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We’re back from our Thanksgiving break! No more pre-recorded stuff. This episode is LIVE, people!

As we head into the new year, we’re upping our podcasting game with a few changes, but it’s still the news and analysis delivered with the foul language and snark you’ve come to love.

Lots to cover this week, so come join the Ogre Nation Conversation!

Ogre Nation News Update!

2:04 - 7:23 Republicans win a special election in Tennessee! Here’s why that victory is TERRIBLE news for the GOP…

7:24 - 20:05 The regime uses a dead National Guardsman to push their white nationalist agenda, and Stephen Miller goes more rabid than usual.

20:06 - 30:55 The dumbest march to war ever. The regime’s lust for murdering Venezuelans is out of control, but the cowards refuse to take responsibility for their crimes. Shocker.

30:56 - 35:18 Trump’s pardons are the most corrupt in history and the press isn’t really interested. Weird.

35:19 - 41:00 Florida’s school voucher program has turned into a huge waste of taxpayer money, filled with theft and fraud. Exactly what Republicans intended.

*Ogre Note: During this segment, Florida Woman says “America’s youths,” which somehow came out sounding like “America’s Jews,” which made me think of this classic scene from “My Cousin Vinny.” Feel free to mock Florida Woman.*

41:01 - 43:57 You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream Because of Fucking ICE

43:58 - 1:00:40 Headlines for Short Attention Spans!

1:00:41 - 1:04:45 Self-care of the Week

Things We Discussed On The Show

Steve Kornacki: GOP warning signs and lessons for Democrats in Tennessee’s special election results

Republican whose child has Down syndrome opposes redistricting after Trump’s ableist slur

Trump vows to freeze migration from ‘Third World Countries’ after D.C. attack

Is the US targeting a Venezuelan cartel that may not technically exist?

Hegseth keeps target on Navy man over lethal ‘narco boat’ strikes with eight-word retort to claim he tossed admiral under bus

Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández freed after Trump pardon

Bill Clinton’s Last Outrage; The President’s Defenders Feel Betrayed by His Pardon of Marc Rich

Bush Pardons 6 in Iran Affair, Aborting a Weinberger Trial; Prosecutor Assails ‘Cover-Up’

‘Whatever can go wrong with this system has gone wrong’: Audit finds Florida’s voucher program caused funding shortfall for public schools

Congress Enacts First-Ever Federal Tax Credit for Education Scholarships

College student traveling for Thanksgiving deported despite judge’s order blocking her removal

A mother was taken into custody by ICE. Then the public learned of her family tie to the White House

Denmark sets up ‘night watch’ to monitor Trump after Greenland row

Mark Carney says decades-long relationship between US and Canada has ended

Inside Trump’s Push to Make the White House Ballroom as Big as Possible

Dimon on JPMorgan Chase not donating to White House ballroom: ‘We have an issue’

FBI under Kash Patel has become ‘internally paralyzed by fear’, new report reveals

Kash Patel Meltdown Over FBI Jacket Derailed Major Investigation

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