Episode Transcript
[00:00:05] Speaker A: Hi, everyone. Welcome to Spill the Tea, the podcast that just wants you to hear us out. We bring awareness about topics in pop culture, history, literature, music and life, the universe and everything. As far as we're concerned, we research different topics and share with our listeners what we discover. I'm Brigitta.
[00:00:22] Speaker B: And I'm Laura.
[00:00:23] Speaker A: And today's episode is about.
[00:00:27] Speaker B: It's kind of serious.
[00:00:28] Speaker A: It's a serious one.
[00:00:30] Speaker B: And be warned, the F bombs will be fast and furious. As will the snickering, as will the giggling, as will the laughter. But it's mostly sarcastic laughter.
[00:00:40] Speaker A: Your warning. Yeah, we'll put that trigger warning in there. Now, before we even tell you what the topic is, today's topic is going to be a review of the GOP. The 2024 GOP platform.
[00:00:52] Speaker B: Yeah. Because they did finally put it in.
[00:00:56] Speaker A: A single 16 page document.
[00:00:59] Speaker B: We'll see how long it stays that way because we know they're playing games with a lot of other things. But, you know, for now that's where it is.
[00:01:05] Speaker A: So stick around and just hear us out. Yeah, we do fully intend. Once the. Once the Democratic National Convention is over and they have released their policy statement. Their policy statement, we will absolutely be reviewing that one as well.
[00:01:20] Speaker B: Probably with just as many F bombs and snickers. Because, you know, it's political double speak. You cannot do this with a straight face, folks. And because it's just so fucking boring that if we don't have fun with it.
[00:01:31] Speaker A: If we don't. Yeah, if we don't have fun with this, it's going to hurt too much. And we will point out that neither of us are Republican, neither of us are Democrat. Both of us keep both parties accountable insofar as.
[00:01:47] Speaker B: Absolutely fact checking both parties. I don't know about you, but I absolutely did my homework before I go to the polls.
I absolutely will not take what they say at face value because they're politicians.
[00:02:01] Speaker A: I literally research all the way down to the justices we were conforming in that election cycle.
[00:02:10] Speaker B: Ditto.
[00:02:11] Speaker A: I am not kidding. I dig deep when I am. When I'm researching and it's literally researching all the way down ticket. I dig deep. I dig as deep as I possibly can.
[00:02:22] Speaker B: A little bit closer to election time. What I want to do is let our listeners know some of the resources that are available online to be able to get those names and where you can look to get more about them.
[00:02:32] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, absolutely. And I've gotten awful close to. I've gotten awful close, quite frankly, to possibly the point of cyber talking. Some of these people, because they don't put out websites, they don't give information. And I'll tell you right now, you shouldn't have to do that. No, I should not have to try to go hunting and digging to find out what these people are about politically.
[00:02:58] Speaker B: But here's the problem. If they put everything they're about politically up, they might turn off voters because, you know, honesty is not the best policy in politics, apparently.
[00:03:09] Speaker A: I'm talking about candidates who don't put up anything at all. You have to put up at least something.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: No, you don't.
[00:03:18] Speaker A: A background where you stand on something.
[00:03:23] Speaker B: How many of them are actually very tech savvy?
[00:03:27] Speaker A: We're seeing more and more younger people get into fair politics and starting to run for office, especially lower down thicket. I'm seeing a lot younger people, Gen X and younger, starting to show up on the ticket.
[00:03:41] Speaker B: I don't know. Elon Musk is Gen X and he you. And he's. Yeah, he is. He's 50. He is. He is younger than Kamala Harris.
[00:03:50] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:03:50] Speaker B: He's all right. He's one year older than me. He's 54.
[00:03:53] Speaker A: Okay then. Yeah, he is.
[00:03:54] Speaker B: So he's absolutely Gen X number one. Number two, he considers himself a tech mogul. You did see what happened with the most recent interview, right?
[00:04:04] Speaker A: What happened? I heard what happened on Twitter.
[00:04:06] Speaker B: Nothing against our Gen X listeners. I'm Gen X myself, but you know, come on, if he can't do it, I imagine there's a whole lot of politicians out there that can't do it either.
[00:04:16] Speaker A: It's very possible. Not everybody's tech savvy, exactly. Well, yeah, I mean, it's not everybody's thing. It's not everybody's bag. Fair, you know, Fair. It's totally fair. But if it's why you. That's why.
[00:04:27] Speaker B: Hire someone.
[00:04:27] Speaker A: You hire someone who is.
[00:04:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I. Exactly. You hire someone. But yeah, that could be a lucrative.
[00:04:34] Speaker A: Career, Web designing for politicians.
[00:04:38] Speaker B: People do that. But we live in a state where they're cheap ass bastards.
[00:04:42] Speaker A: That is true.
[00:04:43] Speaker B: Unless it's money into their pocket.
[00:04:45] Speaker A: That is true. So, John, help us. Let's kick this.
[00:04:49] Speaker B: This preamble.
Apparently there are forgotten men and women in America, just so you know. Because that's who this is dedicated to. Because there's a dedication as well. Because, you know, that's something you do with policy statements. But I want to point out in the paragraph that way they actually start talking specifically about Trump in 2016. President Donald J. Trump. This is like paragraph four. Or five was elected as an unapologetic champion of the American people. Oh, and make sure. Champion of the American people. We have to get those caps in there.
[00:05:23] Speaker A: There's so much capitalization.
[00:05:25] Speaker B: I know.
[00:05:25] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:05:26] Speaker B: Oh, and that's a callback to the 18th century writing, too.
[00:05:29] Speaker A: Yes, it is. It absolutely is.
[00:05:30] Speaker B: He reignited the American spirit and calling us to renew our national pride. His policies spurred historic economic growth, job creation, and a resurgence of American manufacturing. I'm going to call bullshit right there because, you know, there's this great source on Investopedia that gives you GDP growth by president. And under Trump, it dumped by 2.3%. It receded by 2.3%. So for the record, not a political commentary, but under Obama, it grew by 2.3%, and under Biden, it's grown by 2.2%. So the economy grew. No, actually it didn't.
[00:06:10] Speaker A: You know, I've seen this pattern between Republican and Democratic administrations, and it always feels like the Republicans are the underachieving boy in high school who's trying to sweet talk the smart girl, also known as the Democrats, into doing his homework for him and then taking all the credit.
[00:06:31] Speaker B: Well, if you look at the historical GDP growth, that pretty much bears out.
[00:06:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:37] Speaker B: Because all the way back with Hoover, all the way back with Hoover, you have this pattern that under Republicans, the domestic product tanks. Under Democrats, they bring it back and then the pinks again bring it back.
[00:06:53] Speaker A: Wasn't Hoover the worst president in our history until 2016? Quite possibly.
[00:06:58] Speaker B: Quite possibly.
[00:06:59] Speaker A: Or at least till 2020?
[00:07:03] Speaker B: Quite possibly.
So that was. I wanted to call that one out because otherwise this is just a bunch of. This is just a bunch of happy pie in the sky fictional bullshit talking about common sense and how.
And anti Biden bullshit, because this is where a lot of our anti Biden stuff is showing up.
[00:07:21] Speaker A: Okay, so we may summarize paragraph by paragraph. We go back to the beginning.
[00:07:25] Speaker B: Yes, ma'am.
[00:07:26] Speaker A: A nation's history is filled with stories of brave men and women who gave everything they had to build America into the greatest nation in the history of the world. Most of the world would not agree.
[00:07:37] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:07:38] Speaker A: Most of the numbers would actually not agree.
So it's talking about how generations of American patriots have summoned the American spirit of strength, determination, and love of country to overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges. The American people have proven time and again that we can overcome any obstacle and any force pitted against us. Then they go into how.
[00:08:01] Speaker B: How we defeated Britain, the most powerful empire the world had ever seen, to Found it.
[00:08:08] Speaker A: Yeah. That the founding generation defeated what was in the most powerful Europe, an empire the world had ever seen. Actually, we didn't really defeat Britain.
[00:08:17] Speaker B: No. They said, you're not worth the effort.
[00:08:19] Speaker A: They finally said, you know what? Fine, fine. Go be your own country. Go away. Leave us alone.
[00:08:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:25] Speaker A: And then, you know, a few years later, they got into another war and they went, hey, you know, we could just conscript these people. We could just go back and say, no, no, we still think you're a colony.
And go and conscript these people for the 1812 war. Then they go in and talk about. In this document about how.
[00:08:44] Speaker B: Well, then we jump to the 20th century. We don't have any time in between.
[00:08:47] Speaker A: We don't even. Yeah, we don't even talk about what happened in the mid-1800s. Yeah.
[00:08:51] Speaker B: Why would we?
[00:08:52] Speaker A: In the 20th century, America vanquished Nazism and fascism and then brought it to America. I'm sorry, that was a commentary. And then triumphed over Soviet communism after 44 years of the Cold War.
[00:09:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Again, we did not triumph over communism.
[00:09:08] Speaker A: They fell apart and no help from us.
[00:09:11] Speaker B: And communism is still going strong in China.
[00:09:14] Speaker A: It's still going strong in China. It's still going strong. North Korea. No, they did specify Soviet Communism.
[00:09:20] Speaker B: I understand, but it's. Communism is still going strong. And Soviet communism fell apart for the same kind of reason. We're having issues here. Too fucking big to continue this type of government. Yeah, they just fell apart faster.
[00:09:34] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely.
[00:09:36] Speaker B: And then put all their work to try making us fall apart.
[00:09:39] Speaker A: I mean, Reagan may have told Gorbachev to tear down the wall, but that didn't mean that Gorbachev had to. And besides, that wall wasn't actually in Russia. It was in Germany.
[00:09:50] Speaker B: Germany, exactly.
[00:09:52] Speaker A: So now we're in serious decline.
[00:09:55] Speaker B: All caps. Oh, my goodness. We're shouting it. Oh, my God. It's that bad.
[00:10:00] Speaker A: Our future, our identity, and our very way of life are under threat like never before.
[00:10:07] Speaker B: No shit. They're passing laws against queer people. They're passing laws about everybody's genitalia. They're passing all sorts of laws that actually are putting a lot of us under threat.
[00:10:17] Speaker A: I really wish they would stop pestering me about lots of my parents. I said it, I meant it.
[00:10:22] Speaker B: I really want to know what the gop. Why the GOP is so obsessed with people's genitalia.
[00:10:28] Speaker A: I would like to, as well. I'd also really like to know why they're so nosy about what people do in their own bedroom.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: Well, shit, it none of their goddamn business.
[00:10:36] Speaker A: And it really doesn't belong in the law books.
[00:10:38] Speaker B: I also want to know why there's. Well, I know why they're so into what we're reading, but that's. That's. We'll get into that later. Because there's specific policy statements relative to that. So. Yeah, you are not wrong.
[00:10:50] Speaker A: So they claim that for decades, our politicians sold our jobs and livelihoods to the highest bidders overseas with unpaid friends.
[00:10:58] Speaker B: No, they've sold it to the highest bidders in America, too. Yeah, everything for sale. I mean, everything in America, including our politicians, are for sale to the highest bidder. That is opinion. I freely admit it, and I own it.
[00:11:09] Speaker A: Sorry, I read the rest of the sentence. I'm going to try to read this in a straight face.
[00:11:14] Speaker B: Good luck.
[00:11:15] Speaker A: For decades, our politicians sold our jobs and livelihoods to the highest bidders overseas with unfair trade deals and a blind faith in the siren song of globalism. Okay, I'm going to tell you right now, I feel like they're referring to nafta. But no, NAFTA did not sell off things to the highest bidder. NAFTA specifically allowed countries to take their factories and move them to places where they could actually get away with paying slave wages since the unions here in the United States would not let them.
[00:11:46] Speaker B: And, oh, gee, again, for sale to the highest bidder. I still maintain everything in America is for sale to the highest bidder or whoever comes in with the lowest quote when it comes to getting the job done.
[00:12:01] Speaker A: Yeah. God, that terrifies me, because I'll tell you right now, you get what you pay for.
[00:12:06] Speaker B: Yes, you do. Yes, you absolutely do.
[00:12:08] Speaker A: This is exactly why we had a home building company here in Indiana that pretty much got shut down because all of their houses developed properly.
[00:12:20] Speaker B: Nice.
They wanted to kill people. Lovely.
[00:12:25] Speaker A: Because.
[00:12:26] Speaker B: Generous of them.
[00:12:27] Speaker A: Because they chose the lowest.
The lowest bid contract and they didn't take the necessary precautions.
So, yes, they're claiming that globalism is.
[00:12:40] Speaker B: Horrible and our borders are being overrun. Our cities are overtaken by crime, which, for the record, is provably wrong. Actually, crime is down significantly and has.
[00:12:52] Speaker A: Been declining pretty much pretty significantly for the last few years.
[00:12:55] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:12:56] Speaker A: Anyway, coincidence compared to 2019. Because 2020, we can't.
[00:13:04] Speaker B: No, because everything was shut down because.
[00:13:06] Speaker A: Everybody was hiding in their homes.
[00:13:08] Speaker B: But. So. Yeah, but. But, you know, we can't. We cannot. We cannot have the proper gop, current GOP conservatism if we don't say everything is the fault of those horrible immigrants. Sarcasm, folks. Before you Think I believe any of what I just said. Sarcasm.
[00:13:30] Speaker A: So he is claiming. Okay, so you talked about what Trump claimed.
[00:13:35] Speaker B: And I love. Our young people are developing a sense of hopelessness and despair. Yeah. Because you're trying to edit them out of the world.
[00:13:43] Speaker A: I really hate to tell them this, but children have been developing a sense of hopelessness and despair since somewhere around the 1980s.
[00:13:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:53] Speaker A: Someone tell. Who's going to tell them about generations.
[00:13:58] Speaker B: You know, Right, I know, right. Hopelessness and despair started with us and it just kept going because it's not gotten better since then.
[00:14:07] Speaker A: I used to say that Gen X is the most nihilistic generation we have. And then I met enough people in Gen Z. Yeah.
[00:14:14] Speaker B: To discover that nope, we got nothing on them. But we did right by him.
[00:14:18] Speaker A: They learned at the feet. They learned the feet of the master. And now the student is actually exceeded the teacher.
[00:14:26] Speaker B: But yeah, I did talk about that. That of the historic economic growth is alive.
Oh, yeah, the job creation was. Yeah, that happened because it came out of the fucking pandemic. And the job creation at the beginning of the term was because of stuff that Obama had put in place before he came to office from the Great. The Great Recession.
[00:14:49] Speaker A: I love how they say after nearly four years of the Biden administration, America is now rocked by raging inflation, open borders. That's not 100% true.
Rampant crime, which we've just said is going down. Attacks on our children, which are all being done.
[00:15:07] Speaker B: Which are almost entirely being done by the gop.
[00:15:10] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:15:11] Speaker B: And global conflict, chaos and instability, which is. Thank you, Russia and Israel and Iran and all of that. Precisely nothing really to do with anything that we did or false. Except.
[00:15:25] Speaker A: Yeah, they're not attacking us.
[00:15:28] Speaker B: Global instability is there?
[00:15:32] Speaker A: It's not our fault.
[00:15:33] Speaker B: We're trying to support. We're trying to support the people that we believe are doing the right thing.
[00:15:38] Speaker A: And unfortunately also supporting some people who aren't doing the right thing.
[00:15:42] Speaker B: Yeah, I know.
[00:15:43] Speaker A: I said it.
[00:15:43] Speaker B: I meant it.
[00:15:44] Speaker A: Oh, I.
[00:15:44] Speaker B: You know, I agree with you on that one. It's very much a situation that we really shouldn't be supporting anybody because damn it, Israel is big enough to take care of itself. Said it amented.
[00:15:54] Speaker A: Oh, this will give us in trouble. We're now.
[00:15:57] Speaker B: I know we're now anti Semitic except for the fact that we aren't. I actually almost became Jewish.
[00:16:02] Speaker A: I was going to say I actually was looking into converting.
[00:16:06] Speaker B: Converting.
[00:16:08] Speaker A: So my entire sophomore year, I was looking into converting to Judaism.
[00:16:12] Speaker B: I was a huge fan of the rabbinical history of Judaism and And, and say, I take your word for it.
[00:16:19] Speaker A: They say, I think about it. I absolutely love the structure of their religious ritual.
[00:16:28] Speaker B: I'm not a fan of the fact that the women are separated and secondary, but however, the new versions of Judaism aren't quite there aren't. Don't do that as much.
[00:16:39] Speaker A: Also. However, while men are supposed to focus more on the spirituality, women are quote unquote less than in that realm. Women are absolutely supposed to not only ensure the home is well taken care of, they are also expected to make sure that the children are educated.
[00:17:01] Speaker B: Yep, I know.
[00:17:03] Speaker A: And there are wonderful reasons why a Jewish woman can divorce a man. And they are fantastic.
[00:17:11] Speaker B: And it's a no fault divorce situation where they don't like it, they can walk the away.
Oh wait, we don't want that in America because that ruins the nuclear family. Again, sarcasm.
[00:17:23] Speaker A: I absolutely, I absolutely love the fact that in Jewish law, if a man is abusive to his wife, the family can encourage him to change his way.
We will not say how forcefully they can forcefully convince him. Encourage him and encourage him. I will say that you could probably set up for. You could probably set up full price.
[00:17:52] Speaker B: Resale tickets like I said forcefully.
[00:17:56] Speaker A: And if he will not change, she has full right to divorce him.
[00:18:00] Speaker B: Well, and the fact that too women have bodily autonomy in Judaism a whole lot more than they do in the perversion of Christianity that we live under. I said it, I meant it. We'll get into that in a different.
[00:18:13] Speaker A: Post or into, you know. Well, where they seem to think everybody else in America has a right to. So.
[00:18:21] Speaker B: Yeah, that is a whole bunch of.
[00:18:23] Speaker A: Is inflation raging?
[00:18:25] Speaker B: Yeah, kind of. It is for.
[00:18:27] Speaker A: It is for those of us that.
[00:18:28] Speaker B: Are, quote, middle class still, what few tendrils of us in middle class still exist. Inflation is pretty painful, but the borders aren't completely open. Crime is not rampant. The only attacks I'm really hearing against children are perpetrated by the political party that's complaining about attacks on children and.
[00:18:50] Speaker A: Attacking the children who are actually marginalized.
[00:18:54] Speaker B: Yeah, different.
[00:18:55] Speaker A: Yes, absolutely. So what was the last global content Conflict, chaos and instability.
[00:19:02] Speaker B: Welcome to Earth. Yeah, welcome to living with a whole bunch of other people.
[00:19:06] Speaker A: Now realize that I am actually a globalist.
[00:19:09] Speaker B: Am I?
[00:19:09] Speaker A: And I always have been. I have been since high school. When they were first talking about the eu. We were in high school. I remember going to a conference on it when I was, I don't know, a sophomore junior or somewhere in there. And the first time I heard about it, I'm like, this sounds like a Fantastic idea. I am also a Star Trek fan.
[00:19:30] Speaker B: So exactly where I was headed, it's like, that's why I'm a global.
[00:19:34] Speaker A: Is because I thought that the confederation.
[00:19:37] Speaker B: Of planets was such a fabulous idea.
[00:19:39] Speaker A: In the Star Trek. Star Trek. The Star Trek Earth government was fabulous.
[00:19:44] Speaker B: Because it was a single global government.
[00:19:46] Speaker A: And they managed to get people to agree and get Representative.
[00:19:49] Speaker B: Representative.
[00:19:51] Speaker A: Represented.
Represented.
[00:19:54] Speaker B: I was absolutely.
[00:19:55] Speaker A: That was stuck. Yes.
[00:19:56] Speaker B: I wanted, that's what I wanted. That's what I wanted.
[00:19:58] Speaker A: Star Trek. I really do. Yeah, absolutely.
[00:20:01] Speaker B: So I'm glad you went there because that's exactly where I was waiting to go. Right.
Nerd dump strikes again.
[00:20:10] Speaker A: So. So yeah, anytime somebody's like, well, because I mean, like I'm gonna skip the whole we will be a nation based on.
[00:20:16] Speaker B: Oh, but, but, but it's so good. We'll be Captain America. Come on.
[00:20:21] Speaker A: The Captain America voice, guys. We will be a nation based on truth, justice and common sense.
Okay, sure. Put the shield down. You are not Captain America. But he wants, he wants to be.
[00:20:35] Speaker B: Because then he's a superhero, not just a hero in his own mind. Granted, that mind is going farther and farther into dementia. So he can create any kind of hero in his own head that he wants to be.
[00:20:46] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:20:48] Speaker B: And I do speak, not necessarily from a professional standpoint to be able to say dementia. I speak from the fact that my dad died from dementia. Yeah, I've seen it, I've watched the stages. And guess what, folks? All the doctors out there saying he's in early stage dementia, I think they're being optimistic because compared to what my dad went through, he's in very advanced stage dementia.
[00:21:15] Speaker A: Yeah, I will not disagree with the dementia.
[00:21:17] Speaker B: I will disagree with the or. Yeah, yeah.
[00:21:21] Speaker A: Because based on some of the conversations.
[00:21:24] Speaker B: That have happened in the last couple.
[00:21:25] Speaker A: Weeks, I'm like, can we say he's out of mid stage dementia at this point?
[00:21:29] Speaker B: Yeah, can we say that? Can we say that we're at least into advanced dementia at this point? Because his hold on reality is a little weaker than it used to be and it was never that strong to begin with. At least as far as I ever contact I ever watched anything he did.
[00:21:47] Speaker A: Real talk moment the other day when he was ranting with Musk on Twitter. Yeah, I dead named it and I continue to do so. The fact that he made the comment that he thinks people who are coming to America to seek political asylum, that that means those countries are sending us people who come from asylums, makes me very nervous.
[00:22:15] Speaker B: The implication being insane asylums mended Exactly.
[00:22:19] Speaker A: That makes me extremely nervous. We are finally getting to a point where we're treating mental health as the. As the medical conditions that they are. Just like, you know, needing to get braces and needing to treat headaches and taking an antiviral when you catch. I mean, we're finally starting to treat mental health this way. Someone with that mindset is going to unravel that, and I don't want to.
[00:22:49] Speaker B: See that happen because he is trying very much to say I'm still okay, and everybody around him is trying to say he's still okay so that they can get what they want from him.
[00:23:01] Speaker A: So he's claiming. So they're claiming that in Trump's words, if we don't have a border, we don't have a country. I disagree. But again, we're globalists. I don't understand what's wrong with our border security, in our immigration policy.
[00:23:15] Speaker B: How much does it actually change?
Well, let's see. Texas put out razor wire. I mean, there's that in the middle of the fucking Rio Grande. We have choked down.
[00:23:25] Speaker A: As a matter of fact.
[00:23:26] Speaker B: One of the things that was interesting in the most recent political cycle is Biden has actually started doing a. Has put forward a str. Stronger limit with fewer. Accepting fewer asylum seekers.
[00:23:40] Speaker A: Interesting.
[00:23:40] Speaker B: So our limits have actually cranked down on accepting asylum seekers. Interesting.
[00:23:46] Speaker A: I wonder what the reasoning behind that is.
[00:23:48] Speaker B: I haven't done the dive to find the reasoning.
[00:23:51] Speaker A: True. We could always deeper dive when we.
[00:23:54] Speaker B: Probably cover immigration because that's its own. Because that's its own nightmares. What's wrong with immigration? Everything.
[00:24:01] Speaker A: It's true. True.
[00:24:03] Speaker B: There's not enough courts. There's not enough. There's not a clear enough path. It takes entirely too long to process every way.
[00:24:10] Speaker A: Too much money.
[00:24:11] Speaker B: Way too much money for people to become. All of it is wrong. Mostly because the infrastructure to support immigration isn't there anymore. Ellis. They closed Ellis island and the whole thing got fucked.
[00:24:22] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. We don't have enough court systems. We don't have enough people processing people as they come through.
We make it extremely difficult to become a legal resident, and that's the first step.
Even people who are doing it the right way can take anywhere from 5 to 10 years just to become a legal resident.
[00:24:45] Speaker B: Yep. So, yeah, that's a whole. That's why I say it's a whole nother nightmare in itself, because I've studied some of it and I definitely need to do a deeper dive for research materials for that. But immigration is its own nightmare of Conversation at a later point.
[00:25:01] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely.
[00:25:02] Speaker B: So what's wrong with it? Everything.
[00:25:06] Speaker A: So he's complaining. So they're complaining about border and they.
[00:25:10] Speaker B: Still want to build a wall because nobody ever flies in. Nobody ever comes in on a boat. Just a wall. It'll do it. I still. But I.
[00:25:20] Speaker A: This is. And a wall along these southern border of the United States. Despite the fact that a significantly high number of immigrants come in from Canada.
[00:25:32] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:25:33] Speaker A: Which means they come in from our northern border. Northern border.
[00:25:36] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:25:37] Speaker A: So building a wall on the southern border is racist and pointless.
[00:25:43] Speaker B: Oh, I call it as racist.
[00:25:45] Speaker A: That's why I had the. And in there.
[00:25:47] Speaker B: I call it what it is. Here's the other factor in here. Interestingly enough, little trivia tidbit. Guess where all of the terrorists enter American soil.
[00:25:57] Speaker A: I remember we covered this at one point.
[00:25:59] Speaker B: I think it might have been a policing. Northern border. The drugs come in through the southern border. The terrorists come in through the northern border. People on the terror watch list put it that way. Not terrorists, but people on the terror watch list that are known to associate with terrorists that are known to. You can't come in because you are bad. People are coming in through the northern border, not the southern border. But our southern border is such a problem. Racism.
Yeah. Racism alert.
[00:26:25] Speaker A: Yeah. They don't pay attention to our northern border, which I know the northern border is mostly people who are incredibly light. Can.
[00:26:34] Speaker B: That's such a diplomatic way of putting it.
[00:26:38] Speaker A: I loved it. I loved it when a friend of ours absolutely said there is no such.
[00:26:42] Speaker B: Thing as white person.
[00:26:43] Speaker A: Yep. They're all just a really light.
[00:26:45] Speaker B: And then I pulled my pant leg.
[00:26:46] Speaker A: Up and went, well, no, that's still technically. It's still technically ivory to light. Beige.
No, still on the yellow spectrum.
[00:26:57] Speaker B: There are no browns in there.
There's blue undertones, not old undertones. That's the problem.
[00:27:04] Speaker A: I, on the other hand, do have gold undertones.
[00:27:06] Speaker B: You have the gold undertones, I have the blue undertones.
[00:27:08] Speaker A: I still unfortunately could spontaneously.
I mean, to be fair.
[00:27:15] Speaker B: And most of the immigrants. This is the other factor that is complete bullshit with the bull with the border wall. Most of the people who are illegal immigrants putting that in air quotes, are people who have overstayed their visas. They were here legally. They just didn't leave when they were done or they didn't have their path to citizenship continue properly.
[00:27:36] Speaker A: Well, exactly. I mean, like I said, if it takes five to 10 years to become a legal resident, that means for five to 10 years, you're technically undocumented.
[00:27:46] Speaker B: Or you're documented with a green card. But at the same time, if you.
[00:27:49] Speaker A: Don'T card is living, is legal resident. That's the green card. Green card means you're a legal resident.
[00:27:56] Speaker B: Which means you've overstayed your visa, which means you're supposed to go back home, but you can't go back home because you're in the process of depending citizen.
[00:28:04] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:28:05] Speaker B: So, yeah, that's most of where our quote unquote illegal immigrants come from.
I'm using their terminology because we are reviewing what they are having to say. I'm calling them out on what they're saying and how much bullshit it is. It's not.
[00:28:21] Speaker A: Yes, there are a lot of people.
[00:28:24] Speaker B: At our southern border that are seeking refuge.
[00:28:27] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:28:28] Speaker B: I've seen the video footage. I've seen. I've listened to the stories. Not by the Republicans, not by any bias or by the least biased sources I can get, which ironically are not American sources because they don't have skin in the game.
[00:28:42] Speaker A: Right.
[00:28:43] Speaker B: So I've read it. I understand it is a situation, however, it is being manipulated for political gain in this case in a really negative way by being allowed to be racist without being racist, without sounding racist.
[00:29:00] Speaker A: Yeah. I love that. This is the common sense quote unquote section of the preamble. We're still in the preamble. Sorry, everyone.
[00:29:09] Speaker B: We're working on it.
[00:29:10] Speaker A: But I love the fact that there's the common sense about the border and the common sense about how if we don't have domestic manufacturing with low inflation, not only will our economy and even our military equipment and supplies be at the mercy of foreign nations when our towns, communities and people cannot thrive.
[00:29:28] Speaker B: Okay, I'm have at it. Because I know you want to say it. Have at it.
[00:29:36] Speaker A: I agree. And I don't disagree.
[00:29:38] Speaker B: Fair.
[00:29:39] Speaker A: I agree that actually we do need to bring our manufacturing back to this country.
[00:29:44] Speaker B: Some of it, yes. We cannot bring back to the level that we had it post world will do, which is where they want it.
[00:29:51] Speaker A: Yeah. And I don't know that we can do that. The idea that we are actually starting to build computer chip factories here in the United States is a very good idea. Absolutely.
[00:30:02] Speaker B: But we can. We still.
[00:30:04] Speaker A: Can we still get them from China? Absolutely. Do we still need to get goods from other countries? Absolutely.
We cannot completely rely on ourselves.
At the same time, we also cannot completely rely on everyone else. And a really good example of that.
[00:30:24] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:30:25] Speaker A: Is Great Britain. During World War II, Great Britain had been actually really. In the 30s, Great Britain had been importing most of their cereal crops, particularly wheat, because America and Canada could grow it easier and faster with more land.
[00:30:47] Speaker B: Right.
[00:30:48] Speaker A: So it was cheaper to purchase it than to grow it.
And then the blockade started, and then the dust bowl happened in the United States.
[00:30:59] Speaker B: Yep. And now suddenly, everybody started.
[00:31:02] Speaker A: The grain's not coming from Canada. It's not coming from America. British farmers had to go back to growing grain products to feed their own people.
You cannot rely 100% on import, but you also cannot rely 100% on complete independence.
[00:31:25] Speaker B: Example of where you can't rely on complete independence. The materials, the actual materials that we need to make these microchips have to come from China because that's where the mineral deposits are located.
[00:31:39] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:31:40] Speaker B: We can't. That's why it's so much cheaper to make them in China. Between the labor costs and the slave labor that happens in China and the fact that the material, the physical material you need to make it is right there.
[00:31:53] Speaker A: People don't realize that our tungsten products. Tungsten is a metal. A lot of people don't realize that most of our tungsten products come from China because that's where the mineral was located. That's where the metal is.
[00:32:05] Speaker B: Metal deposits are there. They're not here in America. So we cannot be 100% independent. Not doesn't work. It's not going to work that way, period.
[00:32:15] Speaker A: This is why when people complain about globalism, it drives me absolutely insane, because we don't have all the resources that exist on this planet. That was kind of a point that I think Marvel was trying to make with vibrating them, is that you do have to outsource to some degree, if other places have resources, you don't.
[00:32:38] Speaker B: And depending on how they want to share those resources, you have to let them completely make the product if they don't want to share the base resource. Period.
[00:32:47] Speaker A: Precisely. Exactly. And you know what? They are the people who have the resource.
[00:32:52] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:32:52] Speaker A: They are the ones who get to make those rules.
[00:32:54] Speaker B: Yep. But that's why the diplomatic and discussion concept for globalism is critical and why this. America first, America last. America, America, America. Let's lock us lock ourselves down. The isolationism concept that didn't work back in the day when it was first brought out is really a stupid idea now, folks.
[00:33:14] Speaker A: Exactly. Because the isolationism problem, the isolationism concept helped lead to the Great Depression.
[00:33:21] Speaker B: Yep. And, well, gee, we're not poised to.
[00:33:25] Speaker A: Do that again, especially when our props failed because we didn't do crop rotation.
[00:33:30] Speaker B: But, yeah, it's. It's we must unleash American energy if we want to destroy inflation and rapidly bring down prices.
Yeah, well, we're trying to do that with the green product. And the more we can manufacture, Set up manufacturing plants to work towards green energy and adjust our expectations and desires for how we want our world to work, we can actually bring back manufacturing that we need. We can help with inflation with the. Here's a problem with domestic manufacturing too.
[00:34:07] Speaker A: It always costs more. Well, of course it does, because we expect to actually be paid a living wage despite the fact that we still. Not.
[00:34:14] Speaker B: Despite the fact that some of us can't even fucking get a job. But that's beside point.
[00:34:18] Speaker A: Exactly. And I'm sorry, I saw the words drill, baby, drill.
[00:34:21] Speaker B: And that was part of the original Agenda 47. Agenda. Agenda 47. Agenda 47 was. He literally says in there, how is he going. The first thing, how are we going to bring back our economy? Drill, baby, drill it. Those words are in there, folks. I promise we are sharing those sources.
[00:34:40] Speaker A: I will continue, I will continue to say it over and over until people realize that it's true. Fossil fuels are a finite resource.
[00:34:51] Speaker B: They will not magically replenish themselves.
[00:34:56] Speaker A: They may replenish themselves over several million years, but they're not going to do it in our lifetime. We've got to find alternatives because fossil fuels are a finite resource and we've.
[00:35:10] Speaker B: Used a lot of them since the Industrial Revolution started. We have really been burning through the fossil fuels because that was literally. Quite literally, because that was how everything got energy created with it. So if we don't find renewable energy sources and actually work with the renewable energy sources that we know we have access to, which also will reduce our negative impact on, I don't know, the whole planet that we have to live on, we're not going to survive one way or another.
We'll either poison ourselves to death or we'll put ourselves into the dark ages of absolutely walking everywhere and nobody communicating anything because it all dies because we have no energy for it.
[00:35:58] Speaker A: Exactly, precisely.
[00:36:00] Speaker B: And that is common sense, despite what they're claiming is common sense. Sorry, I'm going to one up them and say what I had said is common sense. And I will own that because I'm a firm believer that common sense is based on thinking things through. But yes, they want to return us from the description they give here. They want to definitely return us to the Post World War II level of manufacturing, especially since they want to really push it into military equipment and supplies. Oh, I'm sorry, that's not post World War II. That's during World War II.
[00:36:30] Speaker A: Wow. So we're gonna spend more money on the military, despite the fact that we spend more money on our military than the next three top countries that spend money on their military. Oh, yeah.
[00:36:44] Speaker B: He has drill baby drill in here, too.
[00:36:45] Speaker A: Yeah, I told you he has drill baby drill in here. It's like, right there.
[00:36:48] Speaker B: Yeah, he wants. I know. He wants to open up national reserves up in Canada and drill and crack and crack and everything up there.
[00:36:57] Speaker A: Okay, yeah, sure, fine. Canada is not our country.
[00:37:00] Speaker B: Or not Canada. I'm sorry. Alaska. I knew what I meant.
[00:37:03] Speaker A: Alaska.
[00:37:04] Speaker B: I know he wants to drill in Alaska and he wants to drill offshore around Florida.
[00:37:08] Speaker A: Please tell me he does not want to drill in Yellowstone. Probably, I think.
[00:37:13] Speaker B: I don't know if anybody. I don't know if anybody's given him that idea yet, but probably.
[00:37:17] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a great idea. Let's set off that super volcano. Wonderful idea.
[00:37:21] Speaker B: I don't think anybody's told him there's a super volcano there, to be honest.
[00:37:26] Speaker A: And if somebody tells the Republican Party there's a super volcano in Yellowstone, no, we do not want it to erupt. I say.
[00:37:32] Speaker B: And if they did, you probably would want to see it go boom.
[00:37:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:37:36] Speaker B: Because that's the mindset.
[00:37:39] Speaker A: Yeah. Despite the fact that that would literally be a global.
[00:37:43] Speaker B: Yeah, but it would go boom and it would look really cool.
Again, she's rolling her eyes and I'm of course, being sarcastic. So we're good.
[00:37:52] Speaker A: This one might have been funnier on camera.
[00:37:55] Speaker B: This is one of those that the visuals are kind of amusing too. But that's okay. We can share the visuals.
[00:38:01] Speaker A: So what's the next annoying thing? Oh, we don't have a strong military. We just covered that one.
[00:38:06] Speaker B: We'll be at the mercy of hostile nations, except for the fact that our geography has protected us for how long? Our location still protects us a whole lot.
[00:38:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:38:16] Speaker B: There's still oceans in the way.
[00:38:17] Speaker A: People do not stop and realize how large our country actually is. There's a lot of land mass here in the United States.
[00:38:28] Speaker B: Yeah. There's a lot of places they can hit when it won't affect anything.
[00:38:31] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, absolutely. There are whole areas where there's very little population.
[00:38:38] Speaker B: But don't worry, that's later on in here that they want to build there too and make new cities there.
[00:38:42] Speaker A: Oh, God. We'll get to that. Let's see. So what else is there?
Oh, common sense tells us clearly that the Republican Party must stand for equal treatment for All. I can't read the rest of it.
[00:39:01] Speaker B: Likewise, the Republican party must ensure the equal application of law to all, regardless.
[00:39:06] Speaker A: Of political affiliation, of personal beliefs.
[00:39:08] Speaker B: Recent Democrat led political persecution threatened to.
[00:39:11] Speaker A: Destroy 250 years of American people in.
[00:39:13] Speaker B: Practice and must be stopped.
[00:39:18] Speaker A: There is no war on Christianity. Get the over yourself.
[00:39:23] Speaker B: You're the default setting. Come on, people.
[00:39:26] Speaker A: You know, it's really funny. I heard Tim Walls. I don't know when he said it, but he has that. He's on record, on film, on record saying, just because other people are getting the same rights as you doesn't mean you're losing your rights. It's not pie. There is not a finite number of slices.
[00:39:48] Speaker B: You don't understand. They are losing their rights because they're losing their privilege. And their privilege was their right.
[00:39:55] Speaker A: Yeah, you're losing the right to be shitty to others. Yeah, be shitty to others. You know what? I think that's a right you deserve to lose.
[00:40:05] Speaker B: We've been, we've been kowtowing to y'all for a long time, so screw you.
[00:40:09] Speaker A: They're losing the same rights that banks lost with the, with the Equal Credit, with the Fair Credit Act.
[00:40:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:15] Speaker A: In the 1970s. You know the one that actually said, no, you are not allowed to discriminate against women. No, you are not allowed to tell them they have to have a man signature to open a bank account.
[00:40:28] Speaker B: Oh, but that's what they want us to go back to. They're on record for that one.
[00:40:32] Speaker A: Oh, I know.
[00:40:33] Speaker B: They, they want to roll back every single civil rights that happened. So.
[00:40:38] Speaker A: And yet. I'm not kidding you. Somebody I follow on Instagram was stitching a video from a Republican woman who. I am not kidding. You made the statement that the Republican Party is the most pro women party in the country.
[00:40:57] Speaker B: Oh my God, that's hysterical.
[00:40:59] Speaker A: And I'm not kidding you. I missed the second half of the video. I was laughing so hard and so loud I scared the cats.
That's ridiculous.
[00:41:09] Speaker B: In my lifetime, that has never been true. In the past 53 years of existence, that has not been true.
[00:41:17] Speaker A: I, I was just like, who lied to you that hard?
[00:41:22] Speaker B: What kills me is this next one. America needs determined Republican leadership at every level of government.
And where is anybody else's voice? Oh, wait, we don't want actual equal representation.
[00:41:35] Speaker A: Oh, no.
[00:41:36] Speaker B: And everybody represented. Despite the fact that we just said we want equality, equal treatment for all, we only want Republicans running the show.
But to make clear our commitment, we offered to the American people the 2024 GOP platform to make America Great Again. Again. I'm adding the second again because you know, we already have seen Make America Great Again.
It's a forward looking agenda that begins with the following 20 promises, 20 that we will accomplish very quickly when we win the White House and Republican majorities in the House and Senate. This is why your vote is important, people.
Because this is what happens if it is a Republican only win everywhere because this is what they want. First up, seal the border and stop the migrant invasion. Here's the thing, folks.
Science teaches us something.
I'm a firm believer that you have to look at what you learn holistically. And this is a common sense, to use their term, application of science.
If you have a system that is completely sealed and isolated, what happens? It can't live, it can't survive. You have to have an in and out flow. If your cells in your body all stop suddenly having that in vacuum in and out flow, you die.
It's called dead.
[00:43:05] Speaker A: Exactly.
Next one is to carry out the largest deportation operation in American history. My question is how?
[00:43:14] Speaker B: Oh, by having ICE take legal American citizens and dumping them out as well as the, as well as the undocumented ones. Because they've done that.
[00:43:23] Speaker A: But again, how?
[00:43:25] Speaker B: By expanding ICE and expanding police and giving more money to the police and giving them more rights to become the, to become the brown shirts and, and just round people up by the bus load.
[00:43:36] Speaker A: Okay, I should expand on that. How, how are they going to know where to send them?
[00:43:41] Speaker B: They don't care because they're just going.
[00:43:44] Speaker A: To send them out. Because I'm not just British but also Dutch and first native descent. Where are you going to send me?
[00:43:55] Speaker B: Oh, they'll put the.
[00:43:56] Speaker A: Because I'm a political radical. I. So I guarantee you I. I'm on record as a socialist. So I guarantee you I will be. And I'm queer and I'm pagan and I'm a woman postmenopausal makes I'm useless because I can't breathe. So trust me, I could easily be on the list and shit the hell.
[00:44:13] Speaker B: Out of this country. Same here.
[00:44:14] Speaker A: They're going to send me.
[00:44:14] Speaker B: I guess they're going to chop me in pieces because French, English, Dutch, German, Polish, chop me into pieces. Send the pieces everywhere. Why not?
[00:44:22] Speaker A: Oh yeah, and Africa.
[00:44:23] Speaker B: And I think there might be a drop or two of First Nation in there.
[00:44:27] Speaker A: Oh, I know mine is. I've got a great great grandmother who lives.
[00:44:29] Speaker B: I refuse to do any of those genetic trace things because here's an, here's an example. A Banking industry, an investment firm. I saw this on the news, I saw this on my newsfeed recently. An investment firm just bought out the genealogy.com and all of the document and all of the data recorded in them. So anybody who, or, I'm sorry, ancestor, that was probably ancestry.com ancestor.com and they do the. They started the genetic testing with ancestor.com too. So they now own all of that genetic data. An investment firm now owns all of that genetic data and all of the tracing data that people have done trying to find their roots and ancestors.
[00:45:13] Speaker A: Yikes.
[00:45:14] Speaker B: Kind of scary. They own those databases now. Do we really want investment firms knowing all of that and the fact that they are so trustworthy?
[00:45:23] Speaker A: Really? Yeah. That's why I say how, where are you going to send. How are you going to know where to send people?
[00:45:30] Speaker B: Don't worry, we'll stay here.
[00:45:31] Speaker A: Because until they get rid of.
[00:45:32] Speaker B: Until they get rid of all of them.
[00:45:33] Speaker A: Until they get rid of all of the poc and now they got to go to the white radicals.
[00:45:38] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:45:39] Speaker A: Definitely. You and me.
[00:45:40] Speaker B: Oh, absolutely. I'm openly pagan and proud of it.
[00:45:44] Speaker A: Unless they decide to add the queer people to the poc, which, you know, just rockets us back up on the list.
[00:45:50] Speaker B: Well, they're talking about camps too, for the people that they're talking about.
Again, this is, this is all hidden within the Agenda 47 stuff of how they're going to do it.
[00:46:02] Speaker A: Oh yeah. Seriously, if you go in and you read this document, this is only 16.
[00:46:06] Speaker B: Pages, you've got a cross reference it with the Agenda 47 document which we.
[00:46:10] Speaker A: Are going to put up.
[00:46:12] Speaker B: Absolutely. Are going to put up everything I've pulled from Agenda 47 before that went to a more hidden location on the Trump website.
[00:46:22] Speaker A: And we are actually going to put a link to our past US website because not all of the show notes go into all of the podcasts.
[00:46:34] Speaker B: Right. So this one, we're giving you all the show notes because it's that important.
[00:46:40] Speaker A: Absolutely. And we'll put in a link to Casto's case. For some reason they cut off in the descriptions on any of the podcast services. They will be listed in the episode notes on our Casto site. I discovered that the other day.
[00:46:54] Speaker B: Cool. The other thing I did for the Agenda 47 because there's. So there's 50 plus pages of material from that, I created a table of contents document that will also let you have as part of this so that you can more readily find what you're looking for. Because cross referencing it was a night it was a fucking nightmare because it was just. We're having this random thought, let's have policy statement here of this because we.
[00:47:19] Speaker A: Reported four and a half hours of trying to cover this stuff before the policy document came out. And we got through five of 32 points.
[00:47:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
Because they're that long. We didn't even get into energy or the cities that he wants to create. So don't worry. There's a lot of real interesting ridiculous stuff in there.
[00:47:40] Speaker A: It was, it. It's insane. So we want to end inflation and make America affordable again. Good luck with that.
[00:47:47] Speaker B: No, everybody wants to do that. How you're going to do it is kind of scary though.
[00:47:50] Speaker A: Sorry. But until you raise the. Until you raise wages that have been stagnant for over 30 years, you're not.
[00:47:57] Speaker B: Going to do it and reopen the jobs and revitalize the concept that education related jobs are actually quality jobs. And I don't just mean our teachers, I mean the teacher support. Like librarians.
[00:48:11] Speaker A: Mm, exactly. Let's see, what else are we going to do? We're going to make America the dominant energy producer in the world by far.
[00:48:21] Speaker B: Again. Drill offshore, drill everywhere that we don't want to drill because it will completely destroy the environment.
[00:48:28] Speaker A: Yep. Stop outsourcing and turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower.
[00:48:32] Speaker B: We already covered. Where the hell is all the money going to come from to make that happen? Oh, right. We lowered taxes on the rich so everybody else has to pay large tax.
[00:48:41] Speaker A: Cuts for workers and no tax on tips.
That's not the good idea it sounds like.
[00:48:48] Speaker B: Well, and if you read later, we'll look later. The large tax cuts for workers are not what they sound like. The large tax cuts for workers that they're describing are putting the keeping of focus on the Trump tax cut program and making that permanent.
[00:49:07] Speaker A: And the Trump. And the Trump tax cut program actually cut more taxes for the wealthy than it did for the middle class. Because minimum wage hasn't gone up since what, the mid 2000s. Before that, I feel like it went up from 725 to 735 at some point. And I want to say that was somewhere in the 2000s, but it's still so low.
[00:49:33] Speaker B: The federal minimum wages increased on July 24, 2009 when it rose from 655 to 725 an hour.
[00:49:41] Speaker A: That's federal 625 to 725.
[00:49:43] Speaker B: 655 to 745 to 725 in 2009. In 2009 that was 15, 15 years ago. That was 15 years ago. And 725 an hour in 2009 was still not enough.
[00:49:54] Speaker A: Oh, no.
[00:49:54] Speaker B: Not even remotely.
[00:49:56] Speaker A: Not even remotely.
[00:49:57] Speaker B: Before 2007, the minimum wage had been 515 an hour for 10 years.
[00:50:02] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:50:03] Speaker B: So the pittance they've been sharing. And that doesn't even cover the tip labor, which is still only 213 an hour. Yeah. No tax on tips. Sounds good, but you're looking at cash.
Exactly. Unless of course, it's through credit card. And then how do you not tax it?
[00:50:25] Speaker A: Exactly. Because now it's traceable.
[00:50:27] Speaker B: Now it's not only traceable, it's coming as part of your paycheck, which is automatically taxed.
So exactly how are we going to.
[00:50:35] Speaker A: Make that happen again? Exactly. Just get rid of the tipping system, please.
And while the middle class. And while. And while it sounds like they would, if they're going to make that process permanent. Yes, there would be tax cuts for the middle class, but not significantly enough.
[00:50:53] Speaker B: Not enough to offset.
[00:50:54] Speaker A: To offset the fact that wages have not increased comparable to cost of living for the last at least 30 to 40 years. So let's see.
[00:51:06] Speaker B: Defend our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms.
[00:51:14] Speaker A: Bullshit. Bullshit.
[00:51:16] Speaker B: Yeah, you really do want lots of guns. I get it. The reason I say bullshit, bullshit is.
[00:51:21] Speaker A: Because freedom of speech.
[00:51:22] Speaker B: Let me think about what they want to do with the political rallies and how many places have made it illegal to peaceably gather.
[00:51:29] Speaker A: I find it very interesting that they list only 2/3 of the First Amendment. And freedom of religion is free to.
[00:51:38] Speaker B: Because I can really believe that I can have a traditional Wicker man ritual. Right.
It's part of my belief system, sort of in a tangential way.
[00:51:51] Speaker A: We're not going to tell you what that actually. But I do recommend. You have to go Google.
[00:51:54] Speaker B: We're not going to tell you. I do recommend googling traditional Wicker man ritual. And understand this is again, sarcasm.
[00:52:00] Speaker A: So Prevent World War 3, restore peace in Europe and the Middle east, and build a great iron dome missile defense shield over our entire country.
[00:52:11] Speaker B: All made in America.
[00:52:12] Speaker A: Okay, please tell me that that is a euphemism for something because an iron dome over the United States would mean no sunlight. Well, it would also be a little.
[00:52:24] Speaker B: Difficult to do with Canada, with Alaska and Hawaii.
[00:52:27] Speaker A: I was gonna say.
[00:52:28] Speaker B: Not to mention Puerto Rico, Guam.
[00:52:31] Speaker A: And how are they places that are out in the middle of the water?
[00:52:36] Speaker B: I'm pretty sure they want to do Star wars without saying Star Wars.
[00:52:40] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:52:41] Speaker B: To be honest.
[00:52:42] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:52:43] Speaker B: Because they know George Lucas will get all over their asses.
[00:52:45] Speaker A: Because Star wars again, again, again, again.
[00:52:48] Speaker B: And they'll lose again.
[00:52:50] Speaker A: Although actually this time it wouldn't be George Lucas, it would be Disney.
[00:52:55] Speaker B: And Disney has proven they will go there.
[00:52:57] Speaker A: And as we said, and as I said multiple times in the Disney and anime episode, do not met us with the mouse.
[00:53:04] Speaker B: That's right. That's right. And the weaponization of government against the American people. Because that's happening.
[00:53:13] Speaker A: It is already happening. What kills me on the last one is we're going to end conflict in Europe.
[00:53:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:53:20] Speaker A: I'm in the Middle east and I'm going to be bluntly honest with you, when it comes to the conflict in Europe and the conflict in Middle east, sometimes it has to be an issue, not an ish me.
[00:53:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:53:32] Speaker A: Thank you.
[00:53:33] Speaker B: Thank you to my youngest. He's the one that taught me that.
[00:53:36] Speaker A: And seriously, I'm getting to the point where shit in the Middle east and shit over in Europe is no longer an ish us. Here's the thing.
[00:53:45] Speaker B: The Middle east completely has been going on, literally since almost the dawn of time.
Basically since the dawn of the Abrahamic religion.
[00:53:59] Speaker A: They've been.
[00:54:00] Speaker B: This has been happening because the resources are so finite. And as the people grew and populated more, they came into continuous conflict, which means this is not something that's going to be fucking resolved by anybody else.
[00:54:16] Speaker A: Unfortunately, are also partially responsible for what is happening in the Middle East. We, and quite frankly, everybody else who was in the allied forces, because we're the ones who redrew all the boundaries and we didn't do it by tribes. So we forced a bunch of people to live together who don't get along.
[00:54:39] Speaker B: Who have never gotten along with each other.
No, it's not that don't get along. They have never gotten along with each other.
[00:54:49] Speaker A: We did not care.
[00:54:50] Speaker B: We didn't ask and work with them. We said, Israel, you're right. Everything was really legitimately horrible for the Jews. And you're right to have a homeland. So here's your homeland. We didn't ask the people that were already living in the homeland, we didn't work with them to try and set something up that would be equitable for everybody.
[00:55:11] Speaker A: We just said, nope, this is what.
[00:55:13] Speaker B: You say your traditional homeland is.
[00:55:14] Speaker A: Boom.
[00:55:14] Speaker B: There you go.
[00:55:15] Speaker A: We created the conflict in the Middle East.
[00:55:18] Speaker B: Now the conflict was already there. We just made it worse.
[00:55:21] Speaker A: Okay, good point. Yes, exactly. We made the conflict in the Middle east worst, worst, worst, worse. And the problem Is though I don't think we can make it better.
[00:55:32] Speaker B: No, we can't.
[00:55:33] Speaker A: And us being there continues to make it worse.
[00:55:36] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:55:37] Speaker A: I feel like if we just left them alone and let them duke it out amongst themselves. Oh, that's why oil. But no, we want to create our own. I'm so confused.
[00:55:48] Speaker B: Stop the migrant crime epidemic and restore peace in Europe. You realize his restore peace in Europe is to let Russia take over everything. So that's his definition of. That's their definition of restore peace in Europe is give it all back to Russia or give it all to Russia. It's not back.
[00:56:05] Speaker A: You know, give it all back to, you know. Yeah, give it all to Russia. You know, the country whose Soviet communism. We just. We.
[00:56:12] Speaker B: We can encourage.
[00:56:15] Speaker A: No, we successfully defeated ye, quote, unquote. Yeah, I'm starting to see the circular logic.
[00:56:24] Speaker B: No, it doesn't.
[00:56:24] Speaker A: Never does.
[00:56:25] Speaker B: Stop the migrant crime epidemic because that's a thing. Not yet.
[00:56:30] Speaker A: Demolish the foreign drug cartels.
[00:56:33] Speaker B: Good luck. Because they're foreign drug cartels. So you know, we don't have authority on foreign soil.
[00:56:39] Speaker A: Crush gang violence. Gang violence is actually down, I think it is. And lock up violent offenders because we.
[00:56:47] Speaker B: Don'T do that already.
[00:56:47] Speaker A: So if we're going to lock up violent ones, can we like let all.
[00:56:50] Speaker B: Of the non violent ones out?
[00:56:52] Speaker A: Can we let all of the dime bag marijuana people out? Come on.
[00:56:56] Speaker B: No shit.
[00:56:57] Speaker A: I mean, we're going to rebuild our cities, including Washington D.C. making them safe, clean and beautiful again.
[00:57:04] Speaker B: Really.
[00:57:04] Speaker A: Play some. I know the biggest problem in Washington D.C. is the south side. And I don't want to know how they plan on rebuilding that part of the city.
[00:57:13] Speaker B: Well, and if you look at Agenda 47, it's not even just rebuild.
[00:57:17] Speaker A: He.
[00:57:17] Speaker B: There's this whole plan to build new space age cities like straight out of the Jetsons. I. He'll come. He'll.
He'll release lands that do that belong to the federal government that are currently not in use by the federal government. But he's keeping his hands off of our national parks.
[00:57:35] Speaker A: Then what other government land do we have that will not use it?
[00:57:39] Speaker B: You tell me.
[00:57:40] Speaker A: Oh God, please don't tell me he's going to go after the reservations.
[00:57:43] Speaker B: Well, that would be government land we have that we're not that. That the government's not using.
[00:57:47] Speaker A: Technically, it's not government land. Technically it is actually owned by the tribal nations.
[00:57:52] Speaker B: I understand it's owned by the first nations.
[00:57:54] Speaker A: We all know how good the United States is with honoring and keeping true to treaties. Yep.
[00:58:01] Speaker B: And we all know exactly how the first nation native. The first nation indigenous people in America are seen as not white. They are seen as people of color.
So again, why wouldn't they take it?
[00:58:17] Speaker A: They're also not seen as indigenous, which.
[00:58:20] Speaker B: Which is really ridiculous. But yeah, well, they came here to.
[00:58:23] Speaker A: Over the land bridge.
[00:58:24] Speaker B: Doesn't matter.
[00:58:25] Speaker A: They were here first.
[00:58:26] Speaker B: They were here before you were.
[00:58:27] Speaker A: But yes, because if you're going to go with the people who were originally here, get to have this country, that means everyone has to leave.
[00:58:36] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:58:37] Speaker A: Because I don't think any human civilization actually evolved here in this country.
[00:58:46] Speaker B: It didn't.
[00:58:46] Speaker A: Most of it happened with Africa.
[00:58:48] Speaker B: Yes, it did. Yes, it did strengthen and modernize our military, making it without question the strongest and most powerful in the world.
[00:58:54] Speaker A: Newsflash. It already is. It already is. We already spend too much on it.
[00:58:58] Speaker B: To begin with and our military is about. Is the most modern in the world. So I don't know where this comes from. Oh, wait. We have to diss our military because that's the only way we get all sorts of extra money to be able to take and point to the border.
[00:59:11] Speaker A: Route, keep the US dollar as the world resort currency. I don't know where I feel on that one fight form. Protect Social Security and Medicare. No cuts, including no changes to the retirement. I'm sorry, I can't say it with a straight face. Oh my God.
[00:59:26] Speaker B: For good reason. Because you can't have it with no cuts and you can't have it with no changes to the retirement age because guess what? It's already bankrupt.
[00:59:33] Speaker A: Truth be told, the only way you're really going to actually, the only way I can personally see are not economists. So I admit this. The only way I can see you can fix the problem with Social Security is to remove that $265,000 cap and force people who make more than $265,000 to actually contribute to pay the Medicare tax based on their actual income and not just $265,000.
[01:00:05] Speaker B: Yeah, that's not going to happen.
[01:00:06] Speaker A: It's the only way that I can think of.
I know. And it is. It's the only way I can think of that it's going to work.
[01:00:13] Speaker B: Because once the boomers finish retiring, the Social Security is gone.
[01:00:18] Speaker A: Social Security is all the money we've.
[01:00:20] Speaker B: Paid in is paying for their retirement and won't be there for our retirement.
[01:00:24] Speaker A: Social Security is actually set to run out, is predicted to run out in 2035. How old will you and I be in 2035?
[01:00:34] Speaker B: It's 2025 now and I'm 53. Well, close enough. But yeah, I'm doing the math.
[01:00:40] Speaker A: We'll be at retirement.
[01:00:41] Speaker B: We'll be at retirement age. So yeah, all of our Social Security funds that we have paid into will pay for our parents to retire and we will have nothing. Big shocker.
[01:00:53] Speaker A: So all of the people who are going to need to rely on Social Security because they don't work a job that provides a 401k or contributes to.
[01:01:02] Speaker B: A 401k or has a pension.
[01:01:06] Speaker A: What are pensions? They don't exist anymore.
[01:01:08] Speaker B: But some of our parents had pensions when they retired because they had a pension and they got Social Security on top of it.
[01:01:15] Speaker A: Sure. Doesn't matter. They don't exist anymore. I'm not figuring that into the equation. People who either work for a company who either does not offer a 401k does not contribute to a 401k and people who don't make enough money to contribute to an ira. And there are a lot of people out there who are like that because wages have been stagnant since the 1980s at least.
[01:01:42] Speaker B: But we don't. But we're never going to be able to stop working. Don't you understand?
[01:01:48] Speaker A: We still have to pay for our.
[01:01:49] Speaker B: Parents to be able to retire because it's all about them.
[01:01:52] Speaker A: Gen X, I swear is the first generation that's not going to get to retire.
[01:01:56] Speaker B: Yep.
[01:01:56] Speaker A: A friend of mine actually was commenting the other day that she's, she's in school for accounting and she. I don't name names. I know, but she was telling me the other day, she was telling me that actually starting salaries for a CPA are actually in the hundred thousand especially where they need, where they're probably going to be moving to because they're going to transfer out to the east coast.
[01:02:24] Speaker B: Smart idea.
[01:02:25] Speaker A: And she said that will be awesome because then I can actually start putting money into a retirement fund for me since I've been a stay at home wife and mother for the last 15 or 16 years. 15, 16 years.
[01:02:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:02:43] Speaker A: I don't have any retirement.
[01:02:47] Speaker B: Been there for 12 years.
[01:02:49] Speaker A: Very, very close to the age where I'm going to run out of time.
[01:02:54] Speaker B: Yep.
[01:02:55] Speaker A: And I said retire? What is this retire of which you speak?
[01:03:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:03:00] Speaker A: Do you realize that you are in the generation that's not going to get to retire?
[01:03:04] Speaker B: And has she looked at the cost of living on the East Coast? Because what she'll find is that triple digit 100,000 plus income is going to be enough to survive.
[01:03:13] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:03:14] Speaker B: Well, Coastal living is expensive. Well, her spouse is a bear getting.
[01:03:19] Speaker A: A job out there.
[01:03:20] Speaker B: That's why they'll have to. They'll have a 2 income.
[01:03:22] Speaker A: So hopefully they'll have 2 income home.
[01:03:24] Speaker B: Right. And because otherwise it doesn't work. I've been there, done that.
[01:03:30] Speaker A: Yeah. I remember when it was.
[01:03:33] Speaker B: No, I've been there, done that. I lived in North Carolina and then Pennsylvania and granted Pennsylvania, that close to the North Carolina is. And it was. We were stuck with one income because, well, gee, librarians in the great recession. Yeah. No, yeah. College educator. Yeah. No, I haven't worked since 2008. That is my reality.
[01:03:54] Speaker A: I find it incredibly funny that they hire a lot of non tenured adjunct professors. They make all of this money off of the cost of education. They hire adjunct professors who they take pennies and they make all of this money.
[01:04:10] Speaker B: Yep.
[01:04:11] Speaker A: I find that really, really annoying. Especially when it's state sponsored schools.
[01:04:15] Speaker B: Yep.
[01:04:15] Speaker A: Or God help me, community colleges. I love it when people are like, go to community college, dude.
[01:04:20] Speaker B: It's not cheap anymore. Nope, it's. It is cheaper than a four year.
[01:04:24] Speaker A: Not by much.
[01:04:25] Speaker B: Yeah. It's only. Here's the thing. It's only $350 per credit hour instead of $780 per credit hour. So. No, seriously. Oh, Lord.
[01:04:35] Speaker A: Is that what your kids.
[01:04:37] Speaker B: Oh, I don't know what her credit hour cost is. I haven't worked it out.
[01:04:40] Speaker A: Would you realize that graduate school would be better?
[01:04:42] Speaker B: I know, Believe me. Been there, done that. I know.
[01:04:46] Speaker A: So it really sucks that she will.
[01:04:48] Speaker B: Be by the time it's graduate school, though it's entirely probable that she will be independent and she will then be eligible for more loans and grants because she won't have my husband's income making it so that she's ineligible.
[01:05:00] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:05:01] Speaker B: We're a single income home with a teenager starting high school and a young adult in college. And a single income home. We make too much to actually get financial aid. Figured that one out, people.
[01:05:16] Speaker A: Which we're gonna put in a plug that we do have a Patreon and a buy me a coffee. So if you want to help us out and support the show.
[01:05:23] Speaker B: Oh my God, we would love you forever. Thank you.
[01:05:26] Speaker A: The links will be in the show notes and they're high enough up they will actually show up. So where did we get lost?
[01:05:32] Speaker B: Cancel the electric vehicle mandate and cut costly and burdensome regulations because we don't want to have a world to live in. Got it.
[01:05:40] Speaker A: Cut federal funding for any school pushing race theory.
[01:05:44] Speaker B: Oh, my God. Okay, so I can do this with.
[01:05:47] Speaker A: A straight face, gender, ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children.
[01:05:53] Speaker B: So there went anatomy class.
[01:05:54] Speaker A: There went anatomy class. Seriously.
[01:05:57] Speaker B: There went anatomy class. There went history.
[01:06:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:06:01] Speaker B: And granted they're not teaching critical race theory, but there was history taught in.
[01:06:05] Speaker A: Some colleges and that is it.
[01:06:07] Speaker B: And it's only taught in certain classes in some colleges because it's sociology and history and it's. It's only taught in certain groupings within.
[01:06:19] Speaker A: Might also be taught in psychology, but I don't know.
[01:06:23] Speaker B: Oh, and there went that. There went AP Psychology, because gender stuff is taught in psychology class because it has to be. Exactly. There went psychology, There went history. There went sociology in any appreciable way.
There went anatomy, but there went. Anything is talking about the fact that, I don't know, there was a slave trade that happened in America. There went anything talking about, I don't know how babies are fucking made. Segregation, Segregation.
[01:06:54] Speaker A: Jim Crow laws, Reconstruction.
[01:06:56] Speaker B: Forget all that. It doesn't exist. It's not that important. We can't talk about it. Okay. We can't talk about the fact that one of. And even if we want to look at Western civilization, which, as we'll see later, that's the core that they want to do, guess what, folks? There's a historical time where there was considered. There was Pope Joan.
[01:07:18] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:07:19] Speaker B: A female as pope.
[01:07:21] Speaker A: Debatable.
[01:07:22] Speaker B: Whether the Pope was actually female or not. There was a big controversy, but we can't talk about that because that's not. That's talking about her gender. That's talking about a pope and gender.
[01:07:31] Speaker A: Yeah, they don't think it through.
[01:07:34] Speaker B: No, they don't.
[01:07:35] Speaker A: Just don't think it through.
[01:07:37] Speaker B: Let's not talk about Joan of Arc because. Oh, my goodness.
[01:07:39] Speaker A: Can't do that. Who may very well have been trans. So keep men out of women's sports. They already are. Deport pro Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again. Are you me? I hate to tell people, but the people who are of the free Palestine mindset are not pro Hamas.
[01:08:01] Speaker B: Nope. It's not a binary situation. It is not a binary. They are not anti Semites and they are not pro Hamas.
[01:08:08] Speaker A: No, they're not. They are seeking for us to stop freaking helping Israel bomb Palestine.
[01:08:15] Speaker B: They're seeking to help. To get us to stop supporting the genocide of the Palestinians that happen to be living near Israel. As they get. As they get hounded into smaller and smaller spaces and those spaces still get bombed.
[01:08:34] Speaker A: Exactly.
[01:08:35] Speaker B: So that all the innocent people that have nothing to do with any of this are getting slaughtered.
[01:08:42] Speaker A: Exactly.
[01:08:43] Speaker B: Okay, so yeah, and I said it, I meant it. I am not anti Semitic. We already established that. I'm not pro terrorist. I'm pretty sure that's a given. But at the same time, I'm not supporting the situation we currently have.
[01:08:59] Speaker A: Secure our elections, including same day voting, voter identification, paper ballots, and proof of citizenship.
[01:09:08] Speaker B: Because voter identification isn't proof of citizenship, apparently.
[01:09:11] Speaker A: We already have voter identification.
[01:09:14] Speaker B: We shouldn't need to have it. But yes we do. In Indiana for sure.
[01:09:18] Speaker A: Precisely in paper ballots. Because the 2000 elections showed just how useful that is.
[01:09:25] Speaker B: Hanging Chad's all over again.
[01:09:27] Speaker A: Woohoo. Yay. And unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success. When America is united, confident and committed to our principles, it will never fail. That is a bold statement to make. Good luck with that today and together with love for our country, faith in our people and trust in God's good grace. Which one? We will make America great again. Seriously, which one?
[01:09:53] Speaker B: Which one? I know, right?
[01:09:54] Speaker A: Which one? Because I got news for you. You start praying the Hecate. God probably knows what will happen. So now that we are through the preamble and far enough in that was part one of the GOP 2024 platform. In the next segment of the in in the next part we're going to actually go through the rest of the document, hopefully a little faster.
[01:10:18] Speaker B: We're going to warp speed to a lot of the political double speaking.
[01:10:21] Speaker A: That's what we have for today. We hope you've enjoyed the episode and.
[01:10:26] Speaker B: We hope you'll come back for the part two for part two with all of the act with with some highlights from the actual specifics.
[01:10:34] Speaker A: Exactly.
[01:10:35] Speaker B: Or low lights is the case maybe.
[01:10:37] Speaker A: We would actually love to hear your thoughts. So go ahead and drop us a line at spill the tea podcast224gmail.com Again, we would also love to have your support. It does cost money to run a podcast and having some financial support would definitely help with running the podcast. So if you would Visit us at patreon.com spilltheteepodcast224 or buymeacoffee.com spilltheteepodcast we would love your support. It would really help us out. Also feel free to listen to us on wherever you subscribe, listen to your podcasts, subscribe and leave us that five star review.
[01:11:22] Speaker B: Thanks for thanks for listening. We really do enjoy talking to each other, but we really do enjoy the fact that we get to share it with you too.
[01:11:29] Speaker A: Yes. So that's it for today. Bye, all.
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