[SPEAKER_12]: It's political I think it's radical I think it's a form where we want the politician Shotsmith Pearson, Jodie Hamilton Jodie Shoney How you doing after the weekend?
[SPEAKER_10]: I, um...
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay
[SPEAKER_09]: You are not a turkey, it is the holidays season though.
[SPEAKER_09]: So we have a great present for you, fact.
[SPEAKER_09]: We're going to open that present here in just a few minutes here.
[SPEAKER_09]: Just, you know, nice to do that.
[SPEAKER_09]: You know, we're not going to make it, you know, the present like Pete Kegreth would like, where we just need to fire a missile at you out of the blue.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_10]: Now we don't like that or something bad.
[SPEAKER_09]: That would be, that's a...
[SPEAKER_09]: That's not an acceptable present now.
[SPEAKER_09]: What is acceptable.
[SPEAKER_09]: Thank you, by the way, to everybody listening on all of our great radio affiliates, whether you are listening to us on Georgia now radio in the A T L or maybe A M 950 in Minneapolis, Saint Paul.
[SPEAKER_09]: Maybe you're listening on the detour talk in Tennessee.
[SPEAKER_09]: We've got to talk about you Tennessee folks today.
[SPEAKER_09]: And of course, maybe you're listening on A M A 20 Chicago W C P T. And in fact, we have a big announcement about W T A M A 20.
[SPEAKER_09]: You want to unrap the gift as it were, Jody.
[SPEAKER_10]: We are going to be on now instead of from 8 to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday.
[SPEAKER_10]: We will be on from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_09]: You get two hours, two hours, a trillion, John, and two every week bring into the bar here at the park.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's hard.
[SPEAKER_09]: So.
[SPEAKER_09]: Thank you very much to all of you listeners who have been lobbying our friends at WCPT and saying, you know, we like the one hour, but we really want two hours, so it would be two hours starting December 8th a week from tonight.
[SPEAKER_09]: So awesome.
[SPEAKER_09]: And we are working to get a few of you Illinois people in there, maybe bring Joe back to the bar here, and maybe see if we get Cat Abbie Zayla and, you know, of course, obviously we're going to get Karen.
[SPEAKER_09]: She'll be in this Friday, which is good.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, yes, something here for us.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, by the way, we're going to have somebody from the AM-950 area of the bar in tomorrow night.
[SPEAKER_09]: Frank Conff, he is in the Twin Cities.
[SPEAKER_09]: So that's pretty cool.
[SPEAKER_09]: I've always liked Frank.
[SPEAKER_09]: How long?
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: How big of an MST-3K?
[SPEAKER_09]: Huge.
[SPEAKER_09]: So you're a huge, huge fan.
[SPEAKER_09]: Big gigantic man, let that show him down and it was one of my favorite shows.
[SPEAKER_09]: It was one of those things I'm like, I thought it was kind of funny, but I liked Frank better when I started hearing a letter on a fecal saying show, so then I was like, then I'm like, then I really liked Frank, because then I realized he wasn't playing a character.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's actually who he is.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, that's great.
[SPEAKER_09]: A lot of news happened over the weekend.
[SPEAKER_09]: Jodie shaking your head and looking at the stack of news.
[SPEAKER_10]: People admitting to crimes.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, little war crimes, little fake war on drugs.
[SPEAKER_09]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_09]: You know, nothing, nothing big.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's the holiday season, Jodie.
[SPEAKER_09]: Really a war crime for everybody.
[SPEAKER_10]: and you get a war crime and you get a war crime.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, well, and also Christie Denome admitted on one of the Sunday shows that she actually committed a crime as well.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, it's always nice when they come out and admit it.
[SPEAKER_09]: I would prefer that they do it in court under, you know, orders, but I'm fine, you know, you want to admit it.
[SPEAKER_10]: And they can use it in court.
[SPEAKER_10]: They can use everything in court.
[SPEAKER_10]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: They can actually use her admission on the Sunday show in court, which is kind of fun there.
[SPEAKER_10]: Which is ridiculous that she admitted to that.
[SPEAKER_09]: It shows you how stupid she is.
[SPEAKER_09]: It shows you how really look.
[SPEAKER_09]: I lived in South Dakota for a year during college, went to South Dakota State for a year, which I mean, it was fun to some degree.
[SPEAKER_09]: Although it was the worst winter and recorded history, that part not so much fun.
[SPEAKER_09]: But the people I liked that, but I'll tell you.
[SPEAKER_09]: If you want to know how dumb some of the people are, some of the people in South Dakota are brilliant.
[SPEAKER_09]: And then there are some others.
[SPEAKER_09]: So I went to South Dakota State University.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's in Brookings.
[SPEAKER_09]: And there is a town between Brookings and Watertown.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's known as White South Dakota.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's kind of up actually closer to Watertown.
[SPEAKER_09]: And my wife was going to college up there, whatever she transferred.
[SPEAKER_09]: There was a girl who she knew.
[SPEAKER_09]: There's drawn a party at Whitesat to cut us.
[SPEAKER_09]: So you drive down this rural Tulane highway, and you're going to white, which is just off the highway.
[SPEAKER_09]: And there's a big sign.
[SPEAKER_09]: Hand painted.
[SPEAKER_09]: That says, white, turn left.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm not joking.
[SPEAKER_09]: You could stand in the center of white and see the whole town from the center.
[SPEAKER_09]: And of course, they had a bar there in it, like, yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: I just, it's just one of those where I'm like, and people go, that's insane, I go.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, well, they elected Christie the Nome as their governor, so, and then she killed her dog.
[SPEAKER_09]: So this, this just didn't really kill her dog.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, which is wrote about it.
[SPEAKER_10]: I would have been the one thing I would have left out of my book would have been killing my kids dog.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, she's not exactly the brightest bulb in the box.
[SPEAKER_09]: I can't believe her publishers allowed it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, they are, or they were trying to appeal to other megaphoax.
[SPEAKER_09]: So I have dogs, they love their dogs.
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, it's Lord.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, this is true.
[SPEAKER_09]: This is true.
[SPEAKER_09]: Sometimes we denigrate the mega folks too much.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I admit, maybe you stuck, but maybe he had to hang around with your, uh, uh, mega relatives over the holidays.
[SPEAKER_09]: And if you did, uh, you know, why, I hope you hadn't okay time.
[SPEAKER_09]: I hope they didn't make you want to completely pull your hair out.
[SPEAKER_09]: Big thanks by the way to everybody who was listening and communicating with us over the holidays.
[SPEAKER_09]: You guys really liked the fact that we came out with some new stuff last Thursday and Friday, which
[SPEAKER_09]: You know, we do these things for you.
[SPEAKER_09]: We hang out here at the bar for you.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's a place to come pretty much every day.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, there you go.
[SPEAKER_09]: By the way, Sinalas, over on Blue Sky, she said that she made vegan tamales for Thanksgiving.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, me, that's how it's coming.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: You can do whatever you want for Thanksgiving.
[SPEAKER_09]: What did you guys do?
[SPEAKER_09]: Did you end up going to Lonnie's mom's?
[SPEAKER_09]: No, I stayed home because I just, you ever didn't want to, you know, put the other people in danger.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, the average age of the people besides Lonnie that we're going to be there.
[SPEAKER_10]: We're in their mid 70s and I just didn't want Joe to get somebody sick.
[SPEAKER_09]: You know, God, she has fantastically considered folks.
[SPEAKER_10]: You guys, but they also said that they got the same thing that I've got really or symptoms that I've got two or three people that were there.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, yeah, I went through that for about a week, a week and a half.
[SPEAKER_09]: Were you going to have a break off after that?
[SPEAKER_09]: Like COVID, but not necessarily like COVID.
[SPEAKER_10]: I, you know, it's interesting because I looked at the symptoms of the new COVID strain at NIH, not that I should count, trust them any more.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_10]: Anyway, but the new symptoms are not matching what I have.
[SPEAKER_09]: So who knows what you have?
[SPEAKER_09]: Magical, magical, wonderful out of breathness.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, I mean, because I had it, I am almost through it, which is good, which is good.
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, because like I was telling you the other day that I do in the most mundane tasks, I'm out of breath.
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, look, I understand.
[SPEAKER_09]: I understand.
[SPEAKER_09]: You look across your living room and you see Lonnie, and he says, the politics bar.
[SPEAKER_09]: You get out of breath.
[SPEAKER_09]: I understand that, you know?
[SPEAKER_10]: No, I mean, I literally just walked across the street.
[SPEAKER_10]: and came home, and I was out of breath.
[SPEAKER_10]: And I am somebody that walks up to 10 miles a day.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right, right, you do, which is just...
[SPEAKER_10]: So I mean, getting out of breath in less than I'm not even a mile, like 500 yards, not normal for me.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, no.
[SPEAKER_09]: So I'm hoping I'm hoping to get to feeling better soon.
[SPEAKER_09]: My wife's feeling better.
[SPEAKER_09]: We did a little Thanksgiving.
[SPEAKER_09]: I did most of the cooking just because she was still really not feeling a 100% so which I have to say.
[SPEAKER_09]: I did pretty good with that.
[SPEAKER_09]: You know, I've got turkey and all the fixings and all that.
[SPEAKER_09]: We have a little bit left over Mac and cheese and some green beans
[SPEAKER_09]: little more turkey than I would like because, you know, just to tell of us this year, but we got our friends who are going to be coming back for the Christmas holidays.
[SPEAKER_09]: Normally, we do friends, friends giving, but different people were out this year as one of those things.
[SPEAKER_09]: So you just do a little thing, you know, just, you know, you're in your space in your dog, no biggie.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I know I've been avoiding the,
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, because some of this is just, it's, it's, it is just so awful that that's, I mean, this is one of those things.
[SPEAKER_09]: There are literal laws of war.
[SPEAKER_09]: A lot of people don't necessarily know this.
[SPEAKER_09]: And Pete Kegbreth has violated the laws of war.
[SPEAKER_09]: There is literally a manual at the Pentagon that you can, you can get it a little blue cover, a little white graphic and text and everything law of war.
[SPEAKER_09]: says says what the official laws of war that the United States government adheres to.
[SPEAKER_09]: Now, first of all, we got to ask, was it even legal for us to be firing?
[SPEAKER_09]: Is it legal for us to be firing on these boats in the Caribbean?
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't think so.
[SPEAKER_09]: I agree with you.
[SPEAKER_10]: We're not at war with Venezuela, so where are we shooting at their boats?
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: This is I don't understand why we're shooting at their boats.
[SPEAKER_09]: We shouldn't be shooting.
[SPEAKER_09]: We don't even know who's on the boats.
[SPEAKER_10]: So claiming, you do as you board them and you find out what's going on.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's what you do in international waters, not on the coast of Venezuela, but you board them.
[SPEAKER_10]: You find out what's going on and you either arrest everybody or you let them go.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly, hello, but right now, nope, we're just sitting there firing things.
[SPEAKER_09]: And if Pete Kegbreth did actually give the order, we actually have that in the news on tap the red.
[SPEAKER_09]: There are two exactly, Joe, he's right.
[SPEAKER_09]: Give the code red.
[SPEAKER_09]: There are two witnesses that confirm that Hedge Seth did give the order on that first Caribbean road strike and all of them since that said, kill them all.
[SPEAKER_09]: And at first one, they shot.
[SPEAKER_09]: There were two people that were wounded and hanging on.
[SPEAKER_09]: And so the admiral who sounds like he may have gotten a promotion by kissing up to Higgseth anyway, which also is, there's some issues there, but if, if he did it and, and here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: So Higgseth is saying that he didn't do it, but Trump is basically saying, well, I don't know what happened and it doesn't matter.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm not involved.
[SPEAKER_09]: It wasn't me.
[SPEAKER_09]: Trump is not covering Hegg Seth the Ath on this one.
[SPEAKER_09]: Not at all.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, he's not.
[SPEAKER_09]: And remember a couple months ago that I said that the people that I talked to here that they had said that, you know, they are not necessarily looking to, you know, maybe maybe see if they could get rid of good old Kegbreath.
[SPEAKER_09]: This would be a perfect reason to get rid of him.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, and I mean, God forbid who they get next.
[SPEAKER_09]: Who they actually get next, who the likelihood is, is the guy who is the secretary of the army, who they have kind of over negotiating with Ukraine?
[SPEAKER_09]: He's actually somebody who understands some of these things.
[SPEAKER_09]: He may be akin to some of the people that Trump had in the first regime.
[SPEAKER_10]: Better.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: May actually understand, for example, one of the laws of war.
[SPEAKER_09]: So let's assume, let's assume that it's legal.
[SPEAKER_09]: or at least to give the order to fire in the boats.
[SPEAKER_09]: Let's assume that that's legal.
[SPEAKER_09]: In the laws of war, there's a concept known as, it's French.
[SPEAKER_09]: Horses de combat.
[SPEAKER_09]: Basically means literally you're out of combat.
[SPEAKER_09]: And it means that you do not harm those who you've already injured.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right, which is why Lincoln World War II, we harmed the Japanese and the Germans, and then we picked up their soldiers, took them off the battlefield, and there's them back to health, put them in POW camps, and then gave them back to, right, that's the rule.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: But that's not what Kegbrath and that's not what the US military did, and they said they did it at his direction, which means that he violated an international law of war, and if
[SPEAKER_09]: He could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the way, he could just say, by the
[SPEAKER_09]: There's some other stuff going on in the Caribbean.
[SPEAKER_09]: We will talk about Donald Trump's fake drug wars because no, they're not real.
[SPEAKER_09]: We also have to have some news that you may have missed over the holiday weekend that DC shooting.
[SPEAKER_09]: There's some info you need to know on that.
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[SPEAKER_09]: No, she was quite brave exactly and very well planned and for those of you already subscribe to the politics about politics bar dot com to the drink of the day you know we're talking about and for those of you don't maybe you should just say all right we'll talk about the drink of the day a little bit later back to the news on tap pour another round from that so we talked about peak keg breath's war crimes and how headset may or may not
[SPEAKER_09]: There are some people who happen to know some senators, some members of Congress, they're not exactly thrilled about this.
[SPEAKER_09]: I believe this is Mike Turner at first and then Brett Bacon from Nebraska on the Sunday shows here.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'd like to play this off the DVR.
[SPEAKER_01]: see if that occurred.
[SPEAKER_01]: That would be be very serious.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I agree that that would would be an illegal act.
[SPEAKER_05]: That is violation of the law of war.
[SPEAKER_05]: When people want to surrender, you don't kill them.
[SPEAKER_05]: And they have to pose an imminent threat.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's hard to believe that two people on a raft trying to survive with pose an imminent threat.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: So neither of those folks actually posed a threat of any kind.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's pretty much killing somebody who's unarmed, which in virtually everywhere is considered a war crime.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's so it's just murder.
[SPEAKER_09]: Joe, he's right.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, you killed an unarmed person.
[SPEAKER_10]: No matter where that person is or what that person might have done 10 seconds ago, they're unarmed.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yep, exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Jen Rubin has a great piece from the contrarian that we have in the news on tap today that says, is it a war crime or is it murder?
[SPEAKER_09]: And basically, if it's not one, it's the other.
[SPEAKER_09]: So Pete.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, breath is going to be in trouble no matter what, but he's not the only one Donald Trump is saying that this whole,
[SPEAKER_09]: This whole thing with Venezuela, the whole reason that we have, I believe it, the ninth fleet, the hanging out down there is because, oh, Venezuela, oh, they're horrible drug traffickers.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's his claim, right, Tony?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, that's what that's what he's been saying.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, somebody want to explain to me then why if he's all against drug traffickers, that he's now pardoning the former hunter and
[SPEAKER_09]: Does that, does that make any sense?
[SPEAKER_10]: Donald thinks that it was, he was railroaded.
[SPEAKER_09]: No.
[SPEAKER_09]: Lots of it is connected.
[SPEAKER_09]: Big time connected.
[SPEAKER_09]: So the same thing that he really gets, and in fact, I believe there's some social media posts out there, railing against him back then.
[SPEAKER_09]: So it's like, well, wait a minute, let me get this straight.
[SPEAKER_09]: So you didn't like the guy.
[SPEAKER_09]: who was a South American dictator, who was involved in drug trafficking, and you were glad when he was caught.
[SPEAKER_09]: But now there's another guy who's a South American, and you're on the other side of it.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't.
[SPEAKER_10]: He doesn't like Maduro.
[SPEAKER_10]: He doesn't like who's in charge of Venezuela.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's the problem.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Joe, he's a hundred percent correct.
[SPEAKER_09]: It is about regime change.
[SPEAKER_09]: And as we all know from Iraq, regime change doesn't exactly work out
[SPEAKER_09]: which that is, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, what Donald Trump and the Trump regime are doing with respect to South America.
[SPEAKER_09]: and it's we've got a piece uh... in the news on tap uh... to gift link you don't have to be subscribed to the new york times but uh... writer Tyler page you're put it together and really contrasted the two of them and you say you can't really say you're you're going in to Venezuela to stop drug trafficking and while you're also letting the former hunter and president go for drug trafficking right yeah that doesn't care about contradicting himself he couldn't care less
[SPEAKER_09]: Joe, he's right again.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's he's never cared about being in hypocrite.
[SPEAKER_09]: He doesn't.
[SPEAKER_09]: You know, I, the thing, the thing the thing about Maga that has been one of his powers, magical powers.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's super power.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: Is the thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_09]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_09]: With that went in there over the holiday.
[SPEAKER_09]: Anyway, is the fact that that Maga will believe anything Donald says.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yes, no matter what, even if he said it in the same sentence.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Joe, he's right.
[SPEAKER_10]: But there's like, oh, no, that makes sense.
[SPEAKER_10]: Their cognitive dissonance is so amazing.
[SPEAKER_09]: And yet, they are starting to lose that.
[SPEAKER_09]: They are starting to lose that quite a bit.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, we can jump down a little bit more to the fourth round to the election land segment, because the Tennessee special election, for those of you listening on the D2 we're talking that area, you guys know not too far away.
[SPEAKER_09]: Tennessee 7, after Maine, the election is tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_09]: The early voting is done already.
[UNKNOWN]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_09]: This should have been a cakewalk for Republicans.
[SPEAKER_09]: It really should have Michael Cohen shit over at MS now has a good piece.
[SPEAKER_09]: We put in the news on tap and even if Republicans When this but by a slight margin if they win it if they win it in single digits, Jody, this is gonna be really bad
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh yeah, the prediction markets which I don't I don't necessarily go by prediction markets as a betting markets and right they don't know anything more than anybody else does but they just go by polling Yeah, they go by polling and feeling sometimes which I guess not a way to be judging things that way but prediction markets right now have a Republican win by under 10 points at a nearly 70% chance
[SPEAKER_09]: But there could be a chance that Captain Baying the Democrat in the race wins by 15% and that's not a small thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: This is in the Tennessee O7, the Donald Trump won just a year ago by 22 points.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, I mean, that he's been loose his districts have been going to Democrats lately.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, I mean, look at look at here in Virginia.
[SPEAKER_09]: You know, I'm in the past.
[SPEAKER_09]: He corner of the bar in the Virginia sub-corner of the bar.
[SPEAKER_09]: And we now have a super majority in the House of delegates.
[SPEAKER_09]: We have a majority in the Democratic Senate.
[SPEAKER_09]: We have a coming in in coming Democratic governor, a lieutenant governor, and attorney general.
[SPEAKER_09]: We are going to have Democrats up and down the line.
[SPEAKER_09]: All the, in fact, literally I will have, let's see, Democratic mayor, Democratic, Lieutenant Governor and Governor and Attorney General Democratic House member and a two Democratic senators.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't have a single Republican representing me at any level right now.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm okay with because right now for Republicans to actually win political thing They pretty much have to be mega nut shops.
[SPEAKER_09]: This guy in the Tennessee 07, Jody is not he's not horrible, but he's not great
[SPEAKER_09]: Um, and he clearly isn't going to stand up to Trump.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, we're as often vain.
[SPEAKER_09]: She is a state legislator in Tennessee.
[SPEAKER_09]: She's been there.
[SPEAKER_09]: She's fought the good fights.
[SPEAKER_09]: And she knows how tough it is to get things done.
[SPEAKER_09]: And she's still doing it anyway.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm, I'm, I'm, if, if she wins.
[SPEAKER_09]: If she wins tomorrow, it's going to mean that
[SPEAKER_09]: Republicans anywhere in the country who are sitting on a seat where they have 22 points or less.
[SPEAKER_09]: Remember when we were talking about the redistricting wars, we were talking with Anita, of Karen Anita, of True Blue politics, and we were saying that the map thing in Texas isn't fixed yet, but let's, you know, we were talking with them recently, not too long ago, a couple of weeks ago about this,
[SPEAKER_09]: been saying that some of those new districts that they figured out are now down to like plus nine plus 10 Republican.
[SPEAKER_09]: Wow, if African Bane wins in, yeah, because they were like plus 15 plus 17 before in Texas Republican, but they had to borrow from some and so they could make more quarter court Republican.
[SPEAKER_09]: So they lowered the threshold from plus 17 are to like plus nine hour.
[SPEAKER_09]: If Afton Bane in Tennessee, 07 wins, that's a plus 22 R district.
[SPEAKER_09]: That means across the nation, the automatic assumption by Republicans is going to be that if you are plus 22 or less, you are not safe and with all this, all this redistricting they've been trying to do.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm just laughing about that whole thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: That is, that's, it's hilarious.
[SPEAKER_10]: No, this is that, you know, and
[SPEAKER_10]: what's funny about the Texas thing in particular is they were just being stupid.
[SPEAKER_10]: What's already had it locked and now you're just trying to and then the Indiana guy is not going to vote for it all there is that whole thing over the weekend.
[SPEAKER_09]: So for those of you can miss that Donald Trump tried to insult Minnesota governor Tim walls for those of you up in the AM 950 area and he insulted him.
[SPEAKER_09]: This is the way that Trump, this is one of those things that for those of us like Jody and I who've been listening to this orange idiot for a decade now, unfortunately.
[SPEAKER_09]: You went, when you have to produce a show, you listen a little bit more intently.
[SPEAKER_09]: Say, yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: The way that healing assault is, how tall is Lonnie?
[SPEAKER_09]: How tall is Lonnie, Jodie?
[SPEAKER_10]: Lonnie is, is... Five, nine.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, so he's not super tall.
[SPEAKER_09]: Donald being over six foot, he might call Lonnie short.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: So if he was going to insult you, he might insult you by insulting Lonnie's height.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's how that's a...
[SPEAKER_09]: So when Donald Trump is trying to insult Tim Walls, he didn't insult Tim Walls.
[SPEAKER_09]: He used the R word for being dumb.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm going to quote it so those people who don't know retard it.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's the word.
[SPEAKER_09]: And Tim Walson has some intellectual learning disabilities.
[SPEAKER_09]: Doesn't make him the R word.
[SPEAKER_09]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_09]: But that's what when Donald Trump grew up.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's what they would call somebody with intellectual learning disabilities.
[SPEAKER_09]: But by insulting his son,
[SPEAKER_09]: he knew that he would immediately piss off 10 walls and get going.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's all about yank in your chain.
[SPEAKER_09]: When guys like Trump do that kind of thing, it's about yank in your chain.
[SPEAKER_10]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_10]: Like saying your mother on the field.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Which as members of Gen X, we say, you're my mom all the time.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's, that's just a thing we do, but things that I've done to your mother, that's the other.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Like throwing the dozens.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Folks in WCPT and I know talking about on that, especially down in Georgia, I'll know that one too.
[SPEAKER_09]: So here's the thing, when Donald did that, he thought he was just, you know, haha, I'm getting a dig in at walls and walls will jump.
[SPEAKER_09]: What he didn't count on is the fact that one of the Republican, uh, Congress, or one of the American state house members in Indiana, he happens to have a daughter who has an intellectual disability.
[SPEAKER_09]: And he's one of the votes that they need in Indiana to change the maps.
[SPEAKER_09]: And that guy now says because Donald used the R word to insult Tim walls and really Tim's son.
[SPEAKER_09]: The Indiana State House guy is not going to vote for the map change in Indiana anymore, because he says my daughter has intellectual disabilities, that's across the line, Donald.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, and also, I mean, they weren't going to have the votes anyway, according to various people in the other supposedly now.
[SPEAKER_09]: They're going to hold them supposedly here this month.
[SPEAKER_09]: We'll see.
[SPEAKER_09]: But the fact is that they didn't have the votes before.
[SPEAKER_09]: You're right on that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Their state Senate leader Indiana said that they did not have the votes before, but now they even have even fewer votes.
[SPEAKER_09]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_09]: And if Captain Bane wins in Tennessee, 07, that's going to be one less vote that Republicans
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: They're running on such thin margins on the Republican side, and they're still running around throwing around slurs and slams and being dumb as hell.
[SPEAKER_10]: They think they have the super majority.
[SPEAKER_10]: They think they have, you know, Joe, he's right.
[SPEAKER_10]: 80 people in the Senate and 300 people in the house.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's how they're acting.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's how they're acting.
[SPEAKER_10]: And it's Donald says he's got a mandate, which he doesn't.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, and even if he did, look, I don't care who he dates.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's up to him.
[SPEAKER_09]: Sorry, didn't mean to make you almost fit take saying just saying look if I don't care who he dates us up to him, but you're not going to yuck his young exactly whatever, you know, I mean frankly, I think that would be a nice thing you'll give him a long use of options there.
[SPEAKER_09]: My biggest thing is just the fact that when it comes to.
[SPEAKER_09]: this whole thing they're attitude.
[SPEAKER_09]: They're they're problem that they have.
[SPEAKER_09]: Um, they don't seem to understand the realities.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: You have to work with other people to get things done.
[SPEAKER_09]: Whether you like them or not, and there are more and more Republicans,
[SPEAKER_09]: at the state level, and at the federal level, who are starting to say, look, Trump's days, however many they may be, his days in power are numbered, we want to stay in power.
[SPEAKER_09]: And that means we need to get something done.
[SPEAKER_09]: They are leaving him.
[SPEAKER_09]: And we are all going to sit here and watch this and laugh our asses off.
[SPEAKER_09]: And work our asses off to make sure that we get people like Captain Bain in Tennessee, oh, seven, let me just say.
[SPEAKER_09]: Alright, speaking of wonderful and beautiful and talented women, like Jodie, and Afton Bane, we have to have one of those as the focus of the drink of the day.
[SPEAKER_09]: My correct Jodie?
[SPEAKER_09]: He are, that is exactly true.
[SPEAKER_09]: Ha ha ha!
[SPEAKER_09]: Let's do that next.
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[SPEAKER_09]: All right, Jody, the drink of the day today, we've been hinting at it here for most of an hour or so, what is the drink of the day and what is the inspiration for the drink of the day?
[SPEAKER_10]: The drink is a day today, is a Rosarita, Margarita.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_10]: And it's inspired by the anniversary of Rosa Parks's decision to sit down for her rights in a city bus room from Alabama.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yay.
[SPEAKER_09]: I was worried about you who just think that Rosa Parks just got on the bus at the end of a tired day.
[SPEAKER_09]: And they believe this because they know that you do not have with black women.
[SPEAKER_09]: They know that you do not mess around with black women.
[SPEAKER_09]: They will wipe your ass, especially when they're
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, she did it on purpose.
[SPEAKER_10]: This was definitely planned.
[SPEAKER_09]: What she was gonna do, but people still believe it.
[SPEAKER_09]: She got, she must have got the end of the day, got tired.
[SPEAKER_09]: Some dumbass white man said, you got to move and she was like, all right.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm done.
[SPEAKER_09]: I had enough.
[SPEAKER_09]: Which?
[SPEAKER_09]: Kind of, but no, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_09]: She had enough, but it was a plan.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yes, it was planned.
[SPEAKER_10]: She'd had enough, everybody had had enough at that point.
[SPEAKER_10]: And she was part of a movement.
[SPEAKER_10]: And this helped spur it and get it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: She was a lifelong civil rights activist, a long-time secretary with the NAACP, her local chapter there, had extensive training in civil rights activism.
[SPEAKER_09]: She was even a respected member of the community, married and had she led the youth division of the Montgomery branch of the NAACP.
[SPEAKER_09]: She was not however the first black woman who this had happened to.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, there are four other black women who in the year before Rosa Parks stood up and said, no, I am not moving my seat.
[SPEAKER_09]: They'd all been through the exact same thing in Montgomery.
[SPEAKER_09]: A really a broader Claudette Colvin, Susan McDonald and Mary Louise Smith.
[SPEAKER_09]: There was even a fifth one, but she decided that she wasn't going to be part of it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Now, what we'll mention these four names a little bit, you know, give us 60 seconds or so because
[SPEAKER_09]: None of these women, the NAACP felt were the public mark of this, for example, I believe it was Claudette Colvin, I think she was 16, black, single, and pregnant.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's not good for the press in 1950s in the south.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: She, she would not have been a good figure.
[SPEAKER_09]: But, but Rosa Parks, everybody respected her.
[SPEAKER_09]: She's mid-laid.
[SPEAKER_09]: She, you know, solid job, solid, you know, member of her church is everything very respected.
[SPEAKER_09]: So they knew everybody's going to be outraged.
[SPEAKER_09]: And asking her there was no reason to ask her to move, but the guy who the guy who was running the bus by the way on this day, 70 years ago was a racist white man who had actually encountered her before he'd actually left her on a bus stop sometimes back then black people, they had to get on at the front of the bus to pay, then they get off at the front of the bus and they had to go to the back door and get on.
[SPEAKER_09]: So previously, another time, same dude on the bus, she got on, paid, got off, went to go and get back on and he took off, left her.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, I have words in my head that I'm allowed to say.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yes, words like,
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, that one.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_09]: And also.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_09]: Anyway, she'd had enough.
[SPEAKER_09]: She had had enough and the NAACP work together with the Women's Political Council, which had been around for a while in Montgomery.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's a women civil rights group.
[SPEAKER_09]: Literally the night that Miss Parks said that she was arrested for not moving her seat on the bus, they had flyers out.
[SPEAKER_09]: talking about this.
[SPEAKER_09]: The next day, they had a big local meeting with a group called the Montgomery Improvement Association.
[SPEAKER_09]: They decided because the back last is building so fast.
[SPEAKER_09]: Now, back last building fast is something that we know about, you know, modern day today, because we have social media.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: 1955, they have social media.
[SPEAKER_10]: But they have mountain flyers and things like that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_10]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_09]: And things was going so fast that they decided they need a spokesman and they happened to be meeting at this church where there's a new pastor.
[SPEAKER_09]: Anybody guess who that pastor was?
[SPEAKER_10]: Um, was he a doctor by any chance?
[SPEAKER_09]: He was.
[SPEAKER_09]: Jody, do you know who was?
[SPEAKER_10]: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
[SPEAKER_09]: Can you imagine being, yeah, exactly, being in this group and being like, God, who do we have to talk with us that would be a good spokesperson for this?
[SPEAKER_09]: And have your automatic and all of these things, yeah?
[SPEAKER_09]: Having Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as an option.
[SPEAKER_09]: you know, that's that's like you know, you're playing your neighborhood pick up a basketball league or baseball and you know, and you have like a NBA or WNBA star or a major league baseball star sitting as an option in front of you.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, gee, I don't know, you know, you're you're putting a concert together or rock concert and slash shows up and says, now I'll play for whoever and you're like, hmm, I wonder can we ask.
[SPEAKER_09]: Anyway, so Dr. King got out there and with Dr. King and Rosa Parks and the NAACP and the local civil rights groups, they started what is now known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_09]: 381 days more than a year, but it wasn't Rosa Parks that actually got it through.
[SPEAKER_09]: Those four women we talked about earlier, the legal team that was working with Miss Park's case included another guy you might know, uh, third good Marshall.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, he's kind of a big week.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, for a former now former at that time, future Supreme Court, just as third good Marshall.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yep, part of this group, they also had been working on the case of those four women, a really a broader Claudette Colvin, Susan McDonald, the Mary Louise Smith, and while Miss Park's case was stuck in the Alabama courts,
[SPEAKER_09]: Those four women, in their case, went up to the Supreme Court.
[SPEAKER_09]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_09]: And it was basically 69 years ago, November 13, 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Browder versus Gale.
[SPEAKER_09]: Mr. Gale was the mayor of Montgomery.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: And they ruled that segregation is illegal under the 14th Amendment, which...
[SPEAKER_06]: APPLAUSE Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: Which is why Donald wants it gone.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, well, good luck with that, Donnie.
[SPEAKER_09]: There's a lot of things that Donnie wants and he ain't going to get.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, Danny, you.
[SPEAKER_09]: In honor of Rosa Parks and all the women who helped break the back of the race of segregationists, today's drink of the day is the Rosa Rita Margarita.
[SPEAKER_09]: Let's see one of these great drinks, Jodie.
[SPEAKER_10]: All right, you're going to need a shaker, some ice, a Margarita or Coup class, pre-chilled.
[SPEAKER_10]: Shaker.
[SPEAKER_10]: One and a half ounces of patron, a reposado tequila, which is good stuff.
[SPEAKER_10]: Um, three quarters of an ounce of gran marnia, or an other cognac orange liquor that you like.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: Half ounce of cranberry juice sweetened.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: Half ounce of lime cordial, which is sweetened lime juice.
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: uh three quarters of an ounce of lime juice that's freshly squeezed and uh third of an ounce of moan pure cane syrup or a two to one rich syrup simple syrup is one to one right rich syrup is two to one so it's it's more sweet and um optional salt on the rim and a lime wedge I always prefer the salt and lime that's just me
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, it depends.
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, it's going to be a juxtaposition of tastes with the sweetness and the salt.
[SPEAKER_10]: So if you like that sort of thing, that's yummy.
[SPEAKER_10]: I do.
[SPEAKER_06]: I do.
[SPEAKER_10]: I do.
[SPEAKER_10]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_09]: And then I want you to stop.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Thanks, by the way, to all the women who have courage and do great and fantastic things, we salute women around here.
[SPEAKER_09]: One of us is a woman, so the other one just likes women, because you know, they're great and they're smart and they're significantly less stinky than men in general.
[SPEAKER_09]: feel like any part of the drink of the day you missed it you're like man wait a minute that was funny can you roll it back just subscribe at the politics bar dot com and you'll be able to get that and the recipe there you go all right Jody it was a holiday weekend and as such
[SPEAKER_09]: We usually check into the entertainment about this part of the evening and I got to say in the entertainment and life section there were a couple big events that happened one Sir Tom Stopper great playwright passed away 88 unfortunately, but it was got a nice ride up that you had different the BBC and I was like yes definitely got to put that one in and I had another one I liked your ride up better so I was like yeah, Jodie got there right I died.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, I mean they're England and he's English
[SPEAKER_09]: This is true.
[SPEAKER_09]: Judges, right?
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, there was also a wedding over the weekend.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_09]: Senator Cory Booker.
[SPEAKER_09]: And Real Estate Rooker, Alexis Lewis, she's also done some activist stuff, too.
[SPEAKER_09]: They wed in private ceremony.
[SPEAKER_09]: They wed in Jersey.
[SPEAKER_09]: And then they also did one here in DC, although I think their wedding license is in Jersey if I am correct.
[SPEAKER_09]: Probably.
[SPEAKER_09]: So that explains why Cory has been a little bit harder to get.
[SPEAKER_09]: you know, he's got a honey moon to go on sound now.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, the plan that you know had to plan the wedding and you know Juggler's day job up in the Senate, so I get it.
[SPEAKER_09]: I get it.
[SPEAKER_09]: But honestly, Corey, when you get a chance come here to the bar Hang out.
[SPEAKER_09]: Please, because I love that exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: We would appreciate that
[SPEAKER_09]: Uh, some other holiday news over the weekend.
[SPEAKER_09]: Macy's thanks to giving day parade.
[SPEAKER_09]: Uh, do you watch that, Joe, do you know?
[SPEAKER_09]: No.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's a tradition in our house.
[SPEAKER_09]: We watch that.
[SPEAKER_09]: And we watch the dog show.
[SPEAKER_09]: Because the National Dog Show is great.
[SPEAKER_09]: Both of those new all-time high ratings, 34.3 million viewers up 8% from 2024.
[SPEAKER_09]: And the box office over the weekend, Zootopia 2, wow.
[SPEAKER_09]: Mashed.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: 156 million in the US box office weekend, 556 million globally.
[SPEAKER_09]: And they were worried it wasn't going to be a success.
[SPEAKER_10]: Um, uh, obviously it's a good film or it wouldn't have done that because that people would, they probably didn't premiere on Wednesday so they had the whole weekend.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: How many weekend premieres or you can't exactly compare them to others because you have especially like you're Thanksgiving weekend because you get basically for that.
[SPEAKER_09]: You get the Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday.
[SPEAKER_09]: as opposed to the traditional, which is just Friday Saturday Sunday.
[SPEAKER_10]: So yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: But also I mean if if it's that kind of money coming in, it means people saw it and then they told other people or they went and saw it again.
[SPEAKER_10]: Right.
[SPEAKER_10]: And that's the thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: Plus, I mean Thanksgiving is one of those holidays where you get a bunch of people in your house and you oftentimes have a bunch of little people around and Zutopia is a family movie.
[SPEAKER_09]: it is.
[SPEAKER_09]: So you're like little people, let's see.
[SPEAKER_09]: Who draws a short straw and goes and takes care of the kids and then rest of us are going to go over and watch maybe wicket for good and y'all can
[SPEAKER_09]: So whatever, but obviously the movie theaters were doing good and that's good news.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, it is good news.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's good news because we like our friends the LA and the bar actually having jobs and having money and some of which they can then throw and you hear at the bar and get Jody in me because of, you know.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, and California has new tax incentives so production is coming back.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yay, thank you very much, Democrats and Governor Newsom.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's almost like, you know, folks in California actually know how to run an economy.
[SPEAKER_09]: just check her.
[SPEAKER_09]: All right, speaking of which we will talk more about the economy.
[SPEAKER_09]: We'll talk more about the news on tap.
[SPEAKER_09]: Brooklyn Dad Defiant is coming in.
[SPEAKER_09]: Also, we got to get talking about that DC shooting and the immigration issues coming on.
[SPEAKER_09]: And Alina Haba, let's see.
[SPEAKER_09]: Sorry about that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, there's some news we'll talk about with her today as
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[SPEAKER_09]: What are you doing, girl?
[SPEAKER_09]: You are feeling a little bit better, I hope.
[SPEAKER_10]: I am feeling better.
[SPEAKER_10]: I was able to empty the dishwasher without losing my breath today, so that was good.
[SPEAKER_09]: That is awesome.
[SPEAKER_09]: Always good to be able to empty the dishwasher without losing one's breath, especially when one has nothing.
[SPEAKER_09]: Feeling a hundred percent.
[SPEAKER_09]: And yet, she's here.
[SPEAKER_09]: She's here hanging out with you and me.
[SPEAKER_09]: Cause you know what?
[SPEAKER_09]: Joe is a hard worker about this type of stuff.
[SPEAKER_09]: Also, she knows she's not going to get you sick because it doesn't go through the microphone though.
[SPEAKER_10]: Let's think of that way, right?
[SPEAKER_09]: No, no, it doesn't.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, we don't have that vision yet.
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[SPEAKER_09]: It is the giving season.
[SPEAKER_09]: So that's what he used to say is a kid, by the way.
[SPEAKER_09]: you know I would say that's all the adults I would say you know this is the giving season so please give to me generously and of course the adults would look at me and be like very funny only well whatever that that is actually the the best part I like is is giving that that's the thing I like about the holidays is giving the other people helping other people
[SPEAKER_09]: Somebody who didn't help, by the way, he's Donald Trump today, by the way is World AIDS Day, and normally there are things.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, the quilt is usually out on the mall.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right, yep, there are things at the federal government usually does for World AIDS Day and not done this year because Donald doesn't give.
[SPEAKER_09]: He doesn't give a rip about anybody.
[SPEAKER_10]: And I lost several friends.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'd two in particular in 1987, another one in the early 90s
[SPEAKER_10]: five six years.
[SPEAKER_10]: That sucks.
[SPEAKER_09]: That sucks.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm glad that that science has mostly, if you, if you can continue to take the retrovile drugs, mostly taking care of of that.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, then there's prep that you can take to, but there it's, it's also very expensive.
[SPEAKER_10]: So people that don't have money.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: It is, and that's, and that's part of the medical issue insurance.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, insurance is a big thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Speaking of that, we can dive right into that.
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[SPEAKER_09]: And we were talking about the insurance issues, the healthcare issue, which is one of the Republicans have been running away from for 15 or 30 years,
[SPEAKER_10]: depending on how you look at it, exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_09]: Paul Waldman has a great piece over there at MS now, and the title of his just great.
[SPEAKER_09]: Republicans health care homework is due and they're panicking and it is, they have to figure out something because it's actually made clear.
[SPEAKER_09]: Klobuchar on one of the Sunday shows, Senator Klobuchar over the weekend said that she has an assurance from Senate Majority Leader Thune that they will have a vote.
[SPEAKER_09]: on some kinds of healthcare plans.
[SPEAKER_09]: They're going to have a vote here this month, probably within the next two weeks.
[SPEAKER_09]: Democrats have a plan, which is, hey, take the ACA subsidies that are there and just extend them for a couple of years.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's one sentence, it's easy.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Simple, easy, anybody hell, Donald Trump could figure that one out.
[SPEAKER_09]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_09]: But Republicans are still in denial.
[SPEAKER_09]: They're like, no, we gotta figure something, but no, but no, because, because they, now they want healthcare minds you for themselves and their families and the people they care about.
[SPEAKER_09]: They just don't want you to have access to healthcare.
[SPEAKER_09]: Whether it's world aids day or any day, they don't want you to have access to healthcare.
[SPEAKER_09]: They also don't want you to get them sick, which if you don't have healthcare, you're going to get them sick.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: But that's, you know, Republican's plan.
[SPEAKER_09]: What did we say that was, um, great up and die?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, Alan Grayson's, like, infamous comment, it's still that he is Alan Grayson's still correct, even though it's been, but like a decade, at least, that Republicans health care plan for you, not for them, but for you is to die and die quickly.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, when people complain that, oh, Medicare for all costs too much, no, it doesn't.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_10]: We're not costs me $1,500 a month.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: And the problems that exist in other universal health care systems.
[SPEAKER_09]: we know those problems.
[SPEAKER_09]: So we can work to avoid them in our system.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right, it's not, and for those people say, well, this is, that's a new idea.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, it's not, no, no, no, not a new idea.
[SPEAKER_09]: We are the only major nation in the world that does not have some form of universal basic healthcare.
[SPEAKER_09]: And everyone else says this system is stupid because we can be bankrupted.
[SPEAKER_09]: We can be put on the streets and made homeless by our system that is supposed to be there to help us stay healthy.
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, whatever, whatever it would be out of a paycheck or monthly if you're, you know, working for yourself or whatever.
[SPEAKER_09]: One of the things that going to pay starting next month, yeah, that's one of the reasons why Democrats are saying, look, if we get this, it will actually help Republicans, but it will help more Americans.
[SPEAKER_09]: We understand politically, politically, politically, this is how you know that Democrats as a party actually give a crap about you is that they have been working every month,
[SPEAKER_09]: for what the last six months?
[SPEAKER_09]: Knowing that this deadline is coming, trying to get Republicans to do something to extend the ACA subsidies.
[SPEAKER_09]: Knowing that politically, the smart thing to do would be for them to put their hands behind their back and just whistle.
[SPEAKER_09]: And oh, oh, I'm sorry, nothing, I'm not doing anything.
[SPEAKER_09]: And let it hit Republicans square on in the face when millions of Americans suddenly can't afford health care.
[SPEAKER_09]: Millions of Americans, starting next month.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly, many of whom are armed, by the way, for those of you who forget that old Denzel Washington movie to sign.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: So it would be much easier for Democrats to just let Republicans get what's coming to them.
[SPEAKER_09]: And Democrats are still trying to help you to get health care, even though it would be worse politically for them.
[SPEAKER_09]: For those people who both sides of the same, Show me what a Republican has done, something like that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Show me what a Republican has been willing to risk their own office, their own job security, their own donations, so that you can get health care, or anything else for that matter.
[SPEAKER_09]: How to have it.
[UNKNOWN]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_09]: By the way, speaking of people who are running away, Trump ally Troy Nelson is growing joining a growing group of retiring house members who are looking at the 2026 elections and saying, Republicans are going to get their ass kicked, so when we're going to find something else to do, I just, I don't know, I mean, good, exactly, I would rather, the thing
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, I would rather that they tried to govern and that they understood that you're not going to get everything to be a win on your side, but that you can try to pull it your way.
[SPEAKER_09]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_09]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's not how they want to do it.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, fact they want to do things like the Trump FDA is trying to implement new vaccine rules.
[SPEAKER_09]: After the Trump regime is question really linking 10 child deaths to COVID shots.
[SPEAKER_09]: They won't say where the child deaths happen.
[SPEAKER_09]: They won't say what the company was that manufactured the supposed shot that was given.
[SPEAKER_09]: But so they're not giving any details, but they're saying supposedly somewhere here in the United States randomly, there were 10 kids.
[SPEAKER_09]: We won't tell you who they are.
[SPEAKER_09]: We won't tell you where
[SPEAKER_10]: And we won't tell you if they had any underlying conditions, how old they were.
[SPEAKER_09]: Joe, he's right, again.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, yeah, because that seems so legit.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: But that's what passes for health care legislation on the Republican side.
[SPEAKER_09]: This.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, anyhow.
[SPEAKER_09]: They also are not exactly that sharp on education.
[SPEAKER_09]: Unfortunately, another big ten-school, as you know, my Huskers, I'm very proud of them.
[SPEAKER_09]: I am proud.
[SPEAKER_09]: I have to admit it.
[SPEAKER_09]: I am very proud of the Husker women's volleyball team.
[SPEAKER_09]: After volleyball team, because you're going to call the volleyball, we say it's volleyball, it's always women, it's men's, you have to say men's anyway.
[SPEAKER_09]: But the Husker volleyball team, 30 and 0.
[SPEAKER_09]: on the food.
[SPEAKER_10]: They're not any good.
[SPEAKER_09]: So the current coach coach Danny must be Kelly.
[SPEAKER_09]: She played for the guy who she replaced John Cook when John Cook started in 2000 his first season.
[SPEAKER_09]: He also went undefeated and then he won the National Championship.
[SPEAKER_09]: So I'm not trying to jinx it for you know Danny Buspoon Kelly and the Huskers but I'm saying but if she does that then that's pretty much the baseline standard for Nebraska volleyball is new headquarters.
[SPEAKER_09]: If you're going to be a new head coach the requirement is you come in when every single game and get the
[SPEAKER_09]: that's where we start.
[SPEAKER_09]: No pressure exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, you know, peasy say I have high standards and I say I do and then they say, well, you know, can you increase your standards and I say, fine, I'll up my standards.
[SPEAKER_09]: Now, up yours.
[SPEAKER_09]: Anywho, all right, sorry.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's
[SPEAKER_09]: No, one of my old favorite jokes and somebody talks about standards and I'm just like, hey, you know, I do have high standards, but now you know where I get my high standards.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's, that's the way I do it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Hey, look who just came in.
[SPEAKER_09]: We're talking about standards.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's really bad to find Mr. Machine for Monday nights with Machine.
[SPEAKER_08]: How are you doing, man?
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[SPEAKER_08]: How was your Thanksgiving holiday?
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, how was your Thanksgiving, sir?
[SPEAKER_10]: Thank you for the text.
[SPEAKER_10]: And I did give my mom your message.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Very cool.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it was a, it was Gabba Gabba Gabba.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was one of that.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right.
[SPEAKER_07]: What can complain about a day where you spend time with with family and you eat and then you pass out a little bit and watch some TV You eat some more little turkey little wild turkey and it a little passing out my favorite my favorites in this order are chicken Okay mac and cheese.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay stuff thing cranberry sauce.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay corn corn bread
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: Had had most of those.
[SPEAKER_09]: We had turkey instead of chicken, which that was good.
[SPEAKER_09]: I did the turkey this year, which I did the good job that I got to say.
[SPEAKER_09]: This is nice.
[SPEAKER_09]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_10]: And I just wanted a crock pot before.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Those are, it's easy to do.
[SPEAKER_09]: Is that better?
[SPEAKER_10]: It's, um, I don't eat turkey, but apparently it was very good.
[SPEAKER_09]: You can do a lot of things that way.
[SPEAKER_09]: My dad used to do that a lot where he would put, you can do noodles, you can do whatever, and you put in like a little sauce, and you put it in a crock pot, and you're going to be at home, so you just put it in the turkey.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, no, no, no, yeah, you can do it like a turkey breast, you can do a chicken, and you just put it in there, you put your sauce in there, and you let it cook for the day, because you're in your home office, and then you come out to the kitchen, boom, it's ready.
[SPEAKER_10]: So, that's how I make my chili.
[SPEAKER_09]: See?
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[SPEAKER_09]: We still got to get to that shooting that happened last Wednesday.
[SPEAKER_09]: We'll talk a little bit about that and a little bit about some of the entertainment stuff that happened over the weekend as well.
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[SPEAKER_09]: All right, machine.
[SPEAKER_09]: We talked about how your weekend was a little bit about obviously the good food that you had and obviously family friends over the weekend, which is a good deal.
[SPEAKER_09]: I didn't know if you got to see any of the movies over the weekend, you take the kids any of the movies or, you know, maybe you went out and so I wicked for good.
[SPEAKER_09]: Huh?
[SPEAKER_07]: No, we saw that.
[SPEAKER_07]: We saw Wicked for good the week before.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: This weekend, we stayed home.
[SPEAKER_07]: We've got little kittens.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's how you guys said.
[SPEAKER_07]: You told Joe.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yep, last Wednesday or last Monday.
[SPEAKER_07]: Goodness.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was an amazing experience.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like, I've seen my son's born, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: But that was like decades ago, right there.
[SPEAKER_07]: My oldest son is literally 31 years old.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, wow.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and then my youngest is 27.
[SPEAKER_07]: So it's been...
[SPEAKER_07]: It's been a minute.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it's been a while.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's pretty hard for you, because you're 54.
[SPEAKER_09]: So I was going to say, that was you were a 7.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's 7.
[SPEAKER_07]: You were a 7.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: So watching kittens, this was my first time seeing kittens born.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh wow.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was magical.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was adorable.
[SPEAKER_07]: So we've been focused on this one.
[SPEAKER_07]: His name is Goose.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's five total.
[SPEAKER_07]: Five.
[SPEAKER_07]: And yeah, she's doing a great job, but Goose was not eating at all.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so we were concerned a kiss about that.
[SPEAKER_07]: We didn't want to lose one right.
[SPEAKER_07]: So we took him to a rescue place and they showed us.
[SPEAKER_10]: I dropped her feed.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, we originally had my dropper and that was no good.
[SPEAKER_07]: So they gave us this other bottle that had a little mipple on it.
[SPEAKER_07]: That kind of helped, but eventually he just had to get the hang of, you know, latching and working it out with mama.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so now he's, he's putting on the weight and good.
[SPEAKER_10]: I remember watching we had a poodle when I was a kid, Jingles was her name, and she got pregnant, and she had three puppies and I watched all of them be born.
[SPEAKER_10]: I was five or six years old and I remember watching it happen and watching her clean them and everything once they, you know, were born.
[SPEAKER_10]: It was really, it was quite astonishing and beautiful.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do the dogs eat the placenta too?
[SPEAKER_10]: And believes that they can do.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: They definitely lick stuff off and clean them.
[SPEAKER_09]: But it's obvious that animals care about.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I would say most humans.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, well, you know, I'm Donald Trump, I don't know if he knows or cares, you know, about his own kids.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's what I was good for.
[SPEAKER_09]: I knew it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: The reason why we talk about this.
[SPEAKER_09]: So last Wednesday night when we were here in the bar hanging out with you guys, we mentioned that there was the shooting in downtown DC, about four blocks from the White House.
[SPEAKER_09]: and we didn't have the details now over the weekend obviously we put out not only do we have some fresh stuff for you on Thursday and on Friday because that's what we do here at the politics bars kind of nice only put out you know a few posts on social media as well so you guys could follow that but for those people who are busy
[SPEAKER_09]: Let's recap that.
[SPEAKER_09]: So there was a shooting of two national guard soldiers, about four blocks from the White House, just coming out of one of the DC Metro stops.
[SPEAKER_09]: National Guard soldiers, Sarah Beckstrom, 24 years old, both of these national guard members, by the way, were from West Virginia.
[SPEAKER_09]: Now, neither of them actually needed to be here.
[SPEAKER_09]: Remember, we've had Jared here in the bar a number of times.
[SPEAKER_09]: He lives down, down in DC.
[SPEAKER_09]: There is no reason for the National Guard to be in DC.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, none, none for their landscaping and collecting trash.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, yep, yep.
[SPEAKER_09]: Now they're being babysat by DC police.
[SPEAKER_09]: So DC police who also have other things to do are babysitting the national guard members to make sure that they don't get hurt, which makes, it's an absolute complete waste of public resources,
[SPEAKER_10]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_10]: And as far as I'm concerned, Donald is responsible for both of these people getting shot and for her getting killed.
[SPEAKER_10]: I agree with you.
[SPEAKER_10]: And same with the governor.
[SPEAKER_09]: And, um, yeah, the governor of West Virginia who let his people be taken there.
[SPEAKER_09]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_10]: And Ashley Babitt wouldn't have been murdered.
[SPEAKER_10]: Had Donald not done what he did.
[SPEAKER_09]: We know that we know that we know that Donald Trump is responsible for a lot of deaths.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, all I got to say is one word and you guys will agree.
[SPEAKER_07]: COVID also that the judge had ruled that deployment of the national guard to be illegal.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: And that is it is last time I checked that's still undergoing that that is that still means, but for the end this month, it was stay on the order, which was unfortunate.
[SPEAKER_10]: But right.
[SPEAKER_09]: But so we'll we'll that that will work.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's way through the courts.
[SPEAKER_09]: Here's the guy who actually did it and and here's where things get even more hairy So the two guardsmen were shot the suspect was also shot He is an afghan national.
[SPEAKER_09]: He is living in Washington state Yes, over any not D.C.
[SPEAKER_09]: The other Washington.
[SPEAKER_09]: He drove all the way from Washington state two
[SPEAKER_09]: Washington, D.C.
[SPEAKER_09]: He was a member of a CIA zero unit during the Afghan war.
[SPEAKER_09]: Now, zero units are some very highly trained and they are, um, they do some of the wet work and things that you don't want to know about, yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Um, but because Donald Trump decided to, here's another Donald Trump decided that we were going to pull out of Afghanistan.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, Joe Biden and Kamal Harris had to take care of the mess because Donald threw the metaphorical grenade and put it in their lap.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_09]: They had to handle the mess.
[SPEAKER_09]: But Donald was the one who said, Oh, well, we got to leave Afghanistan.
[SPEAKER_09]: And this guy was one of the people who had worked for us.
[SPEAKER_09]: Any of the folks who stuck around after we left in the Taliban retook control, most of those people died because the Taliban killed him.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's just how that's how it works.
[SPEAKER_09]: So this guy, he was evacuated to the US in August of 2021.
[SPEAKER_09]: It was granted a silent by the Trump regime earlier this year in April.
[SPEAKER_09]: and there is new reporting from the folks over at MS now they have hired some pretty good reporters.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm glad they did.
[SPEAKER_09]: January of this January of last year, January 2024.
[SPEAKER_09]: There were emails from community members who were dealing with mental health care in the area of Washington State where he lived.
[SPEAKER_09]: And these emails, the person that they got the emails from, wrote that the shooting suspect had not been functional as a person since March of 2023.
[SPEAKER_10]: There.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's too bad.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Wait, what does that mean?
[SPEAKER_07]: He was non-campus mentis.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, he was highly withdrawn from his family exactly, big time PTSD, and you got to remember, this is PTSD from somebody who was in a zero unit during the middle of a war.
[SPEAKER_09]: So kind of dangerous, the healthcare worker said that the suspect was highly withdrawn even from the family in his own home.
[SPEAKER_09]: uh... went by the way did he get that asylum jodie when when was that given the asylum was given uh... april of twenty twenty five uh... yep and he'd been according to a health care worker who knew him uh... non-functionals a person since march of twenty twenty three so Donald Trump and his regime sitting there saying oh what was because of the Biden vetting you had access to this information
[SPEAKER_09]: Your people had access to this information.
[SPEAKER_09]: You did not have to grant them asylum.
[SPEAKER_09]: You could say, pending a mental evaluation, we cannot because it's a too much of a danger.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_09]: You guys a lot of here, yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: And then Secretary Noom claimed that the suspect was radicalized here in the U.S.
[SPEAKER_09]: But the Trump regime gave him asylum anyway, right?
[SPEAKER_09]: If they're trying to push blame on somebody else and they're trying to say, this is somebody else's fault,
[SPEAKER_09]: This is, you know, kind of important that you guys understand, this was nothing that this guy did not do it himself first of all.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's not the guy.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, he's, we, we made this guy who is, yes.
[SPEAKER_09]: But then the Trump regime, it wasn't the Biden administration.
[SPEAKER_09]: It was the Trump regime that said, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well, we'll, we'll give him, we'll give him a sign.
[SPEAKER_10]: and now John old is going overboard and not letting anybody come in.
[SPEAKER_10]: And getting on Somali's case in Minnesota.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's getting in the case of the Somali's in Minnesota, which is absolutely stupid.
[SPEAKER_09]: The only thing that these two people have in common is the same thing that you have in common with the BDD.
[SPEAKER_09]: They're brown.
[SPEAKER_09]: My skin color isn't correct.
[SPEAKER_07]: Can I tell you something because I'm actually writing a, uh,
[SPEAKER_07]: a sub-stack about this issue, which will be dropping tomorrow morning.
[SPEAKER_07]: Excellent.
[SPEAKER_07]: Racism or the immigration issue is a little of both.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's actually a different angle because I am Muslim.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I've grown up, you know, I've born Muslim growing up that way in America.
[SPEAKER_07]: And
[SPEAKER_07]: Whenever there was a story that came on the news and they mentioned terrorism, I would always be like, please don't be in Ahmed.
[SPEAKER_07]: Please don't be in Ahmed.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, and sure enough, they would say radical Islamic terrorism, you know, and
[SPEAKER_07]: Donald Trump loves to scapegoat Muslim people.
[SPEAKER_07]: As we know from this first term, he had the Muslim ban.
[SPEAKER_07]: And now this incident has created a pretext for Islamophobia and for ramping up, I just read yesterday that Dearborn Michigan is anticipating ramping up of ICE
[SPEAKER_07]: presence in their area and kidnappings and, you know, you know, the whole deal with that.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, monsters, you know, as much as I fault George W. Bush for being a complete boob and a liar and, you know, the whole list of negative adjectives about him, but what I appreciated about him was that shortly after 9-11 he made that speech that said, you know,
[SPEAKER_07]: Muslims are not our enemies and they're good Americans and blah, blah, blah, please don't attack them.
[SPEAKER_07]: I appreciated that because I'm not, I'm old enough to remember that a guy named Majid Padellin was kind of sweating, worrying when there was going to come a knock on my door saying, you're a Muslim aren't you?
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, come with us.
[SPEAKER_07]: And as crazy as that may sound,
[SPEAKER_07]: It's it's not like it hasn't happened before like during World War II.
[SPEAKER_07]: We had Japanese people in in in German camps.
[SPEAKER_07]: So it has happened here before.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's been happening.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's been happening.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's been happening with pretty much anybody brown, not necessarily just Muslim people, but it's been happening with anybody brown with all these ice monsters.
[SPEAKER_09]: But yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: We thankfully have some of the courts really are holding.
[SPEAKER_09]: There are a number of judges, even ones that Trump appointed who are saying, just being a Muslim is not a crime.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I'm glad to see that.
[SPEAKER_09]: I am glad to see that the lessons that L.A. and Portland and D.C. and and right, have all passed on, especially Chicago.
[SPEAKER_09]: You guys have been really great about that.
[SPEAKER_09]: that they are now being passed on to the folks in New Orleans, and obviously in Dearborn, and they will add their own unique protective takes to that.
[SPEAKER_09]: I just wish we didn't have to, that the folks who don't understand how the federal government works and don't understand that it can be helpful, it can be good.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, but among other things, you have to accept the fact that there are people out there who are not going to be like you.
[SPEAKER_09]: There are people who are, there are Muslims, there are Christians, there are Jews, there are atheists.
[SPEAKER_09]: Lots of atheists out there, there are agnostics.
[SPEAKER_09]: You believe in something you just don't know what you believe.
[SPEAKER_09]: There's all kinds of people here.
[SPEAKER_09]: And you want to make sure to have a law, a set of laws.
[SPEAKER_09]: that work to benefit everybody, regardless of what you believe, so that everybody can believe whatever the heck they want to believe.
[SPEAKER_09]: And if you don't want to believe anything, guess what?
[SPEAKER_09]: That's a form of belief too.
[SPEAKER_09]: So you're perfectly fine to do whatever.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's that's literally one of the core foundations of this nation.
[SPEAKER_09]: And the idea that we can sing aloud Muslims.
[SPEAKER_09]: or Jews, or Lutherans, I was Latinos, yeah, or Blacks or Blacks, uh-huh, exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: I didn't think they really disabled.
[SPEAKER_07]: The thing that really got me recently is the racial profiling of the Latinos because it's like,
[SPEAKER_07]: you know, there's so many folks here who have lived here their whole entire lives and they you just happen to hear them speaking Spanish, so you're going to walk up to them and ask them for their papers like, where are we?
[SPEAKER_07]: Where the hell are we?
[SPEAKER_10]: Spanish control mostly white European nation also.
[SPEAKER_09]: Again, exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Good point.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's and also I saw a little meme over the weekend.
[SPEAKER_09]: I thought was absolutely hilarious I think it was over on threads.
[SPEAKER_09]: It was a woman that she was talking her her brother called her from Korea Because that's where he lives on Thanksgiving and and called her you how you doing?
[SPEAKER_09]: Of course She starts talking to and this white woman says to her says speak English
[SPEAKER_09]: So the world of turns takes her phone away from her head and in absolutely perfect English says Who the after you think you are?
[SPEAKER_09]: And then white woman Sorry Slake yeah, we we can speak all kinds of languages.
[SPEAKER_09]: We can worship all kinds of things We can be all kinds of heights and colors and abilities y'all this is America that is literally what we are about so
[SPEAKER_09]: I told you who stand up and say, not on my watch.
[SPEAKER_09]: Thank you very much for that.
[SPEAKER_09]: We appreciate that.
[SPEAKER_09]: So look, it is Monday night.
[SPEAKER_09]: We got Monday's with machine.
[SPEAKER_09]: We got more with machine.
[SPEAKER_09]: I know a lot of M's.
[SPEAKER_09]: We'll talk a little bit more about some of the other news on tab.
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[SPEAKER_09]: All right, you guys got me to break a little bit.
[SPEAKER_09]: I did this.
[SPEAKER_09]: A little bit.
[SPEAKER_09]: That'll launch just a little bit, but you know, I'll take it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Take it.
[SPEAKER_09]: You do what you can.
[SPEAKER_09]: You got to try and make your friends laugh.
[SPEAKER_09]: So we were talking about
[SPEAKER_09]: We're all friends with Steph Miller who Stephanie Miller's fantastic and and she does like teenage boy jokes teenage and part jokes and and those kind of things and and then we ended up talking about what's the movie you saw this weekend bdd roses the roses
[SPEAKER_09]: but Olivia Coleman and Benedict Comberdach.
[SPEAKER_09]: Although I always think of Benedict Comberdach.
[SPEAKER_09]: I believe Eddie Isard, they made a, it's in later versions of their comedy.
[SPEAKER_09]: And Eddie says, or I can't remember their name, they still go by Eddie, it's fine sometimes.
[SPEAKER_09]: And Eddie does this bit about Benedict Comberdach.
[SPEAKER_09]: Slumpty Bon Walla, names that you don't think that actual people have.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, that's what his girlfriend said.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, that's great.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, I mean, honestly, that's just, but, but I guess, uh, so we're talking about like a new teenage boy jokes, and then you said Kate McKinnon was in that movie as well.
[SPEAKER_09]: And we're immediately like, yep, yep, there's another girl who likes teenage boy humor.
[SPEAKER_09]: See, Joe, he does sometimes, not always.
[SPEAKER_09]: Sometimes.
[SPEAKER_10]: Hey, I like Mason, Austin Powers.
[SPEAKER_07]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_07]: Austin Powers.
[SPEAKER_07]: Good.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think that's how we got on to it.
[SPEAKER_07]: I got on this.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I was doing a little Austin Powers dance.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, because, you know, when I said that the first one was great, the second one was okay, and the third one was, you know, but there's only so many fart jokes you can tell before people are like, yeah, no, no.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, they are the pranks.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're doing a lot of Instagram prank videos that are kind of funny.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, we're prank videos though.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm through the parts.
[SPEAKER_09]: Some of the prank videos, though, I little, you know, I'm like, eh, because, you know, some people take those too far.
[SPEAKER_09]: But yes, yeah, a green agreement.
[SPEAKER_09]: Speaking of taking things too far back to the news on tap a third round in the immigration worst segment.
[SPEAKER_09]: So THS secretary Nome did something really stupid.
[SPEAKER_09]: We mentioned this earlier tonight.
[SPEAKER_09]: She actually did this on the Sunday shows I've got the the clip up here on the DVR.
[SPEAKER_09]: She admitted to a crime.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right on there
[SPEAKER_04]: here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Filing in federal court this week, the Justice Department said that when the administration was ordered back in March to stop sending detained migrants to a mega prison in Al Salvador, you personally made the final call to continue the flights anyway.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is that correct?
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you acknowledge that?
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we have court filings going on in decisions that are going forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll let them continue to play through that process.
[SPEAKER_00]: But did you make that call to President Trump and his leadership in the decisions that that we have made and the decisions that are made on deportations where flights go and when they go or my decision at the Department of Homeland Security and we will continue to do the right thing and ensure that dangerous criminals are removed.
[SPEAKER_09]: your decision.
[SPEAKER_10]: He did it to a crime.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yep, she did exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: He jodied his right because here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: The court said if the planes are in the air, turn them around.
[SPEAKER_09]: This is what the judge said.
[SPEAKER_09]: When judges speak, you don't get to use the system and say, well, the law is the way that I agree with it.
[SPEAKER_09]: So therefore everybody else needs to need to need to.
[SPEAKER_09]: And then when the law is, is you go, no, no, no, I don't like the law, no, no, no, no, no, ignore that one, but this one over here, you need to pay attention to that one over there, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's not not how laws work at all did, did you already talk about how if Donald Trump is so concerned to kiss about, um,
[SPEAKER_09]: stopping drug dealers and why is he pardoning that uh... the hindering president exactly we mentioned that first hour but it's worth bringing up because honestly that it's it's exactly the same thing if you're concerned about the law well we're we know these laws and we want to you know we we want to make sure that the people follow the laws and aren't shipping illegal drugs into our country
[SPEAKER_09]: Why would you, here's the other thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: We had, as well, we didn't exactly have a great relationship with them, but there was still some relationship with them previous before, you know, we started, you know, blowing up boats off the coast there.
[SPEAKER_09]: And that relationship was specifically for drug introduction.
[SPEAKER_09]: Now, of course, there's no relationship, so any of the information that they might have passed through to other people that got to us, we ain't getting none of it now.
[SPEAKER_09]: So we're stopping fewer drug shipments, then we were before because we attacked Venezuela.
[SPEAKER_07]: By the way, 400 tons of cocaine, the Honduran president was responsible for drug trafficking of 400 tons, which is a lot of cocaine.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, that would get everybody in the country I and more.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, but no, no, no, no, or don't junior.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm giving you a bell on that one because honestly, that Don't junior doesn't do coke.
[SPEAKER_09]: Don't junior doesn't do coke.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, yeah, we know that anyway, but but honestly, it's it's kind of like this whole thing with Pete Kegbreath and the the
[SPEAKER_10]: the bombings.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: Extra due to show.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's the word I was looking for.
[SPEAKER_09]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, actually talking about the one with the two people, the two survivors that they went and bombed anyway.
[SPEAKER_07]: That is exactly the beginning.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's that that was the first one.
[SPEAKER_09]: But remember, the order hasn't changed.
[SPEAKER_09]: That was the initial order.
[SPEAKER_09]: The first.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's drones strike on a boat that we had.
[SPEAKER_09]: There are two people.
[SPEAKER_09]: We have the article in the news on tap today that you can see.
[SPEAKER_09]: There are two people who have already in some court or some way testified that Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, gave the order.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's known as a no-corder order.
[SPEAKER_09]: It means that you kill them all regardless, regardless.
[SPEAKER_09]: and yet literally the laws of war, the laws of war.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, we have laws in this country that pertain to how you are supposed to behave during war, how our side is supposed to be.
[SPEAKER_09]: We can't control how the other side behaves, but how our side is supposed to behave.
[SPEAKER_09]: and one of those, literally says that we cannot harm those who are already disabled from combat.
[SPEAKER_09]: Now, first of all, that requires that we're going to war, we're not in a war with Venezuela.
[SPEAKER_09]: Secondly,
[SPEAKER_09]: they had been disabled.
[SPEAKER_09]: It wasn't legally combat.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, since we weren't in a war, no, it wasn't legally combat.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, but if you take the broad of some, some, you brought broad, you go, okay, fine.
[SPEAKER_09]: So it wasn't a war, and it wasn't combat.
[SPEAKER_09]: But we fired her in their boat, and they were still surviving.
[SPEAKER_09]: You don't kill them.
[SPEAKER_09]: You help them.
[SPEAKER_09]: And yet, Craig breath said, nope, kill them.
[SPEAKER_10]: Even police officers in a gun shoot out will go and get the guy if the guy is alive from being shot To put him in a hospital in fact the guy in DC the suspect in DC who is in the hospital right now I could I could drive you I could drive.
[SPEAKER_10]: I lower the flags yet in DC for the Nope Oh, that's so lovely of Donald
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, he cares.
[SPEAKER_09]: He supposedly invited the families, but I don't necessarily know if the families want to come here because they know that their national garden members wouldn't have been here if Donald Trump were for him.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: He'll only do it if it benefits him politically and I don't think at the end of the day that exactly, I don't think that benefits him at all.
[SPEAKER_07]: Can I say something about those boats before we move off of that?
[SPEAKER_07]: Sure, yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not sure if anyone on your show has ever made this observation before or whatever, but are we even sure that there are actually boats that are being
[SPEAKER_07]: exploded bomb or whatever.
[SPEAKER_07]: And the reason I ask that is that AI has progressed to a level where it's really difficult to determine what's real and what's what's fake.
[SPEAKER_07]: And we've seen that the Trump administration will not hesitate to use AI artifacts videos, etc.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's a point.
[SPEAKER_07]: these boats, you know, the video absolutely looks like it's, but do we, do we know that they were real taking?
[SPEAKER_09]: Um, I mean, I, I can, I can.
[SPEAKER_07]: Here's, here's why I request, here's why I question that, because these are extra, extra judicial killings that have been going on.
[SPEAKER_07]: Allegedly, extra judicial killings that they have not engaged Congress on.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: If their, if their goal is just to
[SPEAKER_07]: the surrounding areas, like if you venture into those waters, you will be killed, whether it's legal or not.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Those videos, they get disseminated.
[SPEAKER_07]: They get spread all across everybody has seen them, these bombings, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: So for all intents and purposes, everybody thinks they're real.
[SPEAKER_07]: So they have...
[SPEAKER_07]: achieved their purpose right as a deterrent right just as a deterrent without even actually having to kill anyone is is my guess now is that is that right or wrong who knows well there are there are other nations in the air there are other nations in the air there are other nations in the world
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, right, but there are other nations in the area, there are other nations that that observe that area.
[SPEAKER_09]: So could we get confirmation?
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm almost certain that we could get confirmation from from other sources of each of them being blown up.
[SPEAKER_09]: That I'm he's, you know, but, but I also wasn't going to get the other reason.
[SPEAKER_09]: You're not wrong to question it in the sense of it, in fact, it totally could be.
[SPEAKER_07]: We don't know.
[SPEAKER_07]: Here's the other reason I question it is because drug dealers do not become successful by being dumb.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: If you if your guy is taking a package down a block and every time he goes down that block, he gets jacked.
[SPEAKER_07]: Somebody steals his stuff and his money.
[SPEAKER_07]: Are you going to continue to send that guy down that same corridor or are you going to chill?
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so after the
[SPEAKER_07]: 10th time the United States very publicly did this.
[SPEAKER_09]: Why are these dealers continuing to do we don't know they are We don't know they are just it in fact a lot of a lot of the speculation around this has been that some of these are fishing boats
[SPEAKER_09]: Um, uh, some people have said that some of them, some of it may be, um, immigration, some of it may be, uh, people just traveling between, uh, the, the coast and islands down there.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, we don't know who was on the boats.
[SPEAKER_09]: We don't have any confirmation.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's, that's one of the things of, uh, with, with the, with the laws of war, you actually have to be able to identify your enemy target.
[SPEAKER_09]: And be able to prove it if you, you know, yes, the United States is not part of the international court system as far as that goes for now.
[SPEAKER_09]: Um, but there still are, I mean, there's still the U.N. and, of course, there's still the Hague.
[SPEAKER_09]: There's still all of that.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, I mean, there's, there's, there's, there's, in general, in an active war, you have to be able to prove that this is the enemy, and that was their action.
[SPEAKER_09]: We can't even prove that it was an enemy.
[SPEAKER_09]: We can't prove there was a robot.
[SPEAKER_09]: We, there, we can't prove it, which means that it may just be people in the military, killing people on, uh, Pete Kegbrest, say so, which, uh,
[SPEAKER_09]: That's murder, that's still murder.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's murder.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, no hell with the question.
[SPEAKER_09]: Hell with the good question.
[SPEAKER_09]: Uh, look, can you stick around for a little bit more for the after hours?
[SPEAKER_09]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Jody, awesome booking, just I love that.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Don't do anything we would do and don't do some of the things we would.
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