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On this week's episode: Dallas will host the political suicide squad ... Andrew's unrequited crush on Liz Warren continues ... And we talk about Andrew's colleague as a member of the bar Sidney Powell.
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QAnon conference in Dallas: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/05/28/trump-fans-find-fellowship-at-3-day-dallas-conference-to-talk-god-country-and-patriotism/

Sidney Powell says Trump can get "reinstated": https://uproxx.com/viral/sidney-powell-trump-reinstated-qanon-conference/

Lindell’s law firm fires lawyer who filed lawsuit for Mike Lindell:https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/law-firm-dumps-mike-lindell-as-client-severs-ties-with-attorney-less-than-one-day-after-lawsuit-against-dominion-smartmatic/Alec Beck in the SHRM on 2020 voting rights:https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/state-and-local-updates/pages/many-states-require-employers-to-provide-time-off-to-vote.aspx

G7 Countries Agree to Minimum Corporate Tax: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/06/05/g7-tax-us-yellen/

Republicans complain about Kamala Harris and celebrate Memorial Day with shocking stupidity:https://www.mediaite.com/weird/writer-tricks-matt-gaetz-matt-schlapp-and-dinesh-dsouza-to-post-tweet-honoring-lee-harvey-oswald/https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/05/hypocritical-fox-news-attacks-kamala-harris-pre-memorial-day-tweet-tweeted-cocktails/

SEC fires Trump hack: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/04/sec-fires-republican-watchdog-491939

Trump shuts down his blog: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/us/politics/trump-shuts-down-blog.html

On this week's episode: New Jersey is top 8 in something and Eli is legally obligated to talk about it ... Georgia is in the bottom 8 of that same thing, because of fucking course it is ... And even if you have chiseled abs and stunning features, it doesn't mean that you too can't not die in a freak gasoline fight accident.

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GOP would like to know as little as possible about January 6th insurrection: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/19/mcconnell-opposes-houses-bipartisan-jan-6-commission-bill-489573

8 states are now above 70% of residents with at least on shot of the COVID vaccine: https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/health/us-coronavirus-sunday/index.html https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations

Tucker says we're ignoring UFOs and focusing on woke soldiers: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9591969/Carlson-claims-military-ignoring-UFOs-busy-purging-soldiers-not-woke-enough.html

China becomes second nation to land a rover on Mars: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57122914

Crypto Crash: https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/22/investing/crypto-crash-bitcoin-regulation/index.html

Pipeline hacked so gas hoarders blow themselves up:https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/us/politics/pipeline-hack.htmlhttps://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-south-carolina-woman-hoarding-gas-fire-crash-explosion-20210514-td5tf535svgtdnyfyp4672puai-story.htmlhttps://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/suv-burst-into-flames-after-containers-with-gas-ignite-in-central-florida/2451127/

On this week's episode: Arizona Republicans check for Chinese printed on the inside of their ballots ... China does another "bad guy from a comic book" looking thing ... And we need Bugs Bunny to cut off Florida with a saw now more than ever.
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Florida is garbage:https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/us/politics/florida-voting-rights-bill.htmlhttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/05/03/florida-covid-restrictions-gov-ron-desantis-lifts-rules-statewide/4923900001/https://deadline.com/2021/05/florida-bill-would-stop-social-media-companies-from-deplatforming-users-1234748489/

Herd immunity unreachable: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/health/covid-herd-immunity-vaccine.html

Tucker Carlson is garbage: https://www.thedailybeast.com/msnbcs-joy-reid-fires-back-after-tucker-carlson-calls-her-the-race-lady?ref=scroll

Arizona’s bullshit recount is looking for bamboo in the ballots as proof that the Chinese did it: https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/politics/arizona-recount-bamboo-state-senate/index.html

Giant Chinese rocket splashes down in Indian Ocean: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/08/china-rocket-landing/

On this week's episode: The United States once again whips out its johnson ... A Minnesota jury finds that black lives actually do matter ... And we learn that we can't afford NOT to buy some blockchain art.

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Derek Chauvin found guilty of murder: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/derek-chauvin-verdict-reached-trial-over-george-floyd-s-death-n1264565

J&J vaccine resumes: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/health/johnson-vaccine-resume.html

Trump does Hannity interview in first on-camera appearance since leaving the White House: https://www.thewrap.com/trump-fox-news-sean-hannity-2024/

House passes resolution on DC statehood: https://apnews.com/article/dc-statehood-congress-9edf21fe93e813808f1488ceb0b7900b

Gender reveal party explosion: https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/23/us/gender-reveal-explosion-new-hampshire-trnd/index.html

Investors are going crazy for NFT artwork and virtual real estate: https://www.reuters.com/business/metaverse-bet-crypto-rich-investors-snap-up-virtual-real-estate-2021-04-19/

On this week's episode: Matt Gaetz is going to jail ... Amazon workers reject collectivism in favor of everybody having their own pee bottle ... And all of a sudden Mitch McConnell is a communist who hates freedom.

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MLB pulls All-Star Game from Georgia: https://www.vox.com/2021/4/3/22365408/mlb-all-star-game-atlanta-explained-voter-suppression-bills

Mitch McConnell hates free speech all of a sudden: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/05/mcconnell-corporate-america-woke-parallel-government-479042

Matt Gaetz is going to jail: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/04/matt-gaetz-joel-greenberg-venmo https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/09/politics/house-ethics-committee-investigation-gaetz/index.html

Russian forces at Ukraine border swell to unprecedented numbers: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-troops-intervention.html

Piers Morgan tells his tragic story of victimhood on Tucker Carlson Today: https://www.thedailybeast.com/piers-morgan-bemoans-his-cancellation-over-meghan-in-hourlong-fox-news-primetime-tucker-carlson-special

Union Loss May Bring New Phase of Campaign Against Amazon: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/business/economy/amazon-labor-unions.html

Egypt discovers lost city: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/egyptologists-find-vast-millenia-old-lost-golden-city/ar-BB1frDXx
Also parades mummies around like they’re asking for it: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-egypt-paraded-22-ancient-pharaohs-through-streets-cairo-180977430/

On this week's episode: Jim Crow calls Georgia’s election bill a little blatant ... The Suez canal does its impression of Alex Jones’ colon ... And the American South uses Google to learn about hammer technology.

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Georgia decides not to do Black people votes anymore: https://www.ajc.com/politics/bill-changing-georgia-voting-rules-passes-state-house/

Boat blocking the Suez Canal: https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/25/middleeast/suez-canal-ship-blockage-intl-hnk/index.html

Sidney Powell is using the Tucker Carlson defense: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/23/sidney-powells-tucker-carlson-esque-defense/

Vatican issues pay cuts for cardinals amid huge financial deficits:  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56515367

Arkansas governor signs anti-trans sports bill: https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/breaking-arkansas-gov-asa-hutchinson-signs-anti-trans-sports-bill

Republicans are shockingly dumb on Google: https://www.estately.com/blog/you-wont-believe-the-questions-each-state-googles-more-than-any-other-state/

On this week's episode: The entire marketing department of Burger King comes down with type one diabetes ... Mike Lindell runs out of websites to get kicked off of so he starts making his own ... And beware the ides if you're a fascist who deserves to get stabbed.

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Meghan and Harry talk to Oprah: https://www.thedailybeast.com/conservative-media-stars-triggered-by-meghan-markles-claim-of-royal-racism

Burger King's International Women's Day campaign decried for sexism: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/burger-king-s-international-women-s-day-campaign-decried-sexism-n1260039

Hubble walking with noticeable limp now: https://earthsky.org/space/hubble-space-telescope-enters-safe-mode-after-unexpected-glitch-march7-2021

Mike Lindell Is Trying To Launch a Social Media Site: https://www.thedailybeast.com/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-is-trying-to-launch-a-social-media-site-and-its-already-resulted-in-a-legal-threat?ref=home

Guy blames saying the N-word on his diabetes: https://www.radio.com/sports/announcer-who-used-n-word-on-hot-mic-cites-blood-sugar-spike

Trump team to vaccinated people: “You’re welcome”: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/donald-trump-covid-vaccine-credit

On this week's episode: This year’s CPAC machine is anything but a snore ... Biden makes it more than 30 days without bombing a brown person to death ... And Ted Cruz lives out the tragic farce of a 5-year-old getting caught in a lie, at age 50.

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Line up at CPAC is a GAM-tacular: https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/z3v9be/a-japanese-cult-that-believes-its-leader-is-an-alien-from-venus-is-speaking-at-cpac

Biden gives up on a $15 minimum wage for no reason at all, he just hates me and freedom: https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/politics/minimum-wage-covid-relief-senate-parliamentarian/index.html

Ted Cruz is an embarrassment: https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/18/opinions/ted-cruz-weather-cancun-embarrassment-to-texas-moore/?hpt=ob_blogfooterold

Biden bombs Syria out of his unabiding hatred of brown people: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/26/us-strikes-iranian-backed-military-infrastructure-in-syria

Babies in cages at the Mexico border: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/us/migrant-children-border-detained.html

We have a gender neutral Potato Head: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/business/mr-potato-head-gender-neutral.html

On this week's episode: Sarah Huckabee Sanders is running for governor ... We learn that Disney Plus has higher ethical standards than the US Senate ... And it's gonna be more like a trot or MAYBE a light canter for governor.

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Impeachment trial ends with Trump being guilty and acquitted: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/us/politics/impeachment-donald-trump.html

Biden administration finalizes deal for 200 million vaccine doses from Pfizer, Moderna: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-administration-finalizes-deal-200-million-vaccine-doses-pfizer-moderna-n1257560

GA DA opens criminal probe into Trump’s call to GA Sec of State: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966332808/georgia-district-attorney-is-investigating-trumps-call-to-overturn-election

Gina Carano teams up with Ben Shapiro after getting fired from The Mandalorian: https://www.vox.com/culture/2021/2/12/22280565/gina-carano-fired-star-wars-mandalorian-social-media-conservative

Sarah Huckabee Sanders is running for governor: https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/08/politics/arkansas-republican-governor-tim-griffin-sarah-huckabee-sanders/index.htmll

This is a pretty sweet week to be a Mars nerd: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55998848 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56013041 https://www.space.com/mars-rover-perseverance-landing-4k-video-animation

On this week’s episode: Republicans make Joe Biden an offer he can absolutely refuse ... We’ll tell you what we’re gonna do with our space laser timeshare ... And we’ll impeach Donald Trump again, because impeachin’ makes us feel good.
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Gamestop thing: https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/careers-finance/sns-what-is-a-short-sale-gamestop-explained-20210128-dkdmjirbw5c2hkwzmounyx6gla-list.html

Joe biden’s fight to pass covid relief https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/30/politics/biden-covid-19-relief-urgency/index.html

Feinstein’s failure to disclosehttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/dianne-feinstein-stock-purchase-husband-b1794169.htmlPrevious story:https://apnews.com/article/dianne-feinstein-california-archive-b15af83719be0468f336b170e03a52c6

Marjorie Taylor-Greene more batshit crazy than we were giving her credit for: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/marjorie-taylor-greene-qanon-wildfires-space-laser-rothschild-execute.html

Johnson & Johnson’s Vaccine Offers Strong Protectionhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/health/covid-vaccine-johnson-and-johnson-variants.html

NY Mag timeline on impeachment:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/timeline-trump-second-impeachment.html