Top 10 Conservative Idiots #15-16: 2023 Year In Review Edition

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Top 10 Conservative Idiots #15-16: 2023 Year In Review Edition

Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Holy shit, everybody! We made it! We are here, it’s our big annual Year In Review edition! And man, what a batshit crazy, utterly insane year the year 2023 has been! And next year is a presidential election year, so it’s going to be even crazier! And our fingers can barely keep up with the insanity. We might break some keyboards or two next year. But that’s not what this end of the year celebration is about! It’s about recapping the zaniness of what happened this year. But every year we ask ourselves the same question. Well, two questions, really. The first is – how could this shit possibly get any worse? And the second is – how can you possibly squeeze a year’s worth of events and content into 10 short entries? Well we answer you – it’s impossible but we try! And this is our season finale, which means that we won’t get to cover a lot of breaking news like Kevin McCarthy resigning, or the UNLV shooting. We’ll have to save that for when we come back in January and we get to play “Catch up on stuff we missed”! Do we have time for the thing? Of course we do! You know last week in New York City was one of my favorite events of the year that I get to watch from afar because I don’t live in NYC, but it’s the annual gathering of drunk douchebags who dress up as Santa – the annual SantaCon! Yes, we’ve brought up SantaCon in past Year In Review editions, but this year is very different from previous years! This year the NY Transit Authority decided to simply ban public intoxication on the LIRR (that’s Long Island Rail Road for the uninitiated), so what’s a drunk Santa to do? You know, these Santas just don’t care if you’re naughty or nice, they just want to hang out and drink. It’s gonna be fun watching hundreds of drunk Santas fight for Uber rides at the end of the night! I can only imagine it’s going to go like that scene from Jingle All The Way where Arnold Schwarzenegger tries to fight all the Santas with a giant candy cane. Ha ha ha ha ha…. Like that! Classic. OK that’s enough of the intro, we have a lot of idiocy to get to! But first John Oliver is back and he delves into the subject of crashing freight trains. What? No, the song “Runaway Train” isn’t about that. Sheesh. Moving on…

So how do we even begin to sum up the year that was? Well of course we start by dividing the entire year up into 6 2-month entries. Then we roll it up, cut it in half and sprinkle some cilantro on top. I’m kidding of course. In the number one slot this week, we dedicate it to the start of the year – January and February (1), and man did this year start off with a bang or what? There was the ridiculous Trump NFT collection, the Chinese Spy Balloon hysteria, and the MAGA toddlers in Congress acting like the spoiled children that they are during Biden’s second SOTU. In the second slot this week is the months of March – April (2). Ah, spring is in the air. Kevin McCarthy gave Tucker Carlson the January 6th footage, and that’s like giving the bank robber the keys to the vault. Meanwhile, Trump got indicted (again), and Ron DeSantis took over Disney the way that Ultron took over JARVIS in Avengers: Age Of Ultron. In the third slot this week is the months of May – June (3), it was time for Pride month, which meant time for MAGA boycotts, and hoo boy, were there some insane ones, including Bud Light, Target, Chik-Fil-A, and the list goes on! Plus Tucker Carlson got fired, and Montana reps attempted to oust a trans rep. Taking the fourth slot this week is the months of July – August (4). Ah, summer time…..and the livin’s easy….. or is it? It was the hottest summer on record! Thanks Fox News! Meanwhile, In Tennessee, the conservative majority attempted to silence Dem. representatives, and also it was the rise of the man who could actually have the possibility of bringing down Trump and giving him the Rikers Island vacation he so badly deserves, Jack Smith! Then we move onto fall, and in the fifth slot it goes to September – October (5) which saw the end of Rupert Murdoch’s time at Fox News, while Lauren Boebert gave a handjob at a performance of Beetlejuice: The Musical, and Fox inspired MAGAs are attempting to take over our nation’s school boards. Finally, we wrap up the year with November – December (6), which saw the emergence of the new House Speaker Mike Johnson, and all of his religious extremist shenanigans, while the Trump Trial Clusterfuck is reaching new and completely ridiculous heights. Whew! All caught up! In the number 7 slot this week is of course our weekly visit to the Holy Church Of The Top 10 in “Holy Shit” (7) and this week, we recap the year that was while looking ahead to next year and our annual attempt to predict what’s going to happen in the new year. And whew, we got our work cut out for us! In the number 8 slot this week is our segment . Taking the number 9 (NEIN!!!) slot this week, is a new edition of People Are Dumb (9) and this week it’s our favorite People Are Dumb as we recap the worst of the worst, the dumbest of the dumb, and the stupidest of the stupid with our annual Best Of People Are Dumb! Finally this week it’s time for Round 9 of our ongoing segment that pits Red State Governors against Blue State Governors in “My Governor Is An Idiot” and this week we’re saving the best for last as we’re pitting my home state of California’s governor Gavin Newsom against Florida’s Ron DeSantis! Plus to cap things off, we’re gonna get this post season party started with some live music from the legendary Queens Of The Stone Age! Buy their new album “In Times New Roman….” or you’re no friend of this program! Enjoy! And as always don’t forget the key!

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So here we are, folks! How do you summarize an entire year into just six short entries? Well it is difficult but we do manage! Yes, that's what she said, thank you sir! Always got to be one in the audience! And in order to start with, we have to go back to the beginning. And man did it have quite the insane start to the year, didn’t it? But in order to do that we have to go back to the beginning and man what a beginning it was! The first place to start with was how 2022 ended and that was with one of the most insane things we have ever seen, and we had a lot of fun with this one. For those of you who don’t know what I am talking about, I am of course talking about the guy who we inexplicably used to call president, Donald J. Trump, and his ridiculous NFT collection. Yes, you can get pictures of him on a spaceship, as a cowboy, as a doctor, and as Rambo! To which we say – how the fuck does anyone take this guy seriously after this? And not only does he get taken seriously by his batshit crazy fanbase, they still want him to be president! I don’t know about you, but I don’t want my president hawking a bunch of useless NFT trading cards! And we were just informed that he’s back at it again with series 3 and this time he’s having a contest to win a piece of his suit that he wore when he got arrested. Seriously, there’s no bottom for this asshole.

Former President Trump’s digital trading cards have sold out less than 24 hours after he first announced they were available.

As of Friday morning, the site selling the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) says they are sold out, and links to purchase the digital cards are no longer available.

OpenSea Data, which tracks the sales and markets for NFTs, indicated there were 45,000 of the Trump cards initially made available for purchase for $99 each. The Trump digital cards were the top trending item on the site as of Friday morning.

Trump posted on Truth Social on Wednesday that he would be making a “major announcement” without providing any details. Some had speculated the announcement would be related to the Speaker race playing out among House Republicans or Trump’s largely inactive 2024 presidential campaign.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3777969-trumps-digital-cards-sell-out-within-a-day/

And speaking of gone, we all know now the famous fight to install Kevin McCarthy as the new House Speaker after the Fox News and Infowars approved Congress took office, and it was quite the shit show that everyone expected. But it was quite the shit show, and it really just goes to show that republicans really suck at this. Which is why they need constant validation from talk show hosts 24 hours a day because they have to be told that they’re doing the right thing when in fact they’re doing the wrong thing all the time! The fight to install Kevin McCarthy as speaker was certifiably insane and it was quite the spectacular implosion.

Newly elected U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy took the gavel of the chamber after a bruising weeklong battle within his own party, promising to carry out a conservative, America-first agenda, tackling the immigration crisis at the Mexican border, cutting back funding at the IRS and fixing “woke indoctrination in our schools.”

After 14 failed votes since Tuesday, the California Republican was able to overcome opposition after making extraordinary concessions to a small bloc of far-right holdouts who refused to support his speaker bid.

McCarthy laid out an ambitious plan in addressing the 118th congressional session early Saturday morning, saying he wants to “be the check and provide some balance” to President Joe Biden’s policies. He said the first legislation he plans to tackle will repeal funding for more than 87,000 new IRS agents. He highlighted immigration reform as a top priority, saying the Republican-controlled House will hold some of its first hearings of the year at the Southern border.

“No more ignoring this crisis of safety and sovereignty,” he said. “We must secure our border.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/07/us-house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-pledges-to-tackle-immigration-woke-education-policies-and-irs-funding.html

By the way, if the year 2023 can be summed up in one word, that word is “WOKE”. We alone must have said that particular word 12,243,353,130,122 times and counting, and that’s most likely a conservative estimate. But there’s no one who embodies and embraces the fight against whatever the fuck being “woke” is more than the current reigning king of Florida Man, Ron DeSantis (Q – Woke) and he is taking his fight to the streets. Or at the very least, Disneyland, where he simply decided to take over the special district governing body of Disney World Orlando, Reedy Creek, in the same way that Ultron usurped JARVIS in Avengers: Age Of Ultron.

Despite facing pushback from medical professionals and businesses, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced legislation Tuesday that would make permanent a law to penalize companies that require employees to wear masks or be vaccinated for COVID-19 and added a new ban on medical boards reprimanding doctors for spreading COVID misinformation.

“This is just nuts that we’re still doing this,’’ DeSantis said to cheering supporters in Panama City Beach. “We need to be leading on this by making all of these protections permanent in Florida statute as we need to do in the upcoming legislative session.” The proposal will attempt to make permanent a series of laws passed by legislators in November 2021 after DeSantis called a special session aimed at restricting Florida businesses that were following a federal law requiring mask mandates or requiring employees to be vaccinated.

If approved by Florida legislators, the measure would continue to prohibit COVID-19 vaccine and mask requirements in schools and government, and prohibit COVID-19 vaccine requirements for employment or travel.

This year, DeSantis wants to expand the sanctions on businesses by prohibiting employers from hiring or firing based on vaccine status or wearing a mask, and he wants to revive a failed proposal from last year’s legislative session that would make it more difficult for a medical licensing board to reprimand or sanction a doctor for views expressed by the medical professional — including on social media.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article271286472.html#storylink=cpy

But while the George Santos controversy was just starting to heat up in the House (see: Idiots #14-3 ), something miraculous happened. It was one time in the entire history of social media and maybe the internet, where both sides of the internet just shut down for a brief minute, and said collectively “LET’S FIGURE IT OUT!!!!”. I’m of course talking about when that Chinese spy balloon spontaneously appeared over the skies of Montana. To which the MAGAs were like “If that appears over my house I’ll shoot it down!!”. No you won’t, you’d violate multiple laws doing that. Of course they don’t care about that sort of thing. But it was quite interesting to watch!

A mysterious object high above commercial air traffic. Military aircraft scrambled, then ordered to stand down. Urgent phone calls between U.S. and Chinese officials.

A single missile, fired from an F-22 stealth fighter jet.

As a Chinese spy balloon made its way east across the United States last week, a military and diplomatic crisis played out on the ground.

Here’s a day-to-day timeline of events leading up to the dramatic shootdown over the water off the East Coast on Saturday. The following is based on interviews with three senior U.S. officials, all of whom asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the situation.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/05/timeline-a-chinese-spy-balloons-7-day-trip-across-the-united-states-00081222

That’s it for January and February! Now it’s onto…



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[font size="8"]March and April: DeSantis Usurps Disney
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Ah, spring is in the air! And now that we got that nightmare of the MAGA Q controlled House Speaker clusterfuck out of the way, we can move on with our lives, right? WRONG! Because while the dust was settling from the Chinese spy balloon incident, Joe Biden jetted off to war torn Ukraine to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky and the meeting went about how you’d expect. Meanwhile, back at home, Trump attempted to act presidential, even though he’s not, by visiting a town on the Ohio / Pennsylvania border that was the site of a devastating train crash. But what that publicity stunt and Fox News aren’t telling you is that stunt was basically designed to get ratings and that’s about it. Biden actually risks his life to go to a war zone. Trump goes to a McDonalds and throws out Big Macs much in the same way that he tossed paper towels to the victims of Puerto Rico. And yet the MAGA community fawns over that guy and accuses the other of being a Nazi. SMDH. But it was like that song “Put me in coach, I’m ready to play!”.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump visited East Palestine, Ohio, on Wednesday, the site of a train derailment that led to a toxic spill near the border with Pennsylvania.

He made a speech in support of officials and emergency responders dealing with the crisis—before visiting a McDonald's restaurant to buy food for local firefighters and his flight home. He criticized the federal response to the incident as a "betrayal," echoing recent comments from the town's mayor, Trent Conaway, who was standing behind Trump during his speech.

With Trump came pallets of bottled water, including some the former commander-in-chief—who has announced his intention to run for a third time in 2024—said he had brought on his plane. However, many social media users have suggested that the Trump-branded water he delivered was 13 years old.

During his visit, Trump spoke alongside local officials and J.D. Vance, a freshman Republican senator for Ohio, at a firehouse roughly half a mile from the crash site. On February 3, a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed with 38 cars coming off the tracks, 11 of which were carrying toxic chemicals.
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-donald-trump-bottled-water-east-palestine-1783322

But the one thing we cannot deny is how much the GOP is increasingly becoming intertwined with Fox News. Fox News is literally the life blood of the GOP now. Fox News can’t function without GOP officials going on it, and the GOP can’t exist without Fox. One man who is clearly being told what to do by Fox News hosts is the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis. And remember when Disney told Ron to piss off over his extremely controversial and borderline Nazi-esque “Don’t Say Gay” bill? Well guess what ol’ Ronnie did to retaliate? He took over Disney World’s governing body Reedy Creek much in the same way that Ultron usurped JARVIS in the movie Avengers Age Of Ultron.

Florida lawmakers on Friday gave final approval to a proposal to give Gov. Ron DeSantis more control over the future of Disney’s Orlando-area theme parks, the latest escalation in the Republican leader’s feud with the entertainment giant.

The GOP-led state Senate voted 26-9 Friday on a bill to let the state take over the Reedy Creek Improvement District, the government body that has given Disney unique powers in Central Florida for more than half a century. Under the bill, the district’s existing board will be replaced by a five-member board hand-picked by DeSantis.

The measure passed the Republican-controlled House on an 82-31 vote Thursday. It now heads to the desk of DeSantis, who is expected to sign it.

The latest move against Disney comes a year after the company spoke out against a bill to restrict certain classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity. The legislation drew a forceful rebuke from Democrats and LGBTQ advocates, who feared the bill would marginalize LGBTQ students and teachers and make them feel less safe in schools. In March of last year, as outrage against the legislation spread nationwide, Disney released a statement vowing to help get the law repealed or struck down by the courts and saying the company was “dedicated to standing up for the rights and safety of LGBTQ+ members of the Disney family, as well as the LGBTQ+ community in Florida and across the country.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/politics/disney-ron-desantis-reedy-creek-florida/index.html

Yes vengeance is his! Also at the end of March, there was that terrible shooting in Denver, Colorado where a trans student who was relentlessly bullied took it out on people with guns. Don’t do this people, because the internet conspiracy theory machine is insane and looking for this kind of crap 24 hours a day. But then in April, we got what might be one of the greatest pieces of news ever – Trump and his inner circle are finally facing sweet justice! And it even felt like a sitcom with the B cast of Trump inner circle people acting like the jackasses they are. But it was rather glorious!

In February, Ron DeSantis led Donald Trump 45% to 41% in the Yahoo/YouGov poll. But Trump’s indictment has reversed the race.

Just after Trump said he would be arrested, he moved into the lead – 47% of Republican and Republican-leaning voters preferred him, compared with 39% for DeSantis. Now, after his arraignment, Trump’s lead has widened – 57% to 31%.

What’s going on? Trump’s high-decibel howls of anger and grievance and his vitriolic charges of a “deep state” aligned against him are rallying Republicans to his side.

He has raged against his indictment in language evoking racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories. He has whipped up a fury of threats against the judge, the prosecutor and their families. And of course he continues to repeat his lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/11/trump-arrest-republican-nomination-2024-independents

Damn right they are! Oh yeah the Top 10 went to France to celebrate our 300th edition (see: Idiots #14-12 ) and covered the French riots. But then April ended with another great piece of news. Because of the legal dealings of the “we report, you decide” network, they’ve been in some hot water over the Dominion Voting Systems scandal. So what do they do? They fire some of their top hosts, and we were absolutely shocked, but not surprised that Tucker Carlson got fired. And now he’s rambling over on Elon’s TwitterX to lower ratings and racists. Sigh… another reason why we can’t have nice things, people!

Right-wing prime-time host Tucker Carlson is leaving Fox News immediately, the cable network announced Monday.

The announcement came days after Fox News’ parent company settled Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit for $787.5 million. The company’s hosts were not required to talk about the lawsuit, or make an apology for it, as part of the settlement, CNBC previously reported.

“FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways,” the company said in a statement Monday. “We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.”

There will be no send-off for Carlson, as his last program aired Friday. Carlson had signed off Friday saying he would be back Monday. Carlson’s program, “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” has long been one of Fox’s top rated programs..
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/24/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news-in-wake-of-dominion-defamation-settlement.html

No, we don’t need the Tucker reaction cam! Turn that shit off! Now it’s onto summer!


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[font size="8"]May – June: Some Batshit LGBT Boycotts
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Ahhhhhhhhhh… suuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmer time! And the livin’s easy. Yes, I look forward to that Sublime chunk every year! So if the year 2023 can be summed up in one word, that word would easily be “woke”. It’s probably been said 500 times more than any other word spoken or written this year combined! And the funny thing is that nobody can tell you exactly what it means. But before we get to the boycotts, we have to talk about how the Republicans, led in the House by Marjorie Three Names (Q – Batshit) attempted to impeach Joe Biden for no reason. Well, they did have reasons, mainly because Fox News, Alex Jones, and other far right sources kept filling their head with bile and garbage every day and they just decided to go for it. While we were celebrating the Trump verdict (see: Idiots #14-15 ) and the firing of Tucker Carlson (see: Idiots #14-14 ), there was some serious evil brewing in the MAGA Q House, and it was primed and ready to explode.

Why it matters: The drafted articles of impeachment, which likely won't go too far, come in response to the FBI's search at former President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago.

Driving the news: Greene has called on Garland to be impeached "for endangering, compromising and undermining the justice system of the United States by facilitating the persecution" of President Biden's political rival, Trump, according to the drafted articles she shared in a Twitter post.

Garland did not "faithfully" execute the office of the attorney general's promise to "preserve, protect and defend" the United States Constitution, she wrote in the articles.

Greene's office and the Department of Justice did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment.
https://www.axios.com/2022/08/13/marjorie-taylor-greene-merrick-garland-impeachment

Yeah so they have no evidence, but that didn’t stop Marjorie from going on an impeachment annihilation warpath and it was quite the stuff of insanity. In fact we don’t have time to list all of them here, so we’ll just play this humorous TV scroll wheel. But the simple fact of the matter is that May and June were dominated by boycotts. And just like Marjorie Greene’s impeachment free for all, we don’t have time to list all of them here. So we’ll list all of them with this humorous TV scroll wheel. And it’s a good thing we took the entire month of June off, because I probably would have gone insane trying to cover all the madness. But the dominating boycott was easily that of Target. Over a swimsuit that was aimed at trans women. And the MAGAs absolutely lost their collective shit. In fact it was truly embarrassing the behavior coming from supposed adults over the subject. Holy crap, get yourselves together and rethink your life choices!

A couple days ago I logged onto Target’s website to examine, with my own eyes, two of the items currently causing right wing apoplexy and a massive store boycott, whereupon I learned the items — tuck-friendly bathing suits “for toddlers” — weren’t even real.

Or, at least, they weren’t what angry online influencers, such as Matt Walsh had claimed. The bathing suits themselves were real — color-blocked one-pieces and black high-waisted bottoms with sports-bra tops — but the swimwear came in adult sizes only, according to a Target spokesperson quoted in the Associated Press. (“Tuck-friendly” refers to a fabric construction that makes it easier for people with penises to wear form-fitting swimwear without revealing their genitals. The phrase might signal to a transgender woman that the garment would be welcoming to her body but anyone, including a cisgender woman, could wear it.)

Far from being “obscene” or “sexualizing” or “grooming” — as the swimsuits were also described by the alarmists — these suits were downright modest. Swimsuits are not “obscene” or “sexualizing” merely by being swimsuits. They’re just practical articles for swimming in water. As for being revealing, rest assured you already see more explicit bulges on the men’s Olympic diving team than you’d ever see via these Target suits. The fresh-faced models who wore them on the website looked like they were getting ready to deliver potato salad to a pool party; it’s Target, for Chrissake.
https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-anti-trans-boycott-of-target-misses-its-target/

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!! But yeah the Target boycotts were insane. There were death threats. There were stores destroyed and looted. There were managers being threatened. There were protests. And then there was this douchebag who wrote an entire song about it – that inexplicably became a hit on iTunes! Seriously, Apple, what the actual fuck? But if the Target boycott wasn’t enough, Kid Rock raised eyebrows when he shot up a 12 pack of Bud Light in protest of their partnership with Tik Tok influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Did we mention Mulvaney is a trans woman? Oh yeah we probably should have mentioned that. But this set off a firestorm of MAGA conservatives destroying Bud Light just for likes on social media. SMDH.

Kid Rock had a very violent response following Bud Light's collaboration with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, but trans advocates told him it was time "he transitioned to 'Adult Rock' by growing the f*** up."

Mulvaney, who has risen to fame on TikTok with her Day 365 Of Girlhood video series, revealed on Sunday to her Instagram followers that Bud Light had sent her a personalized can with her face on it to commemorate a year since she began her gender transition.

The partnership has drawn condemnation from some social media users, prompting calls for a boycott of Bud Light and its parent company, Anheuser-Busch. Chocolate makers Hershey's faced a similar response to a Canadian ad campaign for International Women's Day in February that included a transgender rights activist.

The row over transgender brand ambassadors is symbolic of a wider debate about the inclusion of transgender women in female issues and spaces. Some say transgender women should be treated the same as other women, while others say they are different and that hard-won women's rights must be protected.
https://www.newsweek.com/kid-rock-reaction-bud-light-dylan-mulvaney-transgender-1792418

Yeah why are we not shocked when conservatives choose to respond to just about anything by shooting it? By the way, since Kid Rock started the Bud Light boycott, his bar in Nashville has been serving Bud Light, and Bud Light attempted to partner with UFC and the MAGAs wound up boycotting UFC because, trans derangement. But the thing is that literally NOTHING was safe from the MAGA mob during Pride Month – a month that up until 2023 had been a safe haven for the LGBT community. In fact, even last year the MAGAs were cool with it! Shit, even up to last year, they celebrated Pride Month at Mar-A-Lago. Trump golf courses, and the Trump hotel in Vegas. What made them turn? That is a mystery. We are guessing it has something to do with an internet account calling themselves libsoftiktok, which was linked to a series of bomb threats against children’s hospitals in Boston over trans health care But nothing, and we mean nothing was safe. And it’s only gonna get worse next year!

FRESH OFF A siege against Target for the crime of releasing a Pride collection, far-right influencers have been roving the digital countryside looking for the subject of their next meltdown and have landed on a surprising choice: fast food chain Chick-fil-A.

Why are conservative accounts attempting to gin up outrage about Chick-fil-A? Because the company has (gasp) a diversity, equity, and inclusion program.

The freakout seemed to be prompted by a Monday post from podcaster Joey Mannarino. “We have a problem,” he tweeted, “Chick-Fil-A just hired a VP of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. This is bad. Very bad. I don’t want to have to boycott.”

Chick-fil-A’s website includes a quote from Erick McReynolds, VP of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion stating that the company is “committed to ensuring mutual respect, understanding and dignity everywhere we do business.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/chick-fil-a-corporate-diversity-policies-targets-conservatives-1234743961/

That’s it for May and June! Now onto the heat of summer – July – August where…


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[font size="8"]July – August: HOTTEST SUMMER EVER!!
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Now we’re into the heat of summer! Notice I didn’t say heart? That’s because this year, 2023, was the hottest summer on record! We did it everybody! If you did any traveling this year, you probably noticed that areas like Lake Havasu in Arizona were as dry as a bone. Note to conservatives: If you like your boats and water toys, if you want to keep using those things, stop voting for anti-environmentalists! In fact you may remember at the beginning of this season, we were touring Florida to promote our “What’s Up With Florida” docuseries, but had to abandon the end of the tour because of the destruction brought on by Hurricane Ida. We even went to New York after that, and that show had to be canceled because of another hurricane! Get used to it, because they’re not going away any time soon and they’ll continue to get worse. In fact, we did several editions of our fearmongering segment “We’re All Gonna Die” about this, and we counted at least 10 this year alone! Out of 32 editions. That’s a pretty sizeable percentage! But yeah it is getting hotter in here and it’s not just you!

As vast swaths of three continents bake under blistering temperatures and the oceans heat to unprecedented levels, scientists from two global climate authorities are reporting before July has even ended that this month will be the planet’s hottest on record by far.

The heat in July has already been so extreme that it is “virtually certain” this month will break records “by a significant margin,” the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service and the World Meteorological Organization said in a report published Thursday.

We have just lived through the hottest three-week-period on record – and almost certainly in more than a hundred thousand years.

Typically these records, which track the average air temperature across the entire world, are broken by hundredths of a degree. But the temperature for the first 23 days of July averaged 16.95 degrees Celsius (62.51 Fahrenheit), well above the previous record of 16.63 degrees Celsius (61.93 Fahrenheit) set in July 2019, according to the report.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/27/world/july-hottest-month-record-climate/index.html

Elsewhere in the news, the beginning half of the summer, the biggest hit song of the summer was undoubtedly Jason Aldean’s highly controversial hit “Try That In A Small Town”. Which was met with cheers and boos equally. In fact we had a couple of pretty lively discussions about it (see: Idiots #15-3 and Idiots #15-2 ). Considering that Jason Aldean hangs around Mar-A-Lago and has been photographed with Trump, we’re not surprised the song got pegged as highly racist. Also the hit movie of the summer was Sound Of Freedom, the Q Anon flick about child sex trafficking starring conspiracy theorist whackjob Jim Caviezel, and producers found a creative loophole to get high box office numbers.

The popular movie Sound of Freedom has been making headlines for a while now, mostly for its plot and storyline. However, the movie is now getting a lot of negative criticism after several social media users began pointing out how the makers of Sound of Freedom are faking that the screenings have been sold out.

Accusing the makers of astroturfing, many social media users claimed that they have been hearing that no tickets for the movie are available, but when they reach the theatre, they find the screens and halls to be empty. Taking the same into consideration, a Twitter user, @CyKoore, tweeted and said:

A similar claim was made by another Twitter user, @GeoRebekah, who claimed that when she tried to book the tickets for the movie, the theatres claimed that the tickets were sold out, and none was available. However, when she walked into the screen, she saw that there was not even a single person seated there.

Hence, the question in people’s minds remains the same if the theatres are full and shows are completely sold out, then why is no one seated inside? Many social media users have been claiming that movie makers are just astroturfing, which is a term used when people try to create a buzz around something by giving the impression of public support.
https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-what-astroturfing-video-sound-freedom-fake-sold-screenings-goes-viral-online

The biggest story of the summer and probably the biggest story of the year, maybe even of the decade so far after COVID, was undoubtedly the dueling strikes of the Writers’ Guild Of America and the Screen Actors Guild, which shut down Hollywood and movie production for nearly 200 days. That is a shocking amount of time for an entire industry to be down – especially here in California, it’s the backbone of our economy. But part of the reason the strike took so long is because of the owners of streaming services and movie industry CEOs like Disney’s Bob Iger, who are grade A assholes, and the dawn of the age of artificial intelligence. Yes, AI is coming for our jobs. And no, don’t get us started about when Skynet becomes self aware and threatens to end all of humanity. Think about it – we could soon live in a world where Avengers: Age Of Ultron could actually be written by Ultron! Yeah it’s probably a bad idea to fall asleep while watching Terminator and T2: Judgement Day, or Avengers: Age Of Ultron.

As the writers’ strike careens toward the 100-day mark this week, there is still no end in sight for the historic work stoppage that has brought the movie and television industry to a standstill and wreaked financial havoc on the interconnected web of people who rely on the business to make ends meet.

When news emerged last week that the studios and striking writers were set to meet for the first time since the strike commenced in early May, a ray of hope emerged in Hollywood. It seemed that maybe — just maybe — after a long, hot summer of picketing and trading barbs, hope might be on the horizon.

But it ultimately seemed to be a mirage. Even before the meeting occurred, it was clear that it would not prove to be very fruitful. The Writers Guild of America sent a statement to its members blasting the studios for alleged “calculated disinformation.” That prompted an upset Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the organization that represents the major studios, to return the favor with a stinging statement of its own.

Which is to say that what started off as a promising indicator of a thaw in the frozen relations concluded with both sides effectively zinging each other in the news media and a continuation of the protracted standoff.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/07/media/hollywood-studios-writers-strike-reliable-sources/index.html

Meanwhile, Elon’s attempts to fuck with Twitter’s check mark system and force white supremacy on all of us backfired spectacularly, August ended with what might be the best news of the year, and we’re not counting the last time that Trump got indicted! And the news is… Trump got his ass arrested and indicted again, and this time they’re taking a whole bunch of his inner circle down with him, including Rudy Giuliani and Roger Stone! Which of course sent the conservative media into overdrive doing some serious damage control, to which we watched and laughed our asses off the entire time! Oh yeah and this whole time, you know who didn’t get indicted? The e-mail lady. Suck it, Fox News!

Former President Donald Trump turned himself in Thursday night at the Fulton County Jail to be booked on felony charges in connection with efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.

Trump arrived at the jail shortly after 7:30 p.m. ET in a presidential-style motorcade and was booked, fingerprinted and photographed for a mug shot within minutes, according to jail records. Trump was quickly released, according to the records. He was in and out of the jail in about 20 minutes.

"What has taken place here is a travesty of justice," Trump told reporters on the tarmac moments before he boarded his plane to leave Atlanta. "We did nothing wrong at all, and we have every single right to challenge an election we think is dishonest."

The arrest was Trump’s fourth since April, and it was the first time he — or any former U.S. president — had his mug shot taken. The booking took place in a state that was largely ground zero for his bogus stolen election claims, despite enormous pushback against him from the Republican governor and top election officials in a state he had won in 2016. Trump’s continued insistence that the election results could not be trusted helped cost Republicans control of the U.S. Senate in a runoff election on Jan. 5, 2021.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-arrest-fulton-county-booked-rcna101641

That’s it for summer everybody! Now it’s time for fall!


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Ah…… fall is in the air, and you know what that means! Leaves are changing, it’s time for the October baseball playoffs… basketball and hockey are starting. Trump was in the news again resuming his idiot rallies on a much more frequent scale, saying and doing things that might get him pegged as a dictator in the sane part of the world. But what might be one of the greatest pieces of news of the entire happened in Denver. That’s right – in the middle of September, Lauren Boebert, the representative for CO-4, you know her best as the gun tootin’ owner of a gun themed restaurant called Shooters, that was famous for giving its’ patrons bloody diarrhea thanks to their glorious lack of health inspections, was thrown out of a performance of Beetlejuice: The Musical, yeah to which we say – there was a Beetlejuice: The Musical and we weren’t informed? How dare you sir!!! But of course, despite Boebert’s repulsive behavior in public, at a theatrical performance,, the pity party on Fox News that followed made things even worse. Look we’ve been to a few live theater performances in our lifetime. We’re not at all surprised that this would have got her kicked out of the theater. Just sit down, shut the fuck up and enjoy the performance. But she might have enjoyed it just a little too much.

Social media users have sparked a new theory relating to the CCTV footage of Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert in which she was seen vaping and inappropriately touching her male companion at a Denver theater last week.

"It turns out Lauren Boebert's mystery man is a Democrat bar owner. If I was a wagering enthusiast, I would bet this guy was paid to set her up. She's coming off a divorce, and she's vulnerable. This guy comes into her life, charms her, seduces her and then probably gets her liquored up and takes her out in public. Stage set," journalist Liz Crokin, wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

"He then instigates her by fondling her in a theater that just happens to have night vision cameras right on them. Then the whole incident is released to the public in what looks like high-definition video in an attempt to harm her reputation.

"This is all way too convenient. Whether her date was a part of it or not, this seems like a well-coordinated setup. These types of tactics and traps are used all the time, and I would know," the post from Crokin added.
https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-theater-video-sparks-new-democrat-setup-theory-1827781

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Day light come and me want to go home! Also in September, it was the end of a very evil empire as Rupert Murdoch finally retired from being the CEO of Fox News for what seemed like an eternity, and left the company in the hands of his son Lachlan Murdoch, who is taking the empire in a new, hard fascist turn. But speaking of Fox News, there was an absolutely insane debate that was buried in the headlines. You know Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman – and the fact that he wore a track suit on the Senate floor sparked some huge debates about what the appropriate dress code was or would be. And we of course just sat there of course like “What the fuck is happening? Don’t you guys have more important things to worry about?”. Oh silly liberals, that would require, you know, actual governing. Can’t have that on Fox News.

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman on Monday marveled at how people will freak out over the sanctity of the Senate dress code but demur at calling out Sen. Bob Menendez's alleged corruption as laid out by federal prosecutors.

"It is a strange world that I work in when someone will run into a burning building to save the virtue of the Senate over hoodies and shorts, but will simultaneously embrace gold bars in a mattress or envelopes stuffed with so much cash that would make the Goodfellas blush," Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, wrote in a text message to Semafor's Dave Weigel.

Fetterman is thus far the only Democratic senator to call for Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, to resign in the wake of shocking corruption charges. A freshman Democrat, Fetterman's move came after New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and other top officials in the state called on Menendez to step down after federal prosecutors accused the long-time politician and his wife of accepting "hundreds of thousands of dollars" in bribes in exchange for Menendez secretly helping the Egyptian government.
https://www.businessinsider.com/fetterman-menendez-corruption-allegations-cash-envelopes-goodfellas-2023-9

That’s about how we feel. Elsewhere, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky visited Congress, to which the MAGA shits gave him the cold shoulder that was pretty much expected from anyone who’s not addicted to the Murdoch conspiracy theory sphere. But hey, remember the beginning of the year when the MAGAs couldn’t elect a speaker to save their lives? Well the absolute worst Congress in American history does it again when Matt Gaetz (Q – Florida Man) decides to file a motion – using the GOP’s own rules I might add, to simply fire House speaker Kevin McCarthy. And they did. And the result was truly insane. Heck of a job, MAGAs. And can Fox News get all of their reps out of Congress? This shit is just plain sad.

It was roughly 24 hours ago when Rep. Matt Gaetz was asked whether he expected his effort to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to succeed. The Florida Republican was not especially optimistic, telling reporters that the incumbent GOP leader would “probably” survive the far-right effort, at least until the next time Gaetz and his cohorts tried.

As it turns out, the far-right Floridian was overly pessimistic.

In the history of the United States, a sitting House speaker has never been ousted. On Tuesday, that changed as Kevin McCarthy was stripped of his gavel. NBC News reported:

Members of the octet were joined by a unanimous House Democratic conference. In theory, members of the Democratic minority could’ve sided with the incumbent, but in practice, the ousted speaker sealed his fate incrementally over the course of the last 10 months, burning bridges with the Democrats who could’ve rescued him.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker-vote-gaetz-rcna118599

And while the rest of October and well the rest of the year was dominated by the absolutely horrifying news coming out of Israel and Palestine, with Hamas playing both sides for chumps. Don’t worry – we’re not touching that one here. We also found out the stunning and not at all surprising news that Trump cheats at his own golf tournaments (see: Idiots #15-11 ). We could also talk about anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist RFK Jr.’s hilariously failed attempt to run for president that basically wound up with him groveling on Newsmax and Joe Rogan all damn day! But we do have to talk about Tommy Tuberville and his stunningly evil plan to hold back thousands of military promotions, which was crippling our military in a time of global crisis. And it was all because, reasons, we still can’t figure out why. But yeah we suspect Fox News and Sean Hannity had something to do with it, but it was pure evil.

Liberal veterans organization VoteVets is out with another political ad taking aim at Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) for holding up more than 300 senior military officers over an abortion policy in the Defense Department.

The latest ad, “Tight lips could sink ships,” was released Tuesday and is expected to air nationwide, according to VoteVets.

The 30-second spot knocks Tuberville for endangering national security and emboldening dictators, with the ad using classic ’50s style, black-and-white video footage in an apparent homage to old military commercials.

Flashes of the video show Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to underscore the point that the holds are encouraging foreign adversaries.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4211588-votevets-group-knocks-tuberville-hold-on-promotions-as-unamerican/

That’s it for Fall everybody! Now we’re onto the heart of winter! Almost done!


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OK we’re almost done people! Now it’s time for winter. The Texas Rangers had completed their first championship in MLB history. Basketball and hockey were well underway. And the college football bowl games were being decided. But the real decision everyone should worry about happened in Congress – the dust had finally settled from the speaker coup and resulting clusterfuck. And who comes out on top in that battle? Lousiana’s Mike Johnson. To which the rest of us say “WHO?????”. Well in case you’re wondering about Mike Johnson’s qualifications – he’s hard MAGA, a 100% pure grade A religious fascist and supports the Fox News authoritarian coup 100%. Don’t believe me on that last one? He literally gave his first interview after becoming Speaker to Sean Hannity, which really makes us wonder if he’s on Murdoch’s payroll or not. I also don’t have to remind you that he gave our sister program Holy Shit: The Sunday Sermons an absolute shit ton of material to work with (and if you haven’t seen that episode, check it out here ). But trust us when we say that our new Speaker not only has a few demons in his closet, he probably has some actual skeletons in there, too.

"He supported bans that would not only criminalize abortion, but ban IVF treatments and common forms of birth control and that you voted against access to contraception," Bream said, quoting EMILYs List, a political action committee aimed at electing women who support abortion rights. "Is that an accurate assessment of where you are? Because that's not in step with the American people."

Johnson then reiterated his stance in his response, "I'm pro-life. I've said very clearly I'm a Bible-believing Christian. I believe in the sanctity of every single human life."

However, when asked by Bream on whether he voted against fertility treatments and access to contraception, Johnson said, "I don't think so. I'm not sure what they're talking about. I really don't remember any of those."

Despite Johnson's response, his previous efforts in implementing anti-abortion laws and restricting access to contraception remain significant for critics as he voted against the Right to Contraception Act, which would protect access to birth control. It was passed in the House in July 2022.

Additionally, he co-sponsored the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2023, which would restrict federal funding for Planned Parenthood, its affiliates, or its clinics for one year. This bill was introduced in January 2023.

https://www.newsweek.com/shannon-bream-confronts-mike-johnson-birth-control-access-1840993

Yeah heckuva job, MAGAs! You elected a megachurch preacher as the speaker of the House, and he’s third in line for the presidency! No, we don’t want to live in a fascist theocratic authoritarian regime, thanks. We prefer freedoms. And of course, we can’t go by a week without a mass shooting in this country, because America’s right wing gun nuts simply won’t shut the fuck up about the possibility of their precious kill toys being taken away. But after some of the hateful shit we’ve seen on social media, some of these people absolutely should have their guns taken away. But the latest tragedy – this time happening outside of Bangor, Maine, is just another piece of the mass shooter puzzle – and if you guessed he’s a product of right wing brainwashing, you’re absolutely correct!

The person of interest in the Maine mass shooting on Wednesday evening liked a number of posts from right-wing and conservative figures, according to screen grabs from his social media accounts.

Maine State Police have published the identity of a person of interest in the major incident. Robert Card, 40, was described by police as a firearms instructor believed to be in the Army Reserve and assigned to a training facility in Saco, Maine. He remains at large and is said to be "armed and dangerous."

Card's Facebook and X, formerly Twitter, accounts have now been deactivated. It is unclear if Card was responsible or if they were suspended by X and Meta. According to screen grabs and videos from what is allegedly Card's Facebook page, he finished a 20-year career in the army earlier this year. Newsweek is unable to verify this information at this time.
https://www.newsweek.com/robert-card-maine-mass-shooting-social-media-posts-1838068

Yeah it’s been 0 days since the last mass shooting in America. And guess what? There’s another one that happened just while we were putting this thing together! At UNLV and guess what? The shooter is yet another right wing psychopath. We’ll save that for when we come back in January and play Catch Up On Stuff We Missed. We’re almost done here! November also saw the departure of that senator from West Virginia that everyone loves to hate, Joe Manchin. We also had the 2023 midterm elections and a number of stunning things happened – most notably the shocking defeat of Ohio’s controversial anti-abortion measure 1. Which we hope will translate into good things for us happening going into the 2024 election, which we can assure you is going to be the clusterfuck of the century!

Issues 1 and 2 passed with almost the same margins on Tuesday. But Issue 2 – legal marijuana – won in 40 counties, and Issue 1 on abortion rights won 25 counties – so the maps of election results look very different. Exit polls show independent voters had an impact on the election results.

Issue 1 won in all 7 counties won by President Biden in 2020, and in 18 counties won by former president Trump in 2020. It failed in 63 counties, all of them rural or exurban. The seven counties Biden won were among the 40 counties where Issue 2 passed, and it was approved in 33 counties that Trump won. It failed in 48 counties.

More than a third of voters were 45-64 years old, the largest block by age. And once again, predictions of young voters flocking to the polls fell flat – they were 12%. Both issues won all age groups except voters over 65, with approval rates decreasing as age increased.

On Issue 1, the gap between women and men was seven points on Issue 1 and only three points on Issue 2.

https://woub.org/2023/11/13/exit-polls-showed-independent-voters-decided-ohio-election/

Almost done! Speaking of the 2024 election, Fox News was propping its’ candidates up in a series of laughable debates that ended in a fight, and no one in that crowd is more deluded than Vivek Ramaswamy (Q – Batshit). The GOP is the party of Trump no matter how much they try to distance themselves from the monster they created. But while November ended with the sad death of one of the best first ladies of all time, Rosalynn Carter, there seemed like a dark cloud hovering over this nation. Is the GOP going full authoritarian and even Nazi-esque? Therein lies the dilemma of where our country is heading, and as we say around here – it ain’t good!

U.S. President Joe Biden's 2024 re-election team on Monday said former President Donald Trump had embraced the language of Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler by using the word "vermin" to refer to his political enemies.

Trump told a rally in New Hampshire on Saturday he would "root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections," repeating his false claim that fraud cost him the 2020 presidential election.

His comments, made on the Veterans Day holiday honoring military veterans, drew criticism online, with some historians saying his language mirrored that of autocrats who have sought to dehumanize their foes.

"On a weekend when most Americans were honoring our nation's heroes, Donald Trump parroted the autocratic language of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini – two dictators many U.S. veterans gave their lives fighting," Biden campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa said in a statement.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-campaign-says-trump-echoed-hitler-with-use-word-vermin-2023-11-13/

And before we get out of here – remember how this year started with people finding out what a serial liar George Santos was? You know how we always like to tie things up with a nice, neat little package when it comes to reviewing the year that was. Well, guess what? After firing former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who has since said that he’s going to resign from Congress completely, to which we say: good, get out of here, asshole!, the MAGA Qongress did it again and decided to fire George Santos for the liar and fraudster he is. Heckuva job, Fox News! You did it! You officially created the WORST CONGRESS IN AMERICAN HISTORY!!! Bravo Sean Hannity, pat yourself on the back! Really, how does he sleep at night? And can he take Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Greene with him? Please?

Santos was immediately stripped of his position as a member of Congress. The House speaker then directed the clerk to notify the governor of New York of the expulsion. That is the practice the House followed in 1980 and 2002.

New York’s 3rd Congressional District would not have a member representing it during votes until a replacement is elected, but Santos’ staff would continue helping with constituent casework.

A little after 3 p.m. ET, an Architect of the Capitol worker took down the sign in front of Santos’ office. It was replaced with one reading: “Office of the Third Congressional District of New York.”

The House has expelled only five members throughout history, three of them in 1861 for disloyalty to the Union during the Civil War by fighting for the Confederacy: John B. Clark, John W. Reid and Henry C. Burnett.

The first member to be expelled post-Civil War was Michael J. “Ozzie” Myers, D-Pa., who was voted out in October 1980 after he was convicted of bribery and corruption in the Abscam FBI sting operation.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/george-santos-expelled-house-what-happens-how-rcna127518

There we go! That’s our 2023 year in review everybody! We did it! Phew, I need a drink!




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Gather around my fair brothers and sisters! It’s time to take a seat in the pew and pass the collection plate, for the Holy Church Of The Top 10 has convened and it’s time to remind you that the holiest among us are the most full of:



My fair congregation! Please be seated! We now come to the end of the year. And man what a year it was! And usually this is the spot where we take all of the news that happened this year and attempt to offer you our predictions for next year based off of this year’s news. And if that sounds too complicated for you, need I remind you that next year is an election year and there are going to be some almost certainly EVIL forces vying for control of the White House and our government, and they are on a warpath, my friends! For these are not people who air on the side of good, these are people who support the unholy, ungodly DARK ONE! I o f course speak of a man so foul, so depraved and disgusting that his name DARE NOT be spoken in my church! But this year has been quite the stuff of pure insanity and we don’t see it getting any better any time soon. So I’ll pick a few of my favorite stories and show where I think they are going. Personally for me one of the funniest things ever is when the holier than thou crowd attempts to downplay a major media performance with the Satanic Panic hysteria that they’re known for, and none was more prevalent than when they attacked Sam Smith at the beginning of the year, because, Satanism.

Right-wing influencers in the US on Monday stoked moral panic over Sam Smith dressing as Satan for a performance at the Grammy Awards.

In a posting on Twitter, Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized the performance and referenced anti-vaccine conspiracy theories about pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer, one of the sponsors of the awards.

Some right-wing figures have pushed baseless claims about the COVID-19 vaccines developed by the company.

"The Grammy's featured Sam Smith's demonic performance and was sponsored by Pfizer. And the Satanic Church now has an abortion clinic in NM that requires its patients to perform a satanic ritual before services. American Christians need to get to work," said Greene.
https://www.businessinsider.com/conservatives-kim-petras-sam-smith-satan-unholy-grammy-devil-2023-2

So I think next year, Satan himself will perform at the Grammys! Now throughout the year, you probably saw those annoying, super cringy, and potentially offensive “He Gets Us” series of advertisements brought to you by the CEO of Hobby Lobby. Yes, because a store known for selling signs that have cute sayings on them like “live laugh love” and other decorative knick knacks is a place that I don’t want to see to bring fanatical religious fascism to America. But those advertisements are EVERYWHERE. They’re on buses, on your internet forums, on social media… you name it. They attempt to paint our GAWD JAYSUS as a normal cool guy. But no, we see through your cult, Hobby Lobby!

Green discussed his involvement in the campaign, and the Super Bowl ad spots, during a November 2022 interview with conservative talk show host Glenn Beck.

“We are wanting to say — ‘we’ being a lot of different people — that he gets us,” Green said. “[Jesus] understands us. He loves who we hate. I think we have to let the public know and create a movement.”

“He Gets Us” does not list donors on its website. “Funding for He Gets Us comes from a diverse group of individuals and entities with a common goal of sharing Jesus’ story authentically,” the site’s funding information page reads. “Most of the people driving He Gets Us, including our donors, choose to remain anonymous because the story isn’t about them, and they don’t want the credit.”

Jason Vanderground, spokesperson for He Gets Us and president of creative marketing firm HAVEN, told CNN that The Servant Foundation uses a fund which “unites donors to provide pooled support for organizations while ensuring the organizations can operate without donors impacting specific messages.”

“Funding for the campaign comes from a diverse group of individuals and entities with a common goal of sharing Jesus’ story authentically,” he said.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/us/he-gets-us-super-bowl-commercials-cec/index.html

Yes, y’all need JAYSUS! Or maybe you don’t. Maybe next year JAYSUS ascends down to earth and smites the unholy Dark One and all of his ungodly supporters to the fieriest pit of HELL and declares Earth the “cool kids club”. Yeah rapture this! Sounds fun, anyways! And speaking of the cool kids club, who’s not in there is Moms For Liberty. Yes, the book banning fascist thugs are coming for your school boards whether we want them to or not (easy answer: we don’t) and they want to enact a very sinister and certainly evil agenda under the guise of “protecting children”. Which so far, the number of children they’ve “protected” from something is… 0. In fact they’re making it worse.

The activist group Moms for Liberty has become the new face of the culture wars around education. The group was founded in 2021, during the Covid pandemic, and rose to prominence through outspoken opposition to school mask mandates. The group has now spread across the United States, its membership fueled by the Republican-led moral panic over a “woke ideology” that is supposedly sweeping public schools and “indoctrinating” children. At present, the group counts 285 chapters in 45 states.

As the group has grown, so too have its political ambitions. Moms for Liberty places particular emphasis on capturing local school boards in order to secure greater control over school policy. More broadly, the group endorses legislation that would limit the topics that can be discussed in the classroom (for instance, Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” legislation), and they promote policies that allow parents to target books for removal from school libraries and classrooms. The materials challenged by Moms for Liberty reflect the “war on wokeness” announced by conservative figures such as Tucker Carlson and Ron DeSantis.

Group members regularly disrupt school board meetings to rail against books that address the nation’s history of racial violence (maligned under the fuzzy category of “critical race theory”). Likewise, the group condemns materials that explore gender identity or advocate for LGBTQ+ acceptance – particularly those that explore transgender identity. Librarians, teachers and parents who defend these materials have been repeatedly harassed by group members as “groomers” or “pedophile sympathizers”. The caustic tone of the group’s activism has led the Southern Poverty Law Center to classify it as an extremist organization.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/06/moms-for-liberty-long-history-rightwing-activism

You know I still like the idea of some good old fashioned smiting, and I’d like to start with the book banning fascists! Which brings me to my next point – if there was one word that could accurately suim up the year 2023 – we talked about this last year – that word is nationalism. And boy did Christians pile on the nationalist and fascist rhetoric this year, didn’t they? We counted at least 15 editions where we talked about so-called Christians doing and saying nationalist things, and it just got so out of hand that we just got burnt out. But make no mistake that new House speaker Mike Johnson gave us plenty of material to work with! And next year is an election year, so what could possibly go wrong?

Newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has been extremely vocal about his strict Christian beliefs, going so far as to say that reading the Bible will teach you everything there is to know about his world view. But an online Christian group called Faithful America isn't buying it, launching a petition to condemn him as a false prophet.

According to Newsweek, the group is in the midst of their second-annual "False Prophets Don't Speak for Me" campaign, which aims to show that false prophets "will never speak for Jesus" for the Christian community.

Alongside Johnson — for whom they've collected over 12,000 signatures in favor of condemnation — they've listed other Christian-nationalist leaders such as Donald Trump, Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Ohio Representative Jim Jordan and co-founder of Moms for Liberty, Bridget Ziegler.

"It's hard to overstate the threat that anti-democracy, anti-freedom Christian nationalism poses to both democracy and the church today, especially now that Rep. Mike Johnson has become the most Christian-nationalist speaker in U.S. history,"

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2023/11/05/online-christian-group-petitions-to-condemn-mike-johnson-as-a-false-prophet/?in_brief=true

So what do we want for these people? We want their asses handed to them in every sing le election in November next year! All right, that’s it for us! Mass has ended, may you go in peace! We’re out of here for the year! We’ll see you next year! Until then, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and happy new year!

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Welcome back to our segment that attempts to explain the unexplainable, Conspiracy Corner! Of course conspiracies exist when people simply don’t want to read the article past the headlines and just flat out make shit up. We of course are coming to you live from our underground doomsday shelter from deep within the New Mexico badlands. Undisclosed location, of course! Let me just adjust my trusty tin foil hat for maximum government interference. Ah, there we go! They are trying to read yours and my thoughts after all! Well this week we’re going to introduce you to a hacker collective that is looking to turn the governments of the world upside down. So the Gay Furry Hacker Collective, which we will refer to as the “GFHC” has been in the news a lot over the last year but they’re back in the news for what may be one of the most bizarre stories we’ve seen this year. Look we’re not here to kink shame, OK? That’s not what we do here. But we are here to question whether or not human – animal hybrids exist, because we do deal in conspiracy theories, damn it! So yeah when I see an article like that come up on my feed? You bet your ass I’m gonna click on it!

Idaho National Laboratory (INL), one of the largest nuclear labs in the US, confirmed this week that it has been hacked. The group behind the data breach was self-described "gay furry hackers" Sieged Security aka SiegedSec, who have demanded the INL put its efforts and resources into creating real-life catgirls.

They probably aren't being serious, but they did hack into a huge nuclear lab, so who knows.

According to SiegedSec, the hacktivist group has accessed thousands of records of user and employee data held by INL. This includes people's full names, birthdays, email and home addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers, employment information, and "lots lots more."

"woah so much crunchy data :3" SiegedSec wrote on their Telegram account, which gives you an idea of their communication style.
https://mashable.com/article/catgirl-real-nuclear-hack

Yeah why does this remind me of that scene from Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back? I have so many questions about this! Although one thing I’m definitely certain of is that they’re very unclear as to how the concept of genetics actually works. You can’t just create a series of catgirls with nuclear fusion. It takes hundreds of years and millions of genetic mutations to create something like that. At least that’s the way I remember it from Biology 101. But at least one thing they’re doing that is good is that they’re coming for states that have banned or even criminalized gender affirming care. Because we’re currently being held hostage by deranged conspiracy theorists in all branches of our government.

A group of self-described anti-US government “gay furries” have distributed hacked materials from agencies in six US states in recent days, citing legislative attacks on gender-affirming care as their motive.

The data released by the group, which calls itself SiegedSec, includes South Carolina police files, a list of licensed therapists in Texas and contact details for court officials in Nebraska. The Guardian’s review of that data has substantiated the group’s claims that the materials sourced from state and local agencies are genuine.

A post to SiegedSec’s Telegram channel on Tuesday night announced that “MOAR DAMAGE MUST BE DONE!” and “Our next attack on the U.S government has arrived!” Furries are a subculture united by passion for anthropomorphism.

In another recent post announcing a distribution of data breached from a system used by the city government of Fort Worth in Texas, SiegedSec said its motive was “to make a message towards the US government”, adding: “Texas happens to be one of the largest states banning gender-affirming care, and for that, we have made Texas our target.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/29/siegedsec-gay-furries-group-hacked-information-six-us-states

Good question! We don’t know the answer to that one. But here’s the thing – the GFHC isn’t just stopping at bizarre genetic mutations. They’re going after the big guns! And why do they think that hacking some of the world’s biggest government institutions is fun? Wouldn’t that take like some kind of Mission Impossible shit to breach? But again whatever floats your boat. And again I also say that when we see headlines like “gay furry hackers breach NATO”, you can bet your ass that we’re going to click on that shit! So yeah you can say what you want about this group but they’re doing what people are only thinking the voices on Fox and AM radio are telling them!

The hacking group SiegedSec announced on Monday that it has leaked what are claimed to be more than 3,000 files from the North American Treaty Organization (NATO).

In a post on Telegram, the hackers, who have previously described themselves as “gay furries,” shared numerous screenshots of the data as well as a description of its contents.

“We tend to have fun breaching intergovernmental alliances between large nations ,” the group wrote.

The data is said to have originated from the “NATO Learning Management System” and includes files from portals including the “Lessons Learned Portal,” the “Logistics Network Portal,” and the “Investment Division Portal,” among others.

Numerous reports contain notices indicating that their content is unclassified but intended for official use only among NATO and nations belonging to the Five Eyes intelligence alliance.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/siegedsec-nato-hack/

So you might be wondering – why are they doing this exactly? Well first off, like all bizarre things in this world, we’re not in the least bit surprised that it has Russian origins. Or that they’re appearing on Russian owned social media sites like Telegram. Well the hacker collective first came to being when Roe V Wade was overturned by the MAGA friendly SCOTUS. But one thing you’ve got to admit – is that unlike a lot of other protest groups in this country and the world, they’re actually getting some shit done. You may laugh but soon the GFHC will be coming for your state, federal and local governments demanding… something. What it is, we don’t know exactly.

Earlier this month, SiegedSec, the group of self-described “gay and transgender furry hackers” claimed responsibility for cyber attacks on five state governments in Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina, leaking documents that include police files and contact details for court officials.

The hacks – announced in a Telegram channel – are the latest in a string of hacks that began last year, all of which are aimed at states banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth. “Our motive was to ensure government agencies saw our hacks, and motivate and encourage others to protest,” they tell Dazed.

In one post, headlined “be gay [and] do crime,” SiegedSec announced that more damage would be done and that they were planning more attacks “carefully”. The group also mockingly described defacing hacked government websites with special messages, or “gifts”, and vowed “to give Texas another gift soon”.

While many of the leaked documents were publicly available or did not contain sensitive information, the private data now made public consists of the names and contact details of several hundred Nebraska probation officers. “I hope our attacks get others to protest, and hopefully help the laws to get changed. We know we can’t do much on our own, our intention was to provide additional support,” they tell Dazed.
https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/60317/1/why-gay-furry-hackers-are-leaking-state-government-documents-siegedsec

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Of course you know by now that people are people, and people are dumb. I always want to preface by saying what exactly makes up a People Are Dumb story. Someone who goes on a high speed pursuit is not a People Are Dumb story. A high speed pursuit involving a tractor and a DUI going down the 405 in the wrong direction at 1:00 AM? Now that’s a People Are Dumb story! This is our favorite People Are Dumb segment of the year because we get to go through all of them throughout the year and select our favorites. The best of the best, the stupidest of the stupid! All the best of the biggest morons, idiots, dipshits and wankers the USA and the world have to offer! I want to start with this story out of Georgia from the beginning of the year ( Idiots #14-1 ), and this might be one of the stupidest criminals of all time. If you are going to kill someone, maybe don’t Google “how to dispose of a body”. Have you not seen Dateline? Or To Catch A Predator? They’re watching that shit, yo!

Brian Walshe dismembered the body of his wife, Ana Walshe, before discarding it, prosecutors alleged during Walshe's arraignment Wednesday morning as he faces a murder charge.

Walshe, who was led into the courtroom in handcuffs and had a blank stare painted on his face throughout the proceeding, was held without bail. Wednesday was his second arraignment in the case of his wife's disappearance.

Prosecutors laid out an intricate timeline of the days following Ana Walshe's New Year's Day disappearance, saying that DNA testing of items discarded in a Swampscott dumpster link back to the Walshe couple, including slippers, tissues and a Tyvek suit.

Walshe allegedly made a number of Google searches on his son's iPad that dealt with discarding a dead body in the days following the last time his wife was seen, including "How long before a body starts to smell?" and "Dismemberment and the best ways to dispose of a body."

"It might have been a crime of passion or an accident, especially given the frantic search nature after the fact," said Dr. Kellie Wallace, a professor of criminal justice at Lasell University in Newton. "These are very compelling pieces of evidence and there's a lot of them and they all point in the same direction. All of them align to tell a very clear story."
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/brian-walshe-to-appear-in-court-wednesday-as-he-faces-murder-charge/2947964/

Next up – this is from Idiots #14-3 and it comes out of that state that we love to mock so much, the Sunshine State, America’s penis, the state of Florida! And the reason why we mock Florida so much is that day in and day out, week after week. We even went and toured the Sunshine State to find out why they’re so crazy, but our trip got cut short because of the hurricane. But this story might be one of my favorite Florida Man stories and most definitely my favorite police nickname of the year. Here’s a pro tip for you – you should live your life in such a way that police don’t refer to you as the “pooping perpetrator”. The Pooping Perpetrators by the way, awesome band! Saw them at the Troub.

Police in Florida are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying a man they have dubbed the “pooping perpetrator.“

Around 2:30 a.m. Jan. 21, a man caught on surveillance video broke into a Joe’s Crab Shack in Fort Myers, police say.

He allegedly climbed through a small window that he broke prior to stealing multiple items, including alcohol, and defecating on the floor prior to leaving.

He also stole a Joe’s Crab Shack hat off a shelf and wore it as he walked around the restaurant, WFLA-TV reports. ..............(more)

https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/florida-man-dubbed-pooping-perpetrator-sought-by-police-for-break-in/

Next up – here’s another great Florida Man story that we did from one of our famous all Florida editions of People Are Dumb (see: Idiots #14-8 ) and this is one of those stories that might be where it’s probably best if you actually read the terms of service before you patronize a business. But if you go to a coffee shop that’s called “We Spy Coffee”, you should be aware that they’re probably spying on you. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re one of those businesses that has a terms of service that’s longer than the US Constitution that you’re required to agree with before you enter.

An employee of “We Spy Coffee & More,” located on the gorgeous Tarpon Springs Sponge Docks, has been arrested after a camera was found in the men’s restroom.

On Saturday, Officers from the Tarpon Springs Police Department arrested Spyridon Voulgarakis, 31, on charges of Battery and Video Voyeurism.,

The victim was a customer of “We Spy Coffee & More,” located at 505 Dodecanese Boulevard.

While using the male restroom at the business, the victim discovered he was being video recorded by a camera placed underneath the sink.

The victim confronted the Voulgarakis, who is an employee of “We Spy Coffee & More.”
https://www.tampafp.com/florida-sponge-docks-coffee-shop-we-spy-coffee-more-employee-arrested-over-spying-in-mens-bathroom/

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!! Love Archer! By the way, if you haven’t heard – the Florida Man games are actually a thing and they are happening next February, and if you haven’t seen our I Need A Drink piece on that, check out Idiots #15-12. And our final People Are Dumb story comes from Idiots #15-5 and we always say that if you’re committing a crime, maybe it’s best if you don’t draw attention to yourself. But this guy from Marion County may be one of the biggest idiots we’ve ever seen. If you’re going to go out for an evening of drinks, maybe don’t wear a shirt that might give you away that you’re drunk, which is what this guy did.

A man wearing an "I'm the Reason the Beer's Always Gone" t-shirt was charged with a DUI after deputies said he was driving almost three times over the legal limit.

On August 16, a Marion County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) deputy was conducting radar enforcement in the area of Marion Oaks Boulevard and Marion Oaks Manor. While on shift, an orange pickup truck came barrelling past the patrol car, the incident was caught on dash cam. Radar confirmed the vehicle was going 89 mph in a 45 mph zone.

The deputy activated his emergency lights and siren to conduct a traffic stop, the sheriff's office said. The driver of the truck, later identified as (omitted)., fled from the deputy and then turned off the lights on his truck, turning onto Southwest 32nd Circle in hopes of eluding the deputy. But it didn’t work, and the deputy caught up with him.

Body camera video shows deputies conducting a DUI traffic stop on Rix. The deputy said he could smell alcohol coming from Rix’s breath and that he was unsteady on his feet. During the stop, Rix can be seen wearing an “I’m the Reason the Beer’s Always Gone," t-shirt.
https://cbs12.com/news/local/james-rix-jr-florida-man-arrested-for-dui-wearing-im-the-reason-the-beers-always-gone-t-shirt-marion-oaks-manor-ocala-marion-county-sheriffs-office-august-23-2023

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Welcome back to our segment where we pit red state governors against blue state governors in a battle royale! A steel cage death match! It’s the segment that was inspired by a bumper sticker – My Governor Is An Idiot! But who’s really the idiot? In the last couple of weeks, we pit Roy Cooper vs Mike DeWine, Tim Walz vs Kim Reynolds, and Andy Beshear against Kay Ivey. This week it’s the granddaddy of all gubernatorial rivals. It’s my home state of California – one of the best governors in the entire country, Gavin Newsom, against the king of Florida Men himself, Ron DeSantis! Yes, this was the subject of a recent debate on Fox News, and it was awesome to see Newsom take down DeSantis in front of his executive regional manager – Sean Hannity. So will DeSantis lose again? There’s only one way to find out, let’s go to the floor, shall we?

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Ah yes, Ron DeSantis. The original Florida Man himself. He’s as crazy as the people who elect him every time. And a preview of what a fascist state in America could look like. We know everything Florida has to offer because we’ve talked about it a lot on this program. Hoo boy, where to begin with Ron DeSantis? We’ve been covering his antics since he first wormed his way into becoming the Fox News installed governor of Florida for the better part of the last 4 years now, and he’s turning Florida into an absolute shit show. How about let’s talk about the latest antics from his laughably, ridiculously failed attempt at a presidential campaign. It’s getting embarrassing now. And as we’ve been saying around here, the GOP is the party of Trump and Fox whether they want to admit it or not. And no way in hell is Desantis going to unseat Trump in 2024 for the GOP primary. But he’s really getting to his Jeb Bush “please clap” moment.

The Florida governor received backlash for his remarks at a New Hampshire campaign event

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has sparked controversy once again, drawing condemnation for his comments made at a campaign event in New Hampshire in which he promised to “start slitting throats on Day 1” if he wins the 2024 presidential election.

The DeSantis campaign event was held in Rye, New Hampshire, and consisted of a barbecue hosted by former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown.

“We’re going to have all these deep state people, you know, we are going to start slitting throats on Day 1,” DeSantis said.
https://www.thewrap.com/ron-desantis-mocked-start-slitting-throats/

Yeah what do you want to do? You want to fight about it? And here’s a pro tip for all of you haters and MAGA lurkers out there – live your live in such a way that you’re not threatening to murder people at your next campaign stop. And we could seriously talk all day about how ridiculous this campaign is. But the other thing – the death threats and attempted murder aren’t just a one time deal. In fact they’re becoming a feature with the MAGA / America First crew. Just recently, despite his best efforts, he again threatened to murder people who cross the border, and the MAGAs just keep pushing back on what actual immigration to this country is anymore. It’s hard to keep up with their insanity.

Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to justify killing people illegally crossing the Mexican border, and that it won’t take too many of these executions to get the message across.

“But when somebody’s got a backpack on and they’re breaking through the wall, you know, that’s hostile intent and you have every right to take action under those circumstances. And guess what, you do that a few times, the times are a-changin’, they will have to respond to that,” DeSantis said during a a Tuesday night appearance on the CBS Evening News.

DeSantis noted that not all border crossers will be presumed to be members of drug cartels.

“I mean, if they’re trying to break through the wall, we will have deadly force authorized to be able to stop that,” DeSantis said. “Cartel members, I mean, you have to identify them as being hostile. I mean, if there’s, if there’s a woman with a baby, they’re not a cartel member, there’s not going to be authorization to just shoot somebody like that.”
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/634182-desantis-few-times/

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Gavin Newsom, the governor of the 38th state of the United States and my home state, California. If you want to know what California has to offer, we’ve literally got it all! Beaches, mountains, big cities, every professional sports team and league you could think of. We’re also home to Hollywood too, and liberals usually get a lot of crap from conservatives about being aligned with Hollywood celebrities. But we’re here to talk about Gavin Newsom, who was the original inspiration for this segment, because we see this bumper sticker on cars at least 10 times a day while stuck in those famous Los Angeles traffic jams you hear so much about. Last week, you probably saw or heard about Newsom’s epic ownage of Ron DeSantis live on Fox News in front of DeSantis’ boss, Sean Hannity. And Fox News of course attempted some good old fashioned gas lighting and trolling of the debate by saying DeSantis won. He didn’t, and we’ve got proof of that! Turn off Fox News!

Gavin Newsom has a scant history of tough debates over his two decades as governor and lieutenant governor of California and mayor of San Francisco.

But he is nevertheless unusually prepared for his nationally televised face-off on Thursday with Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida: Over the past few months, Mr. Newsom has lived through something of a debate boot camp on how to respond to attacks on California, President Biden, the Democratic Party and his own mistakes over the years.

It came in the form of two lively interviews with Sean Hannity, the conservative Fox News host who will moderate the debate on Thursday. From the moment they sat down, he pressed Mr. Newsom on the differences between them on issues as varied as immigration and law enforcement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/us/politics/newsom-desantis-debate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.B00.b1OV.LJf2q0V0TBrh&smid=url-share

But one thing we do have to talk about before we get out of here for the year, you may have heard about the Texas Supreme Court who denied a woman’s request to get an abortion and banned her from traveling out of state, and here’s the really horrible part – they did this in the middle of the night, hoping that we wouldn’t notice. Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! But this is what I love about Newsom is that he’s not afraid to confront these assholes head on. And he’s had them squirming multiple times lately. So yeah if it came to Newsome and DeSantis in 2028, I know who I’m choosing and it's not the Florida guy!

A Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis and who was awaiting a decision from the Texas Supreme Court about whether she would be allowed to get an abortion said Monday that she has decided to leave Texas to get the procedure.

Kate Cox, a mother of two who is around 20 weeks pregnant, found out just after Thanksgiving that her developing fetus has trisomy 18, a fatal diagnosis. Seeking to terminate the pregnancy to protect her health and future fertility, she and her husband sought a court order to block Texas’ abortion bans from applying in her case.

A state district judge granted the request Thursday, but then the state Supreme Court temporarily paused the lower court’s order Friday. On Monday evening, the Texas Supreme Court directed the lower court to vacate its order.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-woman-sought-abortion-court-order-leave-state-rcna129087

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It’s easily big Ronnie, he’s the dumbest and worst governor OF ALL TIME!

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There is no next week, but we’ll be doing a couple more of these! When we come back in January, it’s round 10 – Georgia’s Brian Kemp against New York’s Kathy Hochul!


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Folks, for my final guest of season 15, we have one of the GOATs! Their new album is called “In Times New Roman…”, you can see them on their last show of the tour Saturday Dec. 16th at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles! Playing their song Carnavoyeur, give it up for the one the only Queens Of The Stone Age!

Thank you so much everybody! That’s it for the Top 10 this season! We’ll be back on Thursday, January 25th , 2024 with our first edition of season 16! I want to thank my staff, my crew, my writers, all of the host venues, and all of the bands and performers who came and performed for us, and most importantly – our audience! We could not do this without our audience and fans! Have a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Happy New Year everybody!

See you next year!

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