This administration is unwell. Their online posting habits are evidence enough. If they were a friend we’d probably recommend touching grass. Or therapy. But they are not our friends but rather wannabe fascists who are disappearing immigrants and demonizing anyone who disagrees with them. 

In this deep dive Francesca explores how Trump’s propaganda derives from the very bowels of the internet that Trump’s victories have pulled from: the gamers, the incels, the 4chan and 8chan white nationalists. These are the online communities with big mass shooter energy who hate women, people of color, and living in a society? 

And actual mass shooters exhibit the same kinds of posting behavior as whoever is behind these unhinged DHS and White House posts. 

So it’s no accident that Trump’s propaganda pulls from these same places in order to recruit sad dads to work for ICE. In order to do racist violence you should probably be a violent racist. You want armies of Nick Fuentes’. 

And it’s extra funny that while being tough online, DHS claims *they* are the ones being targeted. It’s extra rich that FBI director Kash Patel claims he’s ‘going after nihilistic extremists who were radicalized online’. He should start by looking in the mirror. 

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For the 300th episode of The Bitchuation Room and the two-year anniversary of the genocide, Francesca is joined by comedians Matt Lieb and Lana Salah for the latest updates on breaking the siege and Trump and Bibi's plans for Gaza.

Trump is desperate for the Nobel Peace Price and wants a ceasefire to get it, while Bibi is “always so f*cking negative!”. Meanwhile, the FBI cuts ties with the ADL after Charlie Kirk's death despite the organization going to bat for Elon’s nazi salute. 

Plus, flotilla activists including Greta Thunberg prove Israel is not impenetrable, and Italy’s general strike is lit.

Meanwhile, ICE’s latest crackdown in Chicago leaves over a thousand people detained. As blackhawk helicopters descend and babies are teargassed, Fox News trots out a Michael Rapaport look alike to tell us about the dangers of Antifa.

Featuring: 

Lana Salah, https://www.instagram.com/thelanasalah/ https://lanasalah.com/ Matt Lieb https://x.com/mattlieb https://www.youtube.com/@Badhasbara

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Trump escalates his crackdown: unveiling a new directive on so-called "left-wing terrorism," to put puts thousands of FBI and other agents to work to domestic terrorism watchlist. Chuck Schumer says Democrats need Republicans to help to stop it... which sounds like a terrible plan! And ICE’s reign of terror in Portland ramps up as Ta-Nehisi Coates takes on the NYT’s #1 white boy.

Then, Derek Beres of the Conspirituality podcast joins to dive into the latest chaos in RFK Jr. world from conspiracy theories on autism to vaccine rollbacks as a massive COVID wave surges. 

We also  break down the politics of TrumpRX, Trump’s latest plan to let Americans buy drugs directly from the government -- whatever happened to taking on Big Pharma RFK?!

Featuring: Derek Beres, Co-host of the Conspirituality Podcast https://www.conspirituality.net/ https://substack.com/@derekberes 

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We’ve been promised a new American Baby Boom by a man who wears diapers and calls himself president, but the plan isn’t going well. Trump has surrounded himself with yet another cluster of weirdos: the pronatalists. Pronatalists claim they are concerned with population decline despite no evidence of population decline. They claim their movement isn’t racist despite openly talking about ‘white genocide’ and the ‘Great Replacement Theory.’

In this deep dive, Francesca explores the characters who lead this eugenic-adjacent movement– from the Collinses who like to hit their 3-year-old in public, to the founder of the annual conference NatalCon Kevin Dolan, who is an extremist Mormon– and their close ties to the U.S. government via Elon Musk, Peter Theil and JD Vance.

What’s the real reason people aren’t having kids, and how are pronatalists and their friends in high places, totally unserious about changing that. Don’t worry, it’s not your genes they want, it’s their own. Their very very weird genes.

00:00 Introduction

00:01:46 EWWW-LON MUSK

00:04:51 THE CREEPY COLLINSES

00:08:12 NATALCON: THE SERENGETI OF PRONATALISTS

00:09:07 DIVORCE "EXPERT" BRIT BENJAMIN

00:10:40 PEACHY KEENAN

00:12:24 KK-KEVIN DOLAN

00:16:52 THE WAR ON CHILDLESS PEOPLE

00:20:54 TRUMP BACKTRACKS ON IVF

00:23:36 NO INTEREST IN LOWERING COSTS FOR PARENTS

00:26:22 TRUMP'S BABY BONUSES ARE A CROCK

00:27:29 MEDALS FOR MOTHERHOOD?!

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Funerals usually have waterworks but pyrotechnics, antisemitism AND Goebbel’s plagiarism? Sign me up! Francesca and comedian Mohanad Elsheiky discuss the unsettling Charlie Kirk memorial, and the looming takeover of TikTok from a man named Lachlan and the Ellison family. Wither Palestine speech.

Plus Kimmel is back on the air, kind of… Then journalist Akela Lacy joins to talk about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s path of truth telling and bold proposals, and Kamala Harris. Womp. Harris barely endorses Zohran and tries to pass every buck for her failure as a presidential candidate. What’s next for the rift in the Big Tent party and why is “good enough” not enough. 

Featuring: 

Mohanad Elshieky, comedian (who you can catch on tour: https://linktr.ee/mohanad.elshieky)

Watch or listen to Mohanad's special here: https://www.comedydynamics.com/catalog/mohanad-elshieky-no-need-to-address-me/

Akela Lacy, Senior Politics Reporter & co-host of The Intercept Briefing podcast

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Francesca takes stock of WTH has happened over the last few days. We'll break down why Kimmel was allegedly canceled, the FCC chair wanting more shows to go, how we got to this point of media consolidation and why so-called free speech comics are so so silent. 

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As information about Charlie Kirk’s assassin trickles in, so do the bizarre inconsistencies. A destroyed letter? A very on the nose text thread. And there still doesn’t appear to be evidence of the “hardened leftist” narrative, but that hasn’t stopped the entire regime from putting anyone left of center in their crosshairs. Blakeley, musician and content creator, joins Francesca to talk about JD Vance and Stephen Miller threatening any American leftist and the dovetailing with tall of the censorship of free speech around Palestine.

But first, author Jacob Silverman joins to talk about his new book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, and how it is that techies went from being normal Democrats to reactionaries pining away for some feudal past.  

Featuring: 

Jacob Silverman, journalist and author Buy Jacob's book here:

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Blakeley

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Every fantasy franchise has an insufferable part of its fan base. But this one takes the cake. Powerful conservatives are obsessed with The Lord of The Rings. We know this because they name their military tech companies, surveillance companies and venture capital firms after objects in Middle Earth. Billionaire Peter Thiel has named 10 of his companies after things in Lord of The Ring, including Palantir, the Trump's regime's authoritarian surveillance company of choice. JD Vance has called himself a "Lord of the Rings guy", Elon Musk has hot anti-woke takes on The Rings of Power, and Jeff Bezos helped make that series by buying the rights to the franchise via Amazon. Even the far right even in Spain and Italy identify with the Lord of The Rings.

They believe they’re in a fight against dark forces, and that they’re heroic men of Gondor, or Elves of Rivendell. Yeah that’s right: the people helping ICE disappear mothers and fathers think they’re the good guys. What’s worse is that they believe that Tolkien’s Catholicism means he would agree with their world view that immigrants, feminists and global cooperation are the enemy. 

Francesca digs deep into “The Nerd Reich’s” misreading of Lord of the Rings and how they took all the wrong lessons from the story. She looks at how their behavior and beliefs are more the stuff of Saruman than saviors. But they’re even more like another creature in the bogs of Mordor… 

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Everything just got a lot worse. The manhunt is still underway for Charlie Kirk but President Trump and the regime are wasting no time blaming the ‘radical left’ for basically calling Kirk’s hate speech… hate speech. Trump and the State Department are threatening immigrants who appear to celebrate or rationalize the murder with deportation. The regime has decided, despite any evidence, that Democrats and the broader left are to blame for the heinous crime.

Wajahat Ali joins Francesca to talk about the media’s lionization of Kirk, and bringing down the axe on those who point out what a divisive figure he was. To put it mildly. He has demonized immigrants people of color, queer people, Muslim women with smears and lies for years. His audience was primed for blaming others and for conspiracies like the Jeffery Epstein saga.

We have to hold a few things at once: nothing justifies this senseless murder, no weapons of war should be available to civilians, and no, no Charlie Kirk was not a good person.

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Every fantasy franchise has an insufferable part of its fan base. But this one takes the cake. Powerful conservatives are obsessed with The Lord of The Rings. We know this because they name their military tech companies, surveillance companies and venture capital firms after objects in Middle Earth. Billionaire Peter Thiel has named 10 of his companies after things in Lord of The Ring, including Palantir, the Trump's regime's authoritarian surveillance company of choice. JD Vance has called himself a "Lord of the Rings guy", Elon Musk has hot anti-woke takes on The Rings of Power, and Jeff Bezos helped make that series by buying the rights to the franchise via Amazon. Even the far right even in Spain and Italy identify with the Lord of The Rings.

They believe they’re in a fight against dark forces, and that they’re heroic men of Gondor, or Elves of Rivendell. Yeah that’s right: the people helping ICE disappear mothers and fathers think they’re the good guys. What’s worse is that they believe that Tolkien’s Catholicism means he would agree with their world view that immigrants, feminists and global cooperation are the enemy. 

Francesca digs deep into “The Nerd Reich’s” misreading of Lord of the Rings and how they took all the wrong lessons from the story. She looks at how their behavior and beliefs are more the stuff of Saruman than saviors. But they’re even more like another creature in the bogs of Mordor… 

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