squeaked, and nothing more would come out. His knees wobbled and threatened to give way, his feet froze in place. He wavered. He whimpered.  Puffing on the cigar, the alien took in his terrified face and the little girl slung over his shoulder. He gestured toward the doorway and blew out an enormous plume of smoke.  “Go, gringo.”  It was well past midnight when Katie ran into the side of a tent, fell on her bottom, and started crying. They had crossed the bridge, left the highway, and headed for the safety of the forest. Since then they had been wandering among the trees for hours, directionless, driven by fear, then by hope, then exhausted aimlessness. Tanner wasn't going anywhere except away from that park. He had briefly entertained the image of finding a group of militia, sitting around a fire, eating and laughing and, maybe, swapping stories with their old friend Blake. That was hours ago. Visions were fleeting in the fever dream of the forest. Since then, they had walked because they didn't know what else to do. Tanner stumbled over to Katie and collapsed beside her, holding her close and hushing her. He felt like crying too.  A flashlight clicked on inside the tent and a dreadlocked head poked out of the flap.  “Hey, there's someone here!” Rustling erupted from all around and more faces appeared. “Wasn't someone keeping watch?” “I thought you were.” “Doesn't matter, doesn't matter. Someone's crying.” “You folks okay?” Tanner and Katie were soon surrounded by a small group of people. He looked up at them. “Are you the militia?” “No, don't worry. You're safe here. We're friends.” “Although I guess we are a militia if you think about it. Sort of.”  “Shh, don't confuse the poor people. They're terrified.”  “Sorry. No, no militia. Someone get them a blanket and something to drink.” Minutes later, Tanner and Katie were wrapped in sleeping bags, sipping on hot cocoa. It was scalding and familiar and Tanner felt the tension of the past day fading, leaving bone-deep exhaustion in its place.  “Are you okay? What happened?” “Thank you. We were… we just need to sleep.”  “And you? What's your name? Are you alright?” Katie looked at her dad, then stared up from her tin mug. “I'm Katie. I'm scared.” “You're safe now. We'll help you. Look, we'll get you somewhere to sleep.” The first face they had seen rummaged around in a tent and brought out a bag. “Lucky we have a spare tent. I'll just put it up, won't be a second.” The tent was almost up by the time Tanner and Katie finished their drinks, and they got up and walked over, sleeping bags over their shoulders, holding hands. “Hey, thanks,” Tanner said. “I would have helped but I don't really know how. Never had much call for camping. I am, uh, was a lawyer,” he glanced around, “not criminal, uh… intellectual property. Copyright.”  “No problem, of course. Here, it's not hard. I'm just clipping the…” “This isn't the time for camping lessons, Jacob. Anyway, you'll scare the man, sharing information for free like that. They've been through enough already.”  “Sorry, yeah. Look, slide in. Take these sleeping mats. It'll do for tonight, I'll teach you tomorrow.”  Tanner and Katie squeezed into the tent, sleeping bags huddled together on the cold, hard ground, and slept. THE END **Inmn ** 1:03:01 Hello, and welcome to the show. Thank you so much for coming on today. Could you introduce yourself with your name, pronouns, and just a little bit about what you do in the world? **Matt ** 1:03:15 Yeah, hi, I'm Matt. He/him pronouns. And I'm a student again, after a really long time, actually, which is why I've just moved to where I'm living now. But I like to write, you know, mostly for me, and this is the first first thing I've published but I enjoy it. And yeah, I'm really grateful that you've taken an interest in it. **Inmn ** 1:03:37 Yeah, totally. I love the story. So we just listened to the second half of your story, Blood, Soil and Frozen TV Dinners and even though listeners just heard...just heard the whole story, I'm wondering if you could just kind of like walk us through the story in your--you know, from the mouth of the author--what is this story about? **Matt ** 1:04:01 So the story, for me, was about, to some extent, seeing yourself in some ways or, you know, people like you, through the eyes of...through the eyes of someone else, I guess, someone who's very different and might see things in a different way. So I always find it interesting to play with different perspectives or different characters instead of telling the story from a heroic perspective or something. And I wondered what a pathway to a better world might look like from someone who didn't necessarily want that to happen. So we have these, you know, preppers who--call them you want, right-wing conservatives, something like this--and what they might think, given the knowledge that they receive about the world, what they might think is happening when something happens that a lot of the rest of us might want. **Inmn ** 1:05:00 Yeah, totally. I really like how you put that. What was it, like, "a better world that they don't necessarily want?" [both laugh] Okay, well, how did this, how did this story kind of...like how did it come to be? What inspiration did you kind of draw from to craft this situation or these like personalities from Tanner and Blake or Earl Swanson? 1:05:35 Yeah, the story itself, there was a discussion last Halloween, I believe it was, on Coffee With Comrades, there was a interview with Pearson and Margaret Killjoy, talking about the discussion of the monster in literature, which is where I first took the idea that they were talking about seeing yourself as the monster in this idea and sometimes reveling in that or perhaps enjoying it. And that was where the first idea came from. And then the most specific layout of the story or main theme, I guess, was, I was doing something on the US Tax Office website. And there's this whole section for aliens, right, if you're an alien in the U.S., these are the tax rules you need to follow. And I just thought it was a funny word. You know, I'd seen it on Fox News or something before but it just struck me as really weird in such an official position. Yeah, and I just was playing with the ideas of this and, you know, I like thinking about utopias and things. And this is where the like the main shape of the story had come from, just the idea of seeing the monster, seeing the alien from there. And then specific characters, I mean, some of them are just kind of people that I've met, you know, Tanner and Blake, specifically, and I think Earl Swanson's character, I mean--I don't know it's possibly libelous--but we can probably figure out who that's meant to be, right? I think it's reasonably obvious. **Inmn ** 1:07:09 Totally, totally. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's super interesting. Yeah, it's funny, I was rereading the story today to prepare for this interview and I realized that the first time that I was reading it, because of this perspective of the.... I'm like, okay, I know, these are some, you know, at least center-right, far-right preppers and they're using the word "alien" and I don't actually know what they mean by this, which was, you know, maybe a purposeful being vague about it, but I was like, I don't know if they think that it's, you know, illegal aliens or undocumented  migrants or whatever or if they mean, like, literal from outer space aliens. And, yeah, I was like, I don't know what they mean by what they're talking about. And maybe they don't either.   1:08:20 This was part of the conceit, right, was setting it up like it's a pretend big reveal, I think, that it's a twist in the story that at some point gets revealed, but that's not really the point. It's not really meant to be a big trick or something like this, you know? I think in discussions in the editing, we talked about in the first page or so when they speaking Arabic, and it's reasonably obvious to anyone that knows Arabic who these people are, you know, it's not hidden, but this was the idea, that they may have meant illegal alien all along, was, you know, the way they we're using the term, but that they weren't necessarily drawing so much of a distinction between the two uses of the word alien, that in their minds a, sort of, invasion by one was the same as the invasion by the other to some extent. **Inmn ** 1:09:10 Yeah, which, you know, I actually really love that from the perspective of.... It's like maybe an interesting twist. I didn't listen to that interview with Pearson and Margaret, so I'm not sure what they talked about, but there's this kind of idea in a lot of spaces that I've been part of,you know, when people talk about things like assimilation or something, especially in queer spaces, of like, "We have to seem harmless to them. We have to seem innocent. We have to seem like we just want to be part of the group," you know, and then this other side that's like, "No, we want to be unknowable. We are claiming the monstrosity that they are putting on us," and I'm like, yeah, we're fucking.... I don't know, anarchists are kind of aliens, like, in an entirely other way of thinking, you know? 1:10:09 Yeah, and just considering some social norms is completely irrelevant or harmful or repressive and other things that other people would consider, perhaps, violent or something seem completely okay to other people. There is a complete sort of alienation of perspective from broader society, I think. And yeah, it is, there's a tension between sometimes wanting to go unnoticed, or, as you say, like assimilate, and even, for me, walking around, you know, sometimes you want to look like an anarchist and sometimes you don't. It's an interesting dynamic, I guess, that you can switch sometimes day-to-day. **Inmn ** 1:10:54 Yeah, yeah. Have you read much of--you know, love talking about this person on the show--have you read much of Ursula Le Guin's Hainish Cycle? 1:11:08 I've read only "The Dispossessed" and "The Left Hand of Darkness".  **Inmn ** 1:11:16 Great examples. I think "The Left Hand of Darkness," kind of brings out this idea of where the reader is going to maybe most identify with the alien, or whatever, in "The Left Hand of Darkness" being not the not the Gethens--or I don't remember what they're called. But then it's like, the more that we're reading the book... or there's some times where I'm this alien or, you know, our perspective person just doesn't understand this culture. And that's really painful. And then there are other times when I'm like, I don't know, maybe the alien's perspectives on the world are far more dissimilar to what a normal person on like our planet Earth would think, because they're advocating for a better world that is very alien to people on this planet. Does that make sense? **Matt ** 1:12:24 Yeah, I mean, in "The Dispossessed," I think it's the same dynamic with Shevak coming back to Earth and presenting the perspective, both ways that it seems incredibly alien to him and then the other way around to everyone else that's there, to the general culture there. Yeah. I think it's an interesting literary device to present the outsider point of view, I think, which I mean, is quite the opposite of what I did in this story, I presented the more mainstream point of view, I guess, but from the circles that we're in, it's funny to see from the outside what that looks like. **Inmn ** 1:13:02 Yeah, yeah, I had this very silly idea once for...I don't know if it was gonna be a short story or what but kind of, using that "alien" trope or like "Stranger in a Strange Land" trope as a way to talk to my parents about anarchism or about radical queer spheres. **Matt ** 1:13:27 Yeah, I mean, that's about as alien as it can get for a lot of people's parents, right. **Inmn ** 1:13:31 Totally. But just as some funny little zine that's like an introduction to the punk house, you know? **Matt ** 1:13:44 Yeah, viewed as some sort of interesting zoo creatures. **Inmn ** 1:13:46 Yeah. I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about the kind of political renderings of Tanner and Blake or ,rather, their differences in how they perceive or interact with either preparedness or this new world that they're encountering? **Matt ** 1:14:14 Yeah, I think that Blake's character is a lot.... He knows what he's doing, right? It's a lot more intentional and more--I guess educated is maybe not quite the right word--but a lot more of an actually constructed ideology, whereas for Tanner it's very much received. He's not so keen, not so entirely sold on the idea or doesn't necessarily know the idea. It feels like it's like lost and failing a lot of the time and I think that's why I found him a much more interesting character because that's how I feel a lot of people that I know and talk to and family members and friends and things or friends of people I know get pulled into a lot of these, you know, reactionary ideologies is kind of by accident a lot of the time, right? Because it's what's presented and what they're drawn into by someone who has a lot more investment in it than they do. And they just kind of bumble into it almost by accident. Yeah. **Inmn ** 1:15:20 Because it's what they're seeing on TV. People who are deeper into that philosophy are like.... It's like the people that they're around who are their own little echo chambers of, "Oh, okay, there's this thing happening. Not sure how I feel about it. But I'm being like, fed this perspective on it." **Matt ** 1:15:46 Yeah, and a lot of the social or interpersonal issues that draw people in as well, I think. I tried to make it seem relatively obvious that Tanner is envious of Blake in a lot of ways, right? He is, you know, hotter than him and he is cooler than him and he knows more than him and he's always trying to, like, live up to this ideal that he has just completely interpersonally with no politics or anything in it. And he just wants to live up to what he thinks Blake wants him to be, which it turns out, is a bad thing. I mean, I'm not trying to excuse Tanner's character too much here. But yeah, I think this is what's really dangerous a lot of the time actually, for people who don't necessarily have a fully formed belief in all of these philosophical systems or something that then puts them on the wrong side not by...not necessarily out of evil intention. **Inmn ** 1:16:54 Yeah. No, that's very true. And it's interesting talking about not excusing Tanner's character too much, but as I was reading the story I found myself like, not necessarily rooting for Tanner and Bl

Three weeks ago, one-time Know Your Enemy guest and “frenemy” of the show Nate Hochman was fired from Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign for his role in producing a campaign video featuring a Nazi “sonnenrad” symbol. (You may have read about it!) Unsurprisingly, the Hochman affair inspired some soul-searching on the part of your podcast hosts: had we inadvertently exposed our audience to a neo-nazi? Was our original December 2021 interview insufficiently combative — or too credulous (as many of our most vigilant listeners have suggested)? Were we naive about the value of welcoming young conservatives on the show? And, perhaps most illuminatingly, what can Hochman's trajectory (from Never-Trump conservative and Michael Oakeshott fan to disgraced DeSantis speechwriter) tell us about the young right today?After all, Hochman was not alone. A few weeks before the Hochman affair, DeSantis influencer and Chronicles magazine editor Pedro Gonzalez was exposed for expressing virulent anti-Semitic sentiments in private group chats in 2019. And most recently, Huffington Post reported that Richard Hanania, another young conservative — a darling of Silicon Valley reactionaries and a frequent interlocutor with centrist pundits on Twitter — had lived a previous life as an alt-right white supremacist and misogynist.In this episode, we ask (not for the first time): what exactly is going on with young conservatives? Has the wall between mainstream conservatism and unacceptably hard-right sentiments completely broken down? Was it ever there? Or has it only become more porous in the age of Twitter, Telegram, and online anonymity? Did the alt-right of 2016, with its Pepe memes and winking fascist apologia, ever go away? Or did it merely merge, seamlessly, with today's young right, turning an entire generation of GOP operatives into half-ironic racists, neofascists, and violent homophobes? Further Reading:Michelle Goldberg, “The Radicalization of the Young Right,” NYTimes, July 31, 2023.“Young, Radical, and on the Right, with Nate Hochman,” KYE, Dec 16, 2021."How Euphemisms Muddy Our Political Conversations," On the Media (WNYC), Jan 21, 2022David Weigel and Shelby Talcott, “‘This belongs in the Smithsonian': Inside the meme video operation that swallowed Ron DeSantis' campaign,” Aug 1, 2023.Sam Adler-Bell, “The Radical Young Intellectuals Who Want to Take Over the American Right,” The New Republic, Dec 2, 2021.Michael Oakeshott, “On Being Conservative,” from Rationalism in politics and other essays, 1962.John Ganz, “They're All Like That,” Unpopular Front, Aug 6, 2023.Jordan Nixon-Hamilton, “‘F**k This President': More Messages Show Pro-DeSantis Influencer Pedro Gonzalez Turned on Trump in 2019,” Breitbart, Aug 1, 2023.Christopher Mathias, “Richard Hanania, Rising Right-Wing Star, Wrote For White Supremacist Sites Under Pseudonym,” Huffington Post, Aug 4, 2023.

BONUS EPISODE ALERT! Come on Barbies (and Kens) let's go party because not only are we dropping a bonus episode of the podcast today, but we are joined by President Barbie herself, Issa Rae!  The Reign team have been high key obsessed with Issa since we watched her TV show, Insecure. If you haven't watched one of the greatest TV shows ever made yet, it's about a directionless millennial woman and it's not only highly relatable, but it changed the landscape of TV, as Issa became the first Black woman to create and star in a premium cable series. That's right, not only did Issa star in the show, she created it, wrote it and produced it, too!  Issa IS everything and she's proving that yet again by taking on the role of President Barbie, in the most anticipated movie of the year, Barbie - created by fellow genius, Greta Gerwig, and alongside Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. Trust me when I say this movie is worth every inch of the hype!  There are many reasons I am SO excited that Issa is joining us today, but one of them is because she has done everything off her own back and on her own terms.  She started out making shows on YouTube, got a HBO contract, created two incredibly successful TV shows, and joins us today in her ‘mogul era', with her own production company, Hoorae Media and a forty-million dollar contract with Warner Media.  Issa is a true role model for making your dreams a reality in the face of huge obstacles, and I can not wait for you to hear her talk in this episode about everything from tackling the patriarchy to leaning into vulnerability.  This President certainly gets my vote and I know she will get yours too… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 864, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: rock stars 1: "Two Hearts" links his two careers: acting in the film "Buster", and singing with Genesis. Phil Collins. 2: In Oct. 1995 her "Jagged Little Pill" became the first album by a Canadian female to reach No. 1 in the U.S.. Alanis Morissette. 3: This Marilyn Monroe "wanna-be" was once a dancer with the Alvin Ailey Troupe. Madonna. 4: The New York Times called this headman of Talking Heads the "thinking man's rock star". David Byrne. 5: In the following duet, Michael Jackson blends so well with her, it's hard to tell them apart: "My life ain't worth living / If I can't be with you / I just can't stop loving you / I just can't stop loving you / And if I stop / Then tell me just what will I do...". Siedah Garrett. Round 2. Category: stripes 1: Trying to locate this title character in books by illustrator Martin Handford? Look for his 2-toned striped shirt and hat. Waldo. 2: This form of pool is also known as stripes and solids. 8-ball. 3: Now in light and lemon varieties, Red Stripe beer was first brewed in this Caribbean nation in 1928. Jamaica. 4: He composed "The Stars and Stripes Forever", now the official march of the United States. Sousa. 5: This dark pigment gives a zebra its black stripes. melanin. Round 3. Category: dateline: 1903 1: This giant of automaking introduces his namesake automobile company. Henry Ford. 2: This President creates the Department of Commerce and Labor. Theodore Roosevelt. 3: With U.S. support, this nation declares its independence from Colombia. Panama. 4: Leo XIII dies and is replaced with the tenth Pope to bear this Papal name. Pius. 5: This man becomes head of the Bolsheviks at a summer socialist symposium in London. Lenin. Round 4. Category: india 1: This classical Indian musical instrument is most closely associated with Ravi Shankar. the sitar. 2: This city has a population density of about 79,000 people per square mile, the country's highest. Calcutta. 3: The largest mosque in India is in this city, the site of a deadly 1984 gas leak. Bhopal. 4: The British jailed him 9 times between 1921 and 1945; in 1947 he became prime minister. (Jawaharlal) Nehru. 5: This capital of the state of West Bengal is India's largest city. Calcutta. Round 5. Category: crossword clues "l" 1: Any new car that breaks down 60 times a day(5). a lemon. 2: A maze (9). a labyrinth. 3: Trees to "rest on" (7). laurels. 4: A lariat's shorter name(5). a lasso. 5: Mario, of movie musicals(5). Lanza. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 823, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: neo lingo 1: A TV show that is an extended advertisement, like those used by Ross Perot in 1992 and 1996. infomercial. 2: It's the "game" played by parties telephoning back and forth trying to reach each other. phone tag. 3: To teach academic subjects to your children at your own house is called this. home schooling. 4: This kind of "novel" is a fictional story for adults presented in a comic book format. graphic novel. 5: It's the practice of visiting natural habitats on vacation in a manner that minimizes ecological impact. Eco-tourism. Round 2. Category: "fan"s 1: Type of "voyage" Raquel Welch took in a 1966 film. fantastic. 2: A flourish of trumpets, or the cost of a cab for a sports enthusiast. fanfare. 3: It's not known if this Spanish dance is of Basque, Moorish or South American Indian origin. fandango. 4: In this "Chinese" card game, play begins when a 7 is laid on the table. fantan. 5: Someone breeding cats to bring out desired features might be called this. fancier. Round 3. Category: the 17th century 1: The Durants said of this French king's reign, "It was an age of strict manners and loose morals". Louis XIV. 2: In 1689 this czar overthrew his half sister Sophie and forced her to enter a convent. Peter the Great. 3: 1667 saw the completion of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's great curving colonnade enclosing the piazza in front of this building. St. Peter's Cathedral. 4: Dutch optician Hans Lippershey invented this in 1608, supposedly after seeing one lens held in front of another. the telescope. 5: The Dutch East India Company sponsored his 1609 search for the Northwest Passage. Henry Hudson. Round 4. Category: lawn care 1: This tillage tool has leaf and garden types, both suitable for stepping on and bashing yourself in the nose. Rake. 2: Fungicide may be needed when the "powdery" type of this appears in late summer. Mildew. 3: The grass with the name of this sunny island group is well suited to the Southern U.S.. Bermuda grass. 4: Henbit and Florida Pusley are among plants controlled by Ortho's product this type of plant "B-Gon". a weed. 5: When planting a new lawn, it's a good idea to add compost and this 4-letter combination of sand, silt and clay. loam. Round 5. Category: the cabinet 1: The FBI is part of this cabinet department. the Justice Department. 2: The Comptroller of the Currency operates under the auspices of this cabinet department. Treasury. 3: This President, a former Navy man, appointed the first Secretary of Veterans' Affairs. George H W. Bush. 4: The "haunted" presidential room formerly used for cabinet meetings in the White House is now known as this. the Lincoln Bedroom. 5: So far, the list of Secretaries of this includes a Heckler, a Schweiker and a Shalala. Health and Human Services. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1: In a press release on Monday, Congressman Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) stated: "During my field hearing in South Jersey last month, my colleagues and I highlighted the adverse effects offshore wind development would have on various sectors and industries, from our environment to our national security…These warnings can no longer be ignored. This President and this administration continue to disregard these valid concerns, and now the Pentagon is reiterating the potential impacts the industrialization of our coast will have on our national security.” You can read the full press release here: https://vandrew.house.gov/media/press-releases/offshore-wind-national-security-price-we-will-pay According to rumors from British tabloids, the royal family may be on the brink of collapse. Rich has no sympathy and says he's still bitter that British soldiers set fire to the White House during the War of 1812. In a video released on his YouTube page, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo accused the far-left of not wanting to address the issue of crime in major cities. In a clip released from an interview scheduled to air Monday night, billionaire Elon Musk told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that government agencies had access to the private direct messages of Twitter users.

In a press release on Monday, Congressman Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) stated: "During my field hearing in South Jersey last month, my colleagues and I highlighted the adverse effects offshore wind development would have on various sectors and industries, from our environment to our national security…These warnings can no longer be ignored. This President and this administration continue to disregard these valid concerns, and now the Pentagon is reiterating the potential impacts the industrialization of our coast will have on our national security.” You can read the full press release here: https://vandrew.house.gov/media/press-releases/offshore-wind-national-security-price-we-will-pay

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 4: During an appearance on MSNBC with Jen Psaki, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) got a bit angry when he wasn't able to talk about the topics he wanted to talk about…PLUS Megaphone Bernie makes an appearance! FLASHBACK: In a 2005 appearance on 60 Minutes, Morgan Freeman said Black History is American History—suggesting that the best way to overcome racism is to simply stop talking about race. According to claims from investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, there is rampant corruption in Kyiv, Ukraine. Where are U.S. tax dollars going? In a press release on Monday, Congressman Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) stated: "During my field hearing in South Jersey last month, my colleagues and I highlighted the adverse effects offshore wind development would have on various sectors and industries, from our environment to our national security…These warnings can no longer be ignored. This President and this administration continue to disregard these valid concerns, and now the Pentagon is reiterating the potential impacts the industrialization of our coast will have on our national security.” You can read the full press release here: https://vandrew.house.gov/media/press-releases/offshore-wind-national-security-price-we-will-pay

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (04/17/2023): 3:05pm- In a press release on Monday, Congressman Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) stated: "During my field hearing in South Jersey last month, my colleagues and I highlighted the adverse effects offshore wind development would have on various sectors and industries, from our environment to our national security…These warnings can no longer be ignored. This President and this administration continue to disregard these valid concerns, and now the Pentagon is reiterating the potential impacts the industrialization of our coast will have on our national security.” You can read the full press release here: https://vandrew.house.gov/media/press-releases/offshore-wind-national-security-price-we-will-pay 3:25pm- According to rumors from British tabloids, the royal family may be on the brink of collapse. Rich has no sympathy and says he's still bitter that British soldiers set fire to the White House during the War of 1812. 3:35pm- In a video released on his YouTube page, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo accused the far-left of not wanting to address the issue of crime in major cities. 3:50pm- In a clip released from an interview scheduled to air Monday night, billionaire Elon Musk told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that government agencies had access to the private direct messages of Twitter users. 4:05pm- On Monday, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on relaxed crime policies adopted by New York City. Congressman Daniel Goldman (D-NY) claimed the hearing was a “charade” to attack Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. In response, Madeline Brame—the mother of an Army veteran who was tragically killed in New York City—defiantly told Rep. Goldman that his disinterest in fighting crime is why she has left the Democrat party. In honor of her son, Brame formed the Victims Rights Reform Council (VRRC). You can learn more about the organization here: https://victimsrightsreformcouncil.org 4:30pm- During Monday's House Judiciary Committee hearing on relaxed crime policies in New York City, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) accused the victims of violent crime who were testifying of being “props in a MAGA Broadway production.” Rich and Matt reflect upon Rep. Johnson's most insane (and hilarious) statements as a member of Congress, including: claiming Republicans believe the Tooth Fairy is anti-Christian and woke, his fight for helium equity, his fear that Guam may tip over if it becomes overpopulated, and his unforgettably terrible apology for saying the “m-word.” 4:50pm- Saturday Night Live still isn't funny…SHOCKING! 5:00pm- The Drive at 5: According to reporting from Axios' Catlin Owens, “[t]he coronavirus pandemic appeared to originate from a laboratory accident, based on biosafety issues in the epicenter in Wuhan, China, and factors observed in the nature and early spread of the virus, according to a 302-page Senate report.” You can read more here: https://www.axios.com/2023/04/17/senate-covid-origins-report-details-lab-leak-theory 5:20pm- According to a report from Reason's Joe Lancaster, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)—along with several other elected officials—wants the government to save Batgirl! You can read the full article here: https://reason.com/2023/04/12/elizabeth-warren-wants-the-government-to-save-batgirl/ 5:35pm- While appearing on Real Time with Bill Maher, Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA)—candidate for Sen. Dianne Feinstein's soon-to-be vacated Senate seat—baselessly accused Maher and guest Piers Morgan of being “old and grumpy” and claimed NCAA swimming champion Riley Gaines—who advocate for the rights of biologically female athletes—of simply speaking out for “likes and clicks.” 5:55pm- During a press conference, Mayor Eric Adams introduced New York City's first “Rat Czar”—Kathleen Corradi. The position will pay $155,000 per-year! Despite submitting an application and collecting letters of recommendation, Henry was devastated to hear he did not get the position.   6:05pm- During an appearance on MSNBC with Jen Psaki, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) got a bit angry when he wasn't able to talk about the topics he wanted to talk about…PLUS Megaphone Bernie makes an appearance! 6:15pm- FLASHBACK: In a 2005 appearance on 60 Minutes, Morgan Freeman said Black History is American History—suggesting that the best way to overcome racism is to simply stop talking about race. 6:30pm- According to claims from investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, there is rampant corruption in Kyiv, Ukraine. Where are U.S. tax dollars going? 6:45pm- In a press release on Monday, Congressman Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) stated: "During my field hearing in South Jersey last month, my colleagues and I highlighted the adverse effects offshore wind development would have on various sectors and industries, from our environment to our national security…These warnings can no longer be ignored. This President and this administration continue to disregard these valid concerns, and now the Pentagon is reiterating the potential impacts the industrialization of our coast will have on our national security.” You can read the full press release here: https://vandrew.house.gov/media/press-releases/offshore-wind-national-security-price-we-will-pay

The Feds raided President Trump's home because of documents, the First Lady's closet and their kid's room. Can we treat THIS President equally?

In this video, Dr. Taylor Marshall explores the mystery of who installed Baphomet Goat Head inside the White House. Turns out that it was NOT President Joe Biden that put it there. Was it Donald Trump? Was it Barack Obama? It was actually a President from many decades ago and once you see photos of this president, you'll immediately understand why he installed a goat head into the White House. What would Archbishop Viganò say about Washington DC in 2022? Dr. Taylor Marshall discusses who Baphomet is and why he'd be in the White House.Watch this new podcast episode by clicking here:If the audio player does not show up in your email or browser, please click here to listen.Dr. Taylor Marshall's newest book: Antichrist and Apocalypse: The 21 Prophecies of Revelation Unveiled and DescribedAlso get his #1 Bestselling book: Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church from WithinBecome a Patron of this Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drtaylormarshallTake online classes with Dr. Marshall at the New Saint Thomas Institute. Please visit newsaintthomas.com to enroll.The post 896: This President put a Baphomet Goat Head in the White House… [Podcast] appeared first on Taylor Marshall.

In this video, Dr. Taylor Marshall explores the mystery of who installed Baphomet Goat Head inside the White House. Turns out that it was NOT President Joe Biden that put it there. Was it Donald Trump? Was it Barack Obama? It was actually a President from many decades ago and once you see photos of […] The post 896: This President put a Baphomet Goat Head in the White House… [Podcast] appeared first on Taylor Marshall.

Texas AG Paxton says the Biden White House is ignoring federal law that requires them to deport people here illegally. They say we're in power and we're not following or enforcing the law. That's what the state of Texas has to deal with every day. The Biden regime wants as many criminals here as possible. This President is actually inviting criminals, even those just released from prison. Paxton says the Biden motive seems pretty sinister. They want to harm Republican states which are doing well and Biden wants bad things to happen to Republican states. Paxton says he'd love for Biden to tell him he's wrong. The Biden regime is using the cover of corporations to limit rights. They're using woke corporations to do the dirty work. They're using Corporate America to deny the Americans their Constitutional rights.     GUEST: TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL KEN PAXTON

This President and the current Administration is the most provocative in our history. Look at the current military deployments...

This President and the current Administration is the most provocative in our history. Look at the current military deployments...

This President and the current Administration is the most provocative in our history. Look at the current military deployments...

This President and the current Administration is the most provocative in our history. Look at the current military deployments...

This President has had more than his share of embarrassing moments. From things that he says that make you cring to almost starting WWIII, you never know what he will do or say. Let's look at some of these classic moments. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/foruncommonsense/message

Welcome back to The Alan Sanders Show. Today, I try to catch up on several news items that are worth discussion beyond the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. Of course, that even is monumental in our nation's history, so I do open with some comments made over the weekend by Governor Chris Sununu (R) of New Hampshire. Sununu told Fox News Sunday the FBI and AG Garland were “morons” in how they have handled the raid and the complete lack of transparency behind it. Long time listeners to this show already know that, but it's nice to hear it echoed from someone else. We then move to Liz Cheney who continues her deranged spiral into Democrat madness. With nothing left to lose, she spent the weekend vowing to oppose any candidate who might question election integrity, especially the results of 2020. Ironically, two members of her own J6 Committe, Raskin and Thompson both separately wanted to overturn elections or not have them certified – Raskin in 2004 and Thompson in 2016. Plus, Adam Schiff (D-CA) spent years telling us about how he personally saw all of the evidence of Donald Trump's collusion with Russia, which we now know was a complete hoax. Yes, ladies and gentleman, Liz Cheney will oppose any who question election integrity, but is okay siding with people who have done so and worse. CNN Political Correspondent John Harwood admits the Inflation Reduction Act is a marketing device meant to dupe Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) and the American public. He admits it will do little to nothing to reduce inflation. The name represents the exact opposite of its purported aims. And the vast majority of Americans seem to be aware of this fact, given a new NBC News poll from over the weekend. When asked, 71% say the Inflation Reduction Act will not make a difference or will make things worse. Only 26% believe it will live up to its name. In another segment on Sunday's Meet the Press with Chuck Todd on NBC, he had to open the show stating, “Americans are angry, they're disappointed and they are worried about the future.” Their polling reflects 74% of Americans who say our country is on the wrong track. He they added that it was the first time in history where that number was above 70% for over a year now. On top of that, another all-time high comes from the question of “better days.” 58% now believe the best years of America are already behind us, with only 35% thinking they are still ahead. This President and this Administration is staffed with idiots who believe in magic thinking. They are playing make-believe each and every day and we are supposed to just blindly believe what they are selling. A perfect example of this is Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm. She literally told Americans who can barely afford to buy food and pay their bills that they need to winterize their homes and buy discounted solar panels. This is on top of months of telling us to buy at $70K electric vehicle with their $7500 tax credit! Which, by the way, is already gone because EV lines have gone up by the same $7500! The incentive has already inflated the cost and that's who inflation works. But, these children in adult bodies believe we can spend our way out of recession and inflation. Lastly, since the Inflation Reduction Act is almost all about Green New Deal policies to flight “man made climate change,” data released in the last week shows the global average temperature today is .1 degree Celsius cooler than the 1979-2000 average. 1200 global climate scientists just signed off on a paper stating “There is no climate emergency.” It's all a ruse, where they use lies and fear to transfer even more wealth away from us and funnel it to other elites and we just seem to be content to allow it to happen. We must all get to the polls in November and continuously remind our representatives that they are their to represent us, not whatever is cool within the D.C. beltway. Take a moment to rate and review the show and then share the episode on social media. You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, GETTR and TRUTH Social by searching for The Alan Sanders Show. You can also support the show by visiting my Patreon page. 

My take on who's to blame for near record inflation and rising food costs. I also discuss my solution to inflation and out of control costs. This President doesn't even know the basics of economics. Email: realnewsocala@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lee-leffingwell/support

This President's Day, we premiere to you all a special on both key political drama shows that mix in themes on personal integrity, soul-sucking dilemmas and other foreign espionage while inserting commentary mirroring today's current events. How many West Wing filmmakers worked on both shows? Why were both contain such a fanbase on networks that clearly didn't appreciate them enough? Is Designated Survivor the winner when it comes to the reelection campaigns, speeches, World War 3 prevention and not having any annoying kids? Why do most think that Madam Secretary is Hilary Clinton inspired when she was actually based on Madeleine Albright? Does Designated work better as an action-mystery while Madam is better as a comfy-drama? And who would we be more likely to vote for if they were actually real? And more walk-and-talk office drama! #madamsecretary #designatedsurvivor #tealeoni #madampresident #westwing #kiefersutherland #adamcanto #keithcarradine #zeljkoivanek #drama #mystery #comedy #genre #drama #addicting #netflix #abc #cbs #streaming #political #thriller #24 #bourneidentity #ncis #ww3 #diplomatic #crisis #foreignaffairs #spies #espionage #jointchiefs #CIA #FBI #production #quality #excellent #awesome #badass #mustsees 

This President's Day, Dani and Josh discuss the new releases "Uncharted," "Marry Me," and "Death on the Nile" that all raise questions about character likability. APOLOGIES FOR THE POOR AUDIO QUALITY THIS WEEK!

This President's weekend, we connect the parasha to some remarkable historical facts about the very beginnings of life in America.

More and more corruption appears on the political front every day. And, yet, the Biden Administration just winks at the perpetrators of most of it. This President continues to allow unfettered access by illegals from multiple countries to our southern border. Americans pay the price. Leftist Whoopi Goldberg busted for her allegation that Jews slaughtered by Hitler were not targets of racism. We learn Dr. Fauci was told in the beginning that COVID-19 WAS the product of development IN A LABORATORY!

This President is a joke for someone who got 81 million votes. Also....America: The Collapse, Pt1 Supply Chain

This President is a joke for someone who got 81 million votes.Also....America: The Collapse, Pt1 Supply Chain

In this episode, Daniel and I talk about all the weirdness going on in the world right now. We talk about the possibility of Nicolas Cage being a reptilian, life, society, ovid one nine, and more! I hope you enjoy it.   Check out Daniel's work: IG: @danielrckstr Podcast: DudeWhatCoolPodcast Please shoot us a comment, rating, and follow us on social media! Check out our website at www.thejuanonjuanpodcast.com IG: @thejuanonjuanpodcast YT: "The Juan on Juan Podcast" TIKTOK: @thejuanonjuanpodcast Stake your Cardano with us at FIGHT POOL at fightpool.io! Thank you for tuning in! Full transcript: 00:00:13Welcome back to another episode of the one on one on sack podcast balls on balls podcast. Today. We have a special guest with us. All my all my guests are special. This one's ever got Daniel with us. Once again, for what the third, fourth, fifth time, the fourth time, I've started, but I forgot already one of those times, one of those times. 00:01:13Crazy false flag event is happening. Every time we do a podcast episode and I want to get I want to go straight to the point with you and I want to ask you a question that I've been thinking a lot about lately and I don't know if you can answer it. If you don't feel comfortable, ask that you not answering it. That's fine. But I need to know. How do you know if you know me. I was I want to listen, listen, to music serious stuff. I'm serious. Don't listen, is in. This is going to be crazy. Bro. Kofi is Nicolas Cage. Part of the child pedophile ring. 00:01:51That is a very tough question that I don't know if I want the answer to bro. You really don't know if I want the answer to that question. I've been on here watching Nicolas Cage movies, bro. And I just he's such, he's such a great actor. You know what I mean? He's such a hurry. He's a character in all his stuff. It's amazing. I don't really remember how we saw a color out of space. There's a moment you ever heard of his movie Vampire's Kiss or he acts like a vampire and all that stuff. Bro. It's one of this is one of the I don't know if you've ever searched up like his scenes in the stuff that he's known for for like his overacting and we're not at the movie Vampire's Kiss of the movie where he straight up, like I never missed anything. 00:02:44What time does a b, c d? What's that mean, that? I mean, like, where he does the crazy eyes, that's what that movie is from. That's that movie Vampire's Kiss. And in that movie, he talks with, like a little bit of a flow of like they should be any color out of space. I found this out through an interview he did. He said that that that he's related. He based that character and color out of space. Like he says all because Dad never said that. Dad said he did that character as if it was the son of another character that he played, as it's out of here. 00:03:27But he said it with a straight face and like the guy interviewing he was like my mind is blown right now. Oh my God, I would have I would have been, right? Because he's been in that. He's got like, I don't know how many houses he got. Like, you got married and divorced, within like the same day or like a day or two. I don't remember the story. That guy's life is insane. Dude. We see the latest one Pig. I have not seen play, that one's cute up and I have to see it at some point. I just been working too much. Bro, is barely enough time in the day to just sit down and watching The Cage movie. Oh, those were the good days. Dammit just finished. 00:04:15Do they make this time quick senior? How many, how many movies has Ian movies amount at Sea over a hundred movies, bro. I'm over a hundred. That's all that's a lot of movies, but then he was out buying dumb ass. Shit are cops. If I blow into this. Holy shit. Now, worth around 25 million as of May 2017, has reportedly taking film rolls left and right in order to pay off his remaining debt. So 00:05:06If we look right here cuz I am DB page. He still has an Untitled. Joe Exotic project, write another Untitled, Nicolas Cage, Amazon Studios project that got announced call the parent Lee, Lord, High fire, whatever that is. And another one called retirement plan. And butchers Crossing, which is in pre-production and post-production as we speak is based on a book. Okay. Gotcha. This President is so much stuff, bro, like the scrolling down and seeing everything. I'm like, I know of a few movies here and there, left behind Outkast. I remember watching. Joe was actually a good movie to watch while going to be a TV series brother, High Fire by Fire Wolf voice acting. 00:05:58Yeah, this guy's done so much stuff, bro. I don't know if he's like one of those actors that as much as you see him in like some piss poor project. There's there's a couple in there is like Diamonds in the Rough or you just go. No way. He made that. That's awesome. I think. 00:06:18I'm going to go ahead and stay and I think over a hundred movies. You going to tell me woman? Okay? Okay, this can go either or this can go either way. I think, maybe the reason he's been in so many movies is, maybe because he doesn't want to go into that world right into the world of the, the elite of, you know, what I mean? Right? And that's why he would have the rule that's going to make him and like that. That'll be all he's known for, right? I think it's weird because in that world, right? Like once you get that Academy Award or you've made it to like the top of the mountain at that point. It's like you can pretty much do whatever and most of the time What actors do is that they end up directing projects, they become producers their the becoming more behind-the-scenes people and they are on suck. But what's funny about Nick Cage is that he doesn't really like playing that role. He just wants to keep doing movies and do it movies to no end. 00:07:18Damn, dude, what else? What else you going to do? Like it, but it's different when they cage, because if you look at someone like, let's say Steven Seagal, right? Steven Seagal was like, Provident into like the early 90s you had as few movies, that were pretty good Under Siege hard to kill or whatever. But after that like he just hit a lull in there. That's where he's been the rest of time. Like he came out with a few movies recently. We're all he's doing is just standing there and then he just he just does that shit and whatever. But he doesn't do any action moves or nothing. He says, they're where's Nick, Cage is busting his ass trying to make a fucking piss-poor. Movie somewhat legible. Good to watch, like it's incredible. Dude. With a cage is what is a work horse? And I don't know if it's easy, it is for the dead. I will say that but he keeps it going. 00:08:1817. So that was some years back, but supposedly he blew 150 ml. 00:08:25That's a lot of fucking with him. 00:08:30Do that money, bro. Only have 50 million videos. Fucking 00:08:37I'll be chilling, bro. It's like, let's get into it. I don't know if you want to plug your social before for the three people listening to this fucking shit, unplug your socials. And so people can find out if you want to find me anywhere. It's a book you for a music gig here in Florida, bro. Exactly a tad Daniel, Rockstar. That's Daniel RC kst, or you can find me anywhere. I've done twitch streams. I've done podcast of the multitude of things. It's just responsibilities, get in the way. And I hate that sometimes, bro. Don't say that sometimes real like y'all got to do this and then it's like crap. You got like this to do and this to do. There's not enough hours in the day bro, working a full-time job and doing stuff like outside of here. It's like such a demanding role. But then again, I'm the type of person that takes on too many projects bro. Like, I'm not going to lie. I think I have a problem with hyperfixation. I really do and 00:09:37Did I told you got your bro? I've I stop this podcast for 7 months because of obviously life got in the way and 00:09:46Well, then it's a. What, what really? What real what was that? One thing in Family Guy? What really grinds? My gears really grinds my gears? Yeah, really grinds, my gears. Is that check this out? I just came across this on Reddit. 00:10:02What are make this shit on break and the leader of the Taliban has a Twitter account in the former president of the United States. Does not. How does it? How does that make you feel? Okay, so it's because we've already mentioned earlier like how these historical events just tend to happen. Whenever we decide to do an episode like the last one. I remember we did was it was the whole thing after Trump do that in January? I think it was cuz we just talked about everything and just this should show that happened. And yeah, and then and then was interesting. Now is like, not only are used to seeing this happening in Afghanistan. You like taking my perspective, for example, and, and mind you, like, I could go in this like fully and death, but just to kind of leave it short and sweet, like, in Columbia. There's been an uproar of the government wanting, you know, the people wanting, the governments of you replace. 00:11:02It's looking like it's going towards communism. It's looking like they're trying to sell. I'm going to lose. Yeah, dude, really reported on my parents went back in around like close to like May and they were there for a month and then that month that they were there, the country went into lockdown now only because of covid-19 to pass some laws that we're apparently raising the taxes. They weren't stopping collecting money from the people and people weren't working because everybody had these restrictions and all these zones and all this stuff. And you know, if people just felt like they were tired, they were tired. And there was an uproar and there were protests, there was a lot of burnings, a lot of stuff going on over there. 00:11:49And a lot of people just got tired, got out of the house, once a protest, my parents had to like, reschedule their flight back because of how bad things got. A lot of people are looking to get out of the country and a lot of people are just trying to just start some shit, you know, just because you like burning property and everything, Have you listened to the one of the latest episode of I listen to Joe Rogan's last now by listen to one of his latest episode. The one with the with the little Korean. I've seen Clips here in there. I haven't heard something April or the last couple have checked out from Joe Rogan was the one we had a Dave Chappelle and Quentin Tarantino. 00:12:33The the whole thing with her was and I honestly, bro. I think it's probably if not, his best episode aside from the Alex Jones ones, which are always going to be. Number one is pi up. There's like pie top five best episodes that he's done it and what she doesn't, she goes into depth in North Korea was actually happening there. It's pretty much a genocide and I've done episodes on North Korean strange horns, my buddy, Tom. And yes, it's all. It's all jokes and Shake is more like a comedy cuz. Yeah, but but this is real. This is real. And there is it? What pisses me off about people here in the states when they talk about oppression? And they talk about how, how they they feel Target in all this shit. There's actual places, where there's actual real oppression, where the government will. Literally, there is no protesting. There is no speaking, your mind. Your you do, as you're told, and you like it, and there's actually people who experience that every day and then 00:13:33People come here and because the president tweeted something that made my nipples hurt anything on these other places that people have no say to what happens to them early. They have no control and people take for admit, you know, they take for Advantage. Are this democracy that we live in in the in the beautiful country that we do live in aside from all the bulshit that's going on right now. And that's why with the whole covid and all this other bullshit. That's fine. You know, it's a real thing. Don't get me wrong. I know people get Gonzales, but I know a lot of people who have died from covid. It's a real thing. I'm not an anti-vaxxer. I'm Auntie mandate. Don't be fucking forcing things on people. 00:14:26Tip for what? All because if you're so fucking concerned that you're going to get a virus that you're vaccinated against. You're concerned about getting it from me. Aren't you vaccinated for the virus to be, you know what I mean, but I asked somebody right? Yeah. I said cuz they were they were bringing up being vaccinated and how we're going to do. You know, they're talking about needing vaccine vaccine reports for going Interstate right here in the US and then I do know. This is Schindler's List all of a sudden do cats say. Yeah, so they're like, oh, yeah, you know, I have no problem cuz I'm vaccinated and I'm like 00:15:11They're making people feel like this is, like, you're a hero for getting like, text Anita. It's like what I said, I said. 00:15:26I responded to the person I said. 00:15:29Do you know what it feels like to be a lab rat? I'm sorry. You do know what it feels like to be a lab rat Because by the way, the actual term for it is is immunity boosters. Not a taxi because it's not. So Excuse me while I went out to some long-ass list of things. I don't trust the government with because they also brought up the fact that I took vaccines when I was at when I was a kid. I had no choice now. And guess, what? Did you see that that report in Australia, they're going to fax. They're going to vaccinate $25 equals in, about the Yeah, Yeah. Yeahs without their parents being able to be there. How creepy is that? Shit? That is it just as bad, Optics. It looks like something that it's not a good look. So taking it step-by-step, right? For me. I can understand where I've had many conversations with people about why either. They don't want to take the vaccine. I took the vaccine. 00:16:29One of the biggest Daniel listen when you guys become bucket list or Lizards or whatever the fuck, you're going to come home and make sure to personally go to your house and put your fucking misery. Have you heard you're a movie to you're a movie buff. Have you remember that the pot to? I Am Legend of I Am Legend, of course, we're not going to go. See you next time. So Samantha lemon, all this, right? Is that I'm still living with my family with your folks. They're in their mid-sixties. They have their health conditions, you know, high blood pressure. My mom has a hereditary trait of like diabetes and stuff like that. And you know that my dad is he had a stroke in like early 2013 and you know, there's plenty of things there. 00:17:26That had me very unsure and throughout 2020. I wasn't able to do much at all. Like I used to do music gigs. I used to go out with people. I used to do so many things and then I was practically just homebody and then go to work back home, work back home. And a lot of the trouble I was having was even if I do go out right because for us younger folk, it's like we can at least kind of fight it a bit. You know what I mean? Like, we're not going to be at a worse odds, right? But for my folks, I was really worried and they ended up agreeing to take the vaccine and then they asked me, what did you want to do? 00:18:08Me and my conscience in the way that I look at things. It's not a matter of religion. It's not a matter of like, what it, like, how do I say this? Like, it's it's just that, that bit of me where I was like, if something happens, right, you know, God forbid something happens and in like I get it and doesn't hit me that bad, but then one of them gets it, you know what I mean, like, and the worst comes to happen. That's where to me at that point. I don't know how I would come to feel about that. And I know, I'm just getting, like, real deep about it right now. But like, it's just, that's the part. That sucks. Right? Like if I was living on my own, if I was like, dude, I was very doubtful about it, especially the day that I want to get the first dose. Is it literally outline for you? Like in seven different pages that says this is not been approved by the FDA and that was my biggest problem with this from the beginning was already bad enough as is. 00:19:12I just like, you know, Derek their Mass producing it, putting it out there. And a lot of people, I feel like if this was something improved, right? And this was something that was going to come out anyway, then and just put the seal of approval on it. And a lot of people would have been like, you know what, it's an option, right? But we're not going to politicize it. We're not going to do this going to do that. But they end up weaponizing. We did, we did all that shit anymore. All that shit anymore. And then and I get you right. I got you because my dad had my dad had a heart attack seven months ago a month ago. So my dad has my dad's diabetic. Can I get you? But at the end of the day, I mean, I don't live with him and I, but I do go visit him. Yeah, he got the vaccine cuz his doctor said, if you get covid, again, it died. That's what do his doctor said. If you get covid, you're going to die. 00:20:12So guess what? He's supposed heart attack it right. Now. If you have some sort of cancer, May Nicolas Cage, you know, bro Pro prohibit that right? Cuz you're so fucking Nicolas Cage. So if you have some sort of cancer, right is right, and obviously we all know that even money can't buy you life because what was the dude name from Apple? Was it does Steve Jobs have Steve Jobs. One of the richest men in the world died of cancer. Even have money couldn't save him, right money. Couldn't save him now, so, 00:20:47Right. Now, if you have some sort of terminal illness and and there is nothing, absolutely nothing else you can do. 00:20:53I'mma tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to be tell me how you have a 50% chance of when you take, when you eat cow shit. You're going to get, you might get ready or cancer. Guess what I'm going to do it, right? If I have no other choice. I'm just going to try. Yeah, I don't want to get into the whole metrics and all this shit, but it's got a very high survivability rates right for the help. People people who don't have underlying, underlying condition is got to hydrate. So, what I think is what I've talked about before, on my podcast, it's called in the medical tourism. And what they do is they use propaganda. They use propaganda to speak to people's soul in a deeper way because of you, notice how people are acting nowadays. It's almost like, as of lately, right? As in and I've noticed this and I didn't know it. What if it was me or if it was what it was, right? 00:21:48We all get depressed sometimes right now. Yeah. Yeah, I think we all get sad in the in the hustle and bustle outside. Fuck. What am I doing? Where am I going to go? What, you know, why do I keep you just you just get tired for the for a little while? I've been feeling a bit down, right? Like like the energies off and like, for me like time is slower. Right? It's like this weird vibe that's going on in the world right now. That's just throwing everything off because if you see how people act, bro, it's almost like this cult mentality. Like, it's almost literally, like, like hordes of zombies, quite, you know, figure it figuratively. And maybe perhaps, literally soon enough. We will see come here. Two years from now, whoever took the vaccine will see. What? What's the 00:22:44Later, but I got you, bro. I get why you did it. And I, and I, and I and I get what, you know, I get your reasoning. I'll be honest looking at it to like everybody's everybody's like, human body's different, right, you know. Depending on what exactly you depending on, what you eat, depending on how you are and like, what you have suffered from, or what the hereditary hereditary traits, right? That your family is and stuff of like, you know, health concerns, and whatever, all that stuff, kind of like factors into it as well. I just like seen recently, of course not saying names, not, you know, mentioning anything in particular but like seeing two different cases where somebody who had the vaccine, 00:23:34Go through your getting covid and just getting over it. Like, if it was just the flu compared to somebody else who didn't take it. And, you know, now they're in the hospital. It's like, right? Like it kind of It kind of adds. What does that mean? Exactly. And that's what I was getting too. It's like, then you look at it at the other way around, and you're like, so what's the whole point of this, this vaccine? Then we'll do what I think it is. 00:24:04And if the government wants to track you there, if they're already doing it. Okay, we got phones, actually, I mean, if you want to stop that gun, just answer your phone in your fucking ass, and you'll make that stop. But here to check the email, the whole what I think is happening. 00:24:23I don't know. I don't know what the fuck is happening. I will be honest, but check this out. What is, what if 00:24:33What if I don't want to say it, but what if it's part of like revealing the aliens or some shit, dude, I don't know. You know, I already passed that we knew and will try to get you. If I want the fuck. I want the fucking pictures of the Year. Dimensional Grays right away through a fucking poor. The one I want. I want a gray on. I want him talking telepathically to me to MTV. I want that. I don't want to watch, there are unidentified objects flying in our airspace. No shit. We know that the 7th grade. What are you talking about, man? I want an alien to just kind of like, or whatever being it is to know that. Like they've already seen enough of the internet or just enough of us in general to just like flip us off on screen just like a straight middle finger. Just like I were like that understands us. 00:25:33They know that we are in all seriousness,. It's like a, it's a social experiment, is what it is, I've ever seen. What's that? What's that movie? It's actually with the guy from what's his name? Adrian. Brody is based on a true story of the prison experiment on me. See what it is, where they give us Authority, and I think it was like, the guards and then they they it's like a social experiment to where they go. It's, it's not the movies that are they called the experiment in 2010 and the movie. I'm going to read the the experiment does. The name is a 2010. American drama Thriller film by Paul starring, Adrien Brody in a bunch of people and then it's an experiment, which resembles Philip zimbardo, Stanford Prison Experiment, and that was some social psychological experiment and flu. 00:26:33By the Milgram experiment to investigate the psychological effects of Percy, Faith, power, and it was focusing on the struggle between prisoners, and that's what I feel. And that's what a lot of different ancient scriptures, talk about, right. They talk about us pretty much being a fucking experiment in the Book of Enoch. When Enoch is, is among the angels and just chilling up in heaven with, with the one or God, whatever they're at the, you know, they're looking down on Earth and going well, like, look at this is a fucking who, who, what is it? I was just, you know, pretty much an experiment. Forgot to see. Hey. And then we fly our Angels down sometimes and we fought them. And then we come right back up. And then we make like demigod babies, right? That's what I feel. It is that it's, it's 00:27:20It's some sort of experiment and maybe it goes deeper than that. Right? Maybe it is a religious experience, especially in terms of experience in and just like a whole like shift, not just in culture, but in the way of just like, you know, your viewpoints and then your perspective on things, right? I think, especially looking at what we were talking about earlier, you know, was talking about Afghanistan or Columbia or just any of these countries that are going through some type of, like political shift or some type of cultural movement where people are just fed up, right? Like you look at here. And of course, our problems are completely different than what other countries are. But even in small doses, right? People want to get paid more people want, you know, to earn more but the situation in which there in doesn't allow them. 00:28:20Have that growth right unless you really go out there and you like you don't start your own business or you try to do something on your own. Like if you're trying to work commercially through something like it's probably not going to give you enough to to continue your growth unless you're working like two, three jobs, and driving yourself. Absolutely insane, which a lot of people do, right? And in other people that just want to make enough money now. So say, like I said, I want to make $15 an hour now, flipping burgers and then all the doctors and all the people, all the federal people that work, you know, these these more lucrative jobs, right. That they're like, I have to really put myself out there and put my mental stability. On check constantly. Now, I'm going to get paid, you know, even if I'm salary or whatever, it's like these people are going to be making just roughly about the same. Now. Like, where's my increase, right? Everybody's going to want that. It's so it's so to me. It's ridiculous. 00:29:20Do do you say it? Like everything that comes with economy especially towards like let's stay here cuz I'll just related to us right here in this state here in our area if people want to tell me while I can't you know for an apartment just flipping burgers and stuff don't like yeah, then why did you come to the tourist capital of the world? Where all you know is just going to be 50. But your retail flipping burgers and all that like you got to seek other opportunities. Got to get elsewhere, right? Unless you're working construction, some type of industrial job or something. Like you're not going to get what you're looking for. Working the basic stuff because the basic bare minimum is going to give you just that like something, so, 00:30:05I'm going to play devil's advocate here, because 00:30:09at the end of the day, everything and anything that we do for example, money currency is 00:30:19We give Valley to that, we give it, ya. Ya who tell who it in the nineteen-seventies. They pass the law where didn't need to be backed by gold but you know back then right after the after that, in the nineteen-seventies at 5 to print as much money as they wanted to. Yeah, to do. Anyway, I have to give value so much to these things, that we all again. It's a thought experiment. We all came together and said, hey what makes the president the president without a bunch of people collectively agreed on it, right at the other that you believe, what are the respectable? Because you were supposed to present under States. What what do you mean? Do you want to meet the president with a fox that like just the kind of like throwing a little comment with that too. It's like I've recently got into looking at a certain YouTube videos. I like to follow certain people that have like different, but you have a YouTube, the phone. 00:31:19Hey, hey, so what's this guy? And there's a guy who just kind of goes through about like the different videos, right? And it's different like, political YouTubers out there that they're like, all, why is this President good? Or why is this President bad excetera excetera? And the one thing that stood out to me about what that guy said, was look at the end of the day, whatever you try to say about a certain president. It's not just, it's not just about the one guy. You're talking about the administration you're talking about Congress, you talking about the, you know, the Senate, everything all together collectively together, the government working itself, out. Just so happen to do. Certain decisions, Pastor in-laws, and who just happened to be the person in power that so-and-so. So it's like it's not just a one-man show and a lot of people get that perspective skewed because of course, the media will just say whatever they're going to say, you know, 00:32:19The Hulk old mentality in in the whole like you're with me or against me type of thing that they dispute the unvaccinated. Yeah, right, so I don't know, dude, but you do know that that Hitler claimed the Jews had a certain disease in order to make them all going to the train, right? That's how they fucking thing. Like it's like, people will start getting into these extreme approaches when it comes to this. Because now they're going to say. And one of the things that I I kind of related to his just didn't even even not going to like the whole lake Hitler similarities or any of that. I'm just like, even like the bare-bones kids in school, right? If if, but you, and I both know, and I'm not sure how I feel like everybody else knows, you're not really required to say that you got vaccinated or not. 00:33:19No, not really is. I don't think it's really either. There's some type of legality towards it or ya Hippa Hippa. So there was someone that I know that told me that one of their teachers at their kids school had got covid. And now, they were pretty worried cuz they're like well, as everybody else vaccinated, like, how are they operating? This is Mike. Instant thought, as well. They're not going to tell you, like, why would they tell you their? Luckily for you? I identify as fully vaccinated, so, 00:33:54Where, where are you? Okay, because even so like if I had a kid, right? And this is just me talking. Like I don't have a kid. I don't know what that feels like, right? Like if if I'm they're going to tell me, you have to send your kids to school. I was going to say that I'll do homeschool virtual school. I don't care what it is and I'll be up if you have the option. Not only that it's like you think I'm going to trust some snot-nosed brat, who doesn't have you know doesn't know shit about like hygiene or anything. He's going to maintain a clean fucking Behavior about it, dude like that you and I we we grew up, you know, we knew each other since middle school. We like we were growing up and seeing that broke. Kids can be discussed in teenagers are fucking gross. People are gross. And you know, that's it's not going to be pristine like, all know that's not going to happen. So 00:34:54I don't blame people for getting angry at that. You know, I don't blame people for being like, Oh, well, why are they doing this then? It's like, well should just keep them home yet. Most like to see everybody's mad at DeSantis, right for not enforcing The Mask mandate York, your fucking kids, and you can wear a mask if you want. And don't, you know what I mean? Like, it's like this. Like, but what happens is the made it to where I'm at. It's like I'm better than you because I got my vaccine. I think all I'm asking everybody, but you know what? I mean? I can join the sheet that I read on the internet, especially it seems like everybody's like I was on red at the other night and I was like, some guy was like, I fucking hate unvaccinated people. I hate them with all my heart, like, like people are legitimately hating. And having this, this, this feeling and these feelings towards Pitbull. 00:35:54It's that whole like you're with me or against me mentality to. I think with the problem was when they started opening things back up and letting people back into certain public events, next week. Hey, yeah, so so that's where my problem. But doesn't that show you right there, bro? That the government doesn't know what the fuck's happening. Anyways, distrusted the signs, but what's even with the Santas, whether you're with him or not, Riley or whoever's listening, whether you're with him or not. It's like he falls into that same category 2, because nobody knows what the fuck is happening, right? This is, he doesn't really have like, capacity towards their parts or anything like that. Where is before, when she, it was like serious and nobody knows. Nobody. Truly knew what the fuk was going. There was like half capacity. Barely any capacity. Fuck everybody. We're not doing shit. Like that's how that's how quick it was. That's how quick it was. We're not letting anybody in and that's Disney. Frozen is Disney locks up there. 00:36:54Doors. That's when people go. Oh, shit, like cuz there's a more money hungry people than they were sold out for a while to see parks in the last stuff. Like this is the way it starts to see it. Right? Cuz, you know me, I like looking into shit and taking weight was putting myself in in other people's shoes and and how to see it if I'm a company. Right now. I have my employees and they just so happened then like take away the political aspect of it. Take away the, you know, religious beliefs, whatever what have you right? Right. Never buy. But then some of them start getting covid and then they end up becoming some type of liability. Now, you as a company, as head of your company has to answer for that because now it's all you got covid-19 app, hurt. My husband got covid in your facility, right? And your property under your watch, now you have to pay for that is like, companies are going to start going like, well, 00:37:54We're going to have to cut down on a bunch of shit. Right industry-wide. There's been a shortage of so much supplies. So much material, bro. I'll tell you firsthand based off what I work, right? We've had so much shortages and so many things that have not been produced and Disney is trying to just work overhaul on so many things. They were doing this again. We're touching up on paint here. We're doing this for doing that and it's like, they're trying to set all these projects and trying to remodel and do all these things, but the materials not there for it, but Disney doesn't care because they'll just throw money around. Like it's nothing cuz they have so much money to spend. But 00:38:35Lake even like for what I got recently. Like I mentioned to you like earlier before the episode. I got another guitar. There was a certain things that wasn't able to get for a while and guitar that I wanted for a while. I was one of them like they weren't being produced. Things were just on short supply. There's a perfect video that showcases why that's been happening cuz I saw it on forgot the name of the page, but basically what they were saying is because of the shortages and what companies have been doing on the west side of the country, unlike California, there's like two entry points like to Doc's, like main docks. Were they get a bunch of like Imports and, you know, stuff like that and didn't see the import-export and all the trading and all the shit that happens through it. They're operating on like half of their staff and we're talkin about it while dude. Still love you, bro. And here is they're not going through quickly. You know, it it's it's what I tell people plywood has gone up in in in a crazy on like 280% or 300%. 00:39:35Yep, trees are growing any slower. You can still get what you can still get the chemicals to make paint, right? You can see all these things. It's just how you said the Labour. Sure. There's not enough people to make the word fast enough. Yeah. For supplying them and it goes up but it's like an artificial demand. It's an artificial, the man like Supply crunch cuz it did not but there's no trees to cut to make the fire with it's not enough for getting around. Yeah, and so people know what's inflation is transitory like know, it's here. It's here to stay because they're fine. Yeah, what was it yesterday? Or this morning? I think five million jobless claims against, you know, what is 5? Million people aren't working fine. They're getting paid $16 an hour to stay there. Ass at home. While you're waking up every morning and going into work and working your ass off and exposing yourself, right? Potentially. 00:40:34While they sit at home and, you know, it's okay to milk the system, but at the end of the day, you know, we were in Afghanistan for 20 years, for 20 years. Our taxpayer money was funding this for, what? Yesterday was it was, it was is done all that money for what? Cuz again, it's a conspiracy. It's the fucking Elites whether they're reptiles or not. They're the ones playing this game and they're all launder money with each other. And how you going to tell me a public servant that makes $200,000 a year $240,000 a year, how the fuck they have a net worth of 50 million and have X amount of properties in x amount of money, from a, from a public servant job. Ridiculous. How do you go from being president, making $400,000 a year to an boom, over $100 a week cuz of all their connections and all the other lobbying that they do for all the other? It's all corrupt. 00:41:34All a game. It's a program. And I don't know if you've been seeing like it's I've seen a few but he's already of it of like glitches in The Matrix and it's like people who aren't acting the way they should. Cuz they say, there's a conspiracy theory that says that some people are NPCs and some others are like players and we're just add that the main characters and others are NPCs and stuff. You're not. And I saw one this morning is like a cop, like just like 00:42:05It was in the guys. Like I might to hit he's like if I do anything wrong officer, the guys just like looking at them. So you was rebooting in the cloud or some shit. I don't fucking the Lord was Afghanistan. Also just like you said for 20 years, right? All the year that I'm going to say it. It wasn't Trump's fault or Biden's fall. 00:42:31You know, the fuk got us into Afghanistan was Bush. You fucking idiot. And here, you are trying to blame Trump or Biden. I did. I saw some people already throw into the Trump thing there and it's like to me. It's what people fail to realize is that they keep connecting shit to recent because it's like that's all they know is the recent and they don't know the history. They don't know the things that have happened before, right? Why do we go to Afghanistan? Right? And in, like 2001, was like the big, like, an uproar about it was 9/11 and everyone at that time, whatever, you know, whatever of what we know now, it's like back then, it's like, the way that your sites were were, just boom. We need Revenge. We got to kick some ass. They're not getting away with this. And the way that the narrative was spun was. Hey, it's over here. It's over here Afghanistan. Yeah, we're going there. Hey, how about Iraq is pretty fucked up. 00:43:31They're doing over there. Right? And it's like way white. What if it is like slowly, but surely everything kept happening and then people like as time went on right over the last 10-15 years. It's like okay, something's not right here. Something's not right. And with the flow of information and everything that has come up sprayer, every as it feels like. Now everyday something happens immediately, you just, you know about it, you know what I mean? Like, that's just how crazy things have gotten now. It's, it's one of the things I wanted to add with like it, especially with like medicine as well. Right? I was listening to a podcast, I listened to their not political or not, and they were just talking and they just so happen to start talking about the vaccines and everything. And one of the guys said, you know, it's really odd. How, you know, I got a surgery, let's say, like seven eight years ago for his leg, right? Left them a pretty gnarly scar after he got it, you know, everything came out fine. You got operated on the leg, come to find out. 00:44:31A co-worker somebody he knew like ended up getting some type of like surgery done as well. And you don't even see anything like just a little wine. That's like what the surgery was now it's like pretty much. 00:44:44How things keep innovating and how it keeps upgrading is such a rapid rate, which is why I feel like some people just aren't completely unsure or have that that negative feeling towards or that attitude towards the vaccines and Sports Medicine in general. Cuz it's like to technology keeps evolving. Fucking medicine keeps going all over the place. We still don't know what the fuck is going on around the world, cuz just everything is that an uproar? Everything that happened ever since 2020 has just halted the world, right? Everything has stopped. And in most ways, the thing that I see is just like you said, you think it's like, you see this as like, an experience is like some type of experiment, write something going on, and I feel a lot of people, I know, you might feel a different way about it, but I feel like a lot of people are not only just waking up to just certain things happening here, cuz I've seen so many interesting discussions. 00:45:44So many cool like things out there were people are just like, hey, this is not a way to live a life. You know what I mean? This is not a way that we should be. You know what I'm saying? Like this. This shouldn't be, what what we should be doing all the time. Here's the thing, bro, you're talkin about trusting the signs and trusting the powers-that-be, not always Novation happen, but at the same time, how does that get weaponized? Right? How does that get better than this because 00:46:19The government has fucked people before in the past. It doesn't repeat but it often Rhymes. Right? And that's what people are scared of that. Maybe perhaps they're using this to weaponizer or whatever because the powers that be, that's just the way it is. I mean, if it's in a cultic practice or whatever it is, that's just the way it's been. And unfortunately, the the poor in the lower class always get the short end of the stick. And I firmly do believe that there is this this this 00:46:57This cabal of elite that run everything in the fun day and they cause it's got, its got a name something dialectic. I forgot. It's like a problem solution and then start, you know, you like that. Cycle, you know, I'm talking about so I can present in a solution to be solving that it just it just isn't always like, it's something right. If it's not one thing. It's the other. If it's not who's going to be president, is what the fuck the president was tweeting. It's like right now, it's all about what has it been lately, obviously, covid, and that the elections were stolen right. That's all, it's been going back and forth, like play K. Let's find some dirt on somebody for some shit. They did that. Again. It's all like this game, like this TV show its like The Truman Show bra. Honestly. I love The Truman Show and it's scary how like, accurate that shit is cuz it's like I have a few men who trippie that would be like. 00:47:58if it's not really like that one who's to know if, 00:48:02If you're going to fucking wake up, and what's that? What's the, the Morpheus actor? Laurence Fishburne. Just like, he's like, they're waiting you up and come with me. And how crazy that would mean. You just like, welcome to the part with the Whitworth is martial arts training is like it'd be as hard as you can, and again, it's 00:48:38I honestly think it's some sort of experiment. Where were just I find it. So interesting to like it's such a I think maybe because with us we've been we were part of a different generation. I leased born in the into a decade where, you know, I will I was born in 93, were what 94 like our generation at least in the sense of like, the group that that we were born with. Right. We experience like the tail end of what it meant to be, like having the technology and its Bare Bones material, right? Until I cut the beginning stages of like cell, phones and smartphones and everything, and having it evolve to where it is. Now. The phone type keyboards. Yes. Exactly. Right. Or like different things, where you just don't you just kind of take that shift for granted because you just look at it now. And you just go damn. 00:49:38Had a lot of different things in what kids are born with now, right, and it's crazy because, like, I could just imagine what a kids like, definition of fun, would probably be, right? Like with us. It's like fighting dudes. Like you, you were there, while we did was ride bikes. Stand in front in front of electrical box and just talk about crap all day. You know. Maybe that's the cure to covid, are the people that got the radiation from those boxes paying off my butt. But like my point is it's like there's such as to what I was saying earlier. It's like that whole cultural thing where it's like, at each generation goes through it, right? But 1960s, right was like the summer of love and light, does a peace out talking about hating black people and races Civil Rights Movement. We're going to Vietnam and all this cultural shift. That was like no fuck that raelettes in the seventies. 00:50:38In the 70s, there's like more of a change in media with the movies and everything was more like grimy and just fucking out there and then he has moves like taxi driver yet movies that it just they were Relentless right with what they put out there in the 80s. Everybody just went fucking ham and just fuck it as a line of coke. I'm going to do five. Fuck it, you know, everybody just went crazy with it and it didn't music as well bro, like the spearmint Tatian going on the 80s in like all these people that came before us to do what they did write that they just had that third eye opener of any kind Ray like they just had that moment of just realizing fuck. This is what we're going to do and we can enjoy doing that. It's like, how do you define the last ten or Twenty Years of that? Right? What defines, what the fines that that generation? What defines Our Generation where it's like, for me? Obviously, for us like we, we weren't around to experience, like, throughout the 90s fucking Kurt. Cobain. 00:51:38Nirvana that the whole age of rebellion that led to like movies, like The Matrix and stuff like that fight club and the anti Authority because everybody got tired of that shit. Everybody hated that already. They're like no fuck that. I won't do what you tell me, write that type of attitude going to fight that broke is a mind. Fuck. Do you like even watching even re-watching and knowing how it is? How I can't believe that. That's like what happened, you know, but even in that movie, you see the messages that is putting out. Everybody's working on a fucking 925 Jagger. And all I think about is, what am I buying? Am I buying Starbucks in my buying the living room couch, and my living does Sam. I am I living my life by a fucking Jeff bezos's email after he does. Lex Luthor know. It's crazy because as much as like, as much as like you say, right, like things are like a simulator. 00:52:38Things like that, but there's always been those bread crumbs of things out there. Even in media, even in things that we don't trust now, regularly or the language to the. So I've always end up, there's a reason why they put all this shit into movies. How you're saying. You're you're you're, you're hitting it right on the head. But again, it's this, this occult practice of a video, you know, that Play-Doh Play-Doh and play Tool's the Republic. And again, a lot of things that were inspired by put even the Matrix got to do is put those do the the allegory of the cave. So Play-Doh and the play OneRepublic, he talked about banning certain arts and Musical musical notes and yet wanted to limit music because he kneeled the effect that the Arts had on people. He knew the effect music speaks of frequency, speak, to people on a different levels. He said that buy people seeing plays and whatnot that they were to get inspired. 00:53:38And it's almost like, you know, inspired to revolt against the government or, or do whatever. And again, that this is crazy at the guy in the year 300, something was talking about the sort of stuff in the same shit that everybody else is playing with sticks, staring at a wall. This guy is like, what the hell is our purpose, right here? Not do is write like what it, what are we doing? Right? Let's see, Jeff, Jeff, Bezos. Laugh here, all guy. 00:54:07What the fuck? People laugh, but nobody believes me when I say I'm like bro, rich people just have this distorted way in their behavior. And the way that they laugh, the way that they talked all that shit ain't got to be a fucking weirdo when you're the life out of me. Because like look at those people. Look at you and they just feel like you're you're beneath me, right? It's like I'm not. I'm a royalty on this. I'm not asleep. 00:54:40You're made of meat and Bone, just like I am but that's what I was saying earlier about what gives those people value? All because they have they have more pieces of paper than you do. Yeah, they made more money than you did. I thought you meant to put it out there. You know what I mean? Like, what that message. They accept that that, that rule, right? That's like all that stuff. Is the richest man in the world. OK, Google doll. That is like, all right, is fucking narrative that I got. I made it. I didn't happen. So my buddy. Yeah. Tony from the third dimension and I named it, the American illusion and then the on the, on the cover. I put, you know, homeless person with the arrow. Horse has white house over here because at the end of the day, bro, I was just like it, it's fucked up. But what do they say, one man's treasure in is another man's is another man's trash is another man's treasure. Another, there's another saying would like misery. 00:55:40Whatever, like one man's daughter die, is there? Okay. I know what you're talkin about. What I mean? Like, one person's Good. Fortune is another's Misfortune. And if nobody's made that cord, then there is a comes down. I always believed to people that make it to that Elite status and whatever is just such dumb luck. Bro, is so dumb luck, too. Because it's like, you got no, I think it's what I think. I think it's I I firmly believe that. I think it's something that you can control as long as you know, the law of attraction. I'm that's why I talked about that. We live in a simulation because it's been proven that the mind you buy. You looking at things. It has a different reaction. But by when you don't look at it, look up the double slit experiment, Adams act differently when they're being observed, almost as if they know, if they're being observed and they change in the in the way that they behave by you just, it's the observer effect. So right now, 00:56:39Who's to know if when you're not? 00:56:43Looking what they're actually really going on. You know what, I'm going to have to seem to be some metaphysical aspect or not. And that's why I feel like a lot of the things of back then, the reason that they were so exaggerated an end and, you know, just different and I'm talking about like, ancient scriptures and and the art and whatever it is, is because it was a different time because I feel people were that much more in tune, with their, their Oneness, right there, their self. They may be a point. Like, what was difficult about believing things so far in the past is that, you know, the victors are the ones who write the history of his story, but his story. Yeah, so it's like, it's, it's so, it's, so it's interesting, right? Because it's like you said, it's one of those things that you could believe that, but it's, it's also one of those things that you look at you go. Well, how much of it is true? How much is not right? Because that's the that's the beauty of it, right? People. Talk about all what happened World War. 00:57:43My World War 2 is like not everything is going to get spelled out for you because it's going to follow a narrative and it's going to be whatever the Victor say. It was right on the same as with, you know, ancient Societies in like the Mayans or are even like ass sex or anything else, whatever we found and whatever these people thought would happen. That's it. Right. We don't know what exactly happened down to the nitty-gritty diesel, but it's funny. You're saying because back then and unless the thing right? Maybe it wasn't his history, his story back, then when they fucking wrote on rocks and here they they didn't just put any random ship on rocks, know it had to be important and had to be straight to the point. Good back then writing on Rock so hard and it was expensive, right? So maybe perhaps they did do some things out of story. Imagine like it's like, I'm pretty sure I've seen this in a movie. So there's like, okay. So how does this story start? Why I bursted 00:58:43I want it more epic. I ran through the door and I made a grand entrance. No, no. No, I want it. A little bit. Yeah, his mighty wrath, came all the while. The guys is going to rain in Boulder, right? There's nipples are really hard. So who knows if it's the fallacy worried people needed to embellish things, but 00:59:11I just know, it's a fucked-up system in a fucked-up word that with him because of how what pisses me off about people is for the longest time. And this is all over the world. They call the US, the police de do, do the world, right? Like all they need to get, they get involved, where they're not supposed to be. It has some shit like, how is happening in Afghanistan, as I want the Americans helping cuz I could use one of them out of their, you complaining, you fucking complain about us being there and then you don't know, we're not there, some ship popped off then your complaint that we're not. It's a damned. Why we always talk about? Dan W, Dan W fucking. You got to think about the children in this and that's like you realize, what they're doing to women and little girls over there, bro. Because his videos all the videos that came out of that right with the plan. And also do you realize that I like, there's not many women, there are many girls there. You realize what they do to them in that culture in and out those beliefs like it's

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A growing number of lawmakers -- including from Democratic leadership -- are calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office either through impeachment or the 25th Amendment to the Constitution after a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday.Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer put out a statement Thursday denouncing the "insurrection" at the Capitol "incited by the President," and saying, "This President should not hold office one day longer." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined the call later Thursday at a news conference."I join the Senate Democratic leader in calling on the Vice President to remove this President by immediately invoking the 25th Amendment," Pelosi said. "If the vice president and the Cabinet do not act, the Congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment that is the overwhelming sentiment of my caucus and the American people."The calls have come largely from Democrats so far, but at least one congressional Republican has joined in. GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, a frequent critic of the President, has called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked, saying in a video message on Thursday, "the President must now relinquish control of the executive branch voluntarily or involuntarily."Invoking the 25th Amendment would require Vice President Mike Pence and a majority of the Cabinet to vote to remove Trump from office due to his inability to "discharge the powers and duties of his office" -- an unprecedented step.Any 25th Amendment push faces an unprecedented steep hill to come to fruition with little time left before Biden's inauguration. The calls in Congress, however, underscore the extent to which lawmakers are reeling and furious with the President in the wake of the devastation at the Capitol on Wednesday.Sen. Patty Murray, the No. 3 in Senate Democratic leadership, has also said it's time to invoke the 25th Amendment."The most immediate way to ensure the President is prevented from causing further harm in coming days is to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove him from office. As history watches, I urge Vice President Pence and the President's cabinet to put country before party and act," she said in a statement.House Oversight Committee chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat, on Thursday backed removing Trump from office either through the 25th Amendment or impeachment."Invoking the 25th Amendment is the quickest way to do this, and expedience must be our goal," she said, adding, "If the Vice President and Cabinet fail to act, we have a duty to pursue impeachment."Other prominent Democrats have urged impeachment in the wake of the mob violence at the Capitol that took place as a joint session of Congress met to count the electoral votes affirming President-elect Joe Biden's win amid false claims from Trump that the election was rigged against him.Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic caucus chairman, tweeted on Thursday, "Donald Trump should be impeached, convicted and removed from office immediately."Three members of the House Judiciary committee -- Reps. Jamie Raskin, David Cicilline and Ted Lieu -- are circulating to colleagues an impeachment resolution calling Trump's actions an abuse of power. They wrote that Trump violated the Constitution by "willfully inciting violence against the Government of the United States."All four members of the progressive "squad" of Democratic lawmakers -- Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley -- have also spoken out in support of impeachment in the wake of the violent siege of the Capitol."I am drawing up Articles of Impeachment. Donald J. Trump should be impeached by the House of Representatives & removed from office by the United States Senate. We can't allow him to remain in office, it's a matter of preserving our Republic and we need to fulfill our oath," Omar tweeted Wednesday."This is on Donald Trump, period. He called folks to D....

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Covering this White House and this President is a 24 hour job, says Gregory Korte, award-winning Washington correspondent for USA Today. He says that this President is more complicated in many ways from any other President in history. In part, Korte claims, because most traditional ways of handling issues and procedures are turned on their head. This President often eschews the analytical approach to problem solving but instead governs “from his gut.” He often bypasses staff to make decisions based upon instinct. Korte adds that we should not be surprised since President Trump is exactly the same person and personality as candidate Trump. However, he notes that as President, despite the turmoil and rancor, that Trump is slowly, one by one, keeping his campaign promises. However, Korte expresses some concern that our news coverage of the President is giving the average person news overload. Instead of concentrating on issues, news coverage too often is focused on Trump as the individual. He notes that in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency that 43 percent of the news coverage focused on Trump himself and not on his agenda. Korte posits that the fixation on Trump the man often takes up the space that the ordinary person would use to examine issues and concerns. Trump, himself, has become the “all-encompassing story.” This gives Korte some concern. We should note that this interview was recorded in April 2018 but it is still relevant today – perhaps even more so. In 2017, Korte was awarded the Gerald R. Ford Foundation Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. He was a nominee in 2014. He also has acted as a visiting professional teaching at the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University – his alma mater.

It's another great FarrCast! The markets dive -- should Fred & Ethel be worried about their retirement accounts? All of the experts agree. The Dow dropped under it's 200 day moving average. Jim Iuorio says, "that means almost nothing to me." Iuorio says the bull market isn't over, but there are things out there that worry him. The Fed still has a tightrope act in the raising rate environment. Dan Mahaffee is with us again to explain the inexplicable -- the dysfunction of DC. This President negotiates in public, and it's something completely different than what we've seen before. It's chaotic -- but there is immense flexibility when orthodoxies are discarded. Michael welcomes as his special guest tonight, John Freshman, the insider's insider, and an expert on all things Washington. With 30 years of experience in the halls of Washington, John puts all of the movements of the markets and in DC in the context of the coming elections. Will we see divided government in the next Congress? Does it even matter? Download and listen today!

Revolution_The Podcast - May 6/18 Arlene Bynon and John LeBoutillier examine how Donald Trump directs, runs and dictates every single statement made by his staff and government. This President personally crafts all messages delivered on television by his people - so when Rudy Giuliani speaks he is reading from a script written by Donald Trump. Those who refuse to do so are summarily removed from office or from his legal team. "Loyalty" in his mind is a pre-agreement to do Trump's bidding - and to offer no disagreement. The question: how long can this last before the truth catches up with Trump?

This President’s Day has us thinking about the Presidential Fitness Test. Do you have terrible memories of trying to do a “flexed arm hang” in front of all of your 7th grade classmates? We do! So we’re scrapping the old test and suggesting a handful of better ways to track your fitness progress. It’s the “Just One More” Fitness Test! Plus, Daphnie answers a listener question about how to balance evening workouts and trying not to eat late.Links in this episode: Presidential Youth Fitness Program, Runkeeper, Map My Run, Fitbit Alta HR, Fitbit Charge 2, Garmin vívosmart HR under $80, Garmin vívoactive HR with GPS

Darrell Castle addresses the President's statement about immigration from certain countries, specifically those in Africa as well as Haiti. Transcription / Notes COMFORTING LIES AND DISTURBING TRUTHS Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today's Castle Report.  Today is Friday, January 19, 2018, and on today's Report I will be talking about the President's remarks the other day, when he allegedly referred to certain countries as “poop hole” countries.  He is actually credited with having asked some lawmakers, during discussions on DACA (the delayed action on childhood arrivals) bill, that is a current matter of contention holding up passage of the budget for this year; why do we take so many immigrants from “poop hole” countries, we should be taking in more from Norway. Whether he actually said it or not is a matter of contention because he said he used strong language but not the word “poop hole”, and some of the lawmakers in attendance said that he did, in fact, use the word poop hole.  Whether he actually used that word or not, I am not sure, but for purposes of this Report, I am going to take the position that he did use the word “poop hole”, in reference to some countries in Africa and Haiti, in particular.  Notice that I am using the word “poop hole” countries instead of the actual word the President used because I don't want to offend anyone who might be offended by the commonly used word for defecation. Even that is a matter of debate, however, because what did the President mean when he said poop hole?  Did he intend the word “poop hole” to refer to a toilet, i.e., those countries are like toilets, or did he intend it to refer to the actual human “Heine hole”, i.e., those countries are like “Heine holes”? I'm going to take the position that he meant toilet, as has most of the media.  You can scan the media around the world, and even in countries where the language doesn't translate very well, such as Japan; the press usually says that the President referred to certain other countries as “toilet countries”. This President is often crude, but he has a knack for raising questions that lead many of us to truths we have been wondering about but perhaps did not have the courage to ask.  I think his question; why do we admit so many from those countries is a legitimate question that the vast majority of Americans think should be asked and answered.  Why, indeed, what do people from those countries bring to the United States besides a little bit of those countries?  How could immigration from those countries benefit the United States in any way?  Aren't Presidents, Congressmen, and Senators supposed to represent the people of the United States?  They take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, but doesn't that require them to represent us? I know what immigration in general means to our lawmakers, and too many Presidents before this one.  For the Democrats it means building a permanent voting block of dependent people, who will always return the hand that feeds them to power.  For the Republicans it means satisfying their crony capitalists, who fund their campaigns in return for a steady supply of cheap labor.  The last two Republican Presidents before this one, accepted the seemingly inevitable march to the European-style socialist, multicultural administrative state, but this President does not accept it. For us rubes who live out here in flyover country, it means that if we want to be considered nice people, if we want to be acceptable to many of our friends and relatives, if we want to be like those in Hollywood and the media, we must enthusiastically go along and accept it all as inevitable.  However, this President has given a little hope to many of us deplorables.  He is giving voice to those of us who have had no voice for so many years, and so we are grateful, even if we are ashamed to admit it.  That's why so many of Mrs. Clinton's polls were wrong.  Today you either have to be very brave,

Darrell Castle talks about President Trump's broken promises and the tragedy of what could have been. Transcript / Notes BETRAYAL Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today's Castle Report. Today is Friday, September 22, 2017, and on today's Report, I will be talking about promises made and promises broken, and what might have been from President Donald Trump.   President Trump campaigned on a promise that he would end DACA on his first day in office, but 8 months later he makes a feeble attempt but then reneges. Last week I said that he sent Attorney General Jeff Sessions out to announce that he was going to issue an order withdrawing President Obama's executive order establishing DACA, but then the President invited Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to the Whitehouse for dinner.  Ms. Pelosi issued a statement summarizing the discussions and stated that there would be legislation re-establishing DACA by law, which the President had agreed to sign.  There would be serious discussion about border security “less the wall.” The Whitehouse Press Secretary said that, yes, border security was discussed, but no discussion about not building a wall, there was no agreement about that.  That would make Nancy Pelosi either an idiot or a public liar.  That's possible but highly unlikely.  No, folks, it sure sounds like the promise which first got him noticed in the polls,  i.e., “I'll build a wall and make Mexico pay for it”, has been abandoned. Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan told a group of Republicans that “only one person wants a wall”.  Well, Mr. Ryan, I beg to differ because 63 million Americans voted for that wall, but hey, who cares about them.  Everyone in Washington not only wants no wall, they want amnesty.  Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, along with all Democrats,  want it.  Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and all the liberal Republicans, want it.  The tech company billionaires in Silicon Valley want it, and it looks like they will have it because the only ones who don't want it are the ones with no power and no influence.  Tens of millions of tax paying Americans don't want it, but they do not count. So no repeal of DACA, and no wall, along with the destruction of the Republican Governors' lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of DACA , those are what President Trump has delivered instead of fulfilling his promises to the voters.  This President likes the deal.  He is the consummate deal maker and he likes the deal more than the Constitution and the rule of law.  He worked out a deal with the Democrats and they got everything they wanted, but what did we get?  I just don't see the quid pro quo. It is a very sad reminder of what could have been.  This is what happens when you elect someone with no ideological motivation.  He had the power to withdraw President Obama's unconstitutional Executive Order on his first day as he said he would, but he chose not to.  What a message that would have sent around the world, but instead, he chose to send a message of betrayal. I remember President Reagan's amnesty bill in 1986, which was supposed to be the last one, and was supposed to include border security.  What amnesty did instead was to deliver California to the Democrats forever.  That's not enough for the Democrats though, they want the entire country forever. This all brings two questions to mind; what is the value of citizenship, and what is the value of coming to America legally?  American citizenship has always been the golden prize, the brass ring that millions around the world desired, but was obtainable by only a few.  Five cities in Maryland have now passed laws making it legal for non citizens to vote. In Philadelphia, a city Councilman recently stated that hundreds of non citizens vote there.  So once again, what's the point of legality?  Perhaps America is now a “failed state”.  I looked “failed state” up in the dictionary and it said “a state that deteriorates to where conditions and responsibilities of a sovere...

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