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Charlie Kirk, submit to your husband, Taylor Swift.
Framing his remarks as congratulations, Kirk said at his Real American Voice channel,
This is something that I hope will make Taylor Swift more conservative, engage in reality more, reject feminism.
Submit to your husband, Taylor.
You're not in charge.
Jesus Christ.
That's what they want.
They want America to be like this again.
They want it to be housewives that just stay home and be quiet.
But you can't tell that to one of the most, probably the most popular woman in the world just because she got engaged to another, just because she's getting married.
Do you think this will ingratiate him with her fans?
No.
She's all about feminism and about women's rights and doing the right thing and stuff like that.
So she's going to stand firm on her beliefs even more, which will make her friends proud.
So he's an idiot anyway.
I'm not surprised by the blather that comes out of his mouth anymore.
And in this case, it's probably not for wanting 15 more minutes of fame.
It's probably just stupidity.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
Sullyness.
This is what people like him want.
Yeah.
The evangelicals and, yeah, everything, every one of them.
So people who think that they're not coming after them, be ready.
They will be after you.
So if you don't fit in their little mold of little husband and wife Christian family, you're out of the loop.
There's a lot more people that are going to be screwed over than people think.
Yeah.
Those who think maybe they'll be happy if they only go after the transgendered.
They're all wrong because it just, it starts there.
And then it just steamrolls.
Mm-hmm.
And it seems telling to me that public figures like this are willing to say whatever they think.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, there was a time when you would at least consider the ramifications of what you would say.
Yeah.
Right now in this America, they can get away with stuff like this.
And I guess, you know, it's free speech.
You can say whatever he wants.
But it doesn't mean I need to stand by and listen to him.
I'm not giving my two sons up about it.
There are millions of Taylor Swift fans that do not agree with him.
Oh, I know.
Yeah.
But I don't think one Taylor Swift fan is going to agree with him.
Hmm.
So, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy said windmills are wiping out the whale population.
You said that with a question mark.
Yes, I know I did.
You couldn't believe it when you read it.
When I'm reading, yes.
Well, I can't believe half the things he says and does.
I can't believe him.
Hmm.
So, what a shame to a good name.
The revelation during a meeting of President Donald Trump's cabinet demonstrates a full-throated effort by his administration to undermine an industry that was central to former President Joe Biden's climate and energy agendas.
Hmm.
Which, I don't know, that synopsis sounds just as, I don't know, bigoted as the comment.
It's a comment.
Yeah.
It's not another big surprise by this administration.
And it's anything that Biden did, he wants to reverse.
Yes.
Anything.
It doesn't matter.
We give Donald Trump a million dollars and nope.
You know what I mean?
It's anything that he's done, he wants to reverse.
And these people that are, the only word I can think of is an absentee.
The absentee.
Mm-hmm.
Um, that will just do whatever Trump says.
Mm-hmm.
They're sheep.
They're, um, there's proof that you should not be doing that.
And it was called the Nuremberg Trials.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Pretty big thing.
Mm-hmm.
If I recall correctly.
Yeah.
The whole war, war with who, um, yeah, the Holocaust.
Mm-hmm.
Um, yeah.
Quite a bit.
So.
So, I don't know.
Maybe we can hope that they'll get their justice.
Justice in the end.
But I don't know.
Will we live long enough to see it?
That's a good question.
I don't know.
We can hope.
Mm.
Okay.
Wait to read the room.
As the country grapples with another mass shooting, gun advocates petition the Supreme
Court to loosen restrictions on weapons that have become synonymous with such tragedies.
Wow.
The listeners can't see you shake your head.
Yeah, I know.
Um.
Are you surprised?
No.
The timing, I don't know.
They had to have had this in the works for some time.
Yeah.
But, you know, they could have held off a couple of days.
They don't care.
Until things settle down.
Yeah.
They don't care.
It's all about them.
They don't care.
It's about money, revenue.
Mm-hmm.
They don't care.
It's, so.
The one good thing is I know working in the pawn business there right now, the AR, the
AR industry is taking a.
They're not selling like they used to.
What a shame.
I know.
No, it's good news.
I know you're being facetious.
But no, it's, yeah, they're marking them all down.
They're not holding their value.
People, a lot of people are buying them for value's sake, which is a bunch of crap.
Don't tell me you're going to buy a weapon.
I can imagine.
Because people's investment.
I can imagine if it comes close to passing some kind of ban on them, people are going
to buy them up thinking there'll be a limited resource.
Yeah.
And I think that's, they came to the realization that no, they're not going to be a limited
resource that you can freaking buy them in any, anywhere pretty much, so.
Can you buy them at Walmart?
I don't know.
Probably, probably at Walmart's they'll sell guns.
Hmm.
Yeah.
They're everywhere.
We have them.
I handle probably two or three a day.
It's ridiculous the amount they come in.
Just how many of these people are going into war zones that they need an assault rifle?
They don't need any of it.
That's what makes me mad.
I mean, if you're going to use a weapon for.
In defense, buy a handgun.
I mean, you don't need an assault rifle.
No one, no one except military police needs to have those weapons.
That's, that's in my opinion.
I mean, they're strictly, and anyone who says that they're, or use it for hunting, then,
then quit hunting.
Those, those animals, no, no.
No.
They quit hunting because you're not.
If you want to hunt, hunt with a knife.
Hunt with a knife or a shotgun or something that will, you know, a rifle, something that's
not going to tear up the meat and destroy the animal.
Give them a fair chance.
Yeah.
It's not something with an assault rifle that is made to kill people.
That's all it's for is the maids and maim and hurt people.
The bullets tumble when they hit your body.
That's what they're made to do.
So don't come at me with this crap for home defense and nothing scarier than a, than a
pump shotgun either.
You know what I mean?
That's going to scare the crap out of someone who's entering your house in a, in AR.
So, and then you have people who just buy them and don't know even how to use them and
that's scary in and of itself.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't care for guns, but I did take a gun safety course.
Yeah.
And you'd be amazed with how many people come into my store on a daily basis that don't
have any idea about gun safety.
Just, you know, coming in with guns loaded.
It's, it's, it's amazing.
So, and then they wonder why I get mad at them.
I'm like, are you kidding me?
I've, I've cussed people out before.
I'm coming to my store with an effing loaded gun.
What are you, dumb?
You could have killed somebody.
I'm like, you could have killed someone.
And then, then they get mad at me.
I'm like, you could have killed somebody.
I'm like, don't get mad at me.
I'm like, you could have killed somebody.
Get out of here with your shit.
And I've told people to leave.
I'm like, I don't know how I'm going to do business with you.
You're a moron.
So, and you've probably seen me do it, or you can see and picture me doing it.
But yeah, yeah.
So, so yeah, way to read the room.
All right.
And Ray's constituent tells off GOP representative crowd applause.
Take your head out of Trump's.
The speaker, an older man and a farmer, blasted representative Mark Alford of Missouri for
having no idea what he was doing.
I have no understanding of what it's like for a working class American trying to feed
their family.
Very true.
Probably the source of our problems is when they allowed money to get into politics.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
I agree.
Because, you know, there used to be dollar limits and, and with no way to work around
them.
Mm-hmm.
All of that is just.
Someone by the wayside.
Yeah.
It's just waste.
Um, it, it, it allows people with the money.
It allows people with the money to influence politics.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, a lot now.
Mm-hmm.
A lot.
I mean, to the point where it's affecting elections.
Mm-hmm.
A lot.
You know, I'm still not 100% sure that he actually won, so.
Mm-hmm.
But I'm not one of those, you know, you've got to deal with the hand that you're dealt,
so.
I suppose.
You know, nothing's going to change.
I think literally nothing's going to change because I don't think he's going to leave
office.
I am, I'm afraid of that too.
There's some people that really are afraid of it.
Gavin Newsom.
I mean, every day he's doing.
He's doing something a little more inflammatory just to see if he can.
Mm-hmm.
Like sending troops to Washington, and now he's talking about in a few days sending them
to Chicago.
Oh, really?
Just to see if he can.
Wow.
Just to see if anybody will stop him.
He's, he's testing martial law.
Yeah.
That's what he's doing.
He's testing martial law.
With him as the marshal.
Exactly.
Trump claims crime is a blue city problem despite red state reality.
According to Newsweek.
Out of the 25 most dangerous cities per capita, the vast majority, 18, are in red states.
Only seven of the 25 are in blue states.
Yeah.
Another.
We were just talking about that.
Mm-hmm.
Well, they like to tell you that it's the other way around.
Mm-hmm.
That it's, you know, that it's opposite of that.
I think it's funny.
Well, how does that go?
There are lies, and there are damn lies, and then there are politicians.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
But, yeah.
So, this thing about taking control of the violence, it's, it's not true.
Mm-hmm.
It's just a lie.
It's another lie.
It's another lie that's being fabricated by this, by the administration.
And why aren't, I mean, why isn't the Pentagon saying, you can't do that?
Because they're all, he's got his minions in the office.
They're all afraid.
I mean, no one's safe from them.
I mean, they do have the right to not.
Follow an unconstitutional order.
Yeah.
But they're all, they're all his minions.
Mm-hmm.
You know, they, you know, it's.
The French Revolution solved that by using the guild team.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
God, I think we're coming close to that.
I hope not.
That'd be a pretty ugly future.
Mm.
The first step of revolution is kill all the lawyers.
Yeah.
I know a few that could die.
All right.
William Sanders.
message for gay fans.
Keep on queering.
This is a quote from him.
We all belong to each other, and all of us belong to the rest of existence, the world,
the universe.
It also suggests that we are, we are caretakers of our earth, and we must, without question,
care for the water, the air, the earth.
Hmm.
I think his attitude has changed since he went up into space.
Think so?
You think you had a moment up there or something?
Yeah, I do.
Hmm.
Interesting.
He cried.
Did he?
Yeah.
Okay.
I don't know.
I don't know that much about him.
I don't know if he's...
A lot of astronauts say it's, it's hard to think about politics and boundaries and whatever
when you look down and you see...
How small everything looks?
Yeah, the whole earth in front of you.
Well, I imagine.
It'd be amazing to see.
Yeah.
So...
Yeah, it would.
Would you ever do it?
William Shatner's never, ever really been known for being prophetic before.
Okay.
Hmm.
I didn't know if he was ever really talked much about in the first place or not, so...
Uh, specifically talking to gay fans, I don't know that he's done that before.
Hmm.
Maybe he's coming around to 2025.
Hmm.
So, we, you know, we've only been around forever.
And he's probably not long for this earth.
No.
How old is he now?
He's gotta be in his 90s.
That's what I thought.
Yeah.
And then Leonard Nimoy died a few years back, didn't he?
A long time ago, yeah.
Yeah.
And he was pretty old when he died, wasn't he?
I mean, he had cancer.
Didn't he?
He had COPD.
Said what?
COPD.
From smoking?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
All right.
Trump, I have the right to do anything I want to do.
I am the President of the United States.
Trump may be the President, but he doesn't have the right to do anything he wants.
Years ago, that comment alone would have caused all kinds of havoc.
But in today's society, which has been desensitized to unconsciousness by an overload of information from a far-right ecosystem,
the right wing social media influencers and access ambition pundits will probably go over like a thin breeze.
Mm-hmm.
Are you surprised?
He swore an oath to defend the Constitution, and he is not doing that.
No.
No, he has no intention of doing it either.
He hasn't.
He's in his first term, and he's not going to go into his second term.
And he's trying to buck the whole system.
And Christian nationalists are trying to buck the whole system.
They're trying to rewrite, to say that we are a Christian nation.
Mm-hmm.
I don't know.
Every generation thinks that their generation is the worst.
Mm-hmm.
But somehow, humans continue to go on.
Yeah, you're right.
At some point, it's got to hit a critical mass, and people will say, we're not going to put up with this anymore.
Yeah, hopefully for 2028.
Mm-hmm.
Hopefully, you know what I mean?
Because I'm afraid if we don't, then we will.
We'll have him as president again.
Mm-hmm.
I just want to have faith that people will not let it go too far.
Yeah.
It's going to happen quicker than people think.
He's going to have to piss off one of his cronies.
Mm-hmm.
And I thought that happened with Elon Musk, but I don't know.
That guy's kind of gone underground lately.
Yeah.
I mean, he's got the most money in the world.
I mean, he can do anything he wants.
I don't think.
But maybe Trump's got something.
He's got something on him, too.
You know what I mean?
He says he wants to create an alternative party.
Like Musk does?
Uh-huh.
Hmm.
Hopefully, it works better than his cars.
I've never thought that having only two parties is a good idea, because you need to have one
on the left, one on the right, and one in the middle.
Hmm.
Or several in the middle that can compete for what's best.
Mm-hmm.
I'm afraid if Musk does come up with a third party, it will be the Musk party, and nobody
wants that.
No.
I mean, well, can you imagine it just being more right-wing gibberish?
The way he's done everything.
Yeah.
Okie doke.
Is that it?
That's it.
You got a joke for us this week?
Yes, I do.
Okay.
Can we hear it?
A German shepherd went to a telegram office, took out a blank form, and wrote,
Woof, woof, woof.
Okay.
The clerk examined the paper and politely told the dog,
There are only nine words in this.
In this telegram, you could send another woof for the same price.
Okay.
The dog replied,
But that would make no sense at all.
That's cute.
That's a good dad joke.
I like that.
I think it's you who's always cracking me up because you think you're killing me.
All right.
Are you sure you're done?
Yes, I'm done.
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