War Is Stupid March 12, 2026

[SPEAKER_12]: It's political thinking, ridicule. [SPEAKER_07]: You think it's a far away, but you are the politics bar. [SPEAKER_12]: Shotsmith, Pearson, Jody Hamilton. [SPEAKER_11]: It is, uh, Thursday with Thugle Fang Thursdays with Thugle Fang. [SPEAKER_11]: John will be in a little bit later and, uh, happy birthday to Henry. [SPEAKER_11]: Happy birthday to Henry Thugle Fang. [SPEAKER_11]: Thank you very much.

[SPEAKER_11]: Uh, I, I still don't feel right calling him Hank, but, you know, he goes with Henry. [SPEAKER_11]: Okay, look, I'm good with that. [SPEAKER_11]: It's, I'm fine with that. [SPEAKER_11]: It's been kind of a busy day. [SPEAKER_11]: Uh, weird weather, weird news. [SPEAKER_03]: I know, didn't snow today. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, and in this end of the bar it actually did. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, last night I was basically no coach and then this morning, you know, snow and did you move to Denver?

[SPEAKER_11]: No, no, no. [SPEAKER_11]: I mean, my brother and sister-in-law and my nieces are there. [SPEAKER_11]: That would be fun. [SPEAKER_05]: It sounds like Denver weather to me.

[SPEAKER_11]: It's it's what I've I jokingly I've been talking to a number of people online and off about this it's what we in the Midwest often call for season weather because what do you for season way we have all four seasons in one day, you know, you wake up and know it's it's 80 and you're wearing shorts and then, you know, by the end of the day you're wearing You know, you're winter gear and shoveling snow. [SPEAKER_05]: Denver weather man. [SPEAKER_05]: I lived in Denver trust me.

[SPEAKER_05]: I know that [SPEAKER_11]: the brasko whether to that's why Nebraska we always say wait five minutes it'll change by the way thank you if you are coming to us from down from anywhere maybe you're coming to us from Georgia where things are a little bit better today thank you for listening to Georgian now radio in the 18th

[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, or maybe you are up in Minneapolis, saying, Paul, listening on AM 950, maybe you're having to be in Chicago, listening on WCPT, AM A20, or maybe you are in the D2 or talk area in Tennessee, or maybe you're listening to progressive voices radio worldwide, wherever you happen to be, or maybe you're one of those cool future people. [SPEAKER_11]: You listen on your podcast and we got a couple of people contacted us today about a couple of different podcasts.

[SPEAKER_11]: Things we got a correction from the drink of the day that we got to make from earlier this week. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, God. [SPEAKER_11]: What did I do wrong? [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, no, no, no, no, we both missed this one completely, so we'll deal with that a little bit later. [SPEAKER_11]: Katie Cat, by the way, via Blue Sky, she said that East of Phoenix on Wednesday, gas was up to $4.70 for premium. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: Which, you know, I would like to pay that.

[SPEAKER_05]: I'd live here. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, gas prices obviously part of the big stories of the day here. [SPEAKER_11]: By the way, remember if you miss anything, you can always go to the podcast at the politicspart.com. [SPEAKER_11]: Gas price nationally today. [SPEAKER_11]: Let's see current national average according to AAA is $3.59 yesterday. [SPEAKER_11]: It was $3.57. [SPEAKER_11]: So up to since, [SPEAKER_11]: Sorry, I mean we could go.

[SPEAKER_11]: It was three twenty five and a month ago. [SPEAKER_11]: It was two ninety four Nice going there, Donnie. [SPEAKER_11]: Good. [SPEAKER_11]: You're well done. [SPEAKER_05]: On Bob show you have no idea how many F bombs and S bombs. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, I'm sure you and Bob and David were all you know you guys were all blah blah [SPEAKER_11]: you know, and yeah, a lot of that. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, and I get it, the fun.

[SPEAKER_11]: You know, whatever, obviously broadcast radio we can't necessarily. [SPEAKER_11]: You know, we cannot. [SPEAKER_11]: But my whole thing is this, this has been really stupid. [SPEAKER_11]: This has been absolutely the dumbest. [SPEAKER_11]: It's it's clearly shifting from an excursion to a quagmire, Trump's new Persian Gulf War. [SPEAKER_11]: We've got that in the first round of the news on tap today.

[SPEAKER_11]: Obviously, we've got a live update at the top, but long and short to Iran's new Supreme Leader as vowed to keep blocking the straight-to-home moves. [SPEAKER_11]: And that is making oil prices spike. [SPEAKER_11]: In fact, more ships are being hit by Iranian forces in the Gulf and Iran's leaders are threatening everyone pretty much in the world with $200 a barrel of gas or oil, so which raises your gas prices at the moment. [SPEAKER_05]: About $10 and 15 in my neighborhood.

[SPEAKER_11]: Here's the thing. [SPEAKER_11]: All of this, it's all interconnected. [SPEAKER_11]: We are all interconnected, especially because it happens to be a worldwide commodity, all one price. [SPEAKER_11]: We've talked about that this week. [SPEAKER_11]: And that's why you get the UN. [SPEAKER_11]: So the UN is demanding that Iran stopped targeting places like the World's Business International Airport in Dubai, duh.

[SPEAKER_11]: Um, and intelligent sources have confirmed that Iran has laid about a dozen minds in the straight home. [SPEAKER_11]: And at least. [SPEAKER_11]: Right. [SPEAKER_11]: Of course, then you get people like energy secretary right to use to be a big low guy. [SPEAKER_11]: This is the U.S. is we're not ready to escort oil tankers through the straight-of-harm moves. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, there's a reason because our Navy, our sailors would get murdered.

[SPEAKER_11]: There's multiple reasons for that, including the fact that, um, so one of the other tricks what I've told you about the pilots who come in for these things. [SPEAKER_11]: There's also insurance and and reinsurance for the ships. [SPEAKER_11]: It's about a hundred million dollars. [SPEAKER_11]: If you take a full tanker. [SPEAKER_11]: a full oil tanker is worth about a hundred million dollars. [SPEAKER_11]: Arana sets at least three of them on fire.

[SPEAKER_11]: That's what we got a little picture in the, in the, the collapse of it. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, it's, yeah, they've been setting these on fire. [SPEAKER_11]: You can ensure something yourself. [SPEAKER_11]: But then there's a, a secondary type of insurance that basically ensures the insurance company. [SPEAKER_11]: Yes. [SPEAKER_11]: The insurance to go through the reinsurance to go through a war zone.

[SPEAKER_11]: It's so extreme because you're ensuring them for their, the workers who are on the ship, the sailors, you're ensuring for the cargo. [SPEAKER_11]: Cargo. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: It's, it's to insane. [SPEAKER_11]: The cost of it. [SPEAKER_11]: Even if, all right, I'm, I'm the US Marines and they're like, I don't care. [SPEAKER_11]: It does not make, make on a balance sheet. [SPEAKER_11]: No, not gonna happen.

[SPEAKER_05]: No, it's like a Tom Cruise Miffy where Tom Cruise wants to do all his stunts. [SPEAKER_05]: They literally, I'm not kidding. [SPEAKER_05]: If the movie costs 100 million dollars, they have to ensure him specifically for another hundred million dollars on top of that. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: It's that that that's that's part of the price of of some of the extreme movies. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, we'll talk about some good movie news.

[SPEAKER_11]: Actually there's there's a little bit of good movie news. [SPEAKER_11]: We'll talk about that when we get to that later today, but Donald is is still on all sides of of this and we have a new poll news. [SPEAKER_11]: The Teo drop site data for progress poll showing most Americans Believe the Trump launched the Iran war to cover up the Episdines. [SPEAKER_11]: Kindle which what do you know I'm shocked face. [SPEAKER_11]: Americans are not as dumb as some of the mainstream media.

[SPEAKER_11]: However, normally I like on a Cabrera. [SPEAKER_11]: I don't know who the hell wrote her to this copy, but this was crap copy. [SPEAKER_11]: I got to play this for you. [SPEAKER_11]: Just just so we can remember this is what the mainstream does and then this is that then we'll tell you what we do here here here. [SPEAKER_11]: Here's on a Cabrera from this morning.

[SPEAKER_00]: new polling shows Americans are sharply divided over President Trump's war with Iran more than 50 percent opposing military action in Iran on overwhelming 74 percent of voters say they oppose boots on the ground. [SPEAKER_00]: So how are we divided? [SPEAKER_11]: Right. [SPEAKER_11]: Charities right. [SPEAKER_11]: That's not sharply divided. [SPEAKER_11]: When you've got 74 percent say, no, no, no, no, no, I don't want to do that. [SPEAKER_05]: that's not sharply divided.

[SPEAKER_05]: And also most of our children, I don't have any, but most of our children are not in the military. [SPEAKER_05]: So the fact that 74% of us are against 1% of our children going to war, says it's not sharply divided. [SPEAKER_11]: No, it's massively against, but the mainstream

[SPEAKER_11]: because remember uh... as uh... as uh... as your friend once said war it's fantastic at least they think it is the war mongers do and the means you will war who will make us money it's not it's not it's not it's not doing anything to put that i saw a story on that that said it's not doing anything for the ratings is time and it's not because people don't want to freaking war americans not want to work the rest of the world doesn't want to work out nobody wants the damn more now

[SPEAKER_11]: Also part of the reason that Ryan is doing things like setting ships on fire and doing those things is trying to drag everybody else in the area into the war so that everybody else will lobby Donald Trump to say get the stop it out right now we're Donnie technically we're in a world war. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, and if you, if you, if you consider the, the secondary effects, especially because of the oil, then yeah, definitely because that affects everybody.

[SPEAKER_11]: So yeah, but it's just dumb. [SPEAKER_11]: It's just stupid. [SPEAKER_11]: And it is all about the oil. [SPEAKER_11]: We've got a section that way in the news on tap today. [SPEAKER_11]: Um, as we noted, a ran is is threatening the world to get ready for oil at $200 a barrel. [SPEAKER_11]: Now, the Trump regime thought, hey, we'll convince the international energy agency to convince other nations to do it, too.

[SPEAKER_11]: And then the Trump folks that were going to release 172 million barrels from the U.S. strategic research. [SPEAKER_05]: How long will that last? [SPEAKER_11]: Not much because the total worldwide that they're releasing is 400 million barrels, but here's the thing That's almost half of our strategic reserve.

[SPEAKER_11]: I know an our strategic reserve was already at about 40% so now it's about 20% which is extremely dangerous and meanwhile we're doing war Yeah, if you're like that's really stupid There's a lot of other things that keep going on and [SPEAKER_11]: When you happen to be in charge of any, so you've been in charge of shows, number of times, different shows, live shows, movies, TV, whatever. [SPEAKER_11]: Outside things happen, yes? [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, all the time.

[SPEAKER_11]: Are you kidding me? [SPEAKER_11]: Right, exactly. [SPEAKER_11]: But look at your face. [SPEAKER_11]: Everybody here's like, what? [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, I mean, it seems obvious. [SPEAKER_11]: And yet it is so obvious that it should be stated. [SPEAKER_11]: Outside effects happen. [SPEAKER_11]: If you, as the leader of a nation decide, I'm going to take my nation to war, you have to be aware.

[SPEAKER_11]: You have to leave room in your choices that other things that you don't control [SPEAKER_11]: actually will happen. [SPEAKER_11]: Matter of fact, um, one of the funny things, uh, Donald's first secretary defense mad dog he hated he hated that thing name, uh, James Madness. [SPEAKER_11]: He was fond of repeating an old military axiom and the axiom is the enemy gets a vote. [SPEAKER_05]: They always do. [SPEAKER_11]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_11]: And the people are the right.

[SPEAKER_11]: If Donald today, Bob was saying this when he was in the bar last night that if Donald decided today, I'm done, and he said that several times. [SPEAKER_11]: Then he turned around and says, yeah, but we've got to keep going, but I've done, but we got to keep going, which anyway, but if he was serious and said, no, we're done, even if he did that. [SPEAKER_11]: Iran would have to remove any of the mines that it's put in there.

[SPEAKER_11]: Then they have to helicopter in all the pilots and they have to organize all the ships. [SPEAKER_11]: You're looking at probably now somewhere in the 12 maybe 12 day, maybe 14 day range to get traffic through the straits on her moves. [SPEAKER_11]: So, so next, right, then you're looking at everybody remember the pandemic and how crappy it was because it happened to be a supply shock. [SPEAKER_11]: Thank you, Bruce Bartlett, for teaching me about that.

[SPEAKER_11]: This was a big supply shock. [SPEAKER_11]: That's what this is right now is the worldwide supply and fertilizer. [SPEAKER_11]: We've got a great piece here talked about with what the farmers are having to deal with here. [SPEAKER_11]: The fertilizer and the the products that make some of the fertilizer that they had planned on is now somewhere from 30 days to 90 days to late at best. [SPEAKER_11]: They got to be they got to be putting stuff in the ground starting now.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I mean, it's March. [SPEAKER_11]: Right. [SPEAKER_11]: You wait 90 days and it's June. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: You ain't gonna be starting planting in June. [SPEAKER_11]: You start in June. [SPEAKER_11]: Congratulations. [SPEAKER_11]: You done. [SPEAKER_11]: Hang it up. [SPEAKER_05]: Especially in the, certain parts of this country and other countries. [SPEAKER_11]: It's like, um, but especially here in, yeah, in the hall.

[SPEAKER_11]: Are people going to start pooping themselves now and just like using that for lunch or something? [SPEAKER_11]: I mean, Donald is already doing that, Jody. [SPEAKER_11]: So I've just, Yeah, but what? [SPEAKER_11]: It's not just true. [SPEAKER_11]: It's true. [SPEAKER_05]: He does poop his diapers.

[SPEAKER_11]: But this is the thing is that there is there's time scales when you're a producer especially but also when you're a a a a a a mayor a governor president a member of a legislative body you have to have these time scales in mind and you have to have in mind that you don't control everything the enemy or the opposition gets a vote always [SPEAKER_11]: and Donald still thinks the universe revolves around him. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, anyway, it is Thursday.

[SPEAKER_11]: And I John Fiergo sang, will be in in a little while. [SPEAKER_11]: Here, we will have a correction from Tuesday's drink of the day. [SPEAKER_11]: I apologize for that. [SPEAKER_11]: No, no, it's not you. [SPEAKER_11]: It's not me. [SPEAKER_11]: We just, we both missed it. [SPEAKER_11]: And thankfully, we have somebody great here in the bar who said, hey, I got some help. [SPEAKER_11]: Let me give you some information. [SPEAKER_11]: So we will, uh, we can do that next.

[SPEAKER_11]: We'll correct the record next. [SPEAKER_11]: It's a Thursday night. [SPEAKER_11]: Fresh and up your drink and come right back. [SPEAKER_11]: Hang on. [SPEAKER_13]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_11]: It's a Thursday night here at PalmTix Bar. [SPEAKER_11]: It's been some weird weather at this end of the bar. [SPEAKER_11]: You're into the bars, I actually had decent weather today. [SPEAKER_05]: No, it should be getting warmer.

[SPEAKER_11]: Well, okay, but at least it wasn't warm and then it moved to snow and then it's moving back towards warm this evening. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, when it snow's here, I'll let you know. [UNKNOWN]: Ha ha ha ha ha. [SPEAKER_11]: Yes, no, on the Hollywood side. [SPEAKER_11]: It's happened. [SPEAKER_05]: It's happened. [SPEAKER_05]: I remember when I was a little baby girl, Christmas, it's snowed. [SPEAKER_11]: See there you go. [SPEAKER_11]: Look anytime anything happens like that.

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[SPEAKER_11]: Which [SPEAKER_11]: right now is where you are. [SPEAKER_11]: Thank you for being here. [SPEAKER_11]: We appreciate that. [SPEAKER_11]: All right. [SPEAKER_11]: So we are not perfect. [SPEAKER_11]: I know that's, that's, that's a news flash to some of you. [SPEAKER_11]: That's, you know, some of you were like, Jody is perfect. [SPEAKER_13]: And Lonnie is like the politics bar. [SPEAKER_05]: See, he's also wrong.

[SPEAKER_11]: But he loves you, and it's good, and it's so far, no, you're a keeper, he's with you food. [SPEAKER_05]: We'll see. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, he's like, what are you talking about? [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, he's out of the house right now, I can't hear it. [UNKNOWN]: Okay. [SPEAKER_11]: Here's the thing. [SPEAKER_11]: When we get stuff wrong, we'll admit it. [SPEAKER_11]: And we do have, we have online, we're, you know, oh, hey, I was sorry. [SPEAKER_11]: I think I uploaded for the after hours.

[SPEAKER_11]: I think it was Monday night. [SPEAKER_11]: I think I uploaded the wrong one. [SPEAKER_11]: And one he reached out was like, hey, man, I think you got the wrong file. [SPEAKER_11]: I'm like, oh, dude, sorry. [SPEAKER_11]: I was like, look, we're human, we weren't human.

[SPEAKER_11]: So I checked the messages on the bar line and Mr. Burke Carter, who is the president and CEO of the Willie Ross School [SPEAKER_05]: No, is he deaf or is he... [SPEAKER_11]: I think he's partially hearing, I think he's partial hearing because I actually left the voice mail, but you can leave a text on that line if you want to remember the bar line again, 213, 677, 7258.

[SPEAKER_11]: Technically, it's connected through jodys into the bar, but if I run really fast, I, you do it all the time. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, it's to reach my hand through the magic of radio. [SPEAKER_11]: Anyway, ooh, exactly, thank you. [SPEAKER_11]: So, here's the thing. [SPEAKER_11]: Mr. Carter [SPEAKER_11]: And he was saying, hey, was this in your podcast that the ones from Tuesday where we had the drink of the day that talked about Alexander Graham Bell.

[SPEAKER_11]: I said, I got objects to what you guys were saying that, you know, Bell was a good guy who, you know, tried to help out deaf people. [SPEAKER_11]: And he says, he might want to look into that Mr. Bell there. [SPEAKER_11]: He had a lifetime call for the eradication of deaf people. [SPEAKER_11]: Did not want deaf people to marry. [SPEAKER_11]: He was a eugenicist. [SPEAKER_11]: he was not the greatest. [SPEAKER_11]: He was he was an oralist. [SPEAKER_05]: There you go.

[SPEAKER_11]: Somebody who did not want deaf people to learn sign language, which is just the stupid thing. [SPEAKER_05]: Right, especially if somebody is completely deaf. [SPEAKER_05]: I don't care how deaf you are. [SPEAKER_05]: Learn it. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, right. [SPEAKER_05]: I don't care if you're hearing [SPEAKER_11]: It's a language, it's a mode of communication.

[SPEAKER_11]: If you run into somebody who has a different mode of communication than you do, it doesn't mean that they're a bad person. [SPEAKER_11]: It just means they have a different mode of communication. [SPEAKER_11]: You can make your life and everybody else's life a hell of a lot better. [SPEAKER_11]: If you learn as many modes of communication as you can, tends to decrease conflict, tends to increase people's, [SPEAKER_11]: What do I want to say? [SPEAKER_02]: Community.

[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, exactly. [SPEAKER_11]: It increases people's ability to, to welcome you to their community and, I mean, it's just, look, everybody wants to be heard, everybody wants to be understood, everybody wants to, to communicate. [SPEAKER_11]: So, you know, I got to say, birds. [SPEAKER_11]: Thank you for coming from Burke. [SPEAKER_05]: And I learned sign language the first time they call it now C-Sign by listening. [SPEAKER_05]: C-Sign is what they call a signing in English.

[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, versus ASL got it. [SPEAKER_11]: To get some record sign language, C sign you're saying C sign as you see it's it's got what the hell I have a friend who does language translation it is simultaneous I can't remember the right thing, but basically you're you're literally translating words. [SPEAKER_05]: words, like they don't use the or and in SL, but in these words, but they don't have them, but it's common usage.

[SPEAKER_05]: In general, they don't use them unless they have to. [SPEAKER_05]: Right, for example, the Ohio state, which they will use that for the Ohio State, because that's a title. [SPEAKER_11]: Right. [SPEAKER_05]: But in general, ASL, I did not learn ASL in college. [SPEAKER_05]: I learned English sign language. [SPEAKER_11]: Yes, also what they call it that you've learned, you learned it [SPEAKER_05]: No, I learned it first in college. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, like actually in a class.

[SPEAKER_05]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_05]: Nice. [SPEAKER_05]: And I loved it. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: I was like, this is the best language ever. [SPEAKER_05]: Um, and then when I met my, my first deaf friend, my friend Tia, when I met her, we were in a very loud nightclub. [SPEAKER_11]: Right. [SPEAKER_05]: So I couldn't hear her talking. [SPEAKER_11]: Okay. [SPEAKER_05]: But I kind of knew there was something that she was reading lips, right? [SPEAKER_05]: Because it's a little loud.

[SPEAKER_11]: You can see when it's you, right? [SPEAKER_05]: And so I went to her apartment like a week or two later. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm like, I knew you were deaf. [SPEAKER_05]: She's like, what? [SPEAKER_11]: For those of you who are not in the bar, Jodi is signing as she speaks. [SPEAKER_05]: I know, I'm weird like that. [SPEAKER_05]: And she sat down and she sat down with me because, and she started signing, I'm like, oh, no, no, no. [SPEAKER_05]: No, I'm bad.

[SPEAKER_05]: And she said, okay, but you understand, signage, scoosh. [SPEAKER_05]: And then because of my beautiful baby, I call her my baby sister. [SPEAKER_05]: She's the best baby sister ever. [SPEAKER_05]: Because of her, I've met a bunch of people, or we're not related at all. [SPEAKER_05]: She's just, I call her my baby sister. [SPEAKER_11]: I got it. [SPEAKER_11]: Okay. [SPEAKER_05]: I even wrote. [SPEAKER_11]: Because you have a lot of siblings. [SPEAKER_05]: I do.

[SPEAKER_05]: She's not my actual sister. [SPEAKER_11]: She's just my brother's sister. [SPEAKER_05]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_05]: And so I met a bunch of deaf people through her and it's been an amazing group of people that I've met. [SPEAKER_05]: And I am so blessed to know these people. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: And I mean, my ASL is the worst because I'm like, just slow, slow it down. [SPEAKER_05]: That's the sign for slow.

[SPEAKER_05]: Just slow down and spelling is a big thing in deaf community, you just spell a lot of things. [SPEAKER_11]: And nothing wrong with that. [SPEAKER_11]: I really do. [SPEAKER_11]: I have my entire life found ways to this is one of these weird things. [SPEAKER_11]: My mom always thought it was funny. [SPEAKER_11]: Everybody know there are a lot of people who think it's weird, but I will find ways to communicate with somebody.

[SPEAKER_11]: When I was in college and I was working at the... [SPEAKER_11]: This was when I was in college finishing up the University of Nebraska. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay. [SPEAKER_11]: And I was doing radio stuff. [SPEAKER_11]: I had job, but I also had to have a job at the computer shop on campus. [SPEAKER_11]: Because when I was a student thing and I got discounted at work. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, that's fine. [SPEAKER_11]: And then they paid, so whatever.

[SPEAKER_11]: And there were a lot of disabled people, handicap people, who would come in, blind folks, deaf folks, folks in wheelchairs. [SPEAKER_11]: I can give a crap. [SPEAKER_11]: I'm like, great, you're whatever, that's fine. [SPEAKER_11]: And they ended up started, I found out that they started asking for me. [SPEAKER_11]: And I'm like, why? [SPEAKER_11]: And they're like, because you don't treat us any different than anybody else.

[SPEAKER_11]: And I'm like, well, I said what my mom said. [SPEAKER_11]: Mom, I'm, you know, guess she was a nurse. [SPEAKER_11]: But for a number of years, actually retired as a nurse, she had her own shop. [SPEAKER_11]: So baby furniture and accessories, whatever, and her partner, her business partner at first, was like, and there's some people that she's a little sketch about. [SPEAKER_11]: And my mom just looked at the partner one day and said their money is as green as anyone else's.

[SPEAKER_11]: And that was what I said. [SPEAKER_11]: I was like, I'm carrying coming. [SPEAKER_11]: You know, you're here to get a computer something software, hardware, whatever, and great. [SPEAKER_11]: And I'll probably learn something from you because I'll learn something from people. [SPEAKER_11]: I don't know all the time. [SPEAKER_11]: I'm sitting on the train of the bus. [SPEAKER_11]: I walked down to the mailbox and I learned something from somebody in the building.

[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_11]: Whatever. [SPEAKER_11]: That's fine. [SPEAKER_11]: And so these people will keep coming in and they're like, oh, he's, you know, I'm like, okay, whatever. [SPEAKER_11]: So I picked up a little, I picked up a little sign language, not a whole lot. [SPEAKER_11]: So then when I came here to DC, I know how to swear. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, well, some of those are easy. [SPEAKER_11]: I mean, you know, many of us know that one.

[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, that one, that's, that is also a sign language. [SPEAKER_11]: It's the same in sign as it is, everything else. [SPEAKER_11]: there are others there are other ways to say that yes, but they're also the way to say if you're Italian which somebody did at the World Baseball class. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh no, and if you say good morning in Italy in American Sign Language it looks like, and no, no, that's don't do that, but here's the thing.

[SPEAKER_11]: So Gaggy University, largest deaf university here in the US. [SPEAKER_10]: My friends teach there. [SPEAKER_11]: Hey, [SPEAKER_11]: I have, you know, obviously you guys know, I'm a huge Nebraska fan. [SPEAKER_11]: We have Nebraska alumni and I was down with the Nebraska alumni bar in one evening, a bunch of them came in and they're like, hey, can we watch the game? [SPEAKER_11]: Sounds like, yeah, sure, fun.

[SPEAKER_11]: Get table and I didn't know enough sign language, so I just immediately, I was like, you know, whistle, how does somebody grab a pen in a paper? [SPEAKER_11]: And I just immediately started, you know, and they're like, you just jump in, I'm like,

[SPEAKER_11]: you're here to like hang out and have fun and celebrate and yell and you know you're gonna buy some beers and you're gonna you know buy some well yeah of course we're at a bar right it's like excellent because we got some bonus from the alumni group when anybody would come in and do you know how care just say things I don't care well I don't care it's not that it's just I'm like okay you're different than me and you're gonna teach me things

[SPEAKER_05]: great all my deaf friends, by the way, when they go into a loud place that have hearing aids, they take them out. [SPEAKER_11]: That's with the Bluetooth Bob, remember we were talking about the Bluetooth yesterday? [SPEAKER_11]: A lot of them now, they can just go on their phone and go turn the Bluetooth off. [SPEAKER_05]: Turn it off because it gets too loud in their hearing aids and they're like, f that. [SPEAKER_11]: Right.

[SPEAKER_11]: No, it's there are all kinds of great things that different people can teach us. [SPEAKER_11]: This is one of the reasons that war is stupid. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, and it's one of the reasons that war is becoming less in some ways. [SPEAKER_11]: We're seeing less of the type of conflicts because as more people meet people from other places who are different from them and learn from them.

[SPEAKER_11]: Your average regular people are like, hey, I learned something from that one and something from that one. [SPEAKER_11]: And I don't want to get rid over harm or hurt anybody who's like that. [SPEAKER_11]: I mean, it's logical it makes sense and I know everybody here at the bar is like, yeah, duh. [SPEAKER_11]: I like, but that's one of, one of many reasons the war is absolutely assony and the Donald Trump is getting us stuck in.

[SPEAKER_11]: If you want to look, by the way, there is still that section in the first round in the news on tap the cost of war.

[SPEAKER_11]: The preliminary inquiry has confirmed that US, we, well, [SPEAKER_11]: Our nation did kill those 162 girls we did so that's we did and as we were talking with Bob yesterday And as we were talking with Malcolm last week That out there they're saying it was outdated intelligence it was ten years old [SPEAKER_05]: It was in five months all, it was ten years old. [SPEAKER_11]: In other words, they chose to use the wrong intelligence, so that they could go, oops, sorry.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I mean, ten years old is not outdated. [SPEAKER_11]: I've heard some military professionals who have said, they painted the walls. [SPEAKER_11]: They put up a wall between the military base and the school, and they painted it with like bright blue and bright pink colors.

[SPEAKER_11]: If you were targeting it, [SPEAKER_11]: And yes, they can you can do blind targeting just by GPS and what that course, but if they were targeting it as they probably should have been doing with at least a visual double check, you could have seen from space that it was a bright blue and pink wall, you're not going to you would have been like, um, that's not a military. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, but they could have said, Oh, it could have been because they painted it that way.

[SPEAKER_11]: Uh-huh. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, that's plausible to my ass. [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_05]: It's 10-year-old. [SPEAKER_05]: I'll just tell you right. [SPEAKER_11]: All the stories are there. [SPEAKER_11]: You guys can read those in the news on a tap. [SPEAKER_11]: In the second round of the news on tap, by the way. [SPEAKER_11]: Republicans can't govern. [SPEAKER_11]: So the Republicans war in democracy is ongoing.

[SPEAKER_11]: Thune, Senate Majority Leader Thune has confirmed that he Trump backed Save America Act is going to get a Senate vote next week, but he's also pretty much said it's going to fail. [SPEAKER_05]: It should. [SPEAKER_11]: Thune does not have the votes to, first of all, he does not have the votes to change the filibuster rules.

[SPEAKER_11]: No. [SPEAKER_11]: And even if he did, chances are pretty good, Democrats in general are, I believe, younger right now than the Republicans in the Senate. [SPEAKER_05]: So there's, there's, you know what, I'm all about getting rid of the filibuster so that people know what the Republicans want to do. [SPEAKER_05]: because we saved them from that.

[SPEAKER_11]: Senator Durbin, who is in our WCPT area, had no discussion with Senator Coran in the earlier today at the Senate Judiciary Committee. [SPEAKER_11]: Here, we'll play this for you from a C-Spanere here. [SPEAKER_06]: So I don't understand how it could disenfranchise millions of Americans that they would explain.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm happy to thank you for that question because I think all of us should be aware of the fact of what is required [SPEAKER_01]: You have to present identification, correct? [SPEAKER_01]: But your driver's license, which most people use and of course, the business of every single day is not acceptable. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: What is acceptable is a passport. [SPEAKER_01]: 50% of Americans do not have a passport.

[SPEAKER_01]: Those who want to obtain it, so they can vote. [SPEAKER_01]: We'll pay a hundred and eighty six dollars and wait three or four weeks for that to happen. [SPEAKER_06]: Old tax. [SPEAKER_01]: Secondly, you can use a birth certificate, but any person who has changed their name as a result of a marriage or a hyphenate relationship has to find not only their birth certificate but some correction of it to prove that their eligible register to vote.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's estimated that nine percent of the voters in America do not have the identification [SPEAKER_11]: Look, it's very simple. [SPEAKER_11]: Durban just laid it out there. [SPEAKER_11]: It would screw millions of Americans. [SPEAKER_11]: And as you noted, from the first time we were talking about it, Joe, he probably screwed more Republicans than Democrats. [SPEAKER_05]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_11]: Just don't. [SPEAKER_05]: Let's take a look at that.

[SPEAKER_05]: We'll take a look at that. [SPEAKER_05]: We'll take a look at that. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, we know that too. [SPEAKER_11]: They don't want anybody except the people just like them who think like them Anyway, we'll we'll talk about that We obviously John will be in a little bit later. [SPEAKER_11]: We'll talk with him about some of that, too We got the drink of the day coming up and in fact we have a good one and this one is correct We double check the facts on this one today.

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[SPEAKER_11]: This is actually, I enjoyed today's drink. [SPEAKER_11]: I've actually enjoyed a number of one of these, although actually, I also kind of like cutting that with mixing what is in today's drink with the Coke. [SPEAKER_05]: That makes sense, actually. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, I'm good with that. [SPEAKER_05]: It does. [SPEAKER_05]: It really does. [SPEAKER_11]: I like to do my own thing, just like the focus of our drink of the day. [SPEAKER_11]: Did his own thing specifically?

[SPEAKER_05]: He did. [SPEAKER_11]: What is the drink of the day? [SPEAKER_11]: And who is the inspiration for it today? [SPEAKER_05]: It's a rusty nail, which is an old-school drink. [SPEAKER_05]: Because today is Jack Kerawak's birthday. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: Jack Kerawak, born March 12, 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts. [SPEAKER_11]: Cool. [SPEAKER_11]: Did not know that. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, your dad's your dad's birthday was March 12 as well. [SPEAKER_05]: No, he was January 6th.

[SPEAKER_05]: Okay. [SPEAKER_05]: Okay. [SPEAKER_05]: So January 6th is a whole different meaning now. [SPEAKER_11]: Yes, for you. [SPEAKER_11]: Yes, but I've got to say carewack. [SPEAKER_11]: Always interesting. [SPEAKER_11]: If you dig into it, there are a lot of people who have no idea that carewack was a really good football player. [SPEAKER_11]: I didn't know that.

[SPEAKER_11]: At the whole reason that carewack became a writer, is because he broke his leg in the second game of his college career. [SPEAKER_11]: That picture is amazing. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: I thought that was amazing too. [SPEAKER_11]: I knew he was a football player, but I wouldn't found the picture because I was like, [SPEAKER_11]: There's some really good history about Kara Wacken there about his writing, about his methods, about his history. [SPEAKER_11]: He was a sailor.

[SPEAKER_11]: He was a sailor. [SPEAKER_11]: Yep. [SPEAKER_11]: Which you know, explain some of the stuff like this. [SPEAKER_05]: Hmm. [SPEAKER_05]: What? [SPEAKER_05]: This way. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, yeah, no, no. [SPEAKER_05]: That's right. [SPEAKER_11]: Okay, so to do a salute right in the United States, you actually take your hand up, you make it flat.

[SPEAKER_11]: You put it by your temple, by your eyebrow there, and you make sure if you're going to turn your hand at all, you turn it so that the top of the hand is more facing out. [SPEAKER_11]: It's supposed to be even, but if you turn it a little bit, then you'll turn it so that's. [SPEAKER_11]: You never put it in my hands. [SPEAKER_05]: Right. [SPEAKER_11]: But you never turn it so that it's palm up.

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[SPEAKER_11]: It is the words that Karawak used sometimes workers this from other things. [SPEAKER_11]: But you guys, if you haven't read any Karawak, I tend to read, he yeah, he was a misogynist. [SPEAKER_11]: There's no question he was. [SPEAKER_11]: He was still a... [SPEAKER_11]: But he was also a very interesting writer basically kind of came up with his own form of Hiku. [SPEAKER_05]: Beth, he did. [SPEAKER_11]: A lot of people don't know this. [SPEAKER_11]: Look, it's very good.

[SPEAKER_11]: Jody and excellent job. [SPEAKER_11]: I did a little polish on it's recommend you check that out. [SPEAKER_11]: That's part of today's drink of the day. [SPEAKER_11]: But of course also, we have the recipe and for some people. [SPEAKER_11]: They may not know how you make a rusty nail. [SPEAKER_05]: I thought it was so easy. [SPEAKER_05]: Okay, so you need an old-fashioned glass, something to stir it.

[SPEAKER_11]: Okay. [SPEAKER_05]: Some ice, two ounces of Scotch whiskey, [SPEAKER_11]: whatever kind you like. [SPEAKER_05]: Not Irish, just scotch, important. [SPEAKER_05]: And an ounce of Drembooy. [SPEAKER_05]: Bingo. [SPEAKER_05]: All right. [SPEAKER_05]: There you go. [SPEAKER_05]: So you had the ice tier old fashion glass. [SPEAKER_05]: You had the whiskey, had the Drembooy and just stir. [SPEAKER_05]: It's so easy to make. [SPEAKER_11]: there you go.

[SPEAKER_11]: It is it's super easy and like I said, I like Dramin Coke if you're on a little scotch with it and I'm fine with that. [SPEAKER_05]: That sounds good with the Coca-Cola. [SPEAKER_05]: Just a splash of Coke. [SPEAKER_05]: That sounds exactly. [SPEAKER_11]: If you're not going to have a jack and coke as a as a real simple, you can go a scotch Dramin Coke and it'll be just fine. [SPEAKER_11]: You know, it's best to be on the Coke.

[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: So. [SPEAKER_11]: Look, if you guys miss anything of any of our drinks of the day, you guys know what to do. [SPEAKER_11]: You can subscribe at thepoliticsbar.com. [SPEAKER_11]: Remember what Carolex said to you? [SPEAKER_11]: And you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. [SPEAKER_11]: So climb that goddamn mountain. [SPEAKER_11]: Which, you know, why not? [SPEAKER_11]: Do the things that are hard.

[SPEAKER_11]: Do the things that are fun. [SPEAKER_11]: Matter of fact, actually, got to give some more applause. [SPEAKER_11]: To one of our Olympians, U.S. superstar Oxana Masters extends her historic metal hall at the Winter Paralympics. [SPEAKER_11]: She now has three gold medals. [SPEAKER_11]: She is the most decorated American Winter Paralympian ever. [SPEAKER_05]: How do girl? [SPEAKER_11]: no joke, man. [SPEAKER_11]: She's a badass.

[SPEAKER_11]: So she has total of actually all of her summer and winter game. [SPEAKER_11]: She has 22 medals. [SPEAKER_11]: She's getting up there in Michael Phelps territory. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, she is. [SPEAKER_11]: Which is pretty pretty badass. [SPEAKER_11]: That's pretty cool. [SPEAKER_11]: I like that. [SPEAKER_11]: She and Jake Adacoff and Sidney Peterson were all golden big day for U.S. Paracross Country. [SPEAKER_11]: Guess can check that out.

[SPEAKER_11]: The U.S. snuck into the quarterfinals of the World Baseball Classic, you can thank Italy who looked at us nine to one over Mexico. [SPEAKER_05]: Nice. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, big, big, big thanks to the congrats, by the way, also to Jack Osborne and his wife. [SPEAKER_11]: They have their second child together, his fifth, and they named her after his dad. [SPEAKER_05]: I know. [SPEAKER_05]: And five children. [SPEAKER_11]: Hey, if you can afford it, and you can take care of it.

[SPEAKER_05]: Well, he, Jack probably can. [SPEAKER_05]: They can. [SPEAKER_11]: They named her it's it's a but and they gave her like you know a decent a decent name I got to look that up cuz I'm trying to I forgot already what their name was Aussie Matilda Osborne. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, I love that So I'm like most of the time she'll probably use Matilda. [SPEAKER_05]: I know totally use Aussie ever well. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, when she gets to like 12 She's so Absolutely

[SPEAKER_11]: um uh obviously Oscars this weekend uh we are going to have brother David in tomorrow in this hour giving us an Oscars preview of what you need to be watching for on the weekend so that'll be kind of fun uh universal pictures by the way has some good news they are going to give movies longer first run play in theaters um they're finally ending their pin pandemic air policies it was down and I think like five weeks tops

[SPEAKER_11]: which is why you were like, you know, oh, I missed the theater and then poof, it's on your streaming, which is dumb. [SPEAKER_11]: It used to be like, I used to be, I used to be where it was 12 weeks in the theater, first run. [SPEAKER_11]: And then they had like two weeks second run and then they maybe go to like the streaming and the rental when used to read DVDs and the last movie I saw in the theater with the last Superman movie.

[SPEAKER_11]: It was very good movie in the theater. [SPEAKER_11]: I saw it there. [SPEAKER_05]: And I had not gone to the [SPEAKER_11]: for years. [SPEAKER_05]: I love theater popcorns and I was just a by myself Lonnie goes out of town. [SPEAKER_05]: I just like drove like going to the theater. [SPEAKER_11]: I went I went to see it that way too because my wife Sarah did not want to go see that she's like whatever it's fine and I made him watch it when it was on streaming.

[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, but I'm like dude, it was so much better. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, there's some, there's some really good movies that you should see in the theater Absolutely, we'll talk to Brother David about which one's Conan O'Brien, by the way, is going to be your host for the 98th Oscars this weekend. [SPEAKER_11]: So that should be fun too, because not everybody gets to see him and Conan's always. [SPEAKER_11]: He's fun. [SPEAKER_05]: He's fun. [SPEAKER_05]: It'll be fun.

[SPEAKER_05]: And then we got, did you see the Kelly Rippa and Mark Huntswellos? [SPEAKER_05]: Take off on a song sung blue? [SPEAKER_11]: No. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh my god, it's so cute. [SPEAKER_11]: It's like on YouTube. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it's on they did it on her show and their show Okay, so yeah, it's up on YouTube. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it's adorable. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, it's checking out maybe we'll put it up for everybody here I'm ourselves.

[SPEAKER_11]: It's so adorable there there is one issue that we have to talk about it in your team That isn't as good, so um Timothy Shalame. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah [SPEAKER_11]: OK, they explained that explained what he did. [SPEAKER_05]: He basically said opera and ballet are just done. [SPEAKER_11]: Worthless and no longer viable. [SPEAKER_05]: No, dude, it's been a remperable. [SPEAKER_11]: Like 800 plus years.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: And so he's been getting a lot of crap rightfully so. [SPEAKER_11]: We've got two stories on that. [SPEAKER_11]: Mr. Leften actor. [SPEAKER_05]: By the way, legend. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, look, Timothy Shalomay is okay. [SPEAKER_11]: But he happens to be still a little bit of a young buck. [SPEAKER_10]: He's stupid. [SPEAKER_11]: Sometimes, you know, young people do some stupid and impulsive things and say some dumb things sometimes.

[SPEAKER_11]: And then they got to have somebody who knows a little bit more to correct them. [SPEAKER_11]: And the ballet legend, Misty Copeland, and the Broadway legend, Nathan Lane, both took Shalomay to task with his ass. [SPEAKER_11]: Not everything is going to be massive and mainstream. [SPEAKER_11]: Not everything is for everybody. [SPEAKER_11]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_11]: The folks who are listening here, God, we love that you guys are here and that you tell your friends, and we appreciate everybody who's here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_11]: But talk in politics is not for everybody. [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_05]: It's like Timothy. [SPEAKER_05]: Honey. [SPEAKER_05]: I saw your movie. [SPEAKER_11]: The most recent one, the ping pong one, the ping pong. [SPEAKER_05]: Also not for every one.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's a lane when ping pong is not for everybody, right? [SPEAKER_11]: So Nathan Lane is correct, and he's not even here. [SPEAKER_05]: And he's not, but it was just like, I like the movie, right? [SPEAKER_05]: I don't see you guys, I don't know why it's nominated. [SPEAKER_11]: If somebody else has a young, unless there's something you'll legal with it, don't yuck there young. [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_05]: And he was just so stupid.

[SPEAKER_05]: And he was right in doing, and he's just, he's a good actor. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, but he's he is still a young. [SPEAKER_11]: A boba, he's he's got some things to learn. [SPEAKER_11]: And that's one of them is dude. [SPEAKER_11]: Don't y'all, somebody else is young. [SPEAKER_05]: No, he's getting slapped in the face for this. [SPEAKER_05]: And I hope that he realizes this. [SPEAKER_11]: I hope he learns a little something from that.

[SPEAKER_11]: If something did not everybody likes South by Southwest, that is beginning. [SPEAKER_11]: It's a little bit smaller this year, but we have a little bit of a preview of that as well in the entertainment section today. [SPEAKER_05]: Southwest, Southwest is a good thing. [SPEAKER_11]: Look, some of these films are very unique, and very, and there's so much that is in entertainment that we learn from, it's like talking earlier about deaf people or people from other countries.

[SPEAKER_11]: You learn things from other people that aren't you. [SPEAKER_11]: That's kind of the whole thing about, if you like us, we like to learn. [SPEAKER_11]: We are lifelong learners, and it's exciting. [SPEAKER_11]: It's fun when you're like, oh wait, [SPEAKER_11]: You know, I like, for example, one of the things that I have learned over the years with these shootings that go on. [SPEAKER_11]: There were two of them today.

[SPEAKER_11]: There's one at Old Dominion University here in Virginia. [SPEAKER_11]: There was another one up in Michigan. [SPEAKER_11]: Looks like the shooters got killed. [SPEAKER_11]: Looks like most other people were fine. [SPEAKER_11]: There is some question about ISIS or whatever. [SPEAKER_11]: And well, we'll look into it tomorrow. [SPEAKER_11]: Give it 24 hours. [SPEAKER_11]: This is always.

[SPEAKER_11]: radio at all time is give it 24 hours fine because that's it's one of those things when you've covered as many shootings you can report it out but the fact is that

[SPEAKER_11]: And that's that's something you learn as somebody who's covered these things and you gain wisdom and you say, Oh, there's that you don't dive into it if you don't have to you wait till the authorities have gone through it you wait till witnesses have come out you wait till as much is going to come out then you can start talking about it. [SPEAKER_11]: Otherwise. [SPEAKER_11]: Otherwise, you're just spreading lies and garbage, rumors, speculation.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it's not today thing. [SPEAKER_11]: We need learn that's a tomorrow thing. [SPEAKER_11]: We got to we got to let people figure out what they're going on with that stuff. [SPEAKER_11]: I mean, you know, that's they got professionals on that stuff. [SPEAKER_11]: We'll go through the stories like, you know, tomorrow morning and look at him. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, didn't know that.

[SPEAKER_11]: Okay. [SPEAKER_11]: Anyway, so [SPEAKER_11]: There are more stories in the news on a tap we will go through more of them for you. [SPEAKER_11]: And of course our friend John Feekel sang is coming into the bar and He will help us go through some of that and we will obviously you know give a big salute to Henry who in his birthday today So John may John make cut out a little early to go celebrate with his family You know Exactly, you know, no big deal. [SPEAKER_05]: We're job.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we're Henry. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, yeah, John's not a teenager But look, we got a lot like our dude. [SPEAKER_11]: You got it. [SPEAKER_11]: He's tall as hell [SPEAKER_11]: Get your drink or fresh to come on back. [SPEAKER_11]: It's Thursday night here at the PulseX Bar. [SPEAKER_13]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_03]: Fuck out to the bar. [SPEAKER_03]: It's political. [SPEAKER_12]: Step out to the bar.

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[SPEAKER_11]: Johnny's right. [SPEAKER_11]: All right, he's back to the news on tap on this Thursday evening here. [SPEAKER_11]: So we were talking a little bit ago about the fact that the Republicans are having this stupid ass ugly war on democracy and that it just [SPEAKER_11]: Look, John Thune, Charlie Pierce wrote a good piece in sqlr.com so we have that link. [SPEAKER_11]: Charlie's point is, Thune may actually have a spine to stand up to the stupid ass, say of America Act.

[SPEAKER_11]: It is really dumb. [SPEAKER_11]: And the pieces that you need, Gabe Cohen over at CNN, kind of tried to break this down. [SPEAKER_11]: Let me see if I've got this on the DVR here. [SPEAKER_09]: I do want to focus in for a second on this citizenship requirement that's already in the bill. [SPEAKER_09]: These are some of the documents that Americans would have to show in order to register to vote.

[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, there are certain states where your real ID shows citizenship, military IDs can be used. [SPEAKER_09]: Some government issued photo IDs could be used, but for most Americans, the easiest way to do it to register is going to end up being a valid U.S. passport. [SPEAKER_09]: The other way, you could potentially register. [SPEAKER_09]: is with your government idea driver's license and birth certificate, a hospital record, a naturalization certificate, a tribal card.

[SPEAKER_09]: But the issue that people point to here is all about access to these documents. [SPEAKER_09]: There are only about 180 million valid non-expired passports in the United States, just more than half of Americans have one. [SPEAKER_09]: And then by one study, only about 21 million Americans, eight or nine percent of the country actually has easy access to these documents to, yeah, that's the key. [SPEAKER_11]: They want to make sure that fewer people vote. [SPEAKER_05]: It's a thing.

[SPEAKER_11]: They, we, I did not dig up that old quote from that older public end, but he said it, uh, I go back in 1980. [SPEAKER_11]: They, they want Republicans want fewer people to vote. [SPEAKER_05]: Because when fewer people vote, Republicans win. [SPEAKER_11]: Yep. [SPEAKER_11]: And that's why they wanted. [SPEAKER_11]: They don't want to sell you on their ideas. [SPEAKER_11]: Nope. [SPEAKER_11]: They want to bar you from voting because they can't defend their idea.

[SPEAKER_11]: They can't sell their ideas. [SPEAKER_05]: I want to swear so much. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, it's okay. [SPEAKER_11]: Look, the thing that makes me even frustrated about it is the last piece that we have in the Republicans war and democracy section of the news on tap is it's from the new Marist Poll. [SPEAKER_11]: Trump's attacks in democracy are working a little bit. [SPEAKER_11]: American's confidence and fairness and accuracy of the 2026 elections is already declining.

[SPEAKER_05]: Well, because we think that he's going to f with it. [SPEAKER_05]: not because we don't trust our locals. [SPEAKER_05]: It's just we know he's going to show people up there. [SPEAKER_05]: That's what that is. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, and he gets people doubting themselves. [SPEAKER_11]: Even the people who go and go, well, I do get our mind, but maybe somebody else did and maybe maybe he's telling the truth. [SPEAKER_11]: He's not. [SPEAKER_11]: Donald Trump doesn't know the truth.

[SPEAKER_04]: Donald Trump never tells the truth. [SPEAKER_04]: He's a psychopath. [SPEAKER_11]: Donald Trump, uh, every single word that comes out of his mouth, including uh, and and the, or lies. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, but sometimes he says this truth, because I'm going to bomb around. [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, you know. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, right, but that's the, but it's part of a bigger lie. [SPEAKER_05]: He projects.

[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, God, more than any film, more than any movie house has ever done. [SPEAKER_11]: So, yes, he's Donald Trump is a master projector. [SPEAKER_11]: And that's not a good thing. [SPEAKER_11]: So he also happens to be a, I can't say it that way. [SPEAKER_11]: He is an excellent bader. [SPEAKER_11]: He baits people to end it. [SPEAKER_11]: What? [SPEAKER_11]: I didn't say it.

[SPEAKER_11]: I'm just saying he tries to get them and then they jump and then they believe things they're not supposed to believe. [SPEAKER_11]: And that's part of his goal is to get you to doubt democracy, which you should not do. [SPEAKER_11]: You also shouldn't doubt that Senate Republicans, in fact, most of the Republicans in Congress are not doing good things for you and most of the Democrats are trying.

[SPEAKER_11]: TSA workers are set to miss their first paycheck of the partial shutdown as the Senate continues fighting over DHS funding. [SPEAKER_11]: Democrats, by the way, offered a bill. [SPEAKER_11]: Again, to fund every other agency, including and especially the TSA, TSA, Coast Guard, [SPEAKER_11]: Or I-C-C-B-P. [SPEAKER_11]: Guess who blocked it? [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_05]: Republicans? [SPEAKER_11]: Yes. [SPEAKER_11]: I was worried! [SPEAKER_11]: I know.

[SPEAKER_11]: We played that. [SPEAKER_11]: But look, the fact of the matter is, yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: And there's more dirtiness that's going on. [SPEAKER_11]: A congressional budget office, CBO confirmed that the US at the direction of Trump administration has been borrowing $50 billion a week for the

[SPEAKER_11]: can't pay you bills guys because among other things were not taxing the rich people because we have this big ugly bill or large lousy law now which is not taxing the rich folks at the levels there's people that should be I wish I was at their level and all these taxes yes tax me do it they don't notice it when they're that rich they're not noticing anything right you don't miss a few million here and there [SPEAKER_05]: Tax me like that. [SPEAKER_05]: If I were to be there.

[SPEAKER_11]: Meanwhile, the Republican led Senate. [SPEAKER_11]: I can't don't know if they didn't yet today or not. [SPEAKER_11]: But I saw that Elizabeth Warren was all excited because she voted for this. [SPEAKER_11]: It's it's actually pretty decent housing affordability package. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, but it's dead on arrival in the house. [SPEAKER_11]: Of course because because it would do things like help the poor people. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, Republicans can't do that.

[SPEAKER_05]: God forbid. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: That would be hard to help people that need help. [SPEAKER_11]: Capitol Hill is such a cluster F right now. [SPEAKER_05]: It is just such a big cluster F for a long time. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: And that's there are reforms that we can make making the house bigger, making better representation, but there are some other things that yeah, we're both in fun, but we got to win the elections first.

[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: So can you imagine when the bill comes out going let's expand the house to give California more in New York more? [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, you're going to see some of the red areas absolutely scream except the funny thing is is that many of them will also get They don't get more seats and they go but but you have way more you guess because we have more people people It's supposed to be representative.

[SPEAKER_11]: Thank you have more people who need represent Ting That's [SPEAKER_05]: And if we have to make the Congress, that it's a big enough room for all of them. [SPEAKER_11]: Hmm. [SPEAKER_11]: There are people who don't understand that they go, they say, well, I know my position is a minority position, the majority of people don't believe it. [SPEAKER_11]: But I still think everybody should believe my position, which, it's fine.

[SPEAKER_11]: You can do your thing, and as long as you don't hurt anybody else, and it doesn't take away from anybody else, congratulations, you can do your thing. [SPEAKER_11]: that they think that everybody needs to do things their way they're in lies the problem. [SPEAKER_05]: That's why men don't want women to take over because they figure we're going to treat y'all. [SPEAKER_11]: There are a lot of that look there are a lot of people that's that's one of the reasons it races.

[SPEAKER_11]: They're like if if if if they treated us the way that we've treated them we and for a world of hurt. [SPEAKER_11]: And I agree. [SPEAKER_11]: John John Fuelsang is one of the people who I have said this for years, who John has had a thing where he has said he believes in feminism, but feminism isn't feminist superiority. [SPEAKER_05]: No, it is not. [SPEAKER_05]: Not even close. [SPEAKER_11]: No, it's equality.

[SPEAKER_11]: And Anne, and I look, you know, I've talked to, I've known a couple of misunderstanders. [SPEAKER_11]: I worked for one. [SPEAKER_11]: But she, the one I worked for, she was crazy. [SPEAKER_11]: She left her husband, she was with her girlfriend, and whatever, she openly admitted that she hated everybody with a penis. [SPEAKER_11]: And I was like, okay, that's a little weird, but whatever, that was her thing. [SPEAKER_11]: But, you know, um, oh, hey, look at the cute man.

[SPEAKER_11]: We were just talking about you, honestly, John. [SPEAKER_11]: Hello. [SPEAKER_11]: Welcome to the bar. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, we were talking about how feminism is not feminist superiority. [SPEAKER_11]: And I always know that you've been saying that for years. [SPEAKER_11]: And I totally agree with that. [SPEAKER_08]: And it's, yeah, I'm not a feminist. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm a female supremacist. [SPEAKER_08]: That's right.

[SPEAKER_08]: I think men are inferior and I wish the women would bloody well take over already. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm tired of waiting. [SPEAKER_08]: So, yeah, that's where I come from on this. [SPEAKER_08]: I may radical female supremacist. [SPEAKER_05]: I love that about you. [SPEAKER_11]: But you're also not a misandrist. [SPEAKER_11]: Just because you think that the intelligent women, like for example, you wouldn't want Marjorie Keller Green to be in charge of everything.

[SPEAKER_08]: correct correct but i still think testosterone rots the brain um but yes and uh and and uh marjorie telegreen who uh who is not changed her mind on anything except obedience to Donald Trump but she still thinks everything that she voted for is great like well there's she's she she has highlighted an interesting split

[SPEAKER_11]: I keep talking about I know there are I've seen and heard and read other people who are starting by too and they're starting to refer to them as the america first people and the maga people who the america first people still for the most part that they are mostly the same but the differences the america first people are like they actually remember don't trump said he wasn't going to do any more wars and now is due to war

[SPEAKER_11]: I got an issue with that that that is something I have an issue with and you're like, well, what do you know, Donald Trump said he was going to give us all of the Epstein files. [SPEAKER_11]: And he keeps lying his ass off and they would vote for him again. [SPEAKER_11]: Sure. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, they would. [SPEAKER_11]: I'm not. [SPEAKER_11]: I'm not disagreeing on that at all, but it's the fact that there are so many people who have said, well, they're all exactly identical.

[SPEAKER_11]: I'm like, oh, [SPEAKER_11]: with them. [SPEAKER_11]: There's a little bit of difference there. [SPEAKER_11]: And on some issues like for example doing what we can to help us get out of the war and walk us back from that or like passing the Epstein transparency act. [SPEAKER_11]: We took a few votes that we could get for that. [SPEAKER_11]: And hey, what do you know? [SPEAKER_11]: It's making progress. [SPEAKER_11]: So you take it where you can get it.

[SPEAKER_08]: Well, I will say, you know, Donald Trump and Pam Bondy have broken the law every single day. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_08]: December 19th because they were supposed to release the files and they're holding back half of them. [SPEAKER_08]: They release the names of the victims, which is a violation of the law, but they continue to protect the names of the rapists of children. [SPEAKER_08]: So it's a partial victory. [SPEAKER_08]: And by war, you mean the excursion, right?

[SPEAKER_07]: That's what you're talking about. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, oh, oh, the excursion. [SPEAKER_08]: This is the most exciting excursion since world excursion, too. [SPEAKER_08]: And I hope you guys are appreciating. [SPEAKER_08]: I was, you know, Donald Trump already today blamed Joe Biden for letting Iranian sleeper cells sneak across the Mexican border.

[SPEAKER_08]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, we breached this level of the Anthropocene. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, my God. [SPEAKER_11]: I hadn't heard that Donnie had done that yet today. [SPEAKER_05]: No, I know Ted Cruz did it at the other day.

[SPEAKER_11]: No. [SPEAKER_11]: I was still paying attention to the fact that yesterday in two Congress, Estine's former accountant, Richard Conne, revealed that there was a settlement with a woman who was accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 or 14. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, you don't settle for no reason. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: The Epstein files are in a race with Trump's arteries.

[SPEAKER_08]: Go go go how many people can he kill before they're one side wins. [SPEAKER_08]: That's okay. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, there's still a list. [SPEAKER_11]: Let's not not go that way But we're we're all done here. [SPEAKER_08]: We don't need to be dark. [SPEAKER_08]: It's we're I think was already dark But let's talk about it. [SPEAKER_11]: No, I know. [SPEAKER_11]: We'll talk. [SPEAKER_11]: We'll talk a little bit more about this.

[SPEAKER_11]: Obviously on the other side of the break It is a Thursday night John Fugel saying is here hanging out with you and me and Jody in the rest of the rough the insert of the politics bar We'll continue our excursion of words when we return [SPEAKER_11]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_10]: Well, Johnson. [SPEAKER_13]: We'll be right back after we'd pay some bills at the politics bar.

[SPEAKER_11]: It is Thursday nights, and you know I'm a you love him the one the only Jean Fuegel sang is here in the bar on a Thursday night by the way, we said this earlier. [SPEAKER_11]: Happy birthday to Henry very cool very. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_08]: My son shares a birthday with Mitt Romney and Ron Jeremy. [SPEAKER_08]: You mentioned that that giant over exposed immortalized famous penis and Ron Jeremy.

[SPEAKER_11]: My son shares for a [SPEAKER_11]: I still remember, uh, during the, uh, 2012 election, uh, trying to convince people that the, somebody had taken a picture of these kids. [SPEAKER_11]: They all had these, these different letters on their shirts. [SPEAKER_11]: It was supposed to say Romney. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: And somebody, somebody had taken Photoshop and turned it. [SPEAKER_11]: So it said, our money.

[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: And everybody was like, no, it's real. [SPEAKER_11]: It's, it's real. [SPEAKER_11]: I know it. [SPEAKER_11]: And I'm like, it's a bad Photoshop job. [SPEAKER_11]: And they're like, 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, [SPEAKER_08]: I met Ron, how was your time meeting Ron Jeremy?

[SPEAKER_05]: He was trying to hit on me, but in that it was fine. [SPEAKER_08]: Really tragic guy, kind of, like you smelled the tragedy. [SPEAKER_05]: I did. [SPEAKER_05]: I was like, honey, I've seen your movies. [SPEAKER_05]: We're good. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I mean, we could talk all day about how sad it is to meet Ron Jeremy.

[SPEAKER_08]: But whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, who [SPEAKER_08]: But I want to give my son something to aspire to, you know. [SPEAKER_11]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_11]: You're sending us, you're sending us a grit.

[SPEAKER_11]: You're sending us some great people to look to. [SPEAKER_11]: So many people you've had on your show and so many people that we know. [SPEAKER_11]: And then to me it's just, you look at that and then you look at the people who, so we, we talked about some of the stuff in the cluster fox that is up on Capitol Hill today. [SPEAKER_11]: And the Republicans just keep doing. [SPEAKER_11]: ugly stupid crap. [SPEAKER_11]: So you've got, you've got the TSA agents right?

[SPEAKER_11]: A lot of them now are are they are they're quitting because they have to pay to take care of they need child care. [SPEAKER_11]: They need to take care of their kids and their families and these kinds of things, Democrats put forward a bill to pay for everything, accept ice and CBP until ice and CBP do things like, you know, follow the law, not randomly track people down with mass, beat the crap out of them. [SPEAKER_11]: You know, important stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_11]: And Josh and Anne Republicans go, yeah, no, if you, no, no, no, and you go, you got to be kidding me and they're still trying to blame the Dems for the shutdown. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, of course. [SPEAKER_11]: And I'm assuming we're going, how fast, how awful do you have to be? [SPEAKER_11]: people who are perpetual republican voters and it takes so much work to get them to believe that the truth about the monsters that they voted for. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_08]: It is.

[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, and that's sort of how it's always been in this country, but yeah, I mean, they don't consume news that tells them things that the billionaires don't want them to hear. [SPEAKER_08]: And folks who live on the coast don't have any idea how pervasive Fox news is at every level of the society. [SPEAKER_08]: You're right. [SPEAKER_08]: You're right. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, you're right. [SPEAKER_08]: You're right. [SPEAKER_08]: You're right. [SPEAKER_08]: You're right.

[SPEAKER_08]: points and people's brains with lies. [SPEAKER_08]: The lies that we have to go to war to stop these WMDs in Iraq. [SPEAKER_08]: The lies that Barack Obama wasn't really born here. [SPEAKER_08]: The lies that Haitians are reading pets. [SPEAKER_08]: Fox News feeds these lies except for the smartmatic case they've never been held accountable for the lies they've told that have caused such damage on our democracy.

[SPEAKER_08]: That one costs them three quarters of a billion dollars and I don't think they care. [SPEAKER_08]: And it really speaks to Rupert Murdoch's evil because the Washington, I'm sorry, the Wall Street Journal, they're telling the truth about Donald Trump. [SPEAKER_08]: They're calling him out. [SPEAKER_08]: He's furious. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: But even more so than they used to be even on the opinion side, which I've been shocked about.

[SPEAKER_11]: I mean, they started to be honest on the opinion side, which I'm like, [SPEAKER_08]: on the how did you guys find Jesus what the hell look at what rupert's doing he's he's telling the truth in print but he's still profiting off of telling the propaganda lies on the airwaves because rupert shares about profit and rupert is cynical enough to think that that

[SPEAKER_08]: earned him respect in his business community by telling the truth to his peers who read that and his peers will also admire that he's making billions by lying to the robes about it and by the way, congrats to Hugh Jackman for singing at at at at Rupert's 90 fifth birthday I had no idea he was such a big fan of Rupert's work so that'll that'll that'll be great when I [SPEAKER_08]: I had no idea what I did that. [SPEAKER_11]: I did not. [SPEAKER_08]: You had no idea.

[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yes. [SPEAKER_08]: Hugh Jackman, Mr. musical theater himself, serenaded. [SPEAKER_08]: Rupert Murdoch. [SPEAKER_11]: I'm sure there was a paycheck involved. [SPEAKER_11]: I'm sure some paychecks that you should just turn down. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: I now feel really good about how much I made fun of the movie song sung blue when I sat through it a couple of weeks ago.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: But they sang and they rolled out the whole crate of true blood for Rupert and apparently was great.

[SPEAKER_08]: Um, but this is the double-talking chive we've grown up with and this is why our friends on the writer are Systemically misled and and they like it better that way Well, and it is by the way they're allowed to do it because we don't have a society that holds liars accountable We don't have a democratic party or a media culture Well, that's that's what one does it through through a lawsuit.

[SPEAKER_11]: That's the only way that's where I was going just because of the fact of You know, we we the [SPEAKER_11]: the three of us and obviously the folks here in the bar hangin out. [SPEAKER_11]: We all go through the news. [SPEAKER_11]: We read so much of it. [SPEAKER_11]: A lot of people just, they, they gloss over the, the, the many kinds of hatred that they have on the right. [SPEAKER_11]: And then of course, you got the mainstream media. [SPEAKER_11]: I, I like on a Cabrera.

[SPEAKER_11]: I generally think of as a good news presenter, but we, we made point of this earlier and I'll I'll play this for you, John. [SPEAKER_11]: So, you know, you'll hear, you'll hear the error right off the bat here. [SPEAKER_00]: New polling shows Americans are sharply divided over President Trump's war with Iran, more than 50 percent opposing military action in Iran on overwhelming 74 percent of voters say they oppose boots on the ground.

[SPEAKER_11]: That's not sharply divided when 74% of people believe in anything that ain't sharply divided. [SPEAKER_11]: That is overwhelming majority and yet they go, Oh, well, because you always got to have both sides. [SPEAKER_11]: You know, you have the victims and the rapists you have and you're like, no, these are not the same. [SPEAKER_11]: These are not the same thing. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, but that's corporate news, right?

[SPEAKER_08]: They're programming to try to get the Smurfs and Gargamel to watch, right? [SPEAKER_08]: They're never going to stop chasing the Jedi and the Sith. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: But just stupid. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, but you know what? [SPEAKER_08]: Like, there's a reason why most of our right wing friends don't know that America lost 92,000 jobs last month. [SPEAKER_08]: That number's going to get revised to be even higher.

[SPEAKER_08]: But [SPEAKER_11]: But then there's then there's some of our friends who are on our side on the broad left John that the folks who are anti-Trump Republicans and centrist and on the left who don't know that this week you mentioned this when you came in that the Republicans were attacking Christians, Muslims and Jews all in the same week quite the same time while they're ramping up their war that's not a war and you're going

[SPEAKER_11]: Because on our side, we're just like, oh, oh, I got it. [SPEAKER_11]: You're big at it or racism side. [SPEAKER_11]: There's a say. [SPEAKER_11]: You must be right. [SPEAKER_11]: You must be a Republican, thank you. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: And Vladimir Putin is helping Iran blow up American interests and Donald Trump is getting furious if reporters ask questions about it. [SPEAKER_08]: Right.

[SPEAKER_08]: And by reporter, I mean, Peter Ducey, I apologize, President of the United States. [SPEAKER_02]: But he was right to ask it. [SPEAKER_11]: He was right. [SPEAKER_11]: Occasionally, he stumbles in the journalism. [SPEAKER_11]: And it's good when he does. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, broken clock isn't a douchebag twice a day.

[SPEAKER_08]: This is an amazing week already because they've managed to attack Christians Muslims and Jews in the same week You guys know about Andy Ogles beginning our week Representative Ogles Tennessee, I believe he is Tennessee.

[SPEAKER_08]: Mushem, Shope, we're long and American just Jiety, pluralism is a lie No imagine imagine imagine if this waste of donor organs had said Jews don't belong in American society Catholics don't belong in American society But no, it's Muslims so Republican leadership is like well, it's [SPEAKER_08]: not the language, I would use says Trump's human diversity in America since Europeans came over.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, but again, the founders, the founders have entered the chat on this one because in 1797, John Adams signed the treaty of Tripoli with 11 ratified by George Washington, which says, the government of the United States has in no way founded upon the Christian religion. [SPEAKER_08]: And the treaty with Tripoli was about having business deals with the muscle men, [SPEAKER_08]: that having one religion and excluding others isn't good for capitalism.

[SPEAKER_08]: It doesn't help business. [SPEAKER_11]: Everybody's money is the same color. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, and Madison was very thorough about this. [SPEAKER_08]: Muslims do belong here. [SPEAKER_08]: Jews belong here. [SPEAKER_08]: Christians belong here. [SPEAKER_08]: Eighth, the is belong here. [SPEAKER_08]: Only people don't belong here are politicians who think [SPEAKER_08]: the bill of rights is optional. [SPEAKER_08]: This is Andy Ogles, who got a 2.4 GPA, right?

[SPEAKER_08]: And here's the irony I love. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh yeah, irony is the religion that never lets me down. [SPEAKER_08]: The constitution proves he's spectacularly wrong on this. [SPEAKER_08]: But the Constitution also protects his right to say Muslims don't belong here. [SPEAKER_08]: And that's what I find so dazzling about all of this and by dazzling, I mean, historically humiliating.

[SPEAKER_08]: But you know, and Jesus says love your neighbor, but Republicans are like, well, unless they pray different pluralism is the reason Andy Ogles is allowed to say something this stupid without being arrested. [SPEAKER_08]: And diversity is not our weakness. [SPEAKER_08]: Republicans are our weakness. [SPEAKER_11]: But currently, yeah, or at least the hateful ones. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, the Maga ones that they even, the American look, there's even a difference.

[SPEAKER_11]: You and I were talking about this earlier, but during the break here about there's a different between the America first and the Maga. [SPEAKER_11]: It's small. [SPEAKER_11]: It's small, but the Marjorie Taylor Greens, they're, they're in the America first camp. [SPEAKER_11]: They're like Donald Tessin. [SPEAKER_11]: No new wars. [SPEAKER_11]: And now we've got a war. [SPEAKER_11]: You're really pissed about it.

[SPEAKER_11]: I laugh about that because I'm like, good, you're angry about a Republican taking this to war. [SPEAKER_11]: This is the first time this has happened in 25 years. [SPEAKER_11]: You know, normally I would say go to hell, but you know what, I'm glad, good. [SPEAKER_11]: You're on with us that you're against war. [SPEAKER_11]: Bye God, let's keep that going. [SPEAKER_11]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I hate to disagree too much, but you're kind of arguing about the difference between bays and off-bays. [SPEAKER_08]: You know what I mean like, bays and you did all this. [SPEAKER_11]: Hey, if the difference between bays and bays and bays can keep somebody's kid from getting bone didn't come in home in a box, then I'll argue that all day and twice on Sunday.

[SPEAKER_08]: Well, I mean, but again, you know, I [SPEAKER_08]: there's there's not that much daylight in between these two groups, but I'll take it right and get it. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean we got it with the abstine both groups voted for both groups voted for Trump after Trump drops beaten for a lie. [SPEAKER_02]: Yep. [SPEAKER_08]: No questions on that, but and both groups we can thank both of those groups for oil going up to $200 a barrel.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: And he's idiots haven't realized yet. [SPEAKER_08]: being idiots. [SPEAKER_08]: That when oil prices go up, it's not just gas prices that go up in the price of everything. [SPEAKER_08]: Everything that goes on. [SPEAKER_08]: We have to be sure to thank our Republican friends for the body bags and for the high gas prices and Epstein is not going away. [SPEAKER_08]: But on top of this prices too.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Manhattan Institute survey released this week shows that 54% of Republican males under the age of 50. [SPEAKER_08]: think the Holocaust didn't happen or is greatly exaggerating. [SPEAKER_08]: 37% of Republicans total, 54% of Republican males under 50. [SPEAKER_08]: So again, they went after the Muslims, but right now, they say do your own research. [SPEAKER_08]: And by that, they mean in a YouTube Nazi comment section where I do my read.

[SPEAKER_08]: You remember we were kids, Holocaust denial is the kind of thing that was whispered by creepy guys. [SPEAKER_08]: And the pamphlets, outside vans with no windows. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm old enough to remember David Duke calling himself a Holocaust skeptic, because he didn't want to call himself a Holocaust denial on camera. [SPEAKER_08]: And now it's just another Tuesday on Twitter, right? [SPEAKER_08]: Like Elon Musk did this.

[SPEAKER_08]: Elon Musk, in the name of free speech, apartheid Mac Botox face, has turned this into the world's largest Nazi chat room for [SPEAKER_08]: And now the neo-Nazi's are back, the Holocaust and Iers are louder, and accounts that were banned for hate speech or back, Nick Flintis is being normalized. [SPEAKER_08]: All these rat bastards claiming they care about Israel. [SPEAKER_08]: They might care about Israel quite a bit.

[SPEAKER_08]: They worship a president who worships Israel and takes his orders from them. [SPEAKER_08]: It doesn't mean they like Jewish people. [SPEAKER_08]: Half of them believe in the rapture where Jesus is going to come back, and the Jews will either, the Jews are going to half of them will die, and half will be forced to convert to Christianity. [SPEAKER_08]: So they already kids, they don't care. [SPEAKER_08]: But the Holocaust is the most documented genocide in human history.

[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_08]: I hope Joe Rogan is proud. [SPEAKER_08]: It's like saying, World War II didn't happen at some point, we have to admit that when you build a digital, [SPEAKER_08]: megaphone for extremists. [SPEAKER_08]: It doesn't lead to more free speech. [SPEAKER_08]: You get louder idiots and louder Nazis. [SPEAKER_08]: And that's what we have to deal with now.

[SPEAKER_05]: Amen. [SPEAKER_08]: And on top of it, if I may go even more, so they gone after Muslims, gone after Jews. [SPEAKER_08]: But here's a point I'm not hearing too much. [SPEAKER_08]: Um, being evil, the Trump who got into office in the second term with a racist lie that the Haitian refugees we took in under temporary protected status were illegals, who were eating pets, and uh, be paid no price for that lie, right? [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, spread that racist evil lie all over the place.

[SPEAKER_08]: J.D. [SPEAKER_08]: Vancey, but admitted it was alive, but you have to do do these things to get them [SPEAKER_08]: It's a beautiful place with beautiful people. [SPEAKER_08]: I got to perform there for the troops after the quake in 2010 and it had changed me forever Right now the Department of State lists it as a level four. [SPEAKER_08]: Do not travel.

[SPEAKER_08]: It's the highest warning level because if you go to Haiti You should only go if you enjoy kidnapping or gang warfare or starring in your own hostage video So Trump looks at this and says, oh, perfect. [SPEAKER_08]: That's what we should deport those families that Joe Biden saved. [UNKNOWN]: Right [SPEAKER_08]: The, the, the state is, state is in this the point after their president was assassinated and gang violence broke out all over the place.

[SPEAKER_08]: Joe Biden, and the United States took in 350,000 of these overwhelmingly Christian people. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: Into our country. [SPEAKER_08]: They have been here. [SPEAKER_08]: They have been paying taxes here. [SPEAKER_08]: They have been working. [SPEAKER_08]: They have been raising children here. [SPEAKER_08]: Having children here. [SPEAKER_08]: Some of these people have started to invest in this.

[SPEAKER_11]: Taking care of our elderly people. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Trump's like, it's a great time. [SPEAKER_08]: The Senate Christian refugees back, especially the ones we've already vetted and approved. [SPEAKER_08]: Like this program was created in 1990 to help people who, so they don't have to return to disaster zones. [SPEAKER_10]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: It's like saying, hey, maybe we shouldn't throw people back into a burn. [SPEAKER_08]: No, exactly.

[SPEAKER_08]: Trump's like, have you considered how much fun the thrilling part is? [SPEAKER_08]: So we are, they are going after Muslims, Jews, and Christians. [SPEAKER_08]: And don't let them off the hook for it. [SPEAKER_08]: Haitians are Christians just like the Christian refugees at our border. [SPEAKER_08]: They call it illegals. [SPEAKER_08]: They hate Christians who are the wrong color. [SPEAKER_11]: That's exactly.

[SPEAKER_11]: They hate the people who are the wrong color, according to them. [SPEAKER_08]: That's the issue. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh man, we got it. [SPEAKER_11]: We are talking about more of that. [SPEAKER_11]: We got John for one more segment. [SPEAKER_08]: There's plenty of stuff. [SPEAKER_08]: I promised there's plenty stuff. [SPEAKER_11]: It is Thursday night. [SPEAKER_11]: You got your Jody Hamilton. [SPEAKER_11]: You got your John Fuegel saying, you got your me, Sean Smith Pearson.

[SPEAKER_11]: We got you. [SPEAKER_11]: We got one more round. [SPEAKER_11]: Fresh in your drink and come right back. [SPEAKER_11]: It is the politics bar on Thursday night. [SPEAKER_13]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_11]: Last call on a Thursday night. [SPEAKER_11]: Here's politics bar, thank you very much by the way to everybody who interacts with us who listens live on the radio and who downloads the podcast.

[SPEAKER_11]: Of course, you guys know, if you miss any part of the show, you can get the podcast from your favorite podcast player or at the politicsbar.com. [SPEAKER_11]: Yes, we are jokingly called it March Mathness as Joe said because look, normally it's a buck 50 a week. [SPEAKER_11]: There are four weeks in the month that's $6 a month. [SPEAKER_11]: This month, there are five weeks, so it's cheaper because there's more weeks in the... [SPEAKER_11]: I'm just saying it.

[SPEAKER_11]: Look, do the math yourself, anyway, check it out. [SPEAKER_11]: You get all the goodies there, but you should check it out for yourself at the politics block. [SPEAKER_11]: John Fucle's saying hanging out with us for a little bit longer than he's got to go off and do the birthday celebration, which I am still amazed that that your son is, you know, a teenager because I remember when he was a lot smaller. [SPEAKER_05]: I remember meeting him and we just a little.

[SPEAKER_05]: He was about this high. [SPEAKER_05]: He was like, [SPEAKER_11]: It's just crazy man, you know, the years ago, we were talking to what we were on the Cole Sandler show.

[SPEAKER_11]: She invited us over to her place early this week, Jody and I. [SPEAKER_11]: And for guys, again, I forgot that I'm known to Cole for like 16 years, which I hadn't even, I was like, oh, yeah, you know, oh, he's just, you know, I mean, because it's us, it's the people in our circle, you know, Nicole and Steph and Bob and all the people that we know and Cliff and and Frangela and Randy and we all know each other. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, yeah, it's been a few years.

[SPEAKER_08]: And then we go, I think I'm sure about that long, too, yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: And then when you say your son is a teenager, I'm like, good Lord. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, no. [SPEAKER_05]: When he was at my house last summer, she was last summer, right? [SPEAKER_08]: Last summer. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, last summer. [SPEAKER_05]: So tall. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, sure, it's all. [SPEAKER_08]: It's, yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: I still can't believe I was allowed to have a child.

[SPEAKER_08]: You know, here's the deal, folks. [SPEAKER_08]: Having a child to save a marriage is a terrible idea. [SPEAKER_08]: But having a child, so you can be the first one, the board, the plane, kind of clever. [SPEAKER_08]: Kind of clever, but for two years, for two years, it's a great scheme. [SPEAKER_08]: That's all I can say about it. [SPEAKER_11]: And then you got the other, the rest of the years, and there's a lot more involved that schools.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, we've got a little older, and so we moved up to the upper west side of Manhattan, because I wanted him to know what it was like to watch white women shop. [SPEAKER_08]: So we gave him that. [SPEAKER_08]: And now he's going to be entering high school next year. [SPEAKER_05]: So that's pretty crazy. [SPEAKER_05]: Happy birthday to Henry. [SPEAKER_11]: Congrats. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, that's really cool, man. [SPEAKER_11]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_11]: Look, it is, it is, it's important. [SPEAKER_11]: I think that we acknowledge some of these, these small moments about this type of stuff. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, I'll, listen, I've been struggling. [SPEAKER_08]: My kid shares a birthday with Mitt Romney, Run, Jeremy, and Liza Manelli, who happened to be my dream crime spree partners. [UNKNOWN]: Those three. [UNKNOWN]: So. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, that's better than all the others.

[SPEAKER_11]: Well, I was going to say, like this out this week, talking about some of her or most gay things that she's done. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, and some of that, too. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, it's, and I, but it's to me, it's just that there's a friend of mine who is, she's a teacher. [SPEAKER_11]: She's in the Chicago area. [SPEAKER_11]: I won't name her, but she was mentioning about the fact it's, it's hard.

[SPEAKER_11]: Her job, I mean, God love my sister's a teacher too and God love any of y'all who are teachers out there. [SPEAKER_11]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_11]: I know your parents jumped, they were teachers, maybe. [SPEAKER_11]: And I look, I love teaching these, got to be one of the hardest jobs out there.

[SPEAKER_11]: But my friend she says, you know, sometimes we fight so hard to do everything we can to take care of these kids to teach them to show them what's going on that we forget why we do it. [SPEAKER_11]: And then she went on to talk about how she's a music teacher. [SPEAKER_11]: And how she was teaching these kids just their their voices and you're like That's why that's why we do this. [SPEAKER_08]: That's what's her names?

[SPEAKER_08]: Amy Okay, okay, can you say I won't name her so I want to see if I can make it.

[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm not a since college She's a really good teacher and it's just [SPEAKER_11]: now this is why we do the things we do while we spend the hours why we why we gather the information we do why we get the guess we do why we talk about this tough subjects and laugh about it and have some of us do it for drug money Sean that i appreciate whatever your reasons are that's really John exactly right thank you Jody give me some give me some help here on this one yeah

[SPEAKER_11]: but it's just it's it's it's it's it's so you look and then then when you see something where you you know you have a moment like that and you're like yeah damn cool there's growing up he's doing good he's learning good things yeah yeah it's been it's been a it's been a he's a very special kid and i never thought i would have a child at all i was that was never part of the programming well my my wife and i were together as a couple for uh

[SPEAKER_08]: 19 years before we had a kid 19 years like like no I have never met a couple male I've never conservative liberal southern I've never met a couple that waited that long to completely ruin their relationship Because your Bubba's when you met Yeah, we were like young young. [SPEAKER_08]: We were very young.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: So we we had to find a way to ruin our 20s See my dad was 19 when he has first so you waited 19 years Well, remember your dad your dad was a prolific producer [SPEAKER_11]: He had 11 children, so there's that. [SPEAKER_11]: We love that joke. [SPEAKER_11]: It's one that we drop on people occasionally. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, look, you know, we know you got to go celebrate Henry's birthday.

[SPEAKER_05]: So we should have a birthday for us, please. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: So I wanted to thank you both so much. [SPEAKER_08]: And I just hope, you know, like the rest of you, the Chrissy know him has more time now to finally catch those Dalmatians. [SPEAKER_08]: I join you in that. [SPEAKER_11]: Well, you know, now she is she is the new head of shield. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yes, I heard whatever that means. [SPEAKER_05]: It's a moral thing, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_08]: It's an office buried deep in the administration, where she has kept far away from microphones. [SPEAKER_08]: But still, we still pay her salary. [SPEAKER_08]: So she can't be a witness against Trump. [SPEAKER_05]: It's really, really tough. [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_05]: It's so that. [SPEAKER_11]: Although Mark Wayne Mullin, he's got his test next week where he's going to have to go in front of the Senate and justify things and he's going to have to explain.

[SPEAKER_11]: There he has to explain his multiple number of first names and be he's going to have to explain how he's going to end up being Cori Lundowski's new boyfriend. [SPEAKER_11]: Because I just don't know how Cori's going to end up continuing to operate DHS otherwise. [SPEAKER_08]: needs not but the whole thing is going to be that his job is going to be exactly the same as Christy knows pleasing Donald Trump and hoping it keeps him out of jail.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, what if Trump dies in office? [SPEAKER_08]: I don't want that to happen. [SPEAKER_08]: But imagine if Trump dies in office before he can pardon his entire cabinet. [SPEAKER_08]: Think if I wouldn't that would look like, you know, from your lips to whatever. [SPEAKER_08]: No, no, no, I want him to live a, I want him to live a long time. [SPEAKER_08]: I've always said this, I want Trump to live a very long time. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm jail.

[SPEAKER_08]: Preferably in the hay, yes, right. [SPEAKER_08]: I would mind living here just to have just I wanted to be sentient enough to be aware that it's immigrants changing him and feeding him applesauce through a straw Exactly, I'm a symptom down for that. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, I'm a simple man. [SPEAKER_08]: You know, I'm easy to please the thought of Trump And vans and rubio and headset in a bunker fighting each other over the last cyanide capsule That's all I need to be happy.

[SPEAKER_08]: I really I have simple tastes [SPEAKER_08]: you're just a simple comedian tells us a simple man that needs simple things you know what let's say all of them in the same bunker no sign i capsule but trumps got a full diaper and there's no ventilation that's all i need that's better for me yeah okay yes now you're making me really laugh now seriously this look i i'm here to help i'm a spiritual person i think about these things

[SPEAKER_11]: You you you are here at the bar you aim to please just that's how you so much guys have a great When thank you for having thanks brother have a good night. [SPEAKER_08]: We'll see you. [SPEAKER_11]: I love he's He is always great to have his bar Yeah, and it is it does boggle my mind the Henry is his oldest.

[SPEAKER_04]: He is I know he's super tall Like last time he was here and he was like so tall [SPEAKER_11]: I remember you said that when when he came to visit you, I do it actually because John did remind us it is in the third round of the news on tap today under Trump's failing immigration wars. [SPEAKER_11]: Uh, he's not joking. [SPEAKER_11]: The Trump administration.

[SPEAKER_11]: So we had it in the news on tap earlier this week where a lower court ruled that all 350,000 of those Haitian immigrants, most of them Christians as John noted, uh, we're good to go. [SPEAKER_11]: They were fine. [SPEAKER_11]: The Trump administration has appealed directly to the Supreme Court. [SPEAKER_11]: in order to try to get rid of their immigration status. [SPEAKER_05]: Because Donald is an a-hole. [SPEAKER_11]: Jody is correct.

[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: Also, by the way, a U.N. panel of experts says racist hate speech by Donald Trump. [SPEAKER_11]: Other, mostly Republican leaders, has led to human rights violations in what they [SPEAKER_11]: crimes against humanity. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: So we got war crimes with kegbreath. [SPEAKER_11]: You got crimes against humanity with the immigration wars and they all tie back to the same group of people who are just hateful and cruel and boggles my mind.

[SPEAKER_11]: I'm [SPEAKER_11]: I mentioned earlier today, by the way, when we came in there, there's some that it's bothering, but John mentioned when we were talking to the break about it and he's like, it's, it's not that big a deal about it. [SPEAKER_11]: I'm like, yeah, you know, John's probably right about this. [SPEAKER_11]: So South Carolina Democratic Representative Jim Clyburn, good representative, been doing this long time, like 18 terms in Congress or something like that.

[SPEAKER_11]: He has announced his intention to run for reelection to Congress at 85. [SPEAKER_05]: I love him. [SPEAKER_05]: It's great, but I disagree with John about the, it's not ages of me. [SPEAKER_05]: It's just like fine somebody. [SPEAKER_11]: Look, Nancy is leaving. [SPEAKER_11]: Nancy is done at the end of this year. [SPEAKER_05]: And she will be 86. [SPEAKER_11]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_11]: She is going to find somewhere else something else to do.

[SPEAKER_11]: She is going to be like Jesse Jackson or like President Obama, Michelle Obama or the Clintons or Joe and Dr. Jill. [SPEAKER_11]: All of whom are no longer an elected office and are still finding ways to lead and do things. [SPEAKER_11]: And you can bet that Pelosi when she's done is going to do the same thing. [SPEAKER_11]: So she would just wish a just wish rep Clyburn would follow that. [SPEAKER_11]: But I understand.

[SPEAKER_05]: And let's see, found somebody else to follow his footsteps. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm with him on the reelection. [SPEAKER_11]: So this won't say, I mean, you know, but that's during this time is when you train people up. [SPEAKER_11]: That's why Nancy decided to stay in house and then excuse me, and then be like, I'm going to train up. [SPEAKER_11]: I'm going to mentor these younger members of Congress.

[SPEAKER_11]: So they understand where the pitfalls are, how you could actually get bills through. [SPEAKER_11]: I still agree with Bruce Bartlett, Democrats in Congress [SPEAKER_11]: But they're learning, they're doing better. [SPEAKER_11]: We're doing better right now as far as with the whole DHS ice, blocking that thing. [SPEAKER_11]: God, yes, that's great. [SPEAKER_11]: And offering bills, it cut out. [SPEAKER_11]: Everything except ice and CBP.

[SPEAKER_11]: And then say if ice and CBP wanted to have decent rules that would force them to treat people decently. [SPEAKER_11]: Hallelujah. [SPEAKER_11]: That would work too. [SPEAKER_11]: So all of that, I'm there, but I just, [SPEAKER_11]: To me, it's just a lost opportunity, that's all. [SPEAKER_11]: I just, you know. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, maybe somebody will talk to him that has somebody younger because I mean, Christine Pelosi's running for her moms.

[SPEAKER_11]: True, I know Christine, that look Christine. [SPEAKER_11]: Yes, so that's- So there's that. [SPEAKER_05]: Somebody has generational memory of everything. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, well, everything. [SPEAKER_05]: She's what my age? [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, yeah. [SPEAKER_11]: You didn't have 50s, like us, so yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, honey, I'm almost 60. [SPEAKER_11]: I know you always say that, and I'm like, yeah, yeah, but you look like you're in your 40s.

[SPEAKER_11]: So and even if you have to even if you let your hair go all gray, you are still going to look younger. [SPEAKER_05]: I still found another person to help me with that. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, nice. [SPEAKER_11]: A nice colorist who works weekends. [SPEAKER_05]: Excellent. [SPEAKER_11]: Good thing. [SPEAKER_11]: See, look. [SPEAKER_11]: You ask people to help you out and you certainly can.

[SPEAKER_11]: We appreciate, by the way, the people who have sent us some good stuff and helped out today. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, by the way, Tom from Seattle, via the bar line. [SPEAKER_11]: He said, I don't know who's things. [SPEAKER_11]: The politics bar theme song. [SPEAKER_11]: But he said, I think that Lonnie made the music. [SPEAKER_11]: It could go to help Lonnie make the music. [SPEAKER_11]: No, because we all know that she could say. [SPEAKER_05]: No, that's Lonnie.

[SPEAKER_11]: That's all him just talking about see Tom thank if it's hip on that he was he was thinking that you would help Long enough he knows all him knows that you have good pipes that you can say so you can say I know we are all our own harshest critic, but look that the good news is is that we happen to know an excellent critic

[SPEAKER_11]: who will actually be here tomorrow brother David yes he is actually going to be here because he used to be the critic or one of the critics for the L.A. times he's going to be here with an Oscar's preview and Karen and Anita from True Blue politics they will be in tomorrow as well and it'll be Friday which [SPEAKER_11]: I know the week has just flown by but it always flies by would have fun and hanging out with people. [SPEAKER_11]: So thank you guys for hanging out with us.

[SPEAKER_11]: Remember if you missed any part of the show, you don't want to do. [SPEAKER_11]: Go download the podcast from the politicsbark.com. [SPEAKER_11]: We'll see you tomorrow, Jody. [SPEAKER_11]: Help me clean up here and then you guys can go have fun too. [SPEAKER_11]: So, peace y'all. [SPEAKER_11]: We'll see you tomorrow night here at the politicsbark.