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 Brigitte.
[00:00:23] Speaker B: I'm Laura.
[00:00:23] Speaker A: And today's topic is about the second.
[00:00:26] Speaker B: Installment of the GOP position and policy statement for 2024.
[00:00:32] Speaker A: So stick around for the information coupled with a healthy dose of snarkasm.
[00:00:37] Speaker B: You gotta go there.
[00:00:38] Speaker A: Our lovely combination of snark and sarcasm. And just hear us out exactly what.
[00:00:45] Speaker B: Happens when your brain says two words at once? What can I say?
[00:00:48] Speaker A: I love that.
Is it snarkism or snark?
[00:00:55] Speaker B: It was snark.
[00:00:55] Speaker A: As snark as.
[00:00:58] Speaker B: You want to say snark and sarcasm at the same time, and your brain says, okay, let's do this.
[00:01:03] Speaker A: Let's combine them. Hey, you know what? You're an english major. You're allowed to make new words. Not usually.
[00:01:10] Speaker B: I'm usually worried about what other people's words have been.
[00:01:14] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:01:15] Speaker C: I'm the writer.
[00:01:15] Speaker A: I'm the one that writes.
[00:01:17] Speaker B: There it is. Exactly. You're the one that makes up the new words. I'm the one that just looks at other people's words and uses them to forward to my own end.
[00:01:26] Speaker A: So, God help us, we're gonna hop back into this monster.
[00:01:29] Speaker B: I'm going to highly recommend just skipping over their little commitment lines because it's a whole bunch of political double puck bullshit and lies. Because, you know, it's political.
Okay, full disclosure. I'm a firm believer that if you're a politician and you're breathing, you're lying. So, you know, it's a me thing. I freely admit it.
Politician is four letter word.
[00:01:54] Speaker A: So, you know, we're going to drop this. We're going to drop the same warning that we gave the last time the f bombs were going to fall like the London blitz. So be prepared. And this is absolutely. A lot of this is fact checking. A lot of this is also our personal commentary. Neither of us are Republicans, neither of us are Democrats, and we hold both parties accountable.
[00:02:13] Speaker B: Understand to folks that when the Democratic National Convention is over and they have their official policy statement, we'll be doing this with their policy statement, too.
[00:02:22] Speaker A: Oh, absolutely.
[00:02:22] Speaker B: This is not about just ripping up the GOP policy statement. This is an equal opportunity. We'll repeat a shreds for your policy statements.
[00:02:31] Speaker A: Yeah, we will be holding. Yeah, we will be holding the Democrats feet.
[00:02:34] Speaker B: To the fire, but onto the. Let's have some fun with this.
[00:02:39] Speaker A: Oh, boy.
[00:02:40] Speaker B: Because if we don't, it's gonna be boring as fuck. Because it's a policy statement. Those are by definition boring.
[00:02:46] Speaker A: I mean, the purpose of a policy statement is to just give the policy, and policy is always boring.
[00:02:53] Speaker B: I don't care what these guys, they give so much story as part of the policy. It's amusing as fuck.
[00:02:58] Speaker A: Okay, so they did not have a technical writer like this is what I'm hearing.
[00:03:02] Speaker B: No, not even remotely. Not even remotely. It's so full of flowery language. It's not funny. I mean, it's really kind of, it's kind of sad.
[00:03:12] Speaker A: Were they trying to copy the declaration of the defendants?
[00:03:15] Speaker B: Yeah, I think. I think that was the plan. Because they really did want to represent that. Going back to what Americ Federalist society concept of rolling back the clock to what the founders originally intended. Yes.
[00:03:30] Speaker A: So start with chapter one.
[00:03:32] Speaker B: I love how they say chapter one, and it's all of world's shortest chapters. Somebody obviously didn't teach them what a chapter is either. But education is going through the going.
[00:03:44] Speaker A: I would call this section one. Yes. Not chapter one, but that's because I'm.
[00:03:50] Speaker B: A writer and I would call it section one. And that's, I would call it section one. That's because, I don't know. I have a master's degree in English and I know what a definition of a chapter is, and this is not it. But anyway, listeners, that's what happens when.
[00:04:03] Speaker A: You dumb down our american education system. Uh huh. So the commitment in chapter one.
[00:04:09] Speaker B: Oh, please don't. Please don't. This is all a whole bunch of political bubbles peak.
[00:04:13] Speaker A: Oh, it is.
[00:04:13] Speaker B: That's true. They claim that they're going to immediately, they're going to immediately fix the economy. And here's their, here's how they're going to do it. Their definition of unleash american energy. Now here's where, here's where the first fact check comes. Under President Trump, the US became, became the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world. Here's the thing, folks. Quick Google search from at least 2000, I didn't go farther back than that, but a quick Google search from at least 2000 to the present day, we have been and still are the number one producer of oil and natural gas.
[00:04:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:53] Speaker B: It wasn't anything Trump did. He wants to claim credit for it, but it's been that way for a while now.
[00:05:00] Speaker A: Well, as I said in the first episode, quite frankly, Trump kind of also reminds me of the underachieving boy in school who tried to sweet talk the smart girl to do all his homework for him and then take all the credit.
[00:05:13] Speaker B: Well, and then we get to number two. This isn't even just Trump. This is Republicans in general with number two.
Number two is reign in wasteful federal spending. They're going to immediately stabilize the economy by slashing wasteful government spending. But here's the thing. You know where the government spending comes from?
[00:05:29] Speaker A: Taxes.
[00:05:29] Speaker B: Republicans, if you go back to the history of our spend, of our government spending and our debt increasing, that happens under republican governments, not Democrat governments.
[00:05:41] Speaker A: Sorry. I was thinking taxes are actually revenue.
[00:05:43] Speaker B: Which is something people don't understand. Exactly. Taxes are talking deficit. Deficit is absolutely, massively increased. And oh, my goodness, Trump was the.
[00:05:52] Speaker A: Worst guy every time under Republicans as far back as I can remember. And we are in our early fifties. Yeah, and here's the thing.
[00:06:00] Speaker B: If you look at the numbers, Trump had the biggest increase in government spending, and he had a republican legislature helping him out with that.
So, okay, I'm calling bullshit on number two. Number three, cut costly and burdensome regulations. Okay? Let's destroy the planet and work on.
[00:06:18] Speaker A: Killing people that are at work.
[00:06:21] Speaker B: Because, you know, Osha's going away. You know, anything to regulate, anything to regulate emissions is going to go away. So let's just kill people off faster is what it boils down to.
[00:06:31] Speaker A: You know, in a nutshell, the chevron, the Chevron case decision really upset me because that means government mints gets to make decisions on environmental policy instead of listening to experts in the field. I think back to last year when they had those forest fires in Canada, and it pretty much spread fine particulates through the air all across the country.
[00:06:56] Speaker B: You were all asthmatics and all allergens. Were just going insane.
[00:07:00] Speaker A: I was going back and forth to the hospital with mom at that time, and I left the hospital one evening, and I had not paid attention going into the hospital because she was in ICU. So I had a lot more on my mind. And when I left for the evening to go home, I looked. I left the hospital. I walked to my car. As I opened my car door, I happened to just look up so I could see tacitly, essentially, and the bypass and all that. And the air was just smoky.
And I thought, wow, this reminds me of Indianapolis when we used to visit in the seventies.
[00:07:43] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:07:44] Speaker A: So.
[00:07:44] Speaker B: So, yeah, let's roll back those regulations there. We're going to stop illegal immigration. They're going to secure the border. We talked about that in the first part, but we also talked about how sealing the border is bad. And, and I'm going to call bullshit there. Oh, the, quote, open borders policy, which is not an open border. It's been restricted even more, has apparently driven up the cost of housing, education and healthcare. That has abso fucking nothing to do with immigration.
[00:08:10] Speaker A: Nothing to do with immigration.
[00:08:11] Speaker B: Nothing. Everything.
Oh, absolutely.
[00:08:15] Speaker A: I'll say it has everything to do with corporate. Yep, absolutely. Do not rake in record profits and tell me that price increases because of inflation. Again, I know, I'm not an economist.
I also do not believe you when you piss on my head and tell me it's right. Yep. Okay. Restore peace through war breeds inflation, while geopolitical stability breeds price stability.
Actually, I don't know that that's true.
[00:08:44] Speaker B: I don't know that that's true either.
[00:08:46] Speaker A: I mean, part of the reason why we entered the Iraq war was because we were in a recession. Yeah.
[00:08:51] Speaker B: And it didn't help because they remembered when we went to world War two, it did. It reset our economy after the Great Depression.
[00:09:00] Speaker A: Exactly. And it did because so much of the infrastructure we have now didn't exist. So it had to be built.
[00:09:10] Speaker B: Yep. So, yeah, they're, they're going to restore, will end global chaos because, okay, I was under the impression that Republicans were isolationists and they didn't want, they want America first and they don't want anybody else interfering, and they don't want to interfere elsewhere. But now we want to be the global police.
[00:09:28] Speaker A: Yeah. They say they're going to end global chaos and we're still peaceful strength, reducing geopolitical risks and lowering commodity prices. Here's the problem. We have been trying to use our muscle and our strength and our ability. Ability to be the biggest bully on the block.
[00:09:46] Speaker B: Said it, bent it, and it's not working.
[00:09:49] Speaker A: And it's not working. And it hasn't been working.
It hasn't been working since the fifties.
[00:09:56] Speaker B: Nope. But that's what they want to roll us back to, is the fifties.
[00:10:00] Speaker A: Yeah, but which ones, the 19 or the 18? Both. I mean, let's face it. So that was chapter one.
Chapter border. Check out the check section slash section two, seal the border and stop the migrant invasion.
[00:10:16] Speaker B: Okay, we already talked about seal border. Bad idea. Because free flow needs to happen. You seal it, you're dead. Yeah, we went there.
[00:10:25] Speaker A: We had that conversation.
[00:10:26] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:26] Speaker A: Securing the border, that's not that unsecured. That. I know.
[00:10:32] Speaker B: As a matter of fact, like I said last time, Biden has actually kept most of Trump's border policy statements. He's not building a wall, which would be completely useless, which, again, I can't help but go there. But he is, he is keeping mo. He has kept most of Trump's border situation, and he's gone so far as to add in a limit, a stronger limit on how many people we accept for asylum, that are seeking asylum. So we cut down already currently. So the whole. Restore every border policy of the Trump administration. The only thing they're going to restore is a fucking border wall, which is a waste of money, a waste of time, and a waste energy.
Because it won't work.
[00:11:12] Speaker A: Exactly. Because building a wall does not take into consideration building a wall along the.
[00:11:18] Speaker B: Southern border, that's the only one they.
[00:11:20] Speaker A: Want to build, does not take into consideration the people who come in by boat, the people who come in by plane, and the people who come in.
[00:11:29] Speaker B: On the northern border.
[00:11:30] Speaker A: Canada.
[00:11:31] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:11:32] Speaker A: Nothing against Canada.
[00:11:32] Speaker B: I love Canada. I want to move to Canada personally.
[00:11:34] Speaker A: I don't know why, but it seems like the republicans forget that there's a country north of us.
[00:11:39] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, arrogance.
[00:11:41] Speaker A: Oh, probably because most of the people in the country north of us have.
[00:11:45] Speaker B: Lighter skin tones or a light tan.
[00:11:49] Speaker A: We no longer use white, we use light tan because we think it's funny.
[00:11:52] Speaker B: I'll just call it lighter skin tone. But, you know.
[00:11:54] Speaker A: Okay, that's fair.
[00:11:55] Speaker B: But, yes, they also will strengthen ice because we need a gestapo. Really?
[00:12:01] Speaker A: Yeah, because that's basically what ice is.
[00:12:03] Speaker B: Basically what ice is. It's a gestapo.
[00:12:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:12:06] Speaker B: So they'll strengthen ice, increase penalties, blah, blah, blah, apparently. And the scourge of illegal gang violence.
[00:12:15] Speaker A: That'S been decreasing significantly, if I don't remember.
[00:12:19] Speaker B: It's part of the decrease in crime.
[00:12:22] Speaker A: It's a thing that has been decreasing since 2019. That has been decreasing. Decreasing since 2021, based on 2019 numbers.
[00:12:30] Speaker B: Because 2020 didn't exist.
[00:12:32] Speaker A: Well, in terms of some of that stuff, almost, because the situation was so unusual in 2020, it's hard to use that in a measurement. Everybody was supposed to be staying home.
[00:12:46] Speaker B: All the people that vote for this weren't. Not all, but many of the people that vote. Many of the people that vote for this weren't so. And a lot of them ended up dead from that.
[00:12:56] Speaker A: Amazing how that happens. So many people were staying home, but a lot of things like crime can't really be measured.
You weren't seeing as much human interaction.
[00:13:08] Speaker B: I love how they bring up child trafficking, too, which is fine. This is. This is thanks to that movie with. With Mister, I played Jesus, starring in it anyway.
But the child trafficking, I hate to tell you this, folks, but again, side study of things that come upon my newsfeed, a lot of the child sex trafficking that happens, happens with a certain mindset of society that is not liberal. It's conservative, it's trackable, it's traceable. And I said it and I meant it and it's true.
[00:13:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:41] Speaker B: A lot of the people that have been nailed for child trafficking are Republicans.
[00:13:44] Speaker A: Or conservative lean or very conservative leaning.
[00:13:48] Speaker B: So yeah.
[00:13:49] Speaker A: Yeah. Even people who are not politicians.
[00:13:51] Speaker B: I'm not saying liberals don't. I'm saying the stuff I'm finding in relatively recent history, we're talking 20 twenty's.
[00:14:00] Speaker A: History swings that pendulum swinging a lot more than the other. Exactly.
Yeah. I'm never going to sit here and say not all on anything.
[00:14:12] Speaker B: No, because there's always exceptions.
[00:14:14] Speaker A: Because of course it's not all. We know that unfortunately in some situations it is enough that it's a problem.
[00:14:22] Speaker B: It is enough that it's a notable pattern and therefore needs to be called out.
[00:14:27] Speaker A: I swear, one more person, not all men's me.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: But they want to do strict vetting to keep, for, to keep, quote, foreign Christian hating communists, Marxists and socialists out of America.
[00:14:41] Speaker A: Wait, where the hell is this? Oh my God.
[00:14:43] Speaker B: Yes, under strict vetting.
[00:14:45] Speaker A: Oh yeah, that's right.
What about the communist Marxists, Marxists and socialists that were here in America asking for a friend?
[00:14:57] Speaker B: What about the Christian hating who are here in America asking for a friend? You know, I don't Christian hate.
[00:15:03] Speaker A: I really hate, I don't hate christians.
[00:15:04] Speaker B: I actually keep track of what's going on in Christianity. I hate christian, I hate contemporary evangelical. Nevermind, we won't. Christian nationalism, christian nationalist fuckwits. Yeah, I'll say it there. I will absolutely add the fuckwit there.
[00:15:18] Speaker A: They were warned. They were warned. They were warned. I have many friends who are christians.
[00:15:26] Speaker B: So do I.
[00:15:27] Speaker A: Who are wonderful.
[00:15:28] Speaker B: Absolutely. I found some good christians. I had to spend most of my life trying to find good christians.
[00:15:34] Speaker A: They are wonderful. I have, I have some that I was raised around that actually have helped shape how I practice my own pagan faith.
[00:15:45] Speaker B: That said, american Christianity leaves a lot to be desired.
[00:15:50] Speaker A: Yes, it does. How about that? It does.
[00:15:54] Speaker B: And the people that are saying keep foreign Christian hating communists, Marxists and socialists out are the people that are absolutely the christian nationalist buckwheats that I'm talking about. If you can say that and mean it, guess what? Stop sanctuary cities so that, you know, turn everything, turn everybody over to Ice. Whether they're an american citizen or not. And yes, american citizens have been sent out of our borders because they were presumed to be illegal immigrants.
[00:16:23] Speaker A: It's real.
[00:16:24] Speaker B: It happens. This is not an anomaly. This is how badly broken our immigration system is.
[00:16:30] Speaker A: And I will tell you right now.
[00:16:31] Speaker B: Bad ISIS.
[00:16:32] Speaker A: And what I will tell you right now, while we're using the term illegal immigrants, we do not mean it. I don't use it now. I call people undocumented.
[00:16:40] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:16:41] Speaker A: Because. And I absolutely will not say illegal alien because it's got to be all human.
[00:16:46] Speaker B: Gods.
[00:16:47] Speaker A: No, they're all human.
[00:16:48] Speaker B: Yes. They did not come from another dimension or outer space.
[00:16:52] Speaker A: Precisely.
[00:16:53] Speaker B: However, I'm using the term illegal because that is the term they're using. So using their own term to talk about them.
Nope. Begin largest deportation program. That was when we started talking about bumping up Ice.
[00:17:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, they do say illegal aliens.
[00:17:10] Speaker B: Shame on them.
[00:17:12] Speaker A: Shame, shame, shame.
[00:17:13] Speaker B: Send illegal aliens back home. We talked about that one. Where are they gonna send.
[00:17:16] Speaker A: Where are they gonna sit? Well, okay. And if they're gonna start deporting american citizens as well because they don't agree with them. Yep. Where are they gonna send us? We're a melting pot nation.
[00:17:29] Speaker B: If you look in the agenda 47 documents, they do talk about setting up fun fact.
[00:17:35] Speaker A: Did you know that the nazi concentration camps were based off of the model for first native reservations in the United States?
[00:17:42] Speaker B: Not surprised. Not surprised.
[00:17:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:45] Speaker B: We inspired Hitler for genocide, so why not? You know, why not?
[00:17:49] Speaker A: Tell me about it.
[00:17:50] Speaker B: We have been such an inspiration to the worst, and apparently we're still allowing the worst to get into power.
[00:17:56] Speaker A: We were not the only.
[00:17:58] Speaker B: We weren't the only inspiration. But again, you were a significant inspiration.
[00:18:01] Speaker A: For a lot, because I remember reading when he first proposed the genocide idea specifically for the jewish people, someone questioned him on that and said, don't you think people will have a problem with this? Don't you think that this will go down in history as a horrible idea?
And Hitler said, I don't see how it will. Who remembers the Armenians?
Because the Ottoman Empire.
[00:18:29] Speaker B: Right.
[00:18:30] Speaker A: Damn near wiped out the armenian people.
[00:18:32] Speaker B: But he was still immediately inspired for this final solution, partly due to the eugenics program in America.
[00:18:40] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Spoiler alert.
[00:18:41] Speaker B: That will be another episode, because that is something that wasn't taught in my history class, at least that we really need to make sure people know.
[00:18:49] Speaker A: I think I did learn about some of it.
[00:18:52] Speaker B: I learned about none of it.
[00:18:53] Speaker A: I think I learned about some of it, actually, in history.
[00:18:57] Speaker B: I was. It was 20 years ago when I first heard the term eugenics, but I.
[00:19:00] Speaker A: Had a us history teacher who was actually a little on the. I'm not going to hide the bad parts from you.
[00:19:08] Speaker B: Right.
[00:19:08] Speaker A: For history.
[00:19:09] Speaker B: Right.
[00:19:09] Speaker A: So I think we did talk about it a little bit. We glossed over it, but we did talk about it a little bit in my high school. Of course, I also went to a public high school. Here's the other question. You didn't.
[00:19:21] Speaker B: No, I didn't. You went to a Catholic high school. I went to a Catholic high school.
[00:19:24] Speaker A: That can make a difference.
[00:19:25] Speaker B: Oh, makes a huge difference. Because I know when they start talking in education what they mean by western, classical western education. I know exactly what that is because.
[00:19:33] Speaker A: That'S what I'm saying.
[00:19:35] Speaker B: But the other question I have relative to illegal immigrants and getting all of them out, who's gonna harvest the food? Who's going to clean the rich people's houses? Because you know, you know who's employing the illegal immigrants is the very illegal migrants, the undocumented workers is who want to pay cash under the table so that they don't have to pay taxes. So, yeah. Who's going to do all this if we close our borders and get rid.
[00:20:07] Speaker A: Of all the migrant workers?
[00:20:08] Speaker B: I don't know. Exactly. Because if you think the politicians are going to roll their sleeves up and actually do any work, you would be sorely mistaken.
[00:20:15] Speaker A: And if you think your prices are high now, oh, no shit.
[00:20:19] Speaker B: And then they will also prioritize merit based immigration so that people that come to our country contribute positively to our society and economy and never become drained on public resources. And here's the thing, that they've snuck in here, they're going to end chain migration. So if someone moves here and wants to bring their family, half luck, sorry, out of luck, you can move here, but you got to leave the kids or the spouse or the parents or the brothers or sisters or whatever home. They can't come.
[00:20:50] Speaker A: Which is, by the way, the backbone of the american dream was being able to do that. I know. Come to America, get a job, make a nice living, build yourself up, and then be able to make enough money to send back overseas so that your.
[00:21:08] Speaker B: Family can come live with you.
[00:21:10] Speaker A: That was the american dream for european immigrants.
[00:21:14] Speaker B: But now the european immigrants have what they what? Have what they wanted.
[00:21:17] Speaker A: And so they want to make sure.
[00:21:18] Speaker B: Nobody else can have it.
[00:21:19] Speaker A: Mm hmm.
[00:21:19] Speaker B: That's simple.
[00:21:20] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:21:21] Speaker B: Because they're racist as fuck.
[00:21:23] Speaker A: Exactly. Well, you're back to the eugenics of it.
[00:21:25] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:21:26] Speaker A: Oh, God help us. We're on to chapter three. How many chapters are you there?
[00:21:29] Speaker B: Eight. I think we're halfway through. It's page eight.
[00:21:32] Speaker A: Holy cow.
[00:21:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:33] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:21:34] Speaker B: I am impressed.
[00:21:35] Speaker A: But hell of a lot faster than agenda 47.
[00:21:37] Speaker B: But like I told you, agenda 47 was project 2025, Reader's Digest version. Okay?
[00:21:43] Speaker A: True.
[00:21:43] Speaker B: This is the cliff notes to the Reader's Digest versions. This is what I said.
[00:21:47] Speaker A: And trust me, and I really don't care what the spin doctors are saying, agenda 47 really is, really is the Reader's digest version of private 2025.
[00:21:57] Speaker B: And this is the cliff notes of the Reader's Digest version of project 2025.
[00:22:02] Speaker A: Because the. The only thing I can say that was significantly less represented in agenda 47 compared to project 2025 was the christian nationalism.
[00:22:15] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:22:16] Speaker A: They stripped a lot of that out.
[00:22:19] Speaker B: Because they know it's not going to.
[00:22:20] Speaker A: Fly, but they kept a lot of the same policies. And you're right.
[00:22:24] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:22:24] Speaker A: Because they know it's not going to be okay.
[00:22:28] Speaker B: Because then people will see them for what they actually are.
[00:22:30] Speaker A: Well, because people leaked that, hey, this document exists out online.
[00:22:34] Speaker B: We should go check it out.
[00:22:35] Speaker A: And everybody discovered. And so a whole bunch of people started looking it up and started saying how much they don't like it. And the GOP went, oh, fuck. Shit. We need to switch gears real quick. And Trump's advisors said, oh, fuck. We need to change. We need to switch gears real quick.
[00:22:56] Speaker B: We have to disclaim that. Disclaim that we have anything to do with this, even though our name is all over it and we're. And everything he says for his name is he has to give his approval before his name is used. Blah, blah, blah, fuckity blah.
[00:23:09] Speaker A: Yeah. So then this is, this is what the.
[00:23:11] Speaker B: They hammered out at the convention as the most sanitized way to say all of this.
[00:23:16] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:23:17] Speaker B: The biggest, one of the biggest things I noticed with this is they got rid of a lot of the Biden bitching. It's still in there at points.
[00:23:23] Speaker A: It is still there.
[00:23:24] Speaker B: It is still there at points.
[00:23:25] Speaker A: I have yet. I mean, we're halfway through, and I haven't seen crooked Joe Biden yet.
[00:23:30] Speaker B: I don't know that. I think. I don't know that it's in there.
[00:23:32] Speaker A: So did someone actually clue? Oh, no, wait, because that was written.
[00:23:36] Speaker B: Yeah, it was written at the convention, which means Biden was still president.
[00:23:39] Speaker A: He was still the candidate, too.
[00:23:41] Speaker B: Yeah, well, he is still president.
[00:23:43] Speaker A: But I made a comment today. I apparently have gotten very fond of Instagram. I made a comment on somebody, on somebody's post. I'm like, it seems like an awful lot of people don't realize that Biden dropped out of being the presidential candidate, not dropped out of being the actual president right now because people were complaining about Harris's policies on what's going on overseas, and people were like, it doesn't matter what her policies are. She's not the president yet. She's still the vice president. So here we go.
[00:24:17] Speaker B: So now we're looking at building the greatest economy in the world.
[00:24:23] Speaker A: American workers are the most productive, talented, and innovative on earth.
[00:24:29] Speaker B: It's nice to have that positive mindset.
[00:24:32] Speaker A: Okay, Sparky.
[00:24:34] Speaker B: It's nice to have that positive mindset. I will not diss american workers.
[00:24:38] Speaker A: I won't either. I won't.
[00:24:39] Speaker B: It's nice to have that positive mindset.
[00:24:42] Speaker A: We do have a lot of people who are very hard working in this.
[00:24:45] Speaker B: Country, and then we have the.
I don't know the name, so I can't name names. The test engineer that works at a local company, that boxcracker, seems to be more intelligent. But, you know.
[00:24:58] Speaker A: Yeah. And then we have the people who really want to live on social welfare despite the fact that they make billions of dollars.
[00:25:05] Speaker B: Aha. You said it, you meant it.
[00:25:07] Speaker A: And I don't.
[00:25:08] Speaker B: But do not disagree.
[00:25:11] Speaker A: I will never diss. I will never diss on the disabled.
[00:25:14] Speaker B: Nope.
[00:25:16] Speaker A: I will never diss on the elderly. I will never diss on the poor.
[00:25:20] Speaker B: I'll occasionally.
[00:25:21] Speaker A: Or the working poor.
[00:25:22] Speaker B: I'll occasionally diss on the elderly because there's a subset of the elderly that I absolutely dis on because they're just like my parents. Okay, that's fair. I will occasionally diss on the elderly.
[00:25:31] Speaker A: Okay, that's fair. But I will not diss on the. I will not diss on anyone on assistance. And I will not diss on the working for. Because I grew up in that shit. Know how hard it is to get trapped there and how hard it is to get out? And anyone who tells me that the.
[00:25:49] Speaker B: Working poor are lazy obviously has never been working poor.
[00:25:54] Speaker A: Oh, it makes me so viscerally angry.
[00:25:59] Speaker B: So they're reasoning and how they're going to do it. Slash regulations, cut taxes, secure fair trade deals, and ensure reliable and abundant low cost energy, and champion innovation. Okay, cut regulations. They're just gonna slash regulations that stifle jobs, which means, guess what? Osha's gone. We'll kill people on the job again. Oh, child labor might be back in, too, because we know that's a thing that the Republicans have wanted in several states.
[00:26:22] Speaker A: They've wanted that for a while.
[00:26:24] Speaker B: They wanted that for a while. So child labor will come back.
[00:26:27] Speaker A: No protections for pregnant women.
[00:26:30] Speaker B: Nope.
[00:26:30] Speaker A: On the job. No protection for elderly on the job.
[00:26:34] Speaker B: No. No accommodation for the disabled on the job.
[00:26:38] Speaker A: Precisely.
[00:26:40] Speaker B: Yep. So that's slashing regulations right there. Make the Trump tax cuts permanent and no tax on tips. Here's the thing about the Trump tax cuts. Those didn't help the middle class.
[00:26:50] Speaker A: No, they did not help the middle class.
[00:26:52] Speaker B: They helped the wealthy.
[00:26:53] Speaker A: Okay. There is a reason why no tax on tips is a bad idea, but I have to go look it up because I don't remember exactly how it works.
[00:27:01] Speaker B: Well, for one thing, I want to know how they're going to suss out how to not tax tips when so many people pay digitally in credit card now, and so the tip goes in as part of the payment. So it's all electronic. So they have to be given their tips as a subset of their paycheck and therefore it is taxed. How you can do that one?
[00:27:21] Speaker A: Oh, that's one reason why it's a terrible idea. This is from forbes.
[00:27:25] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:27:26] Speaker A: The act has the potential to deteriorately. Deteriously. Wow, that's a hard word to say. Deteriorately affect federal tax revenue.
[00:27:37] Speaker B: Also known as how we pay for all this shit. Less how we pay for all this shit.
[00:27:43] Speaker A: Exactly. Taxes are revenue. Revenue is the money that the government brings in to cover expenses. You think we have spending problems now? Cut down the amount of revenue and see what happens?
[00:27:57] Speaker B: Well, I still go back to, I don't carry cash on me anymore. I don't either, except for very specific instances. So how the fuck are they going to figure out how to not tax.
[00:28:08] Speaker A: Something that I paid for as part.
[00:28:10] Speaker B: Of a taxable situation? And for the record, Forbes is actually a pretty good source for things like this. They do talk about business and they are fairly neutral. They're not 100% neutral, but they're fairly, fairly neutral.
[00:28:22] Speaker A: It's basically allowing tip based earners to be able to deduct their cash tips in their entirety.
So it's not completely no tax on tips, but they can deduct their cash tips. Again, because so many people carry cards anymore, you're not really helping them. They're still going to have to pay taxes on the tips that are on credit cards. So, yeah, so it's not technically no taxes on tips.
[00:28:54] Speaker B: Well, and better yet, they would expand child tax credit, which is going to.
[00:29:01] Speaker A: Just screw over anybody that doesn't have kids. Oh, but we're crazy cat ladies.
[00:29:07] Speaker B: We don't matter and I have one. I have, my oldest has aging out of being able to claim them as a child tax. My youngest is rapidly approaching the aging out for being able to claim them. So what happens to all the retirees whose children have aged out of being.
[00:29:25] Speaker A: Able to adult who are now adults.
[00:29:26] Speaker B: Because the kids are now adults and you can't claim them as childcare tax credit anymore because you're not taking care of them.
[00:29:34] Speaker A: Fun fact, children become adults. Did you know that?
[00:29:36] Speaker B: It's amazing how that works.
[00:29:38] Speaker A: Yeah. And it screws over anybody who could not have children.
[00:29:43] Speaker B: Uh huh.
[00:29:44] Speaker A: Did not want to have children or in my case chose not to have children, then discovered I couldn't anyway.
[00:29:51] Speaker B: So yeah, that's. And then we want fair and reciprocal trade deals.
There's nothing bring critical supply chains back home. Yeah, that's going to happen because as we talked about earlier, we have all the base resources to set up all the manufacturing that we need to produce everything that we need to. I got news for you folks.
[00:30:11] Speaker A: No, you don't.
[00:30:12] Speaker B: He wants to set up all of this military support system as to boost our economy. We still have to get the base resources from overseas, period.
[00:30:24] Speaker A: You can, you might be able to.
[00:30:26] Speaker B: Bring the production back, but the resources to do that production are not here.
[00:30:32] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:30:33] Speaker B: Period. And if you think the military is all, oh, it's just you need steel and blah, blah. No, folks, they need fucking computer chips at this point.
[00:30:42] Speaker A: And some of the components needed for computer chips are not here in the United States.
[00:30:47] Speaker B: No, they're not. They are not available in the land property that the ground property that we have here, period. You can't create what isn't there.
[00:30:58] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:30:59] Speaker B: When it comes to natural resources. They want reliable and abundant low cost energy. So they're going to streamline permitting and market distorting restrictions on oil, natural gas and coal, also known as things that make it so that we don't kill ourselves in the source in trying to get out fossil fuels.
[00:31:19] Speaker A: People do not realize. So my question is end market distorting restrictions on oil, natural gas and coal. Does that include the gas taxes?
[00:31:31] Speaker B: Oh, hell no. They're not going to end that because then the gas corporations don't make enough money.
[00:31:37] Speaker A: Well, no, the gas taxes are the revenue that goes to the government.
[00:31:39] Speaker B: But they're not going to end that because they want their taxes, they want their money.
[00:31:43] Speaker A: Are they going to continue to keep the restrictions on the oil companies so that they don't continue price tag? Oh, hell no.
[00:31:50] Speaker B: Because again, money, it's not going to help the advertising, it's not. Not even remotely.
[00:31:57] Speaker A: People don't realize with the sales tax. I hear this constantly. Get rid of income tax and just have a sales tax that actually hurts lower income people because we are the ones who make, who do the most spending.
[00:32:10] Speaker B: Because you have no choice but to pay sales tax. Everybody has to pay sales tax and.
[00:32:18] Speaker A: We purchase more than rich people do. Yep. First of all, there are a lot more of us, and that's one of the biggest reasons.
[00:32:25] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:32:26] Speaker A: So the concept of a sales tax only hurts the middle and lower classes. It doesn't work. Flat tax does the same thing.
[00:32:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:34] Speaker A: Because 10% of someone's wages when they make 30,000 a year, compared to when they make 300,000 a year, when you compare the cost of living makes a big difference on a monthly basis.
[00:32:48] Speaker B: They're also going to champion innovation. They want to let crypto just run away all the way they want it however they want it, without understanding that crypto is by its nature international, global. It's not local by definition. It is the definition of global currency. It's not stable and it's not stable. But sure, why not let them do whatever the hell they want to do with no regulation? Cool. Because that worked so well before the Great Depression and the FDIC.
Yeah.
[00:33:19] Speaker A: Oh, I want to stave the next one.
[00:33:21] Speaker B: Go for it.
[00:33:22] Speaker A: We will repeal Joe Biden's dangerous executive order that hinders AI innovation and imposes radical left wing ideas on the development of this technology. In its place, republicans support AI development rooted in free speech and human flourishing. I am not kidding you. Somebody yesterday, again, in a comment section, because the topic was single women are actually happier than married women. They are. And single people are happier than married couples.
It's actually.
[00:33:56] Speaker B: Probably provable.
[00:33:58] Speaker A: And no kidding, somebody came in and said, that's not true. Studies show that married people are the happiest people. And they're like, okay, cite your sources.
And no shit, chat GPT.
[00:34:12] Speaker C: I'm not kidding.
[00:34:14] Speaker A: I didn't hear that correctly. Did you say chat GPT? Did you bet any of the sources that it listed? Seriously, chat GPT is one step lower than Wikipedia because with Wikipedia, at least you have a resources section, so you can go double check this.
[00:34:29] Speaker B: And at least with Wikipedia, a human being took the time to create it.
[00:34:34] Speaker A: Technically, with chat GPT, humans are actually training it.
[00:34:40] Speaker B: However, the entire open fucking open web is training it.
[00:34:44] Speaker A: Exactly. Here's the problem, though. Same problem with Wikipedia. Anybody can put in wrong information.
[00:34:49] Speaker B: Exactly. And the web is full of more wrong information than right information.
[00:34:54] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:34:55] Speaker B: That's just reality.
[00:34:56] Speaker A: Now, understand, I do use chat GPT for some research as a writer, okay? But it is. It is a case of look it up. It gives me a place to start. I can go do further research. Or one day, I did a search on one day, I asked the question, describe the sonic poem style, and it gave me a beautiful, long description that I could copy and paste, look at, and write from there. That's actually ethically how authors and how writers are using chat DPT, not to copy and paste and claim it as their own, but to copy it, paste it onto a document so that you have it for reference cases. Then right from there.
[00:35:43] Speaker B: Oh, I hate to tell you, those students aren't using it that way.
[00:35:46] Speaker A: Oh, God, no. I said writers. I didn't say students. Did you hear me say students?
[00:35:49] Speaker B: I did not say students.
[00:35:50] Speaker A: I said writers.
[00:35:53] Speaker B: But I will also say, as an expert researcher, I love that Google offers this little AI thing, and I ignore it. I immediately scroll past it and say, you're cute. You're adorable. I love you. Go away.
[00:36:05] Speaker A: I'll look at it for a summary, and then I keep going, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:36:13] Speaker B: But then we get to. After we've gone ahead and now that we have restrictions on AI. Yeah, then we're gonna go into space and start trashing space, of course, because.
[00:36:23] Speaker A: We'Ve done a good enough job on this planet.
[00:36:25] Speaker B: So, yeah, they want to put manufacturing industry in near Earth orbit because we don't pollute the earth enough. We need to now pollute the upper levels of our atmosphere, too, and send american astronauts back to the moon, because we found so much there the first time. And then onward to Mars, which I get. The moon is a staging point to Mars. It's a little bit closer, but not that much.
[00:36:44] Speaker A: So, are we going to investigate the dark side of the moon? And halfway.
[00:36:48] Speaker B: China landed on it.
[00:36:49] Speaker A: Oh, did they?
[00:36:49] Speaker B: They did. China landed on it. That was relatively recently. They landed. They landed a. They landed a mission on the dark side.
[00:36:57] Speaker A: Were there little green Mendez?
[00:36:58] Speaker B: Not that I'm aware of.
[00:36:59] Speaker A: Or what was the species that HP Lovecraft put on the dark side of the moon? I don't remember.
[00:37:04] Speaker B: Anyway, but, yeah, and then. But then we're also going to enhance partnerships with the rapidly expanding commercial space sector to revolutionize. Revolutionize our ability to access, live, and develop assets in space. Because the rich people got to go somewhere when they trash the planet, right? The rest of us just have to try and live with the pollution.
After they remove any and all restrictions. The rest of us have to live in the pollution and the rich people have to be able to go to space.
[00:37:29] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[00:37:30] Speaker B: It's like literally straight out of red. The movie. It's a funny movie. It's a funny spy, folks.
[00:37:36] Speaker A: But anyway, so we're actually on to chapter four, bring back the american dream and make it affordable again for families, young people and everyone.
[00:37:50] Speaker B: Obviously not families are young people.
[00:37:53] Speaker A: Obviously the town washing cat babies.
Although it was funny. Somebody online was like, hey, I am a childless dog lady. Can I actually join this?
[00:38:02] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:38:03] Speaker A: Absolutely. Come on in.
[00:38:05] Speaker B: You should call us childless pet owners. And I'm not even childless. Can I still come in? You know?
[00:38:09] Speaker A: Right.
[00:38:10] Speaker B: So, yeah. Open limited portions of federal land to allow for new home construction. Promote home ownership through tax incentives and support for first time buyers. And cut unnecessary regulations that raise housing costs. We want to put up houses that will fall down immediately. Yes.
[00:38:24] Speaker A: Or that will burn.
[00:38:25] Speaker B: God.
[00:38:26] Speaker A: That means no home inspections.
[00:38:28] Speaker B: No home inspections.
[00:38:29] Speaker A: That means no requirements for being up to building codes. That electrical code.
[00:38:33] Speaker B: Exactly. That means your electric can cut your house on fire immediately and they won't pay for it because the insurance industry, you know, they're going to go to the insurance industry and say, you don't have to worry about this.
[00:38:42] Speaker A: Uh huh. Exactly. Oh, my.
[00:38:45] Speaker B: And wow. Open limited portions of federal lands. Wonder where those are gonna be again.
[00:38:51] Speaker A: Probably the reservations.
[00:38:52] Speaker B: Think so?
[00:38:53] Speaker A: I think so. Sure. I mean, I think so, too. I mean. Oh. Oh, no. I take that back. I take that back. No, we won't touch the reservations because the us is so good at honoring treaties.
[00:39:06] Speaker B: Yeah, that, that was a very visible eye roll, in case you hadn't heard that in the voice.
[00:39:12] Speaker A: I almost rolled my eyes out loud on that one.
[00:39:14] Speaker B: She almost rolled her eyes out her freaking head.
Accessible higher education. Because that's what the Republicans have always been about is education. Really? And raise and lowering the cost on it. Republicans will support the creation of additional, drastically more affordable alternatives to a traditional four year college degree.
[00:39:38] Speaker A: What would the alternatives be? That's my question.
[00:39:41] Speaker B: You can get a certificate in forklift driving.
[00:39:43] Speaker A: Yeah, that's not cheap. Still, I know people don't realize how expensive trade school is now.
[00:39:48] Speaker B: I know it's insane.
[00:39:50] Speaker A: I mean, hold on, but you're talking politicians.
[00:39:53] Speaker B: Do you think they do any research about how much anything costs for the real person?
[00:39:56] Speaker A: Right. I actually, sometime, and I think in the 2000 teens, I actually looked into going back to school for Autocad because I was having no luck keeping a job as an instructional designer because contract works sucks.
[00:40:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:11] Speaker A: And I say that. I say that. And I work on a contract with the magazine, but that contract does not suck because they're good to me. And so I looked into going into school for Autocad and holy shit, Batman. That stuff's expensive. Yeah. I was like, grade school costs this much?
[00:40:30] Speaker B: And that's the thing. Reduce the cost of higher education. They support the creation of additional dress for more affordable alternatives. I'm 90% certain they're not aware that, a, those alternatives already exist, and b, that they're insanely expensive already.
[00:40:42] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:40:43] Speaker B: And that it's not just the four year colleges that cost a fortune.
[00:40:46] Speaker A: No, they're probably not aware, but that.
[00:40:49] Speaker B: Would be research that they have to do.
[00:40:51] Speaker A: Y'all can't see my hand covering my eyes because of the next section.
[00:40:55] Speaker B: Oh, the affordable health care.
[00:40:57] Speaker A: Yeah, healthcare.
[00:40:58] Speaker B: And I can agree healthcare and prescription drug costs are out of control. But they're going to increase transparency, promote and competition, and expand access to new, affordable health care and prescription drug options. They're going to protect Medicare and ensure seniors receive the care they need without being burdened by excessive costs. Notice what's missing, as you pointed out earlier when we were chatting.
[00:41:18] Speaker A: Yeah. Look at who's not in there. Everyone else. Medicaid.
[00:41:23] Speaker B: Anybody who gets it through their employer.
[00:41:25] Speaker A: Yeah. What are they going to do to the marketplace?
[00:41:28] Speaker B: Oh, they'll get rid of it because they wanted to get rid of it since it got created, got passed.
[00:41:34] Speaker A: And here's a fun fact a lot of people don't know. Personal insurance is almost impossible to get. If you have any health conditions at all, and that includes allergies, think about how many people now have either seasonal or food allergies.
[00:41:54] Speaker B: Diabetes.
[00:41:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Look at how rampant diabetes is now.
[00:41:58] Speaker B: Asthma.
Here's the thing. This is one of the things they did successfully roll back, which pissed me off no end when they did. If you have a pre existing condition of any sort, in other words, under an insurance plan, you have been diagnosed with cancer, you've been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, and there's more than HIV, folks.
If you've been diagnosed with asthma, if you've been diagnosed with diabetes, if you've been diagnosed with any of these and you have no choice but to, through life change, to change your insurance, they can refuse you. That was part of Obamacare. Obamacare that they rolled back.
[00:42:40] Speaker A: We got to roll that forward again because I'll tell you what, back in the mid two thousands, I did a very brief stint of selling personal insurance, and that was where I learned that if you had, say, you are in the overweight category in the BMI section, in the BMI scale, which is bullshit.
[00:43:01] Speaker B: Bullshit.
[00:43:02] Speaker A: Yeah. And you had asthma, you would not qualify for about 90% of the personal health insurance. Personal health insurance is the insurance that is not under an employer group insurance. You're buying the premium person, you're buying the policy personally and you're paying the full premium. That said, in the mid two thousands, just being a little bit overweight, which is most of the population, and having asthma or having diabetes or having allergies could disqualify you from 90th percentile of all private health insurance, leaving you only.
[00:43:47] Speaker B: The most expensive ones that you could afford to buy. That you could buy into if you could afford it.
[00:43:53] Speaker A: Exactly. And you will still not be covered on your pre existing medical conditions for at least two years.
[00:44:01] Speaker B: And for someone like me who has multiple sclerosis, that's not an option, that's a dice sentence. You have to see a neurologist, I have to have some form of medication or I will end up in a fucking wheelchair, period.
And then after the wheelchair it progresses to dead. And yet this is our health care system.
[00:44:24] Speaker A: Exactly. And that's the healthcare system they want to go back to.
[00:44:28] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:44:28] Speaker A: Because we all know, even though they're not saying it, they will repeal the Affordable Care act. Absolutely.
[00:44:35] Speaker B: Because they've been trying, since it got.
[00:44:38] Speaker A: Put in place, they have been trying.
[00:44:40] Speaker B: To repeal and they, and like I said they did, they have repealed pieces of it, including repealing that protection for.
[00:44:47] Speaker A: People with pre existing conditions. And as someone who is self employed, that will screw me over because that's the only way I can get insurance.
[00:44:54] Speaker B: Yeah. And as someone who has the very nervous situation of what happens relative because my insurance comes through my husband in his employment, what happens if that changes? You know, I'm in a very, we're in a very nervous situation in the house about health insurance because we can't afford out of pocket for health insurance, not with one in college and one headed for college. Same. Even if it is a, even if it is one of the two year college options. Trade school slash slash community slash less than four year degree.
[00:45:29] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:45:30] Speaker B: So yeah, that this is, and yet we're still the only developed nation out there who can't seem to figure out how to do healthcare that isn't disgustingly expensive and back breaking anyway.
[00:45:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Universal healthcare is working in how many countries?
[00:45:45] Speaker B: I know right? Over every developed country, every economically developed.
[00:45:50] Speaker A: Country out there except for us. Yeah, I think you're right.
[00:45:53] Speaker B: I was reading a statistic on it the other day.
[00:45:55] Speaker A: So they're also going to lower everyday costs.
[00:45:58] Speaker B: They're not saying how.
[00:45:59] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:46:00] Speaker B: They're not saying no, no.
[00:46:01] Speaker A: Just say Republicans will reduce the regulatory burden, lower energy costs, and promote economic policies that drive down the cost of living and prices for everyday goods and services.
[00:46:12] Speaker B: And that one, ironically, is not covered in agenda 47 notes either. There was nothing in there about how they would do that.
[00:46:21] Speaker A: And this is where we start holding feet to the fire.
[00:46:24] Speaker B: If you're going to make that kind.
[00:46:25] Speaker A: Of a statement, back it up. Tell us how. This is a big problem. I have a lot of the times with politicians and this is a big problem I've had with the republican party in regards to health care for several years now. Oh, we're going to, we're going to repeal the Affordable Care act. Okay. What are you going to replace it with? Well, we've got a plan. Okay, what is it? Oh, we got a plan. What is it? And they won't tell us. And they won't tell us because they don't have a plan.
[00:46:50] Speaker B: I'm quick scanning back in the agenda 47 47 stuff. I'm doing a quick scan back.
He's focusing on ending cafe fuel economy standards. He's focused on the auto industry. Yeah. He points out that he'll end the assault on internal combustion engine and cancel the harmful April 2023 emissions regulations for light media and heavy duty vehicles that are projected to kill 117,000 auto manufacturing jobs. Number one, that source was closed. Crap. I looked that source up and it was a bullshit source. But besides that, that's not what's killing it. The regulations are killing it. The robots are killing it.
[00:47:28] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:47:29] Speaker B: And cafe fuel economy standards, again, the resource that they had for that one was pretty much garbage. I have to go back through and at some point offer them review the resources that they used and shared that with, or that might be part of the extra level pay for. If you really want the professional review of the resources they used, we may.
[00:47:51] Speaker A: Have to put that on Patreon.
[00:47:53] Speaker B: That's going to take a while.
[00:47:54] Speaker A: Buy me a coffee because that one's going to take a while.
[00:47:56] Speaker B: That's going to take some work.
[00:47:57] Speaker A: And we really could use support on Patreon and buy me a coffee because podcasts cost money to run.
[00:48:03] Speaker B: I love, I love this one. This is one of the more ridiculous statements researchers have found. There's almost a 90% correlation between the use of electricity in the US and economic growth. Guess what? There's almost 100% correlation between air and breathing. So, you know.
Oh, talk about coincidence. And they actually cite a working paper for that. I mean, that is so fucking stupid. So they'll, they'll, they really push on top of.
[00:48:29] Speaker A: Written by a college question.
[00:48:32] Speaker B: More like a grade schooler. I could have written that in 8th grade.
[00:48:36] Speaker A: Anyway, did write something like that.
[00:48:38] Speaker B: But yeah, they really focus on affordable electricity as the real push on that.
[00:48:45] Speaker A: Well, you know, a really good way to make affordable electricity would be to take the electric utility company, put it back under government control and stop having it be privatized.
[00:48:56] Speaker B: That would be a good deal because when you're privatized, you're worried about making money for your stockholders not actually providing service.
[00:49:04] Speaker A: Exactly. Privatizing the utilities is one of the worst things we've done in this country. Yep.
[00:49:11] Speaker B: Not going to get an argument from me, but yeah, this is really a lot about electricity and then oil and natural gas. He wants to do the fracking and all of that other crap that's really.
[00:49:21] Speaker A: Ugly, really horrible for our environment.
[00:49:24] Speaker B: And we're back to energy.
He is, as we've seen from his, as we've heard from his.
His shark versus electric battery. Electric battery boat. He is obsessed with electricity.
[00:49:39] Speaker A: So, yeah, electricity in crowd size. Sounds like somebody's over compensating. But anyway.
[00:49:45] Speaker B: But, yeah, for a lot of insecurities. Yeah. So, yeah, it's all about electricity and electrical grid. I think he got too informed by Texas. And Texas has a whole situation where they're not part of the national electrical situation. They are on their own private electrical grid in Texas. And they have with their utilities.
[00:50:05] Speaker A: Oh, they have so many problems.
[00:50:07] Speaker B: Nothing but problems with their utilities because their utilities company is crap.
It's completely privatized and it is one of the worst utility setups in the entire us.
[00:50:19] Speaker A: Yes. Perfect example was it earlier this year that power went out and people went days in the blistering heat with no electricity, also known as no air conditioning.
[00:50:30] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:50:30] Speaker A: Because I really hate to say this, but even a swamp cooler does not work unless you have a way to power the fan. Yep.
[00:50:39] Speaker B: So, yeah, the only other thing in here is about natural gas.
[00:50:42] Speaker A: That's the thing.
[00:50:43] Speaker B: Electricity and natural gas. That's the only ones they're really interested in dealing with.
[00:50:46] Speaker A: Well, yeah, because they seem to think that green energy comes from the devil and apparently, I don't know. So we're on to chapter five. Two thirds of the way through.
[00:50:57] Speaker B: Hey, hey, what do you know?
[00:50:58] Speaker A: So chapter five is protect american workers and farmers from unfair trade, prioritize domestic.
[00:51:05] Speaker B: Production, ensure national independence in essential goods and services. Again, the resources to make the essential goods and services, unless it's something you're growing out of ground or something that.
[00:51:16] Speaker A: We actually have the material resources here.
[00:51:20] Speaker B: To create still have to come from overseas.
[00:51:23] Speaker A: Okay, I'm gonna read their commitment.
[00:51:26] Speaker B: That was what I was pulling from, but okay.
[00:51:27] Speaker A: The republican party stands for a patriotic America first economic policy. Again, apparatus. Republicans offer a robust plan to protect american workers, farmers and industries from unfair foreign competition. We commit to rebalancing trade, securing strategic independence, and revitalizing manufacturing. We will prioritize domestic production and ensure national independence in essential goods and services. Together we will build a strong, self reliant and prosperous America. You know the last time I heard.
[00:52:05] Speaker B: That propaganda films after World War two.
[00:52:07] Speaker A: Ding, ding, ding.
[00:52:12] Speaker B: No, we don't have the same brain, folks, but we do tend to catch that same path every once in a while.
[00:52:20] Speaker A: We don't share the same brain that sometimes we wonder, do we?
[00:52:28] Speaker B: But yeah, they're going to support baseline tariffs on foreign made goods, which is awesome because, you know, we have so many foreign made goods that actually belong to american companies because they're outsourcing all of their. Anyway.
Well, and how are we going to work on the, all of the foreign services where they've outsourced all the service industry to foreign countries too?
[00:52:54] Speaker A: Well, exactly. And if we're going to be making.
[00:52:57] Speaker B: Everything here in the country, where's it gonna go?
[00:53:01] Speaker A: What tariffs are we gonna be charging if we're not doing any foreign trade? I don't get it. I'm confused.
[00:53:07] Speaker B: Nothing confusing there.
[00:53:08] Speaker A: That's.
[00:53:09] Speaker B: Again, think ahead. They don't think this too?
[00:53:11] Speaker A: No, they don't.
[00:53:12] Speaker B: We've noticed this. Tariffs on foreign producers go up, taxes on american workers, family and businesses can come down. So there's part of how they're gonna fund it except that they're going to then double tax american people even though double taxation is illegal. They'll find a way to do it.
[00:53:27] Speaker A: They'll find a way. So we're going to secure strategic independence from China.
[00:53:32] Speaker B: We're back to the issue with natural resources and the strategic independence from China. That's the problem is that's a thing for the Democrats, too. I know that.
[00:53:41] Speaker A: That's a thing.
[00:53:41] Speaker B: That is a thing.
[00:53:42] Speaker A: Okay, I see. They're saying they're going to revoke China's most favored nation status, phase out imports of essential goods and stop China from buying american real estate and industries. I don't know if the last two. But you know what? Taking them away is most favored status.
[00:53:56] Speaker B: Is kind of a good idea, given that. I don't understand how that works. That wasn't something that was true.
[00:54:01] Speaker A: I'm not sure, but I think we might have ended up putting China as first nation status because they failed us out for the Iraq war.
[00:54:09] Speaker B: Oh, we'll have to fact check that one.
[00:54:13] Speaker A: But why are we America? Why?
[00:54:19] Speaker B: Most favored nation status is a principle in the World trade Organization that requires countries to treat all trading partners equally. This means that countries cannot give special treatment to one trading partner, such as a lower customs duty rate, without also giving it to all other World Trade Organization members. Okay, I don't get it. I don't get why we're having problems here. And so, no, it's not a good.
[00:54:41] Speaker A: Idea for them to remove them as First nations is most favored nation, because.
[00:54:46] Speaker B: The thing is that unless they're doing it so that they can charge China more, they're doing it to unbalance the trade agreement.
[00:54:53] Speaker A: That's why that, okay, that tracks, that.
[00:54:55] Speaker C: Tracks a lot more.
[00:54:57] Speaker B: The goal of the most favored nation status is to increase trade, encourage free trade between countries by allowing the lowest cost producers to export to areas with highest demand. They're frequently included in bilateral investment treaties as well. So, yeah, okay. So, yeah, that's a, that's a World Trade organization thing. And, and I got, I've got to believe that the whole reason to remove that ends up being so that they can create a unbalanced trade situation that I can see.
[00:55:25] Speaker A: I said things out, imports of essential goods. Hopefully, they will do that with the wisdom of understanding that some essential goods cannot be made here.
[00:55:36] Speaker B: You said, you said wisdom and politicians.
[00:55:43] Speaker A: That's my Pollyanna streak coming up. Um, that streak, by the way, is getting thinner and thinner as years go by. Stop China from buying american real estate and industries. Are they doing that?
The really hilarious thing is, I hear this now with China, and 40 years ago, we were hearing the same thing about Japan.
[00:56:03] Speaker B: I know.
[00:56:04] Speaker A: That's, that, that's what kind of cracks.
[00:56:05] Speaker B: Me up is China holds only about 1% of all foreign owned land in the United States. Canada owns nearly a third, I was.
[00:56:13] Speaker A: Going to say.
[00:56:16] Speaker B: According to the Chicago Council on Global affairs as of March 20, 1924.
[00:56:20] Speaker A: So this is a. So this is a fear mongering.
[00:56:23] Speaker B: This is a fear monger. This is a racist fear mongering tactic, because we can't be racist just to the people of color. We have to go against the Chinese, and we have to go against agents, too, because of COVID and having it be the China virus. He can't keep up his China virus got. I kid you, the China virus bullshit is actually in agenda 47. Oh, I know that language was in.
[00:56:42] Speaker A: I saw the China martyrs comment.
[00:56:43] Speaker B: Can't keep that as part of his racism.
[00:56:47] Speaker A: I'm just surprised it wasn't in. Did they go into more detail on healthcare?
[00:56:52] Speaker B: Not too much more. No, of course not. They want to save the american auto industry. Why? I'm not sure. Because the auto industry doesn't strike me as being in bad shape as it is.
[00:57:01] Speaker A: Revived the us auto industry by reversing phone call regulations, canceling Biden's electric vehicles and other mandates, and preventing the importation of chinese vehicles. We don't import.
[00:57:15] Speaker B: We don't import chinese vehicles because to the best of my knowledge, China doesn't have a major automotive manufacturer.
[00:57:21] Speaker A: I don't think they do.
[00:57:23] Speaker B: We import korean and we import japanese.
[00:57:26] Speaker A: And we import german.
[00:57:27] Speaker B: We import some british.
[00:57:28] Speaker A: Jaguar. Some british. The Jaguar and the little ones. Mini Coopers. The mini Coopers. Yeah. No, we don't.
[00:57:37] Speaker B: I don't think China has a major.
[00:57:39] Speaker A: We import any cards from China.
[00:57:41] Speaker B: No, we don't.
But again, fear mongering and racism rear their head.
[00:57:46] Speaker A: Again, I find it amusing when people are like, I want a card that is 100% american made. Then you need to go buy a Toyota Corolla or a Toyota. Is it the tundra? That's one of their trucks. Yeah. Seriously? Yeah. If you want a 100 or a Honda Civic.
[00:58:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:58:06] Speaker A: Because those are the cars that are actually manufactured 100% here in the United States.
[00:58:15] Speaker B: Yep. Because otherwise they manufacture chunks and parts and ship them and they do the.
[00:58:19] Speaker A: Final assembly and there's very little final assembly here in the United States.
[00:58:24] Speaker B: I mean, that's why they're having so many problems for a while with vehicles being available, even from GM, just because they couldn't get the microchips from overseas.
So there were several car.
[00:58:35] Speaker A: There were several companies that were having that problem.
[00:58:37] Speaker B: And I think that's what they mean by chinese vehicles. Because I think the microchips were coming from China.
[00:58:42] Speaker A: Yes, because again, they have some of the natural resources necessary to make the microchips.
[00:58:48] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:58:49] Speaker A: There's a reason why they're mostly made not in the US.
[00:58:53] Speaker B: I would love to know what they consider critical supply chains because they want to bring those home. I don't know what they're considering critical supply chains, to be honest.
[00:59:01] Speaker A: I wonder about that too.
[00:59:02] Speaker B: Because, you know, computers are not critical supply chains. Because I love my computer. It's not critical.
[00:59:08] Speaker A: No. But food is.
[00:59:10] Speaker B: Food is.
[00:59:10] Speaker A: Quite a bit of our food does come from out of country.
[00:59:13] Speaker B: Yeah, we get a lot of it from Mexico, a lot of it from.
[00:59:16] Speaker A: Mexico, and a lot of it from Central America in general. Yep. Because if you look at George strawberries, they are often not from the US.
[00:59:26] Speaker B: I usually end up getting a stuff that Meyer sells, and that's from Michigan, Ohio, indian.
[00:59:31] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:59:32] Speaker B: Meyer's pretty good about local as much as they can.
[00:59:35] Speaker A: Myers is, and so is first time. But I think the first one was.
[00:59:39] Speaker B: Actually owned by Meyer, possibly entirely. Probably buy american, hire american. Banning companies that outsource jobs from doing business with the federal government. Good luck with that.
[00:59:50] Speaker A: Oh, lord have mercy. They'd have to reverse Nafta on that one.
[00:59:53] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:59:54] Speaker A: Which, you know, I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that. Because I kind of feel like NAFTA is where Clinton really, seriously betrayed everybody who voted for him.
[01:00:06] Speaker B: Trump already made it a big thing when he was an office, though, of renegotiating NAFTA, so.
[01:00:10] Speaker A: Yeah, but then renegotiation didn't help.
[01:00:14] Speaker B: No, but he already had his say on it, which means I can't imagine they're going to do anything better.
[01:00:20] Speaker A: And.
[01:00:20] Speaker B: Because he'd be the one who's in.
[01:00:22] Speaker A: The office and he renegotiated it, not got rid of it.
[01:00:25] Speaker B: Exactly.
[01:00:26] Speaker A: You have to get rid of NAFTA in order to be able to do this, because companies have the opportunity to send jobs overseas.
[01:00:35] Speaker B: Well, part of what they need to cut down on if they really want to help is the amount of offshore financial.
[01:00:42] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[01:00:43] Speaker B: Oh, but we don't even mention that anywhere in any of this. The offshore accounts, that seems to be missing. That seems to be missing a lot.
[01:00:53] Speaker A: That's where most of our wealth is. Yep.
[01:00:55] Speaker B: And then become the manufacturing superpower.
[01:00:58] Speaker A: By protecting american workers from unfair foreign competition and unleashing american energy, republicans will restore american manufacturing through jobs, wealth and investment.
[01:01:11] Speaker B: Because the second that they put those tariffs in place, the magically these assembly plants will come to exist. I mean, it's got to be magic. It's got to be because that's the only way it's going to happen.
[01:01:24] Speaker A: Did they make a deal with the good neighbors?
[01:01:27] Speaker B: No, I'm pretty sure they're. They are too hung up on the abrahamic. They probably made a deal with the devil.
[01:01:34] Speaker A: Makes sense. Makes sense. Makes sense.
[01:01:36] Speaker B: They're christian nationalists.
[01:01:37] Speaker A: I'm not sure either is a good idea.
[01:01:39] Speaker B: So, you know, they're christian nationalists. They would not have made it. They would not have made a deal with the fair folk.
[01:01:44] Speaker C: Well, we were gonna make this a one parter, but it looks like we're.
[01:01:46] Speaker B: Gonna have to make this longer.
[01:01:49] Speaker C: Okay, let me say that again. We were gonna make this one parter, and then we discovered we needed to make a. A two parter, and now we've discovered.
[01:01:55] Speaker A: We need to make it a three.
[01:01:55] Speaker C: Parter because we're only halfway through. Because we just finished part five, which was talking about the us farmers. So when we pick back up in the next what volume of this particular topic, we're gonna start with chapter section six.
[01:02:11] Speaker A: It kills me as a writer to say chapter when they're like, not even.
[01:02:15] Speaker B: They're not chapters, they're not paragraphs. There's no paragraphing. It's all a big old fucking mess.
[01:02:20] Speaker C: But we'll pick back up with number six on the next episode, so we hope you enjoyed the show and we would love to hear what you think. So drop us a line at spillthetpodcast 224 mail.com. you can follow us at spilltheteapodcast on Facebook, spill the teapodcast 224 on Tumblr and pinterest and illtheteapodcast 224 on Instagram to us wherever you listen to your podcasts. And remember to leave those five star reviews. If you want to enjoy episode outtakes, early access, and the opportunity to recommend show ideas, sign up for a monthly membership at either patreon.com spillthetepodcast 224 or buymeacoffee.com spilltheteapodcast. Thanks for listening, everybody.
[01:03:06] Speaker B: Hope you join us for the next episode.
[01:03:08] Speaker C: Absolutely. Because this.
[01:03:09] Speaker B: Because then it's done. I promise. There's only three and then. And the number of the and the count and the number of the counting shall be three.
Not two, not four, and not and definitely not five.
[01:03:23] Speaker C: Five is right out.
[01:03:24] Speaker B: Five is right out. Unless you then proceed. Unless you have proceeded to five by going through three. Yes. Anyway, bad money, python quotes. What can I say?
[01:03:33] Speaker C: Bad money, Python quotes.
[01:03:34] Speaker A: All right, have a good one, everyone.
[01:03:36] Speaker C: And we will see. Talk to you next time.
[01:03:40] Speaker A: Bye now.
