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Let'S face it, the President of the United States basically has dementia, is about 85 years old, and is just grandstanding around making zero sense. So of course this administration is trotting out failed drag queen smokey eyed sociopath who we will refer to as little Smokey. They're trotting him out all over as the government is shut down. And J.D. vance is far more nefarious, in my opinion, than Trump because Trump's lazy. He's intellectually lazy. He's predictable. We know he's going to ramble. He's not even remotely remotely entertaining. He's just gone out to pasture quacking like a duck. But little Smokey is sitting there primed and ready because he knows he can never win an election, ever. He is unlikable. He polls abysmally. So they're trying to consolidate power so that when biology catches up to Kanks, he can step in and unleash terror on the American public more so than what they're doing right now. And here he is on Fox News being an absolute prick. Play the clip. Trump.
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Trump trolling him with 28 hats. Yeah, thank you, Lawrence. That's the most important part. There are also the Trump 2028 hats, which I think made the majority or the minor in both the House and the Senate very uncomfortable. But look, it was the four of them plus me and the President, and we were having a very good conversation about health care policy. But the president finally sort of threw up his hands and said, guys, let's absolutely work on this health care policy disagreement. We want to fix this issue for the American people, but we're not going to be taken hostage.
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We're not going to. Okay, first of all, they have the Executive branch. They have the Senate, they have the House. They shut this down because they don't want to give anything, anybody health care. They're going to fleece the working class billions of dollars and transfer it to all of these billionaires, which is so disgusting. But for them to think it's just hilarious to have the 2028, hats out. Shows you how unserious and disgusting this party. If Obama, if Biden did something like that, Fox News would be hyperventilating around the clock.
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And I look at that and J.D. vance is like, well, you know, the president told them, we really. I really want health care and I want to work. Donald Trump didn't say any of that. Like, that doesn't. That's way too coherent for Donald Trump. And I, I too, I'm offended by. Oh, it's just laughable. We're gonna all these Americans over. But isn't he just a gas?
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Well, and the reason they're trotting out this third term, you guys, is I'm serious about this. They know that JD Vance cannot win a general election. They know it. He is not well liked. When Trump put him on the ticket, he was seen as a liability. He doesn't poll well with the base or with the American public in general. Let's face it. He's a failed drag queen that trots around the United States acting like a nut with a smoky eye. Nobody likes this guy. And then here he is talking about racism, and he thinks this is just a real knee slapper, the sobrero thing.
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I mean, Hakeem Jeffries said it was racist, and I know that he said that, and I honestly don't even know what that means. Like, is. Is he a Mexican?
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Of course he doesn't know what that means because he has a brown wife. And on the campaign trail, he was interviewed and he said, usha can't help it that she's not white. He doesn't even stand up for his own wife and kids. He absolutely knows it's racist. He is a racist. And he is beholden to incredibly bizarre, weird, white supremacist gay Peter Thiel. And this is a weird group of people that have this crazy idea, and I don't know if they sit around and do drugs or if they think they're just so smart. I don't know what the deal is, but Peter Thiel and this guy named Curtis Yarvin, and then they're little smoky here, they literally want to launch something that's called Dark Enlightenment, and they want America to be run by a CEO, AKA a king. And they're dead serious about it. Kanks is just their Trojan horse to get in and consolidate power. And here's the kicker. This is such a layup for Democrats to talk about because Peter Till's not even a real American. You know, like that's, that's the whole MAGA base shit. Elon Musk isn't even a quote real American. That's the shit that their base goes, goes crazy about. So you have Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. None of these people born in the United States. Democrats don't typically give a about that. But Democrats have to start playing the game. You have to get your hands dirty. Start trotting around and saying, why is Magus so beholden to foreign born people ripping our country apart? Why are we giving a billion dollars to Argentina? Why are we giving a billion billions and billions and billions of dollars to Israel to kill little kids? Why are we allowing two South Africans to come over here and say they don't think our democracy is great? Why are we allowing them to rip it up? It's a layup. Get your hands dirty. Democrats go down and just start ramm the airwaves. Go say it on Fox.
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Well, what's so gross about this? Like you said, J.D. vance's wife is brown and his kids are brown.
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Yeah.
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And him making. Well, I don't even. Is Hakeem Jeffries even Hispanic or whatever he said, like it doesn't matter. The President of the United States should not be putting AI videos up about any person, particularly a leader. But they don't give a. Because they think it's all so funny and he's just hilarious.
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Well, because they're playing two different games here, right? They're playing two completely different games. The response to this racism and this bullshit and this xenophobia and this tribalism that the ride is putting out needs to be for every Democrat to get on and say, why are these people so beholden to foreign born billionaires? Why is it that MAGA keeps giving your money to Israel? Why is it that MAGA is bailing out Argentina? Why is it that Peter Thiel and Elon Musk have more say about your tax dollars than you do Americans? They weren't born here, gracious enough to give them citizenship. That's the argument they need to play. They need to get their hands dirty because that will hit hard and flyover states. You and I both know it. And then here is JD Vance, a little smokey, trying to be deadpan and he's talking about the Project 2025 guy who's a total sociopath, a total Christian nationalist. Clearly probably some sort of. You know, like when we find out the hotspots for people watching trans porn. I guarantee you this guy's IP address lights up like an intercontinental ballistic missile. Play the clip about Russell Vaught announced.
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Today that $18 billion bound for new York transportation projects is going to be frozen, so it can't go to DEI programs there. But the timing of this. Does announcing that today mean that you guys are going to squeeze Chuck Schumer's home state until he blinks? Look, I haven't talked to Russia about this this morning, but look, I'm sure that Russ is heartbroken about the fact that he's unable to give certain things to certain constituencies.
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Right there. He's not. He's saying that sarcastically. I'm sure Russell Vaught is heartbroken. They are intentionally withholding funds from cities that are economic hubs. New York City. Because they don't like New Yorkers. Because New Yorkers don't like them. And New Yorkers know that Donald Trump and these guys are blowhards. That guys are grifters. New Yorkers know it. So what are they doing? They're withholding $18 billion. This is intentional. This goes along with the same language of the enemy from within. And we're going to start, you know, Trump telling the generals that they're going to have to go into American cities and violate their oath, their military oath that they took to uphold the Constitution.
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It's no surprise to me that they didn't run Kanks out after yesterday because it was such a disaster. But I personally don't think he's any better because he has no charisma. He doesn't present well.
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He.
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He. To me, he presents diabolical. But here's the thing. Until it gets to the Supreme Court, the lower courts have said you can't withhold FEMA money from states that didn't vote.
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This isn't FEMA money. This is infrastructure.
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I know, but I'm saying it's so. It's the same application here. They are withholding based on voting record, and they want power. And we know they don't want the mayoral race to go in favor of mom dummy. And it's just. It's so transparent. And this Russell vote, he is running around doing all this because there's a government shutdown. He likes it. He likes punishing Americans, and so does this administration.
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The entire project 2025 is an attack on marginalized people and poor people in the name of Christianity. That's what it is. You have a group, a large group of white Americans that vote with this white entitlement rage and they vote for cruelty in Project 2025, the Heritage foundation, the Federalist. This is what they're all about. Which brings me to Representative Ro Khanna. Put up the tweet. Ro Khanna tweets, Trump saying that survivors are a hoax means that these survivors are lying. Nancy Mace is lying, Marjorie Taylor Greene is lying, and Speaker Johnson, who heard the survivors for two hours, is lying. Who do you believe? They're survivors or Trump? And so Roe? Ro Khanna, this is the messaging right here. Very black and white. They're lying. And specifically honing in on Speaker Johnson. This guy Christian signals Jesus signals God woke me up in the middle of the night, told me I was Moses. Moses Mike is the biggest charlatan, grifter, ass kisser on the planet. He weaponizes his faith to lure in rural voters to believe in him. And when you look at the rankings of his home congressional district, they are abysmal. All of the praying and all of the, that he does and all of the Christian signaling has not helped the poor people in his, in his jurisdiction. And it is just unbelievable how these Christians have got, have risen to have this much power in the United States right now from a guy who is the most corrupt person I, I can't even imagine when I really stop and think about Kanks. And just in a week, he can do 25 impeachable things and we just gloss right over him or giggle at him and all of this stuff. This is our country. Like, I have kids that are, you know, very young adults. One in college, one in law school. And they're not going to grow up having, you know, security that they're not drinking, bacteria that planes aren't going to crash, that they're going to get weather alerts. You know, like those little girls in Texas, they didn't get alerts because we've defunded the National Weather Service. This is dire, dire shit. And then Ro Khanna just dropped another bomb. Ro Khanna says I was sabotaged by someone in my own party for calling for Palestinian peace and statehood. The corrupt elite are trying to make me take me down for exposing their Epstein ties. I get publicly mocked by both sides for being a lone vote against defense contractor handouts. The elite see me as a threat to their greed and power. So they're doing everything they can to stop me because they can't control me like they control other members. I won't be intimidated. And Congressman Khanna has been a guest on this podcast a couple of times. And this is where rubber is going to hit the road, you guys. Hakeem is over his skis. Schumer is over his skis. There are so many other senators that are so beholden to Israel and war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu that they get, they can't get out here and get scrappy the way we need them to. So I implore Ro Khanna and other members who are not beholden to these corporate interests to try to take over Democratic leadership right now. I know that sounds bold, but we're going to lose our country if they don't do it well.
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And we've already seen we have fighters in this party, but they are stifled by this weak leadership. And I just one comment I wanted to make because you said the Christians are the ones that are saying we don't want to help the poor. We want to intimidate and belittle marginalized people. That's because they think they're better. And they think that being a racist is cool because they were chosen and the hypocrisy is gross. And every single person that goes to their church on Sunday and raises their hand and acts like, oh, I'm just this great person. When they do not give a about poor people, it's because they think they're better. And they do not give a shit about brown and black people because they think they're better. And we, I look at our state, we'll show you, look at our rankings in our state.
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It's also not just that they think they're better. There's something Pavlovian. They get a mouth water. They get satiated by watching other people be demeaned, cruel. They, they, they like it. There is this. They traffic in judgment and cruelty for it's recreational cruelty. And maybe they think they're better. But there is for me above that is they like punching down. Yes, they like the punching down. And when you think about it, their faith has set them up to always punch down because they themselves have been told, you're worthless, you have to be saved, you're not good. And so they're primed for this type of cruelty. Which brings me to my final point. So we talked about Rokana and him standing up. I am very concerned that if the Democrats don't get their shit together and start talking about how this policy with blank checks to Israel is incredibly damaging and not in the best interests of the United States and not in the best interest of American taxpayers. And nobody wants their money to go fund killing kids and civilians. That's first and foremost when they don't talk about this. The same way they don't talk about these foreign born billionaires that are coming over here that they think they can cut up our Constitution if they don't talk about this Israel problem. The void is going to be filled and it's going to be filled by a grifter, an anti Semite and a total Jew hater named Marjorie Taylor Greene put this up. She's tweeted all social media influencers being paid by the Israeli government or any foreign government to promote a foreign country into foreign countries interests must register under the Foreign Agents Registration act under the doj. And then she goes on and she quotes the act and at the end she says saying this is not anti Semitic or hateful to any people, group or foreign country. It's the law. This is a vacuum that Democrats are leaving open. And I have been sounding the alarm for the past three months on this because we live in a flyover state. And when you have a politician that goes out and says you've been lied to, it's not been America first, it's been Israel first, it's been Argentina first, our money is killing these kids. They won't look at all of the other that goes in to Marjorie Taylor Greene because these people are low information voters. And so for the Democrats to not take the lead on this and to be the anti genocide party and the anti war criminal party and they keep playing patty cake and peekaboo photo shoots with Benjamin Netanyahu, you're leaving it for a gal who had cherry picks when and what she cares about. This isn't a person who cares about human rights and she's a hardcore anti Semite. And so you're leaving this wide open for her to walk in and grift off this thing. And so I hope that Ro Khanna and some of the other members of Congress get to really get together and get serious because we are going to lose our country. Lose it. Because they are consolidating power to kinks. And Lil Smokey is there. He will never get elected. But the most dangerous, terrifying thing that can happen to us is for power to be passed on to him because we will never ever get it back because of all of these freak show South Africans that were born in. No disrespect to our South African listeners, you know what I'm talking about. The racist ones that support apartheid. You have Peter Till, born in Germany, raised in South Africa. Elon Musk, South African. This is a huge problem for the United States, and I don't know why the Democrats are not making this argument. Who the do these think they are coming into our country and deciding they don't like our constitution? It's unbelievable. All right, that's all we have for this episode. Please, like, subscribe and we'll see you all later. It.
Episode: JD Vance Humiliates Himself Covering for Trump in Disaster Presser
Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie “Pumps” Sullivan
Date: October 2, 2025
This episode centers on the recent Fox News appearance by JD Vance (mockingly referred to as “Little Smokey” by the hosts), his efforts to defend Donald Trump during a press conference about the ongoing government shutdown, and broader critiques of Trumpism, Republican policy, and the Democratic Party’s leadership. Jennifer and Angie deliver their trademark unapologetically progressive, comedic, and critical commentary on the news, using JD Vance's media performance as a springboard for wider political discussion—touching on topics such as racism, wealth inequality, foreign influence in American politics, the Project 2025 agenda, and the Democratic Party’s response.
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The episode is direct, irreverent, and fiercely progressive, loaded with sarcasm and pointed humor even when addressing deeply troubling trends. The hosts’ passion and sense of urgency are palpable throughout.
Summary prepared for those seeking a comprehensive understanding of the episode’s substantive commentary, criticism, and the spirited personality that defines IHIP News.