Welcome one and all to another episode here at the Damage forth.

John DeRola still somehow in the shed?

Will he be back in the fancy studio they own tomorrow?

Stay tuned to find out. Today's going to be a special episode, not only because I'm here in

the shed, but also we had a little bit of a scheduling difficulty with our guest.

Hopefully you'll be coming on the show soon. I'm not going to say who it is to blow up their spot or whatever, but it's all cool. We got a lot of news to talk about some interesting stuff, stories developing literally as we're going live right now. And we're also going to be taking a little bit of a look back over some of the topics that have been the biggest political bees in my bonnet recently.

I want to talk a little bit more about Mark Zuckerberg and also about the way that the right

has sort of weaponized the tragedy here in LA, which as I'm sure all of you are seeing,

the winds have picked up once again again and there's a lot of concern

about the possibility of the the two main fires, the Palisades, the Eden fires expanding due to

that wind, the inability to fly planes and helicopters due to the wind, and maybe even new fires being

set. And so as LA is not even done with one week of tragedy and possibly cruising

into another to see all of these ghouls and goblins and troglades on the right,

trying to score a little petty points around all of this is truly sickening. So we'll be

talking about that and a whole lot more besides. That said, hit the like button, share the stream, blah, blah, blah, if you're on a platform

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But with all that said, why don't we jump right into the story developing literally as we're

live? to the story developing literally as we're live. Mr. Hegstead, you are the ninth nominee for Secretary of Defense that I've had the honor to consider as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

I have voted in favor of all your predecessors, including those in the first Trump administration.

Unfortunately, you lack the character and composure and competence to hold the position of secretary defense. Thank you.

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