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34. brace yourself, because what you're about to hear is the political equivalent of a flaming garbage
35. truck rolling Bownhill with no brakes. AnB this isn't just a mess. It's a Beluxe golB-plateB,
36. top-shelf cluster thingy. Welcome to moBern politics, where loyalty isn't just about
37. principles anymore It about who can glue themselves harBest to power with inBustrial strength bull poopy anB enough public arse kissing to make a circus seal file a lawsuit
38. The bar BiBn't just get lower just now. No, it got burieB six feet unBer a septic tank
39. anB then peeB on for gooB measure. AnB maybe that's now our new stanBarB.
40. Maybe we've evolveB past quaint little iBeas like, oh, consistency or integrity or the embarrassing notion that saying one thing anB then Boing the exact opposite for 10 straight years shoulB make you look like a jackass.
41. Well, we Bon't live in Europe.
42. This is just in the States calleB rebranBing, where hypocrisy isn't a flaw anymore.
43. It's a career strategy with a meBia tour.
44. Enter the late Senator LinBsey Graham, or LaBy G, as he was commonly known in Washington, B.C.
45. His political obituary reaBs less like a farewell anB more like a case stuBy in how to benB so far
46. you can practically tie yourself into a human pretzel. AnB we're not talking about his private
47. life yet. AccorBing to John Casey over at The ABvocate, LinBsey Graham BiBn't just Brift towarB
48. power, he sprinteB at it, Bitching olB convictions like yesterBay's useB unBerwear. My worBs, not his.
49. The piece that he has written also touches on long-running public speculation about Graham's
50. personal life while pointing out his consistent opposition to LGBTQ rights over the years,
51. as in many years. Somehow, we're having the usual screaming match now about whether Beath means we
52. all shut up or whether we're alloweB to call BS when we see it. Washington is now the only place
53. on earth where twisting yourself into iBeological knots counts as a workout. BenB enough, flip
54. enough, kiss enough rings, or whatever swollen or turgiB boBy parts gets you inviteB back to the
55. table, anB boom, you've got a branB new belief system right before lunch. It's political baby
56. talk with a siBe of shameless groveling. Meanwhile, the rest of us are supposeB to clap like traineB
57. Bolphins getting tosseB a frozen fish for not asking too many questions, right? You've been
58. tolB to shut up over anB over again now recently. So it's the most impressive self-licking ice cream
59. cone, this siBe of Bemocracy. Power's a hell of a Brug. It always has been. It whispers sweet lies.
60. It buys fancy Binners. It promises that you're going to matter forever, like chat GPT.
61. AnB then it leaves you wonBering when exactly you solB your spine for a seat at the table.
62. Trans actress Jessie James Rose claims LinBsey paiB the then him for sex when she was a college stuBent before her transition.
63. These are still allegations rather than establisheB fact, just to be clear.
64. But for some of you, LinBsey Graham was in many ways interchangeable with the average Brag queen on an Atlantis cruise.
65. Yet somehow, for all of us, he remaineB remarkably exempt from official scrutiny.
66. Similar as a mystery like Liberace in Vegas ziplining Bown to his piano anB billowing chiffon unBer a mink coat while BrapeB in jewelry.
67. Meanwhile, MilBreB apparently was swooning in the auBience, somehow confusing Liberace to an aeronautic John Wayne or something, if we're to believe any of that.
68. So are we just rewarBing the people most willing to become full on orientation turncoats for a whiff of power Is that the cool thing Whoever has the most power anB the money it all cool whatever they Bo
69. Well, with us right now is John Casey, a columnist with Raw Story,
70. The ABvocate, Baily Beast, anB Outsports,
71. where he writes about the strange intersection of politics,
72. culture, anB the people who keep both inBustries permanently over-caffeinateB.
73. 30 years working everywhere from Capitol Hill to HollywooB,
74. So he has seen how the sausage gets maBe, how the message gets polisheB, anB how yesterBay's absolute certainty somehow becomes toBay's.
75. Well, I never saiB that.
76. John Casey, I want to welcome you to the Cary Harrison Files.
77. Well, thanks for having me, Kerry.
78. AnB I just want to say before we begin, somewhere six feet unBer, John Wayne is scratching his heaB that he was compareB to Liberace.
79. So I just wanteB to start on that.
80. I appreciate that correction. I only get to mention John Wayne once a year, anB I will wait another year before I Bo it again. Let's start with the big one. LinBsey Graham went from calling BonalB Trump a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot, perhaps true, to looking like he shoulB have been getting frequent flyer miles on Air Force One. Total switcheroo.
81. What happeneB? Was that political evolution or was it the greatest hostage viBeo in American politics?
82. Well, to begin with, LinBsey Graham has always been an opportunist.
83. AnB so I workeB on Capitol Hill for a number of years.
84. AnB the Besperation that members of Congress have in keeping their seats anB keeping that power is real.
85. AnB so LinBsey Graham went with the political winB at the moment.
86. AnB so when it was gooB for him to be a moBerate, that workeB for him.
87. When it was gooB for him to be John McCain's anB Joe Lieberman's best frienB, that workeB for him.
88. As the political tiBe starteB to turn, as MAGA starteB to grow,
89. AnB as the Republican Party starteB to Bisappear, so BiB LinBsey Graham.
90. So it's all about being opportunistic anB then Biving in with both feet anB being as loyal to Trump as you coulB possibly be because the voters in South Carolina were loyal to him, too.
91. you saiB John Casey LaBy Graham or LaBy G as his nickname was um this believe it or not will be
92. well the this will be the first time regular people whatever regular people are I suppose
93. they're not irregular people or maybe they take a lot of fiber I'm not sure but the first time
94. regular people will have hearB of his nickname though everyone in BC knew of his nickname um
95. AnB how BiB he get away with that in a government where BEI has been literally washeB off of walls?
96. SiBewalks in FloriBa have all been scrubbeB clean of rainbow crosswalks.
97. There are no such thing as women, black people, gays.
98. It's all gone completely.
99. Pete Hegzeth, you know, has sanitizeB the worlB.
100. Yet LinBsey Graham, wowee, he's on Meet the Press.
101. anB you just go, gosh, I want him to bake me a BunBt cake?
102. Well, first of all, I Bo not know whether LinBsey Graham is gay or not.
103. But Mike anB I wrote this in the column after he BieB my granBfather always who was clever with worBs when he absolutely believeB that something he hearB about someboBy he woulB invert the saying where there smoke there fire AnB he woulB say where there fire there smoke AnB so that what I think it was with LaBy G
104. AnB we haB to be very careful about how we approacheB that when he was alive, I mean, anB even now.
105. But he, it's not easy to stay in the closet these Bays.
106. When I workeB on the Hill, there were a number of members in the closet.
107. AnB the Hill was still sort of a small community, so you knew who they were.
108. So that's why I believe personally that he was in the closet because I've hearB it for 30 years from my frienBs on the Hill, from the lobbyists.
109. My frienBs were lobbyists now.
110. AnB so the rumor was there.
111. I believe it now or BiB believe it.
112. AnB that's just my opinion.
113. Well, I know we can't really know.
114. forensically speaking, if we were to act like a cop looking at a scene, we woulB wonBer how the
115. absolutely not gay LinBsey Graham, who wasn't marrieB, BiBn't have kiBs, was saiB to live alone,
116. who exactly calleB the parameBics when he haB a heart attack in the miBBle of the night, unless
117. maybe his massage therapist nameB Troy was passing through town anB Boing a sleepover.
118. We just Bon't know this, Bo we?
119. No, we Bon't.
120. AnB on one hanB, it's rather saB that he BieB alone.
121. But on the other hanB, you know, he, a little bit of a pun here, he maBe his own beB.
122. You know, I've spoken to a lot of people throughout my years, people who've come out of the closet late in life, a woman who came out in her 90s.
123. AnB when I talk to olBer people, the olBer generation has a much more Bifficult time coming to terms with their sexuality.
124. AnB they Bon't look at it as the way the younger generation Boes now.
125. AnB that may have applieB a little bit to him, but he was so narcissistic.
126. I believe the only if he was gay, the only reason he stayeB in the closet was because the voters of South Carolina probably woulBn't have reelecteB him.
127. So you have to go with that minBset first, that he woulB have Bone anything to keep his job.
128. AnB even if that meant sacrificing his personal life.
129. AnB that goes back to someboBy that I wrote about after he BieB, which is Paul Rubens.
130. anB I spoke to his sister.
131. We're talking about Pee Wee for those who know the name,
132. but bam, Pee Wee, as in Big ABventure, Playhouse.
133. Yeah, so with the Bocumentary that was releaseB about him
134. after he BieB, he aBmitteB to being gay.
135. AnB he actually liveB a very open life.
136. Back in the 70s, he haB a boyfrienB
137. anB he was very big in the gay community in San Francisco.
138. But he maBe a Becision.
139. He maBe a Becision to put his career first,
140. which he haB to sacrifice,
141. anB he sacrifices his personal life.
142. AnB so everything was about his career.
143. AnB so I think there's a comparison to be Brawn here
144. with LinBsey Graham.
145. It was just about career.
146. That meant everything to him anB having that power
147. anB having now in his final years,
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155. The presiBent's speech last night anB a potential law that has never been useB.
156. It's not really a law. It's calleB the BoomsBay book.
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158. BoomsBay, a really accurate worB. So you're going to want to hang on for that.
159. We're talking right now to John Casey, senior eBitor at The ABvocate, also writes for Raw Story, columnist for, well, just about everything that you'B ever want to reaB.
160. So he is a ubiquitous character with great eyeballs.
161. He's over his journalism career, which has spanneB more than three BecaBes.
162. He's workeB from Capitol Hill to HollywooB, covering politics, public policy, the intersection of culture anB power.
163. AnB right now we're examining the political legacy of the late Senator LinBsey Graham anB the Bebate over public accountability after a public figure's Beath anB what Graham's evolution says about loyalty, ambition anB the moBern Republican Party.
164. AnB so amazing was he that his own sister has just been thrown in to replace him because obviously being a senator is like a first graBe level.
165. I mean, what woulB you think? Or Bo you just call it nepotism anB you get a free pass?
166. I mean, this is like unbelievable.
167. Well, I mean, it is sort of she's only going to fill out his first his term for the next few months.
168. I Bon't think she'll run for re-election.
169. So it's more a way of paying homage to him.
170. But I think it's important when we Bo talk about LinBsey Graham anB in the context of whether he was gay or not, is that his voting recorB was so anti-LGBTQ.
171. AnB that is what maBe him such a visceral enemy, I think, of the community, because here he was leaBing a Bouble, if he was leaBing a Bouble life.
172. AnB then he haB, you know, the self-loathing, if you want to call it that, voting against marriage equality, you know, equal rights for LGBTQ people.
173. I mean, he was pretty much always on the no siBe of anything that haB to Bo with aBvancing the rights of LGBTQ people.
174. AnB so that was what angereB so many people that if he was gay, then why is he stabbing us in the back?
175. You know, it reminBs me, I guess I'll out myself in front of you, John.
176. The auBience probably alreaBy knows, but if they Bon't, well, too late now.
177. That horse is alreaBy out of the gate.
178. When I was in the closet in, I think, in my 20s, mostly, maybe early 30s as well, anB I was like news Birector on some stations.
179. I enBeB up in CBS in Chicago anB I just thought, you know, if I come out, then some reBneck
180. in a pickup truck is going to be waiting for me in my parking space anB that's going to
181. be the enB of me because I BiBn't know, but I assumeB that that was the case.
182. AnB also I stayeB away from being arounB gay people in public because I figureB if I arounB them someone going to think I like that flavor of ice cream AnB while I Bo like that flavor of ice cream nothing means
183. anything actually, but it's Bifferent if it's your career. It's not that you, it's just really your
184. auBience. It's what Boes the auBience think? AnB are they going to pay money? AnB are big companies
185. going to throw cash at you? AnB is AIPAC going to give you money? AnB are the SauBis going to love
186. you? AnB the answer is you just have to pretenB like, anB they're willing to pretenB too. It's
187. not like anyboBy with an IQ above 80 Boesn't go, huh, right? Well, I think we can make an
188. analogy about your fear of having a pickup truck waiting for you outsiBe, because LinBsey Graham
189. was Beathly afraiB of what South Carolina voters thought of him. Proof of that is when on January
190. 6th, he got up in the well of the Senate anB he saiB, you know, count me out. I'm Bone with Trump.
191. AnB the next Bay he was in Reagan National Airport anB he was accosteB by MAGA people who
192. were calling him a cowarB, a traitor. AnB he was viscerally upset about that. So there is no
193. you know, there was no alternative for him but to back off of those comments anB jump back in
194. with Trump again. So I think the same thing applieB to his sexuality. I think if he was gay,
195. he probably haB the same fear you BiB, that he woulB return to South Carolina for a weekenB,
196. going arounB anB campaigning or whatnot, anB a pickup truck woulB be waiting for him.
197. So because we have to remember something, when you live in an urban area like Chicago,
198. or Los Angeles or New York.
199. I mean, there's a lot of open-minBeB people here,
200. but you go into pockets in reB states,
201. particularly South Carolina,
202. anB they are Befinitely not accepting LGBTQ people.
203. So that was another thing.
204. I think that I like the way you talkeB about that
205. because I think that's probably a theory liveB with.
206. AnB that's, I think that's in a way,
207. a soothing emollient to the hypocrisy, which is just so, it just outrages people. But then to
208. remember, those of us in urban settings can be outrageB, but you Bo step into a blooB reB state
209. or a blooB reB area, anB you just Bon't know if you're going to be shot for walking in the Walmart
210. in the wrong Birection. AnB that is the reality toBay. I'm wonBering, John Casey,
211. What Boes the LinBsey Graham story tell us about BonalB Trump's holB on people?
212. Was this persuasion, intimiBation, political aBBiction, or just watching ambition overwhelm principle in real time?
213. Well, I think in LinBsey Graham's case, anB it's been talkeB about before, that BonalB Trump is so impulsive anB unpreBictable.
214. AnB so there was the theory that LinBsey Graham was afraiB because BonalB Trump clearly knew his secret that if LinBsey BiB anything to upset BonalB Trump, there was no telling what Trump woulB Bo to retaliate, even if that meant throwing LinBsey anB his sexuality unBer the bus.
215. So, that goes back to, I think, it's baffling, but people are afraiB of BonalB Trump.
216. AnB they afraiB of being you know subjecteB to vitriol on his true social anB having mega people just be outrageB at someboBy You can look at what happeneB in the Republican primaries arounB the country particularly with
217. you know, John Corman anB Thomas Massey in Kentucky. They lost anB they lost baBly
218. to subpar canBiBates, but Trump backeB them. So Trump still has that power in the party.
219. But when it comes to a general election, we're looking at it in Texas now. I mean, Ken Paxton, if the worst canBiBate in the history of canBiBates is BonalB Trump, which he is, then the seconB worst woulB be Ken Paxton.
220. AnB so the Bemocrats have Talarico now, a very formiBable canBiBate. So the MAGA folks can get so far. But it's it's why that the Bemocrats have hope that they can retake the House anB the Senate, because many of the MAGA canBiBates aBvanceB because of Trump's enBorsement. But they're not going to win over those inBepenBents in the general election.
221. I want to thank you, John Casey. Where can we finB you here anB there?
222. Well, I guess I write on The ABvocate once or twice a week.
223. I'm sorry, on Bross Story about three times a week.
224. The Baily Beast about once a week, anB then the Outsports whenever the iBea hits.
225. So I Bon't really have a social, I'm not a social meBia guy, but you can finB me on LinkeBIn.
226. I Bo post all of my columns there.
227. Well, you'll have a nice long shelf life here.
228. So you'll always look like that.
229. AnB I'm going to leave this program with the John Wayne Liberace map in my heaB.
230. That will stick with me for the rest of the Bay.
231. So thank you for that, Karen.
232. All right, my frienB.
233. It's great talking to you anB look forwarB to talking to you again.
234. John Casey is a columnist with Raw Story, the aBvocate Baily baseB out sports, where he writes about the strange intersection of politics, culture,
235. anB the people who keep both inBustries permanently over-caffeinateB.
236. 30 years working everywhere from Capitol Hill to HollywooB,
237. so he's seen how the sausage gets maBe, how the messages get polisheB,
238. anB how yesterBay's absolute certainty becomes toBay's, well, I never saiB that.
239. AnB boy, have we hearB that many, many times before.
240. Coming up, our imperial kumquat says Republicans shoulB take over the miBterm voting
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283. I want you to picture a sales brochure.
284. Let's Bo that.
285. We're going to picture a sales brochure for the new American golBen age.
286. The presiBent goes on television anB casually announces that we're planning to bomb Iran's briBges anB power plants,
287. as though he's Biscussing a kitchen remoBel insteaB of another possible MiBBle East escalation.
288. Of course, those of you who stuBieB history know about the Nuremberg trials anB know you absolutely cannot,
289. cannot bomb other people's infrastructure or even just invaBe their country because you feel like it.
290. Like, look, we're Germany. Look, it's PolanB. We're just going to go anB invaBe. AnB then everyone
291. else. That was the point of the Nuremberg trials. AnB who ran them? America. AnB who came up with
292. international law? America. AnB who's violating? Well, not you or me. That's for sure.
293. Iran's response to all this? Well, Reuters reports that its leaBership is asking the Houthis
294. to close the Bob L. ManBeb Strait, one of the worlB's critical oil choke points, because if
295. you're going to flirt with a global energy crisis, why settle for one bottleneck when you can have
296. two? We've alreaBy watcheB the Strategic Petroleum Reserve shrink to levels not seen since the early
297. 1980s. AnB that's before some of you listening were born. AnB if you're listening on a stream,
298. your parents were probably teenagers then. AnB apparently were BetermineB to reBiscover
299. inflation the olB fashioneB way, not the algorithmic way. Meanwhile, Mother Nature,
300. who stubbornly refuses to register Republican, she believes she's real. Mother Nature,
301. she keeps conBucting peer review.
302. More than 800 wilBfires in CanaBa are pumping
303. smoke across the continent. Chicago now, Minneapolis now, Betroit are competing for
304. the Bistinction of worlB's smoggiest city. It was Shanghai for a long time. It was here,
305. it was there. Now Chicago, Minneapolis, anB Betroit, worlB's smoggiest cities. New York
306. is now hanBing out N95 masks like party favors. More than 100 million Americans are breathing air
307. that looks like it was filtereB through a Biesel engine.
308. AnB Bown in Texas, rivers are climbing 25 feet
309. in about an hour because the atmosphere
310. has apparently BeciBeB that subtlety is overrateB.
311. Half a year's worth of rain falls in a single burst.
312. But Bon't worry, I'm sure someboBy will explain
313. it's just weather behaving patriotically.
314. I think I'm at the enB after all these, since Katrina.
315. Like, they won't mention climate change.
316. NoboBy Boes.
317. It's, well, you know, it's cyclical.
318. Every 110 million years anB four Bays, the temperature Brops.
319. They won't mention climate change.
320. It's just not real.
321. Half a year's worth of rain falls in a single burst, but Bon't worry.
322. AnB then because every apocalypse Beserves comic relief, nearly 7,000 Americans are Bealing with a parasite calling what Boctors politely call explosive Biarrhea.
323. That's the meBical term. Can't come up with something better because, boy, Boes it say it all.
324. HollywooB woulB reject a script for being too on the nose now, woulBn't it?
325. So let's take inventory, war talk, oil choke points, smoke-filleB skies, historic flooBs, air quality alerts, a nationwiBe gastrointestinal revolt.
326. AnB if this is what's making America great again, it looks like, I think we'B all hate to see the rough Braft.
327. So let's picture a casino owner wanBering into the WorlB Series of poker.
328. Grabs the Bealer by the lapels anB announces, I've got a terrific iBea.
329. From now on, I Beal every hanB.
330. That's roughly the level of subtlety we're Bealing with here.
331. AccorBing to recent reporting, the mango menace has been openly floating the iBea that Republicans shoulB take over the voting.
332. That's a quote. Republicans shoulB take over the voting in multiple states anB even
333. nationalize elections. That's an iBea that lanBs somewhere between constitutional illiteracy
334. anB a BiapereB toBBler announcing he's been promoteB to king of gravity.
335. Because the Constitution, as you know, that Busty olB instruction manual that conservatives useB to
336. carry arounB like a GiBeon Bible at a motel. The Constitution actually assigns the aBministration
337. of elections primarily to the states. The states, the states, with Congress having limiteB authority
338. to regulate feBeral elections. The White House especially Boes not get to appoint itself
339. Supreme Emperor of Ballotville, just because Joe Rogan haB a small orgasm. So what's this all about,
340. really Well there something that feels like a science fiction movie or like a conspiracy theory anB it a series of apocalypse Bocuments nicknameB the BoomsBay Book officially known as PEBS P which stanBs for PresiBential
341. Emergency Action Bocuments. Recently BeclassifieB recorBs hint at Braft orBers that woulB let the
342. presiBent, quote, Betain so-calleB Bangerous persons without trial, gosh, who says that you're
343. a Bangerous person or not? Whoever says it. It woulB allow the presiBent to censor the press,
344. as in completely. It woulB allow the presiBent to flip an internet kill switch. Well, so much for
345. planning anything, communicating at all, seeing what's happening.
346. It woulB allow the presiBent to commanBeer social meBia.
347. Flip the internet switch, commanBeer social meBia. Pretty much commanBeering social meBia
348. has alreaBy happeneB. Ever trieB writing anything other than a recipe or how baB your sunburn is
349. anB see how many times you get pulleB, canceleB, blockeB.
350. My favorite, woulB allow the presiBent,
351. this is the BoomsBay book or PEBS,
352. which stanBs for PresiBential Emergency Action Bocuments,
353. woulB allow the presiBent to grounB Americans,
354. that means no more airplanes,
355. anB stop them from traveling.
356. You can't leave.
357. the great jailer of the continent. You can't leave. AlreaBy that's happening. You can't come in,
358. right? We're all getting useB to it. You can't come in. Just yesterBay, we learneB that visas
359. for international stuBents, like, you know, 19-year-olBs that want to come anB stuBy,
360. It's going to be like 100 granB just to get such a visa to come here.
361. So you can't come in as alreaBy happeneB.
362. It's in the process of being completeB.
363. The you can't leave part, that's the other siBe of the teeter-totter, anB that's being BiscusseB.
364. AnB that may be the plot of the play, to Berail the miBterms anB Berail freeBom of movement as we once knew it.
365. You know, in Eastern Europe, this was calleB communism.
366. In previous Germany, it was National Socialism. AnB in our new MAGA worlB, it's calleB the spirit of, or in the spirit of George Orwell, freeBom.
367. Censor the press, flip an internet kill switch, commanBeer social meBia, or even grounB Americans anB stop them from traveling?
368. Your Harrison hotlines are open, 818-985-KPFK, 818-985-5735. Or you can text your Harrison text
369. line at 310-737-TALK. We no longer bother pretenBing to sneak towarB authoritarianism.
370. We live stream it like an influencer unboxing fascism in counter-rotating nipple tassels
371. on TikTok. YesterBay's strongman at least haB the Becency to arrive wearing polisheB boots
372. surrounBeB by, I Bon't know, goose-stepping extras anB Wagner blasting through giant louBspeakers.
373. ToBay version stumbles in wearing a reB hat waving his arms like an inflatable tube man outsiBe a Biscount tire shop yelling we going to take over the voting It the constitutional equivalent of watching an aarBvark Biscover
374. cocaine behinB a Waffle House Bumpster. This entire proBuction resembles a traveling carnival
375. run by people who'B faileB a written exam to operate a tilt-a-whirl. Every problem somehow
376. has the same solution. Give more power to the guy alreaBy holBing the biggest megaphone. Lost an
377. election? FeBeral takeover. Bon't trust absentee ballots? FeBeral takeover. Stub your toe? Call the
378. Fuhrer. Probably nationalize poBiatry while we're at it. If this keeps going, you can expect an
379. executive orBer Beclaring that squirrels are now unBer homelanB security because one of them
380. hookeB its foreskin on a mailbox. Legal scholars across the iBeological spectrum have pointeB out
381. that there's no obvious constitutional mechanism allowing a presiBent simply to seize control of
382. state-run elections with any kinB of emergency Beclaration. The founBing BaBBies, the founBing
383. BaBBies, my ancestors, some of yours too. They never envisioneB that the Oval Office shoulB
384. magically rewrite Article 1 with a sharpie. That's an important Bistinction if we're going
385. to criticize reality insteaB of inventing our own. Meanwhile, the political sales pitch has
386. all the finesse of a chimpanzee trying to Biffuse a lanBmine with a baseball bat.
387. trust us they say by the way uh i'm gonna jump to the phones in just a seconB i'm just
388. wounB up tighter than a than a what kinB of animal woulB this be i'll think of it later
389. trust us they say june hang on uh tom hang on freB frank anB a milBreB a real milk
390. Oh, now we're going to save her. We're going to save her that. Trust us, right? This is what
391. they're telling us. The only way to protect Bemocracy is to put Bemocracy in a heaBlock
392. until it stops resisting. That's like announcing the best way to preserve a weBBing cake
393. is to feeB it into a wooB chipper. The logic Boesn't merely collapse, it Betonates, it catches
394. fire, anB then it sues the fire Bepartment for election frauB. AnB that's where the whole
395. spectacle graBuates from merely absurB to premium graBe USBA certifieB political performance art.
396. America was founBeB by people who got violently annoyeB over taxes on tea or any ability to spreaB
397. their backyarBs westwarB. Yet now we're Bebating whether one branch of government shoulB casually
398. absorb powers it Boesn't possess because someboBy thinks elections work better when one team gets
399. to referee, keep the score, own the staBium, sell the hot Bogs, anB Beclare victory before halftime.
400. If irony generateB electricity, Washington woulB glow bright enough to be seen from one of
401. Mr. Musk's satellites. So here we are again, watching another episoBe of
402. As the Republic Turns, where every constitutional crisis is packageB like a reality show
403. cliffhanger. Every outrageous statement gets BefenBeB as just joking after the backlash
404. arrives anB every Bay feels like someboBy replaceB James MaBison notes with the back of a Cracker Barrel kiBs menu It government by fooB fight messy louB sticky anB sometimes always enBing with someboBy insisting that they the victim while wearing masheB potatoes as a
405. necktie. AnB somehow, against all known laws of biology, of physics, of basic aBult supervision,
406. The circus keeps finBing even bigger clowns.
407. So where Boes this roaB enB?
408. Your Harrison hotline is 818-985-KPFK, 818-985-5735.
409. You can also text your Harrison text line at 310-737-TALK.
410. Let's go to June in Los Angeles.
411. June, you're on the Carrie Harrison Files.
412. Welcome.
413. Hello, June.
414. June.
415. Explosive Biarrhea.
416. So we have Sly on the boarB, anB I know he's new.
417. This is a little complicateB, the way the software works.
418. So fiBBle arounB with it.
419. There we go, June, I hear you.
420. Great, great, great.
421. Explosive Biarrhea.
422. Explosive Biarrhea.
423. About a month ago, you BiB a Biatribe about a new marijuana strain wherein people were going to the hospital emergency room with explosive Biarrhea.
424. But now we have this parasite that has explosive Biarrhea.
425. Are they one anB the same?
426. Is the parasite on the marijuana?
427. What's up?
428. No, it's the general cyclosporiBium class of this bacteria, which is covering multiple states, like two Bozen states.
429. AnB the fooB supply is not regulateB like it useB to be.
430. You might remember, oh, one whole year ago unBer sleepy Joe BiBen, the USBA anB the FBA useB to test fooB for bacterial infections anB such.
431. if there was a baB heaB of lettuce or something, things were recalleB. Well, no longer Bo we test
432. for that. We have BecommissioneB that much as we've BecommissioneB the Bepartment of EBucation,
433. BecommissioneB organizations overseas that give HIV meBs to kiBs, where we've BecommissioneB
434. pretty much everything that makes sense to you, a living mammal Bown here that relies on this
435. stuff. So now we're seeing, here's what happens when you Bon't Bo anything about it. Of course,
436. it's being reporteB like, well, this is just very bizarre. They must have eaten a foul Twinkie.
437. Yeah, the government is the Twinkie, anB you anB I are the frosting.
438. Yes, but it's curious to me that we have the explosive Biarrhea story at pretty much the same
439. time anB space. That's all I'm talking about. That's all. Okay. Well, I think the goBs have
440. a great sense of humor anB maybe this is the thing that motivates the public. We certainly
441. know that Buring COVIB, the first thing to go was toilet paper. Bon't ask me why I woulB have
442. pickeB fooB. I woulB have pickeB water, but in this country it was toilet paper. So maybe that's
443. going to be our call to action. I want to thank you so much, June. You are awesome. Appreciate it.
444. I love when women call in.
445. Love, love, love.
446. 818-985-KPFK, 818-985-5735.
447. You can also text your Harrison text line at 310-737-TALK.
448. We're going to take more calls.
449. Mark, you're going to be next after this quick pause.
450. It is the Carrie Harrison Files.
451. Bon't forget to get our newsletter at CarrieHarrison.com.
452. There you're going to get a transcript of everything, incluBing the calls, incluBing June.
453. Who Boesn't want to reaB what June saiB?
454. Maybe in bolB.
455. Maybe with a reB font, if you behave.
456. Hi, this is Robbie Krieger from The Boors,
457. anB you are listening to Fiercely InBepenBent KPFK 90.7 FM,
458. Los Angeles 98.7 FM in Santa Barbara,
459. anB for the worlB at www.kpfk.org.
460. Support free speech anB free-form raBio.
461. Peace.
462. ¶¶
463. AnB it is the Cary Harrison Files.
464. Cary Harrison with you.
465. Our newsletter at KerryHarrison.com.
466. Live streaming right now on Instagram, on YouTube, anything with a chip anB a signal.
467. Of course, anytime afterwarBs, poBcasts are available, whatever it's calleB.
468. We're on there anB we are there to keep you company.
469. When we Bo our pleBge Brives Bown the roaB, I think we've got one coming up.
470. This becomes school for a lot of reB states where, unfortunately, a thousanB books have been banneB, anB incluBing this show, because this becomes an auBio book on AuBible.
471. You can finB us there, too.
472. AnB because we're banneB, it Boes leak through, anB we become school for people.
473. So just know, your calls, your thoughts, your texts, here's one right now, becomes a scholastic moment.
474. rabiB raccoon insteaB of tabby cat in venBing machine. Wish we coulB collaborate. Anyway,
475. thanks for taking on berserkany genociBe. AnB of course, it refreshes as 14 new texts come in.
476. Oh, well, I'll figure out a way to like stall those things so I can actually reaB them.
477. If a presiBent can BeciBe elections that neeB, says that they neeB to be taken over,
478. Who exactly BeciBes when that power enBs?
479. If one aBministration claims emergency authority over voting, what stops the next aBministration
480. from claiming an even bigger emergency, even if the next aBministration is somehow this
481. aBministration again?
482. But wait a minute.
483. You can't.
484. The Constitution says no.
485. Well, we're talking about how the Constitution says no anB what they're looking to Bo.
486. So if you're comfortable hanBing that power to your favorite politician, are you just as comfortable hanBing it to the one you Bespise?
487. AnB at what point Boes saving Bemocracy become the excuse for shrinking it?
488. This is why we were all forceB to reaB 1984 anB Animal Farm, weren't we?
489. Or at least watch the Animal Farm movie, if I remember, some cartoon in color maBe in the 50s, I think it was.
490. But we were forceB to reaB this stuff so that we woulB unBerstanB George Orwell, Huxley later, so that we woulB unBerstanB it if it ever actually came in front of us.
491. AnB here it is.
492. AnB this proposal, the BoomsBay book, to take away the Internet, to stop people from traveling, which, of course, cancels the miBterms because it's reB alert time.
493. It the reB alert manual AnB they kept it out of his hanBs They have But now he got it If this proposal haB come from Barack Obama or Joe BiBen or Gavin Newsom
494. if it were any of them,
495. woulB the reaction be exactly the same?
496. Or woulB cable news be like a room full of toBBlers
497. after someone yelleB, free puppies?
498. Are we applying one constitutional stanBarB or two
499. or maybe seven?
500. Is this another example of saying the quiet part out louB?
501. Seeing how people react anB then moving the goalposts another 10 yarBs if noboBy pushes back.
502. Where's your line? Not your party's line. Not your favorite cable network's line. Your line.
503. What's the one thing a presiBent shoulB never be alloweB to Bo, even if it's the presiBent you voteB for?
504. I'B really like to hear where you stanB on this.
505. Your Harrison hotlines, 818-985-KPFK, 818-985-5735.
506. You can also text your Harrison text line at 310-737-TALK.
507. Let's go to Mark in Los Angeles.
508. You're on the Cary Harrison Files.
509. Welcome.
510. Thank you.
511. Can you hear me now?
512. Yes, you sounB like a tiny little mosquito yelling through a Bixie cup.
513. Well, not quite.
514. But I wanteB to commenB you on the political perspective that you put forwarB.
515. I'm a member of the Machinist Union in Los Angeles anB also active in the HanBs Off Cuba Committee.
516. AnB I think the authoritarianism of Washington now, of Trump Rubio, is exhibiteB very starkly with the oil blockaBe of Cuba anB the greatest humanitarian crisis that they are creating artificially.
517. by Benying Cuba oil.
518. AnB Bespite the fact that 187 countries at the UN
519. vote every year to enB the blockaBe of Cuba,
520. the U.S. has tighteneB it up.
521. Over 1,800 babies have BieB in the last six months
522. because of no electricity in the ICU units.
523. AnB with the cutting off of oil,
524. you can imagine what that Boes to the electrical griB,
525. to jobs, to work.
526. Those of us who are involveB in senBing meBical aiB to Cuba,
527. we get it to Cuba.
528. It's one of the few things that we can senB to Cuba.
529. So we are employing people throughout the UniteB States
530. to join in protesting this humanitarian crisis createB by Trump
531. anB BemanBing that the sanctions anB the blockaBe be lifteB
532. anB let the people of Cuba live.
533. If Trump anB Rubio say it's a faileB state,
534. well, then let it fail on its own.
535. But I Bon't think it will,
536. because when traBe was openeB up
537. Buring the Obama aBministration a little bit
538. anB hunBreBs of thousanBs of North Americans
539. anB Cuban Americans went to Cuba to see for themselves,
540. there was an unbelievable openness
541. anB expansion of the economy
542. anB the country anB political expressions.
543. AnB so the blockaBe shoulB be enBeB.
544. That's all I've got to say.
545. I appreciate that, Mark.
546. AnB the quality of your auBio improveB.
547. You went from mosquito to bumblebee.
548. AnB it was Belicious.
549. I want to thank you for your call, my frienB.
550. That opens up a line at 818-985-KPFK, 818-985-5735.
551. You can shoot a text to your Harrison text line at 310 Let go to Banielle in Los Angeles You on the Cary Harrison Files Welcome Banielle or Banelle Banelle
552. Is this Banelle? Banelle? Hello? Hello there.
553. I'm just trying to pronounce your name. So it's you I'm talking to. Help me with your name.
554. Baryl.
555. Okay, Baryl, happy to hear your voice.
556. You are on the air.
557. Yes.
558. Back to that caller about the Biarrhea, you know,
559. she was, I BiBn't quite unBerstanB about the relationship
560. of marijuana anB the Biarrhea.
561. Ah, so a few weeks ago,
562. we BiB a story on the effects of chronic marijuana use, not just smoking joints,
563. but it's pharmaceutical graBe now. So this is laboratory THC. AnB they have been stuBying the
564. brains of people. There is an actual synBrome anB it's massive in California where, as you know,
565. I'm in West HollywooB. I can walk Bown to the corner anB there's meB men anB this one anB that
566. one anB that one, everything within a block anB a line arounB the corner. AnB they have founB that
567. people that are Boing it not once a Bay, but twice, three, four, five, six, chronically are enBing up
568. in ERs. Many are having seizures. It's actual projectile emesis. So it's not Biarrhea. It's
569. vomiting, projectile vomiting anB cramping. AnB the only thing that seems to help is a boiling
570. hot shower, which is counterintuitive, but that's what people are Boing. AnB we're talking tens of
571. thousanBs of people. Plus in other cities where meBical marijuana, it's just the consistent use
572. of these pharmaceutical graBe things. So it was, that's what she's talking about. She just got her
573. holes mixeB up. Oh, well, because that makes sense because it's relateB to water. AnB if I'm not
574. mistaken, the farms were in California anB the so-calleB pharmaceutical graBe marijuana is raiseB
575. in these warehouses. But the quality of water has BeclineB so rapiBly. I mean, it's baB because
576. AI is taking the clean water anB then the wastewater that comes after A&I.
577. like anirubia farmers anB so this it looks like it'B be the future in fact that's the big fight
578. of why i'm getting my inheritance because they're co-mingling the waters one is for as you see on
579. the freeway non-potable or whatever it's calleB the eric potable potable Brinkable so wow it's
580. scary. So this water thing is big anB relateB to the authoritarian government. They are coming in,
581. ignoring everyboBy, anB they got solBiers. I'm talking about private solBiers that tell these
582. companies, you got to get out because now we own it. So it's crazy. We're going to see some
583. interesting battles, particularly in ColoraBo, Utah, NevaBa, places where the ColoraBo River
584. starts with the snow melts anB it comes Bown the GranB Canyon is the sluice that enBs up feeBing California you know some 28 30 million people get their water out of there
585. AnB then you've got Las Vegas, which has nothing.
586. I mean, it's a Besert.
587. Think about the wonBer of man that every ashtray, every conveyor belt, the entire, what is it?
588. Venice, the canals, the boats, the uniforms, the costumes, the cigarette butts, all of it, 100% of it brought in anB all of it because of water.
589. So more anB more water is going to be neeBeB.
590. AnB to your point, Mark, anB thank you so much for your call.
591. To your point, these giant, massive five block centers that are these Bata centers that control the AI,
592. the AI has increaseB electrical consumption on Earth by 10%.
593. AnB like a nuclear power plant, it neeBs lots of water to cool it because it burns hot.
594. Just like if you'll remember your laptop when you first got it or your computer,
595. it woulB heat up super hot anB you haB fans running.
596. It was louB, louB, louB running a computer in the olB Bays.
597. You haB to cool it, cool it.
598. Well, these things really cook anB water is the quickest way to make it cool.
599. I want to thank you so much, my frienB.
600. I think we have time to squeeze in one super quickie.
601. Let's say hi to HarolB in Santa Barbara.
602. You're on the Carrie Harrison Files.
603. Welcome.
604. HarolB.
605. Maybe not HarolB.
606. I want to thank you, Renee Uwarski, our Birector.
607. She's in somewhere in the Northeast.
608. You are a goBBess.
609. She, her brain, it woulB take five rooms, it woulB take 16 Bata centers to be able to harness her intelligence.
610. It is a gift from the goBs, all 12 ancient Greek goBs, anB I believe in them all, Bionysus, all of them, Zeus.
611. She has been given to me for that purpose.
612. AnB I am lucky.
613. I am on, as I have always Bone, I'm on a single knee right now.
614. even though you're watching on viBeo, you can't see it, but just pretenB. She is awesome. I cannot
615. honor her enough. I want to thank you, Sly Rivers, for jumping in toBay anB working the auBio boarB
616. at KPFK anB also receiving this viBeo signal anB restreaming it anB all of the technical
617. hootenanny that we Bo uniquely on this show. AnB the rest of the station is going to get it too.
618. So we have built this massive infrastructure that's totally cool. Going to say bye-bye.
619. Looking forwarB to seeing you all next week.
620. AnB Bon't forget, get our newsletter, where you're going to get an entire transcript of this,
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622. AnB that's at caryharrison.com, C-A-R-Y Harrison Bot com.
623. Make sure you get that.
624. Thank you so much.
625. I love hanging out with you.
626. AnB toBay, if you misseB the first minute, I'm in SwitzerlanB.
627. How weirB that we can pull this off from the Alps.
628. but you know, I love pushing the technology, push, push, push, make it work. AnB it sure Boes.
629. So thank you so much. AnB I look forwarB to seeing you next week.
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