Progressive Commentator (3:13)

We don't need them.

Co-host/Analyst (3:14)

There is nothing happened. And here's what's interesting to me about all this, Jennifer. It reminds me of the 2020 elections. They're saying all of these things in public, but then they get to court and there's zero evidence of that. So this is not their first rodeo with saying one thing and being able to prove another. It's disgusting. And I hope Pam Bondi at the end of this rots her ass in jail, because it wasn't Nixon that went to jail. It was his lawyers. And so I hope there's a spot spot for her.

Progressive Commentator (3:43)

Okay, next up, we have Reuters with some really alarming reporting. Trump's war on the left inside the plan to investigate liberal groups. And Evan Hill retweets this and says the Trump administration is preparing a crackdown on liberal political groups, including the funding arm of the Democratic Party that will utilize the FBI, the dhs, irs, treasury and Justice Departments. You guys, they're talking about, like, Act Blue that you've donated. They are creating a war against the opposition. These are the thought police. These are white nationalists. They use the likes of Pam Bondi to gender wash to keep the MAGA women on board with this. And I cannot impress upon you all enough and how dangerous this is. And I think every single one of us very loudly and very proudly need to say at all times, we are anti fascist. Are they going to start going and arresting all of these Americans? 200, 250 million Americans that are anti fascist? Probably.

Co-host/Analyst (4:53)

The thing is, anybody with the platform they're coming after, if they can't be free speech, then we're going to designate you a domestic terrorist. All it is is opposition. If you oppose them, they will come after you. Which is exactly what Trump said with the enemy within. It's unreal that they're acting like antifa is a real group that's funded by people.

Progressive Commentator (5:16)

It's on purpose, it is intentional so that they can widen the net. And anybody, a podcaster, a poster on Facebook, they are doing that intentionally so that they can go after anybody and everybody that they don't like. Pope Leo is speaking out adamantly on this. Pope Leo has reportedly escalated his growing feud with Trump, instructing US Bishops to take a stronger public stand against the president's hardline immigration policies. I wish more religious leaders would speak out about this, because there is a moral rot of Christians that exist in the United States of America that gladly proudly and salivate over the dehumanization of people. And these are the triple Trumpers. These are the MAGA voters, these are the racists, these are the homophobes. These are the people that are somehow triggered by a woman owning a business or triggered by a Super bowl show. These are the most terrified people on the planet. And America has had a crazy Christian problem for decades. And the worst Americans among us are not the open minded, free thinkers. I can tell you from having lived in a red state my entire life. The moral rot in America are white evangelical Republican voters. They are cruel, intentionally cruel. They have no compassion, they have no empathy. They worship the dollar and they worship cruelty. And that's the end of the list.

Co-host/Analyst (6:58)

Well, they are so easy to dehumanize other people because they think they a are righteous and can stand a judgment of other people because they are so entitled through their religion. And I just want to make this comment. You've got Pope Leo and he's, you know, number one with the Catholics. Then you have Tucker Carlson going out there breaking off the fissure. Then you have Joe Rogan. So it's like there's got to be some type, there's influence in all those groups and hopefully there will be a measure of the Catholics that start saying, you know what? That's right, we are dehumanizing these.

Progressive Commentator (7:35)

Well, there are a lot of Catholics. There are. I have lots of Catholics that are Democratic voters, evangelicals or what I'm talking about. They now are there, are there Maga Catholics? Yeah. Look at J.D. vance, look at Sam Alito. But historically, Catholics are not a monolith. Evangelicals are a monolith. And the data has proven that election after election, decade after decade, going all the way back to the kkk. But in an interesting turn of events, Governor Dip has come out and Kevin Stitt, the GOP governor of Oklahoma and the chair of the National Governors association on Texas, sending its National Guard to Illinois. He says, quote, oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker and Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration. And he is exactly right. And he is proving one premise that we've always had, have moments of clarity. But what I'm starting to see break through here is political survival.

Co-host/Analyst (8:40)

Right?

Progressive Commentator (8:40)

And you're seeing the strong man's health rapidly decline before our eyes. And people are starting to see how is my political career going to survive beyond him. And so they're starting to subside. Look, Kevin Stitt, you guys, he is a Bible thumper, a triple Trumper. He could give two shits about immigrants. He could give two shits about women. He doesn't give a. About educating people in Oklahoma. He is a hypocrite, charlatan all across the board. But like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson and others, they are starting to see that Trump is taking this too hard. He's taking it too far. And they have to see their own political survival beyond Trump's imminent death. I mean, he's 80. It's got to happen, you know, within a decade, and the cult will completely crumble. And so I just think it's fascinating that we're starting to see so many fissures in the MAGA base. And I want to leave you all with this. They're wound up. You know about Bad Bunny. And imagine living in a world where you wake up, you go to church, you go home, you watch Wheel of Fortune, and I guess you watch Fox News after that. And you're so triggered by Bad Bunny. Like, why is this a 911 cracker barrel? Bad bunny. So Riley Gaines, who has gotten everything in life she ever wanted, she tied for fifth place in swimming, but she still got fifth place. She. She tweets, Bad Bunny told Americans they had four months to learn Spanish. If we wanted to understand the super bowl halftime show, no thanks. We'll just have our own. Enjoy your low rated halftime show. So Turning Point usa, the white supremacist, unrepentant, racist, piece of shit group that Charlie Kirk used to head is going to have their own boring halftime show. And I guarantee you the numbers will come out. Because all those white people, they need Bad Bunny. They want Bad Bunny. They want to be able to. For Bad Bunny to come on and go, well, I don't know what all this twerking and Latina stuff is, but deep down, they like it because white culture sucks. White culture is Charlie Kirk's rallies. White culture is Riley Gaines Tweet. White culture is getting wound up about Cracker Barrel. They want Bad Bunny. They need Bad Bunny. And I cannot wait for the ratings to come in because I know that all of the boring, crusty white people I know, they'll be like, well, yeah, we should probably watch that Charlie Kirk thing, but I want to see what that Bad Bunny is all about.

Co-host/Analyst (11:30)

Absolutely. I think it'll be a Jimmy Kimmel comes back to ABC style rating, like the biggest ratings ever, because there's so much stuff around it now. I agree. And Riley Gaines, you got fifth. You would have gotten fifth whether there was a trans athlete in there or.

Progressive Commentator (11:45)

Not, because you aren't top three.

Co-host/Analyst (11:47)

So shut the up.

Progressive Commentator (11:49)

Riley Gaines is not a good swimmer. She's not a good tweeter. She's not a good commentator. She's not a good person. All right, all right. Listen, get our book. Life is a Lazy Season of Sandwiches link is right below in the Show Notes. Subscribe to our channel. Make sure you're subscribed. We'll see you later with more news, Sam.