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All right, the United States is in the throes of an illegal, unnecessary and ridiculous war global crisis. And the Secretary of State and acting National Security Advisor, Little Marco Rubio spent the weekend DJing a wedding. Let's play the clip. So as you can see, the Secretary, Secretary of State's back there at the DJ booth and we're about to get to just a nauseating part where he starts fist pumping like he's a badass DJ when this is a guy who his boss ridiculed, annihilated, emasculated him. And Trump's ability to pick people that are so weak that they are so easy to humiliate is really his superpower.
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Yeah, it is. And here's the thing about Marco. Trump called him little Marco for a reason. He has absolutely no integrity. And I don't know how Trump saw that, but it to go from the Foreign Intelligence Committee to Secretary of State under Trump and watching all the illegality and the bloodthirst and the destruction of the United States of America, it's really stunning. I would love to have a psychological profile on that.
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And it's everybody, it's everybody in his order from people in his cabinet to the people, you know, in your life that have completely debased and humiliated themselves by supporting this clearly immoral. I mean, it's not even that deep. You can't even like use these super deep words with Trump. All right, moving along, you know that we've been following here at IHIP News rat and Trump is rap JD Vance and he, you know, sending to with Erica Kirk. Erica Kirk no showed he sent him to Hungary. Viktor Orban got his ass beat. He sent him to Pakistan. The Iranians were like killing. Get your and move down. We're not doing this deal. So now Trump is rat J.D. vance. It continues. Let's pop this up. Catholic convert J.D. vance appears to have missed a shot at a reunion with Pope Leo, with his frenemy Marco Rubio tapped for the honor itself. And instead, a Vatican source told Reuters that the Secretary of State is expected to travel to Italy and meet with the pontiff on Thursday. And last May, Vance and Rubio traveled together to visit the Pope. And Vance is historically the least popular vice president at this point in in the Vice presidency, with a net approval rating of -18. So here's my thing. I know that Trump is going to want to rap both of them. He particularly likes rap fucking Vance because Vance was put in position by these tech oligarchs that Trump loves to humiliate. He loves to make them come into the Oval Office giving these trophies. And Vance is their boy. He is their political prostitute. But also he's not going to want Marco Rubio to get too popular with the Republican establishment. So, pumps, who do you think's getting rap more here? J.D. vance, our little Smokey ey sociopath or little Marco?
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Well, given that, I mean, and this is, it's a, you know, a hair's breath difference. But, but given that JD Vance has just published a book about his conversion to Catholicism and how important it is to him, then an opportunity to meet with the Pope he sends Marco. That tells me he's rap J.D.
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vance more.
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But I agree with you, it's a matter of time before the worm turns because he can't possibly let people start talking about Marco as next man up because that diminishes him and his mind.
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Yeah. And here I agree with that. But here's the argument that he is rat Marco, okay, is on this because the Pope is explicitly very anti Trump, very anti mag. It's not even, it's not even thinly veiled. It. The veil is off. And to send somebody to meet with this pope who has completely online and with his words, eviscerated every maga foreign policy. I think he's setting them both up for failure. But also, it could be argued the last time J.D. vance met with that Pope, he dropped dead. And so just wanted to point that out. And this comes after Vance appeared on Fox News and refused to deny an Atlantic report that critical intelligence is being hidden from Trump about the war in Iran. Let's pop this up the Atlantic. J.D. vance appeared on Fox News and dismissed the Atlantic's reporting on him and then quickly confirmed that it was true. Graham David A. Argues in the Atlantic Daily. So I believe that Vance keeps trying to leak information to the press to position himself as, I'm the adult in the room. I am the anti war candidate. Because he desperately, desperately wants to be president. He desperately wants to be in the IT club. Here's what's so wild to me is like, JD Vance would be president, and for any other president, that alone would have a lot of power. But for J.D. vance, he would come to the presidency with literally no power because he is so bought, owned, paid for, and probably, in my opinion, this is just my opinion, compromised by these tech oligarchs.
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Yeah. And here's the deal.
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vance, it's not surprising that he would go back and forth in the same conversation because he changes his views to suit himself. And the only people that really support JD Vance are the oligarchs. I mean, he's unpopular, he has no charisma, he lies, and he's trying to do the tough guy online. Like, I can be a badass like Trump and say crazy shit, but it doesn't carry the same way with him. People are, like, offended when he does it and they, you know, lick it when Trump does it.
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He's just completely unlikable. I mean, J.D. vance is so profoundly unlikable. And the hypocrisy that Trump is able to live in, it triggers some familiarity in the base. Like, oh, our pastor is this big of a hypocrite. Oh, my dad is this big of a hypocrite. But when JD Vance does it, it comes off as this slick, in your face hypocrite where he's trying to play both sides and he doesn't have the res to pull it off. And it pains me to say that Trump has it. Meanwhile, Trump's acting Attorney General Todd Blanch, his audition for the job as Attorney General is not going very well. Let's play the clip. There's a lot of things that we can be doing, like voter id. Like, every time you walk into a restaurant or a club, you have to show your id. How about you have to show your ID to vote? That's not. That's not anything. That's crazy. And that's. That's what we. Okay. You do not have to show your ID when you walk into a restaurant. You just. That just doesn't happen. And it's interesting to me that it's always the Republicans, the party that wins when voter turnout is lower, that is always wanting to suppress the vote. It's interesting to me that the party that says, we love the Constitution, we love freedom, we love Democracy is always the one trying to usurp all of the aforementioned items I just listed. And Todd Blanche is a man that at the end of all of this will for sure end up getting disbarred 100 if not imprisoned. This is a miscarriage of justice. His actions with Ghislaine Maxwell and meeting with her to see what information she had and then offer her a deal. And this is all going to lead to. Ghislaine Maxwell is going to get a pardon. That is coming. That is going to happen. Pumps.
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You know, Todd Blanche was so successful in defending Trump in his New York City case that Trump was convicted 34 times. And that's exactly who Todd Blanche is. He is a prostitute, just like J.D. vance. He doesn't give a he. I mean, he says, I, I can't get over this. I know it's been a few weeks. I can't get over him saying I love you to Trump in public from a podium. That to me is so bizarre. So this man has zero, zero credibility. But I will just say this on the spicy gossip side. Apparently Todd Blanche is trying to get into a very exclusive Washington D.C. club that I'm assuming you have to have your driver's license for. And he's being blackballed because he's such a prick.
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Yeah. You know, the, the short sighted gamble that all of these people made is already proving. I think the worm is starting to turn. Tonight will be the Met Gala in New York. And Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez paid $10 million to get into it to be the honorary co chairs. And this is a really grotesque time in America because Jeff Bezos is wanting, he's asking the public celebrate me. He's asking the cool kids in fashion and arts celebrate me. While at the same time he is exploiting all of these loopholes to not pay taxes. Right. And he is firing 19, 000 people and going out of his way to union bust workers. And in the face of all of this MAGA stuff and there really hasn't been a benefit from it. But if there is one benefit from it, I hope that it is. It is that as a country we can come back and work together to lift up workers, to lift up working class people and not celebrate the guy. Bezos's wealth under Trump 1.0 has already increased to the tune of tens of billions of dollars, while at the same time he's fired 20,000 people. So this lie that the Republican Party perpetuates make the rich kiss their ass, don't let them pay taxes. The wealth will trickle down. It doesn't. It is a lie in the fact that Anna Wintour and these others are going to celebrate this man While 20,000Americans don't have a job anymore is grotesque, immoral and just the bottom of the barrel. And speaking of bottom of the barrel, FCC chair Brendan Carr took a break from trying to tear apart the first amendment to defend little pris pants. Jenn, pop this up. So let's see. Defiant L's tweets here. Scott Jenning goes off on Adam Mockler. Get your hand out of my face. Brandon Carr chimes in. FCC rules don't prohibit profanity on cable and essay Trump dog d a w G tweets, what are the rules on smacking someone on cable? And Brendan Carr says also not prohibited. So this is in my opinion what scholars tell us. This is this flagrant moral collapse and this flagrant partisanship that is on display. We get to do what we want to do. Our acolytes can say and do things that they want to do and what they're trying to do is humiliate Adam Mochler. And it's really important. Adam mochler is a 23 year old kid, young man, I don't even want to say kid. He is an accomplished, well spoken, acutely intelligent, well studied young man that goes toe to toe with Scott Jennings all the time. And he stood up for moral values, for peace. He stood up for the truth. And Scott Jennings is a prostitute who changes his opinion based on who's paying him at the moment. And he couldn't handle the fact that he got owned by a 23 year old. So the Brendan Carr here is trying to humiliate Adam Mockler. And in fact, to me the more humiliating thing is Brendan Carr's behavior there. Like we have to reset back to this is a guy who should not be in charge of anything, Brendan Carr. This is a guy who operates and does everything for a party of one. A broken little immature man who is either talking about his ballroom or how hot he thinks men are. And he vacillates between those two things all the time. So Scott Jennings and Brendan Carr, this is the man that they are willing to neuter, neuter themselves for Donald Trump.
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And here's the thing, if I were cnn, the fact that Brennan Carr would come out publicly and support Scott Jennings would be reason enough for me to fire him. Brennan Carr is going after the first Amendment every single day. He is so anti freedom and anti constitution, but of course he is because he came over straight from Project 2025. But yeah, I just, I was stunned that he would get out and publicly do this, especially when he's trying to, you know, review the license of ABC News because of Jimmy Kimmel.
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And let's also discuss the duplicity in the right wing. The left needs to tone down the rhetoric. You need to tone down the rhetoric. And here he is talking about, yeah, he can do F bombs and yeah, he can smack him in the face. It is, it's this flagrant hypocrisy that's constantly on display. And again, I think this is a very short sighted gamble that all of these people in the Trump regime have taken. History's not going to be kind to them and I don't think the post Trump judicial system is going to be very kind to them. One of the Trump family friends was just arrested in a human trafficking sting. Let's pop this up. MAGA influencer Craig Long has been arrested in a human trafficking and prostitution sting in Florida along with Ryan Yates, a Trump supporter who pleaded guilty in February 2024 for his involvement January 6th. Long posted this photo with Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. Aka dumb, just a few weeks ago. This seems to be a feature, not a bug, of MAGA men. Sexual abuse, sex trafficking. This is why. You want to know why MAGA doesn't care about the Epstein files? Because they all do the same. I mean, it's just every single week it seems like pumps. We follow that account, Reich Wing Watch. It seems like every week there's some big MAGA thumper or some pardon January sixer who's being charged with child sex assault or some sort of trafficking or some sort of rape. It seems like it not a week goes by that some MAGA person who's like the drag queens are indoctrinating the kids and you know, we can't have what's a woman and this transport stuff is out of control. When there's like six trans athletes, it always seems that the call is coming from inside the house. So you want to know why didn't they care when Trump said I can grab by the. Because this is a part of MAGA culture. Culture. Sexual assault is a part of MAGA culture. And they keep proving it time and time again.
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Yeah. And you know, the thing is, is the, these are the same people that wanted the Epstein files released when they thought they were Democrats, but now they're excusing it. And you, when I saw this pop up, it, it didn't even surprise me. This is like you said, it is A feature. You see it throughout the, you know, Epstein files. And then going into the January Sixers, like anytime there's a congre of these MAGA men you can count on sex crimes either against children, women, all. I mean, it is.
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Let's not forget Matt Schlapp. Matt Schlapp is high up in CPAC and he's always grabbing genitals of his co workers and his wife Mercedes Schlap works for Newsmax and she's always talking about family values. And in her bio it is like Christian woman with the cross. Her husband Matt Schlap gets all liquored up and goes to the CPAC events and starts grabbing balls every chance he can get and sexually assaulting fellow conservatives. And you would think like what happened with Eric Swalwell and the Democratic Party gone out. You know, you're a liar, you're a hypocrite. Get out of our political party. In maga, these people get promoted. A lot of them even get promoted to be President of the United States. And then finally, here is a video of the sheriff regarding the sex trafficker case. And he says that he runs in big circles, even with the President. Play the clip. It was a previous felon who straightened up. Really what we want to see in life now. He's an influencer, you know, he moves in big circles even with the President. This is a photograph with the President and his son not long ago. Yeah, because it appears that everybody around the president, Mr. Sheriff, is in the Epstein files or has some sort of clandestine sexual abuse side hustle that's going on. And they all think there's 10 foot tall and bulletproof and that they can do these things. Do we think Todd Blanche is going to do jack shit about it? No. Do we think Cash Patel or former AG Pam Bondi was going to do a damn thing about it? No. So this is MAGA and pumps. You and I say this all the time and we're going to say it again. MAGA is an anti family, pro rape death cult. The facts and the evidence always, always point to that and we must brand them as such. Please like and subscribe. And we'll be back later with Sam.
Podcast: IHIP News
Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie “Pumps” Sullivan
Date: May 4, 2026
This episode sees Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan delivering their signature progressive, comedic perspectives on recent political developments. Their focus is on the latest controversies in Trump's inner circle: JD Vance’s political missteps, Marco Rubio’s surprising DJ gig amidst global crises, the ongoing “ratting” game in Trump’s White House, and broader Republican scandals—punctuated by scathing, witty commentary on hypocrisy and moral collapse among GOP leadership.
The episode maintains the hosts’ trademark mix of sharp political critique, biting sarcasm, and banter. Their commentary is direct, bold, and laced with humor—even as they discuss serious acts of hypocrisy and criminality. Listeners are regularly reminded of the “feature, not a bug” nature of moral failings in Trump’s orbit.
This episode dives deep into the latest messes within Trump’s administration, explores the ever-present right-wing hypocrisy on morality and legality, and delivers it all with Jennifer & Pumps’ irreverent, unfiltered wit. If you care about real talk with a progressive edge—and a laugh while the world burns—this one’s for you.