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Jackie and Dunlap break down the week's news, from Venezuela and oil to January 6th revisionism, and the growing sense that "he'll just do whatever he wants." Plus Greenland, Walz, Facebook, fraud, cheap gas, Lindsey Graham, Hegseth, and owning the libs.

This week on Red State Update podcast:

• Venezuela: "We want the oil."

• Rewritin' January 6th: New White House website rewrites history, blames Pelosi and police

• Authoritarian Power Plays: military force at home and hemisphere, empire wish lists

  and the "he'll do whatever he wants" era.

• Greenland, Canada & Empire Talk: I reckon these dumb-guy jokes are actual policy

• Anti-Trans Politics: Military meanness and culture-war cruelty pretending to be "strength."

• Epstein & 'Hoax' Culture: Redactions, denial, and everything is fake now

• Walz, Fraud and Facebook: Man Republicans hate Tim Walz. Who knew? Plus Somalis give racists, anti-muslims and anti-immigrants a three-for-one

• Get 20 Extra Minutes with Jackie & Dunlap over at http://patreon.com/redstateupdate We're almost finished listening to and ranking the songs from Real People host Skip Stephenson's unreleased country album!

On This Episode of the Red State Update podcast:

🎄 Christmas After the Rapture
• Christmas songs are mostly about other Christmas songs
• Atheist drunks celebrate Christmas too
• Is there a "Hell Channel" in Heaven

🇺🇸 Back to the Horrors
• Trump vs. 60 Minutes (now banned… except in Canada)
• ICE abuses, family separations, and cruelty as "policy"
• Stephen Miller's immigration strategy: be as mean, stupid, and disorganized as possible

📉 Mean & Stupid Economics
• Tariffs hurting farmers, bourbon, and Jim Beam
• Canada rejecting American whiskey while kids stop drinking altogether
• Trump's war on windmills, renewable energy, and basic physics
• Why "mean and stupid" is not an economic plan

🌍 Foreign Policy, But Dumber
• Battleships, Greenland, Venezuela, and things Trump heard once
• The Supreme Court to save Trump from himself?

📂 Epstein Files & Administrative Chaos
• Redactions, leaks, denials, and obvious cover-ups
• Why the worst people on Earth shouldn't be allowed to email each other
• Destroying departments as a governing philosophy

🤡 JD Vance, Racism & Exhaustion
• "You don't have to apologize anymore for being white" says JD Vance, who has a lot of other things to apologize for
• Why even racists don't want JD Vance as their spokesperson
• The administration as an anger-affirmation chatbot

🎁 Don't let the outrage machine ruin your holidays

Get 20 Extra Minutes with Jackie & Dunlap over at http://patreon.com/redstateupdate

🎶 Christmas Music, RSU Style

• RSU Christmas songs you should (and maybe shouldn't) put on your playlist
• "Christmas in a Beer Joint"
• Why your holiday playlist isn't complete without a Martian and a gorilla