Molly Hemingway's Alito Book Is EMBARRASSING Propaganda
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
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Summary
VR34 - This week in Vapid Response: Vanilla Ice provides the platonic ideal of an amuse douche before we order up an excerpt of the worshipful new Alito biography by the editor-in-chief of The Federalist. We then take a closer look at MAGA’s desperate attacks on Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll as expressed in a recent piece in the Examiner.
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“Alito Is The Most 'Courageous' Justice You've Never Read About,” Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist (April 21, 2026)
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Carroll couldn't remember the year. But she remembered to lie,” Joe Concha, The Examiner (May 30, 2026)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. |
| 0:12.0 | This is VAPID response number 34, I think. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm Thomas. |
| 0:16.1 | That over there is real life attorney. |
| 0:17.8 | Matt Cameron, how you doing, Matt? |
| 0:19.2 | Pretty good, except that I had my lunch stolen by a seagull, a Boston Seagull. Really? My nemesis for the past few months. Completely and wholly stolen by a seagull, just an entire piece of veggie pizza. Oh my God. Oh, my God, that's amazing. Didn't really have time to eat anything else. Did we accidentally stiff them on Patreon or something? |
| 0:55.6 | There must be a reason. Gary, the Siegel, you have to tell us. I think the Seagulls are Maga. Wow. No, they support our show. Don't mess up our Seagull lore, Matt. Look, just because you made some mistake that led to a Seagull, I'm victim blaming. You are, the Siegel's the victim, actually. |
| 0:57.3 | You should have had a better lunch for it. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm Team blaming. You are, the seagull's a victim, actually. |
| 1:10.2 | You should have had a better lunch for it. I'm team Siegel all the way. Whatever you did, you deserved it. All right, how are you going to be? Pretty disappointed by the veggies, I'm going to say. A seagull. You did spit it back out. You did come back and like, this sucks. A Siegel did not steal my lunch. |
| 1:11.6 | I had veggie enchiladas. |
| 1:13.5 | So I'm doing pretty well. |
| 1:14.7 | Better than Matt, this sucks. A seagull did not steal my lunch. I had veggie enchiladas. So I'm doing pretty well. Better than Matt, I guess. Yeah, see, Matt? It's not that hard. Eat something heavier. I ate inside. I guess that was part of it. We also don't live anywhere near seagulls, but, you know. They get everywhere. They honestly get everywhere. |
| 1:28.2 | My first mistake. |
| 1:29.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.7 | We'll have to see how the Segal lore evolves in the Patreon shoutouts. |
| 1:34.7 | Maybe we'll get a message back from the Seagulls. |
| 1:37.1 | Hey, what's going on? |
| 1:38.4 | I feel like there's been some good news. |
| 1:41.2 | We're not going to cover it necessarily today, but maybe rapid response Friday, I hear |
| 1:45.2 | that Todd Blanche had to go and say, like, fine, if you don't want us to steal all the money from the government, I guess we won't. Yeah. And like that. He's, like, mad about it. So that's good. We'll cover that probably. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It would be, like, really weird about it. |
| 1:59.5 | Guess we won't steal from the treasury. |
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