Kagro in the Morning podcast (AUDIO): Friday, December 5, 2025

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Friday December 05, 2025 · 12:19 PM PST

2025/12/05 · 12:19

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David Waldman presses the kinks out of the chaos one more time this week before we briefly part company.

The newly released “Donald K Trump National Security Strategy” breaks the news to NATO and others that all of those “treaties”, “alliances” and “pacts” we share are beginning to feel a bit restrictive lately and perhaps we should all start seeing some more racially, theocratically pure, and profitable dictatorships for a while. We certainly still desire a committed relationship of course, but the kind in which others should never trust us.

Trump is the youngest president who ever lived. He’s the most president the US has ever had. Mean people won’t let him have everything. They are nasty people. Nice people give him things. They are great people.

You can bet that CNN will report on how you can bet on anything CNN reports.

Military officials showed lawmakers video of the two shipwreck survivors who sat out in the water 40 minutes before anyone had realized the danger presented by the piece of boat that they were floating on and vaporized it, and subsequently, them.

Gop Cory Mills might be an awful congressman, an awful tenant, and an awful human being, but he turns out to be an awful bad guy as well. On the other hand, Kash Patel manages to do all of his stupid things ineptly.

Kagro in the Morning podcast (AUDIO): Thursday, December 4, 2025

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Thursday December 04, 2025 · 12:36 PM PST

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David Waldman and Greg Dworkin did it again! For a couple of hours today.

The U.S. Institute of Peace has been renamed as the U.S. Institute of Irony. The Department of Defense is now Pete Hic! Hegseth’s House of Murders. Hungover from the fog of war, Hegseth immediately initiated a strategic inverted retrograde disengagement maneuver, tossing Admiral Alvin Holsey overboard. Admiral Frank "Mitch" Bradley is next in line and is scheduled to fall on his sword at approximately 14:00 today. Palantir is scheduled to make more money at that time.

Republicans in Revolt! Gops brandishing torches, pitchforks and discharge petitions seek to topple Mike Johnson. Well, they really want Trump, but he scares them and no one is scared of Mike. Gop women feel the most rage, but don’t want to come off sounding woke, or... feminist. No, Elise Stefanik will NOT lower her voice.

Henry Cuellar shows that it’s so easy to play Trump into a pardon, even a Democrat can do it.

In the ACA debate, Gops propose Obamacare, but bad. Dems counterproposal is Obamacare, but longer.

The pendulum is swinging back, right on time for the midterms. Except that no other president has been this disliked. The economy has rarely hit this many, especially against those constituents of the party in power. And that party in power has probably has never sucked this hard, nor have they promised to learn so little from their mistakes.

Vladimir Putin continues to humiliate Donald K. Trump, but that’s only because Trump demands to be humiliated.

They finally arrested some guy for placing pipe bombs ahead of January 6, and the guy that they arrested is not Marge, sadly lowering the chance that she might go to prison, on that charge.

Kagro in the Morning podcast (AUDIO): Wednesday, December 3, 2025

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Wednesday December 03, 2025 · 1:28 PM PST

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On today’s KITM, David Waldman tells it like it is. Today, Greg Dworkin also tells it like it is, at the same time!

Donald K. Trump and Pete Hegseth thought they were getting away with murder, but might have taken it a bit too far, with their double and quadruple taps on shipwrecked survivors in the Caribbean, an act not only traditionally frowned upon in the US, but quite possibly illegal according to White House lawyers and Newsmax pundits. (Megyn Kelly doesn’t disagree but wishes those drowning had been dismembered first.) These are the exact stupid rules of engagement that Hegseth has railed against for decades and told soldiers under his command in Iraq to ignore. They are also the same war crimes that he wanted prosecuted under Obama. In his defense, Pete explains that these things are sometimes difficult to discern while looking through the bottom of a Fireball bottle.

Gops win in Tennessee, but you don’t hear a lot of cheering from them, as the points swing away from them was larger than their margin. Districts will need to be very red to keep from flipping blue. Gops will work to chop up the blue cities before midterms.

In Georgia, Roswell’s Mayor was forced into a runoff as both council incumbents lose. No one is more confused by this than the AI describing it.

Republicans are in disarray. New York Gop Elise Stefanik is in a snit against RINO Mike Johnson.

Donald K. Trump gives 200%, 300%, 400%, 500%, 600%, 700%, 800%, maybe 900% in his job. Trump even works while he sleeps, and vice versa.

Who needs affordability? Only poor people! Who needs poor people? Not Trump!

Trump says that Somalis are lazy, thieving, constantly complaining, garbage people from Hell. MAGA has always said that. However, it’s only been lately that MAGA has thought to call them “Somalis”.

Kagro in the Morning podcast (AUDIO): Tuesday, December 2, 2025

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Tuesday December 02, 2025 · 11:26 AM PST

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David Waldman knows all, reveals about two hours' worth, on today’s KITM.

Is Pete Hegseth more sober, or less, today? Pete has Donald K. Trump’s full support, which has got to worry anybody. Now, Admiral Frank Bradley has Pete’s full support. Admiral Alvin Holsey retired before anyone’s full support got to him. Each of these people really wanted ALL of the Caribbean “suspects” turned into a thick red mist… but they didn’t mean ALL of them… Ok, “all” of them… but all of them simultaneously… They see this as a problem of not using big enough missiles. Trinidad is installing a US military radar installation in order to guide B-2s in locating some more suspects.

Speaking of extrajudicial killings of civilians, that’s what Afghan "Zero Units" were known for. DC shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal was a US trained member, then abandoned by the US government, really never a solid plan.

Speaking of sleeper cells, DOGE isn’t dead, they are now the Deep State.

Speaking of John Durham/Nancy Pelosi/Nicolás Maduro/Michelle Obama conspiracies, that’s what Trump posted only last night! There’s 22 Trump gift shopping days till Christmas, then 1122 after that!

Kagro in the Morning podcast (AUDIO): Monday, December 1, 2025

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Monday December 01, 2025 · 12:39 PM PST

2025/12/01 · 12:39

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David Waldman and Greg Dworkin help us start the month, week and day off right.

You read it here first! (Unless you read it over at The Intercept a few hours earlier.) The United States… that’s us... We blew up a boat with 11 people in it, then we circled around and we murdered all the survivors. We have murdered at least 83 in boats… Most of the world understands that is wrong, and we recently might have stopped murdering the swimmers, which we might all agree is somehow even more reprehensible. But we didn’t just decide that was bad yesterday, we always knew that was a bad thing to do. Except of course for Pete Hegseth, who we, or at least some of us, hired to not do an evil job. Hic-seth thought that this was really funny at first but sobered up quickly to transfer the blame to his soldiers. Donald K. Trump doesn’t know a “Hegseth”, but if you write it at the bottom of the check, he’ll pardon him.

Juan Orlando Hernández made millions as president, raping Honduras in partnership with El Chapo while creating one of the largest drug-trafficking organizations in the world and was formally sentenced to 45 years. Oh well.

Alina Habba, one of the biggest of Trump’s lawyers, is out as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Sure, Kristi Noem disregarded court orders to send Venezuelans to El Salvador, but that wouldn’t be against the law if judges hadn’t said so.

No one needs more ballroom less than Trump and even his architect says so. Do reactionaries just feel left out?

Trump has almost reached Jan 6 levels of unpopularity, and Republicans are feeling it. Another Gop seat could be flipped in Tennessee tomorrow, as they plan to redistrict Nashville away. One Republican Senator in Indiana drew the line on Trump insulting his daughter, while another wasn’t swayed by swatting and doxxing. and yet another by a pipe bomb. Meanwhile, Troy Nehls of Texas feels now should be when he spends more time with his family.

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