Aug. 18, 2025

JD Vance’s Fishing Fiasco, Pub Mutiny & Trump wants Pocahontas drug tested

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British Foreign Secretary David Lammy and U.S. Vice President JD Vance got busted for fishing without licenses, sparking fines and a very “chummy” press conference. Vance’s trip got worse: he was rejected by a Michelin-rated pub, faced a protest called “Dance Against Vance,” and ended up retreating to Trump’s Turnberry golf course. Meanwhile, Trump celebrated Social Security’s 90th anniversary by calling Elizabeth Warren a “nutjob” who needs a drug test, while bragging about kicking 275,000 “illegal aliens” off Social Security.

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Callaroga Shark media from Washington, DC, where we didn't forget

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about the Epstein files. This is valid distraction distractions, but

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none of that is working on me. Let's hit this.

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I'm Patrick Guttfield and British Foreign Secretary David Lammy took

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US Vice President JD. Vance fishing last week at his

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countryside retreat. One small problem, neither of them had fishing licenses.

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Now Lammy is facing a potential twenty five hundred dollars

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fine for this diplomatic oversight. Let me get this straight.

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You're the Foreign Secretary of Britain, You're hosting the American

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Vice president, and nobody thought to check if you need

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a fishing license. But here's my favorite part. After they

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got caught fishing illegally, they held what the press called

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a chummy press conference. Chummy, that's the most British way

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to describe two politicians trying to laugh off breaking the

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law together. Oh, yes, we committed a minor crime, but

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were rather chummy about it, and Vance, not missing a beat,

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told reporters on Unfortunately, the one strain on the special

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relationship is that all of my kids caught fish, but

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the Foreign Secretary did not. So not only did Lammy

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break fishing law, he was also terrible at fishing. The

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fish were returned to the lake unharmed, which means this

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whole international incident was basically catch and release diplomacy, kind

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of like our judicial system when it comes to certain felons.

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Vance tried to get dinner at a fancy British pub

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called The Bull in Charlebury, but the staff staged a

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mutiny and refused to serve him. The workers literally told

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management they wouldn't show up to work if the restaurant

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accepted his booking. Now here's the kicker. This same pub

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had just hosted Kamala Harris weeks earlier for a pre

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wedding dinner celebrating Steve Jobs's daughter's marriage to a British

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Olympic equestrian. So Harris gets the royal treatment, but Vance

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gets the staff rebellion. That's got a sting a little.

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The Bull has a Michelin bib Gormont, which is basically

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a fancy way of saying really good food that won't

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completely bankrupt you. Though with stakes going for ninety eight dollars,

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moderate prices apparently means something different in the Cotswolds than

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it does everywhere else. The locals in Charbury were so

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thrilled about Vance's visit that they organized something called Dance

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Against Vance, a protest featuring placcards calling him a war

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criminal and memes showing him with baby cheeks. Nothing says

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welcome to the neighborhood like a dance party dedicated to

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how much they don't want you there. The deputy mayor

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of nearby Chipping Norton complained that Vance's presence was a

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curtailment of our freedoms because of all the Secret Service restrictions.

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Apparently having the American Vice president vacation in your quaint

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English village comes with some downsides, like not being able

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to walk wherever you want and having agents knock on

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your door asking about your Facebook profile. After getting rejected

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by the pub staff, pro tested by dancers, and generally

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making the locals miserable, Vance decided to pack up and

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head to Scotland. Where did he go? Donald Trump's golf

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course at Turnberry. Naturally, when one Trump property doesn't work out,

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there's always another Trump property waiting. So to recap Vance

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came to England illegally fished with the Foreign secretary, got

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turned away by mutinous pub workers, faced a dance protest,

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annoyed an entire village, and ended up at a Trump

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golf course in Scotland. That's either the worst diplomatic vacation

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ever or exactly what you'd expect from this administration. President

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Trump celebrated the ninetieth anniversary of the Social Security Act

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at the White House by calling Senator Elizabeth Warren a

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nutjob who needs to take a drug test. Trump was

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responding to Warren's claims that he's trying to cut Social Security,

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which he denied while simultaneously calling her Pocahontas and a

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mean person. Then he really went off the rails, saying

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Warren was all hopped up while endorsing a Democratic Socialist

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candidate in New York City. She was all excited and

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jumping up and down. Trump said, There's no way somebody

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can act that way and be normal. So let me

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understand this. Trump thinks Elizabeth Warren needs a drug test

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because she was enthusiastic about a political candidate. Has he

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seen his own rallies? The man does two hour speeches

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where he talks about sharks, batteries, and Hannibal lecter if

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enthusiasm at political events his grounds for drug testing. We're

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going to need a lot more testing facilities. Trump also

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announced that his administration has kicked two hundred and seventy

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five thousand illegal aliens off Social Security. He said, many

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of them have already left the country, and yet we

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were sending them checks all the time. So we were

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apparently mailing Social Security checks to people who weren't even

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in the country anymore. That's not a social Security problem,

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that's a postal service miracle. Also, we didn't forget about

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the Epstein files, you cowered. Portions of today's show were

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