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00:00:02thanks for joining us for political talk on another politipod live tonight we'll cover
00:00:07freedom 250 crashing we're breaking out and accountability speak we'll also have our
00:00:15segments international news and economy i'm tom bickle
00:00:23i'm hannah solner and i'm matt nissanoff we'll start with freedom 250 freedom 250 happened and
00:00:35as you may know there's american 250 which is the celebration of america's 250 years
00:00:42and trump decided to jump on this bandwagon and put something together called freedom 250
00:00:49which was actually for his birthday which is of course in a different month than america's birthday
00:00:55which is in july but he says they're the same day and to him that may be true however the
00:01:04freedom 250
00:01:05moved forward having a concert and a wrestling or pardon me wrestling match in front of the white
00:01:14house the concert didn't go so well most of the musicians when they learned it wasn't america 250
00:01:20that they were performing in quit and canceled their performances however the wrestling or pardon me
00:01:28wrestling went forward full steam ahead and they even avoided the rain there were rainstorms that
00:01:34were coming into the washington dc washington dc area on the same day as the matches but it skirted
00:01:43around just south of the actual uh white house so they avoided the rain so good for them and uh
00:01:51so
00:01:52anyone got anything on the concert or the rasslin the concert that never was yeah uh pathetic pathetic
00:02:00they tried to put together a concert didn't even confirm any of the acts
00:02:07ready shoot aim uh you're gonna take your eye out kid this is ridiculous and good for them good for
00:02:16the artists that bailed oh my gosh good for the artists that bailed uh what do we have millie and
00:02:21vanilla one of them's dead the other one's not coming uh i mean anyway too many to list good for
00:02:28them though good even these are not big acts they could probably use the money assuming they got paid
00:02:33properly as uh agreed with and uh that's not something you can assume with this bunch but yeah just
00:02:39taking the heat there's a comedian named nate bar gatz has uh been enjoying something a bit of a moment
00:02:48and uh he showed up at freedom 250 made sure to uh get lots of photos with uh all the
00:02:54uh trumpers and
00:02:55trumpets and the maggots and uh not going so well for him now i'm seeing getting slagged on social media
00:03:03he just had a uh i don't know he had something big come up like a movie or uh i
00:03:09think he hosted
00:03:10hosted an award show i hear he didn't do well i hear the movie didn't do well and so you
00:03:16know hollywood
00:03:18will give you a couple of strikes but i don't think it's more than three and he's had two showing
00:03:22up
00:03:22at freedom 250 might have been number three we'll see comedians try to what you i hate to say it
00:03:28you
00:03:28got to pick a side in this country you got to pick a side the world demands the country demands
00:03:32the
00:03:33media demands you you can't just whistle through the graveyard and say i don't talk about politics
00:03:38much especially if you're going to show up at the president's birthday party so uh yeah i love the
00:03:46the entertainment absolute pratfall onto their butts um helpless hopeless they are as good at entertainment
00:03:57war which i'll do it again do it again i guess the ufc lost like 30 million dollars they asked
00:04:04him
00:04:04when he's going to do it again next he says i can't afford to do this again cost 60 million
00:04:09dollars to
00:04:10put on he made 30 million dollars doing it yeah even donald trump can read that math
00:04:17wait wait wait you're saying that something that donald trump was involved with financially
00:04:23didn't do well i know didn't pay off to any to anybody anybody's benefit but donald trump i know
00:04:30it's crazy talk and yet i know first time for anything huh huh shocking
00:04:39well i was in there's a sucker born every minute apparently dana white was the latest
00:04:45and good for him good for him i love that for him yeah i love that um and hannah anything
00:04:53on that
00:04:54yeah i was gonna say it would be one thing if it was a lost leader that got you something
00:04:59but i feel
00:05:00like it was all bad breasts um rightly so it's a stupid idea and it shouldn't have been done
00:05:07um i do want to say one of the things that stood out to me was uh the weather channel
00:05:13tweeted
00:05:13about there being potential rain and uh some of the administration's like rapid response
00:05:21wrote back to them and they were like this is about like celebrating america how dare you would
00:05:26say this whatever whatever and like i don't know the weather channel they just report about the weather
00:05:32like they don't have a political
00:05:38old man yells at clouds yeah exactly well and the and the fact is there was a storm
00:05:46old man's lacking
00:05:51but the bottom line was there was a storm it did come in it just happened to skirt around
00:05:57uh anne arundel and prince georgias and it was just south of where washington dc is um so they were
00:06:06just being honest
00:06:08all right next failure the next failure we have to discuss here is the failure to fix the algae blooms
00:06:16if you recall here you may have heard the reflecting pool was redone on the image of
00:06:24donald trump and he wanted to drain it and repaint it and make it not a color that would reflect
00:06:34the washington monument which is you know kind of how it got its name reflecting pool
00:06:39and but he wanted to redo it like a swimming pool make it a different color and of course everybody
00:06:46rushed to and he bragged about how the length of the reflection pool
00:06:52is longer than skyscraper buildings are tall so it was a really major thing that's just science matt you
00:07:01know it exactly exactly and uh the reflecting pool is a little shallow maybe in kind in uh in comparison
00:07:12to a
00:07:15building with and you know uh but in height he's absolutely right uh it is a longer size than buildings
00:07:23are tall so congratulations mr president you passed this cognitive test too that's right if if height were
00:07:31width it would be taller than the taller tallest building and if gumdrops were wishes
00:07:39oh my god and so they did it and they changed it all and they filled it back up and
00:07:47they got algae blooms
00:07:50they didn't treat the water correctly and they're starting the algae blooms all over the bottom of it
00:07:55so it doesn't really matter what color it is you can't see it because it's getting covered up in
00:08:00algae and the latest thing is i think they're pouring in it's all green green is the color
00:08:07it's all green and they started pouring massive uh emptying bottles of uh or jugs of hydrochloric um
00:08:18all right so they're trying all sorts of hydrogen peroxide gallon jugs by hand
00:08:30it's taller than it's not even like building or something matt you're doing it by hand
00:08:35you got the world's best it's not even some i don't even think it's some industrial whatever i
00:08:41think they just went and got it at the store yeah yeah i heard reports it said like walmart
00:08:47brand hydrogen peroxide they didn't get a truck they didn't get barrels they didn't get a i don't
00:08:52do they have a pump i worked at a pool swimming pool company for a while i thought the go
00:08:57-to
00:08:57was chlorine maybe it's bad for the paint i don't know god bless don't don't risk the paint the brand
00:09:05new don't chip it layer of that paint it's paying off dividends already you don't want to mess with that
00:09:11tom you wouldn't pour chlorine on a building would you that's you're right matt how stupid of me
00:09:17you know the building had covid you if the building had covid you would
00:09:24yeah that's the bleach or the ivermectin see
00:09:29i i also saw that uh you know trump i think gave gave the refinishing or whatever to his pool
00:09:39guy and i think that pool guy's person like tweeted out and they're like just so you know
00:09:44we did a good job please don't let this like reflect poorly on us and it's like oh my god
00:09:50heaven
00:09:50forbid it's not reflecting jack shit except for a green hue
00:09:56that's what it's reflecting there you go it's a reflecting pool for god's sake
00:10:03yeah well it reflects exactly what it now reflects it reflects the poor administration of this
00:10:10administration this is this and iran suffer from exactly the same problem somebody comes in says
00:10:18they're going to fix it says they're fixing it completely wrecks it makes it worse than they
00:10:24found it by leagues by factors of two and four and ten making it obviously worse everyone can see that
00:10:32it's worse and then at some point they just they get tired from screwing it up they get exhausted and
00:10:39they go well that's all the winning i can stand for one day but he spent a lot of money
00:10:45yeah and they
00:10:47tell you what how lucky you are for that they that just got done destroying the entire project that
00:10:53they were supposed to be helping and they'll tell you they did it better than anybody i can't imagine
00:10:59having sex with these people i can't it's uh nobody wins and well it's it's the same thing though from
00:11:08the from the reflecting pool to iran you take a problem wasn't even a problem and you just shatter it
00:11:15you just we'll come back to iran in a little bit um we do want to wrap up on this
00:11:21section the freedom 250
00:11:23by mentioning that one of the wrestlers had a comment about michelle obama an attack that's been
00:11:29made a number of times and is really ridiculous um and i don't i don't want to mention the guy's
00:11:38name i
00:11:38care about him but a friend of joe rogan's let's put it that way and rogan smirked and let it
00:11:45go and
00:11:45didn't correct it and um so you know this is the that's this is the caliber of people who were
00:11:53not
00:11:53only in attendance but the people who were performing and paramount ran it they could have blocked that
00:12:00yeah had they wanted to and joe rogan he didn't flinch he didn't stop smiling he didn't say gee
00:12:10whiz man we're on tv right now nothing not even self-deprecating a little just let it fly i guess
00:12:17i
00:12:17mean it's pretty gross yeah something a little less gross but something that we'll wrap up this section
00:12:26with comparatively less gross elephant exactly for for a republican uh for an elephant was brought in
00:12:35to a republican convention and on its way out decided to release an opinion uh well release something
00:12:46and wound up urinating all over the stage trump paid extra for that yeah he always does
00:12:55ask around it's just kind of his thing anything else about the elephant before we move on
00:13:03i mean kudos kudos
00:13:10um very good so we will move on to our first segment of the evening that being economy and we're
00:13:19gonna touch
00:13:20on two or three things here one of course uh that elon musk has too much money and that's been
00:13:28made clear
00:13:29what do you think about uh the uh the paper trail of uh musk's wealth
00:13:38it proves there is no god and morality is an illusion
00:13:44well it certainly puts it yeah yeah go ahead no i mean it definitely proves that the economy is based
00:13:53on nothing um i was thinking about this the other day i saw a news article that's like musk is
00:14:00worth
00:14:00more than you know general motors and something else combined and i just feel like this is on his launch
00:14:07of
00:14:07x ai and spacex and i just feel like x ai is not even like in the top one or
00:14:15two ais right it's it's not doing as well as uh open ai or whatever
00:14:22and i feel like if it disappeared tomorrow and if spacex shuttered tomorrow
00:14:27i my life would be basically unchanged and the amount of money he's making people are saying you know like
00:14:34whatever whatever he's like helping nasa
00:14:36the amount of money he made is enough to fund nasa for the next 40 years like it's literally just
00:14:42not worth that much money
00:14:45um but uh the stock market is fake so i guess it is worth that much money
00:14:51it's all right it's all on paper it's all value it's all number go up right could go down in
00:14:59a day
00:14:59um could lose it all um i would love to find out what happens if elon musk just suddenly cease
00:15:09to exist
00:15:10that's fine with me i think as a minor quibble with your assertion uh i think uh uh what is
00:15:19what's his uh
00:15:20starlink satellites i think those are doing big things for people like they they used to be
00:15:26i thought they used to be ukraine's method of main method of communication and then i saw headlines a
00:15:33year two or three ago now uh not recently that uh musk was messing with that he was shutting that
00:15:43access
00:15:43off i don't know what happened after that something must have well i remember he threatened to do it as
00:15:50part of a sort of backing putin sort of thing but i don't know i don't know for a fact
00:15:55if he actually did
00:15:57well i was under the impression they were provided by u.s military but they were starlink so that gives
00:16:03two different uh entities a chance to pinch the choke you know kink the hose and stop that so uh
00:16:12ukraine
00:16:13seems to be doing fine with their drones so they must be getting internet from somebody
00:16:22it's happening and we'll move on to mention that the g7 is also underway
00:16:29speaking of the economy one of the things i noted was that the leader of canada mark carney said that
00:16:37no one country will lead in the future and coalitions are the thing and no more no less perhaps
00:16:47than the coalition between canada and ireland ireland is also happens to be taking over the chair of the g7
00:16:56and canada canada and ireland are working towards a connection between canada and the eu
00:17:03so two big blocks trying to figure out how they can work together and we'll see what sort of economic
00:17:11gains can be made through that i would think that there'd be some i'd think it'd be if you can
00:17:17trade
00:17:18with the eu it's probably a good idea and i think if you can trade with canada it's a good
00:17:23idea now i know
00:17:25that runs counter to current u.s goals but seems like it might be worth doing and now they're finding
00:17:33each other so we'll see what happens from that but carney does that make an excellent point it's going to
00:17:39be in the coalitions that you can make and not just one country sort of making everything work this is
00:17:51the 2050s almost so we're things have changed and you're going to have to change with it or you'll
00:17:58drop behind you know we could have we could have maintained a position of prominence
00:18:04years decades into the future if somebody hadn't just uh again again let me fix that smash bang
00:18:13correct sound of broken glass woman screams uh
00:18:20all done fixed it did the same thing the to our our allies our economy uh i i'm listen i'm
00:18:29not
00:18:29comfortable with this country big dog and everybody at every turn i think we've made some choices that uh
00:18:35weren't good uh and and shut down some really important things but shutting you know shutting ourselves out
00:18:42uh of alliances and coalitions so that people we're the one it's not just gonna be one country anymore
00:18:50i know we were that country now we don't have that uh maybe it's better for the world and that's
00:18:57good
00:18:57i want the world to be safe happy and better than it was but it's not good for this country
00:19:02and you know
00:19:03uh who knows what pieces are gonna fall off die off or get bitten off whether it's militarily or
00:19:11economically culturally we're gonna lose one way or another it's not good not good for the country
00:19:21yeah i i agree i think that uh you know obviously there is something to be said for being like
00:19:30sort of
00:19:30like the world superpower um but it's not healthy you know like it's it's not healthy it's not sustainable
00:19:38you know and there's all this like you know fear about oh we're gonna fall then it's gonna be china
00:19:44and i know in the 90s people were like we're gonna fall and it's gonna be japan and whatever
00:19:49and i feel like there doesn't need to be the like next i don't i don't know if there's like
00:19:56any
00:19:57there's countries that i think would be better or worse but i don't like the idea of any one single
00:20:02country being the you know sole thing it wasn't great when it was britain before us or france before
00:20:08them or you know rome before them or whatever you know i think that this this idea of coalition is
00:20:15good and i think that it you know we'll get into this a little bit later with uh the ukraine
00:20:20but i feel
00:20:21like this it then forces you to work it's not one person can't mess everything up and i feel like
00:20:29there's a
00:20:29a little bit of a you know dissuades you from i don't want to go after a you know a
00:20:35european
00:20:35country if there's a european coalition or you know whatever and i think that these like sort of
00:20:41coalition building systems um are better in the long run and honestly like if it ends up
00:20:50dinging america because we're not the chosen one anymore or whatever and have the world's currency
00:20:56that's just something that the you know equality takes it means to get equality for the people who
00:21:02are sort of not as well off means that the people at the top have to give some up you
00:21:07know i can't
00:21:08complain about musk having too much money and i also realize maybe we have too much money
00:21:13it's not quite the same but you know i feel like yeah oh when you're done please
00:21:20no i just feel like uh i feel like if we can build you know shared coalitions responsibilities
00:21:29alliances whatever i think that that's good as opposed to having a pyramid
00:21:37i'm with you uh i don't like morally and and sort of equality wise i don't like that this country
00:21:44would lord it over other countries i know it's better for our country uh there is a universal truth
00:21:49if there is a big dog on the block it is better to be be the big dog than to
00:21:53be subject to the big
00:21:54dog on the block uh we are losing that big dog spot and yeah there's a certain moral sort of
00:22:01balance to
00:22:02it uh france used to rule the waves then it was uh britain uh and then it's us and then
00:22:09maybe after
00:22:09us it's somebody else it and yeah there's a sense there's a sense that all you know what goes up
00:22:15must
00:22:16come down or if nothing else but when those consequences come you know part of being the big
00:22:23dog on the block means more money for the country well i don't get most of that money i get
00:22:29a tiny
00:22:29tiny sliver of a tiny tiny sliver of that money but it could always be less and they can always
00:22:34take
00:22:35it away from you also that may come in the form of less safety less security more hassle when you
00:22:40go to
00:22:41the airport uh because we are there's maybe there's uh you know more more threats than before or maybe
00:22:49something happens to you or your loved one or you know as a as a cost as a factor of
00:22:55that security
00:22:56failing or being more vulnerable in one way or another maybe it's the next um us being uh you know
00:23:04the
00:23:05next victim of the next ebola or uh whatever bird flu or whatever frightening biological potential is
00:23:12out there and if we eat it harder all the harder for having lost uh some measure of preference overall
00:23:23uh then it'll be harder to take i'm i'm with you that i you know i as we as we
00:23:28watched all our allies
00:23:30slip over the horizon in the first year of this trump administration uh i heard them talking on
00:23:38you know at press conferences and saying well you know it's um uh we used to be subject to the
00:23:44usa
00:23:45because of this and that and here come all these tariffs we're not going to work with them anymore
00:23:49and they kind of led on diplomatically they let on that it's better not to be under our thumb they
00:23:55were
00:23:55looking forward to you know forming different coalitions as they are and going around us
00:24:01because we were insufferable and impossible to work with and there they go and but we're losing
00:24:08because of that we can't influence those countries to do something that's better for us uh so anyway
00:24:14the consequences i think uh are different than in theory uh they're going to be harder to take but we'll
00:24:20see
00:24:21we'll see and one other thing i'll point out before we leave this topic which is japan and
00:24:27the united kingdom have now come to trade agreements that were not in place before and certainly the uk
00:24:34needs it the whole brexit and economy debacle that has damaged that country for decades they can
00:24:42certainly use some good news so there's a little bit we are moving on to our next issue which is
00:24:48crashing and the crashing um i've always said that with airplanes you know there's a company that makes
00:24:58planes and it's called boing and how much confidence can you have in a company named boing
00:25:05that makes airplanes i don't know but it is uh with the reason the issue came up was there was
00:25:12a
00:25:14b52 that crashed in california interestingly enough a boeing is not the sound it made when it crashed
00:25:23exactly no recording uh shows that totally off and right right and uh so
00:25:33what have you heard anything you know about the b52 we'll take a minute or two on that and then
00:25:38move on
00:25:40uh i mean uh they're saying eight people have died uh including military personnel boeing employees
00:25:48and government civilians um i don't know that they've uh named any
00:25:59purported reason for it yet
00:26:02so it's hard to really say that'll take months yeah i mean yeah unless it's something obvious you
00:26:11know hit by a comet or something for example i don't know right but i'd rather there be an
00:26:20investigation and they have a because that is something that is done very well this is a tragic
00:26:26situation and having professionals do the job professionally to look into it and figure out
00:26:32what exactly did happen is important and we can do that still sure as much as uh the current
00:26:39administration might have tried to dismantle and underfund and remove funds from every department
00:26:46including the faa it's it's there's a real function that is performed and that is important
00:26:54and this is the sort of thing that we need to know that this they need to figure out what
00:26:59happened
00:27:00of course i mean that's that that determines the entire context is it a tragic accident isn't it
00:27:05you know is it an attack is it uh something else entirely
00:27:12yeah speaking of it go ahead sorry i think i think i'm lagging a little bit um you know there's
00:27:20been a
00:27:22more crashes it seems like this year and who knows if this is related to any of those crashes
00:27:28but matt as you said like sort of boeing has been having more issues recently and um
00:27:36the faa has been having issues not only since you know trump but also going all the way back to
00:27:42reagan
00:27:43you know and this is a pretty like you know difficult task that requires you can't just
00:27:48become a faa you know person uh there's been a lack of them for a long time and so
00:27:55you know obviously again we don't want to jump to conclusions we'll see what the the results say but
00:28:01what they say no matter what or not this is a um place in our world that we should be
00:28:08putting more
00:28:09energy and money into you know it is amazing though these planes you you wouldn't think anything can
00:28:19happen to anybody at any time but you wouldn't think these planes just go down but i guess it's possible
00:28:27well and we should mention also that uh there was another incident involving planes over in
00:28:37missouri where 12 people are now dead after a skydiving plane crash and i guess it's 11 11 skydivers and
00:28:48the
00:28:48pilot and the plane was identified as a pacific aerospace p750 and that crashed on sun last sunday just after
00:29:01takeoff and so the sort of figuring out what happened and why is very important i agree with hannah on
00:29:11that
00:29:11this is the sort of stuff that you can't just like you know just ignoring is not uh is a
00:29:17problem and you
00:29:18got to actually respond and you got to have competent people to do the job well because this does result
00:29:24in
00:29:25people's lives so it is important and the the deadliest crash in the airport's roughly 50-year history
00:29:33is something that hopefully will be taken seriously
00:29:39going on to the next crashing issue which is a different kind of crashing mitch mcconnell
00:29:44is in hospital they have not said exactly the details are not being released but they say he is getting
00:29:53the care that he needs so something is wrong or something else is wrong with mitch mcconnell
00:30:01and we'll also mention the scotus saying that alabama can't use nitrogen in their executions
00:30:09and there was some talk earlier about will they go to the running man model what are they going to
00:30:14do they got to figure something else to execute people what is it they can do so we'll open those
00:30:19two topics up for a little bit here anything on mitch mcconnell anything on scotus
00:30:27i will say they could just not execute people we could just stop doing it that that's a possibility
00:30:33uh you know i agree with that i can be pretty bloodthirsty and i don't have a lot of sympathy
00:30:39for people who do the most heinous things because we do you know people are pretty capable of pretty
00:30:45heinous things uh so it's not really with sympathy for them but the the thing that i can't that's
00:30:53irreducible to me is that people aren't good at governing and watching over other people we're just
00:30:59not good at it somebody has to do it and we're all we've got but we make mistakes all the
00:31:04time
00:31:04we're jealous we're petty we're greedy we're angry we're stupid sometimes it's part of the human
00:31:11condition and unfortunately as lofty as the goals and the highest of high offices are that stuff creeps
00:31:20in there just like anything else just like rust you're not immune it's a thing and what i guess
00:31:28long story short too late the state will eventually kill innocent people they'll eventually kill
00:31:35innocent people and they'll also botch that because that's how it goes i don't know why
00:31:41some of these things i've worked at places that run like clockwork and they do amazing things
00:31:45the right time the right way all the time uh and yet when you some of these things are as
00:31:51simple as
00:31:52just inject this do that um frightening frightening stories and uh uh uh stories come out of these
00:32:01places people aren't good at it we're just not good at it and so we should build a system that
00:32:06is
00:32:06that errs on the side of compassion errs on the side of caution errs on the side of hey maybe
00:32:12we're
00:32:12doing this wrong even now because we've always done it wrong there's never been a time when we didn't make
00:32:17mistakes we are human uh and so i think that maybe the state shouldn't kill people because eventually
00:32:25even if you get it right 99 times out of 100 that other one percent matters especially if that's you
00:32:32true if you're the one so but uh we're also barbaric and warlike and like i said angry and vengeful
00:32:41so we'll always have that we're human
00:32:46yeah well and you know i was gonna say even with perfect things you know with uh unpredictable
00:32:53government they could make anything they want punishable by death you know they could just be like
00:32:59hey like you know protesting is now treason that's punishable by death or something so uh
00:33:05you know don't think that because you're a law-abiding super citizen that you're not going to get on
00:33:11the wrong side of this stuff uh pretty and good that said that said if mcconnell dies in the hospital
00:33:20i will have been sadder about other things in the past
00:33:26fair point oh mcconnell oh mcconnell there's a there's a there's something in there i haven't
00:33:32developed that but uh i will be glad to see the back of mcconnell uh he has had a chance
00:33:42to serve this
00:33:43country 68 ways from sunday and has botched it uh when the when the chips were down and it counted
00:33:53he shrank and failed this country and in a way that countless millions of people not to overstate
00:34:02it at all millions of people will be the worst off for it because of mcconnell and his actions and
00:34:08inactions and he has demonstrated on live and on television that he doesn't care he doesn't mind
00:34:15it doesn't bother him his conscience is not an issue uh so i whatever slows him down a tick is
00:34:23fine of me
00:34:26speaking of illnesses and things that are happening out there there has been an ebola outbreak happening
00:34:34in east and central africa the hantavirus is still out there and with the cases of measles that have
00:34:44been coming up in utah we the united states may be losing its status as having had measles eliminated
00:34:55so let's talk about we're talking about illness let's keep it up what else you got on illness ebola
00:35:00virus measles what do you think
00:35:07well i can say from my perspective i see less and less of these in the media
00:35:12i keep seeing them uh sort of flourish bloom like a fungal infection and then gone
00:35:20uh also like a no um and so i i haven't heard that much about it lately i don't know
00:35:26one minute we're
00:35:26supposed to fear for our lives the next minute there's not much to talk about i don't know
00:35:35yeah it's always a little bit of a uh catch 22 in these things and that we don't seem to
00:35:40have
00:35:41like uh you know not to put words in tom's mouth but i feel like he was saying sort of
00:35:48things like this
00:35:48things either seem to be like red alert red alert or like not a problem um you know and so
00:35:56like
00:35:56you know it's interesting you know with this like measles thing there's been outbreaks happening in utah
00:36:02for like a year now um which feels like a pretty big red alert um especially for something that is
00:36:10unnecessary and it's really only being like uh held at bay because other
00:36:19you know the us fortunately is like a large place and so like i guess a lot of people from
00:36:24utah
00:36:24aren't getting into you know places with either they're either not coming into places with low
00:36:31enough vaccination rates that they're causing mass infections there or they're coming to places that
00:36:37you know are have uh pretty decent um vaccination rates and so when things are breaking out they're
00:36:46not really going everywhere but it's still an issue um and then as far as ebola goes
00:36:52you know the outbreak is definitely probably it's almost certainly getting worse partially because
00:36:56of the funding that you know musk and all of them cut with doge um and i just feel like
00:37:03it's even if
00:37:04it's not here you know i remember the last outbreak that reached america was in like 2016 or 2014 i
00:37:11remember
00:37:11when it was and i remember at the time thinking that we had kind of overreacted but i do think
00:37:17the best
00:37:18way to avoid overreactions is to monitor and stop things as early as possible so you know we should
00:37:27watch them in africa um as it's happening here i would like to point out well said hannah i got
00:37:34no
00:37:35no bones to pick with that at all of course but um i would like to point out that roughly
00:37:42six and a half years ago we had an outbreak in this country after we fired all the foreign outbreak
00:37:52people to watch for these things monitor and warn us and maybe guys some of this stuff they can stuff
00:37:59it right where it starts before it gets anywhere we fired all those people and we got we got along
00:38:06for
00:38:06a little while no problem we didn't have any covids until 2020 uh the end of uh somebody's term but
00:38:18we had it
00:38:19and here we are
00:38:23term number two and what did the is the first thing they did the first six months they tore everything
00:38:30down they got doge doge whatever that is or was and still is and shall be again whatever that was
00:38:40they just started ripping insulation out of walls as far as that go as a terrible metaphor they just
00:38:46started stripping copper maybe that's better they just started destroying things that's what i'm trying
00:38:51to say that's exactly what we did before that thing happened when so many americans started dying that
00:38:58you couldn't get into the hospital to get seen because they were overrun with people with a dry
00:39:03hacking cough and uh coborn comorbidities sent them straight into the cold cold ground as a matter of
00:39:12fact we were stacking bodies like cordwood i keep having to say this we seem to have forgotten it only
00:39:18takes six and a half years to forget such a monumental event where they're stacking grandmas in trucks
00:39:23in bags because we couldn't the infrastructure was overrun with dead people
00:39:32and we're doing i guess i mean we're we're following the same footsteps
00:39:35this is nuts it's idiocracy part two the sequel and the secrets are always worse than the original
00:39:45uh but we're just sleepwalking right into it and also war i'm gonna stop now because i can't think of
00:39:52a way to
00:39:53end this diplomatically
00:39:56and neither can they so there you go justice okay we are going to move on we are going to
00:40:03move on to
00:40:03our next segment this one is the second segment for the night is international news and some things
00:40:11that are happening around the globe that we thought we're we'd mentioned and we're going to actually
00:40:18start off with the united kingdom we talked a little earlier about what their situation is we thought
00:40:24we'd bring it up and have a little more time to talk about it for starters there's the prime minister
00:40:32starmer keir starmer and what's happened with him when he came in it was after 14 years of conservative
00:40:41rule that had dismantled the country's economy that had this had a because the parliamentary system was
00:40:50able to change its leadership in order to attempt to extend its uh hold on a majority hold on the
00:40:57government and so they went through a handful of leaders who the people never actually voted on just
00:41:03the tory party and they put in all sorts of people to try different things one of whom an arch
00:41:11right
00:41:12wing alt-rights whatever extreme right that you want to call it uh truss liz truss who brought in all
00:41:22sorts of the right way of the extreme right wings economic policies and that's what dismantled the country economically
00:41:32uh but starmer came in and said look you know this is uh with the election that mostly seemed to
00:41:41be
00:41:42responding to wanting to get rid of the conservatives they in wound up electing labor and keir starmer
00:41:53um he came in with a promise of i don't want to do flashy things i don't want to talk
00:41:58about other stuff i want
00:41:58to be a competent leader i want to worry about being effective and competent and sticking to the issues
00:42:06and just doing that and the number of decisions that he had brought up actually backfired he did things
00:42:15like there was a winter fuel allowance for the elderly that was supposed to take place and instead of
00:42:23sort of a more labor approach of yes we're gonna help the elderly he said well we gotta do a
00:42:29little
00:42:29more right-leaning thing and we gotta cut back on those payments to be economically stout
00:42:38and that kind of thing has backfired on him very seriously there's in the most recent election which was
00:42:45local seats uh councils are what they're called the labor party lost 1600 council seats and the
00:42:58up-and-coming extreme right-wing reform party wound up gaining 1400 so that kind of gives you an idea
00:43:07of
00:43:07what people are thinking about and people are being showing that they're unhappy with the leadership they
00:43:12have currently he hasn't followed through on those promises of being efficient and being effective
00:43:19and it's gonna continue to hurt the uk what do you guys think of starmer and trust and brexit and
00:43:27the economy of the uk
00:43:31you know i'm not a not uh the sharpest student on that but i do feel like uh
00:43:39britain was uh a fool to uh separate from the union it seemed like it was doing him more good
00:43:47than
00:43:47harm and from the media i saw around the election the arguments being made were disingenuous to me they
00:43:55looked like they were right-wing scare tactics just like you see here uh except it you know it wasn't
00:44:01the
00:44:01mexicans that were coming and taking all the jobs and i don't know eating the culture whatever they were
00:44:08saying uh but uh eating the dogs and the cats but it seemed like it was built on jingoism and
00:44:16uh phony
00:44:18go it alone just like americans fall for the the cowboy narrative when there's it's more like apes together
00:44:25strong you know there's strength in numbers coalitions diversity anyway so uh i was against
00:44:32it but i don't know that much about it i do in that spirit i do hope they find their
00:44:36way back to
00:44:37joining the european union because uh the us isn't always going to be your friend as we've shown in the
00:44:45past and we're definitely showing now they can't always count on us to be the big stick sometimes and
00:44:52putin is a lot closer to them than he is to us we are not even in the way even
00:44:57if we wanted to be
00:44:58and so they should they should look out for themselves and form coalitions of strength
00:45:05where they can find it and right now is a good time and place to be strong against
00:45:09putin and help ukraine to boot so it makes more sense to be together than not anna
00:45:19um i feel like this is uh this episode is becoming a very pro-eu episode ironically but no i
00:45:27mean i agree
00:45:28i think that sort of my statements uh as stated above like i think that working together is is better
00:45:36than
00:45:36not um you know i think that this is why we have things like the eu and the un and
00:45:44you know all these
00:45:45other sort of organizations um around the world that do things like that um you know and so i think
00:45:54that uh it was foolish to leave i think that they it's also probably pretty interesting i wonder if
00:46:01people in britain would be on the side of places like ukraine joining the eu even though they so
00:46:09actively left it um as for starmer himself he seems like he's been sort of a spineless hasn't really
00:46:17done anything hasn't really he's just sort of capitulated it's sort of akin to uh things that are
00:46:25happening here you know and not to sort of american centralize it but you know if he's not going to
00:46:32um
00:46:35you know the the the labor party is the center left party and if he's not going to do anything
00:46:41or if
00:46:41he's going to sort of uh pander to people who are sort of more on the conservative side then obviously
00:46:49there's a state a saying i've heard that conservatives will always do that better than you will
00:46:54so you know anytime that the left panders people are just going to be like oh well why would i
00:46:59go to
00:46:59you for these panders when clearly you agree with the other side and they're doing it better and so
00:47:04that really only leaves space for the right the far right and the far left and it does seem like
00:47:09that's
00:47:09the way the votes are going there are a lot of them are going to reform or greens or this
00:47:14new party
00:47:17yeah yeah that is true in those council elections the big shock was that the reform party and the green
00:47:24party made gains and reform's case of big gains and the traditional parties labor and tori tori party both
00:47:34uh took big hits and that's the thing as well tori party is completely uh is is falling apart and
00:47:42seems
00:47:42to be all those people that reform used to say are the horrible tories who are so horrible and should
00:47:49never be followed or trusted are now reform party members and all of a sudden they do trust them and
00:47:57they do want to listen to their right-wing propaganda and the right-wing economics and so we'll see how
00:48:03that plays out um suella braverman and uh uh generic jenna genovic generic the other guy who was
00:48:13attempting to be party leader time after time but failed both of them have wound up front and center
00:48:21on reform's new party list so we'll see we'll see what the brits will take i mean they did take
00:48:28brexit
00:48:29and they did take uh you know the the the all of the they've taken all the things the tories
00:48:34gave
00:48:35them for 14 years so will they look forward to changing things or will they just wind up
00:48:43going back to the same old thing you know stiff upper lip and keep calm and carry on and all
00:48:50that nonsense and we'll see if they actually are willing to accept change that will help them
00:48:56uh you know they're if they wind up with nigel farage as their leader uh the last thing they can
00:49:03do is criticize trump for uh all the the nonsense that he brings because it's going to be the same
00:49:09thing for you uh we'll see what actually happens they've got a few more years until an election
00:49:14has to happen unless of course labor does the same things the tories did which is start having inner
00:49:21party changes inner party elections to change the leader and then what does that mean because that
00:49:27means that you're not giving the people the person they voted for but they're giving them different
00:49:32leadership but then that person might actually be effective and then you know uh could angela rayner
00:49:38or andy burnham actually get a position and actually be and actually function which uh would bring
00:49:46change to the top spot as well we'll we'll have to keep an eye on the uk and and come
00:49:52back to that
00:49:52but you did mention the eu and you did mention ukraine so it is worth pointing out that the eu
00:49:57did start
00:49:58the process of bringing in ukraine and moldova now it's just the beginning step so it's going to take
00:50:05years but they are doing the eu is doing something and is building its coalitions so maybe the uk can
00:50:14take a hint from that another issue we'll throw in real quick actually um actually we'll get two more
00:50:20in and one will be immigration because that's always a hot button issue that the right has been able to
00:50:26manipulate into putting uh armed uh armed units in u.s cities over but it's also affecting other
00:50:36countries and in ireland northern ireland which is still part of the uk there was an incident where
00:50:44an immigrant stabbed a man in belfast and the reaction not peaceful there were riots the social
00:50:52media was used to dox immigrant families so families that had nothing to do with the situation
00:51:00but people are using social media to put out those people's family addresses and people were following
00:51:08up on it and they're going to their home and harassing them where they couldn't even be safe where they
00:51:14live so that's something that's happening in northern ireland right now and then the same time
00:51:20the sort of almost opposite of that in switzerland they held a vote to put a cap on how many
00:51:28people
00:51:28how many immigrants they would accept and this was everybody sort of wanted to pay attention to see
00:51:35what would happen with that because if they set a cap that could set off uh you know a lot
00:51:40of other
00:51:40countries following that practice and the vote came and went and the swiss actually stood up for the
00:51:47immigrants and said no we're we're not interested in caps we're interested in uh how we're gonna
00:51:52you know what else can we do with the situation as opposed to just doing something as as you know
00:51:59perhaps i don't know if the word barbaric would be appropriate but perhaps uh retroactive as trying
00:52:07to set caps um anything on immigration before we move on to the iran war
00:52:17the iran war we have an update on that and part of it is that belarus the country that russia
00:52:26worked
00:52:27together with in order to launch the attacks into the ukraine when the ukraine war started that
00:52:33many years ago however many years ago however many years it is now uh that their leader lukashenko
00:52:41has apologized to president zelensky and he says he doesn't want to draw be drawn further into the war
00:52:50although of course he helped launch it into ukraine when the whole thing started so the the but the fact
00:52:58that he's saying this the fact that he's uh apologizing uh perhaps even sincerely uh that
00:53:06it shows where we're heading with the ukraine war i think i think that there he's trying to find a
00:53:14way
00:53:14to distance himself from putin he's trying to figure a way to bring uh to to stabilize the situation a
00:53:22little bit uh so that's very interesting that that's happening um and so first belarus anything on ukraine or
00:53:32belarus nope iran there's go ahead hannah no i was gonna say that uh
00:53:46uh the it definitely seems that uh lukashenko is trying to just like hedge his bets you know he's
00:53:56like hey i can't handle anything from ukraine and also i can't alienate russia so uh everybody just be nice
00:54:04to me
00:54:07trying to play hard into the middle well he's he's he's done a lot for russia so we'll have to
00:54:15see if
00:54:16ukrainians are are how they handle being you know setting some sort of relation with belarus because
00:54:27that's uh perhaps that's making more of a friend than you know package deal you get belarus you get
00:54:38russia for half price maybe i don't know on to iran
00:54:47there's claims of a peace deal which is not accurate at all but there is a extension of a ceasefire
00:54:55which might actually be observed now there's part of it that most certainly won't be which is that
00:55:02included in the deal that the u.s made directly with iran it contains something saying that israel
00:55:09will ease up on hezbollah which is the militant group that iran funds to keep in lebanon to stir up
00:55:19the pot but the part of the agreement is that israel will will cease going into it will it will
00:55:27have a
00:55:27ceasefire with the southern part of lebanon however nobody asked israel and nobody uh included them in
00:55:34the deal so they're looking at it and their defense minister is saying we don't know anything about it
00:55:39we're not going to follow it so you can do whatever you want so there is a ceasefire extension and
00:55:46that's
00:55:46wonderful and we'll see exactly how long it lasts trump did what he always does which is he screwed his
00:55:54partner in the deal israel with the partner originally and just like in afghanistan where
00:56:02trump made a deal invited the taliban leadership to camp david on july 4th to discuss it maybe you
00:56:11don't remember that maybe you don't remember how he cut and run on the kurds maybe you know and he
00:56:18cut
00:56:18and run on the afghan government that the u.s had set up so he's got a habit of cut
00:56:24and run on his
00:56:25allies when leaving someone holding the bag exactly someone to hold the bag and uh just uh uh he feels
00:56:35he's made a deal therefore it's okay to screw the person that you were working with along which
00:56:44i i don't know maybe that's how real estate works or something i i it's it's it's certainly not a
00:56:50tactic i don't think that's good for international politics but we we get another example of it we'll
00:56:57see how well it works out with israel and i'm sure that israel israel will restrain itself in southern
00:57:05lebanon because trump said so they may have some an opinion of their own yeah yeah there's uh stay tuned
00:57:12i
00:57:13think is a fair way to put that in but uh and also the nuclear issue was postponed for 60
00:57:20days so
00:57:21it's a peace deal which is actually a ceasefire extension which is actually nothing to do with
00:57:27nuclear issues which originally was the purpose for going in the justification early on was they're two
00:57:36weeks away from making a bomb and we got to stop them and that's a line that's been used a
00:57:42dozen
00:57:43times in two or three different administrations but it's a good one it works i mean the u.s uh
00:57:49population suckers is a sucker for white so yeah but here we are with the extension of the ceasefire
00:57:58and nuclear issues will be put off for 60 days don't want to worry about that let's just get your
00:58:05signature on this little piece deal so i can go to the g7 and tout how much peace i brought
00:58:11to the world
00:58:12i'm sure that some other sports organization will give him another peace prize uh what do you think
00:58:23nothing to add for me yeah i mean i'm i'm all about a ceasefire um because i don't like people
00:58:35dying but it just feels like it's um
00:58:38um there's nothing i don't know unless there's some sort of like
00:58:46plan uh to do something then i don't know i mean like isn't the whole part of this the
00:58:51the nuke issue which is you know now being postponed down the road so uh are we just back to
00:58:57where we were
00:58:58but less effectively i don't know but there seems to be less shooting is good but there seems to be
00:59:05no plan here
00:59:06yeah but the shooting's not going to stop and on top of it we've lost money and on top of
00:59:12it we've
00:59:12handed the straits of ramos to iran which was not controlling it before the war but is now controlling
00:59:18it and will retain control because of the ceasefire agreement and they're going to get a bunch of money
00:59:23given to them in i don't know that they'll call it reparations but the u.s has agreed to give
00:59:30iran
00:59:31an ungodly amount of money because why not right it's not his money so he's still
00:59:35he feels free to share it and get some out there but the u.s isn't getting any money the
00:59:42u.s isn't
00:59:42getting uh any control in the area and it's not achieving what it said was the goal which was to
00:59:50stop the nuclear program so we the u.s has failed the u.s has failed in everything in every
00:59:57respect
00:59:58to the iran war and now he gets to celebrate as a great victory because of the extension of a
01:00:04ceasefire
01:00:06and you know what thank god this could be so much worse if it went on for another month
01:00:15i'm led to believe the gas prices you ain't seen nothing yet and if he's done and he's not going
01:00:22to
01:00:22bomb any more schools and he's not going to nuke anybody and he's not going to keep just
01:00:29destroying hither and yon both uh economies of of friend and enemy alike and it's i it's not even a
01:00:37deal it's a memorandum of understanding that they don't even agree on like you said with israel and
01:00:42the money and all that stuff it's a whisper of a shadow of a reflection in the mirror of a
01:00:49deal
01:00:50whatever fine whatever gets them to stop shooting and let the oil go through so we can do our dirty
01:00:56dirty business as usual and stop paying 10 times the cost of things that that we're paying for fine
01:01:03fine it could be worse it could be it's awful we started a war over nothing we just chose to
01:01:10start
01:01:10a war and then lose it and then lose it in two months and be flat on your ass bleeding
01:01:17money
01:01:18begging your victim to stop hurting you it's pathetic thank god they're tying it off
01:01:26we'll see i mean how it plays out yeah go ahead
01:01:31and i was gonna say the only thing we got out of it is assassinating a leader who's 86 years
01:01:35old and was
01:01:36probably not going to be around much longer and if we do pay reparations infusing them with money
01:01:42and some well-earned uh distrust of us and elevated on the national stage they brought the mighty usa to
01:01:51its knees right well so did uh vietnam and iran and afghanistan iraq and yeah yeah it's not there with
01:02:01the highlights oh yeah all right well that we uh we got that good news out of the way let's
01:02:10check in
01:02:11on that in a month or so and see what's see what's up with that and we'll see that the
01:02:16shooting has stopped
01:02:20okay next we have on to our next issue accountability speaks and to do so i'm going to hand things
01:02:29over to
01:02:29tom tom tom what you got well you know uh i was talking this over with uh somebody i respect
01:02:36recently and i was thinking to myself um i don't feel like the democrats that i see on tv every
01:02:44week
01:02:45when i watch the sunday shows for example i feel like they're not active enough uh and i feel like
01:02:53the
01:02:53the administration that's currently in power is making all signs they possibly can for example
01:02:59that they're going to mess with the next election in addition to all the other crimes they're
01:03:03committing the corruption the graft the uh you know uh all these things the election where we finally
01:03:10get back uh the a few of the levers of this government ostensibly hopefully we expect and hope
01:03:16um but they're already uh transmitting they're already showing they're displaying their telegraphing
01:03:24is what i'm trying to say that they're going to mess with the election they had tulsi gabbard uh you
01:03:30know on site when they were fishing through some election uh ballots taking things over um any number
01:03:39of bad acts and so i'm thinking to myself i wish democrats were a little more loud and proud
01:03:44that uh and and warning people uh brushing them back telling them that uh if you're breaking the law if
01:03:51you're fudging with then this next election is you know we're going to get you we're going to put you
01:03:58in prison uh you know we're not this is this is not going to turn out well for you i
01:04:04feel like if you're
01:04:04in in this administration right now there's reason to be concerned that maybe this is the last tango
01:04:10and you should just cut your losses and be happy with what you've got or you can push it
01:04:17like the like this you know this reich is going to last a thousand years and you'll never have to
01:04:22pay anything back for anything and not have to be held accountable and i think there's a lot of
01:04:27people doing that math in their head and i think it would be very effective if we could get a
01:04:32phalanx of
01:04:33democrats to beat the same drum day in and day out and just not forget we're going to get you
01:04:39they've
01:04:39started to do with impeachment they've started to talk about that that's great but impeachment is i mean
01:04:44you can impeach a great many people and they should be impeached but that's really only for one guy
01:04:49uh anyway so i'm thinking to myself that it would be nice and and you have examples of democrats showing
01:04:56a little verve a little energy a little vigor that they might actually care about this country we're
01:05:01losing when watching going down the drain like um gavin newsom and his jaunty little uh social media
01:05:08campaign uh he he made some great headlines you don't really see much of that anymore
01:05:15um so but there's been a few democrats who have have poked their head up above the rest
01:05:21to make their little mark against this uh action and so it occurs to me that democrats i wish they
01:05:28would do that more i think the people love it i think it would be a winner politically uh i
01:05:33don't see
01:05:33any downside i wonder is that does that sound effective to you uh i've got a few examples of
01:05:38things they actually have done they seem a little insufficient to me what do you think am i barking
01:05:43up the wrong tree i think that's actually an excellent idea i think there's certainly a place where
01:05:54people need to stand up say the things they need to say they need to say it about
01:05:57the epstein list they need to say it about elections they also need to find a way to actually convey
01:06:04it
01:06:04so that people are paying attention so what i think i'm seeing is that the republicans are
01:06:12dyed in the wool trump maga the republican party is now locked it's for a number of years now has
01:06:21been
01:06:21lock stock and barrel trump and they're not going to back down over 80 to something 80 86 percent
01:06:28only have praise for him there's a portion of that that will say oh i i think he's terrible i
01:06:36think
01:06:36he's horrible as a person but i'm going to vote for him yeah oh yeah oh i'll keep voting for
01:06:42i'll keep
01:06:42supporting i just think he's horrible um so that is beyond repair i mean i don't know how that i
01:06:51don't
01:06:51know how you get through to someone like that or frankly to any of the republicans because they still
01:06:56support him he's lose where he's losing most is among independent voters which is a good thing
01:07:04because that's uh all people who he needs to continue to win can't win with just republicans
01:07:10there are places where you can win with just republicans but you can't win everything
01:07:14with just republicans so the fact that the independents are starting to
01:07:19you know middle ground voters who haven't uh who are not active enough to maybe pick up on the
01:07:25details when they're happening are starting to look at things and say oh well this this is not good
01:07:33this is not good at all and so those uh independent voters are starting to turn and that's excellent
01:07:40news so you're right if somebody's also hitting them with truth bombs and also talking to them
01:07:46about those issues that are actual crimes that are being committed maybe that will help um there's
01:07:56you know perhaps there's a congressional race i think it's down in alabama the first congressional
01:08:02district where the candidate was endorsed by trump but was found to have had uh some texting with miss
01:08:11the the contestant for miss universe uh from the area and when the text came out uh trump immediately
01:08:20withdrew his endorsement gave it to the other guy in the race the other republican and uh so the the
01:08:28first guy had to remove himself from the race so that's kind of good news um it's not beyond noting
01:08:36that his day job the guy who had to resign was or guy who had to close his campaign his
01:08:44daytime job was
01:08:45as a pastor so the fact that he had these texts going with the young woman uh and that they
01:08:51were
01:08:51quite uh explicit uh was you know that's that shows where the religious leaders are in the area perhaps
01:09:00um or at least on that side of the political spectrum certainly is acceptable behavior for them
01:09:06um but there's so if that's the sort of thing where people are actually starting to
01:09:13have consequences for the things they do that's all to the better
01:09:21yeah i think we can't have uh i know they were the same party but we
01:09:24we need to make it explicit that we're not going to have a ford pardoning nixon situation here
01:09:31exactly exactly that's well said
01:09:34yeah um you know like this is a um and i think that maybe there needs to be uh there
01:09:42needs to also
01:09:43be an explicit like um maybe even an explicit like we didn't start this right they are they're
01:09:51trying to impeach no matter what trying to lock up our people no matter what but there needs to be
01:09:57this
01:09:57idea of like you know when biden came into his presidency and he put merrick garland as the
01:10:05whatever big lawyer and a lot of people saw that as like revenge for him not being on the supreme
01:10:11court but obama only nominated him as a supreme court justice as a moderate you know sort of like
01:10:19peace offering to the republicans
01:10:21so to then put a moderate in there to expect them to push back on this and then a lot
01:10:27of people
01:10:27were disappointed that he didn't do what they wanted that's not that surprising you know i feel
01:10:31like i'm there's so much you know um pandering to the you know i i mentioned it above but there's
01:10:40so
01:10:40much of this idea of like um you know not only are there all these conservatives that are like trump
01:10:46is winning so we're going to be on his side and just give light criticisms about the way that he
01:10:51talks or his you know his crassness or whatever but there's been so much on the left of like well
01:10:57he's
01:10:57popular i guess we should adopt some of these you know we should be more strict on crime or immigration
01:11:04or or trans rights or whatever you know whereas it ends up feeling like you're a party leaders then
01:11:12don't actually believe in these things right we don't really believe in what we've been espousing
01:11:17for several years because we think that you are we think that the the country has changed you know
01:11:26and i think that there needs to be this the idea is not to moderate to moderate this away but
01:11:33it's to
01:11:33be like look like no like we can be our own you know total way of doing things and like
01:11:39we are going
01:11:40to fix the things you know we're not going to uh just be like well we have control again now
01:11:48it's all
01:11:49worked instead it has to be like we barely got out of this and we're going to make we're going
01:11:53to
01:11:53make everything strong again to make sure that that didn't happen you know
01:12:01yeah because there's still going to be even if the presidency changes there's still going to be
01:12:05the supreme court that we have and all the district courts that we have and all the laws that have
01:12:11been
01:12:11changed and you know the massive antitrust that's been abolished and all this stuff that stuff has to
01:12:18come back to ideally further than what it was but at least has to be back to where it was
01:12:23because that
01:12:24all led to where we are well it's also fair to point out most of what trump has done has
01:12:31been
01:12:31done through executive orders and what that means is that those are only good when there's those are
01:12:41only good for the president who makes them during their term so when his term ends the next president
01:12:48can come in and either stop them or reverse them the question is will they do that and that's a
01:12:57perfectly legitimate question because there were things when biden came in everybody said oh it's
01:13:02going to be so different and it was uh but there were a number of things where biden said well
01:13:08you know they these are this has changed and we can't change it every time the president changes we
01:13:13got to have some continuity so he did take on some of trump's positions because they were there which
01:13:21is a problem as you point out if the person's not willing to change it then it becomes a problem
01:13:27so
01:13:27we need to know that well what we really need is for the democrats to win but more than that
01:13:33we need to
01:13:33know which democrat because it's going to be up to someone to make some hard decisions and not
01:13:38necessarily just go with the status quo because it's the status quo well and i believe that also
01:13:45needs to be in the miasma to be like look if you're running and you're not about abolishing all this
01:13:51stuff trump did then we're not interested in you um you know i think that there needs to be i
01:13:58think that
01:13:59that we talked about this several weeks ago about the like uh post-mortem on the most recent election
01:14:05but you know a lot of the issues came from you know sort of milquetoast things from the democrats and
01:14:14they and they were sort of capitulating and we're talking about palestine and we're talking about all
01:14:18this other stuff and so you know the the voting numbers were were down you know like um trump got
01:14:27less votes in 2024 than he got in 2020 where he lost so you know a big of the issue
01:14:34was that people
01:14:35didn't vote i mean some of that's you know like voter suppression etc etc and all these other things
01:14:41but you know one of the things that um for all the republicans who are like well i like trump's
01:14:49policies but i don't like him there's a lot of republicans who voted for him who are just like i
01:14:54only like him i don't even care what his policies are you know and then you see this like trump
01:14:58regret
01:14:59or whatever so we need to get i don't know if it has to be left-wing populism or somebody
01:15:04who's like
01:15:05you know you can bloviate all you want about like uh you know lowering prices but trump said he would
01:15:12do that too and they went up so like what does that mean you know i don't know what it
01:15:17is but
01:15:17you know there has to be some idea that like things are going to change
01:15:24yeah i agree absolutely
01:15:30tom anything to wrap that up nothing to add
01:15:34all righty well that means we will move on which means for us we come to
01:15:40the epstein count up which you may or may not know we do this every time how many days has
01:15:47it been
01:15:48since the unredacted epstein list has not been released and today is day 4019
01:15:56and counting it will go up way higher before we ever get a resolution to it if ever and the
01:16:05i mentioned
01:16:06the candidate the republican candidate who had to abandon his campaign trump endorsed campaign
01:16:12because of interaction with some women that was inappropriate so the root cause has not been
01:16:20addressed either so that will continue as well so there's not only just learning about these people
01:16:25from the epstein list there's what are you going to do about stopping this sort of thing or having
01:16:30actual accountability for it we will continue to watch and we will continue to talk about it and
01:16:38we will hopefully see something actually happen for now thanks for joining us for politipod live for
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