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Hey everybody, our stupid president was doing a rally in Texas Friday afternoon. There are a couple news items out of that I want to talk to you about. The point of him going to Texas we thought was to make an endorsement the Texas Senate race. We've talked a lot about Talarico and Crockett. On the other side you get Ken Paxton, corrupt just horn dog, MAGA fool against John Cornyn who is I guess kind of like a spineless like weasel man, kind of an effete, effeminate man pretending to be mask. You got a third candidate as well in that ways, Wesley Hunt. Trump instead at the rally at least did not make an endorsement. Now who knows, you know the vagaries of the mind of our deluded president between when I speak into this microphone and when you see it. Maybe he will have made a choice. Wouldn't seem like it though. Maybe just sitting on the sidelines the Democrats will just keep this free and us. Hopefully it's just Democrats watching. We are hoping for Ken Paxton in that one. So I want to play a couple of clips, though, from the rally, and then at the end, I got a little dessert for you. One other news item about Donald Trump's unbelievable failures. And we love it when there's an epic failure for Mr. Trump. But onto the Texas rally first. Which one do I want to do? Why don't we do. I think the most interesting news item we'll start with is his comments about one Raphael Ted Cruz. Let's watch.
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Donald Trump
We have a senator who's really an amazing guy. I'm thinking about putting him in the Supreme Court. No, no. I'm thinking because it's very hard, you know, getting these nominations through is very tough. He's the only guy I know he'll get 100% of the Democrat vote, 100% of the Republican vote. They want to get him out of there. He is such a pain in the ass, but he's so good and so talented.
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Ted Cruz thinking about putting him in the Supreme Court. Oh, boy, do I want a podcast competitor in the Supreme Court.
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Donald Trump
It gets worse.
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I don't think so. It's something to think about. There's some interesting politics of this because Ted has been kind of signaling that he is interested in carrying the banner of kind of the anti Vance wing, the more neocon, more pro Israel wing of the Republican Party against kind of the more isolationist Vance side. I think that's probably a loser's fight, but it's an interesting fight and we like it when they fight. So maybe one of the thoughts here is sideline him, go ahead and put him in a robe. The other element of this is that Trump is thinking about Supreme Court. He's always speaking his internal monologue. It's why I'm a little less into the conspiracy mongering about what's happening in the White House than others, because Trump, like, pretty much tells you what he's thinking. A lot of times he just blurts out. He's just not really great at secrets. And so in this case, he's signaling to us that there's conversations happening with Thomas and Alito about getting one of them to retire so they can be replaced with an ideological ally while Trump is still in the White House. I'm guessing that is that those conversations are happening. A couple interesting subtext items to that. Clarence Thomas is coming up on being the longest, you know, the Cal Ripken of the Supreme Court, the guy that's been there the longest. But he would have to go through Trump's term to achieve that. So there might be some tension there. He wants his own position in the history books, maybe more than he cares about Trump, maybe I don't. I have no inside info, you know, his insurrection. His wife doesn't talk to me. So maybe it's Alito. Alito has been, you know, doing some dirty pool. So look to Alito there. Interesting though, would Alito leave this year? Because I gotta tell you a real question, a real test of Chuck Schumer's coness and willingness to fight would be if the Democrats would take the Senate and then Trump tries to replace a Supreme Court justice. Could he McConnell it? Could he sit on it? Something to think about. So a lot of political subtext there, you know, maybe some about the internal fight happening between MAGA and whatever the pre MAGA British GOP represented by Ted Cruz, weirdly. And then also a signal, I think that there is a deal afoot with Alito to move on. Another interesting item from the rally, I'm sure you've heard about the Texas Congressman Tony Gonzalez, who is embroiled in like one of the most just hard to stomach scandals that we've seen in a while. He was cheating on his wife with a staffer, sending a lot of dirty texts to the staffer, including things such as anal question mark and then we don't exactly know what happened. The staffer self immolates, lights herself on fire, kills herself and Tony's still in Congress. Some people have called for him to resign, including Lauren Boebert. Donald Trump had to say about Tony Gonzalez in his home state of Texas. With a big primary coming up on
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Donald Trump
Tuesday, Congressman Tony Gonzalez is here. Tony, congratulations.
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Congratulations. Congratulations for what exactly? Is it congratulations that his Gomar killed herself? Or was it congratulations that he's still a lot unclear what the congrats for. Do not congratulate. Probably should have been on the card there for Tony Gonzalez. So we'll see what happens. Just as quick aside, while we're talking about the Texas primaries, there's another House primary happening. And in Texas you can vote
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either primary if you want to. You got to pick a side though. One interesting thing, if you're in Dan Crenshaw's district, Dan Crenshaw is in real threat to a MAGA candidate from the right. Ted Cruz actually endorsed that MAGA candidate. An interesting troublemaking play for some Democrats interested in having a little fun would be to pull the Republican ballot vote against Dan Crenshaw because he deserves it, because he's been a lying prick while he's in Congress and He's been like pretending like he's the responsible one while just being a total Trump sycophant. And also because I think conceivably the Democrats could, maybe that seat would be more attainable for the Democrats if for the right candidate beat out Crenshaw. So something to think about if you're living in the Houston suburbs. Okay, one more clip from the rally. I almost hate to show you this, but we'll just do it.
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Donald Trump
Maybe we do one more term. Should we do one more term? Do one more term? Well, we're entitled to it. Because they cheated like hell in the second. We would actually be entitled to it.
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All right, so we're back to floating the fact that he might get a bonus term. I don't. Look, he's old and, and struggling and this seems like, like a bit at this point, but I have always said one of the biggest risks of Trump is that a, that you can imagine an 81 year old man feeling cornered politically, feeling cornered, maybe even legally feeling cornered, his mind starting to deteriorate even more. Who knows what such a person might try to decide to do. And so you kind of just hate to see him back to floating this nonsense about him sticking around. All right, I told you I'd save you a little dessert. There's a Friday night legal filing from Truth Social Media where they, you know, report their financials for 2025. Are you ready? We're playing this as a game. I want you to think about this in your head if you haven't seen it yet. I just played this game with a husband and a friend downstairs. What? How much money do you think Truth Social, Trump Media and Technology Group, actually, which is the parent group of Truth Social, how much revenue do you think they brought in in 2025? Think about that. Let that sit in your head for a second. You know, I don't know. I'm trying to remember what did like when the Free Press got bought, I think they were making, you know, there was just like a blog and they're making. I think their revenue was 20 something million. 20 something million for that Free Press blog. How much do you think Trump Media and Technology group brought in? 3.7 million total revenue. That's insane. That's like nothing like, that's like the amount of money of revenue that you make from your two sweet green franchises in a year. Your Jack in the Crack franchise in Skokie, Illinois is bringing in that kind of money. So they brought in 3.7 million. How much do you think they lost? How much do you think Trump Media and Technology group lost in 2025? Think about that number. You're figuring to yourself, I don't know, brought in 3.7. Tim wouldn't be asking this if they made money, so obviously spent more than that. Maybe they spent, I don't know, 7 million or something might be kind of rational. Lost 3 million. They lost 712 million. So let me give you those numbers again. Trump Media Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, brought in 3.7 million in revenue and lost 712 million. 712 million in the red for Truth Social. This is one of two things I was going to say, but it's really both. This is a criminal enterprise where they're just paying out, you know, the Trump family, the Nunes family, untold millions, and, you know, figuring their billionaire buddies bail them out on the back end. So it's a criminal enterprise and it's just. Just an utterly incompetently run organization. I mean, even if you were to, you could fake it and do better than this, like, I mean, I could pretend to be a Trump supporter and start a blog that made more than 3.7 million. I could tell you that, and that would be easy. So it is just the level of corruption and incompetence put together is something that defines the Trump administration. And so this story that even in his private business, they're equally corrupted and competent. It's just a nice encapsulation of the Trump era. Like, this is the businessman you guys put in. You guys are like, we need a businessman to fix the country's economy. We need to look around the country and find somebody who knows business, who knows deals, who can make sure that we recover from the Biden inflation. We need to find us a businessman. And MAGA America looked around and they're like, this guy, the scam artist, the fake television businessman, we're going to look to him. The businessman we need running this country is somebody who has a company that brought in 3.7 million in revenue and lost 712 million million. I mean, if it wasn't so dark, it'd be really funny, but here we are. Here we are. Well, hope you guys enjoyed that little bonus segment. News is happening on Friday night happened to be around the house. I figured I would get to you. Trump in Texas congratulating Tony Gonzalez. Floating Ted Cruz for the Supreme Court. Floating, once again, the third term bullshit. And issuing a filing that his Twitter knockoff lost $712 million last year. Be interesting to see who pays that bet off. Subscribe to the feed, y'. All. We'll see you soon.
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