Kagro in the Morning podcast (AUDIO): Friday, June 13, 2025

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Friday June 13, 2025 · 8:00 AM PDT

2025/06/13 · 08:00

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David Waldman continues his sojourn in the Virgin Islands, getting away from it all, but not escaping from his responsibility to KITM listeners, with this brand-new pre-recorded podcast!

Donald K. Trump is king now. At least, that’s what he purports. Donald purports a lot. The problem is the people who believe him, or purport to. The big problem is when the Trump Supreme Court turns purports into edicts.

One can usually determine how far they’ve become detached from reality by the number of people who disagree with them. Thanks to modern science those days are over. Machines will simp you like you never been simped before.

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Friday June 13, 2025 · 5:45 AM PDT

2025/06/13 · 05:45

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It’s Friday! We forgot Thursday!

But we’re doing the same thing on Friday that we did—though we forgot to tell you we were doing it—on Thursday. That is, bringing you an ALL-NEW, pre-recorded KITM!

Tune in and see how we did at anticipating today’s chapter in the story of the end of America.

Today’s countdown numbers:

1 day until the next nationwide protest… and Trump’s crazy dictator parade!
110 days until the “legal” funding for what’s left of the US government runs out… again!
1,317 days remaining in Trump’s legal term of office
508 days until the midterm elections, if we have them
569 days—if we have those elections—until we seat a new Congress. Five nice!

Our new random country generator says, today’s an unlucky day for: Dominican Republic!

Hey, maybe! After all, we hate republics, now.

Just because I’m not on the air doesn’t mean I’m not working for you. I’ve decided to come down to the Caribbean to keep an eye out and make sure we don’t invade the DR today.

Although I’m working remotely. Which means that there’s some chance that Trump will declare that he’s invading the Dominican Republic, but accidentally invade here.

Which would be pretty embarrassing, because I’m in the USVI.

Ha ha! Oh, well. That’s Our Trump!™

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Thursday June 12, 2025 · 12:18 PM PDT

2025/06/12 · 12:18

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Bulletin: David Waldman has invaded the Virgin Islands! Man, if ol’ Jeff hadn’t already wasted it on his island, Trump would’ve had the best renaming opportunity. David could have broadcast KITM live out his snorkel but chose instead to record five all-new specials to fill this spot.

Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense for the United States of America, is having some difficulty rising to the highest standards of his position. In fact, those people who would be interested in working in his department are less interested in working in his department, unless their duties include perhaps fragging.

Hegseth orders coverups, hunts down leakers, and changes the subject to much more incriminating topics, all certain morale-builders.

Then there’s that time Pete invited Elon Musk to a meeting, and thy Trump is a jealous Trump, and would be visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto Pete’s third and fourth generation had not Hegseth been such an excellent brownnoser. Jennifer Hegseth is going to have to shorten that leash a bit more.

Gop Cory Mills saved at least three fellow soldiers while serving in Iraq, he just forgot to mention it to them.

Canada isn’t interested in Trump’s gold dome, as they feel less safe under there with him.

Kagro in the Morning podcast (AUDIO): Wednesday, June 11, 2025

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Wednesday June 11, 2025 · 3:11 PM PDT

2025/06/11 · 15:11

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Don’t worry! David Waldman and Greg Dworkin will be back next week! But what do you care? You’ll have brand-new KITMs, five of them, to listen to until their return! But first:

Correspondent Terry Moran posted that Trump was a world-class hater without first taking into consideration what world-class haters do, and what his world-class coward employers would do about it. Stephen Miller is working to make America great for Nick Fuentes. He’s Goebbels without a master race, Nosferatu without the sentimentality.

People don’t like that. Ok, lots of people do like to see people get their skulls cracked on TV, but “them” are beginning to look a little too much like “they” lately for their comfort. Trump’s “Butthurt Mussolini” persona is becoming less fun and too real. Tin soldiers are coming, and we don’t even have Nixon’s sense of morality, or Westmoreland’s propriety this time. We’re finally on our own… This summer you’ll hear the drumming... Except at the New York Times, where they beautifully habituate.

Pope Leo will be presenting the opposing viewpoint to Trump at Rate Field in Chicago on June 14.

She-Wolf of the DOJ, Pam Bondi’s big brother Brad Bondi works to rationalize his 82-point election loss.

Trump has discovered the Lost Cause and promised to return it to military bases in the South.

It might be a slow boring topic, but the threat is real from right-NIMBYs opposing the Abundance Agenda. Then there’s Oklahoma’s HD 71 special election, where the debate centers around professional experience.

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Wednesday June 11, 2025 · 5:45 AM PDT

2025/06/11 · 05:45

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It’s Wednesday, and this is it!

It’s the last live show of the week! And the last live show until Thursday of next week!

Greg Dworkin had better make it count! Because I’m too tired to do it myself.

Today’s countdown numbers:

3 days until the next nationwide protest… and Trump’s crazy dictator parade!
112 days until the “legal” funding for what’s left of the US government runs out… again!
1,319 days remaining in Trump’s legal term of office
510 days until the midterm elections, if we have them
571 days—if we have those elections—until we seat a new Congress

Our new random country generator says, today’s an unlucky day for: Thailand!

I think we made it through yesterday without an invasion threat against Canada. But you know what I haven’t been thinking about? The United States is on that Country Picker wheel, too, you know. What do I do the day the U.S. comes up as the selection?

Because that could happen. It did happen!

And now our funny little joke instead forces us to acknowledge the possibility of the death of democracy, and the end of our country.

Ha ha! Oh, well. That’s Our Trump!™

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Tuesday June 10, 2025 · 3:31 PM PDT

2025/06/10 · 15:31

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David Waldman is back for the Tuesday before the Wednesday before he’s out of here for the rest of the week! (Except for all those bonus shows he’s recorded to keep you glued to your myriad devices.)

This is what autocracy looks like. Well, “an autocracy” is what Donald K. Trump delivered since Day One of his administration. Now we are at whatever stage of autocracy that interrogates cleaning ladies, pulls guns on maintenance workers, shoots into photographers, journalists and reporters, while trampling protesters and snatching, head bagging, and disappearing dissidents.

Donald hasn’t been this happy since Jan 6, watching all the heads get busted, this time with friendlier coverage and better hosts. Send in the Marines, maybe they’ll take out that big mouth Gavin Newsom instead of the do-nothing National Guard. Those guys haven’t shot even one hippy yet.

The west coast demonstration of Trumply might will probably end up costing even more than Trump’s DC show. If only Elon Musk was still DOGEing about, who knows what high agency hijinks would ensue!

Just because Trump is an authoritarian, that doesn’t make him a king. And if he was, kings were made to be dethroned.

Meanwhile, She-Wolf of the DOJ, Pam Bondi’s brother Brad Bondi lost big in the race to be President of the DC Bar Association. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said that when hiring people “We always look out for everybody else”, and the last thing this administration will allow is anyone looking out for anybody else. And, Georgia Gops resolve that Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is a RINO.

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Tuesday June 10, 2025 · 5:45 AM PDT

2025/06/10 · 05:45

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Well, it’s Tuesday. And this week, Wednesday is our last live show for a couple days.

But I’m working hard to get some new material prepared to keep you company. Like if you have to live in an underground bunker while Trump pulls a Red Dawn on your town. Or a Blue Dawn, I guess.

I just feel that you should have some company while you’re waiting. But it makes for a very hectic and disorienting week. It’s Tuesday, but I feel like I’ve done 7 shows already this week!

Today’s countdown numbers:

4 days until the next nationwide protest… and Trump’s crazy dictator parade!
113 days until the “legal” funding for what’s left of the US government runs out… again!
1,320 days remaining in Trump’s legal term of office
511 days until the midterm elections, if we have them
572 days—if we have those elections—until we seat a new Congress

Our new random country generator says, today’s an unlucky day for: oh no, it’s Canada.

I don’t know whether this is the day we hit bingo, or what. But if we do, remember one thing: “It’s a distraction!”

(I also don’t know if it’s really a distraction. But it’s very much the fashion to say that things are a distraction, these days.)

Could be yes, could be no!

Ha ha! Oh, well. That’s Our Trump!™

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Monday June 09, 2025 · 2:42 PM PDT

2025/06/09 · 14:42

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Some of y’all can’t handle two high agency men, David Waldman and Greg Dworkin, talking over each other… but if you can, you came to a good place.

And yet, there's no way to delay that trouble coming every day. We all know what happens when armed forces are deployed as police. Donald K. Trump knows. Even his idiot son can figure it out.

What really happened outside the Paramount Home Depot doesn’t matter to Homan, Miller, Hegseth or Trump. It’s what they can do to bait all of the protestors, or even just one or two of them.

The White House dropped a steaming pile of memoranda that only smells like it violated Posse Comitatus. The Guard is only there to “put down rebellion”, and rebellious protestors always have the choice to turn off their cell phones or be put down.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom invited Tom Homan onto his podcast but won’t pay his airfare.

The full force of the DOJ and FBI were brought to bear on the world’s most notorious super criminal Kilmar Abrego Garcia, in order to come up with something with which to charge him. Now they can all go back to arresting the Deep State like they promised they would. That’ll finally make America great again.

Trump’s fat ugly bill increases the national debt by $2.4 trillion, but more importantly it will kick 11 million people off their health insurance. As always, the cruelty is the point. Fox is running out of carpet to sweep the Trump tariffs under. Each day it becomes harder to outrun the facts on Trump deportations.

Whatever happened to the US-Britain trade deal? You’d think that this administration wasn’t being completely honest with everyone.

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Monday June 09, 2025 · 5:45 AM PDT

2025/06/09 · 05:45

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Well, it’s Monday. So it’s time for Greg Dworkin and I to round up another wild weekend.

This one, though, didn’t seem so much about Trump saying crazy things as about Stephen Miller making Trump (at least appear to) say crazy things

But should we even tell you what happened? For one thing, you likely already know. I don’t know how you could have missed it. For another, some pundit or another will be along soon enough to tell us it was all a distraction from something else, anyway.

Today’s countdown numbers:

5 days until the next nationwide protest… and Trump’s crazy dictator parade!
114 days until the “legal” funding for what’s left of the US government runs out… again!
1,321 days remaining in Trump’s legal term of office
512 days until the midterm elections, if we have them
573 days—if we have those elections—until we seat a new Congress

Our new random country generator says, today’s an unlucky day for: Myanmar!

I’m not convinced that Donald Trump knows about this country, though he likely does know about Burma Shave. Well… hmm. Maybe not. He’s not really even that much of a reader.

Anyway, he almost certainly has no idea what or where Myanmar is, although if you told him what Wikipedia says about them—that they’re “a country in northwest Southeast Asia”—he wouldn’t believe that’s even a possible thing.

Though he may think that’s where the other Donald—Rumsfeld, that is—said Iraq’s WMD might be.

Ha ha! Oh, well. That’s Our Trump!™

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Sunday June 08, 2025 · 9:00 PM PDT

2025/06/08 · 21:00

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It’s D-Day! Trump actually sort-of marked the occasion yesterday, with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Though I don’t think Merz was fully convinced that Trump understood the significance of the day for him.

Anyhoo… Trump and Musk are still fighting. But you betas just can’t understand. How serious is it? Nobody knows. But the Russian trolls are happy to pretend it’s life-and-death.

Hey, I don’t know if you’ve heard*, but Trump’s One Big Bad Bippety-Boppity Boo Bill Act Dot Com purports to revoke federal courts’ authority to impose sanctions against the government for contempt of court

Hey, I don’t know if you’ve heard*, but DOGE fired all the wrong people, and has had to scramble to hire a bunch of them back.

Hey, I don’t know if you’ve heard*, but Trump’s second/third attempt at a travel ban makes no more sense that the first attempt ever did.

Hey, I don’t know if you’ve heard*, but there’s no logical basis whatsoever to Trump’s crazy tariffs scheme.

(* I do know that you’ve heard.)

And finally, something to chew on for the weekend, perhaps: The various iterations of the “No Fly List” have always been secretive and baffling. Equally secretive and baffling has been the process (if there is one) for getting off the list. Here’s a story that describes a little bit of how one Senator’s spouse landed on the list during the Biden administration, was successfully removed, and now faces… possible relisting by the Trump administration! As an added bonus, you’ll learn that another person who was on the list during the Biden administration is now… the Director of National Intelligence.

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Friday June 06, 2025 · 5:45 AM PDT

2025/06/06 · 05:45

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Friday!

Greg will not be back today!

Trump is still terrible!

This sounds familiar!

Only this time, I’m quoting Elon Musk!

Today’s countdown numbers:

8 days until the next nationwide protest… and Trump’s crazy dictator parade!
117 days until the “legal” funding for what’s left of the US government runs out… again!
1,324 days remaining in Trump’s legal term of office
515 days until the midterm elections, if we have them
576 days—if we have those elections—until we seat a new Congress

Our new random country generator says, today’s an unlucky day for: Guinea!

Well, I don’t know if you knew that there are three separate African countries with Guinea in the name: Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, and Equatorial Guinea. And that’s not to mention the Oceanic country of Papua New Guinea. But Donald Trump definitely does not.

And therein lies the best hope against a serious invasion threat.

On the other hand, out of all the Guinea-named nations, they’re the ones with the simplest name. So if Trump somehow gets it in his head that he’s mad at any of them, the most likely invasion target will end up being Guinea itself, no matter who he’s really mad at.