Chaos & Corruption April 20, 2026

[SPEAKER_08]: It's political Thank you, radical You think it's a far away But you are the politics Shotsmith, Pearson, Jody Hamilton [SPEAKER_11]: Hey, Jody. [SPEAKER_11]: Hey, Sean. [SPEAKER_11]: It is Monday night. [SPEAKER_11]: It is. [SPEAKER_11]: It's, well, that's something that can be confirmed. [SPEAKER_11]: Easily. [SPEAKER_11]: As opposed to the, you know, where is JD Vance? [SPEAKER_11]: Question, or do we have a ceasefire?

[SPEAKER_11]: Or do you know where your tax dollars are this evening? [SPEAKER_11]: A lot of news from the weekend, a lot of news from last week. [SPEAKER_11]: Brooklyn dad defined this coming in and we Monday's with the machine tonight. [SPEAKER_11]: Of course, we have some great guests coming up this week as well, and we are very glad you are joining us. [SPEAKER_11]: Joe, to hear. [SPEAKER_11]: I'm here.

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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, yeah, we got to talk about all of that. [SPEAKER_12]: The FBI director and the director defense department secretary walk into a bar, I guess every day. [SPEAKER_11]: And of course, a Janine voxel line period, and I believe Scott Bassett and everybody except Donald in his regime. [SPEAKER_12]: He's the only toddler. [SPEAKER_12]: He's just on other drugs. [SPEAKER_12]: Allegedly. [SPEAKER_11]: Allegedly.

[SPEAKER_11]: Well, we know he's on other drugs because of, you know, some of the things they had to have blood thinner and the other stuff, but I'm sure there are things he's taking. [SPEAKER_12]: According to some people that know him, he's on Adderall. [SPEAKER_11]: Whatever, I, I wouldn't be surprised. [SPEAKER_11]: He doesn't have the attention span of a nap. [SPEAKER_11]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_11]: How's your weekend? [SPEAKER_11]: It was okay.

[SPEAKER_11]: Good, got some some time to kick back and enjoy and rest. [SPEAKER_12]: I did. [SPEAKER_12]: We uh, we went to this farm that has like a farm animals that's like a similar to a petting zoo, but you can kind of feed the goats, but you can't feed other animal kind of thing. [SPEAKER_12]: And they're all kind of behind cages, but this, we're walking back. [SPEAKER_12]: And then one of the baby goats just got out of his enclosure, owing.

[SPEAKER_12]: His name is Oreo and he just jumped out and we're like, hello, Oreo. [SPEAKER_12]: I got to hold a chicken, which is really cool, and then we also watched a boy pig who is getting neutered this week, try to mount a much older female pig. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, okay. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, that's, that's a little bit different. [SPEAKER_11]: That's Barney or Barnard Horne's. [SPEAKER_12]: Yes, it was.

[SPEAKER_12]: And their children had just walked by there and we're staring at it with their parents and I'm like, Mom, what are they doing? [SPEAKER_12]: Because you could see what was happening and what he was trying to do. [SPEAKER_12]: He was trying to get, he was much smaller than she is. [SPEAKER_12]: And, and he was just trying to get up there and you could see what was trying to get into what was trying to get into. [SPEAKER_12]: And she was like her tail was down.

[SPEAKER_12]: She's like, no. [SPEAKER_12]: No, not interested. [SPEAKER_11]: No, go away. [SPEAKER_12]: And then we walked out and there's this woman with a very small two-month-old pig. [SPEAKER_12]: And I said, we just saw some pig born. [SPEAKER_12]: And she goes, yeah, this is why she's not in that cage. [SPEAKER_12]: Because she can get pregnant right now, so until he is neutered. [SPEAKER_12]: She can't stay there.

[SPEAKER_12]: Wow. [SPEAKER_12]: Wow. [SPEAKER_11]: Look, it is that there are all kinds of realities. [SPEAKER_11]: Some of them are fun for kids to see in some of them not some of the animals that they have or all rescues from wherever, you know. [SPEAKER_11]: And I get that, even so, even if you were trying to describe this to kids, it is easier to describe things to kids that are simple and easy like that than some of this, this war stuff.

[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, speaking of kids, by the way, hopefully you guys saw the, [SPEAKER_11]: a video put it out on several of the social media platforms over the weekend of a foreign president Obama and any of your city may or mom Danny um that was great singing wheels on the bus the kids are all like hey and Obama's like hey what's his name kids are like maimdani and he goes okay what's his first name and the kids are like may or no that works

[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, I'm like, okay, you get to bell kids as they're preschoolers. [SPEAKER_12]: So, you know, I mean, you're like, he was saying earlier, what's your mom's name? [SPEAKER_12]: Mom? [SPEAKER_11]: What's your dad's name? [SPEAKER_11]: Dad? [SPEAKER_11]: Right. [SPEAKER_11]: Kids are that age. [SPEAKER_11]: I get it. [SPEAKER_11]: That's that's fine.

[SPEAKER_11]: If these, those are, and even the bar yard stuff is somewhat simple, if not over simplistically, that you can, you know, explain to them. [SPEAKER_11]: But this stuff going on with the Iran war over the weekend. [SPEAKER_11]: So for those of you who are confused, don't worry. [SPEAKER_03]: We all are. [SPEAKER_11]: Everyone from the National War to the actual people involved are also confused. [SPEAKER_11]: It's more of Schrodinger's ceasefire.

[SPEAKER_11]: It both is on and is off at exactly the same time, depending on who you ask. [SPEAKER_12]: Well, we said that last week, deal or no deal. [SPEAKER_11]: Right, except it depends again on who you ask. [SPEAKER_11]: First round of day in the stupidest war ever. [SPEAKER_11]: Any updates from Middle East. [SPEAKER_11]: Now, Pakistan at last check is still preparing for the upcoming P steel as of 2 p.m. Eastern today. [SPEAKER_11]: A ran, it changed their mind.

[SPEAKER_11]: They now say they will be at the talks, but only of JD Vance shows up without a couch. [SPEAKER_11]: I'm just kidding, I included the couch part, but anyway. [SPEAKER_11]: But they did say they'd only show up if JD Vance was there. [SPEAKER_11]: Now this afternoon, you tune around of a national media org, CNN, MS now, ABC streamer, NBC streamer, scripts news. [SPEAKER_11]: I think I bounced to at one point. [SPEAKER_11]: And everybody's like, well, is he going?

[SPEAKER_11]: Is he on the plane? [SPEAKER_11]: Do we know if he's on the plane? [SPEAKER_11]: Dude, I don't know if he's on the plane. [SPEAKER_11]: Do you know if he's on the plane? [SPEAKER_12]: It's not the short flight. [SPEAKER_12]: I mean, if he's going to be there tomorrow, he should be on the plane. [SPEAKER_11]: It's like a 14 hour flight, yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: He should be on a plane before we got on. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: Flying now. [SPEAKER_11]: Long before we got to the bar did we should have been. [SPEAKER_11]: Nobody seems to know, and of course this is after a week in of confusion. [SPEAKER_11]: So Saturday, remember we said Friday night here at the bar, we said that Iran said, okay, we'll open the straight, but Donald Trump meets the back down on his blockhead.

[SPEAKER_11]: Right. [SPEAKER_11]: And Trump said no, I won't block down it back down until I get everything on paper. [SPEAKER_11]: And Iran said that's not of this works. [SPEAKER_11]: It's supposed to be a show. [SPEAKER_11]: Good faith. [SPEAKER_11]: Right. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, Donald showed them no good faith. [SPEAKER_11]: So they followed through and closed the street or her moves again. [SPEAKER_11]: The problem is they didn't tell everybody.

[SPEAKER_11]: They fired a couple of tankers who were going in and then they went out. [SPEAKER_11]: Remember, Karen Anita, we're talking about how do they know? [SPEAKER_11]: Nobody knows. [SPEAKER_11]: Nobody knows. [SPEAKER_11]: And then on Sunday, the US seized an Iranian flagship. [SPEAKER_11]: What do we, you know, Kvando's onboarding? [SPEAKER_11]: Okay. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, that's great. [SPEAKER_11]: What are you going to do with it, Jack? [SPEAKER_11]: Does it have oil?

[SPEAKER_12]: He'll steal it. [SPEAKER_11]: Uh, no, it's a cargo ship, I believe. [SPEAKER_12]: Okay. [SPEAKER_11]: So he'll maybe try to sell. [SPEAKER_11]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_11]: They'll they'll according to the catalog. [SPEAKER_11]: They'll have to pull it into a one of one of the ports that we believe is friendly and park it there and basically put it in temporary escrow if you will. [SPEAKER_11]: It's stupid. [SPEAKER_11]: I know. [SPEAKER_11]: It's it's as a nine.

[SPEAKER_11]: It's not to mention all of the sailors [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, they're just sitting out there. [SPEAKER_11]: All right. [SPEAKER_12]: Anchor just floating. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, most of them are an anchored. [SPEAKER_11]: But they need to get replenished. [SPEAKER_11]: So then they kind of have to move away and go get replenished and come back. [SPEAKER_11]: So we're sending a bunch of stuff to the middle. [SPEAKER_11]: No, we're in some of it as we mentioned on Friday.

[SPEAKER_11]: They weren't actually. [SPEAKER_11]: They're not getting as replenished as they should be. [SPEAKER_12]: Um, well, I know that fertilizer that's probably sitting on some of these ships and which farmers cannot afford. [SPEAKER_11]: There was a piece that I, um, yeah, I didn't get it. [SPEAKER_11]: It's in the cost of the war section. [SPEAKER_11]: I couldn't remember if I had included it or not.

[SPEAKER_11]: From the farmers' bureau who, you know, normally they're they're pretty friendly to the farmers, which go figure. [SPEAKER_11]: But in a nationwide survey, they said most farmers now cannot afford fertilizer because of the [SPEAKER_11]: Sorry, it's frustrating for us and we know it's frustrating for you. [SPEAKER_11]: And it's frustrating for people all over the world. [SPEAKER_11]: There are people in Asian nations, especially Southeast Asia.

[SPEAKER_11]: Some of them are literally going through a fuel crisis these now, where they don't have enough fuel period. [SPEAKER_11]: Right. [SPEAKER_11]: Right. [SPEAKER_11]: And then you've got the Trump energy secretary and former oil executive Chris Wright.

[SPEAKER_11]: uh... he now says gas prices uh... probably stay above three dollars a gallon until next year mm-hmm well and of course the the oil prices today uh... as as people go oh wait wait they're they're game on game on there's a ceasefire oh oh it goes down oh wait wait wait I don't know it's going back up because we don't know the oh wait it's going out oh wait it's going out but it's just yeah and remember

[SPEAKER_11]: These jumps in prices, if people know about what's going to happen, if certain people know about it. [SPEAKER_11]: Certain people in the Mara-Lago Mafia, as the phrase is starting to become John Osset, that's another phrase he tossed out there that it's fairly smart. [SPEAKER_11]: They're making millions off of these jump trades, where 20 minutes ago it was one price, and then suddenly something happens, except for somebody had to know before it happened.

[SPEAKER_11]: It happened 60 seconds before there was an announcement, suddenly there's an announcement in peak. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, you and me and the rest of the people around here, we ain't making any money from this. [SPEAKER_03]: Right. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: It is all part of the massive corruption that is going on in this Trump regime.

[SPEAKER_11]: It should be hammering home the point that A, every Democrat needs to be campaigning on accountability and affordability, but definitely the accountability for all of this corruption.

[SPEAKER_11]: guys got to remember the corruption just got rid of orban in hungry and and his party it's not just orban it's like all people in and their their parliament their version of congress who like two-thirds of the people who were in his party gone by [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, over the weekend, by the way, we also had more stuff. [SPEAKER_11]: Looks like Try to remember who it was. [SPEAKER_11]: There was another say again. [SPEAKER_12]: I'll have it hold, please.

[SPEAKER_12]: I know I've got it. [SPEAKER_11]: I know it. [SPEAKER_11]: I had it. [SPEAKER_12]: Hope he's your college's very important Some more for other foreign affairs, treasure is your part of secret talks and accountability. [SPEAKER_12]: Here we go [SPEAKER_12]: No, it was in here. [SPEAKER_12]: I know it was because I was in here too. [SPEAKER_11]: There was another nation where they just had over the weekend. [SPEAKER_11]: They had some more great things.

[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, it was in I'm still making progress under the fifth round today. [SPEAKER_11]: There it is. [SPEAKER_11]: Bulgaria. [SPEAKER_11]: Bulgaria is the nation. [SPEAKER_11]: There it is. [SPEAKER_11]: Warm down by corruption. [SPEAKER_11]: Bulgarian voters have backed a new center left coalition. [SPEAKER_11]: They're defeating a decade over right-wing government.

[SPEAKER_11]: So folks, some familiar people, we're going to talk about the last decade and about the decisions that have been made and about among other things, elections and term limits. [SPEAKER_11]: I know you were talking about that over on Facebook over on the weekend. [SPEAKER_12]: Well, Tom Hartman has always been against them and he talks about it a lot, but it was nice to see it delineated. [SPEAKER_11]: I mean, there are good reasons not to have them.

[SPEAKER_11]: There are good reasons to have them if they are modified very specifically. [SPEAKER_11]: It has to be very specific. [SPEAKER_11]: We can talk about that. [SPEAKER_12]: I mean, because he's not wrong, especially in DC. [SPEAKER_12]: The lobbyists. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, especially in DC. [SPEAKER_11]: My home state in Nebraska is a perfect example of what happens when you just put out very plain term limits and just say, nope, you can only do this.

[SPEAKER_11]: And you don't think about the ramifications. [SPEAKER_11]: But it's kind of like all the corruption. [SPEAKER_11]: There are so many secondary and tertiary effects from all this corruption going on. [SPEAKER_11]: And we have to talk about all that. [SPEAKER_11]: So it's a big news day. [SPEAKER_11]: We understand, you know, you had a good Monday. [SPEAKER_11]: We hope good Monday work day. [SPEAKER_11]: Maybe this is your second day. [SPEAKER_11]: Maybe you're a third shifter.

[SPEAKER_11]: You're just waking up. [SPEAKER_11]: You're like, yeah, really? [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, really. [SPEAKER_11]: The rest of the world still crazy while you were sleeping. [SPEAKER_11]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay. [SPEAKER_11]: Anyway, yeah, but look, we'll talk about all of it. [SPEAKER_11]: We've got it on the news on tap, which remember you can subscribe to for free at the politics bar.com. [SPEAKER_11]: Ah, man. [SPEAKER_11]: I need a drink.

[SPEAKER_11]: We'll get to the drinking today as well. [SPEAKER_11]: Uh, you know, today's not bad. [SPEAKER_12]: It's um, the holiday couldn't make you thirsty. [SPEAKER_12]: Well, yeah, you can certainly get some dry mouth and yeah, and munchies definitely not shows are in order We'll talk about that and more jodys here. [SPEAKER_11]: I'm here Brooklyn data fine is coming in a little bit It is a Monday night at the politics bar fresh and your drink and come right back more the news on tap.

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[SPEAKER_11]: Let's see, Johnny. [SPEAKER_11]: Um, Natalie from California. [SPEAKER_11]: Actually, she, she reached out again. [SPEAKER_11]: She reached out a few days back. [SPEAKER_11]: And I missed it. [SPEAKER_11]: Um, she's concerned about the California governor's race. [SPEAKER_11]: I am too. [SPEAKER_11]: She wants to know if there's any way to heard the cats that are Democrats to get behind a single candidate.

[SPEAKER_12]: Well, I just read and we'll talk about it more tomorrow because I just saw the headline Betty is dropping out. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, that's good. [SPEAKER_12]: So that's one down for at least to go. [SPEAKER_11]: Okay. [SPEAKER_11]: What? [SPEAKER_11]: Well, definitely. [SPEAKER_11]: Heather, we'll, or, pardon me, Natalie. [SPEAKER_11]: We'll talk back that a little bit more Natalie tomorrow. [SPEAKER_11]: So just come back to the bar in the morning, and we'll talk back.

[SPEAKER_11]: We'll talk back at some of the election types stuff today too. [SPEAKER_11]: Obviously Virginia got a big election tomorrow too. [SPEAKER_12]: So I have a feeling new Sims getting on the horn with people. [SPEAKER_12]: The DNC's getting on the horn with people. [SPEAKER_12]: Anybody in California is getting on the horn with these people going, look, you can run again. [SPEAKER_12]: But do not do this right now. [SPEAKER_11]: Right. [SPEAKER_11]: This is not the time to do it.

[SPEAKER_12]: Not today. [SPEAKER_12]: Satan not today. [SPEAKER_12]: The mayor from San Jose should be getting a phone call from Nancy Pelosi since they are close together. [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_10]: Be like. [SPEAKER_10]: Be like. [SPEAKER_10]: Look on. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: He's very attractive. [SPEAKER_12]: But no. [SPEAKER_11]: Right. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, look. [SPEAKER_11]: And there's plenty of other things. [SPEAKER_11]: He's young.

[SPEAKER_11]: He's very young. [SPEAKER_11]: I, by the way, we were talking about this. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, we, hopefully we'll play a cut that we've got of John Ossov, who, you know, mentioned the, came up with the phrase, Mara Lago Mafia, which is great. [SPEAKER_11]: But there are people who are already so many people in the national media are so chomping at the bit to be, oh, we've, we've got a, we've got a good, good 20, 20, 20, 20, so far away. [SPEAKER_11]: 20, 26 is where it's at.

[SPEAKER_11]: And, and then there's the people who are like, well, awesome, has to run for president. [SPEAKER_11]: And this person has to run for president. [SPEAKER_12]: If he runs great, but right now, okay, let's just harken back to 2006 was anybody talking about Barack Obama? [SPEAKER_11]: No, no. [SPEAKER_12]: I mean, we're talking about it in 2004 after the convention. [SPEAKER_11]: Right.

[SPEAKER_11]: But there were a few people in small circles, but it wasn't anything national media wise, and here's the big thing. [SPEAKER_11]: people need to remember there are so many more important offices than just president of the United States. [SPEAKER_11]: This is not a kingship. [SPEAKER_11]: I know Donald Trump pushes it was, but this is not a kingship. [SPEAKER_11]: So, just so you're the president, so what? [SPEAKER_11]: The Senate Majority Leader has some powers.

[SPEAKER_11]: Well, that's a bit, that's a bit of a common speaker of the House. [SPEAKER_11]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_11]: So, as you're governor, as soon as the speaker of your state legislature and the speaker of your state Senate, [SPEAKER_11]: or the leader of your state Senate, whatever. [SPEAKER_11]: So does your mayor and your city council. [SPEAKER_11]: One of the most important offices there is as Barack Obama used to say, is citizen.

[SPEAKER_11]: Because all those people who didn't show the ass up, oh, let me play that one. [SPEAKER_11]: Cory Booker, who you know, I am friends with. [SPEAKER_12]: It sounded like a preacher in this. [SPEAKER_11]: I have yelled at him for years that he needs to have more fire.

[SPEAKER_11]: And he has, [SPEAKER_11]: calmly replied for years that he he wants to be a man of peace and I understand there's nothing wrong with being a man of peace but you can still be passionate exactly and he was passionate here uh... this weekend michigan democratic women's caucus in Detroit were a bunch of the folks who are you know poking around looking at twenty twenty eight pop up here that this was this was quarries little uh... contribution this weekend on that here

[SPEAKER_04]: too much in our party. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm calling it like it is. [SPEAKER_04]: After our primaries in Hillary Clinton was our nominee, there was some people, not all people, not even most people. [SPEAKER_04]: Some people said, well, I don't like her. [SPEAKER_04]: I don't agree with everything she says. [SPEAKER_04]: I saw it with Kamala Harris. [SPEAKER_04]: There were too many people that say, I don't agree with her on everything.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, 90 out of 100, I agree with her, but those 10, I can't do it. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, you may disagree with [SPEAKER_04]: percent of her views, but you let someone get an office who you disagree with on everything. [SPEAKER_04]: You let somebody get an office who is locking up our children. [SPEAKER_04]: You let somebody in office who's taken away our healthcare. [SPEAKER_04]: You let somebody in office who's taken away workers' rights.

[SPEAKER_04]: You let somebody in office who got rid of the Department of Education. [SPEAKER_11]: It goes to what Natalie from California was saying, which you let the message on the bar line, which is to say, we got to do this. [SPEAKER_11]: We got to get together and especially California Democrats, who a lot of people, oh, they've got it in the bag. [SPEAKER_11]: No, they don't have it in the bag. [SPEAKER_11]: Nobody has anything in the bag until the bag is sewn up.

[SPEAKER_11]: Until the election is done. [SPEAKER_11]: So, [SPEAKER_11]: There are different jobs for different people at different times and right now for the folks in Virginia You better get your asses out there and vote yes tomorrow for the folks in California You better get your asses together and figure out which Democrats are actually gonna win and everybody who ain't gonna win Everybody has a decent chance of winning.

[SPEAKER_11]: You get that loud if you've got single digits at this point careful and you get out but The idea that you know, oh, it can't be done especially when you look at the news today [SPEAKER_11]: Those people who are saying, oh, well, you know, Kamala couldn't win or Hillary couldn't win. [SPEAKER_11]: Shut up. [SPEAKER_11]: Right. [SPEAKER_11]: Look at everything's head. [SPEAKER_11]: NBC News has a new poll. [SPEAKER_11]: We have this one of the first round under the cost of the war.

[SPEAKER_11]: Trump's approval rating hits a second term low as American Sauer on the Iran War and the economy. [SPEAKER_11]: And the economy is, of course, tied to the war. [SPEAKER_11]: His low approval now is at 37%. [SPEAKER_11]: He is he's across the board on so many polls. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, okay, I can play one from your boyfriend about this. [SPEAKER_12]: My other left don't tell Charlie. [SPEAKER_11]: I don't.

[SPEAKER_11]: I won't tell Charlie, but Harry and has the numbers as he usually does. [SPEAKER_11]: About how people are not exactly happy with Donald Trump on the economy. [SPEAKER_05]: of the United States. [SPEAKER_05]: Just take a look at these net approval ratings when it comes to inflation, the President United States, it's hitting all-time record lows and all of these polls and all of them. [SPEAKER_05]: NBC came out yesterday, 36 points underwater.

[SPEAKER_05]: CBS came out a few weeks ago, 38 points underwater. [SPEAKER_05]: If so, it's Reuters, 43 points underwater. [SPEAKER_05]: CNN came out earlier this month, 45 points under water, and taking the cake is UMass Amherst, 47 points under water across all of these polls, Trump is in his worst position ever on the issue that the American people say over and over again is their key number one issue. [SPEAKER_05]: Was it? [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: Mm-hmm.

[SPEAKER_11]: The economy matters and the fact of having competent government [SPEAKER_11]: Something like this, this war, for example, have you ever, you like history like I do? [SPEAKER_11]: Have you ever heard of any administration? [SPEAKER_11]: Even other countries of administration, when they're talking about doing a ceasefire where they've done this, on again, off again, on again, off again, on again, off again. [SPEAKER_11]: Have you ever heard of anything like this, Jordan?

[SPEAKER_11]: No, no, competent people don't do that. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, competent and confident. [SPEAKER_11]: which also kind of tells you something about Donald Trump. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, he knows that right now. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, actually mine's longer. [SPEAKER_12]: His is that thin, but mine's longer. [SPEAKER_11]: Please. [SPEAKER_11]: You're just saying that, you know, when, you know, if Melania was being on her, she is, well, just a point, dad.

[SPEAKER_12]: Surprise, she got pregnant. [SPEAKER_12]: but the question is was it his well actually it looks so much like him he looks a lot like his dot definitely yeah stuff like his kid but anyway no doubt um now here are going the other hands are uh oh as Donald say who hope I'm Eric daddy I'm [SPEAKER_11]: I like any in the second round today in the news on tap accountability badly needed. [SPEAKER_11]: The corruption land section is huge today for a reason.

[SPEAKER_11]: So Trump and all of this corruption look you want somebody who was focused on current governing issues. [SPEAKER_11]: Donald Trump is still focused on among other things.

[SPEAKER_11]: The Mueller files, Russia Gate, [SPEAKER_11]: uh... the trepid jim is installed a loyal us to jodage and of uh... you're like wait a minute that that's not isn't that a character that we used to hear about back in the day yes you you said that over here you're correct they they've hired uh... jodage and of a who hasn't been to the dj since the reagan era

[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, you used to work at the DOJ hasn't been there to lead a grand conspiracy investigation into former CIA director John Brennan and basically anybody else that Trump doesn't like those involved with the Mueller or Jack Smith. [SPEAKER_12]: If I were a lawyer, I would work for Mr. Brennan pro bono because we have the Senate report. [SPEAKER_12]: We have the Mueller report. [SPEAKER_12]: We have all of these things.

[SPEAKER_11]: Well, and as if they try to go after him in court like this, then among other things, Brennan can actually say, I want both volumes of Jack Smith's report. [SPEAKER_11]: And they're going to have to cough that up, too. [SPEAKER_11]: So this is that this is not going anywhere. [SPEAKER_11]: No, all of this kind of stuff. [SPEAKER_11]: And look, here's the thing is that we have a good piece in here from Marcie Wheeler, Empty Wheel.

[SPEAKER_11]: The, yeah, it actually runs down the connection between Todd Blanche and Dmitry Fertash and the Rushigate Investigation. [SPEAKER_11]: and the Mueller reports, you guys should read that if you're unfamiliar with it. [SPEAKER_11]: In the meantime, the Trump DOJ removed an actual career prosecutor who actually, basically objected to this and said there's no, there's no, there's no, there's no, there's there. [SPEAKER_11]: Right.

[SPEAKER_12]: It's a waste of, it's a waste of tax dollars, it's a waste of time, it's a waste of energy, it's a waste of bodies having to go through all that. [SPEAKER_11]: The purpose of this is not to actually find the truth, Jerry. [SPEAKER_11]: The purpose of this, as you know, it's not to find the truth.

[SPEAKER_11]: The purpose of this is to try and claim that Trump's paranoid delusion of being the target of Democrats, all the BS crap, not the crap that he actually did that he needs to be held accountable for. [SPEAKER_11]: But the crap that he, you know, oh, this is the Fox world. [SPEAKER_11]: This is actually the fox investigating the henhouse kind of thing. [SPEAKER_12]: Absolutely.

[SPEAKER_11]: When you send jokes because Joe de Genova is a nut, he's an absolute nut who's like the russia gate thing never happened and we're like no, actually there's plenty of we even invited. [SPEAKER_12]: Marco Rubio signed off on the Republican Senate report for F.S. [SPEAKER_12]: I didn't say it, I almost did. [SPEAKER_11]: I know that's okay. [SPEAKER_11]: I understand. [SPEAKER_11]: Look, but that's not the only corruption.

[SPEAKER_11]: We have more of the stories there in the corruption land section. [SPEAKER_11]: So the Trump FAA chief Brian Bedford, he's in charge among other things of regulating airlines, right? [SPEAKER_11]: He told the Senate committee, I swear 90 days after this hearing, I'll get rid of these stocks. [SPEAKER_11]: Did he get rid of the stocks? [SPEAKER_11]: Just now. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, just now. [SPEAKER_11]: He just got just after he's already been regulating some of these.

[SPEAKER_11]: Wow, that sounds a lot like some of the other insider trading going on. [SPEAKER_11]: We also have a piece by Nick Marsh in the news on Tap the day talking about that, that the insider trading suspicions are more than just the Iran war. [SPEAKER_11]: There's a lot of insider trading suspicions about oil trading, about other kinds of, you guys should just read the whole piece. [SPEAKER_11]: You'll notice [SPEAKER_11]: this is a trend.

[SPEAKER_11]: This is this is why the the off-suff phrase. [SPEAKER_11]: It's crazy. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, it's perfect here. [SPEAKER_11]: Let me let me play this this was Senator off-suff over the weekend on a campaign stop. [SPEAKER_11]: I believe he might this might have been him actually up in Michigan too. [SPEAKER_11]: Although honestly, I would prefer that he stay in the Senate. [SPEAKER_11]: But we'll talk about it a little bit later. [SPEAKER_11]: Let me play off-suff for you.

[SPEAKER_06]: Our national power and wealth are squandered and families are made to pay more for everything rest assured. [SPEAKER_06]: The Mara-Lago Mafia are finding ways to profit. [SPEAKER_12]: Yep. [SPEAKER_06]: Because, of course, they are. [SPEAKER_06]: The Financial Times reported, quote, [SPEAKER_06]: A company owned in part by Eric and Don Jr. has been pitching golf monarchies on its drone interceptors.

[SPEAKER_06]: Jared Kushner's already on the Saudi payroll to the tune of $2 billion and he's been soliciting billions more from princes and shakes across the region while leading negotiations on Iran. [SPEAKER_06]: And then there was the insider trading on oil. [SPEAKER_06]: Did you all see this? [SPEAKER_06]: Just minutes before a presidential true social post moved the price of oil, 13%. [SPEAKER_06]: Now, I don't know who placed those trades.

[SPEAKER_06]: But I'll tell you this, the SEC better find out. [SPEAKER_06]: And if they won't, when you elect this new majority in Congress, and you give us gavals and subpoenas, we will. [SPEAKER_06]: We will. [SPEAKER_11]: Exactly as it should be, but it's got to be a new Democratic majority and it's got to be Democrats who are not afraid of getting their hands dirty and getting in there and getting the accountability done.

[SPEAKER_11]: This corruption is endemic in the Trump regime, and in every state and local government across the board, the list of them, there's a piece from Garrett Graf, General Square Graf, we've had some of his stuff before here in the news on tap, and he goes to your five Trump scandals that you've probably missed, things that haven't even hit the headlines. [SPEAKER_11]: And that's just in the national level.

[SPEAKER_11]: We're not even talking about the people who are the Trump Sikha fonts at the state level or at the local level and all the ties they have. [SPEAKER_11]: And not even talking about the corruption in the media. [SPEAKER_12]: Right. [SPEAKER_11]: So, we've got to pay attention, we've got to ask strategically because we need to make sure that we completely take the table, that we win every damn fool thing that we can.

[SPEAKER_11]: And then we're going to have to keep going because after the elections, that's not going to be enough. [SPEAKER_11]: We're going to have to press our legislators, the people who we have elected to make sure that they hold every one, every one accountable, they know getting away. [SPEAKER_11]: needs to be an object less and all those people out there who are like, I'm going to do a Trump did. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, not this time's we cheeks.

[SPEAKER_12]: Now we need to we need to if God forbid that's to the bottom actually starts to beat above ground. [SPEAKER_11]: Get this lead chamber, baby. [SPEAKER_11]: We'll talk about that, too. [SPEAKER_11]: That's in the news, too. [SPEAKER_11]: We've got that of a news on tap as well. [SPEAKER_11]: Uh, you know what? [SPEAKER_11]: Uh, let's take a break. [SPEAKER_11]: Let's take a break. [SPEAKER_11]: Let's do the drink of the day after all today is. [SPEAKER_11]: for 20, man.

[SPEAKER_11]: Ha ha ha. [SPEAKER_11]: That's it. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: If you're thinking the drink of the day is related to that, well, you'd be right. [SPEAKER_11]: We'll come back and tell you exactly what it is. [SPEAKER_11]: Next, here's the politics bar. [SPEAKER_07]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_11]: It's Monday night, Jody's here on your here.

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[SPEAKER_11]: and we give you the politics bar every week day night and of course then we also give you the news on tap for free we throw that in and we throw in the drink of the day with the recipe but you got to get that to the subscription if you want the recipe check it all out it's there at the politics bar dot com all right so we we joked a little bit but i mean you know today today is for twenty days you know who's signing in oh my god it's okay all everybody does that pot voice

[SPEAKER_11]: She's in Chong, the Cartoon voice. [SPEAKER_11]: It's Piccola. [SPEAKER_11]: It's funny. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, yeah, exactly. [SPEAKER_11]: But it's funny. [SPEAKER_11]: I mean, you know, although there is a real story behind it being for 20, and you happen to get it today. [SPEAKER_11]: And it's in the drink of the day at the news on tap. [SPEAKER_11]: Jody, what is the drink of the day? [SPEAKER_11]: And of course, we know what the inspiration is.

[SPEAKER_12]: It's called a green tea cocktail. [SPEAKER_12]: Shocker. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: Brought tea. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: It's for 20, man. [SPEAKER_12]: There's a documentary on Hulu or Netflix or Amazon, I forget that's doing that right now about 420. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, going back in the history of the guys. [SPEAKER_12]: And how it's becoming legal across the country slowly, but surely.

[SPEAKER_11]: right and that's part of what for those people who are pro cannabis that is there that this is their big holiday i'm i'm fine with it i think it should be um uh legislative regulated tax uh made safe and legal so the people can use it and those are selling it legally can put it money in the bank please

[SPEAKER_12]: yeah that would be really nice to make sure that everything is because if you don't allow that then people are going to find alternate ways around things like that so well i mean legally all the cannabis stores in california still if it's a federally backed bank which every bank in credit union is because it's still technically illegal i know Donald said he was going to make it not that illegal soon he has yet to sign that or something well Donald said a lot of things

[SPEAKER_12]: But I know he said that, and if it happens, go, go Congress, but right now, you can't put all of these places, not all of some of them take credit cards, so I don't know how they're getting away with it.

[SPEAKER_11]: uh... they use off shore could have to be a they have to be but it's a it's a real pain in the and it's like come on their legal businesses let them put their money in the bank right absolutely hundred percent agree uh... by the way uh... the story of the four twenty uh... is the wall does the group of students in front of the and that's down on that picture down there [SPEAKER_11]: They still kind of do. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, they're a few days a little bit.

[SPEAKER_11]: There's even, I found a video clip. [SPEAKER_11]: So I stepped into this for a little bit. [SPEAKER_11]: Look at the station there in California. [SPEAKER_11]: So, but look, it is for 20 day for those of you who are big cannabis fans. [SPEAKER_11]: If you are a responsible user or responsible seller, we appreciate absolutely, you know, don't don't smoke and drive. [SPEAKER_12]: Don't eat and drive. [SPEAKER_12]: If you're a bad-a-bolt person, because it's a DUI no matter what.

[SPEAKER_11]: Right, exactly. [SPEAKER_11]: Do not do not use and do other things. [SPEAKER_11]: Basically, if you would drink three or four drinks, [SPEAKER_11]: And people go three or four I go depending if you if you do your three or three or four drinks and not do something Treats whatever your marijuana uses the same way exactly use marijuana Then you wouldn't drive if you would drink three drinks and not drive same thing.

[SPEAKER_11]: Okay, make a mix and say there you go So what is in the great it's we by way for those of you who are like dude, are you gonna use like marijuana in the drink? [SPEAKER_11]: No [SPEAKER_11]: No, marijuana is not legal for recreational use everywhere in the United States, so we're just kind of nodding to it. [SPEAKER_11]: Winking at it, if you will, with the drink of the day today, the green tea cocktail. [SPEAKER_11]: What is in a green tea cocktail?

[SPEAKER_12]: You're going to need a pre-chilled martini glass. [SPEAKER_12]: I'm mixing glass some ice, two ounces of dry gin. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_12]: Three quarters of an ounce of green tea liquor.

[SPEAKER_12]: a quarter of an ounce of stretchy driver mooth so it's a martini um okay three quarters of an ounce of green tea cold so if you've made it already throw it in the fridge kind of thing or you can buy I think you can probably buy green green tea in a can or something I don't know [SPEAKER_11]: You can, but I mean, you know, if you, if you make it at home, it's probably a little bit better. [SPEAKER_12]: It'll taste better. [SPEAKER_11]: I'm sure.

[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: And your garnish is a mint leaf. [SPEAKER_12]: So you stir all the ingredients with ice into your mixing glass. [SPEAKER_12]: You strain it into your martini glass and you garnish with a mint leaf. [SPEAKER_12]: It's very simple to to make nice nice.

[SPEAKER_11]: actually by the way thanks to the spark plug for the info on the day if you if you you missed it if you're like wait a minute i missed any of that info on the drink of the day don't worry about it it's there at the politics bar dot com go and check it out but if you want the recipe you got to subscribe folks and it's cheap so you know you can't even you couldn't even get a blunt for that i'm just saying you know you couldn't

[SPEAKER_11]: If it's legal somewhere, you where you are, not suggesting for those places where it's not, but if it's legal where you are, it can guarantee you cannot get a blunt for $6. [SPEAKER_11]: If it's any good, so there you go.

[SPEAKER_11]: uh... by the way uh... in the news on tap today in the sixth round because we have lots of stuff uh... media entertainment and more uh... uh... condolences to the folks who knew Patrick maloon yeah why is no real place star true uh... starship troopers yeah uh... and also bob kavoyan of the bob and time show uh... [SPEAKER_11]: I didn't know about Moldoon. [SPEAKER_11]: I didn't know he was sick. [SPEAKER_11]: I did know that Bob Kvoin had stomach cancer, actually, surprisingly.

[SPEAKER_11]: Because some other news that we got this afternoon later, right is about we were coming to the bar here. [SPEAKER_11]: You told him right when we got here. [SPEAKER_11]: I did not realize this. [SPEAKER_11]: Our friend Mindy Cone put up on our Instagram. [SPEAKER_11]: that she just had surgery. [SPEAKER_11]: So go to her Instagram and, you know, be like, hey, we're glad you're okay. [SPEAKER_11]: And yes, she's okay. [SPEAKER_12]: She's home. [SPEAKER_12]: And she's recuperating.

[SPEAKER_12]: It's going to be a couple of weeks at home, just kind of getting over the surgery and everything. [SPEAKER_12]: She did a really nice shout out to her nurses and her doctor. [SPEAKER_12]: And but she's doing okay. [SPEAKER_12]: Everybody. [SPEAKER_11]: She's smart and wonderful. [SPEAKER_11]: We love her. [SPEAKER_11]: And so you should be back soon. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, you get yourself healthy and better.

[SPEAKER_11]: And then when you are, come on back to the bar because, you know, she's, she's great. [SPEAKER_11]: She's fun. [SPEAKER_11]: Um, a great news over the weekend federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction against next ours take over of Tegna or the next start of the halt integration plans. [SPEAKER_12]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_12]: Excellent. [SPEAKER_11]: Check answers. [SPEAKER_11]: Stupid. [SPEAKER_11]: Hey, what help people think they can ignore anti trust?

[SPEAKER_11]: I don't even know. [SPEAKER_11]: But that's. [SPEAKER_11]: By the way, another focus in that California governor's race Hollywood jobs crisis looks like some incentive ideas are coming out from those folks. [SPEAKER_11]: So we'll talk more about some of that tomorrow. [SPEAKER_11]: In the entertainment area, Super Mario Galaxy, that movie third weekend $35 million dollars. [SPEAKER_11]: So falling off a little bit, but still. [SPEAKER_11]: That's a nice tick.

[SPEAKER_11]: It's doing well. [SPEAKER_11]: Hey, somebody through $35 million are way. [SPEAKER_11]: I would not complain. [SPEAKER_12]: No, can somebody do that Tom Sire? [SPEAKER_11]: But hey, Tom, you're you're you're you're getting a clips in the race. [SPEAKER_11]: You could just, you know, fun, some lovely to meet me. [SPEAKER_03]: We would mind just be awesome. [SPEAKER_03]: Dude. [SPEAKER_11]: Great, uh, practical magic, too.

[SPEAKER_11]: That movie is coming out of Leafs of Tamber, uh, Central Book and Nicole Kidman in it. [SPEAKER_11]: You know, I know people are like, oh, it's a, it's a chick flick. [SPEAKER_11]: It's a chance to watch Nicole Kidman in Sandra Bullock. [SPEAKER_11]: Hello, are you kidding me? [SPEAKER_11]: Did you watch the first one? [SPEAKER_12]: Did you see practical magic? [SPEAKER_11]: Mm. [SPEAKER_11]: I did. [SPEAKER_11]: And soccer soccer chanting is coming back.

[SPEAKER_10]: Cool. [SPEAKER_10]: Yay. [SPEAKER_10]: I love that they got her to do stuff. [SPEAKER_10]: She's. [SPEAKER_11]: I love Stockard Channing. [SPEAKER_11]: I do, she's great. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: Speaking of great women, Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter made Coachella history. [SPEAKER_11]: They covered Madonna's songs, Vogue and like a prayer in a duet, which... [SPEAKER_11]: Wow, yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: We've got the link. [SPEAKER_11]: You see a little clip there as well.

[SPEAKER_11]: I was pretty surprised at that. [SPEAKER_12]: Justin Root was there. [SPEAKER_12]: We've had him on and he was there last weekend. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: We should have, we should have asked him. [SPEAKER_12]: He was so cute because when I see lemons, I make a shirt out of it. [SPEAKER_12]: So we had a shirt with a bunch of lemons on it. [SPEAKER_12]: And they took another picture going, can I wear a pajamas? [SPEAKER_12]: And he was just like, can look, they weren't.

[SPEAKER_12]: But you know, they look kind of like Danny's. [SPEAKER_12]: He's fun. [SPEAKER_12]: We love Justin. [SPEAKER_11]: He's fun. [SPEAKER_11]: He's great. [SPEAKER_11]: He'll back the bar in time, too. [SPEAKER_11]: Okay. [SPEAKER_11]: Speaking of somebody we'd love to have in the bar, Eddie Murphy, who only does rear interviews, but he did get the AFI life achieved in the world over the weekend, which congratulations to you. [SPEAKER_11]: Eddie, that's a good thing.

[SPEAKER_11]: And Boston, Marathon, that was this morning, by the way, for those of you who are like, what, yes, in Massachusetts, it's Patriots Day. [SPEAKER_11]: So for those of you in the Massachusetts corner of the bar, celebrating [SPEAKER_11]: We're glad that the it happened a defending champion John Carrueu. [SPEAKER_11]: He happens to be from Kenya, shattered the record today.

[SPEAKER_11]: His fellow Canyon share on Locati also repeated so basically you have back to back winners and both the men's and women's category. [SPEAKER_11]: pretty cool NBA playoffs over the weekend in case you missed it Celtics Lakers spurs next thunder and surprisingly magic We're all winners. [SPEAKER_11]: Nobody expected the Orlando magic to be a winner over the weekend.

[SPEAKER_11]: That was one of those where you go what the hell They shot the Detroit Pistons 112 101 on the road only road win of the opening slate. [SPEAKER_07]: Wow [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, NHL Playoffs, we got the recap from that as well, some real nail butters of the weekend, and the Cleveland Guardians catcher Austin hedges, you and I've talked about this, I don't know. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_11]: I know, he got engaged on the field following the game.

[SPEAKER_12]: So, you know, I get it, only if the person who, with whom you are wanting to be be betrothed, [SPEAKER_12]: If that person said, and they've watched a movie where that's done in public, and they go, oh, isn't that romantic? [SPEAKER_12]: That's the only time you're allowed to do that. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, also look, especially on that kind of thing, his team had to win. [SPEAKER_11]: So thankfully, the Guardians did get an eight four victory over the Baltimore Orioles.

[SPEAKER_11]: So he got the win. [SPEAKER_11]: And then he got the other win. [SPEAKER_11]: And then he got the other win. [SPEAKER_11]: So congratulations. [SPEAKER_11]: But at the same time, I'm hoping that it seems like she was pulled it. [SPEAKER_12]: So unless the person that you're asking likes that sort of gesture, I don't do it, people. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: that's that's one of those really. [SPEAKER_12]: It's it's it's it's it's it's it's controlling.

[SPEAKER_11]: Well, and it's also it could be embarrassing it could be embarrassing for person asking because it's also controlling because you're especially in a stadium there's thousands of people. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, and it's his stadium and then in the game and then right. [SPEAKER_11]: So anyway. [SPEAKER_12]: Well, like when when a moderate shot proposed to his wife for [SPEAKER_12]: and she called, I believe ABC and said, let me get back to you.

[SPEAKER_12]: And then she thought, she got a camera crew to her house. [SPEAKER_12]: She did, she got a camera crew to her house and she said yes on camera like 20 minutes later. [SPEAKER_11]: Wow, still, that's, wow. [SPEAKER_11]: So she obviously, obviously, he did not consult a producer. [SPEAKER_12]: When that was But they did get things she got a camera crew to her house was about 20 30 minutes It was during football. [SPEAKER_12]: I want to say or basketball game or something.

[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, I have a big I have a big memory of that. [SPEAKER_12]: I remember him doing it and he looked terrified Well, yeah, understandable Better ways there are better ways to do this, but they've been married forever now, so it's fine [SPEAKER_11]: And part of the reason that we were interested in some of these fun things like this is the fact that with all the confusing news No, is it a ceasefire? [SPEAKER_11]: Is it not a ceasefire and all of the corruption out there?

[SPEAKER_11]: People are still looking for good news. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, another piece of good news that we have in the news on tap happens to be in the fifth round or more news to drink about [SPEAKER_11]: Pancreatic cancer, MRNA vaccine is showing lasting results, serious, really serious results. [SPEAKER_11]: And pancreatic cancer is one of the, it's one of the few where they've found a lot of other things that have helped a lot of their cancers.

[SPEAKER_11]: Pancreatic has been one of those that if you get diagnosed, it's usually because it's late and it's almost a death sentence, but this new vaccine MRNA, which by the way, RFK juniors against.

[SPEAKER_12]: And this was, um, [SPEAKER_12]: rolled out as an experimental drug before the COVID mRNA vaccines came out because I read the whole article and I was like Interesting they've been doing a lot of testing on it to make sure that it will work But this is this is the benefits of some of that gene technology that we got and it could save a lot of people's lives Yeah, this one woman six years you're normally don't live

[SPEAKER_11]: right the pancreatic cancer yeah lucky if you live three or four after diagnosis you look at you lay a year exactly so look there is a lot of good news out there folks it's one of the reasons why we try to you know keep your spirits up I mean this is a bar this is not like a place to mourn and you know what it well I mean you can be in your cups but [SPEAKER_11]: Well, we try to make it happy, it's one of the reasons why we bring in friends of ours.

[SPEAKER_11]: Like Brooklyn Dad, if I had to find, he will be coming in next, uh, look, pop in the hour. [SPEAKER_11]: Do you got to do? [SPEAKER_11]: Down the hall, if you need to use the facilities left, right, and center, we aim to please hear the politics bar. [SPEAKER_11]: You aim to please, then come back, press your drink, and have a few more rounds with us on a Monday night. [SPEAKER_02]: Hear the politics bar. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, let it go! [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you!

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[SPEAKER_11]: Of course, we did do the drink of the day, and I will trump happen to have a, I started to see this phrase on social media over the weekend. [SPEAKER_11]: Did you, did you notice it over the weekend starting to pop up? [SPEAKER_11]: What? [SPEAKER_11]: Trump's liquor cabinet. [SPEAKER_12]: Everybody's fun.

[SPEAKER_11]: everybody's trying to have fun with good old cash betel drug of in a scunk who by the way I believe don't we have him yes yes we have him getting drunk in the news collage that happens to be at the top of the news on tap because and of course then there's JD van just like talk to the hand I have to go to work I had to do a 14 hour trip to Islamabad well you get to be drunk cash betel well and and the thing is is cash is suing the Atlantic for the piece that they wrote

[SPEAKER_12]: for 250 million. [SPEAKER_12]: He's going to lose that lawsuit. [SPEAKER_12]: I guarantee he's going to lose the Atlantic. [SPEAKER_12]: It's very good at their job. [SPEAKER_11]: We've got a gift link to the Atlantic magazine piece and we have a full story there. [SPEAKER_11]: It happens to be in the second round under accountability badly needed.

[SPEAKER_11]: We've got the short version there that FBI's cash betell the nice is excess drinking among some security concerns by some people who are not exactly being quiet in the Trump regime. [SPEAKER_11]: Then there's the Atlantic magazine [SPEAKER_11]: and basically it is alarming a lot of people who are career well and even even career people but also even the Donald Trump people yeah well I mean if you're drunk you're compromised [SPEAKER_11]: Well, especially has the FBI director.

[SPEAKER_12]: And especially if he's doing it in public, let alone if he's passed out and they need swapped to come in and get him. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, but he's he's not the only one who has issues. [SPEAKER_11]: As we all know about pig keg breath issues. [SPEAKER_11]: I mean, that that much is is pretty obvious. [SPEAKER_11]: But Scott Basin had some issues. [SPEAKER_11]: This was this was last week at a presser in the White House press room. [SPEAKER_11]: Let me roll this here.

[SPEAKER_01]: Go, your president Trump said this morning that he thinks we're nearing the end of the U.S. [SPEAKER_01]: kept their side on the ceasefire, we've stopped firing the straits of our move, I have not been completely reopened. [SPEAKER_12]: Okay, the straits of our move, if it were a word that started with the sound of V, I could almost understand it. [SPEAKER_11]: You're saying if it was warm moves instead of warm moves. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, I could almost understand that.

[SPEAKER_10]: But if you notice he had that that Wall Street country club slightly drunk Wall Street country club slightly drunk I'm not really an unsy eating the whole lot cuz I can't really open my mouth a whole lot cuz I'm drunk Which one's but then the fact that he says straights of vermouth really? [SPEAKER_12]: Well, he'd like a straight of vermouth. [SPEAKER_11]: I don't know Showed he's right. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh my god [SPEAKER_12]: He likes some straight up, that's what it is.

[SPEAKER_11]: Uh, that's just nasty. [SPEAKER_11]: He likes straight from hit this nasty. [SPEAKER_11]: I'm just saying, he's got his husband, that's fine. [SPEAKER_11]: I don't judge, but I'm just saying that's the only thing he likes straight. [SPEAKER_11]: Obviously, he says for move. [SPEAKER_10]: So, that's uh.

[SPEAKER_11]: Of course, probably shouldn't be doing that as a secretary of the treasury, or at least to that level, but whatever, that's, that's these people are so incompetent and the fact that we give this straights of our move. [SPEAKER_11]: No wonder people can't start talking about Trump's liquor cabinet. [SPEAKER_11]: I mean, you know, you've got Janine Baxaline Pirro being the DC attorney. [SPEAKER_11]: You've got obviously Kegbreath. [SPEAKER_11]: Drunk as hell.

[SPEAKER_11]: You got straights of removed bessant and then of course you have cash but tell oh you have not drunk party with the hockey team Sure, Jan you're not drunk. [SPEAKER_11]: Sure, Jan So I get I get people putting out the the Trump's liquor cabinet out there. [SPEAKER_11]: I I just think they're they're incompetent even when they're sober. [SPEAKER_11]: I don't think they're [SPEAKER_12]: Well, I mean, they are. [SPEAKER_12]: They're not, they're not right for any of these jobs.

[SPEAKER_12]: And no, what's, what's, uh, brain just farted? [SPEAKER_12]: Okay. [SPEAKER_12]: I'll be okay. [SPEAKER_11]: No, no, it's okay. [SPEAKER_11]: It's, it's, when we consider the level of corruption that these folks have foisted upon all of us, and really upon all of the world. [SPEAKER_11]: You got to remember this ridiculousness going on in a ran by now.

[SPEAKER_11]: It's not just between the United States and Iran or the United States and Iran, it's in European nations and some Middle Eastern nations. [SPEAKER_11]: 20 percent of the world's oil flows through the streets of Hormuz. [SPEAKER_11]: There are, I heard a count over the weekend. [SPEAKER_11]: I tried to check it on G-Captain. [SPEAKER_11]: I didn't get a number, but at last check there's somewhere between 150 and 200 ships. [SPEAKER_11]: Hangin' out.

[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, just to live in there now. [SPEAKER_11]: Hangin' out in the area. [SPEAKER_11]: That doesn't even include ships that haven't even left, knowing that they can't even get through, so they're sitting in ports in India and Southeast Asia and even South America and the United States. [SPEAKER_11]: because they're like there is no point in us going all the way across the world to get over there and park. [SPEAKER_12]: Right. [SPEAKER_12]: Might as well stay home.

[SPEAKER_11]: And then even the ships that remember on Friday they said, oh, the the straights were open. [SPEAKER_11]: Iran said the straights were open. [SPEAKER_11]: Donnie said the straights are open, but not for a rainy and ships. [SPEAKER_11]: Couple of Indian ships went, dude, we are not aligned. [SPEAKER_11]: We just want to do our work and get done. [SPEAKER_11]: The Iranians said, okay, here's the map. [SPEAKER_11]: So you can go through. [SPEAKER_11]: The Indians went, okay, fine.

[SPEAKER_11]: They started to take their ships through and then somebody else a different Iranian person said, no, nobody goes through and started firing. [SPEAKER_11]: And they go, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. [SPEAKER_11]: You said we could go through. [SPEAKER_11]: Don't be firing us. [SPEAKER_11]: We'll turn around just, yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: Don't sync us. [SPEAKER_11]: So why would you take your ship all the way around the world?

[SPEAKER_11]: Billion now is worth a ship and people in cargo all the way around the world. [SPEAKER_11]: No, you probably parked in part of Long Beach or something. [SPEAKER_11]: Just because, you know, you ain't going to take your ship all the way around the world. [SPEAKER_11]: Which I hate commendable, you know? [SPEAKER_11]: Make sure that you keep the people safe or something. [SPEAKER_11]: Look at his ear. [SPEAKER_11]: Hello, sailor.

[SPEAKER_11]: We're just talking about sailors and ships and look who comes in. [SPEAKER_11]: Look at that. [SPEAKER_11]: He's got a fine cut. [SPEAKER_11]: He's got his beard all trimmed up. [SPEAKER_11]: He's nice and sharp. [SPEAKER_11]: How you doing, brother? [SPEAKER_11]: And you have on a nice Hawaiian shirt today. [SPEAKER_09]: Yes, yes, yes, I am doing splendidly. [SPEAKER_09]: Thank you very much for that. [SPEAKER_11]: Look, by the way, that's it.

[SPEAKER_11]: That's how I can tell that you are inside and not outside right now, because for those of you who are living in the Northeast, Mother Nature has been on crack last couple of days. [SPEAKER_11]: She's decided, I don't know, I like that jack for Austin. [SPEAKER_11]: He doesn't love you. [SPEAKER_11]: I'm telling you Mother Nature, he doesn't love you. [SPEAKER_09]: I am wise, I keep it on the inside, but yesterday, I was at a 100th birthday party for my auntie.

[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, happy birthday. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, happy birthday to her. [SPEAKER_11]: Congratulations. [SPEAKER_11]: How was she doing? [SPEAKER_12]: I mean, she, she, like... [SPEAKER_12]: You know, I'm in a hundred to a hundred. [SPEAKER_09]: Right. [SPEAKER_09]: So last year when I saw her, she was up and about on her own moving and you know, now she's in a wheelchair, but that's because she fell.

[SPEAKER_09]: That's different when she fell um her shoulder got dislocated so they had to like How Medicaid hurt to pop her shoulder or like they'd put her out to but it didn't break How if nothing nothing broke and just dislocated no and she's still like cheerful and she's very lucid and nice You know that's great. [SPEAKER_10]: That's wonderful and that's good news [SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, so it was like, it was a massive family reunion.

[SPEAKER_09]: These are people who hadn't seen in like 30 years. [SPEAKER_09]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_09]: Really, really, really, really cool. [SPEAKER_09]: Right. [SPEAKER_11]: That's the thing is that we, we've been trying to punctuate some of the more confusing and frustrating news today with good news. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, we didn't even get this in the news on tap. [SPEAKER_11]: Our friend, Minni Cohen, who, you know, acted with Carol, joining Mom. [SPEAKER_11]: right right.

[SPEAKER_11]: Mindy unfortunately she had surgery for for for cancer, but it looks like she's doing great. [SPEAKER_11]: She's at home. [SPEAKER_11]: She's she's healing up. [SPEAKER_12]: So yeah, she knows that herself on Instagram. [SPEAKER_12]: I somebody posted something and I was like, Is that real?

[SPEAKER_12]: Because people post crap about my mom all the time that's not real about her being in the hospital and [SPEAKER_12]: and so it's like okay because Lonnie sent it to me and I'm like well the person that posted it I know that person I don't think he would post anything wrong, but still and so I actually she posted it on our Instagram So if you guys are on the Instagram go see minicone c-o-h-n and just give her your love because she's doing well She's at home.

[SPEAKER_12]: She's recuperating and they it looks like they got it all [SPEAKER_11]: So there is there is some other good news from the New York corner bar. [SPEAKER_11]: I don't know if you saw the the clip over the weekend bdd of Foreign President Barack Obama and Mayor mom Danny [SPEAKER_09]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_09]: What's that sweet? [SPEAKER_09]: That's fantastic. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: We would have played it, but it's a little bit loud with all of the preschoolers and stuff.

[SPEAKER_11]: But we listen to it and we're like, eh, you know, can we play it with speakers in the bar and people would be like, probably not. [SPEAKER_11]: But I love the part where the little kids, they're all, you know, they're about to sit down Obama and Memdani and, you know, Barack Obama was like, you know, who is this? [SPEAKER_11]: And the kids are like, Memdani! [SPEAKER_11]: Okay, but what's his first name? [SPEAKER_11]: And they go, man, I love that.

[SPEAKER_11]: I was like, yeah, so sweet and you know some of those kids don't even know who president Obama is. [SPEAKER_11]: They just they know him as he's the cool nice black guy coming in helping us and reading stuff. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, because they're so young. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, yeah, I mean, they're preschool. [SPEAKER_12]: So, yeah, no, no, no, four to six years old, depending on how young you are when you hit preschool, I was two and a half, because I was smart.

[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, I'm back. [SPEAKER_11]: Of course, I mean, obviously, you still are. [SPEAKER_11]: But the thing that I really like too is that a New York City, Memdani, is rolling out and expanding the free child care. [SPEAKER_11]: As it should be, yeah, which that's, you know, look, there is a lot of good that's being done in a lot of places. [SPEAKER_11]: We've been meaning to talk about this BDD.

[SPEAKER_11]: We wanted to wait till you got here to talk about this because there's elections obviously there's an election in Virginia tomorrow here. [SPEAKER_11]: It's huge. [SPEAKER_11]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_11]: And there he is obviously the governor's election. [SPEAKER_11]: The primary coming up in California there's some big stuff going on there.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yep. [UNKNOWN]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: But one of the things that people are talking about when it comes to these elections also happens to be things like term limits. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: When people are saying, well, we're starting to look at primaries and we're like, okay, because we've talked about it here in the bar before a number of times, but it's something that should be hit because I think people are not quite, people's gut reaction to term limits.

[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know how you feel about it, BDD. [SPEAKER_11]: Judging after I talked about it, so we know, but go ahead. [SPEAKER_09]: Well, so. [SPEAKER_09]: Generally speaking, I think it's a good idea to make way for the younger folks just because you really want to, you want your elected officials to be operating at a certain level of efficiency. [SPEAKER_09]: Now what I said, you know, efficiency, [SPEAKER_09]: It doesn't apply, it's not equal across the board. [SPEAKER_09]: Right.

[SPEAKER_09]: Right. [SPEAKER_09]: Pelosi, for instance, she's like still sharp as a tack, you know, now and she's well into her 80s, but right people plus plus there's the whole idea of as well. [SPEAKER_11]: There's the whole idea of there are other solutions other than just a random you hit the, you know, the age limit or the term limit and you're done.

[SPEAKER_11]: And we've got to talk about some of those solutions because some of the solutions are really smart and just having a term limit or an age limit is actually kind of bad. [SPEAKER_11]: And there's some reasons that not everybody thinks about. [SPEAKER_11]: But we're, we'll talk about that here. [SPEAKER_11]: Brooklyn Dadafine is here. [SPEAKER_11]: It is after all, Monday is with Majid. [SPEAKER_11]: So he is here. [SPEAKER_11]: He is dancing. [SPEAKER_11]: Jody is about to dance.

[SPEAKER_11]: She's like, okay, I'm going to have to chair and dance. [SPEAKER_11]: So you can dance if you want to. [SPEAKER_11]: We will be back with another round on a Monday night with Brooklyn Dadafine. [SPEAKER_11]: Here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_11]: Hang on. [SPEAKER_07]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar.

[SPEAKER_11]: It is Monday nights and around here, you regular snow, it's Monday's with Magine, who wanted all the Magine, but he had also known as Brooklyn Dadafaya and happens to be in the bar, dancing, trying to make me break. [SPEAKER_11]: Always trying to make me break. [SPEAKER_11]: I try not to. [SPEAKER_11]: I try very hard to be professional when I'm introducing, you know, wonderful people like you, Magine. [SPEAKER_11]: We already know your weekend was pretty good.

[SPEAKER_11]: You're feeling really good now. [SPEAKER_11]: You know how he's feeling really good. [SPEAKER_11]: Not only is dancing, but he's wearing that really cool Hawaiian shirt. [SPEAKER_12]: That's a nice, a low-hush shirt. [SPEAKER_12]: You've got there. [SPEAKER_09]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_09]: I'm hoping to borrow some vibes from the shirt and put it into my soul. [SPEAKER_12]: Underfloor is for 20 after all. [SPEAKER_09]: That's right. [SPEAKER_09]: Oh, and I joined you guys at 420 on 420.

[SPEAKER_09]: Well, I know wormhole didn't open up. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: Look, you joined us. [SPEAKER_11]: It is 420 today. [SPEAKER_11]: Yes, exactly. [SPEAKER_11]: And, you know, we had that as the drink of the day. [SPEAKER_11]: If you guys missed the drink of the day, you can subscribe at the politicsbar.com. [SPEAKER_11]: We had a green tea cocktail today.

[SPEAKER_11]: we didn't do a marijuana cocktail drink because of the fact that it's not legal in every state so we decided to kind of beg off from that but we could have done a THC drink I mean you could have I mean why is weed why is weed considered for twenty what is the whole thing oh there's a whole restaurant we've got a whole history in the whole story it's there in the drink of the dated and it's that part of it is for free

[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, so you can go and read it if you see he didn't he didn't check it today before he came in he's He's too busy focused on on the news. [SPEAKER_11]: No, no, look. [SPEAKER_11]: It's totally understandable that you were focused on the news given all of the corruption that is out there. [SPEAKER_11]: We didn't even get to the the Supreme Court corruption. [SPEAKER_11]: So by the way, two cases an ounce today. [SPEAKER_11]: One that they're taking up one.

[SPEAKER_11]: They're not. [SPEAKER_11]: They are taking up a case where the right wing Catholic school, one of them in Colorado. [SPEAKER_11]: They want to get state funds. [SPEAKER_11]: But they don't want to have to abide by non-discrimination law. [SPEAKER_11]: Then no. [SPEAKER_10]: Right. [SPEAKER_10]: Judd is right. [SPEAKER_10]: Judd is right.

[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: Also, the Supreme Court is declining to hear a case on student rights versus parent rights over disclosing the name and pronoun changes basically, um, some right wing parents want to, you know, you have to tell me if my student has told you things that they didn't feel they could tell me. [SPEAKER_11]: And the Supreme Court's like, I'm not interested. [SPEAKER_12]: And it's basically upheld the same kind of thing here in California.

[SPEAKER_12]: So they're like, we already adjudicated this. [SPEAKER_12]: So you can eff off. [SPEAKER_11]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_11]: Joe, you sure. [SPEAKER_11]: But the big story of the Supreme Court over the weekend, so an inside story from the New York Times, we have to have the gift link for you. [SPEAKER_11]: The Shadow Docket, which we all hate, also known as the Emergency Dockets, there's a story by Jody Cantor and Adam Liptec.

[SPEAKER_11]: And it goes back to 2016 with Barack Obama and the Clean Energy Clean Power Plan. [UNKNOWN]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_11]: Uh, just as Robert's supposed to be the one who said that they're going to try to decide everything on a ball's and strike space. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: Just be an umpire. [SPEAKER_03]: Right. [SPEAKER_11]: Two, two, which I'm like, you know what, maybe we need a robot umpire like they have in the MLB now for the Supreme Court.

[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, I'm sorry, John Roberts, you clearly can't do your job, so we just had a robot do it for you because you suck. [SPEAKER_11]: And that is pretty much the story there. [SPEAKER_11]: It happens to be in the news on tap. [SPEAKER_11]: On to the fourth round, just as an ingest a section under disorder in the court. [SPEAKER_11]: Basically, Balsan strikes my ass. [SPEAKER_11]: Roberts specifically weaponized the shadow docket.

[SPEAKER_11]: And the right wing has been doing it ever since, to knock down cases they don't like and let through cases they do. [SPEAKER_09]: Absolutely corrupt as hell, disgusting and frustrating and Jackson is saying so to my aura said so, Kagan has said so, yeah, the Supreme Court has lost so much legitimacy because because [SPEAKER_09]: they have been unable to resist being pulled into the political decision, yeah, exactly.

[SPEAKER_09]: I would say right of the judicial branch, you know, of that the highest court in the land. [SPEAKER_11]: So they're, they're nine political actors and robes now as what they are. [SPEAKER_11]: Which is one of the reasons why I have suggested for years something that was suggested to me, originally by I think it was a friend of Glenn Kirchner's on Twitter back in the day before Blue Sky before Threads, all of that, which is known as Rule of 18, which I've talked about here before.

[SPEAKER_11]: Rule of 18, 18 justices, each one serves 18 years, justices are divided into three categories, six left, six centers, six right as judged by everything that we can find about them. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, that's interesting. [SPEAKER_11]: they would only be replaced by judges who met their same ideological priors and they would be re-judged every year based in the decisions they've made on the court.

[SPEAKER_11]: If you are somebody who originally was center and you ended up going left, congratulations. [SPEAKER_11]: You'll either remove dinner or left spot or you'll be moved somewhere else in the federal bench. [SPEAKER_12]: Sure is, you can't, Supreme Court justices have all federal judges have a lifetime appointment, but they don't have to stay at the bench where they are.

[SPEAKER_12]: So a Supreme Court justice can be removed and moved down the federal court system if he or she desires to stay doing that. [SPEAKER_11]: Right. [SPEAKER_11]: And that's where the 18-year term limit comes in. [SPEAKER_09]: Well, if you shot, yeah, go ahead. [SPEAKER_09]: I find your, your proposal quite intriguing. [SPEAKER_09]: I think my first time here's, if it's been out there for a while, I apologize, but it's my first time hearing it.

[SPEAKER_11]: It's in legal circles and you can go out there. [SPEAKER_11]: Some of whom you'll find of you hashtag rule of 18 on some. [SPEAKER_11]: You'll find me talking about it. [SPEAKER_11]: There used to be some more on Twitter and some people got removed. [SPEAKER_11]: So let me give you the full thing. [SPEAKER_09]: So the first thing, wait, wait, wait. [SPEAKER_09]: But here's, here's my, the point I want to make, right? [SPEAKER_09]: When you say sixth center, right?

[SPEAKER_09]: How do we know if anyone is truly, truly, center? [SPEAKER_09]: Because some people will say, I'm independent, like I see a lot of people say, I'm an independent voter, but they're leaning right. [SPEAKER_11]: One of the things that I have to be is probably a commission of legal experts. [SPEAKER_11]: who are themselves left right in center.

[SPEAKER_11]: But in general, if you ask somebody in legal profession, if you ask Glenn, if you ask anybody who, who all we had, Ellie, if you at, who do we have, she's got a new button out. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, more. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, exactly. [SPEAKER_11]: You ask any of them. [SPEAKER_11]: They can tell you whether a jurist is left leaning right leaning or center. [SPEAKER_11]: And not imputing anything about their abilities, just saying whether they're left right or center.

[SPEAKER_12]: You can tell by the rulings what they write about their, okay, you know, right. [SPEAKER_09]: So the legal experts would basically would would know. [SPEAKER_11]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_11]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_11]: So you have 18. [SPEAKER_11]: There are six of each. [SPEAKER_11]: And anytime that somebody is replaced, there replaced with somebody [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, every case then would get a random three from that pile of six.

[SPEAKER_11]: And here's the thing, the case that got rid of, or that it mostly got rid of Rovers' Wade, that the case is against some of the voting rights act stuff. [SPEAKER_11]: It's stuff that they've had in for years until they've waited until they get a court that's favorable to what they do. [SPEAKER_11]: With Rule of 18, where you've got six of each, and then each case is picked by a random three.

[SPEAKER_11]: So you still have nine justices hearing it, but there's absolutely no way to tell who to hell is gonna hear it. [SPEAKER_11]: So you've got a case, bring the case, suckah, but you can't bring the case and wait until you're going to have a favorable bench because you have no idea who's going to be hearing it. [SPEAKER_11]: And even if you do, there's going to be three left, three right, three center.

[SPEAKER_11]: If your position is a right-wing position, that's fine, but you are going to have to win five of those suckers. [SPEAKER_11]: The three that automatically probably agree with you and two more. [SPEAKER_11]: So good luck, Sucka. [SPEAKER_11]: You want to bring something you better. [SPEAKER_11]: The other thing it would do is the Supreme Court has a ton of cases. [SPEAKER_11]: They don't hear every year.

[SPEAKER_11]: It would help get rid of the backlog and their should still be unbank available. [SPEAKER_11]: So somebody could appeal and say fine. [SPEAKER_11]: I want to have all 18. [SPEAKER_11]: So, and on top of which, there should be more circuits. [SPEAKER_11]: There are 13 circuits right now that should probably be 13. [SPEAKER_11]: There should be at least because of the amount of cases out there. [SPEAKER_11]: There should be at least 15, which then leaves you three extras.

[SPEAKER_11]: Over the next 100 years, you're not going to have to worry about expanding the court because congratulations, you've already got it there. [SPEAKER_11]: So, no reason to touch that change once it's made, rule of 18, and then you've got basically a blind bench. [SPEAKER_11]: So, that's rule of 18. [SPEAKER_09]: Now, I actually love, love, love this concept. [SPEAKER_09]: I don't know why this is the first time I'm freaking hearing about this cause it is amazing.

[SPEAKER_09]: But with that said, I feel like Republicans would never go for it, because it's so because it's so reasonable and because it is meant to to reach reasonable verdicts because they have shown that they are not interested in reasonable. [SPEAKER_09]: They're all from that way and they want this strong arm, they want a strong arm, they're unfair policies through whether you like it or not. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, the biggest place they get hung up on is surprisingly there are two.

[SPEAKER_11]: One is the ideological priors and the other is the term limits. [SPEAKER_11]: That brings the round discussion that you and I started, that you started with somebody else and then I jumped into over the weekend on Facebook, Jolly. [SPEAKER_11]: Term limits by themselves if it's just a plain term limit can actually be really bad. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, it's not specifically defined. [SPEAKER_11]: Go ahead. [SPEAKER_12]: Well, I mean, Tom Hartman wrote the piece in rostory.

[SPEAKER_12]: It is behind a paywall, but I can. [SPEAKER_11]: No, no, actually, if you go in, I've got the free link. [SPEAKER_11]: You can go in. [SPEAKER_11]: It'll give you a little thing. [SPEAKER_11]: You click through the accident and you go in. [SPEAKER_11]: They'll give you a please donate thing, but then you get through it and it's fine. [SPEAKER_11]: It's in the news on tap today, actually.

[SPEAKER_12]: And Tom has been talking about this forever, and he talks about it on a show at minimum once a year, minimum once a year, certainly during election years he talks about it more often. [SPEAKER_12]: And basically, his argument is, term limits are bad, especially in DC. [SPEAKER_12]: It's bad everywhere, but especially in Washington, DC because what happens is say you give a Senator a 12 year term. [SPEAKER_12]: So two terms or say 18, but say just I too.

[SPEAKER_12]: Let's say we go 12 years for a senator and you give representatives for house members. [SPEAKER_12]: So yeah, you get 12 years for everybody, right?

[SPEAKER_12]: great except for the fact is there is institutional memory with people that have been there a long time and then there is no term limit on lobbyists that also work in D.C. and then they will come to the new guy and the new lady go this is where the bathrooms are this is what we want you to do and this is where the secret rooms are because it's a confusing building but it's basically the lobbyists come in and then influence people more than they already are influencing

[SPEAKER_12]: And that's the problem because a lobbyist will be there for 30, 40 years. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, I'm the people who say, well, that's not true. [SPEAKER_11]: I can give you a perfect example of how it actually works. [SPEAKER_11]: My home stayed in Nebraska. [SPEAKER_11]: So in 2000, the Nebraska legislature, remember it's a one-house legislature in Nebraska. [SPEAKER_11]: It's a unicameral. [SPEAKER_11]: That's it.

[SPEAKER_11]: Bill passed in 2000 took full effect in 2006, said you can only have, I think it's two terms. [SPEAKER_11]: Okay. [SPEAKER_11]: Can I say it legislature? [SPEAKER_11]: And that got rid of a lot of the two consecutive terms. [SPEAKER_11]: Now you can have more, and in fact, Ernie Chambers, who I've mentioned before, great legislator did that. [SPEAKER_11]: Ernie Chambers had been there forever, he got term limited out, he came back, and he did two more consecutive terms.

[SPEAKER_11]: They're like, oh damn, and him again, I'm like, yes, because he's really good. [SPEAKER_11]: Here's the thing. [SPEAKER_11]: So there's a new study out this weekend. [SPEAKER_11]: I didn't include it in this because it gets a little esoteric for the news on tap. [SPEAKER_11]: But the study basically shows Nebraska used to be a leader in economic development in the Midwest. [SPEAKER_11]: Always like top like one, two, three right up there. [SPEAKER_11]: Lot of investment.

[SPEAKER_11]: Lot of investment. [SPEAKER_12]: Berkshire Hathaway in there. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, Berkshire Hathaway. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: Also, a lot of the used to be the biggest irrigation company, Valley Irrigation, Valley Nebraska. [SPEAKER_11]: For the last 10, 15 years or so, Nebraska is now coming in near the bottom of those mid-west rankings. [SPEAKER_11]: And if people go, well, where the hell is all the money going used to be to help businesses and to help innovation?

[SPEAKER_11]: Where's the, because that's what the legislation that we used to have to do? [SPEAKER_11]: And where you look is the money is now going to tax cuts for the rich and big corporations. [SPEAKER_11]: there is no rule about the lobby lobbyists can be there. [SPEAKER_11]: So what they've done in Nebraska is the lobbyists come in and the lobbyists, they don't necessarily talk to the elected officials.

[SPEAKER_11]: No, no, no, no, no. [SPEAKER_11]: They go to the staffrooms because you cannot term limit somebody who doesn't have a term. [SPEAKER_11]: somebody who is just employed as a regular worker. [SPEAKER_11]: So they go to the staffers who are already woefully underpaid and they are woefully underpaid and they are woefully underpaid in virtually every state house in the country and they're woefully underpaid in your city halls too.

[SPEAKER_11]: Because remember lobbyists aren't just at the federal level, they are at the state level, and they are at the local level. [SPEAKER_12]: Well, the other thing that happened, say you got a 12-year term? [SPEAKER_12]: Cool. [SPEAKER_12]: By year 10, I'm looking to get a job outside of DC or wherever. [SPEAKER_12]: So who am I going to talk to lobbyists? [SPEAKER_12]: Right. [SPEAKER_12]: So then I'm going to really be nice to their industry if that's the industry I want to get into.

[SPEAKER_12]: So that I can get a job working there when I have my only 12 years or six years or whatever it is. [SPEAKER_09]: And then they want to have a well, but then you should have a rule that makes them [SPEAKER_09]: that exempt them from getting any job as a lobbyist.

[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know why he was a little bit there's like five years or something before he could work there have been a temps the the best attempt that I think of is something that is it's a little more nuanced it's kind of like the rule of 18 and it's it's known as tiered. [SPEAKER_11]: term limits. [SPEAKER_11]: Teared service limits is what some people call it. [SPEAKER_11]: Basically setting amounts of time that people can work at certain levels of government in elected positions.

[SPEAKER_11]: And some people even say there should be that for people who are in non-elected positions. [SPEAKER_11]: There is some debate on that. [SPEAKER_11]: But we can talk about these teared service limits because of the fact that I do think those would also help. [SPEAKER_11]: The biggest problem I think that we all have is people who [SPEAKER_11]: Yes, institution memory is good, but it's also good to get a little new blood in. [SPEAKER_12]: No, there's nothing wrong with that.

[SPEAKER_12]: But I mean, you have somebody like an antsy Pelosi and you have somebody like an AOC. [SPEAKER_12]: You need an antsy Pelosi to guide somebody like an AOC. [SPEAKER_11]: 100%, 100%, and you need great staffers who know what the hell they're doing, too. [SPEAKER_12]: And the only reason we have term limits on the presidency is because the Republicans were pissed off about FDR. [SPEAKER_11]: Judd is right.

[SPEAKER_11]: Look, we can talk about tiered service limits if you're good with that BDD. [SPEAKER_11]: Absolutely, then we will talk about that. [SPEAKER_11]: And of course, more of the news on tap of the day, obviously some more entertainment stuff too because it's fun and Brooklyn dad define this here. [SPEAKER_11]: So it's Monday night And we will probably end up taking things the afternoon. [SPEAKER_11]: No guarantee.

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[SPEAKER_11]: Okay, now he's got the pirate thing going, that's fine. [SPEAKER_11]: I don't know where you got that, but okay. [SPEAKER_11]: But going to have to find your on a Monday night since it is Mondays with machine. [SPEAKER_11]: Okay, so we were we're talking about Term limits as one of the things that's that's somewhat important and one of the things that that I presented which you guys didn't seem to Neither one of us knew about it.

[SPEAKER_12]: So thank you [SPEAKER_11]: I'm kind of geek about this stuff, you guys know that I'm nerd, nerd, yes I am. [SPEAKER_11]: So tiered service limits, what tiered service limits are, and there are different numbers for what it could be, but tiered service limits apply to the idea that you would serve a number of years at each level. [SPEAKER_11]: So let's say that you could serve 30 years total in public service to the government, [SPEAKER_11]: you do it in any direction you want.

[SPEAKER_11]: You could, you know, get elected president first and then be the mayor. [SPEAKER_11]: I mean, that would be weird. [SPEAKER_11]: But you could do it. [SPEAKER_11]: It's something we've had people who were president and then went to the Supreme Court. [SPEAKER_11]: You could serve different amounts of time. [SPEAKER_11]: What the idea of a tiered service limit says, so, okay, let's say you start at the local level. [SPEAKER_11]: You start your city council.

[SPEAKER_11]: You're city council terms are two years of pop. [SPEAKER_11]: You go, okay, so you do three terms in the city council. [SPEAKER_11]: You run for mayor, you get a four-year term at mayor. [SPEAKER_11]: You're doing pretty good. [SPEAKER_11]: You've learned everything you need to know on the local level. [SPEAKER_11]: But things are completely different on the state level. [SPEAKER_11]: And things are very different with federal level.

[SPEAKER_11]: A lot of the tricks and tools that you've learned to use will translate to the other levels, but the individual people are not the same and the rules are different at each level. [SPEAKER_11]: So maybe you've learned how to be a good public servant, learn how to legislate locally, learn how to take care of your people that way. [SPEAKER_11]: Fine. [SPEAKER_11]: So you do three terms on your city council. [SPEAKER_11]: You make it to mayor.

[SPEAKER_11]: You do, you know, four years at mayor or maybe you do one term on the city council and two terms at mayor. [SPEAKER_11]: Whatever. [SPEAKER_11]: You get 10 years. [SPEAKER_11]: And you can't do that anymore, but you can go to the state level. [SPEAKER_11]: So then you go in your state legislature and you do a few years. [SPEAKER_11]: Maybe you run for governor. [SPEAKER_11]: You get governorship and that's fine. [SPEAKER_11]: And then maybe you decide to run for congress.

[SPEAKER_11]: So you run for congress. [SPEAKER_11]: Maybe you get one six [SPEAKER_11]: The idea is that whatever you're doing and however the tiered limits are, and this is just one example, the idea is that you set a limit of time that people can work at a specific level, and then they can't work at that level anymore. [SPEAKER_11]: For example, [SPEAKER_11]: This could be applied also to lobbyists.

[SPEAKER_11]: So you could be 10 years at the federal level, but then you are not legally allowed to be a lobbyist at the federal level. [SPEAKER_11]: You may go to the states. [SPEAKER_11]: You may go to the local level, but you may not be as a federal lobbyist again for another, let's say, 10 years. [SPEAKER_11]: That would force people to constantly be cycling through. [SPEAKER_11]: And the people who understand how to get things through government.

[SPEAKER_11]: People understand how to make the machinery work, have to change machines that they're working on. [SPEAKER_11]: It makes it much harder for them to be corrupt and much harder for their corruption if they are corrupt, to not get noticed. [SPEAKER_11]: But it allows the people who actually know how to serve the public. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, to continue serving the public. [SPEAKER_11]: You just got to do it in a different way. [SPEAKER_11]: And it also means fresh blood comes in.

[SPEAKER_12]: By the way, lobbying, you and I can lobby. [SPEAKER_12]: Right. [SPEAKER_12]: That's just how you talked to your representatives. [SPEAKER_03]: But you have to do a lot of extra lobbyists. [SPEAKER_12]: But registered lobbyists are slightly different. [SPEAKER_12]: Not all of them are terrible. [SPEAKER_12]: Some of them are good people. [SPEAKER_12]: Some of them are trying to save the environment and other things. [SPEAKER_12]: So I don't have an issue with every single lobbyist.

[SPEAKER_12]: I do have the oil lobby, the pharmaceutical lobby. [SPEAKER_12]: I have an issue with... [SPEAKER_11]: And the fact that there are so many loopholes, you can get a rug from it. [SPEAKER_11]: And that's yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: But.

[SPEAKER_11]: And what's with this Montana thing that you were saying about citizens united okay so bdd you brought up you brought up the fact why think you brought up jodie fact of money in politics you'd be great to get money out and then i said well you know be great if we just had you know public finance yes and i think you've you said bdd something about the fact of of yet but you know we got citizens united so there is a a measure on the ballot in from or in Montana you said yes in Montana this year yes in Montana this year

[SPEAKER_11]: Lawrence or Donald's talked about it a good bit and the measure on the ballot works like this. [SPEAKER_11]: The Supreme Court has said in Citizens United that corporations have the right to use their money as speech, which is garbage because money is not speaking. [SPEAKER_09]: No, it's property. [SPEAKER_09]: It's property. [SPEAKER_09]: Right. [SPEAKER_09]: Corporations are people.

[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: True. [SPEAKER_11]: Corporations are legal segments that are determined by entities. [SPEAKER_11]: No, no, no. [SPEAKER_11]: The point that you made actually has kind of a big point, because corporations only exist as legal persons. [SPEAKER_11]: that are defined by the legislatures of each state. [SPEAKER_11]: So you can have the right to do something, but do you have the power to do it?

[SPEAKER_11]: The power to do that is determined by your legal existence [SPEAKER_11]: as a corporation and that's determined by the state and what they're doing in Montana with the citizens initiative there is they want to change it so that corporations that are in Montana do not have the power they can still have the right but as a legal entity they just won't have the power to spend money on politics. [SPEAKER_11]: So they have all the rights they want.

[SPEAKER_11]: Right, you have the right to use the money whatever way you want. [SPEAKER_11]: You just don't have the power as a legal entity. [SPEAKER_12]: What does that mean though? [SPEAKER_12]: The power? [SPEAKER_12]: What does that mean? [SPEAKER_12]: If they had the right to do it, then they do it. [SPEAKER_11]: If they don't have the right, no, they don't have the right. [SPEAKER_11]: No, they don't. [SPEAKER_11]: Think of it like gas. [SPEAKER_11]: Gas is power.

[SPEAKER_11]: Gasoline is power. [SPEAKER_11]: We put it in our cars, our internal combustion cars. [SPEAKER_11]: Or electricity. [SPEAKER_11]: Put it in electric cars. [SPEAKER_03]: Right. [SPEAKER_11]: What they're saying is that as a legal person in the state of Montana should this pass, they do not have the right to plug their power into the political system. [SPEAKER_12]: Oh, OK. [SPEAKER_11]: So they can't fuel the problem in money in the system by, well, I have all this power.

[SPEAKER_11]: Well, great. [SPEAKER_11]: You have it, but you can't put it in the system. [SPEAKER_11]: But I have it. [SPEAKER_11]: Great. [SPEAKER_11]: Good for you. [SPEAKER_11]: You can't do squat with it. [SPEAKER_11]: Have a nice day. [SPEAKER_12]: Okay. [SPEAKER_12]: So basically they're not allowed to donate to politics. [SPEAKER_11]: Uh huh. [SPEAKER_12]: Okay. [SPEAKER_12]: You have right. [SPEAKER_12]: You just don't have the powers. [SPEAKER_11]: See that.

[SPEAKER_12]: It's not a right. [SPEAKER_11]: No, no, you have the right. [SPEAKER_11]: You don't have the power as a legal entity. [SPEAKER_11]: According to, I know to most of us, we look at it. [SPEAKER_09]: Go, shoot them, shoot them. [SPEAKER_09]: If you have the right, if you have the right. [SPEAKER_09]: Can you have a right? [SPEAKER_11]: Think of corporations like robots. [SPEAKER_09]: Like if I have the right to speak.

[SPEAKER_09]: And I also have the ability to use that freedom of speech. [SPEAKER_11]: But think of corporations like robots. [SPEAKER_11]: They had this robot Olympic thing. [SPEAKER_11]: I think in Japan over the weekend, they did like a half marathon. [SPEAKER_11]: The robots beat the humans. [SPEAKER_11]: I'm not that impressed because it's a freaking robot. [SPEAKER_11]: Whatever. [SPEAKER_11]: Here's the thing.

[SPEAKER_11]: If I take that robot and I say, you have the right to speak robot, but then I remove its voice box. [SPEAKER_11]: And I remove any vocal communications. [SPEAKER_11]: It has the right to speak. [SPEAKER_11]: Does it have the ability? [SPEAKER_11]: No, no, because as the guy who creates the robot or in this case, the guy who creates the corporation, you and me, we all create the corporations, we create the rules that they exist by.

[SPEAKER_11]: And if we say in those rules, I'm sorry, but we're going to remove your voice box, because you don't have the power to have that voice box. [SPEAKER_12]: You're not allowed to have that voice box. [SPEAKER_11]: Right, because you having that power [SPEAKER_12]: So the other question I have with this is what about the CEOs of said companies I can still donate. [SPEAKER_12]: That's fine.

[SPEAKER_12]: But they're limited by McCutchen, which is still a hundred thousand dollars per person, so McCutchen is still problematic. [SPEAKER_11]: It's, well, they're, look, we're not going to solve this overnight. [SPEAKER_11]: We didn't get here overnight, but this is definitely the way that I think a lot of places should go, isn't Montana, the way that they're saying they're going, you got the right sure, but you haven't got the power or we're going to take the power away from you.

[SPEAKER_11]: And we should take the power away from them because now we were talking about this other part of it, too. [SPEAKER_11]: In the Constitution, section one, that's Congress, too, executive, section three, judicial. [SPEAKER_11]: Congress can tell the Supreme Court what to do. [SPEAKER_11]: And they can define them. [SPEAKER_11]: We tell Congress what to do. [SPEAKER_11]: We tell our legislators what they can and can't do. [SPEAKER_11]: That's why the systems are set up that way.

[SPEAKER_11]: We tell them they don't tell us. [SPEAKER_09]: Except Congress is stop listening to us. [SPEAKER_11]: Because we don't have money. [SPEAKER_09]: Right, because they're only listening to the corporations and the billionaires in the millionaires. [SPEAKER_11]: Right, because the voice box of the corporations is so loud that it blows out any voices that we have. [SPEAKER_11]: So remove the voice box and they can once again hear us.

[SPEAKER_12]: So is this a ballot measure going to the voters or is it a legislator? [SPEAKER_11]: Potters. [SPEAKER_11]: Modernishatives. [SPEAKER_11]: Another reason that a lot of Republicans don't like voter initiatives. [SPEAKER_12]: Well, I think my my state's voter initiatives are just stupid.

[SPEAKER_11]: I can't afford you has a lot of voter initiatives, but I do think in general voter initiatives I don't have a problem with them, but how we do them is just stupid Look, it's like any else, it's like with term limits You got to set the terms properly, but you know, if you set it like we said with tiered service limits There could be benefits for this kind of thing, you know, I mean it's [SPEAKER_11]: There are better ways to do the things that we're doing.

[SPEAKER_11]: I, it always reminds me of Catabagasela. [SPEAKER_11]: Who, by the way, those of you in the Chicago arena? [SPEAKER_11]: I see doing it. [SPEAKER_11]: She's got her new program, Capau. [SPEAKER_11]: It's at Capau.Works. [SPEAKER_11]: It's crazy. [SPEAKER_03]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_11]: You guys can find out about ways that you can help out people in the Chicago area community. [SPEAKER_11]: But there are lots of ways that people can help out in their own communities.

[SPEAKER_11]: She's just kind of taking it and saying it's a jump off from politics. [SPEAKER_11]: And that was what her campaign was all about. [SPEAKER_11]: Was helping. [SPEAKER_11]: What would happen if, as political entities, we didn't suck? [SPEAKER_11]: What would happen if the Democratic Party didn't suck? [SPEAKER_11]: Although the Democratic Party isn't suck nearly as bad as Republican Party really sucks. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, they do.

[SPEAKER_12]: Well, what is cool that she's still plugged in now she can still get she's a baby She's a baby. [SPEAKER_12]: She's so young. [SPEAKER_11]: Awesome. [SPEAKER_11]: Who they're like, you know, well, also should run for President. [SPEAKER_11]: Um, how old is he like 40? [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, something. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, he's a baby. [SPEAKER_11]: Look, there are great people needed in the Senate. [SPEAKER_11]: We need people.

[SPEAKER_11]: And my God, the people who are listening on Georgian now, y'all need great senators right now. [SPEAKER_11]: You got, I would, I would love. [SPEAKER_11]: I mean, I got a couple of great senators here in Virginia. [SPEAKER_11]: There are two. [SPEAKER_11]: They're okay. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: But there are lots of places around the country who they would just. [SPEAKER_11]: They would love to have the senators. [SPEAKER_11]: You folks in Georgia do.

[SPEAKER_09]: So, you know, I mean, but Sean, are you saying John Ossoff is too young or are you saying that there is like a girth of democratic talent in the Senate and we need to hang on to some of those folks? [SPEAKER_11]: I think so. [SPEAKER_11]: I mean, unless you think that that Chuck Schumer is the best that we can do, [SPEAKER_12]: No, he needs to retire. [SPEAKER_11]: He's washed. [SPEAKER_12]: He needs to retire.

[SPEAKER_12]: He was good a long time and he's not terrible, but he's just not the right man anymore. [SPEAKER_09]: He's not made for this. [SPEAKER_09]: He's not made for this era. [SPEAKER_09]: No, he is not politics. [SPEAKER_12]: I mean, it's like if John Banner were still the speaker, it'd be like, dude, you're not. [SPEAKER_11]: Right. [SPEAKER_11]: You'd be like, first climb out of the bottle, we're in this case for, for, for, for. [SPEAKER_12]: No, the cannabis.

[SPEAKER_11]: Well, this is true. [SPEAKER_11]: Banner's more cannabis these days. [SPEAKER_11]: He likes his weed now. [SPEAKER_11]: Although Trump with his, his liquor cabinet, God, we, we got to talk about it. [SPEAKER_11]: Hey, it's, uh, let me look at that. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, damn. [SPEAKER_11]: Uh, look, um, we want to talk more about Trump's liquor cabinet. [SPEAKER_11]: You agreed, you do the after hour. [SPEAKER_11]: So we're holding you to it.

[SPEAKER_11]: Just. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, he can just hang up and leave us. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, I'm only good. [SPEAKER_11]: Just turn around. [SPEAKER_11]: Walk out the door. [SPEAKER_11]: But he's not because he is a very cool guy. [SPEAKER_11]: Brooklyn dad to find who we honestly. [SPEAKER_11]: We love having him here at the bar. [SPEAKER_11]: And we also love the fact that he's got two shows a week.

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