Mike Johnson's Shouting Match in Office Leaked; GOP is Done With Him

17 Sep 2026 · 20 min · 8 chapters

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In short

The episode argues that Trump and allied Republicans use flashy optics (e.g., Kennedy Center fundraising/renovation, reflecting pool/gold/ballroom stories) as distractions from alleged deeper wrongdoing, incompetence, and human-rights abuses. It claims Trump is narcissistically trying to put his name on the Kennedy Center using taxpayer money, and that donor pressure is driven by Howard Lutnick’s social-media video about alleged ceiling collapse. It also alleges Trump is compromised by Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu, and repeatedly calls for questions about Lutnick’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Guests discussed: Howard Lutnick (finance executive; Epstein-related questions), and “Musk, Zuck, Bezos” (tech billionaires) as Epstein dinner attendees. The episode also focuses on Mike Johnson: a leaked office shouting match, GOP “done with him,” and claims he shuts down contentious House business to protect Trump, while covering religious hypocrisy and alleged sexual-abuse enablers.

Notable examples

Epstein “suicide” details; Pete Hegseth and Netanyahu coverage; Texas abortion lawsuit (pregnant woman denied care); Roy Moore and other pedophile-related references; endorsements tied to alleged domestic violence/sexist behavior.

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Trump's Obsession with the Kennedy Center

0:00 to 0:45

Discussion about Trump's focus on the Kennedy Center and his reasoning.

“All right, Trump is obsessed with Trumping everything up in Washington DC.”

The Narcissism of Trump

0:46 to 3:00

Exploration of Trump's narcissism and its impact on his perception of history.

“What he doesn't realize is the Kennedy Center was not built for him.”

Distractions in Politics

3:01 to 4:25

Analyzing how Trump's actions serve as distractions from major issues.

“And this, you know, everybody's like, what a narcissist, blah, blah, blah.”

The Role of AI in Current Politics

4:26 to 5:40

Discussion on the implications of AI in political regulation and industry.

“That's the one thing to quote Donald Trump's niece for them to use up all of our energy and create a product that kills people.”

Jeffrey Epstein's Connections

5:41 to 7:31

Examination of Epstein's ties to influential figures and the implications.

“Just take it straight to the source every fucking time.”

MAGA as a Death Cult

7:32 to 8:27

Discussion on the harmful policies of the MAGA movement and their consequences.

“And he took a picture of it, emailed it to himself.”

Mike Johnson's Leadership and Controversies

8:28 to 14:01

Critique of Speaker Mike Johnson's leadership and alleged moral hypocrisy.

“Republicans have had it with little Moses Mike Grinder Johnson.”

Critique of MAGA and Republican Leadership

14:01 to 17:51

Discussion about the failures and moral contradictions of MAGA voters and Republican leaders.

“And it goes like this, 80 year old swollen like a bubble tick, Kangol's McTaco tits, top of the ticket.”
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0:04All right, Trump is obsessed with Trumping everything up in Washington DC. And so he's laser focused on the Kennedy Center. And he was asked why he's so obsessed with putting his name on the Kennedy Center. And here's what he had to say. So for the Trump administration, for me to get involved and to take that on long term and to carry it or to raise money to carry it, I think that the Trump administration should certainly have recognition, because frankly, if we don't do that, it's going to close. It'll end up being ripped down. It's in very, very bad shape, very dangerous. All right, Angie. OK, here's the thing about that.

0:45he thinks everything is his. He said he's going to raise money. It's his administration. It's all about him. He wants it to be about him. What he doesn't realize is the Kennedy Center was not built for him. It was built for the legacy of John F. Kennedy, the president. He doesn't accept that. He doesn't respect that. He doesn't respect history. He thinks history started with him. history will end with him. And it is so gross. And he is not the only person that contributes to the Kennedy Center. And I dare say, he is not talking about, I'm going to do the renovations with my own personal funds.

1:23And that's why I think I should put my name on it. It is taxpayer money. And I want my fucking name on it because I know the minute I'm out of office, everything that I have touched, that I have just absolutely shit all over, they're going to take my name off of it. I don't know if he knows that. I don't know if he's able to take his brain there. Do you know what I mean? He's so narcissistic and he's surrounded by so many sycophants that I don't know if he thinks that will happen. I don't know that his brain's capable of playing the tape through. But what I do think is that, and I hate to give credit where credit is due, but I do think his administration, and Trump is very good at optics and he's very good at PR and I hate giving him the credit for that.

2:07But I do think a lot of this shit, the reflecting pool, the gold, the ballroom, the Kennedy Center are great distractions that we all sink our teeth into because he puts a bright, shiny object and that dominates the news cycle. Meanwhile, he is, I believe this is my personal opinion, compromised by Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu. I believe that the stuff that's been exposed of his crimes only scratches the surface. I think it is so much bigger, deeper, and far more complex. And I think he puts these little things out there as catnip and the press bites on him. And then we talk about it, the reflecting pool.

2:58And look at how incompetent he is. Look at how stupid this is. And the optics of that are good. I mean, you know, I get all of that. And this, you know, everybody's like, what a narcissist, blah, blah, blah. But at the end of the day, I don't want to give a shit if his name's on the Kennedy Center. Swing for this fence, this big guy. Do it. Pop it up there. You think you can fundraise for it and you're a big, you know, advocate for the arts? Great. I don't give a shit. Do you know what I mean? Right. Yeah. I feel like this is just such a disservice because, and they all participate in this. They all participate in this catnip.

3:32And here is Howard Lutnick tweeting this video of the ceiling collapsing at the Kennedy Center. Play the clip. So Howard Lutnick tweets this. And so what they're basically trying to say is the Kennedy Center is about to be, you know, it's in shambles and we need Trump to get donor money. And he's saying the only way people are going to donate to it as if my name is on it because I mean, my God, I'm so great. So my larger point to this is all of these stories that are fun and juicy and they do serve as a distraction. I find myself falling prey to a lot of them. Are they intentionally doing these things to throw out a shiny object to people to care about stupid shit that doesn't matter while they are locking up little kids in concentration camps, denying people due process, trying to dismantle, did dismantle the Voting Rights Act, sending stuff to the shadowy, the shadow docket of the Supreme Court and setting up a complete criminal enterprise that is fleecing American workers while at the same time making it the easiest assist of all time for these AI criminals, the creators of this AI that are absolute criminals.

4:51Too much is never enough. That's the one thing to quote Donald Trump's niece for them to use up all of our energy and create a product that kills people. No, I completely agree. And here's the thing. I was reading an article this morning about how Susie Wiles and Scott Besant, for months they've been talking about AI and how we need to regulate AI and then boom, splash, car goes in through it because he got calls from the big AI techs. And so now he's like free fucking reign. So that happens every day. And I completely agree with you. It's a distraction. But I also think every time Howard Lutnick has a press conference, posts on social media, is ever in a Q &A on anything, somebody needs to ask him, what was your relationship with Jeffrey Epstein?

5:39Why did you lie about your relationship with Jeffrey Epstein? Just take it straight to the source every fucking time. Because that man is hiding a lot, in my opinion, because he came out and he said, oh, you know i knew there were cameras i knew he was bribing people that's what i terminated my relationship with him and then lo and behold he's ass deep in alligators with his fucking kids on the island yeah but so many of them i mean it's unbelievable i mean think about this jeffrey epstein was at a dinner with all of these tech ai guys right now the the people who went in and bent the knee and kissed the ring and made up stupid awards for Trump to go present to him in these weird humiliation rituals.

6:25This was one of the more compelling things for me. Jeffrey Epstein is at dinner with all of these people, Musk, Zuck, Bezos, et cetera. And I might've gotten one or two wrong, but he's with all of these guys, these fascist collaborators, these billionaires that are fleecing the American public and exploiting human beings and killing people. And he takes a picture and he emails it to himself. That's a really interesting thing to do. He wanted to document, I'm here with all of these people and all of those people are still alive. And all of those people are kissing the ring of Donald Trump, fleecing the American people and killing people.

7:04I'm talking about you, Elon Musk, you're killing people. And Jeffrey Epstein is dead. And I just want to remind everybody who was president when Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide on a bed post that's 18 inches off the ground. And so I just think that's really, that picture always comes back and haunts me whenever I see all of those people sucking up to Trump. I'm like, Jeffrey knew this was a big deal. And he took a picture of it, emailed it to himself. And then you see the pattern of he, you know, Howard Lutnick, pursuant to him and victims, they were recording everything, there's blackmail. And then the shit he was doing with Bill Gates.

7:47So this man had a blackmail plan all the time. So him sending that picture, it tracks 100%. That's exactly what I thought. Like, okay, this is a guy whose default setting is I'm providing, I'm acquiring and collecting compromising information to blackmail people. Because still to this day, nobody really even knows why he's so rich. I mean, that question has not been thoroughly answered. And jumping along here to the people that bend the knee and provide cover for this MAGA death cult. And MAGA is a death cult. All MAGA policies do is kill people. They waste money and kill people. Democrats start messaging that.

8:30You can have it for free. Republicans have had it with little Moses Mike Grinder Johnson. Pop this up. This is fucking war. A late night meeting with little Moses Mike Grinder Johnson's office went off the rails with multiple sources describing the session as one of the most contentious this year. Okay. Number one, none of this surprises me at all. But number two, why is every headline not talking about the fact that Moses Mike Grinder-Johnson is in a state of religious psychosis? And I'm serious about this. I'm serious about this. No, I agree. Any other country that is a first world country. If somebody claims they're having conversations with God, monitoring their son's porn, marries their daughter in some weird purity ball, and everybody's like, God, you always talk about it all the time, Jennifer.

9:32I do because this is not normal. And headlines about the speaker's doing this and the speaker's doing that, it's the same way they've normalized to an extent Tucker Carlson, who is also in a state of religious psychosis, who said that he was attacked by four demons in his sleep they scratched him up and tried to kill him these people are nuts they are nuts and they want power and little grinder has it he has power he just doesn't use it and my question is what do people have on little grinder oh well i think we can all i mean i don't think it takes a huge imagination to figure out what they've got on him uh this is my comment on that i completely agree with you on that.

10:11But Moses, Mike, here's the deal with him. He knows that Pete Hegseth should be impeached. He knows that. He knows it. He knows the Jeffrey Epstein files need to be released and that they're violating the law, not releasing the files. Now we've got a new date. They've moved the goalposts again to September 24th. And he doesn't fight it. He sells the bullshit and he sends Congress home. I've never in my life had a job that every time something got hard, today's going to be a hard day for you. You might be disappointed today, Angie. You know what? We're just going to call off court. Let's shut down the fucking courthouse.

10:55You don't have to go to work. If there's going to be issues, if we're going to be debating, you should just take the day off. That simply doesn't happen. And the reason that it happens when we have all of these things that are pressing issues with the American people is because Donald Trump wants him to shut it down because everything that would be going on in those sessions is a potential harm to Donald Trump. That's it. Full stop. That's the list. And I would even agree with everything you just said, and I would take it further. The reason it gets shut down is because the Speaker of the house is a liar and a hypocrite.

11:35When he tells you, America, I am the Lord this and traditional family values, he is a liar and a hypocrite. He gets up in front of the American public every single day and lies and provides cover for men that raped little girls. Every single day he gets up and tells everybody he and Jesus Christ are as tight as ticks, and he is providing cover for a war criminal named Pete Hegseth that arbitrarily killed fishermen for sport. And he is providing cover for Benjamin Netanyahu and the terrorist government of Israel who kill Palestinians for sport. He is covering up for the most murderous, crazed people that are obsessed with the accumulation of wealth.

12:27And we have to start calling out this religious hypocrisy. Nowhere in the Bible does it say anywhere, and I'm an atheist, as you all know, Jesus is all about the accumulation of wealth. In fact, it says the exact opposite, the exact opposite of that. Yet you have the Republican Party who weaponizes Christianity all day, every day and supports people who want to accumulate wealth. And how do they accumulate this wealth? By exploiting everyday people and exacting and extolling suffering on to them. It is as immoral as it gets. Moses Mike Grinder Johnson is an epicenter of it. For MAGA, this is the thing.

13:12You're either a racist or racist isn't a deal breaker for you. and you will allow and provide cover for racists by not calling them out. That silence is worse. I would rather deal with overt racists so I know what I'm dealing with than some passive-aggressive racists. The same goes for these pedophile enablers. You are either a pedophile or child rape isn't a deal-ender for you. And for Moses Mike Grinder-Johnson, I don't know if he's a racist pedophile or not, But I know that both of those things are not deal breakers for him. I know that both of those things don't tell him, hey, I don't think God or Jesus would really like this and I need to fight for the victims here.

13:56So I don't know if Moses is a racist pedophile, but I know that he covers for them and he's the Speaker of the House. And it goes like this, 80 year old swollen like a bubble tick, Kangol's McTaco tits, top of the ticket. Then we have J.D. Vance, our little smoky eyed sociopath. and if something happened to the two of them we have a guy that's president of the united states who is as impotent and morally bankrupt and hypocritical as any of them i mean to me he is one of the worst americans and get no riz boring and all of that but in very to me he is a typical mega voter and that needs to be dismantled we need to do reputational brand damage to mega voters that tell us they care about family values that tell us they care about children that tell us they care about all of these things and yet they vote time and time and time and time and time again for either pedophiles in the case of roy moore in alabama or people who defend pedophiles and so all of the triple trumper MAGA people out there, you're either a racist pedophile or racist pedophiles don't bother you.

15:08Yeah. And add to that the abuse of women. We've got the two endorsements from Mike Johnson that one is accused of breaking his daughter's collarbone, boiling water on his wife, and the other's saying like come bucket or come trophy or something about women. And he's like, well, that's just a persona. It's like, that's who he is. All right. And I'm going to leave you with this. MAGA continues to prove that it is the death cult that we've always called it here on this episode. Pop this up. The family, a pregnant woman who died, sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxson on Tuesday claiming she was denied an abortion that could have saved her life.

15:51And to the governor of all of these red states, the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, the governor of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt, you are murderers. You are killers. You guys are killing women in your state in the name of Jesus. And it is so disgusting. It is so hypocritical. It is you should be run out of your church, run out of polite society that you think you know more than a doctor. Right. That you think you know more than a woman, that you think you can get involved in people's private lives like this is just absolutely abhorrent. And these politicians that have no problem with women dying, everybody knows what I think the psychology is on that.

16:38You know, these people want to punish the object of their desire. That's why you see a bunch of Republicans that want to be punitive towards gays, a la Lindsey Graham style, because they're the object of his desire. And a lot of these MAGA men want to be punitive towards women because from an early age, they were told, don't masturbate, don't think about having sex. Well, that's the dumbest advice on the planet. It's not sustainable. It's idiotic. And so then they go through all of these years and then they want to be punitive to the people that turn them on because they lack discipline, critical thinking, and self-control.

17:12This party is a death cult. And Kevin Stitt, I'd really like to go after you the most. You are a cold blooded killer, a religious hypocrite of the highest order. Fuck you and fuck everything you did to the state of Oklahoma. And I mean that I will never, ever, ever stop browbeating. He is a killer. I don't think it's funny. He is killing women in the state of Oklahoma. They are dying, dying because you have removed their ability to receive medical care. And I hope your ass gets sued. I hope they sue you personally. I hope they sue Greg Abbott personally because it is disgusting and so hypocritical.

17:50All right. I'm riled up. That's all I have. Please like, subscribe, comment, and we will be back later with more news.

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