The Gilded Age Returns November 3, 2025

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[SPEAKER_07]: I think the point is going to be going on all night long and probably for several days. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, the fireworks weren't saying apparently, I mean, I don't live close enough, but it was insane. [SPEAKER_07]: It is the Dodgers after all in congrats to everybody who was a Dodgers fan congrats by the way, also to all of you great Toronto fans. [SPEAKER_07]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_07]: We'll talk about the entertainment stuff plenty of politics going on.

[SPEAKER_07]: It is after all the gilded age again. [SPEAKER_07]: Doug, anyway, we'll talk about Donnie's complete lack of understanding what the hell is going on and what part of the universe that he and Republicans are. [SPEAKER_07]: And of course shutdown still going on last check here.

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[SPEAKER_07]: So, uh, yes, I knew that you knew of that the Dodge. [SPEAKER_07]: I mean, who didn't know that the Dodgers won? [SPEAKER_07]: That was freaking amazing. [SPEAKER_05]: 11. [SPEAKER_05]: And it's man. [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, were you still were you asleep? [SPEAKER_07]: Did you have to watch it? [SPEAKER_05]: I was asleep. [SPEAKER_07]: I figured. [SPEAKER_07]: I figured. [SPEAKER_07]: I was I was still up and I was like, you're, which is pretty cool.

[SPEAKER_05]: And it was our catcher that home run winning home run, man. [SPEAKER_05]: It was our catcher. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: But here's the big thing, too, to me, is that the surprise players Toronto did an amazing job. [SPEAKER_05]: They were great. [SPEAKER_05]: They were really, really good. [SPEAKER_05]: It was a great series. [SPEAKER_05]: If you're going to watch a World Series, this is the one to watch. [SPEAKER_05]: It was a great series.

[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, you know, it even went 11 innings. [SPEAKER_07]: uh... you know i was joking with a couple different people about the fact if can we have more baseball can we have more baseball men suddenly are like well you guys are just more baseball well i mean they did do the double header when they were down here [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, 18 innings there was that so you know, that's Crazy do not do not ask a Dodgers fan how long they can go Till midnight L.A. Time man.

[SPEAKER_06]: It was don't midnight L.A. Get your mind out of the gutter people.

[SPEAKER_06]: She's I don't know where you get John Louise Just say so [SPEAKER_07]: uh... there is a lot going on today in the news on tap of course we've got that for you got a great drink of the day a little bit later as well celebrating among other things the mixing of drinks right we'll talk about that and of course we're going to have to find coming in tonight's uh... he's got a good piece up on his defined dispatches uh... uh... sub-stack will talk about that but of course

[SPEAKER_07]: First thing to talk about over the weekend here happens to be in the first round of the news on tab. [SPEAKER_07]: So mixed news today in the shutdown stuff. [SPEAKER_07]: So the Trump regime finally admitting that judges are in fact correct. [SPEAKER_07]: And they do actually have to follow the law in the truth. [SPEAKER_05]: What? [SPEAKER_05]: Wait. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I know. [SPEAKER_07]: I was completely shocked as well. [SPEAKER_07]: I'm like, are you freaking kidding me?

[SPEAKER_07]: Really? [SPEAKER_07]: Really? [SPEAKER_07]: But imagine magically the the judges kind of, you know, wave to their hand. [SPEAKER_07]: and said, hey, jackass, you have to actually follow the law. [SPEAKER_07]: You think? [SPEAKER_07]: Finally, after several days, I think we talked about it Friday. [SPEAKER_07]: You know, we were here in the bar in Friday afternoon, Friday evening, whatever they said, oh, you know, one did one and one did the other.

[SPEAKER_07]: There were two judges, one in Boston, one in Rhode Island. [SPEAKER_07]: They said, you got to follow the law over the weekend. [SPEAKER_07]: Trump was like, hey, I might remember. [SPEAKER_07]: While the Trump regime over the weekend said they might follow the law, people snap benefits. [SPEAKER_07]: They were still not getting their snap. [SPEAKER_07]: No, they were not.

[SPEAKER_07]: Now they are making partial snap benefits available basically people approximately get half as much. [SPEAKER_07]: It's better than nothing. [SPEAKER_07]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_07]: Some states California, I think we'll be able to actually provide a little bit more because they will boost it up with state funds, so whatever. [SPEAKER_07]: And they're letting the states, I guess, pour the money into the snap accounts, which, yeah, whatever.

[SPEAKER_07]: But in, while this is going on, and you've got literally 42 million Americans [SPEAKER_07]: effectively starving not not being able to get food. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Trump and some of his Republicans big Republican donors were holding a party down in Mara Logo. [SPEAKER_05]: They're so gilded. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, my. [SPEAKER_05]: and Gatsby of all things, do they not read? [SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm, exactly.

[SPEAKER_07]: So for those of you, explain, Jody, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the

[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I mean, it's all about indulgence and it's during the roaring 20s. [SPEAKER_05]: What happened after the roaring 20s, kids? [SPEAKER_05]: Think for a second. [SPEAKER_07]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_07]: The great difference. [SPEAKER_07]: We just had that drink of the day the other day. [SPEAKER_07]: And it was the last week, last Thursday, last Wednesday, the talk about that. [SPEAKER_07]: The crash and how we basically spent until 1954 when the GDP got back up again.

[SPEAKER_07]: It was almost 20 years or so. [SPEAKER_05]: And I was telling you before we started the show tonight, that [SPEAKER_05]: when I my mom was getting the Mark Twain prize in 2013, we all flew out to DC so that we could be with her for that. [SPEAKER_05]: And there was an opportunity to meet President Obama, but the government was shut down at the time. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, that was that shutdown, okay? [SPEAKER_07]: So I'm like Republicans back then.

[SPEAKER_07]: And trying to, I think, stop Obama care, stop EACM. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it was something like that. [SPEAKER_05]: And there's still doing this. [SPEAKER_05]: There's still trying. [SPEAKER_05]: But so we might have been able to meet President Obama, but the caveat was he will not meet with you guys. [SPEAKER_05]: Would be my mom, my aunt, my sister, my nephew, my mom's husband and Angie who works for my mom.

[SPEAKER_05]: We may not be able to meet with the president if the shutdown is still happening because it would be bad optics for him to meet with a celebrity while the government is shut down We'll paint that last little bit there. [SPEAKER_07]: Just just just for clarity.

[SPEAKER_07]: So Carol Bernadj [SPEAKER_05]: and the Obama administration said what they said the president would love to meet with you in the oval, but if the if the government is still shut down before you guys leave town, it's bad optics for him to greet you at the oval in the oval office because the government shut down he should be working and so luckily it was reopened by the time

[SPEAKER_05]: you know things were done and we did get to meet him and it was lovely but it was that that was the reason is like we won't know until we know so just be aware we had all our flights changed just in case so we were staying in town anyway but it was it was really like he can't meet with you if the government is still shut down because it's bad optics. [SPEAKER_07]: Now, let's compare that folks at the same time, that was the optics under Obama.

[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, the optics under Trump this weekend is 42 million Americans were starving because he, he alone remember the Congress is screwing us in other ways, but he decided to shut down the snap machine and then he goes off to have this gilded age party of rich excess [SPEAKER_07]: just comparing and contrasting. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, and what he did to the Lincoln bathroom. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, oh my god, people.

[SPEAKER_05]: First off, if you're going to put that kind of marble in anything, do not adorn it with gold. [SPEAKER_05]: It's just clashes first off. [SPEAKER_05]: It's as tacky as it can get. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm not a big fan of marble anyway, but if you are a fan of it, you do not adorn that type of marble because it's basically it's a grayish and white kind of marble with gold. [SPEAKER_05]: You would put something silver like.

[SPEAKER_07]: not we've goal we've got the whole story in the news on tab. [SPEAKER_07]: You can check it out. [SPEAKER_05]: It's disgusting when you do it. [SPEAKER_07]: It's going to be less of an eat cake section. [SPEAKER_07]: So this is really expensive. [SPEAKER_07]: I believe very expensive. [SPEAKER_07]: Italian marble really polished shiny marble marble and Trump decided to revamp the entire Lincoln bathroom with gold and marble. [SPEAKER_05]: whilst a shutdown was looming.

[SPEAKER_05]: While you I'm sure it was happening before that bill. [SPEAKER_07]: The age gets be party at Mara Logo. [SPEAKER_07]: While 42 million Americans who he is supposed to be representing, we're starving because of him. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm sure several of them voted for him and then he posted all these pictures of the stupid bathroom. [SPEAKER_07]: And while this is going on, he's just a question today, right at the top of the news on tap.

[SPEAKER_07]: There's a picture in a lower left of Trump at his gilded party and a picture of the bathroom we gilded and marbled bathroom right next to it. [SPEAKER_07]: Right next to some pictures of some kids at a food bank just to kind of give you the idea of that. [SPEAKER_07]: If you've missed it, check it out.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's there at the news on tap, but I think you're 100% correcting your you're getting pissed about all this and I think America is pretty pissed to we've got a whole other section there at the top of the second round called America is getting pulled. [SPEAKER_07]: a lot. [SPEAKER_07]: And yeah, that way too. [SPEAKER_07]: But Americans are kind of pissed off. [SPEAKER_07]: The new CNN poll. [SPEAKER_07]: We got the whole little video in there of Harry and talking about all of this.

[SPEAKER_07]: Sure, it was up about six points in New Jersey, Spanberger, up 10 in Virginia, Mamdeny, up 16 in New York city. [SPEAKER_07]: Prop 50 is of ridiculously. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I said, I think on Friday, I said, even Newsome saying, don't give us money anymore. [SPEAKER_05]: We don't need it. [SPEAKER_05]: It's fine. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and, but Newsom had some things to say too over the weekend. [SPEAKER_07]: I know of this. [SPEAKER_07]: He actually, it was pretty good.

[SPEAKER_07]: Here, let me put this up on the DVR. [SPEAKER_00]: A roaring 20s, great Gatsby, Halloween party, where he's posting this literally hours before 42 million people will not have any new money put in their EBD, their debit cards, for foods. [SPEAKER_00]: During the holidays, during Thanksgiving. [SPEAKER_00]: At a time where Halloween candy just cost folks 10.8% more than it did last year, a pound of beef is historically high, coffees, and historic highs.

[SPEAKER_00]: Look, it's vulgar. [SPEAKER_00]: There's a reason people are putting Marie on to a net, makes up there of Trump's trend of take, because that's how this feels. [SPEAKER_00]: He's betraying his own voters. [SPEAKER_00]: And the word betrayal is the word we need to use more often about Donald Trump. [SPEAKER_00]: He's turned his back on his own voters, red districts, red and rural counties, red states, the disproportionate or the beneficiaries of food stamps.

[SPEAKER_00]: This proportionally are going to be impacted by a doubling and tripling in many cases of health care because of his recklessness and his total disregard for them. [SPEAKER_07]: Well said amen. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, Venison. [SPEAKER_07]: We are in a big fight.

[SPEAKER_07]: Kamala Harris was out there fight in this week Pritzker has been fighting you got governor Bashir fighting you got to oh my god Jasmine Cricket was hanging out with Stephanie Freak and Miller in California I wish I could have been there man. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, that would have been great look [SPEAKER_07]: a lot of fighting going on and a lot of vote and going on. [SPEAKER_07]: We're going to talk about all of that coming up.

[SPEAKER_07]: Obviously Brooklyn dad defined tonight is in the house and he's got a great piece at his sub stack. [SPEAKER_07]: We'll talk about that and a little drink about well drinking. [SPEAKER_07]: Hey, it's the bar. [SPEAKER_07]: It's what we do. [SPEAKER_07]: It is the politics bar and a Monday night you're hanging out with Jody Hamilton and me Sean Smith Pierce. [SPEAKER_07]: Thank you very much. [SPEAKER_07]: We'll come on back with another round. [SPEAKER_07]: Get your expression up.

[SPEAKER_07]: Hang on. [SPEAKER_10]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_07]: This video is Monday night here at the politics park, you know, I'm glad I had some fun this weekend. [SPEAKER_07]: But it's always nice to be hanging out with you guys back here at the bar. [SPEAKER_07]: In fact, thank you to everybody who has gotten out to us, man, you guys were busy on the socials for us this weekend.

[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you to everyone, whether you reached out to us on [SPEAKER_07]: loose guy or threads, Instagram, Facebook, Substack or Twitter, you know where we're at. [SPEAKER_07]: We're at the politics, of course. [SPEAKER_07]: And by the way, thank you to everybody who was leaving voicemail messages as well. [SPEAKER_07]: Some of you have better phones than others.

[SPEAKER_07]: Two, one, three, six, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, two, five, eight, that's two, one, three, six, seven, salt, like in, yo, munga, radar. [SPEAKER_07]: All right, hey, let's check in with some of the folks who are here at the bar and have been the last few days. [SPEAKER_07]: By the way, I will admit, I made a mistake called out over the weekend here, both by Theo over on Instagram and gray mouse or via blue sky.

[SPEAKER_07]: They're like, don't you know how to pronounce it's it's so in as opposed to said, hey,

[SPEAKER_07]: That I did know I had a pronounce today there so I've read it a million times and that to me I never when somebody is if they're well read and they may not have always gotten a pronunciation right even somebody who is a professional broadcaster we do that you don't always hear the stuff I've heard it before but it's been many many years because I've had wicken friends who you know going back to high school but it's just

[SPEAKER_07]: You know, got a lot of other things in my brain, so I apologize for that. [SPEAKER_07]: Theo said, hey, man, it's no big deal. [SPEAKER_07]: As a wick and priest, I've heard all kinds of ways to pronounce it. [SPEAKER_07]: Nice that there's somebody in media was trying to shine a light on the topic. [SPEAKER_07]: Cheers to both of us here. [SPEAKER_07]: Nice. [SPEAKER_07]: And I told Theo, I said, hey, thanks.

[SPEAKER_07]: You know, it's rare to hear the word, apologies for not getting correct. [SPEAKER_07]: Still, everybody matters here at the politics. [SPEAKER_07]: And we can't, you know, we can't to try to, you know, represent for you and show [SPEAKER_07]: Thank you, by the way, for that. [SPEAKER_07]: Norm, by the way, also over on Blue Sky, said between the DHS and ice-goons and Trump tearing down the East Wing for a ballroom for also he's trying to put up his arc due Trump.

[SPEAKER_07]: We just tacky read his item of Lincoln Bathroom that we were just talking about here. [SPEAKER_07]: And jetting off to Florida for a great Gatsby party, Norm says I'm not sure for relieving Berlin 1933 or Paris 1789. [SPEAKER_05]: Hey, I mean, apparently, there are also a lot of people in his administration love Rome. [SPEAKER_05]: It's like, dude, remember what happened, and there was a fall. [SPEAKER_07]: The whole fall of Rome thing, big giant fall.

[SPEAKER_07]: But I would rather not have that kind of a fall completely different fall. [SPEAKER_05]: A to Brutei, a to. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_07]: So we've got more of your messages here. [SPEAKER_07]: We will we will get those out to you guys. [SPEAKER_07]: Of course, we are talking about the news on tap for the day and quite frankly, the elections are all right. [SPEAKER_07]: Yes, well, the numbers.

[SPEAKER_07]: Have you seen the numbers, Jody, if people in different elections or different different elections around the country, where they are already looking at the numbers of people who've voted. [SPEAKER_07]: It's huge.

[SPEAKER_07]: it's it's off the charts whether they are voting for mayor in New York or prop 50 in California, whether they are voting for local races in Alaska and in Oregon and Washington or down in Puerto Rico or wherever y'all happen to be or you know in Virginia, the New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Maine, y'all are getting out some serious vote now there folks. [SPEAKER_07]: We are very glad for it. [SPEAKER_07]: Tomorrow is obviously the big day.

[SPEAKER_07]: If you do not have an election plan, you got time to make one still. [SPEAKER_07]: Because it's on it, man. [SPEAKER_07]: We got some resources there in the news on tap for you today. [SPEAKER_07]: Happens being the second round in election land. [SPEAKER_07]: It's go time. [SPEAKER_07]: Right there at the top. [SPEAKER_07]: If you don't know what's on your ballot yet, maybe you're kind of there. [SPEAKER_07]: But you're like, I don't know, maybe I'm sure.

[SPEAKER_07]: the first article right under president obama's video clip there uh... look click go to vote for one one dot org you can find out exactly what is in your ballot what is on your ballot in your area and make sure that you vote now we've been talking about this for a while joddy uh... uh... as a reminder uh... one of the big elections that people need to be paying attention

[SPEAKER_05]: I would say Virginia and New Jersey, those are the really, really big ones and obviously prop 50 here, because majoring one, main problem, exactly. [SPEAKER_07]: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court election. [UNKNOWN]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_07]: And I'm gonna say something here that's gonna piss a few people off, so I'm just gonna be honest about it here. [SPEAKER_07]: You need to vote strategically.

[SPEAKER_07]: Folks, I understand there is some some storm on strong, some drama about the whole next year's Senate election up in Maine. [SPEAKER_07]: That ain't now. [SPEAKER_07]: Nope. [SPEAKER_07]: Okay. [SPEAKER_07]: But there is some drama or has been down in Virginia.

[SPEAKER_07]: and i'm gonna say the same thing voting strategically in this case means you vote democratic up and down the ballot you do not leave it blank you're like well i might have some qualms do you have some qualms with the current republican attorney general of virginia being able to put a stick in the wheels of abogale spannberger when she's gonna be the governor right do you think that's okay do you like the gridlock that we've got going on in dc right now you think that's fun

[SPEAKER_07]: You need to understand. [SPEAKER_07]: It's not us being partisan. [SPEAKER_07]: It's being effective. [SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_07]: If there are, and I think there are, down ballot races in New York City as well, right? [SPEAKER_07]: I believe so, yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, okay. [SPEAKER_07]: Don't just vote. [SPEAKER_07]: If you're voting for Zorin, man, Danny, and at the top, that's fine. [SPEAKER_07]: He's freaking awesome, and that's wonderful.

[SPEAKER_07]: But don't just vote, and then be like, I don't care, I'm not gonna vote the rest of the ballot. [SPEAKER_07]: Giving people that he can work with. [SPEAKER_07]: Yes. [SPEAKER_07]: In this exactly the same problem that we had with voters with Obama in 2010 and in 2014. [SPEAKER_07]: People, I didn't fill out all the ballot or I didn't show up.

[SPEAKER_05]: You need to give these, like, if things go well tomorrow, like we seem to think they are, then in 26, we have to give, we have to take the Senate back, and we have to take the House back in order to stop Donald. [SPEAKER_07]: We especially the House. [SPEAKER_07]: And the Senate would damn well sure be nice. [SPEAKER_07]: Hell yes. [SPEAKER_07]: I think we can get both. [SPEAKER_07]: I think we can, but you gotta vote strategically.

[SPEAKER_07]: And among other things, you go, well, I got my quamble about this thing. [SPEAKER_07]: This particular candidate is bad on my particular issue. [SPEAKER_07]: The next thing you need to ask yourself, part of voting strategically is, do people listen to you? [SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_07]: I can tell you from experience. [SPEAKER_07]: Y'all know that I, everybody knows.

[SPEAKER_07]: In fact, there are probably people in other planets who know that I, if they know of my existence, they know that I'm tied to Nebraska. [SPEAKER_08]: I get it, okay? [SPEAKER_08]: I've been, whatever. [SPEAKER_07]: But there are literally people that I know, friends of mine, family, that live back into Brasco. [SPEAKER_07]: Okay. [SPEAKER_07]: I literally, um, Senator Deb from Nebraska, she still goes to the church that my grandparents helped to set up.

[SPEAKER_07]: Wow. [SPEAKER_07]: Almost 100 years ago. [SPEAKER_07]: It's gone way right away, and I'm not a fan of it now, but, um, my grandparents helped to set the thing up. [SPEAKER_07]: So. [SPEAKER_07]: I have known her and known of her for a very, very long time, long before I even picked up the microphone, talked on the air, and there are people I know who know her. [SPEAKER_07]: And they cannot, if they want to get a hold of her, they can't get a hold of her.

[SPEAKER_07]: If you've got a check, you've got money, you've got a cash, of course, yeah, of course. [SPEAKER_07]: But otherwise, she doesn't care about you. [SPEAKER_07]: She's a Republican in the Senate, and she does not care about you. [SPEAKER_07]: So voting strategically means not just voting for the person at the top of the ticket that you like or the big issue that you'd really like, but voting for people who will make that issue be effective.

[SPEAKER_07]: Make those people be effective. [SPEAKER_07]: You're voting for a team of people. [SPEAKER_07]: Yes, you would prefer that they have diverse, you points, you would prefer that they work together from different viewpoints, but the key of what I just said is you would prefer they work together.

[SPEAKER_07]: You don't want one person who was going to go around and do the, well, what was her name back in the day in the Olympics, or she took a baton and beat the crap out of the other girl. [SPEAKER_07]: You know what I'm thinking of. [SPEAKER_05]: I do. [SPEAKER_05]: It's an Oscar. [SPEAKER_05]: I know that too. [SPEAKER_07]: It's just flip my mind. [SPEAKER_05]: Tonya Roberts. [SPEAKER_05]: No, not Tonya Roberts. [SPEAKER_05]: That's not like Tonya. [SPEAKER_05]: Tonya.

[SPEAKER_05]: Harding. [SPEAKER_05]: Tonya. [SPEAKER_05]: Harding. [SPEAKER_05]: That's it. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: No, no, no. [SPEAKER_07]: We don't need any of that. [SPEAKER_07]: We don't need a, I'm on kneecap. [SPEAKER_07]: You kind of think. [SPEAKER_07]: Right. [SPEAKER_07]: You're voting for people. [SPEAKER_07]: You want them to get things done. [SPEAKER_07]: You've got to vote for a team that's aiming to work together to get things done. [UNKNOWN]: Mm-hmm.

[SPEAKER_07]: And in Virginia, there are some people who go, well, I don't only have some questions. [SPEAKER_07]: I don't necessarily know about Lieutenant Governor. [SPEAKER_07]: I don't necessarily know about the Attorney General. [SPEAKER_07]: Shut up and vote for the team, it is. [SPEAKER_07]: And I know that sounds mean of me to say, but it's important that somebody tell it to you in a way that we'll throw cold water in your face and make you think about this carefully.

[SPEAKER_07]: Pick another team if they don't do the job correctly. [SPEAKER_07]: Clearly, we have the team in Washington right now that is leading things is the Republicans. [SPEAKER_07]: They have it all. [SPEAKER_07]: They control all of it. [SPEAKER_07]: The White House, the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and their team sucks. [SPEAKER_07]: So now you've got to pick another team, but it's not just picking one person. [SPEAKER_07]: This is not fantasy politics like fantasy football.

[SPEAKER_07]: Pick a team. [SPEAKER_07]: And I don't mean that in terms of like some people with their teams, you will love whatever you know, my team sucks, you know, I know some people who are Rocky's fans, yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Or in this case, this year, Washington Commanders fans, I'm sorry, they've been a lot of injuries, that's just been kind of what ever. [SPEAKER_07]: But look, if that's your team, that's your team and I get that, but that sports, this is politics.

[SPEAKER_07]: So votes strategically figured out, don't make us get mad at you. [SPEAKER_07]: Sure. [SPEAKER_05]: You wouldn't like us when we're angry. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, especially Jody, do not piss her off. [SPEAKER_07]: Sorry if I kind of bow guard of that. [SPEAKER_07]: It's just, it's one of those things for me that absolutely drives me up a brick wall that people don't pay attention to those kinds of things.

[SPEAKER_07]: That they, they blow that off and they're like, well, I want to piecemeal it. [SPEAKER_07]: They treat it like sometime in the cafeteria. [SPEAKER_07]: What no, that's not politics. [SPEAKER_07]: No, that's not electoral politics. [SPEAKER_07]: No. [SPEAKER_07]: At least, you know, not in a if you have a parliament or a system, you can do that a little bit more. [SPEAKER_05]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_05]: And kind of which we did, but. [SPEAKER_05]: But we don't.

[SPEAKER_05]: This is this. [SPEAKER_05]: Dems the rules right now. [SPEAKER_07]: Well, that's part of the whole thing with the ACA that remember the the the the Grandpa of the pup who's a friend of my pups. [SPEAKER_07]: We're talking about here last week. [SPEAKER_07]: That's what he was saying. [SPEAKER_07]: He doesn't like the ACA. [SPEAKER_07]: He's a conservative. [SPEAKER_07]: He doesn't like the ACA.

[SPEAKER_07]: But he understands that the ACA is part of the system that we have right now. [SPEAKER_07]: And if you put a stick in the wheels and you break the system, there are millions and millions of Americans who depend on that system. [SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_07]: If you break it and you don't have anything to replace it, [SPEAKER_07]: You're screwing everybody, including yourself. [SPEAKER_05]: Even Madge 3-Tos says we've done nothing to replace it, so what are we doing?

[SPEAKER_07]: She's very pissed right now at her Republican leadership because she said you guys have literally had... 10, 15 years. [SPEAKER_05]: 15 years? [SPEAKER_05]: 15 years. [SPEAKER_07]: Jerry's right 15 years. [SPEAKER_07]: I was going to say 10, but yeah, it's 15 years. [SPEAKER_05]: It was 2010. [SPEAKER_05]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_05]: When it started, 2011, 2009 when it was passed, so 2010. [SPEAKER_07]: To come up with a separate solution, and they ain't done squatting.

[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I mean, because the original Affordable Care Act was based on Romney Care. [SPEAKER_05]: So it was already a Republican idea. [SPEAKER_07]: Romney Care was based on Hillary Care.

[SPEAKER_07]: not as well it hers was way better but still I mean it was somewhat based on that too yeah the whole the whole stretch of it for y'all is so Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton noticed the issue Hillary said I could do it they'll said fine you want to do it take it so she built the idea of going to quote Hillary care [SPEAKER_07]: and of course the Congress turned it down, but there was a right-wing think tank might even have been heritage. [SPEAKER_07]: I can't remember anything.

[SPEAKER_05]: I think you're right. [SPEAKER_07]: I think it was heritage that came up with a, uh, they came, they took Hillary care and they twisted a little bit and then they offered it up to bit Romney. [SPEAKER_05]: And he went fine. [SPEAKER_07]: Completely nuts. [SPEAKER_07]: And then he went fine. [SPEAKER_07]: And the Republicans and Democrats and Massachusetts tweaked more. [UNKNOWN]: Mm-hmm.

[SPEAKER_07]: And then when the Democrats under President Obama were looking for something similar, they took that idea and barred it and and fixed some of the holes. [SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_07]: It is what some people call it clutch. [SPEAKER_07]: A software designers often times know this word. [SPEAKER_07]: It's a clutch. [SPEAKER_07]: It's basically a band-aid on top of a band-aid on top of a band-aid. [SPEAKER_03]: It's clutch. [SPEAKER_07]: That's what a clutch is.

[SPEAKER_07]: You have a software program. [SPEAKER_07]: You make a software patch and it fixes this problem. [SPEAKER_07]: But then it creates that problem. [SPEAKER_07]: Right. [SPEAKER_07]: So then you have to make another one and fix that problem and so on. [SPEAKER_05]: Yes. [SPEAKER_05]: Very well aware of those. [SPEAKER_07]: Look, would you, would you have picked the ACA? [SPEAKER_07]: If you, if you could create a health care system from, yeah, right? [SPEAKER_07]: No, you would.

[SPEAKER_07]: No, yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: Nobody would, but this is what we got. [SPEAKER_05]: We're trying to fix it. [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, Joe Lieberman was the reason we don't have a public option. [SPEAKER_05]: Had we had that, and every, every medical facility, doctors, hospitals, etc. [SPEAKER_05]: would have to have accepted the public option. [SPEAKER_05]: Then, eventually, nobody would have private insurance. [SPEAKER_05]: We'd all be on the public option there.

[SPEAKER_07]: There are some people that, you know, I mean, in June, they have a system like that. [SPEAKER_07]: And you can lead to 90% of the people have the public option and 10% have totally private insurance. [SPEAKER_07]: And then you can also get public insurance and get private insurance on top of that.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, if you want to your own room or whatever, you know, concierge care, and we, well, and also if your family has, for example, a proclivity for, say, cancer, [SPEAKER_07]: They're specialized insurance that you can get that we'll cover that in those countries but it's also not for profit there true They used to not be for profit here.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Well See Donnie is wonderful party at Mara Logo all the gold and glitter that looked absolutely disgusting to understand Where all the money is coming from and where it's been going. [SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm So any who look [SPEAKER_07]: Most importantly, make sure you're informed. [SPEAKER_07]: Make sure you get your ass out there and vote. [SPEAKER_07]: And vote sensibly, okay? [SPEAKER_07]: Don't be an engineer. [SPEAKER_07]: All right? [SPEAKER_07]: All right.

[SPEAKER_07]: It is Monday night, Jody and I hang in with you. [SPEAKER_07]: Here at the politics bar, Brooklyn Dad to find company in just a little bit. [SPEAKER_07]: I'm a little bit thirsty. [SPEAKER_07]: You want to do that drink the day? [SPEAKER_07]: Sure. [SPEAKER_07]: Talk about a drink about drinks. [SPEAKER_05]: Drinking. [SPEAKER_05]: How about making drinks? [SPEAKER_05]: So thinking about drinking? [SPEAKER_05]: Thank you about drinking.

[SPEAKER_07]: I'm thinking about drinking, and you guys should be too. [SPEAKER_07]: Look, we will actually give you the recipe for thinking about drinking next. [SPEAKER_07]: With the drink of the day, it is Monday night. [SPEAKER_07]: Here at the politics bar, freshen up your drink, and do what you got to do. [SPEAKER_07]: You know what? [SPEAKER_07]: Down the hall, whatever. [SPEAKER_07]: All right. [SPEAKER_10]: We'll be right back, hang on. [SPEAKER_07]: Monday night, it's fun.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's Monday night here at politics bar. [SPEAKER_07]: We're kind of extending the weekend because well, we had a fun weekend after all, Joey's daughter's one. [SPEAKER_07]: And yes, I will say that more than once again because it's a fun thing. [SPEAKER_05]: And Stephanie Miller got to meet Jasmine Crocket as she mentioned a thousand times today on her show. [SPEAKER_05]: Did you know by the way, Stephanie Miller got to meet Jasmine Crocket?

[SPEAKER_05]: I heard that Stephanie Miller got to meet Jasmine Crocket. [SPEAKER_07]: Also, did you know that Jasmine Crockett got to meet Stephanie Miller? [SPEAKER_05]: I heard that too, but I don't think she's bragging as much. [SPEAKER_05]: Sorry, Steph. [SPEAKER_06]: We'll talk about that a little bit more this evening. [SPEAKER_05]: Though she did say to her staffers, by the way, that if they don't have time to book her on Stephanie show, somebody would get fired, so that's kind of cool.

[SPEAKER_07]: Hey, hey, look, she's going to be on that show. [SPEAKER_07]: Maybe we could show me how we could kind of, you know, be like, look, can, can we ask Steph, maybe you could ask Steph tomorrow? [SPEAKER_07]: And be like, since your bestie is known, with Jasmine Crockett, maybe maybe you could just, you know, slide her arm as if she could come all over here. [SPEAKER_05]: I think I have her contact information, but she never got back to me. [SPEAKER_07]: We can try it again.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's worth a try. [SPEAKER_07]: Be like, look, I'm friends with Stephanie Miller. [SPEAKER_07]: Anyway, by the way, thank you. [SPEAKER_07]: By the way, everybody who listens to Steph show and Bob show and Tom show and Hal show and Fransla and all the other shows who Martin, by the way, has another really good podcast Martin Sheen has a podcast out from yesterday if you missed that.

[SPEAKER_07]: If you missed our show, by the way, you can always sign up for the podcast at the politicsbar.com. [SPEAKER_07]: $6 a month, yes, $6 per month. [SPEAKER_07]: It's less than a buck 50 a week, really, seriously, very, very cheap. [SPEAKER_07]: It gets you the podcast. [SPEAKER_07]: Adfree gets you the news on tap for free. [SPEAKER_07]: We throw that in and you get you the drink of the day with the recipe. [SPEAKER_07]: So check it out.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's there at the politicsbar.com. [SPEAKER_07]: Speaking of that drink of the day, Jody, um, okay. [SPEAKER_07]: What is the drink of the day and what is it inspired by? [SPEAKER_07]: Because we've been talking about drinking and some people are like, you sound like you're repeating yourself for people. [SPEAKER_05]: You're repeating yourself. [SPEAKER_05]: You're repeating yourself. [SPEAKER_05]: Yes. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, the drink of the day is a sidecar cocktail.

[SPEAKER_05]: And it is inspired everywhere I went. [SPEAKER_05]: It was the the drink of the day every website that I go to to try to find drinks. [SPEAKER_05]: This was the information. [SPEAKER_05]: This is the day. [SPEAKER_05]: David Embery and Burie, I think, who wrote the fine art of mixing drinks in 1948. [SPEAKER_05]: It's a book and he wrote it in 1948. [SPEAKER_05]: By the way, he wasn't even a bartender.

[SPEAKER_05]: so he wrote a book on mixing drinks and he wasn't a bartender and amateur like one of us hanging out here in the bar exactly so he I will quote him right now he's in my practical experience with liqueurs or with liqueurs has been entirely as a consumer and as a shake, [SPEAKER_05]: I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing that word right. [SPEAKER_05]: Of my guests. [SPEAKER_07]: That decision. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: I think it is a invitation. [SPEAKER_05]: That's it.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yep. [SPEAKER_05]: This book is therefore purely and distinctly a book written by an amateur for amateurs. [SPEAKER_05]: Delectations. [SPEAKER_05]: Sounds like you some kind of lawyers.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, he became a tax attorney eventually who did go to Columbia Law School okay, but he was born in 1886 in New York Yeah, he became he went to Columbia Law School became a tax attorney and then He went to a law firm in New York blah blah blah blah And did a lot of drinking yeah Is he a writer? [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, if he's a writer, he drinks don't have a we established that already True dad's true dad's [SPEAKER_07]: No, that's right.

[SPEAKER_07]: With a lot of the drinks of the day that we've been doing, yeah, if you're a writer and you're semi-famous or famous, you drink heavily, sometimes more than heavily, yes. [SPEAKER_05]: Like badly. [SPEAKER_05]: But he was the first to list foundational cocktails that anyone attending bar, attending a bar, should learn how to mix properly. [SPEAKER_05]: And he was very precise on what he wanted.

[SPEAKER_05]: And he also said, look, [SPEAKER_05]: recipes are great but do it to the taste of the person that's drinking the drink like if it's one to one or one to two or whatever if you don't like that combination do a drink how you like it. [SPEAKER_07]: That makes sense. [SPEAKER_07]: That makes sense. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: I think we've done that before. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: And I think we can kind of do it with today's drink, which is the side car cocktail.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's a beautiful little cocktail. [SPEAKER_05]: He claims it was invented by a friend of his at a bar in Paris during World War 1. [SPEAKER_05]: And it contains six or seven ingredients at that point, not like that much. [SPEAKER_05]: But anyway. [SPEAKER_07]: I think we're a little bit more simplified in our particular rest of the time. [SPEAKER_05]: Much more simplified.

[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, but basically so it's it's it's It straddles in line today's drink straddles in line between sweet and sour. [SPEAKER_05]: So if it's depending on your taste like he said Choose to sugar the rim or not because you can have sugar on the rim of this glass or not And most it's most common sugar in the US, but not so much in Europe [SPEAKER_05]: make sense. [SPEAKER_05]: They don't like things as sweet as we do over here. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, they like warm beer in England.

[SPEAKER_05]: I don't get that. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, there's that. [SPEAKER_05]: Just drink it too. [SPEAKER_07]: This is weird. [SPEAKER_07]: All right. [SPEAKER_07]: So what is in today's drink the side car cocktail? [SPEAKER_05]: Okay. [SPEAKER_05]: What you need is a shaker. [SPEAKER_05]: A pre chilled coop glass ice for mixing. [SPEAKER_05]: Okay. [SPEAKER_05]: One and a half ounces of cognac. [SPEAKER_05]: Three quarters of an ounce of quantro. [SPEAKER_05]: All right.

[SPEAKER_05]: Three quarters of an ounce of fresh lemon juice and the optional sugared rim of the glass and an orange or lemon twist for garnish. [SPEAKER_05]: This is all optional. [SPEAKER_05]: The garnish is optional. [SPEAKER_05]: You can either have You can have them without the sugar right either or it doesn't matter or none of it It's all up to you guys.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's why I like this drink because it's very much how he like to make drinks So if you want the sugared rim you rub You rub the cut end of a lemon around the edge of the coop glass instead of water, which is interesting and Then you dip the rim of the glass in the sugar on a small plate, you know

[SPEAKER_05]: Um, then you add all the ingredients to the shaker, add ice and shake until it's cold, then you strain it to the pre-chilled coop glass, sugar, rim or not, and add the twist if you so desire. [SPEAKER_05]: And again, Drunker's Almanac was wonderful about this. [SPEAKER_05]: Um, difference was good, but Drunker's Almanac was better for this. [SPEAKER_05]: So enjoy. [SPEAKER_05]: It sounds like a yummy drink.

[SPEAKER_07]: it doesn't like yummy drink you know we've had a lot of yummy drinks if you guys have missed any of the really good drinks that we have with the drink the day the nice thing is when you subscribe the politics bar dot com you don't only get the access to drinks in the future but you get access to the entire library of drinks of the since last May already yeah [SPEAKER_07]: Um, six months plus y'all, so five days a week. [SPEAKER_05]: We have sober drinks.

[SPEAKER_05]: We have sorry. [SPEAKER_05]: We have non alcohol drinks. [SPEAKER_07]: Well, you say yes. [SPEAKER_07]: I mean, so we're not alcoholic. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, as well as we're trying to do once a week drink that does not contain or can contain or you can take it out alcohol. [SPEAKER_05]: We're trying to do that once a week for everybody that doesn't drink alcohol. [SPEAKER_07]: because y'all like fun drinks too, so. [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's in the drink of the day at the politics bar.com. [SPEAKER_07]: All right, Jody, back to the news on tap for the day. [SPEAKER_07]: Trump wants to go to war with everyone. [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, he does. [SPEAKER_05]: Nigerian now? [SPEAKER_07]: What the hell? [SPEAKER_07]: freaking Nigeria. [SPEAKER_07]: I don't even understand it. [SPEAKER_07]: So he threatened to go over the weekend, into Nigeria, quote unquote, gung's a blazing, over attacks on Christians. [UNKNOWN]: Mm-hmm.

[SPEAKER_07]: Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but a lot of the immigrants that Trump and his ice monsters and Border Patrol and DHS have been going after, are there's people not Christians that they're there? [SPEAKER_05]: A lot of them are. [SPEAKER_05]: I wouldn't imagine most of them are. [SPEAKER_07]: Jodie is right. [SPEAKER_07]: Yes. [SPEAKER_07]: So literally he's saying we're going to go to war because some other country is treating Christians badly, but we can treat Christians badly.

[SPEAKER_07]: Just you're not, [SPEAKER_07]: That is not good. [SPEAKER_05]: We all know that if Jesus were to come back today, looking like he did during that time period. [SPEAKER_07]: John Figuelsang has said, man, he made it. [SPEAKER_05]: He'd be thrown to the ground by ice monsters. [SPEAKER_07]: Exactly, and stomped on or whatever. [SPEAKER_05]: the back like a guy here in California. [SPEAKER_07]: God, yeah, I don't even remember if we got that story.

[SPEAKER_07]: I don't think we did into the news on tap. [SPEAKER_07]: But there's people who've been shot. [SPEAKER_07]: There's been, you know, women. [SPEAKER_07]: And we've talked about Katta because they're like getting, you know, tossed around, which is just ridiculous.

[SPEAKER_07]: Even more so hey, at least those people were on the ground as opposed to in boats US military conducting its 15th boat strike over the weekend I look forward to the Nuremberg trials Nuremberg like trials because this is these are this is criminal. [SPEAKER_07]: We are definitely we were to have luck to a Glenn Kirchner in here tomorrow We are definitely going to be talking to Glenn about this [SPEAKER_07]: illegal action.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's totally illegal, but yet the Trump DOJ is now claiming that the war powers law, going from, I believe, the Vietnam era does not apply to the Trump administration vote strikes. [SPEAKER_05]: Why? [SPEAKER_07]: Whatever the hell they want, basically. [SPEAKER_05]: What is their argument?

[SPEAKER_07]: Basically, it's the same argument that they keep pushing up to the Supreme Court, which is the argument that basically the president is a king and he can do whatever the hell he wants.

[SPEAKER_07]: be a real name to have trials this is just getting yep that's why we don't have to have reconciliation drug by the way if you think uh... trump is just a threatening Nigeria and uh... you know going after people in Venezuela on an old trump administration also uh... new plans have been leaked out about a new mission in mexico and i can guarantee you the president shine bound president clotter shine bound of mexico

[SPEAKER_07]: that's not going to go over well no no she's smart actually she's extremely smart and she can manipulate the crap at a donning and so can i always love it when they talk about how how you know trump is i'm gonna call the president maxico right already calls the president maxico and he comes out she's very nice she's pretty too he likes pretty girls [SPEAKER_07]: Hmm, but she's also wicked.

[SPEAKER_07]: She's so smart as the Lawrence O'Donnell Mike, I say and yeah, she is wicked smart and she's Every single time I know he must call her and be like, well Claudia blah blah blah blah And I'm sure in one way or another she just is very nice and talks to him in a very gentle voice and very sweet and blah blah And by the end of the conversation he's like, okay, oh, what up, oh, okay [SPEAKER_05]: Probably, he's just such an idiot. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, there's so many words I had.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, those are all ones that we can actually say here. [SPEAKER_07]: You know, BFCC thing and all that. [SPEAKER_07]: But any who, yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: So Trump threatening to go war, here's the funny thing also. [SPEAKER_07]: We had this in the news on Tap last week. [SPEAKER_07]: Trump is calling the carrier strike group for the U.S. [SPEAKER_07]: It means currently that we do not have a carrier strike group close to the Middle Eastern Europe.

[SPEAKER_07]: So if anything blows up there and nothing has ever blown up in the Middle East, it, you know, on a low pitch toss. [SPEAKER_07]: I mean, but also that carrier strike group group if there's anything that that happens in, say, northern Africa. [SPEAKER_07]: Anyway, so there's a whole big section of the world where we don't have a whole lot of very easily accessible military power right now, but where Trump has moved military power.

[SPEAKER_07]: So I just keep an eye on that and make sure if stupid wars are something that is important to you to have us avoid, that you be calling your members of Congress whatever party they are, because I can guarantee you one of the things that we do have some agreement with maggots on most of the time. [SPEAKER_07]: They're not in favor of stupid wars either. [SPEAKER_05]: No. [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, Rand Paul has come out and said what's going on with Venezuelan boats.

[SPEAKER_05]: I'm like, I'm like, agreeing with him and match three toes. [SPEAKER_05]: This is just, I mean, my brain hurts when I agree with them. [SPEAKER_05]: But they're right. [SPEAKER_05]: They're not wrong. [SPEAKER_05]: They're absolutely right. [SPEAKER_07]: Well, they agree with us that wars are stupid. [SPEAKER_07]: You know, as Barack Obama said in the more stupid wars. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, and it's up to Congress to declare war. [SPEAKER_05]: Can we take that back, please?

[SPEAKER_05]: We haven't done that since we're war two.

[SPEAKER_07]: that's why you got to call your Congress people and tell them get off the s and go do they work and this includes getting back and actually getting the government working again and they can are more discussions by the way between Republicans and Democrats they in the Senate I believe correct in the Senate there are some more house people roaming around or at least from the the rumors that I unless it's an antsy may sue yells at TSA agents well that's a whole

[SPEAKER_07]: We didn't even put that in a news on tap because I don't know that Nancy Mace most of the time Warren's discussion. [SPEAKER_07]: She's just awful. [SPEAKER_07]: We can talk about behavioral norms, what's appropriate, I suppose. [SPEAKER_05]: Especially right now when these people aren't getting paid, do not be rude to these people. [SPEAKER_05]: If you're flying right now, be nice to them, always be nice to them, A, because they control how you get onto a plane.

[SPEAKER_05]: But, too, they're not getting paid right now, and they have to be at work. [SPEAKER_07]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_07]: Listen to Jody. [SPEAKER_07]: She knows what she's talking about. [SPEAKER_07]: So look, in fact, we will talk about this and more. [SPEAKER_07]: We've got more news on tap. [SPEAKER_07]: We've got Brooklyn Dad to find. [SPEAKER_07]: Kelly and you're in just a little bit over here at the top of the hour. [SPEAKER_07]: Here's what you do. [SPEAKER_07]: You go.

[SPEAKER_07]: You do your thing. [SPEAKER_07]: You know, look, go down the hall, left, right, center, whatever. [SPEAKER_07]: We got the facilities. [SPEAKER_07]: We aim to please. [SPEAKER_07]: You aim to please. [SPEAKER_07]: We didn't have to clean up. [SPEAKER_07]: And then look, come on back. [SPEAKER_07]: Fresh enough your drink. [SPEAKER_07]: We'll have more news and Brooklyn Dad to find hang on. [SPEAKER_02]: We'll be right back after we'd pay some bills at the politics bar.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And you know, you're listening to the podcast and it's tomorrow morning, which we dig that you can take as absolutely or maybe you're one of those galaxy brain people you're listening live now and you're listening to the podcast in case you hear us repeat something in case you hear us repeat something and you want to rewind just just I know I do that sometimes just you know that's to trick up the people who are listening at twice speed.

[SPEAKER_07]: Wait wait wait wait wait not going to go back and listen. [SPEAKER_07]: You got to listen to all the important all of that man all of it all [SPEAKER_07]: All right, Jody, Monday nights. [SPEAKER_07]: Well, we usually slip down to the entertainment section about this time, because I kind of dig this. [SPEAKER_07]: I am still really geeked up about your Dodgers winning. [SPEAKER_07]: Also, I feel really badly for people like Lauren Holly, actress. [SPEAKER_07]: She's great.

[SPEAKER_07]: I interact with her occasionally over on Threads, and she was really bombed. [SPEAKER_07]: And I don't think I don't think she can any and I believe so. [SPEAKER_07]: But also Toronto her team. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, okay. [SPEAKER_07]: But you know, and I think she's fantastic. [SPEAKER_07]: I mean, I thought she's fantastic a long time, but I she was on all my children. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I know thanks. [SPEAKER_07]: She don't a lot of a lot of good works.

[SPEAKER_07]: She's got a new movie out. [SPEAKER_07]: Not too long ago here, too. [SPEAKER_07]: But I feel for the the Toronto Blue Jays fans. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, because I mean, but they don't have anything to hang their heads about. [SPEAKER_05]: No, they played a great series. [SPEAKER_05]: That was amazing. [SPEAKER_07]: their team kicked ass and it could have gone to anybody any way any time.

[SPEAKER_07]: So they played great and and even the Dodgers were saying that today and look if if Toronto had won I would still be very very happy and I think you probably would be too too. [SPEAKER_05]: It was it was a great series. [SPEAKER_05]: I mean it was good baseball.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, which now it's kind of I got this feeling, especially the first couple of days after the the world series is done, you know, like Sunday and tonight we're part of my brain is is it's like a phantom limb you're going there's something miss I I should be what I should be doing something but what the hell I should be doing something I I'm there where's the baseball what are you flipping through the channel there's a baseball there is no baseball there because we are done with the season I'm sorry that's how that goes

[SPEAKER_07]: you know, whatever, it, it happens. [SPEAKER_07]: It happens. [SPEAKER_07]: There are others. [SPEAKER_05]: It'll be back so soon because it's like basketball. [SPEAKER_05]: It's like five minutes and it'll be back. [SPEAKER_07]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_07]: Plus, you know, if you're if you're really interested, you go watch baseball and other places around the world. [SPEAKER_07]: And there are other sports as well.

[SPEAKER_07]: The quarter final round is set ahead of 2025 and WSL playoffs. [SPEAKER_07]: Women's soccer is fun to watch sometimes. [SPEAKER_07]: It's really good. [SPEAKER_07]: We got a good team here. [SPEAKER_07]: D.C. spirits. [SPEAKER_07]: I know L.A. has won. [SPEAKER_07]: There's a lot of good teams around the country. [SPEAKER_07]: And remember sports like women's soccer do not just happen every four years at the Olympics.

[SPEAKER_07]: So, well, there's a lot of fun things to watch that way. [SPEAKER_07]: Okay. [SPEAKER_07]: There hasn't been a whole lot of fun stuff in the theaters. [SPEAKER_07]: Have you been noticing that there are a lot of those that film that they're not doing that? [SPEAKER_05]: Well, though I did watch weapons. [SPEAKER_05]: I told you that, but yes, yes. [SPEAKER_05]: And by the way, have you told me that you watched weapons? [SPEAKER_05]: I have.

[SPEAKER_05]: Have I told you that Stephanie Miller met Jasmine Crocker? [SPEAKER_07]: Yes, also Stephanie Miller met Jasmine Crocker. [SPEAKER_05]: No, I mean, it's, I, I, I haven't. [SPEAKER_05]: The last movie I paid to go see was Superman. [SPEAKER_07]: We do. [SPEAKER_07]: We do. [SPEAKER_07]: Otherwise it's, you know, you got streaming services and that's fine. [SPEAKER_07]: To me, I think of, I like that some theater chains are getting it that they want to make it more of an experience.

[SPEAKER_07]: So they're trying to have better food, nicer chairs, nicer environment. [SPEAKER_05]: There are some theaters that offer you like a full meal in alcohol.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah, which great if that's your thing or some of the theaters going the other direction, they're still going to the discount version going, hey, it's a second run film, whatever, you know, maybe you get it at home, but when you come here to the theater, nice chairs and if you spill your drink, you don't have to worry about it. [SPEAKER_07]: We'll clean it up, whatever, although hey, do not do that here.

[SPEAKER_07]: No, no, no, please don't, but October actually box office records plunged last month, [SPEAKER_07]: I think some of the folks in Hollywood need to understand you got to get better at doing some of the films and that means you're going to have to take some creative risks. [SPEAKER_07]: You can't just do a sequel of a sequel or a prequel of a prequel and you're going to have to actually pay some of your money. [SPEAKER_05]: Do a remake of a movie that was okay the first time.

[SPEAKER_07]: be original finds original stuff and yes it means you're going to have to take a little bit of risk. [SPEAKER_07]: But you know what that's what it's that's part of whole games. [SPEAKER_07]: I got the the the second round of wicked coming up here. [SPEAKER_07]: I look forward to that. [SPEAKER_07]: That's going to be good. [SPEAKER_07]: So that should help box office this month.

[SPEAKER_05]: it should because the first film was amazing and I because I have a Disney subscription so I was able to buy it from them and I just watched that movie I think three times. [SPEAKER_05]: because I own it, so I can watch it whenever I want, but it was so much better than I thought it would be to be perfectly honest. [SPEAKER_07]: Yes, it is great when we can take a moment and step away from all of the politics and all of the frustration that we're all dealing with, whatever it is.

[SPEAKER_05]: But even Wicked has politics in it that are very reminiscent of what's going on, so it's even it's got that layer to it. [SPEAKER_07]: When we talk with your mom earlier this year, your mom does not usually talk about politics, [SPEAKER_07]: because I think, you know, she's Carolyn, she's freaking awesome, but also because, you know, it's you and you're freaking awesome and you're her daughter.

[SPEAKER_07]: Here in the bar, you know, kind of hit that issue that yeah, that there were some politics, you know, in the Carol Burnett show. [SPEAKER_07]: A little bit. [SPEAKER_07]: You know, but that's what somebody who's responsible and who is trying to do entertainment does. [SPEAKER_07]: You put a little stuff like, there's some politics and Palmer right now. [SPEAKER_07]: I mean, you're probably going to write this script so it's not for her.

[SPEAKER_07]: But yeah, there's politics in that as well. [SPEAKER_07]: Almost kind of a little bit of gilded age stuff, if you will. [SPEAKER_05]: I just found out, by the way, a friend of mine posted a picture of an apartment building not far from where I live. [SPEAKER_05]: I walked by at this morning. [SPEAKER_05]: I walked by at all the time. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: apparently Toto from the Wizard of Oz was buried in a pet cemetery on that property years ago.

[SPEAKER_07]: Okay by her trainer. [SPEAKER_05]: people that had her as a dog, they didn't, they whatever, he ended up her trainer ended up keeping her, and they had a little pet cemetery, and then when the 101 came through, the ranch had to get broken up because of, you know, eminent domain, and so they ended up selling the property obviously, and but apparently that's where Toto is buried still. [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know if they dug up. [SPEAKER_05]: Not at all.

[SPEAKER_05]: No, no, no. [SPEAKER_05]: There's a driveway and it's all paved over and there's a school there and it's a huge But I just found that I'm like, Lonnie look this is where this is where Toto's buried. [SPEAKER_07]: Well, there's some some I won't give anything away about Paul Ryan, but there's just some some some happenings. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, if you watch The Trailer, which is available and it starts on a week from Thursday.

[SPEAKER_05]: And Mindy Cole. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm sorry, a week from Wednesday, but yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Right. [SPEAKER_07]: Right. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, Mindy's in it. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, by the way, say hi to Mindy later this week. [SPEAKER_07]: I will. [SPEAKER_07]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_07]: Jodie, by the way, is going to be going and doing something hanging out with her mom later this week. [SPEAKER_07]: Going to be doing something Thursday. [SPEAKER_07]: So Jared is going to be in hanging.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, we love Jared. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, he's great. [SPEAKER_07]: We got we got some really good guests. [SPEAKER_07]: Obviously Brooklyn Dad to fight coming in tonight, which is excellent. [SPEAKER_07]: Glenn Kirchner coming into Mar. [SPEAKER_07]: Mom's Esca is going to be here. [SPEAKER_07]: Karen and Anita are going to be here.

[SPEAKER_07]: John Fjogosang I know many of you love him greatly deeply passionately he's married But but John has to do something this week, but just gonna be here on Thursday and we're gonna have a couple of guests that you know You might not have normally thought of one of them is one escalante who is a [SPEAKER_07]: brilliant, we'll have to talk with him. [SPEAKER_07]: Brilliant, Paul. [SPEAKER_07]: She's really, really political, I guess called the US.

[SPEAKER_07]: He does a lot of, well, we'll talk with him. [SPEAKER_07]: And Carolyn Fiddler, who maybe, maybe you know, maybe you don't. [SPEAKER_07]: She's been involved with a lot of state politics. [SPEAKER_07]: She's to have this really good state politics newsletter. [SPEAKER_07]: She's a friend of Jared's. [SPEAKER_07]: She actually works with the Democratic Attorney Governor's Association, Daga, as it's called.

[SPEAKER_07]: And we'll be kind of, you know, looking around at the aftermath of the politics and how that can affect stuff in the states. [SPEAKER_05]: I look forward to listening to that show. [SPEAKER_05]: It'd be fine. [SPEAKER_05]: It'd be a good time. [SPEAKER_07]: And like I said, you know, say, wait, say hi to your mom and men. [SPEAKER_07]: I will absolutely. [SPEAKER_07]: Because, you know, it'd be cool. [SPEAKER_07]: All right. [SPEAKER_07]: We're going back to the news on tap today.

[SPEAKER_07]: A little bit more than new stuff today. [SPEAKER_07]: So there's some medium matters going on. [SPEAKER_07]: CBS News, I hesitate to call them that. [SPEAKER_07]: They heavily edited their Trump 60 minutes interview. [SPEAKER_05]: Isn't that how they got sued in the first place? [SPEAKER_07]: Literally a year ago today. [SPEAKER_07]: He sued them for editing an interview with Comble Harris and then they paid him off.

[SPEAKER_07]: And then they put out an interview with him that is, in fact, had it. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, at least that's the 60 minutes on there. [SPEAKER_05]: But I think that they did also take out the part about the corruption part. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, they took out a lot of stuff from that interview. [SPEAKER_07]: Hey, be the dean. [SPEAKER_07]: We're talking about the ridiculous CBS 60 minutes interview with Trump and they edited it and it's off the charts kind of crazy.

[SPEAKER_07]: It is weird that way. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, I think I'm over being surprised by the earlier of our media to just ask a follow-up question. [SPEAKER_11]: Just, you know, can we get past the first level of deflections and like, you know, and Trump has all these tricks right, you just need it. [SPEAKER_11]: If you guys are planning to interview the president, let's have a game plan. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, exactly.

[SPEAKER_11]: Let's anticipate what his deflections are going to be because he only has a set number of these things. [SPEAKER_11]: Get past those silly little deflections and then dig into them and get some real answers. [SPEAKER_07]: It's not like Nora O'Donnell is a cupboard reporter. [SPEAKER_07]: It's not cool. [SPEAKER_07]: It's not amateur. [SPEAKER_07]: It's not like she and somebody who doesn't know how to do this type of stuff.

[SPEAKER_07]: That is one of the things that bothers me the most. [SPEAKER_07]: When you know how to do better and you choose to do poorly, I mean, that's just garbage. [SPEAKER_07]: There's a really good piece by the way from the new Republic that we have in the news on tap today in the media matter section for Michael Tmsky. [SPEAKER_07]: I've never had a long time. [SPEAKER_07]: Yep. [SPEAKER_07]: I knew you liked Michael Fletcher. [SPEAKER_05]: He's amazing.

[SPEAKER_07]: He's got a great piece about the mainstream media is now becoming right wing CBS getting bought questions about CNN whatever and the whole big question is what are wealthy liberals going to do about it? [SPEAKER_06]: Hey, George Soros and all those checks were supposed to be getting [SPEAKER_11]: It's such a good comment that it's right on point because we get so much that I've said it's going to the right way.

[SPEAKER_11]: Like George Paul says, hey, for all seven million that I've protested like, oh, guys, you know, if George saw us, first of all, there are other billionaires by the way. [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, yes. [SPEAKER_11]: Maybe not not kind of influence. [SPEAKER_11]: Some kind of, they might be, you know, sprinkle some, [SPEAKER_11]: Some of the ones on, I don't know, uh, what do you call those guys? [SPEAKER_04]: It's all six bar. [SPEAKER_07]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_07]: I think we'll be fine.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Give a couple of drinks. [SPEAKER_07]: Leave us a nice gigantic tip. [SPEAKER_07]: We will take the chicken cash. [SPEAKER_07]: That's fine. [SPEAKER_07]: We also take credit cards. [SPEAKER_07]: We'll declare it. [SPEAKER_05]: We'll declare it. [SPEAKER_07]: We're honest people. [SPEAKER_07]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_07]: We will declare it. [SPEAKER_07]: We'll be like, I declare that this is a lot of money. [SPEAKER_11]: Very fine. [SPEAKER_11]: Uh, Journalism.

[SPEAKER_07]: I agree. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Do that. [SPEAKER_07]: I agree. [SPEAKER_07]: Uh, it's Brooklyn to identify it. [SPEAKER_07]: We're going to pull him from the back of the bar and get him up here. [SPEAKER_07]: A little bit sooner here. [SPEAKER_07]: Uh, it is Monday night with Majid. [SPEAKER_07]: So, uh, look, here's what we're going to do. [SPEAKER_07]: We got to head to the break. [SPEAKER_07]: We got to collect some glasses, clean up.

[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, you should freshen up your drink and then come on back. [SPEAKER_07]: That's the thing. [SPEAKER_07]: More with Majid here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_10]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_07]: It is a Monday night here at the politics bar, Mondays with Majid, man, your dancing is so different in this remote location. [SPEAKER_07]: He had to come from the back of the bar.

[SPEAKER_07]: He was looking for just the right chair so he could pull up and hang out with you tonight. [SPEAKER_07]: Thank you by the way to everybody who contacts us and reaches out and joins us here at the bar from whatever your social media platform is. [SPEAKER_07]: Whether you're reaching out to us on Substack itself, [SPEAKER_07]: or Facebook, blue sky threads, or yeah, we're still on Twitter. [SPEAKER_07]: You know where we're at. [SPEAKER_07]: We're at the politics bar.

[SPEAKER_07]: All right, Mr. Machine. [SPEAKER_07]: Well, we've got a few people who actually made a bunch of comments here over the weekend. [SPEAKER_07]: Everybody was really busy on the socials. [SPEAKER_07]: Which we love you guys, being busy on the socials. [SPEAKER_07]: It's good. [SPEAKER_07]: Daryl, by the way, Jody, via blue sky.

[SPEAKER_07]: Said that here, the Trump wanted to throw a load of the fly's party instead of a Gatsby party, but they were afraid somebody would hit [SPEAKER_07]: And then he says, by the way, we do not endorse stoning anybody. [SPEAKER_07]: No. [SPEAKER_07]: Just, you know, getting stoned may be fine. [SPEAKER_05]: That's different. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, stoning people bad. [SPEAKER_07]: Getting stoned. [SPEAKER_07]: Okay. [SPEAKER_05]: You can get stoned. [SPEAKER_05]: Just stay home.

[SPEAKER_05]: Don't drive. [SPEAKER_05]: You know, be safe. [SPEAKER_05]: Don't go. [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_07]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_07]: And you know, and you know, whatever. [SPEAKER_07]: So you can, you can bring your horns to the bar if you want. [SPEAKER_07]: That's fine. [SPEAKER_07]: All right. [SPEAKER_11]: I've never seen it. [SPEAKER_11]: I've never seen anything more toner-dip than a great Gatsby party.

[SPEAKER_11]: Well, millions are losing their stock benefits and Stanley workers are not getting paid. [SPEAKER_11]: I wouldn't say that's it. [SPEAKER_11]: It is like a shame in saying. [SPEAKER_07]: It is absolutely bat crap, baloney nuts. [SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: What I want to know is who the hell is advising him sometimes?

[SPEAKER_07]: somebody see who the hell said he goes you know what we're going to do a great because you know he did he is not the one I don't believe that don't I think Donald Trump may have said F Scott's Fitzgerald before I that I believe is possible but I do not believe that he actually has red F Scott Fitzgerald now so I don't think he knows anything about the great Gatsby but somebody came to him and said we're going to do a party for you

[SPEAKER_07]: And it's going to be great Gatsby famed. [SPEAKER_07]: And he probably went, oh, what's that mean? [SPEAKER_07]: And they're like 19 20s, lots of gold and glitter. [SPEAKER_07]: And he'll be like, okay. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, and dancing girls. [SPEAKER_05]: There were a bunch of like show girls there. [SPEAKER_07]: There was a show girl. [SPEAKER_07]: Somebody, I can't remember who was. [SPEAKER_07]: I think I might have been one of the myest touch people.

[SPEAKER_07]: Had a, a little video, a short video of a girl dancing in a giant bar glass. [SPEAKER_07]: Outside was the bottom of the room. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that was real. [SPEAKER_07]: That was real. [SPEAKER_07]: That was not AI, that was real. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it is. [SPEAKER_07]: I mean, it's insane that somebody would think that that is acceptable. [SPEAKER_05]: Right now, yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: Now, it's, friend of mine actually does those events.

[SPEAKER_05]: In fact, his birthday party years ago, I went, and he had women, because he does, he does events. [SPEAKER_05]: And this one woman was wearing literally a dress that had cocktail glasses in it. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_05]: He had other women dancing like fire. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, it was a whole like, amazing. [SPEAKER_05]: Like that kind of party. [SPEAKER_05]: You know, he was, this was that kind of party at Marlowe.

[SPEAKER_05]: It was definitely that kind of party at Marlowe. [SPEAKER_05]: Because I looked at him like, well, I hope guy didn't do that because he wouldn't, by the way, he wouldn't have, no matter what, he might have been paid. [SPEAKER_05]: He would not have done that for Donald, because I know him well enough. [SPEAKER_07]: But I believe we actually have a little clip here. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, somebody who was at the party here, let me, let me play this here.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm all about having fun, you know, get a couple of cocktails and me start a fire in someone's kitchen. [SPEAKER_11]: That's always one of those funny drops that I had to guess who's idea that that party was I would say either God Junior or [SPEAKER_11]: What's your space or Jared Kushner? [SPEAKER_11]: I think Jared was there. [SPEAKER_11]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_11]: I'm a host. [SPEAKER_07]: Well, but Jared.

[SPEAKER_07]: Jared has Jared has Ivanka who usually has a little bit more. [SPEAKER_05]: She was there though. [SPEAKER_05]: She and Tiffany were there. [SPEAKER_07]: Well, oh, really. [SPEAKER_07]: Usually usually does not imply all the time, but that is just absolutely ridiculous. [SPEAKER_07]: I wouldn't have gone, but I wouldn't have gone then I you you couldn't So I have a story. [SPEAKER_07]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_07]: Sean has a story everybody.

[SPEAKER_07]: I do and it's on a t-shirt by the way, but you can get at the politics board.com store that actually says Sean has a story because I do. [SPEAKER_07]: So when I went to work for Randy Rhodes, so I was actually working for her already. [SPEAKER_07]: This is the second time. [SPEAKER_07]: We were working here at the DC area of the bar and I was working the DC area and she decided she wanted to move the show back down to Florida where she still had a house.

[SPEAKER_07]: So, which is cool. [SPEAKER_07]: By the way, for those of you wondering occasionally, yes, BDD is out on a porch right now. [SPEAKER_07]: He is also visiting a friend down in Florida. [SPEAKER_07]: So, there you go. [SPEAKER_07]: Anyway, he's actually, you know, look, he fits your friends. [SPEAKER_07]: It's nice. [SPEAKER_07]: Anyway. [SPEAKER_07]: So, I had to move. [SPEAKER_07]: We had to move really, really fast. [SPEAKER_07]: I had never been to South Florida before.

[SPEAKER_07]: Basically, I had to find an apartment in 72 hours for my wife and I and our daughter. [SPEAKER_07]: That's difficult. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Um, so I went down there. [SPEAKER_07]: I had a few leads and one of them was the apartment near Mara Logo. [SPEAKER_07]: And I drove by now if you're in that area down there, maybe they've maybe they've changed, but they're used to be a strip. [SPEAKER_07]: What year was this one year? [SPEAKER_07]: Uh, twenty.

[SPEAKER_07]: Twenty ten, twenty, no twenty eleven. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, 11. [SPEAKER_11]: Okay, sorry to interrupt. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, let's okay. [SPEAKER_07]: I do think about it. [SPEAKER_07]: So this was quite a text. [SPEAKER_07]: There was, there was a strip club that is literally just a few blocks from Marlotte. [SPEAKER_07]: Or at least there was at that time.

[SPEAKER_07]: And this was, the strip club was like right near the entrance to the place where I would wear the, the potential apartment was and the neighborhood was not the greatest. [SPEAKER_07]: The neighborhood around Marlago is definitely not the greatest or at least it wasn't at that time. [SPEAKER_07]: Maybe it's changed. [SPEAKER_07]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_05]: But I drove by it's worse now because Donald's always there.

[SPEAKER_07]: Well, there's that, but I literally, I drove by the strip club in the middle of the afternoon. [SPEAKER_07]: This would have been. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh God, what was this? [SPEAKER_07]: October? [SPEAKER_07]: I think something like that. [SPEAKER_07]: No, no, no, no, it was April. [SPEAKER_07]: April. [SPEAKER_07]: So this was April, still got kind of warm, not super hot yet. [SPEAKER_07]: And I drove by the strip club front doors. [SPEAKER_07]: Why do open?

[SPEAKER_07]: Whole world could see in it. [SPEAKER_07]: Really? [SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_07]: That's weird. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that's what I thought too. [SPEAKER_07]: And I'm like, you know what, I am not. [SPEAKER_07]: We are not going to get an apartment in this neighborhood. [SPEAKER_07]: That is a big fact. [UNKNOWN]: That's a big fact. [UNKNOWN]: Not happening. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: So we did not get an apartment there. [SPEAKER_11]: How far was that from his things?

[SPEAKER_07]: Literally I think maybe three blocks like I could have walked it easily. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh wow that close Well, it's a strip club. [SPEAKER_05]: Of course he likes it. [SPEAKER_07]: Right, but I just I thought I thought myself.

[SPEAKER_07]: I'm like Okay, let me get this straight Your neighbors and some of them that would have been potentially this complex There were some interesting people out in the middle of the day anyway Also Donald Trump and also by the way strip club the throws the store is open the middle of the afternoon because woo We had to air the place out I guess. [SPEAKER_07]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_07]: I just [SPEAKER_07]: I know I know I know I look there there are some wonderful people who are in the it all that are in the industry. [SPEAKER_07]: Some of them may be listening and we love them and they're. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh no, it's a it's a job man. [SPEAKER_05]: It's true. [SPEAKER_07]: But they too would tell you. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: I know because I've talked to at least a couple of them who I told the story to in the past and they go the doors were open.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that's not right. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, so that's that kind of tells you the company that you keep. [SPEAKER_07]: And so when you're saying that Donald Trump in the middle of a government shutdown, we're 42 plus million people were effectively starving because he wasn't getting them any snap benefits decided to do a great Gatsby party.

[SPEAKER_07]: Somehow it's not entire given given the story I just told you does it make complete sense that the people around him would be like Dude perfectly fine nothing to see right right. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, yeah, and it also makes sense why he would express You know like your Morris or or sympathy for the for it [SPEAKER_11]: Prince Andrew and his family. [SPEAKER_11]: Yes. [SPEAKER_05]: Amen. [SPEAKER_11]: That was exactly. [SPEAKER_11]: It's on the wall. [SPEAKER_11]: Right.

[SPEAKER_11]: Are you kidding me, bro? [SPEAKER_11]: I don't think he's expressed any sympathy for for the victims one time. [SPEAKER_07]: Are you kidding? [SPEAKER_07]: I mean, you're absolutely right. [SPEAKER_07]: Not that I, not that I remember. [SPEAKER_11]: No, but look, [SPEAKER_07]: But yes, here's the thing, here's the thing past performance that they say this all the time on Wall Street past performance does not necessarily indicate future performance.

[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, but history informs history echoes a lot. [SPEAKER_07]: You got a great piece, BDD, a defiant dispatch is your sub stack from this past week talking about how history especially some of the uncomfortable parts are more important to talk about than ever. [SPEAKER_07]: And while that was specifically talking about the Nazis and how look there are a lot of [SPEAKER_07]: I think some of the discussion about the Gilded Age also really should inform our commentary.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, thank. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, exactly. [SPEAKER_07]: Because, I mean, look, this is, so for those of you who don't know, the Gilded Age was the period basically roughly post civil war until the progressive part of the early 1900s. [SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_07]: That's the 20s. [SPEAKER_07]: up to basically the 20s.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, right to up to the dead then there was the rowing 20s and the depression and then we had World War Two and the post World War Two era of progress from say 1947 48 somewhere in there until about 1980

[SPEAKER_07]: and then we've had Reaganism and the clown and then we had the Bush era and the Trump era and now we are here so yeah but but really the the that era of the Gilded Age comes from believe a book that Mark Twain wrote and it was a lot of very wealthy people and not a whole lot of other people there wasn't a very strong middle class then at all [SPEAKER_07]: Basically, if you want rich, you report and didn't have a lot, and they worked you down. [SPEAKER_07]: Death.

[SPEAKER_07]: Farms. [SPEAKER_07]: Good. [SPEAKER_11]: Was that the era where like the Netherlands and the Vanderbilt and the, I think we're the way the, yeah, the railroad. [SPEAKER_05]: Yep. [SPEAKER_05]: Yep. [SPEAKER_05]: Yep. [SPEAKER_07]: Yep. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: And that is, and that is a lot of what we are seeing now.

[SPEAKER_07]: I think it's one of the reasons why when you look at some of the polling that we've got in the news on tap today, it happens to be a section of America is getting pulled, which America is getting pulled. [SPEAKER_07]: and we work this weekend. [SPEAKER_07]: Trump's approval disapproval, it's 37% approved, 63% disapproval, literally two-thirds of Americans disapprove of them right now. [SPEAKER_07]: That is the worst of either term for him, and it keeps trending down.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yes. [SPEAKER_07]: Nice. [SPEAKER_07]: We can get better. [SPEAKER_07]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_07]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_07]: That's not just, it's not just a slogan from a political candidate. [SPEAKER_07]: It also happens to be true that we can do better. [SPEAKER_07]: that's right now on five to eight point advantage in the general balance. [SPEAKER_07]: Now this is short of their 11 point advantage that we had at this point in 2017.

[SPEAKER_07]: But the fact is it's still a pretty solid head and the motivation is off the charts and the motivation versus Republican motivation according to the polls today. [SPEAKER_07]: 67% of Democrats or Democratic [SPEAKER_07]: Only 46% of Republicans are Republican-edited versus a 21-pointed. [SPEAKER_07]: That's huge. [SPEAKER_11]: So look, it's a very important numbers for you to be sharing just so you know, thank you.

[SPEAKER_11]: Thank you for sharing them and please keep on doing it because thank you. [SPEAKER_11]: Her base needs to hear that. [SPEAKER_11]: We need to hear that and we need to stay fired up. [SPEAKER_11]: The biggest challenge for us between now and 2026 is going to be keeping people engaged. [SPEAKER_11]: Amen. [SPEAKER_11]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, agreed, agree man, I think one of the things to one of the reasons that we put the Michael to mask a piece in the media matter section of the news on tap is that Michael makes the same point that Jody and I have made here a whole bunch of times. [SPEAKER_07]: The reason that the Republicans won last year was not that they had better ideas or better policies and this stupid ass idea that so many and media have, well, what kind of Democrat?

[SPEAKER_07]: You need a M. Danny Democrat in New York City, but you need a Spanberger Democrat here in Virginia. [SPEAKER_07]: You need like a David Jolly in Florida downward in your vacation right now, BDD. [SPEAKER_07]: You need we need different Democrats in different parts of the country doing different things, but we all generally agree on the same two things, affordability and accountability. [SPEAKER_07]: American needs to be affordable once again.

[SPEAKER_07]: No more this gilded age craft where the rich have [SPEAKER_07]: We need to be holding these people who have done so many illegal things accountable. [SPEAKER_05]: I cannot wait for the trials, I cannot wait for the trials, oh my god, I cannot wait for the trials, oh my god, I cannot wait for the trials, oh yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: And that's, and the thing is, is that, [SPEAKER_07]: for 25, 30 years, the left has not invested in media to get these stories out.

[SPEAKER_07]: We have relied on the mainstream media and we cannot rely on the mainstream media to carry the water to carry these facts to get these numbers to get the information out there that gets people to say, you know what the Democrats have better ideas and we should be voting for them instead of the stupid ass Republicans who are throwing a multi-billion-air party while 42 million star. [SPEAKER_11]: It's a, it's a battle of style versus substance. [SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm.

[SPEAKER_11]: It's typically always have to in your balance on a substance. [SPEAKER_11]: But unfortunately, like the, Oh, no. [SPEAKER_11]: Public, for first style. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Republicans are for whatever reason. [SPEAKER_07]: they are in some ways better on style or at least the style of people that will get people out to vote. [SPEAKER_07]: But Democrats, do you have the benefit of better actual policies?

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[SPEAKER_07]: All right, Mr. Masjid tomorrow, by the way, happens to be election day across the country. [SPEAKER_07]: Do you have votes? [SPEAKER_07]: Do you have anything to vote for in your area? [SPEAKER_07]: Where home is for you? [SPEAKER_11]: I'm hoping that, um, that modern guy wins, um, sorrow. [SPEAKER_11]: And despite the reluctance that the end scratching reluctance of some of our parties leaders, I agree to even cowards on the election.

[SPEAKER_11]: Like, you know, John Schumer and Hillary Clinton. [SPEAKER_11]: It's like Hillary's, you know, they're being asked. [SPEAKER_07]: And I'm okay with her begging off because she begged off in the same way that we begged off in in Maine in saying we don't have a dog in that hunt. [SPEAKER_07]: We don't live in Maine. [SPEAKER_07]: That's fine. [SPEAKER_07]: That's up to you. [SPEAKER_07]: I'm cool if somebody begs off like that.

[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not cool if somebody begs off the way that Schumer has. [SPEAKER_07]: Right. [SPEAKER_05]: He's elected official. [SPEAKER_04]: He's a state of exactly. [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, what the. [SPEAKER_07]: I guess Obama called over the weekend. [SPEAKER_07]: I don't think we got that one in the lead. [SPEAKER_05]: He doesn't endorse local elections ever. [SPEAKER_07]: Right. [SPEAKER_05]: Um, but he's called Mamdonny. [SPEAKER_05]: I think twice now.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: And he actually he offered to me. [SPEAKER_07]: Um, we have that I believe in the, uh, the news on tap today. [SPEAKER_07]: Um, that, uh, first Obama called him Danny offered his praise for the campaign and offered to be a sounding board. [SPEAKER_07]: when he becomes mayor, which I think is pretty big news when Barack Obama says when not if.

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[SPEAKER_11]: They need different elective officials. [SPEAKER_11]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_11]: It has one and like Abigail's bad burger is another one and you said that we would go to David Jolly. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: You know, and they're all different based on the interviews of that region. [SPEAKER_11]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_11]: City or state or whatever. [SPEAKER_11]: So, you know, everybody can carry a lot of like that here, so it's fine.

[SPEAKER_11]: Or at least people like to carry the well, don't you, Reeves? [SPEAKER_11]: I'll leave a deal. [SPEAKER_11]: You're fine. [SPEAKER_11]: They're not going anywhere. [SPEAKER_05]: They're not going anywhere. [SPEAKER_11]: Some people on our side that said that it Trump water, they were going to leave the country and they're in a left country. [SPEAKER_11]: This is a lot of performative nonsense.

[SPEAKER_07]: I will be honest there are a surprising number of people who have left, but they can afford it. [SPEAKER_07]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_07]: Jody is on. [SPEAKER_07]: I mean, my younger brother, my next youngest brother actually mentioned over the weekend to us. [SPEAKER_07]: He'd call the family meeting, so we're okay. [SPEAKER_07]: That's fine. [SPEAKER_07]: I've done politics here. [SPEAKER_07]: I've done other things, but you don't really want to do.

[SPEAKER_07]: I want to be a tour guide in Berlin. [SPEAKER_07]: And he says he has nothing holding them here. [SPEAKER_07]: He's mid 40s. [SPEAKER_07]: He's like, you know what? [SPEAKER_07]: Effort. [SPEAKER_07]: Good for him. [SPEAKER_07]: Wow. [SPEAKER_07]: Does he speak German? [SPEAKER_07]: That's cool. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, he speaks very fluid German. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, that helps. [SPEAKER_07]: He taught he taught kids in Germany English for like a year and a half. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_07]: When he was there at a school, the the thing is is that when my [SPEAKER_07]: He sounds like this. [SPEAKER_07]: So I'm going to be with you. [SPEAKER_07]: So if you meet somebody from Germany who happens to have a little bit of a bevels accent in the speaking English, do you know Matthew Pierce? [SPEAKER_07]: I think what? [SPEAKER_07]: But I love my brother, but look, so he talked to all of us and he says, he says, look, and he goes down the list of all the peace and cues.

[SPEAKER_07]: I figured this out. [SPEAKER_07]: I got to do this. [SPEAKER_07]: I got to do that. [SPEAKER_07]: And we're all like, [SPEAKER_07]: Dude, you got to your eyes dotted your T's cross. [SPEAKER_07]: You want to move this fine. [SPEAKER_07]: And of course, he is going to be involved with Democrats abroad. [SPEAKER_07]: So he's still going to be involved in election day, even though he is overseas. [SPEAKER_05]: That's a thing. [SPEAKER_07]: That's what I worked with on the Obamacam.

[SPEAKER_07]: He's where I'm four on the Obamacam campaign. [SPEAKER_07]: So yeah, that's people. [SPEAKER_07]: But there are a lot of right wingers who they have the money and they have it left and they won't. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, it's like with with California everybody's like, Oh, the taxes is too high. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, then why are you all still here? [SPEAKER_11]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_07]: Speaking of California, I'm excited about Prop 50. [SPEAKER_07]: Me, too.

[SPEAKER_07]: Sure. [SPEAKER_07]: That's that's going to pass. [SPEAKER_07]: It's going to pass. [SPEAKER_07]: Um, she, she made a little bit of a, uh, a note on Prop 50 because some people are like, you know, oh, it's, it's about, uh, you know, trying to cheat or whatever. [SPEAKER_07]: And as you were saying, be to be in the break, you're saying it's not about no, no. [SPEAKER_11]: No, it's about making sure that voters have a voice that they don't become a disenfranchised.

[SPEAKER_11]: And we didn't start this fight, you know, it was Trump calling up Greg Abbott and saying, hey, I want you to do this mid-decade, reticicle that they never do, but [SPEAKER_11]: He decided to do it now because he knew that his being a green bill was such a disaster And he was going to get clobbered in the mid-terms next year. [SPEAKER_11]: So he tried to head a stop at the past and do some cheating. [SPEAKER_11]: That's basically what it is.

[SPEAKER_11]: You know, it's such a good place to gather in some ask his residence. [SPEAKER_11]: And you know, hey, let's vote on this. [SPEAKER_11]: He didn't just like, you know, do it. [SPEAKER_11]: He's just doing it. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, he's asking. [SPEAKER_11]: So there's a here's the price as it's not about just winning, but it's about winning big. [SPEAKER_11]: So I want to remind you, if you have any California listeners, just don't assume that we're going to win this bill.

[SPEAKER_11]: Go out and vote. [SPEAKER_11]: Yes, don't don't move it on your neighbor or your friends. [SPEAKER_11]: You make sure your vote is counted as well. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that is the difference between California and maybe Illinois or New York or anybody else that's gonna do it we Are voting on it versus Texas versus Indiana versus Ohio the legislature is doing that Maybe against their constituents desires Whereas California, I mean, there's a their friends in mind.

[SPEAKER_05]: They're like vote no one 50. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm like no [SPEAKER_05]: it's temporary until 2030. [SPEAKER_05]: It's not going to be a thing after 2030. [SPEAKER_05]: And the amount of it's funny because I agree with how we do our districts in this state. [SPEAKER_05]: I agree with what Arnold Schwarzenegger did. [SPEAKER_05]: He did this. [SPEAKER_05]: He helped pass the law that says it's a bipartisan, nonpartisan, actually, committee that draws our districts in this state.

[SPEAKER_05]: I am in complete agreement with that. [SPEAKER_05]: I wish every state did that. [SPEAKER_05]: The problem is as Texas and others don't and they listen to Donald. [SPEAKER_05]: And therefore, Newsom could have gone to the assembly and they would have passed it. [SPEAKER_05]: Mark my words. [SPEAKER_05]: It would have been passed in a New York minute.

[SPEAKER_05]: But he was smart enough, and so was the assembly to say, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

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[SPEAKER_05]: So it's like and it's very well written. [SPEAKER_05]: It's very simple. [SPEAKER_05]: This is what we're doing and it's done by 2030. [SPEAKER_07]: And it's temporary right in the temporary language it's temporary. [SPEAKER_07]: It's temporary. [SPEAKER_07]: It's temporary. [SPEAKER_05]: It's temporary. [SPEAKER_07]: It's temporary. [SPEAKER_07]: It's temporary. [SPEAKER_07]: It's temporary. [SPEAKER_05]: It's temporary. [SPEAKER_05]: It's temporary. [SPEAKER_05]: It's temporary.

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[SPEAKER_11]: It's [SPEAKER_11]: And people are saying, because of the shut down, the post office workers are getting paid and so therefore, delivery times are not reliable, so do not leave, do not take a chance. [SPEAKER_11]: Don't leave this up to the post office drop. [SPEAKER_11]: You're valid. [SPEAKER_11]: And a ballot box? [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: I did that. [SPEAKER_07]: I did that. [SPEAKER_07]: I did that. [SPEAKER_07]: I did that. [SPEAKER_07]: I did that.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I did that. [SPEAKER_05]: I did that. [SPEAKER_05]: I did that. [SPEAKER_05]: I did that. [SPEAKER_07]: No, but there are places all over the country with their elections. [SPEAKER_07]: We're big elections here in Virginia, a big election in New Jersey. [SPEAKER_07]: And remember, especially in those two places, vote strategically. [SPEAKER_07]: We talked about that an hour one vote all the way down the line.

[SPEAKER_07]: If you want the Democrat at the top, you will Mikey Cheryl in New Jersey. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: And you want Abigail Spanberger in Virginia. [SPEAKER_07]: You need to give them people who will work with them to get things done for you. [SPEAKER_07]: So vote Democratic all the way down and don't argue with us about that one. [SPEAKER_07]: If you're in Pennsylvania, keep the Supreme Court Democratic. [SPEAKER_07]: Why?

[SPEAKER_07]: Cuz they got a Democratic governor and they got a Democratic legislature. [SPEAKER_07]: They want to get things done. [SPEAKER_07]: You want to get things done? [SPEAKER_07]: Do that. [SPEAKER_07]: Again, California. [SPEAKER_07]: Prop 50. [SPEAKER_07]: How do you vote? [SPEAKER_07]: Yes. [SPEAKER_07]: Yes. [SPEAKER_07]: In Maine. [SPEAKER_07]: Prop 1. [SPEAKER_07]: No. [SPEAKER_07]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_07]: Because in Maine, you would like to be able to take your ballot at home and do it on your kitchen table and then mail it in if you want to. [SPEAKER_07]: And if you don't vote, no. [SPEAKER_07]: letter Leo, the guy who rig the Supreme Court, he wants to take that right away from you. [SPEAKER_05]: It says. [SPEAKER_07]: Be smart. [SPEAKER_07]: Okay. [SPEAKER_07]: And look, in races like in the Twin Cities, they're voting on me.

[SPEAKER_07]: They're voting on a ballot initiative that would basically take away, it would make it significantly more difficult for them to have a mail-in voting in Maine. [SPEAKER_07]: And in places like the Twin Cities A.M. 950 country, you know you guys are listening to us right now on A.M. 950. [SPEAKER_07]: I know that there is a contentious election there between two pretty solid Democrats. [SPEAKER_07]: One's a little bit further left. [SPEAKER_07]: One's more center left.

[SPEAKER_07]: But they're both generally pretty decent. [SPEAKER_07]: No Democrat is going to be perfect. [SPEAKER_07]: Okay. [SPEAKER_07]: If you're looking for Christ, I'm sorry he's not on the ballot. [SPEAKER_05]: And then I don't think he was that perfect either. [SPEAKER_05]: He was a good guy, but he wasn't perfect. [SPEAKER_07]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_07]: So look, the smart thing is votes strategically, be smart, but make damn sure as BDD was saying, you get your ass out there.

[SPEAKER_07]: If you got to take your ballot and take it somewhere and put it in a box, that's fine.

[SPEAKER_07]: If you can't get there, but you know your neighbor has a car, [SPEAKER_07]: call the ass tonight get look you get you still have a whole day you have 24 hours practically depending on when you're listening this uh call somebody make sure you have your plan in action so your ballot bill be counted tomorrow but that that's your job tomorrow and like I said if you got a call in sick you got I got the American flu

[SPEAKER_07]: It's a 24 hour thing, it'll be, it'll be, it'll be over by Wednesday, boss. [SPEAKER_07]: If you got to do that, uh, and suggest you do that every November. [SPEAKER_07]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_07]: Show to his wife. [SPEAKER_07]: And if your boss says, who told you that? [SPEAKER_07]: You tell him the politics, boy, dad. [SPEAKER_07]: So that's why, so there you go. [SPEAKER_04]: Beanie, you want to stick around for a little after hours?

[SPEAKER_07]: It's really, yeah, look we got after hours if you missed some of the show obviously you do the podcast, but you can also check the after hours which for now at least we have the free up at the politics bar dot com Brooklyn that a giant will stick around and hang out with you, but people can always find you on Define Dispatches at some stack dot com correct? [SPEAKER_07]: That's right, tomorrow. [SPEAKER_07]: We have one of our legal members of the bargain that we do.

[SPEAKER_07]: Glenn Custer going to be here. [SPEAKER_07]: You and me and Jody and Glenn, we'll talk about some of those legal issues and the election tomorrow. [SPEAKER_07]: Come on back and see us at the public spot.