In this episode of IHIP News, Jennifer Welch and her co-hosts react to a late-night call Donald Trump placed to C-SPAN and to whistleblower claims that paperwork tied to his White House construction projects was destroyed before Democrats take power. They discuss Speaker Mike Johnson's post-election remarks, Josh Hawley's call for a day of fasting and prayer, and the internal divisions within the Democratic Party, including criticism of Chuck Schumer and Haley Stevens.
Listeners will hear the hosts' sharply critical commentary, which they present as opinion alongside the news clips they play.
In this episode Angie Sullivan, Jennifer Welch, Josh Welch
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Good day, let's start ripping magga. Um, if you ever wonder, like, what is Kanks— you know, that's short for Kankel's McTaco Tits, our president— what is he doing in the middle of the night? Well, here's a little bird's-eye view: he called into C-SPAN, and I'm going to tell everybody, really sharpen your listening skills. Play the clip.
It looks like we've got a call from the White House. Um, Mr. President, welcome to Washington Journal prime time.
Well, thank you, Mimi, and good luck with the show. I've watched you numerous times, and you do a great job, but good luck with the show.
Hmm. Little cackling. I've never heard Melania laugh like that. And I started thinking about it: I don't know if I've ever heard Melania laugh.
No, I haven't either. I haven't either. This is just— I mean, he and Natalie Harp are sitting in the Oval Office, high-fiving over Dana White being the press secretary, and now they're giggling that he's going to go own the libs on C-SPAN. Here's the thing: I listened to the whole, uh, call because I'm a masochist. And one thing that he said that I just want to put on everybody's radar, because I'm going to be the fiscal accountability police, that he said, "We've gotten so much money from Venezuela," I mean, so much money, it just went right into the Treasury, and I'm like, great, I can't wait for a forensic accountant to look and find it.
I want to add one little observation. So, when you're playing futsi with your aide, who the fuck thinks it's a good idea to call into C-SPAN? Like, seriously. Like, like, who wants to do that? Like, I would maybe play some music on Spotify or, you know, kind of do something to set the tone, but calling into C-SPAN is the last fucking thing on my list when you're, you know, playing around.
And if we had a functioning media, they would ask, like, "Little Moses Mike Johnson's going to be on the news." Did you hear the president call into C-SPAN at whatever time it was and the female laughing in the background? Do you think that's appropriate? You know, you're a family-values Republican, you believe in traditional marriage, do you think that that is appropriate? But they won't. But if the roles were reversed, you know, the Democrats are always held to a standard up here, and then these Republicans, it's just free rein of hypocrisy. And here's— listener, we don't care that Donald Trump is playing patty cake with the bunny boiler, like, you know, whatever, but we're not the religious hypocrites that try to take away marriage rights and are fixated on the LGBTQ+ community and single women and women with careers.
They are those people. All right, so it's going to get really bad for Donald Trump. Now we know why Steven Miller said he wants to crack, quote unquote, "crack skulls of whistleblowers." Well, here's why. The whistleblowers are speaking out against Trump's vanity projects. Pop this up. House Democrats are demanding that the Interior Department retain documents related to President Donald Trump's construction projects around Washington, after whistleblowers warned that key paperwork has already been destroyed before Democrats take power.
Congressional sources tell CNN. Of course, it's going to be shred city over there. It is going to be— I mean, I don't know that there are enough shredders in the Washington, D.C. area, 500-mile radius, that could keep up with the exodus of documents that are going to be going down these next two years. Josh.
Shredders and pardons. There's going to be a red light special. At Walmart, they used to have these red light specials, so they're going to be having both. Shredders and pardons. Come on down and get you one. So, um, again, all of this, when I see this kind of blatant corruption like we see, it always reminds me of John Roberts, because he gave this permission slip to Donald Trump to do all this shit after his first term. You know, I mean, Trump was a little more guarded, not much, but a little bit more in his first term.
This second term, after Roberts, you know, frees him from any sort of moral code, just has been downright fucking unlawful. You know, just like a shootout at the OK Corral, just with everybody, just having fun and just wide open in your face, nobody cares. And so this comes as no surprise, but we do have now committees that can investigate this and put people under oath and make them raise their right hand and scare the shit out of them and ask them questions. And all this, this isn't about getting even, this is about getting justice.
Make sure we start saying that. It's not about getting even, it's about getting justice for what you've done to us.
Or as Hassan says, "belt to ass."
Belt to ass.
Belt to ass. Okay. Pumps. You remember when Susan Collins lost and she started blaming the voters of Maine? Well, now little Moses Mike is blaming the voters over the election results. Let's do a little check-in with Moses Mike. Play the clip.
Mr. Speaker, should the president course correct after Tuesday? Course correct?
You have to change course. You know, he named Steven Miller, he's sticking by Pete Hegseth, should he change his approach in any way?
I'm not going to tell the president how to do his job. We have an incredible.
We know.
First two years of his term, and I expect more success in the days ahead. Sorry that the voters made the wrong choice. I really do believe that this next two years is going to be a bit of a circus. It's going to be chaos, and I hate to say that, but I think that's where the Democrats are going to lead the House.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They are. Circus.
The lack of self-awareness. The lack of ability to look at what happened and say, you know, maybe putting my balls in the Oval Office desk was not a good thing. Maybe the fact that the American people are used to three branches of government and that I completely, 100%, just said, here, take the legislative branch, put it in a ball and throw it away. This is so, I mean, obtuse. I can't even think of all the words where he doesn't get it.
And here's the thing, Mike Johnson, you were the third most powerful man in the United States of America, and you took that power and you did nothing. And the American voter said, we want checks on corruption. I've seen exit poll data that between like 78% and 90% of voters thought corruption was one of the biggest problems with this administration. Mike Johnson had every ability to step in and do something, and he's a coward, and he didn't do it.
And now his boss, the circus, the circus is what we've had. Now we're going into as some very wise man named Josh Welch said, we're going for justice.
And I just want to point out that Mike Johnson is one of these evangelical Christians, and he said when he became Speaker of the House that God woke him up in the middle of the night and said, hey, hey, little guy, wake up. You're Moses. And Mike goes, me? What do you mean? I'm Moses. And he relays this conversation that never happened, that he allegedly had with God too. It's on video. And so we have this crazy person. That is a state of religious psychosis.
We have this crazy person who probably subscribes to this theory that Trump is this imperfect vessel. These nutjobs think that Donald Trump is God's imperfect vessel to deliver the United States of America to Jesus and to God to become a Christian nation. Now, here's just my take on this. If God is omnis-omnipotent and all of these things, right, knows everything before, and he's so perfect in all of his work, you'd pick a better vessel.
I mean, you know, the porn star Playboy Bunny banging, cheating on his wife, con artist, bankruptcy, fraud, that's our guy. I mean, shut the fuck up.
And there's another Christian nationalist that is a United States senator who this guy, Josh Hawley, he took that photograph with Harrison Butker in the end zone. Harrison Butker is that kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, which, by the way, I think he's missed like 56 kicks.
He's missed more kicks in the NFL than any other kicker this year.
The Trump curse. Anyway, so this guy, Harrison Butker and Josh Hawley are like BFFs, right? And Harrison Butker does this press. There they are.
Yeah, there they are.
This looks like, I'm sorry, you guys, in my opinion, this looks like a gay wedding engagement announcement, in my opinion. So that's Harrison Butker in the back, and then Josh Hawley there. They thought this was a good idea to do that photograph and put that forward. But nonetheless, Harrison Butker is the one who said that women need to stop, and I'm paraphrasing here, stop going to college and stay at home and be homemakers. Of course, Josh Hawley was like, I agree. You know, like, I totally join you in this. And Josh Hawley is also on video saying that, yes, in fact, he confirms that I am a Christian nationalist.
And in doing that, he's saying, I do not support the Constitution, I do not support the founders, I do not support the freedom of whatever religion you choose or no religion at all. And here he is responding. This is his response to the blue nomi. What happened last Tuesday was shocking and historic. It calls for a historic response. Christians need to gather and seek the Lord. I'm going to host a time of fasting and prayer for the nation on Tuesday, December 15th, from 12 to 1 at the Capitol.
Meet me there. And I just want to call on all of the Patriots, Gatriots, They-Triots, Black-Triots, and Brown-Triots to meet him at the Capitol with McDonald's or some pro-democracy fast food place and just sit there and eat. While they're fasting, you sit there and eat right next to them. This is such a joke. What is this, prayer warriors unite against the demonic forces? I mean, this is the most, this will accomplish zero, except for making you look like a nut and confirm that we all did the right thing by voting against these whacked-out Christian nationalists.
Josh.
This historic response is going to be one hour of praying and fasting. And so we see the election last Tuesday, you see the tidal wave of blue voters, you see the monumental historical number of people that voted, you see all that stuff, and then his response is, hey, let's take an hour out of the day, and we can't do it anytime soon, let's do it in about six weeks, four weeks.
We got to build that.
Yeah, and then let's all get together and pray. As if that's going to help or change anything. It's like, you know, Jennifer and I used to be in these group, I mean, prayer groups with other parents.
We weren't in the prayer group. We were in a group, I mean, where people wanted to solicit us to pray with.
It wasn't titled a prayer group, but it was with other parents that their kids played basketball. So it was the basketball team. And then they would want to say these prayers before the games. And of course, I would just mute it or not say anything at all. But every time we did that, our team got their ass kicked by 30, 40 points. And so I was like, listen, we're not going to do this shit anymore. Maybe if we pray for the other team, it's going to bring us more luck. We might win, but I'm not doing this shit anymore. I don't want it on my phone. I don't want to see the red dot. I'm out. We lose when we do that shit.
Here's the thing. If this is the historic response that Josh Hawley comes up with, fasting at the Capitol and praying for one hour, great. I think every single problems facing this administration, this is the way. Go, don't eat lunch for one hour and pray about it. If that's, I am all for it.
Here's the fundamental problem, you guys. I don't know that Ted Cruz can do it. I don't know that he can not eat for an hour. All he talks about is cheeseburgers.
Do a half hour for Ted.
I don't know that Ted can be fully committed to this cause.
I think I would pay a million dollars to see that son of a bitch in one of those kind of yoga meditation poses. I literally see him just kind of, you know, all spread out and.
All right. And Haley Stevens, the MAGA Democrat, is now siding with MAGA again. Pop this up. News. Dem Rep Haley Stevens, who enraged Democrats by endorsing GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers, spent the vote series tonight in the Republican cloakroom, per multiple sources. This was the first vote series post-election. Multiple reporters from the sun stopped her office, stopped by her office today, and it appeared to be closed.
Ron Phillipkowski says she was right where she belongs. And this is such an important message moving forward. The Venn diagram of where we are, people who want, you know, corporations out of prostituting out our politicians to corporations, the era of prostitution politics moving aside. But you still have some Democrats that engage in that, which the Republicans are all whores. I mean, every last one of them in there. I mean, I have to give like Tom Massey some credit.
I'll give credit where credit is due for filing those articles of impeachment against low T Pete. But then that Venn diagram is like right here. So Haley Stevens ends up having more in common with MAGA than she does the actual resistance. And so because we're not in a cult, we will continue to call out the Democrats who will forever. She gave us the biggest, she did us the biggest favor. She did Abdul the biggest favor. But now we can start calling the Democrats who do this stuff, Haley Stevens Democrats, and everybody will know exactly what that means.
Final words from each of you, Josh, you go first.
Well, I think, you know, Chuck Schumer probably wants her name to disappear out of the news cycle. You know, as he's trying to be a majority leader, and there's other Democrats like Nira Tandon and all these other, you know, establishment Democrats that think that she was a good candidate that got behind her. I think it shows how out of touch those lunatics are, seriously. So that's my take.
Pumpers. Yeah, I just, when I saw that post, I wanted, you know, Chuck Schumer's on this victory lap. Like I picked the best candidates. You know, this election, it was about my leadership and all that. And obviously I'm paraphrasing. And I just wanted, if I was on Twitter, I would have said at Chuck Schumer, this is who you picked. This is who you put millions and millions of dollars into. And this is who she is. So maybe your victory lap needs to go.
Yeah, you picked Janet Mills. Vindman in Florida, who Angie Nixon beat and Vindman refused to give his war chest. He had $7 million remaining. He refused to give that to Angie Nixon. And we reported yesterday that had the Democratic National Party just done a tinge of investing in Florida. It would have been blue. The map would have been even bigger. And there's just certain things that I'll just, we'll never forgive Chuck Schumer for. And for him not supporting Angie Nixon is just, that's just an ender.
And he never endorsed. He never endorsed Zoran Mamdani. I mean, he never did it. Because he, these types of Democrats that call out the era of prostitution politics are a very threat to Chuck Schumer's existence.
I saw Hakeem Jefferies yesterday too in a clip where he's giving Chuck Schumer credit for the results of the election. And I'm just thinking, that is so much bullshit. That's just not true. I mean, and we've said this a million times, but we won those elections, those races in spite of Chuck Schumer, not because of Chuck Schumer. We had to overcome the obstacles associated with having that man make decisions and still prevail. And they did. So it's another strike on Hakeem for me listening to that bullshit.
Yeah, I mean, it's just, it's so easy to dislike the Democratic leadership because I think respectively, Chuck Schumer's at 13% favorable and Hakeem at 18% favorable. And then if you get online, they're like, look at these asshole Democrats that aren't supporting these people. And it's like, so are you calling 87% of the Democratic base assholes here? It's just, it's utterly insane.
And all because they worked some backdoor deal in advance that the will of the people's not being followed. That's the part that pisses you off. It's like, why would we elect someone who's got 13% popularity to any position or 18%? Elect the people that are popular within your party of the people that voted your ass in office or you're going to get primary next time.
Belt to ass, baby. All right. That's all we have. Like, subscribe, wherever you get your podcast. Subscribe on YouTube. YouTube, become a member if you'd like. Order my book, Not Today Fascists, and we'll be back later with more news.
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