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Speaker 1: as I've been saying all week long, I'm just taking
Speaker 1: a few days of respite to recharge with friends, and
Speaker 1: I am leaving you with amazing interviews that we have
Speaker 1: banked so that you miss absolutely nothing from the craziness
Speaker 1: that is happening and has been going on since Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's Morilago resort was searched by the FBI, not rated,
Speaker 1: like his dumbass has been saying for the last several days.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny is that right now you have
Speaker 1: Republicans out on social media talking about they need to
Speaker 1: defund the FBI and they need to defund the Department
Speaker 1: of Justice, which is really funny given the fact that
Speaker 1: when black and brown people talk about defunding the police,
Speaker 1: you know, for killing us and then having no accountability,
Speaker 1: responsibility because of qualified immunity, we're called what are we
Speaker 1: called terrorists, Antifa agitators, not patriots. They want to defund
Speaker 1: these agencies for going after their white supremacist king. When
Speaker 1: we talk about defunding the police, it is about reorienting
Speaker 1: our resources into communities right that have systemic issues because
Speaker 1: of white supremacy and what we've been doing to them,
Speaker 1: like defunding public education in areas that are highly populated
Speaker 1: with black and brown people, not having sidewalks, not having
Speaker 1: sanitation pickup, not having anything that would remotely resemble any
Speaker 1: of these gated communities that these fucking Republicans live in.
Speaker 1: So I find it so fascinating and fucking hypocritical that
Speaker 1: right now you see all of these people talking about
Speaker 1: defund this and defund that. Why because their king right
Speaker 1: is being investigated by everybody and their mother because he's
Speaker 1: a fucking criminal. But when we're talking about unarmed and
Speaker 1: innocent black people not being able to sleep in their
Speaker 1: own fucking bed, drive in their cars, walk to the park,
Speaker 1: play in a park, you know, sit, or exist anywhere
Speaker 1: without the white police state coming for them, then we're
Speaker 1: the problem. I just need for the media to do
Speaker 1: their fucking job and maybe call out the hypocrisy right
Speaker 1: now and say that when white people are enraged, it's
Speaker 1: because they don't want to be held to account, because
Speaker 1: they want to have absolutely no responsibility whatsoever for their actions.
Speaker 1: When black people are asking for the state and the
Speaker 1: government to be held accountable for their crimes against us.
Speaker 1: Somehow we're the problem, folks. Coming up next my conversation
Speaker 1: with our friend Kurt Bardella to unpack all the insanity
Speaker 1: that Republicans are swirling in right now as they leap
Speaker 1: to the opportunity to defend Donald Trump against what we
Speaker 1: have no idea because as of this recording, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: has refused to release the contents of his warrant. Now,
Speaker 1: they continue to say that it was a raid. They
Speaker 1: continue to say that something is amiss and something is awry,
Speaker 1: and Kevin McCarthy is telling Merritt Garland, you need to
Speaker 1: hold onto your papers and just wait till I get
Speaker 1: the gavel back. But guess what, Donald Trump and his
Speaker 1: lawyers know exactly what the Feds came and took from
Speaker 1: our lago. They know exactly what the contents of that
Speaker 1: Warren entails, but they're not releasing it, and the question
Speaker 1: is why. So we'll get to this and more with
Speaker 1: our friend Kurt Vardella. Coming up next. Hey, I'm David
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Speaker 1: ex Republican, to get into the mind the crazy, crazy
Speaker 1: mind Kurt of your former flock. Um, I want to
Speaker 1: start off with getting your reactions to the FBI search,
Speaker 1: not raid, but legal warrant did search of Trump's Mara
Speaker 1: Lago residence. How did it? How did it hit you? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it was a surprise. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: it really what struck me, and it's somewhat predictable, but
Speaker 1: it's also very revealing the the overreaction from Trump from
Speaker 1: the right room propagandists. If I were an innocent person
Speaker 1: and something like this happened, I would be bending over
Speaker 1: backwards to make sure that everyone understood that this wasn't
Speaker 1: a raid, that this wasn't knocking down doors, windbreakers, people
Speaker 1: in tactical gear, you know, like you see in the movies.
Speaker 1: Like I would be saying, like, this was a planned search,
Speaker 1: something that we were made aware of a day ago,
Speaker 1: and there's and we are fully cooperating and there's nothing
Speaker 1: to see here. Instead, what we saw was this complete overreaction,
Speaker 1: science fiction response, to the point where there were people
Speaker 1: who are insinuating that evidence was planted by the FBI.
Speaker 1: That's like, we don't even know what they came for yet,
Speaker 1: but they've already said that stuff was planted, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: they are acting guilty. They are acting in a way
Speaker 1: where they know that the law enforcement agencies have the
Speaker 1: goods on them. And so when that's the case and
Speaker 1: you think they have you dead to rights, you start attacking,
Speaker 1: you start deflecting, you start inventing alternative, alternate realities. And
Speaker 1: that's exactly what guilty people do. And I think that
Speaker 1: Republicans are really putting themselves out there. I mean, here's
Speaker 1: what we know about Donald Trump over the years. Because
Speaker 1: a sociopathic, pathological liar, nothing he says is ever truthful.
Speaker 1: So as bad as we know that it is, it's
Speaker 1: almost certainly worse. As a political party. Why in the
Speaker 1: world would you put yourself on the line for some
Speaker 1: of that is almost certainly lying about something, lying to
Speaker 1: you about it, and the report parties put themselves Additionally,
Speaker 1: they're going to be left ful of the bad goods
Speaker 1: here when this thing detonates all over them. You know,
Speaker 1: the funny thing is current, you know, when people are
Speaker 1: pontificating and making jokes and memes about what could possibly
Speaker 1: be in Donald Trump's safe But the part that is
Speaker 1: actually really no laughing matter is that I personally believe
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump has the goods, the dossiers on everybody,
Speaker 1: that that is something that he has been compiling for
Speaker 1: quite some time. And so the reaction from Republicans to
Speaker 1: me is so unhinged, right, And I'm like, why do
Speaker 1: people react this way at a fear right at of
Speaker 1: fear of your dirty laundry being aired out? And so
Speaker 1: what they are doing is taking a page from Trump's
Speaker 1: election playbook, and before we even know anything, everything's been planted.
Speaker 1: They need to be defunded, right, And what I find
Speaker 1: so insulting is that you know, when black and brown
Speaker 1: people and allies enter into the streets in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: after the murder of George Floyd, before we had a vaccine,
Speaker 1: at the height of the pandemic, to say that black
Speaker 1: lives matter, to say that we need to defund the
Speaker 1: police as a way to recirculate monies into communities that
Speaker 1: have been systemically um uh bankrupted, right defunded by their
Speaker 1: public schools and their health infrastructure and their sanitation infrastructure,
Speaker 1: and all of these things. We get called antifa. We
Speaker 1: get called we get you know, told that we are unpatriotic. Right.
Speaker 1: All we wanted to all Colin Kaepernick ever wanted to
Speaker 1: do was take a need to bring attention to the
Speaker 1: abuses of the state. But to these white supremacist Republicans,
Speaker 1: it's like the hypocrisy doesn't even land with them, right,
Speaker 1: Like to me, it's so baffling that then they can
Speaker 1: call for the defunding of the police all because there
Speaker 1: was a search put out on their king, Like does
Speaker 1: that Like, honestly, how do you even part and parcel
Speaker 1: because you have been in the Republican Party, you worked
Speaker 1: and with the Lincoln Project, right, so so never Trumpers, like,
Speaker 1: how do you make sense of like Kevin McCarthy may
Speaker 1: making a social media a tweet a threat to the USAG.
Speaker 1: I just don't even get it. You know, it's very
Speaker 1: clear to me that if you're a person of color
Speaker 1: in this country, Republicans believe that law enforcement has the
Speaker 1: right to do whatever they want to legal or not
Speaker 1: even taking your own line, But the minute that law
Speaker 1: enforcement is focused on a white person, especially a white
Speaker 1: person of privilege, law enforce should be defined. Let's call
Speaker 1: it what it is. This is just outright racism, and
Speaker 1: and I think but people oftentimes, especially the media, tends
Speaker 1: to overlook because it's uncomfortable for them to confront this.
Speaker 1: Everything the Republican Party done does has to be viewed
Speaker 1: through the lens of racism, because that's really the single largest,
Speaker 1: most defining quality of being a Republican in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: You know, it's really something like, on one the hand,
Speaker 1: you got Republicans investigating Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Biden racially
Speaker 1: trying to delegitimize a citizenship of Barack Obama. And they
Speaker 1: were fine and comfortable using the instruments of power of oversight,
Speaker 1: authority of subpoenas to have hearings to make Hillary Clinton
Speaker 1: testify for eleven hours in front of their Knado report,
Speaker 1: the Bengazi Select Committee. But the minute that the shoe
Speaker 1: is on the other foot, and the minute that it's
Speaker 1: actually legitimate inquiries, current commissions, not which one's not implicitly
Speaker 1: motivated investigations, which Kevin Burkey admitted, Benghazi was all about
Speaker 1: the minute that the shoes on the other foot. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, they don't believe in congresional authority. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden they believe that things are faked subpoenas
Speaker 1: and take depositions, and they rail and its closed door proceedings,
Speaker 1: and they give the executive branch led by Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: a free pass and make it policy that it's okay
Speaker 1: to five checks and balances in America. Now as they
Speaker 1: think that they might be within the reach power again,
Speaker 1: they rediscover their passionate zeal for oversight. They rediscover congressional authority.
Speaker 1: Ken McCarthy right now, at this very second, is in
Speaker 1: defiance of a congressional subpoena from the Jannery sixth Committee.
Speaker 1: You don't get to defy aggressuoa on one hand and
Speaker 1: then say you're going to use them on other people,
Speaker 1: you know, in a couple of months. That's just not
Speaker 1: how it work. You don't get to have it both ways.
Speaker 1: And this is my big frustration with the media is
Speaker 1: that when they talk about these things and they cover
Speaker 1: Jim Jordan's threats and Kevin McCarthy's threats, they failed to
Speaker 1: include that context. They failed to include all the ways
Speaker 1: in which these Republicans have completely shipped on a congressional
Speaker 1: oversight and taken our wrecking ball to checks and balances,
Speaker 1: and now somehow they want to use them for their
Speaker 1: own politically motivated means. You know, it's just, But what's
Speaker 1: wild to me is that to your point, like the
Speaker 1: media never calls this shit out right, Like the media
Speaker 1: is never liked you know, Remember Republicans when you know,
Speaker 1: were interviewing Hillary Clinton for eleven hours, Remember when that
Speaker 1: came up with nothing, right? Remember when you wasted taxpayers
Speaker 1: dollars right, and it came up with nothing. I just
Speaker 1: I don't understand the disconnect of not being able to
Speaker 1: hold Republicans accountable, but when Democrats are in power, it's
Speaker 1: like the media goes through everything that the Biden administration
Speaker 1: is doing with a fine tooth calm, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's absurd at this point, and that you know, the
Speaker 1: other point about the Republican Party being a white supremacist
Speaker 1: party is that again, we continue, I believe, to legitimize
Speaker 1: them as if they are a normal Republican party. When
Speaker 1: you had Marjorie Taylor Green on Twitter calling for friggin
Speaker 1: violence because Donald Trump's home was searched and she's still
Speaker 1: in Congress. Yeah yeah, well I even remember it was
Speaker 1: less than a week ago that the Republican Party faithful
Speaker 1: congregated in Texas and gave a standing ovation to an
Speaker 1: authoritarian presence via the Prime Minister of Hungary. Let mean,
Speaker 1: this is who they are. I keep thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: how much how much more does the media need to
Speaker 1: see before they start identifying the Republican Party as the
Speaker 1: racist autocrat want to be dictatorial, want to be racist?
Speaker 1: That they are, because I mean, they're not trying to
Speaker 1: hide it anymore. They broadcast it every single day, whether
Speaker 1: it's Marjorie Taylor Green, whether it's Ted Cruz, whether it's
Speaker 1: Round Santis. It's not just Donald Trump. It's the entirety
Speaker 1: now of the Republican Party establishment that has been overrun
Speaker 1: by this lunacy. And you have these weapons, great idiots
Speaker 1: running around tweeting these insane things, fomenting violence, fomenting very
Speaker 1: dangerous and disturbing potential scenarios. You know, these people they're
Speaker 1: they're waiting for the order to start locking and loading.
Speaker 1: And we know after January sixth that this is an
Speaker 1: empty rheoric. This isn't just Machi's mode behind the screen
Speaker 1: on the Internet. That these are people who have the means,
Speaker 1: the arms, and the desire to incite mayhem in violence
Speaker 1: and bloodshed on people who look like you, and I like,
Speaker 1: this isn't hypothetical anymore, you know. And I'm so glad
Speaker 1: that you brought this up because this is something else
Speaker 1: that I believed was said multiple times on the air,
Speaker 1: but almost in a casual way, right, which was that
Speaker 1: the fear that Donald Trump was going to once again
Speaker 1: direct his white supremacist militia to attack the government because
Speaker 1: he was his home was searched. You had all of
Speaker 1: the tweets, lock and load. When does the shooting start?
Speaker 1: I mean all I mean it was crazy. And the
Speaker 1: thing for me is that if it were people that
Speaker 1: look like us that we're tweeting that shit, you think
Speaker 1: that we would have still been casually sitting in our
Speaker 1: living room on our laptops or on our phones. No,
Speaker 1: you would have been picked up, snatched up by the
Speaker 1: FBI and question and looked at as a terrorist, as
Speaker 1: a threat to these United States. And so I'm wondering, Kurt,
Speaker 1: what do you like, do you think that violence at
Speaker 1: this point in this country, with how hopped up the
Speaker 1: Republicans are on their lies, on their hate, on their vitriol.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have never seen a more rage filled
Speaker 1: group of people than some of the clips I saw
Speaker 1: at a seapack right then some of the clips of
Speaker 1: people talking at sea packs. So do you feel at
Speaker 1: this point that violence is inevitable, that it is just
Speaker 1: something that is on the horizon, but that it is
Speaker 1: we are going to get to that place. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: felt that the minute that the repultan Perty made the
Speaker 1: conscious decision to become apologists for domestic terrorists, that that
Speaker 1: was the ball game. Um, you know, you cannot have
Speaker 1: a peaceful coexistence when there are people who are you know,
Speaker 1: handling up domestic terrorists as patriots, as victims. Marjorie Taylor
Speaker 1: Green on one knee at sepack. The cosplay was crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And all that does is send the message to the
Speaker 1: people who subscribe to this radical, extreme ideology that violence
Speaker 1: is an acceptable form of expression, that their leaders want
Speaker 1: them to shoot all of us, that their leaders will
Speaker 1: want them to to to hang Mike Pence and perpetray
Speaker 1: bloodshed on anyone that stands in the way, including cops
Speaker 1: by the way. Um, you know, I very much worried
Speaker 1: what elections are going to be like going forward, because
Speaker 1: the Republican Party has done everything they can to take
Speaker 1: a rock invall to the peaceful transition of power. And
Speaker 1: I don't know what happens in this country when election
Speaker 1: rolls around and some of these white supremases start shooting
Speaker 1: up precincts in voting areas that have a higher concentration
Speaker 1: of people of color. I don't know what happens to
Speaker 1: our process when it gets held hostage by these instruments
Speaker 1: of evil coming for all of us while the Whome
Speaker 1: Party eggs them on, while the prom Party says it's okay, Well,
Speaker 1: the Home Party says we love you and that you're heroes.
Speaker 1: And I don't think that Democrats or the media is
Speaker 1: particularly ready for that scenario, which is kind of mind
Speaker 1: bodiling to me after what we lived throughout January sixth.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that is being said
Speaker 1: to is that, you know, what a terrible week for
Speaker 1: all of this Marilogo business to happen because Democrats finally
Speaker 1: had a series of legislative wins. I disagree, Kurt, because
Speaker 1: I think that there is an opportunity for the Biden
Speaker 1: administration and Democrats to be like, we continue to work
Speaker 1: for the American people. All of this is transpiring, and
Speaker 1: we've passed this, this, this, and this, because our intelligence
Speaker 1: agencies and the Department of Justice are not supposed to
Speaker 1: work in tandem. They are separate entities. And so we're
Speaker 1: able to still deliver for the American people because Republicans
Speaker 1: pushback has been Democrats are preoccupied with Donald Trump and
Speaker 1: not doing anything for the American people. So what do
Speaker 1: you think that the messaging should be. Do you see
Speaker 1: it as an opportunity or is it an obstacle? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's challenging again. And this
Speaker 1: is where the Republican argument that this was a floodping
Speaker 1: motivated Biden led raid on one of the slow adversaries,
Speaker 1: false Department. President Biden has been in the midst of
Speaker 1: the best few weeks he has had in this presidency.
Speaker 1: After a year of Democrats in disarray, a year of
Speaker 1: our own base protesting our own White House, all in
Speaker 1: goddamn time, much to my complete and utter annoyance, we
Speaker 1: finally strung together. You know, this amazing streak of successes,
Speaker 1: historical level successes. I mean, we got a bipartisan gun
Speaker 1: built them, which has nothing that has been done in
Speaker 1: twenty years. Okay, even if it's not everything you want.
Speaker 1: It's something which at this point is better than nothing.
Speaker 1: We got infrastructure. We got the Chips Act pass to
Speaker 1: revitalize American manufacturing. We got something done for veterans, even
Speaker 1: in spite of Republican opposition, which I still don't to
Speaker 1: this day quite understand. We got uh you know, or
Speaker 1: you know, we got this uh Inflation Reduction Act that
Speaker 1: we're that we're about to get across the finish line.
Speaker 1: Gas prices have been going down every day for almost
Speaker 1: sixty days now. You know, by the way, we caught
Speaker 1: a freaking terrorist of who was one of the masterminds
Speaker 1: of nine to eleven, all the while I didn't with
Speaker 1: battle ing COVID like this has been one of the
Speaker 1: most productive administrations in the United States history. When Biden
Speaker 1: signing some of those laws, uh you know, some of
Speaker 1: those biose laws yesterday, it was like the fourth story
Speaker 1: of the night because of Donald Trump. Donald Trump has
Speaker 1: a unique way of sucking up the option on an everything,
Speaker 1: and at this exact moment in time, that's where the
Speaker 1: last thing that we wanted to have happened. On the
Speaker 1: day that Biden was going to sign these things in
Speaker 1: the law and talked about Democrats delivering and getting things
Speaker 1: done in spite of United Republican opposition to things like
Speaker 1: lowering the cost of insulin. What the hell kind of
Speaker 1: pro life party does that, you know? Not to mention
Speaker 1: the overarching conversations about abortion and women's rights in America,
Speaker 1: like all of those things now have completely been swept
Speaker 1: down to story four or five or six or not
Speaker 1: even being covered right now at the second. And I
Speaker 1: think that's that's a loss for the American people as
Speaker 1: well as for Democrats. Hopefully as time goes on, we'll
Speaker 1: be able to get back on that message. But the
Speaker 1: reason why Republicans are leading so hard into this because
Speaker 1: they spent the last two weeks trying to explain why
Speaker 1: they were on the opposide of veterans, why they were
Speaker 1: on the side of China, why they're ok with the
Speaker 1: ten year old being great, being forced to give birth
Speaker 1: to a baby that no one should ever have to
Speaker 1: even comtemplate. And now they talk twenty four seven about
Speaker 1: the deep state and the FBI and the dj and
Speaker 1: all these things that they've really spent the last five years.
Speaker 1: Do you and I see when you go back all
Speaker 1: the way to the Buller pro this is familiar territory
Speaker 1: for them. That's why they're so excited to be talking
Speaker 1: about this, because they don't because they knew they were losing,
Speaker 1: only told us things were going in the wrong direction.
Speaker 1: For Republicans, comrectional Democrats on the jenera belot went up
Speaker 1: over the last three weeks. Now they get to try
Speaker 1: to distract. And I mean, ask any media producer, what
Speaker 1: would you rather cover an FBI rate or legislation and
Speaker 1: it will be the FBI rate, hands down every day.
Speaker 1: Last questions for you, Kurt are on mid term elections.
Speaker 1: NBC's Shaquille Brewster had been down in Wisconsin talking with
Speaker 1: voters on the street there Republicans and them saying, you know,
Speaker 1: does it matter Donald Trump's endorsement, like you, does your
Speaker 1: vote sway based on that? One man, one white man,
Speaker 1: made an interesting comment, and he said that he doesn't
Speaker 1: want any politician anymore. He doesn't want to vote for
Speaker 1: a politician. He said, I'm tired of politicians. I'm tired
Speaker 1: of them, you know, telling me one thing and not
Speaker 1: doing another. And so anyone who is not a politician
Speaker 1: is who I'm voting for. What do you make of that?
Speaker 1: Because that was also the thing that Donald Trump rode
Speaker 1: into power on right aside from being a white supremaist
Speaker 1: like I'm a businessman, I alone can fix this. And
Speaker 1: so what do you make of folks with that kind
Speaker 1: of thinking that they don't want politicians because it's synonymous
Speaker 1: with do nothing or liars. I think that I would
Speaker 1: ask those people, would you want a doctor to operate
Speaker 1: on you who is a surgeon? Would you want a
Speaker 1: teacher to teacher who is in credential? Would you want
Speaker 1: someone to serve in the United States Armed Forces that
Speaker 1: hasn't been trained properly to use a weapon. That's what
Speaker 1: you're asking for when you say you don't want to
Speaker 1: vote for a quin quote politician. And I get why
Speaker 1: politician is a bad word. I get why over the
Speaker 1: years we've seen that both parties frankly make a living
Speaker 1: off of demonizing career life along politicians. I would say
Speaker 1: that after the Donald Trump experience, they should force all
Speaker 1: of us to look back. You know, maybe it's not
Speaker 1: the workst idea. The people who sold job is to
Speaker 1: write laws in America, to actually have experience being legislator.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not a bad idea to go back to
Speaker 1: a time where people like mayors and city council members
Speaker 1: and state legislators eventually became congressman and senators and governors
Speaker 1: and ran for president. Maybe maybe political office shouldn't go
Speaker 1: to the highest bidder. Maybe it shouldn't go to people
Speaker 1: who just can cut themselves a ten hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: check to buy themselves our Maybe it shouldn't go to
Speaker 1: whoever is whichever billionaires writing the biggest. If you look
Speaker 1: at the Republican Party apparatus right now, you know, I
Speaker 1: think I read a stat that over half the money
Speaker 1: that was raised by the Republican campaign entities came from
Speaker 1: twenty seven billionaires or something like that. It's like, that's
Speaker 1: not good for democracy. I want professionals who want to
Speaker 1: make it their career to serve in public service to
Speaker 1: make up the bulk of our elected office. I don't
Speaker 1: want people who have new idea, what's we don't need
Speaker 1: more Marjorie Taylor greens In, Lauren Bouvarts or Medacon Copthorns
Speaker 1: or Met gates Is or Donald Trump's we don't need that.
Speaker 1: We need people and understand that the majority of people
Speaker 1: who serve in Congress, they are the they are the
Speaker 1: people who you never hear about, who just do the job,
Speaker 1: who served their constituencies. I think people like you know,
Speaker 1: my congressman in my net Whoods Don Bayer here in
Speaker 1: northern Virginia. It's not a flashy guy, I said, a
Speaker 1: guy you see on Cable US every days. Not a
Speaker 1: guy who's got a prolific tweeting present. He just does
Speaker 1: the job, you know. I think people like in San
Speaker 1: Diego Mike Leavin, you know, been there a couple of
Speaker 1: years now, came from the biotech world and the climate space.
Speaker 1: He just does the job. He's not looking for headlines.
Speaker 1: That's what we need more the idea that you know, oh,
Speaker 1: we should just get rid of all the politicians and
Speaker 1: put in people who have no earthly idea what they're doing.
Speaker 1: You know what ends up happening, because we saw this
Speaker 1: happen actually in California when voters implemented term limits, which
Speaker 1: sonogram every somebody loves. Term limits in a poll always
Speaker 1: falls well. But what ended up happening was everybody ended
Speaker 1: up like basically getting out of office, and freshmen were
Speaker 1: put in who had no earthly idea of what they
Speaker 1: were doing and who started running the town lobbyists, the
Speaker 1: private sector, the people who had access and experience. It
Speaker 1: was a massive brain dry and all of a sudden, lobbyists,
Speaker 1: we're literally writing the bills that the legislator with passing.
Speaker 1: That's where that story ends when you say, let's get
Speaker 1: rid of all the professional politicians. And I go back again,
Speaker 1: if you're comfortable walking into your doctor's office and saying, hey,
Speaker 1: I want someone to operate, I mean, but not a surgeon,
Speaker 1: not a career professional. I don't trust them just taking
Speaker 1: somebody like okay, but don't be shocked when you don't
Speaker 1: wake up from the operating table. You know. That's I'm
Speaker 1: so glad that you use that analogy, Kurt, because you know,
Speaker 1: just recently Alabama and I believe Arkansas, in this teacher
Speaker 1: shortage that we are experiencing, which is not actually a shortage.
Speaker 1: We've just run teachers out of the classroom with gun
Speaker 1: violence and bullshit curriculum. They have decided to do away
Speaker 1: with their credentialing for teachers. They'll just put anybody, any breathing,
Speaker 1: living human being, adult is now qualified to go and
Speaker 1: teach your children. And we wonder why America is at
Speaker 1: the bottom of any you know education indicators, and like
Speaker 1: what that lack of respect for the teaching profession, how
Speaker 1: that is going to affect us down the road when
Speaker 1: you think that just anyone can do the job. So
Speaker 1: I love that you made that analogy, Kurt Bardella. As always,
Speaker 1: we appreciate your insights, your quips into the Republican mind.
Speaker 1: Great to be with you, my fellow Nerd Avenger. Yes,
Speaker 1: come back and see us again soon and I will
Speaker 1: see you on the Nerd Avengers soon again. Appreciate you.
Speaker 1: That is it for me today. Dear friends on Woke
Speaker 1: app as always, power to the people and to all
Speaker 1: the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.