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As House debt ceiling vote nears, Biden shores up Democrats and McCarthy confident of GOP support
"The Senate awaits House action on the debt ceiling and budget cuts deal with top House Republican Kevin McCarthy furiously tried to sway skeptical conservatives, Senate counterpart Mitch McConnell's urging the party to stay together. House Republicans gave them the upper hand. They used it to secure a much needed step. In the right direction. Democratic chief Chuck Schumer's warning Republicans against scuttling the bill. Any needless delay, any last minute brinksmanship at this point would be an unacceptable risk and says the Senate will move fast when the time comes.
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As House debt ceiling vote nears, Biden shores up Democrats and McCarthy scrambles for GOP support
"House speaker Kevin McCarthy continues scrambling for GOP support as the dead ceiling and budget cuts package heads to a vote today. McCarthy insists he will have the votes to pass a bill, he says, makes historic spending cuts. If I remember of Congress, I wouldn't want history to pass me by. But Florida's Byron donalds and others on the right Flank are skeptical. I'm trying to figure out exactly what conservatives should be happy about. Few lawmakers on either side aren't fully satisfied with the compromise, leaving McCarthy and President Biden trying to gain enough support from the political center, a rarity and divided Washington. The president said in top negotiators to capital hill for a morning meeting where top house Democrat had came Jeffries pledged his support for the bill. Without hesitation, reservation or trepidation. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
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Ahead of House debt ceiling vote, Biden shores up Democrats and McCarthy scrambles for GOP support
"The president and House speaker are scrambling for support ahead of a house debt ceiling vote. The debt limit and budget cuts package that squeaked through the House rules committee on a 7 to 6 vote is headed to the U.S. House. President Biden and speaker Kevin McCarthy are trying to assemble a centrist bipartisan coalition to get it passed and avert a potentially disastrous U.S. default in less than a week. We'll pass the bill. Speaker McCarthy is of all the congresses in the past. You're going to add up all the money that they rescinded and add them together. This is higher than that. 218 votes are needed in a 435 member House, the deal faces opposition from hard right Republicans who say the budget cuts don't go far enough. Trillions and trillions of dollars in debt for crumbs for a pittance. Representative Scott Perry is the chairman of the freedom caucus. This deal fails, fails completely. The White House said President Biden has had more than 100 individual phone calls with lawmakers, House democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, says Democrats will do their part. We're not interested in political gamesmanship. We're interested in avoiding a catastrophic default. Liberals are upset the deal greenlights a new work requirements for older Americans on food aid and a natural gas pipeline through Appalachia, Jennifer King, Washington
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Debt limit deal heads to vote in full House while McCarthy scrambles for GOP approval
"The debt ceiling and budget deal worked out between House speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden has advanced to the full House, where a vote is expected Wednesday. I'm Ben Thomas with a look at its progress. The House rules committee voted 7 to 6 to advance the bill, chairman Tom Cole, an Oklahoma Republican calling it a product of compromise. And reflects the realities of a divided government. We shouldn't allow that to overshadow what this bill accomplishes. It would restrict spending for the next two years while also suspending the nation's debt limit during that time, and the nonpartisan congressional budget office says it reduces deficits by $1.5 trillion over the decade, but South Carolina Republican Ralph Norman also a member of the freedom caucus was disappointed. We had a real bill that was going to make a difference. We did in the original bill. This being watered down is completely takes the teeth out of it. And I see why the Democrats vote for it. I see it now. He and Texas congressman chip Roy, who earlier in the day, said not one Republican should vote for this deal. Join Democrats in opposing the bill's advance. Ranking Democrat Jim mcgovern of Massachusetts accusing the GOP of weaponizing the debt ceiling, saying it's a precedent that will forever haunt the nation. One party can use the full faith and credit of the United States as a hostage to pass their widely unpopular ideas. Adding, someday, hopefully not in my lifetime, but someday there will be a Republican president. And you will remember this moment because what you are trying to do is get things enacted that you could not get done through regular order. Ben Thomas, Washington
The Breakdown
Debt Ceiling Deal Gives Unlimited Debt Until 2025
"All right, friends, well, today, as I said, we are hopefully wrapping up or at least putting a big momentary pause on the macro story that has dominated markets for the past few months. Yes, a deal has been reached in the debt ceiling standoff with both President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy making major concessions in order to move the matter forward. The deal on the table would suspend the debt ceiling entirely until the 1st of January 2025. Presumably this puts off the next dispute over federal borrowing until the middle of that year and uncapping the debt limit in the interim. The core of the argument is a two -year cap on federal spending, although each side is presenting the story slightly differently. The White House claims the spending cap would reduce spending by around $1 trillion over while the GOP argue that spending cuts are twice that level. New York Times analysis puts the spending reduction at around $55 billion next year and another $81 billion the following year. So let's talk about what's actually in the deal. The set of tradeoffs in the deal have caused outrage among numerous groups of ideologically aligned lawmakers and special interest groups on both sides of the aisle to the point where there are few truly happy with the compromise. Now that of course might mean in America's polarized politics that it's actually a good compromise deal. IRS funding has been cut, with $20 billion of the $80 billion in additional funding to bolster the tax department now being repurposed to fund discretionary government programs. And what's worth noting here is that early in the negotiations, this IRS funding was a red line for the president. You will no doubt remember when he said that he would not accept any deal that benefited quote wealthy tax cheats and crypto traders. Another aspect of the deal was that work requirements for food stamps recipients will be expanded. However, the cohort of people this will affect appears to be small. Only impacting recipients aged 50 to 54 while exempting veterans, the homeless and people who grew up in foster care. However, negligible the effect on the budget, the expansion of work requirements within the benefits program was an important symbolic policy for hardline conservatives. And small as the concession might seem, there are still many on the left who are very, very against
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Facing GOP backlash, McCarthy labors to shore up votes for debt deal in time to prevent US default
"House speaker Kevin McCarthy is hunting votes for the dead ceiling and budget deal he negotiated with President Biden, a bill conservatives are blasting for not having enough spending cuts. Some Republicans like Oklahoma's Tom Cole say the bill does the job by avoiding a debt default. And we will achieve real reductions in spending while doing so. But the hard right house freedom caucus and chairman Scott Perry say there aren't nearly enough. And we will do everything in our power to stop it. With some conservatives warning of potentially trying to oust McCarthy. I'm not sure what everybody wanted. We couldn't get everything we wanted. He needs two thirds of Republicans to approve the bill. Here at The White House. This compromise agreement is reasonable for both sides. Budget chief shalanda young says the discussion now should be about getting the bill to President Biden, not about which party won. The American people came out ahead. Sagar Meghani at The White House.
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Key test ahead on federal debt deal that could prevent a disastrous default
"Hard right conservatives are blasting House speaker Kevin McCarthy for the budget deal he reached with President Biden, put simply the house freedom caucus is not happy. This deal fails. It is a bad deal. It's defies conservatism. One of the biggest abominations since I've been in Washington D.C.. Not one Republican should vote for this deal. From chairman Scott Perry down, freedom caucus members say the deal does not enact the deep spending cuts they want, accusing McCarthy of fracturing the GOP by giving in to Democrat demands. Texas chip Roy and others say they'll work to block the deal. And no matter what happens, there's going to be a reckoning about what just occurred unless we stop this bill by tomorrow. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
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Impeachment trial of Texas’ Ken Paxton to begin no later than August 28
"The impeachment trial of Texas Ken Paxton is to begin no later than by the end of August, I'm Lisa dwyer. A historic impeachment trial in Texas to determine whether Republican attorney general Ken Paxton should be permanently removed from office will begin no later than August in the state Senate. The Texas Senate has unanimously adopted a measure that calls for the trial to begin not later than August 28th. Paxton was suspended from office Saturday when the GOP controlled Texas House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to impeach the three term attorney general. Paxton has been dogged by ethical and criminal accusations since taking office in 2015. He has called the House investigation that led to his impeachment corrupt and denies wrongdoing. I Lisa dwyer
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Fight still ahead for Texas' Ken Paxton after historic impeachment deepens GOP divisions
"This weekend's historic impeachment of Texas attorney general is plunging Republicans into a bruising fight over whether to banish one of their own in America's biggest red state. Texas AG Ken Paxton says he has full confidence, as he now awaits trial in the state Senate. His conservative allies there include state senator Angela Paxton, his wife, the decisive one 21 to 23 vote in the House amounted to a clear rebuke of the GOP controlled body Republican state representative David spiller. No one person should be above the law. Least not the top law enforcement official of the state of Texas. Audio courtesy wv final removal of Paxton requires a two thirds vote in the Senate. He was impeached on 20 articles that included bribery and abuse of public trust. I'm Julie Walker
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Biden and GOP reach debt-ceiling deal. Now Congress must approve it to prevent calamitous default
"An agreement on the debt deal has been reached. Now that President Biden and House speaker Kevin McCarthy have reached an agreement in principle, a House vote has been scheduled. We're going to put the bill on the floor in 72 hours and facet. But democratic congressman Jim heims on Fox News Sunday isn't so sure. It's not done yet, and all you need to do is check the social media of the freedom caucus who are just obliterating this deal. A House vote is expected to take place Wednesday, support from both parties will be needed to win congressional approval before a projected June 5th government default. I'm Shelley Adler.
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Biden, GOP reach debt-ceiling deal, now Congress must approve it to prevent calamitous default
"A debt ceiling deal has been reached by President Biden and the GOP now Congress must approve it to prevent a potentially disastrous U.S. default. Negotiators agreed to some Republican demands for increased work requirements for food stamp recipients, but stopped short of greater spending cuts overall that Republicans wanted, House speaker Kevin McCarthy calls it an agreement in principle worthy of the American people. As historic reductions in spending, consequential reforms and lift people out of poverty into the workforce, Rey and government overreach, there are no new taxes, no new government programs. In a statement, President Biden says the agreement represents a compromise, which means not everyone gets what they want. Central to the compromise a two year budget deal that would hold spending flat for 2024 and increase it by 1% the following year in exchange for raising the debt limit for two years. Support from both parties will be needed to win congressional approval before a projected June 5th government default. I'm Julie Walker
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Texas lawmakers recommend impeaching Attorney General Ken Paxton after Republican investigation
"Texas lawmakers are recommending impeaching attorney general Ken Paxton after a Republican investigation. I'm Lisa dwyer. Texas attorney general Ken Paxton is facing a historic impeachment vote after years of scandal, criminal charges, and corruption accusations. A Republican led house investigative committee has recommended impeaching the state's top lawyer. It means Paxton, a conservative, faces being ousted at the hands of GOP lawmakers just 7 months after easily winning a third term over challengers, Paxton has been under FBI investigation for years over accusations that he used his office to help a donor and was separately indicted on security fraud charges in 2015. Unlike in Congress, impeachment in Texas requires immediate removal from office into a trial is held in the Senate. Republican governor Greg Abbott can appoint an interim replacement. I'm Lisa dwyer
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House GOP passes resolution overturning student loan cancellation; Biden vows veto
"House of Republicans have passed a resolution that would overturn President Biden's plan to cancel up to $20,000 in federal student loans for 43 million Americans. The plan was halted in November after conservative opponents sued and the Supreme Court is expected to weigh in soon after hearing arguments earlier this year. Still, the House says the president overstepped his authority in ordering the forgiveness. The yeas are two 18 and the nays are two O three. With Marjorie Taylor Greene reading the vote on a resolution that would revoke the plan. The White House was ready hours earlier. Will Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had a $183,000 of her own business loans forgiven, vote to deny debt relief. Spokeswoman karine Jean Pierre says the president will veto the resolution if Congress approves it. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
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DeSantis launches GOP presidential campaign in Twitter announcement plagued by glitches
"Florida's Republican governors announced that he's officially a candidate for president, but the announcement didn't go exactly as planned. Republican governor Ron DeSantis launched his campaign in a special Twitter space's feed. Criticizing President Biden. He lacks vigor, flounders in the face of our nation's challenges, and he takes his cues from the woke mob. But there were technical problems that led to start and stops, audio glitches, and a delay of nearly half an hour. Desantis was asked why he chose Twitter instead of traditional media. He compared it to his COVID lockdown opposition, lamenting a lack of free expression. You had to put your money where your mouth is. Even that was marred by an audio glitch. This is rivals were rough. Donald Trump tweeted the desantis Twitter launch is a disaster. His whole campaign will be a disaster. And Nikki Haley's campaign also called it a failure. But still, desantis says they raised a $1 million in the first hour after the announcement. I'm Jackie Quinn
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton likely broke laws, Republican investigation finds
"An investigation says that the Texas attorney general likely broke several laws. I'm Lisa dwyer. A Republican led investigation has accused Texas attorney general Ken Paxton of committing multiple crimes while in office, including felonies during an extraordinary public airing of scandal and alleged lawbreaking that plunged one of the GOP conservative stars into new political and legal risk. For more than three hours investigators presented findings alleging that Paxton sought to hide an affair, misused his office to help a donor, skirted protocols, and built a culture of fear and retaliation and his office. However, there were no recommendations on actions to be taken as a hearing ended. The hearing began as Paxton sought legislative approval for more than 3 million in taxpayer dollars to settle a whistleblower lawsuit with top aides who accused him of corruption. Republican House leaders have signaled unease with approving that payout. I'm Lisa dwyer
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Debt ceiling talks stuck on classic problem: Republicans demand spending cuts and Democrats resist
"Debt ceiling talks yesterday showed few outward signs of progress with Republican negotiators accusing The White House of wasting precious time in the bid to avoid a debt default. The lack of urgency here is apparent. GOP negotiator Patrick mchenry's criticism drew a fast response. There's a ridiculous statement for them to be making. From White House spokeswoman karine Jean Pierre. There's an urgency. We want to see this done as soon as possible. And while House speaker Kevin McCarthy says they're not there yet. I believe we can still get there and get there before June 1st. When the Treasury Department says America may run out of cash to pay its bills, triggering up perhaps catastrophic default. The GOP's insisting the government roll back spending next year, which is the key sticking point. McCarthy says negotiators are looking at creative cuts, all sides can accept Sagar Meghani, Washington.
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DeSantis plans to announce 2024 bid Wednesday on Twitter Spaces with Elon Musk, sources tell AP
"The 2024 GOP presidential field will get another high profile candidate tomorrow. Two people with knowledge of his plans say Ron DeSantis will announce his campaign during a Twitter space's audio event with Elon Musk. Desantis is seen as Donald Trump's leading rival for the GOP nomination, and this move has him again taking a page from the Trump playbook. The ex-president used social media to dominate his 2016 rivals. Desantis has long been expected to join the field, but the timing of his announcement had been kept secret GOP senator Tim Scott announced his own bid this week painting himself as an optimistic alternative to both desantis and Trump, Sagar Meghani, Washington.
The Breakdown
Biden Defaulting on the Debt to Own the Crypto Bros?
"Well Friends the president has gone and again made the debt ceiling political for the crypto crowd. And so today we are diverting temporarily from our normal Bitcoin and crypto industry coverage to move into the most significant market issue right now, which is the debt ceiling debate. This will serve as a bit of a primer. I will avoid the temptation to get political with it, as always, and we'll just try to understand exactly where we are going into this critical week. Right now, the debt ceiling is currently at nearly $31.4 trillion, with around 24.6 trillion held as bonds by investors, private institutions, and other market actors. The U.S. debt is the largest of any nation state, exceeding the amount currently outstanding for the next four countries combined. In mid January, the limit of borrowing was reached, leading the US Treasury to begin what's known as extraordinary measures to stretch the remaining cash a little further. These measures trim budget expenditure around the edges by deferring time and sensitive spending, such as making contributions into government worker savings plans, and topping up the assets held in the exchange stabilization fund. Earlier this month, treasury secretary Janet Yellen announced that despite these measures, the treasury looked set to run out of cash by the beginning of next month, leaving officials precious little time to sort out a deal. The negotiations had been ongoing for the better part of the last few weeks, although heading into the weekend the tone had soured. Earlier last week, both President Biden and House Republican speaker Kevin McCarthy, who is heading up negotiations for the GOP, expressed optimism that a deal could be close. And yet as the weekend rolled around, no deal was there to be had. Now part of the reason is that the two parties are very far apart in terms of what they want. The GOP are asking for significant budget cuts. In particular, they're looking for cuts across social spending by ramping up work requirements for government aid, as well as kneecapping flagship democratic policies like clean energy incentives with the inflation reduction act, and additional funding for the IRS. Last month, Republicans passed a House bill which would suspend the debt ceiling until March of next year, but the bill contains such deep spending cuts that it was viewed as a nonstarter for Senate Democrats to consider.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
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"Thank you, James. Stay tuned America. Welcome back, America, Olivia Bieber is the Politico correspondent who covers Congress and she joins me most Wednesdays. Good morning, Olivia. How are you? I feel great. How are you doing? I'm great. Olivia, do you do a podcast for Politico on inside Congress? Because I hope you do. I don't actually. You're sort of my weekly talk about Congress conversation that I do. I think you'd be good at this because I was reading your last two pieces on the internal maneuverings within the Republican caucus on the border bills and in other subjects having and they're very inside baseball. Last night I was listening to a baseball podcast called Terry talking about the Cleveland guardians with David Campbell their sports center and it was superb. It was 5 star because it was explaining the background. I mean, deep dives. I want to know, how did they sign Andres Jimenez for 7 years or 8 year option? Why did they do it? And they got into the nitty Gritty the way that you did in your last two pieces. And I think if you found the right interlocutor, you'd actually, this is fascinating stuff to me. The chip Roy Tony Gonzalez to use that as an example, explain that to people. Yeah, so right now we're seeing basically the conference is trying to rally behind an internal GOP measure and plan to address the border security. But what you're finding is that two Texas Republicans ship Roy and Tony Gonzalez who are sort of on the opposite ends of the political spectrum are fighting it out in public and it kind of wild way. And, you know, my understanding is that there's some personal reasons for this. It's turned into bad blood, but now it's also just connected to policy. And so Tony Gonzalez is saying, I have the most border land in my district, and anyone else, and I'm not going to be bending. And chip Royce bell is going to be marked up in judiciary and basically Gonzales is saying, I'm not going to support it. And if they bring it to the floor, I'm going to be joined by others who are going to basically nuke it. So leadership can decide if we're going to move forward with this or if they're going to work with me and I know he's meeting with Mark green, chairman of Homeland Security. This week, he's been meeting with leadership, but basically this is sort of the reality of the small majority is pulling them all together. And usually when you ask Republicans or members of Congress generally for comments, they're going to try to go on background to not give you a quote jabbing in one of their colleagues, but here you can see them both taking shots at each other in the media. So you also mentioned chip Roy's on rules and so rules actually decides what goes to the floor and I began thinking about it and that's why I want to go back to my podcast. The last thing you need is more work, right? But but a genuine podcast between fair minded umpires of what's actually going on. And are you a baseball fan, Olivia? I can play softball, but I wouldn't say I watch it..
The Financial Guys
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"And now that they're dealing with, they dealt with some of the things they did deal with with their kids in schools or day cares. I couldn't agree with you. I think the shame of it again not to repeat the theme is, unfortunately, a lot of those people are down in Florida now, right? They picked up, they got the hell out. If you look at the Florida school systems, by the way, although still challenges, and you're still going to have left wing nut job teachers that get stuck in the system. The state of Florida has gone from 40th to third now. An SAT scores. I mean, they're on the road path to be number one when it comes to SAT scores. And again, going back to actual facts, okay. Well, that's to me is a big deal, right? Like it's working. It's going in the right direction. It's still not perfect, but it's going in the right direction. While you continue to see New York drift down and down and down. And of course, the old school argument used to be well. We've got the best schools. Well, that's all crap now. That's not true. When it comes to the argument, I don't feel like the Republican Party did to your point. We should bring more data, right? That's what Bobby jindal did very well in Louisiana. So you remember he invoked a charter or a voucher system in the state. And Obama and Eric holder, the two racists that they were. Sued them because again, under the claim of equity, I always love this equity, right? Well, it wasn't equitable they claimed. So they sued the state to block it because they claim that only the non minority kids would take advantage of it. It was an opportunity that they saw it for white kids to get out of failing minority districts. But what Bobby jindal was, okay, fine, I'll meet you in court. When he showed up, he showed that 98% of the people taking advantage of the vouchers were actually the minority kids, black and Hispanic that were their parents were dying. They would chew off their own arm to get them out of the failing school district and into a better school district.
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"And they're having a struggle. Orchard parks have a struggle. I mean, if Orchard parks haven't struggled, could you imagine what the heck is in the city of buffalo school boards? And in the outlining that cheek the log of school boards and stuff like that. To me, I'm thinking, a Georgia park, they're going to replace these nut jobs in a heartbeat. And then they don't. The other scary thing you look at is the enrollment numbers. You start to see the class sizes getting smaller with the younger classes, and what does that tell you? That tells you what the future is going to look like when class at ordinarily graduates 400 is now down to three 20, two 90. And hopefully it gets to be zero at some point. These communities are shrinking because people are getting the hell out of here. And I'm sure down in Florida, they're having the opposite problem where they got to build new wings because all of our all of our good hardworking families are moving down there. Yeah, yeah, but even in Florida, there's been a tremendous amount of people that have pulled their kids out of the school system in favor of homeschooling. It's been a record in Florida. It's been a record in New York. It's been a record on a national level because the parents don't want what the garbage that they're teaching these kids. One of the things that the left those very successfully is a file lawsuits left right and center. And that might be something the Republicans should consider when it comes to I mean, look, there's a teacher that I'll play the video later in the podcast that she was sued by the national education by the NEA. The national union, school teachers union, right? Because she filed freedom of information requests for the kindergartners curriculum. They're aggressively back to the point of being aggressive and carrying a big stick. Is there no background checks anymore for some of these teachers? I mean, I'm just shocked at a community like an Orchard park or other communities where oftentimes we find out that these teachers are revealing things to kids that are just completely inappropriate and they haven't changed the laws of most of these states. There are indecency laws of things like that. And yet in most states, New York included, it's just nobody yells about it. There's silence and Republican Party. In Florida, desantis steps up and goes, oh, no, no. We're opening up an investigation. We're going to take your liquor license. You're shut down. You engaged in loot action in front of a minor. It says 18 and above. And he's got like there's invested people who go to jail for that in Florida. It's no joke. And Texas to hang, I think. In New York, you've got to really, really do something like shoot somebody and actually murder them to stay in trouble. But when it comes to gender identity or it comes to trans whatever parties with kids or whatever they're doing, there's no pushback. There's nobody. There's no voices of anybody. Outside of like, again, a Dave DPH, maybe.
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"But she also, I think, is a young mom understands the issues that a lot of young moms and eerie county are dealing with. You know, the rising cost of food and groceries, as a homeowner, dealing with the property taxes that are sky high in this community. So I'm excited about the contrast and I think we're going to be able to put a real challenge to mark this November. I think I'm hoping she gets out there and I'm hoping she's a fighter. But I don't know anybody who likes my colon cars. I was honest to God. I don't know how he's not even, I thought he was going to resign, to be honest with you. I mean, after threatening a process server, right? I mean, to me, he's not even fit for office, to be honest with you. I mean, somebody who is and of course you add on just absolute competency of things like the blizzard, sadly, where we lost dozens of lives, and I'm sure that count was probably under. And then of course, we've made to add insult to injury. You point the finger at other people. Blaming other people for your failure and throwing them around them under the bus, which I thought was truly classless. You would hope she'd have a shot, right? But again, it seems like there's such an uphill battle in our county. How do you overcome that? Is she going to be able to Mike's point earlier, throw those haymakers and make the news so they have to cover her in a way? Because there's a black guy to me. We're not campaign managers and to me, I think you'd have to sort of bring back those memories of, hey, did you a restaurant? Did your gym get smell? I mean, you think about Mike. You think about those santas as messages though. It was about freedom. I think Lee Zelda's message was about safety and to be honest with you. So I think you're right. The message has got to be was your playground roped off, right? Yeah. A little bit different, though, that the Miami is now at a 90 year low crime rate. And we've got people we've got people getting shoved in front of subway trips. But look, I don't think that Christian all good. It's all for fairness. And he hesitancy being aggressive and, you know, obviously when she launched, she launched at a gym in clarence, who dealt with the shutdown, a friend of hers, a veteran owned business, she deals with a lot of businesses in her marketing firm. She's a rotarian. And I know she engages with a lot of business owners who are just punitively attacked by the county executive with arbitrary seemingly made up regulations. I mean, people were getting suddenly having the health department come visit them if they were speaking out into the media or anything like that. So I think people are still pissed off about a lot of that stuff. And you mentioned mark's personal look. I talked to maybe his county chairman, I speak to less of them, but I talked to a lot of Democrats who don't like Mark. He doesn't play nice in the sandbox. He's not an affable guy. I think there are plenty of people in his own party who would love to see him go.
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"I was still involved in the party at a junior level back then, but look, one of my goals is county chairman is to try to bring new people, younger people, build a bench of candidates when you look at the elected Republicans in the county. You know, we have really good people, but who am I running for office not just this year, but in 8 years, ten years, you know, we got to start thinking about the future when we make decisions because, you know, for a while, you're right. We did sort of cycle through the same four names for county white office. And they're good people. I'm not here to criticize them. But we have to build the next generation of countywide leaders or state senators or Congress members. And that doesn't just happen. You got to invest in it now because it takes a few years to develop. Mike, are you familiar with audit New York at all? I am familiar. I have never had a direct conversation with them, but I know what their goals are. Okay. Because it seems to me, if you look at some of those numbers that they're coming up with, that it really might not matter who your candidate is. Yeah, I mean, I get that. I mean, obviously my existence would be pretty depressing if I went into my job thinking I can't be successful. But I do think we need to take ballot security and voter integrity seriously. You talk about my role with the state legislature. You know, I see it every day. The Democrats and Albany passing laws that they claim are in the interests of good government that are really designed to make it easier to vote. I mean, hell, they've got a law to allow non U.S. citizens to vote in municipal elections. So anybody who says this is just Republican fear mongering, you know, it seems like we're allowed to say this. I think that's bullshit. This is a real problem. And we have, but I take the position, I have to try to win races and elect good people to office so that they're in a position of authority to change some of what's going on. I wonder, now this is more of a state issue, but I just, to me, I've just wondered why the state Republican Party has not embraced audit New York. I mean, if their numbers are correct, which I've gone through them with multiple people, Republicans should have won a lot of races over the last bunch of years. And to me as a Republican party, I would be committed to say, hey, wait a minute. If we've got fraud in the system, which is what it appears to be. And a disconnect, Glen and I run a multiple hundreds of millions of dollars registered investment advisory firms.
The Financial Guys
"gop" Discussed on The Financial Guys
"That's just because I got to get that I got to get that exposure. That's what Chris Collins used to do. Chris was good. Chris would go on CNN. I mean, that's a ballsy move. On a regular basis. Yeah. No, listen, I mean, I think part of it also, I think, is regional, right? Lee was really fighting on the ground in places that we don't see in your county. You know, he was on the streets in Brooklyn talking to the orthodox community, you know, somebody who's being literally shut down. They're trying to close these religious schools out of Albany and Lee was on the ground with those folks in Asian American communities. And that's why you saw that big shift. So I will give him some credit. I think maybe we out in West New York didn't see sort of that street fight as much because I think a lot of that was happening in places like Brooklyn and queens, but we did put him out quite a bit nearly county. I would have loved to have more who wouldn't. But I also love that Alison esposito. You want to talk about a scrapper holy cow. She was tough as nails and I hope we haven't seen the last of her. It's funny because I wrote down was the aggressive enough and I'm Mike asked the exact question. That's why I held up the paper. The fact that we share the same brain is you literally asked exact questions I was going to ask. You guys have been working together. This is a little quicker. Mine takes a little bit longer process. But God gives you what I tend to agree with Mike though. I don't know that he needed to throw some haymakers. He had some opportunities to make some make the press, right? Make PR, right? Make the news, I mean, my gosh, he was attacked. And it was like off the on stage. And it was immediately out of the news. There were some opportunities there for him to, again, a la Carl palladino. You really got to throw some haymakers, I think. If you're going to have any chance whatsoever. See, I would have asked for her to be arrested. Whatever. Absolutely. And being part of the whole, whatever name is on the Tesla building down top. But that whole debacle. I mean, you're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars that millions of dollars. The millions of dollars that we knew it was a scam, right? That money ended up back into her direct link to her boss's coffers. And I mean, if I was Lee, I would, I mean, and you guys, if I was a candidate, or Glen was a candidate you probably would have said, no, you guys are way too radical, but to win in New York State. I mean, you really have to, you've got to hit some three pointers, man. You got to show up and go 24 for 24 from the three point line. And I think there was a missed opportunity there. Again, I would have gone on the view, I would have said she should be in jail. For what they did to taxpayer money for the waste that happened during COVID. We're still throwing out millions of dollars worth of stuff. The conflicts of interest. I mean, the lies and I don't know anything about the donation. Well, you're at their house last week, Kathy, I don't know if you remember that. Here's the picture. Oh my gosh. Here's the picture. Yeah, look, I don't know whether Lee was invited on the view or not, but I
The Financial Guys
"gop" Discussed on The Financial Guys
"Of the Erie county Republican committee in October of 2022. He has spent his career in service to the Republican Party, a former executive director of the Erie county GOP. And senior congressional aide Michael has served in the Republican leadership positions at local state and federal level. I think you're still with rob ort, right? That's correct. Yeah, I work for the senator as senior adviser. Senior adviser, that sounds really important. So anytime we throw senior, and that's what happens in the financial world. It's funny. I won the title promotion, but what that amounts to at home. Glen and I, we started out the business at a company called paine Weber. And the deal was as you were either a regular adviser or that you were a vice president. And so a lot of my buddies, one of our buddies got that title of vice president. I'm like, so let me get this straight. If the president dies, you go up there, do you go to New York City and run this place? No, there was like so many. I don't think that's I don't think that's our chain. Unfortunately. So let me start with a question. I know Glen's got a bunch free as well. The Republican Party, at least for me, has been something that has been fading in the distance. I'm still a registered Republican. I talk about actually de registering and moving to being an independent or a conservative. To me, I see the Mitch Morris out there. I see the Mitt Romney's out there. And I just get sick and tired of, well, hey, we're going to have smaller government and lower taxes until we get into office. And then our big plan is better than their big plant. Where is the Erie county Republican Party? And I know this shit show is new to you. And I'll just say you don't have to say that, but I think you've been handed a pile of shit and God bless you for stepping up because I either you're highly medicated or you're extremely extremely brave to take that position. But where is the Republican? Where is your economy Republican Party? Because we glad I been talking about this for years. They all tell us their conservative.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"gop" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Stood out to me were the Proud Boys because these guys wanted to be lionized for their violence. They wanted to talk to the press. They were proud of what they did. And so focusing on them turned out to be a good bet because now they orbit so many acts of political violence, including January 6. And so as January 6th was happening and as they continued their violence, despite a lot of their leaders going to jail, I realized that this is the warning shot that we need to write that going forward. This cycle of political violence held aloft by the GOP and media is going to continue. And so that's why I wrote it. Is there a typical demographic of an individual who is a proud boy? Proud Boys are of a lot of ideologies. There's neo Nazis and people of color within them, but the majority of them are white guys who are angry and want to fight out Trump's grievances. How much is also that they feel like they've just been left behind in this economy. I think there's an element of that. But again, it's the violence that they're aiming for through those grievances. You know, as I was thinking about you coming on, listening to your talk. I mean, is this our Ku Klux Klan in terms of our times Ku Klux Klan, is that how we need to think about it? There are absolute comparisons to be made. I mean, this is a force that is racist at its core. They've made inroads with politics and they've made inroads with the American public. But with the Klan you have to remember, the Klan didn't lose power because people rebuffed them. The Klan lost power because so much of the American public shared that ideology that they weren't really needed anymore. And that's the fear going forward with these guys is that enough people are going to see political violence as it normalized option in politics that the Proud Boys may not be needed. You say racist, but it's not all just white members. Right. All Proud Boys are not just white. I get asked about this a lot. And the Proud Boys, first of all, they're racist at their core, right? Gavin gave them a tenant that they have to accept if they join. Anybody can join, but they have to accept that white men are responsible for the success of the west. And there are people of color. There are also neo Nazis in the Proud Boys, but they are all gathering under this banner of getting to fight out their rage in the street against the left and against Trump's opponents. And that can create strange bedfellows, just last weekend, Nazis joined Proud Boys in Texas for a drag queen story hour event they were protesting. And also on top of that, the very few people of color that are members of the Proud Boys are held aloft constantly by the Proud Boys as evidence that they're not racist. They're not white supremacists. And that is served to put a veil in front of them when they're confusing the media and law enforcement. Hey, Andy, over the summer, back in June, we saw footage emerge from Idaho about the patriot front. Gathering to protest an LGBTQ event. And I'm wondering where the relationship is between patriot front, Proud Boys and other sort of right-wing extremists help us kind of untangle that web. This is a machine and a cycle of extremism that we're seeing in front of us right now. For example, QAnon conspiracy theorists and Alex Jones type plant a seed that satanic pedophiles in the form of drag queens are coming for your children. Donald Trump and Fox News sanitize and grow that seed for their audiences, push it out to millions of people. And then the extremist street groups, like the Proud Boys, patriot front, oath keepers who are also big on January 6th come to burn it all down. And so the Proud Boys I see them as both normalizers of political violence, but also the pointy
CNN Political Briefing
"gop" Discussed on CNN Political Briefing
"This is the CNN political briefing. So here's what you need to know in politics for Monday, February 7th, 2022. Two GOP members censured by the Republican National Committee on Friday and it seems to be causing some cracks within the party cohesion. Yeah, the RNC voted to formally center GOP representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam kinzinger of Illinois for their involvement with the January 6th committee, and that decision was not exactly at a left field. There's been a lot of fire directed their way. And if you want to know more about where that's come from, check out Friday's episode where we explain why and how the RNC reached this unprecedented point. But today, Adam Kensinger told CNN what he believes the centrist says about the Republican Party. I think it says that they are completely unmoored from truth. I think it shows that they have pledge allegiance to one man over any kind of principle, and they can call that loyalty. They get shows that this party is not committed to the rule of law, despite what they say. Meanwhile, yesterday, Mark short, former vice president Mike Pence's chief of staff waited on the matter and plenty of others. Short made it clear that he does not believe the ride on January 6th at the U.S. capitol can be described as anything resembling, quote, legitimate political discourse, and this is key because on Friday, that's how the RNC described it in their century resolution. Legitimate political discourse. The soon we set on meet the press this Sunday about the matter. From my front row seat, I did not see a lot of legitimate political discourse in talking to some members of the RNC. I think there is concern that there are people who were there peacefully protesting who have been pulled into this, what I think is more become of a prosecution by the January 6th committee and feel like they're being unfairly treated. Now, let's be clear, the House select committee investigating January 6th does not have the ability to prosecute anyone at most. It can make a criminal referral to the Department of Justice, and today on CNN congressman kinzinger also commented on the RNC chair calling this legitimate political discourse. You know, I actually makes me pretty sad because I think it says a lot for the party and it says a lot to call January 6th legitimate political discourse. But it's actually just made me even doubled down on my intensity to get to the bottom of this because that's really frightening when half of the in theory half of the country's party is focused on complete denial of truth. Short also waited on this comment by his former boss made last Friday where Pence for the first time really stood up to contradict and rebuke president Trump's actions. And I heard this week that president Trump said I had the right to overturn the election. But president Trump is wrong. Short told NBC that Pence chose to rebuke the former president because it merited response. Short said Pence never wavered in that his role on January 6th was solely to certify the election as vice presidents before him have done in time immemorial, despite, but we know is now the massive pressure that Trump and his advisers put on him to reject the ballots. Short did point out, however, the Pence apparently had concerns about the 2020 election, including the legitimacy of mail in voting, despite there being no evidence of fraud. And cesare put the onus on Trump's advisers, and not the former president directly on these schemes. I think, unfortunately, the president had many bad advisers who were basically snake oil salesman, giving him a really random and novel ideas as to what the vice president could do. Short said that Trump and Pence did not talk on January 6th, but the short spoke with Trump's then chief of staff, Mark Meadows. And because of Trump's false claims that Pence had the power to overturn the election, a bipartisan group of senators is making sure there will be no confusion in the future. The group is focused on making changes to the 19th century law known as the electoral count act. Now, this was created to give Congress a process to certify the Electoral College votes, submitted by the states after confusion reigned in the wake of the 1876 election. Although this used to be basically procedural, it is a crucial part of the transition of power between president, one that Trump and his allies tried to exploit including the infamous 6 point memo written by lawyer John eastman. In a rare bipartisan interview on CNN Sunday, democratic senator Joe Manchin and Republican senator Lisa Murkowski seemed optimistic about their work on reforming the act. I hear the two senators discussing the Electoral College act with our colleague, Jake tapper. Oh, I think absolutely it'll pass. Some are going to criticize it for not being enough. Others will say too much. So I kind of have said, we're going to take the Goldilocks approach here. We're going to try to find what's just right. That's exactly. What we're looking at is now how do we protect what happened in insurrection? That never happened again, such as that people think they can come here and overturn it. But on the other hand, how do we protect election workers with the federal crimes if someone threatens them or intimidates them or interferes with the election? And for his part, Trump has falsely claimed that this bipartisan group of lawmakers trying to reform the ECA proves his claim that Pence had the power to overturn the 2020 election. Although the electoral count act is vague, and that's the problem. It is the clear role of the vice president to be ceremonial. Not doesn't include the power to overturn the result of a presidential election. The idea that one person can overturn the will of the people is un American. As Pence himself said in front of the federal society on Friday night. But one last point, although I talked about earlier that pence's outright said Trump's claims were wrong, it remains unclear if the January 6th committee will subpoena tends to testify. Mark short said on Sunday that move would be unprecedented. I think it's very different to subpoena former vice president to talk about private conversations. He can have the president of the United States. It's never happened before. Committee member zoloft grin told CNN Sunday that the committee might have everything they need, even without pence's cooperation. The issue for the committee is getting all the facts. And we've said from the beginning, we will seek testimony from anyone if we need it. The question is, do we need his testimony? We have received substantial testimony that may make that unnecessary, but we're sorting through it. As far as shorts testimony, seen in previously reported that short and another top Pence, Greg Jacob declined to talk about their direct conversations with Trump in the recent respective interviews with the committee, but they answered other questions..
It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders
"gop" Discussed on It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders
"And so basically the only way for you to challenge anything, whether it's an unfair, unfairly cited polling place or a voter ID law that comes out and says, right, black folks can't vote. The only way for you to challenge that is to go to court. And oftentimes the only way for you to challenge it is to go to court after the law has had some effect on voting. And you're going to courts that have been packed for a few years now by the GOP with conservative judges. Exactly. So essentially we went overnight in 2013 from a setup where we had some real backstops for people against bad actors to now where it's kind of the wild west. And it's been that way for almost a decade. Speaking of this wild wild west idea is what happened with Shelby is what happened with scotus and the Voting Rights Act. A thing that happened kind of separate and apart from the GOP or was all of that machination part of the GOP strategy as well. I think you take it all together, I think you look at agitation against the Voting Rights Act. That's been a conservative organizing principle for 50 years. The reason why Shelby county even challenged was part of a series of challenges designed to eventually overturn the VRA. It's actually a lot of experts would say it's a wonder that it lasted that long. And you look at the other part of the VRA, you look at section two, which is the part that allows people to sue on their own. There's a lot of experts who don't think that one's long for the world either. And conservatives have been organizing to get rid of section two for a very long time. So then we have a GOP as you both have laid out that is getting really good at going local to possibly influence the midterms and 2024. On the ground, they are also successfully pursuing voting laws that would probably restrict voting access for people who vote democratic. What are Democrats doing? If anything, if all of this happens, on the other side. That's a question. No, no, both of our silence. I mean, obviously Democrats are working on this. But Democrats on. You say obviously but are the same? Well, so some Democrats are working on it more enthusiastically than others. Right now on Capitol Hill, Democrats are trying to work out a piece of legislation that aims to protect voting rights. The likelihood of that passing, I think, is an open question, van, do you have a good sense of where the state of play is on that Bill right now? It looks like there's a little more daylight for it than there was a couple weeks ago. I saw a statement from senator Schumer that was more forceful than I've seen by leadership in a while and seemed to back what I believe is a developing plan among Democrats to favor rule changes similar to what we call budget reconciliation, expressly for voting rights laws. That would allow them to get around the filibuster. But where the rubber meets the road is if you do believe.
It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders
"gop" Discussed on It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders
"One big development since Trump has left office. At least in the GOP, is how a lot of that conservative and far right energy has gone local. There's been a groundswell of energy on the right for the last several months to get a foothold in local and county politics across the country. And to be in positions of power locally to potentially they think decide an election in 2024. Can you tell us what's going on there? And when it started so I mean, you just said 2024, but our first test is going to be 2022. So we've got a couple things happening. Obviously, states put out there, new congressional maps after the last round of redistricting and the new census and there are some pretty heavy pretty durable Republican favoring gerrymanders that all but ensure some level of advantage going into 2022. So that's one thing. And that was done kind of hand in hand with efforts that were taken right after the 2020 election by Republican state and local officials to give them much more power over elections laws going forward. So now lots of states have passed laws that give elections officials, more authority to overturn results or to challenge results. A lot of these small tweaks of where polling places are of how local ballot access laws work of how and where you can give water to people at the polls, how you can provide language assistance to people or can't. Those things, we're going to get a real test run of them. And I guess the concern for Democrats is that test run is going to put people in office. Totally. So McKay, I want to talk about where this newest push to go local started. I mean, historically, the GOP has always been better on local politics. They understand the power of it and they take it seriously in a way that Democrats often do not. But I've read some reporting that this newest push to go local comes from Steve Bannon. Former aide and strategist to Donald Trump. He has endorsed what's called the quote unquote precinct strategy on his podcast. Do all roads in this regard lead back to Bannon, at least right now? Well, Steve Bannon would certainly probably want us to believe that. He is kind of a master of taking credit for the dark arts of trumpian politics. That said, I think that Bannon and other Trump allies, Trump alliance strategists have really honed in on this idea that the way for the Republican Party to take over politics to win is not necessarily in winning over the most voters, right? It's not a 51% strategy. It's a let's take control of the system that oversees election strategy. You've seen this in Virginia where I live last year, somebody who worked on Trump's legal team to try to overturn the 2020 election. Mounted a primary challenge against a Republican state House member and actually won to join the state legislature. In Georgia, you have somebody who is running against the current Secretary of State making the stolen election lie central to their campaign. And so basically what you see is that Trump allies are trying to install themselves in positions where they can oversee the next presidential election..
It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders
"gop" Discussed on It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders
"And that's what I want to ask you both about because as much as the GOP still seems like Donald Trump's party. There are some very clear areas where it's almost left him behind and moved even further from where he was. Perhaps the biggest example of that is the dialog around vaccines on the right. Donald Trump has been outspoken amongst the GOP faithful and still preaching the good about vaccines, urging folks to get boosters. And he's been booed by some of his own fans for saying that. Take the vaccines. I did it, it's good to take the vaccines. But you got no, that's okay. That's all right. You got your freedoms. How much of that shift is a real thing? Like the party still kind of following Trump, but in some ways getting even more fringe than Trump himself. Well, from a science perspective, you look at what happened with vaccines. We, as a country as a world achieved a scientific breakthrough that we're going to look back in time and think of as something akin to, I don't know the space race. And it happened with funding that he approved. Trump helped do that. He dropped that stuff together to push for those vaccines very quickly. And there is no way there is not a snowball's chance that this guy is not going to take credit for them. Almost at the outset, kind of put them in odds with lots of elements of the party. I think even from the beginning, you could see the vaccine hesitancy. You could see the anti vax messages. They were coming out as he was promoting vaccines as president. So that's not really surprising now, but you know it does place him not as a Vanguard anymore in the party. But what I would say though, that's funny about that is that this is kind of the story of the Republican Party for the last 20 years, which is and maybe even longer, which is that the leaders of the Republican Party will kind of flirt with or enable or allow some kind of fringe element in their party to operate unchallenged. But what always happens in the Republican Party is that these leaders will kind of flirt with this fringe element. And then the fringe element gets way bigger and way more aggressive and in some respects sort of takes over the party and then leaders kind of realize that they don't have control over it anymore. They can't harden except for their own purposes. Save for the vaccines..
The Charlie Kirk Show
"gop" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"At charlie f. o. r. hillsdale dot com and you yourself should at least carve out twenty minutes a day to try and learn something new. These courses can be downloaded. They could be podcast. And there's little tests after them to make sure that you are comprehending what you are learning and about after ten courses you get your certificate. It's one of the coolest feelings in the world. You feel like you are retaining that knowledge and you have a better understanding of what's happening in america charlie f. o. r. hillsdale dot com phenomenal partners. Please check it out right now. Senate republicans we had to pass the infrastructure bill because we didn't win enough seats while the why don't you focus on what happened in georgia for the reason why rafael warnock and the teenager john if are senators now they don't wanna talk about that they don't wanna talk about the fact that act. There is now new evidence to show and continuing evidence to show from just the news dot com that the georgia ballots rejected by machines were later altered by election workers to count records obtained by just the news provides an unprecedented glimpse into human adjudication of m- of thousands of ballots were marks for candidates like trump or sometimes removed so ballots could count for biden. I also want to go into this. That we're monitoring the mike lindell cyber symposium and we'll stream the entire thing on our rumble channel today and tomorrow just the news dot com day after the november election as donald trump and other republican candidates clung to evaporating leads georgia vote counters in atlanta. Were confronted by a paper ballot known by its anonymously number. Five one five zero two three two one eight. A dominion voting machine had rejected the ballot on election night because the voter had filled in boxes for both trump and his democratic opponent. Joe biden an area known as an over vote now. The image of the ballot obtained by just the news shows the voter messily scribbled a large blob at six ten on november fourth. Twenty four hours at the ballot was i scanned and rejected by machine. Fifty one fifty a panel of humans decided the vote should be rewarded to to biden. You could see the ballot on just the news dot com scores of additional ballots. That same day had checks manually removed next to trump's name so this is the arcane process known as adjudication were human judgment is substituted for machine scanning in cases where votes incorrectly filled out a paper ballot election officials and official observers have dealt with this for years put in two thousand and twenty adjudication played a massive role in all more than five thousand one hundred forty eight thousand absentee ballots cast or three percent of them required some sort of human intervention. Why does that matter. Those votes. just a couple thousand of them could have been the difference between david purdue getting a runoff not getting a runoff therefore us controlling the united states senate or not controlling the united states senate. So why won't republicans talk about what's happening in georgia. Because they're afraid they're afraid that a serious conversation around voter fraud and voter integrity is going to lead them into a direction that they don't like you see. They would much rather manage the decline of the country. Then find out what happened in the two thousand twenty election. Let's play cut fifty nine. David cross with voter shows the double counting of the votes. That's happened in georgia so amazingly that you wouldn't have this whole conversation with the senate if our republican senators actually cared about getting to the bottom of what happened in these states but as typical these republicans many of them. Obviously not rand. paul or ted cruz or josh. Holly mike lee. They've been great but almost all of them have decided voter. Integrity does not matter how we elect leaders does not matter all that matters. Is my country club membership to the united states. Senate play cut fifty nine. Ministering here is ballots. Side-by-side mark for jason shaw global mark next to the at the end of the mark on the second one and the ballot image is stored of air metropolis top left. So there's another beer is standard. Everyone sixty two at scared over three fax number thirty five number nineteen and that matches three four in fifty nine. So you have the same ballot counting twice in the images and how this audible. I think same ballot counted twice in the images so why renegotiating with a regime that very well might have assumed power through a process. That was not legal. Why are we honoring that. Did you get hit with a big tax bill. You weren't with rates being very low and home acquitting high perfect time to refinance. We're all about refinancing all this. Here's the long short of it. You should not be giving business too bad companies so if you're using goldman sachs bad company. Wells fargo bad company j. p. morgan bad company. All these companies. They love blm. They hate america and quite honestly. If you're listening to this program they hate you and so if you want to take out a loan. Here's what i'm going to tell you what to do. Maybe you're a new family. Or like i want to buy a house and it's my dream house and i want to take out a loan. The good news is that there are partners. Called andrew and todd andrew del ray and todd avakian andrew and todd dot com. Just save that in your notes by the way. Just save it in the notes of your phone because you might need it. I don't need it. My my banker at goldman sachs is just fine or my banker at bank of america's just find like okay then when you go take that loan and you go sign those ninety five.
Majority 54
"gop" Discussed on Majority 54
"Aren't we relatable quarter jason. When he gave us well. I was just celebrate the fact that Mateen captain by my wife. Diana won the ravi fitness challenge and to give people some background. Yeah i mean there were. There were three teams And a shoutout to to will and ryan. Who were our teammates. But really like. I think all three of us will ryan myself would agree that diana carried the team. In fact. I think you pointed out in your breakdown that she had more points than the third place team. A and it says a lot about her and the third place. It's funny because when this thing started. Diana was like you know she. I mean bella was just born nine months ago so diana was like i don't know if i can keep up with it because i had done it. You know last year and so she saw that and she was like that. I keep up with us and then we had our first like zoom colleagues at team. And we're like yeah you're the captain and she's like and then you were like there will be a small trophy for the winner in diana was like well. That's all i. I've been thinking about that by the way what a minute. How how many deliver on that trophy myself. Competitive wife was like well then. I guess we will win and And that sort of happened so pretty cool. Yeah i first of all shout out to her she. She delivered your team and won the individual prize as well but you know for listeners. This was our way of saying we've now done it three times now and it's actually how you and i kind of became even closer and kind of the genesis. Podcast is that we we do this group and we track a whole bunch of things we talked and we talked about it a few times in this podcast and the key is not the competition necessarily but just the awareness of all these things and you know how much alcohol drinking. What am i eating. Am i working out. And it's it's less growing than it probably comes across the podcast. You're like meditation and stephan there. Yeah it's totally screen time and so we'll probably redo it and i thought it was great like i thought it was great just to see her do it. Because this is our first time. I getting involved. And she really is just. She's tenacious lega inspiring to see how how committed she was competitive. That when you were here. In kansas city she was trying to feed you unhealthy food like she was trying to feed me unhealthy food unsuccessfully but she was also like mad at me so when i saw her she was like wait. She's like does you have something to say to me honest. I was confused for a second. Because she's so kind of stoic. most she's very dry. It took me a second. Well i'll give you a quick update on mining i. It's coming up. On the tenth anniversary of the first school ever started and that versus coming in a few weeks and i got a couple of things planned around just like reminding people of that and who were involved in it but recently started every day. Sending a message to one person Each day who is like integral to that process and one thing i realized was i started the first school when i was twenty eight. I'm thirty eight now and those ten years ago and i realize like how much of a shit i was back then ten years ago not not intentionally but i was just so unaware of how nice certain people were to back then and had no reason to be. I was like oh. You're on my board. You're on the sport great. Because that's this mission really matters and so like i'm not gonna go away. Thank you because obviously kids need a great education. And i look back over my communication. I'm like i was a lunatic. Like it wasn't like i was personally selfish on. This is an important mission. If you're involved in it of course you are. So i'm not going to stop and thank you for all the time that you spent on this because it's obviously the thing you need to do and going through all these messages..
Majority 54
"gop" Discussed on Majority 54
"This is the ultimate. I've talked about like delta. What's the matter. Kansas situation Matara kansas thesis to that. How does the republican party get people to vote against their economic interests. Now at the point where. How is it the republican party and it's media apparatus or convincing people to actually make decisions that may cost them their lives and if they do that could pretty much convinced decker people of anything so on the one hand i agree that that's the question but it to me. It's a little bit different because it's like they're not convincing people not to do something that will save their life like they're not like saying hey out of some sort of show of loyalty some sort of crazy blood oath. Take this risk. They're just lying to people and telling them that it. It won't save their life and that you know they don't need it or that. It might hurt them right. So that's that's what i think is so disgusting about it and and you know trump who like the rest of these fools is vaccinated and like you said was for it when he was president could get credit and now he's actively working undermine it i mean i it doesn't need to be said but what a piece of garbage i mean. Just can you imagine just like for a moment. And i think you could say this when it comes up with people imagine having the ability as a single individual to open your mouth and literally save lives just by saying some nice things about the vaccine and choosing not to do it because it might gain you some tiny little political advantage in three years like that is next level just awfulness and just makes me sick now as far as how to handle the issue with the right wing media. I keep going back to the same question. Why have we as a society and why we you know as rational people just a accepted. The idea that vaccine passports will never fly in america. Like why why have we just accepted. This wire. Blue states not saying. Hey we're going to start using vaccine passports because something has to be done to incentivize people to get vaccinated and by the way also like you can't continue to have unvaccinated people just gathering large groups as if nothing's happening and expect not to have another variant not to have an echo very it. It's an unreasonable expectation. There are some signs that parts of the right wing are starting to change their tune so representative scalise who've been skeptical of the vaccine. Decided to get it sean. Hannity has now started to speak out in favor of the vaccine and interestingly in his statement about it said you know as we've been saying all along which is the ultimate. I think you always say you have an analogy to iraq. War about trump. Right what you always say that. In ten years trump will be treated the way supporters. The iraq were. Treat the iraq war. Which is it's a thing that happened and you just can't find anybody that seemed to be in favor of it. At the time that seems with this vaccine misinformation stuff is all about and to be fair. There are people in the right wing who've been pretty consistent on this. I think ben shapiro has been pro vaccine all along. But he's been one of these shows that's like you know. Were you gotta get the vaccine and then like to cover as because he's just a politician who's like a captive to his to his audience so he can't ever funders an funders right like it reminds me of when what's her name told me. Tell me learnt when she when it came out that she was pro choice and she almost lost her job at the blaze and she was like whoa and she had to back off of it. You know they're captive to their audience. Whether they run for office or not and so shapiro anytime he talks about what you should get vaccinated. He then takes that and tries to lampoon any other action the saying he's like look. You should get maxine and vaccines are available. So it is ridiculous that there are mask mandates for anybody anywhere these liberals are the worst you know and it's like do you could just say get vaccinated. You don't have to actually put a caveat in there right yeah..
Majority 54
"gop" Discussed on Majority 54
"I'm jason candor non robbie gupta and this is majority fifty four the podcast that helps americans for progress. Convince those who did into to join majority ravi before we get to the serious actual news of the week. Tie wanna talk about what tom brady said at the white house Because you brought up before we recording. And i realized i think i might have a like a contrary opinion on this for those who don't know the buccaneers sadly i mean because they're chief sadly did win. The super bowl wants to. They got to do the white house visit. And tom brady was speaking alongside president biden and he made a joke. These guys are amazing group men. It didn't look right there. At one point. We are seven and five struggling a little bit as the president alluded to but we found her rhythm. We got on a roll. Not a lot of people think that we could have one. In fact i think about forty percent of the people still don't think we won. I understand everybody is playing. This as brady is sort of making fun of trump and i don't know man like i'm not so sure and maybe this is just like my instinct of never trusting. Tom brady but i feel like maybe he was poking fun at biden and like giving a nod me he is like friends with trump. I don't know might being paranoid about this thing. That doesn't matter. I mean it's hard to say. I think biden appreciated. I think most of twitter and just the world brit large interpreted as a jab at trump which i think is is more important than what he actually meant. You're travel and i don't know what status friendship with trump is i. I hear speculation that gazelle. His wife is very anti trump and that that may be that may be. What's driving this careful guy. It wouldn't surprise me if at some point. I don't know two years or more ago. Tom brady went. This may not be the. I remember when they interviewed him during the general in two thousand sixteen and he was like. I don't know vote on super tuesday or whatever it is and they were like that's not term for the election so i don't think he's the most political guy anyway Right anyway yeah. That has been our tom brady. Check in Thanks very much all right now for the news of the week ravi. What's going on. Well the big news this week is that the delta very coveted is continuing to spread throughout the country in the past fourteen days cases of cova. Gone up one hundred ninety five percent and deaths have gone up forty two percent and the delta variant is accounting for eighty three percent of us cases now The cdc director said that we are in the middle of a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Just as a review for audience the delta variant is a from what we could tell about fifty percent more transmissible dr fouled. She has said that Over ninety nine percent of deaths in the country recent deaths From covert a comfort people who are unvaccinated and in states that have the highest spread and highest rates of hospitalization right now which is nevada missouri. Arkansas florida mississippi louisiana. These are states with some of the lowest vaccination rates being the exception there which is florida's special most average but the rest of them have Some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. Ed young and the atlantic had a great article last week that actually focuses focused on missouri. Where a lot of our listeners. Come from where you live jason. It's a it's a harrowing article is really difficult to read but there was one anecdote from the article that i can't get out of my mind. It was he was interviewing healthcare workers who are just going from the point where they were inspired to show up to work to everyday to where they're frustrated now because a lot of the people that they're treating are being treated for preventable illnesses and deaths and a lot of the people are extremely rude. Who come through the doors of these emergency rooms and hospitals and there was one story about a woman alka worker. Who said that when she had given somebody that cova diagnosis. That person's spit in her face. And i get that out of my head. So i know that people talk about vaccinations as a personal choice. But at what point does it become more than a personal choice jason. How do we talk about this yet. It's not a personal choice unless your doctor is telling you. Hey you know this could be a risk for you which by the way is just super limited number of people. Yeah i get like technically. It's a personal choice. But there's a point at which you know your liberty ends and someone else's liberty begins the thing that i'm not a scientist but the thing that hardly anybody has talked about in this is as we go from one variant to another which is what will happen if not enough people get vaccinated. We've already you know we're already on the delta variant. we've just completely taken for granted. How incredibly fortunate we are that this disease. This virus has a very limited effect on very young people. Right like the fact that kids under whatever it is ten or whatever tend not to die from this. We've just taken for granted that that's some sort of permanent corona virus reality when it isn't necessarily the case and so yeah. I think it is reasonable. It's beyond reasonable. It is Inevitable that healthcare workers would go from ham inspired to go. Take care of these people because it's no fault of their own to now. I've got to stop step in and try and protect these people who chose not to protect themselves and also chose not to do anything to protect anybody around them to make it less likely that they'll spread the virus earning out so yeah it is really upsetting and it is a failure of leadership by all the people who are trying to undermine the president's efforts to get people vaccinated and obviously a big part of this story is the role that right wing media and right wing leaders have played here and trump on sunday waited right in the middle of the saying that people refusing to take the vaccine because they don't trust this administration they don't trust election results and they certainly don't trust the fake news. You know trump got the vaccine and was touting it when he was president when he thought he could take credit for it and we have this situation now. Where one party in. Its media have convinced the sizable amount of people not to take life saving medicine and if they have the power to do that basically..
The Young Turks
"gop" Discussed on The Young Turks
"He says i every state legislature should pass a ban on taxpayer dollars going to any school district or workplace that teaches critical race theory which inherently violates existing antidiscrimination laws. That's all nonsense. But they're gonna interpreted vaguely and they're going to try to weed out the funding for the schools. Second each state create. Its own seventeen. Seventy six commission to and man. This is going to be something to examine the public school curriculum and ensure that students are receiving a patriotic pro-american education. Third parents have a right to know. Exactly what is being taught to their children. That one's brief forth apparently to organize locally in every school district in america to eliminate action civics and other versions of the effort to contorted traditional civics education. Seriously he did not this fifth any parent who objects to the material. Being taught to their child in public schools should get an automatic voucher empowering them to pick another school of their choice six states need to take back control their schools of education and credentialing bodies to ensure that. They're not churning out radicalized teachers so not only should. The teachers teach racism to kids. The schools shouldn't teach to the future teachers. Either and along the way we weed out any conversation about racism to stop propaganda for our children and instead replace it with a patriotic pro-american education. Which i'm sure it's going to be stuffed with historical truth. Well th that's going to be my question. Is it patriotic pro-american education actually in education. And i'm asking in a literal way. I don't mean that you don't. You shouldn't be pro america. That's your opinion but history being taught as pro american. Actually history or as a propaganda. So it's not to say hey. We should teach kids an anti-american education that would also be necess- propaganda about we teach them actual history instead of making pro one country or anti one country. even if it's our country they see. I mean it's like say. Oh you know what would you do. What did he a pro. America math okay. What is pro america math. Look like and so it is just fair to ask what is pro american history. Look like there's a look like actual history or history that you've mangled and corrupted and changed to make it appear to match your agenda. Yeah my problem with this is that it applies absolutely zero critical thought to anything. There are no countries or people who we can study which is pure and benevolent awesome. And just great this from their inception to the present like debt debt doesn't exist in history every civilization every country every culture has its dark and bleak moments. That's just the nature of man. I don't know why this is so hard for everybody to understand that. I don't know why they're so insecure. Bow young. Let's face it. White americans learning that the united states perpetuated atrocities in the past and that we should learn from them and now we should do much better going forward like why is this so threatening to these people because it goes to the core identity. They've been taught that they're the best thing since sliced bread. And and so if you teach them. Hey maybe america also had issues right and look we're looking to fix those issues et cetera. That would hurt their feces so they would catch some feelings out of that and it's more of an emotional thing i mean. Look at how silly this is. When trump in this same op-eds talked about a pro american education. He said it should be about history. English and social studies right. They need to be pro american. So i was kidding about the math but literally make english pro-american first of all it's english and by definition not american. Okay wait till he gets a lotta that he's like. Where did this inland come from. We've got to get rid of that. Okay we get other white okay. It's all right. it's all right..