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Foreign.
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You know me, I love trash talk. And I love when people call Elon Musk names that are well deserved. And so Senator Tina Smith says, I bet a lot of people have an experience like this with the bad boss. There's an email in your box on Saturday night saying, prove to me your worthiness by Monday, or else I'm sick. I'm on the side of workers, not the billionaire bosses. Elon Musk responds consistent with President at Real Donald's Trump instructions, all federal employees will receive an email requesting to understand what they have done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as resignation. So that's what he sent out to federal employees. So Tina Smith, I read her response. Then she says, this is the ultimate dick boss move for Musk, except he isn't even the boss. He's just a dick. How much do you love Tina Smith?
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I have to tell you, it's consistently women. It is that are standing up to this. It is. You see the main governor, you see Michelle Obama refusing to go to the inauguration. You see Karen Pence, Mother, mother, not going to the inauguration. You see aoc, you see Jasmine Crockett. You see Tina Smith, and this is what the people want. Call him a dick. We need to have some fangs. And it's the women that are standing up. Because you know what I think? I think white men are so used to being privileged, they don't know how to fight this.
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I completely agree. How they fight it is run around saying masculinity is under attack. Instead of achieving more, being better, they want to attack the people that are surpassing them with skill and education because they are so fragile. I mean, it's just unbelievable. You're right. I noticed it's a stream of women that are standing up. And it cracks me up. Mother standing up. And she's even poked pins to standing up a little bit.
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I have to tell you, I've seen Magic Mike Pence out there with some tweets standing up for Ukraine. He knows. Everybody knows, everybody knows. Unless you listen to Tucker Carlson's dipshit podcast that Russia started the war. It is a fact. It's not to be argued with. If you're a Putin sympathizer, like apparently the President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, the. Their boss, Elon Musk, and Elon Musk boss, Vladimir Putin. You have a bunch of Americans that want to believe that. It's just so dangerous.
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It is so dangerous. Speaking of dangerous. And corruption, as always, is forefront in the Trump administration. So this weekend Pete Hegseth fired a gazillion Pentagon employees. Trump fired the joint or chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And interestingly enough, and quite dangerous, Pete Hegseth fired Jack officers. Well, why did he do that? So on Fox, he was asked the question, why did you fire these Jack attorneys in the doj? I'm sorry, in the Department of Justice.
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For people who may not know, I mean, they, they give advice to the military about what is lawful and what isn't. Not surprisingly, there's been some backl to those who are worried about their removal. One Georgetown law professor says this Trump also firing the Army, Navy and Air Force jags. In some ways, that's even more chilling than firing the four stars. It's what you do when you're planning to break the law. You get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down. Your response to her, I don't know.
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Who Rosa is and her, what her hyperbole is all about. Ultimately, we want lawyers who give sound constitutional advice and don't exist to attempt to be roadblocks to anything, anything that happens in their spots. What we know about these T jags are called T jags.
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So what he said basically is exactly what the person tweeted. That is looking at the department defense. We don't want lawyers to stand up and give roadblocks to what we want to do vis a vis. If we want to do things that are illegal, we don't want lawyers that will tell us, you can't do that, it's illegal. I mean, he admitted it on Fox News. It's unbelievable.
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I mean, here's how I feel about Pete Hexad. I think the people surrounding him need to do an intervention and they need to take him to rehab for his alcoholism. And once he's been sober four or five years, because I think that's about how long it takes for the brain to fully, fully kind of recover from being in remission from alcohol abuse disorder. I think then we can sit down and interview him. Until then, you have a bunch of broken people running the United States of America. Trump inner childhood trauma, malignant narcissism. Titty baby Elon Musk, untreated drug addict, huge titty baby, insecure as I'll get out. Pete Hegseth. Titty baby mama had to go on a tour for him. He's a grown ass man whose mother scolded him rightfully for his behavior. And that letter was leaked to the press. And then she had to go and say, oh, he's better now. Blah, blah. These are the most unqualified broken titty babies. All of them need to go away. They need to go away and work on themselves. Because what we have done is, we have. We are now showcasing the mental health crisis that has swept the nation by electing the most fucked up people we possibly can and then letting them appoint even more up people. I didn't even mention, like Cash Patel, Pam Bond, or the governor of Kristi Noem, that, that woman who wears all those costumes all the time. I mean, this is. It would be hilarious if they were just run. No, no, it would be hilarious if they were just running for office. These people are in charge of the United States of America. It is in all of this bullshit from Elon Musk that he saved all this money. This is a lie. It is a bold face lie. All he has done is stop investigations into himself and, and cleared the way for his companies to rape and pillage taxpayer dollars more and more and more.
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That's exactly right. That's exactly what he's doing. And whenever I think about the people around Trump and the people that advise him and he and J.D. vance, I think it makes the island of Misfit toys look like the greatest thing on earth. I mean, these people are bottom feeders. They could no more serve in an Obama administration, even a George Bush administration. I mean, these people are profoundly underqualified and they want to run around saying, dei, this is the most. If you're incompetent, come on over, we got a job for you.
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It's like it's a prerequisite, the more screwed up you are. And maybe that's because they, they're compromised. And maybe that's how Musk and Trump, you know, hang on to them. Or maybe they're just all so broken into this alternate universe together, I don't know. But this is embarrassing. If people listen Pete Hexeth and they think, yep, he should be in charge, it just reveals, number one, how stupid that person is that would think that. Number two, how broken this country is that we no longer value facts and putting smart people. For me personally, when I go to a doctor, I take comfort in the fact that that person is smarter than me regarding the human body. And that person has more than a decade, more than two decades of schooling and rigorous testing to treat me as such. I want the people in charge of the government to have experience. And this whole notion that. And there's a lot of Republicans that think this, if somebody's rich, they're smart and successful, and this whole notion in capitalism that everything has to be privatized. You're all going to get screwed. You're all going to get screwed by it because corporations seek one thing and one thing only. Look no further than United Health Care and all of the people that that company has killed by denying, deposing and defending. You look at all of the deaths there and they don't care. That's what privatization does for you and that's what all of these people are setting up. It will only benefit the upper, upper, upper class and everybody below that is going to get killed, harmed.
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Well, they've convinced people that regulations are not consumer protection, that they're. You shouldn't support regulation, which we will all lose in that fight. Moving on to something else a little more petty, because you know, I love to be petty. The Philadelphia Eagles were invited to the White House after their super bowl win and they have declined. And so MAGA is madder than a hornet. So we have Toxic cowboy posting. Philadelphia Eagles declined to visit the White House. Wish I had known this before the Super Bowl. I wouldn't have wasted my time rooting for them. Eagles fan, your team sucks. And Megan Kelly, who? Boy, she's mad. I mean, she's just raging all the time. She says same go F yourself, Eagles. My husband is a fan, so I got on board. But F this bs, why is Megan Kelly so mad all the time?
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I've. I've personally never seen any sort of a rational thought or anything from her. But what I have to say about the Philadelphia Eagles is good for them. And it's important to point out that Jalen Hurts the quarterback. When he was asked, what do you think about Donald Trump coming to the Super Bowl? He looked right in the camera, said he can do whatever he wants. He was polite enough about it. But obviously Jalen Hurts is a black man. He knows what we all see. And we all see all this DEI talk and all of this from Maggot. We know what their default setting is. We know what white people think about black football players and black basketball players. Entertain me and then shut the up. We know it and Jalen Hurts knows it. And good for him. And also of note, Jalen Hurts is managed by an entirely female team. This is what real masculinity is. Propping up marginalized, competent people and not being afraid of somebody that doesn't look like you is not the same gender of you. This whole notion of these, like Jesse Waters constantly talking about masculinity if you're on the defense, constantly having to defend how Masculine you are. I have news for you. You're not masculine at all. And it makes us all think you're probably closet homosexual.
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Exactly. And when asked about his all female management team, Jalen Hurt said, I chose the most qualified people. I didn't go into their race or sex. And I was like, good for him. Okay, one last thing. Trump, shockingly, is grifting from the Oval Office. He is monetizing his Gulf of America T shirts. Make Greenland great again. And he has new black edition with different font Make America, Make America great again hats like. So the pre. The sitting President of the United States is grifting. He's making executive orders, then he's grifting off them as a shock to no one. Donald Trump is the first president that's ever done that. And that, to me, says it all.
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It's flea market, riff raffle, knickknack, white trash in the White House. It is the white trash, white House flea market, riff raff, knickknack. And for all the triple Trumpers out there, this is your guy. Die on this hill. Do it. Swing for the fences. Whenever you have a gay kid will be sitting right here. Whenever you have a trans grandchild that everybody wants to bully will be sitting right here. Whenever your darling child falls in love with a black man and makes beautiful mixed babies and that people are racist towards, your grandchild will be sitting right here. When Donald Trump and Elon Musk fire you after you triple Trump voted for them and you have benefits. You work for the federal government for 15 or 20 years. You see how ruthless and psychotic these people are. We'll be sitting right here. I want all of them to know we're going to be sitting right here and we don't change and we don't have to be impacted by something for us to care about it. So y'all can go play with Trump and you can triple trumpet and do all your shit and buy the flea market shit. White trash it. We're all going to be sitting here fighting the good fight and finding good trouble because that's what progressive policies are about.
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IHIP News: Episode Summary - "MAGA is a Public Display of Mental Illness"
Release Date: February 24, 2025
Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie “Pumps” Sullivan
Podcast: IHIP News
In this compelling episode of IHIP News, hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan dive deep into the tumultuous landscape of American politics, dissecting the behaviors and decisions of prominent figures like Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Their unfiltered, progressive viewpoints offer listeners a blend of sharp critique and comedic relief as they navigate through recent political controversies and cultural phenomena.
The episode kicks off with a heated discussion about Elon Musk's controversial management style, particularly his interactions with federal employees. Jennifer highlights Musk's aggressive email policy, drawing parallels to former President Trump's directives.
The hosts criticize Musk for undermining workers' rights and fostering a toxic work environment, reflecting broader concerns about corporate power in government roles.
Jennifer and Angie commend the women taking stands against entrenched privilege and sexism in political and corporate spheres. They highlight figures like Michelle Obama, Karen Pence, AOC, Jasmine Crockett, and Tina Smith as examples of women challenging the status quo.
The conversation emphasizes the strength and resilience of these women, contrasting them with the perceived fragility of privileged white men who are unaccustomed to such opposition.
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to analyzing recent dismissals within the Trump administration, focusing on the firing of Pentagon employees and Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys.
Jennifer echoes these sentiments, suggesting that removing legal advisors is a strategic move to bypass legal constraints, thereby endangering the nation's governance.
The hosts argue that these actions reflect a deeper corruption within the administration, undermining the rule of law and democratic institutions.
Jennifer takes a personal jab at Pete Hegseth and other Trump associates, accusing them of severe personal issues that impair their judgment and leadership capabilities.
This segment underscores the hosts' frustration with what they perceive as a leadership void filled by individuals lacking integrity and competence, contributing to a national mental health crisis.
The discussion shifts to the dangers of rampant privatization, citing United Health Care as an example of how corporate greed can lead to widespread harm.
Angie supports this view, arguing that eliminating regulations under the guise of deregulation weakens consumer protections, ultimately disadvantaging the majority.
In a lighter yet still politically charged topic, the hosts examine the Philadelphia Eagles' decision to decline an invitation to the White House after their Super Bowl victory, a move that has angered MAGA supporters.
Jennifer praises quarterback Jalen Hurts for his composed response to the situation, highlighting his awareness of the underlying racial dynamics.
The episode concludes with a critical look at Donald Trump’s commercialization of his presidency through merchandise sales, branding initiatives, and exploiting executive orders for personal gain.
Jennifer condemns Trump's actions as emblematic of a broader moral decay within political leadership, painting a bleak picture of the nation's governance.
In "MAGA is a Public Display of Mental Illness," Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan deliver a passionate critique of current American political figures and systems. Their analysis weaves together themes of corruption, privilege, and the erosion of democratic values, all while maintaining a tone of defiance and resilience. This episode not only informs listeners about the latest political developments but also calls for accountability and systemic change.
Stay tuned for more incisive and engaging discussions on IHIP News, where Jennifer and Angie continue to unpack the complexities of today's political climate with humor and heart.