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Instead of the usual news and headlines and caustic wit, we’re digging into the horrific nightmare of the GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” so named because Donald Trump is a fucking toddler leading a cult of simpletons.

This bill is loaded with cruelty and evil, and we wanted to make sure to document it in detail for now and for October of 2026, when the legacy press will have long buried it, so voters won’t take it into consideration before the midterms.

This episode is a time capsule meant to remind you, our beloved audience, of exactly what the GOP did so you can remind others and they can vote accordingly.

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7:40 - 10:20 Republicans attacked renewables and drove up the price of electricity.

10:21 - 12:15 Republicans attacked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and removed one of the main watchdogs of the deeply corrupt financial industry.

12:16 - 13:10 Republicans made it harder to enroll in the Medicare Savings Program, making Medicare more expensive

13:11 - 22:16 Republicans cut $1 TRILLION dollars from Medicaid and added work requirements they know for a fact do nothing but strip people of their healthcare.

22:17 - 24:05 Republicans have built in delays to some of the worst cuts to government programs until AFTER the midterms so people don’t see what the GOP has stolen from them until they’ve already voted.

24:06 - 27:25 Republicans cut subsidies for the ACA, making healthcare premiums skyrocket.

27:26 - 28:27 Republicans cut hundreds of billions from SNAP so millions of children, seniors, disabled Americans, and the working poor will go hungry.

28:28 - 38:20 Republicans gutted student loan programs and made it far harder for parents to help put their kids through college.

38:21 - 39:20 Trump is building a monument to himself

39:21 - 49:07 Florida Woman and The Ogre go on an epic rant of how the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

49:08 - 51:32 Russell Vought, the Christian Nationalist behind Project 2025, has given himself a $100 million slush fund. I’m sure he won’t abuse that.

51:33 - 1:00:31 ICE, CBP, and DHS all have massive increases to their budgets to hire thousands of new white nationalist agents who will be under the control of Stephen Miller, the rabid Nazi in the White House. What could go wrong?

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Yeah…best mark this date on the calendar because it’s not going to happen again anytime soon. Marjorie Taylor Greene said something I agreed with. Sort of. Kind of. Indirectly. God, I want to claw my eyes out of my head.

Please don’t hate me forever and let me explain.

Ok, first, here’s the thing the witless fuckstick said and let me front load it by pointing out that she’s a fucking moron saying it for the worst possible fucking reasons.

This tweet was in response to the deadly flash floods that have killed over 120 people in Texas so far, with at least another 50 missing. Among the dead are dozens of children, and while even a fully functioning alert system would not have saved everyone, the loss of life would have been far less.

But we no longer have a fully functioning alert system. Or a fully functioning weather service. Or a fully functioning fucking ANYTHING courtesy of Marjorie Taylor Greene and her replusive Republican death cult. They fired the people in charge of issuing alerts. They fired the people in charge of tracking the weather. They defunded the agencies responsible for tracking dangerous storms.

Kristi Noem took the weekend off so FEMA couldn’t respond for Three. Fucking. Days. People were dying, and the federal government sat by and did nothing because Kristi Noem was sleeping in and didn’t feel like working on her day off.

Populism, baby!! For the people!

Now, Marjorie Taylor Greene knows this all looks terrible for her shitty party and blaming Democrats for a disaster in Texas is a non-starter. Thus, time to roll out the conspiracy handbook for morons. THAT’S what her tweet was about.

Greene was far from alone in pushing this bullshit:

“I NEED SOMEONE TO LOOK INTO WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS,” posted Pete Chambers, a former special forces commander and frequent fixture on the far right who once organized an armed convoy to the Texas border, along with documents he claimed to show government weather operations. “WHEN WAS THE LAST CLOUD SEEDING?”

Far FAR from alone:

“Anyone able to answer this?” wrote retired general Mike Flynn, a former national security adviser in the Trump administration and who helped legitimize QAnon after pledging allegiance to the movement in 2020, reposting Chambers.

Conspiracists and grifters on other platforms joined in. One YouTuber with hundreds of thousands of subscribers posted breathless coverage of what he called “The TRUTH of WEATHER MANIPULATION” in a segment which earned him close to 200,000 views alone.

You see…maybe JUST MAYBE, the floods were caused by weather control and geoengineering. MAYBE it was caused by “THEM” and that means the responsibility for all those dead kids lies with “THEM” and not with the GOP and the delayed response and their incompetence. Who is “THEM?” Who knows?! The deep state? The government? The Jews?!!?!? We may never know but as long as there’s some doubt, we can’t point fingers, so let’s just move on, yes?

It’s gross. It’s vile. Fuck every last one of these soulless monsters with a 2x4 covered in spliters until they beg for the sweet release of death.

So, why in the name of all that’s holy am I agreeing with Marjorie Taylor Greene?

Well, it’s certainly not because I think someone manipulated the weather for nefarious reasons. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a lying ratfuck but she accidentally stumbled onto a bigger truth. You know the saying: A broken clock and all that.

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The funny thing is, a decade or so from now, I’ll bet good money she’ll be 100% in favor of geoengineering because the fossil fuel industry will be paying her to be in favor of it and that’s a very very bad idea.

OK, so if you’ve been reading me for a while, you should know that one of the things I try to do is look down the road to where we are heading and try to figure out where that leads. This is one of those times and like with the neo-Nazis and pedophiles and drones, I really REALLY want to be wrong but I’m pretty sure I’m not.

Geoengineering is unbelievably dangerous. It sounds good on paper but it can go wrong in so many ways it’s hard to wrap your head around it.

Geoengineering, specifically as a solution for climate change, is us, humans, doing something on a global scale to regulate the temperature. Some of these are not terrible ideas: Large-scale carbon capture will be necessary eventually anyway to repair the damage we’ve already done (I’ll circle back to the problems with this). But others are to mitigate the damage now and have a host of potential consequences we cannot anticipate.

Here are a few:

Solar Radiation Modification Or Manipulation (SRM)

SRM techniques attempt to reflect sunlight back into space to cool Earth. Methods include releasing large amounts of tiny reflective particles (e.g., sulfur dioxide) into the stratosphere, deploying mirrors in space, or modifying clouds, ice, and plants to make them more reflective.

The mirrors aren’t the worst idea. If there’s a problem, we can always move them or push them off into space. We can even blow them up if we really really have to. But the rest? Injecting enough reflective particles into the atmosphere to make a difference means if something goes wrong, we would have no way to clean it up. What if we go too far and lower the temperature too much? What if there’s an unanticipated reaction and we poison the air or erase the Ozone Layer? There’s no way to fix it. We simply are not smart enough to reliably manipulate the atmosphere on this scale and guarantee nothing will go wrong. And there is no Plan B if something does.

And that’s just the nerdy science problems. Here are just two of the more practical issues associated with geoengineering (there are more):

• Who gets to control the “thermostat?” - I hadn’t considered this previously and was incredibly annoyed once I came across it because it was so goddamn obvious.
  
  Industrialized western nations might want to go back to the norms of 75 years ago but warmer weather won’t be all that terrible for colder northern countries. Sure, OK, now how about all of the southern countries that could benefit from lower temperatures? Even a degree or two from pre-industrial norms would make the equatorial regions more hospitable, wouldn’t it? So who gets to decide?
  
  Have fun hashing that out in the UN.

• The crisis doesn’t actually go away - Mitigation isn’t a solution. Taking painkillers so you’re not in agony as the cancer consumes you isn’t really a long-term solution, is it?
  
  This is why I firmly believe that a decade or so from now, as the effects of the climate crisis become so pronounced that even the dimmest dimbulb MAGA imbecile is complaining about it, the fossil fuel industry will invest a lot of money in selling geoengineering as a “solution.” Not that they’ll actually want to DO the geoengineering, but convince people that it will save us from the greenhouse gas pollution. That means Republicans will turn on a dime from being deeply suspicious of cloud seeding and weather manipulation to HUGE fans of it. Because they’re whores who will do whatever they’re paid to do.
  
  This is why carbon-capture, while inevitably necessary, will not be a solution. It’s akin to continuing to smoke during chemo. You’re not addressing the root cause of your disease, stupid.

That’s just a light overview of why geoengineering is not the way to go and why I agree (blech barf gag) with MTG. If you want to get deeper into this, read up on the problem here, and for the really geeky stuff, here.

But when Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’s been “researching,” I promise you, this ain’t what that knuckledragging dirtbag is talking about. She’s yapping about “chemtrails” and fucking “Jewish space lasers.” PEW PEW!!! ZAP ZAP, you schmuck!

Let a shit-flinging monkey smash her abnormally thick forehead against a keyboard long enough, though, and she’ll accidentally bang out a coherent sentence or two. And that’s exactly what’s happened here. Give the monkey a banana and then go back to ignoring her.

In the meantime, as tempting as a tech solution may seem, this is not the road to go down. I love science as much as any nerd out there and I believe the geeks in lab coats will be the salvation of the human race but this one is on us. We’re going to have to save ourselves from both the fossil fuel industry and their pet fascists.

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Let’s try to imagine ourselves into the mind of Donald Trump. I know, I know…you don’t want to go there, and neither do I, but I don’t want you to contend with every dark corner of the echoing cavern of his madness, I just want you to ask yourself, what could he have been thinking when he came up with the idea that he could get along with Elon Musk and Vladimir Putin?

Last year, when Trump was running for president, he took nearly $300 million from Musk to help him win key battleground states, and he bathed in Musk’s daily X posts and re-posts attacking Biden and puffing up his pal Trump. In return, upon taking office, Trump basically turned the government over to Musk and his video game playing cohorts whom he hired to staff DOGE and let him run amok for the first few months of his administration, slashing budgets, firing people, even closing completely an entire department of the federal government, USAID.

When it came to his buddy, Vladimir, Trump made ending the war in Ukraine the linchpin of his “America first” foreign policy agenda, bellowing from rally stages again and again that he had such a wonderful relationship with Putin, he could get the war in Ukraine ended “in a day.”

There is a popular phrase that springs immediately to mind: how did that work out for you?

What was really behind all that buddy-buddy talk about Putin and Trump’s real, in person, buddy-buddy behavior with Musk? I mean, how could Trump thank him? What can you give the world’s richest man? You can’t buy him anything. He’s got all the Gulfstreams he wants, all the fertile girlfriends he can handle, more children than Noah had animals on the ark, he owns X, and he’s got the majority of satellites that orbit around the earth, more than any other country including the United States.

So, he does something no other president has ever done in the 249 years of our history. He turns over the most precious square footage of real estate in the world to Elon to put on a show for the media with his son, engaging in a spew of braggadocio that left Trump sitting there at Abraham Lincoln’s desk with a blank look on his face.

Trump didn’t even wait to move into the Oval Office to start talking to Putin. He was chatting up the Russian axe-murderer during the campaign, the transition, from Mar a Lago, he even brought Musk in on a Putin conference call. What do you think he figured he could accomplish? Did he really believe he could talk Putin into anything, much less ending the war that has come to define the man’s power over the country of Russia?

I think Trump wanted their respect, Putin’s and Musk’s. If he got their respect, then the world would respect and fear him, all those European priss-pots in their hand-tailored suits and ferriner attitudes. Even his fellow despots like Erdogan and Orban would look up to him.

But it fell apart, didn’t it? And fast, when you think about it. He’s a little more than five months into his presidency, and he’s having a hell of a time making stuff happen the way he wants it. Look at the train-wreck this week over aid to Ukraine! Somebody suspended it. Trump doesn’t know who. He answered a question from a reporter in the White House with “I don’t know. You tell me.” Another reporter asked him today if he had been able to “figure out” who cancelled the Ukraine aid. Here is Trump’s reply: “Well, I haven't thought about it because we're looking at Ukraine right now and munitions, but I have—no, I have not gone into it." The same reporter asked, “What does it say that such a big decision could be made inside your government without you knowing?” Trump looked flummoxed: “I would know. If a decision was made, I will know. I'll be the first to know. In fact, most likely, I'll give the order, but I haven't done that yet."

This after reports in the press that defensive weapons are back in the pipeline, that 30 Patriots are sitting in Poland ready to cross the border, that shipments of artillery shells have resumed.

The matter of the Epstein files, something he and his supporters promised would blow the lid off all the pedophiles in the Democratic Party they’ve been yapping about since Pizzagate, has blown up in his face. Nobody is happy. The MAGA base is screaming. Steve Bannon is sweating through his three shirts in his air conditioned studio. Trump’s favorite suck-up, Pam Bondi, is left sitting there telling the same lies they’ve accused the Democrats of telling, that there is no there there with Epstein, and nobody from Biden World or anywhere else got into the Manhattan jail and murdered him.

And then the heavens open up in central Texas and his whole fire-em-cut-em-and-forget-em strategy about that damn guvmint the right has been screaming about for 40 years got drowned in 30 feet of water along with more than 100 bodies, and counting. The NOAA was a hotbed of global-warming libs! We’ll take care of them. We’ll fire ‘em and reassign’em and close their offices and tell ‘em to stop sending up all them weather balloons, ‘cause we’ve got Mr. Sharpie in the Oval Office! The man can turn a hurricane around with the stroke of his pen!

Can’t a guy get up in the morning and have something go right? His pal Musk is threatening to form a third party, and that MF’er is the one who said Trump was in the Epstein files in the first place! And Putin! Jeez, you call the guy up and ask him to lay off Ukraine and start thinking about what kind of deal we can make, and 30 minutes later, he launches one of the biggest barrages he’s ever fired at Ukraine’s population centers! “He’s not treating human beings right. He’s killing too many people.”

If it’s not the floods killin’ em, it’s the measles, and that blows up the whole anti-vax thing he kept hinting at, wink-wink, maybe try some bleach and vitamin A, wink-wink, I’ve got RFK Jr. in my pocket, wink-wink, and if it’s not the measles, it’s Putin’s fucking drones killin’ em, and take a look at what he’s saying about his pal Vlad now: “We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”

Duh.

Mel Brooks had it only partly right. It’s good to be king, but it’s hell to be president.

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I was just finishing up breakfast (half a cup of cereal and half of a corn muffin) and getting to write a nerdy article about Marjorie Taylor Greene being…shudder…right about something (for all the wrong reasons) when I came across a piece in Political Wire: Trump Takes Reins of U.S. Economy.

The phrasing of the headline told me immediately that I was going to be annoyed. And, motherfucker, I was:

“With the major components of his agenda now coming into focus, President Trump has already left an indelible mark on the U.S. economy. The triumphs and turbulence that may soon arise will squarely belong to him.”

“Not even six months into his second term, Mr. Trump has forged ahead with the grand and potentially disruptive economic experiment that he first previewed during the 2024 campaign. His actions in recent weeks have staked the future of the nation’s finances — and its centuries-old trading relationships — on a belief that many economists’ most dire warnings are wrong.”

Oh go fuck yourselves sideways with a pineapple, NYT. The unmitigated gall to look at the Republican economic disaster they just unleashed on the country and wonder, “Will it work this time?”

NO IT WON’T FUCKING WORK THIS TIME! In the 50+ years I have been on this planet, Republicans have been cutting taxes for the rich and slashing the social safety net. Let me count the number of times the economy has improved:

Never. Not fucking once.

There WAS that one time Republicans cut taxes for the rich and services for the rest of us and the economy got worse.

And then there was that other time it happened. And then that OTHER time, and the other time after that, and several more times after those. In fact, every single time Republicans have cut taxes for he rich and slashed services for the rest of us, the economy tanked.

But the New York Fucking Times thinks THIS time might be different because something something “Donald Trump.”

You lying shitweasels. No you fucking do not beleive that even for a second.

“But Ogre!,” you say, “They’re just giving Trump the benefit of the doubt!”

First, Trump and the GOP have done nothing to earn it. This exact same economic “plan” has been run over and over again with the exact same results. Doing it on steroids with extra cruelty is going to, what?, make it fucking work this time? Bish, please. If the NYT really believes that, they should shut down the printing presses, lock the doors, and burn the building. They’re too fucking stupid to call themselves journalists.

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Fuck you, NYT.

Second, the NYT did not give Joe Biden the same “benefit of the doubt.” While Biden was empowering unions and reining in monopolies and expanding workers’ rights and investing hundreds of billions in American manufacturing, the Times and the rest of the legacy press were aghast. There was no prediction of possible “triumph.” Only four solid years of “Are we about to enter a recession?!!?”

Mind you, the press asked that every single month for four years, even as we experienced the most sustained period of economic growth in over half a century. Trump “the populist” is running the same failed GOP playbook of fucking the poor and middle class and the NYT marvels at the possiblity of gold raining from the heavens. Biden runs a successful playbook that supercharges the economy and the press insists the sky is falling.

But wait, maybe the NYT has learned a lesson about pessimism!

Oh, you fucking wish.

May I direct your attention to the ongoing temper tantrum the NYT is throwing over Zohran Mamdani?

He is seeking to become mayor of NYC and implement several economic policies, some of which, as far as I know, have not been implemented in the city on a sustained basis. Free buses. City-owned grocery stores in food deserts. No-cost childcare. Rent freezes. BABY BASKETS!!!! The horror…

He also wants to implement several policies that HAVE been done before to great success. Raise taxes on the rich, who will remain rich. Increase the minimum wage, which has yet to bankrupt a city, increase inflation, or close down millions of small businesses as repeatedly predicted. Enforce the rule of law so the rich stop preying on the rest of us.

NYC is expensive. The cost of living is out of control and people are struggling. Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo are offering more of the same, plus a heaping side dish of corruption. And Cuomo is a sexual predator.

Is the NYT giving Mamdani the “benefit of the doubt?” Hellll fucking no! They went to war against him. The Times is so opposed to his entire platform, they are willing to put Adams, the literal criminal, or Cuomo, the serial killer/sexual predator, back in power.

Just to summarize:

Let’s not kid ourselves. The New York Fucking Times is telling us who they are every single day. They’re STILL, right fucking now!, writing articles about Joe Biden.

They’ve written more articles in the last six months about how unfit Biden was than they have about how unfit Trump currently is. That’s a deliberate choice and goddamn them to hell for it.

A year from now, when the Trumpcession is in full swing and inflation is strangling what’s left of the economy and unemployment has exploded, the NYT will take up its new role of spreading the blame. “Washington” has failed the country. “Congressional gridlock” is the problem. “Tribalism” is getting in the way. Because if everyone is guilty, no one is.

Meanwhile, we won’t be talking about how Trump’s economic policies are ruinous because, well, that’s not the narrative the press will want to tell. Maybe they contributed a little but, really, it was out of his control, y’all.

I will continue to repeat this until the legacy press is burned to the ground and replaced with real journalists: Republicans are not held to a lower standard. They’re held to no standard at all.

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Well, another day of dancing on the damaged desktops of right-wing media figures over their freakout about the collapse of the Jeffrey Epstein files story. Conservative and liberal columnists alike are having a field day excavating podcast appearances by Kash Patel promising that if he was in power, he would release all the stuff the FBI has on Epstein immediately. “Put on your big boy pants and let us know who the pedophiles are," Patel bellowed on the YouTube show of Trump-promoter Benny Johnson in 2023.

Dan Bongino, the conservative radio host turned Deputy Director of the FBI, made a career out of promoting Epstein conspiracies, beginning with the theory that Epstein didn’t commit suicide in the Manhattan Correctional Center but was murdered to end his prosecution for sex trafficking and coverup the scandal of “elites” who were Epstein’s “clients.”

MAGA world wasn’t happy yesterday when an FBI memo leaked, blowing up the entire Jeffrey Epstein Conspiracy Industrial Complex. The FBI released video tape taken in the federal prison in lower Manhattan from the night Epstein died in 2019 showing no one entered his cell from 10:40 p.m. when he was locked down for the night, until 6:30 the next morning when he was found dead. Conveniently, the FBI memo concluded that Epstein never had a so-called client list that MAGA world had contended he used to blackmail business leaders, celebrities and political figures.

There was much chortling in February when Attorney General Pam Bondi, with great fanfare, released binders titled “The Epstein Files: Phase One” to a gaggle of right-wing influencers who had been invited to the White House. The binders turned out to contain news stories about Epstein and other publicly available material. Bondi attempted to explain away the disappointing “declassified” public material by telling reporters that the DOJ was going through a “truckload” of Epstein material provided by the FBI. Questioned on Fox News about the Epstein client list, Bondi claimed, “It’s sitting on my desk right now.”

Look at what happened within the walls of the White House today: Trump, Bondi, and Patel appeared before the press and tried to explain away the sudden collapse of the Epstein story. Bondi claimed she wasn’t referring to an Epstein client list but rather to an Epstein file that was “sitting on my desk, along with the JFK, MLK files as well. That’s what I meant by that.”

Trump jumped in, replying to the question by bringing up the tragedy of the drownings in Texas in comparison: “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy’s been talked about for years. You’re asking — we have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things. And are people still talking about this guy? This creep? That is unbelievable.”

“This creep” was a close friend of Donald Trump’s in Manhattan for years. Trump and his wife Melania were photographed with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, his fixer and pimp, at a Manhattan party, and there are many other photos of Trump and Epstein together. Could that explain the backpedaling, dodging, and chasm-jumping that the White House, DOJ, and FBI are doing today about Trump and his friend?

There is a problem with all the fun MAGA world has been having with the Epstein story: He was a pedophile, and his victims were young girls who were lured to his Manhattan apartment, Palm Beach mansion, and other properties, including his private estate in the Virgin Islands, with promises of acting and modeling careers. Instead, they were sexually assaulted by adult males including Epstein himself and a member of the British royal family, among others.

I cannot attempt to even imagine the hideous experience of being abused like the young victims of Jeffrey Epstein. The sexual abuse of underage girls and boys is not a story. It is a horror that has involved the Catholic Church, protestant religious denominations, and the entertainment business. The horror knows no boundaries. It happens down the street from you and me. People you know, both male and female, have been abused as children.

It is a sad commentary that it takes a public figure like Jeffrey Epstein, or a prominent Bishop, or celebrity television preacher for this terrible behavior of our species to become public, and it is even sadder that the abuse of children became a spectacle that today landed within the White House, the office and residence of the President of the United States.

That Donald Trump’s Attorney General was questioned in his presence about her handling of a sex scandal involving one of his personal friends is an enormous outrage that in another time, involving another man, would have brought down a president. That in itself is a terrible commentary on how low we have fallen as the nation that put that man in that room in that previously august national treasure known as the White House.

But it is too easy to lose sight of the story behind the scandal, the very real damage that has been done again and again, over and over, to little children who were powerless to stop the powerful men who destroyed their innocence and scarred them for life, whether those men were presidents, businessmen, celebrities, or their own fathers, uncles, or neighbors.

The story of Jeffrey Epstein and the crimes he committed is not a political story. It is not something that should be bandied about by podcasters and television news hosts, or in posts on platforms like X and Facebook. Child abuse is a civilizational tragedy and a crime. All those who have abused children should be prosecuted and put behind bars, no matter who they are or what their station in life.

Period.

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