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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

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🎶 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

On this week's The Trump-Kennedy Patriot Games $1776 Y'all Don't Love Me Enough What If I Reclassify Pot Red State Update Podcast:

Jackie and Dunlap celebrate the holidays by complaining about fake Christian politics, exploding health-care costs, and Trump's latest horse hockey—plus Christmas music, the Incredible Hulk, and Jesus's socials

🎄 Holiday Hypocrisy & Christian Politics

• Republicans "can say Christmas again"
• Jesus' actual teachings vs. modern GOP Christianity
• Mega-church flying-angel Christmas spectacles
• nachos

🏥 Health Care Meltdown

• Trump will let Obamacare subsidies expire and insurance premiums skyrocket
• Distracting from the health care crisis by attacking trans folks
• Rural hospitals closing, maternity wards disappearing, and Tennessee's health care grades (it ain't A+)
• "If you've always dreamed of delivering a baby on the side of the road, now's your time"

🇺🇸 Are the Rats Deserting the Sinking Sh#tposter?

• Are Trump people actually getting tired of Trump?
• Vanity Fair, Susie Wiles, and the horrors of close-up photography
• The White House plaque quotes Trump reportedly wrote himself
• Why screaming at the country for not loving you enough isn't a winning strategy
• The egomaniacal, heartless Rob Reiner post that actually hurt Trump

💸 $1,776 for Soldiers

• Hell, good.

⚖️ Pardons, Corruption & Consequences

• January 6th pardons and the real-world harm they've caused
• Repeat pardons for violent offenders and Trump don't care
• DOJ and FBI chaos under political pressure and Kash Patel is a dummo

🌍 War, Venezuela & Military Fallout

• Confusion and concern over strikes and foreign policy chaos
• Military leaders seeking legal counsel
• "I was just following orders" doesn't hold up in court

😵 End-of-Year Exhaustion & 🎧 Also Mentioned:

• The Incredible Hulk delivering a baby

· Marjorie Taylor Greene vs. Trump

• The song about Rudolph is pretty straight forward but the Frosty the Snowman song raises more questions than it answers
• Stephen Miller, Kash Patel, Elon Musk, JD Vance

• Why everyone feels broke, scared, and tired
• The danger of laughing at the chaos while people are actually getting hurt
• The sense that even Trump's own people are starting to jump ship

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🎶 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

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

Stream Red State Update Christmas music at all the music streaming places!

Christmas on an Island with a Martian and Gorilla: https://open.spotify.com/track/4F3sgtPTVQKGN8rD2quWw7?si=67b1e3f5e0b04c97

Our holiday album Santa Is Real:

https://open.spotify.com/album/2EUNgTxIk1x3gWAjZgE1rT?si=Kq9jK9eNQrGow6Qw3bCwHw

Our other Christmas album Merry Twismas Part Twoo:

https://open.spotify.com/album/0CA1iuwDcoDbN7qGDg0FEt?si=Up435V0hRBuCe6Fc4vTxvA

Our third collection of Christmas and holiday music 9 Fine Tennessee Christmas Classics:

https://open.spotify.com/album/6bN7vaNeaVbRbiJhtkuVP4?si=XIvz-SnCSiuWNKxHxpMoag

THIS WEEK ON THE RED STATE UPDATE PODCAST:

Jackie & Dunlap return to break down another week of American political awfulness—Trump's racist outbursts against Somali folks; "Speak English, neighbor!" says JD Vance; and the fallout from Trump's trade wars hitting farmers (again).

They also dig into the Tennessee special election that unexpectedly turned a deep-red district purple, the Supreme Court opening the door for Trump to purge independent agencies, and Pete Hegseth bragging about blowing people up like a Cannon movie villain.

Along the way: clickbait-rage farms, fake Trump "peace prizes," and whether America has officially monetized every last emotion we have left.

• Trump's latest racist rhetoric toward Somali immigrants Explicit statements about not wanting Somalis in America, and how Trump uses racism to distract from elite corruption and pardons.
• • JD Vance's comments about not wanting neighbors who "don't speak the same language" Just more coded racism. Is this even coded? •
• Fox-driven "Somali fraud" narratives in Minnesota How Tim Walz gets dragged into right-wing misinformation loops and why these stories spread. •
• Farmers hit again by Trump's trade chaos $12 billion in bailouts framed as "bridge money," with U.S. soybean markets permanently shifting to Argentina, Canada, and China. •
• Tennessee special election shifts purple Aftyn Behn narrows margins dramatically; GOP forced to pour money into a "safe" seat as Trump drags the party in expensive directions. •
• Trump receives a made-up 'peace prize' from shady soccer officials A look at his obsession with awards and manufactured victories. •
• Supreme Court poised to let Trump fire independent agency heads Symbolic culture-war gestures often accompany structural power grabs. •
• Pete Hegseth brags on-air about "blowing up boats" He thinks he's a war-hero movie but he's the obnoxious side-character who gets everyone killed.

Jackie and Dunlap have Christmas music galore for you!

Santa is Real https://open.spotify.com/album/2EUNgTxIk1x3gWAjZgE1rT?si=wO8csd-ZRwKHmY5rSY62Sg

includes Christmas on an Island with a Martian and Gorilla https://open.spotify.com/album/0UFeD4h4IdJa8XaxSEWolu?si=MsDzDjI7QXy5nPFGqNYkDQ

and Christmas Kisses https://open.spotify.com/track/1yRPCbYUcTgJbEoZFVh8zK?si=bc35074dae7549b8

Merry Twismas Part Twoo https://open.spotify.com/album/0CA1iuwDcoDbN7qGDg0FEt?si=dk4eJc5yRbWMN2ubjQpMPQ

9 Fine Tennessee Christmas Classics https://open.spotify.com/album/6bN7vaNeaVbRbiJhtkuVP4?si=5xukXhnYT2ikfq0qlntNig

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

Jackie and Dunlap on Hegseth, Honduras, Mark Kelly, Kash Patel, dressing up for planes is stupid, blowing up boats is war crimes, Laura Loomer, Sean Duffy, Elon Musk is ruining Tennessee, Afghanistan, Venezuela, autopen, Joe Biden, Trump's MRI, who's the dumbest member of Trump's cabinet.

Plus: The TN-7 election is today (Tuesday December 2) so you may know who won by the time you hear this. Aftyn Behn or Matt Van Epps? We give 'em one last go over. (We're for her.)

Also: Is it okay to hate country music and Nashville? Some parts of 'em it is!

Plus: Jackie weighs in on the AI country music hit "Walk My Walk" by Breaking Rust.

This was recorded November 19, 2025, but we're just now puttin' it up! You could either call it a bonus episode or just a real late one.

Jackie and Dunlap are back together again in separate locations.

Democrat Aftyn Behn has a real shot at beating Republican Matt Van Epps for Congress in the Tennessee 7th District Special Election! Early voting has ended but Election Day is TUESDAY DECEMBER 2! It would really piss a lot of the right people off if you voted for her.

Also in this episode: Epstein and Trump, of course.

Hope y'all had a good Thanksgiving! New episode coming later this week.

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In this episode: Could Democrat Aftyn Behn win against Trumplover Matt Von Epps in the TN-7 special election?

Early voting ends Wednesday November 26!

Plus Mamdani meets Trump

Trump meets Saudi Arabia

Marjorie Taylor Greene hates Trump, will resign

Doge gone

Trump wants to execute Dem soldier-senators?

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Christmas Music from RSU: CHRISTMAS ON AN ISLAND WITH A MARTIAN AND GORILLA

https://open.spotify.com/album/0UFeD4h4IdJa8XaxSEWolu

SANTA IS REAL

https://open.spotify.com/album/2EUNgTxIk1x3gWAjZgE1rT

9 FINE TENNESSEE CHRISTMAS CLASSICS

https://open.spotify.com/album/6bN7vaNeaVbRbiJhtkuVP4