2:45 Michael Flynn

11:46 White House Vermin Infestation

15:05 Trump's TV Contest/Islamaphobic Retweets

25:02 Melania's Goth Xmas at White House

29:06 No One Attended White House Xmas Tree Lighting

31:02 GOP Tax Bill

37:29 War on Christmas

48:18 Michael Moore vs Weinstein Brothers

55:43 Farewell Keith Olbermann

1:00:44 StoryTime Xmas Tales

Welcome back to THE PLUNGE. Michael Flynn is squealing like a pig as part of his plea deal to get people to forget about when the Turkish state paid him and his moronic son to kidnap a dissident cleric in the Poconos. The White House is overrun with even more vermin than you thought. Melania’s occult Christmas decorations mark an auspicious start to the annual War on Christmas. In the pop culture corner, we’ll fill you in on the legal battle brewing between the Weinstein brothers and Michael Moore. We’ll also pick apart Keith Olbermann’s farewell video and bid adieu to our least favorite flag-draped dweeb.

Show Notes:

Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the FBI

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/us/politics/michael-flynn-guilty-russia-investigation.html

Flynn and son kidnapping a cleric on behalf of the Turkish state

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/turkey_denies_alleged_plot_to.html

White House literally infested with mice and roaches

http://theweek.com/speedreads/740638/white-house-apparently-infested-mice-roaches-ants

Melania’s ill black metal kvlt Xmas decorations

https://www.vice.com/en_nz/article/evbjxn/melania-is-planning-the-christmas-from-hell-and-i-am-loving-it

Trump’s lonely Xmas tree lighting:

https://www.elitedaily.com/p/these-photos-of-trumps-national-christmas-tree-lighting-are-pretty-bleak-6754889

The CIA’s drastically understating civilian casualties

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/22/true-civilian-body-count-iraq

Twitter: friend of Islamophobes

http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/30/technology/twitter-trump-retweet-anti-muslim-hate/index.html?sr=twCNN113017twitter-trump-retweet-anti-muslim-hate0619PMStory

Protests against GOP tax bill

https://www.salon.com/2017/11/29/gops-senate-tax-bill-met-with-protests-across-country/

Capitol Hill police arresting protesters on the floor of the Senate budget hearing

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/362223-capitol-police-arrest-36-protesters-outside-senate-budget-hearing

Steve Mnuchin and Gary Cohn’s being terrible salespeople for a tax bill that steals from the poor to give to the rich

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/26/white-house-taxes-push-democrats-259708

Jeff Flake votes in support of bill

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/362784-flake-announces-support-of-tax-plan-giving-gop-votes-needed-to-pass-bill

Detailed description of the tax bill and its political process. Ahem, REMEMBER THE GOONS WHO VOTED FOR THIS

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/01/us/politics/senate-tax-bill-vote.html

The majority of Americans have less than $500 in savings

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/12/pf/americans-lack-of-savings/index.html

TRUMP VS. THE CHRISTMAS HATERS

http://www.nola.com/national_politics/2017/12/merry_christmas_donald_trump.html

THE DC METRO VS. XMAS

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/is-metro-waging-war-on-christmas-archdiocese-sues-to-post-nativity-themed-bus-ads/2017/11/28/4f7a34d6-d459-11e7-b62d-d9345ced896d_story.html?utm_term=.3e49ea904ed0

THE ELITE CORE DEFENDING OUR SACRED VALUES

https://static.politico.com/dims4/default/25a1832/2147483647/resize/1160x%3E/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2F55%2F34%2F42cdb06d46e69edf9fae6a8e6a66%2F1-zombies.jpg

Michael Moore’s new Trump film Fahrenheit 11/9 held up by the Weinstein Company

http://deadline.com/2017/11/michael-moore-harvey-weinstein-bob-weinstein-fahrenheit-911-sequel-dispute-donald-trump-fahrenheit-119-1202217328/

Michael & Us podcast

https://soundcloud.com/michael-and-us

Keith Olbermann’s delirious retirement video

https://www.gq.com/story/keith-olbermann-my-work-is-done