Trumpalooza Crashes Grindr; Event is a Total Disaster and Bribe Backfires

10 Sep 2026 · 18 min · 6 chapters

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In short

The episode is about a proposed “Trump dividend” bribe: Trump allegedly offers $5,000 to adults if Republicans win the House, framed as a legal/illegal bribery debate and as evidence of desperation. Guests and backgrounds: the hosts include Jennifer (a legal/fiscal-conservative critique voice), Josh (a commentator), and Angie (adds fiscal math/deficit questions).

Key claims

the $5,000 promise is unlikely to be paid; it’s a con because Republicans already controlled Congress and the presidency; critics are hypocritical about “handouts”; fiscal conservatives should explain rising deficits despite supposed revenue/wealth.

Notable examples

comparisons to past “rebates” (tariff/doge); Elon Musk’s Wisconsin offer and lawsuits; JD Vance/Fox talking points; Trump’s “beat meat”/sexualized remarks; a Grindr outage at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, plus a Hassan Piker-in-panties jumbotron image.

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Trump's Desperate Bribe Strategy

0:50 to 4:00

Discussion on Trump's proposed $5,000 'Trump dividend' and its implications.

“OK, I'm here with two lawyers right now.”

Critique of Political Handouts

4:00 to 7:40

Analyzing the criticism of Trump's dividend proposal from various perspectives.

“The smoky eyed sociopath responds to Trump's bribe for Americans.”

Trump's Shift in Messaging

7:40 to 10:00

Exploring the changing narratives and promises made by Trump regarding foreign policy.

“take advantage of this anymore, why is the deficit going up exponentially in this term?”

Hypocrisy in Republican Rhetoric

10:00 to 14:00

Debate on the hypocrisy of Republicans regarding government handouts and the perception of business.

“Yeah, I don't think anyone in that room, though, is going to be able to split the atom anytime soon.”

The Irony of GOP Hypocrisy

14:00 to 15:43

Discussion on the contradictions within the Republican party's values versus actions.

“Donald Trump, he's grabbing the UFC fighter's leg, telling him how hot he is.”

The Lack of Policies in the GOP

15:43 to 16:44

Exploration of the GOP's failure to present viable policies and its reliance on distractions.

“This is going to be a three-part series today, by the way.”
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0:49Angie Sullivan:okay the republican trumpapalooza complete disaster freak show megachurch wwe as bad as you thought it could be it was worse let's start right at the top trump is now literally trying to bribe people to vote republican play the clip our country but we're making a fortune So if the Republicans win, you win with us and you get five thousand dollars. It will be called the Trump dividend. We'll call it the Trump dividend.

1:23Angie Sullivan:OK, I'm here with two lawyers right now. Does that seem legal to you guys? Well, I mean, it's been done in other contexts, but if I don't think it's illegal because there's not the element sufficient. to establish a bribe back and forth with all of the American people, 270 million people that he's going to give$5 ,000 to. But there's obviously some other issues with it. He's done this before. He's done this at least three or four other times. He's promised to give money. And let's not forget the Republicans control the House. They control the Senate. He's the president. Why now is it that he needs to be, that he offers this money to win the midterms.

2:08What have you been doing for the past two years? I think that's a better question. Yeah. And I would just add to your point, remember we were going to get a tariff rebate, right? Then we were going to get a doge rebate. None of those have materialized. And here's the deal. This tells me how desperate he is, that he knows how bad it is because he's up there offering money, which he knows he's never going to give the people. Trump and money, that's the only thing that speaks to him. But this just showed me desperation. That's what I took away from it, obviously, in that nobody's ever getting$5 ,000.

2:47Angie Sullivan:Yeah. And I think that he's just such a blowhard, and so is Elon Musk. All they have to offer anybody is money. And money doesn't mean that much to them because they don't really have to work hard to receive it. Elon Musk gets a bunch government subsidies. Trump inherits$500 million. He has failed forward his whole life. So it's just, yeah, you're going to get five grand. Remember when Elon offered everybody like$100 ,000 or some crazy shit in Wisconsin and got his ass handed to him in that election? And they're suing him because he never paid. Right. The only thing I want to add to that, if you're the American public, who would believe that man at this point in time?

3:25Angie Sullivan:77 million. I know. Is that not? And that shows me the disconnect between myself and pretty much half the country. They think like that. And I think like this is spooky. It really is. That's the thing. Like him doing this shit doesn't surprise me anymore. But there are people that people they're clapping like seals like, oh, my God. Yeah. Daddy Trump. That's that's what's more problematic. And the fact that we share space with these oxygen. Yeah. So we have to breathe with them. Be next to them. I know. OK. That bothers me. Europe, send help, send rescue. Okay, moving along. The smoky eyed sociopath responds to Trump's bribe for Americans.

4:06Angie Sullivan:Play the clip. Mr. Vice President, I heard the Trump dividend raised some eyebrows,$5 ,000 for every adult citizen if the House wins. Wait, it raised my eyebrows and both hands went up at the same time. You guys don't need it. This is for the American middle class. All right, but if the Republicans win the House,$5 ,000 for every adult citizen. So you do the quick math. That's about one point three trillion dollars. I can hear the critics heads exploding. They're saying out loud, I guarantee you, the president is bribing voters to vote for Republicans to take over the House. And then he's bankrupting the country because the deficit and debt is huge and inflation would come back if this comes into play.

4:47So how do you answer those criticisms? I say, first of all, what the president is talking about is fundamentally a dividend for American workers. We're taking in an extraordinary round of revenue because the president of the United States is actually standing up to both foreign companies, but also foreign countries who've been taking advantage of America's workers for pretty much my entire life.

5:06Angie Sullivan:OK, Fox, when you talk about the critics, you need to apply this to yourself. If Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, anybody stood up there and said, if the Democrats win the House, it's a huge government handout,$5 ,000 for everybody. You guys would be screaming these lazy socialist commies that don't work, that want government handouts. And now you're like, you know, the critics are going to say, and I can just hear their heads exploding. You are talking about yourself because this is insane. and your whole mantra, the whole Trump propaganda, the whole Republican propaganda is the Democrats do this bullshit government handout.

5:45Angie Sullivan:Now, that's a lie because people have earned their Social Security, have earned their Medicare, et cetera. But this is just, this is how it works in this world, Josh, where you were talking about how do people listen to this? Because these people believe in nothing. And so they go to Fox to go lie to me so my house of cards doesn't get broken down. Teens share everything. That may include the bacteria that can cause meningococcal disease known as meningitis. Even if your teen's been vaccinated in the past, they could still be missing meningitis vaccinations. Ask your teen's doctor or visit meningitis.com today.

6:19Sponsored by GSK. And if we were to offer something similar, like you pointed out, how is this not socialism under their definition? where you're just giving$5 ,000 to people. That seems to be counterintuitive to everything that they say the Democrats, that they have problems with Democrats, for giving money away. And I want to point out something that the Fox host, I think it's Brett Baer, says there. He says, if Republicans take back the House, he says that in that clip, you all have the fucking House. You've had the Senate. it? Why didn't you do this stupid ass$5 ,000 dividend? Why didn't you just do it in the first two years?

7:01It's just a con job. And these people that buy into this bullshit, that's what drives me crazy. Not that Fox sells it anymore. Not that Trump sells it anymore. Not that JD Vance says this stupid shit. That doesn't bother me anymore. It's the fact that these people are either so uneducated or so unwilling to look outside of themselves and see the truth and what this is. So.

7:26Angie Sullivan:Angie, what's your take? The only thing I would add to this, because you both are right, and Jennifer, brilliant point by you. If the US per J.D. Vance is making so much money, because Trump's not letting people take advantage of this anymore, why is the deficit going up exponentially in this term? Why is the United States government basically insolvent? Because they're making so much money. That would be the mathematical question that I had for fiscal conservatives. Where is the money going? But don't you think that's the con of the whole MAGA thing and at the Republican Party, a larger and a larger scale is that don't worry.

8:15Angie Sullivan:You're in the hands of the white businessman now. Right. Right. And we know money and we know business. And because we're in charge, our deficit is a little bit different than other people's deficits because we're so good at business. And you get into this total like mind warp situation. And when J.D. Vance says that, when Fox News pitches this, the 77 million question, they think, oh, Trump's rich. He must be really smart with money. And this whole them against us, Canada against us, all of these crazy things, they go down. This hits hard with their base because they think everybody's taking advantage of us.

8:55Angie Sullivan:And because Trump has propagandized them for that for over a decade. And then we have Trump has a new timeline. He has launched a new timeline from the war with Iran. So we've gone from two weeks to it's going to wrap up, you know, this weekend to we have a deal. You guys know how the goalposts move. Here's the latest take on this. Play the clip. Number three, we'll be plummeting. The world will be over very shortly after the election. They're hanging out for dear life, hoping that we lose so they can deal with dumb, weak Democrats and they can have their nuclear bomb. But we're not going to let that happen.

9:38Angie Sullivan:I just, the words escape me because I just cannot, Josh, to your larger point, him saying this shit, I'm just so tired of his voice. I'm so tired of looking at his face. I'm so tired of his hair. I'm tired of everything in his hands. And I gotta believe, you know, all this. I'm so sick of all of that. It's the idiots down there clapping like seals that, that, that's the, that's the problem. Yeah, I don't think anyone in that room, though, is going to be able to split the atom anytime soon. We're not talking about the sharpest tools in the box here. All right. I'm going to move along while perhaps just keep laughing.

10:21Angie Sullivan:She had to mute it. You guys wish she's laughing so hard. I'm hacking up the lung over here. Thanks a lot. This is going to make it worse, perhaps, for you. This is going to go from bad to worse for your hacking up the lung and laughing. Now, Trump, as we have been reporting here, is in his deathbed confession era. And we've seen a lot of bisexuality come out of the president of the United States, who's a leader of the toxic masculinity movement. Now he can't stop talking about beating meat. Play the clip. But he ran a campaign to beat meat. He called it beat meat. I don't know what the hell he meant by that.

11:03All these white women are going to tell me, what the hell is he?

11:06Angie Sullivan:He wants to beat meat. Okay. So right on the foothills of that, where he's talking about beating meat, remind you, this is the same president that gave a microphone a blowjob with striking familiarity and experience when he was on the campaign trail against Kamala Harris. This is the same president who fawns over Zoran Mamdani, the Saudis, etc., the UFC fighter, where he was like, you know, touching his thigh going, you're too good looking to do this. You don't want to mess up your face. In the same vein, as he's talking about beating me, they put up a picture of Hassan Piker in his panties, pop this up.

11:50They pop this up on the jumbotron.

11:57Angie Sullivan:And you know, there's so much gang out going on with for sure. And then of course, a lot of these women, you know, that were there, but you know, behind Trump, they're probably just like, Oh my God. Yeah. I didn't know men had abs. So they put that up at the Republican convention, which I want to remind everyone when these people get together, there are outages on a particular gay website called Grindr, an app called Grindr. And it's whether it's Charlie Kirk's funeral or wherever they go. And so, of course, what happened last night is no exception. So we have the president talking about beating meat, this meat beating that's going on, which I think we all know what that means.

12:42Angie Sullivan:He's trying to play possum on the situation, but, you know, whatever. We've got Hassan Piker in his panties up there, you know, and everybody's probably, I mean, I hope Matt Schlapp wasn't there. Because, you know, he's probably just. Matt Schlapp went into the bathroom for some private time. He wouldn't miss this thing in the fucking world. Matt Mercedes Schlapp, that picture pops up. Mercedes is probably like, oh, God, here we go again. Matt Schlapp's going to start grabbing testicles again. But let's pop up the next headline. Grindr outage reports are surging in Dallas on day one of the Republican midterm convention.

13:17never fails. You go first, Pops.

13:20Angie Sullivan:You go, Pops. It never fails. It never fucking fails. These men like to go to these conventions so that they can get on Grindr and lie to their wives and then go home and go to the altar and pray and do all that shit. But this is a pattern. One time is an incident we are talking a pattern they're republicans the reason they talk about being gay is because they are gay but they don't want to admit it but yet grinder goes down everywhere they go like clockwork yeah it does it this this seems to be their whole ethos is we're such tough guys. We're such great men. Look at the men in our party. Donald Trump, he's grabbing the UFC fighter's leg, telling him how hot he is.

14:13Angie Sullivan:He's trying to give a microphone a blowjob. He's talking about beating meat. He's changing his hair color. He's listening to Phantom Opera. He's laser focused on his interior design projects. I mean, this old queen, are you kidding me? And then we're popping up photos of Hassan in his panties, which I'm sure got support across both genders in the party. And then, you know, God only knows what's happening to Matt Schlapp this morning. I'm sure it's the spin out of all spin outs. And then, of course, they want to fetishize the very community that they marginalize all day, every day with their laws, with their rhetoric, because they believe in nothing.

14:53Angie Sullivan:They don't even believe in themselves. And so all of these disgusting Republicans that want to be sanctimonious during the day and talk about Jesus and family values and we're a Judeo-Christian nation and all of this utter bullshit that they weaponize. And at night, it's Hassan Piker in panties and Grindr, you know, till midnight. And I'm sure they're probably doing blow and poppers and all sorts of shit. I mean, we are governed by DL Demon Queens. I think we need to ask Hassan. I think there's an argument to be made that Hassan actually caused the grinder. And so I think we want to ask him how he feels about that.

15:35He takes responsibility because they looked at that picture and then immediately the grinder out of Chapman.

15:41Angie Sullivan:I'll text him and see if we can get him on here. This is going to be a three-part series today, by the way. There's so much fuckery in this. This is just part one. In a few hours, we're going to drop part two. I'm going to go ahead and text the commie panty-wearing Hassan Piker and see if he can hop on, Josh. You can ask him that question in a later episode. I do want to make one other point, though, and this is what we talked about this yesterday. When you have a party that has zero policies, what you do is you either have a boogeyman, a straw man, or as Trump did yesterday, you offer everybody fucking money.

16:16It's a bigger picture here. They don't have any other policies and they've had complete control of both houses in the executive branch and the Supreme Court for that matter. So we run into that in Oklahoma a lot where people are bitching about their lives or unhappy and you've got no one to blame. But Republicans, you can't make an argument that Biden had anything to do with this. The Democrats don't have any power in D.C. right now. So why is he doing this two years in? Because they have zero policies and zero plans.

16:46Angie Sullivan:I think that's exactly right. All right. Subscribe to our channel. Like this video. Drop us a comment. We'll be back later with part two of Fuckapalooza.

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