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you're listening to the david feldman
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radio program you said pathetic humph
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joining us is the author of
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pound-foolish
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and the co-author of the index card she
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writes for The Washington Post
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Helaine olen welcome back oh thank you
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for having me on again oh god you know
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the stuff you wrote in the past two
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weeks has been phenomenal and I want to
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talk about John Bogle who passed away
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last week he i'ma Bogle head Bogle had
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he invented the Vanguard index fund
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which simplified investing for the the
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common man and exposed as you wrote that
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financial planners are really just
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glorified stockbrokers and you have a
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great piece about Davos or Davos and how
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they're talking about Alexandria Ocasio
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Cortez but first you wrote about the
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teachers strike in LA and I want to read
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something you wrote and this just sums
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up everything I believe are you really a
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progressive right Salette no and if you
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vote for Democratic candidates but don't
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effectively address the United States
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growing economic divides and how they
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impact children god that makes my head
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explode I'm not saying that LGBTQ issues
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and abortion and black lives matter all
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that stuff is important but if you don't
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talk about the growing economic divides
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and have a impact children get the F out
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of the Democratic Party I come to feel
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that it's not an either/or both are very
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important you know there's no eat it for
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a woman there's no economic freedom for
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instance without you know the right to
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control your own body right this kind of
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basic you know if you're
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african-american if you know you're
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risking death by walking in a white
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neighborhood yeah you know this is going
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to interfere with your ability to make a
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living and it's also just sort of
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heinous and we can go on and talk about
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that right but at the same time we have
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to admit that we have extraordinary
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economic divides in this country our
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wealth and income inequality is it
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record-breaking levels
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it's almost certainly exceeded 1929 it's
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not going to end well for anybody
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I think the trends continue and it's not
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enough to be a progressive and say well
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I believe in a woman's right to choose
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but I'm also kind of economically
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conservative that doesn't that just
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doesn't hold water anymore maybe it
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never held water but it certainly
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doesn't hold water now now you just sort
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of come off as kind of a well-meaning
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hypocrite frankly and I think this was -
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the thing that the Los Angeles teachers
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strike really highlighted and I think it
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really highlighted it for a couple of
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different reasons but the first maybe
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most important is that last year as we
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know there were several wildcat teacher
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strikes and they were in red state
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territory for the most part in places
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like West Virginia and the teachers are
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being horrendously underpaid and in
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Oklahoma where you know the schools have
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been so shortchanged that there are
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districts that are at four days a week
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of classes and everybody of course was
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rah-rah the teachers right and and
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indeed they managed to get you know
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depending on what state it was they got
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raises they got some better working
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conditions and so on down the line but
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in fact these things are also going on
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in a lot of blue states they go on in
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New York and they go on in Chicago and
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they go on in Los Angeles where teachers
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were reporting forty-nine students in a
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classroom and Los Angeles as we know is
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you know a city with severe income
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divides a lot of the wealthiest people
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are not using the public schools you
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know this was becoming you know it was
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kind of calling people out on it and say
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you know what side are you on and to the
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credit of Los Angelenos most of them
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were on the side of the teachers and
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this strike really you know held in part
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because there was one such strong
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support for the fact of everybody saying
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yeah wait a minute this isn't right this
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isn't a good situation it's not right
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that teachers you know are being forced
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to work under these conditions and it's
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not right the children are being forced
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to learn in these conditions of you know
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of these large class sizes of schools
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without nurses without social workers
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Los Angeles school children the vast
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majority are you know under art the
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poverty live at the poverty line or
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under and are eligible for free lunches
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you wrote in The Washington Post 80% of
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all students attending public schools in
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Los Angeles qualify for free lunch
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yeah that's extraordinary I mean that's
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an extraordinarily high number and again
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some of it is driven by the fact that
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wealthier Los Angelenos generally don't
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use the public schools but what are the
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reasons they don't use public schools
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it's because you're dealing with
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situations like forty plus children at a
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class it's hard to blame a parent who
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could afford to get out of that
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something
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that's not for my kid and leaving well
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we're also dealing with Holly with
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liberals who are you know cool on the
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social issues but fiscally conservative
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well people want to keep their buddy
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right I want to pay their taxes prop 13
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prop 13 you know a lot of said
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California is the home of the original
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tax revolt one of the things that's
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probably going to happen as I'm sure I
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don't need to tell you or any listener
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is that part of prop 13 it's probably
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coming up on the 2020 ballot for at
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least the commercial part of your mind
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our listeners who have was it Howard
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Jarvis and web prophecy jarvez 1978
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California's or you know freezes the tax
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tax property tax rate - I think I'm
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income speaking from New York so it's a
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1% or two it's a 1% raise a year right
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and of course over time advantages
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people who've been in their residences
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for a long time
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there's no reassessments and wealthier
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people are frequently making out I mean
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last year I mean there was a story in
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the LA Times and hopefully I'm going to
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remember this right various Hollywood
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actors who had inherited family homes in
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Malibu who were basically paying their
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taxes with a couple of days renting the
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homes out on Airbnb that's the other
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thing about prop 13 for the non
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California listeners of the show you can
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inherit it it's really extraordinary and
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over time so what prop 13
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houses in 78 California is one of the
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top states of the country for spending
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on education now it's in the bottom tier
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the bottom had bottom 10% of states at
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one point it was so bad it was like in
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the bottom five but that's actually
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they've moved up a bit in the rankings
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since that and I mean this is you know
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the politics of inequality we're at
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large and it's the politics frankly to
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some extent of racism
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I mean people realize that a lot of the
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children in the public schools are not
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white and a certain percentage of people
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don't want to pay for that yeah and
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that's kind of a horrible thing to admit
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it's well known about anybody who
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studies prop 13 the prop 13 passed
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within a year of the big busing battles
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in Los Angeles and that it right well
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not have passed if it wasn't for those
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battles and that's you know what are the
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huge parts of prop 13 so I guess a is
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there any defense of Howard Jarvis in
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prop 13 because in 1978 weren't interest
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rates kind of high and senior citizens
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were complaining about inflation and
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then they were being killed by the
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property taxes or is that just a mess
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you know it's not totally a mess one of
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the issues was was that you know real
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estate prices were climbing rapidly and
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people were you know suddenly being
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claiming they were being forced out
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right so and this is the problem in a
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lot of parts of the country right I live
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in New York where there was finally a
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property tax cap put on after property
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taxes and a lot of the suburbs basically
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doubled in a ten to fifteen year period
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and but there are other ways you could
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address this you don't have to simply
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address it by simply tapping property
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taxes which ultimately just rewards
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people who bought who tend to be you
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know older whiter wealthier and so on
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there are ways you can get them you know
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you could give people a break and get
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them we get the money when you sell the
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house you can give them a break by
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getting the money from their estate when
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they you know when they pass on you can
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do income adjustments you know would
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basically say hey you know if you have
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under X amount of income we're going to
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accept
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to from this property tax raise there's
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actually all sorts of stuff you can do
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besides simply freezing property taxes I
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see well you brought up the wildcat
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strikes that preceded the teachers
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strike in Los Angeles two quick
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questions in them we'll move on what is
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a wildcat strike by definition what is
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wildcat strike mean and the LA teachers
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have a tentative agreement yes see what
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happens when you stick together wildcat
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strike means done without the approval
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of the union and the reason many of
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these were wildcat strikes was because
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these were in states where union
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teachers were basically banned from
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striking and that the unions could have
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been fined had they encourage their
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members to go on strike so and that's
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not the case in California so teachers
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could go on strike legally and they
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could do it at the back and get their
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union and in these other places that was
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a much harder lift wildcat strikes also
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sometimes happened for the record
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because I know about 20 listeners are
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probably jumping down my throat right
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now you know people sometimes disagree
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with their unions to go out on strike as
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well so it can happen in states you know
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it could happen other where there is no
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balance and how good the good a deal did
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the teachers get in Los Angeles salary
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wise they got the 6% raise that was on
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the table from the get-go even before
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the strike but the deal they got really
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was for the students and for working
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conditions and there will be Univ nurses
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now at every school there is a guarantee
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at least for some period of time of
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smaller class sizes it's not ideal
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because it's not a perm that's not
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permanent and I think I've got this
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right but it's certainly a start and you
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know it's certainly better than what was
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on offer you know the the still
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lingering concern is the charter school
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issue which I don't which is you know
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with another sort of sub tier part of
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this that is going to obviously be an
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ongoing issue well you write about Davos
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what is Davos from what I've read of
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your piece it's self-serving incestuous
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move
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and oligarchs from all around the world
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gathering to protect their money
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what is Davos and their obsessing with
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Alexandria Ocasio car Tessa's call to
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tax the rich at seventy percent after
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ten million dollars and one of the
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things you wrote over the Washington
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Post is those guys that Davos are so
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busy congratulating themselves but
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they're not really that bright we you
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know we'd like to think they're bright
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because they're wealthy and they like to
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think they're bright but you know as
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Wilbur Ross has proven they're really
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idiots aren't they oh my god well come
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back to / awesome yeah okay this annual
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gathering of you know of what used to be
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called but first seriously and then
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sarcastically the best and the brightest
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you know are wealthy overlords basically
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the cost of admission is basically tens
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of thousands of dollars that's what they
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charge corporations for coming or
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members of their organization who you
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know are allowed to come and it's a GAD
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and of course Davos itself is you know
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this very wealthy you know ski resort
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town right sort of an equivalent of
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Aspen or some sort and so they all
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gather every January in this wonderful
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ski town living it's wonderful I've
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never been there looks wonderful
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Switzerland where yes what's your letter
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I should say where you know the
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hamburgers are fifty six dollars and the
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hot dogs are forty dollars this is all
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true and they do panels on serious
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things like where is the economic onna
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me going in the next year and how did we
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get Donald Trump and you know what kind
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of business could we do with unit with
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the populist head of Brazil and you know
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and so on down the line right and this
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is supposed to be you know these are
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supposed to be our sort of Masters of
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the Universe
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telling us what to do and it sort of
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steak pizza to this hole in their minds
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anyway it fits into this whole kind of
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idea that you know that's been so
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prevalent in our culture for the past
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forty plus years that people who have
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money have it for a reason and they're
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somehow worthier and smarter and
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just get things better than you and me
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ring and and the said word comes down on
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high and in fact of course you know as
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we all know these people who have been
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sitting there ruminating in Davos you
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know somehow missed the rise of Donald
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Trump they somehow missed breaks it they
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somehow missed you know the fact that
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when you you know allow income and
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wealth inequality to go to the levels
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were at now people tend to get really
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angry and often because most people
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aren't totally steeped in this don't
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even know what the heck they're angry
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about they just see them lives kind of
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deteriorating right and the people at
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Davos or if the sort who say things like
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well but how could they be complaining
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everybody has a television set now at
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air conditioning right this is so much
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better to be poor now I mean a poor
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person is like a rich person 100 years
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ago yeah what could be the problem and
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so they do this every year and so what
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happened this year this is they're all
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up there they're still up there and
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they're very worried about you know
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possibility of a recession in the United
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States and they're worried about what's
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going on with us in China and they're
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kind of worried about the federal
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government shutdown because you know
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that's Trump hasn't shown up Theresa May
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hasn't shown up macron from France is
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not showing up because of the
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yellowjacket thing but at the same time
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you know somehow when they start talking
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about how to solve this it's not about
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Sam so what are the topic of
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conversation that came up is the
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increase in calls in the United States
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to raise income taxes on the wealthiest
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of Americans right and for the most part
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this has been Alexandria Ocasio
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courthouses announcement that she would
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like to you know raise the tax rate on
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people earning more than 10 million
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dollars to annually to 70 percent and
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although I think probably now there's
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also probably talk of Elizabeth Warren's
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wealth tax a wealth proposal taxing
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proposal as well and so anyway you know
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they you know it's been brought up there
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they roared with laughter what it's been
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brought up they've declared it an odd
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starter one guy I think at Guggenheim
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Partners which is an investment advisory
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firm actually said oh my god this is
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going to force people out of the work
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force because you can't
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a two-income family when they're paying
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taxes at 70% and when they earn over ten
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million dollars explain how stupid that
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is
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Alexandra Castillo Cortez is calling for
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seventy percent tax on income over ten
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million dollars right extraordinary
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lengths that you know people will take
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to protect their privilege which is what
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Davos really is about in the end it's
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protecting your privilege
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and in this case protecting your
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privilege means you don't have to admit
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that you're part of the problem and that
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you know in the words of the 1960s
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you're not going to be part of the
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solution right you are the solution a
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lot of people say taxing the wealthiest
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1% is not going to pay for Medicare for
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all it's not going to pay for anything
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but the argument that I've read is that
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that doesn't matter what we want to do
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is tax the wealthiest 1% because they
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have too much money it's not a healthy
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start with the micro-level
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it's going to pay for something right
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can it pay for everything of course not
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but it's going to pay for something so
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let's just put that out there right so
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this is kind of a bogus argument like no
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you know of course I can't pay for all
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of Acts or all of why but it certainly
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could make a dent in it second it's a
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bigger argument one of the reasons that
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we are at this pass is because so many
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so few people have so much and so many
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people have so little and that when you
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tax it you start bringing people back
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towards the mean and that in turn will
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presumably
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bring more money into the system over
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time because one of the issues were
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actually having is for all of our age of
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great wealth right and all these people
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you know at the top making these untold
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riches we in fact have less
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entrepreneurial efforts than we did 30
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years ago business is much more
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consolidated people in generals have
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seen their incomes stagnate and this
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means there's just simply less they are
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living on less and less while a few
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people are just supporting all the money
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at the top and when you have that much
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money at the top you get political power
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that's why this money has to be taken
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away from them because it's not really
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their money so they're great elizabeth
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warren comment if years ago right which
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is like well you know you made this
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money at this factory did you build the
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road that got you there and then of
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course not and it becomes you know this
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just kind of you know blight over
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Society for lack of a better word it
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really sort of destroyed slowly
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destroyed you know the both the quality
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of life and the society itself because
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people you know most people simply
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aren't working it you know don't they
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let me say that again most people you
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know don't have that money they can't
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keep up with the pressures and they just
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find themselves falling further and
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further behind while a very small cohort
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is just sort of hoarding the vast
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majority of gains how frightened are
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they of congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio
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Cortez who's 28 years old
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I think she's she's 29 29 clearly very
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frightened and when you think about that
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that's actually kind of extraordinary
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right she's you know one congresswoman
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from the Bronx and queens and she's to
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the left of her own party but I think
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what scares people is that she's clearly
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touched a nerve
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in fact polls show most people do want
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to see taxes raised on the top 1% of
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earners and polls show most people's
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support you know Medicare for all yeah
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the Kaiser Foundation just had this new
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study
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but it's how its framed right but no
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even when you frame it in the most
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conservative interpretation you come up
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with the fact that you know majorities
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of people would like to see either a
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public option or medicare at least
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expanded to cover people 50 and up I
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mean so you know a you the other side
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likes to make this contention of oh you
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know it's you know or that people want
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to be able to buy in if they can you
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know if there's nothing else when the
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other side says oh well it's how its
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framed yes it's how its framed but
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there's really no way that it's framed
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where people go oh no we want the system
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we have now do they know they're
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ignorant when they say if you tax people
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seventy percent after their first ten
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million how're they gonna I don't think
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kind of survive is that willful
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ignorance they know they're that stupid
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what did Wilbur Ross say he's the
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Commerce Secretary and is he stupid or
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is he just pretending to be this is the
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thing about being rich it isolates
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people and you start thinking everybody
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is like who you're hanging around with
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and that's human nature right you know
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people who you know or middle class
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often have a very hard time really
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imagining the lives of the wealthy and
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but there's bigger consequences for this
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but it's the wealthy trying to imagine
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how people the middle class get by so
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what happened this week was Wilbur Ross
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who's the sort of guy by the way to like
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convince the Forbes list he was a
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billionaire when it's actually was only
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worth seven hundred million dollars
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because that kind of wasn't enough for
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him and you know has also been accused
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by various people of ripping off his
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business associates I mean really like
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stellar citizens and falling asleep
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during Trump meetings yeah I mean you
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know I remember I know he's quite
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elderly any we're not saying all the
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elderly do that but clearly you know
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peace quite elderly and anyway so he
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spoke up this morning he's on CNBC and
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he's getting interviewed by a bunch of
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CNBC people in Davos and we all know
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CNBC right like this is where like if
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you're wealthy you want to feel good
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about your life you go give an interview
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to CNBC I mean this is not like node for
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its hard-hitting you progressive Journal
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okay this is a sort of place where Alex
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algeri Ocasio Cortez his numbers get
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raked over the coals normally anyway so
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he manages us to stun the CNBC anchors
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who again are in Davos okay you know by
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saying that he doesn't understand why
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the federal workers who haven't been
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paid in over a month now you know having
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such a hard time and are going to food
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pantries and homeless shelters to look
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for food because of course anybody could
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just get alone right believe it it's
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just a little bit of interest and like
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people's heads were spending their
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reports that there are some federal
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workers who are going to homeless
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shelters to get food well I know they
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are and I don't really quite understand
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why because they the obligations that
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they would undertake say a borrowing
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from the bank or a credit union are in
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effect federally guaranteed so the 30
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days of pay that some people will be out
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there's no real reason why they
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shouldn't be able to get a loan against
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it of course this is utterly ridiculous
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right I mean first off to be if the
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technical answer no not everybody can
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get a loan not everybody can get a zero
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percent loan a lot of people are being
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forced into like pawning their goods and
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working as uber drivers and by the way
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they're only making a couple of bucks I
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mean because the world is not dying for
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more ebert drivers and so anyway you
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know so this is first of all just beyond
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clueless but second it's like who on
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earth says these things
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great like how could you even think this
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is okay he's sitting there collecting a
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paycheck because the administration by
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the way is getting their paycheck this
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is one of the many delights thank God
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right right they're getting a paycheck
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but the workers aren't and people and it
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just revealed this astonishing
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cluelessness and then just to compound
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it and I think people were just in shock
586
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by the end of this is somebody a few
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hours later tracks down whether the
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chief economic advisors Larry Kudlow and
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says what do you think of this right and
590
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he's like well I don't want to comment
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but you know these people are volunteers
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and they're doing this from the goodness
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of their hearts
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and you're like what on earth you know
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federal workers could be fined and fired
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if they strike right and that they're
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not they're out of the goodness of their
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hearts they're there because they're
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petrified they're gonna lose their jobs
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if they don't turn up and work without
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getting paid and it was just an
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extraordinary performance across the
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board and of course this is all over by
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the way a mythical wall designed itself
605
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a mythical problem I mean I mean it's
606
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just the whole thing's kind of crazy
607
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Donald Trump is like having a you know I
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mean it if you labor support it's
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offensive
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I mean it Donald Trump's negotiating
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strategy is roughly on par with the
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two-year-olds he you know he basically
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just insists on something and basically
614
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is like rolling around on the carpet
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kicking things and throwing toys hoping
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he'll get his way you can tell I've
617
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dealt with this in the past I find you
618
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know the whole thing is ridiculous and
619
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you know he's business popularity is
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falling by the day it's now in the low
621
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30s because everybody realizes that this
622
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is not a way you govern a country and
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this is not a way you conduct yourself
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as president of the United States do you
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think this shutdown is gonna go for a
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year I do because I think Trump is doing
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what the people at the top who put him
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in office wanted him to do which is
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deconstruct the administrative state and
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get us back to pre New Deal when they
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see 800,000 federal workers with no
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salary that's what they want I'm
633
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beginning to think you're right I mean I
634
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don't think it'll go a year I don't
635
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think the American people will tolerate
636
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it I also think at a certain point you
637
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know our systems will start phasing so I
638
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mean how many how much longer can the
639
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TSA workers work without pay check how
640
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much longer can be your traffic
641
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controllers work without a paycheck how
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much longer before the airline pilots
643
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who have our on record as saying this is
644
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dangerous flying conditions somebody
645
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just doesn't say I can't fly right like
646
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I won't do this anymore so I tend to
647
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think it won't go for year but I do say
648
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you're right and that this shows a
649
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devastating contempt for government it
650
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is an attempt to unwind government yeah
651
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um you know I wrote a few weeks ago that
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I felt Trump was just an and the
653
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Republicans supporting him are basically
654
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a pile of nihilist you know this is kind
655
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of the philosophy of nothingness right
656
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that they want you know it's just this
657
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kind of destructive force and they don't
658
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really care I mean if you interviewed
659
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Grover Norquist hint intent maybe you'll
660
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do it
661
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Grover Norquist says you know we got to
662
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make government so small we can drown in
663
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the bathtub don't you think the shutdown
664
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is exactly exactly what he wants I do
665
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it's like the American people many of
666
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whom say they support stuff like this
667
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are beginning to realize it's not what
668
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they want at all right because the
669
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longer it goes on the more people are
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going to realize that actually the
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government does a lot I mean one of the
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things that has always been very clear
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to me and very much came across by the
674
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way in Michael Lewis's great book that
675
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was published last year the fifth risk
676
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is that a lot of people actually don't
677
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realize what government does I mean it
678
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seems kind of absurd that like you don't
679
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think the government does things but you
680
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know when they do these surveys and they
681
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ask people have you ever taken a
682
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government handout you know huge numbers
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say no and then you say well you know
684
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have you ever received an unemployment
685
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check and they say yes so they're like
686
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well you just took a handout from the
687
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government and they're like no I didn't
688
00:28:34,130 --> 00:28:38,299
you know it's the same philosophy as you
689
00:28:36,350 --> 00:28:39,559
know those cheap famous Tea Party signs
690
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get the government's hands off my
691
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Medicare I mean people literally don't
692
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realize what the government federal
693
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government does well and and so I think
694
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the longer this goes on and the more
695
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things slowly fall apart because the
696
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federal government is not functioning
697
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:57,830
the more people will realize you know so
698
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the government does do stuff and it is a
699
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valuable service to us the downside of
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this is something could go dreadfully
701
00:29:02,540 --> 00:29:07,250
wrong while this is all getting solved
702
00:29:05,140 --> 00:29:08,480
you know I don't know about you but I
703
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would not be dying to get on an airplane
704
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in these conditions at this point yeah I
705
00:29:11,090 --> 00:29:14,510
think there's a real issue with that the
706
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creeping it
707
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and not just from the TSA agents but
708
00:29:16,730 --> 00:29:20,809
you've got the air traffic controllers
709
00:29:18,830 --> 00:29:23,419
or you know potentially working two jobs
710
00:29:20,809 --> 00:29:26,059
right here at air traffic controller and
711
00:29:23,419 --> 00:29:27,410
you're working two jobs something's
712
00:29:26,059 --> 00:29:29,150
gonna give at some point that's no
713
00:29:27,410 --> 00:29:31,340
insult to the air traffic controllers to
714
00:29:29,150 --> 00:29:34,400
say that the pilots union is saying that
715
00:29:31,340 --> 00:29:36,679
I mean well before we get to John Bogle
716
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:40,160
it seems to me that the Republican Party
717
00:29:36,679 --> 00:29:43,820
is a coalition of two types of Americans
718
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:46,220
ninety nine percent are broke within the
719
00:29:43,820 --> 00:29:49,190
Republican Party but they follow some
720
00:29:46,220 --> 00:29:53,600
kind of ideological spite it just comes
721
00:29:49,190 --> 00:29:56,510
from hatred for others and then at the
722
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:59,540
tip of the spear the one percent are the
723
00:29:56,510 --> 00:30:02,840
people like Wilbur Ross and Larry Kudlow
724
00:29:59,540 --> 00:30:04,840
who want to take an etch-a-sketch to the
725
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:08,690
federal government and just shake it and
726
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:10,970
no destroying the entire administrative
727
00:30:08,690 --> 00:30:13,520
state and rebuilding it kind of like
728
00:30:10,970 --> 00:30:22,610
what they would do with the company that
729
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:24,799
they bought the gig is going to be art
730
00:30:22,610 --> 00:30:27,110
because this is not what the American
731
00:30:24,799 --> 00:30:28,610
people want that frees people who
732
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identify themselves as fairly
733
00:30:28,610 --> 00:30:34,910
conservative that presupposes it matters
734
00:30:31,010 --> 00:30:37,250
what we want what a certain point it has
735
00:30:34,910 --> 00:30:40,450
to matter what we want right I mean
736
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there are elections presumably
737
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presumably they there were elections
738
00:30:44,900 --> 00:30:49,309
last November the Republicans suffered a
739
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:51,679
fairly staggering defeat in the House of
740
00:30:49,309 --> 00:30:53,450
Representatives yeah at a certain point
741
00:30:51,679 --> 00:30:55,070
you would have suspected survival
742
00:30:53,450 --> 00:30:57,559
instincts would start to kick in here
743
00:30:55,070 --> 00:31:00,980
yeah well I want to talk about a great
744
00:30:57,559 --> 00:31:03,169
American John Bogle who was John Bogle
745
00:31:00,980 --> 00:31:05,600
and what did he create for the common
746
00:31:03,169 --> 00:31:08,080
man you wrote a great piece you wrote a
747
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:11,990
great piece in the worst host him oh
748
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:14,419
thank you John Bogle was the founder of
749
00:31:11,990 --> 00:31:17,900
Vanguard the great index mutual fund
750
00:31:14,419 --> 00:31:21,530
company and basically what he did was he
751
00:31:17,900 --> 00:31:23,840
popularized the idea of index funds
752
00:31:21,530 --> 00:31:25,700
which are of course funds that are you
753
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:27,980
know basically a broad-based you know
754
00:31:25,700 --> 00:31:30,289
our broad-based
755
00:31:27,980 --> 00:31:33,889
market funds right like a mutual fund
756
00:31:30,289 --> 00:31:35,659
that will replicate the S&P 500 for you
757
00:31:33,889 --> 00:31:39,649
know regular investors prior to John
758
00:31:35,659 --> 00:31:41,840
Bogle they existed but they didn't they
759
00:31:39,649 --> 00:31:44,269
weren't offered to the public they John
760
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:46,429
Bogle is the first to offer the use to
761
00:31:44,269 --> 00:31:51,019
the public and to make the public aware
762
00:31:46,429 --> 00:31:53,720
of the fact that over time they
763
00:31:51,019 --> 00:31:54,289
generally do as well as or they do
764
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,330
better
765
00:31:54,289 --> 00:31:58,159
they generally they do better than the
766
00:31:56,330 --> 00:31:59,690
vast majority have managed managed
767
00:31:58,159 --> 00:32:02,510
mutual you talk about Davos you
768
00:31:59,690 --> 00:32:05,590
mentioned Bridgewater's Ray Dalio or
769
00:32:02,510 --> 00:32:09,620
Scott mannered from Guggenheim Partners
770
00:32:05,590 --> 00:32:12,260
do we know if those funds outperform the
771
00:32:09,620 --> 00:32:14,510
Vanguard 500 I don't know about their
772
00:32:12,260 --> 00:32:17,860
specific funds one by one but what we
773
00:32:14,510 --> 00:32:21,980
know overall is that the vast majority
774
00:32:17,860 --> 00:32:25,399
of you know managed investment funds of
775
00:32:21,980 --> 00:32:28,820
any sort will not over time beat the S&P
776
00:32:25,399 --> 00:32:31,460
500 right they simply won't it's not
777
00:32:28,820 --> 00:32:33,139
possible great because you've got away
778
00:32:31,460 --> 00:32:34,490
you've got it you know you've got it buy
779
00:32:33,139 --> 00:32:35,570
at the right time you have to sell at
780
00:32:34,490 --> 00:32:37,100
the right time you have to pick the
781
00:32:35,570 --> 00:32:38,870
right stocks at the right time and sell
782
00:32:37,100 --> 00:32:40,610
the right stocks at the right time you
783
00:32:38,870 --> 00:32:44,960
have to account for all the transaction
784
00:32:40,610 --> 00:32:47,330
costs all of that makes it so that less
785
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:49,789
than 1% of people and that less of one
786
00:32:47,330 --> 00:32:51,740
percent of people includes the managers
787
00:32:49,789 --> 00:32:53,600
of these funds it includes you and me
788
00:32:51,740 --> 00:32:55,490
right there's no significant difference
789
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:58,220
at this point to not do this you're in
790
00:32:55,490 --> 00:33:02,570
in your app only 1% do it year in and
791
00:32:58,220 --> 00:33:04,760
year out it's less than 1% so so the
792
00:33:02,570 --> 00:33:09,190
odds are that these geniuses meeting in
793
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:13,370
Davos do not outperform the index funds
794
00:33:09,190 --> 00:33:17,539
right or if they do it's because they
795
00:33:13,370 --> 00:33:19,549
have either you know they've got access
796
00:33:17,539 --> 00:33:22,880
to investments that you and I don't
797
00:33:19,549 --> 00:33:25,669
write you know they get in at crap
798
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:27,649
preferred rates there's just one of the
799
00:33:25,669 --> 00:33:30,340
secrets of warren buffett success I was
800
00:33:27,649 --> 00:33:33,980
just going to ask you about
801
00:33:30,340 --> 00:33:36,950
by the way extremely good investor and a
802
00:33:33,980 --> 00:33:39,889
big and a big fan of John bogles right
803
00:33:36,950 --> 00:33:40,909
because he knows you and I are not
804
00:33:39,889 --> 00:33:43,279
getting in
805
00:33:40,909 --> 00:33:45,080
goldman sachs a at the ring he's getting
806
00:33:43,279 --> 00:33:47,119
it right or the return he's guaranteed
807
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:51,529
or the conditions he can invest under
808
00:33:47,119 --> 00:33:53,529
and so the result is is that you know
809
00:33:51,529 --> 00:33:55,849
people are the financial services sector
810
00:33:53,529 --> 00:33:58,279
you know was making a killing for years
811
00:33:55,849 --> 00:33:59,960
convincing people that they could you
812
00:33:58,279 --> 00:34:01,820
know keep up with the big boys right
813
00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:05,269
what in fact they could do no such thing
814
00:34:01,820 --> 00:34:07,429
and sort of boggles genius was that he
815
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came along at the right time right
816
00:34:07,429 --> 00:34:13,700
he founded the you know the he opens the
817
00:34:10,579 --> 00:34:17,000
fund to the public in late 1975 just
818
00:34:13,700 --> 00:34:19,190
about the same time as the individual
819
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,829
retirement account debuts and only a
820
00:34:19,190 --> 00:34:23,839
couple of years before the 401k debuts
821
00:34:21,829 --> 00:34:27,049
so all of a sudden people are kind of
822
00:34:23,839 --> 00:34:29,990
forced to do this and so because of the
823
00:34:27,049 --> 00:34:32,030
keep in mind even as late as late 1980s
824
00:34:29,990 --> 00:34:36,260
you only have about 25% of people
825
00:34:32,030 --> 00:34:39,200
invested in the stock market so what he
826
00:34:36,260 --> 00:34:41,419
what if his genius is isn't just that he
827
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:44,329
realizes you can't keep up right you're
828
00:34:41,419 --> 00:34:47,210
knocking it out investors out invest you
829
00:34:44,329 --> 00:34:48,589
know the stock market it's that there
830
00:34:47,210 --> 00:34:50,629
were a lot of people who actually don't
831
00:34:48,589 --> 00:34:52,369
want to the financial services sector
832
00:34:50,629 --> 00:34:53,929
had sort of predicated their pitch on
833
00:34:52,369 --> 00:34:55,639
gee you want to be smarter than the
834
00:34:53,929 --> 00:34:59,869
markets right you want to do better
835
00:34:55,639 --> 00:35:01,549
what Bogle kind of Intuit it he's I'm
836
00:34:59,869 --> 00:35:04,069
not totally sure he would have even put
837
00:35:01,549 --> 00:35:05,930
it this way but what he intuited is that
838
00:35:04,069 --> 00:35:07,760
actually a lot of people were just okay
839
00:35:05,930 --> 00:35:09,980
keeping up with the Dow Jones a--'s they
840
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:11,359
want to be had which is a major
841
00:35:09,980 --> 00:35:16,250
difference right
842
00:35:11,359 --> 00:35:17,990
and because index funds are not you know
843
00:35:16,250 --> 00:35:19,400
they don't have superstar managers they
844
00:35:17,990 --> 00:35:21,650
don't have to pick up trading costs
845
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,730
they're just replicating it index you
846
00:35:21,650 --> 00:35:25,460
can actually offer them at this
847
00:35:22,730 --> 00:35:28,039
incredibly cheap price in fact they're
848
00:35:25,460 --> 00:35:30,049
now you know places like fidelity that's
849
00:35:28,039 --> 00:35:32,029
offering them at literally zero costs
850
00:35:30,049 --> 00:35:35,390
hoping to sell people who invested them
851
00:35:32,029 --> 00:35:37,880
on other services because they're really
852
00:35:35,390 --> 00:35:39,319
there's no call there's next to no cost
853
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:42,319
I mean there's a small cost to them but
854
00:35:39,319 --> 00:35:46,059
there's really very little cost and so
855
00:35:42,319 --> 00:35:48,829
you know he made Americans lives better
856
00:35:46,059 --> 00:35:51,319
you know but I do want to say before we
857
00:35:48,829 --> 00:35:52,880
all go yeah a John Bogle you know just
858
00:35:51,319 --> 00:35:54,500
couldn't solve the retirement issue on
859
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:57,109
his own right the
860
00:35:54,500 --> 00:35:59,060
to the batter else as the 401k and the
861
00:35:57,109 --> 00:36:02,329
individual retirement account worthy as
862
00:35:59,060 --> 00:36:04,190
they are or not whatever you think of
863
00:36:02,329 --> 00:36:06,589
them in and of themselves are generally
864
00:36:04,190 --> 00:36:09,589
still for rich people I mean the fact of
865
00:36:06,589 --> 00:36:11,660
the matter is is the combination of the
866
00:36:09,589 --> 00:36:13,940
fact that you know there is income
867
00:36:11,660 --> 00:36:16,220
massive income inequality there is
868
00:36:13,940 --> 00:36:17,540
wealth inequality you know huge numbers
869
00:36:16,220 --> 00:36:19,730
of people can't afford to put the money
870
00:36:17,540 --> 00:36:22,430
in and even if they do they're probably
871
00:36:19,730 --> 00:36:24,400
not putting enough in so you know what
872
00:36:22,430 --> 00:36:28,310
he really did was make a bad situation
873
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:30,109
somewhat better and that's that's still
874
00:36:28,310 --> 00:36:31,670
a really good thing I'm not gonna sit
875
00:36:30,109 --> 00:36:33,619
here and knock him for it but I don't
876
00:36:31,670 --> 00:36:35,720
want to say that had we all listened to
877
00:36:33,619 --> 00:36:37,490
John Bogle there'd be no issue with
878
00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:39,740
people saving for retirement because
879
00:36:37,490 --> 00:36:42,890
that's probably not true either you
880
00:36:39,740 --> 00:36:45,349
write that financial planners in America
881
00:36:42,890 --> 00:36:49,220
are glorified stockbrokers who were just
882
00:36:45,349 --> 00:36:51,890
tricking you into buying the products
883
00:36:49,220 --> 00:36:53,690
that they're being told to push so their
884
00:36:51,890 --> 00:36:57,319
investment firm makes money
885
00:36:53,690 --> 00:36:59,150
there was a fiduciary rule set up by the
886
00:36:57,319 --> 00:37:01,280
Obama administration I believe it was
887
00:36:59,150 --> 00:37:05,030
housed in the Commerce Department right
888
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:06,440
Wilbur Ross Labor Department Department
889
00:37:05,030 --> 00:37:09,319
of Labor right
890
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:12,470
what is the fiduciary rule and what has
891
00:37:09,319 --> 00:37:16,700
happened to it well it's no more so the
892
00:37:12,470 --> 00:37:19,880
idea was was that for retirement savers
893
00:37:16,700 --> 00:37:21,800
as we talked about right so you go to
894
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,359
your most people go to seek financial
895
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:25,310
advice they think their financial
896
00:37:23,359 --> 00:37:27,520
advisor which is what are these young
897
00:37:25,310 --> 00:37:30,230
terms of the industry it means nothing
898
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:31,940
it's somebody who has it like basically
899
00:37:30,230 --> 00:37:33,260
like a doctor Hippocratic oath to you
900
00:37:31,940 --> 00:37:35,810
right does they have to act your best
901
00:37:33,260 --> 00:37:37,460
interests and when when when this is
902
00:37:35,810 --> 00:37:39,800
polled a vast majority of people think
903
00:37:37,460 --> 00:37:41,839
this it's totally not true the vast
904
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:43,579
majority of financial advisors work to
905
00:37:41,839 --> 00:37:45,800
this rather load standard called the
906
00:37:43,579 --> 00:37:48,020
suitability standard which basically
907
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:49,819
means they can prioritize their
908
00:37:48,020 --> 00:37:51,319
financial interests over your own as
909
00:37:49,819 --> 00:37:54,200
long as they're not doing out now
910
00:37:51,319 --> 00:37:58,730
malfeasance toward you so for instance
911
00:37:54,200 --> 00:38:00,140
they don't have to tell you if you know
912
00:37:58,730 --> 00:38:02,839
they're recommending a particular
913
00:38:00,140 --> 00:38:05,720
investment over one that would do better
914
00:38:02,839 --> 00:38:07,130
for you and that they're recommending an
915
00:38:05,720 --> 00:38:08,000
investment because it tastes up a bigger
916
00:38:07,130 --> 00:38:09,500
Commission or
917
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:12,830
they're somehow getting pushed by their
918
00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:17,120
employer to put you selling you on it
919
00:38:12,830 --> 00:38:18,710
which is right and you know and they
920
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:21,200
don't have to say that it's only a
921
00:38:18,710 --> 00:38:23,120
problem if it's out now now sees it like
922
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:25,880
it's just so incredibly inappropriate
923
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:27,410
for you it's also very hard to prove
924
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:29,210
right because they then make you sign
925
00:38:27,410 --> 00:38:31,010
mandatory arbitration agreements a good
926
00:38:29,210 --> 00:38:33,560
luck to you actually getting justice at
927
00:38:31,010 --> 00:38:35,300
that point so I mean there are some
928
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:37,270
advisors who work to a higher standard
929
00:38:35,300 --> 00:38:40,280
but you like have to do to ask for them
930
00:38:37,270 --> 00:38:42,740
and so anyway so you have these people
931
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:44,660
who do this and so the retired and the
932
00:38:42,740 --> 00:38:47,090
Obama administration estimated this was
933
00:38:44,660 --> 00:38:48,740
costing investors about seventeen
934
00:38:47,090 --> 00:38:50,660
billion dollars a year and they're in
935
00:38:48,740 --> 00:38:53,330
gains again something that would make
936
00:38:50,660 --> 00:38:55,520
life a lot better for people and they
937
00:38:53,330 --> 00:38:58,970
really attempted to change this for
938
00:38:55,520 --> 00:39:00,650
retirement savers and they because the
939
00:38:58,970 --> 00:39:03,650
Department of Labor has jurisdiction
940
00:39:00,650 --> 00:39:08,270
over retirement savings not all savings
941
00:39:03,650 --> 00:39:10,730
and so they basically push this through
942
00:39:08,270 --> 00:39:12,860
that this would be the law through
943
00:39:10,730 --> 00:39:16,430
regular the regulatory process for
944
00:39:12,860 --> 00:39:18,740
retirement savers and it gets challenged
945
00:39:16,430 --> 00:39:21,410
in the courts and a very conservative
946
00:39:18,740 --> 00:39:24,020
court in Texas basically overturns it
947
00:39:21,410 --> 00:39:26,240
and the Obama administration and by this
948
00:39:24,020 --> 00:39:27,410
time were days away from the Trump
949
00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:29,480
administration and the Trump
950
00:39:27,410 --> 00:39:31,820
administration's like we're really not
951
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:34,370
interested in this and that's pretty
952
00:39:31,820 --> 00:39:36,440
much the end of it there's now some
953
00:39:34,370 --> 00:39:38,060
attempts to do it through the Securities
954
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:40,040
and Exchange Commission but they're very
955
00:39:38,060 --> 00:39:43,520
weak and not producing to be going much
956
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:44,900
of anywhere at the moment and anyway
957
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,430
though to bring this back to John Bogle
958
00:39:44,900 --> 00:39:48,800
John Bogle basically spent the last
959
00:39:46,430 --> 00:39:50,780
years of his life frantically trying to
960
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:53,060
promote the idea of the fiduciary
961
00:39:50,780 --> 00:39:55,790
standard that your advisor should have a
962
00:39:53,060 --> 00:39:57,980
duty to you that exceeded the duty to
963
00:39:55,790 --> 00:40:00,470
his or her pocketbook there are a couple
964
00:39:57,980 --> 00:40:03,620
of things I'm absolutely convinced of I
965
00:40:00,470 --> 00:40:06,800
know that we need Medicare for all I
966
00:40:03,620 --> 00:40:09,710
know that there's just if you're against
967
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:11,300
it watch out because I will come after
968
00:40:09,710 --> 00:40:14,060
you with everything I've got
969
00:40:11,300 --> 00:40:16,370
which is nothing but I wanted to sound
970
00:40:14,060 --> 00:40:19,010
tough for a second I know that Ralph
971
00:40:16,370 --> 00:40:22,220
Nader's our greatest living American
972
00:40:19,010 --> 00:40:25,220
I know that a vegetarian vegan diet is
973
00:40:22,220 --> 00:40:27,619
morally superior and would save the
974
00:40:25,220 --> 00:40:30,920
planet and this is what I believe and I
975
00:40:27,619 --> 00:40:34,010
want you to respond to this there are
976
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:37,760
more mutual funds than there are stocks
977
00:40:34,010 --> 00:40:41,060
there are more baskets of stocks than
978
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:43,190
there are stocks to put in those baskets
979
00:40:41,060 --> 00:40:47,869
which means we've seen this
980
00:40:43,190 --> 00:40:50,480
proliferation of people who have become
981
00:40:47,869 --> 00:40:53,510
investment advisors and making all these
982
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:55,550
financial products that benefit nobody
983
00:40:53,510 --> 00:40:58,490
they don't have perform the index funds
984
00:40:55,550 --> 00:41:02,000
these products these financial products
985
00:40:58,490 --> 00:41:06,890
only benefit the people who are selling
986
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:10,580
them and they're selling a lie I am
987
00:41:06,890 --> 00:41:14,119
utterly I am utterly convinced that if
988
00:41:10,580 --> 00:41:16,790
you shut down 90 percent of the
989
00:41:14,119 --> 00:41:20,869
financial sector in this country we
990
00:41:16,790 --> 00:41:22,070
would have a much healthier economy but
991
00:41:20,869 --> 00:41:26,150
just think what it would do to the New
992
00:41:22,070 --> 00:41:27,680
York City restaurant scene but is that
993
00:41:26,150 --> 00:41:29,960
isn't that true that you can eliminate
994
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:31,730
when you talk about taking an
995
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:33,920
etch-a-sketch to the federal government
996
00:41:31,730 --> 00:41:37,130
if we took an etch-a-sketch to Wall
997
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:39,470
Street and just got rid of ninety
998
00:41:37,130 --> 00:41:44,450
percent of the people who work there you
999
00:41:39,470 --> 00:41:50,090
see the entire country grow and blossom
1000
00:41:44,450 --> 00:41:52,460
and bloom I talked about this in town
1001
00:41:50,090 --> 00:41:57,490
foolish right financialization of the
1002
00:41:52,460 --> 00:42:00,350
economy and these jobs are basically
1003
00:41:57,490 --> 00:42:03,859
that jobs for the whole sector is
1004
00:42:00,350 --> 00:42:06,800
basically turning americans into so much
1005
00:42:03,859 --> 00:42:08,540
they're sort of leeches in one level on
1006
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:10,280
the american public I mean financial
1007
00:42:08,540 --> 00:42:12,200
sector has a valuable role I don't want
1008
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:13,910
to say that their total leeches yeah
1009
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:16,660
there's no investment without the
1010
00:42:13,910 --> 00:42:19,070
financial sector right but what these
1011
00:42:16,660 --> 00:42:20,210
what they've done and what the financial
1012
00:42:19,070 --> 00:42:22,940
sector has done what the health care
1013
00:42:20,210 --> 00:42:25,040
sector has done is over time it's not
1014
00:42:22,940 --> 00:42:27,710
just that they're doing good they're
1015
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:30,650
also profiting by sort of like attaching
1016
00:42:27,710 --> 00:42:34,670
themselves as leeches and try to extract
1017
00:42:30,650 --> 00:42:36,950
see after see after see out of Americans
1018
00:42:34,670 --> 00:42:40,220
who are suffering from stagnant wages
1019
00:42:36,950 --> 00:42:42,440
who are you know falling behind a rapid
1020
00:42:40,220 --> 00:42:45,260
pace and one of the reasons they're
1021
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:47,510
falling behind is because you have to
1022
00:42:45,260 --> 00:42:48,800
give more of your money to this and I
1023
00:42:47,510 --> 00:42:50,990
actually don't even think the financial
1024
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:52,850
sector is the worst of all the actors at
1025
00:42:50,990 --> 00:42:54,680
all of us keep in mind the price of
1026
00:42:52,850 --> 00:42:56,720
insulin has basically doubled over the
1027
00:42:54,680 --> 00:43:00,260
last five or six years right
1028
00:42:56,720 --> 00:43:03,140
that's just plain out extraction yeah I
1029
00:43:00,260 --> 00:43:05,750
mean it's extortion of sick people it's
1030
00:43:03,140 --> 00:43:07,460
horrible and it should be stopped but
1031
00:43:05,750 --> 00:43:09,500
because we have wealthy people and
1032
00:43:07,460 --> 00:43:12,710
wealthy corporations basically dictating
1033
00:43:09,500 --> 00:43:14,420
government policy it's not and so I
1034
00:43:12,710 --> 00:43:15,950
don't want to just single out the
1035
00:43:14,420 --> 00:43:17,630
financial sector for this because I
1036
00:43:15,950 --> 00:43:20,180
think it's a much much bigger problem
1037
00:43:17,630 --> 00:43:21,740
than that we bring back the draft and if
1038
00:43:20,180 --> 00:43:24,920
you want to be a conscientious objector
1039
00:43:21,740 --> 00:43:27,830
then you have to live for two years on
1040
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:31,220
food stamps in fact I think every
1041
00:43:27,830 --> 00:43:34,330
American when they turn 22 should have
1042
00:43:31,220 --> 00:43:39,050
to spend a year living on food stamps
1043
00:43:34,330 --> 00:43:41,900
that through taxation I think we need
1044
00:43:39,050 --> 00:43:44,840
free public education at our
1045
00:43:41,900 --> 00:43:48,200
universities and we pay for it
1046
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:51,670
by demanding that when you graduate you
1047
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:53,900
have to live below poverty for a year
1048
00:43:51,670 --> 00:43:55,850
yeah but you know people's parents would
1049
00:43:53,900 --> 00:43:59,390
just let some money on the side come on
1050
00:43:55,850 --> 00:44:01,910
but you can use the IRS to to monitor
1051
00:43:59,390 --> 00:44:06,800
that if everybody had to spend one year
1052
00:44:01,910 --> 00:44:09,080
of their insignificant life living below
1053
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:12,620
the poverty line be a much better
1054
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:14,120
country 24 if you're 24 23 what does it
1055
00:44:12,620 --> 00:44:16,160
matter if you're living below the
1056
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:18,410
poverty line I think would just be
1057
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:21,230
better like tax the upper levels so that
1058
00:44:18,410 --> 00:44:23,870
more of us are living less divided lives
1059
00:44:21,230 --> 00:44:25,640
that's it that's who I mean you know
1060
00:44:23,870 --> 00:44:27,770
it's I think that would probably
1061
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:28,940
ultimately have more of an impact I mean
1062
00:44:27,770 --> 00:44:31,880
because one of the things I talked about
1063
00:44:28,940 --> 00:44:33,080
was wealth inequality and I think I
1064
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:35,810
mentioned this earlier in the show I
1065
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:38,630
mean it isolates people I mean the thing
1066
00:44:35,810 --> 00:44:40,730
so you know you literally get you know
1067
00:44:38,630 --> 00:44:42,770
this sort of like Donald Trump doesn't
1068
00:44:40,730 --> 00:44:43,520
appear to have a clue how a supermarket
1069
00:44:42,770 --> 00:44:45,560
works right
1070
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,970
right like he literally thinks like you
1071
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:50,990
could go in there and put stuff on
1072
00:44:46,970 --> 00:44:53,000
account um probably because when he what
1073
00:44:50,990 --> 00:44:55,400
goes to a supermarket if I had to guess
1074
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:56,870
he turns 28 and tells them to put it on
1075
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:58,490
a credit card right he probably doesn't
1076
00:44:56,870 --> 00:45:01,220
even deal with it himself he doesn't
1077
00:44:58,490 --> 00:45:02,420
have any cash right most of the very
1078
00:45:01,220 --> 00:45:03,950
wealthy people I've ever met in my life
1079
00:45:02,420 --> 00:45:09,260
many of them don't walk around with cash
1080
00:45:03,950 --> 00:45:11,480
right and I think that you know it's an
1081
00:45:09,260 --> 00:45:13,850
isolating thing and I think what would
1082
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:15,770
really make a knock at some of the
1083
00:45:13,850 --> 00:45:19,880
divides in our society is simply
1084
00:45:15,770 --> 00:45:22,490
bringing this divide down because it
1085
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:25,460
would encourage people to not live such
1086
00:45:22,490 --> 00:45:27,530
isolated lives and I think the less
1087
00:45:25,460 --> 00:45:29,150
isolated of life you lead the more
1088
00:45:27,530 --> 00:45:30,890
empathy you're going to have for other
1089
00:45:29,150 --> 00:45:33,890
people I mean that's just a certain
1090
00:45:30,890 --> 00:45:36,290
amount of common sense you know it's if
1091
00:45:33,890 --> 00:45:39,080
you don't know people personally who
1092
00:45:36,290 --> 00:45:41,210
this sort of stuff impacts except maybe
1093
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:42,410
your made you know the chances are
1094
00:45:41,210 --> 00:45:44,120
incredible you're just not going to
1095
00:45:42,410 --> 00:45:46,130
think of it as a problem because it's
1096
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:47,480
gonna seem so abstract and I mean that
1097
00:45:46,130 --> 00:45:49,460
for people who are decently well-meaning
1098
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:53,690
not like the cretins who are in charge
1099
00:45:49,460 --> 00:45:55,430
right now right and I think that that's
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00:45:53,690 --> 00:45:57,190
really in the end the most you know
1101
00:45:55,430 --> 00:45:59,510
valuable thing and I think that was why
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00:45:57,190 --> 00:46:02,240
Alexandria Castillo Cortez hits such a
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00:45:59,510 --> 00:46:03,980
nerve with that 70% marginal tax rate
1104
00:46:02,240 --> 00:46:06,590
it's like wait a second we're gonna have
1105
00:46:03,980 --> 00:46:08,510
to give something up right wait a second
1106
00:46:06,590 --> 00:46:10,250
you know we're part of this we're part
1107
00:46:08,510 --> 00:46:11,720
of the problem you know because they've
1108
00:46:10,250 --> 00:46:13,940
all convinced themselves there's somehow
1109
00:46:11,720 --> 00:46:17,540
not part of the problem right right and
1110
00:46:13,940 --> 00:46:19,610
I've learned from her that yeah
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00:46:17,540 --> 00:46:21,650
taxing them at you know seventy percent
1112
00:46:19,610 --> 00:46:25,190
after ten million may not pay for
1113
00:46:21,650 --> 00:46:29,600
everything but there's a virtue to
1114
00:46:25,190 --> 00:46:32,660
insisting that the richest 1% has less
1115
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:35,180
money and I and I want to say that to
1116
00:46:32,660 --> 00:46:38,210
Larry Kudlow and the people at Davos the
1117
00:46:35,180 --> 00:46:41,240
purpose of taxing you at seventy percent
1118
00:46:38,210 --> 00:46:44,450
after ten million is so you don't have
1119
00:46:41,240 --> 00:46:46,280
as much money that's the problem I'm not
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00:46:44,450 --> 00:46:48,650
concerned about paying for Medicare by
1121
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:50,960
taxing you with this rate I'm only
1122
00:46:48,650 --> 00:46:52,880
concerned about making sure that you
1123
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:56,930
have less money
1124
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:57,920
ergo less power right I think
1125
00:46:56,930 --> 00:47:00,140
one of the things that's interesting
1126
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:04,220
that's creeping into this argument is
1127
00:47:00,140 --> 00:47:05,960
that because we've been so thinking this
1128
00:47:04,220 --> 00:47:07,760
way for so long right I think of it as a
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00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:10,369
sort of forty year cycle right that sort
1130
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:11,930
of starts in the late 1970s that we have
1131
00:47:10,369 --> 00:47:14,510
to sort of justify everything by a
1132
00:47:11,930 --> 00:47:16,369
cost-benefit analysis right well you
1133
00:47:14,510 --> 00:47:18,829
know if we're gonna tax it has to do X
1134
00:47:16,369 --> 00:47:21,020
or Y when in fact it could just have
1135
00:47:18,829 --> 00:47:22,550
this greater goal of simply reducing
1136
00:47:21,020 --> 00:47:25,010
income inequality and wealth inequality
1137
00:47:22,550 --> 00:47:27,619
because that in and of itself is a good
1138
00:47:25,010 --> 00:47:28,910
thing right and I think that's the thing
1139
00:47:27,619 --> 00:47:30,920
that's kind of getting lost in this
1140
00:47:28,910 --> 00:47:32,180
argument a little bit as well you know
1141
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:34,400
this world you know this won't pay for
1142
00:47:32,180 --> 00:47:35,690
this well maybe it won't but a lot of
1143
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:39,230
other good things will come out of the
1144
00:47:35,690 --> 00:47:42,380
fact that you're going to simply have
1145
00:47:39,230 --> 00:47:44,059
less money I mean that's you know that
1146
00:47:42,380 --> 00:47:46,250
you're gonna be forced to interact with
1147
00:47:44,059 --> 00:47:49,069
other people more you're gonna be forced
1148
00:47:46,250 --> 00:47:50,450
to you know ponder the fact that you
1149
00:47:49,069 --> 00:47:52,309
know no you're not going to solve the
1150
00:47:50,450 --> 00:47:53,869
world's problems by setting up a charity
1151
00:47:52,309 --> 00:47:55,849
which is dependent on the amount of
1152
00:47:53,869 --> 00:47:57,290
money you want to give it voluntarily by
1153
00:47:55,849 --> 00:48:00,349
you know issues that are going to be
1154
00:47:57,290 --> 00:48:01,970
decided by us as a society yeah and
1155
00:48:00,349 --> 00:48:04,369
that's the big thing that has been lost
1156
00:48:01,970 --> 00:48:06,410
over the past 40 years is that we've
1157
00:48:04,369 --> 00:48:08,569
sort of had this idea that wealthy
1158
00:48:06,410 --> 00:48:09,530
people as I bring this full circle to
1159
00:48:08,569 --> 00:48:11,660
what I said at the beginning that
1160
00:48:09,530 --> 00:48:13,400
wealthy people like are somehow you know
1161
00:48:11,660 --> 00:48:15,020
these uber people and that they just
1162
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:16,579
have this better sense of the way the
1163
00:48:15,020 --> 00:48:18,410
world works and the rest of us you know
1164
00:48:16,579 --> 00:48:20,960
random you know day-to-day you know
1165
00:48:18,410 --> 00:48:23,240
scroungers out there and and therefore
1166
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:25,400
they should have more of a say and that
1167
00:48:23,240 --> 00:48:27,380
their money is buying them that say and
1168
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:29,420
I just at the end of the day I don't
1169
00:48:27,380 --> 00:48:31,309
think that's right our founding fathers
1170
00:48:29,420 --> 00:48:33,380
were against primogeniture they made it
1171
00:48:31,309 --> 00:48:35,720
against the law from a Gentry's like
1172
00:48:33,380 --> 00:48:39,730
leaving all your money to your oldest
1173
00:48:35,720 --> 00:48:42,770
son so the money stays concentrated in
1174
00:48:39,730 --> 00:48:44,809
one person so there's an aristocracy we
1175
00:48:42,770 --> 00:48:48,260
our founding fathers outlawed having an
1176
00:48:44,809 --> 00:48:51,200
aristocracy but they've rejiggered the
1177
00:48:48,260 --> 00:48:53,540
tax system so there is one anyway okay
1178
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:56,930
next week next week Helaine olen is the
1179
00:48:53,540 --> 00:48:59,960
author Huff pound-foolish and the index
1180
00:48:56,930 --> 00:49:01,970
card which she co-wrote and she writes
1181
00:48:59,960 --> 00:49:03,250
for The Washington Post everybody should
1182
00:49:01,970 --> 00:49:06,020
read her over at the Washington Post
1183
00:49:03,250 --> 00:49:06,680
thank you thank you for having me on are
1184
00:49:06,020 --> 00:49:08,160
you kidding
1185
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:28,619
Stan wine for one second
1186
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:28,619
[Music]
1187
00:49:29,140 --> 00:49:34,880
you're listening to the david feldman
1188
00:49:31,460 --> 00:49:38,500
radio program you said pathetic humph
1189
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:40,970
let's go to deerfield massachusetts were
1190
00:49:38,500 --> 00:49:43,609
screenwriter actor comedian and
1191
00:49:40,970 --> 00:49:45,890
gentleman farmer John Ross is standing
1192
00:49:43,609 --> 00:49:49,099
by hello John it's always an adventure
1193
00:49:45,890 --> 00:49:51,530
and exciting to hear my introduction to
1194
00:49:49,099 --> 00:49:53,060
find out who and what I am because it's
1195
00:49:51,530 --> 00:49:55,099
different every time and I enjoy it
1196
00:49:53,060 --> 00:49:58,369
you're an award-winning comedy writer
1197
00:49:55,099 --> 00:50:00,140
that is true yes what's happening with
1198
00:49:58,369 --> 00:50:02,540
the government shutdown is your farm
1199
00:50:00,140 --> 00:50:05,690
being affected by this Donald Trump my
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00:50:02,540 --> 00:50:07,640
esteem for him grows every day that one
1201
00:50:05,690 --> 00:50:10,190
thing about the wall that I'm a little
1202
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:12,800
bit mmm like how effective is a wall
1203
00:50:10,190 --> 00:50:16,190
really I mean why not a dome let's
1204
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:18,619
enclose the entire country they can't
1205
00:50:16,190 --> 00:50:23,810
get over a dome let me think about this
1206
00:50:18,619 --> 00:50:27,290
for a second that makes sense
1207
00:50:23,810 --> 00:50:31,400
for now I'll take the wall these crybaby
1208
00:50:27,290 --> 00:50:31,609
federal workers who want their money why
1209
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,099
not
1210
00:50:31,609 --> 00:50:36,890
liquidate some of your stocks sell a
1211
00:50:34,099 --> 00:50:38,990
bond well how is this that hard they're
1212
00:50:36,890 --> 00:50:41,089
learning their lesson because Donald
1213
00:50:38,990 --> 00:50:43,490
Trump is teaching us teaching them and
1214
00:50:41,089 --> 00:50:45,619
teaching us that their jobs are
1215
00:50:43,490 --> 00:50:47,750
irrelevant like we don't even need their
1216
00:50:45,619 --> 00:50:49,070
jobs because America has to top it up
1217
00:50:47,750 --> 00:50:51,880
you know what I mean mm-hmm
1218
00:50:49,070 --> 00:50:55,280
like the all the crybaby Americans I
1219
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:57,530
inspect my food before I eat it I need
1220
00:50:55,280 --> 00:51:00,050
somebody to inspect this what are you a
1221
00:50:57,530 --> 00:51:01,130
baby right if it doesn't smell good
1222
00:51:00,050 --> 00:51:03,190
don't eat it
1223
00:51:01,130 --> 00:51:05,930
right you don't nobody inspect your food
1224
00:51:03,190 --> 00:51:07,280
right right you don't need that oh I
1225
00:51:05,930 --> 00:51:09,380
don't want to get an airplane let
1226
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:11,960
somebody inspect it first it's got two
1227
00:51:09,380 --> 00:51:14,570
wings in two wheels it's a plane
1228
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:17,330
get on it ray got fired the air traffic
1229
00:51:14,570 --> 00:51:18,859
controllers do we still have aircraft I
1230
00:51:17,330 --> 00:51:20,330
know they went on strike and to teach
1231
00:51:18,859 --> 00:51:22,580
them a lesson he fired all the air
1232
00:51:20,330 --> 00:51:25,460
traffic controllers don't the planes
1233
00:51:22,580 --> 00:51:27,530
just automatically know where to go and
1234
00:51:25,460 --> 00:51:29,540
where to fly now you don't need those
1235
00:51:27,530 --> 00:51:31,339
guys well they have autopilot and they
1236
00:51:29,540 --> 00:51:33,950
have Auto traffic controller I'm sure I
1237
00:51:31,339 --> 00:51:35,690
think I read that somewhere yeah you
1238
00:51:33,950 --> 00:51:38,450
don't need that Hey and you know I heard
1239
00:51:35,690 --> 00:51:40,700
these federal prison guards like Oh
1240
00:51:38,450 --> 00:51:41,839
cry baby I don't have gas to get back
1241
00:51:40,700 --> 00:51:42,950
and forth to work so you know what they
1242
00:51:41,839 --> 00:51:46,579
did this is true
1243
00:51:42,950 --> 00:51:48,980
they set up cots in the prison for the
1244
00:51:46,579 --> 00:51:50,150
prison guards so they just sleep there
1245
00:51:48,980 --> 00:51:52,670
that makes sense
1246
00:51:50,150 --> 00:51:55,400
right exactly all these things are like
1247
00:51:52,670 --> 00:51:58,520
wow why haven't we been doing this all
1248
00:51:55,400 --> 00:52:00,020
along have the guards be in the prison
1249
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:02,240
with the prisoners all the time
1250
00:52:00,020 --> 00:52:05,390
it's insane that they're not the
1251
00:52:02,240 --> 00:52:10,070
inefficiency exactly Donald Trump is
1252
00:52:05,390 --> 00:52:12,800
making this country eficient mm-hmm
1253
00:52:10,070 --> 00:52:15,320
so that's good yeah Wilbur Ross had some
1254
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:20,000
good oh your uncle uncle Wilbur he's got
1255
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:20,750
that Ross chin that swagger he does have
1256
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:23,630
the swagger
1257
00:52:20,750 --> 00:52:25,670
he's any successful just like you yeah
1258
00:52:23,630 --> 00:52:28,790
yeah so what did he say he said take a
1259
00:52:25,670 --> 00:52:31,609
loan exactly why can't they go take
1260
00:52:28,790 --> 00:52:33,890
payday loans they're too lazy to go to
1261
00:52:31,609 --> 00:52:36,680
the bank and get along you believe it
1262
00:52:33,890 --> 00:52:38,329
that's federal employees for you yep
1263
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:40,430
yeah yeah they've been trained
1264
00:52:38,329 --> 00:52:43,010
I want my government checks sent to me
1265
00:52:40,430 --> 00:52:46,730
because I'm a federal employee yeah did
1266
00:52:43,010 --> 00:52:49,430
is wanted handed to me spoon-fed Donald
1267
00:52:46,730 --> 00:52:52,040
Trump is spoon feeding them the bitter
1268
00:52:49,430 --> 00:52:54,950
medicine these people need and spoon
1269
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:58,490
feeding the rest of us the truth as are
1270
00:52:54,950 --> 00:53:01,160
you thank you John Ross you're welcome
1271
00:52:58,490 --> 00:53:04,640
these cry-baby federal workers having
1272
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:06,950
soup kitchens and food drives canned
1273
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:09,050
food drives for these people you cannot
1274
00:53:06,950 --> 00:53:11,510
give them free food they're like stray
1275
00:53:09,050 --> 00:53:13,130
cats like they'll be back yeah looking
1276
00:53:11,510 --> 00:53:15,319
for a handout as soon as you give them
1277
00:53:13,130 --> 00:53:17,240
anything so we've got to get rid of
1278
00:53:15,319 --> 00:53:17,540
these people should take their kids from
1279
00:53:17,240 --> 00:53:19,369
them
1280
00:53:17,540 --> 00:53:22,579
so you're saying two separate federal
1281
00:53:19,369 --> 00:53:24,560
employees from their kids it's not a bad
1282
00:53:22,579 --> 00:53:27,079
idea it's a great idea they shouldn't be
1283
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:30,260
having kids now who do we get to
1284
00:53:27,079 --> 00:53:31,880
separate them from their kids we might
1285
00:53:30,260 --> 00:53:34,460
have to ask them to self separate
1286
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:36,710
because self-deportation
1287
00:53:34,460 --> 00:53:38,270
which I began was Mitt Romney's idea
1288
00:53:36,710 --> 00:53:40,430
yeah that's right I got it for my admit
1289
00:53:38,270 --> 00:53:43,250
I stole it I took it and I took it in a
1290
00:53:40,430 --> 00:53:46,339
different direction self separation
1291
00:53:43,250 --> 00:53:49,579
mm-hmm like an amoeba or a Paramecium
1292
00:53:46,339 --> 00:53:54,260
maybe we should get Laura Trump to
1293
00:53:49,579 --> 00:53:55,890
promote yeah I love her she is I like
1294
00:53:54,260 --> 00:53:58,500
her she's married
1295
00:53:55,890 --> 00:54:00,750
she's married to Eric the hunter what a
1296
00:53:58,500 --> 00:54:01,799
great guy the apple doesn't fall far
1297
00:54:00,750 --> 00:54:05,369
from the tree
1298
00:54:01,799 --> 00:54:07,500
Donald Trump he self separated he's a
1299
00:54:05,369 --> 00:54:10,410
good father he's a great father I
1300
00:54:07,500 --> 00:54:13,319
apologize he's a great father he self
1301
00:54:10,410 --> 00:54:15,510
separated he knew that the best thing
1302
00:54:13,319 --> 00:54:17,519
for kids is self separation
1303
00:54:15,510 --> 00:54:20,099
he left the mother he left everybody
1304
00:54:17,519 --> 00:54:23,210
left everybody and it made those kids
1305
00:54:20,099 --> 00:54:26,400
tough it made him top it made them
1306
00:54:23,210 --> 00:54:28,140
ambitious I mean those guys are geniuses
1307
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:31,019
Don jr. and Eric if they could have gone
1308
00:54:28,140 --> 00:54:33,839
and worked for anybody they could have
1309
00:54:31,019 --> 00:54:36,539
gotten any job in any fortune 500
1310
00:54:33,839 --> 00:54:38,369
company but what do they do they came
1311
00:54:36,539 --> 00:54:40,740
back to Donald and now they're working
1312
00:54:38,369 --> 00:54:45,900
for us which is nice
1313
00:54:40,740 --> 00:54:50,279
and nobody thanks them you and I do you
1314
00:54:45,900 --> 00:54:52,769
read about that male nurse at the care
1315
00:54:50,279 --> 00:54:56,640
facility this person in a vegetative
1316
00:54:52,769 --> 00:54:58,740
state gave birth Yeah right and they're
1317
00:54:56,640 --> 00:55:01,589
claiming he's being accused of
1318
00:54:58,740 --> 00:55:04,890
impregnating this woman in a coma you've
1319
00:55:01,589 --> 00:55:06,539
got the story straight and he's produced
1320
00:55:04,890 --> 00:55:11,759
his personal calendars that prove that
1321
00:55:06,539 --> 00:55:13,559
he didn't was he with squeaked they're
1322
00:55:11,759 --> 00:55:16,430
ruining a good man they're trying to
1323
00:55:13,559 --> 00:55:20,819
ruining a good man just because
1324
00:55:16,430 --> 00:55:22,319
political correctness where are you
1325
00:55:20,819 --> 00:55:24,539
gonna get good people to serve in
1326
00:55:22,319 --> 00:55:26,700
government like Brett Kavanaugh what he
1327
00:55:24,539 --> 00:55:28,170
went through right well that's funny I
1328
00:55:26,700 --> 00:55:29,309
hadn't thought about Brett Kavanaugh and
1329
00:55:28,170 --> 00:55:30,960
we were talking about this but oh yeah
1330
00:55:29,309 --> 00:55:32,819
Brett Kavanaugh yes he went through a
1331
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:34,319
similar thing it occurs to me now you
1332
00:55:32,819 --> 00:55:36,900
know it's a miracle that anybody would
1333
00:55:34,319 --> 00:55:42,390
want to be a Supreme Court justice and
1334
00:55:36,900 --> 00:55:45,809
it's a miracle that anybody would wanna
1335
00:55:42,390 --> 00:55:47,819
have sex with a quadriplegic in a coma
1336
00:55:45,809 --> 00:55:51,569
if there are these kind of consequences
1337
00:55:47,819 --> 00:55:54,630
he'll restrain him dangerous territory
1338
00:55:51,569 --> 00:55:58,019
all right god bless america yes sir
1339
00:55:54,630 --> 00:56:00,359
god bless Donald Trump yes sir and god
1340
00:55:58,019 --> 00:56:03,329
bless the men and women of ice who are
1341
00:56:00,359 --> 00:56:05,220
keeping her border safe yes I have
1342
00:56:03,329 --> 00:56:09,059
pictures of them life-sized pictures on
1343
00:56:05,220 --> 00:56:09,539
my wall of the heroes of ice god bless
1344
00:56:09,059 --> 00:56:11,429
them
1345
00:56:09,539 --> 00:56:13,829
god bless you sir and you're teaching
1346
00:56:11,429 --> 00:56:15,959
screenwriting at Covington Catholic
1347
00:56:13,829 --> 00:56:18,509
school I understand that is correct yeah
1348
00:56:15,959 --> 00:56:21,389
we start with a little drum circle yes
1349
00:56:18,509 --> 00:56:24,359
we sing we chant about structure and
1350
00:56:21,389 --> 00:56:24,929
plot points and the dark night of the
1351
00:56:24,359 --> 00:56:30,269
soul
1352
00:56:24,929 --> 00:56:32,909
what about Kamala Harris huh huh right
1353
00:56:30,269 --> 00:56:36,509
she's put everyone in San Francisco in
1354
00:56:32,909 --> 00:56:39,119
jail mm-hmm right no evidence when she
1355
00:56:36,509 --> 00:56:41,159
was the DA in San Francisco with all
1356
00:56:39,119 --> 00:56:44,939
made up of it with all made up evidence
1357
00:56:41,159 --> 00:56:48,359
yes such as the FBI they're all in on
1358
00:56:44,939 --> 00:56:50,399
the FBI we gotta get may be no more
1359
00:56:48,359 --> 00:56:53,880
prosecutors now you're a member of the
1360
00:56:50,399 --> 00:56:55,909
National Rifle Association yes that was
1361
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:58,619
your dr. Martin Luther King Day
1362
00:56:55,909 --> 00:57:01,349
delightful you know that I'm very
1363
00:56:58,619 --> 00:57:05,130
reverent of the Reverend dr. Martin
1364
00:57:01,349 --> 00:57:07,319
Luther King jr. great man I don't think
1365
00:57:05,130 --> 00:57:11,219
generator man than dr. Martin Luther
1366
00:57:07,319 --> 00:57:15,239
King jr. possibly not and cut down in
1367
00:57:11,219 --> 00:57:18,479
his prime and did not have to be did you
1368
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:21,539
know that he had applied a gun permit a
1369
00:57:18,479 --> 00:57:24,209
carry permit in a state that a May issue
1370
00:57:21,539 --> 00:57:25,979
like it might and then and they turned
1371
00:57:24,209 --> 00:57:28,709
him down they turned him down they
1372
00:57:25,979 --> 00:57:30,419
turned him down to get a gun to get a
1373
00:57:28,709 --> 00:57:33,089
gun now you're a member of the National
1374
00:57:30,419 --> 00:57:35,999
Rifle Association yes I would like to
1375
00:57:33,089 --> 00:57:38,789
run for president I think that I could
1376
00:57:35,999 --> 00:57:42,959
challenge Oliver North but yes right now
1377
00:57:38,789 --> 00:57:45,389
I'm just a plebeian run-of-the-mill yeah
1378
00:57:42,959 --> 00:57:47,159
actually a that dr. Martin Luther King
1379
00:57:45,389 --> 00:57:50,989
jr. would still be alive today
1380
00:57:47,159 --> 00:57:56,369
had he been issued that handgun
1381
00:57:50,989 --> 00:57:58,469
obviously it's so simple right yeah yeah
1382
00:57:56,369 --> 00:58:01,699
the only way to stop a bad guy with a
1383
00:57:58,469 --> 00:58:05,999
gun is a non-violent pacifist with a gun
1384
00:58:01,699 --> 00:58:10,739
if dr. Martin Luther King jr. had had a
1385
00:58:05,999 --> 00:58:12,929
gun do you think James Earl Ray would
1386
00:58:10,739 --> 00:58:15,149
have tried that no because he would have
1387
00:58:12,929 --> 00:58:17,779
stepped out on that balcony and he would
1388
00:58:15,149 --> 00:58:20,999
have had that gun turned sideways
1389
00:58:17,779 --> 00:58:22,430
gangster style thanks the style and
1390
00:58:20,999 --> 00:58:24,500
James Earl Ray would have
1391
00:58:22,430 --> 00:58:25,960
had that sniper rifle on wet whoa whoa
1392
00:58:24,500 --> 00:58:28,060
whoa
1393
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:49,060
exactly exactly
1394
00:58:28,060 --> 00:58:51,380
[Music]
1395
00:58:49,060 --> 00:58:52,790
you're listening to the david feldman
1396
00:58:51,380 --> 00:58:55,490
radio program
1397
00:58:52,790 --> 00:58:57,650
you said pathetic humph let's go to
1398
00:58:55,490 --> 00:58:58,970
washington d.c which is still there i
1399
00:58:57,650 --> 00:59:02,060
hope it is
1400
00:58:58,970 --> 00:59:03,430
oh good okay and Zack Ford is the LGBTQ
1401
00:59:02,060 --> 00:59:07,070
editor for Think Progress
1402
00:59:03,430 --> 00:59:09,950
thinkprogress.org read him every day he
1403
00:59:07,070 --> 00:59:12,320
was gone last week but he's back and
1404
00:59:09,950 --> 00:59:15,920
we're gonna talk about the Supreme
1405
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:17,660
Court's ruling on the military banning
1406
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:19,760
transgender people from serving in the
1407
00:59:17,660 --> 00:59:24,230
military I want to talk about religious
1408
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:28,730
freedom foster care and how people start
1409
00:59:24,230 --> 00:59:31,400
with persecuting the LGBTQ but it
1410
00:59:28,730 --> 00:59:33,410
doesn't end there and it's on to Muslims
1411
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:38,810
and Jews or it starts with Muslims and
1412
00:59:33,410 --> 00:59:42,440
Jews and then goes over to LGBTQ under
1413
00:59:38,810 --> 00:59:46,750
the guise of religious liberty and New
1414
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:50,000
York State very blue but maybe behind on
1415
00:59:46,750 --> 00:59:53,150
LGBTQ issues surprisingly we'll ask Zach
1416
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:55,910
about that in a second but first Nancy
1417
00:59:53,150 --> 00:59:57,770
Pelosi didn't see great do you think
1418
00:59:55,910 --> 01:00:00,220
she's great you know I think we're
1419
00:59:57,770 --> 01:00:02,960
seeing somebody stand up to Trump and
1420
01:00:00,220 --> 01:00:05,240
that's refreshing in and of itself and I
1421
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:08,870
think she's doing it in thoughtful
1422
01:00:05,240 --> 01:00:12,140
measured ways and you know we saw Trump
1423
01:00:08,870 --> 01:00:14,330
cave a little bit because you know he
1424
01:00:12,140 --> 01:00:16,730
wanted to do the State of the Union and
1425
01:00:14,330 --> 01:00:19,070
she said well we're not gonna pass the
1426
01:00:16,730 --> 01:00:21,670
thing we need to pass to let you come so
1427
01:00:19,070 --> 01:00:23,480
he kind of gave up on that and you know
1428
01:00:21,670 --> 01:00:25,640
obviously he's gonna do what he's gonna
1429
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:27,710
do he's gonna find some other venue or
1430
01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:30,710
do some one of his campaign events or
1431
01:00:27,710 --> 01:00:32,990
whatever but you know it was it was I'll
1432
01:00:30,710 --> 01:00:34,850
show a force from from the Speaker of
1433
01:00:32,990 --> 01:00:37,580
the House and it it worked in this
1434
01:00:34,850 --> 01:00:39,470
particular case so I don't know I'm it's
1435
01:00:37,580 --> 01:00:41,540
it's kind of a small potatoes thing but
1436
01:00:39,470 --> 01:00:43,460
I'm optimistic I'm excited to see you
1437
01:00:41,540 --> 01:00:45,110
know what future showdowns might look
1438
01:00:43,460 --> 01:00:47,240
like I thought she approached it in a
1439
01:00:45,110 --> 01:00:50,030
very thoughtful way yeah I got scared
1440
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:53,060
because it happened around the same time
1441
01:00:50,030 --> 01:00:56,330
that Michael Kohn canceled his testimony
1442
01:00:53,060 --> 01:00:58,280
he said I can't guarantee my own safety
1443
01:00:56,330 --> 01:01:00,290
I've been getting threats and then you
1444
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:01,730
you know you watch the news and they
1445
01:01:00,290 --> 01:01:05,210
replay the
1446
01:01:01,730 --> 01:01:07,850
threats from Giuliani and Donald Trump
1447
01:01:05,210 --> 01:01:09,800
and it is obstruction of justice it's
1448
01:01:07,850 --> 01:01:12,050
saying if you testify we're gonna go
1449
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:13,900
after your family your father-in-law is
1450
01:01:12,050 --> 01:01:16,850
gonna get arrested it's straight out of
1451
01:01:13,900 --> 01:01:19,190
Godfather two we're Frankie five angels
1452
01:01:16,850 --> 01:01:21,590
as testifying and suddenly his brother
1453
01:01:19,190 --> 01:01:25,130
shows up from Sicily this is just
1454
01:01:21,590 --> 01:01:28,520
downright mobster intimidation that was
1455
01:01:25,130 --> 01:01:33,200
going on early in the day on Wednesday
1456
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:34,880
and Trump said I'm going to the Capitol
1457
01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:36,680
whether or not I'm invited I'm gonna
1458
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:40,520
deliver that State of the Union I began
1459
01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:44,600
to think you know he could do that he
1460
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:47,960
could storm the Capitol with his Secret
1461
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:49,730
Service or ice and there would be some
1462
01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:52,190
people who would show up for that speech
1463
01:01:49,730 --> 01:01:53,840
and that would be really scary it's no
1464
01:01:52,190 --> 01:01:56,750
secret that he was a bully it's no
1465
01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:59,030
secret that he's willing to take on
1466
01:01:56,750 --> 01:02:00,680
conventional steps to get his way but
1467
01:01:59,030 --> 01:02:02,210
you know I think it would have been an
1468
01:02:00,680 --> 01:02:04,940
interesting thing if he showed up
1469
01:02:02,210 --> 01:02:07,820
because like I said the house has to
1470
01:02:04,940 --> 01:02:10,220
pass a resolution inviting him in to
1471
01:02:07,820 --> 01:02:12,170
speak and if he showed up and spoke you
1472
01:02:10,220 --> 01:02:14,750
know it'd be topsy-turvy if you'd like
1473
01:02:12,170 --> 01:02:17,840
something out of house of cards but I
1474
01:02:14,750 --> 01:02:18,920
don't know that it would you know look
1475
01:02:17,840 --> 01:02:20,540
good in his favor
1476
01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:22,520
I think it would just show that he's
1477
01:02:20,540 --> 01:02:25,550
more of a bully and more of somebody who
1478
01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:27,850
is willing to bulldoze to try to get his
1479
01:02:25,550 --> 01:02:31,250
way regardless of how unrealistic or
1480
01:02:27,850 --> 01:02:33,440
xenophobic that way is yeah well 35
1481
01:02:31,250 --> 01:02:36,230
percent of the American people would say
1482
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:38,180
go gadem yeah they've put the
1483
01:02:36,230 --> 01:02:40,850
Constitution on a treadmill this is the
1484
01:02:38,180 --> 01:02:43,580
ultimate I hope it's the ultimate stress
1485
01:02:40,850 --> 01:02:47,420
test he's found every hole he's like
1486
01:02:43,580 --> 01:02:50,990
water if you've ever been in a flood you
1487
01:02:47,420 --> 01:02:54,410
know what water does he finds every
1488
01:02:50,990 --> 01:02:57,200
crack every hole and leaves behind black
1489
01:02:54,410 --> 01:02:58,580
mold okay you're off to creating change
1490
01:02:57,200 --> 01:03:01,520
what is creating change
1491
01:02:58,580 --> 01:03:04,940
so creating change is the National
1492
01:03:01,520 --> 01:03:09,200
Conference on LGBTQ equality it's been
1493
01:03:04,940 --> 01:03:11,600
around for a very long time and you know
1494
01:03:09,200 --> 01:03:13,880
it's it's a really wondrous conference
1495
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:14,750
this year it's in Detroit that brings
1496
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:15,320
together
1497
01:03:14,750 --> 01:03:17,750
elder
1498
01:03:15,320 --> 01:03:20,900
bcq activists and leaders from around
1499
01:03:17,750 --> 01:03:22,910
the country to strategize with each
1500
01:03:20,900 --> 01:03:25,760
other and share their wisdom with each
1501
01:03:22,910 --> 01:03:28,280
other and you know you have all of the
1502
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:30,140
state Equality advocacy groups show up
1503
01:03:28,280 --> 01:03:32,270
you have all of the folks at
1504
01:03:30,140 --> 01:03:34,070
universities who were doing LGBTQ
1505
01:03:32,270 --> 01:03:35,660
support show up you have all the folks
1506
01:03:34,070 --> 01:03:38,180
who are running community centers show
1507
01:03:35,660 --> 01:03:40,610
up and on top of all of that expertise
1508
01:03:38,180 --> 01:03:42,800
you have this vibrant group of very
1509
01:03:40,610 --> 01:03:45,380
young activists you have high school
1510
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:47,210
kids and college kids who are just eager
1511
01:03:45,380 --> 01:03:48,860
to learn everything and take that back
1512
01:03:47,210 --> 01:03:50,960
to their communities and make a
1513
01:03:48,860 --> 01:03:52,370
difference and I know for me the first
1514
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:54,590
time I went which was over ten years ago
1515
01:03:52,370 --> 01:03:57,710
now it was the first time that I was
1516
01:03:54,590 --> 01:04:00,050
ever in a totally queer space I mean now
1517
01:03:57,710 --> 01:04:02,450
that I live in DC I can I can spend a
1518
01:04:00,050 --> 01:04:04,820
lot of time in queer specific spaces if
1519
01:04:02,450 --> 01:04:06,290
I want to but as somebody who hadn't
1520
01:04:04,820 --> 01:04:07,310
lived in a city like that before it was
1521
01:04:06,290 --> 01:04:10,130
the first time that I was in this
1522
01:04:07,310 --> 01:04:12,410
environment where everyone I met
1523
01:04:10,130 --> 01:04:13,880
I could generally assume was queer as
1524
01:04:12,410 --> 01:04:15,830
opposed to the opposite it was sort of
1525
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:17,600
like what I I guess straight people
1526
01:04:15,830 --> 01:04:20,270
enjoy the rest of the time in the world
1527
01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:21,380
and I remember I was living in an Iowa
1528
01:04:20,270 --> 01:04:23,450
at the time that I went to my first
1529
01:04:21,380 --> 01:04:26,120
conference there and I remember like
1530
01:04:23,450 --> 01:04:27,770
driving back into Iowa and thinking like
1531
01:04:26,120 --> 01:04:30,080
oh I'm driving back into straight world
1532
01:04:27,770 --> 01:04:33,620
and it literally took me a good week to
1533
01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:36,230
sort of you know lose that feeling that
1534
01:04:33,620 --> 01:04:38,870
like everyone around me was you know
1535
01:04:36,230 --> 01:04:41,600
part of my community and it was kind of
1536
01:04:38,870 --> 01:04:43,670
disputed reality check to come back from
1537
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:45,740
that but it was still it still is very
1538
01:04:43,670 --> 01:04:47,810
liberating the experience and I go back
1539
01:04:45,740 --> 01:04:50,300
and you know even though now I'm one of
1540
01:04:47,810 --> 01:04:52,490
those policy experts and I'll be talking
1541
01:04:50,300 --> 01:04:55,070
about the Alliance defending freedom and
1542
01:04:52,490 --> 01:04:57,530
other hate groups at a panel I still
1543
01:04:55,070 --> 01:04:59,240
learn things from other folks I learned
1544
01:04:57,530 --> 01:05:01,160
about why'd to criminalize and sex work
1545
01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:03,320
is important or and I learn about the
1546
01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:04,310
latest you know efforts and HIV advocacy
1547
01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:07,160
or or what-have-you
1548
01:05:04,310 --> 01:05:08,870
and it's just it's a really special
1549
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:11,540
conference so if you're in the Detroit
1550
01:05:08,870 --> 01:05:13,940
area you definitely want to pop over
1551
01:05:11,540 --> 01:05:17,210
there this weekend and see what you can
1552
01:05:13,940 --> 01:05:19,490
learn or just look for us but otherwise
1553
01:05:17,210 --> 01:05:21,770
just keep it on your radar for future
1554
01:05:19,490 --> 01:05:23,210
years it's not the cheapest thing to to
1555
01:05:21,770 --> 01:05:24,800
attend a conference like that
1556
01:05:23,210 --> 01:05:26,780
but it's one of the most meaningful that
1557
01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:28,450
I've ever participated in that's why I
1558
01:05:26,780 --> 01:05:30,640
keep going back creating
1559
01:05:28,450 --> 01:05:33,940
change conference January 23rd for the
1560
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:36,339
27th 2019 at the Detroit married at the
1561
01:05:33,940 --> 01:05:39,820
Renaissance Center and it's sponsored by
1562
01:05:36,339 --> 01:05:42,460
the National LGBTQ Task Force
1563
01:05:39,820 --> 01:05:45,040
do they have priorities do they have a
1564
01:05:42,460 --> 01:05:47,050
theme each year do they single out the
1565
01:05:45,040 --> 01:05:49,780
one big issue that people should be
1566
01:05:47,050 --> 01:05:51,730
focused on in a sense yes in a sense no
1567
01:05:49,780 --> 01:05:52,869
they have a couple plenary sessions
1568
01:05:51,730 --> 01:05:54,640
which is where they invite the entire
1569
01:05:52,869 --> 01:05:56,470
conference to come together to hear
1570
01:05:54,640 --> 01:05:58,030
certain speakers I think one of the
1571
01:05:56,470 --> 01:06:00,369
panels this year is specifically about
1572
01:05:58,030 --> 01:06:03,490
the me2 movement and its intersections
1573
01:06:00,369 --> 01:06:05,440
with the LGBTQ community but really you
1574
01:06:03,490 --> 01:06:07,510
know there's there's just so much they
1575
01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:08,920
have different topic areas that if you
1576
01:06:07,510 --> 01:06:11,170
really want to focus on learning about
1577
01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:12,910
something all of the different workshops
1578
01:06:11,170 --> 01:06:15,550
are categorized in such a way that you
1579
01:06:12,910 --> 01:06:16,839
can make sure you're getting to all of
1580
01:06:15,550 --> 01:06:18,490
the different ones related to what you
1581
01:06:16,839 --> 01:06:19,750
care about but it's really just an
1582
01:06:18,490 --> 01:06:22,660
opportunity to kind of learn about
1583
01:06:19,750 --> 01:06:23,920
everything and you know it's it's unlike
1584
01:06:22,660 --> 01:06:27,099
any other commerce I went to in the way
1585
01:06:23,920 --> 01:06:29,859
that it creates accessibility and it
1586
01:06:27,099 --> 01:06:31,839
promotes diversity and and creating an
1587
01:06:29,859 --> 01:06:33,940
environment that people feel safe to
1588
01:06:31,839 --> 01:06:34,510
participate in it's it's a pretty
1589
01:06:33,940 --> 01:06:36,760
special place
1590
01:06:34,510 --> 01:06:41,369
yeah the me2 movement Kevin Spacey
1591
01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:45,310
notwithstanding the violence in same-sex
1592
01:06:41,369 --> 01:06:48,250
relationships has not bubbled up to the
1593
01:06:45,310 --> 01:06:51,099
surface yet on a national scale and I
1594
01:06:48,250 --> 01:06:53,950
think that's something to do with not
1595
01:06:51,099 --> 01:06:57,220
wanting to draw attention to that is
1596
01:06:53,950 --> 01:06:59,619
there some kind of internal regulation
1597
01:06:57,220 --> 01:07:01,329
going on in the LGBTQ I know you don't
1598
01:06:59,619 --> 01:07:03,970
speak for everybody in the LGBTQ
1599
01:07:01,329 --> 01:07:08,020
community but I could I can imagine not
1600
01:07:03,970 --> 01:07:11,800
wanting that issue to bubble up to the
1601
01:07:08,020 --> 01:07:14,950
national media uh yeah we do know that
1602
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:17,050
in same-sex relationships there's just
1603
01:07:14,950 --> 01:07:19,000
as much domestic abuse as there are in
1604
01:07:17,050 --> 01:07:21,579
straight relationships so there's
1605
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:24,430
definitely all kinds of related topics
1606
01:07:21,579 --> 01:07:26,829
that are just as pertinent to what we
1607
01:07:24,430 --> 01:07:30,190
experience I don't know that there's any
1608
01:07:26,829 --> 01:07:32,290
particular barrier that people are
1609
01:07:30,190 --> 01:07:35,170
putting up to discussing it I think it's
1610
01:07:32,290 --> 01:07:37,359
just you know we've been so focused on
1611
01:07:35,170 --> 01:07:39,279
on showing how much our families are the
1612
01:07:37,359 --> 01:07:41,619
same in positive ways right
1613
01:07:39,279 --> 01:07:43,599
that a lot of the the negative things
1614
01:07:41,619 --> 01:07:45,099
may have been pushed to the backburner
1615
01:07:43,599 --> 01:07:46,809
but there are still issues that we need
1616
01:07:45,099 --> 01:07:49,150
to work on as a community in the
1617
01:07:46,809 --> 01:07:49,749
movement to promote our own health and
1618
01:07:49,150 --> 01:07:53,109
safety
1619
01:07:49,749 --> 01:07:57,179
the real problem is straight people or
1620
01:07:53,109 --> 01:08:00,849
closeted gay men beating up homosexuals
1621
01:07:57,179 --> 01:08:05,919
LGBTQ that's the problem so that if you
1622
01:08:00,849 --> 01:08:09,159
bring up the subject of LGBTQ on LGBTQ
1623
01:08:05,919 --> 01:08:12,699
violence it distracts from the real
1624
01:08:09,159 --> 01:08:14,949
problem which is closet cases you know
1625
01:08:12,699 --> 01:08:17,619
being violent towards the LGBTQ
1626
01:08:14,949 --> 01:08:19,809
community so I could see how that isn't
1627
01:08:17,619 --> 01:08:22,719
being addressed yet on a national yeah
1628
01:08:19,809 --> 01:08:24,429
it's definitely you know it it's not a
1629
01:08:22,719 --> 01:08:26,079
community that is perfect in every
1630
01:08:24,429 --> 01:08:28,210
single way we we have some of the same
1631
01:08:26,079 --> 01:08:30,130
challenges that everyone else faces and
1632
01:08:28,210 --> 01:08:31,839
I think it'll be important to bring more
1633
01:08:30,130 --> 01:08:33,460
light to that so I'm curious to see what
1634
01:08:31,839 --> 01:08:35,020
approach they take in the conference
1635
01:08:33,460 --> 01:08:37,960
this weekend I would think the police
1636
01:08:35,020 --> 01:08:40,719
have to be educated first I would think
1637
01:08:37,960 --> 01:08:44,109
the same-sex couples have a problem
1638
01:08:40,719 --> 01:08:47,279
calling in a domestic disturbance I
1639
01:08:44,109 --> 01:08:50,319
don't think the police are equipped to
1640
01:08:47,279 --> 01:08:53,049
empathize well you're definitely right
1641
01:08:50,319 --> 01:08:54,639
that we still face anti LGBTQ
1642
01:08:53,049 --> 01:08:56,799
discrimination from the police there was
1643
01:08:54,639 --> 01:08:59,349
a story just this week of a trans woman
1644
01:08:56,799 --> 01:09:00,849
who was you know basically arrested for
1645
01:08:59,349 --> 01:09:03,270
being trans on the street and just
1646
01:09:00,849 --> 01:09:05,409
walking and she's suing for the
1647
01:09:03,270 --> 01:09:07,000
discrimination that she experienced so I
1648
01:09:05,409 --> 01:09:10,719
think you're right I think there's some
1649
01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:12,670
apprehension that we won't get the kind
1650
01:09:10,719 --> 01:09:14,319
of support that we need when we're
1651
01:09:12,670 --> 01:09:16,960
facing these similar kinds of struggles
1652
01:09:14,319 --> 01:09:18,520
so we have to you know do that kind of
1653
01:09:16,960 --> 01:09:20,889
training but also just create resources
1654
01:09:18,520 --> 01:09:23,079
that help people realize this is a real
1655
01:09:20,889 --> 01:09:23,920
issue and it it might manifest in
1656
01:09:23,079 --> 01:09:25,960
different ways
1657
01:09:23,920 --> 01:09:28,599
based on you know makeup of our
1658
01:09:25,960 --> 01:09:31,449
relationships and we need to continue to
1659
01:09:28,599 --> 01:09:32,920
protect ourselves from that AOC I'm
1660
01:09:31,449 --> 01:09:36,309
throwing you a curve ball
1661
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:39,670
she's what 28 27 something like that
1662
01:09:36,309 --> 01:09:43,119
people my age think there's gonna be a
1663
01:09:39,670 --> 01:09:46,989
backlash to AOC she doesn't care what we
1664
01:09:43,119 --> 01:09:50,319
think it doesn't matter what we think
1665
01:09:46,989 --> 01:09:51,880
has she captured your generation
1666
01:09:50,319 --> 01:09:52,619
purchase like I don't care what you
1667
01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:56,310
think did I
1668
01:09:52,619 --> 01:09:59,940
white bulb I was talking I was talking
1669
01:09:56,310 --> 01:10:04,590
to some people her age and they said to
1670
01:09:59,940 --> 01:10:08,310
me you do realize that our retirement
1671
01:10:04,590 --> 01:10:10,830
plan is Marxism I went huh
1672
01:10:08,310 --> 01:10:14,099
we don't expect Social Security be there
1673
01:10:10,830 --> 01:10:18,330
our retirement plan is Marxism assuming
1674
01:10:14,099 --> 01:10:21,300
the planet is still there that's what
1675
01:10:18,330 --> 01:10:24,330
American citizens under the age of 30
1676
01:10:21,300 --> 01:10:27,150
think the planet is probably not going
1677
01:10:24,330 --> 01:10:30,330
to be there in 40 years and if it is
1678
01:10:27,150 --> 01:10:33,570
there we won't have any Social Security
1679
01:10:30,330 --> 01:10:35,610
so in terms of your complaining about
1680
01:10:33,570 --> 01:10:38,159
ageism who cares
1681
01:10:35,610 --> 01:10:41,250
poor as she used to say to Joe Lieberman
1682
01:10:38,159 --> 01:10:44,880
who dis friends my age are going why
1683
01:10:41,250 --> 01:10:48,560
don't you people respect us well take a
1684
01:10:44,880 --> 01:10:48,560
look because you destroyed our planet
1685
01:10:49,639 --> 01:10:55,920
I'm not under 30 by any means I'm 33 but
1686
01:10:53,489 --> 01:10:57,540
I still 10 years out of college have
1687
01:10:55,920 --> 01:11:00,540
tons of student loans that I'm still
1688
01:10:57,540 --> 01:11:03,270
paying off and you know I make enough to
1689
01:11:00,540 --> 01:11:05,760
survive in DC which is a super expensive
1690
01:11:03,270 --> 01:11:08,190
city but you know I don't there was that
1691
01:11:05,760 --> 01:11:10,380
thing that came out a couple weeks ago
1692
01:11:08,190 --> 01:11:12,090
from someone it's like CNN BC about how
1693
01:11:10,380 --> 01:11:14,010
much millenials should have in savings
1694
01:11:12,090 --> 01:11:15,929
and all those guys I don't I don't have
1695
01:11:14,010 --> 01:11:18,179
that actually from the way that I heard
1696
01:11:15,929 --> 01:11:20,340
a lot of my peers talking about it I'm
1697
01:11:18,179 --> 01:11:22,050
doing better than some of them and I
1698
01:11:20,340 --> 01:11:23,820
don't make a lot and I don't put away a
1699
01:11:22,050 --> 01:11:25,560
lot but I was still in better shape than
1700
01:11:23,820 --> 01:11:27,239
some some folks who still you know live
1701
01:11:25,560 --> 01:11:28,409
week to week let alone the hundred
1702
01:11:27,239 --> 01:11:29,969
thousand people who aren't getting in
1703
01:11:28,409 --> 01:11:33,270
their paychecks at all because of the
1704
01:11:29,969 --> 01:11:34,889
shutdown so you know where it's it's
1705
01:11:33,270 --> 01:11:37,580
easy to imagine that the next generation
1706
01:11:34,889 --> 01:11:40,440
has easier but in so many ways
1707
01:11:37,580 --> 01:11:43,920
Millennials don't know thank you are set
1708
01:11:40,440 --> 01:11:46,080
up for failure so you know if you are
1709
01:11:43,920 --> 01:11:49,440
bothered by something that a OC is same
1710
01:11:46,080 --> 01:11:51,300
try listening and yeah what the context
1711
01:11:49,440 --> 01:11:53,580
is that's informing you know what what
1712
01:11:51,300 --> 01:11:56,639
she has to put out there the baby boom
1713
01:11:53,580 --> 01:12:00,349
echo there was the baby boom a part of
1714
01:11:56,639 --> 01:12:04,650
the echo we are the worst generation
1715
01:12:00,349 --> 01:12:06,970
ever we strip mined the generation that
1716
01:12:04,650 --> 01:12:11,350
came after put them into debt
1717
01:12:06,970 --> 01:12:16,240
didn't care worst generation ever okay
1718
01:12:11,350 --> 01:12:18,610
New York State blue they control all
1719
01:12:16,240 --> 01:12:19,980
three branches of government now I don't
1720
01:12:18,610 --> 01:12:23,170
know about the Supreme Court but they
1721
01:12:19,980 --> 01:12:26,320
they control the State House Cuomo and
1722
01:12:23,170 --> 01:12:27,970
the Senate and the assembly when it
1723
01:12:26,320 --> 01:12:29,500
comes to LGBTQ issues
1724
01:12:27,970 --> 01:12:31,690
I always thought New York was like
1725
01:12:29,500 --> 01:12:34,480
California they legalized same-sex
1726
01:12:31,690 --> 01:12:37,060
marriage before the Supreme Court did
1727
01:12:34,480 --> 01:12:39,070
right they did they did but what's been
1728
01:12:37,060 --> 01:12:41,170
a struggle is there's been this group
1729
01:12:39,070 --> 01:12:44,020
known as the independent democratic
1730
01:12:41,170 --> 01:12:44,530
caucus in the Senate in New York who
1731
01:12:44,020 --> 01:12:46,660
that
1732
01:12:44,530 --> 01:12:49,420
technically were Democrats so you would
1733
01:12:46,660 --> 01:12:51,820
think that the Democrats would have
1734
01:12:49,420 --> 01:12:54,340
control but for many years those that
1735
01:12:51,820 --> 01:12:56,560
group caucus with the Republicans and so
1736
01:12:54,340 --> 01:12:58,270
it created this gridlock in the Senate
1737
01:12:56,560 --> 01:13:01,030
that prevented so many different things
1738
01:12:58,270 --> 01:13:03,010
from going forward and now things to
1739
01:13:01,030 --> 01:13:04,780
actually flashers primary elections back
1740
01:13:03,010 --> 01:13:06,910
in the eighteen September we had a whole
1741
01:13:04,780 --> 01:13:09,810
bunch of progresses that toppled these
1742
01:13:06,910 --> 01:13:12,730
incumbents in this Democratic caucus and
1743
01:13:09,810 --> 01:13:15,220
now the Senate can actually be run by
1744
01:13:12,730 --> 01:13:17,530
the Democrats as opposed to the
1745
01:13:15,220 --> 01:13:19,660
Republicans who weren't actually the
1746
01:13:17,530 --> 01:13:21,160
majority before and so as a result were
1747
01:13:19,660 --> 01:13:23,800
quickly seeing a whole bunch of things
1748
01:13:21,160 --> 01:13:26,800
that have sat there and languished for
1749
01:13:23,800 --> 01:13:28,390
over a decade and one of them is basic
1750
01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:32,560
non-discrimination protections for
1751
01:13:28,390 --> 01:13:34,000
transgender people you know the New York
1752
01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:37,060
State Legislature passed sexual
1753
01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:39,220
orientation protections a long time ago
1754
01:13:37,060 --> 01:13:43,060
and it's been introducing trans
1755
01:13:39,220 --> 01:13:46,390
protections since 2003 but despite the
1756
01:13:43,060 --> 01:13:48,970
fact that it passes every other year in
1757
01:13:46,390 --> 01:13:52,840
the house it never could pass in the
1758
01:13:48,970 --> 01:13:54,670
Senate so you know it's been a long time
1759
01:13:52,840 --> 01:13:57,880
coming and while they were at it they
1760
01:13:54,670 --> 01:14:00,910
also became I think 15 states to pass a
1761
01:13:57,880 --> 01:14:05,980
ban on conversion therapy for kids yeah
1762
01:14:00,910 --> 01:14:07,510
so another great move forward to protect
1763
01:14:05,980 --> 01:14:11,890
LGBTQ people that should have come a
1764
01:14:07,510 --> 01:14:15,940
long long time ago but now that this
1765
01:14:11,890 --> 01:14:18,580
group was finally toppled they can they
1766
01:14:15,940 --> 01:14:20,829
can finally move forward yeah and Mike
1767
01:14:18,580 --> 01:14:24,670
Pence our vice president
1768
01:14:20,829 --> 01:14:29,260
his wife Karen teaches at a school that
1769
01:14:24,670 --> 01:14:31,000
doesn't allow LGBTQ students or parents
1770
01:14:29,260 --> 01:14:32,889
to be part of that school or doesn't
1771
01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:33,460
approve of them that's correct that's
1772
01:14:32,889 --> 01:14:35,380
correct
1773
01:14:33,460 --> 01:14:37,809
and you know it's another opportunity
1774
01:14:35,380 --> 01:14:39,369
that Mike Pence use to try to claim oh
1775
01:14:37,809 --> 01:14:41,500
they're attacking our religion and it's
1776
01:14:39,369 --> 01:14:43,210
like yeah we are attacking your religion
1777
01:14:41,500 --> 01:14:46,179
because your religion is promoting some
1778
01:14:43,210 --> 01:14:49,119
really terrible stuff and your
1779
01:14:46,179 --> 01:14:51,190
acquiescence to that is problematic and
1780
01:14:49,119 --> 01:14:55,420
the inclusive society that we're trying
1781
01:14:51,190 --> 01:14:58,900
to build so you know he denies being for
1782
01:14:55,420 --> 01:15:01,090
gay conversion therapy he denies he
1783
01:14:58,900 --> 01:15:02,800
still he still denies it but there's all
1784
01:15:01,090 --> 01:15:04,929
of his evidence to show that he supports
1785
01:15:02,800 --> 01:15:07,239
it so I'm still not convinced and he
1786
01:15:04,929 --> 01:15:09,460
certainly hasn't been jumping to to
1787
01:15:07,239 --> 01:15:12,150
favor these bans on the treatment so you
1788
01:15:09,460 --> 01:15:17,050
know take it with a grain of salt the
1789
01:15:12,150 --> 01:15:19,059
LGBTQ community the Muslims the the Jews
1790
01:15:17,050 --> 01:15:21,489
the african-americans they were the
1791
01:15:19,059 --> 01:15:24,790
Canaries in the coal mine talk to me
1792
01:15:21,489 --> 01:15:28,150
about foster care and the persecution
1793
01:15:24,790 --> 01:15:30,550
against the LGBTQ community because
1794
01:15:28,150 --> 01:15:34,420
we've discovered that it just doesn't
1795
01:15:30,550 --> 01:15:36,820
stop with persecuting the LGBTQ
1796
01:15:34,420 --> 01:15:38,920
community when you cling to religious
1797
01:15:36,820 --> 01:15:41,409
freedom you use that as a cudgel to go
1798
01:15:38,920 --> 01:15:42,940
after Jews and sure so we've talked
1799
01:15:41,409 --> 01:15:44,829
about this issue a lot with adoption and
1800
01:15:42,940 --> 01:15:47,559
foster care placement and and the
1801
01:15:44,829 --> 01:15:49,780
attempt by Republicans in many states to
1802
01:15:47,559 --> 01:15:51,309
pass laws giving a license to
1803
01:15:49,780 --> 01:15:53,710
discriminate to these agencies to say
1804
01:15:51,309 --> 01:15:55,630
hey we're licensing you were funding you
1805
01:15:53,710 --> 01:15:58,090
with state funds but go ahead go ahead
1806
01:15:55,630 --> 01:16:01,420
and discriminate and this case came up
1807
01:15:58,090 --> 01:16:02,320
in South Carolina with a agency called
1808
01:16:01,420 --> 01:16:05,559
miracle Hill
1809
01:16:02,320 --> 01:16:09,190
it's a foster care agency and a Jewish
1810
01:16:05,559 --> 01:16:11,380
woman went to get trained and and get
1811
01:16:09,190 --> 01:16:13,809
license to be a foster parent she was
1812
01:16:11,380 --> 01:16:15,460
trained by somebody at miracle Hill but
1813
01:16:13,809 --> 01:16:17,619
then she wasn't extended an invitation
1814
01:16:15,460 --> 01:16:19,989
to be a foster parent through the agency
1815
01:16:17,619 --> 01:16:22,690
just because she's Jewish miracle Hill
1816
01:16:19,989 --> 01:16:24,670
only employees and works with families
1817
01:16:22,690 --> 01:16:27,099
who share their same Protestant
1818
01:16:24,670 --> 01:16:30,010
Christian beliefs and so she filed a
1819
01:16:27,099 --> 01:16:31,329
complaint and the Department of Social
1820
01:16:30,010 --> 01:16:32,679
Services there in South Carolina
1821
01:16:31,329 --> 01:16:34,099
actually agreed with her and said you
1822
01:16:32,679 --> 01:16:36,020
know we're
1823
01:16:34,099 --> 01:16:38,270
we're gonna revoke your license if you
1824
01:16:36,020 --> 01:16:39,739
don't actually you know support the
1825
01:16:38,270 --> 01:16:44,780
families that you're supposed to support
1826
01:16:39,739 --> 01:16:47,540
but the governor Henry McMaster and a
1827
01:16:44,780 --> 01:16:50,239
bunch of other conservatives came to the
1828
01:16:47,540 --> 01:16:52,310
agency's defense and went to the federal
1829
01:16:50,239 --> 01:16:54,800
government and said hey this rule that
1830
01:16:52,310 --> 01:16:56,420
Obama put in place you know protecting
1831
01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:57,710
against this kind of discrimination is
1832
01:16:56,420 --> 01:17:00,230
an issue for us
1833
01:16:57,710 --> 01:17:02,719
and just this week Health and Human
1834
01:17:00,230 --> 01:17:05,449
Services granted a waiver and they said
1835
01:17:02,719 --> 01:17:07,130
hey miracle Hill you can discriminate
1836
01:17:05,449 --> 01:17:09,800
all you want according to your religious
1837
01:17:07,130 --> 01:17:11,960
beliefs and so you know as you said it
1838
01:17:09,800 --> 01:17:13,400
there are all these different Canaries
1839
01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:15,170
in this case it was actually religious
1840
01:17:13,400 --> 01:17:16,639
discrimination against this Jewish
1841
01:17:15,170 --> 01:17:18,829
family that happened first
1842
01:17:16,639 --> 01:17:21,320
but the agency also refuses to serve
1843
01:17:18,829 --> 01:17:23,030
same-sex couples because they believe
1844
01:17:21,320 --> 01:17:25,280
that marriage is only supposed to be
1845
01:17:23,030 --> 01:17:29,239
between a man and a woman right and
1846
01:17:25,280 --> 01:17:32,270
finally the Supreme Court is turning
1847
01:17:29,239 --> 01:17:35,900
into the the court we feared when it
1848
01:17:32,270 --> 01:17:40,250
comes to the travel ban they've upheld
1849
01:17:35,900 --> 01:17:43,340
Donald Trump's travel ban and he wants
1850
01:17:40,250 --> 01:17:45,079
to keep the transgender community out of
1851
01:17:43,340 --> 01:17:46,159
the military he doesn't think they're
1852
01:17:45,079 --> 01:17:50,300
fit for service
1853
01:17:46,159 --> 01:17:54,170
I guess they get bone spurs - is that
1854
01:17:50,300 --> 01:17:55,849
how we thinks well in this case you know
1855
01:17:54,170 --> 01:17:58,630
as we've discussed before the
1856
01:17:55,849 --> 01:18:01,670
administration is arguing that somehow
1857
01:17:58,630 --> 01:18:04,429
transgender people are ruining unit
1858
01:18:01,670 --> 01:18:06,230
cohesion or costing the government lots
1859
01:18:04,429 --> 01:18:07,699
of money for their basic health care
1860
01:18:06,230 --> 01:18:11,060
needs even though it's not nearly as
1861
01:18:07,699 --> 01:18:13,429
expensive as what the military and
1862
01:18:11,060 --> 01:18:17,060
veterans administration spent on viagra
1863
01:18:13,429 --> 01:18:19,460
so in this case what the Supreme Court
1864
01:18:17,060 --> 01:18:22,730
did this week is somewhat narrow in that
1865
01:18:19,460 --> 01:18:25,639
they stayed the injunctions that some of
1866
01:18:22,730 --> 01:18:27,920
the lower courts have put in place but
1867
01:18:25,639 --> 01:18:30,980
they didn't rule on the merits so and
1868
01:18:27,920 --> 01:18:33,020
you know it's hard to draw too big a
1869
01:18:30,980 --> 01:18:35,780
conclusion about exactly how they feel
1870
01:18:33,020 --> 01:18:38,239
about the issue but as they did in the
1871
01:18:35,780 --> 01:18:40,610
Muslim ban cases this was about
1872
01:18:38,239 --> 01:18:44,059
deferring to the president when it comes
1873
01:18:40,610 --> 01:18:45,590
to military decisions so you know we're
1874
01:18:44,059 --> 01:18:47,600
gonna still wait and see of these cases
1875
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you know there are four different case
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is challenging the military ban in four
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different jurisdictions and so other
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courts might still introduce injunctions
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and these cases will still work their
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way up to the Supreme Court for an
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actual consideration on the merits so
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we're not out of the woods yet or you
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know the fights not over yet I should
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say but in the meantime it's very
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dispiriting news for for transgender
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military people who are currently
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serving people who are working their way
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through the academies hoping to build
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their careers in the armed services with
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you know the knowledge that they might
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not be able to actually enlist and of
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course for veterans who who are you know
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gravely and felted by the claim that you
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know their service was somehow inferior
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or not welcomed and and they have to
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live with that and live with you know
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the knowledge that the country isn't
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grateful for their service I think
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that's the clear message of it all yeah
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a year from now the Iowa caucuses New
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Hampshire it starts what do you think
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this country's gonna look like a year
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from now do you think the government
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will reopen I've been saying and
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everybody insists on the insane and
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they're right for saying that but I
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haven't saying this government's gonna
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stay shut down to the fortune of nurture
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the administration is certainly looking
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at you know just how long it might be
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you know that what will be will look
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like in March so you know it's it's not
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going to be short by any means and
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certainly as long as these continuing
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demands 5.7 billions of our wall that
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won't work
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yeah and as long as the Democrats are
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resolute that they're not going to cave
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you know to this this hostage ransom
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that and we're gonna you know continue
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to be stuck and so you know there are so
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many factors that could change between
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now and next year's caucuses we don't
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know who all will be running and so you
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know there's a lot of conversation to
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play it out about that we don't know if
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we'll still be shut down but we also
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don't know what will come over the
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Mugler investigation and well we have a
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report by them you know will we know of
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the fences that the Trump administration
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has committed that maybe we've suspected
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but did not previously have we know it's
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the government station
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down can Mallory even work don't those
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people need money it unclear I'm not a
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smart guy which is why people should
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listen to me but the Democrats need to
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do is say if you want to know what the
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plan is for this country but the
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Republicans plan for this country it's
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happening right now this is the
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Republican platform to shut down the
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federal government to dismantle the
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administrative state that's what Steve
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01:21:35,390 --> 01:21:39,950
Bannon has spoken about I think when
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01:21:37,880 --> 01:21:42,230
Donald Trump gets on the phone with
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people who are encouraging him I think
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01:21:42,230 --> 01:21:47,690
he still talks to Steve ban and shut it
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down keep it down this is exactly why
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01:21:47,690 --> 01:21:53,480
you were sent to Washington shut down
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the federal government and keep it shut
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01:21:53,480 --> 01:21:59,300
down and I don't think it's Putin that's
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01:21:56,690 --> 01:22:01,370
a piece of this problem I think Putin of
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01:21:59,300 --> 01:22:06,170
course wants the federal government
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shutdown but when you talk to Grover
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Norquist who says make the federal
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government so small you can drown it in
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a bathtub how can they not be delighted
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01:22:14,140 --> 01:22:19,910
that this federal government is getting
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01:22:17,420 --> 01:22:23,150
shut down because it's doing two things
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for the Democrats it proves exactly who
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01:22:23,150 --> 01:22:28,430
the Republicans are and the Republicans
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right now the hard core fiscal
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conservatives are saying look 800,000
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federal employees are out of work no
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plane crashes it's fine we don't need
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the federal government this plays right
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01:22:40,460 --> 01:22:46,850
into their ideology I don't think it's
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really happening don't I don't disagree
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01:22:46,850 --> 01:22:50,090
with you but I think it will be harder
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01:22:48,440 --> 01:22:52,250
and harder for them to make that case
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you know if we start having deaths
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because of some sort of tainted food
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outbreak because inspectors weren't able
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01:22:56,360 --> 01:23:01,760
to do their job it will be an issue if
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we have any sort of safety issue on a on
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a flight I'm actually getting on a plane
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later today and I'm sort of curious to
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see what going through security will
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01:23:07,340 --> 01:23:12,590
look like in the situation you know it
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there will be in a very quick backlash
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and so you know we've been lucky
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that the consequences have been
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01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:22,750
manageable but as these employees go
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01:23:20,740 --> 01:23:24,880
longer without a paycheck and all of
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these services that we normally don't
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notice are protecting us start
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01:23:28,600 --> 01:23:32,980
protecting us less I think I think it's
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going to be harder for them to make a
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case that yeah keeping the government
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01:23:35,260 --> 01:23:39,940
small is is a good thing yeah because
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you know it's easy to forget about all
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of the things the government's doing
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that we think of as just bureaucracy but
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they are protecting us on a daily basis
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and it's gonna catch up with them with
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01:23:49,030 --> 01:23:53,530
each day that this government station
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01:23:51,370 --> 01:23:57,520
shut down yeah I think their forces in
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this country the Milton Friedman Chicago
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01:23:57,520 --> 01:24:02,790
School of Economics who says create an
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01:24:00,490 --> 01:24:06,730
artificial shock to the system create a
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01:24:02,790 --> 01:24:10,420
artificial crisis and use it as an
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01:24:06,730 --> 01:24:13,240
opportunity to shake out the 800,000
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01:24:10,420 --> 01:24:14,380
employees go a couple of months find out
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01:24:13,240 --> 01:24:16,690
what we really need
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I think they embrace this as an
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opportunity to find out what the federal
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01:24:20,620 --> 01:24:25,960
government really does and doesn't do we
2010
01:24:23,170 --> 01:24:28,090
can't audit it can't audit it so let's
2011
01:24:25,960 --> 01:24:30,910
just shut it down and see what we really
2012
01:24:28,090 --> 01:24:32,230
need that's what they're thinking that's
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what they're thinking they're thinking
2014
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this is a good thing you're onto
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something there but it's not gonna work
2016
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out in their favor in the end I think if
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you fly on private jets and you're
2018
01:24:40,960 --> 01:24:45,630
immune to the consequences it's an
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01:24:43,450 --> 01:24:48,640
intellectual exercise or an ideological
2020
01:24:45,630 --> 01:24:52,570
exercise if a couple people have to die
2021
01:24:48,640 --> 01:24:56,830
for us to drain the swamp it's worth it
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01:24:52,570 --> 01:25:01,750
I mean I hope so you know we just saw
2023
01:24:56,830 --> 01:25:04,420
this morning that Trump's Commerce chief
2024
01:25:01,750 --> 01:25:06,070
doesn't understand why it's a big deal
2025
01:25:04,420 --> 01:25:08,740
if you don't get your paycheck
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01:25:06,070 --> 01:25:10,450
will be less Wilbur Ross yeah and and
2027
01:25:08,740 --> 01:25:14,050
doesn't think that this is going to be
2028
01:25:10,450 --> 01:25:16,810
you know a big deal for the economy or
2029
01:25:14,050 --> 01:25:19,570
for our well-being and it's just you
2030
01:25:16,810 --> 01:25:21,880
have to live in such a narrow bubble I
2031
01:25:19,570 --> 01:25:24,700
mean this guy's worth 700 million
2032
01:25:21,880 --> 01:25:27,570
dollars what does he know about families
2033
01:25:24,700 --> 01:25:31,530
who lives paycheck to paycheck nothing
2034
01:25:27,570 --> 01:25:34,110
and you know hopefully the fact that
2035
01:25:31,530 --> 01:25:37,320
we're democracy worked out in the end
2036
01:25:34,110 --> 01:25:39,450
and enough people say hey this is not
2037
01:25:37,320 --> 01:25:41,489
good for our country and and does
2038
01:25:39,450 --> 01:25:44,610
something about it but in the meantime
2039
01:25:41,489 --> 01:25:46,440
we're just kind of keep you know wow
2040
01:25:44,610 --> 01:25:48,090
just word Armageddon yeah that's why I
2041
01:25:46,440 --> 01:25:49,920
got scared when Trump said he was gonna
2042
01:25:48,090 --> 01:25:51,330
go to the Capitol anyway and deliver
2043
01:25:49,920 --> 01:25:56,040
that State of the Union because this is
2044
01:25:51,330 --> 01:25:59,489
where the Secret Service can be dragged
2045
01:25:56,040 --> 01:26:03,410
gooned into his own little I hate to use
2046
01:25:59,489 --> 01:26:08,280
the term to stop oh but you know ice ice
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01:26:03,410 --> 01:26:10,530
couple of executive orders and Isis his
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01:26:08,280 --> 01:26:12,590
own police force they already are well
2049
01:26:10,530 --> 01:26:15,570
anyway I'll give you the last word
2050
01:26:12,590 --> 01:26:16,350
everything that's terrible I said to you
2051
01:26:15,570 --> 01:26:19,170
at the beginning
2052
01:26:16,350 --> 01:26:20,820
let's open with creating change this big
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01:26:19,170 --> 01:26:23,940
conference in Detroit you're going to
2054
01:26:20,820 --> 01:26:28,440
let's be positive today well thank God
2055
01:26:23,940 --> 01:26:30,660
for Nancy Pelosi yeah I mean it you know
2056
01:26:28,440 --> 01:26:33,900
everything is is kind of getting worse
2057
01:26:30,660 --> 01:26:36,450
it feels like but we do have forces in
2058
01:26:33,900 --> 01:26:37,920
place to protect against it hopefully so
2059
01:26:36,450 --> 01:26:40,170
you know I'm still trying to be
2060
01:26:37,920 --> 01:26:42,330
optimistic about what 2019 ultimately
2061
01:26:40,170 --> 01:26:44,820
look like I think it's anonymous that
2062
01:26:42,330 --> 01:26:47,070
whoever wrote the piece in the New York
2063
01:26:44,820 --> 01:26:48,930
Times a couple of months ago who said
2064
01:26:47,070 --> 01:26:51,120
there are forces within the White House
2065
01:26:48,930 --> 01:26:54,920
who are working against Donald Trump I
2066
01:26:51,120 --> 01:26:58,560
think the only thing that kept him from
2067
01:26:54,920 --> 01:27:00,300
telling ice in the Secret Service we're
2068
01:26:58,560 --> 01:27:02,070
going to the Capitol to deliver that
2069
01:27:00,300 --> 01:27:04,620
State of the Union whether or not Nancy
2070
01:27:02,070 --> 01:27:06,330
Pelosi likes it I think the only thing
2071
01:27:04,620 --> 01:27:10,680
that's keeping him from doing something
2072
01:27:06,330 --> 01:27:13,890
like that is a cabal of resistance
2073
01:27:10,680 --> 01:27:15,330
within the Oval Office something are
2074
01:27:13,890 --> 01:27:17,520
more optimistic than I am because I
2075
01:27:15,330 --> 01:27:20,250
figure he was just not looking forward
2076
01:27:17,520 --> 01:27:22,320
to the embarrassment of not being let in
2077
01:27:20,250 --> 01:27:26,520
and thought it would make him look weak
2078
01:27:22,320 --> 01:27:28,260
so he decided to cave you know like it's
2079
01:27:26,520 --> 01:27:30,480
a wonderful theory it's a wonderful
2080
01:27:28,260 --> 01:27:32,700
theory to think of that there's all this
2081
01:27:30,480 --> 01:27:35,969
other stuff going on to try to restrain
2082
01:27:32,700 --> 01:27:38,580
him but I there's less and less we know
2083
01:27:35,969 --> 01:27:40,200
from the changes in his cabinet and and
2084
01:27:38,580 --> 01:27:41,130
you know changes to his chief of staff
2085
01:27:40,200 --> 01:27:43,980
and things that
2086
01:27:41,130 --> 01:27:46,260
come along the way that there's less and
2087
01:27:43,980 --> 01:27:47,730
less holding them back so I think in
2088
01:27:46,260 --> 01:27:49,530
this case he was just I think he just
2089
01:27:47,730 --> 01:27:53,849
lost and he'd realized there was no good
2090
01:27:49,530 --> 01:27:56,639
way good way to try to make that happen
2091
01:27:53,849 --> 01:27:59,929
Mitch McConnell who's just you know that
2092
01:27:56,639 --> 01:28:02,520
we hate him but I like to think that
2093
01:27:59,929 --> 01:28:06,420
Trump got on the phone with McConnell
2094
01:28:02,520 --> 01:28:09,690
and McConnell said mr. president there
2095
01:28:06,420 --> 01:28:12,630
are forces the legislative branch have
2096
01:28:09,690 --> 01:28:16,380
that are beyond your imagination and I
2097
01:28:12,630 --> 01:28:20,060
would advise you to stand down I think
2098
01:28:16,380 --> 01:28:22,560
McConnell this is my fantasy that
2099
01:28:20,060 --> 01:28:25,829
McConnell in his own way
2100
01:28:22,560 --> 01:28:29,369
is saving us from complete breakdown
2101
01:28:25,829 --> 01:28:31,860
Trump taking dictatorial powers I don't
2102
01:28:29,369 --> 01:28:34,260
know I don't know I guess I just try not
2103
01:28:31,860 --> 01:28:35,909
to spend too much time going down all of
2104
01:28:34,260 --> 01:28:38,250
those hypothetical roads in my head
2105
01:28:35,909 --> 01:28:40,230
because what is actually happening to
2106
01:28:38,250 --> 01:28:42,510
the president is distressing enough to
2107
01:28:40,230 --> 01:28:44,040
figure out how to respond to that I I
2108
01:28:42,510 --> 01:28:47,369
don't want to cross any of those bridges
2109
01:28:44,040 --> 01:28:49,050
until we get yeah Zach Ford is the LGBTQ
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01:28:47,369 --> 01:28:51,570
editor for Think Progress think
2111
01:28:49,050 --> 01:28:54,119
progress.org read them every day over
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01:28:51,570 --> 01:28:54,630
two thinkprogress.org good to have you
2113
01:28:54,119 --> 01:28:56,880
back sir
2114
01:28:54,630 --> 01:28:58,560
can you stand line for one second glad
2115
01:28:56,880 --> 01:29:01,349
to be here thanks David you're listening
2116
01:28:58,560 --> 01:29:03,140
to the david feldman radio program you
2117
01:29:01,349 --> 01:29:24,380
said but feta comp
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[Music]
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Dave Cyrus joins us hello sir
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hey you doing David so you travel all
2121
01:29:30,449 --> 01:29:36,840
around the world you've been on flights
2122
01:29:32,550 --> 01:29:39,479
with people I yes I have I was recently
2123
01:29:36,840 --> 01:29:42,479
on a very nice flight on American
2124
01:29:39,479 --> 01:29:44,249
Airlines actually and uh actually be
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01:29:42,479 --> 01:29:46,199
gone back to elevate very suit going to
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01:29:44,249 --> 01:29:50,699
Sundance then to LA you going to
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01:29:46,199 --> 01:29:53,849
Sundance yes I have no actual reason to
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01:29:50,699 --> 01:29:57,479
be there mother must be if you're going
2129
01:29:53,849 --> 01:30:00,059
no I I have no legitimate reason to be
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01:29:57,479 --> 01:30:01,349
there other than I'm just going with
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01:30:00,059 --> 01:30:03,239
people who actually of real reasons to
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01:30:01,349 --> 01:30:05,070
go oh and we'll be doing comedy and I
2133
01:30:03,239 --> 01:30:08,399
guess the wise guys in Salt Lake City
2134
01:30:05,070 --> 01:30:12,689
over there on Sunday well you get to see
2135
01:30:08,399 --> 01:30:15,689
some movies oh god I sit and watch
2136
01:30:12,689 --> 01:30:17,639
movies there right man this is gonna be
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01:30:15,689 --> 01:30:19,919
more work than I thought when you fly
2138
01:30:17,639 --> 01:30:24,929
uh-huh mm-hmm do you ever sit next to
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01:30:19,919 --> 01:30:26,760
somebody who kind of stinks you know it
2140
01:30:24,929 --> 01:30:29,699
does happen sometimes I don't remember
2141
01:30:26,760 --> 01:30:33,719
the last time I actually sat next to
2142
01:30:29,699 --> 01:30:35,999
someone but like a lot of people in the
2143
01:30:33,719 --> 01:30:38,489
world seem to smell bad and not care yes
2144
01:30:35,999 --> 01:30:42,570
I get but like a plane is the worst but
2145
01:30:38,489 --> 01:30:44,130
I do think it's like an offensive act to
2146
01:30:42,570 --> 01:30:48,570
get on a flight when you know you
2147
01:30:44,130 --> 01:30:51,209
haven't showered in a long time yes and
2148
01:30:48,570 --> 01:30:52,380
yeah I I don't like that I mean I'm
2149
01:30:51,209 --> 01:30:54,149
here's like I'm a little bit sensitive
2150
01:30:52,380 --> 01:30:56,550
to body odor myself I get mad at people
2151
01:30:54,149 --> 01:31:00,360
who smell bad at the gym and that's the
2152
01:30:56,550 --> 01:31:01,800
gym right we're like you you're expected
2153
01:31:00,360 --> 01:31:03,630
to but at the same time and I'm being
2154
01:31:01,800 --> 01:31:04,800
honest it's about this I know the
2155
01:31:03,630 --> 01:31:05,849
difference between someone's knowing
2156
01:31:04,800 --> 01:31:07,530
that way because they're working out
2157
01:31:05,849 --> 01:31:09,090
hard and because they're working out
2158
01:31:07,530 --> 01:31:10,199
hard and did not shower that day and
2159
01:31:09,090 --> 01:31:12,300
they need to get the hell out of that
2160
01:31:10,199 --> 01:31:16,199
gym yeah I mean when I work at I don't
2161
01:31:12,300 --> 01:31:18,929
smell bad because I showered either the
2162
01:31:16,199 --> 01:31:20,969
night before or that morning I mean the
2163
01:31:18,929 --> 01:31:24,119
only thing that's gonna stink is my
2164
01:31:20,969 --> 01:31:26,459
armpits and I have leftover deodorant
2165
01:31:24,119 --> 01:31:28,289
but still there I never smell when I
2166
01:31:26,459 --> 01:31:30,300
work out I mean you put on deodorant
2167
01:31:28,289 --> 01:31:32,639
before you go to the gym right no I just
2168
01:31:30,300 --> 01:31:36,510
wear deodorant so how bad am I gonna
2169
01:31:32,639 --> 01:31:37,290
smell and I don't eat meat I stay away
2170
01:31:36,510 --> 01:31:39,480
from garlic
2171
01:31:37,290 --> 01:31:40,530
onions how bad am I gonna smell right
2172
01:31:39,480 --> 01:31:42,240
now it sounds like you might smell
2173
01:31:40,530 --> 01:31:43,680
pretty bad actually if you think that
2174
01:31:42,240 --> 01:31:45,540
all it takes is having showered the day
2175
01:31:43,680 --> 01:31:47,670
before not wearing deodorant and not
2176
01:31:45,540 --> 01:31:49,770
wearing meat you might be one of these
2177
01:31:47,670 --> 01:31:52,110
people David not me but I probably don't
2178
01:31:49,770 --> 01:31:53,850
I don't think you are because I have
2179
01:31:52,110 --> 01:31:55,260
been around you and you you've never
2180
01:31:53,850 --> 01:31:57,990
smelled nearly as much as one might
2181
01:31:55,260 --> 01:31:59,640
assume you do from seeing you so I don't
2182
01:31:57,990 --> 01:32:02,580
think that's an issue I'm talking about
2183
01:31:59,640 --> 01:32:04,410
I absolutely run into pee I mean here's
2184
01:32:02,580 --> 01:32:08,040
the thing I go to a gym in Midwood
2185
01:32:04,410 --> 01:32:11,280
Brooklyn and it's not the best gym to go
2186
01:32:08,040 --> 01:32:14,160
to I have many times seen guys playing
2187
01:32:11,280 --> 01:32:17,010
house music on their phones at full
2188
01:32:14,160 --> 01:32:19,080
blast without headphones just using
2189
01:32:17,010 --> 01:32:22,590
weights blasting music which is
2190
01:32:19,080 --> 01:32:25,800
psychotic recently I saw a 60 year old
2191
01:32:22,590 --> 01:32:27,630
man wearing a leather jacket doing curls
2192
01:32:25,800 --> 01:32:29,510
while telling everyone else what they
2193
01:32:27,630 --> 01:32:32,040
should be doing with their workouts
2194
01:32:29,510 --> 01:32:35,550
before we get to the story that you sent
2195
01:32:32,040 --> 01:32:38,370
me which I found very satisfying yeah I
2196
01:32:35,550 --> 01:32:42,300
want people to know that if you really
2197
01:32:38,370 --> 01:32:45,480
want to serve humanity when you board a
2198
01:32:42,300 --> 01:32:50,190
plane and walk through first class to
2199
01:32:45,480 --> 01:32:52,590
get to coach you should fart okay if you
2200
01:32:50,190 --> 01:32:56,430
listen to this show and you enjoy it you
2201
01:32:52,590 --> 01:33:01,650
can thank me by farting in first class
2202
01:32:56,430 --> 01:33:03,510
on your way to coach I of course had the
2203
01:33:01,650 --> 01:33:07,260
fortune of traveling first class
2204
01:33:03,510 --> 01:33:09,360
recently and honestly hey
2205
01:33:07,260 --> 01:33:12,720
go ahead peasants see if it ruins my
2206
01:33:09,360 --> 01:33:15,500
time I don't pay for it of course I
2207
01:33:12,720 --> 01:33:18,150
never would never why are you breaking
2208
01:33:15,500 --> 01:33:20,310
what's what's what's going on why am I
2209
01:33:18,150 --> 01:33:22,440
not getting a good signal here I hear
2210
01:33:20,310 --> 01:33:24,180
everything from you David you're
2211
01:33:22,440 --> 01:33:27,360
breaking bottles you're breaking up a
2212
01:33:24,180 --> 01:33:29,580
little hold on hold on well I don't know
2213
01:33:27,360 --> 01:33:31,050
what to tell you I'm sorry so what
2214
01:33:29,580 --> 01:33:33,890
happened there were some smelly people
2215
01:33:31,050 --> 01:33:37,170
on an American Airlines flight
2216
01:33:33,890 --> 01:33:40,890
apparently a flight from I guess Miami
2217
01:33:37,170 --> 01:33:43,440
to Detroit you know that's rough yeah
2218
01:33:40,890 --> 01:33:47,430
both places that I'd rather not have to
2219
01:33:43,440 --> 01:33:50,639
be often a couple and their baby were
2220
01:33:47,430 --> 01:33:54,300
asked to leave the flight because
2221
01:33:50,639 --> 01:33:56,639
passengers and no looks like when they
2222
01:33:54,300 --> 01:33:58,889
first got on the plane it was evident
2223
01:33:56,639 --> 01:34:01,170
now we talked about his case months ago
2224
01:33:58,889 --> 01:34:05,610
where a guy had ridiculous body odor
2225
01:34:01,170 --> 01:34:09,270
because he was sick yeah this however is
2226
01:34:05,610 --> 01:34:12,179
a couple two people a married couple who
2227
01:34:09,270 --> 01:34:14,670
were both told you pee when it's a
2228
01:34:12,179 --> 01:34:18,360
couple that both smells bad that is 100%
2229
01:34:14,670 --> 01:34:21,960
lifestyle that is just you people have
2230
01:34:18,360 --> 01:34:24,389
decided that you hate the outside world
2231
01:34:21,960 --> 01:34:28,619
and want them to suffer now to be fair
2232
01:34:24,389 --> 01:34:30,420
the man claimed that he did not smell
2233
01:34:28,619 --> 01:34:32,760
bad but that he was being kicked off the
2234
01:34:30,420 --> 01:34:39,989
flight because he is Jewish
2235
01:34:32,760 --> 01:34:41,489
because he's what Jewish well he said I
2236
01:34:39,989 --> 01:34:45,989
do not smell bad
2237
01:34:41,489 --> 01:34:48,350
this is anti-semitism you you saw me
2238
01:34:45,989 --> 01:34:51,000
wearing a yarmulke and all of you
2239
01:34:48,350 --> 01:34:53,340
silently agreed to pretend I smell bad
2240
01:34:51,000 --> 01:34:55,650
and complain about it this is an
2241
01:34:53,340 --> 01:34:58,619
American Airlines American flight so you
2242
01:34:55,650 --> 01:35:00,239
know the idea that he would be the only
2243
01:34:58,619 --> 01:35:04,610
Jew on the flight is from Miami is
2244
01:35:00,239 --> 01:35:06,560
especially impossible but it's really
2245
01:35:04,610 --> 01:35:09,300
amazing
2246
01:35:06,560 --> 01:35:12,270
now when I say smell bad
2247
01:35:09,300 --> 01:35:14,489
buttered oh okay because I'm thinking of
2248
01:35:12,270 --> 01:35:17,850
a Jew with a big nose I would think he
2249
01:35:14,489 --> 01:35:19,500
would smell good they smell well they
2250
01:35:17,850 --> 01:35:22,199
smell Wow oh yeah that's where it is
2251
01:35:19,500 --> 01:35:24,659
well he smells well yeah yeah so this
2252
01:35:22,199 --> 01:35:26,219
company who I saw a picture of well the
2253
01:35:24,659 --> 01:35:29,219
photo that they posted he's wearing a
2254
01:35:26,219 --> 01:35:30,659
hat so I don't see if he's wearing a
2255
01:35:29,219 --> 01:35:32,159
yarmulke but I presume he was wearing
2256
01:35:30,659 --> 01:35:35,250
one because he's saying that they knew
2257
01:35:32,159 --> 01:35:36,389
he was Jewish and I have to assume he
2258
01:35:35,250 --> 01:35:42,210
gave he gave it away somehow
2259
01:35:36,389 --> 01:35:43,889
but yeah the exact words where we don't
2260
01:35:42,210 --> 01:35:45,389
have out there because there's a
2261
01:35:43,889 --> 01:35:46,860
religious reason for some reason that
2262
01:35:45,389 --> 01:35:48,510
they're kicking me off the plane and he
2263
01:35:46,860 --> 01:35:50,639
said on his cell phone video we don't
2264
01:35:48,510 --> 01:35:52,500
have odor no one has oh and then the
2265
01:35:50,639 --> 01:35:54,600
crew member said oh are you saying that
2266
01:35:52,500 --> 01:35:57,389
it's for religious reasons that you
2267
01:35:54,600 --> 01:35:57,989
don't shower and he goes no I shower
2268
01:35:57,389 --> 01:35:59,310
every day
2269
01:35:57,989 --> 01:36:01,800
I said you kick me off because of
2270
01:35:59,310 --> 01:36:04,080
religious reasons so look you and I are
2271
01:36:01,800 --> 01:36:07,530
both Jews David there
2272
01:36:04,080 --> 01:36:10,800
really nothing that the average Jewish
2273
01:36:07,530 --> 01:36:12,600
person dreads more than hearing another
2274
01:36:10,800 --> 01:36:15,680
Jew the accused of something they did
2275
01:36:12,600 --> 01:36:18,750
and then start screaming this is because
2276
01:36:15,680 --> 01:36:20,750
I'm Jewish like I cannot invoke
2277
01:36:18,750 --> 01:36:24,510
anti-semitism because you refuse to babe
2278
01:36:20,750 --> 01:36:26,610
and the fact that the guy said which by
2279
01:36:24,510 --> 01:36:28,170
the way especially ironic that you know
2280
01:36:26,610 --> 01:36:31,680
anti-semitism has gotten so much better
2281
01:36:28,170 --> 01:36:35,070
in the world that now we're complaining
2282
01:36:31,680 --> 01:36:38,070
that about showers that of this kind
2283
01:36:35,070 --> 01:36:39,510
that he's saying that that he's he's
2284
01:36:38,070 --> 01:36:42,450
refusing to shower in a completely
2285
01:36:39,510 --> 01:36:45,990
different way yeah I guess oh good for
2286
01:36:42,450 --> 01:36:49,050
him yeah yeah that came off incredibly
2287
01:36:45,990 --> 01:36:51,510
not elegantly sorry I just for you I try
2288
01:36:49,050 --> 01:36:53,790
to include at least one holocaust joke I
2289
01:36:51,510 --> 01:36:57,390
was there before you were I know I know
2290
01:36:53,790 --> 01:36:59,430
you're breaking I don't know to tell you
2291
01:36:57,390 --> 01:37:01,170
you're not you're not breaking up you're
2292
01:36:59,430 --> 01:37:03,870
the one you call me back it's okay let's
2293
01:37:01,170 --> 01:37:08,100
just keep going I'm so sorry that's okay
2294
01:37:03,870 --> 01:37:11,220
what will fix it alright so talk to me
2295
01:37:08,100 --> 01:37:14,370
about Covington that Catholic kids
2296
01:37:11,220 --> 01:37:15,960
what's amazing about this story is look
2297
01:37:14,370 --> 01:37:17,190
people anytime you see a story like this
2298
01:37:15,960 --> 01:37:18,120
should look into it as much as they can
2299
01:37:17,190 --> 01:37:20,220
they should try to get as much
2300
01:37:18,120 --> 01:37:22,200
information I was about as possible the
2301
01:37:20,220 --> 01:37:23,790
story started with just seen a what
2302
01:37:22,200 --> 01:37:28,650
seemed like a very clear picture of a
2303
01:37:23,790 --> 01:37:31,230
smug smirking child in the face of an
2304
01:37:28,650 --> 01:37:34,500
elderly Native American why his
2305
01:37:31,230 --> 01:37:38,130
classmates screamed and twisted their
2306
01:37:34,500 --> 01:37:41,010
faces contorted themselves behind him
2307
01:37:38,130 --> 01:37:43,740
and then people said oh well it turns
2308
01:37:41,010 --> 01:37:46,470
out that black Israelite you're making
2309
01:37:43,740 --> 01:37:47,400
fun of them first which yeah I'm sure
2310
01:37:46,470 --> 01:37:50,280
they work you've ever met black
2311
01:37:47,400 --> 01:37:52,260
Israelites the that's a not actual black
2312
01:37:50,280 --> 01:37:55,230
misery I mean the term black Israelites
2313
01:37:52,260 --> 01:37:57,990
are this very small fringe group they're
2314
01:37:55,230 --> 01:37:59,070
a hate club extremely yeah they're hate
2315
01:37:57,990 --> 01:38:01,380
their crazy people
2316
01:37:59,070 --> 01:38:03,630
they're extremely antagonistic they
2317
01:38:01,380 --> 01:38:05,940
exist only to inflame people I mean they
2318
01:38:03,630 --> 01:38:07,770
were yelling at Indians to American
2319
01:38:05,940 --> 01:38:09,270
Indians too so obviously they're not
2320
01:38:07,770 --> 01:38:12,240
exactly they're not the locust group of
2321
01:38:09,270 --> 01:38:15,210
people and you saw the covenant students
2322
01:38:12,240 --> 01:38:17,520
get really riled up and that every right
2323
01:38:15,210 --> 01:38:18,030
to not like what these men were yelling
2324
01:38:17,520 --> 01:38:19,950
at them
2325
01:38:18,030 --> 01:38:23,700
but the fact that the mother of the boy
2326
01:38:19,950 --> 01:38:25,760
in the video said this only happened
2327
01:38:23,700 --> 01:38:28,650
because black Muslims were harassing
2328
01:38:25,760 --> 01:38:31,940
sounds really bad right but there were
2329
01:38:28,650 --> 01:38:35,310
Muslims so weird you added that to it
2330
01:38:31,940 --> 01:38:38,790
but the problem is noting the black
2331
01:38:35,310 --> 01:38:40,020
Israelites did explains the way that
2332
01:38:38,790 --> 01:38:42,720
they were reacting to these American
2333
01:38:40,020 --> 01:38:44,580
Indians now the best case scenario the
2334
01:38:42,720 --> 01:38:46,710
absolute best case is to believe them
2335
01:38:44,580 --> 01:38:48,750
when they said oh we were laughing and
2336
01:38:46,710 --> 01:38:52,590
screaming to the chance and doing
2337
01:38:48,750 --> 01:38:53,610
tomahawk chops and you know and you see
2338
01:38:52,590 --> 01:38:55,620
the faces of these kids they are
2339
01:38:53,610 --> 01:38:57,600
screaming you saw that kid behind them
2340
01:38:55,620 --> 01:39:00,000
in the famous picture the way his face
2341
01:38:57,600 --> 01:39:01,470
is contorted they did we were that the
2342
01:39:00,000 --> 01:39:03,870
best day scenario is that all of that
2343
01:39:01,470 --> 01:39:06,300
was just inadvertently disrespectful
2344
01:39:03,870 --> 01:39:08,220
while they were trying to be nice but I
2345
01:39:06,300 --> 01:39:11,190
don't really think that's what we saw I
2346
01:39:08,220 --> 01:39:14,700
think we saw a bunch of kids who are
2347
01:39:11,190 --> 01:39:16,410
very riled up looking for an outlet for
2348
01:39:14,700 --> 01:39:18,780
the energy that it had been developed
2349
01:39:16,410 --> 01:39:21,750
from being insulted by these random
2350
01:39:18,780 --> 01:39:24,990
black Israelites and they saw of this
2351
01:39:21,750 --> 01:39:26,570
opportunity to I think stand up to what
2352
01:39:24,990 --> 01:39:29,550
they feel was the enemy in that moment
2353
01:39:26,570 --> 01:39:32,730
which was this sudden indigenous man
2354
01:39:29,550 --> 01:39:33,960
with a drum right and that's like I'm
2355
01:39:32,730 --> 01:39:36,000
not saying they threatened him I'm not
2356
01:39:33,960 --> 01:39:38,940
saying that they did something that a
2357
01:39:36,000 --> 01:39:41,490
person gets arrested for but the look on
2358
01:39:38,940 --> 01:39:42,600
this kid's face the fact that he didn't
2359
01:39:41,490 --> 01:39:44,940
seem to want to get out of this guy's
2360
01:39:42,600 --> 01:39:46,260
way as he was walking toward him it
2361
01:39:44,940 --> 01:39:48,480
seemed like this kid and the way do they
2362
01:39:46,260 --> 01:39:51,150
react in to him was what a brave guy to
2363
01:39:48,480 --> 01:39:54,120
get in the face of this American Indian
2364
01:39:51,150 --> 01:39:56,220
that's what it seemed like and let's not
2365
01:39:54,120 --> 01:39:58,470
forget these kids were walking around
2366
01:39:56,220 --> 01:39:59,640
with a bunch of Magha hats which not
2367
01:39:58,470 --> 01:40:01,680
every time somewhere is a mag a hat
2368
01:39:59,640 --> 01:40:03,540
they're looking for trouble but when the
2369
01:40:01,680 --> 01:40:06,390
proud boys do it they're a group of
2370
01:40:03,540 --> 01:40:08,430
people walking around saying I dare you
2371
01:40:06,390 --> 01:40:10,860
to screw with me because I love Trump
2372
01:40:08,430 --> 01:40:13,200
and hate everyone that that implies I
2373
01:40:10,860 --> 01:40:15,470
think that it's very we shouldn't just
2374
01:40:13,200 --> 01:40:19,980
discount the idea that a mag ahead is a
2375
01:40:15,470 --> 01:40:21,960
symbol of your or antagonism to your
2376
01:40:19,980 --> 01:40:24,480
environment right people wear it because
2377
01:40:21,960 --> 01:40:26,760
they're saying I dare you screw with me
2378
01:40:24,480 --> 01:40:29,270
I want aggravate I want in tagging to
2379
01:40:26,760 --> 01:40:31,710
antagonize people I want to fight and we
2380
01:40:29,270 --> 01:40:33,960
there's also video of those kids
2381
01:40:31,710 --> 01:40:35,940
screaming at women who are walking by
2382
01:40:33,960 --> 01:40:39,600
them now you look at what they're doing
2383
01:40:35,940 --> 01:40:42,180
and use common sense and say yes these
2384
01:40:39,600 --> 01:40:45,570
look like kids who knew how to not cross
2385
01:40:42,180 --> 01:40:47,910
a lot I know but they knew how to do the
2386
01:40:45,570 --> 01:40:49,160
I'm not touching you gate him also mhm
2387
01:40:47,910 --> 01:40:52,130
and they seemed like they were just
2388
01:40:49,160 --> 01:40:54,540
amused and making fun of this old
2389
01:40:52,130 --> 01:40:55,380
indigenous man but that's not the part
2390
01:40:54,540 --> 01:40:57,390
of the story that I find most
2391
01:40:55,380 --> 01:41:00,930
fascinating the part that I find
2392
01:40:57,390 --> 01:41:02,700
fascinating is I'm sure I'm wrong that
2393
01:41:00,930 --> 01:41:04,830
this seems new to me but he does seem
2394
01:41:02,700 --> 01:41:07,469
new to me it seemed like only since
2395
01:41:04,830 --> 01:41:10,620
Trump is it relevant that any time
2396
01:41:07,469 --> 01:41:12,750
someone seems disrespected particularly
2397
01:41:10,620 --> 01:41:14,880
by a right-wing person the next step is
2398
01:41:12,750 --> 01:41:17,190
to openly start doing opposition
2399
01:41:14,880 --> 01:41:19,260
research on them and find out what they
2400
01:41:17,190 --> 01:41:23,000
could have done in their life to deserve
2401
01:41:19,260 --> 01:41:26,820
it so this guy referred to himself as a
2402
01:41:23,000 --> 01:41:29,100
Vietnam Times veteran which you hear
2403
01:41:26,820 --> 01:41:31,890
those words it all already there's an
2404
01:41:29,100 --> 01:41:36,180
alarm bell that goes off right he and
2405
01:41:31,890 --> 01:41:37,860
Vietnam times that which is yes a very
2406
01:41:36,180 --> 01:41:41,040
sneaky way of saying I served in the
2407
01:41:37,860 --> 01:41:42,989
military during Vietnam but not in
2408
01:41:41,040 --> 01:41:44,310
Vietnam right we've certainly seen other
2409
01:41:42,989 --> 01:41:45,780
publishers a lot of politicians do that
2410
01:41:44,310 --> 01:41:49,760
it's a it's a it's a sleazy thing to do
2411
01:41:45,780 --> 01:41:52,380
but that doesn't change why these kids
2412
01:41:49,760 --> 01:41:53,610
did this it's exactly what happen with
2413
01:41:52,380 --> 01:41:55,770
ELISA Machado the Miss Universe
2414
01:41:53,610 --> 01:41:58,230
contestant to trump called Miss Piggy he
2415
01:41:55,770 --> 01:42:00,450
fat shamed her publicly he was extremely
2416
01:41:58,230 --> 01:42:04,770
disrespectful about her about her eyes
2417
01:42:00,450 --> 01:42:06,840
about her ethnicity and Trump said well
2418
01:42:04,770 --> 01:42:08,880
it's okay that I did that that because
2419
01:42:06,840 --> 01:42:11,160
years later her boyfriend would be
2420
01:42:08,880 --> 01:42:12,510
accused of attempted murder and she
2421
01:42:11,160 --> 01:42:15,420
would even be suspected of helping him
2422
01:42:12,510 --> 01:42:18,230
get away from it and she was never
2423
01:42:15,420 --> 01:42:21,570
charged but that was his reaction
2424
01:42:18,230 --> 01:42:23,540
anything bad you do to someone is okay
2425
01:42:21,570 --> 01:42:26,310
if that person isn't Jesus Christ I
2426
01:42:23,540 --> 01:42:28,620
couldn't care less and I think the
2427
01:42:26,310 --> 01:42:30,300
problem in this country is there was a
2428
01:42:28,620 --> 01:42:32,969
woman's March there was supposed to be a
2429
01:42:30,300 --> 01:42:35,130
woman's March but the blacks and the
2430
01:42:32,969 --> 01:42:38,130
Jews couldn't get along so they had to
2431
01:42:35,130 --> 01:42:40,190
have three separate marches because we
2432
01:42:38,130 --> 01:42:43,080
have to solve the Palestinian problem
2433
01:42:40,190 --> 01:42:45,140
before we can fight for abortion
2434
01:42:43,080 --> 01:42:47,510
together it
2435
01:42:45,140 --> 01:42:49,580
it's just a childish that's a discipline
2436
01:42:47,510 --> 01:42:51,440
there's no reason to not draw someone
2437
01:42:49,580 --> 01:42:54,340
from the woman's March if they don't
2438
01:42:51,440 --> 01:42:57,110
have the ability to comport themselves
2439
01:42:54,340 --> 01:42:58,790
properly and you're referring to one
2440
01:42:57,110 --> 01:43:00,410
person who was from the ones March who
2441
01:42:58,790 --> 01:43:03,740
and I've seen interviews she's not
2442
01:43:00,410 --> 01:43:05,540
qualified to be there so she you know
2443
01:43:03,740 --> 01:43:07,880
I'm blanking on her name but she was the
2444
01:43:05,540 --> 01:43:09,920
one who wouldn't even answer questions
2445
01:43:07,880 --> 01:43:10,910
about whether or not Israel has a right
2446
01:43:09,920 --> 01:43:11,980
to exist and it's like you know if
2447
01:43:10,910 --> 01:43:14,960
you're if your argument is
2448
01:43:11,980 --> 01:43:16,400
pro-palestinian that's fine I'm not I
2449
01:43:14,960 --> 01:43:17,960
don't to put you in jail but you need
2450
01:43:16,400 --> 01:43:20,170
you don't be a coward and just pretend
2451
01:43:17,960 --> 01:43:22,040
you don't have an opinion and just GG
2452
01:43:20,170 --> 01:43:24,020
something talked to a through interviews
2453
01:43:22,040 --> 01:43:25,850
she is not she does not have the
2454
01:43:24,020 --> 01:43:27,230
wherewithal for this job say yeah and
2455
01:43:25,850 --> 01:43:28,850
there's nothing wrong with saying hey if
2456
01:43:27,230 --> 01:43:31,250
you're anti-semitic or you're anti-black
2457
01:43:28,850 --> 01:43:33,260
or your anti whatever we don't want you
2458
01:43:31,250 --> 01:43:34,970
as part of this and they made a mistake
2459
01:43:33,260 --> 01:43:36,530
by not dropping her well but there you
2460
01:43:34,970 --> 01:43:38,900
know there's a problem between Blacks
2461
01:43:36,530 --> 01:43:41,360
and Jews Louis Farrakhan has been making
2462
01:43:38,900 --> 01:43:44,480
anti-semitic remarks for more than 30
2463
01:43:41,360 --> 01:43:46,280
years and the March and Barack Obama
2464
01:43:44,480 --> 01:43:47,630
knew better than to associate himself
2465
01:43:46,280 --> 01:43:50,210
with him so why can't the woman's much
2466
01:43:47,630 --> 01:43:54,110
because he's very powerful within the
2467
01:43:50,210 --> 01:43:56,660
black community well and so would have
2468
01:43:54,110 --> 01:43:59,060
lost anything right but the point I'm
2469
01:43:56,660 --> 01:43:59,870
making is if I were in charge of the
2470
01:43:59,060 --> 01:44:05,330
left wing
2471
01:43:59,870 --> 01:44:08,480
I'd say Jews blacks Israelis Arabs shut
2472
01:44:05,330 --> 01:44:12,200
the F up this is about the women's March
2473
01:44:08,480 --> 01:44:16,040
this isn't some first draft of a paddy
2474
01:44:12,200 --> 01:44:19,190
Chayefsky play this is about women's
2475
01:44:16,040 --> 01:44:22,670
right to choose and getting rid of Trump
2476
01:44:19,190 --> 01:44:24,890
leave your the problem yeah the problem
2477
01:44:22,670 --> 01:44:26,330
here is there are a lot of people in
2478
01:44:24,890 --> 01:44:29,600
this world who consider themselves
2479
01:44:26,330 --> 01:44:31,790
activists consider the subs woke who are
2480
01:44:29,600 --> 01:44:33,230
too bored by women's rights to go to bed
2481
01:44:31,790 --> 01:44:35,540
and they need to fold it into something
2482
01:44:33,230 --> 01:44:36,980
they actually care about right and
2483
01:44:35,540 --> 01:44:38,840
that's what I think this is about the
2484
01:44:36,980 --> 01:44:39,980
people who say I don't care about
2485
01:44:38,840 --> 01:44:41,240
women's rights can you make it about
2486
01:44:39,980 --> 01:44:43,250
anti Jews or can you make it about
2487
01:44:41,240 --> 01:44:45,080
defensive you know look I'm not saying
2488
01:44:43,250 --> 01:44:46,010
and that you're anti-jewish if you think
2489
01:44:45,080 --> 01:44:49,370
the Palestinians being treated badly
2490
01:44:46,010 --> 01:44:50,660
this woman's opinion is on it were not
2491
01:44:49,370 --> 01:44:53,630
particularly sophisticated enough to
2492
01:44:50,660 --> 01:44:55,760
warrant being you know representative of
2493
01:44:53,630 --> 01:44:57,200
its movement yeah I mean there was oh
2494
01:44:55,760 --> 01:44:58,269
there was a woman I don't know it maybe
2495
01:44:57,200 --> 01:45:00,460
was Chicago
2496
01:44:58,269 --> 01:45:02,530
and a woman's March I think was a year
2497
01:45:00,460 --> 01:45:06,010
ago she held up the Israeli flag and was
2498
01:45:02,530 --> 01:45:09,159
told to take it down and she was wrong
2499
01:45:06,010 --> 01:45:10,749
to be asked to take it the vacant Israel
2500
01:45:09,159 --> 01:45:13,360
she was good
2501
01:45:10,749 --> 01:45:14,199
it wasn't it was wrong make it about a
2502
01:45:13,360 --> 01:45:18,780
different issue
2503
01:45:14,199 --> 01:45:21,519
yeah it's disingenuous for a Jew to
2504
01:45:18,780 --> 01:45:23,739
raise the Israeli flag in front of a
2505
01:45:21,519 --> 01:45:26,829
bunch of progressives people of color
2506
01:45:23,739 --> 01:45:29,230
who obviously many of whom identify with
2507
01:45:26,829 --> 01:45:30,519
the Palestinians it's disingenuous for
2508
01:45:29,230 --> 01:45:32,769
you to think that you're not going to
2509
01:45:30,519 --> 01:45:36,449
piss off a couple of people by waving
2510
01:45:32,769 --> 01:45:39,099
the Israeli flag it's also wrong for the
2511
01:45:36,449 --> 01:45:41,440
organizers of that March to say take
2512
01:45:39,099 --> 01:45:44,199
down your flag you represent an
2513
01:45:41,440 --> 01:45:47,679
apartheid state can we shut the hell up
2514
01:45:44,199 --> 01:45:52,110
about everything other than the right to
2515
01:45:47,679 --> 01:45:54,780
choose equal pay the me to movement and
2516
01:45:52,110 --> 01:45:58,809
Donald Trump do you have to bring in
2517
01:45:54,780 --> 01:46:01,119
everything to this mark well there it
2518
01:45:58,809 --> 01:46:02,619
was wrong that black leaders were not
2519
01:46:01,119 --> 01:46:04,179
allowed as much of a voice as they
2520
01:46:02,619 --> 01:46:07,719
should have got I'm in the first March
2521
01:46:04,179 --> 01:46:09,369
but that's about because American women
2522
01:46:07,719 --> 01:46:11,139
should be well represented of all colors
2523
01:46:09,369 --> 01:46:11,949
it does not mean that we should make
2524
01:46:11,139 --> 01:46:13,900
this about foreign power
2525
01:46:11,949 --> 01:46:14,980
let's see there's a difference between
2526
01:46:13,900 --> 01:46:17,349
those things I think that it should be a
2527
01:46:14,980 --> 01:46:18,610
diverse group of women it has to be has
2528
01:46:17,349 --> 01:46:21,519
to be representative of all women in
2529
01:46:18,610 --> 01:46:24,010
this country but yes making it about
2530
01:46:21,519 --> 01:46:26,050
separate issues like Israel Palestine is
2531
01:46:24,010 --> 01:46:27,400
childish and the idea that they're
2532
01:46:26,050 --> 01:46:29,110
overcompensating that maybe they're
2533
01:46:27,400 --> 01:46:31,449
overcompensating so we can't get rid of
2534
01:46:29,110 --> 01:46:33,880
this one woman who's you know putting
2535
01:46:31,449 --> 01:46:35,949
out anti-semitic stuff and and and and
2536
01:46:33,880 --> 01:46:37,389
worshipping Farrakhan because we've got
2537
01:46:35,949 --> 01:46:39,780
in trouble for being disrespectful of
2538
01:46:37,389 --> 01:46:41,920
black women before is a little childish
2539
01:46:39,780 --> 01:46:44,110
you know you should be able to do both
2540
01:46:41,920 --> 01:46:48,820
you're not enemy of my enemy is my
2541
01:46:44,110 --> 01:46:51,730
friend Joseph Stalin was my friend when
2542
01:46:48,820 --> 01:46:53,349
we were fighting Hitler once we defeated
2543
01:46:51,730 --> 01:46:57,159
Hitler then we could go back to hating
2544
01:46:53,349 --> 01:46:59,230
Joseph Stalin you got to grow up you're
2545
01:46:57,159 --> 01:47:02,800
not gonna solve but the the most
2546
01:46:59,230 --> 01:47:04,719
intractable problems Wilbur Ross it's a
2547
01:47:02,800 --> 01:47:06,729
lack of dislike of discipline to not be
2548
01:47:04,719 --> 01:47:08,050
able to just say let's concentrate on
2549
01:47:06,729 --> 01:47:10,030
this and not make it about whatever
2550
01:47:08,050 --> 01:47:11,270
issue you like talking about the most
2551
01:47:10,030 --> 01:47:14,300
right
2552
01:47:11,270 --> 01:47:16,040
Ross and this one is just great this is
2553
01:47:14,300 --> 01:47:17,030
why you don't have a commerce secretary
2554
01:47:16,040 --> 01:47:22,610
it used to be one of Jeff Dunham's
2555
01:47:17,030 --> 01:47:25,370
puppets it's Wilbur Ross is again coming
2556
01:47:22,610 --> 01:47:28,310
up as the most out of hunched rich guy
2557
01:47:25,370 --> 01:47:30,020
in in Trump support it I mean so of
2558
01:47:28,310 --> 01:47:32,420
course we're talking about is he said
2559
01:47:30,020 --> 01:47:33,920
that he did not understand why people
2560
01:47:32,420 --> 01:47:37,040
who had not been paid in a month would
2561
01:47:33,920 --> 01:47:38,750
go to food banks did not understand why
2562
01:47:37,040 --> 01:47:40,430
they would want free food because he
2563
01:47:38,750 --> 01:47:42,980
said why don't they just get loans you
2564
01:47:40,430 --> 01:47:46,340
know put themselves into debt because of
2565
01:47:42,980 --> 01:47:49,940
what we did to them and it really is
2566
01:47:46,340 --> 01:47:52,520
amazing because one he claimed that they
2567
01:47:49,940 --> 01:47:54,710
have it can all get federal secured
2568
01:47:52,520 --> 01:47:57,050
loans guaranteed loans that's not true
2569
01:47:54,710 --> 01:47:59,150
there's a backlog of loans already
2570
01:47:57,050 --> 01:48:01,610
there's a few credit unions that are
2571
01:47:59,150 --> 01:48:03,470
offering interest-free loans to their
2572
01:48:01,610 --> 01:48:05,480
members only but the but that's like
2573
01:48:03,470 --> 01:48:06,770
that's only about 10 percent of the
2574
01:48:05,480 --> 01:48:07,850
people who are talked under no I'm sorry
2575
01:48:06,770 --> 01:48:10,280
that's one percent of people we're
2576
01:48:07,850 --> 01:48:13,340
talking about there's about 8,000 of the
2577
01:48:10,280 --> 01:48:15,500
or 8 million of the 80 million people
2578
01:48:13,340 --> 01:48:17,930
something like that or is it 80 million
2579
01:48:15,500 --> 01:48:20,600
people right now or 800,000 people 800
2580
01:48:17,930 --> 01:48:23,150
fact I'm sure yes right right so um
2581
01:48:20,600 --> 01:48:26,480
800,000 people bet that are currently
2582
01:48:23,150 --> 01:48:27,950
not being paid that he described as not
2583
01:48:26,480 --> 01:48:30,950
mattering because it's only a third of
2584
01:48:27,950 --> 01:48:34,300
1% of our GDP that's why it doesn't
2585
01:48:30,950 --> 01:48:36,470
matter that they're getting paid oh yeah
2586
01:48:34,300 --> 01:48:38,150
yeah they're not getting paid and he
2587
01:48:36,470 --> 01:48:40,820
said look they should just get loans yes
2588
01:48:38,150 --> 01:48:43,250
yes they'll have a little interest that
2589
01:48:40,820 --> 01:48:45,200
is and he's he's even saying to them
2590
01:48:43,250 --> 01:48:47,660
that's why you shouldn't accept free
2591
01:48:45,200 --> 01:48:50,360
food you should take a loan and go into
2592
01:48:47,660 --> 01:48:52,220
debt and just hope that everything gets
2593
01:48:50,360 --> 01:48:54,770
better yeah you tell me people go into
2594
01:48:52,220 --> 01:48:56,780
debt to get a loan because they're gonna
2595
01:48:54,770 --> 01:48:57,800
get their paycheck back well what if you
2596
01:48:56,780 --> 01:49:00,380
don't get a paycheck for another month
2597
01:48:57,800 --> 01:49:02,930
now they're in debt now they're in that
2598
01:49:00,380 --> 01:49:04,160
process that cycle of debt where you
2599
01:49:02,930 --> 01:49:05,870
can't get out of it you know like those
2600
01:49:04,160 --> 01:49:07,880
like the predatory penalties everyone
2601
01:49:05,870 --> 01:49:10,490
knows about it's it's financial slavery
2602
01:49:07,880 --> 01:49:11,600
he's trying to put people in because he
2603
01:49:10,490 --> 01:49:13,190
wants to pretend that there's nothing
2604
01:49:11,600 --> 01:49:15,380
wrong with with just making these people
2605
01:49:13,190 --> 01:49:16,910
work for free well hang on but you know
2606
01:49:15,380 --> 01:49:19,610
payday lenders are the biggest
2607
01:49:16,910 --> 01:49:21,230
supporters of Trump Mick Mulvaney who
2608
01:49:19,610 --> 01:49:24,590
were the Consumer Financial Protection
2609
01:49:21,230 --> 01:49:27,290
Bureau he's a big
2610
01:49:24,590 --> 01:49:29,690
order or they support him the payday
2611
01:49:27,290 --> 01:49:32,630
lenders support Mick Mulvaney the credit
2612
01:49:29,690 --> 01:49:34,310
card companies well I mean I'm sure
2613
01:49:32,630 --> 01:49:36,739
they're privately extremely happy this
2614
01:49:34,310 --> 01:49:38,989
is happening of course this is a giant
2615
01:49:36,739 --> 01:49:41,659
windfall for them for anyone who takes
2616
01:49:38,989 --> 01:49:42,590
advantage of people and who are in
2617
01:49:41,659 --> 01:49:45,770
financial problems
2618
01:49:42,590 --> 01:49:48,679
so that I mean it's I I mean it just
2619
01:49:45,770 --> 01:49:50,570
shows how Wilbur Ross is so removed from
2620
01:49:48,679 --> 01:49:52,520
what his job is supposed to be so
2621
01:49:50,570 --> 01:49:55,849
removed from just understanding what
2622
01:49:52,520 --> 01:49:57,619
this is doing I mean I'm surprised that
2623
01:49:55,849 --> 01:49:58,849
you know he's not already going out
2624
01:49:57,619 --> 01:50:01,699
saying like you know
2625
01:49:58,849 --> 01:50:03,920
oh I've bought many organs from grateful
2626
01:50:01,699 --> 01:50:06,170
poor people in China for much more money
2627
01:50:03,920 --> 01:50:08,810
than a month of federal employment
2628
01:50:06,170 --> 01:50:11,869
all of these people complaining have two
2629
01:50:08,810 --> 01:50:15,409
lungs to pain much more liver than they
2630
01:50:11,869 --> 01:50:17,119
need well we got to ramp it up
2631
01:50:15,409 --> 01:50:18,440
I promise by next week he's just gonna
2632
01:50:17,119 --> 01:50:21,070
start suggesting that federal employees
2633
01:50:18,440 --> 01:50:24,909
sell one of their spare houses of course
2634
01:50:21,070 --> 01:50:27,139
or their yacht but I mean it's yeah yeah
2635
01:50:24,909 --> 01:50:28,460
it's just like it's like my Mitt Romney
2636
01:50:27,139 --> 01:50:32,659
said don't worry borrow money from your
2637
01:50:28,460 --> 01:50:35,750
parents yeah yeah poor people they don't
2638
01:50:32,659 --> 01:50:39,219
care that's luck not only do they know
2639
01:50:35,750 --> 01:50:41,869
no I don't care they have contempt I
2640
01:50:39,219 --> 01:50:43,940
don't think I mean I don't I don't know
2641
01:50:41,869 --> 01:50:46,730
about the contempt part of it not caring
2642
01:50:43,940 --> 01:50:49,280
is more like this is what's like Larry
2643
01:50:46,730 --> 01:50:51,679
Trump is saying and you total these
2644
01:50:49,280 --> 01:50:54,320
federal employees you are the brave eggs
2645
01:50:51,679 --> 01:50:56,540
that will be broken for the omelette
2646
01:50:54,320 --> 01:51:00,349
that is a white America is essentially
2647
01:50:56,540 --> 01:51:01,909
her argument that it's okay that you're
2648
01:51:00,349 --> 01:51:04,190
dealing with this because at the end of
2649
01:51:01,909 --> 01:51:08,090
the day we'll get our symbolic wall
2650
01:51:04,190 --> 01:51:10,760
against against the future yeah well
2651
01:51:08,090 --> 01:51:13,909
you're they don't care the people
2652
01:51:10,760 --> 01:51:19,190
sitting in first class is your enemy and
2653
01:51:13,909 --> 01:51:21,820
my advice is to fart in first class to
2654
01:51:19,190 --> 01:51:24,940
somehow make sure you have health care
2655
01:51:21,820 --> 01:51:28,070
to become a vegan
2656
01:51:24,940 --> 01:51:31,489
that way you're rejecting the system if
2657
01:51:28,070 --> 01:51:34,190
you switch to a plant-based diet you're
2658
01:51:31,489 --> 01:51:36,770
rejecting all of it be a vegan is about
2659
01:51:34,190 --> 01:51:37,489
the most you can do as one person to
2660
01:51:36,770 --> 01:51:38,449
help the world
2661
01:51:37,489 --> 01:51:39,380
it's
2662
01:51:38,449 --> 01:51:41,119
I mean I'm not gonna do it because I
2663
01:51:39,380 --> 01:51:44,749
love me but it is a very good thing to
2664
01:51:41,119 --> 01:51:47,300
do well it's the only thing that would
2665
01:51:44,749 --> 01:51:50,749
save the planet is if everybody just
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01:51:47,300 --> 01:51:53,389
switched to a plant-based diet and watch
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01:51:50,749 --> 01:51:54,800
how you spend your money everybody's I
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01:51:53,389 --> 01:51:56,900
know everybody's in debt they all have
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01:51:54,800 --> 01:51:59,539
student loans blah blah blah blah blah
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01:51:56,900 --> 01:52:02,389
but what's more important than your vote
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01:51:59,539 --> 01:52:03,949
and that is important but what's really
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01:52:02,389 --> 01:52:07,610
important how you spend your money how
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01:52:03,949 --> 01:52:11,300
you consume you know being a vegan is
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01:52:07,610 --> 01:52:13,039
how you consume what you buy how do you
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01:52:11,300 --> 01:52:16,010
how do you spend your money who you
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01:52:13,039 --> 01:52:20,050
giving your money and your time to and
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01:52:16,010 --> 01:52:25,429
my suggestion is don't give your time to
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01:52:20,050 --> 01:52:27,889
the Covington kids it's not important no
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01:52:25,429 --> 01:52:30,909
it's not and it's what and it's it's in
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01:52:27,889 --> 01:52:33,050
the loo it's in lieu of discussing
2681
01:52:30,909 --> 01:52:36,829
medicare-for-all it's in lieu of
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01:52:33,050 --> 01:52:40,280
figuring out how to tax the richest 1%
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01:52:36,829 --> 01:52:43,300
properly that's heavy lifting it's easy
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01:52:40,280 --> 01:52:46,190
to look at a smug whitey attacked that
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01:52:43,300 --> 01:52:48,229
why I see a smug white kid getting the
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01:52:46,190 --> 01:52:50,179
face back an Indian though that is a
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01:52:48,229 --> 01:52:53,329
real thing we can talk about which is
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01:52:50,179 --> 01:52:55,400
its we not here is ignore you spent
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01:52:53,329 --> 01:52:57,979
three at not you but I have friends who
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01:52:55,400 --> 01:53:01,309
spent three hours going over that video
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01:52:57,979 --> 01:53:02,809
in Washington and the mall and yeah
2692
01:53:01,309 --> 01:53:03,979
that's a little silly but at the same
2693
01:53:02,809 --> 01:53:06,469
time we've talked about this before
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01:53:03,979 --> 01:53:08,119
there is gonna be a real price that we
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01:53:06,469 --> 01:53:10,429
are paying for the psychological effect
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01:53:08,119 --> 01:53:12,380
of Trump on these children and this is a
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01:53:10,429 --> 01:53:14,570
small example of it we are going to be
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01:53:12,380 --> 01:53:16,219
seen for the rest of our life the toxic
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01:53:14,570 --> 01:53:19,070
hatred that comes out of people who
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01:53:16,219 --> 01:53:21,229
Trump taught to no longer be ashamed of
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01:53:19,070 --> 01:53:22,699
these feelings okay I mean that and you
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01:53:21,229 --> 01:53:23,719
know just like McDonald's it's just like
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01:53:22,699 --> 01:53:24,829
the McDonald's they remember when Trump
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01:53:23,719 --> 01:53:26,749
bought a McDonald's for those athletes
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01:53:24,829 --> 01:53:28,639
and how much of a nephew that was to
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01:53:26,749 --> 01:53:32,209
those kids and people said oh don't look
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01:53:28,639 --> 01:53:34,519
at that that's not important do not look
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01:53:32,209 --> 01:53:37,099
away from the dingo because it will eat
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01:53:34,519 --> 01:53:40,039
your baby the babies are and I am a mine
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01:53:37,099 --> 01:53:42,559
with I think you need to discipline to
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01:53:40,039 --> 01:53:45,409
talk about everything we got it we happy
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01:53:42,559 --> 01:53:46,639
right we talk about just the dumb easy
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01:53:45,409 --> 01:53:50,030
stuff to talk about like the company it
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01:53:46,639 --> 01:53:52,230
cuz that's not a big deal but well let
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01:53:50,030 --> 01:53:53,670
me ask you let me ask you this question
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01:53:52,230 --> 01:53:57,300
price were paying right let me ask you
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01:53:53,670 --> 01:53:59,250
let me ask you a question yeah are you a
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01:53:57,300 --> 01:54:02,430
Democrat yes
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01:53:59,250 --> 01:54:06,930
are you a progressive yes are you a
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01:54:02,430 --> 01:54:08,010
lefty yeah you're a lefty I mean as far
2721
01:54:06,930 --> 01:54:09,510
as I know all those things mean the same
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01:54:08,010 --> 01:54:12,810
thing they don't there's a difference
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01:54:09,510 --> 01:54:16,020
between a liberal and lefties now so
2724
01:54:12,810 --> 01:54:17,580
instead of yeah I mean you and I are
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01:54:16,020 --> 01:54:22,050
part of the same tribe
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01:54:17,580 --> 01:54:25,410
we hate smug white kids from Covington
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01:54:22,050 --> 01:54:28,710
right with their dicks about it yes
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01:54:25,410 --> 01:54:31,680
do you support Medicare for all yes okay
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01:54:28,710 --> 01:54:34,560
do you support free tuition at all
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01:54:31,680 --> 01:54:37,440
public universities well pretty much
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01:54:34,560 --> 01:54:39,420
yeah do you support taxing anybody who
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01:54:37,440 --> 01:54:41,430
makes more than ten million dollars a
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01:54:39,420 --> 01:54:43,800
year at seventy percent
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01:54:41,430 --> 01:54:45,600
I couldn't ago she ate on the exact
2735
01:54:43,800 --> 01:54:46,890
amount I think that it has to be a
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01:54:45,600 --> 01:54:50,340
little bit more it's a complicated
2737
01:54:46,890 --> 01:54:52,290
question but yeah I'm okay with taxing
2738
01:54:50,340 --> 01:54:54,360
yes I want higher tax brackets that go
2739
01:54:52,290 --> 01:54:56,340
up higher and Braille all rights more
2740
01:54:54,360 --> 01:54:58,890
yeah I think somebody might be a little
2741
01:54:56,340 --> 01:55:01,140
high but I'm fine with something in the
2742
01:54:58,890 --> 01:55:04,040
area yeah do you believe in spending a
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01:55:01,140 --> 01:55:06,300
trillion dollars on infrastructure uh
2744
01:55:04,040 --> 01:55:09,570
yeah I think that's probably a good idea
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01:55:06,300 --> 01:55:13,950
so why so so why are we discussing
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01:55:09,570 --> 01:55:16,710
anything other than that if it's because
2747
01:55:13,950 --> 01:55:18,030
oh there was a poisoning of our culture
2748
01:55:16,710 --> 01:55:18,420
happening right now that could not be
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01:55:18,030 --> 01:55:20,520
ignored
2750
01:55:18,420 --> 01:55:23,280
there was a writ with there will be a
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01:55:20,520 --> 01:55:27,420
true price for the number of people that
2752
01:55:23,280 --> 01:55:30,739
he is inspiring to embrace their darkest
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01:55:27,420 --> 01:55:35,160
instincts and that can that can play out
2754
01:55:30,739 --> 01:55:37,650
affecting everything just said okay Dave
2755
01:55:35,160 --> 01:55:43,080
Cyrus how do people follow you on
2756
01:55:37,650 --> 01:55:46,020
twitter gave Cyrus on Twitter the DAV es
2757
01:55:43,080 --> 01:55:50,550
ir us same as Instagram and love God
2758
01:55:46,020 --> 01:55:51,840
please follow my Instagram okay and you
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01:55:50,550 --> 01:55:52,700
got anything coming I'm gonna stop you
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01:55:51,840 --> 01:55:55,500
right there
2761
01:55:52,700 --> 01:56:00,180
yeah well Sunday if you're in Salt Lake
2762
01:55:55,500 --> 01:56:02,040
City Utah I'll be on wise guys with Pete
2763
01:56:00,180 --> 01:56:04,980
Davidson so come enjoy that if it's not
2764
01:56:02,040 --> 01:56:05,639
sold out and then I'll be in LA for a
2765
01:56:04,980 --> 01:56:07,909
few days
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01:56:05,639 --> 01:56:10,590
maybe of a show there who knows okay
2767
01:56:07,909 --> 01:56:12,480
Stan line for one second sir you're
2768
01:56:10,590 --> 01:56:15,620
listening to the david feldman radio
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01:56:12,480 --> 01:56:40,069
program you said but feta comp
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01:56:15,620 --> 01:56:40,069
[Music]
Yesterday was Father’s Day which CNN, the most trusted name in news, celebrated by running a tribute to the 41st president of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush. I’m sure there was a lot of crying because the Bush family always seems to get choked up whenever they talk about Poppy, and Poppy always seems to start crying whenever he talks about himself. I’m not sure how 41 ended up with the nickname Poppy. I think it has something to do with America dipping its beak into the heroin trade back when Poppy was running the CIA.
No, I couldn’t watch CNN because I was too busy keeping my misty eyes on Iraq, a country that appears to be unraveling all because back in 2000 former Spymaster George Herbert Walker Bush insisted on keeping a secret from the American people, that secret being his son George is a vicious moron.
George Herbert Walker Bush gets a medal even though he neglected to inform the American voters that his eldest son is a vicious moron.
I never once saw my father cry. My father came from the kind of poverty where nobody was going to comfort you no matter how loud you wept. Not that there’s anything wrong with grown men crying. But my father didn’t cry because he knew nobody would help. It’s different for a Bush. They get help from everybody, even the Supreme Court when they lose an election. I think even my father would have cried after that decision.
My father served in the Pacific around the same time President George W. Bush’s father served over there. My father didn’t live long enough to see W lose the popular vote and then have the Supreme Court hand him our nuclear launch codes anyway. Looking at Iraq come undone I know my father would tell George Herbert Walker Bush, “My eldest son is an idiot too. It’s good to encourage idiots, but you don’t let them play with dangerous toys, like our U.S. military.” Then my dad would have spat in George Herbert Walker’s face and called his entire family a tribe of money-grubbing whores. Because that’s how much dad loved America. My father loved this country. He never had to say that. You just knew by his visceral contempt for Reagan, Bush Senior and all those other charlatans who rely on false patriotism to steal from Americans.
The millions of dead Iraqis are the Bush family’s fault. They lied us into war. Had Americans known the truth, we never would have agreed to that illegal invasion. Unlike the Bush family, at our core Americans are a good and decent people. Which is why Gore won in 2000. America is much bigger than the noisemakers and the guns we fire overseas or at each other. Americans may differ on the nuance, but we all agree it should be hard to get a gun, harder to declare war, nobody disagrees that Big Banks are evil, that Main Street is superior to Wall Street, that politics needs to be shorn of money, that everyone is entitled to affordable healthcare and that anyone who works an eight hour day shouldn’t be broke. We all agree on that. We’re a good people. But we’re drowned out by Big Money.
If everyone who is registered to vote voted, all our problems would be solved. Read the polls, we’re a good people. Americans support, for the most part, all the right things. We just need to vote in numbers that drown out Big Money. Vote. How hard can it be? It’s not like we’re being asked to serve in the Pacific. Imagine if we all voted. Three years from now CNN would have to air a Mothers Day tribute to President Elizabeth Warren. And who knows? Maybe we can finally elect a congress willing to put George W. Bush on trial for Iraq.
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