Trump’s Bringer Convention (feat. John Fugelsang)

0:00M-S-W Media. Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Friday, September 11th, 2026. Today, the Missouri Supreme Court found Secretary of State Denny Hoskins' in contempt of court, forcing him to instruct election officials to use the 2022 Congressional map. The United States Supreme Court blocked a district court from forcing Missouri to use the new Republican map. An appellate court upheld the block on Trump's mail ballot executive order. Trump floated an illegal $5,000 bribe to voters. French prosecutors have identified potential Epstein co-conspirators in their ongoing investigation. Joe DeGeneva abruptly quit the grand conspiracy investigation in Florida.

1:02The Pentagon is searching through medical records to identify transgender troops. Jimmy Kimmel's live interview with James Tallarico has been moved to YouTube. A mid-pressure from the FCC and Governor JB Pritzker has launched a $20 million mid-term election pack. I'm your host, Alison Gill. Hey everybody, it is Friday. It's September 11th, later in the show to discuss September 11th on the 25th anniversary, plus some other issues. Host of the John Fugelstein Show on Series X and Progress, Channel 127, John Fugelstein. It is Fugelstein Fridays on the Daily Beans. Dana is still out. She's traveling, but she's coming back next week. So please send in your good news, dailybeanspot.com, and click on contact. And tickets are about to become available for our election night live watch party and come watch election results with me. Here in San Diego, I've rented out a bar, food and drinks are on me, and we're going to see what happens. And this is interesting news. Joe DeGeneva submitted his resignation to Attorney General Todd Blanche,

2:05amid what sources described as growing frustrations from Trump and senior DOJ officials, regarding his work on the so-called Grand Conspiracy Investigation, based out of the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Florida, right there in Judge Isleen Cannon's courtroom. Andy McCabe and I are going to cover this in depth on this Sunday's episode of Unjustified. Can't imagine why Joe DeGeneva, the lawyer for fraud guarantee, wasn't able to get blood out of a stone. It's so weird. All right, next up from the time, as I said, Jimmy Kimmel told Wednesday night's live audience that his Thursday interview with James Tallarico, Democratic Senate nominee from Texas, will not err on television, but would instead be posted on YouTube. As we know, a similar scenario played out this past February when Stephen Colbert said he had been told by CBS's lawyers, not to have Tallarico on the broadcast of the late show. The show ran the appearance on its YouTube channel instead, garnering millions more views than it probably would have received if it aired normally.

3:08And in that night, raised $2.5 million for Tallarico. So we'll see what happens this time. And from the Associated Press, President Trump pledged Wednesday to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans somehow retain control of the House and the Senate in the midterm elections. This is an extraordinary gambit. I would call it an illegal bribe to reverse his party's sagging fortunes in November. The dubious promise, again, I would call it an illegal bribe, would most likely cost more than $1 trillion. I did the math. It's $1.35 trillion. That's quite a bit different. And it would require congressional approval. And it would further exacerbate the country's nearly $1.8 trillion annual budget deficit and concerns about inflation. John Fugel saying and I are going to discuss this as well later in the show. And next up from Politico, a new political action committee chaired by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker plans to invest $20 million aimed at boosting Democratic House candidates for the midterm elections while also expanding his national political footprint ahead of a potential 2028 presidential run. It's called the Ready

4:12for the Fight Pack, evoking a phrase that Pritzker uses to close his political speeches. And it's going to focus on what the governor says are overlooked races as well as a few competitive contests according to Pritzker's team. As you know, the MSW media community and the Lagouminaughti are currently raising money for a blue wave nation. And we have a link in the show notes if you want to donate there as well. Eight specific races, four senate, four house races that actually need your money. So if you want your dollar to go further, you can check out that link in the show notes and donate there. All right, everybody. We have a lot of news to get to. It's time for the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first up from Politico, the fight is over in Missouri for now for this election cycle. The map, the congressional map, bullshit back and forth, tons of ink spilled, tons of money spent. The fight is over and we won. The Supreme Court, first of all, handed Democrats to the victory on Thursday and Missouri's gerrymandering battle, blocking the

5:13Republican push to use a map likely to give Republicans another house seat, acting without any noted dissent. The high court granted an emergency appeal by restricting the opponents who recently persuaded the Missouri Supreme Court to mandate the use of existing district lines for the November election. US district judge Stephen Clark, a Trump appointee, essentially overrode the Missouri Supreme Court earlier this week illegally, ordering officials to use those new maps in the general election. The Supreme Court blocked Clark's order on Thursday, appearing to signal that the federal court should stay out of the dispute. The justice's ruling came just minutes before the Missouri Supreme Court convened a hearing on whether to hold Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins' incontempt, civil contempt, not criminal contempt, for defying its order to use the existing lines this fall. Several members of Missouri's highest court expressed irritation with Hoskins during the 35-minute hearing, and the lawyer representing him seemed to exacerbate that problem by refusing to firmly commit to using the old map in the wake of the US Supreme

6:17Court's ruling. And from the Associated Press to continue onto this, Hoskins later released a statement, acknowledging the US Supreme Court decision, saying, my office is directing local election authorities to use the 2022 Congressional map. Then the court reconvened, so it seems like he tried to cure his contempt during the recess. The court reconvened and found him in contempt, for violating its order not to use the Trump-backed map, but quickly declared that he had purged the contempt. He corrected the problem with that latest order to use the 2022 map, so the court imposed no consequences on Hoskins. And that's normal. Contempt is not punitive. It cannot be punitive. Criminal contempt is punitive. Civil contempt is not. Civil contempt is there to make someone do what you want them to do, and that happened. The contempt was cured, so there's no fines or nothing, nothing like that, along those lines. So we went. And with that, as I said, the fight is over in Missouri, and we're going to use the less shitty Jerry Mandered map from 2022, which included that

7:19second Democratic district. It should be three, at least, Democratic districts in Missouri, if you go by proportional voting in that state, which is why we have to add Supreme Court seats in 2029, so we can ban Jerry Mandering, or at least make it proportional. Next up from the Associated Press and Appeals Court on Thursday, upheld a block on Trump's executive order limiting mail and voting. This is a decision that comes as the Supreme Court considers the same case, and states have already started sending out ballots from midterm elections. This three judge panel refused to lift a preliminary injunction against the order last week issued by Judge Indira Talwani. It prohibits the U.S. Postal Service from implementing Trump's directive. This is a little misleading. It actually prevents the Postal Service from implementing Trump's directive as mandatory. The Postal Service has said it would not deliver ballots from states that did not preclear their envelope design with the federal government and submit a list of voters to an online portal, which has yet to be even activated. The panel's decision comes even as the Supreme Court is already

8:24considering the same case, which is part of a frenzy legal rush as states are now beginning to send out their ballots for the midterm elections. Democrats and civil rights groups in separate lawsuits in like one in DC, for example, are also trying to halt the executive order. Now the Supreme Court, as of Thursday morning, was fully briefed on the matter and could deliver a ruling at any time. And let me just go check the docket to make sure it hasn't happened as we sit here. No, no, nothing yet. All right, next up from Le Monde in France, a French investigation into a ledges human trafficking that allowed U.S. succifundage of Reubstine to commit abuses is following several new leads on potential recruiters, according to a prosecutor. Paris prosecutor Laura Bocco spoke after French modeling scout Daniel Syed, who is accused, by the way, of helping Epstein to traffic women was found dead in his home in July before he could even be questioned. Quote, we've obtained other names of potential recruiters. She told France Inter Radio.

9:26She goes on to say, for us, the Epstein Network is a labranteed network. To get out of it, there is not just a single thread you have to pull on. It's dozens and dozens of threads. This case has so far led them to New York and towards Sontropé, toward Cannes, she added. Now France opened a human trafficking investigation after the U.S. Justice Department in January, released its latest cache of files from the investigation into the disgraced finance here. I don't like it when they call him that, who died in prison in 2019 while facing charges of trafficking underage girls for sex. There you go, disgraced sex trafficker. Now Bocco said 26 victims have been identified, including eight, who still need to be questioned as some live abroad. So they're not all in France. She said of these 26 victims, 13 have not previously appeared in any case. Now French authorities have already looked into other French figures in the modeling industry. Magistrates previously dropped an investigation into sexual assault and rape claims against Gerald Marie, the former European head of the elite modeling agency, who's now in

10:30his mid 70s. As the alleged abuse was beyond the statute of limitations, so that didn't mean it didn't happen, just happened too long ago. Several women have urged new investigations targeting him since the release of the latest Epstein files. Marie last month denied any wrongdoing, saying in an interview, the RTL broadcaster, I have never raped anyone. I've always behaved consistently improperly with women. I love women. I can't see myself forcing one, he said. He said he only met Epstein once. I'm wondering if this is the person that's redacted in one of the 10 documents Katie Fang is trying to get at. Now French police in 2020 also arrested Jean-Luc Bernal after allegations he procured women for the US billionaire. That guy was also found dead in prison. That was in 2022. All right, next up from the Federal News Network. This is awful. The military is searching, protected medical records to find transgender troops who have tried to continue serving amid the Trump administration's ban on trans-Americans and uniform and escorted to multiple sources who spoke with the Federal News Network. Commanders around the world have started receiving notices

11:35that members of their units are violating Pentagon policy and are being instructed to begin the separation process. The sweep is believed to have outed several hundred active duty and reserve troops, including service academy and reserve officer training court cadets over the past two months. And that's according to the trans advocacy nonprofit called Sparta Pride and Priya Rashid an attorney with the National Institute of Military Justice. The Pentagon is moving to separate troops as multiple lawsuits challenging the ban move through the federal court system. In August, the administration petitioned the Supreme Court to weigh in on whether the policy was unconstitutional before a key case goes to trial in January. This situation has spurred a military wide scramble to cover the work of troops placed on leave, connect them with legal help, and in some cases find money for lodging for those facing homelessness. Quote, the military was my life. It was my everything. I gave my entire self to my job and to my country. And I was serious about my career. That's what one sailor said. They're about to completely upend my life and my career. I'm not prepared for

12:40that. Now Sparta officials say dozens of people have reached out to report unprecedented use of military medical systems to identify individuals. Five sources, including two transgender service members facing separation after their gender dysphoria related diagnoses were flagged to their commands, described what they called a witch hunt for honorably serving troops. Three were granted anonymity because they fear retaliation documents obtained by the federal news network indicate that in some cases the information is coming from the Pentagon's highest echelon. Sources believe the military is digging through MHS genesis. That's medical health systems. Genesis. It's a their electronic health system and health record and also digging through other databases to find remaining transgender troops. This system contains medical histories, prescriptions, mental health notes, it's your electronic health record and they're digging through them includes tricare covered civilian care documentation and even records from before members joined the military personnel databases can also reveal changes in a person's listed gender over time.

13:46Health privacy laws are more complicated inside the military to ensure enough troops are fit for duty at any given moment. HIPAA allows military treatment facilities to disclose protected health information to a service members command. But the military health system says that the information remains protected under the Privacy Act of 1974 which generally bars disclosure without written consent except in certain circumstances. Those exceptions include cases where an agency's employees have a need for the record in the performance of their duties according to the statute. So that is the news everyone. We're going to be right back with John Fugel saying followed by the good news. So stick around. We'll be right back. Hey everybody one skin is widely known for its skin care but now they've taken the science behind their OS one peptide and created OS one hair. It's a daily serum for your scalp. And this one caught my attention because hair does not stay the same forever. As I've gotten older,

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16:54I haven't spent my doge dividend check or my tariff dividend check. So this is because you haven't received your doge dividend check order. You're too low-contactical about it. Sure, but that's why I'm all the more excited for the new $5,000 flop sweat midterm convention dividend. No, yeah, it's going to be really really. Because you know what? They finally they finally like socialist government handouts. They just put the word dividend on the box. You see how they do that? I see. All right. Well, maybe we should call Medicare a health dividend. I mean, can you imagine these are the people who've been trying to spend the last year knowing that their policies won't help them. They can't point to anything they've done in the last two years to make your lives better. So what can we do? We can horrify people about communism and socialism and then Donald Trump shows up on night one of this misbegotten fest and completely blows up the whole argument by saying, if you elect me, quid pro quo, Dr. Lector, $5,000 for you. And I'm sure you've done the math by now, but it turns out 1.35 trillion. 1.35 trillion, which I think we've just got

17:56lying around. So this is this is socialism for everybody to go at the transgender for everybody. Well, the terrorists did so well that we're still somehow $40 trillion in debt with a $2 trillion deficit. But now we need 1.2 trillion more to borrow from the American people to pay the American people so they can pay it back. It's quite a day on Venmo for these folks is what I'm trying to say. It's almost like a guy who bankrupted a casino is designing our fiscal policy. Yeah. And if you have 1.35 trillion to spend, why not save Social Security and give everybody health care? And there's a lot of things. Because those things make money. Well, but this is the please keep Republicans in Congress, dip it in. That's what this is all about. You see, right? And you notice that it's a pretty sure bet because in order to have to pay that out, which he wouldn't anyway, the Republicans would have to retain both the Senate and the House. And he knows that's not going to happen. He's just trying to get a few more votes there so he can maybe try to hold on to the Senate and still try to push the save act. He's also want to be seen as doing something to help Republicans because as we know, he's sitting on $400 million himself, a pack money. He ain't going to run

19:01again, right? So he's not sharing any of this pack money with these other candidates. I think the Democrats have said we're not going to impeach him so many times that Trump is finally believed it and he doesn't really care if they keep the House or Senate anymore. Yeah, that's why when they're like, you know, the Republican committee has raised so much more money than the DSCC or D-Triple C. I'm like, I doesn't bother me. He's not spending a dime of it. So that's totally fine if they want to brag about how much money they've raised. I'm going to give all of you $5,000. I haven't collected yet from a tax that I am not legally able to impose. I mean, that's it. Righty Singh, the tariffs will pay. Alexa sent 245 million people to 5 grand each, please. Like Congress would still have to authorize this, you know? He's going to reduce the deficit by giving away a trillion dollars. It's just, it's just like Alexa, stop. Now my Alexa got in on the list. Again, communist Bolshevik, smartsist, have 5 grand. Oh, no, I know this, you know this, but it's a dividend. That's very different. That's really different. That's a capital. Karl Marx had

20:04Das Capital and Trump has direct dividend deposit. I'm trying to figure out these terms now. Correct. Some really great breaking news. The Missouri State Supreme Court has found that the, you know, Hoskins guy was in contempt by when he told a local election officials to use the new Jerry Manderd Republican map. And so they threatened him with contempt. And during the recess, he purged his contempt by telling everyone they have to use the 2022 map, which by the way is still Jerry Manderd to hell, but it's better than the newer map purged his contempt. And so when he came back into court, Missouri Supreme Court found him in contempt, but said, you have purged your contempt. It's been cured, but you were in contempt. And so now that is over. It's over the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of the United States said no. Twice, Kavanaugh put his beer down, maybe hung up with Tobin and Quay or Squee, excuse me, and decided to do the act to actually do

21:06the right thing. And no reasons given, no public dissence on that. But it's over now. Missouri has to use the older map with two democratic seats for the midterm elections. So what you're saying is they failed at getting rid of another majority black voting district. This is all about Kansas City. This is all about them trying to do what Tennessee made looks so easy. But at the same time, though, I guess what we're looking here is these people voted one set of districts for a primary and then a totally different map for the general. I don't know if that's ever happened before. I don't think so either. But what that federal judge and the Eastern District, I think of Missouri, was trying to say when he stopped the old map from being used and said, you have to use the new map is he made up some sort of thing where the 14th Amendment says that we have to use the same map that we used in the primary in the general election, which is completely made up. And even this Supreme Court was like, bra, no, that's not how it works.

22:09I mean, it's are these midterms going to be a referendum on Trump or do you think people are just thinking about their own congressional candidates? I think it's going to be a referendum on all of this. And whenever Trump comes out and says, take about me when you vote. I'm like, yeah, please folks, right? But well, it's going to turn into I was on the ballot and that's why that's going to turn into designing it so he can win either way, right? He can say, well, they would have done better if I was on the ballot. But all of this is a lot of prick waving designed to hide the fact that he's sitting on 400 million in a pack and he doesn't want to share it with any of these Republicans and they all know it and they are now going around at this sad little fair. I mean, this is sadder than the than the Fourth of July fair of despair on the national mall. Two fifty. Yeah. This this this convention they're having in Dallas and like begging people to take free blocks of tickets while charging Republicans 25 grand if they want to speak there and get the airtime now. You remind me of when I was a like a baby comedian and they made you stand out on the

23:13corner and bark for free tickets in order to get three minutes on a Sunday at one in the afternoon. You know, that's it. That's it. He's you have to bring people for the stage time and he's making them it's no different than making your comedian, you know, pay to get by the tickets. I mean, I'm 25 grand to get a 10 minute speech. And they're so brilliant, Dr. Gill, they program this against fall football because these are smart people running our country. The premiere of fall football. And in the midst of all of this, yeah, the again, they're rejecting this map. I mean, which is really great to see it happen in one state, how it fails, but it's all just designed to help Republicans gain another house seat. It's all just cheating right out in the open. I think about how much ink was spilled and time was spent and money was spent to save this one seat. This is how it's going to be from now until we add seats to the Supreme Court in 2029 and stop cheering mandering all together. But I mean, what should we make of the fact that this court has net that with the dirty six concluded has now declined twice to intervene in favor of map's Donald Trump likes.

24:16But we don't know why. We don't know if it's the Purcell principle. We don't know if the merits were jacked. We don't know. I mean, those two things are true, but we don't know which particular thing they came down on. And the dirty six, we don't know if they were like, I, Purcell principle, which by the way is for folks who might not know Purcell principle is where the courts don't change stuff right before an election because that's just an old doctrine. I didn't know. But they did it. They did it with Texas. And so, you know, so it's they've kind of well offered back and forth on that. So I'm not sure what the actual argument. Well, it's almost like they only lean on policy when it serves them and then just regard it when they don't feel like it. Wow. Yeah, I know. So that's why I'm wondering what their reason was here. They didn't give one and there were no public dissents. But something else I wanted to talk about, you know, because Trump is down there speaking every night because he's his thing. He likes to do that. It's why he's not going to 9-11 at ground zero. It's why he's going to the Pentagon instead because they wouldn't let him speak

25:18because no one's allowed to speak at the ceremonies in Manhattan. And I think what Mom Donnie did because Rudy Giuliani is trying to get petition signatures to keep him from showing up. Yes. And bragging about the fact that he's got 100,000 signatures, which is 0.01% of the population of Manhattan. Yeah. How many of those signatures are from Manhattan, by the way? All a lot of these anti Mom Donnie things are people who don't live in our city. And we know the Republicans always hated New York until they pretended to care about it around 9-11 time. And now they're back to their old ways. But Mom Donnie did this incredible thing where he released 170,000 plus pages proving that the city knew that the air was dangerous and terrible to breathe. But Miss Lead lied to New Yorkers saying the opposite. And that those documents are going to help so many people and so many new laws get the care that they need, the care that they deserve for the last 25 years. But we're blocked by Republicans from receiving time and time again. So that I think was one of the most amazing, important, and thoughtful, and incredible things

26:24that he could have done for 9-11 was to release those documents. It's also those documents being released will go a long way towards correcting the record of what kind of mayor Giuliani was. If y'all are tired of this mythologizing of this guy, you know, it's like a movie where he's a bad guy. And then for the last five minutes, he becomes good and then goes back to being bad again. And this guy has dined out on the deaths of 3,000 people for 25 years. Giuliani has pretty much had a law career that consisted of him being this death goal where he would sell access with himself to assorted foreign scumbags who wanted a picture with mayor 9-11. Giuliani, you know, for the first year or two after the towers came down, the worst part for me about going down there because I'm from downtown Manhattan. The worst part going down there was seeing these guys that were selling like 9-11 merch, like for the first year. First first week they were selling t-shirts that said, I can't believe I got out. Like they just printed them up right away.

27:25And then for the next year and a half to years, they were selling like photographs down there, you know, or buttons pictures. And it was so vulgar to me. You're profiting off this tragedy. And then I look at Giuliani and see a man who has done that for 25 years and called it the third chapter of his career. So yes, the the suffering need this and we need the transparency. And Christie Todd Whitman has carried the guilt for far too long just on her own for the government telling people that the air was safe. I think people really deserve to know that Giuliani was no different than Trump. He cared about himself and his image a lot more than he cared about people. I don't take away any of the good things he did. He provided leadership to a city that needed leadership. But if you're as sick of the Giuliani myth as I am, I applaud Mayor Mom Donny. And I'm just I'm just so sick of the same blind hatred by religious conservatives that cause 9-11. We are seeing now where the blind hatred of religious conservatives continues to smear

28:28all Muslims. Our mayor was what nine years old when this happened. This is no different than saying I learned everything I need to know about Christianity from the Holocaust. Did you know those camps? All Christians. Christians did the Holocaust. It sounds ridiculous to me to say this. But this is literally the argument that they're using in this century to discriminate against Muslims and many of the victims of that day were Muslims too. That yeah, that's very true. And then egregious lie about going to bring bringing people down to ground zero to help the first responders and the US steel building teetering on the brink and being carried out by two big firemen. A building that's still standing by the way. So egregious that Fred Trump the third who never speaks out took to Twitter and said this is an absolute lie. Here's why I can't be silent about this. This is just this is discussed. It's disgusting and yet it's completely predictable. Dr. Gil, let me ask you what has been your response as a veteran? Seeing Donald Trump putting up AI

29:32cartoons of himself wearing a uniform he never wore and medals he never earned. We we talk a bit about stolen valor. We don't hear it a lot from the right wing guys when Donald Trump is doing this. Stolen valor is one of his favorites. He loves to take credit for shit. He's never done. And this is exactly the same. This is I mean, I mean, he has to put himself at the center of the events that day. This was a ceremony he was speaking at honoring the people who actually died and served and cared for each other. And he tells this lie about these firemen carrying him. And of course, there's been so many lies. I mean, today is the 25 year anniversary of Donald Trump's first lies about 9 11. And it's always him being the being the witness, right? Him being at the center of the story. So he told the lie that he saw bodies falling from his window at Trump Tower, which is miles away. He told the lie that now he had the biggest building in downtown Manhattan. He told the lie that he saw thousands of Muslims dancing in the streets of Jersey City. Even though

30:33we got a lot of TV crews around here. No one saw this. No photos of it, but him. He told the lie that he brought a hundred men down there to dig through the rubble and our own fire department deputy chief Richard Alice said, no, not true. He wasn't there. Like he wasn't at ground zero. He never helped anyone. Never crawled through the rubble. And now it's like the mythology doesn't stop. These deliberate lies never stop. He never brought anyone down there. And this is what makes New Yorkers crazy. And it's like the math is weird. The further we get away from 9 11 itself, the closer to the center of the action Donald Trump has to place himself. And every year, it's like a Broadway musical that comes back for a revival, except it becomes more elaborate. And one character gets a much bigger part every year when they bring this show back. I mean, if Barack Obama had told any of these lies, he would have been out. If Joe Biden had told a lie and they said, oh, he misremembered. He thought he was down there in fireman carried it out. I mean, again, this is back to the lie. He used against American Muslims and the media to near the real

31:37bad guys because the New York Times is still saying things like demonstrable falsehood or provocation or whopper. They can't stop saying this guy won't stop fucking lying about the worst day. And he lied that he said it in a in a GOP debate in 2015 in South Carolina. I lost hundreds of friends that day. He only said it once, but he said it. He lost no friends that day. He's never named one. He's never named three. He never went to a single funeral. Any other politician to lie about this would be banned from New York for life. And yet the dead are still dead. The sick are still sick. And this guy creates new anecdotes. And he refuses to go. Now, personally, for me on the stolen valor question, please, I was in the Navy for 10 minutes before 9 11. And so for me, I was I was 27 when 9 11 happened. So even though I'm a veteran, to me, the stolen valor quote unquote of pretending that you were at ground zero helping people is more

32:38egregious to me and more offensive to me personally than putting up an AI slop thing in a uniform. So me as well, put for a draft Dodger with five deferments. It's still pretty shitty. But yeah, oh, it is still shitty. Just like I'm assuming it offends actual Christians when he puts up AI slop of him as Jesus. But you know, I'm so far separated from the military now because of what they did to me and of course, what happened afterwards and everything trying to adjudicate all of that. And now with Hegseth completely burning the rest of it to the ground, to me, the the 9 11 lie, it was more egregious. I don't know if I can adequately express and I was 3000 miles away at the time, but I was watching it. And I had gotten out of the military just a few years earlier. And it was one of the most devastating things I've ever seen. And I wasn't there. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, this is why it's not really about whether Trump has a faulty memory, right? I mean, this is about whether a

33:41president gets to manufacture his own place in American history. We've already had one Republican president use lies about 9 11 to kill thousands and thousands of people. And we're still witnessing it. And by the way, I wasn't there either. I was in LA. And I'll never forget. I was sleeping in and then the phone rang. And I heard my answering machine and it was Darrell Hammond from SNL. And Darrell called and he's like, I just want to let you know we're because I was touring with him at the time. And he was like, we're all fine over here. We're all okay. And I'm like, okay, what's Darrell talking about? And then I got out of bed and saw the news. I had to come back to New York for a wedding and the flights were all canceled. So we made the drive from LA to New York City in 60 hours that week. And when I got home, you know, to my building downtown, you could still smell it in Greenwich Village. You could still smell not just see it, but you could still smell it in Greenwich Village. And it's something that I never want to relive again. And if Barack Obama lied that he personally commanded hundreds of workers at ground zero, I think people would ask

34:45for evidence, right? Like, double standard. We don't need to invent a heroic 9-11 story. We have thousands of heroic 9-11s. And like the young Muslim who was 23 years old in the EMT worker in the police cadet who ran into the South Tower to help people and was killed when that one collapsed. I mean, there's so many heroes and so many victims and kids who grew up without fathers and mothers and responders who are still sick. And then there's Trump at a ceremony to honor others saying, I'm big. Oh, it's all me, me, me. And it's like I'd like to believe that there's enough men on the Magaside to be disgusted with this on a purely male level. But it just, I mean, the people who really were heroes don't need Donald Trump to carry them. And they never had any reason to carry Donald Trump. He was not there. Yeah. And instead of asking why Mamdani is going maybe ask why Trump is not. Thank you. Exactly right. And we know why. He'll deny it and say he wants to go to the Pentagon. But again, he's going to say you're all plain, bro.

35:47You can go to all three sites in the day. If he wanted to, we could. But he wants to make it about himself. And he's not good at that. So he's going to bleed his insecurity all over a microphone. Make this day all about himself even more. And it will offend decent people and stupid motherfuckers will say, wow, there's a real leader. And it's going to be the same as it's been. Yeah. Well, we'll see how that turns out in the midterm elections. God bless us everyone. Yeah. All right. My friend. I know. I don't know how you're celebrating the Kirk reverse re today. But I wish you well. And you know, I just want to say about that. Charlie Kirk case. This is by the way on Thursday. He was yesterday. We were recording this on Thursday, not on September 11th. Thursday is the Kirk reverse. Yeah. It's the one year anniversary of Charlie Kirk getting me canceled from all my TV appearances from my book about Christian nationalism, how to take it down non violently. I wish Charlie Kirk was alive. I wish so deeply he was alive to witness the collapse of this racist tower of lies. He propped up. Charlie Kirk was famous

36:48and wealthy because his job was normalizing white supremacy for college students and white people in their 20s. The only racist our conservative friends have ever been groomed to be offended by is Senator Robert Bird, who was in the clan. And then of course, renounced racism, became a liberal devoted his life to civil rights, voted against the Iraq war, voted for Obamacare, and was honored in death by the NAACP. That's the one racist. You'll hear right wing people going after the one who stopped being racist. I've never heard them criticize a single other person. Just a famous Democrat who had been a racist. But Robert Bird grew beyond it. And the tragedy of Charlie Kirk is that he's never going to get to do it. I think I said this on your show a year ago when he died. Charlie Kirk is never going to get to have an immigrant friend or a transgender friend or a non-white friend or a Jewish friend or a Muslim friend and grow beyond his corrosively fake Christian Jesus rejecting bigotries. And that's the real tragedy. He's never going to get to grow.

37:50His kids are going to grow up. And the man he was, those quotes will still exist. I don't need to repeat a single one of them. His comments about women, his comments about gay people, black people, Native Americans. I could go on. That's his legacy. That's going to be there long after Turning Point USA has forgotten and his wife has a QBC deal. Oh, they'll try to prop him up for as long as they can, but he'll go the way of, uh, see, I can't even remember his name anymore. Rush Limbaugh. Yeah, exactly. And no one remembers Limbaugh. Limbaugh did nothing good for anyone. And Charlie Kirk, I can't say this enough did not fight for Jesus. Go to the Turning Point USA website friends. You try to find one quote, you don't need to believe in Jesus, but just go to the Turning Point USA website find one teaching of the Nazarene anywhere on that site. You won't find it. It's all hate for teachers, hate for unions, hate for immigrants, hate for foreigners, hate for uppity minorities, hate for uppity women, no actual Christ. Turning Point USA doesn't follow Jesus. They use them. And the most moral thing you can do on this anniversary is to say it's a tragedy. He's dead. And it's a

38:50greater tragedy. He was a blaspheming racist. Yeah, I agreed, my friend. Good. Thank you so much. Good times. Yeah. Thank you so much for joining me. I'm going to go. I'm going to revel. Before we get somber tomorrow and, um, you know, remember the lives that we lost in all the life since that we've lost, uh, because in 9-11, uh, at least tonight, Thursday night, I'm going to revel in this Missouri Supreme courtship and, uh, celebrate the wins where we can get them. And thank you so much. I'm going to revel in all the empty seats at the Dallas midterm convention and the complete absence of a first lady from showing up. Oh, that's just fun. That's just fun. Goes great with racist dog whistles. Anyway, it's always a pleasure to talk to you, my friend. I know we'll see you next week on Fugelstank Fridays. And I encourage everyone to listen to the John Fugelstank show. It's on Sirius XM Progress, channel 127 weekdays at New and Eastern 9 a.m. Pacific. Got the new time slot, which I love. And also make sure you pick up your copper separation at church and hate. Got a new book coming out soon. We'll keep you posted. And, uh, as always, it's pleasure. You're the best doctor, Gail. Thank you.

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43:00I wanted to bring your attention to some good news and I hope that you will show your support for service employees, international union 1000 and California state workers. The union has authorized a strike vote due to unfair labor practices and the refusal of Cal HR and the governor's office to bargain in good faith or underpaid. We've been denied raises. Our insurance is going up. The governor's RTO mandate forces us back to the office four days a week among inflation, rising gas prices and reduced morale. Next up, members will vote to strike. Voting ends October 7th. You can't vote if you're not a member, but we need more members so I encourage anyone on the fence about it to join and vote. We are the union. I hope you'll show your support and enjoy my pod pet tax. Evie are sweetie who picked us on New Year's Eve a few years ago and loves the belly's crutches, not a trap. In solidarity, proud SEIU 1000 member. Thank you. That's a wonderful

44:01good trouble. Oh, look at this sweet baby kitty. Hi, Evie, little 480 girl wrapped in a blanket. I'll taco the burrito kitty. Thank you so much for that good trouble. Really, really good advice. Next up from Alison G, pronoun she and her. Hi, A.G. from another A.G. I want to shout out you and Amy Hootmaker and thank you for featuring her in Russell Township. I live in South Russell, Ohio, which borders Russell Township. I consider myself a pretty in the no citizen, even you have parents that are active in our local Democratic Party chapter. However, I am ashamed to admit I was not aware of the situation in Russell Township or even that they have the first trans woman council member. Sometimes I feel embarrassed to be from Ohio, but knowing that there are people like Amy out there making a difference makes me hopeful for the future. Thanks for all you do. Enjoy my picture of our rescued pup's Felix, the blank mix and Macy, the 100% blank. Thank you, Alison G. Great name

45:10by the way and you spell it properly. Wonderful. I'm very happy about that. Thank you so very much. All right, let's see here. Yeah, first of all, Amy Hootmaker is just incredible, incredible work that she's doing there. And it's just so fascinating that she's pushing back on Geaga County Republicans trying to defund the police. All right, let's see, we got a pit bull here for sure. And the other one looks also like a pit bull, but it has German shepherdeers, but maybe there's some golden retriever in there. I don't know, but they're adorable. They're 100% adorable. All right, let's see. Felix is a German shepherde pit bull mix and a pit bull. I got him. I got him both. Alison G. It was meant to be. Thank you so much for that. Thank you for the shout out to Amy. Next up, Triskadeca. Greetings beans, queens. I wanted to salute another queen, our very own queen, my aunt Bernice. She's 101 years old and she's the matriarchal head of our family. She recently had a big win at Bingo, hence the smile and the Bingo bucks. This woman,

46:14when in her 90s, was zip lining in Hawaii, but only did seven of the nine lines because she learned she had to walk back to the start. She makes friends wherever she goes. She has Dr. Worms great aunt making me Dr. Worms mother. Look at this. Look at this generational awesomeness. Also, I added a hawk picture that's a regular visitor to our yard. Can you guess what type? Love all the good spirit you spread. I tell everyone to check your podcast out. Thank you, Triskadeca. Please, if you know somebody that could use some news and wants to help keep their sanity a little bit, maybe somebody's like, maybe you got that friend who's like, I don't even check. I don't even listen to news anymore. I can't tell them about the daily beans pod. Triskadeca. I believe that's the number 13, right? Triskadecaphobia is a fear of the number 13. I think so. I'm just guessing. Look, Bingo bucks. There she is. Ant Bernice. Ooh, that hawk is very beautiful. It's not a red-shouldered hawk because the shoulders are

47:17gray. It looks like, let's see what it is. It's a Cooper's hawk. There you go. All right, very beautiful. Thank you so much. Thank you for that. Next up, Tabatha, she, her, high queens of the beans. Thank you for all you do to keep us informed, but not overwhelmed with all the awful news each day. It truly helps more than you know. I wanted to write in today and share some good news from this past weekend. I live in a college town on the Wisconsin and Minnesota border and this past week was our pride event. My friend, Jana and I go every year, proudly wearing our ally buttons and supporting those we love. Jana is a, quote, reformed Christian conservative and one of the kindest humans I've ever met. This year, I found out that another friend was also going to be there at pride and she was going to be bringing her 15-year-old son and his friend. My friend Kelly is a social worker and also an amazing human and friend. Her son's friend had just come out as trans and is very small rural Minnesota town and some of his family did not respond well. So, of course, she wanted to make sure he had a good experience. We all ended up going to brunch and then pride

48:22in the park together and we had an amazing time. There were therapy dogs, drag queens, and so much love. Not only did I get to connect to my favorite people ever, we also got to hang out with a couple of very cool teenagers. They may have grumbled about hanging out with the olds, but they did admit to having a good time. Kelly messaged me afterward and said that her son's friend said he had never felt so normal, quote-unquote, and that truly made the whole day worth it. For my pod pet Tara, if I've included a photo, my very own good boy named Whiskey, that we met at the event. And then the other pick is my cat Winifred, great name, enjoying her heating pad and comfy bed. Again, thank you for all you do. This is beautiful. All high Winifred. High cute, sweet kitty. Yeah, those are moments, right, Tabitha? Those moments. I remember my friend and I dressed up as Rosie, the Riveter, and we were on the Lavender Lens magazine float and then we went to the Pride event after. And a dad approached us with

49:22his teenage daughter, maybe 14, 15 years old. And he said, hi, I was hoping, this is my daughter. She came out to me this morning and I wanted to bring her here. Would you mind taking a photo with her? She really loves your costumes and that was just so heartwarming. Tabitha, thank you for that. Next up, governmental employee who doesn't want the attention. I don't blame you. Pronouns he and him. Quick one from Seattle. The World Champion Seattle Seahawks played tonight. So naturally the sidewalk profit was it is post-out front, promising the coming of wrath and a personal introduction to hell. But tonight the man had opposition. A counter protestor stood a few feet away holding a sign with Jimmathy, the raccoon saying, Jimmathy says, shut up with an arrow pointing at the guy. A sidewalk profit overruled by a raccoon with a bigger following than he will ever have. Look at that. Jimmathy says, shut up. That's incredible.

50:29Thank you, government employee. It doesn't want the attention. And let's see, we've got another submission here from Danny Smart, pronoun she and her. High Queens of the beans. Several months ago, I was contacted by a soldier who returned with my daughter from deployment in Afghanistan. Spencer asked if I would help spread the word to my readers and beyond about the 13-year fight, it took to get his Afghan interpreter, Abdul Hock, into the United States. The US made a promise to keep these people safe and return for their service and what he went through never should have happened. Together, Abdul Hock and Spencer wrote a book called Not Our Problem that Tells the Story. This weekend, September 12, they will be doing a book talk in Chicago about the experience. Administration is currently going after these Afghan refugees, threatening to revoke their green cards and deport them back to Afghanistan or the Congo. I want folks to get to know them and understand what they risk to keep our soldiers safe. Get to know them as humans with hopes and dreams who deserve our protection. I've included links to the article I wrote about the current danger

51:34that they're in and I've also included a link to register for the book talk. If you're in Chicago, please register and come. Danny Smart, this is amazing. Thank you for this. We'll have a link in the show notes. For my pod pet talks, I've attached a new pick of Rosie, the kitchen chicken. Yay! You've met this feathered freeloader before. She got fed up with the other ladies in the coop. Yep, and said, bye-bye bitches and now she lives on our porch. I remember and in her own condo. She decided today that just hanging out in my kitchen each morning wasn't enough. Now she's hanging out on the kitchen table while I work. I think I can safely say that I am the crazy chicken lady, which is fine by me in these messed up times. Thanks for all you do to keep us sane. All right, again, we're going to have a link to the show notes that there she is, Rosie, the kitchen chicken, right there on the table, standing on a copy of not our problem. Thank you so much for that, by the way. All right, our final submission is from Ali. September 1, I was a five-year anniversary of my double mastectomy due to breast cancer.

52:37The five-year mark is huge for anyone who has had cancer and that is when they officially deem you to be cancer-free. I came home to find that my husband made this celebratory cake for me, but I thought you would all get a good laugh out of it. It's boobs. Oh my god, that's great. Cancer mess with the wrong girl. Ali, congrats on having such a wonderful husband and five years here now cancer-free. What great, amazing news. Thank you all so much for sending in your good news. Let's flood the zone with sunshine. Send it all to us. dailybeanspod.com. Click on contact. Have a very special episode of Beans Talk for you later. So I hope you'll check us out there at MSW Media's YouTube page. And of course, we'll be back in your ears on Monday. There'll be an episode of Unjustified on Sunday as well as an episode of the breakdown on the Midas Touch Network. And you can find that too at mullershearote.com. If you have thought about becoming a patron, a sustaining member, please do so. We would love to

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