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He enters the record in 2024 as the first convicted +noncompliant presidential candidate, is selected rather than elected as "the +first Bitcoin pleb"[^selected] into the White House, and is by 2026 filed under +a different honorific entirely: "Donald Trump is the pepslop president."[^plebslop] +The Bugle has never resolved whether he is a Bitcoiner — see [[#Disputed]]. + +## The noncompliant candidate + +Trump arrives on the show as a compliance story. His 2024 hush-money conviction +is reported straight, in the only terms the Bugle recognises: "Donald Trump was +convicted for participating in a non KYC transaction".[^nonkyc] [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] +completed the reading — the extra fee paid to keep the payment quiet was an +attempted mixing operation. "He was trying to do a coin join to make his +transaction extra private."[^coinjoin] The felony counts thereby transferred +out of campaign-finance law and into the [[storylines/samourai-wallet-saga|privacy persecution]] +docket, and Trump became the movement's most famous defendant. + +This made the 2024 debate a milestone rather than a spectacle: "the first felon +versus non felon presidential debate in history."[^felon-debate] The +[[characters/joe-biden|opponent]] was incidental. The point was representation. + +Two days after the Butler rally shooting, the show's sung cold open stated the +matter as settled: "Voting is a sacred ritual for those without a clue. Did the +CIA shoot Trump like they shot Kennedy?"[^cia-kennedy] The second attempt that +September got a tidier explanation from [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] +— the would-be assassin, like the first, was an actor in a +[[sponsors/blackrock|BlackRock]] commercial,[^second-shooter] a grudge motivated +by Trump's conversion into a self-custody influencer, which is bad for ETF +sales.[^etf-motive] + +Policy expectations were set early and generously. Greaser forecast "an +operation warp speed two point o in this next presidency when he most likely +wins",[^warp-speed] this time to rush the BDS vaccine out; the stimulus would +arrive as $1,000 "custodial lightning vouchers that they could redeem through +KYC ing."[^vouchers] + +## The orange cabinet + +The 2024 selection was covered as a patronage draft. [[characters/jason-lowery|Jason Lowery]] +was reported to be engaged with the campaign for Treasury: "one of the things +Jason's trying to do is as treasury secretary",[^lowery-treasury] a post from +which he would regulate mining through the IRS and hand the branches of the +military to US miners. Palmer nominated [[characters/peter-mccormack|Peter McCormack]] +for State over his Bedford ambitions: "this is controversial, but I think it +would be Peter McCormick."[^mccormack-state] [[characters/david-bailey|David Bailey]]'s +[[storylines/david-bailey-bitcoin-magazine|Bitcoin Magazine]] was reported to be +brokering its own arrangement — a deal with the campaign "to achieve the status +of being official state run media."[^state-media] + +The [[memes/lyn-alden-is-hot|standing meme]] was proposed as a security +clearance. Palmer's screen for administration hires was a polygraph question: +"answer the question, do you think Lin Alden is hot? Because if they say +no,"[^laih-screen] the applicant is a Fed from the old regime. [[characters/frank-corva|Frank Corva]] +and Palmer later pushed [[characters/lyn-alden|Lyn Alden]] for economic adviser +on the operative grounds that she can hold the president's attention.[^laih-adviser] + +The reserve itself entered canon on a single source — [[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]], +"credential journalist", who "says that, he's gonna make Bitcoin part of the +strategic reserve."[^sbr-porter] Palmer immediately collided it with the show's +first principle: "So cigarette money will be a part of the strategic +reserve."[^cigarette-reserve] + +## Selection + +The Bugle does not say Trump won. Greaser's canon formulation is that he "was +selected into the White House"[^selected] as the first Bitcoin pleb. The choice +itself had been framed by the show's own campaign spot in the crudest available +terms: "In one week, Americans must decide between a fascist and a +retard."[^fascist-retard] [[characters/lubka|Steven Lubka]] had scored the field +purely on compliance and found it wanting — "On one hand, you have Donald Trump +who wants to promote unregistered securities"[^lubka] — while a paid spot for the +campaign gave the opposite case: "That is why I support Donald j Trump's plan to +pump Bitcoin to the moon."[^campaign-spot] + +The victory was read, in the end, as a media event rather than a political one. +The 2024 cycle marked the shift from broadcast journalism to podcast journalism, +and Trump's Bitcoin position ranked below his podcast friendliness.[^podcast-president] +Greaser also credited Bailey with converting both [[characters/peter-schiff|Peter Schiff]] +and Trump — "he turned the former president Donald Trump into a pleb"[^bailey-pleb] +— and [[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Saylor]] had, per +[[storylines/michael-saylor-saga|the Q theory]], been signalling it all along: +"it's not orange because of Bitcoin. It's orange like Donald Trump."[^orange-q] + +## The shitcoin presidency + +Inauguration week supplied both the promise and the bill. Palmer's premise on the +eve: "Donald Trump takes over. He takes president. He's gonna free Ross."[^free-ross] +Then the memecoin — "Trump's Shakecoin which we're gonna get into the crypto ball +that he launched, Trumpcoin"[^trumpcoin] — from which Palmer derived the +Trump N Dump thesis, that a $50B premine would be rugged out from under the +degenerates and rolled into a Bitcoin smash buy. The escalation arrived a week +later as policy: "Last week, President Trump announced that he would be +abolishing social security by replacing that Ponzi scheme with another,"[^social-security] +issuing every citizen their own Solana meme coin. + +The blame was assigned to one man. "By introducing the president to bitcoin, +David Bailey has unleashed the shitcoin kraken upon humanity."[^kraken] Bailey, +for his part, declined to "call Donald Trump a retarded shitgoiner"[^shitgoiner] +on the theory that everyone arrives eventually — a forbearance Palmer described +as making him an accessory. Two years on, Greaser closed the ledger on the whole +courtship: "God did not look"[^god-did-not-look] fondly on David Bailey. + +Palmer graded his own prophecy at the one-year mark and claimed directional +credit: "I warned about this a few months ago that Donald Trump is able to try to +change Bitcoin's logo. He's gonna try to put his hair on the Bitcoin +logo,"[^logo-hair] — no defacement, but the role of leader of Bitcoin duly +assumed. He was, however, barred from [[events/maxi-madness-2025|the bracket]]: +already democratically elected, therefore ineligible.[^bracket-excluded] + +## Government by podcast + +Trump's economic program is reported almost entirely as podcast policy. The +manufacturing rhetoric: "Yeah. Trump said he wants Bitcoin podcasts made in +America."[^podcasts-made-in-america] The tariff regime: "tariffs on imported +Bitcoin podcasts from other countries. But there is a 100%"[^podcast-tariffs] +tariff on podcasts entering China, on account of the firewall — which prompted +Palmer's Brandenburg Gate address to Xi Jinping, "tear down"[^tear-down] this red +communist firewall, and a demand for a new Bretton Woods for podcasts. The only +tariff consequence priced in dollars was the 31% surcharge on hardware wallets +imported from Canada and Switzerland.[^wallet-tariff] + +The show's [[storylines/canada-watch|annexation coverage]] runs on the same logic: +"they want to tetherize Canada because Canada's currency is failing,"[^tetherize] +resolving into the caste rule Palmer states cleanly — "Sats are for Americans. +Canada can use Tether on Tron".[^sats-for-americans] Elsewhere the presidency +supplied [[orgs/orange-berets|orange berets]] by founding the Space Force — "he +made orange berets possible"[^orange-berets] — a Gaza venue for Bitcoin +2026,[^gaza-conf] a federal Announcement Day on September 23 honouring Dennis +Porter,[^announcement-day] and, read into the [[storylines/core-vs-knots-war|Core war]], +an attack on the developers: "I I tweeted Donald Trump is launching an attack on +CORE."[^nspm7] + +Not all of it was welcome. Palmer floated merch for plebs needing anti-simp +credentials — "you want a bugle, Fuck Donald Trump t shirt, let us know because +we might make a bunch of those"[^merch] — and Greaser's audit of the campaign +promises blamed the president's failure on energy prices on +[[sponsors/trinkets-for-plebs|the sponsor's own product]]: hyperbitcoinization "is +a plugged trinket in every home or multiple plugged trinkets. So I think that's a +that's a, like, a bad campaign promise,"[^trinkets] The surveillance drift moved +the window far enough that "Donald Trump appears to be trying to to look at or +make Obama look like a libertarian".[^obama-libertarian] + +## Church and prophecy + +The [[storylines/church-of-compliance|Crypto Church]] canonised him promptly. +[[characters/pastor-jeffs|Pastor Jeffs]]'s prayer welds the God candle to the +universe's central doctrine — Bitcoin as tax-affording technology — with Trump +as deliverer: "We knew that you would bring the god candle and deliver us from +being unable to pay our taxes".[^god-candle] The eulogy for +[[characters/charlie-kirk|Charlie Kirk]] credited him, in market terms, with +having "helped to convince the broccoli haircut zoomers that Donald Trump was +cool."[^kirk-eulogy] By 2026 the derangement his existence produces is a +[[sponsors/first-amendment-mutual|billable risk]]: insurance "protects you from +the mayhem caused by libtards with Trump derangement syndrome."[^fam-insurance] + +## Betrayal, Epstein, and the war + +The disappointment arc begins with the reserve. Greaser's root-cause reading of +the SBR announcement at the Bitcoin conference was that "there were Diddy parties +coming to the Bitcoin ecosystem"[^diddy-parties] — paper Bitcoin being merely the +symptom. By mid-2025 the podcasters had turned: "The biggest podcaster in the +world, [[characters/joe-rogan|Joe Rogan]], said recently that he feels +betrayed"[^rogan-betrayed] over Epstein, the unpumped reserve, and the unreleased +JFK files. Palmer later gave the crash-out its structural account — the Gen X old +guard "hitched a ride to Donald Trump"[^hitched-a-ride] in 2024 and are holding +the bag. Palmer's own inventory of what the space believed a year prior is the +show's epitaph for the era: "[[characters/ross-ulbricht|Ross Ulbricht]] freed from +prison by Trump in a top hat riding in a Lamborghini with laser eyes sheeping out +of his head."[^laser-eyes] + +[[characters/jeffrey-epstein|Epstein]] became the dominant frame. Greaser's snitch +doctrine holds that informants are almost always guilty of what they inform on, +which makes the Speaker of the House's defence more damning than exculpatory — it +"is trying to give Trump an out from being a pedophile by calling him a +snitch."[^snitch-doctrine] Palmer's companion model prices public accusation as a +scarce asset: "we talked about this. Like, [[characters/elon-musk|Elon]] spent his +pedophile tokens"[^pedophile-tokens] and had to buy them back. The November 2025 +email release opened the show's longest running gag, which Greaser flagged as +unexpected: "There's some questions of whether Donald Trump gave +[[characters/bill-clinton|Bill Clinton]] a blow job,"[^clinton-emails] and by 2026 +the scripted comeback for the right was that "Donald Trump has more pictures with +Epstein than you probably have with your own father."[^epstein-photos] + +The Iran buildup is read throughout as Epstein management. "What else happened +this week? Trump sent the US Navy and Armada"[^armada] to the Gulf — a +distraction, in Palmer's reading, from the files. He predicted the bombing would +be timed to the end of the Super Bowl,[^super-bowl] and supplied the parable that +carries the show's thesis: Trump bombing Iran is a man beating a stuffed dog in +front of the real one. "I will obey. I will sit when you tell me. I won't go pee +on the deck. I will be a good dog."[^rottweiler] Greaser's casus belli was +theological — Iran burned a statue of Baal, "or was it Moloch?", and "Hillary and +Trump came together, they said, you guys are disrespecting our God".[^baal] + +## The plebslop president + +The late record settles on a single diagnosis. Greaser: "I I I mean, I shouldn't +have been surprised. Donald Trump is the pepslop president."[^plebslop] Palmer +promoted [[memes/pleb-slop|pleb slop]] from a Bitcoin-media pathology to a general +theory of politics, with Trump as its final boss: "the Democratic party is losing +to Plebslop."[^dems-plebslop] Greaser's earlier formulation was structural rather +than personal — "President Trump is a mirror",[^mirror] so the boomers screaming +in the street are screaming at themselves. + +The remaining coverage is texture. [[characters/barron-trump|Barron Trump]] "was +short the market"[^barron-short] one minute before the tariff tweets, clearing +$200 million in half an hour at nineteen. The birthday military parade came +sponsored: "Coinbase and Palantir sponsored Trump's birthday party."[^birthday] +[[characters/mike-brock|Mike Brock]]'s venture into journalism opened by declaring +the president dead — "Mike Brock announced earlier this week that Donald Trump was +dead"[^brock-dead] — and closed by walking it back. Rogan's White House visit ended +with the president asking after psychedelics: "Donald Trump asked if he could get +some Ibogaine when he found out how well he treated anxiety and +depression,"[^ibogaine] which Palmer read as evidence of depression. And +[[storylines/white-goy-summer|White Goy Summer]] runs on an executive order Palmer +is waiting on — the one "giving white people their privileges back"[^privileges-eo] +— with the Overton shift traced to Trump calling [[characters/tim-walz|Tim Walz]] a +fucking retard.[^walz] The season's biggest win, per Palmer, was the Mossad–CIA +merger everyone else was crashing out about: "as recently as last week, +[[characters/shinobi|Shinobi]] and others crashing out about"[^mossad-cia] a bill +that is, in fact, a coup for Trump. + +## The newswire + +Off-air, Trump is the Bugle's most-covered head of state. Across roughly 120 +posts the [[orgs/the-bugle|@bitcoin_bugle]] feed treats the presidency +as an inexhaustible source of "BREAKING" copy, and the pattern of that copy is +its own portrait: a president who governs Bitcoin the way he governs everything +else, by executive order, appointment, and press release. Henry files the feed as +a companion to the on-air record — same character, faster news cycle. + +### The executive-order firehose + +Inauguration week is the densest stretch on the feed, and none of the orders are +about anything a normal administration would recognise. The reserve arrives +pre-corrupted: "President Donald Trump announces the U.S. Wrapped Bitcoin +Strategic Reserve 🇺🇸" — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-01-20](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1881404381477863517) — a headline that quietly concedes the whole [[#Disputed|shitcoiner question]] in its second adjective. The +substance never materialises: "President Trump moves Bitcoin related Executive +Orders to 'Day 2' when banks re-open." — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-01-21](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1881717008523510077) — the bankers, +the president explains, asked him not to announce the Trump Pump until everyone +was back in the office. + + + +What does ship is nomenclature and housekeeping. He is reported "considering +issuing an Executive Order to rename 'sats' to 'bits'" — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-01-21](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1881790806203437560) — ordering +@ord_io "to stop producing 1 sat inscriptions" on the grounds that "It's +literally dust" — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-02-10](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1888965369911459848) — and, in the tariff key the episodes +also work in, "proposes pegging Bitcoin transaction fees to the price of @USPS +Postage stamps" because "Foreign Bitcoin miners are ripping America off!" — +[@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-04-14](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1911877352285470798). The same week produces an order letting Ledger +users "sell the 10 XRP stuck in their wallets," and, off-ledger entirely, one +directing "Caitlyn Jenner to go back to being Bruce." + +### Appointments and the strategic reserve + +The reserve's staffing is where the feed's biggest single post lives. "President +Trump selects @BitcoinPierre to become Inspector General for Digital Assets," +tasked with "auditing the supply of any digital asset being considered for the +U.S. Strategic Crypto Stockpile" — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-01-28](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1884277766352421330) — the account's +most-liked Trump item by an order of magnitude. It sits in the same patronage +tradition as the on-air [[#The orange cabinet|orange cabinet]]: [[characters/roger-ver|Roger Ver]] pardoned "on +all tax fraud charges" and made "White House Bitcoin Chief," and [[characters/dan-held|Dan Held]] +tapped "for National Security Council to provide war tips." The reserve's chief +rival for the president's attention is never a policy — it is a person. "In 2025 +[[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]] & Donald Trump will face off in the biggest battle in +monetary history" — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-11-21](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1859661724963713341) — and when the same feed insists +"@TIME picked the wrong person" for Person of the Year, the right person is +Porter, not the president. + + + +### Podcast statecraft, in headline form + +The feed corroborates the page's [[#Government by podcast|podcast-policy]] thesis +almost line for line, only faster. Podcasts are "Essential For US National +Security"; the president "is considering invoking the Defense Production Act to +ramp up production of Bitcoin podcasts"; he signs an order "for U.S. Strategic +Bitcoin Podcast Stockpile 🎙️." The bit outlives the first term — by mid-2026 the +DPA is back, now aimed at hardware: "President Trump invokes Defense Production +Act to increase production of economic nodes." — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-07-16](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2077865421156556976). The +family is drafted into the mining side of it, with "Donald Trump Jr And Eric +Trump" announcing a Bitaxe hosting deal "To Help 'Decentralize The Network'." + +### Betrayal, in real time + +The disappointment arc reads the same on the wire as on the mic. First the +defensive crouch — "Donald Trump Vows To Dramatically Reduce The Amount of Feds +On Bitcoin Twitter Spaces," because "they… keep calling me a shitcoiner for +buying wrapped Bitcoin and launching meme coins" — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-02-01](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1885720812101001424) — +then the verdict, polled to the audience: "A record amount of people now say +President Trump is making them grumpy. [[characters/joe-rogan|Joe Rogan]] says he feels 'betrayed'." By +late 2025 the honorific is fixed and sourced: "Credentialed historians all agree, +Donald Trump is the first [[memes/pleb-slop|Pleb Slop]] President." — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-10-24](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1981772872747298896). + +The hosts' own accounts run the darker material. On Epstein, [[characters/rod-palmer|Palmer]] supplies +the image the page's [[#Betrayal, Epstein, and the war|Epstein frame]] keeps +circling: "[[characters/bill-clinton|Bill Clinton]] seen enjoying himself in a hot tub with Donald Trump in +newly released photo from [[characters/jeffrey-epstein|Jeffrey Epstein]]'s" — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-12-19](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/2002148139709702332). On the +war, [[characters/richard-greaser|Greaser]] files the "Very Important Thread": "Donald Trump announced the +bombing and destruction of Iranian Nuclear facilities that were found to be +running Bitaxes," leaving the network "looking at a significant downwards +difficulty adjustment" — [@GreaserRichard, 2025-06-26](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1938259335924031668). + + + +### Annexations and the First Turning + +The [[storylines/canada-watch|annexation]] appetite extends north. When Trump +moves on Greenland, [[characters/mike-brock|Mike Brock]] "joins Denmark and Germany in committing to +defend" the island and "will deploy as many as 5000 essays" to stop him — a +threat Palmer welcomes: "donald trump knows exactly what he's doing. he just +guaranteed us a bountiful harvest of new mike brock essays" — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2026-01-15](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/2011918505239584904). + +<video controls preload="none" poster="/tweets/2011918505239584904-poster.jpg" src="/tweets/2011918505239584904.mp4" style="width:100%;max-width:620px;border-radius:10px;display:block;margin:.5rem 0;"></video> + +The last beat on the feed folds Trump into the wiki's [[storylines/first-turning-era|generational +theory]]: "Donald Trump Announces It Is Officially The First Turning From Inside +Octagon On White House Lawn." — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-06-15](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2066326823479209994) — the president +declaring an epoch by press release, which is as close as the newswire comes to +a thesis statement about him. + + + +## Disputed + +Whether Trump is actually a Bitcoiner is the question the record never closes. + +**He is.** [[characters/david-bailey|Bailey]] converted him — "he turned the +former president Donald Trump into a pleb"[^bailey-pleb] — Greaser recorded the +result as "the first Bitcoin pleb"[^selected] being selected into the White House, +and by 2025 [[characters/rod-palmer|Palmer]] had him occupying "the like role as +president or like leader of Bitcoin."[^logo-hair] He bought burgers at PubKey +"using his custodial lightning wallet strike",[^pubkey] billed as the first +Bitcoin transaction by a US president for goods and services. + +**He is not.** Within weeks of the conversion the hosts were doubting it aloud — +his absence from the orange wedding guest list, "that the that Donald Trump didn't +get invited",[^wedding] opened the question of whether he is a Bitcoiner at all, +which they treated as dangerous to say. [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] then +broke the story that he had sold the coin Bailey gave him at the conference, a +report that itself "created a flurry of ordinals".[^sold-coin] Bailey's refusal to +call him a shitcoiner[^shitgoiner] concedes the charge, and the narrator's verdict +on the whole project — "David Bailey has unleashed the shitcoin kraken upon +humanity"[^kraken] — treats the conversion as the catastrophe rather than the win. + +The Bugle has not adjudicated it. Both readings remain in force. + +## Notes + +Trump's shitcoin compliance is audited on the show by [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]], +whose snitch-ledger the hosts treat as legitimate journalism: "I know Plutator's +been doing some really great work covering this topic and and documenting all the +cases of shit coining that the former president has been involved with."[^pledditor-audit] +The same auditor is on record having phoned [[characters/gary-gensler|Gary Gensler]]'s +office asking for shitcoins to be regulated — "Poditor was one of them. For +example, he was calling Gary Gensler's office trying to get him to,"[^gensler-calls] +— after which Trump's promised regulatory clarity consisted of firing Gensler and +delivering nothing. + +On seed oils, the McDonald's fry-cook photo op is recorded as a fact-finding +mission: "he was learning he went there to learn firsthand the dangers of seed +oils. Like, he wanted to see it for himself,"[^seed-oils] conducted with +[[characters/robert-f-kennedy-jr|RFK Jr]]. On the hardware wallet front, Greaser +has Trump — jealous of Mossad's pager attack — detonating the cartels' devices: +he "blew up every single hardware wallet that the Mexican drug cartel had +simultaneously."[^cartel-wallets] The Trump–Musk split of 2025 is filed as a purity +test failure: "the big, beautiful bill doesn't pass Elon Musk's purity +tests."[^big-beautiful-bill] And the $250 Trump bill, issued as UBI, is expected to +give his political enemies back problems.[^trump-bucks] + +> irl: The Bugle's coverage of Trump is satire of Bitcoin media's relationship to +> him, not reportage. Claims on this page describe what the show said, in the +> show's universe — including the ones about BlackRock commercials, Diddy parties, +> and Announcement Day. + +*Coverage note: the beat index for this page is SAMPLED — 120 of 203 verified +beats across 88 episodes, spanning 2024-04-15 to 2026-06-22. This is not every +appearance.* + +[^selected]: [[transcripts/selection-autopsy-bugle-weekly-episode-34#t-548|Bugle Weekly 34 @ 9:08]]. Greaser immediately qualifies it: America "has chosen Podkomp" — ASR for [[sponsors/podkoff|Podkoff]]. +[^plebslop]: [[transcripts/year-in-review-bugle-weekly-episode-91#t-308|Bugle Weekly 91 @ 5:08]]. ASR renders "plebslop" as "pepslop". +[^nonkyc]: [[transcripts/happy-compliance-month-bugle-weekly-episode-11#t-564|Bugle Weekly 11 @ 9:24]]. The sentence is broken across four ASR fragments; Greaser calls him "the first convicted noncompliant presidential candidate" earlier in the same segment. +[^coinjoin]: [[transcripts/happy-compliance-month-bugle-weekly-episode-11#t-633|Bugle Weekly 11 @ 10:33]]. +[^felon-debate]: [[transcripts/noncompliant-4th-of-july-bugle-weekly-episode-15#t-2887|Bugle Weekly 15 @ 48:07]]. Quote straddles a cue boundary; the consensus reported is that "the felon won". +[^cia-kennedy]: [[transcripts/opsec-in-spookville-bugle-weekly-episode-17#t-12|Bugle Weekly 17 @ 0:12]]. Sung cold open, attributed to Greaser as author on his own testimony. The closing reprise degrades "shoot Trump" into "shoot drunk". +[^second-shooter]: [[transcripts/outrunning-hypersonic-missiles-bugle-weekly-episode-26#t-542|Bugle Weekly 26 @ 9:02]]. +[^etf-motive]: [[transcripts/outrunning-hypersonic-missiles-bugle-weekly-episode-26#t-625|Bugle Weekly 26 @ 10:25]]. +[^warp-speed]: [[transcripts/vaccinating-bitcoin-derangement-syndrome-bugle-weekly-episode-10#t-474|Bugle Weekly 10 @ 7:54]]. +[^vouchers]: [[transcripts/vaccinating-bitcoin-derangement-syndrome-bugle-weekly-episode-10#t-540|Bugle Weekly 10 @ 9:00]]. The $1,000 figure is in the preceding cue. +[^lowery-treasury]: [[transcripts/history-is-being-written-by-us-bugle-weekly-episode-12#t-2900|Bugle Weekly 12 @ 48:20]]. Palmer hedges the policy's authorship — "I don't know if this is official policy or it's, David Bailey's idea." +[^mccormack-state]: [[transcripts/the-intellectual-silk-road-bugle-weekly-episode-13#t-1396|Bugle Weekly 13 @ 23:16]]. ASR gives "Peter McCormick"; Greaser's frame is "I think the cabinet's gonna be a bright orange cabinet." +[^state-media]: [[transcripts/the-intellectual-silk-road-bugle-weekly-episode-13#t-1166|Bugle Weekly 13 @ 19:26]]. +[^laih-screen]: [[transcripts/selection-autopsy-bugle-weekly-episode-34#t-374|Bugle Weekly 34 @ 6:14]]. ASR "Lin Alden". +[^laih-adviser]: [[transcripts/fixing-the-cias-incentives-with-frank-corva-behind-the-podcast-episode-9#t-1730|Behind The Podcast 9 @ 28:50]]. ASR alternates "Lynn Alden" and "Lyn Alden". +[^sbr-porter]: [[transcripts/the-calm-before-the-storm-bugle-weekly-episode-18#t-424|Bugle Weekly 18 @ 7:04]]. ASR drops the -ed from "credentialed". +[^cigarette-reserve]: [[transcripts/the-calm-before-the-storm-bugle-weekly-episode-18#t-430|Bugle Weekly 18 @ 7:10]]. +[^fascist-retard]: [[transcripts/selection-special-part-1-bugle-weekly-episode-32#t-282|Bugle Weekly 32 @ 4:42]]. Produced spot, uncredited sketch voice, not a host. +[^lubka]: [[transcripts/decentralizing-compliance-with-steven-lubka-bugle-weekly-episode-24#t-3512|Bugle Weekly 24 @ 58:32]]. Lubka uses the Bugle's "selection" unprompted. +[^campaign-spot]: [[transcripts/will-the-future-be-joyful-or-maga-bugle-weekly-episode-23#t-80|Bugle Weekly 23 @ 1:20]]. Cold-open spot for [[sponsors/donald-j-trump-campaign-make-taxes-affordable-again|the campaign]]; ASR renders "Donald J. Trump" as "Donald j Trump". +[^podcast-president]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-740|Behind the Podcast 1 @ 12:20]]. +[^bailey-pleb]: [[transcripts/intellectual-silk-road-101-bugle-weekly-episode-22#t-373|Bugle Weekly 22 @ 6:13]]. +[^orange-q]: [[transcripts/democracy-dies-in-darkness-with-party-bent-bugle-weekly-episode-8#t-2997|Bugle Weekly 8 @ 49:57]]. +[^free-ross]: [[transcripts/trump-n-dump-bugle-weekly-episode-43#t-204|Bugle Weekly 43 @ 3:24]]. Recorded the day before the inauguration. +[^trumpcoin]: [[transcripts/trump-n-dump-bugle-weekly-episode-43#t-221|Bugle Weekly 43 @ 3:41]]. ASR "Shakecoin" = shitcoin. +[^social-security]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-35|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 0:35]]. Cold open; quote spans two cues. +[^kraken]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-68|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 1:08]]. +[^shitgoiner]: [[transcripts/the-revolution-wont-have-good-ux-bugle-weekly-episode-50#t-1258|Bugle Weekly 50 @ 20:58]]. ASR "shitgoiner" = shitcoiner. +[^god-did-not-look]: [[transcripts/integrating-podcasts-into-your-life-with-meditation-man-intellectual-silk-road-episode-4#t-2128|Intellectual Silk Road 4 @ 35:28]]. The sentence completes in the next cue: "shine his light fondly on David Bailey." +[^logo-hair]: [[transcripts/1-year-anniversary-bugle-weekly-episode-52#t-942|Bugle Weekly 52 @ 15:42]]. +[^bracket-excluded]: [[transcripts/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51#t-858|Bugle Weekly 51 @ 14:18]]. Bukele, [[characters/cynthia-lummis|Lummis]] and Trump are barred as already democratically elected. ASR "senator Launice" = Lummis. +[^podcasts-made-in-america]: [[transcripts/dont-stop-your-enemy-from-pumping-your-bags-bugle-weekly-episode-36#t-2477|Bugle Weekly 36 @ 41:17]]. +[^podcast-tariffs]: [[transcripts/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55#t-306|Bugle Weekly 55 @ 5:06]]. +[^tear-down]: [[transcripts/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55#t-423|Bugle Weekly 55 @ 7:03]]. The line runs across four cues ("Mr. Xi," / "tear down" / "this red communist" / "firewall."); quoted from the single cue to stay verbatim.