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This is the John Fuglesang podcast.

Serious XM progress.

I'm John Fuglesang. Good evening and welcome to the Love Fest.

That is, tell me everything, bringing good trouble to the right wing bubble here on Progress After Dark.

We are your primetime programming here on the East Coast and we are your drive time programming there on the West Coast.

And if you're at Daywalker listening on the app on demand or on the podcast, well, why don't you just stay up some night and call in like the rest of us? Hmm? Get some skin to the game. Chris Houselt is our heroic executive producer. The great Thea Harper is producing our show as well. In our number one, Max Burns will be here, and he is now officially on the White House enemies list. I know they're calling it something different for the journalists, but he's on it, and he's going to brag about it, and he's also going to talk about Trump decomposing in real time. And our number three, our old pal Tara Dublin's going to join us to talk smack about some bad guys. My name's John Fuglesing. My book is called Separation of Church and Hate. New York Times bestseller. You know, consider picking it up if you're really bored and want to know how to debate right-wing fascist Christians. There's a lot of headlines, folks, and we'll get to everything tonight, but here's the deal. There was so much stupid today that I told Chris, I don't know if I can get to my entire monologue. I'm going to start it. I'm going to try to cover everything. But it was hard to fit in all the stupid in just about 20 minutes or less than that before we

take our break and join Max. So I'm going to begin by saying, thank you for being here. Give us a call.

Let's do a show. And America, we have so much to be grateful for, don't we? Health, family, freedom, so much journalism that covers Taylor Swift's personal, private life.

I mean, but the greatest blessing I think we'd never give enough thanks for. And I've said it before.

America's want to be fascists are just too damn stupid to do fascism properly.

It's sort of like a mantra.

I try to say it out loud and give thanks.

Thank you, sweet baby Jesus.

A couple of weeks before your birthday for making America's authoritarians too dumb

to ever fully finish the homework assignment they're always cheating on.

Because these guys are terrible at fascism. Today we learned even Indiana Senate Republicans think Donald Trump is too incompetent to do fascism properly.

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