Tucker Drops Bombshell; They're All Leaving the GOP Over Trump's Total Collapse

23 Jun 2026 · 18 min · 4 chapters

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The episode argues that the GOP is collapsing across all three branches of government and that Trump’s administration is incompetent and corrupt, with approval ratings around 30% (job approval) and 27% (economy). The host claims Democrats are too “tepid” and should more aggressively brand and target the entire MAGA movement and its electorate. A major focus is Tucker Carlson “divorcing” the Republican Party, framed as opportunism and “financial Darwinism,” not genuine principle; the host cites Carlson’s earlier Trump endorsement and later criticism as inconsistent. Marjorie Taylor Greene is presented as joining Carlson in leaving the GOP, with claims about her wealth and stock-trading. Notable examples include Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “Jewish Space Lasers” past, Carlson’s Dominion lawsuit texts, and Nick Fuentes’ calls to “burn down” the GOP and rebrand MAGA as “America First.”

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none mentioned by name as interviewees; the episode discusses public figures (Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nick Fuentes, and others like Sen. John Thune, Lindsey Graham, Laura Loomer, and Sen. Marco Rubio/JD Vance).

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Episode Discussion

0:00 to 14:03
“Ever notice how life's best stories don't happen in your living room?”

Nick Fuentes Critiques Trump and the GOP

14:03 to 14:52

Discussion about Nick Fuentes' views on Trump and the GOP's need for destruction.

“And I just want to say before I play this, this is a clip from Nick Fuentes.”

The Dangerous Rhetoric of Extremism

14:53 to 16:45

Exploration of the troubling ideas and sentiments expressed by Fuentes and their implications.

“I think the corrupt criminal government of Trump needs to be slowed down.”

The Impact of Online Movements on Young Voters

16:46 to 18:09

Analysis of how extremist beliefs are gaining traction among young Republicans.

“to go out and mobilize against their own interests for corporations.”
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1:09All right, we're 18 months in of incompetence, crimes, complete debauchery, degeneracy. And this should come as no surprise to you. Trump's approval rating is now hitting 30 percent. Pop this up. A new ARG poll among registered voters, Trump job approval, 30 percent. Trump's handling of the economy, 27 percent, despite these abysmal, modern, worst, worst of all time. Nobody's ever seen the likes of which nobody's ever seen. They go around and take victory laps and and lie to everybody. So my thing is, Donald Trump, all the people surrounding him that work in the White House are freaks. These people are total nut job freaks.

1:58The Senator Thune, who tries to really kind of stay out of the press, what is he going to kick in? Because he's clearly for this by not standing up against this. Well, you know, you look at the, everybody is screaming in Congress, you see over and over about this war in Iran. But when it comes to voting, to limiting Trump's power to do that, they completely don't. They can't pass it. I think, you know, third time, but the House won't do it. They all are allowing this to happen. The collapse of the three branches of government right now in America, it has completely happened. We're past it. It has collapsed.

2:40We have one branch of government led by a complete and total fucking shit for brains. Yeah. And nobody will stand up and advocate for the things they claim they believe in. The Constitution, free speech, the separation of powers. Nobody will stand up. Therefore, Democrats must brand beyond Trump. You have to brand the entire movement. Democrats are so tepid in their opposition because they fear hurting a triple Trumpers feeling. We don't want to alienate the electorate. Alienate away, to quote Larry David. Alienate yourselves. Go after them. These people are never, ever, ever going to vote for Democrats.

3:29And you must call out not only the people in Congress, but the people in the electorate that want this. Moving along. Tucker Carlson. has been going through some things. But let me just remind you, Tucker Carlson, first and foremost, is a financial Darwinist. He makes a lot of money doing what he does. And this is a guy who follows trends and then matches his podcast accordingly. Here he is now finally, D-I-V-O-R-C-E-I-N-G, or I'm spelling that wrong, divorcing the Republican Party. Play the clip. Not support the Republican Party. There's no chance I would support the Republican Party. Not going to support the Democratic Party.

4:15I don't know what I'm going to do. But at this point, you know, how could you support how could I or any American voters support a political party that's not loyal to the United States that puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens? Like that's that's you know, it's not possible to. All right, Democrats, He is teeing this up for you with the electorate that you're so scared about hurting their feelings. He said, there's no way I could support the Republican Party. That should be a shared universal thought right now. There's no way anybody could or should support the Republican Party.

4:53And let me just break it down for you. If you are a parent of a daughter, why are you voting for your daughter to have less rights? Why are you voting for a rapist to have more rights than your very own daughter? Why are you voting to keep your own daughter less safe? All of you people in the Bible Belt that talk about family values, is this it? The UFC bullshit, all that? Is that your family values? Are all of these nuts running around in the closet? Is that your idea of family values? Of course. Tucker doesn't need a cookie here. Of course, no sane person is going to support the Republican Party.

5:35But why is he doing this right now? Because he believes in financial Darwinism. This is not all of a sudden. Tucker's like, oh, my God, Donald Trump and MAGA are crazy. Because let's look at the timeline of Tucker's evolution. Pop this up. Tucker Carlson in 2021. I hate him passionately. We're talking about Trump. Just two years later, he endorses Trump for president. 2025 criticizes Trump's foreign policy in January of 2026. We all saw Tucker standing in the Oval clapping like a goddamn seal when Trump was meeting with the oil CEOs when he was meeting with big oil. So now all of a sudden he's found Jesus on the issue and he can't support the Republican Party, the guy who has kept all the rubes riled up on conspiracy theories.

6:27Now, all of a sudden, please, bitch, you're just following the money. You know, the 30 % approval rating, you know, this goose is cooked. This guy's half dead. Yeah. And when you look, I have long since thought the Republican Party that I grew up with, that is dead. It is now MAGA. So I think it, in addition to being going after his own financial gain, he's an opportunist for perhaps his own political ambitions, because you hear all the time about him running in the future. So here's the deal. I go back to Tucker Carlson. All of these people are willing to say behind the scenes, I hate Trump. In his text message in that Dominion lawsuit, I mean, he scorched earth on Trump, but yet he kisses his ass.

7:19So again, what we have is a group of fucking cowards. Right. And I do want to say the Republican party that you grew up with incubated this Ronald Reagan's, um, uh, uh, horrific elitism on the poor, um, the way he treated the LGBTQ plus community. And he's been anointed a savior of the Republican party for all of these years. He had no compassion. He had no empathy. The Republican party has always been just like Trump. Trump just doesn't hide it anymore. But every Republican I know personally that voted for Trump, when he first came out and he was so impolite, they would say, I don't really like his style, but he says what everybody's thinking.

8:05He just took the mask off. He just took the veneer off. This is the Republican Party. These are the neocons. This is what they do. This is what they've always wanted to do. It's always been about big money. It's always been about being a bigot. It's always been about making fun of poor people. It's always been about the consolidation of wealth. It's always been about all this shit. The Reagans and the George W. Bushes and the George H. W. Bushes were just more polite about it. But they finally now he's given them a permission structure to be dicks and own it and bask in it. And so here we have Marjorie Taylor Greene, who you may remember was Jewish Space Lasers, Anthony Fauci.

8:45I think she's still on that. There's only two genders. I mean, just stupid shit that doesn't matter. But she's savvier than we all have to get her credit for. And let's go back to our thesis sentence, financial Darwinism. Marjorie Taylor Greene enters as a congresswoman in D.C. She finds out about how to trade stocks. Marjorie Taylor Greene is now worth, I think it's$25 million. Don't quote me on that, but it's in the tens of millions. She's been vacationing in Costa Rica and all this stuff. Well, here she is saying that she is joining Tucker and leaving the Republican Party. Tucker is not the only one who has done supporting the Republican Party.

9:24There is a lot of us that are absolutely fed up and will not support a party that betrays its voters and country. That does not mean we are turning into Democrats either. But we are done with the America last Republican Party. I say, good for you, Marjorie, America last party. It's always been that. This is not a person who is coming out and atoning in a way that is saying, I was a real dick. I trafficked in a lot of white supremacy, but it was all I knew. It was the worlds I grew up in. And after moving to Washington, D.C. from all-white cracker neighborhood in Georgia and being around gay people and brown people and black people and seeing a lot of the Republican debauchery up close, I evolved as a human being and I developed more empathy.

10:13That's not what this is. These people are setting up a political party. And they're going to call it a third political party. but what they're going to do is they're going to capture MAGA. They are just getting out in front of this. Laura Loomer is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Lindsey Graham, rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Tucker and Marge are smart. They're jumping off the ship early. They see the imminent iceberg that Trump is hitting. Actually, he hits, bangs into it, backs off, day on, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. They're going to be able to peg any heir apparent to MAGA to this movement.

10:55And then Tucker and Marge are going to be like, we told you, but let me just tell you this much. At the end of the day, Tucker Carlson got on TV and he said that he was in bed and he was attacked by four demons in his sleep, that demonic forces attacked him. He also, in this same story, revealed that he sleeps with like three or four really large dogs but yet it wasn't the dogs these people are grifters they don't believe in universal human rights this is not something that they are wanting to save america for everybody to have opportunity they just know in order for them to have their platforms and to be able to continue and if they do have presidential ambitions Tucker at the top, Marge on the ticket as well.

11:48Politically, this is pretty savvy, but I think it's twofold the Democratic response. Number one, ride their wave. The Republican Party is America last. I agree with Tucker and Marjorie on that. I completely agree. The total difference is they're still bigots and they're grifters. And they saw they just now they just now think that Trump's a problem. Really? and we think we should listen to these people who it takes 11 years to process incompetence, you know, like they should have any credibility. I mean, seriously, like, oh my God, I just found out that Trump's a nut. Let's run him for president.

12:27You know, it's so stupid. Well, we know Tucker Carlson did leading up to the 2020 election. I mean, he said in the text, I hate him with the passion. And Marjorie Taylor Greene, I don't know why every time her name comes up, she was at a campaign rally for Trump. I mean, she was his I mean, she loved him. And I remember her with the cutout of Donald Trump. It was a 3D cutout and she was bending over with pictures and had her hands cupped around his private parts. So I can't, it's hard for me to make the stretch that this is an evolution and not what you're saying. Like we are putting number one first and we're getting rid of the dead weight.

13:10Yeah. And I think Marjorie Taylor Greene, like as recently of like a year, she was at some like January 6th memorial thing. And there's like a prisoner and it's like a wax figure or something weird, some weird shit that Maggie does. And she's like down praying with not even a real person. But the Democrats have to say, Tucker and Marjorie are putting on a master class of slow learning. That's what they're doing. These are slow learners. They have no deduction skills. They are jumping off with a buoy at the very last second and hypochondria is still going to get them because that's how stupid they are.

13:51This is not the flex they think it is that they figured out in the 11th hour that this is a stupid movement and we need to peg that on them. OK, and then finally, another person that is leaving the MAGA movement, and he's been doing this for a long time. And I just want to say before I play this, this is a clip from Nick Fuentes. I think an error that mainstream media establishment Democrats make is not paying enough attention to the lunatic fringe because the lunatic fringe is now in the White House, in Congress, in the Supreme Court. Think about the flags that Alito's wife had. I mean, these people are nuts, right?

14:32We need to pay attention to what's happening in the lunatic French online spaces because they are incubating the next movement, which, believe it or not, listener, will be worse than this. But here is Nick Fuentes, who also is a slow learner, fragging about realizing that Trump is not an America first guy. Play the clip. A non-woke moderate Democrat. I think the GOP needs to be destroyed. I think the corrupt criminal government of Trump needs to be slowed down. We need to impeach the orange. It's time to put this in a peach. Trump needs to be placed inside of a crystal. He needs to be impeached.

15:08This fat orange tiny hands needs to be impeached. And then in 28, no Vance, no Rubio. We have to burn down the whole party. Okay, so this is why I wanted to show you all this, because this is why the internet is so dangerous. In 30-second clips, you hear something like Nick Fuentes, and you're like, yeah, I agree with him. We do need to burn it down. Trump does suck. he is a fat orange useless slob blah blah if you go on and listen to any of these people long enough the racism the homophobia it comes in all of these people are still corporate shills that know how to scapegoat other people to get the rubes in line and that's what they're doing you notice nick fuentes had the hat placed america first they're already rebranding the maga movement yeah to America first.

16:00And this is happening in real time. And you might say, Jennifer, you're taking all of this too seriously. And I want to say, yes, we have to take it very seriously because this is how MAGA started in these far off corners of the internet, where these people have large audiences and they are acutely aware of how to stoke the masses and what to feed them, to mobilize them to get out and vote against their own interests. I want to remind you, Nick Fuentes isn't even 100 % Caucasian. And he says, I am a Nazi white nationalist. I think his dad or something is like half Mexican, which I support because I support multiculturalism out the wazoo.

16:44But these people are incredibly dangerous and incredibly skilled at manipulating the masses to go out and mobilize against their own interests for corporations. Well, and you look at all these young Republican groups, and we know that, you know, Nick Fuentes is a voice that they listen to, and they're saying all kinds of racist shit. So, I mean, to act like this is a fringe group, and it's not, you know, it's not more mainstream than we think, that if you do that at your own peril, because this guy and those beliefs, as we're seeing over and over and over again, they're taking hold in young people in this country.

17:28Yes, but I want to give you some good news. Only 18 % of those that are 18 to I think 25 support MAGA. So a lot of that is inflated as they do inflate it. But as you can see with MAGA, these things can catch on in these spaces of the internet. So we're just, this is us keeping an eye on the fissures, the delicious fissures in the MAGA movement with a warning that the machinations of Tucker, of Nick, of Marge, they are playing a long game here and we need to stay on it and stay focused because corporate media will not cover this. All right. That's all we have. Like, subscribe, comment, pre-order my book, Not Stay Fascist.

18:14We'll go ahead and dedicate that to good old techie-tuck. I hope your wounds from the demonic attack have healed up, my darling. And when I say not today fascist, even though you don't like Trump, you're still a fascist and everybody knows it. Bye.

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