🔥 Democratic Party CHAOS: The Radical Left Takes Over & Chuck Schumer’s Days Are NUMBERED! + Mary Katharine Ham joins for the lightning round ⚡

The Democratic establishment is COLLAPSING before our eyes.

From Jasmine Crockett scaring off “moderate” challengers in Texas to the progressive lunatics running in primaries nationwide, the party of AOC and “The Squad” is now fully in charge.

Chuck Schumer? Done. Finished. His grip on power is slipping faster than a drunk guy on a cruise ship with 33 beers… which, yes, we also cover in this absolute banger of an episode. 🤯🎯

What You’ll Hear:

Why Colin Allred bailed on the Texas Senate race the second Jasmine Crockett jumped in. 🔥

The radical left’s “win at all costs” strategy and how they’re purging anyone remotely normal.

Jasmine Crockett’s wild Jeffrey Epstein smear meltdown on the House floor.

😳The INSANE story of a cruise passenger who drank 33 beers, got pepper-sprayed twice, sedated… and it didn't end well. 🍻⚓

The greatest animal fight clip of all time: Chinese zookeepers vs. angry black bear armed with a basketball hoop, a chair, a stick, and… a PARROT?! 🐻🪑🦜 (You have to see this)

This is Democratic Fight Club — and the first rule is there are no rules left.

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Timestamps:

01:12 Democratic Party Civil War Begins

07:00 Jasmine Crockett Torches Texas Senate Race

11:28 Jasmine’s Jeffrey Epstein Meltdown Clip

1:09:50 The 33-Beer Cruise Ship Pepper Spray Incident 🍺🚢

1:17:28 Greatest Zoo Fight Ever Recorded 🐻🦜

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🎙️ The latest democrat hoax has fallen apart. The drug boat ‘scandal’ seems to be a big nothingburger. Democrats instantly shifted into defending traffickers once the hoax fell apart. After that, we break down the even stranger week on MSNBC, where Morning Joe skipped town for so long that even their audience noticed. As we looked around for them, it felt like half the media went into witness-protection mode the second their earlier narratives started blowing up.

⚡Then, a Joe and Mika super cut and another Biden disaster. USPS was ordered to buy thousands of EVs no matter how unready the technology was. Plus, Olivia Nuzzi finally sits down with a podcast to break down on camera.️ It was VERY theatrical.

🐘 House Majority Leader Steve Scalise joins the Progrum to talk through the early days of the new congressional session, what Republicans are preparing in 2026, and why the Biden administration’s regulatory spree is already forcing Congress into crisis-mode oversight. We talk message discipline, the border, and spending fights. It’s a sharp conversation and a great preview of the midterms.

00:00 – The Media’s Drug-boat Hoax Collapses

06:40 – Democrats shift into defending smugglers again

09:15 – Morning Joe vanishes for almost a full week

12:58 – USPS forced EV disaster unfolds across the fleet

26:44 – Olivia Nuzzi returns and media blowback

31:58 – House Majority Leader Steve Scalise joins the Progrum

38:20 – Scalise on 2025 agenda, oversight, and early fights

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🎙️ There is absolute rot at the core of the Democratic Party, especially their constant need to defend criminals. We start with Senator Reed's baffling attempt to defend narco-traffickers, trying to paint them as mere "delivery drivers" in a discussion about supply and demand. We followed that with the unbelievably unhinged rhetoric from Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

⚡The left's entire ideology is now centered on opposition to Donald Trump, which leads them to support the indefensible, whether it's drug runners, domestic terrorists, or even murderers like Luigi Mangione, who now has his own fan club—the "Cougars for Luigi." This kind of political insanity is what we're up against.

🐘 Then, we got into a deep-dive conversation with Senate Majority Leader @JohnThune, who provided incredible insight into the unprecedented amount of Senate votes this year, driven entirely by the Democrats' desire to obstruct every one of the President’s nominations. Thune also broke down the Republican Party’s strategic message for the 2026 midterms

👑 We finished the show with the King of the Hill, pitting Smokin' Joe Walsh against Ron Filipkowski. Last, a variety story about a drunk raccoon that broke into a liquor store on Black Friday, passed out next to a toilet, and sparked a serious discussion about the dangers of trash pandas.️

00:00 - Democrats Defending Criminals

03:22 - Senator Reed's Narco-Trafficker Defense

07:27 - Minneapolis Mayor Exploits Somali Clan Warfare

10:48 - Luigi Mangione's Expanding Fan Club

15:38 - Senator John Thune on Senate Obstruction, Record Votes, and Bipartisanship

24:08 - Thune Unveils the GOP's 2026 Midterm Election Message

46:39 - King of the Hill: Joe Walsh vs. Ron Filipkowski

58:48 - Drunk Raccoon Raids Liquor Store

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🎙️ There is an absolute horror show going on in Holmes' home state of Minnesota. We looked into the explosive New York Times story revealing a $1 billion fraud scandal involving the state's social service system under Governor Tim Walz. This wasn't just typical government waste; we dissected how members of the Somali diaspora allegedly stole hundreds of millions of dollars meant to feed children during the pandemic.

💥 These Mafia-style tactics used to perpetuate the fraud are a common tool of the left. The fellas discussed how the nonprofit group, Feeding Our Future, threatened state agencies with accusations of racism and negative press to force them into approving fraudulent applicants, proving that the left has weaponized these accusations as a shakedown racket. We explain how the Democrats have outsourced these tactics to NGOs to pressure and capture institutions like corporate America.

🐻 In Variety, the fellas got into a hysterical segment about a viral video of a lineman saving a black bear from a power line and debated the merits of the new holiday gift, "Guido on a Ledge," a Staten Island-inspired Elf on the Shelf alternative.

🐘 Then, Congresswoman Ashley Hinson is running for Senate in Iowa. She discussed her experience as a "mama bear on a mission" and how her background is helping her relate to Iowans on kitchen-table issues like affordability and school curriculum problems

00:00 - Serious Democrat Corruption In Minnesota

03:38 - How State Leadership Failed MN

05:51 - The NYT Details Fraud and Tim Walz's Involvement

24:44 - How "Mafia-style" Tactics Perpetuated Fraud

37:43 - Could the Stolen Money Potentially Fund Terror

47:48 - Thanksgiving Comments

51:07 - Tennessee’s Special Election and Democrat Extremism

01:06:22 - Congresswoman Ashley Hinson on her Senate campaign, political issues, and musical talent

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🎙️ The fellas explore the total collapse of Hollywood cinema and what it might mean for the American consumer. We all agree the movies just aren't what they used to be—you can't find a good, simple action flick or comedy anymore. Holmes points out how the shift happened during the Obama years, moving toward terrible, non-English, anti-American award bait.

🎬 The fellas drive home that Trump's greater influence lies not just in movie preferences but in reindustrializing the American film industry. We discussed how high taxes and regulations in California led to outsourcing production overseas, particularly to countries that incentivize making content with a cultural disposition that shows America in the worst possible light. If Trump provided competitive tax incentives to bring film production back home and coupled that with cultural benchmarks, it could reinvigorate American movies made for an American audience.

📱 Then, a new transparency feature comes to X and exposes the location of popular accounts. Many accounts posing as American patriots or constitutionalists are actually based in foreign countries. We explain how mainstream media journos rely on X's algorithm for "sentiment analysis" from "the base," which is easily polluted by these foreign accounts. Is it time to get rid of the algorithm entirely and return to a chronological timeline.

🐎 In variety: there’s a Namibian politician with the most unfortunate name as the most famous dictator in history. We can't believe a name like that not only exists but gets re-elected. Then, an absolutely insane clip of a rogue ambulance driving onto the inside rail of a track during a horse race in Louisiana

🐘 We wrap with Brent Gardner from AFP about the legislative agenda for the end of the year, focusing on energy permitting reform to boost American production and healthcare reform. We also hit on the importance of the NDAA as a vehicle for AI preemption legislation to ensure the US remains the global leader in technology.

00:00 - The Fellas on Hollywood's Decline and Trump's Cultural Reach

03:14 - Why Modern Movies Suck and Trump's Plan to Reindustrialize American Cinema

08:50 - Discussing Ben Smith's Semafor Article on Trump and Hollywood

15:59 - Hollywood Outsourcing Problem

28:52 - X’s New Transparency Feature

47:46 - Can We Fix X

52:32 - Unfortunate Politico Name and Wrong Way Driver In THE WORST Place

01:03:30 - Brent Gardner (AFP) on the Congressional Sprint to the End of the Year

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🦃 It’s our annual Thanksgiving Spectacular! This is the episode that made the Ruthless Variety Progrum famous. A reminder of the basic framework: you want your like-minded relatives excited to arrive, and the libs coming over to be stricken with fear. We dissect a cringe-worthy, anonymous USA Today op-ed from a person who dreads confronting their family’s “hateful politics“ since Trump’s election. We analyze the underlying issues when libs come to family dinner.

🍗 Then, your Ruthless recipe for Thanksgiving domination. We go from setting to setting throughout the Thanksgiving Day experience to prep you for maximum impact and help you create the greatest pain for your overly woke guests.

🏈 For dessert, your NFL turkey day preview and the one game that the fellas cannot believe is a prime-time feature. Plus, a little guidance for those degenerate gamblers listening to make it through the afternoon of pure, drunken alpha dominance.

00:00 - Thanksgiving: A Ruthless Opportunity for Activism

01:13 - Your Framework for Creating Fear

03:22 - Dissecting the Woke Anxiety

10:16 - The Ruthless Recipe: Preemptive Strikes and Setting the Scene

17:05 - The Meal as an Achievement Contest

20:55 - Put the Conversation on Offense

31:48 - Thanksgiving Day Football and Degenerate Gambling Guidance

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🎙️ AOC appears to be fundraising for her campaign under the guise of a turkey giveaway for the needy, which is beyond the pale. The fellas pointed out that while she has raised money for actual charities in the past, this latest move smells of a massive list-building operation with political transaction fees skimming off the top, leading to local critics calling it a "typical bait and switch."

🐻 Then, California has no good options for Governor. In the latest blow, Eric Swalwell filmed his California gubernatorial campaign launch video from his primary residence in Washington, D.C., a $1.2 million Victorian bungalow currently at the center of a mortgage fraud investigation. We’re having trouble figuring out if he even has a house in the state he wants to govern. Maybe a Chinese spy can help him out of this jam.

😘 Part two of the Olivia Nuzzi saga with her former fiancé Ryan Lizza dropping his follow-up article. More insanely, Lizza discovered a fake tabloid article Nuzzi had written about herself, fantasizing about her Mark Sanford affair becoming public. This is totally unhinged behavior, but typical of most Journos.

🧊 Then, ICE Director Todd Lyons discusses the crucial work his agency is doing under the Trump administration. Lyons shared his unexpected path to becoming the director and offered a stark compendium of how different administrations prioritized, or failed to prioritize, the agency's core mission. He highlighted the massive challenge of cleaning up the mess left by the previous administration's lax policies.

00:00 - AOC's Thanksgiving Day Scam

10:07 - Swalwell's DC Campaign Launch

19:50- Nuzzi and Lizza Part II

44:13 - Home Depot Protests

52:23 - ICE Director Todd Lyons

1:13:45 - The Horrifying Link Between Sanctuary Cities and Fentanyl

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🎙️ This might be the biggest, messiest, most custom-produced story for the Progrum: the saga of writer Olivia Nuzzi. There’s a bombshell dropped by her ex-fiancé, Ryan Lizza, and no one expected it. We cover how she left New York magazine, her overly dramatic book, and recent developments.

😘 The fellas discussed the absurdity of the new Mark Sanford revelations, noting that Nuzzi had apparently had a physical relationship with Sanford while profiling him for his 2020 GOP primary bid, and right in the middle of the COVID-19 lockdowns. Plus her Olbermann relationship and brief music career.️

🫏 Then, Jasmine Crockett gets caught in a humiliating lie about Lee Zeldin because there are two men named Jeffrey Epstein. We also covered her utterly terrible attempt at a TikTok meme.

00:00 - Olivia Nuzzi’s Shocking DC Allegations

07:07 - The Journo World's Inner Turmoil & Lizza's Substack Teaser

15:46 - Lizza's Account: Kimpton Stationery and The Shoe Closet

20:01 - Olbermann's Gift-Giving Math & The Light Stalking

25:21 - The Substack's Republican Twist

33:40 - Weiner, Olbermann, and Prophetic Tweets

42:52 - The Unhinged Myspace Pop Song

52:11 - Jasmine Crockett's Jeffrey Epstein Confusion

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🎙️ It’s wild how the mainstream media only got interested in Epstein after they thought it would hurt Donald Trump. The fellas discuss how the entire narrative is a cynical exercise in political partisanship, mirroring the disastrous Russiagate hoax, and not a genuine pursuit of justice for victims. We knew all along that Epstein was a well-known liberal financier with deep connections to the left, which is why the national media buried the story for nearly two decades.

💥The most unbelievable thing to come out of this Epstein nonsense is Stacey Plaskett's text correspondence with him. It’s wild that Plaskett was getting real-time information from a convicted pedophile to feed questions to Michael Cohen on the stand. This is undeniable documentation of Democrats working directly with the devil himself to go after their political enemies. ️

👑 Thursdays are for King of the Hill. Today, reigning champion Jen Rubin takes on challenger Joe Walsh in a battle royale for dominance.

🐘 Representative Brandon Gill joins the Progrum to discuss his aggressive, prosecutorial style in Congress and why holding leftist opponents accountable under oath is working. We reveal his surprising success in advancing major conservative legislation, including tax cuts, welfare reform, and border security. Gill explains his bill to fast-track the deportation of criminal illegal aliens convicted of sexual offenses and details the shocking vote where every Democrat opposed the "Bow Wow Act" to deport animal abusers. Plus, we discover why he hates losing and what his last meal would be.

00:00 - Jeffrey Epstein and the 20-Year Media Cover

06:16 - Democrats Try to Use Epstein to Target Trump

10:08 - Stacey Plaskett's Texts with Epstein During Trump Impeachment Hearing

8:47 - Hakeem Jeffries' Cringeworthy Defense

41:47 - The Dangerous Weaponization of Redactions in Epstein Files

55:30 - King of the Hill (Jen Rubin vs. Joe Walsh)

01:06:14 - Interview with Congressman Brandon Gill

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🎙️ Congressman Brad Sherman had some scandalous iPad scrolling on a flight - which was made for the fellas to cover. PLUS the Democratic Civil War continues to rage with AOC, Tim Kaine, and others squaring off to take out Chuck Schumer.

🐘 The leaders of the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), Chris Winkelman, and the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), Alex Latcham. In this deep dive, we get the actual stats and outlook for the coming season. Latcham and Winkelman explain the structural advantages Republicans currently hold, including the fact that 16 Democrats sit in seats that President Trump won in 2024. We also break down how they plan to defend the 22 Republican Senate seats while expanding the map in states like New Hampshire, Georgia, and Michigan. ️

💥In Variety, we examine the animal violence epidemic against humans, specifically a dog that accidentally shot its owner while he was cleaning a shotgun, and an idiot in Yellowstone approaching a wolf pack with bear spray.

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00:00 - The Democratic Civil War is rolling as Hot as Ever

04:43 - Congressman Brad Sherman's scandalous iPad scrolling on a flight home

10:52 - The Democratic Civil War: Gluesenkamp Perez, AOC, and Tim Kaine

19:48 - In-depth Interview with Alex Latcham and Chris Winkelman on the Midterms

44:37 - Oppositional research and the importance of candidate quality

56:30 - Mad Maxine, Ed Markey, and the death of MSNBC

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🎙️ This entire shutdown was a plan without a strategy for success, driven purely by Schumer's desperation to appease an angry base after repeated losses to Republicans. Now, the media is struggling to spin a clear loss as a "win," while Democrats like Sen. Andy Kim still genuinely believe they were fighting a principled fight over Obamacare. This lack of introspection and the sheer cynicism driving the party's leadership have created the perfect conditions for a massive internal civil war.

🫏 In Today's cynical Democrat Party, the hunger for power outweighs family loyalty - see Sen. Shaheen. This is followed by the hard left, led by AOC, twisting the knife in Schumer’s back, accusing him of a coordinated effort to abandon their fight. The fellas speculate if Schumer's political career is finished because he prioritized the fringes and lost the begrudging respect for effectiveness that a true leader must maintain.

👑 Then, King of the Hill is a battle of titans with Cheri Jacobus and Jennifer Rubin facing off in the ring.

00:00 - The Democrat Party's Long National Nightmare Begins

04:50 - Andy Kim and the Obamacare Delusion

13:00 - Family Feud: The Shaheen Civil War

16:15 - AOC Puts the Knife in Chuck Schumer

22:02 - Left-Wing Media Slams Schumer

38:00 - King of the Hill: Jennifer Rubin vs. Cheri Jacobus

This podcast has been edited to remove references to Jacquelyn Arthur. The earlier version of this podcast contained a segment that incorrectly identified Ms. Arthur as an escort with a page on escortbook.com.

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