1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with 2 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: as I've been saying all week long, I'm just taking 4 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:25,920 Speaker 1: a few days of respite to recharge with friends, and 5 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: I am leaving you with amazing interviews that we have 6 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 1: banked so that you miss absolutely nothing from the craziness 7 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,160 Speaker 1: that is happening and has been going on since Donald 8 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: Trump's Morilago resort was searched by the FBI, not rated, 9 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: like his dumbass has been saying for the last several days. 10 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: You know what's funny is that right now you have 11 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 1: Republicans out on social media talking about they need to 12 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: defund the FBI and they need to defund the Department 13 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: of Justice, which is really funny given the fact that 14 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: when black and brown people talk about defunding the police, 15 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: you know, for killing us and then having no accountability, 16 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: responsibility because of qualified immunity, we're called what are we 17 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: called terrorists, Antifa agitators, not patriots. They want to defund 18 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:23,479 Speaker 1: these agencies for going after their white supremacist king. When 19 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 1: we talk about defunding the police, it is about reorienting 20 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:34,679 Speaker 1: our resources into communities right that have systemic issues because 21 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 1: of white supremacy and what we've been doing to them, 22 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 1: like defunding public education in areas that are highly populated 23 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: with black and brown people, not having sidewalks, not having 24 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 1: sanitation pickup, not having anything that would remotely resemble any 25 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: of these gated communities that these fucking Republicans live in. 26 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 1: So I find it so fascinating and fucking hypocritical that 27 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: right now you see all of these people talking about 28 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: defund this and defund that. Why because their king right 29 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 1: is being investigated by everybody and their mother because he's 30 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,920 Speaker 1: a fucking criminal. But when we're talking about unarmed and 31 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 1: innocent black people not being able to sleep in their 32 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: own fucking bed, drive in their cars, walk to the park, 33 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: play in a park, you know, sit, or exist anywhere 34 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 1: without the white police state coming for them, then we're 35 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,919 Speaker 1: the problem. I just need for the media to do 36 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: their fucking job and maybe call out the hypocrisy right 37 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: now and say that when white people are enraged, it's 38 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,640 Speaker 1: because they don't want to be held to account, because 39 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 1: they want to have absolutely no responsibility whatsoever for their actions. 40 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: When black people are asking for the state and the 41 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: government to be held accountable for their crimes against us. 42 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:56,639 Speaker 1: Somehow we're the problem, folks. Coming up next my conversation 43 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:01,239 Speaker 1: with our friend Kurt Bardella to unpack all the insanity 44 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: that Republicans are swirling in right now as they leap 45 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: to the opportunity to defend Donald Trump against what we 46 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,919 Speaker 1: have no idea because as of this recording, Donald Trump 47 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 1: has refused to release the contents of his warrant. Now, 48 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: they continue to say that it was a raid. They 49 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 1: continue to say that something is amiss and something is awry, 50 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 1: and Kevin McCarthy is telling Merritt Garland, you need to 51 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: hold onto your papers and just wait till I get 52 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: the gavel back. But guess what, Donald Trump and his 53 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 1: lawyers know exactly what the Feds came and took from 54 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: our lago. They know exactly what the contents of that 55 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: Warren entails, but they're not releasing it, and the question 56 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 1: is why. So we'll get to this and more with 57 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: our friend Kurt Vardella. Coming up next. Hey, I'm David 58 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: Plots of Slaves political gabfest. As another election season accelerates, 59 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: it can be tricky to sort through all the noise 60 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: and the news. 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Tune in every Tuesday wherever you get 76 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: your podcasts, folks, you know that whenever we have the 77 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: opportunity to speak with our friend advisor to so many 78 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: the de Tropos, UH and others, a writer at USA Today, 79 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: The LA Times and other places. MSNBC contributor Kurt Bardella, 80 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:13,040 Speaker 1: ex Republican, to get into the mind the crazy, crazy 81 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 1: mind Kurt of your former flock. Um, I want to 82 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 1: start off with getting your reactions to the FBI search, 83 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: not raid, but legal warrant did search of Trump's Mara 84 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:33,719 Speaker 1: Lago residence. How did it? How did it hit you? Well, 85 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,919 Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it was a surprise. Um, you know, 86 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:41,479 Speaker 1: it really what struck me, and it's somewhat predictable, but 87 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: it's also very revealing the the overreaction from Trump from 88 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: the right room propagandists. If I were an innocent person 89 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:55,239 Speaker 1: and something like this happened, I would be bending over 90 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 1: backwards to make sure that everyone understood that this wasn't 91 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:03,359 Speaker 1: a raid, that this wasn't knocking down doors, windbreakers, people 92 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: in tactical gear, you know, like you see in the movies. 93 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 1: Like I would be saying, like, this was a planned search, 94 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: something that we were made aware of a day ago, 95 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,080 Speaker 1: and there's and we are fully cooperating and there's nothing 96 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:24,280 Speaker 1: to see here. Instead, what we saw was this complete overreaction, 97 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 1: science fiction response, to the point where there were people 98 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 1: who are insinuating that evidence was planted by the FBI. 99 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: That's like, we don't even know what they came for yet, 100 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:40,720 Speaker 1: but they've already said that stuff was planted, right, I mean, 101 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 1: they are acting guilty. They are acting in a way 102 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:49,479 Speaker 1: where they know that the law enforcement agencies have the 103 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 1: goods on them. And so when that's the case and 104 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 1: you think they have you dead to rights, you start attacking, 105 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 1: you start deflecting, you start inventing alternative, alternate realities. And 106 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:05,039 Speaker 1: that's exactly what guilty people do. And I think that 107 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 1: Republicans are really putting themselves out there. I mean, here's 108 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: what we know about Donald Trump over the years. Because 109 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: a sociopathic, pathological liar, nothing he says is ever truthful. 110 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 1: So as bad as we know that it is, it's 111 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 1: almost certainly worse. As a political party. Why in the 112 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 1: world would you put yourself on the line for some 113 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: of that is almost certainly lying about something, lying to 114 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: you about it, and the report parties put themselves Additionally, 115 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 1: they're going to be left ful of the bad goods 116 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: here when this thing detonates all over them. You know, 117 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: the funny thing is current, you know, when people are 118 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 1: pontificating and making jokes and memes about what could possibly 119 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 1: be in Donald Trump's safe But the part that is 120 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 1: actually really no laughing matter is that I personally believe 121 00:07:56,040 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump has the goods, the dossiers on everybody, 122 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: that that is something that he has been compiling for 123 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 1: quite some time. And so the reaction from Republicans to 124 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: me is so unhinged, right, And I'm like, why do 125 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: people react this way at a fear right at of 126 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: fear of your dirty laundry being aired out? And so 127 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 1: what they are doing is taking a page from Trump's 128 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 1: election playbook, and before we even know anything, everything's been planted. 129 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:36,319 Speaker 1: They need to be defunded, right, And what I find 130 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 1: so insulting is that you know, when black and brown 131 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:44,439 Speaker 1: people and allies enter into the streets in twenty twenty, 132 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:48,560 Speaker 1: after the murder of George Floyd, before we had a vaccine, 133 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 1: at the height of the pandemic, to say that black 134 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 1: lives matter, to say that we need to defund the 135 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 1: police as a way to recirculate monies into communities that 136 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 1: have been systemically um uh bankrupted, right defunded by their 137 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 1: public schools and their health infrastructure and their sanitation infrastructure, 138 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 1: and all of these things. We get called antifa. We 139 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:16,559 Speaker 1: get called we get you know, told that we are unpatriotic. Right. 140 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 1: All we wanted to all Colin Kaepernick ever wanted to 141 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 1: do was take a need to bring attention to the 142 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 1: abuses of the state. But to these white supremacist Republicans, 143 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: it's like the hypocrisy doesn't even land with them, right, 144 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: Like to me, it's so baffling that then they can 145 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 1: call for the defunding of the police all because there 146 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 1: was a search put out on their king, Like does 147 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:46,440 Speaker 1: that Like, honestly, how do you even part and parcel 148 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: because you have been in the Republican Party, you worked 149 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: and with the Lincoln Project, right, so so never Trumpers, like, 150 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: how do you make sense of like Kevin McCarthy may 151 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:06,079 Speaker 1: making a social media a tweet a threat to the USAG. 152 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 1: I just don't even get it. You know, it's very 153 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 1: clear to me that if you're a person of color 154 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 1: in this country, Republicans believe that law enforcement has the 155 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 1: right to do whatever they want to legal or not 156 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: even taking your own line, But the minute that law 157 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: enforcement is focused on a white person, especially a white 158 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: person of privilege, law enforce should be defined. Let's call 159 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: it what it is. This is just outright racism, and 160 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: and I think but people oftentimes, especially the media, tends 161 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 1: to overlook because it's uncomfortable for them to confront this. 162 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: Everything the Republican Party done does has to be viewed 163 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: through the lens of racism, because that's really the single largest, 164 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: most defining quality of being a Republican in twenty twenty two. 165 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:04,600 Speaker 1: You know, it's really something like, on one the hand, 166 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: you got Republicans investigating Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Biden racially 167 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:17,559 Speaker 1: trying to delegitimize a citizenship of Barack Obama. And they 168 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: were fine and comfortable using the instruments of power of oversight, 169 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 1: authority of subpoenas to have hearings to make Hillary Clinton 170 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 1: testify for eleven hours in front of their Knado report, 171 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:31,559 Speaker 1: the Bengazi Select Committee. But the minute that the shoe 172 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:33,559 Speaker 1: is on the other foot, and the minute that it's 173 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 1: actually legitimate inquiries, current commissions, not which one's not implicitly 174 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 1: motivated investigations, which Kevin Burkey admitted, Benghazi was all about 175 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: the minute that the shoes on the other foot. All 176 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: of a sudden, they don't believe in congresional authority. All 177 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 1: of a sudden they believe that things are faked subpoenas 178 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:52,840 Speaker 1: and take depositions, and they rail and its closed door proceedings, 179 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: and they give the executive branch led by Donald Trump, 180 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 1: a free pass and make it policy that it's okay 181 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 1: to five checks and balances in America. Now as they 182 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 1: think that they might be within the reach power again, 183 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:12,040 Speaker 1: they rediscover their passionate zeal for oversight. They rediscover congressional authority. 184 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: Ken McCarthy right now, at this very second, is in 185 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 1: defiance of a congressional subpoena from the Jannery sixth Committee. 186 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 1: You don't get to defy aggressuoa on one hand and 187 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 1: then say you're going to use them on other people, 188 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:26,680 Speaker 1: you know, in a couple of months. That's just not 189 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:28,559 Speaker 1: how it work. You don't get to have it both ways. 190 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: And this is my big frustration with the media is 191 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 1: that when they talk about these things and they cover 192 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: Jim Jordan's threats and Kevin McCarthy's threats, they failed to 193 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: include that context. They failed to include all the ways 194 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:43,119 Speaker 1: in which these Republicans have completely shipped on a congressional 195 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:46,719 Speaker 1: oversight and taken our wrecking ball to checks and balances, 196 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:49,079 Speaker 1: and now somehow they want to use them for their 197 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:53,560 Speaker 1: own politically motivated means. You know, it's just, But what's 198 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 1: wild to me is that to your point, like the 199 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:59,040 Speaker 1: media never calls this shit out right, Like the media 200 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 1: is never liked you know, Remember Republicans when you know, 201 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 1: were interviewing Hillary Clinton for eleven hours, Remember when that 202 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 1: came up with nothing, right? Remember when you wasted taxpayers 203 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 1: dollars right, and it came up with nothing. I just 204 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:21,199 Speaker 1: I don't understand the disconnect of not being able to 205 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 1: hold Republicans accountable, but when Democrats are in power, it's 206 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: like the media goes through everything that the Biden administration 207 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,960 Speaker 1: is doing with a fine tooth calm, and I'm like, 208 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 1: it's absurd at this point, and that you know, the 209 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: other point about the Republican Party being a white supremacist 210 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: party is that again, we continue, I believe, to legitimize 211 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: them as if they are a normal Republican party. When 212 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:52,440 Speaker 1: you had Marjorie Taylor Green on Twitter calling for friggin 213 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 1: violence because Donald Trump's home was searched and she's still 214 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: in Congress. Yeah yeah, well I even remember it was 215 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 1: less than a week ago that the Republican Party faithful 216 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 1: congregated in Texas and gave a standing ovation to an 217 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 1: authoritarian presence via the Prime Minister of Hungary. Let mean, 218 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 1: this is who they are. I keep thinking to myself, 219 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 1: how much how much more does the media need to 220 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 1: see before they start identifying the Republican Party as the 221 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 1: racist autocrat want to be dictatorial, want to be racist? 222 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: That they are, because I mean, they're not trying to 223 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 1: hide it anymore. They broadcast it every single day, whether 224 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 1: it's Marjorie Taylor Green, whether it's Ted Cruz, whether it's 225 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 1: Round Santis. It's not just Donald Trump. It's the entirety 226 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 1: now of the Republican Party establishment that has been overrun 227 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: by this lunacy. And you have these weapons, great idiots 228 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 1: running around tweeting these insane things, fomenting violence, fomenting very 229 00:14:56,320 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: dangerous and disturbing potential scenarios. You know, these people they're 230 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 1: they're waiting for the order to start locking and loading. 231 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 1: And we know after January sixth that this is an 232 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 1: empty rheoric. This isn't just Machi's mode behind the screen 233 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 1: on the Internet. That these are people who have the means, 234 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: the arms, and the desire to incite mayhem in violence 235 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 1: and bloodshed on people who look like you, and I like, 236 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: this isn't hypothetical anymore, you know. And I'm so glad 237 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: that you brought this up because this is something else 238 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 1: that I believed was said multiple times on the air, 239 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 1: but almost in a casual way, right, which was that 240 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 1: the fear that Donald Trump was going to once again 241 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 1: direct his white supremacist militia to attack the government because 242 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 1: he was his home was searched. You had all of 243 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 1: the tweets, lock and load. When does the shooting start? 244 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 1: I mean all I mean it was crazy. And the 245 00:15:57,240 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 1: thing for me is that if it were people that 246 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 1: look like us that we're tweeting that shit, you think 247 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 1: that we would have still been casually sitting in our 248 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: living room on our laptops or on our phones. No, 249 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 1: you would have been picked up, snatched up by the 250 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: FBI and question and looked at as a terrorist, as 251 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: a threat to these United States. And so I'm wondering, Kurt, 252 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:21,400 Speaker 1: what do you like, do you think that violence at 253 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 1: this point in this country, with how hopped up the 254 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:29,560 Speaker 1: Republicans are on their lies, on their hate, on their vitriol. 255 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 1: I mean, I have never seen a more rage filled 256 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 1: group of people than some of the clips I saw 257 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 1: at a seapack right then some of the clips of 258 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 1: people talking at sea packs. So do you feel at 259 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:45,920 Speaker 1: this point that violence is inevitable, that it is just 260 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:48,760 Speaker 1: something that is on the horizon, but that it is 261 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: we are going to get to that place. Yeah. I 262 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 1: felt that the minute that the repultan Perty made the 263 00:16:56,160 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 1: conscious decision to become apologists for domestic terrorists, that that 264 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:04,879 Speaker 1: was the ball game. Um, you know, you cannot have 265 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:10,239 Speaker 1: a peaceful coexistence when there are people who are you know, 266 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: handling up domestic terrorists as patriots, as victims. Marjorie Taylor 267 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:22,719 Speaker 1: Green on one knee at sepack. The cosplay was crazy. Yeah. 268 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: And all that does is send the message to the 269 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 1: people who subscribe to this radical, extreme ideology that violence 270 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:34,120 Speaker 1: is an acceptable form of expression, that their leaders want 271 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:37,200 Speaker 1: them to shoot all of us, that their leaders will 272 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 1: want them to to to hang Mike Pence and perpetray 273 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 1: bloodshed on anyone that stands in the way, including cops 274 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,679 Speaker 1: by the way. Um, you know, I very much worried 275 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 1: what elections are going to be like going forward, because 276 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 1: the Republican Party has done everything they can to take 277 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:58,159 Speaker 1: a rock invall to the peaceful transition of power. And 278 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:00,240 Speaker 1: I don't know what happens in this country when election 279 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 1: rolls around and some of these white supremases start shooting 280 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:07,400 Speaker 1: up precincts in voting areas that have a higher concentration 281 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 1: of people of color. I don't know what happens to 282 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: our process when it gets held hostage by these instruments 283 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 1: of evil coming for all of us while the Whome 284 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:23,440 Speaker 1: Party eggs them on, while the prom Party says it's okay, Well, 285 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: the Home Party says we love you and that you're heroes. 286 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 1: And I don't think that Democrats or the media is 287 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 1: particularly ready for that scenario, which is kind of mind 288 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,159 Speaker 1: bodiling to me after what we lived throughout January sixth. 289 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that is being said 290 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 1: to is that, you know, what a terrible week for 291 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 1: all of this Marilogo business to happen because Democrats finally 292 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:51,440 Speaker 1: had a series of legislative wins. I disagree, Kurt, because 293 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:54,679 Speaker 1: I think that there is an opportunity for the Biden 294 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:58,640 Speaker 1: administration and Democrats to be like, we continue to work 295 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:01,879 Speaker 1: for the American people. All of this is transpiring, and 296 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:07,160 Speaker 1: we've passed this, this, this, and this, because our intelligence 297 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: agencies and the Department of Justice are not supposed to 298 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 1: work in tandem. They are separate entities. And so we're 299 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: able to still deliver for the American people because Republicans 300 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:21,399 Speaker 1: pushback has been Democrats are preoccupied with Donald Trump and 301 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:24,439 Speaker 1: not doing anything for the American people. So what do 302 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:27,920 Speaker 1: you think that the messaging should be. Do you see 303 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 1: it as an opportunity or is it an obstacle? Yeah, 304 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's challenging again. And this 305 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 1: is where the Republican argument that this was a floodping 306 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:43,120 Speaker 1: motivated Biden led raid on one of the slow adversaries, 307 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 1: false Department. President Biden has been in the midst of 308 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 1: the best few weeks he has had in this presidency. 309 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 1: After a year of Democrats in disarray, a year of 310 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 1: our own base protesting our own White House, all in 311 00:19:56,520 --> 00:20:00,439 Speaker 1: goddamn time, much to my complete and utter annoyance, we 312 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 1: finally strung together. You know, this amazing streak of successes, 313 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: historical level successes. I mean, we got a bipartisan gun 314 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,439 Speaker 1: built them, which has nothing that has been done in 315 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:14,120 Speaker 1: twenty years. Okay, even if it's not everything you want. 316 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: It's something which at this point is better than nothing. 317 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:20,359 Speaker 1: We got infrastructure. We got the Chips Act pass to 318 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 1: revitalize American manufacturing. We got something done for veterans, even 319 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: in spite of Republican opposition, which I still don't to 320 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 1: this day quite understand. We got uh you know, or 321 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 1: you know, we got this uh Inflation Reduction Act that 322 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 1: we're that we're about to get across the finish line. 323 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:37,959 Speaker 1: Gas prices have been going down every day for almost 324 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: sixty days now. You know, by the way, we caught 325 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,400 Speaker 1: a freaking terrorist of who was one of the masterminds 326 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 1: of nine to eleven, all the while I didn't with 327 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 1: battle ing COVID like this has been one of the 328 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:56,479 Speaker 1: most productive administrations in the United States history. When Biden 329 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 1: signing some of those laws, uh you know, some of 330 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,159 Speaker 1: those biose laws yesterday, it was like the fourth story 331 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 1: of the night because of Donald Trump. Donald Trump has 332 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 1: a unique way of sucking up the option on an everything, 333 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 1: and at this exact moment in time, that's where the 334 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:15,679 Speaker 1: last thing that we wanted to have happened. On the 335 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 1: day that Biden was going to sign these things in 336 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:21,160 Speaker 1: the law and talked about Democrats delivering and getting things 337 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 1: done in spite of United Republican opposition to things like 338 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,679 Speaker 1: lowering the cost of insulin. What the hell kind of 339 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 1: pro life party does that, you know? Not to mention 340 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:33,200 Speaker 1: the overarching conversations about abortion and women's rights in America, 341 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 1: like all of those things now have completely been swept 342 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:39,159 Speaker 1: down to story four or five or six or not 343 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 1: even being covered right now at the second. And I 344 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 1: think that's that's a loss for the American people as 345 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:49,640 Speaker 1: well as for Democrats. Hopefully as time goes on, we'll 346 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:51,359 Speaker 1: be able to get back on that message. But the 347 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 1: reason why Republicans are leading so hard into this because 348 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:55,959 Speaker 1: they spent the last two weeks trying to explain why 349 00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 1: they were on the opposide of veterans, why they were 350 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: on the side of China, why they're ok with the 351 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,200 Speaker 1: ten year old being great, being forced to give birth 352 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:04,919 Speaker 1: to a baby that no one should ever have to 353 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:09,119 Speaker 1: even comtemplate. And now they talk twenty four seven about 354 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,919 Speaker 1: the deep state and the FBI and the dj and 355 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: all these things that they've really spent the last five years. 356 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:16,239 Speaker 1: Do you and I see when you go back all 357 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:19,120 Speaker 1: the way to the Buller pro this is familiar territory 358 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:22,119 Speaker 1: for them. That's why they're so excited to be talking 359 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,919 Speaker 1: about this, because they don't because they knew they were losing, 360 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:27,000 Speaker 1: only told us things were going in the wrong direction. 361 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:30,679 Speaker 1: For Republicans, comrectional Democrats on the jenera belot went up 362 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 1: over the last three weeks. Now they get to try 363 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 1: to distract. And I mean, ask any media producer, what 364 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 1: would you rather cover an FBI rate or legislation and 365 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,920 Speaker 1: it will be the FBI rate, hands down every day. 366 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:51,359 Speaker 1: Last questions for you, Kurt are on mid term elections. 367 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: NBC's Shaquille Brewster had been down in Wisconsin talking with 368 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 1: voters on the street there Republicans and them saying, you know, 369 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: does it matter Donald Trump's endorsement, like you, does your 370 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 1: vote sway based on that? One man, one white man, 371 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: made an interesting comment, and he said that he doesn't 372 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,680 Speaker 1: want any politician anymore. He doesn't want to vote for 373 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:22,399 Speaker 1: a politician. He said, I'm tired of politicians. I'm tired 374 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,920 Speaker 1: of them, you know, telling me one thing and not 375 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:28,240 Speaker 1: doing another. And so anyone who is not a politician 376 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,920 Speaker 1: is who I'm voting for. What do you make of that? 377 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:34,240 Speaker 1: Because that was also the thing that Donald Trump rode 378 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:37,679 Speaker 1: into power on right aside from being a white supremaist 379 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,920 Speaker 1: like I'm a businessman, I alone can fix this. And 380 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 1: so what do you make of folks with that kind 381 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 1: of thinking that they don't want politicians because it's synonymous 382 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 1: with do nothing or liars. I think that I would 383 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 1: ask those people, would you want a doctor to operate 384 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,359 Speaker 1: on you who is a surgeon? Would you want a 385 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:04,200 Speaker 1: teacher to teacher who is in credential? Would you want 386 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 1: someone to serve in the United States Armed Forces that 387 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 1: hasn't been trained properly to use a weapon. That's what 388 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:13,159 Speaker 1: you're asking for when you say you don't want to 389 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,360 Speaker 1: vote for a quin quote politician. And I get why 390 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 1: politician is a bad word. I get why over the 391 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 1: years we've seen that both parties frankly make a living 392 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 1: off of demonizing career life along politicians. I would say 393 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:35,120 Speaker 1: that after the Donald Trump experience, they should force all 394 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 1: of us to look back. You know, maybe it's not 395 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,159 Speaker 1: the workst idea. The people who sold job is to 396 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: write laws in America, to actually have experience being legislator. 397 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,359 Speaker 1: Maybe it's not a bad idea to go back to 398 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 1: a time where people like mayors and city council members 399 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:56,160 Speaker 1: and state legislators eventually became congressman and senators and governors 400 00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:01,240 Speaker 1: and ran for president. Maybe maybe political office shouldn't go 401 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: to the highest bidder. Maybe it shouldn't go to people 402 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,720 Speaker 1: who just can cut themselves a ten hundred million dollars 403 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: check to buy themselves our Maybe it shouldn't go to 404 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,640 Speaker 1: whoever is whichever billionaires writing the biggest. If you look 405 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 1: at the Republican Party apparatus right now, you know, I 406 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 1: think I read a stat that over half the money 407 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 1: that was raised by the Republican campaign entities came from 408 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 1: twenty seven billionaires or something like that. It's like, that's 409 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 1: not good for democracy. I want professionals who want to 410 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:36,159 Speaker 1: make it their career to serve in public service to 411 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,360 Speaker 1: make up the bulk of our elected office. I don't 412 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 1: want people who have new idea, what's we don't need 413 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: more Marjorie Taylor greens In, Lauren Bouvarts or Medacon Copthorns 414 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,440 Speaker 1: or Met gates Is or Donald Trump's we don't need that. 415 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 1: We need people and understand that the majority of people 416 00:25:55,520 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: who serve in Congress, they are the they are the 417 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 1: people who you never hear about, who just do the job, 418 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 1: who served their constituencies. I think people like you know, 419 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,119 Speaker 1: my congressman in my net Whoods Don Bayer here in 420 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 1: northern Virginia. It's not a flashy guy, I said, a 421 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 1: guy you see on Cable US every days. Not a 422 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 1: guy who's got a prolific tweeting present. He just does 423 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,120 Speaker 1: the job, you know. I think people like in San 424 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: Diego Mike Leavin, you know, been there a couple of 425 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 1: years now, came from the biotech world and the climate space. 426 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,920 Speaker 1: He just does the job. He's not looking for headlines. 427 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 1: That's what we need more the idea that you know, oh, 428 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: we should just get rid of all the politicians and 429 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:38,239 Speaker 1: put in people who have no earthly idea what they're doing. 430 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,159 Speaker 1: You know what ends up happening, because we saw this 431 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:45,160 Speaker 1: happen actually in California when voters implemented term limits, which 432 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,680 Speaker 1: sonogram every somebody loves. Term limits in a poll always 433 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 1: falls well. But what ended up happening was everybody ended 434 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,479 Speaker 1: up like basically getting out of office, and freshmen were 435 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:55,359 Speaker 1: put in who had no earthly idea of what they 436 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,440 Speaker 1: were doing and who started running the town lobbyists, the 437 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 1: private sector, the people who had access and experience. It 438 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,680 Speaker 1: was a massive brain dry and all of a sudden, lobbyists, 439 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,199 Speaker 1: we're literally writing the bills that the legislator with passing. 440 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,439 Speaker 1: That's where that story ends when you say, let's get 441 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 1: rid of all the professional politicians. And I go back again, 442 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 1: if you're comfortable walking into your doctor's office and saying, hey, 443 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,800 Speaker 1: I want someone to operate, I mean, but not a surgeon, 444 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 1: not a career professional. I don't trust them just taking 445 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 1: somebody like okay, but don't be shocked when you don't 446 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 1: wake up from the operating table. You know. That's I'm 447 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,639 Speaker 1: so glad that you use that analogy, Kurt, because you know, 448 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 1: just recently Alabama and I believe Arkansas, in this teacher 449 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 1: shortage that we are experiencing, which is not actually a shortage. 450 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,400 Speaker 1: We've just run teachers out of the classroom with gun 451 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:47,480 Speaker 1: violence and bullshit curriculum. They have decided to do away 452 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: with their credentialing for teachers. They'll just put anybody, any breathing, 453 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:56,639 Speaker 1: living human being, adult is now qualified to go and 454 00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:00,359 Speaker 1: teach your children. And we wonder why America is at 455 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 1: the bottom of any you know education indicators, and like 456 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: what that lack of respect for the teaching profession, how 457 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,399 Speaker 1: that is going to affect us down the road when 458 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 1: you think that just anyone can do the job. So 459 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 1: I love that you made that analogy, Kurt Bardella. As always, 460 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,880 Speaker 1: we appreciate your insights, your quips into the Republican mind. 461 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 1: Great to be with you, my fellow Nerd Avenger. Yes, 462 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,400 Speaker 1: come back and see us again soon and I will 463 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 1: see you on the Nerd Avengers soon again. Appreciate you. 464 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 1: That is it for me today. Dear friends on Woke 465 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 1: app as always, power to the people and to all 466 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 1: the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.