The United States plans to shoot a man on December 3 and let you watch. Pete Hegseth told Jack Posobiec that the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will be public—“we’ll make sure that people are able to watch it”—which puts us in a club with Iran and Afghanistan. Jason Odell brought that one. Shalah, the Rebel Crone, brought the FBI’s seizure of two deepfake sites that sold sexual abuse material of girls by the bundle, two years after the feds first noticed them. I brought dysentery.
Dana lasted fifteen minutes before her day job pulled her off, long enough to pitch the DOJ’s pursuit of Cassidy Hutchinson. Then it was a three-way fight. Shalah wanted to know what the FBI did for two years while a domain called NudeLeaksTeens sat in VeriSign’s registry. Jason pointed out that Trump once cited Iran’s public executions as a reason to go to war with Iran. The chat split down the middle, promoted Shalah to Shaman, and handed Jason the win by a whisker.
[11:06] Dana’s pitch before she bolts: the DOJ is coming for Cassidy Hutchinson, the Meadows aide who testified about January 6 on live television, while the guys who beat cops with flagpoles are home free.
[32:43] Shalah’s story: one collection of 189 gigabytes covering 315 girls sold for $64.90, on a site that posted a disclaimer disavowing child pornography while selling it, and a warrant that says law enforcement knew in 2024.
[37:46] My story: Shigella, the bacterium that killed your Oregon Trail family, is now resistant to all five oral antibiotics, more than a third of XDR patients land in the hospital, and the CDC has no approved treatment to recommend.
[46:15] Jason’s story: Hegseth’s quote, December 3 at Fort Hood, and the president who once called Iran barbaric for doing exactly this.
[49:17] The vote. The chat splits between Jason and Shalah, somebody types “Shaman,” and Jason wins by the hairs on his chinny-chin-chin.
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