40 Burst results for "Majority"
Mark Levin
Key Takeaways From Reading 49-Page Trump Indictment
"Administrative case or worse the civil case the original US attorney and now the special counsel were able to trigger the usual tools and mechanisms that prosecutors use when they're targeting somebody they bring in scores and scores of witnesses they gather as much documentary information as they can they see if there's any conflicts any disagreements they push witnesses on memories they push witnesses to testify they threaten witnesses with jail time they're in front of a grand jury where witnesses have no lawyers they can't provide exculpatory information they can't record the proceedings they can't provide a rebuttal they can provide nothing jury here jury typically depending has 23 grand jury grand jury 23 members it takes his simple majority to bring an indictment 12 and if your grand jury has 17 members that's permitted takes nine that's how you bring indictments and in the District of Columbia or in Miami or New York when you're talking Trump it's not that tough it's not that tough the relevant statue here is the Presidential Records Act passed in 1978 after Nixon left office
The Charlie Kirk Show
Fresh update on "majority" discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"I think we have time for a couple more, right? Yeah. Okay. Hello, John. What in your work with the younger demographic, what percentage of that demographic would you say have come to believe their rights come more from government and less from God? And do you see a market change going forward as a result of your interaction with them that they may come to believe their rights come more from God and less from government? You know, the majority of young people definitely, you know, this is, I, I actually don't think the emphasis on rights is helpful. Yes, we, and this is a much longer speech. I think it's a little bit of a vocabulary hijacking that's happened in modernity. I actually think obligations matter a lot more than rights. This is a deeper conversation. And so, for example, people say, I have a right to this. I have a right to that. I have a right to that. Now, in the natural rights theory of government, it is true that you have a right to speech, right to assembly. However, I would rather emphasize what a human being ought to do than what a human being can do. I actually think that's a much better way to communicate to a young person because if you emphasize the idea, and they emphasize it incorrectly, right, where they say, well, you have a right to this. You have a right to that. You have a right to this. And in reality, it ends up becoming a hyper narcissistic way of viewing your own existence. And again, this is not an easy fix, right? But forget who they think the rights come from. They look at themselves as the centerpiece of all decision making. And this is one of the reasons why we're seeing birth rates plummet, why suicide is increasing, depression is increased, alcoholism increased, drug usage, pornography rates. If you think you are the only and most important thing ever to exist, it creates manic and miserable people. We know the happiest people, the most fulfilled people, are ones with purpose that have a tie to an obligation that is larger to themselves. A duty -based society is actually more desirable than, quote unquote, a self -rights based society. But with that being said, where do they think rights come from? Definitely not God. Many of them don't even believe in God tragically, which is something I'm trying to solve. And everybody here tonight has lots in common, obviously, two of which is we believe there is a God and we are not him. Very simple things, right? And that hierarchy to our existence, and I say this and it drives the Marxist absolutely nuts, which is the Marxism is a war on religion. Whoever asked the question earlier, it's an unrepentant crusade against religion. You might be here tonight and you might not like all the religion talk, and that's fine. I mean, I own it. I'm not here to cut any corners. But it is a fact, and you must acknowledge this, that if you have a society that no longer believes in God, then you cannot have an absolute good or absolute truth. My only ask of you, for those of you here tonight, you say, Charlie, I'm not a Christian. I don't like this stuff. OK, I hope you change that. But you must be honest, intellectually honest enough to believe in the necessity of God. Because your whole life you've probably heard about the excesses of religion, hyper religious fanatics. Have you ever heard a CNN special or a Time magazine article about the excesses of secularism? What happens when a society becomes too secular? The Soviet Union, that's what happens. Mao's China, that's what happens. Yes, you can go too far in a hyper religious fanatical way. That's a complete, we are nowhere near that in this society. We're on the opposite. We are towards a hyper secular society. If you remove God, people need to find a place of meaning, and they're trying to find that meaning in government or in some sort of social cause or whatever it might be. And so that's why it's a spiritual war, my friend..
Mark Levin
Biden Prefers Calling Illegal Immigrants Than U.S. Family Victims
"I don't think you'll have time to call them all, Mr. President, even during your three -day weekends in Wilmington or Berhobus Beach. Do you want their numbers? Do you want the numbers of people who've reached the age of majority, who went through these prophecies and wish they never did? Do you want to call them and tell them the administration has their back too? Of course not. It's disgusting. In fact, you're disgusting. The way you talk about it, it's quite disgusting. Cut to go. Mr. President, I was proud to end the ban on transgender troops in our military. How many transgender troops are in our military? Anybody know? Tiny, tiny number. Ladies and gentlemen, we're having trouble
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Majority" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"Won a jury awarded her 1 .1 million dollars in damages Megan Chloe WTOP news well it's gun violence national awareness month in Fairfax County faith leaders and activists came together to discuss how to protect residents in the area there is no good reason why one should spend more time getting a license renewed and they get a do a purchase a gun Fairfax County's NAACP president Michelle Letty says she is sick and tired of being sick and tired moms demand actions Mary Wright Baylor had this to say a majority of Americans want common -sense gun see if the legislation and we need everybody to use their voices Board of Supervisors chairman Jeffrey C McKay says more work needs to be done to keep guns out of the wrong hands and encourage responsible gun ownership there had to be armed security and police officers surrounding the building simply So that our fcps students could feel confident that they could safely graduate from high school. Cheyenne Corrine WTOP news. Now to the top stories that we're working on This morning at WTOP former President Trump charged with 37 counts in classified documents In this case security arrangements are being made for his court appearance on Tuesday. We're all breathing a little easier smoke from those Canadian wildfires is dissipating code green air quality for our area Today keep it here for full details on these stories in the minutes ahead on traffic WTOP 48 and weather on the 8th and here's Brendan Joseph in the
Mark Levin
Newt Gingrich: 'A New Kind of Campaigning' Displayed by Ronald Reagan
"Lincoln's farewell address in January 1989, he says very clearly, these great victories weren't mine. These great victories were yours. It was your voice, your calling, your involvement, you the American people. And so we tried to return to model, that big ideas in the Contract with America, that were all 70 % or more in popularity, willingness to fight over the ideas. People forget, you know, this wasn't a picnic. closed We the federal government twice, once for 26 days. We were in a knockdown, some drag out brawl. And I always laugh at the media that says all this really hurt the Republicans. We became the first re -elected majority since 1928, after we closed the government. And the reason was because people thought we were being principled, and people thought that we were serious. We weren't normal politicians. In many ways the strength that Trump brought, in the sense that he wasn't just a regular politician. And I think that my goal is to get Republicans to understand that the consultant class doesn't understand the American people, doesn't respect them, and doesn't study issues, and they make a living out of running junk negative commercials that weaken the whole country. What you need is a much more Reagan -style popular appeal, which can be very tough with your opponent, by the way. Reagan beat the tar out of Jimmy Carter, but it was positive, it wasn't negative. Don't, don't up hang Newt, we want to keep you for another segment here. The book is March to the Majority. it You can get at Amazon .com, order it now, it'll show up tomorrow morning. It's a fantastic book, The Republican Revolution. You can learn a hell of a lot from this, and I might add, 19 years ago today
The Charlie Kirk Show
Fresh update on "majority" discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"We've got to do everything we possibly can to not let that happen. God bless you. Thank you so much. Are we going here? The next question is from Linda Gray, former Senator of Arizona. Eric McTasca, in his book, Letter to the American Church, I would like your analogy of his book and pastors who are afraid to preach God's word, the penalties, and yet the love for people who ask for forgiveness. How do we get pastors to get involved, speak the truth, and get away from separation of church and state, and allowing pastors to go ahead and speak about different candidates and policies? Yeah, first, I just had Eric on the show. He's terrific. And I love the book. We have a pastor summit, actually, at TPUSA. We're doing next week. We have a thousand pastors coming to our pastor summit, the largest in the country. Isn't that amazing? So we got a lot going on at Turning Point. We see a problem. We try to fix it. That's why we're in the game, right? So I analyze this as there's three different types of pastors and churches. I will first talk about the courageous. There are some amazing courageous pastors. I hope you have some here in this local area. I'm sure you do. These are people that, for example, praised God and thanked God for the reversal of Roe v. Wade, just thanked from the pulpit. Do you know that 95 % of American pastors didn't mention the reversal of Roe v. Wade from the pulpit? I had a pastor come up to me, and he said, Charlie, when is God going to make a move of grace and intervention in the country? I said, oh, he did. The reversal of Roe v. Wade is nothing short of a miracle. Nothing short of a miracle. And 95 % of his brides said, meh, not impressed God. Stop praying for a miracle if you don't thank God when they happen. So most pastors are indifferent towards God's miraculous moves. So that's a problem. But there are courageous ones. Jack Hibbs is a great pastor, for example, who does a beautiful job. The church that we do so much stuff with, beautiful friends, Dream City Church down in the valley. I don't know if you know about the Barnett family. They do a great job. They're courageous. They're bold. They're awesome. And Mark Driscoll is doing a great job at Trinity Church, too, in the valley. And it goes across theological denominations, which is great. And then there's the complicit churches, which I call out. I believe that they are doing essentially what it said in 1 Peter. They're false prophets. These are the gay pride pastors. These are the trans, the LGBT, the CRT, the racial justice. I have no patience for these pastors. They are not a majority. They're about 5 % to 10%. But you know what I'm talking about. I mean, what has happened to the Lutheran church, by the way? I mean, I was in Sedona the other day, and I drove by, and there were more, like, gay references outside of this Lutheran church than about Jesus. I couldn't believe it. And the Methodist church and Episcopalian, it's just where mainline Protestantism has gone in this country is just, it's just sick. It really is. But then there, and I made a promise to a friend, so I'm going to try to not break the promise. I promised I wouldn't call these pastors cowards, so I'm not calling them cowards. So, they're the most, the biggest group, right? So, we know what they're not. But they're opportunities. They're moldable. These are the people that we need that are 70 to 80 % of pastors. And a lot of them are great people. They're in it for the right reasons, but they'll say something of this garden variety of nonsensical, anti -biblical jargon, okay?.
Mark Levin
Newt Gingrich: McCarthy Outmaneuvered Biden on Debt Ceiling Talks
"You're going to lose if the other side has the courage to stand firm. And the fact is that for over 100 days, McCarthy kept saying, and he went to the news media, he got more press coverage. If you go back and look at it, it's amazing how clear he was in communicating through the media despite their liberal bias because he just kept saying over over, and you know, we want to get this solved. And the key there was that the House Republican Conference actually passed a debt ceiling bill with real reforms. And therefore, the Senate Republicans, to my great shock, came out and said we are for McCarthy. And Mitch McConnell, who negotiated many of these deals, said, I'm not in this. This is McCarthy's opportunity. We're going to back McCarthy. And that in put a him position, and the reason I think this really matters in the long run, Mark, is if the center of gravity in Washington becomes the House Republicans, they are the most conservative group in the city, more much conservative than the Senate and obviously dramatically more conservative than the Biden White House. Now the question be will between the investigation process and the effort that they're going to put into the appropriations bills. Can they build on this? I tell everybody, if the debt ceiling was the final deal, I would have voted no. But if it's the first step in setting up a rhythm of winning, we keep so getting more and more goodies, then it's a very important yes. And I say that because if you read, the Mark, majority, you'll figure out, you know, we didn't jump to a balanced budget. We had three years of constant work, gradually inch by inch, getting Clinton in a position where a once balanced budget became possible. I think in this case, I don't think Biden's going to last three years. So the question is, can we get through 2023 2024 and be in a great position in January of 25 with a Republican president, Republican House, Republican Senate, to really drive dramatic, bold, deep
The Charlie Kirk Show
Fresh update on "majority" discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Like, okay. They come with this parasitic ideology, right? I mean, look, I live in Scottsdale. And Scottsdale is not the Scottsdale of ten years ago. I mean, it is changing rapidly. They are doing queer theory in the schools, critical race theory, the vagrancy, the homelessness. And, again, I don't want to ruin your night. And I don't dwell on this except for the point that it is a fact. A person that was hypnotized by trans ideology murdered a 29 -year -old girl on a hiking trail at 10 a .m. in the morning. Did you see this story? It is in Scottsdale. Like, this is not Tucson, all right? Tucson is not my favorite place. Okay? But, I mean, no offense. It is fine. But if they built the wall at Pima County, I don't think anybody would be. Just saying. I'm going to be honest. When the voting results came in, I think that if you were going to audit one place in Arizona, you got to audit Pima County. I just do not believe. Another 30 ,000 votes. Forget it, okay? Maricopa is worth auditing. But Pima County, give me a break. Anyway, if I offended you and you are from Pima County, stop taking yourself so seriously because the place is not great. So, but this young lady, she's 29 years old, walking her dog in Scottsdale. And she gets murdered, stabbed 15 times. That's not the Arizona we remember. Scottsdale? Are you kidding me? Right near the Mayo Clinic by a guy who's trans, by the way. He comes out and he says, I wanted to be her. They, them pronouns. Has the media covered that? Has the media covered that a trans person murdered a 29 -year -old on a hiking trail in Scottsdale? Where's Katie Hobbs, by the way? She's probably doing some trans parade thing. Right? Now, she's a coward and she shouldn't be. She's an illegitimate governor, if you ask me. She shouldn't be governor. And so, look, the state is changing. I mean, you know that. I just have to, little things to remind you. But I, what frustrates me the most, and I think what animates you and why you're here tonight, is that I still think we're the majority of this state. I think decent people still outnumber the indecent. I'm tired of these labels. By the way, I know this is a Republican event. I don't associate with most Republicans. I don't. I think most Republicans are a waste of rations. I really do. Now, you might say, well, Charlie, of they're course better than Democrats, but I'm sick of the Mitt Romney's. Right? I'm sick of it. I'm sick of it. Right? I want fighters. I want people that are actually going to listen to their voters and stop protecting the uniparty consensus and acting like everything is great. I think it's listen to your voters. One of my favorite speeches, one of my favorite books ever written, and a speech given by Victor Frankel, who wrote Man's Search for Meaning and Yes to Life. It's a philosophical book. It's amazing, by the way. Every young person should be required to read it. He said, look, he went to a concentration camp and nearly lost his life. And the point is that he said, look, there's really only two types of people. There's the decent and the indecent. And I think that's really powerful. I think there's more decent people in Arizona than indecent people. Katie Hobbs is not a decent person. Period. She's not a decent person. And yeah, it manifests itself politically at times. Right? But I don't think this state is ideologically or politically as far gone as it feels with these results..
Mark Levin
Newt Gingrich: Previewing New Book 'March to the Majority'
"As a playbook, because March of the Majority lays out how we negotiated with Bill Clinton and aroused public opinion, so that we got welfare reform, the largest single conservative reform in our lifetime. We have the largest capital gains tax cut in history, launching an entire extraordinary period of entrepreneurial growth. We cut regulations dramatically, helping small businesses, and we balanced the federal budget for four consecutive years for the only time in your lifetime. So there are a lot of lessons, we didn't do this because we were lucky, we did it because we worked very hard. We learned over 16 a year period, from 1978 to 1994, what worked and what didn't work. And in March, the majority, I'm giving people a chance to learn, in a free society, The what principles are the that work, how do you put together a majority, and then how do you use that majority to get the policy changes you want. That's why I think March the majority is very relevant for today, it's a history book. And do you get the sense that the Republicans in the House, McCarthy and others, are following the game plan pretty much? Well, I certainly think in the negotiations with Biden on debt the ceiling, there's no question that McCarthy outmaneuvered Biden dramatically. Biden thought he was going to get a debt ceiling with no cuts, no reforms. And it turned out that only only one out of every four Americans favored that. One of the projects I work on is called the America's New Majority the next day. and people can see it at americasnewmajorityproject .com. It was clear that only one out of every four Americans favored Biden's new majority.
Live Local and Progressive
Fresh "Majority" from Live Local and Progressive
"And I think there is some surprise in the media and general the public because of the direction the court has been going, particularly regarding race and the Voting Rights Act and voting. But I think what happened here was a majority of the court was compelled by some really clear text and purpose of what Congress did when it amended the Voting Rights Act in 1982. And then the compelling facts of this case, that this is an incredibly clear violation. If this wasn't a violation of the Voting Rights Act, it hard was to imagine what could have been. So I think hopefully the combination of looking at what Congress intended and the purpose of the Voting Rights Act and the incredibly compelling facts put forward in our case, really pushed those justices to find for us. Ross Perot, I wanted to ask you about the history of Alabama in repeatedly violating the Voting Rights Act over many years and what was your view on this particular case? Yeah, that's right. In a lot of the most famous voting cases to come before the Supreme Court, unfortunately, many of them have come out of Alabama. And Alabama's own arguments basically acknowledged the roots of this map. What they said was that their congressional map has been largely the same since the early 1970s. And, of course, in the early 1970s, George Wallace was still governor. Alabama was head -on fighting the Voting Rights Act and integration and all of that sort of thing. The one district trick that gave black voters in Alabama the opportunity to elect candidates of choice. Only came about also through litigation. And that wasn't until the early 90s. And even then, that created sort of carved out one district. But Alabama continued to rely on and that not look at the changing demographics, the continuing presence of a very polarized voting based on race, continuing discrimination and effects of discrimination, and continued to try to double down on the status quo. But that's not what was required here. And I think, really, all the of different factors that the court is supposed to look at to determine whether there's a violation, you know, whether another reasonably configured district can be drawn, whether race already completely infuses the political and system whether the maps are being used in a way that takes advantage of that ongoing discrimination across multiple sectors, those were all present here and they were in droves. And I think that really compelled the district court findings here then and the majority of the Supreme Court to affirm that. I want to bring Tish Guttell -Fox into this conversation. She is also with the ACLU. She is the legal director at the ACLU of Alabama, joining us from Montgomery. Were you surprised by this decision, particularly and that Chief Justice Roberts and Kavanaugh both voted with the liberal majority and what this now means in Alabama, going back to the drawing boards and for other states, this doesn't just now affect Alabama because it sets precedent. Thank you for having us. We were not surprised here in Alabama. We had a great deal of faith and confidence that the structure of Section 2 would demonstrate that Alabama had failed once again to meet their constitutional obligations. We were deeply concerned that we would get a new from test the court. But what we saw here was the United States Supreme Court giving a full throated rejection of Alabama's suggestion that we are now at a point in history where we can move to a time from the racist past in how Black voters retreated. This litigation was intended to ensure that the voices of Black voters, that the voices of those who believe Alabama should move in a different direction, that those voices are heard. And we're, we're just thrilled that the rest of the country now gets to see the power of people and movement. Thank you. And Tish could tell folks, what about those who say that this ruling only preserves the status quo, it doesn't really expand or the protections of the Voting Rights Act, especially vis -à -vis the decisions of prior years that have reduced its influence and power? Well, I think what's important here is the court's recognition that Congress has an important role to play updating old law to meet the new challenges of the day. And in fact, this court has shown a great deal of restraint in allowing the structure of analysis to remain in place. The court underscored that this has been the way to do this analysis for dozens of years, and that they see nothing in the legislative record that would suggest that they need to change course. What we know we need is an update to the Voting Rights Act, and this court seems to be signaling Congress that if there are changes to be made, it is Congress's responsibility to do so. We stand ready here in Alabama to send representatives that are going to reflect the true beliefs and needs of the people of And Alabama. today, the Supreme Court has said that must include fair opportunity for black voters to have the candidate of their choice as well, and we are thrilled about that. Kadeeda Stone is also with us in Montgomery, chief yield and campaign strategist at Alabama Forward. Most significantly right now, one of the named plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case about redistricting in Alabama, called Allen v. Milligan. Kadeeda, if you can talk about why you came forward to sue around this issue of gerrymandering. Yeah, first I want Thank you so much for having me. It's an honor. But I think the main reason why I decided to sue was just because I saw a lot of unfairness going on. And it's kind of one of those situations where it's like, if no one else will do it, who will? And so that's why I decided to be a part of this case and get on. And I'm so glad that I was given the opportunity to do so alongside my amazing co -plaintiffs and our amazing legal team. And could you talk about the impact that this ruling will have on the work you do in Alabama and what you hope and expect that the Alabama legislature will now do? Well, I would hope and expect the Alabama legislature will go back and really take into account the needs of the community and the ways that they have expressed themselves when drawing these maps. I think that's the most important, but also listening to the Supreme Court. They said to redraw the map in a fair and equitable way. So I would hope that our legislature will
CoinDesk Podcast Network
Markets Mixed as Debt Ceiling Bill Could Threaten Liquidity
"Bitcoin, Ether, and other top tokens are down, and markets trading mixed, but mostly lower. Traders of risk assets broadly, though, are paying close attention to ongoing movement towards a multi -year suspension of the U .S. debt ceiling in a deal that has both Democrat and Republican members of the Business As Usual club declaring victory. The agreement passed the House last night with majority support and now heads to the where it's expected to pass as well, before being signed into law by U .S. President Joe Biden. You might think that with uncertainty around that threat and default likely to soon be over, that risk assets would be hopeful, but that's not exactly how things may work out. Once a suspension is signed into law, a few things are expected to happen. First, the U .S. Treasury will have to refill its almost completely depleted Treasury General account, also known as the TGA, which means selling some $500 billion worth of debt into the financial system, which means they will be extracting that much cash. This is likely to hit risk assets in particular, as they tend to be more sensitive to liquidity conditions than safer plays such as bonds and many groups of equities, macroanalyst Noel Acheson said, continuing, The Treasury drawing down its account at the Fed was one of the tailwinds for the market earlier this year. As money that would normally just sit there was put into the economy in the form of government expenditures, Acheson explained. She continued, Now the reverse is likely to happen. The government needs to replenish the account balance by issuing debt which will draw liquidity out of the market and back into the Treasury's
AP News Radio
House OKs debt ceiling bill to avoid default, sends Biden-McCarthy deal to Senate
"The house has passed a bill that veers the nation away from a debt default crisis. The compromise agreement between House speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden did not please most lawmakers, but still passed easily. Yeah, he's a three 14, the Nas are one 17. Tonight, we all made history. Immediately after the vote, McCarthy said it's the biggest spending cut Congress has ever approved. Still far right conservatives like chip Roy had vowed to block the bill. You cut a deal. That shouldn't have been cut. Saying the cuts were not nearly deep enough. Democrats said it was far better than the alternative, a potentially catastrophic first ever default on America's debt. The bill now goes to the Senate where majority leader Chuck Schumer said it would move quickly to the Oval Office. I can not stress enough that we have no margin, no margin for error. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
Mark Levin
Mark Levin: 'I Would Not Vote' for Latest Debt Ceiling Bill
"Attacks on the wall and securing the border one after another. And they go to the Senate and they die in the Senate, where the Republicans really are do -nothings. Do -nothings, especially under McConnell. He mustered a majority to put an initial proposal, a debt increase. Passed it, sent it to the Senate. The Senate has done absolutely nothing. They could on it. Why didn't they? They did nothing. And I know we had 43 Republican senators sign a letter. But there was no jumping up and down demanding a vote on the Republican proposal. And Biden sat on his hands hoping that the Republicans would fray, and they didn't. And that's how the negotiations, such as they were, began, So were. the only one carrying any water are the Republicans in the House and McCarthy. And so his negotiators negotiate this deal. It comes back. Some people are happy, some people are unhappy, some people aren't sure what it is, and so on. So, in this process, happened. But the House past was never going up because the Senate wouldn't take it up. And that's where you do it. And the House Republicans can't enforce this on
AP News Radio
Western efforts to defuse Kosovo crisis mount as ethnic Serbs in Kosovo rally anew after clashes
"The U.S. and EU are ramping up efforts to diffuse a crisis in Kosovo. Ethnic Serbs are continuing to protest in northern Kosovo, where clashes with NATO peacekeepers recently left dozens injured. Over fears of renewed conflict in the troubled region, EU officials are now in talks with Serbia and Kosovo top officials in NATO ascending 700 more troops. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is urging all parties to deescalate tension and his EU counterpart to separation calls the situation dangerous and unsustainable. Ethnic Serbs are in minority and Kosovo, but in majority in the country's north, with many rejecting the Albanian majority territories claim of independence from Serbia. I'm Mimi Montgomery
Mark Levin
Women Have the Buying & Boycott Power Against Target
"And I want you to understand why target decided to have an emergency meeting It wasn't because they thought they got it wrong It wasn't because they're going to stop doing not just a month of gay pride but basically two months right Because it's not even gay Pride Month yet and they've already got their massive square footage of gay pride propaganda for your family to indoctrinate your kids with out there We're talking probably hundreds and hundreds of thousands of square feet is what they have dedicated to gay Pride Month at target stores It's not about selling products It's about indoctrinating your children It's about turning your children against your beliefs I post this up on Instagram If you want to see it by the way I put a ton of what target was selling on Instagram You can follow me Ben Ferguson podcast there but I said men did our part with Bud Light We made it socially unacceptable for in man culture to drink woke beer The target battle will only be one with strong moms standing up for their kids And that's the truth because the majority of people that go to target are not men It's women Women did you know this And we had this debate the other day and there was a million statistics back it up But did you know that women are actually the number one spenders in families Makes sense They're buying they have more buying power than the men do Yes men will buy big things sure We'll buy a car Right We'll do things like that But women are the predominant spenders of the dollars that come into a family household I'm not criticizing women for that either I want to make that clear but women traditionally especially when they have kids the ones are spending the predominant amount of money that comes in the house Meaning women have far more buying power Or that also translates into boycotting power than any man does
The Dan Bongino Show
Rep. Pramila Jayapal: Tax Cuts Are a Form of Spending
"There's a poll out there suggesting that a good swath of Americans a majority they need the Democrats to make some cuts here and our many kind of knows we're going bankrupt I mean she didn't say but you'll get what I'm talking about And I want you to listen to how this absurd human being Characterizes the poll to suggest somehow that tax cuts are spending wait wait why 'cause we're gonna try this logic thing on the other side I need you to play with me I need you to play this game with me here because the liberals won't get it But we're just gonna try okay All right listen to this cut And what that's the other thing we've been saying to the Republicans This is the exact question that was asked of voters What should Congress do on the debt ceiling Raise only if spending cut 60% raise no matter what 24% not raise let U.S. default 15% These are what they are saying to this critical Let's go ahead No I understand But poppy you can't take tax cuts out of spending You know tax cuts for the wealthiest are spending Don't think that that is in spending when under Donald Trump They added almost $2 trillion to the deficit because they gave tax cuts to the wealthiest That is spending And I think the American people understand that that's what needs to change is we need to roll back those tax cuts and we need to actually make sure that we are reducing the deficit by making the wealthiest pay their fair share Very by cutting working people's benefits Folks why do we have to live with these people Why do we have to live with such stupid people Listen I can't stop them though and I want to because I actually believe in God given rights from announcing to the entire world on CNN how dumb they are But can you just move away Can we just really just fortify red states now because I swear the idiocy is contagious
AP News Radio
Chirping sounds lead airport officials to bag filled with smuggled parrot eggs
"Baby parrots seized from a smuggler are being cared for in Florida. A bag filled with smuggled parrot eggs was found at the Miami international airport, since hatching in March, 24 parrots are being cared for by the rare species conservatory foundation. His birds are curious. They're loving, they're sweet. Their babies. Everything's developing in front of your eyes. And they're beautiful little creatures. It was the hatchlings faint chirping inside a carry on bag at the airport that brought them to the attention of a customs and border protection officer. Doctor Paul reylo of the conservatory says a vast majority of parrot trafficking cases and in tragedy, Paris live a long time, they are sentient creatures. They're highly intelligent, very social, and these guys deserve a chance. The question will be, where will they wind up? Reylo is working with the fish and wildlife service on a plan to have the birds fly free and help restore their species in the wild. I'm Ed Donahue.
Mark Levin
The Constitution Does Not Allow Democrats to Destroy Our Economy
"I am sick and damn tired Of the Democrats and the media and these fraudulent phony academicians telling us that the constitution allows the Democrats to destroy our economy when it gives them no such right Now I will ask you because you've been listening to this program many of you for years some of you from months but most of you for years Do you think the framers of the constitution even more do you think those who adopted the Fourteenth Amendment Both super majorities of the House and the Senate and the state legislatures Would have agreed to give a president the power to not only submit a budget but to fund the budget if Congress didn't get along it didn't go along with them That was that not asinine That's never been done in American history They can't find a single syllable that was uttered at the time either in Congress certainly not by the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment or the state ratification conventions not one person not one sentence nothing That supports their claim They take completely out of context half of a sentence in the Fourteenth Amendment In section four that has absolutely nothing to do with today's budget with today's debt with today's spending But the Democrats do not want to negotiate a reduction in spending This is how presidents in the past have avoided this situation But the Democrats today are more Marxist more radical than ever before in our history And they're saying you do it our way or attacking the economy
AP News Radio
Half of US public approves of Washington's arms deliveries to Ukraine in war's 2nd year
"A survey by the University of Chicago's Harris school of public policy and norc shows U.S. popular support for Washington's backing of Ukraine has faded a little but remains widespread. The polls suggest half of the people in the U.S. support The Pentagon's ongoing supply of weapons to Ukraine for its defense against Russian forces that levels nearly unchanged in the past year, while about a quarter are opposed to sustaining the military lifeline that's now topped $37 billion. Big majorities among both Democrats and Republicans believe Russia's attack on Ukraine was unjustified according to the poll taken last month when it comes to specific kinds of U.S. backing for Ukraine, popular support for U.S. sanctions against Russia has experienced the most significant drop, falling 13% this spring, although still a majority. I'm Charles De Ledesma.
AP News Radio
South Carolina ready to renew abortion ban around 6 weeks of pregnancy after Senate vote
"South Carolina's governor is promising to sign into law a ban on most abortions after around 6 weeks of pregnancy. The state Senate approved the bill Tuesday, and Republican governor Henry McMaster promised to sign it into law as soon as possible. The bill restores a 2021 ban that took effect when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned roe V wade last year, but the ban was overturned by South Carolina's highest court because it violated the state constitution's right to privacy. Republican state senator Richard cash. Certainly believed the majority of South Carolina's carolinians value life. Republican senator Katrina sheeley offered a 12 week compromise, saying 6 weeks doesn't give women enough time to make a decision. They've got their mindset what they want. They think they know what women want. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic says as soon as the governor signs the measure, it will file a request for a temporary restraining order. I'm Donna Warner
AP News Radio
Greece faces new election in weeks, after center right triumphs but falls short of majority
"Greece's center right has triumphed in a national election, but will need a new vote to form an effective government. The Conservative Party of prime minister carrier cosmetics with 40% of the vote comfortably beat the left wing main opposition so Visa party and the socialist pasok party, but mitsuki's lacks the majority in parliament to govern alone. The prime minister says we're called upon to speed up the process for a definitive solution, so our country can have an experienced hand at its helm as soon as possible. Mitsu takis says he seeks a second election in a bid to consolidate his victory without need of a coalition partner, a second election would be conducted under a new electoral law that gives bonus seats to the winning party.
AP News Radio
FBI broke rules in scouring foreign intelligence on Jan. 6 riot, racial justice protests, court says
"The FBI says past searches of a foreign intelligence database broke standards, but reforms have been made, I'm Lisa dwyer. FBI officials repeatedly violated their own standards when they searched a vast repository of foreign intelligence for information related to the insurrection at the U.S. capitol on January 6th, 2021, and racial justice protests in 2020. That's according to a newly released, heavily blacked out court order. Senior FBI officials attributed the majority of the violations to confusion and a lack of common understanding about the querying standards and said that the bureau has made significant changes since then. The problems could nonetheless complicate FBI and Justice Department efforts to receive congressional reauthorization of a warrantless surveillance program the government officials say is needed to counter terrorism, espionage, and international cybercrime. I'm Lisa dwyer
AP News Radio
At Cannes Film Festival, Johnny Depp says 'I have no further need for Hollywood'
"Actor Johnny Depp faced the press at the Cannes Film Festival where he's presenting his first film since his defamation trial against his ex-wife, actor Amber Heard. I'm Archie's are a letter with the latest. Johnny Depp plays king Louis the 15th in the film Jean du Barry, which opened the Cannes Film Festival, although a jury cited mostly with Depp in a 2022 defamation trial against Amber Heard, lured details of their marriage came out. Depp was asked to step down from the fantastic beast films, Depp says he does not have much further need for Hollywood, and people will believe what they want to believe. The majority of what you read is fantastically horrifically written fiction. Depp says the real focus should be on the film, Jean de berry does not yet have U.S. distribution
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"Very possible at this is preventing deaths. Come out matters of life or death. We need to be precise. And once again. I wanna say that i. There is a valid critique of people who take this and don't get vaccinated but i would just focus on the not getting vaccinated part of that like forget about this yes the people who are running out to livestock shops and taking the horse version of this. That's tough like that's bad. We said it's like it's tough to steph to keep a straight face when you hear but that is their problem. That is not like you'd need to ask yourself wire upset about that. Are you really worried about that. Person's how do you know that person going at horse place. You know. I was reading about this. Las vegas feed shop. That actually is requiring people to show a picture of their horse but like really. If you're getting worked up over that you need to ask yourself. Are you worried about that person's health or you just looking to have fun. And i'm seeing people like and this is a very common thing among people we really like including some guests to this podcast. Who only talk about this. As a or st warmer and that to me is not honest because that doesn't get at the vast majority of people taking us which be honest. The problem is when we talk about this instead of just talking about the need for people to get the vaccine. It's not because we're having fun. It's because we're feeling superior and that's the problem that is that's where we heard credibility and making the argument. Well there are other issues here that are percolating throughout society. one. I'm the i hear everywhere. I see it on my instagram. I see it on my facebook. Actually hear it in real life. Is this idea that people who are vaccinated are getting coded at the same rate as everybody else. L. teams most successful wide receivers tweets this on a daily basis. And i just wanna go through the data here in this surgical so The case rate for full fully vaccinated people at sixty six her one hundred thousand people case rate for unvaccinated people's two hundred forty three hundred thousand people. So that's four times. Plus amount of people getting cova were unvaccinated and people were vaccinated or fourteen not four but fourteen times less likely to be hospitalized way less likely to die and there was a study published in lancet which is one of the most respected medical journals in the world. That just came out a couple of days ago. I think it was september. First that said that not only is there. A decreased risk of infection and severe symptoms if you get vaccinated but there is a forty nine percent lower risk of what they call long cove. Which is the months or longer version of kobe. Where you get brain fog. Her taste of smell hair loss numbness for many months. I know some people who've gotten covert at the beginning of covert and you're still experiencing symptoms so basically across the board getting vaccinated is an unambiguous. The now to me is like when somebody says this to you. People with you know people still get cova when the vaccinated. It's like well. Yes you can still get in a car accident if you are completely sober and have your seatbelt on but the result is way different. And it's far less likely to happen so maybe just drive sober and wear your seatbelt amen. To that we haven't done this in a while. L. let's do a little quarantine slash..
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"Not too long ago to spend a whole podcast with two of friends to talk about this but this wall to give you some background pass and may but it went into effect last week when the supreme court declined to stop the law. Which i'll get you in a second on. The law essentially says at any pregnancy in which heartbeat is detected cannot be boarded Effectively means that nobody can happen. Past six weeks The really strange and and and terrible thing about this law Is that it incentivizes. The public sue police abortions and allows anyone living in the state of texas who is not a government official to sue an abortion provider. Or anyone else they suspect at aiding and abetting abortions and gives a ten thousand dollar word for that that is really important for a few reasons. Most important be it was crafted to prevent this live from being reviewable by the courts and this is not obvious. Let me explain this or folks. You didn't go to law school or for those who did and might have forgotten a few things that could have been me. I can't figure out why they can't start your to tell me well. Here's what happens when a state passes a law. There's this issue that you you're probably familiar with called standing right like if you want to challenge that allow you have to have standing. And in order to have standing child's estate wa usually you. You can't sue the state itself because there's this concept called sovereign immunity where the state is immune to suit spot. You can sue There's this case from nineteen o eight. That says you can sue an officer of the state who's carrying out the law. So they crafted this law and actually explicitly carve-out. It says any person other than an officer of the state blah sets can enforces law. Very specific language. Essentially saying ordinary citizens can carry out this law but not state officials which means you don't know who suit And that's when the supreme court five four said they're gonna let the law stand. They did say that there had serious questions about the constitutionality of this but were unsure of how to stop it. so essentially. what's happening is. There's nobody is sue right now. Maybe would there. It's actually more complicated an but there's nobody to sue depending on how you look at the law now my sense. Is there too big orcs in the road here. Number one is if this law is actually implemented by any citizen suing another citizen that will trigger litigation and matt's where the constitutional challenges will come from obviously this law being an effect already deterring people from seeking the care that they need which is a huge problem. But it won't be until this law laws actually enforce that people can challenge this particular law. There is an exception to that. We'll talk about that later. The second thing is that there's there is another case in the supreme court about mississippi law. That says you can't get an abortion after fifteen weeks at actually is on the docket or a this fall. Which will at least give us a sense of where the supreme court is heading all is to say. This is a particularly sinister law. There are other states. That are gonna try to copy this. My sense is that this is absurd. And that if if the supreme court allows this particular mechanisms stan than liberals should mimic it on issues that we care about so for example near surpass law. Says there's ten thousand dollar bounty on anyone. And i mean bounty not like in the way that most people interpreted but i mean in this sense for anybody who owns a gun. Why don't we do that. Then start carving out constitutional laws. At know we think will withstand judicial scrutiny. Needs for being really similar right because just like you have sovereign immunity as As a government we have through our stupid legislation. Basically given the equivalent of sovereign immunity just immunity to the gun manufacturers. So it's very similar now. Well it's just another case of republicans playing chess while we play checkers and this comes as brier has declined seems to retire. I mean we've gotta get our should together here. It always seemed. I don't wanna be negative. This is not awful but it always seems like the republicans are the ones coming up with these insane crazy mechanisms to push their world view on the majority of people who disagree with them whereas we have the majority with us and we seem to be honoring like all these things like the filibuster and etc that a no in like this sense that there's a de politicized supreme court so briar doesn't wanna step down during a democratic administration molly southie and it just seems like we're playing one game. They're playing yellow two bullets. Let's when we say we let's be fair. We are not frankly like even in washington. I think this is true. Our generation of democrats are not. It's you know. It is generally cast as like progressives and moderates but let's be real like it's like generational even know biden is largely. Come around but he was a perfect example of somebody who had been in these institutions for so long and it was really hard for him to come around to the idea that no that ain't gonna work anymore but like you know brier mansion the folks who are approaching things this way are just people who not unlike the conversation. We had a few minutes ago about how we thought nine. Eleven was going to change everything. It's taken us time to adjust to the idea of how polarized everything is after nine eleven. It's taken them way more. Because they had all these years of republicans and democrats clocking out and then go in and get drinks together. At hawkins there was a dance in the in the federal court which. That's one of the most conservative. I think the most conservative circuit in the country. I'm not gonna bore our listeners with the procedure around this but if you go down the rabbit hole. I went down looking at the way. This case has made its way through the system. I've never been a believer. That courts.
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"Jason candor ravi gupta and this is majority fifty four the podcast that helps americans who voted for progress. Convince those who didn't to join majority ravi. Welcome back from costa rica. what's going on this week. Jason i'm sitting actually from sitting. You could see one world trade center and made me think you know we should start this episode by just marking the twentieth anniversary of nine eleven. Which is coming up in a couple of days. I was reading something from george packer this past week. That got me thinking. And he wrote this. He said september eleven is buried so deep under layers of subsequent history and interpretation that. It's hard to sort out true feelings of that day but let's try. Where were you back then. Twenty years ago. I and what were your immediate feelings so i was going to college at american university in washington dc. I was in my last year of college. And i remember that morning stepping into the student center because everybody was gathered around the tv. In seeing I don't remember now if it was the first or second plane hitting the tower. I think it was the first. And then by the time. I got to my chemistry lab on the other side of campus It was a parent. I think from the second plane hitting that the country was under attack and i remember getting into an argument with my chemistry professor and being like why are we having class and then ended up the rest of the day. Just trying to find a way to help my roommates. And i went down near the capital. It was like a ghost town in d. c. We went down near the capital because we could give blood there and we stood in line for what felt like a couple of hours before somebody came out and said You know we don't have the capacity to take any more blood. I hope you can find another way to help. And i decided right then and there that i was going to join the military. Wow while i was in my first year of college. And i was actually in my second week and a friend of mine from staten island is came into my room. You know we weren't as wired back down as one thing i remember is that we weren't like getting alerts all the time he had to be in front of your laptop or in front of a tv and it was one of those weird things that i have you ever seen the movie. Jfk when they're like. Oh the president's shot no who has a tv right kind of reminds me of that in a sense that we were just like in college and none of us really properly set up at that point so we all went to the dining hall and started watching from there and what was surreal about it was. I grew up in new york city. But i was upstate. For the first time in my life really you know living away from home and we were sitting around watching this and a buddy of mine from a neighborhood who from staten also lived in my dorm building and we were watching it and he comes to the realization that his father was police officer in the city and over the course of the next few days and then weeks kept going back to staten island is father is missing turns out. His father was a police officer. Who's bringing oxygen to firefighters in the north tower and of they eventually recovered his remains. And you stanton island was crazy hard. Hit everybody has sat. Now is no somebody who is lost. You know there's a church down the street from a house that loss twenty eight members. There's a school near me. Las twenty three of the Tipco is that lost the most people two out of of them were staten island. Zip codes in part of the reason. Is that there are a lot of computers but another part of the reason is that there are a lot of firefighters cops and you know. I know that there's been this this debate in some ways of really important debate about police officers in law enforcement. But you know. I think it hits a little bit different where i come from because people that serve memory. You know your neighbors are cops and you have this image of cops or people put their lives on the line and some people who never made it back. You know. Another thing about nine eleven. That was really weird about my childhood is that i grew up. Essentially on top of the largest dump in the world called fresh kills. And my family's from this town called travis and sat down and it was the sole residential dumping grounds for.
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"Slash majority. And get your free year supply. Vitamin d and five. Free travel packs today. This next one is about infrastructure. Hi there my name is tania with this whole bill. This partisan bill. There are some things that i really don't understand how we are kind of allowing i mean. I know we have to make some concessions. But you know. I saw that There's like twenty five billion dollars subsidy to the hospital industry They're like they're green the the line three tar sands pipeline The little project and the nord stream to natural gas pipeline. I just really don't understand how we can still be funding. These things and trying to be bipartisan about these things and climate is obviously such a huge crisis. That is that we can't keep on making concessions for so. I love to just kind of talk about this. Bipartisan deal like i understand so there's some good in it but i just really hate that. We constantly have to make like all these concessions for the planet. I just think it's terrible. Thank you so much. All right ravi bipartisanship. What is it good for. Well i think there are a few things to keep in mind here. Number one is that there is a bill that is very possible in reconciliation that in all likelihood will and certainly could include way more funding for the kind of climate infrastructure and incentives for cleaner technologies than. What was in this bipartisan. bill. So i would. I would withhold some judgment until apple has passed. Second is that even this bill had some good stuff in it. There's five billion dollars for electric charging stations fifty billion dollars for climate resiliency funding around five hundred million dollars to the national and atmospheric administration to prove forecasts for flooding in wildfires. Three point five billion for fema In part to help better respond to floods so there's some good stuff but you point out some stuff in there that was questionable. I would say that some of this is really hard to figure out. But i would say that one of the biggest criticisms that i found from climate activists is that they. They're calling portion of this subsidies that are actually incentives to scale carbon capture technology in it's being categorized in part as subsidies because carbon capture is technology that in part fossil fuel companies will use to prevent carbon fermenting atmosphere. Right and so that money would in potentially go to it's to fossil fuel companies to implement that so called clean technology now. This is a murky super confusing area because there are competing claims being made. There's a claim that carbon capture is a completely ineffective technology. And we're we're just handing over money the fossil fuel company as a ruse to help them continue polluting. That as certainly claim that's being made but there are also really credible figures in the climate change activism and super-strong activists and entrepreneurs who are trying to build cleaner technologies who are saying that carbon capture is essential including the the ipc which is like the big international organization that is trying to motivate governments to take action on climate change. They say that carbon capture has to be part of the solution if we're going to avert disaster and carbon one eighty which is a company and organization. That's that's mission is to to help push for carbon removal from the atmosphere and carbon capture. Made a very forceful statement and support this bill. So i think it's complicated. And i don't think it's as evil as some people are saying it. Is it certainly could be better. But it's not. It's not something in the grand scheme of terrible things that happened in the climate world. Something i would lose a lot of sleepover what i would add. Is that when it comes to bipartisanship. Generally anytime you do. Any sort of bipartisan legislation. When you are in either in the majority or the minority you're gonna find some stuff really frustrating so then the question is. What's the overall value of being bipartisan. When you're in the majority and the answer to that is this is probably not the only thing you want to get done. And there's going to be stuff that you're absolutely not going to get done especially with the makeup of the senate without being bipartisan. And in that case. I don't even mean without republican votes. I mean without votes from two democratic senators who insist on bipartisanship. So you've gotta be able to say like look we did this. It was bipartisan. We need you to be there for us on this other thing and so it has has in indirect value in that way. And i guess if you wanna take solace in something takes us in the fact that there's a whole lot of stuff that ravi just mentioned that frankly republicans are probably like ten. You believe they want us to vote. Yes on this bill. That has this stuff in it and there's probably more there's definitely more of that for them than there is of the same feeling for our side and that's that's a win. My my sense is energy is probably best place ensuring that the reconciliation has the stuff you wanted versus trying to remove all the things you don't like from this bill just just based on like the raw politics of the situation when simply safe home. Security's founders chad and eleanor. Lawrence designed.
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"With tommy vitor pod state the world. He's msnbc contributor. He worked for president obama in the foreign policy and national security space. He's the author of the book after the fall being american in the world. We've made and he's very nice to join us on short notice so ben. Thanks for coming on of prominent all jason. Thanks to have the space for a conversation i think we should start with this basic disclaimer. That i'm sure we all agree with the withdrawal of forces from afghanistan right. Yeah yes yes. I think it's necessary to say that front because it seems that there is an effort honestly a lot of it from i think the by administration i understand why to sort of frame criticism of this moment as it's either you're gonna leave forces in or you're not and obviously the reason we're having this conversation as it goes a lot deeper than that. I'm curious to start been from your perspective working on this windy. You feel like you really came to the conclusion of this is not gonna work and we should not be there anymore like how long ago. Okay question. I thought a lot about the last couple of days in the moment when i had the realization. Not that we were going to get out right away so just to to caveat. I don't suggests it as soon as this occurred to me. I thought all forces should leave. But the moment i began to have some real trepidation about the more expensive mission in afghanistan was after the surge that obama ordered. Remember the operation marsha So this was supposed to be kind of almost a demonstration case of what could be done with a counterinsurgency strategy in afghanistan in crystal general mcchrystal. Was you know. Watch what we do here. When show the model for how we can go in and clear an area and begin to build some capacity among the afghans in transition things to them and basically what ended up happening is every stage that operation in which our servicemembers obviously performed capably heroically Was really hard you know it was. It was hard to dislodge the taliban it was hard to get any kind of sense of an afghan governing authority. There were serious challenges with the kind of model. How do you develop a different kind of economy from the kind of drug based economy that that the taliban preyed upon and i just remember thinking that this is a relatively small population center in southern afghanistan. If the idea which was what the military is kinda pitch was around the surge of of taking a counterinsurgency strategy like this around the entire country. I mean the scale of what was required to do that. Bruce's kind of what i saw in this kind of in miniature operation. Marsha just occurred to me. There's just no way that we could sustain that effort. Even if it could succeed it would require even far more resources than had been ordered in with the surge over a pretty open ended a period of time. That's when for me personally really hit home. That like look. We have a space in afghanistan to be able to conduct a terrorism mission and and very aggressively did in the first obama term to degrade al qaeda particularly pakistan so afghanistan is almost platform to get at the challenge book pakistan but this broader mission of pacifying the entire country defeating the taliban militarily and building up a governing authority. I think you know for me. It was actually ironically the height of the surge. When i realized that i just don't think that is a is either an achievable or sustainable mission. I think it's right around the same time for. Maybe because i think that was paired with that is the annual alluded to this is the recognition that the initial objective of denying the safe haven for terrorism had been achieved at that point. That's right around the point where we think we relocated and go okay. That's not really in doubt anymore. Proof of that was that they were having to move their operations to that sort of lawless section of pakistan. Because because they couldn't operate in a way where they could play international terrorist attacks. And in fact i mean pakistan had become an external sanctuary for launching attacks in afghanistan at that point so i agree and and then what anybody listening to this. This thinking is one. Then how the hell did we end up there for so much longer. And i don't fully have the answer to that. But it kind of taps into the part where i get a little angry not anybody in particular but it's angry because i realize that ultimately the answer to that i think is americans in the last week have rediscovered that we've been at war in afghanistan really long time and they're kind of mad to find that out and that just pisses me off jason. Yeah i guess. I can kind of walk. Here's sir how why. I think we're still there. And look i on the spectrum of obama advisers. I don't think it would surprise. People that will number when i wasn't like calling shots on the fan. But but insofar as over the period of the eight obama years. I was kind of becoming more senior. I was usually on the spectrum arguing for withdrawal. I think you essentially if you think about this. Were were peaking at about one hundred thousand troops through the surge which kind of culminates in the spring of two thousand eleven. And that's really the the effort you know obama's logic and because you identify the we're afghanistan. It's almost helpful. The thing of it is to wars right like there's the war to deny a safe haven a terrorist into gun. Give the united states at very large platform in south asia. To be able to go after al-qaeda a particularly in pakistan as well as in afghanistan and then there's this war to build up afghan security forces and afghan governor authority and to kind of degrade the taliban sufficiently that an afghan government can survive and so the surge is the height of both of those efforts. Because it's both the the highest pace of the effort to go. After the al qaeda safe haven which obviously reaches its crescendo with the operation to take out osama bin laden in the spring of two thousand eleven and the height of our efforts to kind of Support an enhanced governing authority and then obama begins a drawdown in june twenty eleven and the whole theory of the draw down. We're gonna train up. These afghan security forces and transition to them in two thousand fourteen was the moment in which the afghans we're going to move into the lead for most of the fighting in the country..
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"To acknowledge no truth to that. But you have to acknowledge that. There's some sort of grievance even if it is a grievance that is arrived at in ill-informed or or disinformed way there's a grievance and so as a result if if a community is struggling then there needs to be an explanation for why it is struggling and so if one side is telling them well it's because of brown people on the coast and the other side is not speaking to the fact that community struggling at all with. They're going to help right or wrong. If they don't know any better they might go to the side that at least gave them an explanation. Right and your point. I think is. Hey there's an actual reason that our community is struggling and it's because all of these white men in power have been on both sides. They offer a long time by the way have been giving more and more power to enormous corporations who are screwing our our part of the country and and that has the benefit of being true but also speaks to agreements Absolutely nowhere do. I see that more than like on social media. Where like on twitter. i meant obviously. Politics is not on twitter Even though we all have to tweet and whatnot. But i was getting re tweeted by ranchers and farmers for trump. Because they loved that antitrust message. And i have people across the aisle with that In that it was just kind of experiment that has really just kinda taken off. Jd before you move on. We've been saying in antitrust message. We've been saying talking about you. Know corporations coming in and and really hurting row communities but go ahead and get like in the weeds from it. There's a lot of people listening to this. Who don't have any idea what that means. So i want you to explain. How is it that a lack of any kind of antitrust enforcement is screwing over agricultural communities in this country trying to do the best truncated version possible. Because it's it's a weedy issue but basically every industry in agriculture. Everyone doesn't matter if you if it seeds fertilizer The input side the market side Hogs chickens everything is consolidated to a point that is beyond the level that it was a hundred years ago in one hundred years ago. We had five meatpacking plants in chicago that that They meet in the price fixed and they were broken up the big five or broken up. And then as a result the stock yards and packers act was passed in a literally one hundred years ago this week again. Those five huge packing plants controlled forty five percent market today. Four in in beef control eighty five percent of the market in covert is the perfect example of what happened. So these these four multinational corporations they have enough weight. That president trump's only executive orders first executive order when it came to cova did was to keep them open. And and so. It wasn't for masks or mass-produce anything or to shift. Anything i it was is to keep the packers open and so what we saw last year was consumers. Paid the most they ever had for me yet. Workers who are working for the same wages when my family moved to sioux city in nineteen eighty-four so workers are being suppressed working in dangerous Settings and then you have farmers who are beating squeezed by the price because the price that the farmer gets compared to the price that packers send out to grow stores in restaurants and what have you is so dramatically off so basically the the farmers the consumers and the workers are getting screwed. And so what we used to have is a network of a lot of regional packers in. Now it's so concentrated that year and a half ago. There was a fire down in Kansas in that disrupted the whole market. So we have only fifty meatpacking plants in the united states that produced like ninety percent of our food in. It's so concentrated that that we don't have much adaptability flexibility in. I feel that's a national security issue but it's also an economic issue in the sense that it's about rural revitalization. So when i talk about antitrust this is almost everything that you want a when it comes to. Let's let's go from environmentalism to climate change to worker's rights to redevelop the in the rural economy all the very first step is enforcing our antitrust laws. And i'll say that the bynum administration has been absolutely crushing it by putting on people like lena con. tim wu and their executive order for a more fair and competitive marketplace in the american economy. That that happened. Recently those are things that are absolute musts That i feel an end. I've had the same people who retreat me. Who are on other side are seeing this so this may not be for the general public but for the people that it affects this is a great thing and they are opening up to the by administration when it comes to this and it's not just a matter of like oh this is an issue where they agree with us. It's like this is the biggest issue in the having to do with their livelihood and they agree with us exactly in in. That's something that we can bring to these communities in and just talked to them in honestly i had. Nobody told me when i first started. A running. that antitrust is is something you should run on. What happened was my my grandma. Pass away thanksgiving of twenty sixteen and the last thing she told me was. You gotta take care of the farm in that. Just hit home and so when i started looking in farm issues in egg issues i was like holy cow. This is a just a huge concentration in way. More dramatic than what anyone's really talking about. We talk about tech talk about pharmacy all this stuff. It's we're living in the second gilded age with amount of concentration we have in so i just started going out to farm events in talking to different random people and again all over the political spectrum. Just listen to them. I was like oh the just kept on hearing you know. We just don't enforce antitrust laws like we used to and so i made a pillar of my campaign and it it stemmed from not polling. People is it stemmed from just going out and having conversations in understanding. What's on the ground with folks in the reality. Look it also goes right. At the heart of what the republicans have tried to make their strength in rural areas. Other than white grievance. Right which is they. Position themselves as pro-agriculture but what you in your campaign what your argument for the rural vote nationally is is to expose the fact that they are no different on agriculture than they are on oil than they are big business. Generally which is they side with giant conglomerate business and not with the people doing the work and that is certainly an opportunity for democrats to just stick with what they are always four and win voters yet. I agree and it's like jason. We're talking about a couple of months ago at relation to antitrust in the tech sector. And what we're talking about. Jd was we have to be careful when we're we're getting into Political coalitions with with republicans to enforce anti-trust against big attack. That we need to push them to apply that standard to other sectors which they have traditionally weakened antitrust for and that they've shown very little willingness to apply you know antitrust laws for example to agribusiness or to me meatpacking plants than they do facebook because they wanted to attack facebook and twitter. And all these other places because they viewed them as a threat to their political power but the meat packing plants are source of their political power absolutely absolutely and that's again call them on their game. They're going to talk about culture wars when we talk about. No this is a economic policies. Were on the right side of this for so many of these folks in in like never got pushback Again a talked farmers and people in the industry who will always vote for me in once who will never vote for me in everywhere in between in and they realize how concentrated things are and to me. This is this is. It's it's such a Umbrella issue that you can put so many things into it and we're at a very pivotal time for this as well..
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"Let's get to this week and misinformation and jd. Since we have you here we want to talk about the rural votes and how democrats can stop their backside worth world voters in this country and in twenty twenty took an rv to each of the three hundred seventy four towns in your district. Let's just start with what you learn on that trip. Well in in twenty eighteen. I did the same thing. But i went to. I went to all thirty nine counties at least three times and so our campaign was very unconventional in the sense that we didn't necessarily do campaign in a box where you just do call time. Call time call time. I did a lot of time while driving the rv and did the best we can with all that. But we really wanted to get out there and hear from people because in a district that has seventy thousand more registered republicans and democrats. You're not gonna win by just a tv ad No matter how good your tv ads are and so we had to get out there in in to me after these elections i feel like i had this wealth of knowledge and i saw where the democrat party is going in to see where. There's this huge gap in where people are and not. It's not necessarily politically just how we campaign in. So that's where this really kinda started at my partner in this Roy vote dot org. Is matt hildreth. Who runs through organizing organ. We talked so much after the election about like. This is what we should be doing. This is what we need to be doing. And so we thought if we combined our efforts We could really do something special. And so think of carroll county which is in the district here in in two thousand eight voted for obama in twenty twenty it voted for trump at seventy one percent and so what is a county let carroll county not a lot of people don't move in or move out of carroll county but why has that shifted so dramatically and there's a lot of reasons but the number one by far to me and what i saw on the ground in what i see out. There is the missing disinformation especially on facebook. Hardly anybody in two thousand eight was really in tune with facebook the way they are now this district. The fourth district is the number one district in america that republicans and democratic voters are on facebook. And and you look at the top ten things every day that is posted on facebook and there's twitter account documents this seven out of ten off ten out of ten. It's right wing thing it's Ben shapiro aban gino A and breitbart all that stuff in ultimately we have to find a way to get messengers out there in. It's it's not so much the message. It's the messengers and that's what we're really working on. Anything interesting about that is probably a fair amount of people listening to this right now. Who come from parts of the country. That are nowhere near where you are ira from and it might be shocking to them to learn that the vast majority of voters in your district are getting a lot of their information from facebook because honestly they might think that people don't have internet access right they did and so when you think about the small tactical plays the democrats tried to make to cater to row voters like like rural broadband. There's a lot of people who do need better broadband but there's a lot of people who are like i have good internet right right. Those people are voting and they're getting information over the internet. That is deceiving them. And i think your point is the way to break through that. Is you have to physically go to one of the things. I heard most often in rural areas. And i bet you've heard this too was. Wow it has been a long time since anyone came here it in. That's what i talked with aurora a lot about when he was running for president. And in just about you know having these conversations in in going into these places that traditionally don't vote democrat and just talking with folks in you never know I think jason when you came appear to sioux city in in Spoke used your Little anecdote about the first time you went door knocking in how important that was. And i use that the whole two campaigns. No i remember that. And i appreciate it. The basic premise of the whole thing is that most voters aren't actually like going down a spreadsheet of your beliefs and trying to figure out if there's lineup with yours what they're really doing sizing you up for whether you care about. People like them and showing up is a huge part of that like showing up in a community. That doesn't usually get particularly democratic candidates to show up communicates that like would you matter to me. I'm here did you. And this might be where you're going when you show up. What do we say you know. Because obviously what you're saying is going to be different than if i were running for congress in south of manhattan rate What are what are the messages that you find resonate with bro voters. I think the biggest thing is is listen in the more you listen to them the more they start believing in you. I i heard this great anecdote about bill clinton where he was. Somebody was talking to them like saying something that he didn't agree at all in just like really challenging him and then at the end he just goes you know what i think. We both agree and he moved on. And you never know like Certain people you're never going to get a hold of. But i think it boils down to this again going back to the poll that we did with yougov a couple of months ago. That really put a spotlight on this. And this is rural battleground voters across the nation. Eight different Battleground states in our pollster. John ray did a great job. He said this is probably one of the most substantial pulling he's ever done and we just took what we thought would be generic decent rural candidate and and just we put them up against someone who is from the coast. Very wealthy who wants to give tax breaks to the the super wealthy and that generic candidate wins by like thirty four thirty five percent. Then you put a d by that candidate. They lose by one percent. That's what we're up against. And we see. In missouri with worker's rights you see in nebraska and utah in idaho with a passing medicaid expansion. You saw a marijuana being passed in in south dakota in fifteen dollars minimum wage in florida. Our policies are extremely popular right now. So it's not so much that talking about oh this. This one thing is going to change your life in beef for you or anything like that. It's it's about the brand in the democratic brand and it's it goes hand in hand with the missing disinformation that's just being spewed constantly. And that's what we're up against. Let's go back through. The premise of what ravi was saying a second ago. Because i wanna play with it. So you know ravi saying obviously if i were to run for congress in the southern part of manhattan. I would sound different than i would. If i were in iowa's fourth district..
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"Right and and and wealthy. But they're now conflating it with any with not being american to the point where they're actually as we've seen portraying and attempted coup as an act of patriotism right like i mean that's the that is obviously the natural extension of all this and so it's a great article that i recommend about the anti american right and i think it does fit into this because it's this idea of like america is fine the way it is in no way needs to be improved and that can be about roads and bridges. That can be about civil rights. It doesn't matter if you seek to improve america in any way that is not take america backwards to another time. Then you are there for anti-american and in the article he goes into it goes to the extremes of like there are actual think tanks out there that are flatly saying that they don't believe really in democracy that they think we should have some sort of more of a monarchy approach and this stuff is real and it reminds me of a few months ago when diana came on the show and talked from her perspective as a as a refugee of religious persecution in the soviet union that we've always taken for granted the idea that while we disagree on things in this country the unifying sort of national religion if you will has been democracy but her point was that's not really true like you can't just take for granted the idea that everybody thinks democracy is good not every american wants democracy and it's really troubling and i just thought i was thinking about it a lot when i saw people actually excited when the. Us women's national team became attic content lost and became out of contention for the gold medal. I was form expire that yet. There's a there's a great book out there from a couple years ago from yasha monk where he talks about the democratic threat to liberalism and he uses liberalism as the lower case l. liberalism meaning like there can be majorities who come to power and they could use their majorities to chip away at things like freedom of speech and democracy and all that so basically consolidate authoritarianism through the democratic process and give examples of how that can happen now. We've reached the point where it's it's both antidemocratic anti liberal. They're not winning elections But they're still trying to chip away at the foundations of our country and our country's values whether they be free speech for the the right to vote etc and just pluralism period. I think. I often think to myself about these people waving the american flag. And sort of you know wrapping themselves in it. I would really want to go through with them. And be like really mean all fifty stars of that flag because it seems like you've written off bob so many states so many groups of people that are represented in that flag to and. I don't think that we have that conversation enough. The reason this upsets me. There's so many reasons. The the anti-american right thing upsets me but one of the things that really bothers me is. We often talk about ways to get across to other people on the show and oftentimes we will cite things like what other countries are doing right like just a minute ago. We were saying. Look what they're doing in china. We have to keep up with that. It has been until not long ago standard in america to say well. Russia is doing x. And we don't wanna be like russia right like we don't want to imprison journalists. We don't want to have our elections beef just for show and not allow certain people to vote. We don't want those things but then came trump who all of a sudden when he's asked about putin sixteen starting to say things like well you know he's a very strong leader you know and then same thing with north korea and that kind of thing and and all of that is how we've gotten to a point where we no longer can say. Hey as a country. Don't we want to out compete the rest of the world. And don't we alternatively not want to be like some of the worst actors on the on the world stage and increasingly. What's frightening is the answer to both of those questions. It keeps coming back. Not really right like that's fine. China's better like nah basically. I think you get back. Is china's not going to be better than us because we're white right. I mean that's what people think and then on the rush apart they're like well. I mean you know. Russia seems to take care of business. I mean i think that's frightening. And i think that the author of this article is right to name this what it is. Which is the anti-american right. Jason i've been travelling to italy in my head for the greater part of the past two years and i just haven't been imagining it. I've been using our sponsor babble to catch up on my italian as i've talked about before on this podcast. I had great italian teachers in middle school and high school. But i wasn't the most Dedicated learner back then But i'm making up for lost time and although nothing could recreate the magic that was mistaken class or peons class babba comes really darn close from ordering and restaurants are asking directions to gaining a deeper understanding of culture. You don't babble just makes a whole learning process addictive fun and easy and they've bite-size lessons that you can actually use in the real world. It's a campus travel central. Jason babbel's fifteen minute lessons. Make it the perfect way to learn a new language on the go. Babylon.
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"Thing is leave us voicemails about that challenge us really give us some hard stuff and soon we'll hopefully do like a mailbag episode or something so with that said robbing. What's going on this week with jason infrastructure week At majority fifty four and around the country really because sunday. Bipartisan group of senators unveiled a one trillion dollar infrastructure bill over twenty seven hundred pages and includes hundred billion dollars for roads and bridges sixty five billion for broadband fifty five billion for drinking water. Sixty six billion for amtrak twenty-five for airports and fifteen billion for our ports so this is a huge deal. Jason i know is infrastructure week every week during the trump administration and It became a running joke but it looks like biden is on the cost of app actually delivering this bill. What does this mean. I guess it means things are still happening the way they're supposed to happen mean particularly that. There's a bipartisan nature to it. i think it's interesting. How it goes back to the whole is biden boring thing and i guess if if you're using the standard of he doesn't say and do things that are lead the news every night in terms of what comes out of his mouth. I guess that's boring but having safe drinking water and having jobs in the community like money injected directly into the community that. That's pretty exciting. So i think it's an enormous deal if it gets done particularly because it is so uncommon. Now for anything to be bipartisan. I think it's something that we should probably be talking about with our friends and family a lot right and susan collins. You republican senator from maine called this the most significant investment in our infrastructure since the construction of the interstate highway system. And i think it couldn't come soon enough. I i've seen some memes on the right and some commentary and places like the national review that claim they're starting to claim that are for sure is not crumbling but i think anybody who's traveled across this country. Knows that it's preposterous. That we have a. We are the richest country in the world. Probably the history of the world and we still have plenty of places in this country. Like my former town jackson mississippi where kids can't shrink the drinking water tons of places around this country that don't have broadband access. Airports that are national embarrassment Train lines that are unsafe bridges. That are unsafe. I mean this. This should have happened a long time ago. And it really will be a testament biden if he can get cross finish line for secondly there are places in the country where you can't drink the water. That's what you know you say about like when people travel to mexico i mean but that's true of like places in this country so obviously that's a huge part of it i for me. I've learned a lot about infrastructure being something that we don't always see or think about but also being really expensive and prohibitive to do. I've worn out about it in my day job over the last couple of years because you know a lot of people. No i am president vendors community project we build campuses tiny houses like villages of tiny houses with wraparound case management services plus walking centers and outreach centers for all veterans all for homeless veterans and for veterans writ large and. We build them around the country. And i'm not a builder right. That's not who i am. I'm a. I'm a bullshitter i mean there's you know like i'm a former former addition and so what i've had to learn a lot about over the last couple years how to build things and one of the things just sort of as an analogy in my life. That is interesting about. This work is raising money to go. Vertical to build tiny houses that people can see and put their name on plaques and stuff that is so much easier by comparison to building the infrastructure which in our case mostly underground. Or you know it's it's it's concrete slabs for houses or it's it's sewer pipes. He can't put people's names on those things and you know by analogy. This is the stuff that's really hard to do and is extremely expensive so whether it's building roads and bridges or repairing things underground. They have enormous effects on what happens above ground. What happens on the other end or on either side of bridge. But it's not like anybody's gonna make any money in private industry going to do it right. You've gotta have. This is definitely something where government has to step up and it's a huge deal for us to be able to get it done. Yeah and you know penn morton the esteemed institution that educated. Our former president. Put out a study about this bill and it said that this bill is going to increase. Gdp over the long run. Increased governor government revenue increase economic efficiency and productivity of but. That's not stopping members of the right. Who are not part of this. Bipartisan coalition to criticize this. And i think what we're seeing People should be prepared for this. Is the phenomenon this country of the seasonal deficit hawk in the republican party where when they're republicans in power They don't care about the deficit and they actually run it up. Worse than democrats do by and large but when democrats are power all of a sudden they care about the about the deficit in the long run. But one one that i would keep putting out to people on this is that you know. The republicans loved to talk about china. I think in many ways we should be concerned about china both competitively and from human rights perspective. They spend nearly four times as much as the us on infrastructure as a percentage of their economy. And so they're just way ahead of us on long-term investment in just their physical infrastructure and their country and. I think we should remind people of that that this can be patriotic argument to have you been to china. I've not when you say that. They spent so much more infrastructure. It makes perfect sense to me and people. Yeah people listening to this. You've never been to china probably like like.
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"Right. Well jason four this week and misinformation wanna keep it light. Let's let's poke some fun at some ohio politicians and i and i love the great state of ohio. I was conceived in that state. Which is something. My mom hates it. When i say the ohio is instructive. It's instructor for a few reasons number one. It's a state that democrats used to win and we've been finding it harder to win over the past few cycles And it's also a state where there was this particular kind of republican like the mike dewine type pro business. Yada yada yada journalism. Yeah casick kinda moderate right and now We have a new kind of politician. We have politicians like jd. Vanson josh mandel. Who are they themselves. Were the old brand. Before which i'm sure you have some thoughts about like people who were position themselves as moderates. Jd events had previously site in two thousand sixteen that he couldn't stomach trump in an interview to terry gross and now tacking extremely hard right And sucking up to trump. I know that you have some evidence of josh mandel. The state treasurer doing the same. The same is true. Also the state. Gop chair jane timken who you know like a good a good case study of this is is this guy Representative anthony gonzalez. Who was an ohio state university receiver. He was an nfl first round draft pick but he you know committed the senate voting to impeach trump and in even in the weeks ahead after that vote to impeach trump. Jane timken that's state. Gop chair called him an effective legislator and a very good person racy praising him when she thought the Does this even just a few months ago. When she thought that the politics were good for that but then once she decided to jump into the race for senate. She's been denouncing him. And so i think this means something really. This is something is meaningful as a sort of bellwether for the. Gop's heading jason as somebody who ran in missouri. Which is a state that i think has become harder for democrats to win. What do you make of this and condemn crafts capitalize on this extreme turn to potentially win the state of the first thing that i think is really confusing about it. Is it's not as if that brand of republicans still doesn't still exist in the electorate there right so so my point is i think it's fascinating that you have this group of voters in this primary who you know i i would imagine are probably the majority of voters But they're not the entirety of those voters and that nobody in that race has the stones to be like. You know what. There's gonna be a lot of people in this race and i'm not gonna go compete for the voters everyone else's competing for i'm going to go compete for the voters who i think will be enough for me to actually win a primary that split several different directions and by the way that then puts me in a better position to win the general election. I think for instance about our friend. Spencer cox who we interviewed on the show who won a primary in utah running a guy who admitted like i didn't vote for trump and i'm not a fan of trump and he won the republican primary because he looked at it and he said One guy who's not gonna actually just say whatever he has to say to win. He actually believes in some things but he also recognized that there was a lane for that that it wasn't going to be the majority of those voters but it was going to be enough to win and i'm fascinated that nobody is doing that in this primary. Considering the fact that that's who most of these people actually seem to be like it's incredible to the extent that they maybe that's who they are or maybe that's what they thought. Everybody was looking for at one point in time. No you don't know right like that's one of the things i said this week. Is that actually. Jd vance is entirely consistent. He pandered to the you know like crowd who stood up to trump when he thought that was cool and now he literally apologizes for doing that when he thinks that's cool so he's very consistent in that he believes in nothing other than advancing. Jd vance so i guess in that way he's iraq But i my my point is that that i think is odd But then beyond that. Yeah i think it absolutely creates a Opportunity for democrats but not just because they're gonna the republicans are going to go in a direction. That's just all trump all the time and it's not just that it's that combined with the fact that democrats actually have a lot to brag about if we'll start bragging about it like there's always this thing in the party of people in states like mine who are democrats who get upset about you know some of the issues that are pushed by by afc and focus on the coast. And i always say to those folks. It's like look you. You should waste no time worrying about what other members of the party who are incentivized to talk about the issues. That are issues where they're from like trying to get them to talk only about things that are going to play better here. Don't do that instead. Make the mainstream conversation of the party doesn't have to be more moderate but just make it the stuff that wins here make it about dacoven. Relief packages make it about infrastructure. Make it about the stimulus. Make it about the child tax credit. Make it about the issues that really move voters in our state to the point. Where then they you know other people in the party can talk about those issues but they're ultimately come home to talk about the things we all agree on and the example of this is last year while there were all sorts of different issues out there that you could be picked up on by by the the further left folks. At the end of the day everybody came back to the same basic argument. Which was we got to elect joe biden and if we can consistently have a mainstream core message like that we can win but if you can do that in ohio combined with the primary forcing all of them to go hard hard right trump then you should win and you should win by fair march right when i think of these guys and gals i think about my experience often. I coach candidates. Right when i when i've been running arena and in a common experience i had before covert is somebody come into my office. And they'll say. I want to run for office but i'm worried about x. y. and z. And i'll say well look like the only way to run is to run in a way where you could look back and say you proud of dick. Statistically you're not likely to win you should. you should absolutely believe you're gonna win and you should like stridently. Move forward with confidence but you need to prepare for the possibility that you don't for one reason or another and you want to look back and say i'm proud of what i did. And i think about this field fielded candidates and only one of them is gonna make out of the primary and potentially none of them wins the whole election right which means that most of them are gonna go home with consolation. Prize in that constellation prize is going to be massive. Shame about the fact that they've thrown out at least in the case of events. And i guess mandel before but i think this is his third time running for senate or something like third year. So he's been through this exercise. I think before they're now going to like the the majority of these people in this race all but one or maybe even none are going to go home with a completely fraudulent record..
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"Yes last. One is great. Cameron breen. I think is that right. Great i'm looking at grace right now. I feel like something. I'm getting settled on a reasonable question. Here you go. i mean it is. it is this is like a long running joke that a friend. I did teach for america. With and i have He lives in williamsburg. And we're always watching all these movies and tv shows and seeing these extravagant places So what he wanted to know was as a former educator and every man such as yourself robbie how how do you live in such a friends esque apartments. And how can you go on all these amazing surf adventures mostly because he wants to know how to do himself but we ended with much love from former educators. And we really appreciate what you do. Honestly we have weekly phone calls. Recapping y'all's podcast. It's fun new york connection for us. It's funny. I've always thought about like of a fire ever to write a book it would be about. There's this book that does this book called. what what i was doing while you were breeding. Has anybody read this book. Yeah so it's about somebody who's a woman who worked i think for tech company or something and kind of made the choices i made. Which is jason. I though very good friends part of the dish stickers that were basically the same age but live very different. Lives right until like sing on travelling at it. But that's that's the thing is like i do okay. I don't do crazy well financially. I'm like i do it. And i don't spend a lot of money because i don't have kids and i don't have stuff so i like prioritize going to the right places. My apartment is being new york long enough to know where the good places are and then striking during a pandemic when you have to go shooting but come to new york. Have you on the roof. It's i love the place and thank you for the question flattered thank you that was awesome before we go to grab and i just want to because it is the anniversary of us doing this rebooting show and bringing it back and with ravi here you know i. If it weren't for. I would not have brought this back so it means a lot to me. I in the months before that. I was kinda wanna do this again. But i'll be honest. I'm not hungry enough to go do it by myself again. And diana did all the work. The first time around like edited the episodes and found the and like we were both like time for that. And then and i were having these conversations on the phone all the time and i was like hey man like if you do a lot of the work like almost all all i was like you know if this was an already. Ravi writes the outlines right and then i just come in and say hey i got. Here's an.
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"Rural missouri. So i would say he knows yes. Okay so i'm take a step back and do the broader part of the question like basically the military community Convincing folks so. I apologize this rift. Some of you have heard before but you gotta start with the fact that it's not that folks are in the military that they are there for conservative right the military if you showed me any workplace where four out of five people there are are men not women and there are disproportionately drawn from the south and the midwest. I would say the majority of people network boys are republicans that's how they were raised and the and so. That's that tends to be. Why right now. Your dad living in rural missouri is sort of evidence to my point right so good news because i get this question a lot. Good news it's not a secret strategy or some silver bullet about convincing the military. It is much simpler than that really. It's about that demographic of people who fit into that and if you look at this last election where at least i don't remember. I didn't look at the exit on this. Or i wasn't interested enough. I guess to look at the exercise because we won but the pulse beforehand showed for the first time in a long time the majority of active duty military. We're actually voting for the democratic candidate. Which is a big big deal. Not because they're military but because that means a demographic that it overwhelmingly comes from those routes that i mentioned decided to turn against those ancestral roots. My point is they are persuadable. And when i talked to folks about it if you want to go with that route what i always say to people. It's like look when we were in the military. We were in a socialist world like we lived in a with three squares a day. Housing paid for and then they say and they're not wrong and they say it with a fair amount of indignant. I was serving my country. And i'm like yeah you were but do you think some of it worked. You know i'm not saying you gotta make an argument for socialism but like some of that was pretty organized right. I worked pretty well. So i start with that and then i just go into a much more emotional argument which is like. Hey look you joined the military because you believe in taking care of other americans and trying to protect them and even if you aren't gonna convince them with this you can at least relate to them by saying like. I just want you to know like i really appreciate that. And that's my politics are about that like i just care about people. Even if i've never met him. Which i think is what you were trying to do in the military so maybe with your dad maybe say like. Hey dad like i know. You don't want anybody to touch your money. And i understand and we have a different idea about taxes and that kind of stuff but you see no dad like mine comes from the fact that there are people that don't even know who i think you know. Maybe they could use a little extra a little hand up and so just like you were doing to try to protect them in the military. Something like that. Yeah to that. I think the frame of service in general like there's so many voters out there that are just begging for purpose like politics is exhausting. it's soul-sapping and to engage in politics. In america today is to inherently. Close yourself off in some ways from other people that is the default and i think in a situation like that i try to think about like. Can we get to a rhetoric. That is the ask not what your country can do for you. Rhetoric that that resonates with with military folks it resonates with people in the medical profession teachers etc. It's harder to get through to people on this before by almost every metric. We're more individualistic. Less communal less trusting. And mrs touche's than we've ever been before but we need to be the party that that asks people to recommit i think those communities and those bonds and i think the delicate dance here and i'm guilty of not getting this right. All the time. Is that in order to do that. We have to be tolerant of the journey as we've talked about it and i think party struggles with this right now. The republican party has given up on it to be clear but like our party. I often hear people using language about people's immutable characteristics and where they are enclosing them off from the conversation or limiting the way that they can participate. Because your ex. you're rural you're y you're black. Whatever like i mean so many rooms where people are described before you even get to know them. And they're put into a certain box about how they're going to participate and people pick up on that. And so like for instance. If you're not for universal healthcare heck if you don't love medicare but you tear about our democracy and you're just angry about the republican version of the democracy and you're like i'm going to prioritize that before anything else and i look forward to the day when when i oppose you again when it's pocketbook issues. But i'm just so scared for our democracy that i'm going to like lock arms with you and support your candidates. I want that person to feel welcome like in our party even if we disagree on ninety percent if it's ten percent and they're willing to come in our direction the least we can be civil with them because they're giving up ninety percent of their agenda. It's not like we're going to bend our agenda to them. It's just about being civil and giving them a seat at the table to be a part of what we are but our democracy needs that because we can't afford to exclude people right now that way. We need every single person. We literally needed every person in this last election when that election this last one.
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"This is ravi wheelhouse. So step back from the ninth and tenth grade so fourteen old we guys can follow up question just to narrow narrow it down. What is your goal to persuade her. As your goal just to sort of like stop the crate like just kind of have them actually learn what's really happening so it's more so the latter two but also like i think a lot of like the ethical bounds. I have as a teacher not wanting to like overstep by any means and making it where my views are being pushed onto my students by any means perfectly themed question to go with our misinformation. Thanks ravi yeah. I think you're you're already in some ways given a gift in that as a teacher. You know you no matter what. Your views are generally aren't allowed to to to push your students to have any certain kind of politics and in some ways that's helpful and helpful that you teach social studies because all the critical race theory debate aside which we're going to talk about next week there are so many tools at your disposal in our history and there's this book i keep mentioning called these troops from jill lepore but there's so many books like this where you have good foundational texts now that have been coming out over the past ten years some of which are not controversial at the moment that you can use to teach people for example. Jason and i were talking about that. There's evidence that george washington for example. What what do you think you know about. George washington teeth that their wooden things right but the poorer argues. And there's some dispute about this that they were pulled from the mouths of slaves right. So that's a lesson right there is to say you don't have to go all the way and say in that lesson and therefore america is blank. The students can put to into together right. You can say all right. Let's picture this. Let's visualize it. Let's think about what that means and you don't have to add it up for people you can pick those examples to say. We love our country but there are things about this country that that happened a long time ago that are super relevant to the problems that we have today and you can kind of. Let them thread the needle with some really well out. Examples and lessons awesome. Yeah i'm.
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"Want her to be win not to be president. This is only winning. This is about winning elections and so in that spirit. My second is going to be frank underwood. Whose similar character. I'm just saying winning. That's all i'm saying. I'm just talking about winning. I really thought i was going to get stuck in the last names that thank you. Here's the thing. He was basically winning every season. Against all odds. and then. If it wasn't for kevin spacey being creep. He would have continued to win but they had the right. They had to write him out of the story so it took like something outside of the character in order to stop him. So i'm feeling good about our chances if we've got frank underwood on that ticket. Very compelling any. You could just argue. He was technically a democrat. He's successful democrat in both fictional and nonfiction rapid rise. Yeah captain jack sparrow. Because at this point it would just be a really fun campaign to work if you were working on frank underwood like everyday. It'd be like oh my god. We're going to be like if captain jack sparrow. Is your candidate. You'd be like who who knows you know like it's going to be great. Voters want to see you having fun. Yeah i think it would be a great campaign. There's no names left on the list. Grayson name left on the loaders. We're who who nope know she goes you name well. Okay leslie biz last. May i just say she retired. I have qualms she's not last she's my pick.
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"Full list until now on extended list. They're fine and make it a little hard. Okay all right. So we're going to get started really quickly. I may. I may also dole out points as i see fit i retain the okay. We drew straws earlier and ravi. You have the first choice will. This is really exciting. Because i know jason would pick this first. Kansas city native jason. Today this so i'm going to go with ted lasso and one of the many gifts that majority fifty four is giving you is that it came on before the show came out. And you heard. I just how awesome that show is going to be but i. I have a whiteboard that i put like mantras and one of them is be ted lasso. And he's just such an inspiring optimistic positive person which i think still can work in politics. But he's just unyielding and stubborn in in a way that i think could lead to victory. It's hard to argue against head lasso. Because i feel like we kind of elected ted last so to be president. Yes ted lasso of the field. I mean he's like you're variance biden would take a european soccer team. The distance trying to help ravi win this game. Come look i will argue against other picks. I'm not to this is ridiculous. I have some credibility here. I can't argue last diana europe. Second i'm gonna take kermit. The frog from the muppets. He is lovable. I feel like it's like picking the rock who i think it would be. A formidable presidential candidate like. He has a lot of appeal very sentimental value. Also very inspirational. And you know when in trouble he could go into song a.
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"Somebody who the theory is that as goes mansion. Show eventually and look. I'm still with that theory. Because she somebody who like in a previous life very aggressively protested the iraq war and was somebody who was considered very to the left. Not in any way that. I disagree with so i think that that is right and as far as what she said the idea that oh we can do this now but then what if they just get elected and then they undo it like please if they're not in charge of the ability to get rid of the filibuster and i mean they're going to do that like in a second first of all and then second of all if we don't actually defend democracy from all the horrible things they're doing to try and counteract what the voters actually want then that makes it only more likely that they'll be in a position of power to do that so it makes no sense to me at all totally. I'm wondering what evidence she has that run. The republicans take power. They're not gonna just do what she saying anyway. Like can we be the first people to it at once. The first people to benefit from this and it also affects the election right like when you're restricting the vote to the extent that they are and there's so much attention paid to voter idealize redistricting and all that and for those of you who listeners. The thing that worries me. The most is the subversion of democracy. It's the results. Come in and you have these sycophants in these electoral offices who no matter. It could be a thirty point margin. They're not going to accept the results and so like we don't fix that. That's the game right there. That's the rules. And mcconnell has said you know if you write the rules you win the game. He has said this this is. They're saying outright demonstrated it and he's winning. So i guess the place to leave. This is well. We're up here like complaining about it and venting maybe channeling you. I don't know i just okay. Yes thank you what i would say is. Don't lose sight of the fact that like it's far from over there is there is a battle to be had and that you know that all of us have a role to play in it and nothing. Nothing's over yeah and quickening on that is. Here's where it stands right now. Is that this. Vote to proceed based on what we could figure out. What the senate. It's not completely dead now. Schumer has Merkley has said that they've now given this bill back to mention. Say now you find ten people on the republican side degree to any change jar voting laws to improve them. And so we'll see what happens. There is. there's a huge group of activists. I think it's up to eighty plus groups now who are investing a ton of money and resources and holding a ton of events around the country to continue to press for change. And that's all we can do is either we get something meaningful done or we keep this front of center over the next two years. So it becomes something that motivates people to overcome these hurdles. So that we can gain margins and actually do something about this and with their ravi through this week and misinformation all right. This is a fun one. So governor disentis of florida signed a well. I might as well just giving them in kansas city. Maybe i'll try something tom brady..