We Can Do Better October 24, 2025

[SPEAKER_07]: It's political Pinky radical Pinky radical Wherever you are The politics bar Shotsmith Pearson Jodie Hamilton Jodie Johnny Hey guess what Guess what What? [SPEAKER_14]: It's Friday. [SPEAKER_14]: Friday. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: And we've got Jared Rizzi in the house tonight. [SPEAKER_14]: Also, Jared is kind of in the middle of a Karen and Anita Sandwich actually. [SPEAKER_14]: He is.

[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: Because we were at Karen and Anita's place earlier and they will be here at the bar later on tonight. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Jared is growing in between the Sandwich. [SPEAKER_14]: Jared, you are the man meat today and the Karen and Anita Sandwich. [SPEAKER_14]: Just letting you know that. [SPEAKER_13]: I know.

[SPEAKER_13]: I. [SPEAKER_13]: I was going to say I hope I can rise to the occasion, but I don't know if we can handle any more A lot of anyone is going to say, well, you know, but I need always comes in and you know, she has that nice rack and she does have a really nice rack, you know, yeah, it's got some nice buns, I never You know, I grew up in a restaurant family sandwich making is an area of my expertise

[SPEAKER_14]: So I got nothing to add here that can go on some of these affiliates like unlike Republicans. [SPEAKER_14]: Um, you know, for example, they have a problem handling their tiny Johnson and he has a problem handling his really small caucus. [SPEAKER_14]: He just, you know, can't seem to get to the meat of the situation. [SPEAKER_14]: Are we, is that where we're, is that? [SPEAKER_13]: You're put a lot of mustard on this one, Sean. [SPEAKER_06]: That's like, Sean Louise.

[SPEAKER_14]: It is Friday night here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_14]: Thank you by the way for coming in from wherever you happen to be. [SPEAKER_14]: Whether that is our friends at WCPT AMA20 Chicago. [SPEAKER_14]: Maybe you're coming in from the Twin Cities AM950. [SPEAKER_14]: Thank you very much. [SPEAKER_14]: Maybe you are listening on Georgia now radio in Atlanta, which is live. [SPEAKER_14]: And thank you very much for that. [SPEAKER_14]: We're going to have a Ron Robertson next week.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Why does it just fine? [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, both two thirds of it are fine, yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: It's fine. [SPEAKER_06]: Everything's fine. [SPEAKER_14]: Everything's fine. [SPEAKER_14]: Literally defined in that great aerosome of song, F-I-N-E, if you know your acronyms. [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: See them here.

[SPEAKER_14]: it's weird shun it's weird you know I remember I mean other other than you living down in the in the district and you know you know watching you know uh uh these idiots march around these ice monsters and these CBP or or how about the fact that now plenty of Democrats like us are going hey have you heard Ronald Reagan today or you know of all people that we're agreeing with yeah to the one who you know which they were smart about that

[SPEAKER_14]: Look, they're smart about something, but we wish that to the Canadians very well, except for the fact that we also want the Dodgers to win. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm sorry Toronto, but I really want my doeers to win. [SPEAKER_14]: Look, I said that I have friends who are Blue Jays fans and I do, and that's fine. [SPEAKER_14]: But now we are at the world series and my team, well, I said this either way, Jared.

[SPEAKER_14]: So earlier in the week, Jody and I were talking about the world series about how the the Dodgers and the Blue Jays was going to be against each other. [SPEAKER_14]: And I said, Jody wins either way. [SPEAKER_13]: I was really hoping for Mariners by the way. [SPEAKER_13]: I, I, you know, [SPEAKER_13]: Both of you know that I do not give two shakes about sports at all in general. [SPEAKER_13]: But I think I think truly, you know, I love, I love the Cinderella story.

[SPEAKER_13]: I loved somebody who hasn't been to the big, you know, to the world series yet. [SPEAKER_13]: That was cool. [SPEAKER_13]: A lot of friends out in Seattle. [SPEAKER_14]: I mean, I feel for the Mariners, you know, I mean that they had Cal Rally there and they're cancer. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, it would have been called the i5 series.

[SPEAKER_13]: Or it could have been, you know, in an alternate future where Elon Musk's promises were slightly less useless, it could have been some kind of like hyperloop train future where. [SPEAKER_14]: If only. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, if only. [SPEAKER_14]: Where he wasn't monster. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_13]: But yeah. [SPEAKER_13]: Remember like 15 years ago when only a few of us who he was just saying. [SPEAKER_14]: Here's my thing. [SPEAKER_14]: So earlier this week, I said this.

[SPEAKER_14]: But if Toronto wins, Donald Trump will be absolutely pissed off. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: on top of the fact that I've already seen some maggots who got pissed off this week because they're like Toronto and the Dodgers are both blue. [SPEAKER_14]: They're all blue. [SPEAKER_14]: And we're like, uh-huh. [SPEAKER_06]: And your point is. [SPEAKER_14]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_13]: So, um, you know, these are two teams who are probably not going to send the full contingent to the White House celebration. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, definitely not Toronto if they were. [SPEAKER_14]: No, they will stop at the border. [SPEAKER_14]: They will say, well, they will send their contingent to see Mark Carney and I'd be okay with that. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_13]: A lot of weird Canadian news today. [SPEAKER_13]: You know, I can't pretend.

[SPEAKER_13]: I can't put on a quibba quai accent and pretend to be your Ontario correspondent. [SPEAKER_06]: You can do it. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, no. [SPEAKER_06]: You can. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, come on. [SPEAKER_06]: You're all a booch it. [SPEAKER_13]: I should have known what I was taking up and I regret it entirely.

[SPEAKER_13]: Okay, the pop, the pop, the blue from, I'll say, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the

[SPEAKER_13]: If it's a joke, this is actually Jodi's trash talk. [SPEAKER_13]: This is how you're going to prepare for the game by doing progressively worse Canadian accents throughout the week. [SPEAKER_13]: You're going to start calling Canadian bacon, regular bacon or like freedom bacon or something. [SPEAKER_13]: I can see this is the start of a gene generation. [SPEAKER_14]: She'll just say this, she'll go, it's ham. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, Canadian bacon is ham. [SPEAKER_06]: Fram sick.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's not bacon. [SPEAKER_14]: Just saying just saying oh, I think you're round bacon. [SPEAKER_14]: Also also not bacon. [SPEAKER_14]: Also, she'll go to me. [SPEAKER_14]: Who's sucks? [SPEAKER_14]: Just saying. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, there. [SPEAKER_06]: Hey, I love Canadian. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean Canada.

[UNKNOWN]: Oh. [SPEAKER_06]: I love it's going to fill you it is responding I'm interested in this They were interested in the show but not so much There is no I love Canada I've been Toronto and I was actually I was a last night when Donald did his What do you call it? [SPEAKER_14]: Judi Tuping and drama Ridiculousness Absolutely stupidity [SPEAKER_14]: So for for those of you who have not seen, we actually have the story.

[SPEAKER_14]: Uh, happens to be, uh, I believe in the second round under Trumponomics is failing today at the news on tap talk. [SPEAKER_14]: Complexbar.com, uh, Trump in a late evening social post announced that he's ending all trade negotiations with Canada because of a TV ad that uses Reagan's words to blast tariffs. [SPEAKER_13]: Well, I'm sure, I'm sure it's a good reason. [SPEAKER_14]: You've got the full two minutes in 17 seconds. [SPEAKER_14]: This was, guy, was at 1987.

[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: And Reagan was trashing tariffs in general, and a specifically with regards to Japan and and microchips. [SPEAKER_14]: So, whole big thing, Reagan did not like tariffs, like most most people most economists. [SPEAKER_14]: because they lead to terra force, but Doug Ford and the folks up in Ontario did an advertising campaign and they knew it was going to piss off Trump and they dropped it anyway.

[SPEAKER_14]: This is the ad that Trump saw last night and they actually played this in, uh, I think it was Monday night in the qualifying game for the world series here. [SPEAKER_14]: One, one, please. [SPEAKER_01]: I think so when someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it looks like they're [SPEAKER_01]: and sometimes for a short while it works, but only for a short time. [SPEAKER_01]: But over the long run, such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consume.

[SPEAKER_01]: High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. [SPEAKER_01]: Then the worst happens. [SPEAKER_01]: Market shrink and collapse, businesses in industry shut down and millions of people lose their jobs. [SPEAKER_01]: There's a growing realization that the way to prosperity for armed nations is rejecting protectionist legislation and promoting fair and free competition. [SPEAKER_01]: America's jobs and growth are at stake.

[SPEAKER_14]: Look, he's I have to say this Ronald Reagan was right on this particular point, it just feels wrong to use the sound effect, I know if it feels wrong in a lot of ways, it feels wrong in a lot of ways, but but you know and look, I can I could call up Bruce if I wanted to on the the bar phone here and Bruce Martin Ronald Reagan's exactly want to Ronald Reagan's econ guys would tell you I know because I've had this conversation

[SPEAKER_13]: Look, Bruce isn't here, and I'm no Bruce, but I will say a couple of things in context. [SPEAKER_13]: One, Reagan was no free speech or excuse me, free trade purest. [SPEAKER_13]: They were targeted tariffs that happened, including on semiconductors with Japan, and Trump has cited what Reagan did with Japan as a justification for what Trump wants to do. [SPEAKER_13]: against him. [SPEAKER_13]: And Reagan's words.

[SPEAKER_13]: I think I think it's interesting to that the White House has responded to this by saying that it's fake, which it isn't, or that it's deceptively edited, which isn't, it is edited. [SPEAKER_13]: That music wasn't originally there when Reagan spoke.

[SPEAKER_14]: they link to the real thing they did actually they tell you at the end of the ad the Reagan library yeah go go to the right exactly we will actually go ahead here from the politics bar social media later this evening and we will give a link over to that full ad or the full cut of Ronald Reagan the two minutes and 17 seconds or whatever it is because [SPEAKER_14]: You know, it's worth you guys seeing it as well.

[SPEAKER_14]: Seeing it and hearing it, you guys can go check it out yourself. [SPEAKER_14]: But the fact of the matter is they didn't take Regan's words out of context. [SPEAKER_14]: No, not at all. [SPEAKER_14]: No, it's a complete what Ronald Reagan and Bruce Bartlett and any, any economist who's worth their salt will tell you is that the way that Donald Trump is using tariffs is absolutely insanely stupid.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, and first off, it's got to be Congress that passes it so that companies understand they have 20 years or whatever to implement whatever they need to to get jobs back in seconds. [SPEAKER_14]: And Congress has the power of tariffs. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes. [SPEAKER_06]: And secondly, if we want to bring jobs back to these United States, give tax incentives to those companies that have now outsourced to come back. [SPEAKER_14]: Right. [SPEAKER_14]: This isn't complicated, but.

[SPEAKER_14]: Trump has been using tariffs the same way he used the backhoe on the used wing. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, he did. [SPEAKER_14]: And, uh, and people go, well, God, there's a whole bunch of rubble. [SPEAKER_14]: No, really? [SPEAKER_13]: You think it's, it's, it's two versions of the exact same story, which is the president moving as quickly as he can irrespective of any of the guard, guard rails that would normally be in place.

[SPEAKER_13]: moving quickly wasn't rules and, you know, sanitary things things that would have constrained any other administration and have in the past, right, but he's also doing it in a way that not only ignores what regular people want, it's this false populism that he's trying out there.

[SPEAKER_13]: Look, I don't think the soybean farmer [SPEAKER_13]: Who's about to get hoes because of what we've done with China or the beef rancher who's about to be hoes because we've done with Argentina or everybody who's going to suffer on snap when when those go away those benefits are going away in a week right I don't think those people give a rat anything about a ballroom that fits 400 or now 600 or now a thousand people a thousand people I think is what they're going to

[SPEAKER_13]: amazing how these numbers keep going up.

[SPEAKER_14]: It's like, Oh, this is going to be $100,000,000,000,000,000, $350,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

[SPEAKER_14]: License architect for more than 20 years specifically and he's worked with government projects So we'll we'll talk about that. [SPEAKER_13]: Mr. Jared Rizzi is in the house tonight And Ronald Reagan's ghost And now you won't mess with me when I do the drink of the day, so that's fine [SPEAKER_13]: I'm here to help. [SPEAKER_13]: Jody. [SPEAKER_14]: Oh, exactly. [SPEAKER_14]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_14]: Look, we've got to drink it all the time.

[SPEAKER_14]: It's going to be a barrel in over here. [SPEAKER_14]: And Anita, the best thing you guys can do fresh in up your drinks. [SPEAKER_14]: It's a Friday night. [SPEAKER_14]: We are very glad that you guys are hanging out with us here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_14]: Come on back. [SPEAKER_14]: Hang on. [SPEAKER_11]: We'll be right back. [SPEAKER_11]: After we'd pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_14]: It is Friday nights.

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[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, for those of you who are subscribed to the drink of the day, you know, we're not talking about and for those of you who aren't subscribed. [SPEAKER_14]: You should be so there you go. [SPEAKER_14]: All right. [SPEAKER_14]: Um, so we were talking, of course, about the White House and Donald Trump hearing it down, Sean.

[SPEAKER_14]: Oh, God, you're saying, you're saying, we're talking with John Fugel saying last night, and then you were saying that that efforts, and we're just just about to leave in the bar that that.

[SPEAKER_06]: you and I both agree with Joe Walsh who was here yesterday and not so much John on this that we think well tell Jared because I don't think he heard this yesterday well okay so Joe thinks and I do too that a democratic nominee for president if we have them again should put part of his or her agenda as tearing down if it's even up that [SPEAKER_13]: Right, whatever, tearing one of the atrocities is right. [SPEAKER_13]: If it's even up by that, right, exactly.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's going to, that's something that size takes six to 10 years.

[SPEAKER_14]: it takes a lot of time and you got to get past a lot of stuff so but there's a lot of there's a little bit of tin foil having happening here as well but there's also you know the presidential bunker is under there it isn't just a renovating right i mean there's so there's some kind of there's the kind of stuff that regardless of whether uh... kick breath decides to sign off on it because of the bunker and the military stuff or whatever there is safety stuff

[SPEAKER_14]: that there are people that they cannot bribe. [SPEAKER_14]: Because they, I mean, there's a lot of people who don't, who don't, who do not work for them. [SPEAKER_14]: And who will say very simply, if I allow them to put this particular thing up, and it's a rickety piece of crap, like the thing that Hoover had to replace, what he gutted the place, you know, it'll be my entire career. [SPEAKER_14]: And, you know, look, Donald Trump is not going to live that long.

[SPEAKER_14]: So they, they are not going to sacrifice their career for a sick old man. [SPEAKER_13]: Who knows who, who, where he's going to be and frankly, who cares? [SPEAKER_13]: I do think, to say, I'm impressing, I'm impressing, I'm impressing, I'm impressing, that would have been preferable to this timeline that we're in right now. [SPEAKER_13]: But unfortunately, we're living in the timeline that has a giant crater.

[SPEAKER_14]: North of the ellipses for those of you who missed it is in the news on tap the White House East Wing has been completely demolished You can see the picture in days in days they did this in days Americans hated by the way The new you go of poll is underscoring the gut punch reactions of millions of Americans to this [SPEAKER_14]: people even magas are pissed about this. [SPEAKER_14]: The majority of Americans are like, hello.

[SPEAKER_14]: And of course, the Trump regime, good old BS barbie caroline was trying to kind of help Donnie cover up for this. [SPEAKER_14]: She's like, oh, this is, you know, it's not a big deal, right? [SPEAKER_14]: And then she planted her big old feet right in her mouth. [SPEAKER_14]: Here I got this girl.

[SPEAKER_00]: uh... in addition to the ballroom in the rose garden patio is the president looking at any other renovations are significant kind of projects here at the white house and uh... not to my knowledge no but he's a builder at heart clearly uh... and so his his heart in his mind is always turning about how to improve things here on the white house grounds but at this moment in time of course the ballroom is really the president's main priority

[SPEAKER_14]: So let me get this straight there BS Barbie 40 million people next week who are not going to have access to food assistance right you have literally the entire country who is suffering we're talking oh inflation up today by the way because of course tariffs and because of all of this so you literally have 350 million people suffering then you got even smaller groups 42

[SPEAKER_13]: Donnie's biggest first priority is his ball, you know, the government is shut down of the government of which the president is a part. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, okay, but look, President Miller, oh, I'm, I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_14]: Did I say that? [SPEAKER_06]: I did and he, you're correct, but the other thing is is, I believe KKK Caroline was asked if he could tear down the rest of the White House. [SPEAKER_14]: Oh, yeah, she was.

[SPEAKER_14]: She was, I didn't happen to get that one, but she was, what's the hell? [SPEAKER_14]: I think she went. [SPEAKER_14]: Well, here's the deal with it. [SPEAKER_14]: If people don't stand up, you're the one, Jody, who said earlier this week. [SPEAKER_14]: And I think I think it was because you first started talking to Bob, must have been on Bob show two.

[SPEAKER_14]: It was, when you, you know, and Bob was kind of like, and I was like, you were like, no, no, no. [SPEAKER_14]: The people who actually were swinging that back hill around could have said no. [SPEAKER_06]: They could have the company could have said no and the people that were working for that company could have said nope and the donors who are making this possible need to be boycotted and run I mean and that includes some of the biggest people in public life.

[SPEAKER_14]: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, we got to know it on that actually Uh, I think I'm going to go down together for Darrell from blue sky [SPEAKER_14]: contacted us last night and he said the yelp comment review section for the demolition company has actually been shut down. [SPEAKER_14]: I replied to him. [SPEAKER_14]: I said, you know, hey, good to know that info. [SPEAKER_14]: Thanks, Darrell. [SPEAKER_14]: Wonder if maybe that demolition company has a Google reviews page.

[SPEAKER_14]: Maybe folks could post reviews on their social media of this demolition company. [SPEAKER_14]: Maybe maybe those channels will be blocked down, but maybe we can try and be helpful and give [SPEAKER_14]: Lots of people what this demolition company is like because, you know, we're here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_14]: We aim to please, Daryl of course responds, you aim to please. [SPEAKER_14]: Do I do think that's for you?

[SPEAKER_13]: I do think though, and this is not necessarily agreeing with you and disagreeing with John Fugo saying, because I, you know how I hate to do that, but I like him too, but I will say this. [SPEAKER_13]: The reason this is this is breaking through with regular people, [SPEAKER_13]: the normies who are, you know, not always as plugged in as we are and people are enjoying this this conversation.

[SPEAKER_13]: The reason this breaks through is because if he can tear down a third of the White House, he can tear down the rest of it. [SPEAKER_13]: If he can give, make the DOJ pay him a quarter of a billion dollars, why not more? [SPEAKER_13]: And I think this week's [SPEAKER_13]: what we've seen is from the weekend where there are no kings protests at seven million people who per cent of the country which is not free and change. [SPEAKER_06]: I think we're at that magic number.

[SPEAKER_13]: It's just I'd love to be at the magic number. [SPEAKER_13]: Well, even, and look, even, regardless, it's breaking through, it's breaking through and people are realizing how screwed we are if we allow this to continue because there's no end insight. [SPEAKER_13]: This is not a man who can be satisfied by any amount of taking right. [SPEAKER_13]: insert your other jokes here.

[SPEAKER_13]: And it's also a system of government that will not apparently put up any resistance to this until Democrats have more power. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. [SPEAKER_13]: The reason they're doing everything they can to protect this person's reputation is because they know as soon as one more Democrat is seated and she should be as soon as possible.

[SPEAKER_13]: Or maybe they do the midterm elections or anything else happens the entire facade much like the east wing will crumble very very quickly They desperately want to avoid that accountability because this government these Republicans do not suffer can not abide One scrape of accountability less the entire skin fall right off. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, absolutely right sir. [SPEAKER_14]: You are you are correct, you're you know what [SPEAKER_14]: people leader, this is a good reminder.

[SPEAKER_14]: Um, if you're like, God, I'm so pissed off. [SPEAKER_14]: I want to do something. [SPEAKER_14]: Okay. [SPEAKER_14]: Today in Virginia was the last day you get registered board of vote. [SPEAKER_14]: A lot of places there votes. [SPEAKER_14]: There are elections. [SPEAKER_14]: There are elections all over the country. [SPEAKER_14]: Local elections, statewide elections, biggest racist. [SPEAKER_14]: Going to be in Virginia, New Jersey, California, Prop 50.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, it's going to pass. [SPEAKER_14]: And Joe, how, how would you [SPEAKER_14]: go. [SPEAKER_14]: If you are a main, no on prop one, do not allow Leonard Leo, the jackass who rig the Supreme Court against the law to ban you from getting your abs and T ballot out there, tell Leonard Leo to take an F and hike. [SPEAKER_14]: Oh, and by the way, if you're in Pennsylvania, make sure the Supreme Court stays the way it is there. [SPEAKER_14]: There's states for court needs to stay it is.

[SPEAKER_14]: There's two. [SPEAKER_14]: Look, make sure you are up on all of your local elections and make good decisions.

[SPEAKER_13]: on the election I note you did not mention was some of the fire and brimstone we've seen out of the mayoral race in New York and it's local that's a local that is a that is a huge election if you are listening to us in the local area it very well you know we will get to that we will get to that I want to I want to finish up on the the I can't wait if we've played Reagan you know there's going to be a part where you guys play Curtis Lee one on this on the show

[SPEAKER_13]: I just can't wish. [SPEAKER_13]: Let him let him run in every race, everywhere. [SPEAKER_13]: All the time. [SPEAKER_13]: So entertaining. [SPEAKER_14]: You're saying, clone him and make him the Republican standard everywhere. [SPEAKER_06]: I love that. [SPEAKER_06]: I love that idea. [SPEAKER_14]: I mean, look, we'll have Democrats running everything constantly, which [SPEAKER_13]: Okay, and and look it's just a different red hat than Republicans.

[SPEAKER_13]: There's currently you to wear it. [SPEAKER_13]: It's just a slight change in the Habitatuary that we've been used to. [SPEAKER_13]: Uh huh. [SPEAKER_13]: No, you're not wrong. [SPEAKER_14]: Jared is once again. [SPEAKER_14]: Correct. [SPEAKER_06]: You're not coming back to Jared. [SPEAKER_06]: That reminds me of spinal tap. [SPEAKER_06]: So yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: Jodie. [SPEAKER_14]: You are right. [SPEAKER_14]: You guys are getting these things bells.

[SPEAKER_14]: It's bells all over the place today. [SPEAKER_14]: The bells are ringing. [SPEAKER_14]: Also hell decent music. [SPEAKER_14]: You're right. [SPEAKER_13]: That's what I'll do. [SPEAKER_13]: I'm not going to do the Canadian although we may have to flee but I will I will don't you know oh [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, honey. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, baby. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it's funny. [SPEAKER_06]: It's funny. [SPEAKER_14]: It's a little bit of a crony. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: Oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_14]: Anyway, um, look, the minutes order. [SPEAKER_14]: Minisora, thank you for your N950 folks putting up with this. [SPEAKER_14]: We're going to be so upset. [SPEAKER_06]: I know. [SPEAKER_06]: They're going to laugh. [SPEAKER_06]: They know their accent. [SPEAKER_14]: You know, that's that's not our accent. [SPEAKER_14]: That's South Dakota. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm not South Dakota, that's a different South Dakota is a little bit different.

[SPEAKER_13]: I was not a part of this, I just want people to know, I didn't hear me, I got the one Reagan thing. [SPEAKER_14]: Alright, we'll look here, the key we were going to go over earlier, the architect. [SPEAKER_14]: his name is Andrew Kerr. [SPEAKER_14]: He's actually down in Georgia, so he might be listening on Georgia now, and if you are Andrew, thank you very much. [SPEAKER_14]: License artifact more than 20 years experience.

[SPEAKER_14]: I went and I've vetted his resume over and linked in, and yes, multiple federal projects he's worked on. [SPEAKER_14]: Here's the long and short of his. [SPEAKER_14]: So he did a breakdown on Facebook, I believe it was last night. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: And he said, [SPEAKER_14]: It's not going to happen for all those magnets who are saying, you know, oh, well, not a lot to down because of the plans, the plans are bullcrap, the plans are absolute crap.

[SPEAKER_14]: And he broke it down like this. [SPEAKER_14]: He said, first of all, the square foot if Donald's price is true of 300 million. [SPEAKER_14]: If the projected size of this quote unquote ballroom is 90,000 square feet and a newly revised budget of $300 million, the cost per square foot is $3,333, no building anywhere costs near that. [SPEAKER_14]: Normal, normal prices are probably somewhere at $800,900 to $1,000 per square foot is astronomical.

[SPEAKER_14]: So, [SPEAKER_14]: No, that's not. [SPEAKER_06]: It ain't. [SPEAKER_14]: Oh, let's let's let's let's let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's just go to the actual facts. [SPEAKER_14]: Not even a assume graph because we all assume graphed anyway. [SPEAKER_14]: So let's just kind of discount that and say, okay, well, we'll, we'll go with the mega idea and say, oh, but it's a boring.

[SPEAKER_14]: You go, okay, and then you say, you know, he's going to do this. [SPEAKER_14]: They will give you an excuse. [SPEAKER_14]: Oh, it's bonuses. [SPEAKER_14]: Okay. [SPEAKER_14]: Fine. [SPEAKER_14]: Thing number two from Mr. [SPEAKER_14]: Architect. [SPEAKER_14]: He says, let's assume since we're drawing these designs that we've seen.

[SPEAKER_14]: Remember, we haven't actually seen plants, these designs we've seen in a classical style that the proportions of the building, adhere to the golden ratio, he said a 90,000 square foot building, but have a footprint roughly 380 feet by 235 feet, long enough football field and one and a half times as wide. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: The building is projected to accommodate around 1,000 people. [SPEAKER_14]: The 15 square feet per person is required for a banquet area.

[SPEAKER_14]: 20 square foot per person is pretty comfortable. [SPEAKER_14]: What you're seeing in some of these renderings that we've seen is close to 20 square foot per person. [SPEAKER_14]: That's only 20,000 square feet of space. [SPEAKER_14]: It doesn't add up the amount of space that you're seeing and what we've seen already. [SPEAKER_14]: it doesn't match up with his 90,000 square foot projection.

[SPEAKER_14]: Then you look at the other whatever drawings have been released and the renderings are poorly coordinated. [SPEAKER_14]: They don't actually match the actual height, the known height of the White House and the other buildings that are in the background there. [SPEAKER_14]: It doesn't match up. [SPEAKER_14]: These are cheap ass little renderings that have been [SPEAKER_14]: Just quickly whipped out, meaning we haven't actually seen any real plans.

[SPEAKER_06]: I think what they're doing is the bunker. [SPEAKER_06]: They're going to get the Russians into the bunker. [SPEAKER_14]: I'm saying, I'm not looking at anything other than the numbers. [SPEAKER_14]: And even by the numbers, [SPEAKER_14]: Look, Maga, you got had. [SPEAKER_14]: Donald Trump knocked down a third of the White House, and he has no plans to restore this.

[SPEAKER_14]: Kind of like when Trump and Republican said 10 years ago, then they had a plan to replace your healthcare, and you'd see it in two weeks. [SPEAKER_06]: Two weeks. [SPEAKER_14]: And it's been 11 years? [SPEAKER_06]: 15. [SPEAKER_06]: 15. [SPEAKER_14]: Man, you guys look like suckers. [SPEAKER_14]: Just saying. [SPEAKER_14]: Uh, hey, uh, Joudi, Jared, you guys want to do the drink of the day next? [SPEAKER_14]: Sure. [SPEAKER_06]: Absolutely.

[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know if you'll be able to bear it right now. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm just suggesting, uh, drink of the day coming up. [SPEAKER_06]: I was going to give me some issues on that. [SPEAKER_06]: So. [SPEAKER_13]: No, because you know, I've never, I've never interrupted. [SPEAKER_13]: I've never spoken out of turn next. [SPEAKER_13]: Drink of the day, Friday night here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_14]: Hang on.

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[SPEAKER_14]: It gets you the drink of a day with the recipe, which is great. [SPEAKER_14]: And it gets you the news on tab. [SPEAKER_14]: Check it out at the politicsbar.com. [SPEAKER_14]: All right, you too. [SPEAKER_14]: I know, I know, I know. [SPEAKER_14]: It's the drink of a day. [SPEAKER_14]: And, you know, I have jokes that we have you over Barrel, but I've done that for a reason, because I know. [SPEAKER_14]: Joe, you're this close to giving me the buzzer for that pun.

[SPEAKER_13]: Almost. [SPEAKER_13]: We don't let show you have the buzzer button because we've never stopped using it against it. [SPEAKER_14]: I'm just, I'm going to say in Jodie, you know, you don't need to push me over the edge on this one. [SPEAKER_06]: Really? [SPEAKER_06]: We're going with that. [SPEAKER_14]: I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_06]: Really? [SPEAKER_06]: Really? [SPEAKER_14]: What is the drink of the day? [SPEAKER_14]: Today. [SPEAKER_06]: It's called an old barrel cocktail.

[SPEAKER_14]: Nice and it is inspired by. [SPEAKER_06]: Anning Edison Taylor. [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, and on this state in 1901 she became the first person to survive going overnight her falls in a barrel [SPEAKER_14]: on purpose, which, hey, you know, that's, that's, you know, look, you got what? [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, she was dressed in a whole 1901 garb and everything. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, but she was, she was smart. [SPEAKER_14]: She had a specially built barrel like that.

[SPEAKER_14]: She said, put tall barrel, had it lined with like a mattress and had like some padding and stuff. [SPEAKER_14]: And she even tested it with a cat the day before, which I'm like, God, we're cat. [SPEAKER_14]: I have. [SPEAKER_14]: I have some follow-up questions. [SPEAKER_13]: Okay. [SPEAKER_13]: You sure? [SPEAKER_13]: You're journalists, do we get that? [SPEAKER_13]: We understand.

[SPEAKER_13]: First person to survive and on purpose, which are two phrases that really do spark a couple of red flags for me. [SPEAKER_13]: Thanks, sir. [SPEAKER_13]: You can read it in the dream. [SPEAKER_14]: You'll be by the description. [SPEAKER_14]: There were three people at least who went over beforehand who did not. [SPEAKER_14]: Did not survive. [SPEAKER_14]: At least three that we know of. [SPEAKER_14]: Why was this a thing? [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_05]: People going over in battle. [SPEAKER_05]: Results! [SPEAKER_13]: Um, when, why couldn't TikTok have been around a century earlier? [SPEAKER_13]: Give people something to do so that they weren't putting themselves in barrels. [SPEAKER_06]: Boca, you don't want to talk by the way. [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, yeah. [SPEAKER_13]: It would have done very well. [SPEAKER_06]: I can't. [SPEAKER_06]: How much likes would you get? [SPEAKER_13]: We thought, but seven likes today.

[SPEAKER_14]: The whole thing is that I believe originally the concept of going over the falls in a barrel was in part because they did it, they used to do a lot of shipping up there and and occasionally barrels fall over the board. [SPEAKER_14]: That's just a pretty normal thing and then somebody sees it goes over and goes, well, what would I be like? [SPEAKER_14]: Because, you know, people do that all the time.

[SPEAKER_14]: I mean, [SPEAKER_14]: Look, especially if you go to certain areas of the South, you know, it's, it's always the, hey, what would that be like? [SPEAKER_13]: Hey, sorry, you saying that Annie Edison Taylor was the Johnny Knoxville of her day to some degree. [SPEAKER_02]: But didn't make it much money. [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, that's comedy, and this is Jack. [SPEAKER_06]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_13]: That's the last word. [SPEAKER_13]: That's the last words.

[SPEAKER_06]: If you look at the picture, she's got the full on, you know, Victorian outfit on, getting into the barrel. [SPEAKER_14]: And she had quite a life of unfortunate evidence, but she did it on purpose and you know what the barrel not the unfortunate events right exactly.

[SPEAKER_14]: Yes, the the marrying a guy and having a kid the kid died the guy died the house burned down I mean she was she was a country song she really was a country song [SPEAKER_13]: I'm looking at I'm actually reading the drink of the day and I'm looking at this and I'm thinking, well, you know, the barrel actually sounds like a decent chance. [SPEAKER_13]: It's like, you know, and if it doesn't go well, like at least I'm, you know, well, anyway, sorry.

[SPEAKER_14]: She probably did, she probably did at least as much preparation as Johnny Knoxville did for any of the stunts.

[SPEAKER_14]: so just a look if you want to know we've got the drink of the day let's do the recipe let's get into it because it is it's a pretty good drink and you know there there's some there's some distilleries there's one here in DC they have a really good ride I really like to get them as a sponsor for the show I can't say who they are until they do but I think their stuff would work great in this drink [SPEAKER_13]: All right.

[SPEAKER_13]: So there's also some down in Virginia who makes an X. Oh, excellent. [SPEAKER_14]: We could do that too. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: All right. [SPEAKER_14]: Johnny, what's in our old barrel cocktail? [SPEAKER_06]: Okay. [SPEAKER_06]: You need a mixing glass and ice for the mixing one large ice cube for the drink. [SPEAKER_14]: Because that's important glass ice for the drink.

[SPEAKER_14]: God. [SPEAKER_14]: totally different things right an old fashioned glass why is it not served in a barrel it should be right well because people can't pick up the barrel and if they did everybody would look like a tiny barrel shawarma like a little baby girl like this looks like a class like the thing that goes under the the dogs neck like like the one from barrel among keys yeah i'm with you on that

[SPEAKER_14]: Well, it's a fun kids game, but I'm telling you, no, they don't want to remove all the monkeys from your barrel. [SPEAKER_14]: That's what you feel it with her. [SPEAKER_14]: Well, you should do not, do not leave the bourbon in the barrel, and the kid around because the kid will pick it up and go, what's this? [SPEAKER_06]: The barrel under the dogs did have bourbon at it. [SPEAKER_14]: So, for St. Bernard, thank you. [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_14]: Okay, so mixing glass, ice for the mixing glass, officially glass, and a large cube of drink for that. [SPEAKER_14]: Got it. [SPEAKER_06]: And two ounces of rye whiskey. [SPEAKER_06]: Got it half an ounce of Benedictine okay, which sounds like that stuff we I used to put on when I got hurt [SPEAKER_13]: No, it's back to you. [SPEAKER_06]: That's that sounds it's the same. [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, a half ounce of shit. [SPEAKER_13]: No, they throw rub in this drink.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, they're shouldn't be. [SPEAKER_14]: They're made by the monks. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, exactly. [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, a half ounce of Sherry, but you need to use dry rather than sweet. [SPEAKER_06]: So that's just a. [SPEAKER_14]: And you loved to roll out your Italian heritage in this one, Sherry. [SPEAKER_14]: You were looking at the recipe and you say, The Amontiano. [SPEAKER_14]: There you go.

[SPEAKER_13]: Well, okay, but it's less, it's less a heritage thing and more a literary thing because if you've read any, you know, well, anyway, all say is if you want to find my amontiato, it is in my basement, and I will put the bricks up very slowly while I say [SPEAKER_13]: I guess. [SPEAKER_06]: Very slow. [SPEAKER_06]: So I haven't answered. [SPEAKER_06]: But Heinz is cement. [SPEAKER_13]: Well, you don't worry about it. [SPEAKER_13]: That's, I mean, again.

[SPEAKER_13]: Y'all, the first of all, accusing me of hiding people with cement is a hate crime. [SPEAKER_13]: And I know that Italians are the last people we can make fun of. [SPEAKER_14]: And that's fine. [SPEAKER_14]: I'm Irish. [SPEAKER_14]: I'm just saying, we did not need to talk about that. [SPEAKER_14]: That whole lotion thing and no baskets. [SPEAKER_06]: He went there. [SPEAKER_06]: See that was me. [SPEAKER_13]: This is why we're not allowed to have the buzzer, Jody.

[SPEAKER_13]: You and me. [SPEAKER_13]: We should revolt. [SPEAKER_13]: There are two of us and only one of him. [SPEAKER_14]: Okay, five, there you go. [SPEAKER_14]: All right. [SPEAKER_14]: So the drink you've got the two aunts in Ryris, give you the half ounce of Benedictine, half ounce of dry sheery and two dishes and a store for a bitters. [SPEAKER_14]: Got it. [SPEAKER_06]: And you guys with lemon twist. [SPEAKER_06]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_14]: So what you feel good.

[SPEAKER_06]: How do you say it? [SPEAKER_06]: You add it, you add the whiskey, the sherry, the Benedictine, and the bitters to the mixing glass, add the ice after that. [SPEAKER_14]: Got it. [SPEAKER_06]: That's important. [SPEAKER_06]: Stir, not stir. [SPEAKER_06]: Stir it, and then you strain it into the old fashioned glass over the one large ice cube, and then you garnish with lemon twist. [SPEAKER_06]: And please don't do the barrel thing over.

[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, do not go over Niagara Falls. [SPEAKER_06]: Please don't. [SPEAKER_14]: You do not. [SPEAKER_14]: Now you tell me. [SPEAKER_13]: I've already booked it. [SPEAKER_13]: You got to put the warning at the front, Sean, I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, yeah, that's amazing. [SPEAKER_13]: That's amazing. [SPEAKER_14]: Look, if you guys was any part of the drink of the day, you know what to do, subscribe to politicsbar.com. [SPEAKER_14]: All right.

[SPEAKER_14]: So there is politics going on. [SPEAKER_14]: There are elections going on. [SPEAKER_14]: And as Ron and Danny is... [SPEAKER_14]: Um, John mentioned this to us last night, you and I, Jody, we had been here and we had not heard the the Cuomo and oh my god. [SPEAKER_14]: Uh, so, man, Danny was asked about this on Pixel 11, big good TV station in New York City. [SPEAKER_14]: Here, let me roll this for the DVR.

[SPEAKER_08]: Some birds radio show your Pony Andrew Cuomo said this quote God forbid another 9-11 can you imagine Mamdoni in the sea end quote Rosenberg responded by saying he'd be cheering Andrew Cuomo said quote that's another problem want to get your reaction this is disgusting this is Andrew Cuomo's final moments in public life and he's choosing to spend them and [SPEAKER_12]: making racist attacks on the person who would be the first Muslim to lead this city.

[SPEAKER_12]: And frankly, it's not about me, it's about the fact that there are more than one million Muslims who live in New York City and to have our faith be smeared and slandered by someone who at one point was considered a leader in the Democratic Party showcases the fact that bigotry and racism is not exclusively a Republican problem.

[SPEAKER_12]: It is also a problem within our own party and it is time that we turn the page on Andrew Cuomo and those that would tolerate [SPEAKER_12]: as well. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I can hear the passion and emotion in your voice. [SPEAKER_08]: It's personal for you. [SPEAKER_08]: It is. [SPEAKER_08]: Of course it is. [SPEAKER_12]: Yep. [SPEAKER_12]: To describe myself and describe Muslims in this manner, it begs the question of why this kind of rhetoric is acceptable.

[SPEAKER_12]: When we're speaking. [SPEAKER_12]: Yep. [SPEAKER_12]: It is. [SPEAKER_12]: It is. [SPEAKER_12]: He's not wrong. [SPEAKER_06]: No. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean it. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: Go ahead. [SPEAKER_06]: It happened with the Italians. [SPEAKER_06]: It happened with the Irish. [SPEAKER_06]: It happened with the Jews. [SPEAKER_06]: Now we're going that way. [SPEAKER_13]: I mean, and the Italian, that was like five minutes ago when Jody was slandering me.

[SPEAKER_13]: Very reasonable. [SPEAKER_13]: If you want to talk about the fact that Italians, the... [SPEAKER_13]: I don't. [SPEAKER_13]: I don't. [SPEAKER_13]: Let's talk about things that actually matter. [SPEAKER_14]: I mean, I mean, I mean, we just hit it one quick thing because... Oh, and then... [SPEAKER_14]: that will look look there's there are two different investigations they were started back under the Biden Harris administration.

[SPEAKER_14]: One of them is the classic tale of uh you get players who they fake being hurt or maybe they are hurt and they tell people and because of the stupid ass betting rules. [SPEAKER_14]: bit of change because the Supreme Court case, thank you very much, jackass right lingers on the Supreme Court. [SPEAKER_14]: Now you got this problem where players can do this crap and it wasn't legal before.

[SPEAKER_14]: And then you've got the other one where basically you were having the mafia that was involved with big fish. [SPEAKER_14]: like the head coach of the Portland Trailblazers, Chelsea Billups, and they were literally using technology and everything to lure in rich idiots and sucker them in. [SPEAKER_14]: And everywhere in the media, hearing people refer into the mafia.

[SPEAKER_14]: And with a lot of Italian slanders, like you said, and I just, I, I, I thought about it and wondered if anybody was actually paying attention. [SPEAKER_14]: And of course, virtually nobody has said anything about it. [SPEAKER_14]: They're just like, it's the fifth mafia, whatever. [SPEAKER_14]: We just, you know, we'll, you know, [SPEAKER_06]: There's a rush of mafia. [SPEAKER_06]: There's so many different mafia's. [SPEAKER_13]: Here's what I'll say.

[SPEAKER_13]: I do think this story is huge, but I think the bigger problem is the wide spread, especially on these apps like the the the draft kings or the other stuff. [SPEAKER_13]: The number of people who have significant gambling debts who have actively thousands of dollars on either OLD or inplay it any given time these are people in your life. [SPEAKER_13]: These are people that you know This is a shame that they are carrying around.

[SPEAKER_13]: I feel like this is really endemic in Among men especially men, you know, kind of

[SPEAKER_14]: who are struggling in other aspects of the line had those laws and of course the thing to me that that looks at all of this is the same people it's the same vector that's responsible for knocking down these these laws that protected us it's the same look it ties to the right wingers on the Supreme Court and conveniently we have another thing about online that ties to them about all the slander and the violence the racism misogyny all those young Republicans

[SPEAKER_14]: up to 40 it's it's super young oh my god they're so young well then there's then there's the problem we all have to address if we're going to be honest about it because Zaron was right um Graham Platner [SPEAKER_14]: And there's a whole issue about that. [SPEAKER_14]: He's a little bit longer. [SPEAKER_14]: I know you've been here the whole hour. [SPEAKER_14]: You want to hear you? [SPEAKER_14]: If you want to hang over with there's a little bit longer.

[SPEAKER_14]: You can have to get care and need to come up in a little bit. [SPEAKER_14]: But you want to hang out a little bit. [SPEAKER_13]: Well, you did did promise that I would be some kind of, you know, say, five dollar footlong or something. [SPEAKER_13]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to go with a 12 inch. [SPEAKER_06]: Choney! [SPEAKER_13]: Very kind of you choney. [SPEAKER_13]: You too, wow.

[SPEAKER_13]: It's lucky it's not- I'm not going to be here when Karen is a leader here, so you're just going to have to carry this energy. [SPEAKER_14]: It's not Charlie Pierce level. [SPEAKER_14]: I don't need to- It's close now. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, Karen's doing a hey baby. [SPEAKER_14]: Look. [SPEAKER_14]: Jared will hang out with us a little bit more. [SPEAKER_13]: It is a Friday on his Jody wants me to stay. [SPEAKER_14]: Look look it is important permission is key.

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[SPEAKER_14]: exactly a lot a lot of news today if you miss any news the best thing you can always do a subscribe for free at the politics bar dot com you can get the news on tap at any time um some big stuff today uh uh so leticia james she actually played not guilty to trump regime's illegitimate charges fraud by the way prosecutors have already admitted that the evidence [SPEAKER_13]: No, she's not guilty, which is the whole point where like hell.

[SPEAKER_13]: So, um, I do think it's funny that Donald Trump is going to start, uh, being the spokesperson for, uh, being, you know, coming down the mountain on mortgage fraud. [SPEAKER_13]: This is the person, like, like, we've never seen a darker pot calling a lighter kettle. [SPEAKER_13]: You know, it's just kidding. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's that's the devil himself going. [SPEAKER_14]: Hey, man. [SPEAKER_14]: That's too far.

[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah I'm a real stickler for this one thing And it's mortgage fraud and not cheating on my wife [SPEAKER_14]: yeah, that would be Trump. [SPEAKER_14]: We do want to get back to some of the other stuff. [SPEAKER_14]: If you miss any of this stuff, you're like, wait a minute, weren't they going to talk about that? [SPEAKER_14]: I'll look if you missed it last hour, just check it out. [SPEAKER_14]: We've got a lot of this stuff in the news on tap.

[SPEAKER_14]: And of course, you can always subscribe to the podcast to politicsbar.com. [SPEAKER_14]: So, uh, ma'am, Danny last night, um, I guess yesterday evening he had a big speech. [SPEAKER_14]: He also had a big speech last night, uh, talking about Tisch James and backing her up, but you had some cuts. [SPEAKER_14]: We don't have the audio close, but you got some stuff that you jotted down, Mr. Drizzy, because Mr. Jared Rizzi, by the way, is a fantastic report.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yes. [SPEAKER_14]: And he always gets this and he got some good clips from, uh, good, good quotes, I should say, from quite any last night, stunningly attractive. [SPEAKER_13]: There you go. [SPEAKER_13]: This is Mundana you're talking about. [SPEAKER_13]: And I appreciate that. [SPEAKER_13]: This is from the Islamic Cultural Center in the Bronx earlier on Friday.

[SPEAKER_13]: So again, if you're hearing this and I would just recommend when we're starting to talk about this last hour we played the clip where he's responding in some part to Cuomo and a lot of the Cuomo racism. [SPEAKER_00]: Cuomo and the radio. [SPEAKER_13]: Very racist stuff. [SPEAKER_13]: And I think mom Donnie took this moment in a way that evokes some of the things that Barack Obama did on the campaign trail in 2007 and 2008.

[SPEAKER_13]: Some of the stuff didn't go as well for her, but Hillary Clinton did on the campaign trail in 2015, 2016, trying to get ahead of some of these moments where people are calling out who you are. [SPEAKER_13]: that's going to be important. [SPEAKER_14]: We will put that out of the social media tonight too. [SPEAKER_14]: We'll do that as we're closing up the bar tonight.

[SPEAKER_14]: We'll put that out of the social media isn't just kind of let people look at that too and remind folks that you know what you were saying on. [SPEAKER_13]: Mamdani starts the speech talking about how, you know, earlier in his political career, his uncle told him, don't even really talk about, you know, your Muslim faith. [SPEAKER_13]: And then later on, he says, and I, and I really think this is where it started to become really poignant for me.

[SPEAKER_13]: He says, in many ways, I have become that uncle, that same uncle, who pulled me aside six years ago. [SPEAKER_13]: no more. [SPEAKER_13]: He's refusing to accept this mantle. [SPEAKER_13]: He's refusing to carry that shame. [SPEAKER_13]: I think he was talking a little bit about how he's pulled some punches as a Muslim candidate and he doesn't want to do that anymore.

[SPEAKER_13]: He said, I thought that if I could build, [SPEAKER_13]: And because I don't do accents and also because I don't do voices. [SPEAKER_13]: I really can't as a reporter give the weight that he gives this speech. [SPEAKER_13]: You still got to give you a half to hear him say this. [SPEAKER_13]: We'll put it up there.

[SPEAKER_13]: But then I thought that if I could build a campaign of universality, if I behaved well enough or bit my tongue enough, it would allow me to be more than just my faith. [SPEAKER_13]: I was wrong. [SPEAKER_13]: I think this is the one that spoke to me the most. [SPEAKER_13]: To be Muslim in New York is to expect indignity, but indignity does not make us distinct. [SPEAKER_13]: It is tolerance of it that does.

[SPEAKER_13]: I think he's really speaking to in the last 25, 24 years, since 9'11, it has become an easy punching bag for New Yorkers and national people of all stripes. [SPEAKER_13]: To say we're gonna let it roll downhill onto Muslims in this country. [SPEAKER_13]: Right, and he's drawing a line in the sand and good for him. [SPEAKER_13]: I mean, I'm grateful for it because it's been endemic in our culture. [SPEAKER_06]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's not the same, but similar when JFK was running and they didn't want to Catholic. [SPEAKER_06]: in white house. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, look, it's it's been it's been Catholics it's been atheists and why is has like bad because they're Christian, right?

[SPEAKER_14]: Like what's the what is the issue with Catholic Protestant the Protestants the Protestants were like well they're the East Christian but he's not really Christian the same way that they've trashed Mormons look we know we we just had we've had all kinds of it that's another one. [SPEAKER_14]: If we're going to be what we want to be, it's our best selves, none of this is okay. [SPEAKER_06]: No, none of the questions. [SPEAKER_14]: Muslims trash you. [SPEAKER_06]: No, it's not.

[SPEAKER_06]: Don't trash people that have their faith. [SPEAKER_13]: I do one more, one more quote if I can from the speech today, which was, I appreciate all who have rushed to my defense over the past few days. [SPEAKER_13]: This is Maldani again referencing that Cuomo quote. [SPEAKER_13]: I think of those Muslims in this city who do not have the luxury of being the democratic nominee. [SPEAKER_13]: So do not have the luxury of being deemed worthy of solidarity.

[SPEAKER_13]: I think one of the things that Mamedani does so well is constantly de-center himself even while accepting the mantle of responsibility of what makes him unique. [SPEAKER_13]: He's constantly pushing it out. [SPEAKER_13]: This is what politicians do at their best, remind us of why we all matter, why we all have skin in the game. [SPEAKER_13]: We do. [SPEAKER_13]: We all have skin in the game. [SPEAKER_06]: Now, he might be president someday. [SPEAKER_06]: He's really good.

[SPEAKER_13]: he can't that's I think one of the brilliant parts of this because he wasn't born in this country he's he's he's out of the picture for this he can't you're right and unlike almost everyone else including especially Cuomo who wants to use that office as a stepping stone yep i'm done he can't he can't i think it's super power it's super power no he's hyper local in a way that i wish [SPEAKER_14]: Right.

[SPEAKER_14]: He doesn't necessarily want to to be that kind of thing and that is hey look who came in Oh, you're an ass sandwich now [SPEAKER_14]: Right now, Terry politics bar course you guys know that means Karen Anita of true blue politics are joining us here. [SPEAKER_14]: We by the way for those of you who missed it.

[SPEAKER_14]: We joined them at their place earlier this afternoon and then we said that they could come obviously join us here this evening finished us some other stuff and we told Jared early on Karen I can't I need a must be still get in the door here.

[SPEAKER_14]: We we told you guys or we told Jared that he was going to be the man meat in the current in any to sandwich [SPEAKER_14]: That's right, we had Karen Anita to begin with and we have Karen Anita plus I mean, you know, we know that Anita makes great bread. [SPEAKER_14]: I mean, I for all of us in the rack and vision. [SPEAKER_02]: Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. [SPEAKER_13]: You have to say in the audience, it's been nonstop sexual harassment.

[SPEAKER_13]: It's like being next to normal in this place today. [SPEAKER_04]: Where is their human resources? [SPEAKER_04]: Okay. [UNKNOWN]: Right. [SPEAKER_13]: It's Jodi's cast. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: Jodi's cast. [SPEAKER_04]: I'll complain with Jodi's cast. [SPEAKER_04]: Okay. [SPEAKER_06]: Because both of you, Karen and I need to have great racks. [SPEAKER_06]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_14]: Well, thanks, Sharon. [SPEAKER_14]: And we are very glad that you guys show us your breath.

[SPEAKER_14]: Wow. [SPEAKER_14]: That wraps that we're talking about. [SPEAKER_14]: I mean, you know, I'm just trying to be innocent here, you know. [SPEAKER_14]: Don't even try Shawn. [SPEAKER_14]: You're about to be innocent. [SPEAKER_14]: Well, the halo is held up by the horns. [SPEAKER_14]: Just. [SPEAKER_13]: If you've been harmed by the holster stars show, we just show you. [SPEAKER_06]: Show us some of the dots. [SPEAKER_06]: Nick at I love can and culture.com.

[SPEAKER_13]: That was our I also think by the way people may have experienced and this is me like putting on my personal injury layer had just the pure whip lash of The we were talking about the the mom Donnie speech today at the the Bronx muslimic center. [SPEAKER_13]: It's like Just the whip lash of just pure unadulterate.

[SPEAKER_13]: It was it was truly truly spell is like writing a roller coaster Sean [SPEAKER_14]: I'm not so much for you, everybody knows when you go into your favorite bar. [SPEAKER_14]: You guys, this is one of the reasons why we love having the politics bar here is because we can go from politics to entertainment to music, back to politics to sexual harassment to the drink of the day.

[SPEAKER_14]: New Year's at the drink of the day to we bounce around because when you're in a bar and you've got your bunch of friends hanging out with you, that's what you do. [SPEAKER_13]: That's fine. [SPEAKER_14]: You were in a wrong place for that. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: We ain't got no adults here, sorry. [SPEAKER_14]: No. [SPEAKER_14]: None of us in the middle of the station here. [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_05]: She's a total adult.

[SPEAKER_05]: She's probably the most adult in that history. [SPEAKER_05]: And she's a total adult. [SPEAKER_13]: She's probably the most adult in that history. [SPEAKER_13]: If anyone needs me, I'll be in my own basement, breaking myself up with you. [SPEAKER_13]: You can play auto. [SPEAKER_05]: The hide back there. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh my god! [SPEAKER_13]: You know, anyone who's looked at Donald Trump's pants over the last 10 years Oh, dude, man. [SPEAKER_14]: There's a job in there.

[SPEAKER_14]: There's a job. [SPEAKER_14]: We had the bells earlier. [SPEAKER_14]: Now we got the buzzers. [SPEAKER_13]: We're just all going to take one crack at this. [SPEAKER_13]: I think that's what we need to know. [SPEAKER_14]: Get it out of our system. [SPEAKER_14]: We are not. [SPEAKER_14]: We are not going to take any more cracks out of the entire East Wing is gone. [SPEAKER_14]: I saw you. [SPEAKER_14]: No more cracks out. [SPEAKER_05]: There's no letting out any seams on his pants.

[SPEAKER_05]: No. [SPEAKER_14]: Oh my God. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: You know, well, must he needs a bigger set of depends, [SPEAKER_14]: Well, he needs to have so much in my head that I cannot say we're a broadcast radio so thank you very much for that But look we are I think we're all in the same page you there's a lot of stuff going on news wise It is hard for sometimes to for everybody you get [SPEAKER_14]: You get down. [SPEAKER_14]: It's easy to get down.

[SPEAKER_14]: It's easy for those of us to get down. [SPEAKER_14]: So just laughed at this. [SPEAKER_14]: This fun with all of our friends, this is a release and everybody should have this. [SPEAKER_14]: You should have this. [SPEAKER_14]: Those of you who are hanging out with us here at the politics bar by God, you absolutely should have this. [SPEAKER_14]: You deserve it. [SPEAKER_14]: Don't let anybody tell you that you don't deserve it because you do.

[SPEAKER_04]: I wasn't going to take away our joy. [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_13]: One of the things I got from the taking my my kid and my friends kids to the No Kings on Saturday last week was a little bit of that cup being filled up. [SPEAKER_13]: You know, just. [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: We all need this in order to in order to simply stand up and say no to the things that we shouldn't do like normal on the White House.

[SPEAKER_14]: You've got to have the energy in the last year. [SPEAKER_14]: Right up to help. [SPEAKER_04]: The inflatable profiles and inflatable unicorns. [SPEAKER_04]: Easy. [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, my five-year-old was so happy. [SPEAKER_13]: Oh, I bet. [SPEAKER_13]: So many and inflatable. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: It was like in a dizzy world or something. [SPEAKER_13]: All right. [SPEAKER_13]: One of the people who was dressed up as an axolotl came prepared with like axolotl trivia.

[SPEAKER_13]: And Mike is like, you know, you're an amphibian. [SPEAKER_13]: And I'm like, oh, thank God. [SPEAKER_13]: We're playing along here. [SPEAKER_04]: I mind that with somebody dressed up as Retalatory Terrace. [SPEAKER_04]: I love it. [SPEAKER_14]: Okay, that's definitely something I have to talk about. [SPEAKER_06]: And it's a beautiful, Retalatory Terrace on it, man. [SPEAKER_06]: I love that.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: All right, we have more Karen and Anita from True Blue politics. [SPEAKER_14]: I hear Jared is here as well for as long as he can be. [SPEAKER_14]: He has to go to you. [SPEAKER_06]: If you want to stay, buddy. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, we ain't got no words with that. [SPEAKER_14]: I mean, this is the politics bar. [SPEAKER_14]: You hang around with your friends and you talk all kinds of fun stuff.

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[SPEAKER_14]: We have carried in a need of from true blue politics here. [SPEAKER_14]: And we have the one and only Jared Rizzy White House correspondent extraordinaire, man. [SPEAKER_14]: Johnny, you and I have some really cool friends. [SPEAKER_02]: We really do. [SPEAKER_14]: I know. [SPEAKER_14]: That is a good thing. [SPEAKER_14]: Look, we had John Fucosang last night. [SPEAKER_14]: We had Joe Walsh in the house. [SPEAKER_06]: We had a fantastic, oh, who's coming up next week?

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, we got Mindy Cone. [SPEAKER_06]: My friend who I went to high school with it, which is who's up at home right now. [SPEAKER_14]: He's like, she's in this little show called Palm Royale with that morning in the Terrell. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, exactly. [SPEAKER_14]: Look, guys, we have great guests and we will have more of a Mexican. [SPEAKER_14]: Oh, we have Ron Roberts, by the way, of the Ron show as well, who was on a couple of different affiliates as well.

[SPEAKER_14]: So it's, it's a good place to hang out with your friends and talk politics. [SPEAKER_14]: And that is what we are doing here on this Friday night. [SPEAKER_14]: We were talking to the break a little bit about obviously the elections. [SPEAKER_14]: And then Danny really calling out the racism, the intolerable racism of Cuomo. [SPEAKER_14]: I don't know if I don't know if Andrew Cuomo is actually racist, maybe he sounded like it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think I didn't know that before about him. [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I would never guess that about him. [SPEAKER_14]: But here's my thing is I don't know he, I don't know if he's a real racist or if he's just faking it because he knows that there are some people in the war who are closet racist. [SPEAKER_04]: Trying to get this Republicans. [SPEAKER_04]: Handering. [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_13]: And at some point, there's no difference. [SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's right. [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, seriously. [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_14]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_14]: The thing, though, is that that [SPEAKER_14]: Mamdeny called out the fact that there is racism and some sexism and let me have a trauma phobia is lumpy yeah yeah we got a lot of those issues unfortunately [SPEAKER_14]: in pockets of the left as well.

[SPEAKER_14]: And that leads us of course to Graham Platner for those of you who were hanging out at Karen and Anita's place over a truly politics earlier today. [SPEAKER_14]: Jody and I mentioned this and we said we would catch the political ball as it were that we tossed to us from this morning and here it is. [SPEAKER_14]: So, Graham Platter, y'all, I don't know. [SPEAKER_14]: We showed you, and I talked about this earlier in the week, and we said, right off the bad luck.

[SPEAKER_14]: We aren't in Maine. [SPEAKER_14]: I'm in the Virginia area of the bar, Joe Disney, California, LA, into the bar. [SPEAKER_14]: We can't vote in Maine. [SPEAKER_14]: So ultimately, Maineers, it's going to be up to you. [SPEAKER_14]: Which by the way, Maineers, if you are going to vote and by God, you should make sure you vote no on one. [SPEAKER_14]: So that way your absentee votes can still be counted the way they should be. [SPEAKER_14]: You can vote at home if you want to.

[SPEAKER_04]: Um, you can't excuse it. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_04]: I've been listening to people on the left and who are just excusing it at the same time. [SPEAKER_14]: They just weren't there's that they're excusing grand platinum's racism. [SPEAKER_04]: It's a Nazi tattoo. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that too. [SPEAKER_04]: That's a problem. [SPEAKER_04]: Especially when they were just, you know, bashing these young, you know, just finally, the younger ones. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, exactly.

[SPEAKER_04]: I love hit my group. [SPEAKER_13]: And some of them middle-aged Republicans. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, well, yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: We'll see a young Republicans, because that's a game of the club kind of like nobody. [SPEAKER_14]: People say Fox News, it's not actually news. [SPEAKER_14]: Yes, they were young Republicans, but they weren't really young. [SPEAKER_04]: Boys, we'll be boys. [SPEAKER_04]: Some of them were almost new, okay? [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_04]: So one of them was a state senator. [SPEAKER_14]: So they weren't even exactly exactly. [SPEAKER_14]: He was exactly exactly. [SPEAKER_04]: But you know, I mean, I'm listening to them just excuse it or just accept his week. [SPEAKER_04]: You know, explanation of I agree with it. [SPEAKER_04]: He's had that tattoo for 18 years writing He removed it till now exactly. [SPEAKER_14]: Thank you talking about that yesterday. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, we did.

[SPEAKER_14]: With those people who weren't here to say what you said yesterday about that. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm sorry, but he could have once he realized it was a bad thing get it moved and it's time in the last decade in the hand if he could have moved it's an insignia that's on every single Nazi hat thank you okay and every movie it's always there it's one of the top like three or four Nazi insignias right how could he not have known [SPEAKER_04]: Right then point his argument.

[SPEAKER_13]: It's not like the last and it's not like the last decade We've all been under a rock and not been aware of how much Nazi stuff is every where Because of everything else that has been going on.

[SPEAKER_13]: It speaks to a lack of judgment It speaks to the circle of people he surrounds himself with who also have poor judgment [SPEAKER_13]: And I also will say this, it's, we are seeing this with Cuomo for a number of reasons, whether it's the sexual abuse, whether it's the racism that's clearly a part of his profile, whether he wants to talk about it or not. [SPEAKER_13]: Right. [SPEAKER_13]: Democrats need to draw not just distinctions, but contrasts. [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_04]: Right. [SPEAKER_04]: He totally is wife. [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_13]: Right. [SPEAKER_13]: Nazis. [SPEAKER_04]: Right. [SPEAKER_04]: It's hard to hear that when you've got a guy with a Nazi tattoo. [SPEAKER_13]: You put that guy in the Senate as a Democrat, as a young Democrat, an actual relatively young Democrat for the Senate. [SPEAKER_13]: That's now 40 years. [SPEAKER_13]: We got rid of guys like Alfred better guys than Graham Platner. [SPEAKER_13]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_13]: Have been put out of the Senate. [SPEAKER_13]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_13]: Because we're all in that distinction. [SPEAKER_14]: And here's another important point that I think that some people are not getting. [SPEAKER_14]: Janet Mills has been a good governor from all accounts. [SPEAKER_14]: She's an elderly lady. [SPEAKER_14]: She is seven. [SPEAKER_14]: She's got a few. [SPEAKER_04]: Look, you know, she's younger than Bernie Sanders. [SPEAKER_04]: She's a Bernie Sanders.

[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, well, isn't everyone. [SPEAKER_04]: She did. [SPEAKER_04]: In a Senate, she'd be one of the younger ones, okay? [SPEAKER_04]: Okay, but here's the thing. [SPEAKER_14]: It is, first of all, as we know, with some of our elder politicians, as we know as from Democrats who paid attention to the house this last year, [SPEAKER_14]: who died. [SPEAKER_14]: Yes, I know that's it. [SPEAKER_14]: It is it is a gamble. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, it's the thing.

[SPEAKER_14]: I don't believe the Kill day the end date to get into the main governor's race or the main Senate race pardon me. [SPEAKER_14]: Uh, isn't till next year. [SPEAKER_14]: I think this was a march or April of next year. [SPEAKER_14]: We have time to put a better candidate. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, our other candidate. [SPEAKER_14]: You can't tell me. [SPEAKER_14]: You cannot tell me even though Maine is a small population state.

[SPEAKER_14]: You cannot tell me that there is not a Democrat, a good Democrat. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: that takes some of the youth and energy and vigor of Grand Platner, some of the more assertive, not aggressive, progressive ideas of Grand Platner, and mix with the wisdom and experience and knowledge of Janet Mills, you can't tell me that because I know there is. [SPEAKER_13]: I know there's more than one. [SPEAKER_13]: that you could put a hat on and run with them in the Senate.

[SPEAKER_05]: I feel like, you know, with the purity test, right? [SPEAKER_05]: We're kind of like, okay, there can't be purity tests. [SPEAKER_05]: However, when it comes to racism, yeah, that's, that's not, it's not, it's not between, it's not between now, it's different. [SPEAKER_14]: I, I, I, exactly. [SPEAKER_14]: I don't think it's a purity test. [SPEAKER_14]: So much of these tests of character. [SPEAKER_14]: That's right.

[SPEAKER_14]: We had a piece earlier this week in the news on tap from Garrett graph that pointed out the reason why Donald Trump the single biggest reason why Donald Trump has been allowed to do everything that he's done from jacking the tariffs around to his will he won't he thing with his boyfriend Putin to knocking down the White House. [SPEAKER_14]: is because the strength of the character of the people who have been around Trump and people that they have hired has been so poor.

[SPEAKER_14]: I'm sorry for you. [SPEAKER_14]: If you're a destruction guy who was at that construction company who knocked down the east wing. [SPEAKER_14]: I know you work hard. [SPEAKER_14]: I get it, but you know what you should have said. [SPEAKER_14]: Hell no, I've walked off the site. [SPEAKER_04]: That's right. [SPEAKER_04]: And, and rate, you know, race. [SPEAKER_04]: The next should be disqualified for any Democrat. [SPEAKER_04]: We should not be. [SPEAKER_04]: That's enough.

[SPEAKER_04]: Except the misogyny, homophobia, racism. [SPEAKER_13]: And one of the and one of the things that Trump and a lot of other Republicans have made a lot of hey out of is by saying actually there's no difference. [SPEAKER_13]: There's no all these people are awful politicians are fed everywhere and by flattening that and by making that that's how you get someone like Trump who says exactly all terrible.

[SPEAKER_13]: You might as well get the guy who's terrible and you have everything that you want. [SPEAKER_13]: South part. [SPEAKER_13]: I don't want to make that. [SPEAKER_13]: Faust Morgan. [SPEAKER_13]: I'm not ready to do that. [SPEAKER_13]: And if it means that the Senate seat is a little bit harder, it was probably going to be really hard anyway. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_13]: Right. [SPEAKER_04]: Right. [SPEAKER_04]: We just camp that he did not see thing.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm sorry, but that didn't know for me. [SPEAKER_04]: I just know for me. [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_13]: To press the vote even in a place as white as Maine. [SPEAKER_13]: That's what I didn't think of. [SPEAKER_06]: It can mark and should get involved. [SPEAKER_14]: And I will, I guess, should, and I'm hoping he is behind the scenes. [SPEAKER_14]: I understand that here in Virginia, there is some, there's a mission.

[SPEAKER_14]: Some people have with Jay Jones, who is running for, um, Lute to air for a little bit. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: He said, but he, but here's the thing. [SPEAKER_14]: There is one instance, one, that they can find were Jay Jones as part of a heated conversation, made a graphic, yeah, disgust. [SPEAKER_14]: He was pissed. [SPEAKER_13]: He was also, by the way, a joke that many of us have made.

[SPEAKER_13]: It's not violent in the sense that you're, you're, you're, it's one of those things. [SPEAKER_13]: It's say, oh, Sean, I'm going to kill you. [SPEAKER_13]: That's, that's the kind of, that's right level of violence it is, actually. [SPEAKER_13]: That's. [SPEAKER_13]: And I haven't yet. [SPEAKER_14]: And if you're, I, thank you, thank you.

[SPEAKER_14]: If you're going to compare it, if we're going to compare it, let's compare it to the Republican who is the current attorney general.

[SPEAKER_14]: Jay-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-Joy-J [SPEAKER_14]: with the Republican attorney general of Virginia the guy who actually has the legal power right now saying what you know you can kill people and I'm perfectly fine with that Mr. Cop. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I'm sorry.

[SPEAKER_14]: I cannot if that's what somebody is saying. [SPEAKER_14]: I cannot trust their judgment on anything else. [SPEAKER_14]: J. Jones should be the next attorney general here. [SPEAKER_14]: Abigail Spanberger will be the next governor here. [SPEAKER_06]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_14]: And we've got got a camera running around. [SPEAKER_14]: She's she's very good for the lieutenant government position too. [SPEAKER_14]: I'm sorry [SPEAKER_04]: Well, we're in the meantime.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're just blowing up Venice, Waylands. [SPEAKER_04]: Okay. [SPEAKER_04]: I know. [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_06]: No people who have been a judge or Colombian. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, it's so great. [SPEAKER_14]: Right. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: We are we are committing. [SPEAKER_14]: crimes according to international law. [SPEAKER_14]: And we are, we are taking Columbia by the way, has been in ally for those who don't have the war on drugs.

[SPEAKER_04]: And the president there has been, you know, surely good on the war on drugs. [SPEAKER_04]: He's been trying very hard to, you know, clean up Columbia. [SPEAKER_14]: And remember, this isn't necessarily Trump.

[SPEAKER_14]: This is the fact that you've got Stephen Miller, and you've got P. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K [SPEAKER_13]: And, first of all, they're doing it by the way, just to provide enough film entertainment for their base.

[SPEAKER_04]: And to justify a war with Venezuela, they're trying to get Venezuela to react. [SPEAKER_14]: But here's they can justify it. [SPEAKER_14]: Just to get very little react, you don't go marching to Colombia, who is an ally.

[SPEAKER_14]: When you start doing things like that, that fully gives the response that the Prime Minister of Canada today, Mark Carney, after Trump did his thing last night where he's like, I can't believe that you played that audio of an ad over music and Ronald Reagan said that tariffs are bad thing because they are.

[SPEAKER_14]: And Mark Carney was like, you know what, the US used to be an ally that we could trust and we used to have a lot of our economics and a lot of our military tied [SPEAKER_14]: We can't, and you know what, we're moving on sweet cheeks. [SPEAKER_05]: Did you see that the regular library, did you hear the Reagan library said that that the video was misleading? [SPEAKER_04]: It was not misleading. [SPEAKER_04]: The guy that runs the Reagan Foundation is a big time magazine.

[SPEAKER_04]: He used to work at the White House. [SPEAKER_04]: for that perspective and because that's important. [SPEAKER_14]: The fact is we will put it that we said once we're cleaning up here at the bar tonight. [SPEAKER_14]: We will put out the full two hundred and seventeen second clip on our social. [SPEAKER_14]: So you guys can read that.

[SPEAKER_14]: So listen to that check that out and we will also go ahead and put up the ad that the uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh

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[SPEAKER_04]: They're going to play the national anthem, is it going to get blues and Toronto is what I'm asking. [SPEAKER_04]: I don't think it will. [SPEAKER_04]: I don't think it will. [SPEAKER_04]: It might. [SPEAKER_04]: I don't think it will. [SPEAKER_04]: If it does, it's fine. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm cool with that. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm fine with that. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm fine with that. [SPEAKER_04]: But you know, Donald Trump is trying to try to. [SPEAKER_04]: We just serve it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_14]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_14]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_14]: Can it? [SPEAKER_14]: Here's the thing. [SPEAKER_14]: If the doctors win Jodi wins, and that makes all of us win because we're all happy and Jodi's happy, and that's just a good thing. [SPEAKER_14]: So there we go. [SPEAKER_14]: And if Toronto wins, Maryland. [SPEAKER_14]: Donald, Donald, Donald. [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_04]: Second to bigger than you, Jodi.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay. [SPEAKER_04]: I know. [SPEAKER_14]: I'm with you. [SPEAKER_14]: Anita. [SPEAKER_04]: You're with either way. [SPEAKER_14]: Either way. [SPEAKER_14]: Jodi wins. [SPEAKER_14]: Nobody wins. [SPEAKER_14]: That's true. [SPEAKER_14]: Jodi. [SPEAKER_14]: As her co-host and co-producer, I also figure, I'm in on that winning. [SPEAKER_14]: So I'm [SPEAKER_14]: pretty good. [SPEAKER_14]: Plus, both teams are wearing blue.

[SPEAKER_14]: Some of the magas are already pissed about that because they're like, I guess what, you want to see them wear red? [SPEAKER_14]: Okay, they'll wear their bright red maple leaf. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, they're going to do anyway because they hate Delay and they hate Canada. [SPEAKER_04]: So, exactly. [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, we're going to win anyway. [SPEAKER_04]: That's right. [SPEAKER_04]: We're [SPEAKER_14]: We're all winners tonight here at the politics bar.

[SPEAKER_14]: God, thank you guys so much for coming in from wherever you have. [SPEAKER_14]: We're going to a little bit more here as we've got the after hours. [SPEAKER_14]: No, no. [SPEAKER_06]: Babe, we have another section segment. [SPEAKER_14]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_14]: We have a whole other segments. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, babe. [SPEAKER_05]: It's, I'm not going. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, crap. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I guess I'm going to carry a segment. [SPEAKER_02]: All right, let's go.

[SPEAKER_02]: Sean's cut off. [SPEAKER_04]: He's trying to kick in that book or do. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm starting to see anybody, uh, or just look back. [SPEAKER_14]: It's been a long week and, you know, my favorite building got partially destroyed. [SPEAKER_14]: So I'm still on the street. [SPEAKER_14]: Look, we got one more round. [SPEAKER_14]: We'll do last time here. [SPEAKER_14]: Okay, one more round. [SPEAKER_14]: One more round. [SPEAKER_14]: Somebody else take the mic when I come back.

[SPEAKER_14]: One more. [SPEAKER_14]: I'm glad you didn't have to do that. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm glad you didn't have to do that. [SPEAKER_04]: Jody, take his car keys. [SPEAKER_04]: No! [SPEAKER_04]: I think it's hard to do that. [SPEAKER_04]: You can't drive that. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm glad you didn't have to do that. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm glad you didn't have to do that. [UNKNOWN]: I'm glad you didn't have to do that. [UNKNOWN]: I'm glad you didn't have to do that.

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[SPEAKER_11]: I'm glad you didn't have to [SPEAKER_14]: All right, all right, now we're last call for alcohol. [SPEAKER_14]: Finally, last call for alcohol at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_14]: All of Friday nights, you are hanging out with Karen and Anita of True Blue Politics and the Water Only Jared Rizzi White House correspondent extraordinaire. [SPEAKER_06]: But of course, you got Jody because, you know, we know what you're just sticking around because he used the sandwich of the heroes.

[SPEAKER_13]: Jared is the man made of the sandwich tonight. [SPEAKER_13]: We're just, I just, I just, it's so uncomfortable. [SPEAKER_04]: I heard Alex Jones, what's the name of Peter's podcast and whatever that is? [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, uh, uh, info wars, is that what you mean? [SPEAKER_14]: We're actually getting a press credentials for the Pentagon.

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[SPEAKER_14]: You can't get a gun if you guys missed any part of the earlier part of the show tonight. [SPEAKER_14]: Maybe you're doing other things. [SPEAKER_14]: Maybe you're a busy look. [SPEAKER_14]: Easy thing you can do is subscribe to the politicsbar.com or on your favorite podcast player. [SPEAKER_14]: All right, so since we were talking about it there, Pete Kegreff is once again doing things that [SPEAKER_14]: So they no longer have a legitimate press corps at the time.

[SPEAKER_06]: No, no, they don't. [SPEAKER_13]: They have because because, because because, because important contacts, they wanted to limit what people could do as journalists in the building. [SPEAKER_13]: They only could use officially sanction statements. [SPEAKER_13]: So you're basically talking to one of probably the most talented press corps in the entire district.

[SPEAKER_13]: And saying you guys are going to be chained to something heavy in the basement, instead of being able to do your actual job and everyone except for the one American. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_13]: Well, something I can't say on this show, but they basically did a formal statement version of that.

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[SPEAKER_14]: I think I'm thinking of nothing. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: Oh, yes. [SPEAKER_14]: I'm not saying tattoo right now. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: But for those of you missed it. [SPEAKER_14]: So basically what Kate Brett did this week is that he said that and actually started here What? [SPEAKER_14]: Two three weeks ago journey. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_13]: Actually, he's longer than that.

[SPEAKER_13]: Because they told them months ago that they were going to make these changes. [SPEAKER_13]: And everyone's like, don't do it. [SPEAKER_13]: That's really good. [SPEAKER_13]: We will walk and change it. [SPEAKER_14]: The changes for those of you who missed it. [SPEAKER_14]: Basically, we're that. [SPEAKER_14]: any one who covers anything in the Pentagon. [SPEAKER_14]: They were going to make sure that everything. [SPEAKER_14]: And I mean everything.

[SPEAKER_14]: Every scrap of paper, every text message, every whispered comment to them was cleared first by basically a minder that Pete Higgs-Seth had. [SPEAKER_14]: Now look, you guys have all kinds of different jobs. [SPEAKER_14]: Doing whatever you do. [SPEAKER_14]: Every single signal chat as well. [SPEAKER_14]: We know what that goes. [SPEAKER_14]: Look, every, every, everything.

[SPEAKER_14]: And whether you are driving for Uber or Lyft, whether you are listening to us as you do an exercise and whether you're hanging out with us just chillin and have a nice drink, whatever. [SPEAKER_14]: Maybe you work retail or maybe you work landscaping or maybe you work in an office. [SPEAKER_14]: everybody knows to do your work. [SPEAKER_14]: You get all kinds of information.

[SPEAKER_14]: You get requests, you get pieces of paper, you get text, you get emails that do not go into the final product that you deliver. [SPEAKER_14]: Whether you are a waitress or whether you are working in a law office. [SPEAKER_14]: We all do it. [SPEAKER_14]: Journalists do it too. [SPEAKER_14]: Hell, you know, my journey. [SPEAKER_14]: We've talked about that. [SPEAKER_14]: I'm team different times here. [SPEAKER_14]: Hell. [SPEAKER_14]: That's the case.

[SPEAKER_14]: We collect all kinds of stuff that it don't work that way. [SPEAKER_06]: So we know. [SPEAKER_06]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_14]: And yet, Kegbreath wanted to make sure that every, every, every, everything. [SPEAKER_14]: And so, of course, any journalist that had any scrap of integrity, and I'm shocked that the folks at Fox said no way, but even if you can't see the facts, even they were like, hell, no.

[SPEAKER_14]: yeah so they all on mass did exactly what you should do in a situation exactly what the folks who knocked down the west or the east wing this week did not do exactly they said no yeah he said hell no and they said f u p keg breath bite me and they packed stuff up in boxes and they walked out and if you guys have seen any of the footage of it they would joyfully they're walking they were like I'm glad I'm good yeah [SPEAKER_13]: You're right, you're right.

[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, no. [SPEAKER_13]: It's so rare that you get to both not do your job and do your job the best. [SPEAKER_13]: I know. [SPEAKER_04]: That's pretty easy. [SPEAKER_14]: That's pretty easy, right? [SPEAKER_14]: Here, bar, you know, somebody comes up and they're like, how is it like? [SPEAKER_14]: Oh, wow. [SPEAKER_13]: You're like, no. [SPEAKER_13]: And that guy works for Nate Weepundet. [SPEAKER_13]: I know that voice.

[SPEAKER_14]: I get with that now has now has a slot at the point on it. [SPEAKER_13]: That's all. [SPEAKER_13]: A wave on it. [SPEAKER_13]: National pulse, human events, 10 pool, baseball, I know, hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Russians. [SPEAKER_13]: You now have. [SPEAKER_03]: I know. [SPEAKER_13]: See, in the way. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, Danny Johnson. [SPEAKER_13]: Right. [SPEAKER_03]: Betty Johnson is out there.

[SPEAKER_14]: Well, they literally have, they literally have Russian paid performance in the pentagon now to be fair. [SPEAKER_13]: Because they don't see house. [SPEAKER_13]: Many Johnson was just going to copy what somebody else wrote anyway. [SPEAKER_13]: So it's not a big area. [SPEAKER_13]: Peace for that one Jared because that's actually true. [SPEAKER_13]: It's a deeper cut if you got it.

[SPEAKER_13]: You had actually remember how terrible he was like 12 years ago for that one Oh, no, he hasn't gotten much better. [SPEAKER_13]: Oh, he's worked for. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's right. [SPEAKER_04]: But didn't mind by driving. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, he hasn't gotten better. [SPEAKER_13]: No. [SPEAKER_13]: Well, I mean because of the stuff he's copying is and hasn't gotten better. [SPEAKER_13]: He's got a crib notes from the pillow guy.

[SPEAKER_13]: We might have a gun with his feet today. [SPEAKER_13]: No orthopedic support for these troops. [SPEAKER_13]: I don't know if this story is terrible. [SPEAKER_04]: I don't understand. [SPEAKER_04]: But I get some free towels. [SPEAKER_13]: It's a terrible product. [SPEAKER_13]: I think it's a terrible product. [SPEAKER_14]: It's a terrible product. [SPEAKER_14]: So any product that will be coming from that white. [SPEAKER_14]: The propaganda.

[SPEAKER_14]: The Pentagon propaganda court is really, I think, would you can call them now. [SPEAKER_14]: The PPC. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, my concern is that because there is a bunker under the East Wing. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: And who's paying for that renovation, which does it to be happening and who's making sure it's it's secure. [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, seriously, that's where the audience, where it's the audience.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, she's enjoying her offices, right? [SPEAKER_06]: She says F Christmas. [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, I mean, as I say today that the holiday tours are still going to be on and I wonder where they're going to put the blood red trees. [SPEAKER_14]: Oh, I know it's shining this time. [SPEAKER_13]: The holiday tours will be on because the visitor center was in the East Wing. [SPEAKER_13]: Everyone every kid gets a jackhammer for Christmas. [SPEAKER_13]: I don't understand.

[SPEAKER_14]: They go into court right now right now right now right but yes every every kid gets a jackhammer And it's told to get out there and get to work. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's that's a Republican method, but I heard that he was selling the bricks Yeah, like us, but here. [SPEAKER_04]: No, I don't think that's what I heard on Twitter now. [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, yeah [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's winter, but it's winter. [SPEAKER_04]: How many did say it? [SPEAKER_13]: Here's the list.

[SPEAKER_04]: All three of us. [SPEAKER_04]: All three of us. [SPEAKER_13]: Booze Allen Hamilton, Caterpillar, Comcast, Hard Rock, International. [SPEAKER_13]: If you're enjoying a Margarita at Hard Rock, you're helping pay for the demolition of the East Wing. [SPEAKER_13]: It's hard rock. [SPEAKER_13]: T-Mobile. [SPEAKER_13]: Let's see the Adelson family, Charles and Rizket.

[SPEAKER_14]: My old man, for the hard rock folks, just letting you know, you guys, your first big mistake was letting my friend Malon, who used to be with, she used to work in their executives and the place hasn't been the same since. [SPEAKER_14]: She's up in the AM-950 area. [SPEAKER_14]: She kicks ass and I'm sorry, you hard rock people you suck, just saying. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, I wanted her name was Melania. [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't know the way it was.

[SPEAKER_14]: Well, yeah, as it's girl in college with she is she is absolutely fantastic at hospitality. [SPEAKER_14]: She is a genius for them. [SPEAKER_14]: She worked for them. [SPEAKER_14]: She worked for famous days at one point. [SPEAKER_14]: I believe she's at a local restaurant in the cities now.

[SPEAKER_14]: And she is [SPEAKER_14]: Look, it's one of one of the spurs that helped spur the idea for the politics bar was the fact that I got a chance what I went home to to stop in the Twin Cities and stop and hang out with my friend Melania and my friend Ruby and we hung out and I just sat there and we would flip from topic to topic like we got a little like we've been doing here tonight and and I thought you know what this would be freaking awesome as a radio show.

[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: And and it's because of people like Malania, my friend, who not the first lady. [SPEAKER_06]: The other one who's never my friend. [SPEAKER_06]: She hates that part. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_14]: Right. [SPEAKER_14]: Oh, by the way, yeah, my friend absolutely hates it when people go Malania. [SPEAKER_14]: You mean like the first lady and she's like, she's like, [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, my friend, my friend, the biggest thing is is that that And she's opinion.

[SPEAKER_14]: No, no, no, but, but she, but she, but she is mean she, she learned to go into hospitality because she was doing other things and she realized she was really good at making people feel comfortable. [SPEAKER_04]: And unlike the other one, well, the other one is also in hospitality, when that's the idea. [SPEAKER_14]: My friend, my friend, does it just a possibility on like the first lane? [SPEAKER_15]: Just. [SPEAKER_13]: Well, and they call it, okay?

[SPEAKER_13]: I started listening to the politics part today and they played that long Reagan clip and then Sean really likes Polania. [SPEAKER_13]: I just don't understand. [SPEAKER_14]: But my friend makes people feel comfortable and I think people are tired of being discounted who do hospitality or do retail work. [SPEAKER_02]: No, I agree. [SPEAKER_14]: There are people who work in law offices and people who work for government. [SPEAKER_14]: wherever you work, whatever you're doing.

[SPEAKER_14]: If you do it well and you do it with integrity, you should be respected for doing what you do. [SPEAKER_14]: If you work at it and you're good in all your friends relying on you and they know you and you make people, you make life better wherever you are because of being there. [SPEAKER_04]: Think about all the federal workers that you have not yet. [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, seriously, those people don't get paid. [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, they get paid.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm sure. [SPEAKER_04]: Not right now. [SPEAKER_04]: But you're not, but they're not going to fit in there being so abuse. [SPEAKER_04]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_04]: It is just sad. [SPEAKER_14]: I mean, the deal with federal workers make, the exchange that federal workers make is in exchange for being paid less than we would be on the open market. [SPEAKER_14]: we get reliability, we get good solid pay, good benefits, reliable job.

[SPEAKER_14]: And right now, especially because we're a health, big at OMB, uh, Russ vote and Donald Trump and J. [SPEAKER_05]: Hey, you're a public and party. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, they are the ones who are saying to all of these hard-working government workers across the country who live in the ones for the American people. [SPEAKER_14]: They are screwing all of us by keeping this government closed. [SPEAKER_14]: And Teddy Johnson, I'm sorry, dude.

[SPEAKER_14]: Even there are enough Republicans in the house right now. [SPEAKER_14]: There are literally more than a dozen Republicans in the House if every Democrat and all of those Republicans voted to get through a bill that would guarantee that Republicans wouldn't be able to cheat on the deal, that the ACA subsidies would get back, and that the Medicare Medicaid money would come back, that thing would pass. [SPEAKER_11]: day.

[SPEAKER_14]: It wasn't there because Tiny Johnson is standing there and the Republicans are just standing there waving their tiny Johnson and us. [SPEAKER_14]: And the rest of us are really sick and tired of you guys waving that little thing at us. [SPEAKER_14]: They don't care. [SPEAKER_14]: They don't care. [SPEAKER_04]: They don't care. [SPEAKER_04]: They don't care. [SPEAKER_13]: They don't care.

[SPEAKER_13]: They genuinely do care about protecting the the remnants of the reputation of somebody who doesn't want the Epstein files. [SPEAKER_02]: Yep. [SPEAKER_02]: They're talking about that. [SPEAKER_13]: They're talking about that. [SPEAKER_13]: They can peel off one of the Republican on this discharge petition before the 60th. [SPEAKER_13]: The moment the moment the moment that gravity is.

[SPEAKER_04]: The moment that the moment that the moment exactly [SPEAKER_14]: You can ask Bell of the night there to need a thing. [SPEAKER_14]: Look, by the way, if you guys missed it, you should go. [SPEAKER_14]: Subscribe to True Blue Politics. [SPEAKER_14]: You can see this. [SPEAKER_14]: Listen, Karen, and any time you like it, of course, you can check out the episode where you're in Jody and I are there. [SPEAKER_14]: Here we go. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: Thank you so much, man.

[SPEAKER_14]: We will obviously have you back here another couple of weeks. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, my God, you're on the whole time. [SPEAKER_06]: I love you. [SPEAKER_14]: I love you. [SPEAKER_14]: Oh, I love him. [SPEAKER_14]: He's great. [SPEAKER_14]: Oh, I have to get out.

[SPEAKER_14]: Next week of course Brooklyn Dad Defiant coming in we love having him around here because Tuesday Mindy Cone and we're gonna have Ron Roberts of the Ron show as well more guests as well Rest up this weekend folks get some time with your community. [SPEAKER_14]: Come on back. [SPEAKER_14]: See us Monday night here at the politics bar