THE MOST IMPORTANT THING: WE PREDICTED GEORGE SANTOS’ RELEASE!!!!

This episode of Red State Reboot is brought to you by… A Bad Night’s Sleep - “Nature’s Beta Blocker!” JK, it’s brought to you by us after Freaky Friday-ing our bad moods. This week, we’re talking the MAGA-made crisis of a government shutdown and the :) dissolution of a free press in the U.S. :) as evidenced by the new Pentagon media rules. Also, we discuss the Hatch Act and its repeated violations by this Admin - including but not limited to Kristi Noem’s video in the TSA lines, and how this is just the cherry on top of the disaster which is air travel while workers are furloughed/working without pay. Yuck! But we don’t let Kristi off the hook there - we pull up the REAL receipts of her trying to use the bathroom at an animal shelter (REST IN POWER, CRICKET). Regrettably, we are once again shouting out MTG and… George Santos (?), who is now a free man!!! … Finally, we talk Tylenol and Trump Derangement Syndrome, and present a new theory we have on the latter.

Oh! And early voting started this week … NC Rebooties can look up their local elections here https://www.ncsbe.gov/voting/upcoming-election/local-voter-tool

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