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Political Commentator 1
Marco Rubio got dragged to Congress and of course he starts pathologically lying. And Donald Trump is doing a great job hating on JD Vance, sabotaging his political future, rat him out the wazoo. But he's really neglecting little Marco. And that's what we're going to dedicate the top of this episode to doing. Here's Marco Rubio, just bald face, lying to Congress. Play the clip.
Political Commentator 2
Like to talk about that because it weakens America. This president we have, this is a guy that literally doesn't sleep. He works day and night, long hours every single day. I don't know if you haven't seen him in eight days. I saw him yesterday. I didn't see him today but yesterday because I was in Congress the day before. I talked to him at all hours of the day and night. He works inhumane hours. Okay, I've been on, I've been on foreign trips with the president that he doesn't sleep in the whole flight and everyone else is sleeping on the plane. And he's wandering the hallways looking for someone to wake up and talk to. That people are so. I don't know what you're referring to.
Political Commentator 1
I'll tell you.
Legal Analyst Josh
Lil.
Political Commentator 1
Marco, I did a quick little goog of dementia sleep habits. Kylie, pop this up. The sleep habits of people with dementia are characterized by fragmented, disrupted sleep wake cycles. They frequently experience severe daytime sleepiness, frequent nighttime awakenings, and shortened deep sleep. This pattern often results in day night reversal, where they sleep for long periods during the day and are restless at night. You lying during dipshit. Marco Rubio, it goes on to say, because dementia causes biological and cognitive changes, it fundamentally alters the individual's rest patterns.
Legal Analyst Josh
Josh My favorite part of that, I think, is when Rubio is talking about how Trump always works, he's walking the halls in the middle of the night looking for someone to talk to. I mean, that's the workaholic that we have. That's, that's Trump. And you can just see Trump just like, hey, anybody here? Somebody come talk to me. That's the, you know, just the, the praising of this man just goes on and on from these guys. Wasn't his nickname Little Marco or something like that in 2016? It just goes on and on to where there's just no self respect at all.
Political Commentator 1
You just brought up 2016. And I think it's important in our efforts to rap Little Marco that we remind our listener, our viewer in the American public at large that Marco Rubio is stage five prostitute. The only prostitute that might be more skilled than Little Marco, of course, is J.D. vance or obviously the first lady, Melania Trump. Let's play Little Marco from 2016. Play the clip.
Political Commentator 2
In this election for years to come, there are many people on the right in the media and voters at large that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump, because this is not going to end well one way or the other.
Legal Analyst Josh
It's not, it's not ending well for anybody. It's not ending well for you. It's not any well for the American people. It's not ending well for anybody. And we all. You fell in this trap. How did that happen exactly?
Political Commentator 1
I mean, you know, when you think about the Trump's biggest critics initially were J.D. vance were the Republican establishment. Marco Rubio, he was a huge critic. Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz. Donald Trump called Heidi ugly, said that, that Ted Cruz's dad killed jfk, and Ted Cruz marches on the RNC convention stage. They all have maxi pads on their ear. Because they're all cattle, these Republicans. And he says, God bless Donald Trump.
Legal Analyst Josh
There's, you know, Trump has this gift that he, that he's good at, that he gets, and that's seeing these people that criticize him initially, sort of bending them around to where they're not criticizing, now they're worshiping. It's like he loves to sort of watch their change, their subtle change over a period of time. It's beyond me. I mean, I remember we watched that 2016 election with vigor. And to now see these guys capitulate and just, you know, for lack of a better word, just dick suck over and over and over.
Political Commentator 1
Yeah. And this is the humiliation ritual. And I agree that Trump is really good at the humiliation ritual. He has mastered it. I would even say what he just did to little Marco there. Ted Liu was asking him, has Trump, you know, fallen, fallen asleep? And he says, no, he doesn't do that. Well, then what Ted Lou did after that is he played a video of the most recent cabinet meeting. When Marco's droning on and on about some accomplishments, some circle jerk accomplishment at the State Department. Trump's sitting there sawing logs. I think it's just humiliating to the people at the Cabinet table that he, that he says, I don't like hanging out with winners. I like hanging out with losers. Then they all show up, and because of dementia, he's sitting there napping because he doesn't give a fuck. And he's really good at humiliating people. Imagine if I fell asleep through this podcast and then you carried us. I mean, imagine that.
Legal Analyst Josh
Yeah. Yeah.
Political Commentator 1
And this is just a stupid podcast they're running the Free World Country.
Legal Analyst Josh
The country, yeah. All of them. All of them are in on it, too. I mean, it's, it's a table full of prostitutes. All of them, they've given up any hope of any sort of self respect or independence or moral integrity. It's gone. It's like we are in the tank for this, man. We are going to sell our souls. We're going to ourselves out for Donald Trump. They've told themselves that. And they have wives and kids and families. And before this, they had jobs and I presume some self respect that is gone. It's all gone.
Political Commentator 1
All right. We want to get your legal opinion on the whole slush fund. So basically the slush fund got slapped down by judges, and now Trump is. Now they're saying, oh, he's still. And all of his friends and everybody who's ever touched him is never going to get audited. By their irs. But we're not doing the slush fund. But then Trump, in his humiliation ritual, he always comes back out and says the opposite. So play this clip. Of course, the anti weaponization fund.
Donald Trump (clip)
Have you dropped that? No, a court ruled against it. Yeah, but, but just so you understand, these are people that have been decimated. These are people that lost their lives over nonsense where the FBI said go in, go in police, go in, go into the. And they were supposed to serve five years, ten years in jail. People committed suicide, people were treated. There's never been anything like this. What happened to those people? And these were many great people. And I gave them pardons. I'm very proud to have given importance and I think they should be a reimbursed for a crooked government.
Political Commentator 1
The government, Josh, who ran the FBI during January 6, I believe it was Christopher Wray, if I'm not mistaken, was under which president?
Legal Analyst Josh
Under Donald Trump.
Political Commentator 1
Correct. Now give us your legal take on exactly everything that he just said. As somebody goes into federal court, deals with federal prosecutors, you deal with all these big swingy dick Republicans that are rule of law guys, personal accountability guys.
Legal Analyst Josh
Well, see, I'm overstating the obvious to a certain extent, but everything he said in that is a complete lie. I mean, at literally every sentence that he said. So if you're in a court of law, those things don't hold up. And you notice with Trump, all of his rhetoric, all of his, it all may play in the court of public opinion with a bunch of these MAGA yahoo crazies, but when you strip this down and you put it before a judge and the rule of law matters and case law matters and stat statutes matter and things like that do matter, then all of, if not most all of his legal theories fall apart. The IRS can't give someone immunity for life from paying taxes. That's unheard of. Nobody gets that. The president doesn't have that authority. DOJ doesn't have that authority. The IRS doesn't have that authority to tell Donald Trump and or his children that you're going to be immune from paying taxes to this country for the rest of your life. That's fucking insane. Anybody knows that. You can't do that. It's not a presidential power. You can't do that with someone. The slush fund, that's another issue. You saw this judge in Florida. Initially, she allowed them to dismiss it, and then that's when they announced that there's a settlement of the slush fund. And then the judge down there said, you know, I don't have authority. Now they've dismissed that lawsuit. Well, a few days ago, 35 federal judges re urged her to look at that and render a different opinion and open that back up. And she did, about three days ago, I believe her last name is English, Judge English, Kathleen English, in the Southern District of Miami, Florida. And she basically told them that I'm going to have a look at this, that there's allegations of fraud and coercion and, and all sort deception. And so that's one inquiry that's currently under place. Then we talked about this previously. But in the Eastern District of Virgin, I believe an organization, Democracy Freedom or Freedom Democracy, filed a lawsuit and a judge there in Virginia ordered all members of the Department of Justice and the IRS and the federal government not to do anything with that fund, not to expend any money, not to make any decisions. They were basically ordered to cease and desist from taking part in any sort of payments toward any claimants. So you've got those two pieces of litigation going on. Ultimately, I think what we've seen is that Donald Trump, at least on his face, is kind of abandoning the slush fund because his legislative agenda is tanking. And I think there was a reconciliation bill that wouldn't pass because a lot of his Republican senators finally said we're not going to pass this legislation, but without some guarantee that you're going to end this stupid goddamn slush fund that you've got. And so that I think that's the leverage.
Political Commentator 1
And I just want to point out that a lot of these January six defendants, a lot of them have already been, they had previous criminal convictions because these are broken people that go in and break federal laws and take a in the Capitol and beat up cops. Since the pardon, a lot of them have been rearrested for ding, ding, ding, sexual assault, child porn, all sorts of, I mean, these people are the bottom of the barre. Now. Trump is telling criminals, if you commit crimes for me, you don't have to buy lottery tickets anymore. You're, I'm going to make sure you get paid because that's how transactional this man is. But this man has been laser focused on about four or five things. Obviously, the ballroom is his newest focus, but one of his focuses since 2020 has been trying to prove that Joe Biden didn't kick his ass in the election. And everybody surrounding Trump that went on all these news stations, oh, it was rigged. Fo news. Oh, it was rigged. Fox News had to pay $1 billion for lying about that in the Voter machine case. And here's a video of Trump still. He just still goes on and on because Roy cone, his gay mentor in New York City, told him if you repeat a lie over and over and over long enough, it becomes true. And so that is one of the weapons that Trump deploys to a non critically thinking base that he has. Play the clip.
Donald Trump (clip)
Look, we had a rigged election. We can't have a rigged election. You know, we can be nice about it. We can be politically correct. Oh, I don't want to say. I used to say that a year and a half ago, the election was rigged and the cameras would literally turn off. Yeah. And the anchor would say, sir, you're not allowed to say that. You know, now nobody ever turns off the camera because it's been proven to be rigged. Look at what happened in Georgia. Look at all the stuff that we found out. It was a rigged election. He got. Biden lost in a landslide, okay?
Political Commentator 1
They haven't found out anything. Every single time they dig into this, every time he took it to court, he fucking lost. Isn't that right, Josh?
Legal Analyst Josh
It's amazing. He lost every single case. And his Description of the 1 Sixers too. I mean, everything is so completely untrue with what he says that you'd have to just unpack it. But he says it with such ease and conviction. And you're right. I mean, it's a technique that if you continue to say it over and over, he thinks that it's going to be. Be persuasive and convince the non critical thinker that hey, maybe this is the truth. It's just like rewriting January 6th. I mean, he talks about patriots and some of them killed themselves and, and for no reason and just says all these things that just are simply not true. He bombards you with so many lies that you are perplexed as to which one to pick apart first because there's so many of them.
Political Commentator 1
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Political Commentator 1
All right, and then Josh the SCOTUS approves a gerrymandered map in Alabama. Pop this up. Democracy docket who does incredible work has breaking news. The Supreme Court will allow Alabama to use congressional map that a federal court found intentionally discriminates against black voters effectively blessing racial gerrymandering. And I've said this once and I'm going to say it again. The rise of anti black racism in this country is the most under reported story ever. This is weaponized racism. When they say make America great again they're talking about going back to segregation. That's what these people want. That's why they voted for Trump. It wasn't about the price of eggs. It's about this racism that Trump allows. And interestingly, a black man on the Supreme Court votes for Josh.
Legal Analyst Josh
This is another concurring chapter of the shadow docket. This opinion was issued on the shadow docket. It's interesting because it comes from a three judge panel in Alabama, two of which were Trump appointees, that found, specifically found that this redistricting had intentional racial discrimination as a part of it. There was a finding of that and two Trump appointed judges found that. And then they send that up to the Supreme Court. And in the middle of the night, the Supreme Court on the shadow docket overturns that with basically no reason or justification. Again, you want to talk about criminals, you want to talk about people that are evil, look no further than our Supreme Court because they're doing it in a way that matters. Like the one thing that we have is that we have the people can go vote. We can take it to the people and they can vote and their votes count. And they're striking right at the heart of our democracy by saying that your vote's not going to matter if you're African American. We're going to dilute the black vote in this particular state and it's not going to matter. You're going to have pure black representatives, African American representatives. So this is the meat of it right here.
Political Commentator 1
The material damage to black people in this country is really, really devastating. And it's all done by these big Christians people in the Bible Belt. Those are the meanest people that this country has. If you look at the Bible Belt states, they are the bottom 10 states in the country. They're all poor, they have the most racism, they have the most crime, they have the most teen pregnancies, they have the most everything. And then you get this twat. K. Ivy who posts this, she's a governor of Alabama. She posts this. Alabama Governor K. Ivy has proclaimed June as Strong Families Month. Our Alabama families remain the foundation of healthy communities. Alabama recognizes the importance of encouraging strong families. Libs of Tik Tok says amazing, Happy Strong Families Month. What about weak families? What about the weak families? What about that? Aren't Christians supposed to stand up for weak people and weak families? You only want strong families. This is just such Christian signaling. They're all triggered because of Pride Month. They, they melt down. Libs of Tick Tock is going crazy. This, this broad K. Ivy's melting down and only honoring strong families. This is. Josh and I had a rule when we were raising our kids in the Bible Belt. If somebody said, we're a good Christian family, we would always tell our kids, you're not going over to their house.
Legal Analyst Josh
Yeah. We wouldn't allow our children to go to. To Ms. Ivy's home. Like, they would not be allowed.
Political Commentator 1
No, absolutely not.
Legal Analyst Josh
And she, she's got to be close to her deathbed, God bless her. But she looks about 105 in that photograph. Just so there could be a little bit of a generation, Generational gap with her. She, you know, we've lived amongst those people our whole lives, so we, we hear that bullshit, you know, where you like to spew these words of, of Christianity and values and all this stuff, and then you go live a life that's completely different than that. And it's just. It's disgusting. All of it is disgusting. And the people that need help, that truly need help, you're refusing to give it to because you're a racist. Because maybe they're African American or maybe they're gay, Maybe they're marginalized, but you don'. Because they're not white Christians. It's disgusting.
Political Commentator 1
Absolutely disgusting. Alabama, one of the most religious states in the country, also the most hateful. K. Ivy, and then the Supreme Court allowing legalized, weaponized racism. This is Trump's America. This is the Bible Belt Christian version of America. These people weaponize their faith, faith against these voters. Out in rural areas. Think about how evil this is. All you have in a rural town is your church. You go to bingo night, you go to the cakewalks, you do all this, and then they weaponize the one thing you have, and they say, hey, you get to be a racist, but we're never going to raise your wages. Also, Jesus loves you because we're straight and white. All right. That's all we have. Make sure you order my book. Not today, Fascists. I'm dedicating it to all the racist fascists in Alabama. Josh, put him back up. Have you ordered. Have you pre ordered my book?
Legal Analyst Josh
I ordered four or five of them, actually.
Political Commentator 1
You did?
Legal Analyst Josh
Dog house? Yes.
Political Commentator 1
Oh, good. Okay. Well, thank you. All right, we'll be back later with more news.
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Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie “Pumps” Sullivan
Date: June 3, 2026
In this fast-paced, satirical installment, Jennifer Welch, Angie “Pumps” Sullivan, and legal analyst Josh dive into the latest chaos enveloping Donald Trump and Marco Rubio. The episode dissects Rubio's Congressional testimony (and Trump sycophancy), Trump’s penchant for humiliating former critics, the fallout over Trump’s "slush fund", more “rigged election” claims, and a searing critique of recent SCOTUS approval of Alabama’s gerrymandered voting map. With biting humor and progressive commentary, the hosts bring their signature mix of outrage, legal analysis, and cultural observation to the week’s most divisive political stories.
Notable Quote:
"I did a quick little goog of dementia sleep habits... The sleep habits of people with dementia are characterized by fragmented, disrupted sleep wake cycles... you lying during dipshit Marco Rubio."
– (Political Commentator 1) [02:28]
Josh summarizes the fawning as humiliating:
"You can just see Trump just like, hey, anybody here? Somebody come talk to me. That’s the, you know, just the, the praising of this man just goes on and on...there’s just no self respect at all."
– (Josh) [03:07]
Hosts replay Rubio's 2016 anti-Trump stance, noting hypocrisy as Rubio, Cruz, and other Republicans once “stage five prostituted” themselves to Trump.
Notable Quote:
"I agree that Trump is really good at the humiliation ritual. He has mastered it."
– (Political Commentator 1) [05:54]
Notable Quotes:
"Everything he said in that is a complete lie. I mean, at literally every sentence..."
– (Josh) [08:58]
"The IRS can't give someone immunity for life from paying taxes. That's unheard of. ... You can't do that. It’s not a presidential power."
– (Josh) [09:30]
Notable Quote:
"Every single time they dig into this, every time he took it to court, he fucking lost. Isn’t that right, Josh?"
– (Political Commentator 1) [13:57]
"He bombards you with so many lies that you are perplexed as to which one to pick apart first because there’s so many of them."
– (Josh) [14:05]
Notable Quotes:
"This is weaponized racism. When they say 'make America great again,' they're talking about going back to segregation. That’s what these people want."
– (Political Commentator 1) [18:34]
"You want to talk about criminals, you want to talk about people that are evil, look no further than our Supreme Court..."
– (Josh) [18:55]
"Out in rural towns is your church... and then they weaponize the one thing you have, and they say, hey, you get to be a racist, but we’re never going to raise your wages. Also, Jesus loves you because we’re straight and white."
– (Political Commentator 1) [22:46]
On Rubio’s Sleep Defense of Trump:
“He works inhumane hours ... he’s wandering the hallways looking for someone to wake up and talk to.”
— Marco Rubio [01:55]
On Republican Submission to Trump:
“He has mastered it. I would even say what he just did to little Marco there ... This is the humiliation ritual.”
— Political Commentator 1 [05:54]
On the SCOTUS Alabama Voting Ruling:
“The rise of anti black racism in this country is the most underreported story ever.”
— Political Commentator 1 [18:00]
On “Christian Signaling” and Southern Hypocrisy:
“If somebody said, 'we’re a good Christian family,' we would always tell our kids, you’re not going over to their house.”
— Political Commentator 1 [21:46]
This episode delivers relentless, irreverent critique of Trump, his loyalists, and the institutional enablers that the hosts see as undermining democracy and civil rights. With a mix of legal insight and barbed satire, the podcast encapsulates the raw frustration and gallows humor of progressive observers in a politically turbulent “red state” America. Ideal for listeners seeking both catharsis and analysis.