Promo: Episode 592 - Lady Bunny Drags The Establishment (w/ Lady Bunny)
Bad Faith
Bad Faith
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Legendary drag queen, comedian, & DJ featured in Sex and the City, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar, & RuPaul's Drag Race, is the rare pop-culture maven willing to be loud and proud about her left-politics in the entertainment world. She weighs in on recent left wins and the future of left politics, the state of identity politics -- specifically as they play out in the LGBTQ community, her upbringing & path to left politics, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | It seems to me, like, no one is doing enough analysis on just basic media consumption. |
| 0:04.8 | If you're getting your media on the internet, is it like age per se? |
| 0:07.8 | Or is it, are you getting your media, your news through independent media? |
| 0:12.8 | Or are you getting it from MSNBC? |
| 0:15.2 | Like, that seems to be the dividing line that is not about age. |
| 0:18.4 | Well, I threw my computer away after, I was such a big fan of Rachel Maddow when she was |
| 0:26.6 | on-air America. |
| 0:28.7 | And I was like, here's this Rhodes Scholar, lesbian, you know, who's got a winning personality. |
| 0:35.6 | But she totally lost me with the Russiagate stuff |
| 0:40.3 | that Democrats went on with for years. |
| 0:44.9 | And they still can't admit that. |
| 0:48.0 | So while it is fun for me as a comedian to make jokes about hookers peeing on Donald Trump, the source of that info was not |
| 0:57.7 | trustworthy. And, you know, sometimes I get, my act is dirty and often, you know, just like, |
| 1:06.1 | it's gallows humor, gutter humor, or whatever. But sometimes I've worked in some political things, |
| 1:15.2 | and it's odd and off-putting to see my largely Democratic audience, especially in New York, |
| 1:22.1 | do a laugh slash cheer because they agree with me. So what Christmas show I did, we three spies of |
| 1:31.1 | something about Russian spies and Trump and I kind of felt dishonest doing it, even though it got |
| 1:40.4 | a big laugh and cheer, the same way that John Favreau, I think it was, had |
| 1:45.0 | been some big thing in Boston, and they'd written a parody of Katie Perry's firework about |
| 1:52.3 | abortion and how Republicans want to take those rights with this several years ago. |
| 1:57.9 | Well, Nancy Pelosi, a blue congresswoman from a blue state and a Democratic |
| 2:04.3 | leader is out there saying that she doesn't care if you support abortion or not. And literally, |
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