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We got a new favorite 11 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: around here, David Harsani, because we've we've like quoted liberally 12 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 1: from a couple of his articles recently liberally on different topics. 13 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: The other day, it was his going through the different 14 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: kind of fake fact checking that I really enjoyed. That 15 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: was a terrific David Harsani is the senior editor of 16 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: The Federalist. He's also the author of a new book 17 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: which I am looking forward to reading, First Freedom Ride 18 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: through America's enduring history with the gun. David, how are you, sir? 19 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 1: Thanks for having me again. Oh, it's our pleasure. That 20 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: peace Jack just referenced was absolutely great. I appreciate it. 21 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: How fact checking is just completely degenerated. Happy Valentine's Day, 22 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: but will stop it, so thank you very much. Yeah, 23 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: I've never I've never felt Mr Harsani's skull, but I 24 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: don't think he's such a soft end that he wants 25 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 1: to talk about that. So hey, listen, it's funny. And 26 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 1: scanning the many many headlines this morning, I've become aware 27 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: that more and more people on the left, more and 28 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:30,400 Speaker 1: more pro environmental quote unquote, people are are saying to 29 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: AOC and the Green New Dealers, hey, thanks for making 30 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:37,479 Speaker 1: us look like idiots. So so the criticism is starting 31 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: to come from those quarters as well. Well. I think 32 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: what they really mean is why were you so honest 33 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: about what we want to do in the long run? Right? Um, 34 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: you jumped the gun here, you know. Um, obviously they 35 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: don't want to tell you what they you know, the 36 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 1: things that they want to engage and to get this 37 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 1: project if there is done. But the fact is that 38 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: AOC is right. If you if you want to eliminate 39 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: fossil fuels in ten years, you're gonna have to do 40 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: something author of terror, and you're gonna have to tell 41 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: people how to live their lives are gonna have to 42 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: coerce them, and you're gonna have to get rid of 43 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: the energy datus. That's the only way to do it. 44 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 1: Otherwise you're not being serious. And when you say that 45 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: you're not going to use any nuclear energy, you're probably 46 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: not being very serious anyway. Well, so do you think 47 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: they believe that we're trying to figure out what's going 48 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 1: on here in and a lot of our theory is 49 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,920 Speaker 1: that it was simple. Is similar to Trump going around 50 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: saying We're gonna build a giant wall in Mexico. Is 51 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:28,359 Speaker 1: gonna pay for it? And very few people Trump. I mean, 52 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 1: I listened to that, and I thought, Mexico is not 53 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: gonna pay for the wall. But but I understood that 54 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:35,239 Speaker 1: he is. He cared about this issue more than most 55 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 1: people have in the past. Is that what AOC is 56 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: trying to do just go so far over the top. 57 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 1: She's the leader of this issue because they can't actually 58 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: believe this stuff. It's hard for it's hard to believe 59 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: that they actually believe or they actually believe that we 60 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 1: can do that stuff. But I think that their belief 61 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: socialistic or even environmentalistic beliefs are kind of like how 62 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 1: people believe in religion. I'm not saying religion is not true. 63 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: I'm saying that you have to have some kind of 64 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: blind faith to do it, and that you just assume 65 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 1: that because you believe these things so strongly that anything 66 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 1: can be done. You know that that that your faith 67 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: can do anything, inclusion getting rid of all our energy sources. Well, 68 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: my opinion on this sort of thing is usually there's 69 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: a coalition of different sorts of people, including the true believers, 70 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: the the dewey eyed pie in the sky twenty something 71 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 1: bartenders of the world who actually believe that that we 72 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 1: can eliminate all fossil fuels in a very very short 73 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 1: time just because they have no patience for actually doing mathematics. 74 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: And then you have the strivers who think, okay, that's 75 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 1: a little out there, but you know, I'm in favor 76 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: of the stuff generally speaking, so what the heck I'll 77 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: be I'll go along. That's your Amy Klobuchars, who knows better, 78 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: you know, um. But then then there are the cynics 79 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: who understand, Okay, this is a great political hammer I 80 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: can hit my opponents in the forehead with, and if 81 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 1: I'm al Gore, I can make sillions of dollars based 82 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: the duly eid dopes of the world. And so I 83 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: just think those people come together and that's how you 84 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: get a political movement going yeah, no, I think you're right. 85 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 1: And the populism in the sense is telling people what 86 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: they want to hear. There's no way Kamala Harris thinks 87 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: we're going to get rid of all our fossil fuels 88 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: and ten years, I don't believe that. You believe that, 89 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: And and there are others. But there's one other group, 90 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: by the way, is like Nancy Pelosi, who immediately realized 91 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 1: this was going to be politically problematic and sort of 92 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:26,359 Speaker 1: ripped it. She knows that some of this sounds completely crazy. 93 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 1: What I think happened was all these coalitions came together 94 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 1: against Trump, you know, the sort of more stride you 95 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:34,360 Speaker 1: were about it, the more popular you've got. And then 96 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: one day we had to hear what these people, you know, 97 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 1: the ideas these people are, and then you're like, oh 98 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:41,719 Speaker 1: my god, they're crazy, you know. And um, I think 99 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 1: that that Democrats are gonna have to work that out. 100 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: What other interesting angle of this to me is um 101 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,160 Speaker 1: and and Trump did this by tweeting he could bypass 102 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: the Republican Party or a lot of the power brokers 103 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: and and reach people and and get his own power base. 104 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:00,479 Speaker 1: And AOC has done that. Also, we're into a new era. 105 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: Now you don't have to wait your turn to get 106 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 1: on the right committees and wait till the party is 107 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 1: behind you to become a star. AOC being in Congress 108 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 1: for a couple of months has had the conversation dominating 109 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: UM story for for a couple of weeks. Now. Yeah, 110 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: and I would say that she's actually, at least from 111 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 1: my point of view, a likable person who touches on 112 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:26,039 Speaker 1: certain things that are actually people views as problems, you know, 113 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: with you know, the same sort of things actually the 114 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: Trump did about how you know, the system is rigged 115 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 1: and it's unfair for a lot of people and so on. 116 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: So I don't think we should underestimate her. She's obviously 117 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 1: she has she has a great reach. But um, I 118 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 1: think that what happens is within the Democratic Party there 119 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: are people who have been around a long time and 120 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: they understand and in the end, you have to make 121 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 1: something work for the American people or they turn on you. 122 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: And Trump has sort of done that. You know, AOC 123 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:54,280 Speaker 1: is long far away from from really getting anything done yet. Yeah, 124 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 1: but she's not the last person that's going to figure 125 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:00,279 Speaker 1: out that that the you know, social media fall bowing 126 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: in in Twitter or however you're going to go about it. 127 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: That's that's the way politics is gonna work, and isn't 128 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 1: Populism is gonna go into like hyper speed. Now it's 129 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 1: in hyper speed. Also, I just want to say, I mean, 130 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 1: it's not just her. She was sort of you know, 131 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,280 Speaker 1: they put on the cover of fashion magazines and put 132 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: her in CNN all the time, and a lot of 133 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: people lifted her up as a sort of spokesman for 134 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 1: for this move for spokesperson for this movement. So she 135 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: she had some help. And obviously that has to do 136 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: with her. You know that how hot she is. We think, 137 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 1: we think two thirds of her popularities are being hot. 138 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: I think if she was a short, fat, bald guy 139 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: with exactly the same ideas, the same theory, except there's 140 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders. Why is he so good? Point point? Why 141 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 1: don't you shut up over there? Uh? That was sexist, 142 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: what I said, Yes, it was. It was horrifying and 143 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: the antibald David Harsani is the senior editor for the 144 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 1: General don't believe it's sexist to say that someone's attractive. 145 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't. That just seems like a compliment 146 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 1: to me. So yeah, I agree with both of you, guys. 147 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: I think we're entering what's going to be an incredibly parapatetic, 148 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: frantic giant personality coming to the fore and commanding all 149 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: of our attention and mobilizing the marchers. And three weeks later, 150 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: said Chris rock said in a Day Gone to date. Right, 151 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: but well, I guess we'll live through it. Hey, David, listen, 152 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: because we're stubborn and and bitter and boring. We won't 153 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: let people forget that the one existential threat against the 154 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: United States of America is our own irresponsible spending in 155 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 1: our national debt. Any thoughts on the debt passing twenty 156 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 1: two mill alright, I'm sorry trillion? Um please? Yeah, it's 157 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 1: it's horrified. I mean, it's out of control. No one 158 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: is serious about it. No one's ever been really serious 159 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 1: about it. Um. No one wants to do the work. 160 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: And obviously the work of trying to stop that trend 161 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 1: is to let you do things that healthy economy grow 162 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: and also reform, reform, social Security, medicare you know, and 163 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 1: welfare program. Nobody on either side. Nobody on either side. 164 00:07:58,200 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: When Rand Paul brought it up on the debate, Stay 165 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,239 Speaker 1: Your Chris Christie touched on it, nobody care. Theoretically, everyone's 166 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: into it until you touch something they want and uh, 167 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 1: government basically touches, you know, people in some way, so 168 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 1: they don't want to cut their own spending. Um, it's 169 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: just it's at one point it will be a disaster. 170 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: The one did anything about it. One of my favorite 171 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: quotes is I think it was from a Mark steinbook. 172 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: If if something can't continue, it will end. I mean 173 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 1: it seems very childlike, but it is true. He can't 174 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: continue like this to what's going to end. So how 175 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: about we think about what that's gonna look. Lease, you're 176 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: boring me. No voter wants to hear that. You're you're 177 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 1: at a party in the nineties and everybody's doing blow 178 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: and you're standing up and saying cocaine it's bad for 179 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:42,439 Speaker 1: your health, and I don't think we should buy anymore. 180 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: I mean, you just shut up. Yeah, I mean, the 181 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:49,079 Speaker 1: disaster is always far off, and then people sort of 182 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: the debt is a far more serious problem than climate change, 183 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: in my opinion at least, and we do nothing about it. 184 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 1: We don't even pretend anymore to want to do anything 185 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:02,959 Speaker 1: about it. Every reprogram that people, even Trump in some sense, 186 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: and every program that liberals want, will cost trillions of 187 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:08,719 Speaker 1: more dollars. And and there's no way to pay for it, 188 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: because no one's going to raise taxes on most people, 189 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:12,679 Speaker 1: even if you raise taxes on the rich. It's just 190 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:15,080 Speaker 1: that it's a piddling a man compared to what you're spending. 191 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: There's so many things I'd like to ask you about. 192 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 1: We got to bring this up because we've talked about 193 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: it so much this week. The most depressing thing we've 194 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:23,200 Speaker 1: seen in the news this week. We're on from angry 195 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:27,679 Speaker 1: to depressing. This is the proof that democracy will not work. 196 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 1: That so many people that liked the Trump's big tax 197 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 1: cut now because the refunds are smaller, are turning on 198 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:37,960 Speaker 1: Trump because they don't understand the difference between tax rates 199 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 1: and refunds. That is proof that democracy will not work, 200 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 1: is it not? It is? I once wrote a book 201 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 1: against democracy. Democracy is that disaster people are terrible. Um, 202 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: But here's the thing we now, Harris actually tweets out right. 203 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: Maybe yeah, we're screwed. But you know, um, in the end, 204 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 1: people don't feel a tax if they are not writing, 205 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 1: you know, if they're not getting refund checks, which is 206 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: the problem of the taxation system, where everyone should write 207 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:07,560 Speaker 1: out a check to begin with, and then they'd understand 208 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:10,960 Speaker 1: what was going on. Are you a fair tax guy, David? 209 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:13,559 Speaker 1: If you could waive your magic wand and just completely 210 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 1: reform the utter nightmare that is the United States tax code, 211 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:21,679 Speaker 1: which way would you go? Um? I probably just I'd 212 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:25,680 Speaker 1: probably just want to maybe a slightly progressive, straightforward taxation 213 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 1: cutting most most uh, most of the study. You know, 214 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 1: the postcard thing that Ted Cruz was for. I'm fine 215 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: with that. I mean, listen, it's still out. It's an 216 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 1: outlandish to believe that we're ever going to reform the 217 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: tax system that I don't even you know, I don't 218 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 1: even know if I'm for the fair tax anymore. I 219 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:42,839 Speaker 1: remember not loving it for certain reasons, but I don't 220 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 1: exactly remember why. Well, you know, we've said many times 221 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: that if you were to propose the current tax system, um, 222 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: the response would be negative. I mean, how could it 223 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:58,080 Speaker 1: be anything? But it is. It is theft. It is 224 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:02,200 Speaker 1: ray Pine. It is bizarre, it is mobbed up, it's 225 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 1: it's a hundred kinds of bad, and yet every proposal 226 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 1: to do anything serious about it is graded with oh, no, 227 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: we better not that might have a downside, which again 228 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 1: is another example of why democracy. Yeah, I mean, who 229 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's it's racketeering. Basically, you're you know, 230 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: you're paying yourself and then you're proposing more policies that 231 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: bring in more money or spend more money, and you 232 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: have there's no responsibility to balance it out. I mean, 233 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 1: I'm not for a balanced budget amendment for a few reasons, 234 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 1: but the idea that you don't even have to worry 235 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:35,959 Speaker 1: about balancing anything out, it's crazy. No one lives their 236 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 1: lives like that. Final topic, because I know you're writing 237 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 1: about it, is Mitch McConnell's maneuver to get a vote 238 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 1: on the Green New Deal. Um, it's it's snark delicious. 239 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: I have a feeling I know exactly what he's doing. 240 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 1: But what's his point? His point is that he wants 241 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 1: these guys, you know, he this is a show bill 242 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: to begin with. The bill is you know, the resolution 243 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: itself on the Green New Deal so why not vote 244 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: on it? Um, you know, he's pouncing on them by 245 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 1: allowing them to vote, He's seizing on their actual beliefs 246 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: to make them look bad at etcetera, etcetera. Um, it's 247 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 1: just an assertion of intent. It's a resolution. Why wouldn't 248 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: they want to vote on it? It makes zero sense. 249 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:14,599 Speaker 1: I mean obviously I know where they don't because of 250 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: the AOC fact sheet, But um, I think it's a 251 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:21,680 Speaker 1: great move and let them vote on it. And uh, 252 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:24,079 Speaker 1: you know what's been done before Democrats due to it's 253 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 1: not new in d C. But I mean why not? 254 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 1: Well yeah, and it's funny they responsible from the left 255 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 1: at McConnell's a cynic and this is a maneuver and everything. 256 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:34,439 Speaker 1: Having a vote on what we're proposing, I mean, do 257 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:36,680 Speaker 1: you think itself as a resolution? Right? So it's not 258 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 1: even like a bill that's percolating or something. It's just 259 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 1: the resolution thing that you want to move forward on 260 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: this idea. Why wouldn't they want to vote to move 261 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 1: forward on the idea that they put forward? They filed 262 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: this resolution themselves, well, right, well, because they understand it's 263 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 1: completely ridiculous, but they're afraid of that outer ten percent 264 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 1: of the coalition that's madly in love with the whole things. So, 265 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: by the way, presidential candidates who are in the Senate 266 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 1: have endorsed it, why shouldn't they be able to vote 267 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 1: on it? In for real? 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