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Friday, May 22nd, 2026 Today, the Republican ICE funding bill has been delayed by the $1.8B IRS slush fund for terrorists; Colorado Democrats have censured Governor Jared Polis over his commutation of Tina Peters’ sentence; Trump’s handpicked commission approves his ridiculous arch; Jamie Raskin introduces a bill to block Trump’s slush fund; the DOJ loses voter roll cases in Maine and Wisconsin; the Broadview 6 defendants have all remaining charges dropped after an emergency hearing regarding grand jury proceedings; eight House Democrats vote for the Republican ‘Don’t Say Trans’ bill; that Tennessee school board member who called a student hot has been charged with assault; and Allison delivers your Good News.
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Hi, I'm Frances Collier. And I'm Angela V. Shelton. And we're Frangela. You know what you mean in your life. The Final Word podcast. Yes, you do. That's right. It is the final word on all things political and pop cultural, where we make real news, real funny, where we inspire you so you can resist. Subscribe and get a new episode of the Final Word podcast each week. It's the news we think you need to hear. That's right. We think you need to hear it. Okay. Yeah. It's what we say. So. That's right. And because all we do is give. Every Thursday, you can listen to our hysterical podcast, Idiot of the Week. We round up the stupid. Because you know what? Somebody has to. Okay. All we do is give MSW media. News. We're swearing. Daily beans. Daily beans. Daily beans. Daily beans. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Friday, May 22, 2026. Today, the Republican ICE funding bill has been delayed by the $1.8 billion IRS slush fund for terrorists. Colorado Democrats have censured Governor Jared Polis over his commutation of Tina Peters sentence. Trump's handpicked commission approves his ridiculous arch. Jamie Raskin introduces a bill to block Trump's slush fund. The Department of Justice loses voter roll cases in Maine and Wisconsin. The Broadview Six defendants have all the remaining charges against them dropped after an emergency hearing regarding grand jury malfeasance. Eight House Democrats have voted for the Republican don't say Trans Bill. And that Tennessee school board member who called a student hot and hugged her has been charged with assault. Your host, Alison Gill. Hey, everybody. Welcome to Beans. Happy Friday. It's Friday here, so it's Fugal Sang Fridays. I'll be joined by John Fugal sang later in the show. Also, the text of my $8.647 million slush fund claim is up@muellershirote.com in case you want to use it as a template to file your own claim, as well as a discussion I had today with Charlotte Clymer about the DNC 2024 election autopsy report that was just released. It was supposed to be released a ago. Ken Martin decided not to release it. Today, he issued an apology for waiting so long and not releasing it, saying that when he asked an outside group, I don't know who outside individual or individuals or a group to do an assessment of the 2024 election and why we lost, basically he got the report back right around the November 2025 elections, the ones where we kicked everybody's ass. And it was a giant pile of garbage. It had conflicting ideas in it. It wasn't clear. There was no executive summary. There was no conclusion. And he was like, I can't release this, you know, and put the DNC name on it. So he kept it hidden, which caused bigger controversies and caused more people to speculate why it was being hidden. Turns out it was just a giant, stupid, horrible report. I wish he would tell us who did it so that we would know and so that we wouldn't use that. No one would use that company again or person or persons. It wasn't the DNC and it wasn't anybody involved in the 2024 election. That's all we know. But he's not naming names. So anyway, that all happened and Charlotte Clymer and I discuss it over on substack militiaroad.com so you can check that discussion out. All right. We have a ton of news to get to today. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first up from Politico, Senate Republican leaders have canceled plans to vote this week on a party line immigration enforcement bill, a major, major setback as lawmakers contend with Trump's personal political agenda. Several Republican senators said action on the legislation would have to wait until after a week long Memorial Day recess guaranteeing that Congress will blow A Trump set June 1 deadline for the immigration funding. This is for ICE and CBP, quote, will pick up where we left off. That's John Thune, Senate majority leader, talking to reporters after a closed door lunch where he informed Republican senators they were being sent home amid the impasse. That lunch was an explosive lunch. We'll talk about that over on Beans Talk. House Republican leaders quickly followed suit and canceled plans for a Friday vote on the immigration package. Members will instead head home for the recess after votes wrap up Thursday night. The Senate's decision was driven by fierce internal divides over a politically sensitive issue not related to the purpose of funding ice, pumping tens of billions of dollars into Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies. That's what this bill is. But the problems arose from something different. It came after Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch struggled Thursday to quash Republican concerns over the newly announced $1.8 billion slush fund. Leaders had already concluded they would have to omit a billion dollar funding line item that would have gone toward Trump's. But asked about the internal furor over the settlement fund, John Thune told reporters it makes everything way harder than it should be and that it would have been nice if they had consulted senators before setting up the fund, Senator Lisa Murkowski pointed to the weaponization fund, telling reporters that the White House dropped a bomb. A senior Senate Republican aide, granted anonymity to speak candidly, called the decision a delay of the administration's own making. Quote, senators are still solidly behind ICE and Border Patrol funding, but a number of concerns remain about the anti weaponization fund. Those need to get worked out now. Republicans believe it's now up to the administration to figure out a path forward for salvaging the immigration enforcement bill. Quote, they need to help us with this issue because we have a lot of members who are concerned obviously about the timing but also the substance. That's what John Thune said. Todd Blanch met privately with Senate Republicans as the administration and Republican leaders tried to diffuse the controversy over the fund. GOP leaders believe they had enough members who would support a proposal targeting the fund and that it would ultimately be added into the filibuster skirting bill. As Politico first reported Wednesday, Tommy Tuberville said that Blanche, during the meeting made a commitment to senators that settlements would not be granted to anyone who assaulted police on January 6, a guarantee he refuses to make publicly and refused to make when testifying to Congress earlier this week. A memo that the Justice Department circulated to Senate GOP offices Thursday, however, did not include that detail. That's according to a copy reviewed by Politico. Susan Collins, who noted she missed part of that meeting for committee meetings, said senators still need clarity. Asked if the briefing changed her mind, Collins, who's been critical of the fund, said no two people granted anonymity to describe the meeting, said it didn't go well for the administration and that Blanche was not persuasive amid a grilling by dozens of Republican senators. Money for the fund is not included in the GOP's immigration enforcement bill, but because the bill involves Justice Department funding and the Senate Judiciary Committee is involved in that bill, senators have a path to add language related to the fund into the bill with only 51 votes, meaning Republicans can add language to the budget reconciliation bill that doesn't need 60 votes to pass that get rid of or curb the swash fund. So very interesting. I think there were at least 25 Republican senators who spoke loudly at that meeting, which I guess is pretty rare. And in a related story from the Hill, thank you everyone for calling your representatives and your senators about this, because Jamie Raskin, top Democrat on House Judiciary, introduced a bill Wednesday to bar the Justice Department's new $1.7 billion compensation fund. Slush fund, as I call it, to be used for payouts to those who claim to have faced weaponization at the hands of the government. The quote, no Taxpayer Funded 5 Settlement Slush Fund act of 2026 would bar the use of any federal funds to back the settlement and would also create new restrictions on payouts generally, including barring anyone convicted of rioting at the Capitol on January 6th from receiving funds. The DOJ created the fund after the Trump administration agreed to voluntarily drop a lawsuit. Now, the Trump administration didn't agree to drop it. They came in and told the court they were dropping it. That lawsuit from Trump seeking $10 billion in damages over the le his tax returns. In doing so, they sidestepped a judge who questioned whether the president and the administration were truly adversaries as required for bringing such suits. Then on Tuesday, the department released a memo barring the IRS from auditing or pursuing charges against Trump related to his past tax returns. Quote, trump is trying to commandeer nearly $1.8 billion in taxpayer funds to bankroll a slush fund for January 6th. Cop beaters and aggrieved MAGA foot soldiers. That's what Raskin said in a statement. He went on to say, the massive abuse of public money also has glaring constitutional defects. Only Congress has the power to appropriate federal dollars and we didn't appropriate a cent for the J6 Millionaire Trust Fund. That's why I'm introducing the no Taxpayer Funded Settlement Fund act to shut down this highway robbery and restore basic guardrails on how taxpayer dollars are spent. Congress must reassert the power of the purse and stop this brazen looting of taxpayer funds before this pilot program for massive partisan corruption becomes the per operating system of our government. Now, while the bill would specifically block the new settlement slush fund, it would also, it's not a settlement. It's taken that out Politico. It would also generally bar future settlements tied to cases related to January 6 or disputes over the 2016 presidential election. It also specifically blocks Trump, Vance or the president and the vice president and their Cabinet members from receiving money in any litigation over those matters. So thank you, Jamie Raskin. You're a gentleman and a scholar. Because everyone was like, oh, we should introduce legislation to tax these awards that are going to go to the insurrectionists and terrorists. We should tax those things. And I'm like, why don't you just put together a bill that dissolves it? And that's exactly what Jamie Raskin has done. All right, next up from the Advocate, Republicans in the House passed a bill Wednesday with the help of eight Democrats that, if approved by the Senate and signed into law by Trump, would force teachers across the country to out transgender kids to their parents. It would also ban schools nationwide from acknowledging that transgender people even exist. It's called the Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids act, also known as HR 2616. It passed by a vote of 217 to 198, all 209 Republicans who voted to support the measure, joined by eight Democrats. Meanwhile, 198 Democrats voted against the bill. They were, and I'll name them for you, Henry Cuellar of Texas, Don Davis in North Carolina, Cleo Fields in Louisiana, Lauren Gillen in New York, Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, Marcy Kaptor of Ohio, Marie Glusenkamp Perez of Washington and Eugene Vindman of Virginia. That one's a shocker to me. Very disappointing. Next up from the post, a federal arts commission Thursday voted to approve designs for Trump's planned 250 foot triumphal arch, advancing the project amid public opposition and some confusion on the panel. Thursday's vote by the Commission of Fine Arts, whose job it is to vet the design of monuments and other major projects at the Capitol, represents a key approval as the White House seeks to begin construction of this arch. Another panel that oversees federal construction projects, the National Capital Planning Commission, is set to review that proposed design for the arch June 4th. Now, Trump has packed both of these panels with allies, putting his executive assistant and other political appointees on the fine arts Commission and installing his staff secretary as the leader of the planning commission. He personally rejected suggestions to lower the height of the proposed arch by more than 80ft. The project's main architect told the arts commission Thursday Trump has eyed Memorial Circle, a traffic roundabout near Arlington National Cemetery, for the structure, which he says will be the largest triumphal arch in the world. It will be disgusting. It will be 250ft tall. And I will vote for anybody who is running for president that vows to destroy it if it's built by the time we knock these Republicans out of office in 2028. All right. Next up from NBC, Colorado Democrats voted Wednesday to censure Jared Polis, the governor, fellow Democrat, for commuting the prison sentence of Tina Peters, quote, reducing her sentence now under pressure from Donald Trump is not justice. That's what the Colorado Democratic Party said in a statement. They went on to say it sends a message to future bad actors that election tampering has consequences. Unless you're friends with the president, that's a dangerous and disappointing precedent. To set along with the censure. Polis will not be able to participate as an honored guest, a speaker or officially recognized representative of the Colorado Democratic Party at sponsored events. Also from NBC, A Tennessee school board member who hugged a teenaged girl and called her hot at a public meeting last month has been charged with assault. The charge of assault, physical contact, stems from an incident on April 2nd when Keith Irvin put his arm around the girl. A student member of the board hugged her from the side and told her, God, you're hot, after she had just wrapped up asking questions about career and technical education. A lawyer who could speak on Ervin's behalf was not listed in Washington county court records, and Irvin did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. During the public comment part of the May 7 meeting, the student called the adult members of the school board cowards for what she characterized as a failure to act. She said. To begin, I want to address Ervin's actions, which were not only unwelcome but but sexist and derogatory, she said, standing at a podium in front of members, including Irvin, who sat with his arms crossed as she spoke. She went on to say, I know this because he has not behaved this way with any of our male members, nor do I believe that he ever would. Following public outcry, Irvin apologized for his actions at an April 8 meeting. He said he called the girl hot, meaning she was on a roll and had nothing to do with her appearance. The board censured Irvin, a member since 2006, at that meeting, and in a statement Tuesday to an NBC affiliate, WCYB of Bristol, it said that because Tennessee law dictates school board members are independently elected officials, it actually doesn't have the authority to remove them, including Ervin. The board reiterates that Mr. Ervin's actions do not reflect the standards, policies or values of the school district. The board will defer to law enforcement and the judicial system for the resolution of these charges. In her public comments, the teen told the board members that she doesn't accept, quote, your fake apologies used to protect yourselves. I don't believe that you deserve that peace of mind. Ervin's first court appearance is scheduled for August. Way to go. All right, some good news from democracy Docket Federal judges handed the Department of Justice a pair of losses in their nationwide quest for unfettered access to state voter rolls, ruling the federal government has no right to demand records from Maine or Wisconsin. Thursday's dismissals bring the DOJ's record to zero and eight out of 31 lawsuits brought against the states. In Washington, D.C. they're zero for eight. DOJ has sought unredacted voter registration records from nearly every state in furtherance of Trump's lies about widespread illegal voting by noncitizens, an extremely rare and inconsequential phenomena. Now, the agency has claimed it is trying to ensure states are complying with the voter roll maintenance requirements in the National Voter Registration act and the Help America Votes act and that it's empowered by Title 3 of the Civil Rights act to do so. That's what the government is saying. In Maine, U.S. district Judge Lance Walker, a Trump appointee, held that, quote, whatever investigatory purpose may Support a Title 3 records demand, voter list maintenance is not among them. In Wisconsin, U.S. district Judge James Peterson held the statewide voter registration lists are not records subject to the cra, echoing the reasoning used in Michigan and Arizona to dismiss the DOJ's cases in those states. Quote, this court agrees with Benson and fontes that section 20701 does not encompass records created by state election officials, including voter registration lists. That's what Peterson said. A Barack Obama appointee went on to say, the government's arguments to the contrary are not persuasive. So congratulations, Mark Elias and the Elias Law Group. All Right, lastly, from NBC 5 Chicago, federal prosecutors have dismissed all remaining charges against the members of the so called Broadview 6. Prosecutors announced the dismissal after a hearing before U.S. district Judge April Perry, who had previously dismissed felony charges in the case earlier this month. Prosecutor Andrew Boutros admitted in court Thursday that prosecutors had made significant errors in the grand jury process. Remember I talked about this yesterday. They were calling that emergency hearing. They were all going to go in because something happened in the grand jury room. And initially in order to cure the problems in the grand jury room, the prosecutors just dropped the conspiracy charge, but left all the misdemeanor charges in place. And the defense attorneys for the Broadview Six said, hey, you know what? We want to see what that missing grand jury material is about the conspiracy charge, because it could taint the entire case. Well, apparently it did because prosecutors dropped all the charges. Now it's expected the grand jury transcripts will be unsealed by the end of the day Thursday, which will shed more light on how the federal case came to be. Defense attorney Chris Parente alluded to the practice of vouching during a grand jury hearings, effectively kicking grand jurors off the panel who disagreed with the charges. Transcripts were then redacted by prosecutors with defense Attorneys seeking for those redactions to be removed as the case moved forward. We're going to go over this on the Sunday's episode of Unjustified. Me and Andy McCabe, because basically what they did is they got a no true bill, kicked out the grand jurors that voted against them, and then took the vote again. That's insane. Oh, they also, by the way, didn't tell anyone there was a no true bill. The charges dismissed Thursday were misdemeanor counts of forcibly impeding a federal agent, which had a possible jail sentence of up to a year. This dismissal puts an end to one of the biggest cases to come out of Operation Midway Blitz. That's the immigration surge that targeted Chicago. Former congressional candidate Kat Abu Ghazale and Andre Martin, a member of her staff, had been among the four defendants still facing misdemeanor charges in the case, which stemmed from an incident during protests outside the Broadview ICE facility way back in September of 2025. Those two, along with 45th Ward Democratic Committee person Michael Rabbit and Oak park trustee Brian Shaw, still face misdemeanor charges in the case. Accused of surrounding an ICE agent's vehicle outside the Broadview facility. They were then accused of pushing it and causing damage. And they faced up to a year in prison for forcibly impeding a federal agent. But the charges have all been dismissed with prejudice, meaning they cannot be refiled. And trial dates was set for May 26. It was about to start, but prosecutors pressed to hand over unredacted grand jury transcripts multiple times, including when Perry dismissed felony charges earlier this month. I think I just explained that. But a Thursday court hearing had pertained to the transcripts. And after the closed hearing, prosecutors announced the dismissal of all the remaining charges. I hope that they file for sanctions and they should. And the judge said, I believe I was following along with the hearing. The judge said we could talk about sanctions at another time, but to go into a grand jury room, get a no true bill, don't tell anyone about the true bill. Kick out the grand jurors who voted against you and take the vote again. That's sanctionable. Easily. I think it's disparable. Anyway, congratulations to Kat and the other defendants. The nightmare is over. And fuck ice. You won. Congratulations. All right, everybody. Up next, John Fugal saying, followed by the good news. Stick around. 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Unspun because you deserve the truth. Hey everybody, welcome back. It's Friday on the Daily Beans. That means it's Fugal saying Friday. So please welcome my good friend, New York Times bestselling author of the Separation of Church and Hate. He hosts Tell Me Everything on Siriusx in progress, channel 127. That is weeknights at 9pm Eastern, 6 Pacific. He also has the John Figelsang show podcast and a substack. I mean, he's everywhere. Please welcome John Fugalsang hi, friend.
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Oh, thank you, Alison. Thank you, Alison's deeply attractive listeners. What a pleasure to be back here on my vacation week. I'm on a deadline for my next book, so I'm actually on vacation from doing Sirius XM all week. So I actually have not been marinating in Trump the entire week. But I did hear tell that something about a slush fund maybe, and something about Thomas Massie maybe. But yeah, it's. It's been crazy.
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My God, the slush fund. So it's a 1.776 billion dollar slush fund. And Todd Blanche says the 1776 has nothing to do with anything other than that's the average rough estimate amount of the claims. That might be just like Todd Blanche
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getting G. Lane Maxwell moved to a nicer cell has nothing to do with any of this either. Please trust this man. Go on, doctor. So.
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So I filed my claim for the slush funds. You can find it@muellershireroad.com if you want to use it as a template. And I am seeking $8.647 million in damages. And that number means nothing other than that's just what I think, you know, my punitive damages, back pay and retirement is worth for the lawfare perpetrated against me when my podcast was investigated by the federal government in 2019.
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I think it's worth it. And I can't wait to see what kind of form letter you get back in reply. And maybe you won't get any. You may inspire me. I got fired from Page Six TV because of my Trump jokes. Wow. See how this works? Yeah.
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Well, I'd like to be able to prove that there's discrimination with how they hand this out. But it looks like Republicans in Congress don't like this thing. Breaking news right now. They can't. So, you know, they're trying to fund ICE and CBP because the Democrats.
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That's very important. Yes, that's very important. We have a labor shortage. We have to get rid of those people.
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And they're trying to do it through budget reconciliation. And Judiciary is one of the committees they went through. And because they went through Judiciary and Department of Homeland Security, they couldn't get their ballroom money in there because that belongs in environmental and other things. And if they do that, they have to redo the whole bill. And they don't want to have to do that because they were trying to make a June 1 deadline. But it looks like they're not going to make it because there are enough Republicans in Congress that want to Put a provision in this budget reconciliation bill to tear apart the $1.8 billion slush fund and put it in the budget reconciliation bill because it is under the jurisdiction of the Judiciary Committee and their reconciliation. So.
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Wait, wait, wait. But that's only in the parallel cinematic universe where Congress has oversight, right?
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Yeah, but they. Okay, enough Republicans hate this thing that they're trying to put it in the ICE funding bill, and they can't even get ICE funded with the budget reconciliation.
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Wow. You want to talk about some ballroom? These guys doing this to Donald Trump in the election year. They must be very confident in their home districts.
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There are a lot of Republicans who are breaking with him on a lot of different things. And so it's going to be interesting, you know, the next few months leading up to these midterms. His polls are already in the shitter. But, yeah, we've got that slush fund. We've got Massie and Cassidy losing their primaries. And for some reason, the mainstream media thinks that this means Trump is a God or something like that. Democrats, meanwhile, are like, yes, please, we would love to run against Trump backed candidates in the general election because they did so well in November 2025. And then he, and then he endorsed Ken Paxton.
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Ken Paxton. Ken Paxton. Evangelicals. You dropped this. Yeah. Okay, so let me just say I picked the wrong week to go on vacation and, and, and binge. Right.
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Don't call it a vacation. You're taking, you're taking time off work to do other work.
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Because that's what we do. We. If only I get some time off of work, I can finally on. That's, that's how life is. And so this week, the week I take off, is the week that the Republican Party officially transitions. They are now officially the party of beating cops and raping kids. Yeah, that's it. That's the, that's the headline. That's what I missed. Nixon in hell is watching, saying, okay, too much, guys, turn it down, turn it down. Nixon is berating Roy Con in hell over Donald Trump's actions right now. Can I say, I have a child. I live with this kid.
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Kid.
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And this kid asked me to explain this because this kid saw this on the news, the slush fund of what's happening. And so I, I tried to explain to my child because, you know, it's, it's complicated. And I said, okay, so these people who beat cops on the Capitol steps for a lie because a billionaire lied to them. Now the billionaire is using Our money to pay those people who beat up cops for the billionaires lie. And my child replied that what I was saying sounds like the collapse phase of Empire. So he was way ahead of me.
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I, I, I like how you're trying to break it down with small words. I tried to explain stage capitalism, dad.
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Is that what you're talking about already? Already? Yeah, well, his, yeah, they, well, you know, they teach critical race theory in seventh grade now, so that's how it works, right? Yeah. This is amazing. This is, we're alive to see it, folks. It's the most honest thing Donald Trump has ever done. I mean, they, they finally stopped pretending the government belongs to the public, and they've just turned it into a rewards program. Terrorists and revoltingly fake Christians who beat the out of cops for Donald Trump's lie. It's, this is, it's, I mean, have we ever had corruption like this? This is, I mean, Teapot Dome. What have we. This is like corruption with stadium lighting. This is, this is corruption with a gift shop on the way out. Like, we've never seen this level before. They're not even paying for the history books to have nuance anymore on these guys. It's, it's brilliant.
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Yeah, I know. And Donald Trump keeps doubling down on it. You know, he's, you know, when asked today what he thinks about Republicans in Congress splitting from him, he's like, I don't even know what you're talking about. I don't care. You know, I mean, it's, it's, it's,
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the law doesn't apply. He said it, he said the law doesn't apply. Their loyalty matters. More like, my God, it's not supposed to be this easy for the Hague, Right? It's not supposed to be this easy. Like, normally they don't, they don't make it that easy for the prosecution by verbally giving you a confession before the, before the fact. But these terrorists, and again, I don't call them insurrectionists. I don't call them rioters. They are terrorists. According to the dictionary, they use violence or the threat of violence against the civilian population to bring about policy change. They were there to force the vice president to lie and commit fraud and seat alternate electors. That's why they were there. Someone built a gallows. We still use words like insurrectionist. But the crazy part is, and you've pointed this out, the total lack of oversight. The fund literally says it can decide its own rules, it can keep the money secret. There's no judicial review. This is a guy who Ran a casino into bankruptcy, taking 2 billion of our dollars and saying, trust me, trust me. Right out in the open, like they're not even, they're not even trying anymore. I mean, this is like baby Doc Duvalier. Is there a plane full of money getting ready to leave the country at this point?
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Yeah, I think there might be. And. And perhaps, you know, it's, you know, along with a plane that's also taking off, headed to Cuba to probably kidnap Raul Castro, who we just indicted.
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Just, you know, Venezuela part two.
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If a pre. Help me through this, Alison. If a president, okay, can sue himself and then settle with himself, why would Congress ever control spending again?
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But it isn't even a settlement. The judge came out and said there's no settlement of record. No one mentioned a settlement. There's no settlement. But everyone keeps calling it that. The lawsuit didn't even need to exist.
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It's like they're setting up this fund just apropos of nothing. They're just trying to use the lawsuit as cover. So trying to say it was a settlement, but. But yeah, it's $2 billion of our taxpayer money that's going to go to pay people like Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon and Roger Stone and Sidney Powell.
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Country's anniversary. It's the most perfect metaphor of where we're at. I mean, 250 years, we went from no taxation without representation to let me tax you to pay the January 6th guys.
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Yeah, yeah. And it wasn't just, you know, it's not just you who calls them terrorists. A judge adjudicated that it was domestic terrorism. There was a domestic terrorism enhancement on the sentences of many of these guys, which, you know, for Oath keepers and proud boys with Judge Janine Box of Wine is trying to dismiss and vacate the charges against. All of these guys are going to be applying for this fund. And I think we all should apply.
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We all should apply. I mean, the fund for guys who claimed that the government was mean to them because they committed crimes for a lie. Yeah, that, that's the victimhood, that's the level of snowflake we're dealing with here. And, and to me, the, the fact that the agreement, this is just great. Like again, they, they don't usually come out and just announce, hello, citizens, we are cartoonishly evil and here is our plot. But they've actually woven into this made up deal that the government is forever barred from ever, ever pursuing any tax claims against Donald Trump, a man who has committed tax fraud. And the government is forever Banned from ever investigating him or his children, Fredo and Shemp, for any kind of tax crime. I mean, like, it's comical, the levels of evil and it's just like, wow, if, if the king steals enough, eventually they just stop counting.
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Yeah. Yeah. Oh, hey, by the way, someone just sent me a new poll from a Texas poll for Latino voters only. Talarico leads Paxton 50, 57 to 25. That's a 32 point deficit for Latino voters in Texas.
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You mean Catholic voters in Texas. You mean Catholic voters in Texas.
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It's just astound, not astounding, not surprising, but astounding that Donald Trump would back Ken Paxton. A bunch of Republicans in Congress are very angry.
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Why? It's not really. He's so weak, though. He's so weak. Trump is. You didn't think that he'd been to the bigger bully. You didn't. I mean, it's such a weak choice. Everything that defines Trump, his lack of impulse control, his lack of being able to see beyond the next meal. I mean, this guy commit fraud and
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be indicted for it.
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A criminal. He had to find a guy who treats women worse than he does. He had to find one. So put this guy up against the choir boy and let's have the moral IQ test for the good people of Texas.
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Yeah, it's going to be an interesting midterm election, my friend. Let's talk a little bit about. I know there were some other things that you sent me that you, you know, even though you are on vacation but working, you know, not to. You said you wanted to talk about slush funds. You wanted to talk about taxpayer funded Christian nationalist jamborees.
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Well, I wanted to know what you made of the gigantic white power rally with lots of smiles and 100% less Jesus over the weekend. I mean, we were talking last week about the, the giant golden cankles statue about Donald Trump and it just seems the Christian nationalism, I mean, this was a taxpayer funded Christian nationalist telethon that was to me even more a violation of the teachings of Jesus than it was a violation of the very, very direct wishes of the founding fathers. I mean, the founders wrote it down more than once. We do not have a state religion. We're not allowed to. That was what we were supposed to be escaping. And so we're really seeing these guys get really just realizing they'll. They'll make an official state religion as much as the rest of us will allow them to get away with it. And nothing in the entire day about any of the actual teachings of Jesus. Nothing about helping the poor, nothing about helping the sick, nothing about welcoming the stranger. I mean, the entire thing was idolatry. It was white power. It was like diet Christianity now with 100% less Jesus and we paid for it. Taxpayers funded this blasphemy. I don't just want to make it seem like it's just taxpayer funded religion. It's taxpayer funded blasphemy because they hate the New Testament as deeply as they hate the Bill of Rights.
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Yeah, and Trump. They had to use a rerun of Trump. A three week old tape of him reading whatever that was. He was reading very poorly that he's never read in his life. I guess he was out golfing or maybe, I don't know, having, doing that thing where he lets Stephen Miller feed on the back of his hands every month or whatever it is that causes. Causes those giant bruises and the swelling. But he couldn't even. He's not even fit to record a new message of blasphemy for the taxpayer funded Christian nationalist jamboree. He's got to use a three week old tape of him talking religion sort of from something in the past.
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And they don't care. They don't care because they've never cared. He can be as amoral as he wants. They don't care about morality. They don't care about Christian ethics. They care about power. They care about their group owning America. That's Christian nationalism. That is the last dying gasp of the Confederacy. They care about political power, conservative, Christian political and social control over society. They know that white people become a minority, what is it, 19 years from now we're going to become, we're going to go below 50%. And they are terrified. They want to control all the institutions as deeply as they can to maintain minority white rule, like those folks they grew up admiring in South Africa. So they're going to do this and they're going to violate every teaching of Jesus in the Bible. And that's why I make all the noise I make. Because again, it's not just that they're violating the Constitution, they're religious frauds. This is what Hitler did. It's right wing authoritarianism using religious language, using churchy language to get folks to support a fascist agenda that has nothing to do with the Bible. They wave around like a prophetic.
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Yeah, well, we appreciate you making all the noise.
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Oh, I do. Go on. I do. Go. I'm insufferable when I get started on this. I know.
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I mean, isn't there a psalm about making noise? Let me See, Yeah, let's see.
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Sort of what God, Jesus killed in the end was making noise about this Psalm 100.
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Make a joyful noise, sir. Continue, continue making your Psalm 1: hundreds.
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Well, it's just, it's, it's. They have to be called out. I mean, this is, this is the fraud. This is what's hurting us. If they can, if we can find a way, break this grip and get these working white conservatives to finally understand that they have more in common with working black people and working brown people, that they have more in common with immigrants than they have in common with billionaires, you might begin to see some actual Christianity in our policies in this country. But until then, it's a mean little click.
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And that's what they're scared to death of the billionaires.
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Oh yeah.
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Because they know that the wool that they've been pulling over everybody's eyes for the last 50 years is, is coming off.
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It's, it's how they killed the unions. I mean, and it's, and I mean, look what happened to Thomas Massie. He just found out like, you know, oh really? It's not about being conservative. Right. Like what finally killed him was actually believing that law and order applied to billionaires.
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Oh yeah. Shame on him for that.
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Just amazing. So right.
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And again, don't get me wrong, terrible guy.
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Terrible guy. Terrible, terrible guy. Awful human being on every level. But it. He's right that raping children is bad. And he's right that lying us into unwinnable stupid wars is bad. Two things. And that's what he was punished more. Opposing illegal wars and asking awkward questions about Jeffrey Epstein.
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Yeah, not awful enough is the, is the slogan for the Republican midterms not awful enough.
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32 million to beat this guy. They can't find that for children's health care, but they can find it to protect children's rapists.
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Of course.
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Well done, guys.
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Of course they can. We can't get Affordable Care act subsidies funded, but we're going to give, we're going to make January 6th terrorist millionaires. That's it.
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So I think this, this shows what's going to happen for any, any Republicans left in Congress who try to get justice for Epstein victims. They've just shown them what's going to happen.
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Right?
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Make accountability go away.
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People pointing that out, like, what do these Republicans have in common that he's going up against? They all were. For the Epstein files released, Lauren Boebert's next.
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She's the next one to get her one way ticket to Christine Home Island. You'll see.
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Oh, he already came out and said she's a carpet bagger and blah, blah, blah. So, yeah, yeah, well, fine, let him.
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Good times, good times. Who could have guessed? They turn on each other. Who could have guessed?
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Who could have known? Who could have known besides everyone in the history of ever six temper tyrannis. I mean, it's a whole thing. They said it in Latin. That's how old this is, that they, they've been saying it since languages have died. So here we go. We'll see the results. I think this November, probably not as big as we should because of Jim Crow 2.0, but we'll see.
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They're going to try as hard as they can, but I think there's going to be an incredible lack of enthusiasm on the Republican side this year as there was an 18 as there was in 22.
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Yeah, I concur, my friend. Thank you so much.
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Peace.
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For take the time. Talk to us today. Coming on the Daily Beans every Friday, you can check out John Fugal saying on Tell Me Everything. It's a show on Siriusx in progress, channel 127 weeknights, 9pm Eastern, 6 Pacific. When he's not on vacation doing other work. You can also get your copy of the New York Times best selling book, the Seventh Church and Hate.
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Yes, do that, do that.
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Thank you, my friend.
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Thank you, Alison.
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Good news. Okay, everybody, it's the end of the week, so you have all weekend to get your good news to us by Monday. It can be something big, something little, something recent, something that happened a long time ago. As long as it brings a smile to our face. Maybe it's a fun story that you like to tell when you're sitting around sharing old stories with your friends. Perhaps it's a shout out to a loved one or a non profit. You want us to know about a small business in your area like the Minocqua Brewing Company that just raised a bunch of money me this past weekend maybe. Incredible. I love Minocqua. Maybe it's a self shout out. Tell us how come you're awesome because everyone who listens to this show is awesome. You can send it all to us dailybeanspod.com click on contact and all you got to do to get your stuff read on the air is attach a photo, pay your pod pet tariff. It can be your pet. It can be an adoptable pet. It can be a random animal on the Internet. 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My podpet tax is a fish from Maui because it calms my anxiety. And here's a link to watch the performance on YouTube. Everybody check it out. Link in the show notes. Beautiful fish from Maui. Is that the uma Uma puka puka. What is it? It a new a. I used to know the state fish. Humahuma nuka nuka apua. Yeah, okay, that's a quote from a movie. If you can tell me the movie, you win. I don't know my respect. Maybe a partially used glade air freshener. It's all I got. Anyway, thank you so much, iceberg. And thank you for sharing the link to that amazing performance. All right, next up, Andrea pronouns. She and her hi ag and dg. I want to begin with thanking you for doing what you do. I've been a listener for about two years now and it keeps me sane in this odd timeline we're living in. I want to give a self shout out which is weird to be honest, but here we go. I was let go of my job in 2021 because my employer gambled it all away. I was heartbroken and shocked. 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Hello Lagumis. I heard your interview with Oliver Larkin today and I just want to point out that his opponent. Jared. I think I'm so funny. Moskowitz voted against the War powers resolution on March 5. None of the wording in that resolution has ever changed. So whose side is he really on? Worth looking into? I don't live in Florida, but if I did, I would vote for Oliver Larkin. I know I'll donate to his campaign. My pet tariff is our old boy goober. 15 year old vet said he's part blank, blank, blank. To my partner and I, he's perfect and perfect. All right, husky shepherd, let's see what we got here. Greet Dane and border collie. Okay, I got 0% Anna on your beautiful baby. I'M with perfect and perfect. All right, next up from Anna Pronoun. She and her hello Beans queens. My friend got me listening to you a while ago and I love you both. I love you back, Anna. The submission is a tad late, but on May 1st during the march, this was her sign, which she made freehand herself. 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I had a good laugh on Tuesday morning when I opened my phone to listen to the Daily Beans the same way I start every morning. And I saw the title of the episode, Book a Rage Room. Because I had recently done just that. The very next day, my daughter and I headed to a rage room appointment we had made to celebrate her last day of seventh grade. What better combo of rage is there than that of a preteen girl and her perimenopausal mom during the Trump 2.0 era. Etc. I'm including a picture of my daughter all suited up for the experience. For my pod pet tax, I'm including a picture of my best girl, Lola, and my best girl Lucy. Can you guess their breeds? Lola is a blank and Lucy is a blank, and that's a very much longer blank than Lola is. Both are rescues. We love them dearly. There's the rage room. That's so. That is kismet. That is synchronicity. 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I have good news, a self shout out and a request for support. Support. In the good news, I've become a substitute teacher for kids elementary to middle school in St. Charles Parish and have successfully survived the school year. The kids are both mainstream and special ed. They're all smart and energetic. Sometimes too energetic. In other good news, coming up is the lgbtlol, the largest queer comedy festival in America. And you can find it at lgbtlol.com and at queer Comedy Fest on Instagram. Started as a small one day festival and has grown and grown and grown. The dates are June 4 through June 7. Around 50 comedians will be showcased. Any beans nearby NOLA should come out for the fun and festivities. My shout out. Oh, when is it? June? Oh, I'm not going to be there in June. My shout out is to my students who made my year and helped my board gaming YouTube channel break 100 subscribers. You can find my channel here and we're going to have a link in the show notes there. 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