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Kyle Kalinsky
You guys are not going to believe this little gem I found on the World Wide Web last night. If anybody tells me it's AI, I'm going to get in the fetal position and cry. Play the clip.
Guest or Panelist
Dee Noem and Stephen Miller are liars. Any administration that allows them to continue in office is rotten to its core. The vote on appropriations is coming up Thursday night, and Democrats will not let the Republicans move forward if ICE and DHS funding are in the bill.
Kyle Kalinsky
Did he start that? I mean, Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller are liars. Chuckles I knew. I mean, come on, let's fucking go. And here's the thing.
Co-host or Commentator
You better.
Kyle Kalinsky
You're talking the talk right now. Chuckles and you better walk the walk, because I take no pleasure in having to do episodes about an impotent opposition. And we're all here now, and you've seen Americans get killed in the street. And I want to say, first of all, welcome to the resort resistance. And number two, keep this energy all day, every day, because I want to see you succeed in resisting this regime. I want to see you do what Mitch McConnell did to Barack Obama's presidency. I want you all day, every day, f bomb this, FU that. Just brow beating the out of them and resisting it every single turn and letting them know, yeah, we may share some of the same donors, but guess what? You to the donors, too, and I'll get my whole party to boycott your products if you try to play this game with me. If we can have a government of the people, by the people, for the people, I'm for this. I'm cautiously optimistic. Chuckles Based on the strongly worded letters. A lot of other things, A lot of other things that I've witnessed, you know, but if you're ready to fight and you do this all day, every day, what I say to far left progressive Democrats is beggars can't be choosers. And if he chooses to stand up and start fighting right now and isn't duplicitous about it and isn't morally ambiguous about it and really goes full tilt, then let's support the fight. It doesn't mean you support the politician. And so there's going to be primaries and all that stuff at a later date. But if they start fighting, Hakeem and Chuckles start fighting all day, every day and put up a robust, very defined resistance. I'm the biggest cheerleader of it.
Co-host or Commentator
No, I agree, But I saw this and I thought it was AI, because I thought, there's no way he's coming out this strongly. And so am I hopeful that he will whip his votes and bring Republicans over to vote against the Appropriations Bill? Yes, I'm hopeful. Am I doubtful? Very doubtful. I just. I'm not a believer yet. But I'm like you. If. If this is. If this is how he feels and this is how he's fighting, I'll be a cheerleader.
Kyle Kalinsky
But I've just.
Co-host or Commentator
I'm not there yet.
Kyle Kalinsky
He's done these FU videos before. This isn't the first one. I saw one, I don't know, a few months ago. And so I. I hope it's not performative. I'm gonna perform for the base a little bit here and show them that I can be a tough guy. Then I'm gonna go, you know, hug little Marco on camera. I hope it's not that. Probably is, but I just wanted to have one little moment where I felt like there was a Senate minority leader that was as diabolical as Mitch McConnell in opposing. Like Mitch McConnell opposed Barack Obama. We're opposing literal Nazi fascists. And so I would think that Chuckle Schumer would have a vested interest and understanding the historical nature of what they're doing with these masked agents and denying people due process and indiscriminately killing people in the streets and depriving them of their First Amendment rights via execution. I would hope that some bells would go off in his mind and that he would be serious about it. So I wish you the best and welcome to the resistance. If you stay here, if you don't, we're coming. I mean, it's going to be all day. I'm going to go live for 24 hours for beating what a pussy you are. That's what I'm going to do. Next up, we have. The oligarchs are working overtime to stay in favor with the regime. Put this up. When Trump's billionaire allies control the social media platforms you use, you only see what Trump wants you to see. Mel. Melanie Daragio goes on to say, this is how authoritarians control the narratives. A headline from Wired Men Meta is blocking links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Users of Meta's social media platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS workers. And then moving along, the independent TikTok blocks Epstein mentions and anti Trump videos. Users claim alleged censorship comes after investors loyal to Trump take over social media platform. So these oligarchs are going to work overtime to be obsequious to the diabolical aims of this administration and to add propaganda because they don't want accountability either. At the core of all of this, besides the fascism and the racism and all of this, are entitled men that besmirch accountability. And so Jeff Bezos, I just had a article. He is firing, I think, 16,000 people from Amazon and Amazon has record profits. I think he's made something like over $100 billion just this calendar year for kissing up to Trump, and he's firing 16,000American workers. And so these people don't like you. And if you remember when I had Professor Ruth Ben Guyot, she said even the administration has disdain for the public. And so these oligarchs and how beholden we've become on them is so gross to me. I'm hoping that there's some new social media websites that can, can take, can take off so that we can all still see each other's clips and communicate, inform community. How great would it be to leave all. TikTok, our podcast, has left Twitter because the doxing is so bad on that. And Instagram, how great would that be? And hundreds of millions of people did it. I would love it.
Co-host or Commentator
But, you know, it just reminds me, I actively, on a daily basis, have massive disdain for Jeff Bezos. Like, I see every time I see an Amazon package and, and I order like, I'm guilty, but I let Mark Zuckerbach, Mark Zuckerberg off the hook. His little neutered. He. What a total prick. It tells me all of these billionaires, they're in on this because they could just let nature take its course with how these things are unfolding, but they're actively blocking it. So that tells me they don't value human life. They're so rich, they don't give a about people. And it's disgusting and it makes me feel dirty and feel like I need a shower every time I order Amazon, every time I post on social media. I mean, these billionaires are just terrible people.
Kyle Kalinsky
Yeah, they are. All right, moving along. First I want to play this video for you. Here's Trump on guns. He says, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. And my guy Kyle Kalinsky posts the following to this video. If Obama had said this, Alex Jones would have gone live for 12 hours with a beet red face and a fat jiggling rampage about tyranny and total totalitarianism. And this is the truth. These people believe in nothing. They believe in nothing. These people love their guns. Yeah, but when a liberal has guns, then it's like, oh, people shouldn't have guns. Oh, we forgot about Kyle Rittenhouse. They don't give a shit about little kids dying. They just their whole entire identity is disagreeing with open minded people with whom they are jealous, with whom live a more self actualized life. These emotionally stunted goons are the worst of us. Why do you think evangelical Christianity is so easily co opted by the kk, pay by the nra, now by maga? Because they're emotionally stunted idiots. These people are emotionally stunted and they have no conviction, no core value. They believe in nothing. We're tearing the whole country down for people who literally believe in nothing.
Co-host or Commentator
I agree with everything you said. My takeaway when I saw this is the reason that people don't take Donald Trump seriously. They don't take anything he says seriously because he just has a flight of ideas. Yak, yak, yak, yak. He means nothing. He's, you have whiplash. He says this, he does that. But I think it's such an important point that the leader of the United States is so unserious and it's such a caricature of a human being that the NRA and all the MAGA people aren't just up in arms, that Fox News didn't shut down and have to go on life support over this because.
Kyle Kalinsky
They'Re going along with it, right?
Co-host or Commentator
Inherently. He's not serious. They know he's not going to do this. They know he's beholden to the gun lobby and all the gun nuts that are maga. So he is just projecting what a weak piece of shit he is.
Kyle Kalinsky
I'm sorry, I think you missed. You misunderstand me. His allies are going along with this. They're parroting it, talking about people not having guns, that it's not just he said this, it, it these. That's my whole point. People believe in nothing. It's been echoed, it's been parroted. It's a hive mind of idiocy. I mean, I think the, the NRA might have come out and said, you know, guns should be everywhere. But even a lot of these people are like, this guy didn't have his ID on him, therefore he wasn't carrying legally. And Trump's right, and I mean all of his little sycophants have gone along with this. They've parroted it. He didn't just say that and walk away. And then here he is basically telling the NRA to suck it. Play the clip.
Guest or Panelist
That's bad. Can you tell? Is there one number that's bad. There's not one.
Kyle Kalinsky
Do you agree with the assessment from some of your own officials that Alex.
Co-host or Commentator
Preddy is a domestic terrorist or an assassin?
Guest or Panelist
Well, I haven't heard that, but certainly shouldn't have been carrying a gun. But all of, hey, look, bottom line.
Kyle Kalinsky
Everybody in this room, guy who, I mean, like at all their rallies, the Nazi rallies and all the white nationalist shit they have, everybody's got a gun. This is the political party where they take Christmas card photos with their guns. I've never thought. I mean, Trump's a New York City guy. Gun laws are strict up here. You know, I think it's got his kids, his sons, dumb and dumber, or little sociopaths that like to go kill animals and. And they're kind of gun nuts, but I don't think he is. And it's just interesting that how easily when somebody has a gun that they disagree with, then it's like, oh, people shouldn't have guns in public. This is the party that wants to arm teachers, right? This political party wants school teachers. And I remember one of my teachers, my fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Shifflebean. Mrs. Shifflebean was 4 foot 11 and crazier than a house rat. She should have never, ever, ever had a gun. She didn't. But if MAGA had their way, school teachers would have guns. But they're upset because a real alpha male had a gun and he had it legally. And they took his gun away from him after they beat him up while he was trying to protect a woman. A woman. And then they executed him. 10 bullets in the back. And then witnesses said they went over and counted the bullet holes, didn't check for a pulse. They went over and counted the bullet holes. Okay, guys, there has just become something that I absolutely cannot live without, and it is my Honey Love crossover contour bra. I know it's weird to talk about bras, but ladies, you know, every day you get up and it's a struggle. It's a battle with these bras. But with honeylove, it feels like you literally do not have one on. HoneyLove recently launched their new Cloud Embrace bra. And you guys, it sold out in days. It's a modern wireless T shirt bra with sturdy, light padded foam cups that feel like clouds against your skin. Honey Love bras are supportive and wire free, thanks to bonding technology that lifts without underwire. Honey Love products feature lingerie inspired designs, details that you'll want to show off, and high quality fabrics that feel like a dream against your skin. So Listener, treat yourself to the most advanced bras and shapewear on the market. Our Exclusive link to save 20% off of honeylove@honeylove.com ihip that's honeylove.com ihip after you check out, they'll ask where you heard about them. Please support our show and tell them that we sent you. Experience the new standard in comfort and support with Honey Love. And lastly, I just think this is really interesting for all of the national security Republicans, which I don't know if there are any left anymore, but pop this up. So Trump hangs a pic of he and Putin in a White House vestibule. So there it is. That is like, this will go down in history as the moment that he completely said here, here is all of the power of the United States of America to a weak, failed state. Russia is a fail state and just handed it over to Vladimir Putin. And he's so proud of that. He has it framed and he stuck it in the vestibule. And when you think about the, his history of the Republican Party and, you know, I'm a national security voter and you think about Ronald Reagan and you think about, you know, all these hyped up patriots that, you know, sing the national anthem at sporting events and they support the troops and all this. And that's the moment where he had the troops get on their hands and knees for a war criminal, roll out the carpet for him while he sat there and clapped like a seal. And he puts that up like that's what he's real proud of, like being Putin's puppet.
Co-host or Commentator
Well, here's the thing. I would think that whole Alaska summit, like, if he was, I dare say, you know, normal, he would be humiliated that that even happened. Like, he would want no reminders of how he got on his knees and was sh, whatever Putin told him that his aides were shook by Putin. Like, but he thinks they're friends. He thinks that Putin thinks they're equals. He hasn't figured out that Putin thinks he is the biggest dipshit of all times. And he proved it because he got on his knees for him in Alaska. And now he puts that in the White House in the national security Republicans. I am old enough to remember when it was the ussr. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. Russia, bad, bad, bad, bad. Murderous dictator, bad, bad, bad. And now you're memorializing the most embarrassing, the worst, one of the worst days in American foreign policy is when you rolled out the red carpet for a murderous dictator. Like, what the fuck?
Kyle Kalinsky
Well, remember, he also rolls it out, and as does all of Congress for murderous dictator Benjamin Netanyahu as well. Bipartis. But it's just interesting that since that meeting, everything that Trump has done, foreign policy wise, has been in line with Russian wishes. And what Russia wants, Russia, who is losing a war against a very small country, Ukraine, Russia that is a failed state, Russia, whose economy is in shambles. He brought him to Neil. And Hillary Clinton and others since her were spot on about how compromised he was and how Putin could play him like a fiddle. All right. That's all we have. Please, like, subscribe, comment. We'll be back later.
Date: January 28, 2026
Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie “Pumps” Sullivan
Featured Guest: Kyle Kalinsky
This episode explores intensifying Democratic resistance to the Trump administration, focusing on Senator Chuck Schumer's inflammatory rhetoric against Trump officials, the mounting frustrations of the NRA with Trump’s shifting stance on gun rights, and the complicity of billionaire oligarchs in supporting authoritarian measures. With their trademark mix of sharp humor and political analysis, the hosts and guests break down the new tone among Democratic leaders, examine the impact of social media censorship, and reflect on troubling moments in recent foreign policy.
"If we can have a government of the people, by the people, for the people, I'm for this. I'm cautiously optimistic… But if they start fighting, Hakeem and Chuckles start fighting all day, every day and put up a robust, very defined resistance. I'm the biggest cheerleader of it." (01:40)
Meta and TikTok Clampdowns (03:39–06:59):
“These oligarchs are going to work overtime to be obsequious to the diabolical aims of this administration and to add propaganda because they don't want accountability either… how beholden we've become on them is so gross to me.” (05:19)
Emotional Response to Big Tech (06:59–07:51):
Trump’s Comments on Guns (07:51–11:14):
“If Obama had said this, Alex Jones would have gone live for 12 hours with a beet red face and a fat jiggling rampage about tyranny... These people believe in nothing.” (07:51)
Discussion on Gun Violence Incident (11:14–12:58):
Putin Portrait in the White House (14:45–16:48):
“That is like, this will go down in history as the moment that he completely said here, here is all of the power of the United States of America to a weak, failed state.” (14:53)
Continued Russian Alignment (16:48):
“If he chooses to stand up and start fighting right now and isn’t duplicitous about it… then let’s support the fight. It doesn’t mean you support the politician… But if they start fighting, Hakeem and Chuckles start fighting all day, every day and put up a robust, very defined resistance. I’m the biggest cheerleader of it.”
"I hope it's not performative. I'm gonna perform for the base a little bit here and show them that I can be a tough guy. Then I'm gonna go, you know, hug little Marco on camera."
"These oligarchs are going to work overtime to be obsequious to the diabolical aims of this administration… how beholden we've become on them is so gross to me."
"If Obama had said this, Alex Jones would have gone live for 12 hours... These people believe in nothing. They believe in nothing."
“That is like, this will go down in history as the moment that he completely said here, here is all of the power of the United States of America to a weak, failed state.”
The conversation is lively, irreverent, and sharply critical, maintaining a comedic but urgent energy throughout. Sarcasm, hyperbole, and colorful language abound as the hosts and guest express exasperation at both right-wing actors and establishment Democrats, calling out hypocrisy and failures with pointed wit and candor.
For listeners: This episode is a passionate, sometimes profane, and highly engaging breakdown of late-stage Trump-era politics from a progressive perspective. The hosts dissect Democratic messaging, social media’s role in enabling oppression, right-wing hypocrisy around guns, and alarming developments in US-Russia relations, all with biting humor and moral clarity.