August 4, 2025 • 12 mins
They fired the head of job stats, tried to erase Trump’s impeachments from the Smithsonian, and defunded Big Bird. If you're wondering whether facts still matter in America—this episode is your answer.
Christi Chanelle breaks down a chaotic week of political gaslighting, golden thrones, helicopter insurance for pregnant women in red states, and why Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize pitch might be the most delusional flex yet.
From the Mar-a-Lago aesthetic takeover to the quiet relocation of Ghislaine Maxwell and the shocking probation sentence for a rapist in Arkansas—this isn’t just a breakdown. It’s a warning.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You ever get the feeling that facts don't matter
anymore, that the truth issomething that they think they
can fire, rewrite or decorate ingold?
Because this week they triedall freaking three.
I'm Christy Chanel and this isSassy Politics.
Welcome to Sassy Politics.
(00:26):
I'm Christy Chanel and today'sepisode is a wake-up call.
We're diving into everythingfrom the firing of the nation's
top job statistician to Trump'sgolden throne room.
Let's go.
Let's start with the jobsreport, because numbers don't
lie, but apparently, if theymake Trump look bad, they get
(00:49):
fired.
On August 1st 2025, presidentTrump fired the head of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics rightafter a rough July report
showed only 73,000 jobs addedand unemployment ticking up to
4.2%.
Now, instead of addressinginflation or asking what's
(01:12):
driving wage stagnation, hepointed at the data and said
fake.
Then he fired the messenger.
His advisor, kevin Hassett,defended the move by saying
Trump wants his own people atthe BLS.
And that's the problem.
These are supposed to benonpartisan government offices,
(01:33):
not propaganda teams.
You can't just plug in your owncheerleaders and expect us to
trust the scoreboard.
That's not how this works.
That's not how democracy works,and here's why it matters.
If we can't trust governmentdata, if our own job numbers,
(01:54):
inflation rates and povertystats are filtered through MAGA
PR, then we're not living in aninformed democracy.
We're living in a scripted lieand I need you to really
understand that.
I don't know that I will everbelieve another report that
(02:17):
comes out from the Trump regime.
I feel like we're at acrossroads Right now.
Right now, we can totally seetruth versus brainwashing.
I don't know that we'll be ableto do that six months from now,
a year from now, two years fromnow, because he's paying and
(02:41):
defunding everyone thatsurrounds him to tell us what
they want us to think,regardless if it's truth or not,
and I really want you to sitwith that and if you take
anything away from this episode,I need you to take that Really.
Really think about it.
This is a problem.
And you can sit there and try toargue with me that she was
(03:04):
hired by Biden and therefore youcan't trust her numbers, that
she was inflating them.
Prove it to me.
Don't just fire someone becauseyou don't like the numbers.
Prove it to me.
Prove it to all of us.
Show us that she was wrong.
They don't do that.
They just let you go.
(03:25):
They just, they just tear youdown.
They do everything, butactually show you reasoning and
facts.
That's a problem.
Everything they're saying ispropaganda with no factual basis
behind it.
We need to start demandingfacts.
Don't just take them for theirword.
(03:47):
It's not working anymore.
If we don't demand the truthand the facts, we're never, ever
gonna get them.
Trump tried to get theSmithsonian to quietly remove
his two impeachments from theirhistorical exhibit.
He literally wanted to erasethem like they never happened,
(04:08):
but after public backlash theyannounced the exhibits will be
reinstalled within weeks.
That's another one.
He's trying to erase history,how it happened to whatever he
wants people in the future tobelieve, the people that aren't
here with us right now.
He wants to change history.
He wants to change currentevents and he wants to change
the future.
(04:29):
That's the theme here Erasewhat makes him look weak,
silence what can't be controlled, defund what won't obey.
Let's talk about that too.
The Corporation for PublicBroadcasting, which funds PBS
and NPR, is now under attack.
Trump wants to cut itcompletely because PBS and NPR
(04:54):
can't be bought like CBS or Fox.
He won.
They're shutting down.
They're shutting down.
They're shutting down andthey're funded by us.
They're funded by us, and I'mseeing people like Sid Miller,
someone that was elected intothe agricultural lane I don't
know exactly what he does, butsomeone that was publicly
(05:15):
elected coming out and sayingthat PBS is woke.
And then you have people in thecomments going yes, defund them
.
They should be able to stand ontheir own, they don't need blah
, blah, blah.
What is wrong with people?
This was created in 1968 to helppeople, people that don't have
(05:39):
a lot of money.
They used it for nationalwarning systems.
They used it for information,to help people that couldn't
afford cable hear theinformation.
I myself was at my dad's andmom's shoe store.
I'd be in the back while theywere waiting on customers.
In the front, we had this blackand white TV with antennas and
tinfoil on the ends and I wouldwatch public broadcasting.
(06:04):
Some of the best memories thatI had of Big Bird and Mr Rogers
and I'm sad by it.
It's all pissing me off.
These systems have never neededclickbait, to tell the truth.
Think about it Big Bird, mrRogers, ernie, sesame Street
that's how millions of uslearned empathy, learned how to
(06:26):
think critically, and that'sexactly what Trump's regime
doesn't want journalism.
But now, now, with the backdoordeals that are happening under
(06:47):
this new, current ownership, cbswill start mimicking Fox News,
not just in tone but inpolitical bias.
It's no longer a watchdog, it'sa lapdog.
Control the media.
Fire the statisticians.
Control the media.
Fire the statisticians.
Rewrite the museums.
Are you seeing the pattern yet?
We talked about patternrecognition in the last episode.
(07:12):
It's still here and I need youto pay attention to it.
It's so critical that you do.
Let me give you a visual justto help.
Trump is decorating his DCoffices like it's Mar-a-Lago 2.0
.
Gold-plated cherubs, ornategold drapes, opulence like a
Vatican fever dream.
And I had this moment.
I'm sitting there.
I'm watching all these goldthings be put in place.
(07:33):
I'm imagining the nextpresident walking in with a
freaking sledgehammer, rippingthose goddamn curtains off the
walls and saying we're done.
Pretending this is normal,because it's not.
None of this is normal.
And while they're trying to turna golden grift into gospel,
(07:55):
trump's press secretary,caroline Leavitt, is standing at
the mic saying he deserves aNobel Peace Prize because quote
he's ended one conflict a monthsince taking office.
What the fuck Like?
What the actual fuck?
Are you kidding me?
(08:15):
That's not how Nobelnominations work.
This isn't class, president.
You don't get votes based onvibes.
You don't get nominated becauseyour press team said so, and
Trump.
Let's be clear he's notnegotiating peace, he's
negotiating loyalty.
Let's talk about that loyaltytest Because it showed up again
(08:39):
when he was asked whether he'dpardon Sean Diddy Combs.
You know what he said.
He said Diddy once saidsomething negative about him, so
now he's not so sure if hedeserves a pardon.
It's not about guilt orinnocence, it's about whether he
likes you.
That's not justice, that's themafia.
(08:59):
Which brings us to GhislaineMaxwell.
This week, the convicted sextrafficker was quietly moved
from maximum security to aminimum security camp in Texas,
right here with me in Texas, yay, yay, the same one housing
Elizabeth Holmes, where they'dhave yoga classes, wellness
(09:21):
programs, and there's noexplanation as to why she got
moved.
Don't you think we need that?
Don't you think we should getthe transcripts from when they
met?
I know they're going to tellyou they can't release it
because the victim's names arethere.
Well, freaking, take them out,like you did Trump's.
You had a thousand FBI agentsremoving Trump's name from the
(09:44):
list.
The transcripts, you can do itagain.
You can do it again notransparency, no justice.
And you wonder why they won'trelease the Epstein list.
Now Let me tell you about MasonLee Gibson.
He raped a 16-year-old girl inArkansas got her pregnant and
(10:06):
because of Arkansas's abortionbans, that young girl was forced
to carry pregnancy to term.
A judge gave Gibson 12 monthsprobation, so now she has to
raise her rapist child with noway to legally remove him from
the child's life.
This is what happens when youstrip women of bodily autonomy.
(10:28):
And now women in red states aresigning up for helicopter
insurance and I'm not kidding,it's a real service $85 a month.
If you're pregnant and yourlife is at risk and your state
has banned abortion, you paymonthly so they'll fly you
across state lines if thehospital refuses to help.
(10:48):
That's where we are now.
Life-saving care now depends onsubscriptions.
Forget health insurance.
You need escape insuranceinsurance.
So here's what I'm asking Ifthey're rewriting data, history,
(11:08):
media and justice, who's goingto be left to tell the truth?
Us, we are.
That's why activist chainexists.
We are the links in a humanchain, city to city, state to
state.
We're building theinfrastructure now for the
crisis we know is coming later.
It may feel quiet today, butquiet doesn't mean still.
(11:33):
We are forming, we areorganizing, we are protecting
one another and when the lightsgo out, when the media gets
defunded, the data gets scrubbedand the institutions fall in
line, we'll still be here,linked, loud and unafraid.
I'm Christy Chanel and this isSassy Politics.
(11:56):
Stay ready, love you, miss you,bye.
You ever get the feeling that facts don't matter
anymore, that the truth issomething that they think they
can fire, rewrite or decorate ingold?
Because this week they triedall freaking three.
I'm Christy Chanel and this isSassy Politics.
Welcome to Sassy Politics.
(00:26):
I'm Christy Chanel and today'sepisode is a wake-up call.
We're diving into everythingfrom the firing of the nation's
top job statistician to Trump'sgolden throne room.
Let's go.
Let's start with the jobsreport, because numbers don't
lie, but apparently, if theymake Trump look bad, they get
(00:49):
fired.
On August 1st 2025, presidentTrump fired the head of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics rightafter a rough July report
showed only 73,000 jobs addedand unemployment ticking up to
4.2%.
Now, instead of addressinginflation or asking what's
(01:12):
driving wage stagnation, hepointed at the data and said
fake.
Then he fired the messenger.
His advisor, kevin Hassett,defended the move by saying
Trump wants his own people atthe BLS.
And that's the problem.
These are supposed to benonpartisan government offices,
(01:33):
not propaganda teams.
You can't just plug in your owncheerleaders and expect us to
trust the scoreboard.
That's not how this works.
That's not how democracy works,and here's why it matters.
If we can't trust governmentdata, if our own job numbers,
(01:54):
inflation rates and povertystats are filtered through MAGA
PR, then we're not living in aninformed democracy.
We're living in a scripted lieand I need you to really
understand that.
I don't know that I will everbelieve another report that
(02:17):
comes out from the Trump regime.
I feel like we're at acrossroads Right now.
Right now, we can totally seetruth versus brainwashing.
I don't know that we'll be ableto do that six months from now,
a year from now, two years fromnow, because he's paying and
(02:41):
defunding everyone thatsurrounds him to tell us what
they want us to think,regardless if it's truth or not,
and I really want you to sitwith that and if you take
anything away from this episode,I need you to take that Really.
Really think about it.
This is a problem.
And you can sit there and try toargue with me that she was
(03:04):
hired by Biden and therefore youcan't trust her numbers, that
she was inflating them.
Prove it to me.
Don't just fire someone becauseyou don't like the numbers.
Prove it to me.
Prove it to all of us.
Show us that she was wrong.
They don't do that.
They just let you go.
(03:25):
They just, they just tear youdown.
They do everything, butactually show you reasoning and
facts.
That's a problem.
Everything they're saying ispropaganda with no factual basis
behind it.
We need to start demandingfacts.
Don't just take them for theirword.
(03:47):
It's not working anymore.
If we don't demand the truthand the facts, we're never, ever
gonna get them.
Trump tried to get theSmithsonian to quietly remove
his two impeachments from theirhistorical exhibit.
He literally wanted to erasethem like they never happened,
(04:08):
but after public backlash theyannounced the exhibits will be
reinstalled within weeks.
That's another one.
He's trying to erase history,how it happened to whatever he
wants people in the future tobelieve, the people that aren't
here with us right now.
He wants to change history.
He wants to change currentevents and he wants to change
the future.
(04:29):
That's the theme here Erasewhat makes him look weak,
silence what can't be controlled, defund what won't obey.
Let's talk about that too.
The Corporation for PublicBroadcasting, which funds PBS
and NPR, is now under attack.
Trump wants to cut itcompletely because PBS and NPR
(04:54):
can't be bought like CBS or Fox.
He won.
They're shutting down.
They're shutting down.
They're shutting down andthey're funded by us.
They're funded by us, and I'mseeing people like Sid Miller,
someone that was elected intothe agricultural lane I don't
know exactly what he does, butsomeone that was publicly
(05:15):
elected coming out and sayingthat PBS is woke.
And then you have people in thecomments going yes, defund them
.
They should be able to stand ontheir own, they don't need blah
, blah, blah.
What is wrong with people?
This was created in 1968 to helppeople, people that don't have
(05:39):
a lot of money.
They used it for nationalwarning systems.
They used it for information,to help people that couldn't
afford cable hear theinformation.
I myself was at my dad's andmom's shoe store.
I'd be in the back while theywere waiting on customers.
In the front, we had this blackand white TV with antennas and
tinfoil on the ends and I wouldwatch public broadcasting.
(06:04):
Some of the best memories thatI had of Big Bird and Mr Rogers
and I'm sad by it.
It's all pissing me off.
These systems have never neededclickbait, to tell the truth.
Think about it Big Bird, mrRogers, ernie, sesame Street
that's how millions of uslearned empathy, learned how to
(06:26):
think critically, and that'sexactly what Trump's regime
doesn't want journalism.
But now, now, with the backdoordeals that are happening under
(06:47):
this new, current ownership, cbswill start mimicking Fox News,
not just in tone but inpolitical bias.
It's no longer a watchdog, it'sa lapdog.
Control the media.
Fire the statisticians.
Control the media.
Fire the statisticians.
Rewrite the museums.
Are you seeing the pattern yet?
We talked about patternrecognition in the last episode.
(07:12):
It's still here and I need youto pay attention to it.
It's so critical that you do.
Let me give you a visual justto help.
Trump is decorating his DCoffices like it's Mar-a-Lago 2.0
.
Gold-plated cherubs, ornategold drapes, opulence like a
Vatican fever dream.
And I had this moment.
I'm sitting there.
I'm watching all these goldthings be put in place.
(07:33):
I'm imagining the nextpresident walking in with a
freaking sledgehammer, rippingthose goddamn curtains off the
walls and saying we're done.
Pretending this is normal,because it's not.
None of this is normal.
And while they're trying to turna golden grift into gospel,
(07:55):
trump's press secretary,caroline Leavitt, is standing at
the mic saying he deserves aNobel Peace Prize because quote
he's ended one conflict a monthsince taking office.
What the fuck Like?
What the actual fuck?
Are you kidding me?
(08:15):
That's not how Nobelnominations work.
This isn't class, president.
You don't get votes based onvibes.
You don't get nominated becauseyour press team said so, and
Trump.
Let's be clear he's notnegotiating peace, he's
negotiating loyalty.
Let's talk about that loyaltytest Because it showed up again
(08:39):
when he was asked whether he'dpardon Sean Diddy Combs.
You know what he said.
He said Diddy once saidsomething negative about him, so
now he's not so sure if hedeserves a pardon.
It's not about guilt orinnocence, it's about whether he
likes you.
That's not justice, that's themafia.
(08:59):
Which brings us to GhislaineMaxwell.
This week, the convicted sextrafficker was quietly moved
from maximum security to aminimum security camp in Texas,
right here with me in Texas, yay, yay, the same one housing
Elizabeth Holmes, where they'dhave yoga classes, wellness
(09:21):
programs, and there's noexplanation as to why she got
moved.
Don't you think we need that?
Don't you think we should getthe transcripts from when they
met?
I know they're going to tellyou they can't release it
because the victim's names arethere.
Well, freaking, take them out,like you did Trump's.
You had a thousand FBI agentsremoving Trump's name from the
(09:44):
list.
The transcripts, you can do itagain.
You can do it again notransparency, no justice.
And you wonder why they won'trelease the Epstein list.
Now Let me tell you about MasonLee Gibson.
He raped a 16-year-old girl inArkansas got her pregnant and
(10:06):
because of Arkansas's abortionbans, that young girl was forced
to carry pregnancy to term.
A judge gave Gibson 12 monthsprobation, so now she has to
raise her rapist child with noway to legally remove him from
the child's life.
This is what happens when youstrip women of bodily autonomy.
(10:28):
And now women in red states aresigning up for helicopter
insurance and I'm not kidding,it's a real service $85 a month.
If you're pregnant and yourlife is at risk and your state
has banned abortion, you paymonthly so they'll fly you
across state lines if thehospital refuses to help.
(10:48):
That's where we are now.
Life-saving care now depends onsubscriptions.
Forget health insurance.
You need escape insuranceinsurance.
So here's what I'm asking Ifthey're rewriting data, history,
(11:08):
media and justice, who's goingto be left to tell the truth?
Us, we are.
That's why activist chainexists.
We are the links in a humanchain, city to city, state to
state.
We're building theinfrastructure now for the
crisis we know is coming later.
It may feel quiet today, butquiet doesn't mean still.
(11:33):
We are forming, we areorganizing, we are protecting
one another and when the lightsgo out, when the media gets
defunded, the data gets scrubbedand the institutions fall in
line, we'll still be here,linked, loud and unafraid.
I'm Christy Chanel and this isSassy Politics.
(11:56):
Stay ready, love you, miss you,bye.
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