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Seasons greetings, and welcome back to the Plunge. We are celebrating Chanukah in style, and we’ve got a menorah-full of monstrosities from this week to discuss.

We all shed tears with Keaton, the bullied child from Knoxville, TN, until we realized that his mom and dad are pretty racist. Show favorite Sebastian Gorka has been tweeting for the culture, and that might be why the FCC and its chairman, Harlem Shake appropriator Ajit Pai, voted to end net neutrality rules. Alabama voted to scorn God’s love by electing Democrat Doug Jones over local pedophile Roy Moore in the Senate election this past Tuesday.

In the pop culture corner, we’re talking Star Wars, spoiler free of course, and we’ll unpack Disney’s cult of personality. For story time, we’ll introduce Le Boule de Mais, our brand-new fine dining segment, with a journey into the belly of Comet Ping Pong, the Northwest DC hangout that was recently exposed as the nexus of the PIZZAGATE sex ring.

We’ve got all that and Roy Moore in this week’s episode.

Hot links:

The great Keaton Jones controversy:

https://www.snopes.com/2017/12/12/keaton-jones-bullying-controversy/

Fuck Snopes - take it from Desus & Mero:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb97v3/desus-and-mero-break-down-the-keaton-jones-saga?utm_source=vicefbus

Keaton’s long-lost skinhead daddy:

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/12/13/bullied-middle-schooler-keaton-jones-estranged-father-white-supremacist/23306228/

Seb Gorka loves “MAGA Trump” Starbucks stunt: https://twitter.com/SebGorka/status/940425053434499073

Ajit Pai: utter disgrace:

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/364884-fcc-chair-dances-with-pizzagate-proponent-in-video-promoting

Excellent Brian Feldman (NYMag) tweet about the internet and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency):

https://twitter.com/bafeldman/status/941362883685994496

Benefits of public internet:

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/12/a-public-internet-is-possible

Roy Moore nonprofit fraud:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/undisclosed-deal-guaranteed-roy-moore-180000-a-year-for-part-time-work-at-charity/2017/10/11/5f56679e-a9de-11e7-850e-2bdd1236be5d_story.html?utm_term=.af8e32bb36b2

Moore refused to uphold marriage equality:

http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2016/09/alabama_supreme_court_chief_ju.html

Moore saying slavery is cool:

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-alabama-senate-runoff-20170921-story.html

Moore saying 9/11 is divine punishment:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/14/politics/kfile-roy-moore-9-11/index.html

Moore describing certain people as “reds and yellows”:

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/351194-roy-moore-refers-to-red-and-yellow-americans-in-campaign-speech

Moore smitten with wife when she was a teenager:

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/when_did_roy_moore_meet_his_wi.html

Kayla Moore’s “Jew attorney”:

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-kayla-moore-jews-20171212-story.html

Roy Moore's horse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wnx6bRiDj0

Cornball op ed posted after Doug Jones won:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/12/12/democrats-miraculous-victory-in-alabama/?utm_term=.d10ec2b50e3d

Doug Jones convicted KKK members as a US attorney:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/23/us/38-years-later-last-of-suspects-is-convicted-in-church-bombing.html

Doug Jones’ rock-hard commitment to “priorities”:

https://dougjonesforsenate.com/priorities/

Disney charges theaters more to show Last Jedi:

https://www.themarysue.com/disney-last-jedi-greed/

Politics of Star Wars:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/star-wars-is-more-political-than-you-think_us_590b663de4b056aa2363d298

The alt-right triggered over comments about a fictional fascist government:

https://www.vox.com/culture/2016/12/31/14024262/star-wars-political-alt-right-backlash

2 Maccabees 10: THAT’S WHAT CHANUKAH’S ALL ABOUT, CHARLIE BROWN:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Maccabees+10&version=GNT

3:18 Trump the TV Critic

6:54 Alec Baldwin Needs You To Text

13:52 Bill Clinton's Terrible Op Ed

18:49 Trump Slurred Speech/Presidents' Health

31:16 Gov't Shutdown

35:30 Political Cartoons

41:58 White House Hanukkah

47:20 Pop Culture Corner: Worst Xmas Movies

1:08:40 Medieval Times Story Time

We’ll kick off the show with an urgent plea: Alec Baldwin needs YOU to save America by texting. He’s released a video with lots of unusual head movements and dramatic theme music to defend special counsel Robert Mueller from being fired by the cheeto in chief. His fellow liberal blowhard Bill Clinton published a god-awful op-ed in the New York Times, and we’ll pick it apart. Then you’ll have to decide who does the best Bill Clinton impression.

Trump’s been having a busy week, tweeting nonsense about CNN, whistling about Israel-Palestine through his ill-fitting dentures, and ostensibly agreeing to be physically examined for the public record. Until we get the deets on the machinations of Trump’s internal organs, we’ll discuss the maladies of some of our previous presidents, how much we can actually know about them, and, more importantly, how politically useful any of this health information is.

We’ve also had an eventful week in non-Trump political news. Unfortunately for our anarchist listeners, the government shutdown has been averted temporarily! Political cartoons had a field day sneering at poor Trump voters, even as a significant portion of the urban coastal elite roast in Los Angeles. And the War to defend Christmas continued at the federal level as Senate Democrats found themselves uninvited to the White House Chanukah party, an ungodly event that no Jews should be subjected to.

In the pop culture corner, Dan and I are talking about the worst Christmas movies, from the corny to the CGI. And for this week’s storytime, Dan will tell you about hard times and fast living as a rambunctious highschooler at A Medieval Times in Maryland. It’s a great show, and 9/10 doctors agree that the weekly plunge is what you need to identify the clogs in politics and pop culture.

ARTICLES, BABY

Alec Baldwin is a self-important moron who wants you to text Congress because he told you so:

https://mic.com/articles/186641/alec-baldwin-is-calling-on-you-to-stop-trump-from-firing-mueller#.i9fGkcQgE

Trump the TV critic:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/939485131693322240

Bill Clinton, the absolute worst person to weigh in on anything at the moment:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/opinion/bill-clinton-travel-ban.html

Trump goes to the doctor:

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/12/07/white-house-announces-physical-exam-for-trump-after-slurred-speech/23300782/ //

How little you can actually know about the president and his health:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/12/trump-physical-health/547856/?utm_source=atlfb

The US government lives to stink another day:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-shutdown/congress-averts-government-shutdown-for-now-idUSKBN1E11DU

POLITICAL CARTOONS - CONTENT WARNING: CRASS, SOMETIMES RACIST GENERALIZATIONS:

https://www.politico.com/gallery/2017/12/08/nation-cartoonists-week-in-politics-december-002735?slide=0

Insane picture of LA wildfires:

https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/H_ywl1DcK3u6J7xiUm1AzPNU6jc/fit-in/2048xorig/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2017/12/06/787/n/38761221/fca1a8f25a282ea61863e0.09711385_edit_img_image_44335740_1512579544/i/California-Wildfires-Los-Angeles-Ventura-December-2017.jpg

No Democrats allowed at the White House Chanukah party:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/us/politics/democrats-white-house-hanukkah-party.html

https://splinternews.com/the-white-house-hanukkah-party-sounds-like-a-nightmare-1821119449

Haunting reindeer in The Santa Clause:

https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/197/full/1351370053_1.png

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