In short
The hosts attack Republican hypocrisy and alleged corruption, focusing on Mitch McConnell’s paid medical leave, Scott Jennings’ pro-GOP media role, Trump’s shifting rhetoric about Muslims and praising Allah, U.S. handling of the Strait of Hormuz/Iran, Supreme Court conflicts involving fossil-fuel money, and DOJ efforts to target enemies via special grand juries.
Guests
Josh Welch (co-host/returning guest). Scott Jennings (cited as a CNN pundit, described as a pro-Republican “fluffer”). Janine Pirro (discussed as a Fox figure and alleged DOJ-rule-of-law underminer). No other formal guests appear.
Key claims
Trump is “losing” against Iran, is “demented” and hypocritical, and Republicans weaponize faith while supporting corporate interests. Supreme Court lacks oversight; Samuel Alito reportedly earned up to $2.9M from fossil-fuel interests.
Notable examples
Strait of Hormuz tolls; Alito’s reported fossil-fuel income; 92% of adults avoiding doctors due to cost; Janine Pirro convening a special grand jury; Mitch McConnell voting against paid leave while receiving it.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOMitch McConnell and Media Critique
0:45 to 2:46
A critical look at Mitch McConnell's hypocrisy and the media's role.
“He told me today, he said, it was like, I know this is unusual circumstances.”
Trump's Hypocrisy and Rhetoric
2:46 to 4:50
An exploration of Trump's contradictory statements regarding Muslims.
“And then Trump vacillates all the time between trying to scare people that Zoran Ramdani and senatorial candidate Abdul Al-Sayed are Muslims that are going to engage in jihad in America.”
Supreme Court Corruption and Climate
4:50 to 7:28
Discussing reported corruption in the Supreme Court and its implications.
“The day to day Americans, they don't know why we're in it.”
MAGA and Social Needs
7:28 to 11:07
Analyzing the MAGA movement's impact on social services and public perception.
“I think we have to completely reshape the court as it is known now because it is a corrupt criminal entity that services corporations and enriches these justices.”
Janine Pirro's Grand Jury Tactics
11:07 to 14:00
Insights on Janine Pirro's recent grand jury strategy and its implications.
“I saw a clip of Zoran Lamdani on Jon Stewart's podcast the other day.”
Trump's Tactics and Media Normalization
14:00 to 14:31
Discusses Trump's investigative tactics and media normalization.
“It's just another it's just another tactic that Trump's going to use to try to investigate one of his enemies.”
Critique of Janine Pirro and Republican Hypocrisy
15:57 to 19:21
Analyzes Janine Pirro's role in media and the hypocrisy within the Republican party.
“Meanwhile, everybody thinks she's drunk on Fox all the time, but I digress.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:04Josh Welch is back but guess who's not back to work. Mitch McConnell. Senator Mitch McConnell. the man who votes against paid leave, paid medical leave for working class Americans is receiving paid medical leave because he's a hypocrite of the highest order. And everybody knows that Scott Jennings is the biggest MAGA fluffer on the planet. All Scott Jennings existence is to do is to fluff up the penises. I'm sorry, I'm going to say egos, fluff up the egos of these corrupt MAGA men. Play the clip. As we get closer to when the Senate comes back. Does he know about all of the brouhaha around this?
0:44Is he aware of the whole swirl? He told me today, he said, it was like, I know this is unusual circumstances. I'm sitting here. The doctors tell me I don't have any life-threatening issues. It must seem rather strange. So yeah, I got the feeling he's somewhat aware of it and frankly, somewhat frustrated by it.
1:06Josh, Why does CNN put that guy on their show? I mean, that's the biggest fluff piece. I mean, he acts like he has, you know, three to four casual conversations with him a day. And Mitch McConnell is in hiding. Like nobody can reach that guy. And it makes me want to shave my beard looking at Scott Jennings goatee. I mean, I've got shamed out of even having a beard looking like that guy. CNN needs to pull the plug on that. You're right. His reporting is not objective. It's just always the same thing. It's going to be pro Republican. He's never going to make any concession. It's a waste of time really even listening to him.
1:50It's a complete waste of time and shame on CNN for putting a complete lying ego fluffer like Scott Jennings on there. Furthermore, more. If Mitch McConnell is sitting in front of him saying, yeah, I guess it does seem kind of weird. And he can say that to Scott Jennings. He can say it on an audio call that could be recorded for his constituents to hear. And here's the thing. This works with the MAGA base because they're stupid. Trump does well with the poorly educated. But to the rest of the world, it doesn't work, which makes me ask a CNN, do they want the dumb audience too? Because otherwise, Scott Jennings should have been fired long, long ago.
2:29And he's unhirable. Like he doesn't have a social media presence. Like he's not a personality that's going to attract people for any sort of thoughtful commentary. He's, it's just someone to sit in that chair and take a certain position every day is what you're getting. All right. And then Trump vacillates all the time between trying to scare people that Zoran Ramdani and senatorial candidate Abdul Al-Sayed are Muslims that are going to engage in jihad in America. Meanwhile, Trump, his son's dumb and dumber, and his son-in-law do all this business with all of these Muslim, corrupt Muslim men in Saudi Arabia and other countries where they all make billions of dollars.
3:13So Trump in his dementia era, now he's taken to praising Allah again. Pop this up. here's a pair to paraphrase it trump who clearly feels he isn't getting enough attention this morning lies that the usa has total control over the strait of hormuz i think we will keep it praise be to allah so josh the truth of the matter is we reported a couple days ago the iranians said we're done we're not going to talk to him anymore he's batshit we're going to wait till the end of his term and then we'll talk to america again and we're keeping the straight because the straight being controlled by Iran has been a net positive for them because the country was really broke before the war.
3:55And now they're charging a toll for each boat that goes through the Strait of Hormuz. So they're making a lot of money off of this. And Trump is losing a war. I mean, all of these MAGA men that are like, oh yeah, the military and Trump's such a badass, he is getting his ass beat and then goes on these crazy demented rants about praise be to Allah. And it's clear, first of all, if any Democrat would have written praise be to Allah, could you imagine the meltdown across all of the new shows? There's not enough E.R.s in the country. Yeah, I mean, they would probably deploy ICE officers in that region.
4:31They would probably, no telling what they would do. So just the hypocrisy alone of President Trump saying that and all of these Republican conservative of MAGA fuck stick pundits that won't call it out for what it is. That's number one. Number two, nobody understands this fucking war. Nobody does. The day to day Americans, they don't know why we're in it. To a certain extent, I don't. Why are we there? The only thing I can think of just as a lay person is because it's some sort of shit show that Israel got us into somehow. So what I would think just as a lay person not knowing anything else about it.
5:07I think you know that. Even Marco Rubio said that. Yeah, I mean, but it doesn't, could you imagine one of our kids being asked to go fight in this war and then being asked, what does this war stand for, for our country? I'd be like, fuck no. You know, it's just a meta, it's got to be a loser for him at the elections if people just get out and vote. All right, and moving along, there's new reporting on the corruption at the Supreme Court. Pop this up. The Supreme Court justice has already reportedly made up to$2.9 million from fossil fuel interests as he prepares to vote on whether oil companies should pay for the impacts of climate change.
5:51And of course, we're talking about Justice Samuel Alito, whose wife has a hobby of flying insurrection flags at their many properties. But what I want to say about the climate issue is there will be a reckoning for this. And we're already, I mean, each, the July we just had in the United States was the warmest on record ever. And the arrogance of our country to pollute and not care about the way we leave the earth and the arrogance of these fucking Christian Republicans to claim that, you know, God is the creator of everything. And then they rape and pillage the planet and then leave it for some future generation because Alito made$2.9 million.
6:37Well, I mean, none of this is a surprise to us that know Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, the corruption behind a lot of their decisions. The real injustice here is the fact that the Supreme Court has zero oversight, accountability to anybody, to any third party. So they can literally do whatever it is they want to. They have no ethic code that applies to them like what applies to normal day-to-day lawyers. And that's the real sham. So Democrats have to make the reform of the Supreme Court one of the very top priorities because it's something that impacts our lives every single day. A decision by that court, whether it's abortion, whether it's a constitutional right of sorts, search and seizure, it impacts everybody every day.
7:24And it has to be a top priority for reform. I completely agree. I think we have to completely reshape the court as it is known now because it is a corrupt criminal entity that services corporations and enriches these justices. That's right. So while we see Donald Trump, the son's dumb and dumber, I saw Barron's now worth$150 million. Melania's worth a couple hundred million. We see all of the members of the cabinet gaming the stock market, making billions of dollars just overnight by sending out a tweet or convincing their dipshit demented boss to send out a tweet. Here's what real Americans are going through.
8:07Pop this up. a shocking 92 % of U.S. adults are not going to the doctor because it's too expensive. 92 % and MC squared says, what stage of capitalism is this? So think about this juxtaposition, this Supreme Court, which a lot of these Supreme Court justices, Josh, they make their faith a central part of their whole identity, right? And if it were to come down to decisions where they could service the pharmaceutical industry, or they could service, you know, big for-profit hospitals, they're always going to side with the corporations, and they're never going to side with human life, which leads me to my hypothesis that comes true day after day after day.
8:57MAGA is an anti-family, pro-pedophilia, pro-crime death cult. All of their policies, especially the decisions of the Supreme Court, support all of those things that I just mentioned. You're 100 % right. And I would say that they have been successful in labeling basic needs that government supplies its people. They've labeled that somehow as socialism and that that's a bad thing. And you look at the history of our country, you look at a lot of these minorities, you look at poor people. The economy has always experienced an uptick when the government can help those groups of people function and be employed and be a part of the workforce.
9:43And so that's again, that's another thing. Like, I think a lot of this comes down to labeling because Republicans think that they can call something socialism and that that's going to have some sort of taboo at the polls. But it's not. It's not. And if we can define that, Bernie Sanders was doing an excellent job of talking about working people and what the government can do to help working people. And that's something, again, that messaging is going to be a big part of in the elections coming up, because the government plays a huge part for these people. And you would think that the government helping these groups of people would be in line with the Republicans' religious views of helping others and loving others.
10:23But it's not. It's just the opposite. And that's almost like they weaponize their faith and lie while they do it. It's almost as if they use it as a weapon. Because I mean, I could go on and on about this, but what is wrong with trying to make sure that poor people have health insurance? You know, what's wrong with making sure that all kids get to eat at the school cafeteria or that all kids have a chance to go to college? Like, well, what's wrong with these things? Like, how do you, how do you make an argument that somehow is socialism or trying to give poor people food stamps or some sort of relief to eat?
10:59How can you say that that's a wrong policy? And they have been able to. And I think that's something we have to fight back on. I saw a clip of Zoran Lamdani on Jon Stewart's podcast the other day. And they were talking about socialism. And Zoran is just such a skilled orator and skilled politician, skilled at doing interviews. And he said to Jon Stewart, if somebody were in today's era of politics, open up a building and put books in it and say, we're going to let people use these books for free. can you imagine what Fox News would say? And that's what we know as the library. And so, you know, they've done, the Republicans have done a really good job getting you to think the reason you can't have anything is because the poorest people are taking or somehow preventing it, when it's really the richest people.
11:49And so I think that we're getting a lot of blowback from that. But Josh, you always in private, when we talk, you talk to me about how concerned you are about Donald Trump's DOJ and turning the rule of law upside down. And Janine Pirro is one of the foot soldiers of turning the rule of law upside down. And she is trying a new tactic to appease Trump. Pop this up. Janine Pirro, recently under pressure from Trump for admitting a prosecution Trump wanted was baseless, has convened a special grand jury per the Washington Post, that should suggest a potentially big attempted prosecution is afoot. Josh.
12:32Well, these types of grand juries are rare and they're different in the sense that it's a grand jury that's convened for 18 to 36 months and it investigates mostly one specific subject matter. So it's an investigative body and they're looking at something specifically. They can issue subpoenas. I think the one thing that stands out about this particular type of grand jury is they can also issue reports. They can hear live witnesses. Typically, we think of grand juries in the federal system as approving an indictment, voting in favor of an indictment or refusing to indict. And I think that we've heard a lot in the D.C.
13:12circuit specifically where Jeanine Pirro has sought indictments and the grand jury has refused to grant indictment, which is rare in and of itself. Which is rare, right? Rare. Never happens. Like it just never happens. You hear the phrase that a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich, which means that just a grand jury is going to do whatever they're told to do and they're just going to do it. So the fact that they've suffered so many defeats in front of the grand jury in D.C. tells me that they're just presenting these crazy cases with no factual basis and evidence to support them. So my takeaway from this is it could be part of the same thing.
13:48I'm sure that that's some concessions she made when she went to kiss the ring in front of Trump. She probably said, hey, let me do this or let me do this and we can do it this way or we can do it this way. I don't take the same read on it that something major is afoot like like the tweet suggested. It's just another it's just another tactic that Trump's going to use to try to investigate one of his enemies. um make no mistake about that but that's going on day in and day out and it's just been normalized by this media all right none of us are exempt from aging and what happens to your skin when you do age and i've noticed like more dark spots fine lines uneven texture and this is exactly why i started using gu gu helps your skin look healthier smoother brighter firmer and more youthful without requiring some complicated routine.
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16:28She seems like she's sharp as a tack. Meanwhile, everybody thinks she's drunk on Fox all the time, but I digress. He loves her. He loves her. He loves her. He loves her. And so he's hired like 40 people, 35, 40 people off Fox just because they sit there and fluff him, like porn fluffers. But just how many of these people, like the amount of capitulation in these people that claim I'm Republican and I'm Christian. Therefore, I'm principled. And they're just such moral degenerates. Every last one of them that she will just basically lie and break the law and enforce some bogus investigation, waste taxpayer money because they're so fiscally conservative, all to please the ego of this guy that was just carted off in a catering cart on a D and then sent all these American citizens, including his cabinet to get killed by the Iranians.
17:26I'm sure you've heard that story. Like they debased themselves for the biggest pussy that's ever been president of any country ever. Donald Trump. And think about that. It must just mean that they have no other place to turn. Why would she? Because this appointment, she's a head U.S. attorney for the DC circuit. Okay. Big deal. You know, uh, uh, great. That's awesome. You make about 200 ,000 a year, two 50, maybe good job. Good. You know, that's a good salary, but you, you do all that for, for that. I mean, you get called over like you're a student at school and go to the principal's office and get your ass chewed out all because you won't peddle some charge to a judge that has no evidence to support it.
18:07Uh, you won't lie to the court basically, commit fraud upon a court and get disbarred. And so then you turn around and make these concessions and all of it is part of a bigger problem with all of these degenerates, just morally bankrupt, degenerate, hypocritical Christian fucks that will not, will not make the right decision and just have any kind of moral compass and just say, you know what, I'm not going to do this. I'm not going to do this. But it's just amazing. She's just a prime example. It really is. What Trump does right now is so predictable. I'm not surprised by any of it. I still get so shocked at just the degeneracy and the hypocrisy and the duplicity of all of these people.
18:47But you know, like my mother, your mother in law says, thank God Trump has exposed these evangelical Christians for being the hypocrites we always knew they were. So at least now they can sit there and talk about Christian signal and act like they're patriots all they want to. But now they're just exposed for the absolute morally bankrupt fraud. They're exposed and I don't think we knew just how goddamn many of them there were. I mean, they're everywhere. I mean, that's the biggest mystery alive is where did these fucking clowns come from? These Christian clowns. I know. All right. All right, darling.
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