Warning: This post contains explicit language. Reader discretion is advised. On Thursday’s episode of the podcast I’ve Had It, co-host and miserable, affluent, white, female liberal (AWFL) Jennifer Welch teamed up with deranged former CNN correspondent Jim Acosta for 79 minutes of dangerous, unhinged lunacy lamenting the state of America that included joking about wanting someone to “choke the living shit out of” CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil, comparing Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) to ISIS, smearing Erika Kirk, and promising mass prosecutions of Republican when Democrats retake power. It began with Acosta screeching about miserable his life in D.C. has become simply because of who’s President: Jim Acosta on what it’s like to live in Washington D.C. under a second Trump term... “Oh, Jesus Christ, it is — it’s my worst nightmare. I thought we were rid of this clown four years ago. But no, they’ve come back with a vengeance. Fortunately, the DC restaurant scene is set up… pic.twitter.com/Gm9U6FamA3 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 16, 2026 Similarly, Welch then whined how the White House has been soiled by such odious figures like “all of the emotionally stunted dweebs.” Acosta then pitched a hissy fit because staffers in the first Trump administration...threw office happy hours: Jennifer Welch says that, in December 2024, she told her husband she was upset at a Biden Christmas party because all she could think of was “all the f**ery and all of the emotionally stunted dweebs that are going to be walking around in the White House” Jim Acosta replies:… pic.twitter.com/FZQVOyUKfu — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 16, 2026 Following a diversion about NFL officiating and Acosta lamenting the hate for his James Madison University reaching the College Football Playoff, Welch launched into her disgusting comparison between ICE and ISIS. Obviously, Acosta concurred: WOW: Jennifer Welch says “ICE...needs to be abolished” because “this is an organization that’s behaving like ISIS” since “people would get kidnapped and they had hostages and they had on masks” and ICE drives around in “a big pickup truck with a bunch of flags in the back of it,… pic.twitter.com/QfJhJ0toSr — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 16, 2026 Acosta giddily predicted bloodshed on American streets if Trump remains in power: [Y]ou can’t have a situation like we had in Minnesota play out all over the country. The citizens are not going to tolerate it. People are not gonna, they’re just not gonna tolerate it. And the governor of whatever state can go out there and say, please remain calm, we can’t have rioting in the streets, that’s gonna give them what they want...But at some point, it’s just gonna happen, like people are gonna, they, they, they’re gonna reach the point where they’ve had enough. Because no one has had a rougher life than Jim Acosta, Welch invited him to explain how terrible his life was while covering the first Trump White House for CNN. Acosta played all of the greatest hits from on-air meltdowns (and his wildly stupid book): Jim Acosta still wants us to feel bad that people at Trump rallies would mercilessly boo him, equating media criticism with death threats pic.twitter.com/U5TE8cxJRn — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 16, 2026 Remember, being booed at a Trump rally is dangerous! Welch, having heard Acosta go on for over four minutes uninterrupted, jokingly said “it sounds like you’re in an abusive relationship and you need to draw boundaries and you need to get out of this” since “Donald Trump is an abuser,” “adjudicated rapist,” “emotional abuser,” and “psychological abuser.” The conversation then turned to the current state of the media with Welch asserting the press aren’t actively partisan and working to take down Trump. “[Y]ou have people like Jeff Bezos and Larry Ellison. That own these news organizations...and they allow for this abuse to be hurled at their employees making a very unsafe workspace and, to me, this is a really big story, but there’s so much fuckery going on we don’t talk about it, but there’s there’s been such a — a — a receding of decency,” she declared without a tint of irony. Claiming the media are free from “abuse” because “we are protected by the Constitution,” Welch and Acosta had the gall to claim it’s the right who’s hurled death threats and lamented Fox News viewers have put them “in the hot seat” saying “we hope you die, we hope you get gang raped.” This inevitably turned to CBS News with David Ellison coming on as the head of their parent company. Welch took the first swing, whining about “what Bari Weiss is doing right now to those poor journalists at CBS” and “serious journalists at — at 60 Minutes.” Acosta responded by first bragging about how much he loved Jeff Zucker and complaining Weiss is no Zucker because “60 Minutes is in trouble” and thus “we’re all in trouble” with Weiss “spiking a segment on CECOT and the gulag...down there in El Salvador, a torture prison.” Then came the sophomoric attacks, including joking about wanting Walter Cronkite to come back from the dead so he could “choke the living shit out of” CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil for his January 6 segment about Marco Rubio memes: WATCH: After saying CBS News is “state-compromised media...subject to the whims of a mad king president,” Jim Acosta threatens @CBSEveningNews anchor @TonyDokoupil, saying he wishes Walter Cronkite could “come back from the great beyond to choke the living **** out of him and… pic.twitter.com/mg0b9izNQl — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 16, 2026 The two then mocked a new core value of the CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil about loving America: Jennifer Welch mocks CBS News for its core value declaring we love America because “that’s not your job” and journalists shouldn’t “feel emotion toward America.” Jim Acosta slightly disagrees, saying “we all love America” and “that’s why we’re doing this” and “I f***ing love… pic.twitter.com/BwAUwNQ76s — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 16, 2026 Of course, Acosta went right to Dokoupil’s news brief from January 6 on the fifth anniversary of the Capitol riot, insisting this was proof we should all ask “what the fuck is going on with these people” and America lacks “a free press that can hold the goddamn President of the United States accountable.” Because this is what the left thinks America wants more of, Acosta had more f-bombs to hurl at Dokoupil and Weiss: More Jim Acosta on why he doesn’t believe Bari Weiss and Tony Dokoupil are real journalists because real journalist would tell Donald Trump on the phone to “go f*** yourself”.... “[W]hen I saw CBS [saying they love America], I said, what the fuck is going on with these people?… pic.twitter.com/iHvS3B6Ghk — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 16, 2026 To insist he was a journalist, Acosta insisted he grilled the Obama administration and angered then-Press Secretary Jay Carney because he was willing to state the obvious in October 2013 that the ObamaCare website was a disaster. “[T]hat is how it should work. The — the government, can get mad at you for doing your job, but you ought to be able to say right back, fuck off. I’m doing the news. This is how it works,” he said in summarizing that anecdote. Going to an ad break, he took another cheap shot at Dokoupil: Jim Acosta on Tony Dokoupil: “[I]f the anchor of the CBS Evening News feels that the corporate overlords are making his life a living hell, then he should go on the air at the end of his broadcast and say, they’re making my life a living hell. I can’t tell you guys the truth. I… pic.twitter.com/W25R15DH1v — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 16, 2026 When the chat resumed, Welch insisted CBS News is “further [right] than Fox” and Acosta joked it’s worse than “even the little North Korean lady”: LOL: Jennifer Welch and Jim Acosta say CBS News under Bari Weiss is “further [right] than Fox” and “even the little North Korean lady who reads the news is like, dial it in” and “offended” because “it’s a little out of control” pic.twitter.com/VZsFCkfi5w — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 16, 2026 Finally moving off the media, Welch claimed influential, young conservative leaders are all gay: In which Jennifer Welch and Jim Acosta actually, seriously insist Jesse Watters and "couchf***er" JD Vance plus Josh Hawley and Harrison Butker are each in a gay affair because they have "such excellent gaydar" and should "just do it" because they'll "have a great life" and… pic.twitter.com/2o3XKe6EXB — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 16, 2026 Acosta and Welch also prescribed their ideal future of the Democrat Party, including massive prosecutions of Republicans: Jennifer Welch says Democrats must reject "far-right AIPAC money" and the country needs true Democrat leadership again like...Andrew Cuomo during Covid or else they'll continue to be "preserving the Democratic Party that lost two times to a f***ing times to unhinged, mentally ill… pic.twitter.com/BllmfOwhNP — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 16, 2026 WATCH: Jim Acosta weirdly smears Erika Kirk while criticizing the Democrat Party for lacking a spine: “Erika Kirk can go off and shoot off fireworks at the Turning Point convention, and yet Hakeem Jeffries is worried about going to Mamdani’s inauguration. It was like, I would… pic.twitter.com/ot2wa6XHTg — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 16, 2026 Jennifer Welch — an influential Democrat podcast — promises mass prosecutions of President Trump, Republicans writ large if Democrats retake power because that will be the only way to achieve true national reconciliation Jim Acosta adds Supreme Court seats must be added if… pic.twitter.com/gUdNOwarA8 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 16, 2026 The pair from hell even provided proof to the constant state of psychosis on the left that the next heir apparent is always worse than the current leader: Jennifer Welch — an influential Democrat podcast — promises mass prosecutions of President Trump, Republicans writ large if Democrats retake power because that will be the only way to achieve true national reconciliation Jim Acosta adds Supreme Court seats must be added if… pic.twitter.com/gUdNOwarA8 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 16, 2026 At the 68-minute mark, Welch hurled a slew of vile accusations at Turning Point USA and claimed without evidence the country was horrified at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service: Jennifer Welch claims there was a huge, national backlash against Christianity and MAGA because of Charlie Kirk’s funeral because... - “Nobody surrounding Charlie Kirk even talks about” gun control - It was too “pyrotechnics, Christian nationalist, Bible-thumping” - “Country… pic.twitter.com/jQYeGRCFPf — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 16, 2026 Before closing out (and after Acosta displayed a weird belief America is like a Disney or Rocky movie in that evil — the right — will eventually lose), Acosta trumpeted his supposedly brave act of cancelling his Washington Post subscription because the editorial board expressed support for the concept of a White House ballroom (click “expand”): WELCH: And we need to remember that none of these corporations are anything without us —  ACOSTA: That’s right. WELCH: and our money. And if they want to shit on their customers, we’ll just start boycotting them. ACOSTA: I canceled my Washington Post. I mean, this is the paper I grew up with. My mom would get it on her doorstep every morning, read it cover to cover every morning. I canceled that fucking thing. WELCH: Did it feel good? ACOSTA: When they came out with the editorial and said it was okay to bulldoze half the White House, I click, canceled — I canceled it live on my show. I — I said, no, fuck this noise. We have to start standing up, not just to Trump, but to all of the enablers, and a message has to be sent, this is running out. Which side are you gonna be on? Our side or his side? WELCH: I agree. To see the relevant transcript from January 15, click here.