How two blonde suburban moms gave Democrats an answer to the rightwing media ecosystem

[erronis]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/oct/05/ive-had-it-podcast-democrats-liberals
Rachel Leingang

Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan’s podcast I’ve Had It has risen up the charts and created a community with ‘a brand of fuck-you politics’

Jennifer Welch, Angie Sullivan and Barack Obama.

When Donald Trump scheduled a press conference after a weekend in which rumors about his health swirled, two women in red-state Oklahoma launched a livestream for their more than 1 million followers on YouTube to speculate about the condition of “Cankles McTacoTits”, shortened to Canks “for expediency and spite”.

It was fitting for the profanity-laced, straight talking liberal podcast I’ve Had It that quipped, after interviewing Barack Obama, that the former president has “big dick energy”.

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Edit: Corrected mislabeling the photo with Barack Obama.

[Sogo]

1. WTF is the caption for that photo all about!!??

nt.

[erronis]

3. Thanks. Corrected.

[Bluestocking]

2. That is not Kamala Harris

[erronis]

4. Thanks. Corrected.

[Grins]

5. OKLAHOMA?????? NM

[godsentme]

6. Their IHIP podcast is more than awesome

These ladies are a blast. I'm excited to see how well they are doing.

[Iris]

30. I kept wondering why they never came up as the answer to Joe Rogan

[betsuni]

7. Wonder why the Guardian put hair color in the title of the article.

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[leftstreet]

9. +1

Pretty sure I know why, but...whatever

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

19. Title should mention "two blond moms and one grey-haired Barack Obama..."

That would have been clearer when looking at the photo.

[GreenWave]

27. Or two with recessive trait hair color...

[msongs]

31. because the trump world has so many blonde ivanka clones.....going blonde is defiance nt

[Sugarcoated]

8. I've been watching them for a few months now

They're fantastic. Having grown up in, and still living amongst Bible belt maga cultie's, they seem to really understand the inside wtf baseball of the far right. The strategies, the mindset, the crazy conspiracies that, as someone who lives in a very blue region of a blueish state, I have trouble understanding.

[Prairie_Seagull]

10. Is this the actual title of the photo?

If so Cankles McTacoTits would demand first billing.

[walkingman]

11. I watch this every evening. They are my kind of people.

[Starbeach]

12. I've been following

For a long time. They know these smug right wingers in detail and they are brutal on them. Nothing like the Bible belt fury of these women.

[otchmoson]

13. No longer an Okie,

but these women make me proud . . . of women! I follow their multi-daily IHIP News, and their IHIP podcast whenever it pops up. They don't pull any punches, and can be tough on some Dems who demonstrate lack of courage or fealty to corporate donors.

[MoseShrute]

28. Still an Okie,

damnit. I stumbled onto their website about a year ago and was stunned they are not only in Oklahoma, but just a few miles down the road.

[Wiz Imp]

14. I Love Me Some IHIP.

Definitely one of the best YouTube/podcasts out there. They're unlike anyone else out there and provide a unique perspective as 2 liberal women from one of the most right-wing states in the country. The more I watch them, the more I like them.

[Upthevibe]

15. erronis.......

Thank you SO much for this post!

I've been listening to the I've Had It With show for almost two years. They are fantastic!

Jennifer and Angie's ("Pumps&quot show is one of the best. Their playful banter has me in stitches.

But don't let that fool you. I can't remember who it was they were interviewing (I think he was a former Republican now Democrat) a man who's running for the Governor of his state (? but it may be Georgia) and they held his feet to the fire and would not let up when asking if he was going to take donations from a specific organization (sorry but I can't remember which one).

I'm bringing this up because they can be very serious interviewers too.

[yankee87]

16. No Fucks Given

Love them. They speak what all of us are thinking. We are pissed off and are tired of milk toast politicians. It's a war for our country.

[Just Jerome]

17. I LOVE THESE TWO!

No bs, no stoopid, no prisoners.

Rock on, badass Sooner Chicks!

[CTyankee]

21. They're great but "big dick energy"???

I greatly love and respect President and Mrs. Obama and I think we can reach for nicer (and stronger) words. Let's not sink to their level. Surely we can find nobler language. How about "stronger, greater energy" and perhaps add "and energy that ennobles us and lifts us up."

[betsuni]

24. He has big intellect energy, sort of the opposite of the other one.

[CTyankee]

25. YES!

[live love laugh]

18. Next up: Trump sues YouTube ...

[Bettie]

20. I'm going to have to listen to it

and this bit is something that definitely resonated with me:

“You want to go low, we’re gonna go lower,” Welch said. “The integrity politics of being perfect as a liberal needs to stop, and we need to bully the shit out of these guys, because they respond to it.”

[CTyankee]

23. No. We don't need to stoop to their language. Call them "snivelling stooges of Trump"

[Bettie]

26. The point isn't the language used

it is the bullying them, as they do to us.

It is the only language they understand and we need stop treating them as if they are civilized, decent people. They aren't.

[usaf-vet]

22. I try not to miss their podcast. They definitely do not pull any punches. In fact metaphorically speaking I feel.....

.... they have more than once kicked "canks" in the gonads, or stepped on the "mushroom".

[Raftergirl]

29. I've been listening to their pod for years. I knew them from the reality tv show they were on.

I don’t listen to their news pod, because I don’t really do daily news anymore.

They are great and I love their pod. Always gets me laughing and in a good mood after I listen.

[Iris]

32. Their news pod is the only way I can take the news!

[Joinfortmill]

33. These two ROCK! I watch on free Youtube!