1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: Welcome to Worst Year Ever, A production of I Heart 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: Radio Together Everything. So don't don't. America's back, baby. Yeah, 3 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: we're doing it. We're doing it. We are long national 4 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: nightmares over. Uh, Joseph Robinette Biden is bringing America back, 5 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 1: making it great for the next time after it wasn't 6 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 1: great for a while, but now it will be again, 7 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 1: And I for one am excited. I'm Robert Evans, and 8 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,239 Speaker 1: this is no longer the worst year ever because we 9 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 1: have solved all of our problems. Great ye to year. Yeah, 10 00:00:55,280 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 1: we done, We've done it. Believe you. I agree. I leave. 11 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: I'm Katie Stole. By the way, kid, I hadn't mentioned Hi, guys, 12 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: what who else is here? Who else is joining us? 13 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 1: Co host? I think Robert Evans? And there we go. 14 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: I was just um, I want to start with a 15 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: question for you guys before we dig in. How are 16 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: you feeling on today, the day that Donald Trump finally 17 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:34,320 Speaker 1: became president? I mean happy, happy, last day of Donald Trump. 18 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: I mean we we delayed recording today so that we 19 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 1: could watch his farewell address, and we all agreed that 20 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: he almost seemed sort of presidential, but then snuck in 21 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 1: all of his usual I mean I wouldn't. I'd say less, 22 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: he seemed presidential and more. I was just kind of 23 00:01:57,520 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: surprised that he made it eighteen minutes without an explo 24 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: us at death threat. Yeah, which was like, oh, for 25 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: actively trying to incite violence right now, I mean passively 26 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: justifying all of the violence of several hundred years of 27 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: American imperialism by talking about how rad it is that 28 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: we stole this land. So that, yeah, not great, but 29 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: for him it is a step forward. Yeah. Um, I 30 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 1: have been thinking all day today about uh, the day 31 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: after the election, and you guys all know that Biden's 32 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: not my guy. I'm not thrilled, although we are going 33 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 1: to talk about some of the stuff that he is 34 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: going to hit the ground running that seems positive in 35 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,799 Speaker 1: many ways, um, and all of that, but I just 36 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: I do feel relief today. I feel relief that we 37 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:53,959 Speaker 1: have one more day until he is no longer the president, 38 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: and and we survived it. These four years have gone 39 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 1: by incredibly slow and incredibly fast, and it's shown just 40 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 1: how much damage can be done, you know, but also 41 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 1: how much damage was already done. And I'm ready to 42 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: get to work. That's how I feel, and I wanted 43 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: to start with that kind of positive message to everybody. 44 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: We love positivity. We love positivity from you and positivity 45 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: from our beautiful president. Um, beautiful president gorgeous, which is 46 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: the same thing. We're doing great. Yeah, so I think 47 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: we I don't know, there's a few things to go into. 48 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: I think some some of what is necessary is I 49 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: guess um talking about some of the stuff that is 50 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: planned for from the Biden administration for his first day 51 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: in office, in first hundred days in office, and I 52 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 1: kind of wanted to start with something that's just in 53 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: the last couple of days started being passed around really 54 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: heavily around the internet, um, which is that Biden is 55 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: Biden and his people have talked several times about UM 56 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: vetoing the Keystone XL pipeline, and uh, this is it's 57 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: it's very complicated, like the actual story of what's going on. 58 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: So you'll generally see one of two things when people 59 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: talk about this online. One is either folks being like 60 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: Biden is has like confirmed that he's going to veto 61 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:20,840 Speaker 1: the Keystone pipeline on day one, and and for a 62 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 1: little bit of background, that was the pipeline that passes 63 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: through North and South Dakota that Standing Rock was protesting. 64 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:28,600 Speaker 1: It goes up to Alberta in Canada and it it 65 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:32,359 Speaker 1: is supposed to transfer a shipload of bitumen, which is 66 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 1: like oil rich sand and ship. That is a way 67 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: to get a lot of extra oil out of the earth, 68 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 1: but also produces I think something like more emissions than 69 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 1: the standard kind of just because of the process. A 70 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 1: lot is good, Yeah, a lot is great. The more 71 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 1: emissions the better because who likes the winter, right? Um. Now, 72 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 1: the other downside to transporting oil this way through a 73 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 1: pipeline is that UM pipelines a hundred percent of the 74 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: time leak and spill tens of thousands of gallons of 75 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: oil into uh waterways that people need in order to 76 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,839 Speaker 1: not die. And this one actually did have a spill. 77 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:19,479 Speaker 1: Did Yeah? I was gonna say, when has that ever 78 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: happened regularly? Yeah? It happens every single time with every 79 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: single pipeline UM. And Yeah, so that that's a big 80 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,919 Speaker 1: part of why, like the the indigenous folks at Standing 81 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: Rock who were kind of the core of of organizing 82 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: and planning that like we're up in arms because like 83 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: you know, we need this water to not die of dehydration. 84 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: And you're going to pour poison into it, and then 85 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: the pipeline poured poison and we know because we know, 86 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 1: because we know what will happen. We know, I mean 87 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: the water, sure, but then ecosystems, uh, you know, wildlife, 88 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 1: all of it. And you know in addition to the 89 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 1: fact that, like one of the things defenders of pipelines 90 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: will point it is that well, but it's better for 91 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 1: the environment on the whole than the traditional way of 92 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 1: just transporting like fuel through trucks and stuff, because you 93 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: do have less emissions with the pipeline. It just pollutes 94 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,599 Speaker 1: the area around the pipeline as opposed to polluting the 95 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:16,280 Speaker 1: entire atmosphere. And I guess that's technically true, but again, 96 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: like number one doesn't really make it okay to poison 97 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,480 Speaker 1: people's water, and number two, what you're actually doing is 98 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:29,359 Speaker 1: allowing the process of killing the atmosphere with fossil fuels 99 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:33,280 Speaker 1: to continue even longer. Yeah, you're saying, look, it's the 100 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:37,719 Speaker 1: lesser of two evils. Will know. Actually, the better solution 101 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 1: would be all these other alternative energy sources to be explored. Also, 102 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,359 Speaker 1: that's a better answer for the other justification for it, 103 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 1: which is jobs creations, a lot of jobs creation. And 104 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 1: it's very funny ahead, it's very it's funny that you 105 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 1: bring that up and appropriate that you bring that up, 106 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:00,120 Speaker 1: because obviously, when it became clear that Joe Biden was 107 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:04,160 Speaker 1: going to be the president, UM, the Canadians in Alberta 108 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: in particular and in the government albert I should say, 109 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 1: started freaking the fuck out because this is a big 110 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 1: economic thing for Alberta in particular. UM, they have made 111 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: a lot of like they're they're like they've even threatened 112 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 1: to sue the US government if Biden does this thing 113 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: that he said he's gonna do. UM. But they have 114 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: also they have also done their best to get in 115 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: on the green energy and job creation train. So like 116 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: they've they've been basically sending back counter offers and sometimes 117 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: some people who are very more critical of Biden online 118 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: you'll see them say, like, he's going to approve the pipeline. 119 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: He's just going to approve the green version of the 120 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 1: pipeline that Alberta has pushed. And what they have promised 121 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 1: is will make sure that the pipeline is a constructed 122 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 1: and operated using renewable energy. UM, so it'll be transporting, 123 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: it'll be transporting fossil fuel, but will build the thing 124 00:07:54,080 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 1: with with renewable energy. It poison oil tube um, and 125 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: we're going to only use Union labor um. Oh my god, 126 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: it's it's and that is the offer they've made. And 127 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: it's one of those things again, it kind of depends 128 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: on how we don't know what's going to happen, and 129 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 1: what you think is going to happen kind of depends 130 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 1: on how cynical you are, because I've I've heard two 131 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: things in the articles I've read from the Biden administration. 132 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 1: One is that an article reporting on how Biden's going 133 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: to veto at day one one of someone from the 134 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: campaign responded and said, well, that's based on an old 135 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 1: um presentation that we put out and didn't really give 136 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:33,440 Speaker 1: any more context than that. And another thing that's come 137 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 1: out is like when um Alberta kind of came back 138 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: with this or when you know, the company making it 139 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 1: came back with this like green poison pipeline plan, someone 140 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:47,960 Speaker 1: from the Biden UH campaign was like, so nothing so far, 141 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 1: Like there's no change to Biden's promise to to veto 142 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 1: the pipeline, So I don't know what's gonna happen. It 143 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 1: doesn't seem like anybody does. Um, it would not be 144 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: the least Joe Biden thing in the world to approve 145 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 1: a green in fossil fuel pipeline. That said that, in fairness, 146 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 1: he is not even really he has not commented on 147 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: that my knowledge, and so far seems poised to still 148 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 1: veto the pipeline. So I'm gonna give before I like 149 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: land either way, I'm gonna give the dude a chance 150 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: to do the good thing, and that pipeline, I'll say 151 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 1: that I got. I also read somewhere in some article 152 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:31,680 Speaker 1: that specific item might not happen tomorrow. Originally that was 153 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 1: part of the conversation, like he's going to hit the 154 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: ground running with these two things, the other thing being 155 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 1: immigration reform, which we will also talk about. Um. But 156 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 1: so I think that if something was to get pushed tomorrow, 157 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,320 Speaker 1: it might be that, uh, for all these things that 158 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:49,080 Speaker 1: you would be something he could do. He would not 159 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 1: need anyone else's approval, because the Obama administration canceled the 160 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 1: approval for the pipeline and then Trump reapproved it and 161 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: ship so Biden could unilaterally the know that like that 162 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 1: is a thing he doesn't need anyone's help to do. 163 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: And if you just look at the other stuff he's 164 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: promised to do day one in his first hundred days, 165 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 1: it's one of relatively few things that he can kind 166 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 1: of do completely on his own, um, because he's going 167 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: to be facing, as you can imagine, um, pretty much 168 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 1: complete blockading from the Republicans on most other stuff as 169 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: much as they can also in uh also in July, 170 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court also ruled against the pipeline getting a 171 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: perfect to continue. It should be a real easy win 172 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: to give at least something to the left, like, but again, 173 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: he is Joe Biden. You know. Well, at the same time, 174 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: it's like, okay, it seems it seems like, well, you 175 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 1: don't even necessarily need to to to do this because 176 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:50,960 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court is already uh blocked it. So it's 177 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 1: almost like, well, what specifically did they block? Was it 178 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 1: some like uh way that it was being built, you know, 179 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 1: or um, yeah, they didn't take into account a certain 180 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: fish species, um, And uh so this this it might 181 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 1: continue and that might be taken care of, and then 182 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 1: it will still be a problem. Yeah. I just feel 183 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 1: like that still leaves room for there to be some compromise. 184 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:19,319 Speaker 1: Some alternative way of proceeding with the building. So right, Yeah, 185 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:24,439 Speaker 1: I didn't entire as many as many people saying don't 186 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 1: build this pipeline is good? Yes, but man, that green 187 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 1: energy building, it's so good. Yeah, the great, it's very silly. UM. 188 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 1: It would be good if Biden kills the pipeline, the 189 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 1: keystone at least, like that would be a thing he 190 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:44,200 Speaker 1: would do that. I would say, good, good, good on you, Joe, 191 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: and it would be good optics. We'll see what actually happens. 192 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: I think we've laid out that, Like it's kind of 193 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 1: impossible to know if that's what he will actually do. UM. Now, 194 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,960 Speaker 1: in terms of other hundred day stuff, UM, Biden has 195 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:00,959 Speaker 1: announced a few things that he's going to do right away, 196 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:02,560 Speaker 1: some of which he can do and probably will do 197 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 1: one day one UM. He's promised around a dozen executive 198 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:08,560 Speaker 1: actions on his first day in office, including a mask 199 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 1: mandate on federal property and for interstate travel. UM. Extending 200 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 1: a nationwide restriction on home evictions and foreclosures, which I'm 201 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 1: sure we'll have a bunch of holes, you know, as 202 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 1: all of the eviction moratoriums have. It's better than nothing, UM, 203 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 1: a continuation of the pause on student loan payments. Um. 204 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: And he's also going to push for passing the one 205 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:31,560 Speaker 1: point nine trillion dollar COVID nineteen relief legislation package, which is, 206 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 1: you know, not what people were promised are e the 207 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 1: two thousand dollars, but also has a bunch of really 208 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 1: good stuff in it. We'll see if it actually gets 209 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: to pass. But the thing that excites me most about 210 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:44,280 Speaker 1: that actually is removing the uh I don't know if 211 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: loophole's even the right way to term it, but making 212 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 1: it illegal to pay uh disabled people less. Um. It's 213 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 1: it's good to not let them like. That's even in 214 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,559 Speaker 1: some ways a bigger deal than the raising the minimum wage. 215 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: To me, is like crack down on that legal disparity 216 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:03,959 Speaker 1: that has never made any sense and has always been 217 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 1: used to exploit and abuse. Yeah, it's just cruel it's 218 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:13,840 Speaker 1: just cruelty. Yeah, it's it's just unreasoning, unthinking cruelty. Um. 219 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:16,679 Speaker 1: And it would be good if that weren't around anymore. 220 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Fully chip away at the cruelty 221 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 1: would be nice. And what I have seen some some 222 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:26,440 Speaker 1: like UM Disability Rights Active is pointing out, is that 223 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 1: another thing that needs to change is at least either 224 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:32,559 Speaker 1: removing or raising the cap on how many assets someone 225 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 1: can have to receive disability, because right now it's very low, 226 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 1: and it can actually the that can stop people who 227 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 1: are disabled from, for example, saving up enough money to 228 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: buy a much better wheelchair that improves their quality of life, 229 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:48,360 Speaker 1: because if they have, they if you are yeah, if 230 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 1: you are receiving disability, which basically pays you barely enough 231 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 1: to survive, right that's the idea. If you can't work, 232 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 1: the government will pay you barely enough to survive. But 233 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:00,839 Speaker 1: if you are able to don't know if there working 234 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 1: some sort of side gig or whatever a crew enough 235 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 1: money to have over I think it's like two thousand 236 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:07,559 Speaker 1: dollars or something in like liquid assets. It's it's a 237 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 1: very low number. You lose your disability um, which means 238 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:12,839 Speaker 1: if people try to like save up for a high 239 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 1: quality wheelchair or something that will massively improve their quality 240 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:18,079 Speaker 1: of life and isn't covered by you know, Medicare or 241 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: whatever they're on, they can lose their disability um. Because 242 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 1: if you have you know, a couple of grand clearly 243 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 1: you're not disabled anymore. Um. Yeah, it's hard, it's it's 244 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: horror and it's I I am not at all, um, 245 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: anything close to an expert on this. I'm just trying 246 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 1: kind of been trying to keep track on what people 247 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: who are UM advocates in this community are are saying. 248 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 1: But like, yeah, it's a horrible problem. It seems like 249 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: it seems like something that needs to be changed immediately. Um. 250 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 1: I don't know that it will because that that part 251 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 1: is not does not seem to be on the docket, 252 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: but it seems like reducing or ending the disparity between 253 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 1: minimum wage would be maybe a step towards addressing that 254 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 1: injustice as well. Thank you for that explanation. Yeah. Um, 255 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 1: other ship that Biden is planning to do right away 256 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: is rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement, which I do think 257 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 1: he can do kind of unit, which is like, again, 258 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 1: not enough but better. Yeah, it's symbolic, but good gesture 259 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 1: to do right out of the gates. Yeah. I don't 260 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 1: want to say virtue signaling, but it is a signal 261 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 1: uh that uh we're uh not yeah, we're reversing course 262 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: at least I don't know. You know, you gotta go, 263 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: you gotta take what you can get. It's a very 264 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 1: expected move. Yeah, holy, unsurprising. You just need to back 265 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: it up with actual yeah, like for example, not building 266 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 1: a pipeline with green energy and yeah, and if those 267 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 1: two things actually do happen day one, you know, rejoining 268 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 1: the Paris Climate Agreement blocking the pipeline, that's a sign that, 269 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: like we actually see meaningful, meaningful movement on climate change 270 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 1: that isn't purely for show, which would be good because 271 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: the death of all life on earth thing. Well yeah, yeah, 272 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 1: so we'll see. Um what's not for show? Um? Or 273 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: I mean it might be for show for them, but 274 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 1: what is not just a show? We thing we'll actually 275 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: do something? Yeah, is ending the Trump's Muslim ban on 276 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 1: travel restriction from Syria, I ran Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Somalia 277 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: and Yemen, A richary in Nigeria, mean Mark Kyrgyzstan in Tanzania. Um, 278 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,760 Speaker 1: that would immediately help a lot of people in their families. 279 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: And Robert, I heard that it wasn't a band or 280 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 1: a Muslim ban. I heard it was something else, some 281 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 1: other way to say it. But I think it's just 282 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: we finally figured out what was going on. Um, oh good, 283 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: what's going on? No longer we no longer have to 284 00:16:56,400 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 1: have a racist immigration ban. Good good, And that is 285 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 1: you know when I talk about trying to be actually fair, 286 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 1: like none of us are fans of Joe Biden or 287 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party and are in fact pretty consistently and 288 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:12,439 Speaker 1: explicitly critical of them. That's an unequivocal good. Um. Yeah, 289 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 1: so I'm moved on board. Yeah, I'm glad that that 290 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 1: will happen. It's positive we vote for them in the 291 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:21,640 Speaker 1: hopes that they do these things that we can all 292 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:24,120 Speaker 1: agree on, and that we can also pull them further 293 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: left let damage than the alternative. Um, and like is 294 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 1: immigration stuff, yeah, and like it's it's it's helpful I 295 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,359 Speaker 1: think in these especially these coming days and weeks to 296 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:40,639 Speaker 1: sort of check out, um like a never Trumper reaction 297 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:45,680 Speaker 1: to what Biden does because like, for example, UM, with 298 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 1: his immigration plan, David Froom Access, David Access of Evil Froom, 299 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:55,159 Speaker 1: very America's greatest mind, the greatest mind of were a 300 00:17:55,240 --> 00:18:00,639 Speaker 1: true wordsmith is resistant to Biden's immigration plans because, uh, 301 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:05,920 Speaker 1: it's the only options after this are overwhelming mass immigration 302 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:09,640 Speaker 1: constantly or massed attentions for immigrants. And it's like, well, 303 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:13,359 Speaker 1: if David from is thinking that, then maybe it's actually good. Um, 304 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 1: if that's what he thinks. The solution is um and 305 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: his reaction to a plan the angrier Joe Biden makes 306 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:23,159 Speaker 1: David from the more pleased. I will be with the 307 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:26,719 Speaker 1: Biden Yeah, exactly, like to see to see any like 308 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 1: Lincoln project Goo will be like, oh Biden's too this 309 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 1: is too much like okay, then good good yeah. Um, 310 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:36,360 Speaker 1: we need to take a quick break and then when 311 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 1: we come back you can dig into the immigration stuff. 312 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:44,120 Speaker 1: Zyga plan beautiful. Yeah. You know who else pisses off 313 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:48,679 Speaker 1: David Frome. Don't say Raytheon because I don't think that's true. No, 314 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 1: not Raytheon, but our other sponsors do because are one 315 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,679 Speaker 1: of our vettings for sponsors is that they have at 316 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 1: least one employee who has done an upper decker in 317 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:03,160 Speaker 1: David Frome's bathroom. We require photographic evidence of that. Yeah, 318 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 1: it's definitely. I mean the my pillow guy does offer 319 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: deckers in literally every bathroom he used. Um anyway, listen 320 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 1: to These products are represented by companies that have people 321 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:22,440 Speaker 1: who have shat in the top of David Froom's toilet. 322 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 1: Everything down, Uh, we're back. Whose pillow is no longer 323 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 1: being so bed? Bathroom or you know, you just gotta 324 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 1: take these Winsfair is like, oh no, no, yeah, we 325 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 1: don't want to. We don't want the martial law pillows. 326 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 1: We want the fascist military coup pillow. Wayfair is beloved 327 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 1: of mac guest supporters. I'm positive it's gotta be. Well, 328 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,160 Speaker 1: it wasn't Wayfair the one where there was a conspiracy 329 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 1: that they were selling children in the in the furniture. Yes, 330 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 1: there is. That's my boy. I guess that's that's some 331 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:19,680 Speaker 1: Q territory anyway. Joe Biden's immigration plan as promised. Yeah, 332 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:23,680 Speaker 1: I mean, I think we can all agree. Incredibly erotic, Yeah, 333 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 1: kili erotic after dark m hm, So Bun's so he's 334 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: gonna build a wall. Um, he's gonna make Canada pay 335 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 1: for this one. Well, finally, and this is where I'm 336 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 1: a hundred percent backing Joe, because we need to stop 337 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: the Canadian menace from coming down to our don't you 338 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:50,879 Speaker 1: know it? Um? Yeah, oh my god, there's one in 339 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:59,359 Speaker 1: the room. Um. His his immigration bill. Uh. It's pretty good, 340 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,439 Speaker 1: you know, it's pretty big. Yeah, it's a huge improvement. 341 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:06,320 Speaker 1: It's great. One of the things that I like about 342 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:08,199 Speaker 1: it is it's similar in a lot of ways to 343 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:11,160 Speaker 1: an immigration bill that was pushed but not passed during 344 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 1: Obama's second term. One of the big differences is that 345 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,399 Speaker 1: that bill, in order to try to please the Republicans 346 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 1: who are unpleasable, UM, included a bunch of extra money 347 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:25,119 Speaker 1: for border defenses and wallshit. And this does not now obviously, 348 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 1: if it is ever going to get past, I'm sure 349 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:29,959 Speaker 1: they'll add a bunch of horrible bullshit for order patrol. 350 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:34,439 Speaker 1: But they're not starting there, which is nice. It's like 351 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 1: more hardball than I expected. It's like what Cody you 352 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: always talk about, you know, you don't You don't start 353 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 1: with a compromise. You start with what you want, exactly 354 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 1: what you want, maybe even a little more at more. Uh. Yeah. 355 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:51,440 Speaker 1: This his bill provides uh an eight year path to 356 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 1: citizenship for around I think it was eleven million people 357 00:21:55,800 --> 00:22:01,200 Speaker 1: uh currently without legal status. Um, and uh even a 358 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: shorter path I guess for dreamers, which is great. Let's see. 359 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,240 Speaker 1: I believe this is from the a P. Under the legislation, 360 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:13,280 Speaker 1: those living in the US as of January one without 361 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 1: legal status would have a five year path of temporary 362 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 1: legal status or a green card if they pass background checks, 363 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 1: pay taxes, and fulfill other basic requirements. From there, it's 364 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:25,160 Speaker 1: a three year path to naturalization. Um. And yeah, for 365 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 1: some immigrants the process could be quicker. The so called dreamers, 366 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 1: the young people who arrived in the US illegally as children, 367 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,360 Speaker 1: as well as agricultural workers and people under temperary protective 368 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:39,359 Speaker 1: status could qualify more immediately for green cards. Um, it's great. 369 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 1: I think that that's great. So it's so unbelievable David 370 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,639 Speaker 1: Froome read this is like, this is gonna lead to 371 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 1: mass attentions of immigrants and caravans. He didn't take caravans, 372 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 1: to be fair, I give it at most six months 373 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,560 Speaker 1: before we have another big caravans scare on the right, 374 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:06,840 Speaker 1: So it's absolutely coming. Oh. It also provides grants for 375 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:12,920 Speaker 1: workforce development and English language learning. Yeah, I love It's 376 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:14,880 Speaker 1: there's a lot that's good in here. Like I think 377 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 1: everyone knows, I'm borders shouldn't exist in nation States shouldn't either, guy, 378 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 1: But that's not on the docket right now. And it 379 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 1: seems like it makes life less shitty for a lot 380 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 1: of people who currently have to deal with more bullshit 381 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: than I can imagine. Um, So I'm I'm down with it. Yeah. 382 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,160 Speaker 1: I I wish I had someone here that we could call, 383 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 1: uh right now to talk about this, because I think 384 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: this probably means a lot to a lot of people. 385 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:48,119 Speaker 1: Were very privileged white all of us sitting here talking 386 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,120 Speaker 1: about this, and I'm very aware of it. But this, 387 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: this has been a hammer over the head of people 388 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 1: for four years, uh, and so many stories of people 389 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 1: who can't even confide in their friends that that they're 390 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:09,720 Speaker 1: undocumented UM and living double lives in a way. And 391 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 1: if if you are one of them right now, I 392 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:19,040 Speaker 1: hope you're feeling a little sense of hope. Yeah, I 393 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 1: mean I can say you know, as I brought up 394 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,160 Speaker 1: a couple of times, I spent most of the last 395 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:27,159 Speaker 1: year and change living with a Chinese national who who 396 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 1: is has a green card UM and had to deal 397 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 1: with a massive surge in the amount of bullshit and 398 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 1: like like a number of different scares where she thought 399 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,720 Speaker 1: she was going to be forced out of the country UM, 400 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 1: despite doing everything the legal way, and obviously she herself 401 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 1: acknowledged she's in the in the higher like the more 402 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 1: privileged class of people who are trying to immigrate like 403 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,360 Speaker 1: by the book, UM. But prior to the election. Her 404 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,200 Speaker 1: thing was like, I'm not going to be able to 405 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:59,160 Speaker 1: stay here if Trump wins a second term. Um, And 406 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 1: you know that's it's if things were that hard for 407 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 1: her as again, someone who had a stable job, who 408 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 1: owns a house, um, who had gone through everything the 409 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 1: legal way. People who didn't have that option because, for example, 410 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,399 Speaker 1: that area they lived in Guatemala was rendered damn near 411 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 1: uninhabitable by climate change, and there was no way for 412 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 1: them to get a job, and so they had to 413 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 1: come somewhere where they could get food for their family. 414 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:27,239 Speaker 1: Um it I imagine it's it seems like everything in 415 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 1: here will make them deal with at least less bullshit, right, 416 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,399 Speaker 1: I don't know, like what else you can really hope 417 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 1: for after the last four years, that some very marginalized 418 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:42,120 Speaker 1: and abused people will have less shipped to deal with. Yeah, 419 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:46,400 Speaker 1: and I mean, uh yes, just less ship. I mean 420 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 1: also reunifying the families, the borders, A lot of stuff 421 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:53,440 Speaker 1: of that's just like Biden's instinct seems to be to 422 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 1: reverse Trump, reverse Trump. Um, and a lot of that 423 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:02,919 Speaker 1: is going to mean a kind of a reverse Biden too, um, 424 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:08,879 Speaker 1: Like he's reflexively uh like reversing trump stuff and reacting 425 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: to that. And you know a lot of Trump stuff 426 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:15,360 Speaker 1: is kind of an extension of all presidencies. Um. And 427 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,640 Speaker 1: so I think that's generally a good sign to UM. 428 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,359 Speaker 1: And it's gonna be it's gonna be fascinating to see, 429 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:28,879 Speaker 1: UM how the conversation changes on the right UM from uh, 430 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,679 Speaker 1: well we were fine with we're fine with immigrants as 431 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: long as you come here legally, UM, And this plan 432 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:39,240 Speaker 1: is gives that option. So but they're gonna hate that. 433 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 1: They got to change how they talk about it, like, yeah, 434 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 1: what it's okay, It's sure, that's legal, but it shouldn't 435 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,200 Speaker 1: be legal. And it's it's the kind of thing where 436 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:49,520 Speaker 1: there will be positives and negatives of that, because the 437 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 1: positive is that they will have to be more open 438 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,639 Speaker 1: with their racism. The negative is that they will be 439 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:59,640 Speaker 1: more open with their racism. UM. So you know, nothing's 440 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 1: ever as clear a positive as we want. But I 441 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:07,200 Speaker 1: think the like, what this means is that we'll actually 442 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,199 Speaker 1: have someone in the White House who is going to 443 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:14,040 Speaker 1: do the bare minimum to fight for things to be 444 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 1: somewhat less shitty for a group of people who have 445 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 1: dealt with too much shit in their lives. Already and 446 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 1: that's a good thing. Um. And it makes it easier 447 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,240 Speaker 1: for everyone else to fight for them too, because the 448 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 1: administration is not actively trying to murder these people, just 449 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 1: passively sometimes at least people. Yeah, yeah, we'll see. We'll 450 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:36,359 Speaker 1: see how Biden's foreign policy. We we for sure will 451 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:40,480 Speaker 1: And obviously, like the threat of you know, more functional 452 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: coups than we're enacted during the Trump administration is the 453 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:45,800 Speaker 1: thing to be worried about when we talk about refugees 454 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 1: coming to the US. You know, what happens with Biden 455 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:52,159 Speaker 1: and Venezuela, What happens with Biden and Bolivia? Yeah, what 456 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 1: happens with Biden and Um, I don't know, a bunch 457 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 1: of places that all over the damn world really, what 458 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,679 Speaker 1: happens with Biden and Iran? Right, like, but I mean, yea, 459 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:03,920 Speaker 1: even like Biden and like you know, there is and 460 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 1: for a lot more China conflict, a lot more Russia conflict. Um, 461 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 1: as soon as you know, as soon as Trump's gone, 462 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 1: it's gonna be like, well now we can take on 463 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 1: Putin and then well what does that mean? Um? Yeah, exactly. 464 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 1: And it's the kind of thing like right now, you've 465 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,280 Speaker 1: got some people in the Biden administration calling what China 466 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 1: is doing to the weaker's, which is the Muslim population 467 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,879 Speaker 1: that they've massively They've put huge numbers of people of 468 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 1: concentration camps, calling it a genocide, which I don't think 469 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 1: is necessarily unfair, but I'm worried it's it's going to 470 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: presage some of the same Biden style international sanctioning that 471 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 1: we've seen in the past, which isn't an effective way 472 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: to push political change generally, and often, I mean almost 473 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 1: always just hurts poor people in the countries that we sanction. Now, 474 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 1: China is more resistant to sanctions than anywhere else we 475 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 1: could sanction because they're China. Um, it's not like sanctioning Iraq, 476 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: but it's still I think there's a pretty good chance 477 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,480 Speaker 1: I'm going to assume, unless proven otherwise, that any actions 478 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 1: we take there are mainly just going to hurt poor 479 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: people who have nothing to do with the government's policies 480 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 1: on the wakers, because that's a pretty safe thing to 481 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: assume about that sort of usually how it goes, doesn't it. Yeah, 482 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 1: it's always like of the time. Yeah, And there's are 483 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 1: already senators Democratic senators talking about using sanctions more aggressively. Yeah. 484 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 1: Um yeah, which yeah, yeah, yeah to normal, back to 485 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 1: back to back to back to basics. America's back. We're back, 486 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 1: and we're gonna build back, better, build better, better back 487 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:49,240 Speaker 1: be best building best said it. I'm sorry I have 488 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: to contribute something. The refugee ship, which I shouldn't call 489 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 1: the refugee ship, but the positive changes, Like we're currently 490 00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 1: at like a historic low of the number of refugees 491 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 1: West will admit, which is like fifteen thousand this year 492 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 1: under Trump, um, which is about as tightly as he 493 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 1: could lock it down. And I don't know how many 494 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,240 Speaker 1: are going to be let in under Biden, but it 495 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 1: seems like they're math significantly loosening things. They're opening up 496 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,320 Speaker 1: processing centers in other countries to allow people who are 497 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 1: at risk in countries outside of the United States to 498 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,280 Speaker 1: go to processing centers in order to get refugeevs is 499 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 1: and come in legally. Um that's good, right, that's good, 500 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: it's good. Yeah, Like we like helping, helping. Yeah, I'm 501 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,800 Speaker 1: a big fan of again things not being a shitty 502 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 1: for refugees because I've known a lot of them and 503 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 1: it sucks to be a refugee. Um. Yeah, it's it's 504 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,000 Speaker 1: it's a push. You're like, Okay, we'll help the refugees, 505 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 1: and next we'll be like, well, we won't help create refugees, 506 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 1: and then yeah, yeah, I mean that's too much to 507 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: hope for from Biden again, back to the conversation of 508 00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:02,360 Speaker 1: two minutes ago. Yeah, but these are positives. There are 509 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:06,800 Speaker 1: there are a number of positives, you know, Um, and 510 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:10,200 Speaker 1: so you know we got you know, we got getting Congress. 511 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:14,280 Speaker 1: It's it's just like using this to do all of 512 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 1: these good things and make sure they happen, and do 513 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,640 Speaker 1: even more good things and use Congress to do things 514 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,320 Speaker 1: to to show that things can happen that are good, 515 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 1: and then maybe you get more seats in two instead 516 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: of losing them. I still think unlikely. But but we'll see, 517 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:38,240 Speaker 1: we'll see, we will see. We will, won't we two 518 00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:45,720 Speaker 1: more years? Two more years? Um? Yeah? Right now, I mean, 519 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,680 Speaker 1: you know, there's a couple of number one in terms 520 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 1: of like when we talk about what actually is going 521 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,160 Speaker 1: to happen day one, we should note that because we've 522 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 1: been chatting about what Biden's promised to do on day one. 523 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,800 Speaker 1: When Trump came into office, he promised on day one 524 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 1: that he was going to repeal and play Obamacare and 525 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:03,680 Speaker 1: begin constructing the wall on the border of Mexico, and 526 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:07,360 Speaker 1: neither of those things happened on day one. To Katie's tweet, 527 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 1: he did not up. He didn't lock her never locked 528 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 1: her up. Yeah, I think that's really important to keep him. 529 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:21,040 Speaker 1: We sort of have a majority. Yeah, it's it's better 530 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 1: than independence. Um and yeah. And it's just a reminder 531 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:37,960 Speaker 1: to keep expectations. You know, there's this well, I guess 532 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,600 Speaker 1: anybody listening to this show probably doesn't have the highest 533 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:45,640 Speaker 1: of expectations. It's medically impossible for my expectations. I don't know. 534 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:47,680 Speaker 1: I just see it so much on social media now, 535 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,160 Speaker 1: people being excited, and I always feel like the buzz kill. 536 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:56,000 Speaker 1: It's like, well, guys, like, no, don't be excited about 537 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 1: anything in politics ever, don't ever ever, no matter who, no, Like, 538 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,520 Speaker 1: whatever good happens. And I do think a number of 539 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 1: things that are positive and wouldn't have happened under Trump 540 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 1: will happen, and things will be easier for a lot 541 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,000 Speaker 1: of marginalized people than they would have been with another 542 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 1: four years of Trump. That said, everything good that happens 543 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,959 Speaker 1: will be less good than it sounded before on paper, 544 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,920 Speaker 1: before it actually got rammed through, you know, the government, 545 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,040 Speaker 1: and we it will. It will be four years of 546 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,480 Speaker 1: compromises and frustration more than anything else if you're somebody 547 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,920 Speaker 1: who actually cares about the reality of what's happening, as 548 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,000 Speaker 1: opposed to the first article that gets dropped about what 549 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,560 Speaker 1: they planned to do before they actually can suxist succeed 550 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,360 Speaker 1: in slamming it through. Yeah. I always remember that the 551 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:41,040 Speaker 1: government's bad. It's bad. It's a bad system. But they're 552 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:43,720 Speaker 1: not on your side. They're not on your side. Most 553 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:45,840 Speaker 1: of them don't care about you, and the ones that 554 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,840 Speaker 1: do care about you are more often incompetent than they 555 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:54,200 Speaker 1: are able to capably. Yeah. Yeah, the good ones are 556 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 1: very bad. Yeah, and the bad ones are very good 557 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 1: at being bad. And that's why our systems perfect. Yeah. 558 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 1: I started with good, good intentions, but don't stick around 559 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,560 Speaker 1: the world. And then there's ah, yeah, then there's the 560 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:21,480 Speaker 1: actual fascists. Yeah right, these weird evil dorks. That's a 561 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:26,359 Speaker 1: I think, um, a possible positive about all these uh 562 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:32,879 Speaker 1: do dweeps. Um. Trump had decades and decades of publicity 563 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:37,960 Speaker 1: and uh quote unquote charm. He's an entertainer, he's good 564 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,319 Speaker 1: at getting attention doing these things and building up his brand. Um, 565 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,319 Speaker 1: and he's entertaining to watch. He's you know, all the 566 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:47,560 Speaker 1: things we know about him. Um. Holly and Crews are 567 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 1: two of the people who are really clearly trying to 568 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:54,200 Speaker 1: like Harness the populism the right the quote right wing populism. Um, 569 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:59,440 Speaker 1: and Holly's boring, dweep. I still don't know what he 570 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:03,880 Speaker 1: sounds like. Um. And Ted Cruz has been for a 571 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,360 Speaker 1: couple of years really trying to do like the Trump 572 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:10,360 Speaker 1: Twitter thing, like I'm I'm the culture warrior on Twitter 573 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:14,000 Speaker 1: and I'm owning the Libs. He's really bad at it. Um. 574 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:17,480 Speaker 1: And nobody likes him, even the people who have to pretend, Yeah, 575 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:21,719 Speaker 1: it's not going to work for them. Being the least 576 00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:27,279 Speaker 1: fusible man in America. I was gonna say, yeah, I mean, 577 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,920 Speaker 1: it's one of those like I don't think, because I 578 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:34,320 Speaker 1: think everyone who has been paying attention is looking for 579 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:38,440 Speaker 1: the next authoritarian who tries to take power in this country. 580 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,400 Speaker 1: You know, the guy who, if we're unlucky, will be 581 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:45,400 Speaker 1: smarter and better at inspiring personal loyalty than Donald Trump, 582 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,920 Speaker 1: who was bad at that for the record, Um, too good, 583 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:53,560 Speaker 1: but still not great at it. And I don't think 584 00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,920 Speaker 1: Holly or Cruise are Gates as someone met Gates as 585 00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:58,799 Speaker 1: someone who worries me. But I don't think it's him either. 586 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:00,919 Speaker 1: I don't think we've seen that person yet, at least 587 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:06,240 Speaker 1: not in a way that it's it's obvious whom. Yeah. 588 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:10,000 Speaker 1: I don't think Crenshaw has got the actual charisma, nor 589 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:14,080 Speaker 1: nor do I think he's evil enough. Um, I think, yeah, 590 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,880 Speaker 1: he's shrewd. He's shrewd. He's been able to sort of 591 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,960 Speaker 1: he's not an idiot. Yeah, Yeah, he's been able to 592 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,720 Speaker 1: sort of weirdly navigate the past couple of years, Um, 593 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:29,800 Speaker 1: to not come out like a Holly or a Cruise. Yeah. Yeah, Tucker, 594 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,239 Speaker 1: I don't know if he's interested in that. The other 595 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:36,479 Speaker 1: argument against that worries me. Tucker worries me too, But 596 00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:43,600 Speaker 1: um he At the beginning of Donald Trump's political career, 597 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:48,120 Speaker 1: there is at least some portion of people on the 598 00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:53,680 Speaker 1: left who did not view him as as or left. 599 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:57,000 Speaker 1: Greenwald loves him, view him. I don't know what I'm called. Yeah, 600 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:04,400 Speaker 1: but after especially after these four years, Nope, you are 601 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:07,560 Speaker 1: either and you either love Tucker Carlson or you really 602 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,840 Speaker 1: really hate him. I don't know that they're swinging of 603 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,439 Speaker 1: people in the middle, you know what I mean? Maybe? Yeah, 604 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:16,239 Speaker 1: I think he plays the next now. He approached it 605 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:20,040 Speaker 1: because he has like he is effect quote unquote effective 606 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:25,520 Speaker 1: um and aware of the necessity to co opt left 607 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:29,919 Speaker 1: wing sort of populist rhetoric and concepts and package them 608 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:34,399 Speaker 1: in a xenophobic right wing context and try to sell 609 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:36,640 Speaker 1: that to people. And I have seen people sort of 610 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:40,359 Speaker 1: react to that positively, um in certain occasions, like Wow, 611 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,160 Speaker 1: I can't believe I agree with Tucker Carlson and that 612 00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,200 Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And I think it's just important to 613 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,399 Speaker 1: keep reminding people that he is a liar, he's full 614 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:50,880 Speaker 1: of shit, he's doing it on purpose. M Yeah. I 615 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:52,799 Speaker 1: also don't know if he's necessarily even interested in that, 616 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:57,120 Speaker 1: although he A report from like earlier today is that 617 00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:04,799 Speaker 1: he met with George W. Bush in uh Gasparilla Island, Florida. So, 618 00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:10,000 Speaker 1: oh god, I do think that. I do. I do 619 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,680 Speaker 1: worry about it. I worry about the next one and 620 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,600 Speaker 1: what kind of like if the if the Republican Party 621 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:21,600 Speaker 1: wants to win the next presidential election, who are they 622 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:27,400 Speaker 1: going to rally behind? They need all these people that 623 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:31,120 Speaker 1: Trump that support Trumps. They need it, so they can't 624 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,239 Speaker 1: allow a split to me if they're going to have 625 00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:36,680 Speaker 1: power again. So what what do you do? You you 626 00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:40,440 Speaker 1: have to embrace them or not, you know, right, And 627 00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,120 Speaker 1: like you look at polls of like who do you 628 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,359 Speaker 1: want to run for president Republicans and it's just like 629 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:53,480 Speaker 1: Trump Trump Junior. It's Ivanka. Um really really really download 630 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,640 Speaker 1: on that list. Um, we've got to take a quick break. 631 00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:59,000 Speaker 1: But this is an interesting place to pick up because 632 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,440 Speaker 1: I want to talk about um, yeah, and I want 633 00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,200 Speaker 1: to talk about what kind of come Josh Holly has. Yeah, 634 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,640 Speaker 1: that's a really important thing to really get. And as 635 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,800 Speaker 1: as a spoiler, I'm just gonna eat one word spoiler. 636 00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:15,440 Speaker 1: Really atrocious side part hairstyle when yeah, I mean that 637 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:21,359 Speaker 1: all factors into my one word spoiler, which is spiders. 638 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:34,359 Speaker 1: All right, there's some mad together everything. So don't and 639 00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:38,800 Speaker 1: we're back, as promised from those ads. I love keeping 640 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:44,640 Speaker 1: promises promises kept. We did keep the promise of being 641 00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,439 Speaker 1: the worst year ever so far, so far, I think 642 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:51,840 Speaker 1: we're gonna make worse. I've got my fingers cross guys that. 643 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:57,960 Speaker 1: Um oh yeah, I only promised the truth. I Robert 644 00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:01,640 Speaker 1: has more stuff to dig into, but real quick, I 645 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:03,440 Speaker 1: just wanted to pick up a ree left off on 646 00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:09,279 Speaker 1: that conversation because it's it's interesting as as of today, 647 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:15,120 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell is saying that Donald Trump did and Congress 648 00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:21,399 Speaker 1: members of Congress did uh urge people to riot basically, Um, 649 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,000 Speaker 1: I don't know exact quote. He has come that and 650 00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:28,600 Speaker 1: and he has signaled that he would vote guilty uh 651 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:32,440 Speaker 1: in in proceedings. Uh And this isn't an attempt to 652 00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,560 Speaker 1: distance themselves from Donald Trump. And I just think that 653 00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:39,160 Speaker 1: that's a really interesting given the reality of the situation 654 00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:44,120 Speaker 1: for them in their party. You know, Mitch McConnell has 655 00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:48,200 Speaker 1: clearly always hated Donald Trump, yeah, and didn't want to 656 00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:50,160 Speaker 1: deal with the bullshit that he's had to deal with 657 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:55,319 Speaker 1: because Donald Mitch McConnell is a very very simple and 658 00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,279 Speaker 1: by the books kind of authoritarian who wants to do 659 00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,080 Speaker 1: his destroying of people's lives quietly in a room with 660 00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:05,200 Speaker 1: pens um and paper, and Donald Trump likes to shout 661 00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:09,520 Speaker 1: it and which McConnell thinks that's ghosh, And uh so 662 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,680 Speaker 1: I think he's he sees now that he's taking he 663 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:14,359 Speaker 1: is taking a bit of a gamble which is more 664 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,680 Speaker 1: than I because he's not a huge gambler, Mitch. Um, 665 00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:20,000 Speaker 1: because he is gambling that it's the right thing to 666 00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:23,680 Speaker 1: do for the future of his ability to wield power 667 00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,800 Speaker 1: in the Republican Party's ability to wield power to push 668 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,759 Speaker 1: against Trump and the kind of what all I guess 669 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:31,680 Speaker 1: we could call the Q and on right, you know, 670 00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,880 Speaker 1: within the Republican Party. Um, he's it seems like this 671 00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,680 Speaker 1: is him saying that, like, we have to actually push 672 00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,440 Speaker 1: back against these people because they're damaging to our ability 673 00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:42,719 Speaker 1: to hold power. Which he might be right on. Um, 674 00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:44,480 Speaker 1: he might be wrong on I don't I don't know yet, 675 00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,400 Speaker 1: but it is interesting that he made that calculation. Yeah, yeah, 676 00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:50,239 Speaker 1: and like up to this point to like it's that 677 00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:52,360 Speaker 1: you know, he's been able to do it for four years, 678 00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:56,320 Speaker 1: like collaborate and you allow, and then when it's time 679 00:41:56,360 --> 00:42:00,439 Speaker 1: to go, you're like, oh waituh too far. He also 680 00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:04,200 Speaker 1: made it very clear, well it's pretty even in the Senate, 681 00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:10,440 Speaker 1: we have a very clear mandate that we need to compromise. Um. 682 00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,719 Speaker 1: I just wanted to throw this out. Also, I just 683 00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,920 Speaker 1: keep thinking about again today he called Donald Trump called 684 00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:22,239 Speaker 1: uh the China virus. Mitch McConnell. Fucking's his wife is Taiwanese, 685 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:27,920 Speaker 1: which is not Chinese from you know, but still the racist, 686 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:32,040 Speaker 1: the racist rhetorics are outing this president, uh and and 687 00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:35,640 Speaker 1: him and just all these four years just swallowing it, 688 00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:39,520 Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean that's you know, yeah, 689 00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:44,440 Speaker 1: that's what it is. You like at Yeah, he swallowed 690 00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:49,319 Speaker 1: it so that he could spit out bauts um. You know, 691 00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:54,080 Speaker 1: this isn't some hard hitting point, but I just keep 692 00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:58,640 Speaker 1: everything I've just been thinking about that, yeah, And I 693 00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:00,839 Speaker 1: mean it's it's a lot of people, you know, Ted 694 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:04,359 Speaker 1: Cruz went to bat for years for the guy who 695 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,200 Speaker 1: accused his dad of murdering the president and called his 696 00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:13,720 Speaker 1: wife ugly continues He's ruined his career. They're spineless wretches. 697 00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:18,239 Speaker 1: Um Like there, nobody has ever liked Ted Cruz, and 698 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,880 Speaker 1: I include his wife and children. That yeah, the most 699 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:26,319 Speaker 1: before yeah, the most unlikable. Uh. Everyone hates him. Who 700 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,560 Speaker 1: wasn't Everyone who agrees with him and works with him 701 00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:32,600 Speaker 1: despises him. Even the people that vote for him hate him. 702 00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:34,560 Speaker 1: I forget who it was, but it was a Republican 703 00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,080 Speaker 1: congress person who said, like, I like Ted Cruise more 704 00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:40,000 Speaker 1: than all of my colleagues, and I fucking hate Ted Cruz. 705 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,720 Speaker 1: And another his former roommate who has been in college 706 00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:48,040 Speaker 1: who has been like a ceaseless critic of Cruiz. Um. 707 00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:50,480 Speaker 1: My other favorite Cruise quote was like, if I the 708 00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:53,560 Speaker 1: fact that he believes abhorrent things is bad, sure, but 709 00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:56,480 Speaker 1: if Ted Cruz believed every single thing that I believed, 710 00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:58,799 Speaker 1: I would only hate him one percent less. That's how 711 00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:02,560 Speaker 1: odious he is, just as in his personality. That's it was. 712 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,200 Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham said, yeah, it was. If you killed Ted 713 00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:07,880 Speaker 1: Cruise on the floor of the Senate and the trial 714 00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,120 Speaker 1: was in the Senate and nobody would convict you. It's 715 00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:18,799 Speaker 1: amazing how everyone hates him everyone. If his wife was 716 00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,560 Speaker 1: the president and he was murdered on the Senate, I 717 00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:27,960 Speaker 1: think she would vote to pardon the killers. And look, 718 00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,800 Speaker 1: that would be a bipartisan pardon. I wouldn't complain, but 719 00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:33,000 Speaker 1: it is something we can all come together on. Let's 720 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:41,920 Speaker 1: start yeah and healing by slamming Ted Cruz. Jesus, what 721 00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:47,520 Speaker 1: trash person um, beautiful man. There's some other in terms 722 00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:50,760 Speaker 1: of other good stuff that Joe bide. The Joe abides 723 00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:55,160 Speaker 1: is gonna gonna throw end he's promised to repeal or 724 00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,000 Speaker 1: he's promised to fight because he can't do and like, 725 00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:59,280 Speaker 1: obviously it would be an act of Congress to repeal 726 00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:03,200 Speaker 1: the two seven teen tax cuts, which unfairly favor the 727 00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:06,480 Speaker 1: wealthy UM, and it would be good if that could 728 00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,120 Speaker 1: be reversed and we could take more money from the 729 00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:12,759 Speaker 1: very wealthy UM and put it in into projects that 730 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:16,399 Speaker 1: helped the very not wealthy. Although this being America, most 731 00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:18,560 Speaker 1: of that money will be funded back into the police 732 00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:21,840 Speaker 1: of the military, so you know, pyrate victory, but still 733 00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,399 Speaker 1: I broadly support it. Uh. In terms of the he's 734 00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,759 Speaker 1: also promised to um alter or push to alter the 735 00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:32,319 Speaker 1: Violence Against Women Act to offer more protections for transgender 736 00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,799 Speaker 1: women in particular, UM, which is great. UH. He wants 737 00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,160 Speaker 1: to push to pass the Equality Act, which to add 738 00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:40,480 Speaker 1: more protections for LGBT people in general. He's made a 739 00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:44,360 Speaker 1: number of statements specifically about trans rights, including repealing the 740 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:47,680 Speaker 1: trans military ban enacted by Trump UM, which you know, 741 00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:49,400 Speaker 1: depending on how you feel about the military, is a 742 00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:53,680 Speaker 1: mixed bag. But he's also UM agreed to restore Obama 743 00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,920 Speaker 1: era guidance for transgender students in schools, which will protect 744 00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:00,719 Speaker 1: students access to sports bathrooms and locker rooms. UM, you know, 745 00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:02,960 Speaker 1: to use those in accordance with their gender identity, which 746 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:08,160 Speaker 1: is very good. Um. Again, something that will make life 747 00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:12,279 Speaker 1: a bit less shitty for very marginalized people. Um. And 748 00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:18,520 Speaker 1: also he has chosen Rachel Levine, a trans woman, Dr. 749 00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:23,279 Speaker 1: Rachel Levine, uh, to serve as an Assistant Secretary for 750 00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:26,000 Speaker 1: Health at the U s Department of Health and Human Services, 751 00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:30,800 Speaker 1: which is a really that's great. That's the first first 752 00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:35,080 Speaker 1: known trans person. Um. Yeah, yeah, and it's um it's 753 00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:38,680 Speaker 1: nice to uh, you know, be able to pair that 754 00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:42,680 Speaker 1: with actual policy. Yeah, it's not it's not like the 755 00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:47,400 Speaker 1: lip service representation UM one might see sometimes. It's like, no, 756 00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:50,720 Speaker 1: we're doing this and we're also like actually actively doing 757 00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:57,000 Speaker 1: things that will help every day people. UM. Yeah, it's good. 758 00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:04,239 Speaker 1: It's it's really good. Um that things are Yeah, those 759 00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,799 Speaker 1: are things that are are positive. You know. I I 760 00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,200 Speaker 1: just I don't even I don't have any notes on that, 761 00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:11,960 Speaker 1: assuming he actually he actually goes through that. Just like 762 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:16,040 Speaker 1: it's good that um. Um we have our first Indigenous 763 00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:19,080 Speaker 1: Secretary of the Interior who will hopefully understand some of 764 00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:21,720 Speaker 1: the issues faced by those people and some of the 765 00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:27,200 Speaker 1: traditional biases that are system has against their sovereignty um 766 00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,280 Speaker 1: and and that things will maybe move in a positive 767 00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:34,160 Speaker 1: direction there as well, fingers crossed. We'll see. UM. I 768 00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:36,560 Speaker 1: do want to talk about guns a little bit, UM, 769 00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:38,920 Speaker 1: because Biden has one of the things I am happy about. 770 00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:40,799 Speaker 1: I was worried, and we've talked about this a bit 771 00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:43,960 Speaker 1: that we were going to see the dims because Biden 772 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,040 Speaker 1: had talked about this a few times, making a major 773 00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:49,560 Speaker 1: initial push for gun control and throwing in some hard 774 00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:52,120 Speaker 1: like an attempt to make a an assault weapons ban 775 00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:55,880 Speaker 1: um in his first you know, hundred days, which I 776 00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,160 Speaker 1: think would be a bad move, regardless of your opinion 777 00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:02,480 Speaker 1: on assault weapons UM. Banning them as not nearly cannot possibly, 778 00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:04,840 Speaker 1: if you're a reasonable person, be argued to be in 779 00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:10,080 Speaker 1: the same level of urgency as action on climate change UM, 780 00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:14,400 Speaker 1: or as action on COVID nineteen relief, or as I 781 00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:17,920 Speaker 1: think action on immigration to be honest, um. And it 782 00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:21,560 Speaker 1: seems broadly speaking, like he's not going to be focusing 783 00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:24,719 Speaker 1: on throwing anything huge through Congress on guns before he 784 00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:27,560 Speaker 1: makes that stuff happen, which is good because you have 785 00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:30,319 Speaker 1: a limited amount of political capital in your hundred days 786 00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,880 Speaker 1: and a limited number of things that you can do. UM. 787 00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:34,600 Speaker 1: In terms of what he has talked about doing in 788 00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:37,280 Speaker 1: his first huntry days, one of them is um reducing 789 00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:39,799 Speaker 1: what a lot of people on the liberals will call 790 00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:43,080 Speaker 1: loopholes in the gun background check system. There are some loopholes. Um. 791 00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:45,520 Speaker 1: There was a shooter in Aurora a year or two 792 00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:49,319 Speaker 1: ago who like wasn't allowed to own a gun, and 793 00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:51,319 Speaker 1: the cops just like sent him a letter asking him 794 00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:52,480 Speaker 1: to turn it in and then he went on a 795 00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:56,080 Speaker 1: shooting spree and killed like five people. Um letter. Yeah, 796 00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:57,919 Speaker 1: they sent him a letter being like, Hey, you bought 797 00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,120 Speaker 1: a gun in your a felon or I think you 798 00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:01,560 Speaker 1: have a history of domestic beach. You're not allowed to 799 00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:03,279 Speaker 1: have the gun that we know you bought, that we 800 00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,359 Speaker 1: let you buy because we didn't notice it in time. 801 00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:12,600 Speaker 1: Please give it back. Who opens their mail, let alone mail? Um, 802 00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,799 Speaker 1: So like that sort of stuff. Absolutely, like there there 803 00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:17,560 Speaker 1: and and there have been a number of other cases 804 00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:19,840 Speaker 1: of shooters of people who have have had access to 805 00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:22,200 Speaker 1: firearms who buy the letter of the law shouldn't have 806 00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:24,759 Speaker 1: because the system of background is really fucked up. And 807 00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:27,400 Speaker 1: I'm very supportive of fixing that. I will state that 808 00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:29,719 Speaker 1: sometimes When people talk about loopholes, they talk about like 809 00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:32,080 Speaker 1: the guns show loophole, which is not a thing. Um. 810 00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:37,600 Speaker 1: Certain states allow what are called um um personal sales 811 00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:39,800 Speaker 1: um to happen. So if you're not a gun dealer, 812 00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:41,760 Speaker 1: if you sell less than things like five thousand dollars 813 00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:44,400 Speaker 1: worth of guns a year, you can make personal transfers 814 00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:46,919 Speaker 1: without a background check. And the laws are at least 815 00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:49,160 Speaker 1: initially were supposed to be in place so that people 816 00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:51,400 Speaker 1: could like give guns to their kids or family members 817 00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:53,560 Speaker 1: or whatever, or as gifts without having to deal with 818 00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:57,040 Speaker 1: the complex legal process. Um, they have been massively in 819 00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:01,360 Speaker 1: a lot of cases um uh used by people in 820 00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:04,600 Speaker 1: order to facilitate criminal transfer a firearms or transfer firearms 821 00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:08,040 Speaker 1: to cartel's UM. So like again, I think that is 822 00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:09,879 Speaker 1: something that should be looked at. Is but but it's 823 00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:12,239 Speaker 1: not a loophole. It's explicitly the law in a number 824 00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:15,440 Speaker 1: of states like Texas allows you to transfer guns that way. UM. 825 00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:17,319 Speaker 1: And I don't know, like it's the kind of thing 826 00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:18,800 Speaker 1: where if there were to be a national law to 827 00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,279 Speaker 1: band that, no one really knows how the Supreme Court 828 00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:24,799 Speaker 1: would land on it. UM. I push against calling it 829 00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:27,400 Speaker 1: a loophole, but I'm not against changing those laws so 830 00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:29,520 Speaker 1: that everyone has to pass a background checked by a 831 00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:33,720 Speaker 1: gun for sure. Um. One thing I am less certain about, 832 00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:37,200 Speaker 1: and and in fact pretty critical of, is um Biden 833 00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:40,719 Speaker 1: wanting to repeal liability protection for gun manufacturers, which would 834 00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:43,080 Speaker 1: allow Americans to sue the firearms industry if a gun 835 00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:46,040 Speaker 1: is used in a crime. Um. Which seems odd to 836 00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:48,440 Speaker 1: me because you can't sue the people making alcohol or 837 00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,920 Speaker 1: cars if you know there's a drunk driving incident. I 838 00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:54,280 Speaker 1: think maybe, I think there's some room to talk about 839 00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:59,040 Speaker 1: when companies have specifically been pushing ads that because there 840 00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:01,000 Speaker 1: have been gun companies that have pushed ads that are 841 00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:04,360 Speaker 1: on the edge of urging violence or on the Yeah, 842 00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:07,880 Speaker 1: and I do think there's that, Absolutely is a conversation 843 00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:09,879 Speaker 1: that should be had, And there's some room to talk 844 00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:17,240 Speaker 1: about what kind of advertising you're allowed to advertising. Yeah, 845 00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:23,440 Speaker 1: that's that's a really slippery slope. Otherwise, and there are 846 00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:26,040 Speaker 1: and when we talk about tobacco versus the gun industry, 847 00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:28,440 Speaker 1: there are some similarities that should be discussed, one of 848 00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:31,239 Speaker 1: them being that the gun industry has consistently lobbied to 849 00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:34,640 Speaker 1: make it harder and in some cases impossible to study 850 00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:38,400 Speaker 1: the problems of of gun violence and study how certain 851 00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:42,520 Speaker 1: laws might affect and reduce gun violence. UM, and that 852 00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:44,960 Speaker 1: there is there is very fair reason to be critical 853 00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:48,399 Speaker 1: and to say that something not wildly dissimilar to what 854 00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:50,960 Speaker 1: was done to the tobacco industry, there should be some 855 00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:56,040 Speaker 1: changes made to how the gun industry is allowed to operate. UM, 856 00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:59,240 Speaker 1: because they have done a lot of really shady shit. Um. 857 00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,799 Speaker 1: The thing that most comes to mind, and and and 858 00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:03,480 Speaker 1: and I'm saying a lot of shady ship, not just 859 00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:07,359 Speaker 1: in terms of like inciting violence, but shady ship that 860 00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:10,879 Speaker 1: has specifically harmed gun uh gun users. UM. I can 861 00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:12,960 Speaker 1: think about the company Taurus. One of the reasons I 862 00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:16,200 Speaker 1: always advise people against buying a tourist firearm is that 863 00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:19,920 Speaker 1: for years tourists made put something like a million guns 864 00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:22,919 Speaker 1: onto the US market that had safeties that didn't work, 865 00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:25,200 Speaker 1: and in a lot of cases, people's guns would fire 866 00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:28,880 Speaker 1: without them while the safeties were engaged, and people died 867 00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:32,399 Speaker 1: because their weapons fired when they should not have. And 868 00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:35,880 Speaker 1: they never had to issue a recall because of laws 869 00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:38,040 Speaker 1: that the gun industry is lobbied for. And so I'm 870 00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:41,439 Speaker 1: not saying there needs to be significant change. I don't 871 00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:45,040 Speaker 1: think allowing people to suit a gun company because you know, 872 00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,239 Speaker 1: they get the loved one get shot with a smith 873 00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:50,520 Speaker 1: and Smith and Wesson is necessarily the right call, but 874 00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:52,920 Speaker 1: absolutely changes need to be made. It seems like a 875 00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:56,360 Speaker 1: good time to just mention that the n r A 876 00:52:56,520 --> 00:53:01,640 Speaker 1: did file for bankruptcy and then a few days ago. Yeah, 877 00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:05,200 Speaker 1: it does seem like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, No, I 878 00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:08,879 Speaker 1: mean it seems like it seems like a general like 879 00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,640 Speaker 1: you know, sometimes it's just like, yeah, we'll file for bankruptcy, 880 00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:13,640 Speaker 1: like that's a good business decision for us, and then 881 00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:18,680 Speaker 1: they'll be fine. Um, but we will see I'm just 882 00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:22,400 Speaker 1: getting out there when we're talking, you're talking about the 883 00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:27,200 Speaker 1: you know, gun industry and and and you know, yeah, 884 00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,399 Speaker 1: I can't think of many organizations that have done more 885 00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:34,719 Speaker 1: harm to the cause of um gun rights than the 886 00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:38,640 Speaker 1: n r A. To be honest, Um, the worst idea 887 00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:42,000 Speaker 1: they ever had was turning ownership of firearms, which is 888 00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:44,360 Speaker 1: as protected as your right to free speech, into a 889 00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:49,160 Speaker 1: culture war issue between left and right. Um bastards on 890 00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:51,759 Speaker 1: the n r A. Not yet. There's a very good 891 00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:55,279 Speaker 1: there's a whole season of the wonderful podcast Gangster Capitalism 892 00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:57,959 Speaker 1: that does that gives a very very fair and talks 893 00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:00,319 Speaker 1: to a lot of reformers within the inn r A 894 00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:03,399 Speaker 1: and and people who have left because of their frustrations 895 00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:10,160 Speaker 1: and rage at the rampant and unbelievable corruption within that organization. UM, 896 00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:12,359 Speaker 1: in addition to just like the way in which they 897 00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:16,680 Speaker 1: have incited the culture war, UM and I recommend listening 898 00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:18,520 Speaker 1: to that season of Gangster Capitalism if you want to 899 00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:21,759 Speaker 1: really understand just how hard, how comprehensively bad off an 900 00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:25,239 Speaker 1: organization the n r A has become, UM. And they 901 00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:26,960 Speaker 1: didn't always used to be. They used to just be like, 902 00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:30,960 Speaker 1: we think Americans should know how to shoot accurately and safely, 903 00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,920 Speaker 1: and that's all we're about. UM changed in the sixties 904 00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:38,040 Speaker 1: with the similar rights movement, right, not just that. You know, 905 00:54:38,040 --> 00:54:41,360 Speaker 1: we talked about in our two parter on the Border Patrol, 906 00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:43,600 Speaker 1: and we talked about how the first head of the 907 00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:47,000 Speaker 1: Border Patrol that militarized the border patrol was a dude 908 00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:51,200 Speaker 1: who murdered um, a Mexican immigrant when he was like 909 00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:53,719 Speaker 1: a teenager, and did several years in prison and then 910 00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:55,400 Speaker 1: join and became the head of the Border Patrol and 911 00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:57,840 Speaker 1: militarized it. He was also the first head of the 912 00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:00,359 Speaker 1: n r A that started pushing it towards being an 913 00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:07,520 Speaker 1: engine of the culture war because he was a fascist. Yeah. 914 00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:10,759 Speaker 1: For more, check out the song Raymond Cassiano by the 915 00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:13,160 Speaker 1: Drive By Truckers. Gives a pretty good overview of some things. 916 00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:18,760 Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know, I think that, Uh, I'm 917 00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:20,719 Speaker 1: interested in what Biden is actually going to do on 918 00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:23,319 Speaker 1: guns because it just based on the way Congress is now, 919 00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:25,200 Speaker 1: at least for the next two years, unless they get 920 00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:29,000 Speaker 1: a supermajority in two I think it's unlikely that they're 921 00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:30,880 Speaker 1: going to get the kind of assault weapons band that 922 00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:33,200 Speaker 1: he talked about on the campaign trail. He has a 923 00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:35,239 Speaker 1: lot of power to use things like to change the 924 00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:38,600 Speaker 1: way the a t f UM goes after gun violations, 925 00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:41,480 Speaker 1: and like there are certain things like pistol uh like 926 00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:44,680 Speaker 1: like like like the gun that I have right here, 927 00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:49,560 Speaker 1: which is legally a pistol um. Yeah, that's that's a 928 00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:51,960 Speaker 1: handgun legally because this thing on the back is not 929 00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:55,440 Speaker 1: a stock, it's a brace. And the a t f 930 00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:59,560 Speaker 1: could just choose to make this illegal without being registered 931 00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:01,719 Speaker 1: as a short barreld rifle. And I'm not necessarily I 932 00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:03,719 Speaker 1: don't think there's I actually has seen no reason for 933 00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:06,160 Speaker 1: short barreld rifles to be regulated more than long ones. 934 00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:09,520 Speaker 1: They're not any more dangerous. Um from a perspective of 935 00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:12,319 Speaker 1: violent crime. Uh, it's really just a hold over from 936 00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:14,000 Speaker 1: the gangster era. But that is the kind of thing 937 00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,279 Speaker 1: that Biden could change and order the a t F 938 00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:19,319 Speaker 1: to start altering the way that they cracked down on 939 00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:22,120 Speaker 1: without needing any sort of congressional approval. So I I 940 00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:25,040 Speaker 1: see when I think about gun action under Biden, I 941 00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:27,120 Speaker 1: think more of it, at least initially, is going to 942 00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:29,520 Speaker 1: take the form of the stuff he doesn't need to 943 00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:33,040 Speaker 1: get through Congress, or stuff like fixing background check problems 944 00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:38,399 Speaker 1: that you could get I think passed through Congress. Yeah, 945 00:56:38,719 --> 00:56:42,399 Speaker 1: most every even most gun owners want that. Yeah, it's 946 00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:47,399 Speaker 1: probably a good strategic way to approach this if that's 947 00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:51,240 Speaker 1: how it turns out. But he does. Yeah. There's also 948 00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:55,680 Speaker 1: I feel like even like I feel like Betto kind 949 00:56:55,680 --> 00:57:00,360 Speaker 1: of scared uh damns in general about guns. Um like 950 00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:03,799 Speaker 1: his utter failure. Yeah, you shouldn't. You shouldn't go hard 951 00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:06,799 Speaker 1: against guns and Texas because every liberal and leftist in 952 00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:11,480 Speaker 1: Texas I know is strapped as hell exactly. Um, And uh, 953 00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:16,480 Speaker 1: you know, uh, fewer mass shootings during a pandemic. Um. 954 00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:19,640 Speaker 1: So I don't know, yeah yeah, and and a lot 955 00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:23,640 Speaker 1: more millions of new gun owners um. Which there was 956 00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:26,640 Speaker 1: just a gallop pole out that showed that support for 957 00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:30,120 Speaker 1: significant gun control measures like an assault weapons ban is 958 00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:32,920 Speaker 1: actually the lowest it's been since sixteen, and even five 959 00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:36,200 Speaker 1: percent lower among Democrats. Um. Because a lot of people 960 00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:38,640 Speaker 1: in this last year suddenly thought for the first time about, oh, 961 00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:42,400 Speaker 1: maybe I need a gun, um. Yeah. And that has 962 00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:44,680 Speaker 1: included people in places like California who are like, oh, 963 00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:49,800 Speaker 1: actually it's harder than I thought to buy one legal. Yeah. Yeah. 964 00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:51,760 Speaker 1: A lot of people are getting mad that it takes 965 00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:57,040 Speaker 1: so long. It's like, well, that's isn't that good? It's good? Right, Yeah, 966 00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:59,240 Speaker 1: we're on the same page about that. No, I mean 967 00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:01,360 Speaker 1: I I It's like, maybe maybe we should think about 968 00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:03,360 Speaker 1: the fact that it is frustrating that all of these 969 00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:08,240 Speaker 1: heavily armed fascists and quasi fascists and neo fascists have 970 00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:11,480 Speaker 1: arsenals and it's very difficult for everyone else to catch 971 00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:14,080 Speaker 1: up now that they realize the danger is here. And 972 00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:16,800 Speaker 1: perhaps that is something that should be thought about when 973 00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:23,320 Speaker 1: we think about gun control. Yeah. Um. Anyway, anyway, that's 974 00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:25,680 Speaker 1: all I want to say about guns. Um, we should 975 00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:31,320 Speaker 1: move on today today, Well, it's about time for us 976 00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:36,560 Speaker 1: to wrap the show up. Um. Today, when this drops 977 00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:42,760 Speaker 1: will be the inauguration. We are hoping it goes smoothly. Um. 978 00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:46,680 Speaker 1: I just read earlier today, we read that to National 979 00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:52,440 Speaker 1: Guards soldiers assigned to Washington, d C. For the inauguration 980 00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:56,560 Speaker 1: had been removed over um, you know, inappropriate posts and 981 00:58:57,600 --> 00:59:01,000 Speaker 1: texts about the event. Um uh. And I guess now 982 00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:03,800 Speaker 1: I'm just seeing a line that the APES reported that 983 00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:09,480 Speaker 1: twelve troops now have been removed or flagged by way 984 00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:13,760 Speaker 1: of a tip line. I'm all of them, got all 985 00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:21,040 Speaker 1: of them on the twenty five thousand. Yeah, yeah, if 986 00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:25,520 Speaker 1: good luck tomorrow or today when you're listening, hopefully all 987 00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:30,440 Speaker 1: all of it has gone well. If not, we'll probably 988 00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:35,360 Speaker 1: be recording an emergency episode. But I'm not even you 989 00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:37,760 Speaker 1: know what I ristened, what I just said, I'm not 990 00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:41,160 Speaker 1: even putting that out there. Yeah, it's a it was 991 00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:44,880 Speaker 1: a positive episode today. It was a positive episode, and 992 00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:48,640 Speaker 1: I am positive that we will never have a problem 993 00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:51,120 Speaker 1: with white nationalism in the military or in the ranks 994 00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:53,360 Speaker 1: of our police again. The only twenty eight cops and 995 00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:56,520 Speaker 1: I don't know several dozen service people, uh, with those 996 00:59:56,600 --> 00:59:58,440 Speaker 1: leanings were all at the Capitol, and they're all going 997 00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:00,240 Speaker 1: to go to jail. And there's no one else left 998 01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:06,600 Speaker 1: in the country in those positions who holds those beliefs. Yeah, 999 01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:10,800 Speaker 1: mission accomplished. Give me a banner in an aircraft carrier. 1000 01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:12,920 Speaker 1: Put me on the gerald for the aircraft carrier that 1001 01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:21,520 Speaker 1: doesn't Let's do it. Yeah, uh oh yeah, let's We're 1002 01:00:21,520 --> 01:00:24,800 Speaker 1: gonna quickly. You know this is unrelated to Joseph Robin 1003 01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:32,120 Speaker 1: and Biden Jr. J RB or Donald Jnald Trump. Uh, 1004 01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:36,440 Speaker 1: TESLA is looking for a new position. Um, I'm gonna 1005 01:00:36,640 --> 01:00:41,760 Speaker 1: read the whole thing. Tesla Energy Support specialists handle a 1006 01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:45,400 Speaker 1: variety of customer issues while delivering on world class customer service. 1007 01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:48,600 Speaker 1: The role of a specialist is to resolve or escalate 1008 01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:54,280 Speaker 1: complaints through appropriate channels and address social media escalations directed 1009 01:00:54,320 --> 01:01:01,440 Speaker 1: at the CEO with critical thinking. He's hiring someone to 1010 01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:05,280 Speaker 1: deal with his trolls on Twitter, protect me from people posting. 1011 01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:09,680 Speaker 1: Just do what I did. I just altered my notifications 1012 01:01:09,720 --> 01:01:13,120 Speaker 1: that I only get notifications when people I follow respond 1013 01:01:13,160 --> 01:01:19,920 Speaker 1: to me, and my life is back. Absolutely. Yeah. That 1014 01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:24,160 Speaker 1: nobody should be on then I know when um, my 1015 01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:30,640 Speaker 1: friends don't like my tweet though it really stands out. 1016 01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:34,400 Speaker 1: But Ellen can't do that. I do. There was a 1017 01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:36,520 Speaker 1: great tweet recently. There was someone posting it, like in 1018 01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:39,880 Speaker 1: the mid two thousand's on Tumblr. Uh. Whenever like a 1019 01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:43,360 Speaker 1: meme had reached a certain level of penetration, Denny's would 1020 01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:45,200 Speaker 1: repurpose it and then we would know that the meme 1021 01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:47,440 Speaker 1: was dead. And we all hated Denny's, but they played 1022 01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:50,840 Speaker 1: a critical role in our in our meme ecosystem, and 1023 01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:53,240 Speaker 1: now on Twitter, the same role is performed by the 1024 01:01:53,240 --> 01:02:03,040 Speaker 1: wealthiest man in human history, the new Denny's, the new Daies. Um. 1025 01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:06,480 Speaker 1: Oh man, there's one last beautiful thing that I just 1026 01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:09,400 Speaker 1: found on the website none of us should use. Well, 1027 01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:11,720 Speaker 1: it's actually just cuts from a scene in politics article. 1028 01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:14,840 Speaker 1: But several Republican lawmakers who are alleged to have been 1029 01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:17,000 Speaker 1: involved in the rally that preceded the deadly riot on 1030 01:02:17,040 --> 01:02:19,400 Speaker 1: the US capital have sought clemency from Trump before he 1031 01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:22,160 Speaker 1: leaves office. But after all that with his legal advisors 1032 01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:24,400 Speaker 1: for several hours on Saturday at the President decided he 1033 01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:30,200 Speaker 1: would not grant them. According to to people who plans people. Yeah, 1034 01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:35,760 Speaker 1: we're waiting for the pardons list today. There will be 1035 01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:41,600 Speaker 1: fingers crossed. Joe Exotic is on there um for Joe Exotic. 1036 01:02:41,640 --> 01:02:44,640 Speaker 1: When I was looking at Yehs earlier, it seems good. 1037 01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:46,520 Speaker 1: I would like him to get one more shot. At 1038 01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:51,880 Speaker 1: Carol Baskins Um those Republican lawmakers who asked, ye would 1039 01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:55,440 Speaker 1: it seems like he's not going to be pardoning himself 1040 01:02:55,520 --> 01:02:59,040 Speaker 1: because he wasn't told that after the riot. It would 1041 01:02:59,120 --> 01:03:02,840 Speaker 1: make him look guilty, So we'll see. Yeah, that's the 1042 01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:06,200 Speaker 1: funniest part of it. Really shot himself in the foot there, 1043 01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:09,640 Speaker 1: didn't he he was. He's clearly only doing it because 1044 01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:13,360 Speaker 1: it might lead to him getting charged for inciting and insurrection, 1045 01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:16,880 Speaker 1: which is the funniest. Like he's so on brand with 1046 01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:20,120 Speaker 1: all this ship with just like he ends office not 1047 01:03:20,200 --> 01:03:23,120 Speaker 1: just with hundreds of thousands dead and with the national 1048 01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:26,240 Speaker 1: economy and civil society and tatters, but also the people 1049 01:03:26,280 --> 01:03:28,360 Speaker 1: who believed in him the most and we're most willing 1050 01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:30,280 Speaker 1: to go to bat with him, are now while staring 1051 01:03:30,320 --> 01:03:33,439 Speaker 1: at decades in federal prison, and he's just abandoning them. 1052 01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:37,400 Speaker 1: So funny, perfect. On the very end, he's living art 1053 01:03:37,520 --> 01:03:42,800 Speaker 1: it's amazing. Yeah, alright, guys, I think that's it for 1054 01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:47,680 Speaker 1: us today. You can check out our pod. Yes, she 1055 01:03:47,880 --> 01:03:51,280 Speaker 1: just yes, that's thank you, Sylvie. I couldn't agree with 1056 01:03:51,320 --> 01:03:53,520 Speaker 1: you more. Follow us on worsh at Worst your part. 1057 01:03:54,720 --> 01:03:57,400 Speaker 1: That's that's what this is and that's who we are. 1058 01:03:57,720 --> 01:04:01,600 Speaker 1: Hard to say worsh your pod, we're sheer part. It's 1059 01:04:01,720 --> 01:04:07,720 Speaker 1: very great, Pie. I would let's do a whole pod 1060 01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:11,360 Speaker 1: dedicated to Worcester Shire sauce, mainly dedicated to figuring out 1061 01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:13,280 Speaker 1: how we're supposed to say it and what the funk 1062 01:04:13,320 --> 01:04:17,080 Speaker 1: you're supposed to put it on? Shot, Sophie, Let's get 1063 01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:19,240 Speaker 1: a pitch out. Let's get a pitch out to corporate. 1064 01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:21,480 Speaker 1: This is all we're doing now, we're now this is 1065 01:04:21,520 --> 01:04:25,640 Speaker 1: our last politics episode. Everything from here on is Worcester 1066 01:04:26,720 --> 01:04:35,200 Speaker 1: Wooster Posters. All right, we're the Worsters podcast now right, 1067 01:04:38,400 --> 01:04:48,120 Speaker 1: Everything So Worstyer Ever is a production of I Heart Radio. 1068 01:04:48,360 --> 01:04:50,600 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from my heart Radio, visit the I 1069 01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:53,680 Speaker 1: heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to 1070 01:04:53,720 --> 01:04:54,560 Speaker 1: your favorite shows.