148: The Secret Lives of MAGA Wives feat. Madeline Peltz
Picture it: You are in a secluded strip of fancy-pants military housing. In the distance, a Bose stereo pumps out an EDM remix of “Ring of Fire.” A beleaguered Benihana chef squirts sake into Doug Burgum’s wiggling, groaning, drunken mouth. A mechanical bull launches an unattended seven-year-old boy into the air, his landing spot out of sight. You are now in Katie Miller’s domain, partying with the least popular and most cruel administration in recent memory.
On this episode, Jared and Mike welcome Madeline Peltz, an independent journalist who covers right-wing media, to dig into Vanity Fair’s portrait of Katie Miller as MAGA Washington’s deeply hated hostess. Madeline and the boys also run through a cast of other unsavory MAGA characters, including Andrew Tate, who allegedly possessed eel porn; “Dad Chat” daddy Joshua Lisec, who won’t let Madeline into his event; Megyn Kelly, who wants you to know how ugly sexual assault victims are; and Michael Tracey (again), who went to Cornell to shout at people while dressed like sentient body odor.
So, throw your tap water in the garbage like Michael Tracey’s request for time. There are no “brokies” on Posting Through It. We are now en route to white boy heaven.
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Comments (18)
why did Madeline feel the need to be transphobic?
Madeline has queer people in her family and as I understand it came to that descriptor with a trans person at MMFA so I think she didn’t think of it that way in the moment. Not to speak for her! -M
That ballsack sicko guy sounds like the creepiest af cult leader ever
After listening to that clip of Mr. Tracey, I think Bobby's impersonation of him last week is totally vindicated.
Mike and Jared sound like different versions of Marge Simpson when they do their RFK voices
Michael and Jared, I would pay an extra $5 for Michael Tracey and poodle room Kash updates.
I gasped at what Kelly said. Every time you think we've hit the bottom, they amaze.
Both/and: Michael Tracy is an attention addict AND he sincerely hates women and is reflexively angry when we claim a right not to be raped.
Using “looks like a transgender man” to insult someone’s masculinity 😬 yikes
yeah, i heard that too and am VERY disappointed.
The image of Rubio redoing the helicopter scene from apocalypse now to EDM Ring of Fire is searing deep into the folds of my brain.
“She’s an Olympian” I’m gonna shid
I’m here for the tea on Dad Chat 💅
Madeline reports on exactly the shit I wanna know. She brings it every time. 🙌🏼
As a college athlete. Getting to the collegiate level at any sport does just give you PTSD. For wrestlers it's the food stuff but the thing Riley, a bigot loser, was describing in that clip is the most I've ever understood her. Leaving your sport is letting yourself admit all your weird triggers and her struggling to shower after that is a pretty normal trigger.
So glad this was just auto modded and I hadn't dropped this comment on a random old ep
Holy fucking ring of horeshit. That is so unbelievably bad.
I LISTEN TO GOREGRIND. THAT IS BAD.