Mike Johnson's Worst Nightmare; They've Hit Rock Bottom

16 Sep 2026 · 19 min · 6 chapters

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In short

The host argues MAGA Republicans are incompetent and corrupt, waste money, and harm people, especially in the context of the 2025–midterms and Trump’s administration. They cite “DOGE” paying federal employees $9.5B not to work, early House adjournment to avoid an impeachment vote tied to Pete Hegseth, and claims that Trump’s cabinet lacks technical expertise.

Guests/figures mentioned

Jeff Sachs (Columbia University professor) analyzes Trump’s cabinet; Susan Rice is referenced as calling it a “suicide of a superpower.” John Kennedy (Sen.) is said to have grilled Kash Patel about allowing people who engage in bestiality to be FBI agents.

Key claims/examples

Elon Musk’s $300M to help Trump win; Hegseth accused of killing people (Venezuela/Iran/school/bridges); cabinet “drifters and fools”; Macklemore “Free Palestine” controversy; Obama grieving their dog Sonny as “bipartisan connectedness,” contrasted with Trump/Musk lacking relatable empathy.

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Critique of MAGA Midterm Pitches

0:05 to 1:24

Analysis of J.D. Vance and Ted Cruz's pitches for the midterms.

“So as you can imagine, since these are the only two things that this regime is good at, they're having a hard time making their pitch to Americans as to why anybody would go out and vote for them.”

Waste and Kill: GOP Policies

1:24 to 3:02

Discussion on the fiscal irresponsibility and consequences of GOP policies.

“So in my opinion, these two cases, these two pitches here by the smoky eyed sociopath who will not defend his wife of color and his mixed race children.”

Analyzing Trump's Cabinet

3:02 to 5:10

Jeff Sachs' insights into the lack of qualifications in Trump's cabinet.

“So how did I start this episode, listener?”

Cultural Disconnect of the Elite

5:10 to 8:13

Exploration of the disconnect between billionaires and everyday experiences.

“In other words, were led by drifters and fools.”

Hope Amidst Political Insanity

8:13 to 14:00

Reflections on the potential for change within the GOP and political landscape.

“And 20 years from now, McLemore's speech is going to stand the test of time.”

Political Reflections and Commentary

14:00 to 16:19

Explore the political landscape and social justice in current events.

“bestiality involved in being FBI agents.”
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0:04MAGA is only good at two things, killing people and wasting money. So as you can imagine, since these are the only two things that this regime is good at, they're having a hard time making their pitch to Americans as to why anybody would go out and vote for them. And here we have J.D. Vance making his pitch for the midterms. Let's listen to what the smoky eyed sociopath has to say. Play the clip. Give us another chance or give us another couple of years to continue to work on the amazing things that we've been doing for the. Give us two more years. I mean, are you kidding? They're not. They're dead serious.

0:41And also, J.D., the eyeliner looked a little heavy there. But then we have Rafael Cruz, you know, Ted, and he's continuing to make the case for MAGA at the midterms as well. Play that clip. That's have handed their party over to the crazy. I mean, we see the rise of the Marxist and the Islamists who are doing massive damage. And if the Democrats take the House or, God forbid, the House and the Senate, they will spend two years waging war on President Trump. Why, yes. Yes, Ted, we will spend two years investigating Donald Trump. And hell, just for kicks, we might throw your purple ass in there as well, which why on earth are you wearing a purple suit and a purple tie?

1:23You look like a washed up two bed evangelical pastor that is always kissing the ass of rich people. So in my opinion, these two cases, these two pitches here by the smoky eyed sociopath who will not defend his wife of color and his mixed race children. And then we go to Raphael, who will not defend his wife, who the president of the United States said was ugly. Why would we listen to them? Why would we listen to these people? But actually, the arguments they're making make me want to vote that much more. So here's why Republicans aren't talking about policy. Pop this up. New reporting reveals that Doge paid federal employees a total of$9 ,500 ,000 ,000 not to work in 2025.

2:17Quote, deferred resignation cost shot up 435 % in the second Trump administration. this party wants to tell you we are fiscally responsible we're going to cut waste fraud and abuse they send in a drug addict dipshit who thinks he's smart who thinks he knows everything that had to pay the president 300 million dollars to try to ensure that he won because in his words if Kamala wins I'm probably going to prison that's what Jay that's what uh Elon Musk said And all of this waste, all of this$9 billion,$500 million for Elon Musk to go in and shut down investigations into himself is before we even get to the part that he cut programs that are now killing people.

3:02So how did I start this episode, listener? I started it with MAGA is good at two things, wasting money and killing people. And here's another example of just waste, waste, waste. Pop this up. Here's little Moses Mike. GOP leaders are sending the House home early, staving off an impeachment vote against Defense Secretary Hegseth over the Iran war. Speaker Johnson sending House home early because of Pete Hegseth. What did he do? What did Pete Hegseth do? Oh, yeah, he killed people. He killed people off the coast of Venezuela. He's killing people in Iran. He triple tapped a school. He shot bridges.

3:43I think they shot down a wedding because Republican policies waste money and kill people. Yet they want to lecture us that they're so good with national security. They're so fiscally responsible. I'm a businessman, so I've got to vote my wallet. No, you're voting for a party of dipshits that doesn't know how to manage money that also likes to kill people as a side hustle. And then when we think about in totality, and it's difficult, but if we widen back, at what is going on in our federal government. It's breathtaking how incompetent they all are. And here we have Columbia University professor Jeff Sachs analyzing Trump's cabinet.

4:26Play the clip. I think we should understand we have a cabinet of 35 people. Not one of them is trained in technical skills, not one. There's one bachelor's degree, one bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, no other training at all on technical issues, and not one single research PhD degree in the cabinet, as opposed to China, where it's half the cabinet basically is science and technology and research PhDs. In other words, were led by drifters and fools. And you need to think about, I think this is such an important analysis here, because when you think about the people governing the United States of America, think about it like this.

5:26When you're watching some spy movie or you're watching some movie about a war and the Americans come in, You think, oh, yeah, we've got really smart people and really high positions of power, and they know what they're doing, and they're keeping us safe. That's gone. That's completely gone. We have Kash Patel, who's allowing people that engage in bestiality to be FBI agents. We have some gal named Paula White that talks in tongues at the White House. We have the Speaker of the House, Moses Mike Grinder Johnson, who says God wakes him up in the middle of the night, tells him he's Moses, marries his daughter to keep her virginity safe and the purity ball weirdness, and then monitors his son's porn.

6:06And that's before I even get to Pete Hegseth and all of the other morons. And that's something that MAGA has to answer for. Why do you want the dumbest people in charge of this country? And yet you call yourself a patriot. It's inherently not patriotic to put dipshits in charge of you. Some people could call that a suicide mission. I believe former ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, calls it the suicide of a superpower. And MAGA is even starting to lose. Miss Pris Waters, play the clip. Lose. Jesse. So what did he say that was bad? He said free Palestine? Is that all? He went on on the genocide.

6:51No, it was genocide. Okay. Okay. All I heard was free Palestine. I don't think that's hate speech. So this is the Ed Sheeran-McLamore thing that's popped up. And what's so interesting about this is you, of course, you know Stephen Miller. And of course, you know Benjamin Netanyahu. And of course, you know Jonathan Greenblatt at the ADL want to be the speech police. They want to censor everybody's speech. And they also want to be the thought police. They want to tell you what you can think and what you cannot think and what you can say and what you cannot say. so macklemore said free palestine on the stage at a concert robert craft who likes to go to the rug and tug massage parlors got really offended by the free palestine thing and they shut down macklemore ed sheeran threw macklemore under the bus it's a big shit show of course but why are billionaires telling american artists what they can and cannot say that's the thing about free speech.

7:48It might hurt your feelings. You might not like it. But go listen to what Macklemore said in its entirety. There's nothing remotely offensive about it. And if you're triggered by it, I think probably you know deep down that the stuff he's saying is true. And it reveals something that you're covering for, some crime that you're making a permission structure in your body to pretend that that's not what's going on here. And 20 years from now, McLemore's speech is going to stand the test of time. Robert Kraft will be an ass-kissing, democracy-hating billionaire that went to Asian massage parlors and got happy-ending massages.

8:32And I don't really care that he does that. That's his business. I don't give a shit about that. But remember, all of this stuff is done under the umbrella of the Family Values Party. And so it's just hypocrisy on top of hypocrisy. But on top of what Professor Jeff Sachs says about how idiotic and what grifters and fools the cabinet is, these people don't believe in anything. They don't share the same connectedness that connect us all. And here's something that popped up on my social media feed today, And it is Barack Obama who did a collaboration post with Michelle about their dog passing. Pop this up.

9:15President Obama posts, yesterday we lost a cherished member of our family. We got Sonny at the start of our second term in the White House, and all of us, including our first dog, Beau, immediately fell in love. We also had trouble keeping up with her, for Sonny was a force of nature, athletic and full of boundless energy. She leapt over the hedges of the South Lawn, et cetera. He goes on to talk about how great she was with his girls. And he says, we will miss her terribly. And imagine she's with her big brother now, making sure he's OK. And this is something that really is the bipartisan connectedness.

9:47Like, I didn't really like George W. Bush at all. But when I see him like painting immigrants and I see him enjoying stuff outside of like capitalism, me, me, me, I've got to buy this and consume and consume, I was like, oh, he's painting pictures of immigrants. Interesting. interesting um when you see that the obamas are grieving their dog it's like that's a that's a universally relatable experience it's horrible losing a pet it's horrible you sit and cry you think god it's just a dog but then you just keep crying they're not there anymore and you you know you hear their pitter patter chasing you maggot doesn't have these connective tissue things that reach all members in their community president trump i've never heard him say anything about an animal or liking an animal.

10:33It's been rumored that when he was a child, he was cruel to animals, or maybe that was barren. I can't remember, but I read that somewhere. And all of these billionaires, there's nothing that they say or do that's like inspirational or relatable at all. And Elon Musk went on to Twitter and somebody called him, went on to Twitter. He's on Twitter right now as I'm giving this broadcast. But somebody basically said, you didn't make anything. You know, you still, you acting like Tesla, you did. And he responds like to that person, you're a taker, not a maker. Like I'm a big maker. And writer Joyce Carol Oates, I think, has some of the best analysis about this billionaire class and a specific billionaire Elon Musk that I think also umbrellas over the entire fascist regime and all of its collaborators.

11:24pop this up. So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates. Scenes from nature, a pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book, she says, but doubt he reads, pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment, condolences for someone who has died, pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team, references to history. In fact, he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty and meaning in life than the most wealthy person in the world. And I just think that summarizes the MAGA movement entirely.

12:20We are governed by people that don't take the free things in life and realize that those are the most valuable. They find no value in the things that all of us cherish the most. They find value in seeing themselves as being super rich or super superior or tougher than somebody else or the ability to punish or heckle people and troll people on the internet. She's so right. Have you ever heard Donald Trump talk about any of these things? Have you ever heard Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg? No, they're all in a state of psychosis. But we have to turn to our bigger instincts and come out because J.D.

13:11Vance and Raphael, fat ass Ted Cruz are 100 % correct. We will investigate everything that this man has done because we care about our shared sense of humanity. I care deeply about this country despite all of the, oh, the libtards hate America. No, you're the ones that hate America. If you loved America, you'd put smart people in charge of stuff. You'd put experts in charge of stuff. But instead, you want to rig the system for your mediocre average ass that can't even find the beauty in loving a dog. But there is a tinge of hope. A tinge. Yesterday, much to my surprise, I saw Senator John Kennedy just put Kash Patel through the ringer, about Kash Patel's preferred desire to have people who engage in bestiality involved in being FBI agents.

14:11And that was a bridge too far for Senator John Kennedy, much to my surprise when I was kind of looking over this beautiful post from Barack Obama about their dog. And I'm a huge dog person. And I feel like I just, I remember when they got those dogs and his dogs were running around the White House. Well, John Kennedy must have too, because then he posted this to Barack Hussein Obama. Pop this up. Mr. President, I am so sorry to hear about Sonny. John Kennedy. So in conclusion, you guys, we are seeing fissures. We are seeing a little bit of people jumping off. Of course, Raphael is going to go down with the ship as they rearrange the chairs on the Titanic with Little Grinder and with the little smoky-eyed sociopath.

14:56But some people are starting to look beyond this and starting to call out this insanity. And I bet that John Kennedy hopes that there is a blue wave. I bet some of these people, they don't have the strength to do it. And John Kennedy's a pussy. He's never really stood up to Trump before. So I'm not giving him that big of a halt pass. I don't want y 'all to think I've gone soft. But we will save us. We, the people who enjoy the things in life that are free, the connectedness that we share together, the things that money can't buy us, that Elon Musk never participates in. Donald Trump never participates in those things.

15:37But we do. And we are a country of ideas and a country of diversity and a country of people who have always fought for social justice. We've not been perfect in it. We've not been tough enough. But this is our moment to go out in those midterms. And Kash Patel has made it clear. Little Mark Wayne Mullen has made it clear that they are going to do everything in their power to intimidate us at the polls. But we mustn't be scared of the people who are the biggest chicken shit cowards in the United States government right now. Because if your ideas are so great, run on them. Run on them. And you'd win.

16:17But you know they're not. All right. Do me a favor and pre-order my book. It's called Not Today Fascists, The Lies That Got Us Here and The Truths That Will Reunite Us. It comes out October 6th. Kylie's going to link it right below in the show notes. The pre-orders help more than you know. You will really, really enjoy the book. And I'll be back later with more news.

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