MAGA Gone Wild! July 17, 2025

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[SPEAKER_06]: So today, let's see at two fifteen in the morning because, you know, that's when you do stuff that you're proud of. [SPEAKER_06]: Senate Republicans rammed through nine billion dollars in doge cuts to NPR PBS and foreign aid in their resision bill. [SPEAKER_06]: But they had amendments on it. [SPEAKER_06]: Democrats were able to get amendments through. [SPEAKER_06]: That means they had to send it back to the house.

[SPEAKER_06]: The house hasn't till midnight tomorrow night to ram that sucker through. [SPEAKER_06]: If Democrats can delay it, the decision cuts get stopped. [SPEAKER_13]: Oh, a keen can do another filibuster. [SPEAKER_06]: A game could do another, you know, twelve hour filibuster. [SPEAKER_06]: I'd be fine with that. [SPEAKER_06]: That the big record, but he could, you know, that that magic minutes make that sucker last as long as you can. [SPEAKER_06]: I can't miss that's what I'm saying.

[SPEAKER_06]: But, but that wasn't the only thing. [SPEAKER_06]: Then, um, this morning, um, Senate Republicans were, they were at a meeting of the judiciary, Republicans and Democrats. [SPEAKER_06]: And good old Chuck Grassley, you know, who should be basically retired. [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, he's almost ninety correct. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah, he's what is eighty nine. [SPEAKER_13]: So I think yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, um, they just went ahead and marched right through.

[SPEAKER_06]: Let me see if I've got if I can get this up on the DVR here. [SPEAKER_07]: We just what court. [SPEAKER_07]: But he heard before a controversial vote. [SPEAKER_07]: So this is wrong. [SPEAKER_07]: And you know it. [SPEAKER_07]: You are a person of integrity. [SPEAKER_07]: How could you be doing this? [SPEAKER_07]: At least have a vote on my point of order. [SPEAKER_07]: Sir with all appeals to your decisions.

[SPEAKER_07]: Nope. [SPEAKER_07]: with all they didn't allow the voters to push in with right on through to pasture, stiction, and past precedents. [SPEAKER_06]: So with this one, every single Democrat and every single Democrat in the judiciary committee got up and left. [SPEAKER_07]: This is true to violate your own rules without going by the the mandates of the parliamentarian. [SPEAKER_07]: This is unbelievable. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I'll do that.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's another, they were just doing judicial nominations. [SPEAKER_06]: But basically, they were just pushing right on through ignoring rules of order, ignoring the Senate rules, ignoring Senate committee rules, basically, grassly was saying to all the Democrats, if you screw you, I can do what I want. [SPEAKER_13]: Well, wasn't he supposed to be the president, pro-tem, during the January six issue? [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, these are, I mean, this is who Republicans are.

[SPEAKER_06]: They do not care. [SPEAKER_06]: They don't care about their base. [SPEAKER_06]: We've seen that with the Epstein thing, and they sure is how don't care about you. [SPEAKER_06]: If you're a Democrat or you're an independent or you're, or if you're an anti Trump Republican, they do not care about you. [SPEAKER_06]: This, this was all in the Senate Judiciary hearing to stop basically meal Bovae and Janine Piro or the nine hundred former DOJ employees from all political parties.

[SPEAKER_06]: Sit a letter to the Senate judiciary saying reject both as a judge. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, bovay. [SPEAKER_06]: What about the hell is that? [SPEAKER_13]: I think it's bovay. [SPEAKER_06]: He's a jerk A. He is a jerk A. Yes, I didn't matter didn't matter to Chuck Grassley Chuck Grassley got up from his coffin rolled over at [SPEAKER_06]: Look, I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_06]: You live as long as he does. [SPEAKER_06]: You're basically, you got to be a vampire, at least something undid.

[SPEAKER_13]: What? [SPEAKER_13]: I thought he was pro whistleblower. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, as long as the whistles are blown on Democrats. [SPEAKER_13]: Oh, okay. [SPEAKER_13]: Got it. [SPEAKER_06]: Got it. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_13]: Got it. [SPEAKER_06]: I got it. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm not a big checker at Grassley fan. [SPEAKER_06]: You know, when I was, I believe I was a kid in Iowa when he was there elected. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, he's been there for a hundred and fifty years.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I have a few years under my belt, but I'm not that old, but damn. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, he just... Oh, anyway. [SPEAKER_06]: And the other thing about it is, you know I know Cory. [SPEAKER_06]: You know I, and I just... I'm glad the Cory went on. [SPEAKER_06]: He went on for, I don't know, like, four, five, six minutes. [SPEAKER_06]: Just ripping them to shreds. [SPEAKER_06]: And they didn't care. [SPEAKER_06]: They kept walking right over him.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: I wish the Cory had gotten up. [SPEAKER_06]: maybe hopped over the front, I don't know, but got up, maybe gone around the back and just grabbed the gavel and thrown it across the room and then left with the rest of the immigrant. [SPEAKER_06]: He did leave eventually. [SPEAKER_06]: But, and I know that Cory would be like, you know, that's not right, decorum, blah, blah, blah, blah, and, you know, I, I know there's the whole thing.

[SPEAKER_06]: He's a black man until this whole thing. [SPEAKER_06]: He can't do it. [SPEAKER_13]: He just can't. [SPEAKER_13]: He can't. [SPEAKER_13]: It's just, it's chicks can't do it. [SPEAKER_13]: Nudes that are not white can't do it. [SPEAKER_13]: Just, [SPEAKER_06]: I know. [SPEAKER_06]: I know, but I also know that Corey wouldn't do it because he's very, very nice. [SPEAKER_06]: He's very, very kind. [SPEAKER_06]: It is one of the things that endears him to a lot of people.

[SPEAKER_06]: But I'm also like, dude, you know, you work out. [SPEAKER_06]: You put a fist through walk. [SPEAKER_06]: Come on. [SPEAKER_13]: He's not going to hit an eighty nine year old man. [SPEAKER_06]: I know. [SPEAKER_06]: Look, all he has to do is go up to Chuck Grassley and go, boom. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, speaking of which, by the way, I didn't, didn't you say this, this was after we sent out the news on tap. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes. [SPEAKER_06]: By the way, you can subscribe to the news on tap.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I believe that Donald Trump has a what is it it's a it's a vascular issue now I believe it's a chronic penis [SPEAKER_06]: chronic venous insufficiency. [SPEAKER_13]: It is, and it's okay. [SPEAKER_06]: So, I still think he has chronic penis insufficiency. [SPEAKER_06]: I still think he's not dead with some other people, but he does. [SPEAKER_13]: We know it's a, it's a much room. [SPEAKER_13]: And it really tatted, didn't tell anyone. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, he's got some issues.

[SPEAKER_13]: But the thing that they're saying that he has, I think it's something worse. [SPEAKER_04]: Okay. [SPEAKER_13]: Because what those symptoms are literally saying, oh, yeah, he gets bruised from shaking hands shouldn't every president then get bruised. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, and it has, it says it's a condition that with a sending blood back to the heart from the legs in the hand, which means the heart isn't working well.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, it says it's due to damaged valves in the heart in the medical thing. [SPEAKER_06]: Right, but I'm sitting there going [SPEAKER_06]: Damage valves in the heart as a bad thing. [SPEAKER_06]: I know because my dad had to get his redone. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm well aware of you. [SPEAKER_13]: My friend of mine literally invented some things that people would get put into their heart. [SPEAKER_06]: Wow. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_06]: No, because I remember the discussion. [SPEAKER_06]: My father's been gone now four years, but I still remember the discussion with the doctor who was like, you know, my first first my dad calls me.

[SPEAKER_06]: just out of the blue which by dad didn't usually do in the middle of the afternoon he knew that I was usually in the evenings ahead of time so it's called me after him said oh hey dad what's going on he says well nothing I said you okay says well got a little issues and then a hand me the doctor and the doctors like well you know he needs surgery and he could die [SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, okay, what's the chance? [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, fifty fifty.

[SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, oh, well, that's great. [SPEAKER_06]: So I know it. [SPEAKER_06]: You know, when you got issues with your valves, generally, it's not anything. [SPEAKER_13]: And you don't have valves in your veins. [SPEAKER_13]: You don't have valves in your arteries. [SPEAKER_13]: You have valves in your heart. [SPEAKER_13]: Which means his heart's not working. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, I mean, first of all, it's a surprise that he actually had one. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, let's be honest.

[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, you know, that's kind of like the news when they said that, you know, Dick Cheney had a heart replacement. [SPEAKER_06]: And I was like, wait a minute, Dick Cheney had a heart? [SPEAKER_06]: So, with you on that. [SPEAKER_06]: But still, it's like, okay. [SPEAKER_06]: So, but yes, BS Barbie was quick to point out that all there's nothing to see here, just because Donald Trump has a chronic penis and sufficient. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, chronic Venus and sufficient.

[SPEAKER_06]: I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_06]: I keep doing that. [SPEAKER_06]: That's just, you know, let's. [SPEAKER_11]: Sean Louise Pierce. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, you know, it's just the way that a certain certain news just makes you think of certain things and that is very much the case for me with that particular piece of news. [SPEAKER_06]: So there we go. [SPEAKER_06]: All right. [SPEAKER_06]: Let's see here what else is in the news on tap today.

[SPEAKER_06]: Um, so yes, that's the there's a lot of stuff that hasn't exactly been great. [SPEAKER_06]: The abstine stuff is still going though. [SPEAKER_13]: It is. [SPEAKER_13]: I think this is what's going to bring him down. [SPEAKER_13]: I really do because they're still on it. [SPEAKER_13]: Normally this would have been a two-day thing. [SPEAKER_13]: Topps. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_13]: We're pushing a week. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_13]: And Bob Susska said today on his show.

[SPEAKER_06]: Uh-huh. [SPEAKER_06]: Uh-huh. [SPEAKER_13]: Bob Susska's show. [SPEAKER_06]: Uh-huh. [SPEAKER_06]: Uh-huh. [SPEAKER_13]: Uh-huh. [SPEAKER_13]: He says if it's still an issue in three to four weeks, then he realizes that this is bad. [SPEAKER_13]: But it's been bad for the last week. [SPEAKER_13]: We all thought it would be gone. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, it's absolutely been bad, but I think that the big reason that it is is because they feel betrayed.

[SPEAKER_06]: I honestly and and look I understand they're feeling betrayed same and and you know, I'm I'm like they're done that But I'm also like you guys deserve it because you know, I mean Look we how how many times did we tell these people constantly?

[SPEAKER_06]: times repeatedly for what the last decade pretty much yeah that we have told them over and over and over and over and over and over [SPEAKER_06]: And they're like, well, no, no, no, no, no, no. [SPEAKER_13]: So this is a line they're drawing. [SPEAKER_13]: And I'm like, that's fine. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Look, you draw you draw the line there. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm fine with it. [SPEAKER_06]: Folks, but it also means that you have to look at all the other things.

[SPEAKER_06]: Like the Trump DOJ, DOJ Barbie, Pam Bondi. [SPEAKER_06]: Fire Marine Komi of all people. [SPEAKER_13]: Oh, nothing to see here, kids. [SPEAKER_13]: I'm just going to fire the lady that prosecuted. [SPEAKER_06]: For those right, for those of you here in the bar who don't know, Marine Komi, she's not just, um, uh, Mr. Komi's daughter. [SPEAKER_06]: She doesn't look like him. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, former FBI director, she does. [SPEAKER_06]: But she also was the prosecutor.

[SPEAKER_06]: The primary, she's a lead prosecutor on the Epstein case. [SPEAKER_06]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_06]: if anybody is going to know all the secrets that they want to know that Magalan wants to know she's going to be the lead prosecutor on the abstine case on the abstine in the Maxwell case she is that person [SPEAKER_06]: Up until today, or yesterday, whenever he was yesterday, it was last night. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, whatever.

[SPEAKER_06]: Up until the last twenty four hours, she was still working for the government, which all that Pam Bonnie would have had to do is say, hey, come on over to a Senate hearing, come on over to a house hearing, and she would be obliged because that's her boss. [SPEAKER_06]: And oh, I'm there and testified, whatever they asked. [UNKNOWN]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: So if you don't think they have things that they want covered up, [SPEAKER_06]: I don't know what to tell you folks.

[SPEAKER_06]: I'm just saying it's nothing to see here. [SPEAKER_13]: Nothing. [SPEAKER_06]: We will talk more about Maga being in denial. [SPEAKER_06]: I've got a clip from a TV show. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't usually look at, but somebody gave me a tip on this. [SPEAKER_06]: And then we'll talk about some of your comments to us on social media as well. [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you very much for those. [SPEAKER_06]: We've got the drink of the day coming up.

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[SPEAKER_06]: All right, Jody. [SPEAKER_06]: So I tease this a little bit before the break. [SPEAKER_06]: Um, you know who Nick Fuentes is. [SPEAKER_11]: Yes. [SPEAKER_06]: Not see big time free. [SPEAKER_06]: Not she's yeah, right, right. [SPEAKER_06]: This will show you how mad. [SPEAKER_06]: Mag is a Donald Trump about the abstain stuff. [SPEAKER_06]: I've got to I've got to clip. [SPEAKER_10]: Let me get this up on the DVR here. [SPEAKER_10]: It is.

[SPEAKER_10]: And now he says if you're not on board with the abstain cover up, I don't want your support. [SPEAKER_10]: You're a weakling. [SPEAKER_10]: you you you suck you are fat you are a joke you are stupid you are not funny you are not as smart as you think you are you are and honestly I'm and if you watch my show you know I've been very critical I've never been this far [SPEAKER_10]: This just goes to show this entire thing has been a scam.

[SPEAKER_10]: When we look back on the history of populism in America, we are going to look back on the MAGA movement as the biggest scam in American history. [SPEAKER_10]: And the liberals were right. [SPEAKER_10]: The MAGA supporters were hat. [SPEAKER_10]: They were. [SPEAKER_10]: When we look back in history, we will see Trump as a scam artist who served as a vehicle for this rather than the other way around. [SPEAKER_10]: We were not the vehicle for Trump.

[SPEAKER_10]: Trump was the vehicle for all of us. [SPEAKER_13]: Wow, look, they can learn. [SPEAKER_13]: I'm so in the upside down right now. [SPEAKER_06]: You're not on the upside down. [SPEAKER_06]: Look, it's not you agreeing with Nick Fuentes. [SPEAKER_06]: It's Nick Fuentes agreeing with all the rest of us out here. [SPEAKER_13]: Maybe. [SPEAKER_06]: Who, finally, he's, I'm so mad about this. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, they're mad because they've been had.

[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: They're mad because they're dupes. [SPEAKER_06]: They're mad because they're robes. [SPEAKER_06]: and they've been had, they were lied to, they were conned, and they have finally some of them have figured it out. [SPEAKER_06]: So I don't think all of them. [SPEAKER_13]: No, there is a good twenty five percent that will never leave him. [SPEAKER_06]: Twenty twenty five percent. [SPEAKER_06]: I was like eighteen percent, maybe, but look.

[SPEAKER_06]: This is the whole thing is that if they can't trust him for what to them is the biggest thing like this, they aren't going to be able to trust him for anything else and they certainly aren't going to be able to trust. [SPEAKER_06]: So this new thing where Donald's got a what what was it called again small penis problem. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, well, that's what you're calling it. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_06]: I love making fun of it that way because it's true.

[SPEAKER_06]: Chronic Venus in sufficient. [SPEAKER_06]: That's it. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes. [SPEAKER_06]: Look, I mean, it's, it's, they aren't going to believe that there's, it's just a minor thing. [SPEAKER_06]: They aren't going to believe it's a minor health thing.

[SPEAKER_06]: If I don't believe it is, I think, I think you were telling me on the way into the bar here that earlier today, when you were over at Bob's that you and Bob and David were talking about this, [SPEAKER_06]: And that you think, or was it David that thinks somebody that was about, okay, things that that that this is going to be way to get for Trump to get out.

[SPEAKER_13]: Well, that's what Stephanie's been saying, too, that they're trying to figure out the people that control Donald because God knows he is not the president of the United States. [SPEAKER_06]: He is, he is tactically the president. [SPEAKER_06]: But he's not the president. [SPEAKER_06]: He's the one who is. [SPEAKER_06]: He's not making the decisions. [SPEAKER_06]: He's not making any decisions. [SPEAKER_13]: He got. [SPEAKER_13]: That's what he does.

[SPEAKER_13]: He just got me pay for him to go off. [SPEAKER_13]: So he plays with his parts. [SPEAKER_13]: That too. [SPEAKER_13]: But Stephanie has been saying it for a week or so and then David brought it up when we found this out because we just founded up during the shadow docket. [SPEAKER_13]: And it's as a way for the billionaires that do control him to get him out and then put JD Vance in there. [SPEAKER_13]: Who can't control Congress?

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, and he can't control Congress because so this morning, Nancy Pelosi was had a bit on with, I was really in a Maxwell over on the Series XM. [SPEAKER_06]: And she was confirming that the reason that people that members of Congress are afraid of Donald Trump is not Donald Trump. [SPEAKER_06]: They know what he's afraid of Donald Trump.

[SPEAKER_06]: But what they are afraid of is the fact that Donald Trump can save his singers and say, go fetch, go be monster and do to other people what they did to her husband. [SPEAKER_06]: That she's not wrong. [SPEAKER_06]: No, put it the same time we know that J.D. [SPEAKER_13]: Vance doesn't have that ability to just, he doesn't, thankfully. [SPEAKER_06]: And on top of all of that, I have the contention. [SPEAKER_06]: You're not going to get there.

[SPEAKER_06]: There is only, I said this during Donald Trump's first term. [SPEAKER_06]: I said the only way that we were going to get Donald Trump out of the White House during his first term was one of three ways. [SPEAKER_06]: Um, handcuffs the ballot box or coffin. [SPEAKER_06]: And I don't mean because somebody was going to kill him. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, he was old in his first term. [SPEAKER_06]: He's even older now. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes. [SPEAKER_06]: And clearly, he's got health issues.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yes. [SPEAKER_06]: But I clearly don't think, I mean, obviously, it's not going to be the ballot box. [SPEAKER_06]: He's on the second term. [SPEAKER_06]: That can't happen. [SPEAKER_06]: So whatever, it's not going to be handcuffs because hello, you know, Pam Bondi. [SPEAKER_06]: So I don't think that just like with Joe Biden who didn't want to leave the presidency, I don't think Donald Trump does, and I don't think Donald Trump does even more.

[SPEAKER_06]: I think it's more like BB Netanyahu. [SPEAKER_06]: BB Netanyahu is willing to wage war throughout the Middle East so that he can keep his clutches on power. [SPEAKER_13]: One also gives himself out of prison. [SPEAKER_06]: Because BB Netanyahu knows the only way, the only guaranteed way that he stays out of prison is if he is still in charge. [SPEAKER_06]: And Donald Trump knows the same thing about the presidency here.

[SPEAKER_06]: Past presidents don't have that same luxury as current presidents do. [SPEAKER_06]: They don't have that same army of defense. [SPEAKER_06]: They don't have that same shield that allows them to do whatever the hell you think he can do. [SPEAKER_06]: And so Trump, you know, yes, if he, if he has a health issue and gets old and dies, yes, it's going to be a mess. [SPEAKER_06]: And you know, Morgan obviously not going to pay attention to JD fans. [SPEAKER_13]: No, they don't like him.

[SPEAKER_13]: Nobody likes him. [SPEAKER_13]: He's weird. [SPEAKER_06]: No, I kind of wonder, I'm like, what the hell are you doing with emotion, but that's my [SPEAKER_13]: Well, I mean, and the fact that John Oliver had to get John Oliver's producers had to get in touch with JD Vance's campaign when there was the effing of the couch situation. [SPEAKER_13]: And they literally called his people. [SPEAKER_13]: They didn't get back to him for obvious reasons.

[SPEAKER_13]: But the fact that they even bothered to call is hilarious to me. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, you know, like I said before, I think JD Vance's true hometown is Davenport, but that's just [SPEAKER_06]: I know I know it's look look those of you laughing in the Joe in the bar here. [SPEAKER_06]: You get the joke. [SPEAKER_06]: I get it. [SPEAKER_06]: I get it. [SPEAKER_06]: But I just think Donald Trump isn't going to leave. [SPEAKER_06]: He's not going to step down.

[SPEAKER_06]: The only way the JD gets in there is that they take Donald Trump out. [SPEAKER_06]: Donald Trump has a stroke or a heart attack or something like that. [SPEAKER_06]: And I'm not going to say whether I wish him ill will because you know [SPEAKER_06]: That's not considered nice. [SPEAKER_13]: It's not nice, but I understand the sentence. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: That's what I'm saying. [SPEAKER_06]: That's why that's why I'm not saying it.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's not nice to say, but I'm like, you know, whatever. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't like the man. [SPEAKER_06]: So there we go. [SPEAKER_06]: Meanwhile, for those of you wondering what some parts of Maga are doing, the ones who are watching Fox, they don't even know the Epstein story is going on. [SPEAKER_13]: They don't, and that's what's insane to me, but newsmax and all these other ones are telling them so.

[SPEAKER_06]: Because they're, because they're further right, but I believe it's, I can't, I think it was media matters or maybe media, I, I love media matters, but like, they've been, they've been checking on this and Fox has basically been varying the Epstein story. [SPEAKER_06]: They don't want to do. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, I, it's, it's gonna be even worse. [SPEAKER_06]: It, look, Donald Trump at some point. [SPEAKER_06]: He's basically eighties, what, seventy nine.

[SPEAKER_13]: He's seventy nine. [SPEAKER_13]: He'll be eighty next year. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: When he dies, they aren't going to know what to do either. [SPEAKER_06]: A lot of the whole right wing tin foil hat hates entertainment, quote unquote entertainment complex. [SPEAKER_06]: They have tied everything to Donald Trump. [SPEAKER_06]: Donald Trump goes away. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, they're going to do. [SPEAKER_06]: They have no idea. [SPEAKER_06]: They don't know what to do.

[SPEAKER_13]: Now, he's the one I hate to say it, but who has the charisma? [SPEAKER_06]: whatever they consider grism. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, but I mean, he'd obviously does or they think he has grism. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm not. [SPEAKER_13]: I don't see it, but I also didn't see it with some certain television shows that people really loved and I didn't. [SPEAKER_13]: So there's that.

[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, you know, but [SPEAKER_06]: In some ways, I guess I guess it depends on what you're looking for in a politician to some degree. [SPEAKER_13]: He does pull people in. [SPEAKER_13]: He's got something. [SPEAKER_06]: Clearly he pulled people off the seats off the cheap seats that we're not previously. [SPEAKER_06]: Anyhow, I'm sure if I do think that the health problems are there, though. [SPEAKER_06]: You saw this yesterday, didn't you? [SPEAKER_06]: The whole Powell thing.

[SPEAKER_13]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: That was insane. [SPEAKER_13]: I watched it live. [SPEAKER_13]: I was like, really. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: We mentioned the other thing that he had yesterday. [SPEAKER_06]: This was part of that whole thing in the Oval Office yesterday. [SPEAKER_06]: Let me, let me get this here in the DVR here. [SPEAKER_01]: It's a terrible, he's a terrible fed chair. [SPEAKER_01]: I was surprised he was appointed.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was surprised, frankly, that Biden put him in and extended him. [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, now that's Trump talking about Jay Powell saying the saying is a terrible Fed Chairman saying it's awful that Biden put him in. [SPEAKER_06]: Actually, here, I have an old clip here. [SPEAKER_06]: I believe it's from twenty seventeen. [SPEAKER_06]: Let me play this one for you.

[SPEAKER_01]: As President, there are a few decisions more important than nominating leaders of integrity and good judgment to hold trusted positions in public office. [SPEAKER_01]: And few of those trusted positions are more important than the chairman of the Federal Reserve. [SPEAKER_01]: Accordingly, it is my pleasure and my honor to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. [SPEAKER_13]: I remember when Biden kept him on and didn't fire him.

[SPEAKER_13]: All of us quite fire him. [SPEAKER_06]: But because Biden is an institutionalist, and Biden also said, look, you know, ten year term, right? [SPEAKER_06]: It's a ten year term for the Fed. [SPEAKER_06]: Powell is generally considered to be pretty good. [SPEAKER_06]: He, Powell is like most of the people who are supposed to be in the government. [SPEAKER_06]: He, [SPEAKER_06]: cares about his job. [SPEAKER_06]: He cares about the economy.

[SPEAKER_06]: He really doesn't give a crap about the politics. [SPEAKER_06]: The standard politics, the left-right Democratic Republican blah, blah, blah. [SPEAKER_06]: Powell doesn't care about that. [SPEAKER_06]: Which is exactly what you want from a Fed share. [SPEAKER_06]: You want somebody who is, you know, caring about the things that they're supposed to be caring about, which is both the interest rates and the employment rates. [SPEAKER_06]: That's the Fed's dual mandate.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's what you want your Fed share to care about. [SPEAKER_06]: Donald Trump is supposed to be able to nominate a new Fed chair in twenty twenty six, which. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that would suck, but whatever. [SPEAKER_06]: But he's not supposed to be able to fire the Fed chair beforehand. [SPEAKER_06]: Nope. [SPEAKER_06]: And last night, Senator Warren happened to be over on CNN, talking to Caitlin, and she had a few things to say about this.

[SPEAKER_12]: This is about whether or not Donald Trump gets to control the Fed the same way he controls every other part of government. [SPEAKER_12]: And the answer here is no, he does not. [SPEAKER_12]: And if he tries, he will bring down the U.S. [SPEAKER_12]: financial markets. [SPEAKER_04]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_11]: You think it'll bring down the U.S. [SPEAKER_11]: financial markets if he, if he else, stay parallel. [SPEAKER_12]: Yep. [SPEAKER_12]: I do. [SPEAKER_12]: I do.

[SPEAKER_12]: Because he will then be saying that decisions about interest rates in the United States will not be based on the economics they'll be based on politics. [SPEAKER_06]: Yep. [SPEAKER_06]: Yep. [SPEAKER_06]: And if you know Elizabeth Warren, uh, if you have, you know, followed her, if you have, uh, you remember, she's the one who set up the CFPB. [SPEAKER_06]: She didn't cheat.

[SPEAKER_06]: She understands the financial markets better than any elected Democrat, probably better than almost any Democrat in the country right now. [SPEAKER_06]: Probably better than almost any buddy in the country. [SPEAKER_06]: She is extremely intelligent about those kinds of things. [SPEAKER_06]: So if she says that if Trump decides to fire power, that it's going to tank the markets, she's right.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: I would, there are a few things that I would actually be willing to bet substantial money on. [SPEAKER_06]: That's why I'd be willing to bet money on. [SPEAKER_13]: She knows what she's talking about. [SPEAKER_06]: She really does. [SPEAKER_06]: She does. [SPEAKER_06]: That's why I want her to be president. [SPEAKER_06]: I would love president Warren. [SPEAKER_06]: She's been a freaking great president. [SPEAKER_13]: But we did get a really good one instead.

[SPEAKER_06]: We got a good president Biden. [SPEAKER_06]: We got a great VP and Harris. [SPEAKER_06]: She would have made a great president. [SPEAKER_11]: Okay, great. [SPEAKER_06]: You know, we were talking about, you know, replacing the dream of many Democrats is somehow, how could we get a Democrat in there? [SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, look, first you have to have Democrats have a house and the Senate. [SPEAKER_06]: And then you get rid of the president on the vice president.

[SPEAKER_06]: However, it happens. [SPEAKER_06]: You figured out near own fantasy. [SPEAKER_06]: And then whoever the speaker of the house is, and Democrats, if they want to, can [SPEAKER_06]: You know, temporarily remove the the the crit speaker of the house and put literally and anybody and anybody in there. [SPEAKER_06]: Now, I would be okay if they nominated Hillary Clinton. [SPEAKER_06]: I would be okay if they nominated Kamal Harris.

[SPEAKER_06]: I would be okay if they nominated a team jafferies and just left him to I'd be okay with any of these things like that. [SPEAKER_06]: Heck, I'd be okay if they said, oh wait a minute. [SPEAKER_06]: Could we get Barack and I'm kidding. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm kidding. [SPEAKER_13]: Legally speaking, he cannot be president. [SPEAKER_06]: I know, I know, although if you listen to Trump anyway, but I'm just saying I get it for those of you who want to be in fantasy land.

[SPEAKER_06]: That would be great. [SPEAKER_06]: But it would require getting rid of enough Republicans in the House and the Senate. [SPEAKER_06]: And the time that we're going to do that is next year. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes. [SPEAKER_06]: Twenty twenty six. [SPEAKER_06]: So for those of you who are out at those rallies. [SPEAKER_06]: Look, that is, that's what we're looking. [SPEAKER_06]: We definitely want to remind folks all about that at the Good Trouble rallies.

[SPEAKER_06]: And at the fact that there are plenty of elections going on. [SPEAKER_06]: This year, we will talk about a few of those in the next segment. [SPEAKER_06]: Also, we have a drink of the day. [SPEAKER_06]: It's a pretty good drink. [SPEAKER_06]: And it's a it's a reason for celebrating. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm not sure why you picked entirely. [SPEAKER_06]: But I like the drink today. [SPEAKER_06]: It's a good drink. [SPEAKER_06]: So, look, we'll get the drink of the day for you.

[SPEAKER_06]: We'll talk a little bit about some of the political races going on. [SPEAKER_06]: And we got John Fuelsang coming up as well. [SPEAKER_06]: It's Thursday night here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_06]: Hang on. [SPEAKER_03]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar.

[SPEAKER_06]: Thursday night here at the politics bar you are hanging out with the one and only Jody Hamilton and me Sean Smith here's know there are no duplicates ahead of discussion with somebody online about this the other day they were just they were joking and like that they do do did I did I see you in in twenty sixteen and like you might have seen me but that picture was not me trust me was that we were there is a he's now since passed away but there was a restaurant named Jody Hamilton

[SPEAKER_13]: Oh yeah, I vaguely remember that he was kind of like he had a mask and it was he's very scary. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, but same spelling everything the only time that you are scary is when people make Jody bad and just remember around here that is a very bad idea do not make Jody man and then I look like that Jody Hamilton. [SPEAKER_13]: It's not a good look [SPEAKER_06]: What is a good look? [SPEAKER_06]: The drink of the day today. [SPEAKER_06]: That looked very tasty.

[SPEAKER_06]: I like I asked before the break. [SPEAKER_06]: I was like, I didn't know why you picked it and you just said it was just a good day. [SPEAKER_06]: It took a day. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Let's celebrate. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes. [SPEAKER_06]: For those of you who don't know what is the drink and what is the inspiration for? [SPEAKER_13]: It's called Applely Married. [SPEAKER_13]: If you live in England, it's not happily. [SPEAKER_13]: It's Applely.

[SPEAKER_13]: And it's inspired by this is the anniversary of same sex marriage getting legalized in the UK. [SPEAKER_13]: Cool. [SPEAKER_06]: All right. [SPEAKER_13]: It was in twenty thirteen so they beat us by a couple of years. [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, I was I was I was thinking there was something something else and then I was like, okay, and then you're like, no, I just like it's a good day. [SPEAKER_06]: It's a happy day, you know, people get married summertime.

[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, it's beautiful day. [SPEAKER_06]: So what is in this beautiful drink? [SPEAKER_13]: Okay, so you need to cook class. [SPEAKER_13]: We've used those before. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_13]: Some ice a shaker. [SPEAKER_13]: One in two thirds ounces of vodka. [SPEAKER_04]: Okay. [SPEAKER_13]: A half ounce of apple juice or apple cider. [SPEAKER_13]: Cloudy and unsweetened. [SPEAKER_13]: So I would go with apple cider because that's a me thing. [SPEAKER_13]: Okay, okay.

[SPEAKER_13]: You don't have to. [SPEAKER_13]: You can go with Apple just just not unsweetened. [SPEAKER_13]: You gotta go with unsweetened. [SPEAKER_06]: How would, I was, I'm trying to think, you know, apple cider like the alcohol and stuff. [SPEAKER_06]: That is, that's sweetened. [SPEAKER_13]: So apple cider vinegar is not, and that's a whole other thing. [SPEAKER_06]: Other thing. [SPEAKER_06]: Apple juice or apple cider. [SPEAKER_13]: Got it. [SPEAKER_13]: Right, unsweetened.

[SPEAKER_13]: It's got to be. [SPEAKER_13]: Because it won't taste right. [SPEAKER_13]: Half ounce of pink grape fruit juice freshly squeezed. [SPEAKER_13]: Again, we love our grape fruit juice. [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_13]: A third ounce of honey syrup, which is three parts honey to one water by weight. [SPEAKER_13]: So, and there's a link to that. [SPEAKER_13]: If you want to click on the link, you can learn how to make it. [SPEAKER_13]: And then cinnamon and sugar for garnish.

[SPEAKER_13]: I say blend the cinnamon and sugar. [SPEAKER_13]: Okay. [SPEAKER_13]: Like you would for like a toast. [SPEAKER_06]: Wait. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, like cinnamon and sugar toast, right? [SPEAKER_13]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_13]: So take the coop glass and thank you for correcting me on this take the coop glass and voice in the rim of it lightly with some water or something like that and then cover it the rim with the cinnamon and sugar mix that you've already made try to turn glass upside down kind of thing yeah like you would with the margarita right [SPEAKER_13]: Um, and then you put all the ingredients that are above into a shaker with ice and shake.

[SPEAKER_13]: Shake, shake, shake, shake, and then strain it into the cooglass and enjoy and drink up all the happy couples out there that are now legally married. [SPEAKER_06]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_06]: Cheers to everybody by the way, you know, if you are married and if you're single, hey, cheers to you, too. [SPEAKER_06]: Cause, you know what, nothing wrong with that either. [SPEAKER_06]: Hell no. [SPEAKER_06]: Here you go.

[SPEAKER_06]: Unless of course, you know, somebody who's like a mega monster and you're single because you're a monster and then it's like, look, just, you know, change and people will like you better, trust me. [SPEAKER_06]: People do actually like somebody who is in the news today. [SPEAKER_06]: Mr. Mabdani is, man, he's everywhere this week. [SPEAKER_13]: He's a smart man. [SPEAKER_06]: He is very good and he is doing well and the polling there.

[SPEAKER_06]: He's met both the people who are as critics and people who are as fans this week. [SPEAKER_06]: He's met people in New York. [SPEAKER_06]: He came down to DC to meet some house Democrats and then went back up and met with more of his constituents up there. [SPEAKER_06]: He's not the only one meeting with people. [SPEAKER_06]: Democratic nominee for governor here in Virginia. [SPEAKER_06]: Spanberger Abigail Spanberger leaving the race by twelve points here.

[SPEAKER_06]: Wow. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it's just good. [SPEAKER_06]: I look, you know, twelve points now was fine. [SPEAKER_06]: I would like it to be twelve points the day that the race, you know, that there's absolutely absolutely. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: That's the more important poll there. [SPEAKER_06]: There is another good poll.

[SPEAKER_06]: There's a new CNN poll that finds Democrats are way more motivated than Republicans right now for the midterms and pretty much every election this year. [SPEAKER_06]: Democrats are way a seventy two percent of Democrats and democratically aligned independence. [SPEAKER_06]: are extremely motivated to vote in elections. [SPEAKER_06]: That's that's ten points more than this time last year.

[SPEAKER_13]: What about in [SPEAKER_06]: Not sure about twenty eighteen or twenty seventeen I guess would be that I think I think I saw something that said it was a little bit different but long a short we are way above now that now here's the thing they always try to to submarine it's a little bit by saying well with a democratic party itself is is not popular

[SPEAKER_06]: when you don't have a system like New York does where it's multi-party your choices are these democratic party republican party sit you ass out these are your three choices [SPEAKER_06]: I get it, I get it. [SPEAKER_06]: But there are a lot of people who are, you know, they're unhappy to be honest.

[SPEAKER_06]: And that is why there are so many of these rallies that are going on, the good trouble rallies that are happening this evening, or did happen earlier today, depending on when you're listening to this. [SPEAKER_06]: And that's why these events keep happening. [SPEAKER_06]: People need to know it's not even so much to show the Maga people.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's to show everybody else out there, the independence, the anti-Trump Republicans, and Democrats who were just tired of the situation. [SPEAKER_06]: They're frustrated with the party, they are whatever, and they say, wait a minute, there are other people who feel like me. [SPEAKER_06]: I can go be with those people. [SPEAKER_06]: I can go yell and scream and holler and laugh and sing and dance.

[SPEAKER_06]: and find a community of people who supports me and supports the idea of voting for better candidates and then pressing those candidates when we elect them to get done the things that we want to get done. [SPEAKER_05]: Yep. [SPEAKER_06]: So if you're wondering what protests are all about, that's what they're about. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: It's the emotional side. [SPEAKER_06]: It's the motivational side.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I mean, going, going and voting is a very basic thing. [SPEAKER_06]: It's you go. [SPEAKER_06]: You go to the thing, you fill in the bubble. [SPEAKER_06]: Do you have the touch screen ones in your precinct? [SPEAKER_13]: Oh, I have an absentee. [SPEAKER_13]: I haven't voted in a touch screen ever in my entire life. [SPEAKER_06]: I didn't, I didn't know because I know California has a lot of those. [SPEAKER_13]: They do, I think now, but yeah, I have a voted in person since.

[SPEAKER_06]: Really? [SPEAKER_06]: Wow. [SPEAKER_06]: Wow. [SPEAKER_06]: No, I love, I love to go in early. [SPEAKER_06]: I go in like the week before, the weekend before, whatever. [SPEAKER_06]: I always like to go, we used to when we lived in a different place here in the DC Metro area. [SPEAKER_06]: There was a church that was a block and a half away. [SPEAKER_06]: And this is when we had our other dog that the brother to our current dog, as we say, Ringo.

[SPEAKER_06]: And Ringo when I would go to the church where they would, and they let him come in. [SPEAKER_06]: Of course. [SPEAKER_13]: No, I mean, I used to vote. [SPEAKER_13]: Well, they normally didn't let dogs in, but before I met Lonnie, I voted literally next door to his where he used to live. [SPEAKER_13]: And then after that, my neighbor literally, I was in my jammy's one morning in a robe just walking over to vote.

[SPEAKER_13]: But I haven't done that because I've been an absentee voter for, yeah, twenty twenty four twenty five years, something like that. [SPEAKER_06]: I just I like I like going and doing it because I like going and being with the people as you're standing in line. [SPEAKER_06]: Other than that that's, you know, think the same way that you do, which is good. [SPEAKER_06]: And yes, there are obviously some people who, you know, probably think differently, but.

[SPEAKER_06]: You stand in line. [SPEAKER_06]: You talk to people. [SPEAKER_06]: You know, you know, just a few things. [SPEAKER_06]: Obviously, you got it. [SPEAKER_06]: You get too close. [SPEAKER_06]: You can't talk too much. [SPEAKER_06]: But, you know, when you're further away standing back, you can, you know, have a little more fun. [SPEAKER_13]: You can't politicize in line. [SPEAKER_13]: You know that young man.

[SPEAKER_06]: What, when you're, when you're further back, you're not technically in that zone. [SPEAKER_06]: So you can just, you know, you're just talking. [SPEAKER_13]: And which is a problem. [SPEAKER_13]: You shouldn't be that far back. [SPEAKER_13]: It should be like ten people. [SPEAKER_06]: I suppose, yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, you know, but I like it when it's far back because it means that more people are coming out.

[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, it also means that there's not enough polling places. [SPEAKER_06]: So there's you would love to be able to have people just, you know, vote at home. [SPEAKER_06]: Just think that's what I do. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, look, and I get it, you know, but I, I, I still like the community aspect of it. [SPEAKER_06]: I love it. [SPEAKER_06]: You know, people go in through. [SPEAKER_06]: Hey, you know, [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, you know, as an enos of the bar as well.

[SPEAKER_06]: Look, we have dogs, we have cats, we have all kinds of voters. [SPEAKER_13]: Dogs and cats living together. [SPEAKER_13]: It's Mayhem. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm asked to stereo. [SPEAKER_06]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_06]: There is some entertainment news today. [SPEAKER_06]: Unfortunately, Todd Francis passed away, eighty seven. [SPEAKER_06]: She's part of that great Broadway show that's going on now with [SPEAKER_06]: is it the Neil Diamond winner?

[SPEAKER_06]: No, it's I'm trying to think of her name. [SPEAKER_06]: She's in the band Lawrence Gracie Lawrence plays plays Connie Francis in the it's she was nominated for a Tony was this I I love Gracie Gracie's fantastic. [SPEAKER_06]: Speaking of Broadway, Lynn Manuel Miranda is turning the tenth anniversary anniversary. [SPEAKER_06]: You can speak. [SPEAKER_06]: I can't do that.

[SPEAKER_06]: Of Hamilton's Broadway performance into a fundraiser to support nonprofits who are providing immigration services. [SPEAKER_06]: Good for him. [SPEAKER_06]: So, hell yeah, Lynn, thank you very much. [SPEAKER_06]: You know, on behalf of all the agencies and organizations that you're helping, thank you. [SPEAKER_06]: Steve Miller band. [SPEAKER_06]: I was, you know, had some friends who were kind of excited, especially for one of you to work back in classic rock.

[SPEAKER_06]: They were going to do this big forty forty city tour this summer. [SPEAKER_06]: They canceled their tour. [SPEAKER_06]: Some people are calling it kind of weird. [SPEAKER_06]: They're like, uh, it's because of weather and we. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_06]: Look, I think I think Steve Miller is what I think he's eighty eighty one. [SPEAKER_06]: He's around there. [SPEAKER_13]: He's that he's in that genre of music.

[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, look, I mean, he's a great classic rocker, but do you really want to do forty cities when you're eighty one? [SPEAKER_13]: Well, and it all depends on how they're traveling. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_13]: I mean, if you're traveling by plane and it's private, it's a lot easier and it's not a show every night.

[SPEAKER_13]: I mean, if he's got a day or two off between, at least two days off between shows, because I mean, the who is going back on the road. [SPEAKER_13]: True. [SPEAKER_13]: And they're in their, you know, Roger and Peter in their eighties. [SPEAKER_06]: It does it does matter. [SPEAKER_06]: I just found it interesting. [SPEAKER_06]: I was like, OK, well, you're going to cancel all your dates. [SPEAKER_06]: But Lady Gaga, by the way, she's starting her tour has a tour open in Vegas.

[SPEAKER_06]: And I guess she had a very, very good concert tour opening. [SPEAKER_13]: So I'm sure she did. [SPEAKER_13]: She's amazing. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, I mean, she's, you know. [SPEAKER_13]: when Lonnie was touring, got in, twenty twelve or whatever and she had the HBO special. [SPEAKER_13]: I was not at all interested in her but I just turned on HBO and I was her show and I was just enthralled with

[SPEAKER_13]: her show she's extremely talented she is extremely talented and you know she can do so many different genres yeah I fell in love with her that what just watching her perform because I knew she was singing live I knew she was dancing and you she was playing the piano I knew all of these things she sounded great and you and natural and not all the things a lot of people do right and so it was just it was an incredible show and I was just like okay I'm a Gaga fan now

[SPEAKER_06]: which is awesome. [SPEAKER_06]: It is a little bit of a low for a lot of sports stuff. [SPEAKER_06]: The SP's were the last night. [SPEAKER_06]: That's why a lot of, that's when they put the SP's middle of summer when there is kind of a low between the host gets some laughs. [SPEAKER_06]: There's mixed reviews, whatever. [SPEAKER_06]: It's, it's an award show and it's a smaller award show. [SPEAKER_06]: Oftentimes you're going to get that kind of thing.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's just how that is. [SPEAKER_06]: WNBA, though, for the all-star game this weekend, they are just they decided to add the four point shot. [SPEAKER_06]: This is weird thing. [SPEAKER_06]: You can you can look at the court. [SPEAKER_06]: Basically, super-ass long shots, which of course, Caitlyn Clark is really good. [SPEAKER_06]: She's the one who suggested it. [SPEAKER_06]: And now because of an injury, Caitlyn Clark may not be in the WMBA all start game this weekend.

[SPEAKER_06]: Even though they decided to add the thing that she asked them to. [SPEAKER_13]: Hey, other people might be able to do it. [SPEAKER_06]: This is true. [SPEAKER_06]: Look, she is not the only person in the WMBA by far. [SPEAKER_06]: She's not the only one who can shoot from, you know, half court or beyond. [SPEAKER_13]: I think men would like it, too, half court for points.

[SPEAKER_06]: I look, it's an idea that's been bandied about by a lot of basketball players, it's just interesting to see that they finally went, you know what, she has a good idea, let's do it, because you know, the WMB allowed it, the NBA has heard similar, and they didn't allow it, so. [SPEAKER_06]: We have a good show for you with John Fucosang coming up. [SPEAKER_06]: We've got more news on tap and we have one of the smartest ladies that I happen to know.

[SPEAKER_06]: Jody Hamilton hanging out with me and you hear the politics bar tonight. [SPEAKER_06]: So look, go get your drink fresh and up and come back for another round. [SPEAKER_06]: All right. [SPEAKER_06]: We'll see you at about a couple minutes. [SPEAKER_06]: We got to pay some bills. [SPEAKER_06]: Hang on. [SPEAKER_03]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_14]: It's political. [SPEAKER_14]: Thank you, radical.

[SPEAKER_00]: I remember texting you this morning and or wasn't emailing and I was like, I am grumpy. [SPEAKER_02]: You emailed first and then you texted later. [SPEAKER_06]: I apologize. [SPEAKER_06]: I was grumpy. [SPEAKER_06]: The stuff that was going on, especially stuff that went on at two, fifteen in the morning East Coast time last night. [SPEAKER_13]: And that just that pisses me off too because it's like seriously people.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, look, if if they could have done it, if they would have if it would have been something they would have been proud of, they would have done it during daylight hours. [SPEAKER_13]: And also it was only nine billion dollars. [SPEAKER_13]: It's not like it's the defense budget or something. [SPEAKER_06]: It's for those of you who missed it. [SPEAKER_06]: We do have the details there in at the news on tap today at the politics bar dot com.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, the Senate has passed the nine billion dollars in doge bag cuts. [SPEAKER_06]: Basically defunding NPR and PBS completely for the first time since nineteen sixty seven. [SPEAKER_06]: Um, but they made amendments. [SPEAKER_06]: They shoved it over. [SPEAKER_06]: They made the made amendments. [SPEAKER_06]: They made changes to the bill. [SPEAKER_06]: The house sent them. [SPEAKER_06]: So it had to go back to the house.

[SPEAKER_06]: Um, as of last check, it has not passed the house. [SPEAKER_13]: Which means you said they haven't till midnight Saturday morning or midnight tonight tomorrow. [SPEAKER_06]: I want to go as we. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, they have. [SPEAKER_06]: They have when it goes from Friday to Saturday night at twelve. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, you know, twelve twelve o'clock in one second. [SPEAKER_06]: A. M. Friday night in Saturday morning.

[SPEAKER_11]: Okay. [SPEAKER_06]: Yep, Cinderella, like a pumpkin, boom. [SPEAKER_06]: And if the house misses that, those recision cuts will not go into effect. [SPEAKER_06]: So hopefully Democrats can stall them. [SPEAKER_06]: That is something that House Democrats need to be doing every possible thing.

[SPEAKER_06]: They can up to and including tripping the people who go down the hallway that that hand of the papers that [SPEAKER_06]: Look, if the paper work has to be signed before it's in any, you know, the clock counts in that counts. [SPEAKER_06]: I am not above, I'm not above tripping people on that kind of thing. [SPEAKER_06]: I, you know, people put, put oil on the on the floor. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't care what you've been in appeals exactly. [SPEAKER_06]: You know what I'm saying?

[SPEAKER_13]: We do know that the DOJ under Donald doesn't like things that are just oral. [SPEAKER_13]: It has to be written down. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, well, I was thinking something else when you said no. [SPEAKER_13]: But Donald likes, okay, we're just going to get off that. [SPEAKER_13]: But you know how when the judges say something and they're like, Oh, with the immigration. [SPEAKER_06]: They insist they want it written down. [SPEAKER_06]: I got it. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm with you on that.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, they do. [SPEAKER_06]: But that's why I'm saying, you know, if it has to be signed before then, and I'm sorry, the person trips going down the home. [SPEAKER_06]: Just lock them out. [SPEAKER_06]: Just lock the doors. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, there's a thing. [SPEAKER_06]: There was a thing in Nebraska this year. [SPEAKER_06]: So the governor wanted to do a veto and and signs of things and, you know, whatever.

[SPEAKER_06]: According to Nebraska law, he can veto it, but it is an official until the veto paperwork arrives at the correct office at the Capitol. [SPEAKER_06]: He signed the veto and they gave the paperwork to somebody. [SPEAKER_06]: He didn't know where to put it and they took it to the wrong place. [SPEAKER_06]: Indeed. [SPEAKER_06]: Joe, he's clapping a couple of folks here in the bar clapping as well. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, so basically they had to eat.

[SPEAKER_06]: At first they were like, we're going to fight it and they're like, no, really state laws pretty keen. [SPEAKER_06]: All you had to do was take it to the right room dumbass. [SPEAKER_06]: Wow. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, so that's that's what I'm saying. [SPEAKER_06]: So I'm saying, look, if you got to trip somebody. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, well, you tell them all the offices that way. [SPEAKER_13]: This is a very confusing capital. [SPEAKER_06]: As you point in eight directions, exactly.

[SPEAKER_06]: Whatever you got to do, Democrats, just delay that bill. [SPEAKER_13]: I was in that tunnel underneath the capital once. [SPEAKER_06]: uh... was that during two thousand eight during the uh... uh... two thousand five oh okay okay and i was as i was going to one area i saw Chris Matthews walk by and like that's Chris Matthews [SPEAKER_06]: I have been in interesting places and seen interesting people.

[SPEAKER_06]: And I learned this a long time ago, especially in music radio, act like you belong there. [SPEAKER_06]: I know you know this because you have done your whole life. [SPEAKER_06]: But it's always been interesting when, when, for example, I got the chance. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, God, was this two thousand and five maybe? [SPEAKER_06]: I interviewed a specific rock and roller. [SPEAKER_06]: who you probably really don't like. [SPEAKER_06]: I know a lot of people don't like him.

[SPEAKER_06]: Ted Nudgen. [SPEAKER_13]: I used to in like the seventies before I knew he's insane, but right, right. [SPEAKER_06]: But look, I just I had the chance and I was like, okay, what the hell, I'll take it and and it veered into politics, even though I was a rock and roll DJ and of course it veered into politics. [SPEAKER_06]: I had that tape that one got burned up in the fire, too.

[SPEAKER_06]: But I I interviewed him and I was actually able to hold an interesting discussion with him that wasn't insane, which to me said, yeah, he's insane, but a lot of his performative. [SPEAKER_13]: Oh, God, yeah. [SPEAKER_13]: No, I mean, my sister got to meet him. [SPEAKER_13]: And I went in, air quotes. [SPEAKER_13]: She met him. [SPEAKER_13]: Um, God, night in, seventy-nine. [SPEAKER_06]: Sue was hitting honor. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm guessing.

[SPEAKER_13]: No, he, she was walking by, she was going to another, she was backstage at a show and he was there. [SPEAKER_13]: And she was introduced to him. [SPEAKER_13]: And so she was, seven, sixteen. [SPEAKER_13]: She was a kid. [SPEAKER_13]: That's why I said he was he was heading out because and so he goes, hey, you want to come down and suck down some ribs with me because he was eating a bunch of ribs and she says no sir, I don't eat meat anymore.

[SPEAKER_06]: No, that's yeah, that sounds like him because the anyway. [SPEAKER_13]: Oh no, and I, I was, I got some limited backstage passes from the who years ago at the ball. [SPEAKER_13]: And because that's what I always get is just limited ones. [SPEAKER_13]: And, but my friend Eden and his girlfriend at the time and I were wondering around early before the show even started before the first band. [SPEAKER_13]: Sure. [SPEAKER_13]: Backstage.

[SPEAKER_13]: And people were like, yes, go that way. [SPEAKER_13]: Yes, go that way. [SPEAKER_13]: Because Eden looks like a rock star. [SPEAKER_13]: And he's got these two chicks with him. [SPEAKER_06]: So like, yes, you belong. [SPEAKER_06]: Uh-huh. [SPEAKER_06]: That is a trick. [SPEAKER_06]: That is a trick for any of you. [SPEAKER_06]: If you look like you belong there and you look like you know what you're doing.

[SPEAKER_06]: So. [SPEAKER_13]: I do know my way around the backstage at the pole though. [SPEAKER_06]: That would be very cool place to be as backstage at the Hollywood Bowl. [SPEAKER_06]: I would I would dig that. [SPEAKER_06]: That would be kind of fun. [SPEAKER_13]: I actually, I'm sorry, one more story. [SPEAKER_13]: We were going to see, they were doing Sergeant Pepper's thing.

[SPEAKER_11]: Okay. [SPEAKER_13]: And my mom's husband was playing drums and it was a cheap trick and a bunch of other people. [SPEAKER_13]: And this one woman that was performing was in rent with my sister. [SPEAKER_13]: Okay. [SPEAKER_13]: She's Nina Simone's daughter, her name is Simone. [SPEAKER_13]: Yes. [SPEAKER_13]: And so I text my mom, like, I know Brian's playing. [SPEAKER_13]: I'm with my mother-in-law and her husband and Lonnie, can I get some passes?

[SPEAKER_13]: So Brian literally walks out on stage before the show starts. [SPEAKER_13]: Hands me three. [SPEAKER_13]: three. [SPEAKER_13]: I needed four because this is all I got and I'm like, we'll figure it out. [SPEAKER_13]: So as we go backstage, you don't really have to stick the past on you or they won't let you back because. [SPEAKER_13]: Right. [SPEAKER_13]: So Lonnie goes in holding a pass and [SPEAKER_13]: his mother-in-law, his mother, and his stepfather go in with him.

[SPEAKER_13]: But they have this third pass that nobody stuck on yet, Lonnie hadn't stuck it on himself. [SPEAKER_13]: So all of a sudden the door opens to backstage and goes, oh, here's the other one. [SPEAKER_13]: And security was like, you're fine. [SPEAKER_06]: We used the pass. [SPEAKER_06]: Well played. [SPEAKER_06]: It's so bad. [SPEAKER_06]: It's so wrong. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, look, it's great.

[SPEAKER_06]: Look, if you can do these kinds of things, that that's the kind of breaking the law that, you know, I'm like, [SPEAKER_13]: Hey, we have to hang out with Robin Zanners. [SPEAKER_13]: That was cool. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, that'd be neat. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Look, that that's more breaking the rules. [SPEAKER_06]: It is not like breaking the laws. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: Obviously Republicans, Republicans did that today in case you missed that as well.

[SPEAKER_06]: Senate Democrats walked out of the judiciary committee vote today.

[SPEAKER_06]: The one where they were voting for voting on a meal, bovay and Janine Piro's nominations, so that they will be forwarded to the floor, but [SPEAKER_06]: Democrats have made it pretty clear that Republicans doing this kind of stupid arrogant jackass jerkish stuff is really going to come back to bite their asses because they're going to have to do budgetary stuff coming up coming up very soon in a August beginning of September and they need sixty votes [SPEAKER_04]: Mm-hmm.

[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, because they already did the reconciliation bill. [SPEAKER_13]: They only have two that they can do. [SPEAKER_13]: And I think they just did one yesterday. [SPEAKER_06]: So Democrats are going to make it very, very simple. [SPEAKER_06]: They're going to be like, oh, remember when you decided to run rough shot over us? [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, F U. Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: And so people are like, well, you know, will the government shut down?

[SPEAKER_06]: And I go, you know, if it does blame the Republicans, because the Republicans are the ones who have all the power, all three houses of Congress and the president. [SPEAKER_06]: All they had to do today. [SPEAKER_06]: for this judiciary committee was to let Democrats have testimony from witnesses.

[SPEAKER_06]: And there was nine hundred more than nine hundred former DOJ employees, Republicans, Democrats, independents who said something went all the way back to the Kennedy administration. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, they're like, do not do not allow this guy to become a judge. [SPEAKER_06]: And Chuck Grassley crawled out of his crypt and said, you know what, whatever. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm sorry, but I don't feel bad for them when things are going to suck.

[SPEAKER_06]: Do I am I seeing John coming off of the train early? [SPEAKER_13]: Is early do you want we to let him in? [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, let's let him in. [SPEAKER_06]: What's what? [SPEAKER_06]: Because you know, it is a Thursday night here at the politics bar and the one and only John Fuelsang is joining us here in the bar. [SPEAKER_06]: How are you doing tonight sir? [SPEAKER_09]: Hey guys, it's great to be back on your show in spite of popular demand. [SPEAKER_09]: Really a pleasure.

[SPEAKER_06]: No, it is you are very much in demand. [SPEAKER_06]: We do have all kinds of social media out there. [SPEAKER_06]: You guys know this. [SPEAKER_06]: We are having to be on Blue Sky and Threads and Instagram Facebook and Twitter. [SPEAKER_06]: We have a lot of people interacting by the brother David said he loves it. [SPEAKER_06]: This is one of his two favorite shows our show and you know, and of course, John, he loves your show.

[SPEAKER_09]: It's so great that your brother accounts your show is one of the ones he likes. [SPEAKER_09]: That's my best boy that I get with my brother. [SPEAKER_09]: No, no, my brother's compete over who's listened to my show less. [SPEAKER_09]: That's right, Connor. [SPEAKER_09]: In my house. [SPEAKER_06]: No, brother brother David is he's not my brother. [SPEAKER_06]: Although we do say he's my brother from another mother, but brother David is he's legendary.

[SPEAKER_06]: He came upon you know Randy show as a listener and he would always call in and then he calls in sometimes to Tom Hartman show and sometimes he calls in to Stephanie show.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh [SPEAKER_06]: But he doesn't call him to very many shows as much right now these days because he he is working at a theater working his ass off in Kansas at this theater and he is so he he reached out and said, you know, hey and reached out over one of the social media is that remember we were talking and he's like, oh, I'm really a really sorry. [SPEAKER_06]: I haven't called in and haven't communicated much. [SPEAKER_06]: I've been working like a billion hours.

[SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, I get it. [SPEAKER_06]: I get it. [SPEAKER_06]: So yeah, he's he's our brother from another mother, if you will. [SPEAKER_09]: Okay, well, I'm I'm I'm glad your listeners are all right and that they're keeping in touch with you about why they're not calling in so much. [SPEAKER_09]: I'm a little worried myself there, Sean, so I'm really relieved. [SPEAKER_09]: This is good. [SPEAKER_06]: Look, look, some of them tonight are having to be out at the the rallies today.

[SPEAKER_06]: You, you, you heard about the rallies today. [SPEAKER_06]: We're obviously, you know, we'll cover, we have to, you can't cover them now because, you know, we're here in the bar, but the good trouble rallies are going on throughout the country. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yes, I know. [SPEAKER_09]: I know, but I, I still, I, I can't enjoy it guys. [SPEAKER_09]: I'm worried about our Maga friends. [SPEAKER_04]: I am true. [SPEAKER_09]: I mean, have you seen this there?

[SPEAKER_09]: They're not really happy. [SPEAKER_09]: It's almost like the cult is beginning to blink. [SPEAKER_09]: They're melting down. [SPEAKER_09]: Alex Jones is crying at his car. [SPEAKER_09]: They're burning red hats like they're bras in the sixties. [SPEAKER_09]: HAC racist comedians are apologizing for their votes and barred retailer green is foaming at the mouth. [SPEAKER_09]: Well, that's that's every day.

[SPEAKER_09]: That's a remarkable there, but can I just say I never thought I'd live to see the day where a dead pedophile might save democracy, but that's the timeline we've inherited. [SPEAKER_09]: And you know, I just think it's it's a great day when dead rapists destroy still living ones. [SPEAKER_06]: That is what although they they are mad about all the comparisons between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.

[SPEAKER_06]: So so you know, look, I've been telling people, look, if you're mad about the comparisons between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, you John Fugel sang have the solution. [SPEAKER_06]: You have a whole different set of comparisons between Donald Trump and well, [SPEAKER_06]: Hitler. [SPEAKER_06]: So we can talk about that after the break. [SPEAKER_06]: John Fugosang is here in the politics bar on a Thursday night. [SPEAKER_06]: We will talk about his latest pieces on his sub-stack.

[SPEAKER_06]: His show and his new book by the way. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, and hey, John, I think we'll play with a little Nick Funtase for you as well. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: He's got a little show in front of me. [SPEAKER_09]: No, he's not. [SPEAKER_09]: He's don't like it when Nazi's come up or Nazis. [SPEAKER_06]: Indeed, they do not. [SPEAKER_06]: We'll play that next. [SPEAKER_06]: It's John Fugle saying, and Jody and Sean here at the politics bar.

[SPEAKER_06]: Hang on, get yourself a drink bag. [SPEAKER_03]: Have to be pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_06]: We're back on a Thursday night with the one they only John Fugel sang and of course. [SPEAKER_06]: That's a little bit because the music is very good. [SPEAKER_06]: We are hoping that you enjoy the music. [SPEAKER_06]: We're hoping that you enjoyed the show. [SPEAKER_06]: We're hoping that you subscribe to the podcast.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Look just check out politics bar dot com. [SPEAKER_06]: All right, John, I promise this. [SPEAKER_06]: I really want to get to this here because this is, uh, I played this for Jodi earlier. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't usually watch this show, but a friend tip this off to me. [SPEAKER_06]: Um, and so I pulled it down from the DVR and I bleeped it. [SPEAKER_06]: This is Nick Quintase having a meltdown. [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, yelling at Donald Trump on his show today.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's, it's, it's worthless thing to hear this. [SPEAKER_10]: And now he says if you're not on board with the Epstein cover up, I don't want your support. [SPEAKER_10]: You're a weakling. [SPEAKER_10]: You, you suck. [SPEAKER_10]: You are fat. [SPEAKER_10]: You are a joke. [SPEAKER_10]: You are stupid. [SPEAKER_10]: You are not funny. [SPEAKER_10]: You are not as smart as you think you are.

[SPEAKER_10]: You are, and honestly, and if you watch my show, you know, I've been very critical. [SPEAKER_10]: I've never been this far. [SPEAKER_10]: This just goes to show this entire thing has been a scam. [SPEAKER_10]: When we look back on the history of populism in America, we're going to look back on the MAGA movement as the biggest scam in American history. [SPEAKER_09]: You know, Ralph from the sound of music. [SPEAKER_09]: Yes, Ralph. [SPEAKER_09]: Well, imagine if Ralph wasn't gay.

[SPEAKER_09]: That's an acquaintance. [SPEAKER_09]: because when you watch the sound of music and I'm here to represent heterosexual men who love showtunes. [SPEAKER_09]: You are sixteen going on seventeen is an entire song about a young Nazi who knows he needs a hot wife to move up in the party but he's closeted and gay and so he asked to tell this woman no we can't do it yet and that's what the whole song's about a closeted gay Nazi buying time. [SPEAKER_09]: I'm here for the Broadway fans.

[SPEAKER_09]: Nick Quintess is like that with all the sexual dysfunction and shame. [SPEAKER_09]: But more evil. [SPEAKER_09]: We're a long way from the all you could not see Thanksgiving with Kanye Trump and Nick and Mara Logo. [SPEAKER_09]: Here's the deal about all this. [SPEAKER_09]: These these Magofoker very upset. [SPEAKER_09]: They're not mad that they were lied to. [SPEAKER_09]: They're mad that they didn't get the lie they wanted. [SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_09]: They were promised Obama. [SPEAKER_09]: They were promised George Clooney. [SPEAKER_09]: They were promised all the lizard people Hollywood elite. [SPEAKER_09]: And what did they get in from Pam Bondi? [SPEAKER_09]: They got Prince Andrew. [SPEAKER_09]: Oh, good. [SPEAKER_09]: Note that says, please stop calling. [SPEAKER_09]: Again, these guys there. [SPEAKER_09]: It's not that mag is going to care.

[SPEAKER_09]: The Trump has just been manipulating them and exploiting their anger to enrich the one percent and that he's just the Bush family all over again. [SPEAKER_03]: That's right. [SPEAKER_09]: That's all it's for. [SPEAKER_09]: Oh, he's got a tax cut last week was Jeb Bush being president again. [SPEAKER_09]: That's all it's been for right. [SPEAKER_09]: Mag is going to realize that Trump is just stupid. [SPEAKER_09]: and that he thinks they're stupid too.

[SPEAKER_09]: Now, we are, we are never gonna see the Epstein list, okay? [SPEAKER_09]: By the way, the Republicans want you to know the Epstein list, they're gonna block it from coming out and it doesn't exist. [SPEAKER_09]: Those two things, all right? [SPEAKER_09]: But the reason why we're never gonna see it, no matter what, is not because of celebrity names.

[SPEAKER_09]: It's because of political donor class names that most well know that own politicians in both parties and that's why it's never gonna happen. [SPEAKER_09]: Having said that, [SPEAKER_09]: There's only one party right now that's fighting for the release. [SPEAKER_09]: Now, I never thought I would live to see a cult leader try to kick people out of the cult. [SPEAKER_09]: But that happened this week. [SPEAKER_09]: This guy, it's like Colonel Sanders is blaming the chickens.

[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, for him to say, I don't want your support anymore, your stupid, you built this cult, bro, you handed out the cool aid. [SPEAKER_09]: And now you're mad, they drank it. [SPEAKER_09]: Magga built this golden toilet of a presidency and now Trump's yelling at them because they want to know where the plumbing goes. [SPEAKER_09]: I mean, so what does he do with all distractions, right?

[SPEAKER_09]: He has this, he comes out and says, don't worry about the billionaire pedophile ring. [SPEAKER_09]: I'd probably start to expose. [SPEAKER_09]: It's dead. [SPEAKER_09]: I fixed Coca-Cola. [SPEAKER_09]: And that one story is one story with a hundred distractions. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_09]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_09]: So they asked for accountability and they got corn syrup reform, right? [SPEAKER_09]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_09]: Coca-Cola came out today and said no, story's not true.

[SPEAKER_09]: He made it all up. [SPEAKER_09]: He's like a kid who's claiming his dad works at the Nintendo factory. [SPEAKER_09]: He just made it up. [SPEAKER_06]: You know, you know, you've got a bodega. [SPEAKER_06]: What? [SPEAKER_06]: Like two, three, four blocks away, right? [SPEAKER_06]: Yes. [SPEAKER_06]: You can go to any good bodega in any big city. [SPEAKER_06]: I've got, you know, one just, you know, just a couple of blocks away here, too. [SPEAKER_06]: and get Mexican coax.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: That is the thing. [SPEAKER_06]: That is the thing that Donald Trump is desperately trying to avoid saying is that he wants Coca-Cola with real sugar. [SPEAKER_06]: We'll run here with all that Mexican. [SPEAKER_09]: Let's be fair with the Trump Mexican Coke is that really pure stuff that won't doubt a brings for Friday. [SPEAKER_09]: Nice and we're a lot of really good stuff. [SPEAKER_09]: The eighties are still alive, folks.

[SPEAKER_09]: But again, the Coke thing, you know, that this came right after they slapped Harris on sugar impulse. [SPEAKER_09]: So again, if Joe Biden did this, Jake Tapper would have written three books by now. [SPEAKER_09]: We block sugar and then demand companies switch to cane sugar, which we just made more expensive. [SPEAKER_09]: And Coke is out here today saying, I don't know this guy.

[SPEAKER_09]: And again, the same day, he does this distraction about your own power holding up his draft letter [SPEAKER_06]: just was going to mention that we were talking about the whole thing, but that he can't even remember that he's the one who appointed Powell. [SPEAKER_09]: Again, if Joe Biden had claimed that someone else had hired Powell, like Jay Caparetta wrote the book. [SPEAKER_09]: He's holding up this letter, right? [SPEAKER_09]: Like it's his macaroni art.

[SPEAKER_09]: He made a camp today. [SPEAKER_09]: In front of other Republicans, and again, he lied that Biden at a point in power. [SPEAKER_09]: And if Biden had done this, we'd be like, oh, he's demanded. [SPEAKER_09]: He's demanded. [SPEAKER_09]: And it's like, oh, that's just him covering up for child rape. [SPEAKER_09]: That's all.

[SPEAKER_09]: And again, this is happening because the guy at the central bank [SPEAKER_09]: won't cut interest rates to hide the fact that the tariffs are now officially driving up prices. [SPEAKER_09]: That's what all this is about. [SPEAKER_09]: But Trump is like, try to fire. [SPEAKER_09]: This is like trying to fire your Uber driver because he won't let you take the wheel, right? [SPEAKER_09]: It's like a child trying to fire Santa.

[SPEAKER_09]: And this is right after he does the whole thing with Rosie. [SPEAKER_09]: And again, this is what it is. [SPEAKER_09]: His mouth is a tennis ball machine, and it vomits out these little white balls. [SPEAKER_09]: They literally all balls. [SPEAKER_09]: The media is a dog that must chase down every single ball. [SPEAKER_09]: And they're like, Crypto. [SPEAKER_09]: Corrections. [SPEAKER_00]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_09]: But like Rosie was about trusting how far he can go to punish descent and how the face will let him get while he's doing it. [SPEAKER_06]: People are not taking it. [SPEAKER_06]: The polls are Trump's disapproval rating is at a record high for a second term. [SPEAKER_06]: There's a new AP and ORC poll or as Bob. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, he always called it North, North. [SPEAKER_06]: One in four US adults now say Trump and Republican policies have helped them.

[SPEAKER_06]: Only one in four. [SPEAKER_01]: That's low. [SPEAKER_06]: Half are saying that the Trump and Republican policies have hurt them. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, people are people are pissed and it's it looks it's showing up with you all the rallies that people keep showing up to the rallies people are pissed in so many ways. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm I'm looking at some of these elections at like, you know, New York City with M. Danny and go on.

[SPEAKER_09]: Oh hell yeah, because you're also, but also there's the other side of this, which is Jade events is Pinocchio. [SPEAKER_09]: And Peter Tiel is Jepetto. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_09]: And he wants Pinocchio to be a real-life boy. [SPEAKER_09]: I know. [SPEAKER_09]: We get the announcement about Donald Trump's health condition. [SPEAKER_09]: That's what I was saying to Sean earlier. [SPEAKER_09]: Let's say this diabetes shoes. [SPEAKER_09]: Now I want to be honest, guys.

[SPEAKER_09]: I'm worried about the president, okay? [SPEAKER_09]: He's not a healthy man, have you? [SPEAKER_09]: Have you seen him? [SPEAKER_09]: The doctor has to check his cholesterol with a dipstick. [SPEAKER_09]: Have you seen this man? [SPEAKER_09]: He's not well his arteries are more clogged than the toilets at Mara Logo. [SPEAKER_09]: Do you understand? [SPEAKER_09]: I'm just worried, okay? [SPEAKER_09]: The Jodi Donald Trump's blood type is ranch. [SPEAKER_09]: I'm just worried.

[SPEAKER_09]: about his health. [SPEAKER_09]: He has a fit pit and all it does is scream in agony. [SPEAKER_09]: His shadow has sleep apnea. [SPEAKER_09]: Do you understand? [SPEAKER_09]: He's not healthy now. [SPEAKER_09]: He needs a golf cart to get to his other golf cart. [SPEAKER_09]: And I'm just asking questions because I'm worried about him. [SPEAKER_09]: He asked his doctor if Admiral counts as a vegetable. [SPEAKER_09]: We just want answers. [SPEAKER_06]: That's all.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, John, you heard a BS Barbie at the at the White House in the press room announced that Donald Trump had chronic penis insufficient. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_06]: It's chronic vene. [SPEAKER_06]: It's chronic Venus insufficiency. [SPEAKER_06]: I always get this used. [SPEAKER_09]: Yes, Venus. [SPEAKER_09]: He's got it. [SPEAKER_09]: Baby. [SPEAKER_09]: He's got it. [SPEAKER_09]: Well, I'm flayed. [SPEAKER_06]: Good call back to that. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, baby.

[SPEAKER_14]: He's got it. [SPEAKER_09]: And by the way, can I just mention the real villain in all of this? [SPEAKER_09]: You know George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. [SPEAKER_09]: I think Trump's greatest achievement is making them look less evil. [SPEAKER_09]: And these guys left after trashing the economy and killing a million people and all of their obedient accomplices in the Senate and how stay there. [SPEAKER_09]: We can't forget that this is not the party of Trump.

[SPEAKER_09]: This is the Republicans now, okay? [SPEAKER_09]: They picked Trump. [SPEAKER_09]: So we have to remember that it's an entire political party covering up. [SPEAKER_09]: This pedophile child sex trafficking ring the party of transparency blocked. [SPEAKER_09]: RhoCon is amendment to release the Epstein files. [SPEAKER_09]: They blocked it like it was their only fan subscription and their wife just walked in.

[SPEAKER_09]: And again, they just wrote every ad the Democrats need for the midterms by having every Republican except one from South Carolina. [SPEAKER_09]: voting to block the release of this list and by the way, the list is a hoax. [SPEAKER_09]: Like, right, we should be able to go home, Democrats, you have a year and a half to ruin this, okay? [SPEAKER_09]: You have a year and a half to blow this. [SPEAKER_09]: But I mean, Trump's response, the files were made up by Kobe at Obama.

[SPEAKER_09]: Got, this is slobbering goober madlips. [SPEAKER_09]: That's it. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Look, I mean, but they are so bad as a party. [SPEAKER_06]: They're almost as bad as Nazis. [SPEAKER_06]: And this is this is what I teach earlier because you have this. [SPEAKER_06]: You have this. [SPEAKER_06]: It is a fantastic list. [SPEAKER_06]: Look, we've got it in the news on tap section. [SPEAKER_06]: You go to the guest section.

[SPEAKER_06]: You can go right to John Substack because he has a fantastic piece there called stop comparing Trump to Hitler. [SPEAKER_09]: God, a stop at you liberals. [SPEAKER_09]: It's not fair. [SPEAKER_09]: They had there. [SPEAKER_09]: They only have a few things in common. [SPEAKER_09]: Okay. [SPEAKER_06]: So what are they? [SPEAKER_06]: What are they? [SPEAKER_09]: They're both right-wing, pro-militarist, white nationalist.

[SPEAKER_09]: And they both despise immigrants, and they demonize and target certain groups for exclusion. [SPEAKER_09]: Yes, they're anti-LGBTQ, and yes, they both banned abortions for citizens. [SPEAKER_09]: Yes, they scapegoat powerless minorities as vermin, infestation, and poison, the blood of a nation. [SPEAKER_09]: They did use all those same words. [SPEAKER_09]: Yes, there there Hitler was also like Trump a scab who hated labor unions.

[SPEAKER_09]: And I guess yeah, they both used the pretext of law in order justify expansion of police powers. [SPEAKER_09]: They both promised nasty deportations of undesirable minorities. [SPEAKER_09]: Yes, they both relaxed the stricter gun control laws of the more liberal governments that came before them. [SPEAKER_09]: Yes, they sponsored conservative religious education of public schools both of them. [SPEAKER_09]: That's it.

[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, [SPEAKER_09]: Nationalist propaganda, they attacked the press's fake. [SPEAKER_09]: They had large theatrical rallies and they promised they would root out Marxists, yes. [SPEAKER_09]: And yes, both Trump and Hitler's most fanatical support came from rural conservative Protestants. [SPEAKER_09]: At OK, yes, they both pretended to be Christian. [SPEAKER_09]: And yes, they both went to jail and came out stronger.

[SPEAKER_09]: But other than that, and yes, they both part in their own criminally law-thless thugs. [SPEAKER_09]: But other than that, other than that. [SPEAKER_09]: Trump doesn't have a mustache. [SPEAKER_08]: And Hitler had one wife. [SPEAKER_08]: So where do you liberals get off comparing these men? [SPEAKER_08]: You know what, John, you are correct. [SPEAKER_08]: You think Trump's a vegetarian? [SPEAKER_08]: Look at the poor man. [SPEAKER_08]: Look at his leg face.

[SPEAKER_08]: Stop comparing them. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, that is funny. [SPEAKER_08]: That look. [SPEAKER_08]: I, that is. [SPEAKER_09]: Look, if I had seen Hitler's Tinder profile, a patriotic veteran who's a vegetarian and loves animals and likes the paint, I'd go out with the guy. [SPEAKER_09]: What, what do we know?

[SPEAKER_06]: This is why this is one of the great reasons why everybody here at the bar loves you, Jonas, because that is just, you know, it's just, it's just a simple list of comparisons, you know? [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, you could have done the comparison list to Epstein, but no. [SPEAKER_06]: No. [SPEAKER_09]: No. [SPEAKER_09]: I'm just asking questions.

[SPEAKER_09]: I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, [SPEAKER_09]: That bitch.

[SPEAKER_09]: Is she running for president or is she running for president, right? [SPEAKER_11]: We think she is. [SPEAKER_09]: Can we talk about that catty little bit? [SPEAKER_09]: She is so running for president. [SPEAKER_06]: Do you actually think Tucker is actually looking potentially for a political place? [SPEAKER_09]: Of course it is. [SPEAKER_09]: You got to understand something okay about this party, right? [SPEAKER_09]: It is a cult of selfishness.

[SPEAKER_09]: True. [SPEAKER_09]: All of it, the policies are rooted in selfishness. [SPEAKER_09]: The religion is rooted in selfishness. [SPEAKER_09]: J.D. [SPEAKER_09]: Vatsang, we take care of our own first before it's all, it's a culture of their manifest destiny, this kind of crony capitalism. [SPEAKER_09]: It is all a festival of corrosive selfishness, and that extends to the individual members as well.

[SPEAKER_09]: Now, when we were kids, there were still creepy old people who defended Nixon, remember? [SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, he wasn't bad. [SPEAKER_09]: He just got caught. [SPEAKER_09]: Right. [SPEAKER_09]: Now, they defended Bush Cheney for a long time until Trump gave the permission not to. [SPEAKER_14]: Right. [SPEAKER_09]: You probably finding a right-winger defending Bush Cheney today. [SPEAKER_09]: Remember, twenty years ago, how much they hated us? [SPEAKER_08]: Remember?

[SPEAKER_09]: You think they're going to be still sticking up for Trump ten years from now? [SPEAKER_09]: They are going to cut this guy loose like Trump cuts one of his wives loose. [SPEAKER_09]: They're not going to be loyal to this guy. [SPEAKER_09]: So you're already seeing it the right-wing media. [SPEAKER_09]: Every one of them are trying to decide because again, [SPEAKER_09]: They're all selfish, okay? [SPEAKER_09]: They don't care about anything but power.

[SPEAKER_09]: True. [SPEAKER_09]: All of them. [SPEAKER_09]: That's the media and the public. [SPEAKER_09]: Republicans don't. [SPEAKER_09]: I had this fight the other night on CNN. [SPEAKER_09]: If they cared about abortion, I watched it. [SPEAKER_09]: I watched it. [SPEAKER_09]: Right for birth control. [SPEAKER_09]: They fight for sex set in schools.

[SPEAKER_09]: If they cared about stopping border crossings, they'd prosecute the white employers who put up the help of one man and do all the hiring. [SPEAKER_09]: They don't care about the things. [SPEAKER_09]: They use the topics to get power. [SPEAKER_09]: If being nice to trans people would help them get power, they would fight for that. [SPEAKER_09]: Right, that's all it is.

[SPEAKER_09]: So these media types and we're seeing with Laura Ingraham with Charlie Kirk, they're trying to thread the needle and walk the line because they want to create enough space where if Trump goes down in flames, I won't be attached to it, but if Trump makes a powerful rebound, I won't be an enemy. [SPEAKER_09]: So all of them are terrified because they believe in nothing. [SPEAKER_09]: But themselves. [SPEAKER_08]: I've said it. [SPEAKER_09]: None of them care about child rape.

[SPEAKER_09]: They don't care about the fact that four million children are going to be murdered by the USA ID cuts. [SPEAKER_06]: They have they have a five word motto. [SPEAKER_06]: John, it's very simple. [SPEAKER_06]: I've got mine F you. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: That is they all believe it. [SPEAKER_06]: And the funny thing is is that if everybody in in a room is all Republican, they all believe that same thing. [SPEAKER_06]: You realize everybody wants everybody else gone.

[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, that's not a room that I want to be any part of. [SPEAKER_09]: Educated Republicans, you're next. [SPEAKER_09]: You're next. [SPEAKER_09]: Educated Republicans. [SPEAKER_06]: We're really gay. [SPEAKER_09]: He's in the liberals in the academics. [SPEAKER_09]: Republicans who can read our next. [SPEAKER_06]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_06]: John, we, we want you to hang around for another round. [SPEAKER_06]: Will you please do that, sir?

[SPEAKER_09]: My parole officers, as I have to. [SPEAKER_09]: Let's do it. [SPEAKER_06]: One more round on a Thursday night here at the politics bar with John Fuegel saying, Jody Hamilton and me, Sean Smith Pierce. [SPEAKER_06]: Get yourself your drink, refresh, then. [SPEAKER_06]: We'll be back in a couple minutes. [SPEAKER_06]: Hang on. [SPEAKER_03]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_06]: It is a Thursday night here at the politics bar.

[SPEAKER_06]: We are, well, depending on when you're listening to us, we are twenty some odd hours away. [SPEAKER_06]: If the house cannot get those recision cuts through. [SPEAKER_06]: So let's hope that it came Jeffries and the Democrats in the House make it a very, very, very long day for House Republicans tomorrow.

[SPEAKER_06]: uh... in case you missed this by the way uh... earlier today in the senate uh... the senate judiciary committee basically rammed through the uh... the pass through of the nominations for a meal bovay and uh... got uh... genie judge judge dean just need yeah i was on her i was on her show once oh she's oh wow what did you got to spend some time with her uh... uh... just melda jinn what exactly [SPEAKER_09]: I brought my mother-in-law to that taping.

[SPEAKER_09]: Like, that's how one threatening I wanted her to think I was. [SPEAKER_09]: I brought my mother-in-law to that jeanine at Fox News. [SPEAKER_09]: And, you know, like, she made me come into meet her in her office before to make sure I was okay. [SPEAKER_09]: Like, they had to screen the liberal so far, obviously. [SPEAKER_09]: And it was all a setup that once I was on the air, they just wanted to attack me and have me admit I'm a liberal. [SPEAKER_09]: And you're a liberal.

[SPEAKER_09]: And that's like, well, you know, I said, I aspire to be liberal. [SPEAKER_09]: And she goes, why don't you admit you're a liberal? [SPEAKER_09]: I'm like, well, what do you mean? [SPEAKER_09]: You mean the dictionary definition or the Fox News Defa? [SPEAKER_09]: Why don't you admit you're a liberal? [SPEAKER_09]: And I finally said to her, you know, Judge, I'll admit I'm a liberal when you admit to your listeners that you have liberal friends. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, yep.

[SPEAKER_06]: I was you know, so so we we mentioned this in you know earlier today on the show, but sent Democrats walked out of the judiciary committee vote Republicans ran through buffet and and Piro and and look [SPEAKER_06]: I know Cory, so it's always one of those weird things of of he is a very gentle guy. [SPEAKER_06]: Cory Booker is a very general guy, and he gave them hell. [SPEAKER_06]: I look, I give him credit.

[SPEAKER_09]: He was, it was, it was well-core of your graph, the entire thing. [SPEAKER_09]: They knew what was going to happen and they knew what they were going to do. [SPEAKER_06]: It's great. [SPEAKER_06]: But the things that he was saying, he was, you know, oh, well, you're better than this. [SPEAKER_06]: You have more integrity this. [SPEAKER_06]: And I had to send him a post on Blue Sky.

[SPEAKER_06]: And I'm like, come on, man, you know that the grassley does not have any visit integrity. [SPEAKER_06]: He's a Republican in the Senate. [SPEAKER_06]: They wouldn't know if integrity became slapped in the face. [SPEAKER_09]: He has to say that to Shayna. [SPEAKER_06]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_06]: But he's not. [SPEAKER_06]: Grassley's not capable of shame.

[SPEAKER_09]: None of the Republicans are Congress on that or he has to do it because he's shaming him and he has to elevate himself to do it. [SPEAKER_09]: Look, here's the deal. [SPEAKER_09]: Bonnie Watson Coleman is on my show tonight. [SPEAKER_09]: She's the wonderful eight year old first African American woman sent to the Congress by the great state of New Jersey. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_09]: She just got roughed up with Ross Paraca and Le Manicom. [SPEAKER_09]: Ivour at the.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, she did. [SPEAKER_04]: God. [SPEAKER_09]: The nation camp in Newark over there. [SPEAKER_09]: And I asked Congresswoman Coleman, I said, so listen, are you comfortable with the Democrats in addition to fighting for healthcare in the middle class? [SPEAKER_09]: Do you think the party should prioritize this Epstein cover up? [SPEAKER_09]: And she said, yes, we have to do it all. [SPEAKER_09]: And that's the deal, right?

[SPEAKER_09]: If one prominent Democrat, if Joe Biden who's got nothing to lose, where to publicly say, hey, man, whatever happened to that thirteen year old, [SPEAKER_09]: Girl, Katie Johnson, the Trump and MCD allegedly raped. [SPEAKER_09]: The only time a president's ever been accused an open court of raping an underage girl. [SPEAKER_09]: What happened to her? [SPEAKER_09]: Why did she disappear so fast? [SPEAKER_09]: What happened with that kid?

[SPEAKER_09]: If Joe Biden were to come out and give his voice to that, it would dominate the news cycle for two straight days. [SPEAKER_09]: Now, this is not about stealing to their level. [SPEAKER_09]: This, okay, this is not about we got to go high when they go low. [SPEAKER_09]: This is about not letting the entire Republican party because it's not about Trump. [SPEAKER_09]: You have to staple Epstein to this whole part. [SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.

[SPEAKER_09]: They were crazy to chase George Santos out. [SPEAKER_09]: They should have kept George Santos attached to this party and used that. [SPEAKER_09]: Come on, Democrats. [SPEAKER_09]: So it's if [SPEAKER_09]: You can't let them bury the body's Democrats while you're writing your next press release. [SPEAKER_09]: If Democrats won't fight Republicans on accountability for child rape, then they won't fight on anything and Trump knows it.

[SPEAKER_09]: And again, all you got to say is, hey, McAfron, we've been telling you for nine years, this guy's lying. [SPEAKER_09]: He was never going to expose Epstein. [SPEAKER_09]: That'd be like Colonel Sanders opening an animal rights hotline. [SPEAKER_09]: Again, it's a collapse of conspiracy theories, but it's also the collapse of accountability.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_09]: And that's how you throw this on the entire Republican Party because a lot of people benefited from these years of abuse at Trump's DOJ, which is stacked with obedient, amoral, sick of fans has no incentive to dig through this. [SPEAKER_09]: So I say, fellas, stop and smell the train wreck because it's a vestering open wound and it's gonna get gangrene. [SPEAKER_09]: Have a good summer. [SPEAKER_06]: No, I agree.

[SPEAKER_06]: Look, I agree that they absolutely should. [SPEAKER_06]: I just the whole thing of being so nice like that. [SPEAKER_06]: At this point, I think a lot of Democrats would be just fine. [SPEAKER_06]: If Booker instead of saying, you know, you have integrity, what have said, look, [SPEAKER_06]: We're doing this in part because we know you have no integrity. [SPEAKER_06]: You have no honor. [SPEAKER_06]: You have no decency.

[SPEAKER_06]: People can't even trust you to take care of going after somebody who we know was involved with somebody with but child rape. [SPEAKER_06]: So look. [SPEAKER_06]: We're leaving, because you people can't be trusted to do a single goddamn thing right.

[SPEAKER_06]: Boom. [SPEAKER_09]: And it's like really worth pointing out that the timing is extraordinary, that within a few hours of the oligarch class, getting the greatest redistribution of wealth from the ninety-nine percent to the one percent in the history of this country, it didn't take ten days for the ink to be dry. [SPEAKER_09]: for suddenly the entire world is crashing around Donald Trump. [SPEAKER_09]: Because let's not forget he's not an oligarch.

[SPEAKER_09]: He owns golf courses oligarchs who go to. [SPEAKER_04]: Right. [SPEAKER_09]: And now the oligarchs do not need man, baby anymore. [SPEAKER_09]: And man, baby has been bad for the bottom lines. [SPEAKER_09]: Some of them have benefited from these stock market manipulations disguised as tariff battles. [SPEAKER_09]: Right. [SPEAKER_09]: But it's getting kind of boring. [SPEAKER_09]: Trump's going to do it again in August. [SPEAKER_09]: He's going to back down from those.

[SPEAKER_08]: Of course. [SPEAKER_09]: Friends cash in after they manipulate the markets again. [SPEAKER_09]: It's very possible that the owners of this country are done with this guy.

[SPEAKER_09]: And they'll take this [SPEAKER_09]: Joey a moral eyeliner model to do their bidding for the next three and a half years, but Democrats, they're writing your ads for twenty twenty six and the Democrats who campaign on accountability, the Democrats who campaign on members of this cabinet putting their hands on bibles and testifying on camera. [SPEAKER_09]: are the ones who will win the fundraising derby for the next year. [SPEAKER_09]: I have accountability.

[SPEAKER_06]: I think the key words are accountability and affordability for Democrats. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Every Democrat campaigning, those should be two of the key things that they campaign on. [SPEAKER_06]: Accountability and accountability, not just for the people at the top and not just for the people to bottom. [SPEAKER_06]: Everybody up and down the line and people say, what does that mean?

[SPEAKER_06]: It's like, well, we have this, you know, alligator alcatraz, be a real shame if we had to put some of the same people in there when we come in. [SPEAKER_06]: who they who put, you know, people who shouldn't have been in their end. [SPEAKER_06]: That would just be a real harsh thing. [SPEAKER_09]: You can't do it. [SPEAKER_09]: Either it's evil or it's not. [SPEAKER_06]: I know that. [SPEAKER_09]: Sean, I have to keep telling you this.

[SPEAKER_09]: The burden of being the good guy is a twenty four seven drag. [SPEAKER_06]: I didn't. [SPEAKER_06]: I didn't say that we actually would, but I don't think that we shouldn't also threaten it. [SPEAKER_06]: I think I think they're paying their pants if they're paying their pants about it. [SPEAKER_06]: And they're sitting there. [SPEAKER_06]: Those Maga folks are going, I can't trust Donald Trump.

[SPEAKER_06]: because of obviously the Epstein thing and now I can't trust that my side will stay in power forever and they're threatening to do the same thing to me that I want to do to the brown people [SPEAKER_09]: I'd like to tell on that. [SPEAKER_06]: Just a few steps back. [SPEAKER_09]: No, you're right. [SPEAKER_09]: I mean, I mean, there's one political party magnet that is fighting really hard to get those Epstein's names released.

[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, but you're on the other team, aren't you? [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_09]: I mean, this is how it is, right? [SPEAKER_09]: Like, if if if the evidence showed that both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump had had been with underage girls on Epstein Island, the Democrats, what am I talking about? [SPEAKER_09]: The Democrats would reject Bill Clinton. [SPEAKER_06]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_09]: Republicans would reject the evidence. [SPEAKER_06]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_06]: Right.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's what they're doing now. [SPEAKER_06]: That's what they're doing now. [SPEAKER_09]: Correct. [SPEAKER_09]: So it is a cult. [SPEAKER_09]: They look silly and I tell you again in ten years. [SPEAKER_09]: They're all going to deny they voted for this guy three times. [SPEAKER_09]: It's begun. [SPEAKER_13]: It has definitely started the Quintus alone. [SPEAKER_06]: But I still look at it and say, you know, that doesn't mean that we can't do.

[SPEAKER_06]: We need to do the accountability thing. [SPEAKER_06]: We also need to do the affordability thing. [SPEAKER_06]: And I think we can do both. [SPEAKER_06]: I think Democratic candidates can do. [SPEAKER_06]: candidates. [SPEAKER_09]: We don't ever do accountability in this country, man. [SPEAKER_09]: I'm still waiting for the confederacy to get their penalty box. [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_09]: Thank you for the segregationist to get there.

[SPEAKER_09]: I'm still waiting for the Iran Contra criminals. [SPEAKER_09]: You know, there are, I mean, like, you know, when they're closing a camera took over in oh six impeachment was off the table. [SPEAKER_09]: No one went to jail for the Iraq war. [SPEAKER_09]: You know what I'm saying? [SPEAKER_09]: We let these guys go every time looking at you, Merrick Garland, enjoying your retirement. [SPEAKER_09]: You know, and again, it's not about being punitive.

[SPEAKER_09]: It's about if you don't wipe out the empire, the first order will come back and make you sit through some uneven preface. [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_06]: That's what I'm saying. [SPEAKER_06]: Yep. [SPEAKER_06]: No, you're not. [SPEAKER_06]: You're absolutely right on that, John. [SPEAKER_09]: They should have made the Star Wars sequels now because we've seen what happens if you don't squelch all of the empire. [SPEAKER_09]: It'll come back at thirty years as the first order.

[SPEAKER_09]: And, you know, and this script aren't as good. [SPEAKER_06]: And there's a difference between, I love that. [SPEAKER_06]: That's funny. [SPEAKER_06]: There's a difference between, between vengeance. [SPEAKER_09]: And I like those first two movies a lot, by the way. [SPEAKER_09]: Last yet I is really good in the forced wakeens as awesome. [SPEAKER_09]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_06]: There you go. [SPEAKER_06]: No, no, no, no. [SPEAKER_06]: I love those. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I love those.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's not, there is a whole thing of some people say it's vengeance. [SPEAKER_06]: And it's, we can't be vengeance. [SPEAKER_06]: We can't allow it to be vengeance, but there does need to be justice. [SPEAKER_06]: There does, and justice and accountability go together. [SPEAKER_06]: In fact, oftentimes accountability is what we get. [SPEAKER_06]: You know, if if person ex kills person wise, you know, spouse or kids. [SPEAKER_06]: You can't get true justice.

[SPEAKER_06]: True justice would be the person coming back to life. [SPEAKER_06]: The true justice would be they never got killed in the first place, but we can get accountability. [SPEAKER_06]: The person who committed the murder, yeah, you know, punish them. [SPEAKER_06]: Sorry, you know, you have life in prison, whatever it sucks. [SPEAKER_06]: That sucks to be you. [SPEAKER_06]: We can get accountability. [SPEAKER_06]: And we should.

[SPEAKER_06]: That should be the minimum bar that we hold democratic candidates to when they say I want to get elected fine. [SPEAKER_06]: But, you know, that means accountability for all kinds of things. [SPEAKER_06]: The white collar crime, the blue collar crime, you know, politicians who do crime, even if they're on your side. [SPEAKER_09]: Ruth and reconciliation committee, friends. [SPEAKER_06]: Amen. [SPEAKER_09]: Oh, yes. [SPEAKER_09]: Amen. [SPEAKER_09]: Oh, God. [SPEAKER_09]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_09]: Hey, Jody, how about that Superman? [SPEAKER_13]: How about that Superman? [SPEAKER_09]: I mean, how how how how prescient a script for him to have written this in what twenty twenty two. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_09]: I'm sure he was writing it for a very long time, but the literally have the scene where he's told you're an alien and the Constitution doesn't protect you. [SPEAKER_09]: I mean, [SPEAKER_09]: like how did he know writing this script?

[SPEAKER_09]: A lot of it, you know, the crazed monkeys that are half robot that are doing all the social media, postings of rage. [SPEAKER_09]: I mean, like so much of our politics and how an immigrant is the hero. [SPEAKER_09]: And another immigrant is the, you know, a Middle Eastern immigrant is even the real hero. [SPEAKER_09]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, that was so sad. [SPEAKER_09]: And people say that this is about Israel palestine with the fictional war overseas.

[SPEAKER_09]: That's also Russia invading Ukraine. [SPEAKER_09]: That's also Russia invading Iraq. [SPEAKER_09]: It's a statement against colonization. [SPEAKER_09]: And it's just a man. [SPEAKER_09]: It's such a beautiful film. [SPEAKER_09]: It is by far the best Superman movie ever made. [SPEAKER_09]: I think he's a great. [SPEAKER_09]: My favorite Superman is actually my own popular opinion. [SPEAKER_09]: I think he's a very good Superman as well.

[SPEAKER_09]: I think he might be the best Superman ever, but this guy is great in this film. [SPEAKER_09]: The writing is so wonderful. [SPEAKER_09]: The music is so wonderful and just the themes. [SPEAKER_09]: I can't wait to see it again. [SPEAKER_09]: It's just such a moving film that's going to fill you with the notion of, and here's the greatest thing about it. [SPEAKER_09]: Superman's like Jesus.

[SPEAKER_09]: It's really hard to make a good movie about him because he's kind of perfect and that gets boring, right? [SPEAKER_09]: It's really hard to make a good Jesus movie because the cat, you got to have a flaw, you got to have a fear in your protagonist.

[SPEAKER_09]: And with this one, by making him so straight and kind and Midwestern, gentle and loving, making him just the uncoolest guy, not trying to do Zack Snyder and make Superman cool, but embracing the uncoolness from the costume and bringing back the right-out that like St. [SPEAKER_09]: West dog, what the hey dude, they made him hip by making him unhimp and beautiful. [SPEAKER_06]: It is. [SPEAKER_06]: It is fantastic. [SPEAKER_06]: It is a great movie.

[SPEAKER_06]: Something that people can see this weekend. [SPEAKER_06]: Unless, of course, they happen to be listening to the podcast of tell me everything with John, which by the way, you can listen to weeknights on Series X. That's great show. [SPEAKER_06]: We love Nick. [SPEAKER_06]: We love you too, John. [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you very much. [SPEAKER_06]: We'll see you next week. [SPEAKER_09]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_06]: Excellent. [SPEAKER_06]: Jody tomorrow.

[SPEAKER_06]: I think we have Karen and Anita. [SPEAKER_06]: We do. [SPEAKER_13]: They have confirmed. [SPEAKER_13]: Yes. [SPEAKER_06]: And it's a Friday. [SPEAKER_06]: So we are going to be very glad to be seeing you back here tomorrow night at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you very much folks. [SPEAKER_06]: Drive home safe and remember, do not treat a tweet and drink. [SPEAKER_06]: Here you go. [SPEAKER_13]: Or a tree and drink. [SPEAKER_06]: Whatever. [SPEAKER_13]: That's true, too.