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Friday, February 14th, 2025 Today, the federal prosecutor handling Eric Adams’ case has offered her resignation in protest of Emil Bove ordering her to drop the charges; RFK Jr has been confirmed by the Senate to destroy the health of Americans; the Office of Personnel Management has ordered agencies to fire all probationary employees; the secretary of the VA Doug Collins has ordered all pride flags removed from facilities; the Kansas governor has vetoed a ban on gender affirming care for minors; the fork in the road deferred resignation program has officially ended (the steps); feds have seized $80M of FEMA aid appropriated to New York; the measles outbreak in Texas was completely preventable; Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has filed suit against the Trump administration over the spending freeze on grants and loans; and Allison and delivers your Good News.
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Alison Gill
MSW Media hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Friday, February 14, 2025. Today, the Federal prosecutor handling Eric Adams case has offered her resignation in protest of Emil Beauvais ordering her to drop the charges. RFK Jr. Has been confirmed by the Senate to destroy the health of Americans. The Office of Personnel Management has ordered agencies to fire all probationary employees. The secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Doug Collins has ordered all Pride flags removed from facilities. The Kansas governor has vetoed a ban on gender affirming care for minors. The fork in the road deferred resignation program has officially ended. Feds have seized $80 million of FEMA aid appropriated to New York. The measles outbreak in Texas was completely preventable. And Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the spending freeze on grants and loans. I'm your host, Alison Gill. Hey everybody. Happy Valentine's Day. Dana says she loves you, but she did have to make last minute travel plans. So you're stuck with me today. I also love you. Thank you for trusting me to bring you the news with swearing. And I'll be joined later by John Fugal sang today because it's Fugal Sang Fridays on the Daily Beans. And we'll have some good trouble for you as well. This one is in support of our LGBTQ + veterans and VA employees. We are going to have a lot going on this weekend. We have a weekly wrap up for patrons for the Daily Beans. On Saturday, we have a Zoom Happy Hour which with Harry Dunn, this is next week, February 21, Friday at 7pm Eastern, 4 Pacific. And that's going to be for patrons of the Daily Beans and cleanup on aisle 45. And of course, this Saturday, I'll be recording an update for the new patrons of Fed Oath, which is our nonprofit to help federal workers. Plus a new episode of Unjustified Drops this Sunday and cleanup patrons will get their cleanup bonus episode with Harry Dunn and me this weekend as well. RFK Jr has been confirmed by all Democrats and Turtle Mitch voted no. And you know, first of all, fuck Mitch McConnell because he could have stopped all of this by voting to convict after impeachment for the insurrection on January 6th. He said we don't have to impeach him because the DOJ can indict him. But then the Supreme Court granted him immunity and postponed all of those cases. He won reelection and all those cases were dropped. So thanks a bunch, Mitch. And by the way, coming out and voting no now when you don't have to run for office again is real chicken shit move. And this sort of underlies the fact that we need term limits. People grow spines when they don't have to run for office again. And so this should be a revolving door, I think. So they have confirmed RFK Jr. We have a brain worm at Health and Human Services. Also, the Office of Personnel Management has sent a letter to agency heads to fire all probationary employees. This is damaging and drastic. And I mean, just like everything else really that's going on, I imagine these letters will start going out soon and hitting people's inboxes. As always, if you're a federal worker and you want to share something with me anonymously or just vent, have a shoulder to lean on. I have my DMs open on blue sky and in my Blue sky BIO There are two secure ways to contact me, one through ProtonMail and one through Signal. Please do not contact me using a government issued phone or don't send me anything from a government email address. Maybe set up your own Proton email address and grab screenshots with your personal cell phone and send them to me that way. Also, the fork in the road deferred resignation program is over, according to an OPM email that went out after hours Wednesday night. As we know, Elon Musk had promised that that would be over as soon as legally possible. And once Judge I think it was O'Toole dismissed the restraining order or dissolved the restraining order, halting the expiration of the deferred resignation fork in the road email program, they did what they promised and ended the program. They actually ended it before they told everybody that they ended it. They sent the email out at like 8pm and said effective at 7:20pm so nobody even had a chance for a last minute resignation. So all of that's going on today, just on Thursday alone. There's going to be a lot more that happens this weekend, I'm sure. But we do have a lot of news to get to today, so let's hit the Hot Notes. Hot Notes. First up from Ryan Reilly at NBC. The top federal prosecutor in New York and two senior federal prosecutors in Washington have resigned after refusing to follow a Justice Department order to drop the corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The resignations amount to a stunning public rebuke of the Trump administration's new Justice Department leadership in one of the country's most high profile criminal cases. The departures come after Emil Beauvais, the acting US Deputy attorney general and former private attorney of Donald Trump, issued a memo Monday ordering federal prosecutors in New York to drop the case against Adams, arguing in part that it hampered his ability to tackle elite legal immigration and violent crime. Danielle R. Sassoon, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced her resignation in a brief statement to colleagues on Thursday, the day before Sassoon appealed to Attorney General Pam Bondi and expressed her alarm at being ordered to drop the case. That's according to a letter obtained by NBC News. I've also written this up and put some relevant parts and, you know, standout paragraphs from this letter on my substack at M. That's free. Sassoon wrote to Bondi that she had attended a meeting on January 31st with Beauvais Adams, attorney Alex Spiro and members of her office. Quote, adams's attorneys repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid pro quo, indicating that Adams would be in a position to assist with the department's enforcement priorities only if the indictment were dismissed. That's what Sassoon wrote. She went on to say, Mr. Bovet admonished a member of my team who took notes during that meeting and and directed the collection of those notes at the meeting's conclusion. Sassoon also said in the letter that her office was preparing to file additional charges for Mayor Eric Adams, quote, based on evidence that Adams destroyed and instructed others to destroy evidence and provide false information to the FBI. I knew this was coming. I knew these superseding indictments were coming because of all the weird activity and people going over to do wellness checks on Eric Adams's colleagues that helped him in this. And conspiracy, obstruction charges can carry a 20 year max sentence for federal offenses. So big news, really important and a hats off to Danielle Sassoon for writing this letter and resigning. Andy McCabe and I are going to go over the letter in detail along with ML Bove's response on this Sunday's Unjustified podcast. He wrote an eight page letter saying, oh, well, I accept your resignation and all those other people in the public corruptions unit, I'm going to put them on administrative paid leave. But a lot of them ended up resigning anyway. All right, next up from Jennifer Bisram at CBS News, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is calling on city officials to step in after the federal government seized over $80 million he says was given to the city to house migrants. He held an emergency news conference Wednesday afternoon after he said his office found the money was missing from the city's accounts. According to Lander, FEMA awarded the funds to the city's house asylum seekers. Now, quote, these folks who for the most part registered with the federal government when they crossed, in many cases got sent here by the federal government. New York City stepped up to provide shelter and services to pay for that. That's what Lander said. And this comes after Elon Musk claimed that the money was being wasted on luxury hotels to house migrants, which pretty sure is a false claim. But what's really interesting about this is this wasn't money that was stopped. This money was pulled out of a bank account, $80 million. They've been robbed. Also from CBS News, a West Texas county is dealing with a measles outbreak. That's according to experts. And they're reminding Americans that outbreaks like these can be avoided with safe, effective and available vaccines. Health officials confirmed Tuesday that two dozen people have been identified with measles in Gaines County, Texas, which has one of the highest rates of vaccine exemptions in entire state. All of the confirmed measles cases in the county involve unvaccinated residents, and nine patients have been hospitalized. Now, Dr. Amesh Adalja, who's an infectious disease physician and senior scholar at Johns Hopkins, told CBS News, this is troubling because this was completely preventable. What we're seeing is one of the places in Texas it has the lowest vaccination rates, the highest school exemption rates for measles vaccinations, having a measles outbreak, including hospitalizations of individuals who've been infected with measles. Adalja said that this should act as a reminder that measles is still a risk when proper precautions are not taken. Quote, it's the most contagious infectious disease known to humans. And when we start seeing measles outbreaks, that's a sign that there's a chink in the armor of vaccination. And the fact that it's preventable I think is what people should understand. This doesn't have to happen if we can get vaccination rates back to high levels again. Now, keep in mind, RFK Jr. Donald Trump wants to stop funding schools that require vaccinations. So this could become very widespread. Next up from ABC News, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro on Thursday sued agencies under President Donald Trump saying they are illegally and unconstitutionally withholding billions in federal aid from the state that had already been approved by Congress. Shapiro filed the lawsuit despite the fact that federal courts have repeatedly rejected the Trump administration's sweeping pause on federal funding. And Shapiro's lawyers suggest that the Trump administration is continuing to ignore court orders to restore access to the suspended money. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Philadelphia, calls actions by the federal agencies, quote, flagrantly lawless and said the agencies have no legal authority to unilaterally refuse to spend congressionally appropriated money over a policy disagreement. Further, the agencies have provided no plausible explanation for the suspension. The federal agencies named as defendants are the White House Office of Management and Budget, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Departments of Energy, Interior and Transportation. They did not immediately comment on the lawsuit. By the way, in the Department of Interior's case, it said its policy is to not comment on pending litigation. The Trump administration issued a memo in late January, as we know freezing federal grants and loans. Administration officials said the pause was necessary to review whether spending aligned with Trump's executive orders on issues such as climate change and diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The freeze, of course, caused widespread chaos and a judge ordered the administration Monday to immediately take every step necessary to unfreeze all federal grants and loans, finding that the Trump administration hadn't fully followed his earlier order. They were in violation of the restraining order. The Trump administration quickly appealed the ruling and lost on Tuesday. In Pennsylvania's case, the Shapiro administration said about $2.5 billion in grants or reimbursements committed to Pennsylvania is now suspended or under some sort of review that hasn't been approved by Congress or any funding agreement and hasn't been explained to Shapiro's administration. The lawsuit said aid is being withheld from programs that distribute money to plug abandoned gas wells, improve energy efficiency in homes, upgrade rural electric service and reimburse industry for cutting their planet warming greenhouse gas emissions. Shapiro's lawyer said the administration cannot legally add new conditions to federal aid after a state has already accepted it and federal aid cannot be shut off unless it is for a reason that is specifically laid out by the law or a funding agreement between a state and a federal agency that violates the spending clause of the US Constitution and from Anna Kaminsky at the Kansas Reflector Kansas governor Laura Kelly vetoed Republican led legislation Tuesday that attempted to ban gender affirming care for minors, a move a top GOP lawmaker called reckless and senseless. Kelly, a Democrat, vetoed a similar bill last year and Republicans failed to coordinate the necessary two thirds majority to override her veto. The House Speaker, Dan Hawkins, a witchita Republican, said in a statement Tuesday that House Republicans were ready to override this year's veto. The so called Help Not Harm act, which restricts certain types of health care that professionals can provide to individuals under 18, cleared the House in an 83 to 35 vote and the Senate in a 32 to 8 vote last month. The House vote was one shy of a 2/3 majority with four Republicans absent. Quote Right now the Legislature should be focused on ways to help Kansas cope with rising prices. That is the most important issue for Kansans. This is where my focus is. That's what Kelly said in a statement. Senate President Ty Masterson, an Andover Republican, said the Senate is prepared to swiftly override her veto before the ink from her pen is dry. Hawkins said House Republicans were ready to override the reckless and senseless Veto. Senate Bill 63 would prohibit gender affirming care recommended or performed in response to gender dysphoria. That's the psychological distress that arises when a person's biological sex and gender identity differ. Gender affirming care includes the prescription of puberty blockers and hormones along with surgery. The bill would forbid the use of taxpayer dollars for promotion or education on gender transition. It would also allow civil penalties for health care workers found to be in violation. Kelly said it's not a politician's role, quote, to stand between a parent and a child who needs medical care of any kind. Kelly said the legislation, if her veto is overridden, would drive Kansas families, businesses and health professionals out of the state. She added that the Legislature's support of the act was disappointing. Hawkins said Kelly's veto was a choice of partisan politics over the safety and well being of our Kansas children. Masterson pinned the veto on Kelly's extreme left wing ideology. Ah yes, the extreme ideology of parents making health decisions for their own children. Brittany Jones, a lobbyist for the anti abortion organization Kansas Family Voice who testified in favor of the Help Not Harm act and hearings last month encouraged lawmakers to override her veto. Quote Kansas children deserve better than harmful experimentation and life altering procedures, she said in a Tuesday news release. She's full of shit, she said. This bill merely regulates a medical procedure which is well within the legislature's jurisdiction. No, it's not. Some opponents have called into question the constitutionality of the Help Not Harm act if it becomes law because of a Kansas Supreme Court decision on abortion that affirmed a right to bodily autonomy. Democrats have opposed the bill in committee hearings and floor debates. I hope they do not get this. Every single doctor's association pediatric association says that this care saves lives. It's safe, it's effective and this should be a decision between parents and their doctors. Period. For anything. All right, it's time for some good trouble. All right everybody, welcome back. Our good trouble today comes from me. I've written this up@muellershirote.com I say I am beyond sickened by what's happening at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Yesterday, dozens of VA employees shared a new flag directive with me sent by Doug Collins, Trump's VA secretary. It says Public Displays or Depictions of Flags throughout VA facilities to establish more consistent and clear guidance across the Department of Veterans affairs and among all employees at the VA is instituting a new policy, effective immediately, limiting the display of flags beyond the United States flag at VA facilities. The guidance applies to public displays or depictions of flags by VA employees in all VA facilities, workplaces, buildings, common areas and public areas, including but not limited to individual offices, cubicles, government vehicles, office buildings, recreational areas, medical centers, storage rooms, kitchens and restrooms all spaces or items in public or plain view outside of a VA facility, including the parking lot the public display or depiction of unauthorized flags in museum exhibits, state issued license plates, grave sites, memorial marker monuments, educational displays, historical displays or works of art where the nature of the display or depiction cannot reasonably be viewed as an endorsement of a flag by the Department is not prohibited. All veterans and VA beneficiaries will always be welcome at all VA facilities to receive the benefits and services they've earned under law. This policy will bring consistency and simplicity to the display of flags throughout the Department, which I expect to have a singular focus serving the needs of veterans, their families, caregivers and survivors. So as you probably know, I worked at the Department of Veterans affairs from 2009 to 2020 and our core values were to welcome and celebrate all who served with the explicit understanding that providing quality health care actually requires us to understand and accept all veterans, especially when providing essential, life saving mental health care. While the new Secretary claims that all veterans will always be welcome, yanking pride flags sends a pretty clear message that many are not welcome and that will have a chilling impact on patients who may no longer feel that it's safe to talk about who they are or to simply exist as a person. VA's pledge to serve all who served will be disrupted by sending signals to some who served that they're not valued. VA has spent years undoing the impacts of don't ask, don't tell, restoring benefits to those wrongly discharged and ensuring that no one is left behind. And these pedantic and childish flag restrictions on celebrating joy and individualism will have damaging consequences, and it's a far cry from the VA I was proud to work for for over a decade. Further, not one single impact study or white paper was done to test the impacts of this policy on our veteran population and their families. So I truly hope that our VA employees will continue to display pride flags and depictions of flags under the exemptions to this policy because exempt from this are educational displays or works of art where the display or depiction can't be reasonably viewed as endorsement of a flag. For example, the picture I took below is from a display at my VA clinic and I believe it to be educational and I have a picture of dog tags. One of the dog tags is a trans Pride flag. The other is the full pride flag and it says we serve all who served. So what can we do? Here's your good trouble, your mission should you choose to accept it. I encourage everyone to visit your local VA hospital or VA cboc, which is a community based outpatient clinic. You don't have to be a veteran and look for other flags that might violate this policy, including but not limited to MAGA flags, Trump flags, thin blue line flags, Gadsden flags, the Don't Tread on Me flag, Confederate flags, 1776 flags, or other outdated American flags with fewer than 50 stars, the Pine tree appealed to Heaven flag that Martha Alito waved so proudly, Punisher flags, NFL team flags, anything. And report those flags to the facility director, the visn, the VISN director, the VA Office of Inspector General, the clinic patient advocate. There's one on staff at every clinic and your Congress people. And don't forget to check the commissary and the gift shop for these unauthorized flags. They're all over there. I bet they're always selling some right wing mugs and pins and bumper stickers and shit that undoubtedly have flags and depictions of unauthorized MAGA flags on them. And finally, my door is always open for anyone who needs to talk. My secure contact info, like I said, is in my Bluesky bio at Mullershirote BSky Social. Feel free to reach out to me anytime if you need to talk or vent. And if you're in crisis, please dial 988. Veterans, press one. Love you all. AG all right everybody, we'll be right back with John Fugal saying after these messages.
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John Fugelsang
We'll be right back.
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Alison Gill
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John Fugelsang
Oh, good morning and good evening and hello to all of your terrified new listeners. It's great to be here. How are you, Dr. Gill?
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Alison Gill
I'm, I'm, you know, I'm here. And so it's, you know, Friday, and that's about the best I can do.
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John Fugelsang
You didn't want to get off the boat, did you? You were ready to stay on that cruise. I know, I know, I know, right?
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Alison Gill
But, you know, working hard because running a podcast network wasn't enough. I decided to start a nonprofit to try to help some federal government workers. So we're very busy responding to just hundreds and hundreds of incredible, dedicated, hardworking public servants. And it's a crisis in our federal government right now, as you know, and it's not going to get better because we just had some folks, you know, get their nominations confirmed by the Senate. So why don't we talk about that?
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John Fugelsang
This is the, the, the messiest and most public heist that's ever been pulled off. And, yeah, you know, I just want to say all those thousands of Trump supporters have now lost over $2 billion because they believed in him. And invested in his meme coin. I'm pretty sure we can get it up to three. You know, we're about to have a really tough couple of years because 49% of us would drink bleach if a reality show star wearing way too much makeup. They'd drink bleach if he told them. And right now, I think the best metaphor of the week was Steve Bannon finally admitted that he stole from MAGA and no one cares and the smart ones are giving him their money again. To me, I thought that this last Wednesday was a remarkable day in the history of Vladimir Putin achieving things. And I've been referring to it as Putin's Human Centipede, which is a very unfortunate thing. Now, those who don't know, Human Centipede is a very bad film, a very disturbing film, but an excellent premise for this bit. Donald Trump gave Vladimir Putin everything he wanted. Alison, I've gotten so accustomed to saying that he's Elon Musk's bitch. I completely forgot about his other daddy. I thought the last three worst presidents we had were Dick Cheney and then Putin, then Musk. But, wow, Putin wants to come back and be 47 here. Look at what happened just on Wednesday. Donald Trump gave Putin everything he wanted. Abandoned our allies in Ukraine, tore apart NATO, the Moscow surrender tour. The same day that Trump gives this humiliating display, you got the Senate approving Tulsi Gabbard, who is so far up Putin's butt she can taste borscht. This Kremlin controlled woman, this, she's. She's like Putin's wireless speaker. Russian state media calls her their girlfriend. Everyone knows it. Mitch McConnell, who was part of the gang that got to see the security briefings, voted against her. He seems to think voting against these bad things now, four years after he had a chance to make a difference is going to do it. Can you imagine, Dr. Gill, would Russia, can you imagine Russia as it is now ever appointing an openly pro American figure in charge of their national intelligence? A figure who decried Russian intelligence but kept defending us. Would Vladimir Putin ever hire a person like that to be in charge of his intel?
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Alison Gill
No. Right. It would. It would be like appointing Pete Strzok to be, you know, in charge of your. Of the kgb.
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John Fugelsang
Yeah, yeah. China wouldn't do it.
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Alison Gill
Or the gru.
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John Fugelsang
And this same day, this is all happening, we get Secretary Jagermeister, Pete Hegseth, who's showing up in Europe, bouncing around. He's doing more reality tv. I don't know if you've noticed, he's Still a prompter monkey. He's still a Fox News personality. But he came out and completely backed up Trump's message that we are going to abandon our allies in Ukraine. You know, remember 30 years ago with President Yeltsin and we, Ukraine, had more nukes than any country in the world, any country in Europe at least. And we said, hey, you're going to give your nukes to Russia, okay, we're going to make you give your nukes to Russia, but we promise we'll protect you if Russia ever invades. And now it's 30 years later, this is happening and we don't care. Complete capitulation, no aid for Ukraine, no resistance, and they can never join NATO. Like it doesn't matter if Pete Hegseth works for Russia. Let's say a Russia shill actually had this job. What would they have done differently than Secretary Jagermeister this week? I mean, this is their negotiating. Dr. Gill immediately folding, having no leverage over Russia before the negotiations even begin. The art of the grovel.
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Alison Gill
Well, yeah, and we knew this because the original Ukraine peace plan brought up by Manafort and Yanukovych way back in 2016 when they modified the Republican platform at the RNC was to just give them, just give Russia giant swaths of, of Ukraine and put Yanukovych, bring him back from Moscow, put him back in charge of, of that side of it. That's always been the plan.
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John Fugelsang
That's.
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Alison Gill
It was the plan during the Mueller investigation. So anyone who is surprised by this, maybe, maybe they were just like, well, Mueller when he testified, didn't have enough pizzazz for me to listen to him. So here, you know, not there.
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John Fugelsang
I'm sorry, Robert Mueller, for all you want to say about the investigation. And yeah, the great sin on his name is that they didn't go after the money laundering, after bringing in money laundering experts. But Robert Mueller handed a gift draft List of 10 obstructions of justice the Democrats could have added to either of their two impeachments and they just chose not to. So I, I leave that at the Democrats feet in this case. They could have impeached him for any of those 10 obstructions. They just chose to leave it there after all that hype. But you know, we're telling our allies now that Putin gets to keep all the land he stole in this violent imperialistic war of mass slaughter and mass rape and mass destruction, thousands of innocent civilians killed, we're gonna let him keep all the land he violently stole. We've talked about this, Alison. There's this cute Little pageant in the right wing media of pretending they're anti war. The same people who attacked us for opposing their illegally moral war on Iraq, they're all saying, oh, no, we're the doves. You Democrats, you love this war with Palestine and you love the war Ukraine. And they, they can't come out and admit they. It's the same, they love it. If it's an imperialist nation that is invading a smaller, defenseless nation, they are authoritarian. So if Bush is doing it to a smaller country that never attacked him, they love it. If Putin's doing it to a smaller country that never attacked him, they love it. If we fund the resistance, then we're the warmongers here in America. And I say to these guys every night they call me on SiriusXM, if a madman invaded your home and raped your wife and killed your child and murdered your dog and burned down your garage, how many rooms of the house would you give to that madman so he would start being nice to you? Because these are the negotiations the Republican Party is asking our Ukrainian allies to make. Beyond that, you know this better than me. What of all of our allies? Whose intelligence agency will ever trust America for the next four years? Who's going to share intel with Tulsi Gabbard?
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Alison Gill
None. And you know, even before Tulsi Gabbard was in there, after what Donald Trump did to our intelligence agencies and his mishandling and theft and retention and obstruction of justice of classified documents and secrets, waving them around in front of his friends at his golf club, you know, of course that's going to be put on ice. And then, you know, other people surprised or shocked that Palestine's not welcome to the negotiating table.
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John Fugelsang
Oh, yeah.
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Alison Gill
Hashing out a two state solution. I guess they completely forgot Jared Kushner's Middle east plan from the first administration that Palestine was also not invited to the table to hash out. So anybody who is shocked or surprised by any of this, I have to ask, what were you doing in 2017, 2018, 2019, when this all happened before?
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John Fugelsang
In fairness, our media is really carrying the water for these guys. Donald Trump said in the White House, he made it sound like Joe Biden started this war, said. He literally said the words, Ukraine got into this war.
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Alison Gill
Yeah, I saw that.
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John Fugelsang
You know, Ukraine got into this war. That's like saying Eugene Carroll got into this sexual assault. You know, I mean, Tina Turner got into this fight with Ike. Like I. And, and the media lets these talking points stand. That's what makes me crazy. And, you know, this Guy we know he's racist. He, he loves Andrew Jackson, doesn't know why Steve Bannon told him you love Andrew Jackson. But now he's trying to get his own trail of tears with the people of Palestine. Let me talk through this with you because I'm kind of slow. I went to one of those public schools. The Republicans hate Jordan and Egypt will never take the Palestinian people. Right. They're not going to take this trail of tears. So he's telling these people, you can't come back to your home because it's destroyed. So we got to put you somewhere else because it's destroyed. And then we're going to build hotels there, and I'm going to own it because it's so destroyed you can't come back. I mean, they're not even trying. And to say that no American troops will ever be there, I don't think the world is ever going to go along with this. Caroline Levitt, God's newest gift of comedy will say one thing about, oh, it's only temporary. And then man baby comes out and says, no, we're going to steal it. Take our land away. Like, they finally found a two state solution. Alison, Israel and the United States, side by side in the region. What's going to happen when they try to force these people to leave their homes? Because the people of Palestine are not going to give up their homeland any more than the people of Ukraine will. Any more than most Americans would be willing to give up their homeland? What the media is not talking about, and tell me if I'm wrong, there's not going to be any Muslim allied nation that is going to send troops in to forcibly remove Palestinians from their home. After the last 80 years of drama we've all witnessed, no Muslim soldiers will assist in a mass deportation out of Palestine. So if they really intend to do it, it's going to have to be American soldiers forcing Palestinians to be displaced from their homes. And I guess he found a way to finally make Hamas stop attacking Israel, because they'll be coming after us and all their friends will with everything they've got. This is Vladimir Putin guaranteeing a sequel to the war on terror to drain us like it did 20 years ago.
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Alison Gill
Yeah. And with the FBI's Counterterrorism and Joint terror task force all removed, and now at the southern border trying to carry out this weird mass deportation against immigrant criminals that don't exist, there won't be anybody in the FBI other than Kash Patel who'll be too busy coming after you and me. And our friends to stop anything like that, to foil any plot like that. It's pretty terrifying. And we're gonna be watching it happen in slow motion. But the media, you know, it used to be they were all in the room and could have asked these questions, but they kowtowed and they licked the boot and they kissed the ring and they still got kicked the fuck out. So now we just have Breitbart and, you know, Oan and Newsmax.
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John Fugelsang
Exactly right.
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Alison Gill
They're not gonna ask any of these pertinent questions, but nobody did before.
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John Fugelsang
And you think being kicked out, you'd think being kicked out would make the media realize now is the time to do what they taught you in journalism school and question those in power and fight for the truth, but they can't. They've got to fight for ratings, they've got to fight for clicks, they've got to fight for eyeballs, and they've got to fight for access. It's all about trading information for access. And they did it, and it didn't work. I swear to God, Alison, these people always believe that Lucy's not going to pull the football away this time, right?
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Alison Gill
Well, now they're kicked out and they can't ask the questions. And what. How many years have you and I been sounding this alarm bell, like, you need to start working with independent media and independent journalism, asking the right questions, getting that message out there. Otherwise, your guess, what's the first to go in a dictatorship? It's. It's the free press, so.
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John Fugelsang
And all they want to do, they're just trying to shut down the government to use that money to give it away to rich people in another tax cut. And they want to please Russia while stealing minerals from Ukraine. I swear to God, I think. I think. I don't know who's his daddy more, Musk or Putin. I. I just feel like probably Putin. Because with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump doesn't believe in using protection, and it's putting all of us at risk.
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Alison Gill
Musk and Putin aren't far apart, so there's not a lot of daylight between Musk.
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John Fugelsang
I think Putin actually. Putin actually believes things, and Musk, like Trump, has no ideology beyond myself.
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Alison Gill
That's true. That's true. Well, before I let you go, one bright spot, something we all needed to see this week. Talk a little bit about your reaction to the Kendrick Lamar halftime show at the Super Bowl.
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John Fugelsang
I gotta say, this whole show, it's, you know, it kind of. It kind of turned my soul back on in a way that I didn't know it needed. And it kind of made me inspired about this country in ways I couldn't have imagined before. Now again, this is not because I like seeing Harrison Butker be humiliated as a woman hating fake Christian nationalists.
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Alison Gill
I do love that, though.
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John Fugelsang
And not because I'm angry that John Batiste, who performed the national anthem, just got fired from the Kennedy center board because Trump is going full Hitler and having authoritarian state take over of the arts. The rage of MAGA over Kendrick Lamar's halftime show. Now, here's the deal. They were very angry. There's four groups of white people, I've discovered this week, four types of Caucasian responses to Kendrick Lamar's halftime show. One is just white people who were already fans of Kendrick Lamar because the dude's got a Pulitzer and 20 Grammys. He's never made an album that hasn't been terrific. Millions of white people know him. A lot. Know the soundtrack to Black Panther, the 10th highest grossing album of all time. You know, people. People know who he is. Millions. Okay, so the Kendrick Lamar fans there, there's that group. Then there's the folks who watched it, didn't know who he was, didn't understand it, didn't get the symbolism, but whatever. Not my thing, you know. Okay, apathetic. Then you've got the haters. Then you've got the right wing who didn't understand it enough to criticize it specifically. So they made the stupidest things like, oh, he's mumbling, mumbling all the time. My favorite, the lack of diversity. There was no diversity on that stage. I mean, no diversity. What is this NFL? And it's like, holy crap. These Caucasians had to sit through 13 straight minutes of sheer blackness during Black History Month. And people who've never complained about a lack of diversity in their lives are grabbing their pearls. And it was designed to piss em off. Mag is all about power and control and the entire performance joyfully announced. It does not care what they think. Fuck you if you don't get it. It's designed for them not to get it. They knew MAGA would be super mad about an all black halftime show. But then there's the fourth group of white people, Alison. And these white people saved my soul this week. As much as I love the show, I was so inspired by all the Caucasians who didn't understand it, who didn't get it, who didn't totally get all the metaphor and all the symbolism, but they wanted to. I had so many folks call it SiriusXMS week who didn't know Dick about Kendrick Lamar before the Super Bowl. And they have been listening to the music. They've looked up so many different. There's so many great articles and videos explaining breaking down all the symbolism. I mean, it's an American flag that's literally built on the back of black men.
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Alison Gill
Right?
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John Fugelsang
That metaphor might have been too much for some people. And then the flag is divided straight down the middle. That might have been a bit obtuse for some people as well, but there was so much in it that was so inspiring. And I'm telling you, these Caucasian folks who didn't get it, but they're not haters. They want to understand. And in the 70s, when a film would open, people would talk about, what's the director trying to say? Now we're at a time, we just talk about, oh, how much money did it make opening weekend? But this was America for a whole week. Discussing what was the artist trying to say? It's not the best ever. Prince is still number one for me. U2 right after 9, 11, still still number two for me. Maybe the Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Dr. Dre Kendrick with all the hits three years ago, but this is the only super bowl show I've ever seen that's gonna be talked about and discussed and studied for years to come. And calling Drake a pedophile in front of 100 million people with his ex, who's one of the greatest athletes alive, dancing, that's the least interesting thing about it. And honestly, I. I. Black men dressed in gang colors and then making up the American flag separated down the middle. The squid game reference, the prison yard reference, the fact that the set was designed as a PlayStation controller. I mean, it was shot for TV viewers, not for a stadium. Jay Z gets a lot of points about this. And slaves had to use coded messages to communicate with each other. And it feels like Kendrick Lamar just did that on the greatest platform we've ever seen in television. I just. I loved it. And I love how many people became Kendrick Lamar fans this week and how many Republicans still don't understand why they're so offended. And the Sam Jackson stuff was great. He's talking about the game. You gotta play the game. The greatest game. He wasn't talking about football one bit, saying, oh, that was too ghetto. And so he went from that into doing humble. I mean, like, it told a story. The whole time, Gil Scott Heron. People were searching Gil Scott Heron all over the place because he said, the revolution's about to be televised. And, you know, and then the end just have it be. Having it be joyful. Having Sza come on to do all the stars from Black Panther and to end it with saying, you know, the song where he says the lie. And I hate those that feel entitled. Corrupt a man's heart with a gift. That's how you find out who you're dealing with. He says this with Trump in the room. So 40 acres and a mule. He throws that in as well. And if you get it, you get it. All of this during Black History Month. I just. And then closing it with TV off. I can't believe Fox allowed this to air. And it wasn't violent. No cursing, no profanity, no exposing Janet Jackson's breast. And it's still the most subversive thing I've ever seen at a network Super Bowl.
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Alison Gill
Yeah, it was truly incredible. And that's why he has a Pulitzer. I mean, to put something together like this. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. And I do. I'm so heartened by how many people were like, I want to get that. I want to look that up. I had so many friends, had so many listeners be like, you know what? I read this article or that article explaining all of the symbolism and everything, and it was truly touching. Incredible, subversive, and fantastic.
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John Fugelsang
Can I also say on just a musical level, beyond all the politics, how many artists in the history of super bowl halftime shows could do a set that powerful and controversial and intriguing? And more than half of the songs came from new music released in the last year. Can you imagine Michael Jackson or Tom Petty or Springsteen or Prince or U2 or McCartney doing the majority of their set from their newest album at the Super Bowl? It would be outrageous. And he did it, and it totally worked. This has restored a faith I think I had lost in the power of art to educate and confound and inspire art, that it rewards examination but doesn't pander. It was like Bob Dylan. It doesn't care if you don't get it. And I just praise the NFL. Whoever signed off on allowing this to happen, and it just showed resistance can and should be joyful. And the same day this comes up, Trump's favorite rapper is selling swastikas in commercials on the same game. I mean, those are the two Americas.
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Alison Gill
Yeah, thank you. Thanks for that. And actually, by the time people hear this, I will have already appeared on your show. But I will see you later tonight, Thursday night. Sorry, everybody, Missed it. I'll put. I'll see if I can have it on our podcast.
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John Fugelsang
We'll have it on the Fuel saying podcast I will see you in a few hours.
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Alison Gill
In the past Weird time travel situations with podcasts, my friend. Thank you so much everybody. You can listen to Tell Me everything on Sirius XM progress channel 127. It's weeknights, 9pm Eastern, 6 Pacific, and of course the John Fegal Saying show podcast. Thank you my friend.
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John Fugelsang
Thank you. I love that I can talk about this stuff on your show, oh 100.
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Alison Gill
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