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Friday, August 29th, 2025 Today, mayors of blue cities are assembling a united front against the Trump regime; late Wednesday there was a showdown at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the director refuses to leave her post amid pressure from the President; Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has sued the Trump government over his unlawful attempt to fire her; ICE deportation flights hit record highs as airlines paint over their logos to hide their participation; the MAGA Republican running against Jon Ossoff was caught on a hot mic saying Trump is in the Epstein files; Sandwich Guy’s charges have been reduced to a misdemeanor; and Allison delivers your Good News. Dana is out and about.
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MSW Media. Hello, and welcome to the Daily beans for Friday, August 29, 2025. Today, the mayors of blue cities are assembling a united front against the Trump regime. Late Wednesday, there was a showdown at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the director refused to leave her post amid pressure from the president. Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has sued the Trump government over Trump's unlawful attempt to fire her. ICE deportation flights have hit record highs as airlines paint over their logos to hide their participation. The MAGA Republican running against Jon Ossoff was caught on a hot mic saying Trump is in the Epstein files and sandwich guy's charges have been retained to a misdemeanor. I'm your host, Alison Gill. Hello, everyone. Happy Friday. It's Friday on the Daily Beans, which means it's Fuglsang Friday. So we're gonna talk to John Fugelsang later in the show. Dana's out today. She's traveling, but she's gonna be back in your ears on Monday, I promise. Maybe we can get our producers to throw in a couple of Dana clips while she's out. What the fuck? And also, this is just in. Judge Boasberg has granted our motion to preserve records and documents and communications from Elon Musk's phone in our Doge FOIA lawsuit. If you remember back in February, MSW Media, that's my podcast network, and First Amendment Coalition, a suit filed. It filed a FOIA request, and we didn't get a response, so we filed a lawsuit. And basically what happened the following month was there was a news story that several Republican senators and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy were told after a hearing about Doge, that Musk gave them a phone number, a specific personal phone number to contact him directly over at Doge. And several coalitions, I think American Oversight and the Citizens for Responsibility of Ethics in Washington have filed FOIA lawsuits against Doge and asked for a preservation of records, but it didn't include that specific phone number, that phone that Elon Musk, that number that he gave to Republicans and Sean Duffy. So First Amendment Coalition filed a kind of like an addendum to our FOIA request to preserve the records on that phone. Now, the government was like, oh, no, he's not. He doesn't even work for Doge. He works for the White House. Musk does. He's not the administrator of Doge. And you can't even point to which particular phone this is, and. And et cetera. But Judge Boasberg granted the motion to preserve the records on that phone. I'VE written it up. You can read that ruling@mellisherote.com all right, everybody, we have a lot of news to get to today. Plus John Fugal saying, plus good news. So let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right. First up from the Times, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dissolved into turmoil on Thursday, further turmoil when guards escorted three top officials from the agency's Atlanta headquarters during the continuing standoff with the Trump administration over whether the CDC director would keep her job. The high ranking officials decided to quit as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Was demanding that the CDC director, Susan Manera, either resign or be fired in a dispute largely over vaccine policy. The White House said late Wednesday that Dr. Manera, an infectious disease researcher who was sworn in less than a month ago, had been dismissed. But her lawyers, including Mark Zaid, who said she had chosen protecting the public over serving a political agenda, insisted that she remained the CDC director until Trump fired her personally. The dispute now appears to be in the hands of Donald Trump, who has not weighed in publicly. A spokesman for the White House didn't respond to an inquiry about whether the president would fire Dr. Manera. That's at least as of this recording. In Washington, senators from both parties expressed dismay at the events unfolding at the cdc. The Republican led Senate voted only last month to confirm Dr. Manerz. She is the first CDC director to be subject to Senate confirmation. As such, she works at the pleasure of the president and not RFK Jr. The chairman of the Senate Health Committee, Senator Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican and doctor who voted for Kennedy after publicly agonizing over it, said on social media late Wednesday that the high profile departure will require oversight by his panel. He did not elaborate and his spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent ranking member of the panel, called for a hearing with Mr. Kennedy and Dr. Manera and said the attempt to fire her was outrageous. Now Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington and former chairwoman of the committee, called for Mr. Kennedy's immediate termination. And the real time collapse of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has picked up the pace following the government's attempted firing and pressuring of several senior CDC officials to step down. The CDC staff staged a dramatic walkout on Thursday afternoon. The staff, which included some remaining senior officials, also performed a clap out for their leaving colleagues. The Associated Press hosted a live stream of the event, and the Washington Post reported in the afternoon that Manera's was being ousted just four weeks into taking over the role, a decision later announced by HHS on Twitter. Over the next few hours, four senior staff members, including the CDC's chief medical officer, Deborah Howery, turned in their resignation notices. Now, some of the members posted their resignation letters online, including Dr. Demetri Daskalakis. I think I'm saying that right. He's the director of the national center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, and in his letter he stated he was unable, quote, to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than improve public health. He specifically singled out RFK Jr. S unilateral purging of the CDC's vaccine advisory panel and the CDC's revoked endorsement of COVID 19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women as examples of this harm. So big walkout, lots of leaders losing their jobs. And as we know, Mark Zaid and someone else is representing the CDC director. So I'm assuming if Trump does fire her, there will be a lawsuit. And from the Associated Press, immigration advocates gather like clockwork outside Seattle's King County International Airport to witness deportation flights and spread word of where they're going and how many people are aboard. Until recently, they could keep track of these flights using publicly accessible websites. But the monitors and others say airlines are now using dummy call signs for deportation flights and they're blocking the planes tail numbers from tracking websites. Even as the number of deportation flights hits record highs under Trump, the changes forced them to find other ways to track the flights, including by sharing information with other groups and using data from open source exchanges that track aircraft transmissions. Their work helps people locate loved ones who are deported. In the absence of information from ice, which rarely discloses flights, news organizations have used such flight tracking in reporting. Now the faa, Federal Aviation Administration allows carriers to block data like tail numbers from public flight tracking websites under the limiting Aircraft Data displayed program, or LAD. That's what Ian Pechenik, a spokesman for Flight Radar 24, said of the 94 ICE Air contracting planes or, you know, contractor planes that La Resistancia was tracking. Nationwide, 40 have been unlisted. Of 94, 40 have been unlisted. And similar things happened with call signs airlines used to identify flights in the air. I remember when Avelo and Global X changed their call signs to Tyson or something like that. So there's lots of people out there tracking these flights and there are a record number of them. Next up from the Guardian, Senator Patty Murray from Washington has called for the Trump administration to provide immediate answers about the reports that Two firefighters were detained by border agents as they were responding to a wildfire in Washington state. Federal immigration authorities Wednesday staged an operation on the scene of the Bear Gulch fire, a nearly 9,000 acre blaze in the Olympic National Forest, when they arrested two people who were part of a contracted firefighting crew. That's according to the Seattle Times. The fire is the largest currently burning in the state. The identities of the firefighters have not been made public, and federal immigration officials have not said why they were detained. In a statement released Thursday morning, Patty Murray demanded information about the whereabouts of the firefighters and the administration's policy around immigration enforcement during wildfires. Nearly 430 personnel are responding to the Bear Gulch fire on the state's Olympic Peninsula. Firefighters told the Seattle Times that two contract crews had been sent to cut wood and were waiting for a supervisor when federal law enforcement arrived in the area. Authorities made the firefighters line up and show id. One firefighter told the newspaper that they weren't even permitted to say goodbye to their detained colleagues. ICE is detaining firefighters fighting Fires Wow. Next up from the Times, as Trump threatens more federal incursions into American cities in the name of fighting crime, a group of Democratic mayors huddled on a private strategy call Wednesday to discuss their plans to fight back. I love this. The call, hosted by Democratic Mayors association, represented a new effort from Democratic officials to wrest the narrative from Republicans on public safety, an issue that Trump has effectively used as a cudgel. It was also an attempt to coordinate on messaging as national Democrats have strained to mount sustained and unified opposition to the Trump administration. I don't know if that's true. During a call, the mayors in attendance discussed what they saw as an urgent need for Democrats to define themselves as strong stewards of public safety before Republicans brand themselves ahead of a pivotal election. And that's according to a recording obtained by the Times. Mayor Justin Bibb of Cleveland, who leads the association, peppered his remarks with expletives as he urged elected Democrats at all levels of government to seize what he called a unique opportunity to go on the offense with a serious on safety, serious on cost messaging strategy, Quote, if we're passive and hemming and hawing about democracy and all that stuff between now and 2026, we're going to get our asses kicked. We have to now, he said. Again, I'm not sure if I agree with that, but Mr. Bib said he planned to discuss the issue with Governor Andy Bashir of Kentucky, the incoming chair of the Democratic Governors association, later on Wednesday. Quote, they're going to be trying to attack basically every single one of us and use every single city, all of our communities as political pawns. That's what Mayor Brandon Scott of Baltimore said, suggesting Democrats could argue that it was the administration's efforts that are actually undermining public safety. I'm with, I'm with him on that. Mr. Scott outlined several steps he felt mayors could take. Be more visible and communicate what they're doing to improve public safety. Point out successes, but acknowledge there's still work to do and prepare for potential legal action. Involve police chiefs to stress test crime statistics and line up messengers from the community. Local Democrats, he said, could make the case that, quote, if you want to see how to drive down crime, we don't need talking points from congressional folks, senators, we don't need the president, we don't need anybody else. We have the ideas because we're the ones that have been doing it, he added. Now, during the call, there was also a brief discussion of legal issues at play. Though litigation options could depend on Trump's own next moves, the call drew a mix of mayors and staff members. Representatives from the mayor's offices in Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington were on the call. Mayor Eric Adams office cited scheduling issues and explaining why New York City was not represented. So Adams wasn't there. Next up from abc, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has sued President Donald Trump. She did this on Thursday over his move to fire her, saying she should retain her position as a top policymaker at the central bank. The lawsuit filed in D.C. describes Trump's efforts as illegal and unprecedented, claiming Cook's ouster violates the independence of the Fed, which is a cornerstone of the nation's economy. Trump's actions violate Cook's constitutional right to due process, as well as her right to notice and a hearing under the Federal Reserve Act. That's what the lawsuit says. Hours after Cook filed the suit, a judge granted a hearing for today at 10am Eastern. The case has been assigned to Judge Gia Cobb, who was nominated to the court in 2021 by former President Joe Biden. Actually, I think she was his first nomination. And Politico reminds us that the judge who will immediately weigh President Trump's effort to fire Lisa Cook has already pushed back against one of his other signature efforts to expand presidential power, mass deportation. Cook's lawsuit Thursday was randomly assigned to U.S. district Judge Gia Cobb, who was appointed to the bench in D.C. by Joe Biden. Cobb, a former public defender, yep, was Biden's first appointment to Washington's District court, which has 5015 full time judges. In a ruling earlier this month, Cobb blocked the Trump administration's attempt to rapidly deport hundreds of thousands of immigrants who had fled violence or oppression in their home countries. The immigrants had previously been permitted to enter or remain temporarily in the US Under a program known as parole. She also heard a pair of legal challenges to Trump's Justice Department appointees demand for the names of all the FBI personnel who worked on investigations relating to January 6th. Now Cobb will preside over the first phase of Cook's lawsuit, seeking to remain as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors despite Trump's attempts to fire her. Cobb set a hearing, as I said, for today at 10am to consider Cook's request for an immediate order blocking Trump's ouster. All right, next up, and this is fun. Rep. Mike Collins, Republican from Georgia, said he believes President Donald Trump is mentioned in the Epstein files and wants the case files of the convicted sex offender made public. The Georgia Senate candidate running against Ossoff was pressed by an attendee at an Aug. 13 Muskogee County GOP meeting on whether Trump was in the files. Collins replied that he believed the president was in there, but only because Trump was the one that was telling the FBI about it and had previously barred Jeffrey Epstein from Mar? A Lago, according to an audio recording of the Exchange posted on YouTube. This episode highlights growing tensions within the GOP over transparency around Epstein related documents, which Trump has resisted despite earlier promises. In July, the DOJ announced it had found no client list of Epstein's, contradicting a public statement by Pam Bondi on Fox News in February that there was a client list and it was quote, on my desk. Despite the backlash, Trump has stood by Pam Bondi and urged his supporters to move on and called them stupid too. All right everybody, your good trouble is the first submission that we have in the good news, which we'll get to right after John Fugal sang, who we'll hear from after this quick break. Stick around, we'll be right back. Hey everybody, Wireless bills can be outrageous. 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So I'm being joined by my good friend, host of Tell Me Everything, which you can hear on SiriusXM progress channel 127 weeknights at 9pm Eastern, 6 Pacific. If you don't have that, you can always listen to the John Fugal Saying show podcast. If you don't have that, you can always check out the John Fugal Saying substack. And if you don't have that, there's going to be a book out September 9, just a little over a week from now. Oh, God. And we can talk a little bit about that book. It's called the Separation of Church and Hate. Please welcome John Fugal Saying. Hi.
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Yeah, I'm like the hardest working person in show business next to Donald Trump's makeup artist. Hi. Thank you so much. It's so good to be here.
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I think Donald Trump is his own makeup artist. And that's the problem.
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I think when you realize that your makeup artist hates you that much, that normally is a wake up call for most of us. I mean, blend what happens when you.
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Don'T have any gay friends?
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Well, I mean, what is it indeed? Like, I, I'm starting to think it's actually Stephen Miller applying the Pancake foundation makeup on this guy because I don't think any woman or gay man ever would. I mean, have you seen the makeup lately?
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I have. Did you see his hand? The makeup on the hand?
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His hand, yeah. I mean, they are trying so hard to hide his health, which is strange because you'd think they'd run to that. Last month they finally began discussing how poor his health is, all as an Epstein distraction. And so, I mean, obviously, my God, you got bruises on your hands. But it's shows that his health is poor. It's, he's got heart disease, it's probably circulatory. As I've said many times, I want Donald Trump to live a long, long life, preferably in the Hague. I don't wish for anything bad to happen to him. I, I, I wish for three ghosts to visit him on Christmas Eve and make him a good person. I wish him long health. I will say, imagine what it would be like to see Joe Biden and sitting in the front row of Donald Trump's state funeral, just putting it out there. I just, just imagine a healthy mobile Joe Biden recovered from cancer or still being treated because I think there's things in my fridge, Alison, that will last longer than Donald Trump's second term.
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Yeah, I mean, he even said he hopes he goes to heaven or something. I don't know, maybe he just had met earlier with that blonde whack a doodle.
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There's a couple of guidebooks about that, but he chose to use those for toilet paper. So it's a bit late. It's a bit late. Not too late for his supporters, but you know this guy, I mean, he'd have to bring single payer and world peace.
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Well, maybe he'll just go with Catholicism because, you know, you just gotta say you're sorry right at the very end and then everything's, oh my God.
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I mean, can you imagine, like after everything the Catholic Church has been through and how awful the brand is, and then you go through this incredible child rape nightmare for decades and then Newt Gingrich and J.D. vance convert and make it tacky. I mean, my God, we never knew how good we had it. We never knew how good we had it.
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Let's talk about J.D. vance for a second because he had some interesting things to say about World War II this week.
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Wasn't it great, man? I learned so much from this guy. So, yeah, J.D. vance has, I guess, been promoted, Alison, to publicly lobbying for Vladimir Putin to keep the territories he stole from his neighbor, our ally, violating that old woke treaty we all signed in 94. So Trump wants Ukraine to come negotiate with Russia while Russia is still invading, still slaughtering Ukrainian civilians. No ceasefire. And Zelensky saying, no, dude, ceasefire. I'm not meeting with this guy. And so the White House, which has to keep promoting Russian talking points, is attacking Zelensky for not wanting peace because he insists on a ceasefire before he sits down with the guy who's been slaughtering civilians at his. Donald Trump would ask rapists and their victims to peacefully negotiate an agreement while the rape was still in progress. Right. So this weekend on Meet the Press, JD Gets his bump and he gets stage time. And he's coming out there to do Putin propaganda. And he said, if you go back to World War II, he more or less was saying why Ukraine should be more reasonable with the country that's been violently bombing them for three years. And JD said, if you go back to World War II, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation. Dr. Gill, you served. World War II ended in negotiation. I mean, I think the people of.
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Nagasaki and Hiroshima would like a word.
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Oh, we negotiated two atom bombs all over those people. Who could forget when Mussolini was negotiating while hanging from his ankles with his own people? Or how Hitler negotiated with a bullet in the bunker. I mean, J.D. vance thinks that, like, World War II was like a divorce settlement. Like, Churchill and Stalin and Roosevelt sit down with Hitler. And the mediator says, okay, you get Poland every other weekend. Like, and then you realize, no, this is. Of course, their whole thing is rewriting history.
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I mean, you haven't seen the Vietnam Armistice that we signed.
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But, like, think about it. J.D. vance is literally famous because of the way he rewrote his own history. Putin's not gonna do a ceasefire. Right? I mean, Putin doesn't believe Ukraine's supposed to be a country. He wants to rewrite history. He's not gonna stop. The peace talks are just a smokescreen to slow us down from demanding something be done, because Putin has no intention of stopping. He's going to take over this country. He doesn't think Ukraine should be a nation on a map. So all of Trump and Vance talking about peace talks, that's all just propaganda. And Zelensky knows this, and Vance might know this, and Trump is thinking about cupcakes or French fries. But, like, he's arguing that Putin is just appeasing. Putin is just like how America compromised our way to victory with the Nazis. And the mainstream media says, okay, and there are no follow up questions and MAGA stays dumb.
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I've long asked when MAGA watches Saving Private Ryan, who they're rooting for in that particular movie. I can't, I can't. I. I can't put my finger on it.
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The side that speaks English, Alison. It's an easy call. The side that speaks English.
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Well, in the movie, they all speak English.
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That's true. But I mean, look at, I mean, yeah, you know, we could. It's a great point. I mean, I, I can prove to you with an abacus that Hitler and Trump have a lot more in common than Jesus and Trump have in common. And they like it for sure.
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For the. I mean, it seems beyond obvious to me. But then we also have everything that's going on here in the home front. And gosh, I think that it was the beginning of the week when Donald Trump put out an executive order that flag burning would land you in prison for a year.
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Wasn't that great?
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But then you read the executive order and he actually says, well, I can't technically make it illegal, but if you do other crimes while burning the flag, then you go. Which already are laws. So it's the weirdest. So, like, if I am holding a flag and burning it and then I murder someone, I am gonna get in trouble for murdering someone.
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Yes, exactly.
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But I burned the flag. It just doesn't make any worldly sense to me. But a veteran went out in front of the White House, burned a flag, got arrested.
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I know.
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And here we are.
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So that veteran will be fine. But I mean, I've been joking about this all week, and it's hilarious until you realize why he really did it.
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Yeah.
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You know, because there's Epstein distractions and. And then there's this now. Yeah, I mean, he thinks this thing bans something that's still legal. It's still protected by the Constitution. It's like, it's like he signed an executive order against gravity. You know, I mean, even Scalia, their, their fossilized legal Pope said, yeah, it's free speech, man. So. So Scalias to the left of Donald Trump on civil liberties, and he's in hell right now laughing about that. So if you torch a flag in protest, one year in jail, but if you beat a cop half to death with a flagpole while storming the Capitol, keep daddy in office, then it's a Then it's a pardon. But when you listen to his White House staff secretary, Will Scharf, you realize this executive order is about the same legal force as a Chuck E. Cheese coupon, because Scharf jumps in right away, and he acknowledged that. The court ruled in 89, flag burning, his protected speech show. He said, I'm going to quote what the executive order does, sir. You know, when they explained to him what he just signed, it's so embarrassing. It charges your DOJ with investigating instances of flag burning. And then where there is evidence of criminal activity, where prosecution wouldn't fall afoul of the First Amendment, it instructs the DOJ to prosecute those. Right. So you can still be prosecuted for burning anything in a place where you can't burn stuff. And if you burn someone else's flag or damage someone's property, you'll still be prosecuted, and the government still can't prosecute you for burning your own flag. So that's still legal, just like you already can right now. So they changed absolutely nothing. And the EO does absolutely nothing. What was illegal before is still illegal, right?
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Like Enrique Tarria when he burned the Black Lives Matter flag out front of it was AME or St. John's Episcopal, I can't remember. But he, you know, went to. He got arrested for that. Because you can't burn stuff.
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Smart Democrat. A smart Democrat would introduce the bill to ban burning the Confederate flag right now and just to watch who defends it. But here's the deal. I know there's going to be folks who now say, well, screw this guy, First Amendment. We're going to burn our flags to show how stupid and ridiculous and fake Trump's stunt is, because they can't. And they can't. They've acknowledged you can still burn your own flag, but that's not the point.
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No.
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And it's not just about Epstein distractions. Getting liberals to burn flags, preferably on camera, is 100% the point of this executive order. He wrote this, he signed this because he wants to inspire more flag burning, not less. He knows that there are people out there who will do this despite him. And he wants those images on Fox, on News Nation, on oan, on Newsmax, to reunite the base behind him even harder, because these evil leftists are trying to torch Old Glory and only I can protect you. This is how he operates. This is how he spins. So I'm begging liberals, please find other stuff to burn in protest. Burn effigies of him. Don't play into his hands because he's trying to use your protest to solidify support with his base Right when the tariffs start to hit Walmart.
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Agreed. Yeah, it's a very good point. I mean, that's all any of, at least most of this stuff is. The occupation of DC, occupation of Los Angeles, MacArthur park was just to get people to retaliate. And now they can't get, they can't get indictments against people who do because the ICE agents are lying in court or sandwich guy. They can't get a federal grand jury to indict him because they're.
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I mean, how much money is this costing? How much money is this costing the taxpayer? And why are Democrats screaming about the cost? You know, I think it's great that they're now arming National Guard troops on the streets of a majority black city with a 30 year crime low because they want National Guardsmen to be able to shoot and kill American citizens. That's what they want.
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And to incite violence. I mean, that's, let's be honest, that's it.
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And it's like. Andor, man, if you throw a rock at them, that's what they want. You throw a rock at them, they can crush you. John Lennon said it. Violence they can handle. Nonviolence and humor are the two things fascists can't deal with.
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Yeah. And I think that's why they're trying to divert away from, from those things.
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Yeah.
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And art, you know, art.
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I mean, look at South Park. Look at, I mean, Gavin Newsom. It's great what he's doing. You know, it's like, does it mean he'll be a good president? No, but it's gonna take a million different approaches. It's gonna take Cory Booker's goofy filibusters and Bernie and AOC doing a tour of red state stadiums and Gavin Newsom making fun of Donald Trump memes that really the right wing can't criticize him for. Newsom is smart because it's sort of like MAGA proof. Right wing Nazis can't go after him for his disrespect of the President because he's mocking the stupidity of the President's social media posts and statements. And south park, he can't sue him because that proves him right. And if Trump pushes back at south park, then more people watch. And I think the episode this week about Towley going to DC might be the best written episode of the three we've seen so far this season. You can't go by the clips, folks. Don't just go by the Penis footage clips on social media. Watch the entire episodes of south park because they are modeling how to do it. People are coming for the dick jokes and they're staying for the civics lessons.
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Oh, love it. That's a good title for the episode. Come for the dick jokes, Stay for the civics and this discussion. I would be remiss if I didn't ask you this.
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What.
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What is woke about the updated Cracker Barrel logo.
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Woke means anything racist, don't like. Okay, okay.
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What's what? What's anti racist about changing the. Is it because you're taking an old.
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White guy off woke? Is anything racists don't like it. A red light that lasts too long is woke. Do you understand? Same with communism. Same with socialism. They don't know what the words mean. They just like to hate people. I actually.
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Because they never gave a reason. They just said they were awful. It was awful. And then Cracker Barrel went back.
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Well, because they assume that this is, like, you know, evil corporate entities messing with their beloved rural Cracker Barrel, when in reality, they've sold their souls to evil corporate entities that know how to manipulate them.
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Pretty much, Cracker Barrel is a corporate entity.
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Exactly. But I gotta say, I love the story. I mean, I love the Cracker Barrel story because they did it. They. They did what Jesus and Superman and Jimmy Carter couldn't do. They united America. I mean, left wing, right wing, maga, liberals, grandmas, hipsters, everybody joined hands this week and sang together in harmony. This new logo freaking sucks. I mean, I'm half Southern. I don't know about you. I've spent many hours of my life in Cracker Barrels. And when my mom and dad retired, I spent many hours down there. I have eaten those biscuits and sat on those porches and looked through those very rustic, weird gift shops. And this is the most bipartisan thing I've seen. Forget infrastructure. Like Cracker Barrel pulled off a mirror. They got Don Jr. And me to agree about something, Allison, because I hate the new logo. And I don't know if I should cry or vomit and then cry. And the logo, yeah, it was the old guy in overalls leaning on the barrel, which I've always loved that guy because that's authentic country charm. Right? Old man looks like he just lost a farm in a poker game. It's depressing. Okay, and now the brown words on a yellow background. And they said this logo is inspired by our biscuits.
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Talk.
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They said the colors are inspired by our biscuits. Imagine if McDonald's rebrands with a gray logo and said we're inspired by the color of our meat. And, and the maggots freaked out, the liberals freaked out and said it looks like crappy clip art. And the Stock went down 94 million in a single day. I mean they pissed off the conservatives by being too woke and liberals by being too boring, which is like Thanksgiving dinner and you poison everybody, including the dog. And so the Cracker Barrel buckled. The barrel cracked and they said, we thank you, we're going back and the old timer is going to remain. So it lasted less than New Coke, less than 1 Scaramucci. But I just thought it was the most beautiful failure I've seen. I mean, for the first time since January 20th, our whole country agreed on one thing. Cracker Barrel screwed up. And so I'm going to nominate the new logo for the Nobel Peace Prize because it's done more than anybody.
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I, I honestly didn't really have a position on the Cracker Barrel logo. I just couldn't figure out why the right wing hated the new logo so much.
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Your life's not as empty as mine, Alison. And yeah, I couldn't figure it out either. And of course I figure out why, because they're big man babies and they don't like change and they're going to make a fuss and they'll forget about it in two days. I mean it's just, this is it. They're starving in Gaza deliberately. There's armed troops of the streets in cities with 30 year crime laws. I mean, stealing U.S. house districts in Texas. Masked men are kidnapping innocent nonviolent people off the street. And the media and the President are focused on a goddamn logo for Cracker Barrel. Like this is where we are folks. This is how empires crumble. I'm here, I'm here for a front row for the freak show.
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Like George Carlin said, it's very weird and sometimes some days I just don't know what to make of it.
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I just, I was on CNN the other night and this is one of the topics on CNN. Like there's there, there, there's 63, 000 dead people in Gaza. And they, they bring me on to talk about this. So I was just like, great, I love it. I look, look at how much we're all agreeing finally. Because that's it, man. I mean that's that like, like that counts as news. And I get it, but it shows how stupid they think the American people are. Profit driven news is making us dumb.
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Yeah, agreed. That's why I'm so thankful for what you do? Well, thank you, too.
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And you. Thank you.
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If anybody wants to check out what you do, it's called Tell me everything. It's weeknights.
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Thank you.
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9:00Pm Eastern, 6 Pacific.
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Thank you very much.
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That's on Serious Channel. Serious progress, right? 127.
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27. Yeah. And you've been doing amazing work lately. My God, I can barely keep up with your reportage. I mean, thank you for inspiring me all the time. Time.
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Oh, well, right back at you, my friend. And by the way, if you don't have serious, you can always check out the John Fel Sang show podcast. And, and your book's coming out in a little over a week.
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Yeah. Did Simon and Schuster send you a copy yet? Did you get one?
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I haven't gotten one yet, but we'll work on that.
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All right, I'll work on that. I, I, I sent them your address. I posted your address publicly as well. I'll see what, what that was about and, and what I can do, because I'd love you to read it, but yeah, Separation of Church and hate coming out September 9th. I hope you'll, you'll pick it up. It's, uh, I'm already getting a lot of hate mail from just the right Christians.
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Yeah, that'll be my September read. And my October read will be the posthumously published Virginia Giuffried book.
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And yes, me too.
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That'll take us into the holidays.
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So, yeah, I was gonna open in August, but then they said, you know what? We'd rather put your book up against Kamala Harris. So, guys, yeah, please, you can order it online now from your favorite not evil website or your favorite local bookstore.
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Well, I appreciate you very much, my friend. And we'll see you next week on Feegle Sang Fridays. Everybody stick around. We'll be right back with the good news. Hey, everybody. Nothing says welcome to your guests like offering a great glass of wine. And that's why I stock up with Naked Wines before all my gatherings. I don't drink that much anymore, but sharing these bottles has become one of my favorite parts of entertaining. And I really get a lot of kudos when I use Naked Wines. Naked Wines is a service that directly connects you to the world's finest independent winemakers so you can get award winning wine delivered straight to your door. So please join us in thanking Naked Wines for sponsoring our show. Go to nakedwines.com dailybeans and use our code dailybeans for the code and the password. And you'll get their incredible offer of just six bottles of wine for $39.99. Now, I recently served the Ode by Daniel Baron Napa Cabernet Sauvignon. Oh my gosh, it's so good. It's a 2021 grape. It was really unforgettable. Bold BlackBerry, ripe plum, black cherry flavors balanced with like vanilla and spice from oak and aging. So it had like that spiciness. It was luxurious, perfect for sharing, great for dinner with friends. And what about Naked Wines is how much easier it makes entertaining. I don't have to second guess my choices. The wines always have a story and people genuinely love them. Naked Wines has supported over 90 independent winemakers for more than 15 years. And the quality shows by cutting out the middleman, the retail middleman. They deliver amazing bottles at up to 60% off grocery store prices. Now every shipment gets better too. They curate because you can rate your wines and refine your future boxes. So for me, Naked Wines is the simplest way to impress guests without breaking the bank. There's no commitments. You can pause whenever you want. It's really the best deal ever. So now's the time to join the Naked Wines community. Head to nakedwines.com dailybeans Click on Enter voucher and put in my code dailybeans for both the code and a password and you'll get six bottles of wine for just $39.99 with shipping included. That is $100 off your first six bottles. That's nakedwines.com dailybeans and use code and password dailybeans for six bottles of wine, two for $39.99. You'll be glad you did. Everybody. Welcome back. It's time for the good news.
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Who likes good news? Everyone? Then good news, everyone.
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Good news. Good. And if you have any little bit of good news that's ever happened to you in your whole life, we would love to hear about it. Some great story from your past. Maybe you have a shout out to a loved one. Maybe it's your anniversary or a birthday, some sort of holidays coming up for you. Maybe you have a shout out to a small business in your area. Great community activism that you're seeing. Maybe a nonprofit that could use a boost or a self shout out. We love those shout outs to government programs that have helped you or a loved one. That's always wonderful, especially student debt relief. Those are really, really great stories. All you have to do to get your stuff read on the air is pay your POD pet tariff, which means attach a photo of your pet and we can try to guess the breeds in your shelter pup if you want. We're very bad at it but we love to guess anyway. If you don't have a pet, send an adoptable pet in your area. If you don't have that, really just grab any cute animal off the Internet. We love otters, secretary birds, frogs, pandas, red or black and white bird watching photos can be an actual bird or you and your family and friends flipping the bird to Trump or Musk or their properties. Or you know, fox. Maybe you're walking by a fox news in D.C. and you can flip them off to whatever bird watching. We love it. Send that to us and any any family photos. Maybe some great signs you've seen at a recent protest. It can be anything. Your happy place, your garden. Send it all to us dailybeanspod.com and click on Contact. Our first submission is today's Good Trouble. Now this is from Joyful Foot Care Nurse Pronoun. She and her hey wonderful AG and dg. Once again, thank you for seeking out the Good Trouble and sharing it. This is a thought I had Corporate media is not covering the protests and their skewed coverage benefits only Big Orange. His message is not the only message. We can threaten to pull viewership and not support sponsors who support incomplete coverage. We can go to independent sources. If they're going to bow to Big Orange, let them know that. Here are the big three email links. Cbs, NBC and abc. We're going to include these links in the show notes so you can reach out to them. My pod pet tax is a photo of Queen Yofi with my dear granddaughter Zippy. Yofie is a very patient dog. First of all, the granddaughter is gorgeous, the dog is patient and this is adorable. So everybody, if you want to give show feedback and network feedback to cbs, NBC and abc, we will have the links in the show notes and meanwhile, subscribe for free over@militaryroute.com Independent Media Woohoo. All right, next up, Complicated Connie with a pronunciation correction. Mackinac island is pronounced Mackinaw. Oh, Mackinac Island. Yes, you saw a horse drawn carriage as cars are not allowed on the island unless you're the Vice President of the United States. Mike Pence was in a car on the island during Trump's first term. It's a beautiful island. I'm running the eight miles around the island next week. Mackinaw. Oh, it's an eight mile run. That's so cool. As my tax. I'm including a picture I took on the island last time I ran the race there it was Halloween weekend and the bar restaurant where we had dinner had an SNL theme for costumes. Oh look at Dick in a box. Oh step one cut a hole in a box. Step two put your junk in that box. Step three, open the box and that's the way you do it. Oh my gosh. JT and it's so funny. Andy Samberg I think. Very good costume. All right, next up, obvious username is the name in regards to Social Security numbers being leaked by Doge. I'm a cybersecurity expert. In addition to freezing all three credit bureaus, I highly recommend ensuring that everyone Already has an SSA.gov and IRS.gov account set up and ensure that Multi Factor authentication is set up on these accounts. This is where you have to enter your password plus a PIN that's texted to you or a code from an authenticator app such as Google Authenticator. I have seen situations where people get their identity stolen because a threat actor creates an account for someone else and wreaks havoc on that person's life, such as filing fake IRS returns in their name. Many of these types of accounts only require kba, which is Knowledge Based Authentication, which is usually information that is easy to find out about someone, such as what street they grew up on or what area codes they have lived in. Get these accounts set up before someone else does. Keep fighting the good fight. Thank you cybersecurity expert. Everyone set up your SSA.gov and IRS.gov accounts and set up two factor authentication please. Next up for Maggie Pronoun. She and her Everyone is tired this week. We all need a boost. Last night my wife and I got a small one when she went to a friend's house to get ready for the Overpass challenge happening this weekend. From the Mexico border all the way up to Canada, organizers are hoping to get as many overpasses filled as possible on the i5 stretching through California, Oregon and Washington. We went back and forth a little bit on what to put on our banner and it had to be short enough to fit on our 10 foot wide canvas, something you could read while traveling 75 miles an hour. We knew that we weren't going to get MAGA to come to our side, but we were hoping to inspire anyone who hasn't joined the resistance yet to uplift anyone already in it who needed a pep talk. I mentioned some of the phrases you had put on the Repainting the Rainbow episode this week, the ones from the artists making Chilean Inspired protest art. If we fall silent, we fall or tyranny thrives on apathy. Wonderful as they were, they didn't feel quite right or short enough really for this. Finally, our host said, what about don't give up? So simple, so perfect. We added USA to the front of the sentence and painted it on the banner. Please, my friends, don't give up. Sending everyone's strength and courage, especially you ladies in the podcast. I'm a brand new listener this week. Oh, my gosh, welcome. In fact, I'm instantly hooked. I only heard about you because of the podcast you join Heather Cox Richardson on, and she is already one of my guiding lights in this mess. Oh, my God. Same. She is a national treasure. I look forward to her words every day. And now yours too, will keep me buoyant as my tax. I'm attaching a photo of our dear Iris. We adopted her from a county shelter a few weeks ago. I'm also attaching her DNA results, because you'll never guess all of them, and they're too numerous to sum up here. We decided on that name for her after literal weeks of trying out so very many other names. One day, she simply sat in the living room directly in the path of a rainbow coming through the window so that it beamed a multicolored heart on her chest. And she sat there so intentionally for so long that I snapped a pick, and I'm attaching that too, and sent it to my wife. I said, I think she wants us to name her something that has to do with rainbows. I mean, it only makes sense for two queer ladies, no? And we landed on Iris, the goddess of the afterlife. And because our Iris came to us to heal the wounds of losing our soul dog the year before, it could not have been a more perfect moniker. She continues to shepherd us through this life to keep us safe and joyful and grateful. Always locked in love. What a fantastic submission, Maggie. Welcome to the Leguminati the Beans family. We're so happy that you're here. And, yeah, look at that rainbow heart. Oh, adorable. Beautiful baby. All right, let's see. Breeds. I'm terrible at this. I can't even. Maybe Lab. Maybe Shepherd. Maybe some sort of cattle dog. Maybe a little. Maybe a little Staffy or Pity. Just a beautiful pup. Well, let's see what we got here. Staffy. Pity. What? What? Roddy, Boston Terrier, Bulldog, American Bulldog, and Boxer. Okay, I got two. I got two. And the two are 35 and 33%, which is 68%, so I got a C at least. Oh, German Shepherd. There's another one. Chow. Chow. Did I say that? I meant to if I didn't. Anyway, Cocker spaniel, golden retriever and chihuahua. Fabulous dog. Maggie. What a great submission. Thank you and again, welcome. Oh my God. This next dog. Next up from Terry Pronouns he and him. By the way, if you want to see these photos, you just got to become a patron. It's like three bucks a month. It's like 36 bucks for the whole year. Somebody just bought a ton of we do this thing patrons helping patrons. If you can't swing a premium membership to become a patron, some. Sometimes our patrons buy memberships anonymously for others and we have a few now so you can go to dailybeanspod.com scroll down, look for patrons helping patrons and you can either buy someone a year long subscription for 36 bucks or you can put your name on a list to get one of the donated. There's been thousands, thousands of these donated. So thank you for that. And if you want to become a patron, you can do that@patreon.com MullerShiprote Again, it's three bucks a month so you get to see the pictures and you get the episodes early and you get them ad free and you get to come to all the galas and I am planning an IT gala for when it happens. I think you know what I mean. Nudge, nudge, wink wink. All right, so this one's from Terry Pronouns. He and him and this picture is amazing. Dear Beans Queens, Paramount plus is scared. I will subscribe until the last cold bear late show appears and then I'm going to drop it. Until then I will only watch the Daily Show Colbert in South Park. Paramount plus has noticed. I got an email saying remember Paramount plus is more than the Daily show in South Park. I know they are data mining the viewers, they always do. But I hope they get a huge subscriber drop next May. I'm like I canceled but I'm like half. I have half a mind to join again so I can drop it again in May. I don't know, I'm weird Tariff Arshitsu Bo Jing who is a stray without a collar. This is the cutest dog and he is judging me, Terry. But I love him. Thank you for that. Next up from Ed Pronouns he and him. Hi Beans Queens. Been an avid listener since November and a patron shortly thereafter. Sorry. Typing in real time while the local news just broadcasts an active shooter a few blocks from where I live. No details beyond someone is dead and the police are searching for someone at large. Wow. I taught for 35 years and the news of this just makes my blood run cold and I'm right back in my classroom during those godforsaken drills. I retired three years ago and that creeping dread about it being our turn was one of the reasons I left a couple years early. And right now I'm sitting at work, my retirement gig is at a golf course, and I'm trying to keep my hands from shaking and the tears from falling. Anyways, I wanted to invite you and your listeners to the Stamford, Connecticut area to an event. The Connecticut Choral Artists, or concora, are presenting a piece that I wrote called An American Requiem, which is, ironically, about gun violence. The group gave the work its premiere back in May and raised $2,600 for the Sandy Hook Promise. The next performance is on Saturday, September 13, 7pm at St. John's Episcopal in Stamford, Connecticut. Tickets are free, but you do need to reserve one and you can do that by going to Concora C O N C O R A.org we'll have a link in the show notes it's been 30 minutes. No change in the news. I've been letting people know as they come off the golf course to avoid the area for my POD pet tariff. Here's a picture of Stitch who passed a few years back. He was mostly blind, mostly deaf and 100% steadfast companion. Here's also a poster for the upcoming event. Thanks for sharing and be safe out there everybody. If you're in the Stamford, Connecticut area, grab tickets to this event. September 13th 7:00pm St. John's episcopal@concera.org Beautiful Pupper. Oh, and that's a really great poster too. An American Requiem. Congratulations. It's going to be amazing to hear it right. Thanks Ed. Next up from Steph Pronoun. She and her thanks for getting us through this time. Honestly ladies, sometimes I can't actually listen to the beans or watch any news. It's too much for me to handle. So I settled for the transcript and patreon that Allison reads at the start. I read that and get my news bits if that's all I can handle. And then I skip to the good news, keeping my sanity with the help of these two and my garden. There's two dogs here. I love to pick flowers from my Arizona garden and give them to co workers and friends and family. Say hello to Tucker and Max and the flower bouquet they put together for a cousin that I was meeting for breakfast this past Saturday. They include Mexican Bird of Paradise, Iantana Onion, Greg's Mist, and Eucalyptus. Thanks for the news and the laughter Steph thank you. And it's amazing how many beautiful flowers you can grow in Arizona. It's a gorgeous bouquet. Thank you so much. Which are the orange ones? We had a. Is that a Mexican bird of paradise? The orange ones, because we had a bunch of those in our yard when I lived in Phoenix. They're beautiful. All right, last submission of the week is from Anonymous. Pronoun she and her the other day there was a good news segment where misprocessing and mishearing was discussed. My husband is hard of hearing and one day I told him that when I die, I don't want to be embalmed and buried in a casket. Instead, I want to be wrapped in a mushroom shroud. And he said, a mushroom cloud? And I said, sure, that'll work. Here's my pup. You've seen her before. She's still a Rhodesian Ridgeback dachshund mix, which is so great. I love to think of a Rhodesian Ridgeback and a Dachshund. In love she is Midge I've also included a pic of me and my bird at the Payne County Republican booth this afternoon. I'll go back and stand there, point at the bad Orange man cutout and shout photos with a pedo. $1. All proceeds donated to the Payne County Dems. That's a fantastic way to resist. Anonymous there's that sweet baby. Hi Midge. And that's a great photo too. Ugh. Anyway, to the Trump that you're flipping off, by the way, not the dog or the act of flipping the bird. Everyone, Fantastic Good News Day. Please send us all your good news. 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