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.
[00:00:24] Speaker B: And I'm Lara.
[00:00:25] Speaker A: And today's topic is part three of reviewing the 2024 dope.
[00:00:32] Speaker B: And I promise this is the end because we're not doing agenda 47 and we're not doing Project 2025, which means this is really going to be it.
[00:00:41] Speaker A: However, we might go ahead and put in a link to Project 2025 if you want to go in and read. And I recommend you at least read the first 200, 250 pages before they.
[00:00:53] Speaker B: Start repeating themselves because that gives you.
[00:00:57] Speaker A: The highlights, scarily enough, out of, well.
[00:01:01] Speaker B: It is an 800 page document, so, yeah, 900, 900, sorry.
[00:01:06] Speaker A: And counting at this point, of course.
So stick around for the information coupled with a healthy dose of snarkasm, our lovely combination of snark and sarcasm, and just hear us out. Oh, goody. So we're on to chapter six. Hey, we're on page twelve of 16, folks.
[00:01:25] Speaker B: We're almost done protecting seniors.
[00:01:31] Speaker A: Cannot see the side eye, folks.
She just glanced at the first paragraph. President Trump has made absolutely clear that he will not cut one penny from Medicare or Social Security, but he also.
[00:01:43] Speaker B: Won'T expand it in any way.
[00:01:45] Speaker A: American citizens work hard their whole lives contributing to Social Security and Medicare. These programs are promises to our seniors, ensuring that they can live their golden years with dignity. Republicans will protect these vital programs and ensure economic stability.
[00:02:02] Speaker B: Can't happen.
[00:02:03] Speaker A: We will work with our great seniors in order to allow them to be active and healthy. We commit to safeguarding the future for our seniors and all american families. So does that mean you're going to stop trying to pass laws killing Social Security?
Like, seriously, it eliminates, number one says protect Social Security.
[00:02:21] Speaker B: Here's the problem. We're not going to get back the money we paid into it, so what's the point?
[00:02:25] Speaker A: Not to mention the fact that, again, we mentioned this in the first part. If you do not remove that cap, because there is a cap that says if you make more than $265,000, you only pay the tax owed on $265,000. So if you make $260,000, if you make $265,000, keep it at the threshold, you're going to pay taxes on 265,000. If you make $300,000, if you make $260,000, $70,000, you're still only paying tax on the 265. If you make three or four or five or a million, or it's still only 265,000. And that's the problem.
[00:03:12] Speaker B: I don't know that you'll be able to read this point under protect Social Security and not burst out laughing. So I'll leave it to. I'll read it and you can burst out laughing.
[00:03:20] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:03:21] Speaker B: Social Security is a lifeline for millions of retirees, yet corrupt politicians have robbed Social Security to fund their pet projects. See? And the laughter started. She's being very quiet about it. There we go.
Because you know which politicians stole that money, right, for their pet projects.
[00:03:40] Speaker A: The one who wrote this.
[00:03:41] Speaker B: The Republican.
[00:03:43] Speaker A: The one who wrote this proposal.
[00:03:45] Speaker B: No, no, he doesn't write any more than.
[00:03:48] Speaker A: No, no. The ones.
[00:03:51] Speaker B: The ones that wrote the proposal. Absolutely. Yeah. They're the ones that stole it to fund their.
[00:03:56] Speaker A: Been trying to eliminate it again.
[00:03:59] Speaker B: No, they've been trying to privatize it. Remember? They're not trying to get rid of it, they're trying to privatize it.
[00:04:05] Speaker A: Oh, great. Yeah, but that's a wonderful idea because.
[00:04:08] Speaker B: When anybody can make a profit on your money, it's a good idea.
[00:04:13] Speaker A: Because privatizing retirement has been such a great idea. Yes, says the person whose mother lost everything in her 401K during the layman bear situation in the early two thousands and never recovered from it.
My mother died in poverty because she lost 90% of her retirement and it never recovered.
[00:04:42] Speaker B: Apparently there's also some form of plan to add tens of millions of new illegal immigrants to the rolls of Medicare. No, no, that's not a thing. That's a lie. They're going to protect Medicare from that. You have to be an american citizen to get Medicare, period.
[00:04:57] Speaker A: Or you have to be a permanent legal resident.
[00:05:03] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:05:04] Speaker A: Not permanent resident resident.
[00:05:08] Speaker B: But you have to be paying into the taxes to be able to access the stuff that the tax is paid for.
[00:05:13] Speaker A: And when you become a legal resident, Reed Greenheart, when you become a legal resident, you do start paying taxes and you are eligible for public services because you are paying taxes.
[00:05:28] Speaker B: The next one is going to get both of us laughing because it's so bullshit. Republicans support active and healthy living. Republicans will support increased focus on chronic disease prevention and management, long term health, long term care and benefit flexibility. Expand access to primary care, and support policies that help seniors remain in their homes and maintain financial security. Because I gotta tell you, folks, I still do tae kwon do. It's at a reduced level from what I used to because I'm getting older in addition to the multiple sclerosis. But I still do taekwondo. And guess what? It fucking hurts to do it. And I'm considered pretty active and relatively healthy, even though my doctors don't think me healthy.
[00:06:09] Speaker A: But, yeah.
[00:06:10] Speaker B: And a focus on chronic disease prevention. You can't prevent it. Everybody out there has a 1% chance of developing this. It's just a question of whether it gets triggered or not.
[00:06:21] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:06:22] Speaker B: Period. There's nothing to prevent.
[00:06:24] Speaker A: Most chronic illnesses are actually not avoidable. They're really not. Can you avoid type two diabetes? Maybe. But you have a very slim percentage of chance if it is a genetic qualifier.
[00:06:39] Speaker B: And if you are stuck in a socio economic situation where all you have to eat is pre processed craft food.
[00:06:45] Speaker A: Exactly. Precisely. People do not.
[00:06:49] Speaker B: We don't choose chronic illness.
[00:06:51] Speaker A: I saw somebody earlier today commented.
[00:06:56] Speaker B: No, the comments are always great for really good tidbits on the side.
[00:07:00] Speaker A: They're.
[00:07:00] Speaker B: They're fun. As long as you don't take them seriously and you get all upset about them, they're fun.
[00:07:05] Speaker A: Someone was. Oh. Because the meme was about that damn babe. Randy. I said it. I meant it. This financial peace university is easily 30 years out of date. It has not changed to roll with the times. It's condescending, and it is 100% based on the idea that you have an expensive mortgage, an expensive car payment, and a boat, and if you don't have those things, they can't help you. If you are literally cut down to the bare minimum and still struggling to make it, his information does not help you.
[00:07:41] Speaker B: Useless.
[00:07:41] Speaker A: Yeah, it's useless. And someone was trying to point this out, and some dude broke. Hey, I used. I was nice. But there was another d word I was gonna use.
[00:07:53] Speaker B: Still think I should have used it, but that's okay.
[00:07:55] Speaker A: Some dude, bro douchebag comes in and starts being really condescending to this person.
[00:08:00] Speaker B: Oh, microphone. Got it.
[00:08:03] Speaker A: Because.
Well, you. Because. Because the comment was because the meme was about cutting costs on food by cutting out, eating out, and preparing more meals at home. And somebody was like, already do that. What if you already do that and you still can't make it?
[00:08:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:24] Speaker A: And then the person was like, I live in my car.
[00:08:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I can't avoid eating out.
[00:08:28] Speaker A: I live in my car. And my response was, obviously, you've never had to shop for gluten free or dairy free food, and that's not something you can substitute with something cheaper, because if you have to eat gluten free, you can't buy the cheap white bread, you can't buy the generic milk. Those aren't options. And the generic versions of those things are still expensive. Can I walk into a grocery store and spend over $100 for just me?
In a heartbeat. Buying staples? Not even buying fancy foods. Buying the staples I need to put into my pantry in my freezer and my refrigerator to survive. I can drop over $100 and I live alone with two cats.
[00:09:12] Speaker B: So, yeah, the increased focus on chronic disease prevention is kind of a joke.
[00:09:16] Speaker A: Oh, it's a huge joke.
[00:09:18] Speaker B: And then we get to protect care at home for the elderly because all of us want to take care of our aging parents in our own home.
[00:09:26] Speaker A: At home senior care. The only way you're going to be able to do that is if you basically make home health care a free service available to every senior.
[00:09:36] Speaker B: Well, they're going to overturn disincentives that lead to care worker shortage and support unpaid family caregivers through tax credits. And they do so too. In other words, they're going to make it so that any asshole who seems to think they have a brilliant idea can give ivermectin to a sick COVID patient because they read about it online and they'll be covered because the red tape's gone. I will tell you for them to get their hands on it.
[00:09:58] Speaker A: Okay. My grandmother had severe arthritis to the point where she could not actually breathe herself. And this was in the nineties. And I'm going to be on late eighties, early nineties. And I'm going to be honest with you, I would quite frankly, rather put somebody in a pit than put them in a nursing home back then because they'd have been treated better. But we were seriously discussing the possibility of needing to send her someplace like that because we could not provide the care she needed.
[00:10:31] Speaker B: My mom's gonna need that same kind of thing. And I know I can't do it. My mom and I will kill each other.
[00:10:36] Speaker A: We were facing. We were facing the same problem with Mar last year.
If she had come out of the coma, her, she wouldn't have been able.
[00:10:45] Speaker B: To care for herself.
[00:10:46] Speaker A: Her. Her way of life would have had to have changed significantly. And there is no way my sister or I have the medical training to take care of a senior. It takes medical training.
[00:11:01] Speaker B: Not according to these guys. They're going to get rid of all that red tape that requires medical training.
[00:11:04] Speaker A: They're dipshits and douchebags. They don't know.
[00:11:07] Speaker B: They're wealthy, white, privileged males.
[00:11:10] Speaker A: And I am extremely passionate about this because I know how easy it is to get hurt with an older person. I know how easy it is to hurt an older person unintentionally because you don't know what you're doing. And not to mention the fact that if my mother fell in the tub, if that's the way I could have picked her up, I physically wasn't able. I'm not physically able to take care of a senior. How the hell would I do it?
[00:11:35] Speaker B: But we'll have to because they're gonna make it so that you and I.
[00:11:39] Speaker A: Can tell you right now, those damn tax incentives and tax breaks are not going to cover the cost of taking care of someone.
[00:11:48] Speaker B: Oh, hell no. The child care tax credits don't cover the cost of taking care of a kid.
[00:11:53] Speaker A: They don't even cover it for more than maybe a month or two, let alone an entire year. Don't get me started on. Do not get me started on the rental write off you can do in Indiana. Don't get me fucking started. It doesn't even cover two months of rent. Don't get me started.
[00:12:05] Speaker B: So the protect economic foundations, their last point in here just revises what they already said so we can go ahead and move on to the next page.
[00:12:14] Speaker A: Yes, I'm seeing a pattern.
[00:12:16] Speaker B: So then we get into education.
[00:12:21] Speaker A: Oh, to be fair, we tried to start recording on agenda 47 four and a half hours later. We actually got through five of the 32 points she had found and two thirds of that recording was just on the education.
[00:12:35] Speaker B: So yeah, there's a lot of this in agenda 47 under, under the point on education, recommend that you check it out. Not because it is packed, Cram packed full of all the details that we're not going to have time to get to.
[00:12:49] Speaker A: Oh yeah.
[00:12:49] Speaker B: That are really repulsive, really reprehensible and really poor educational choices.
[00:12:53] Speaker A: We are just going to have to give the highlights on this one.
[00:12:56] Speaker B: Yes. Or lowlights as the case may be.
It's true.
[00:13:00] Speaker A: So they have a plan to cultivate great pay through twelve schools and serve safe learning environments free from political meddling and restore parental rights. We commit to an education system that empowers students, supports families, and promotes american values. Our education system must prepare students for successful lives and well paying jobs. I'm going to say this right now. American values. Which Americans?
[00:13:26] Speaker B: Yeah, which values?
[00:13:28] Speaker A: I remember when the whole Bill Clinton, Monica Wool thing happened and I was having a discussion with this with my ex mother in law, and she's like, it's just horrible. He's making us a laughing stock of the world. And I'm like, the world doesn't think anything about mistresses.
[00:13:44] Speaker B: I don't know. Yeah. The rest of the world is like, mistresses aren't a big deal.
[00:13:47] Speaker A: But he represents. He represents the morality of this country. He said, I said, whose morality doesn't represent mine? That is not how this works.
[00:13:57] Speaker B: No, no.
[00:13:58] Speaker A: So whose american values? That's my question.
[00:14:02] Speaker B: I love the first point where they're going to support ending teacher tenure. To the best of my knowledge, K through twelve teachers don't have tenure. That's a college thing.
[00:14:12] Speaker A: But.
[00:14:13] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:14:14] Speaker A: Adopting merit pay, the better you do.
[00:14:18] Speaker B: The more money you get, the more popular you are, the more money you get.
[00:14:22] Speaker A: Oh, good God. And allowing various publicly supported educational models.
[00:14:26] Speaker B: Including the model that says, I don't have to do anything, I can just let you learn on your own. Whatever you feel like doing.
[00:14:32] Speaker A: That's a thing.
[00:14:33] Speaker B: I don't know if you ever saw the movie Auntie name.
[00:14:35] Speaker A: I don't know if I have. Okay.
[00:14:37] Speaker B: Really fun musical, really fun movie from the 1930s, forties. Somewhere in that era. It really good. It was very progressive. And the whole educational model she was raising her niece, and the whole educational.
[00:14:49] Speaker A: Model that she was using was, you.
[00:14:51] Speaker B: Study whatever you want to study. You pick what you want to study and you go study it.
[00:14:55] Speaker A: That was the educational model.
[00:14:58] Speaker B: And that's what they're. That's the unschool model. That is actually an educational model out there is unschooling.
[00:15:05] Speaker A: They're basically trying to take Montessori and screw it up. Montessori is very open concept.
[00:15:10] Speaker B: Yeah, but this isn't open concept Montessori.
[00:15:13] Speaker A: But Montessori still has a certain amount of structure.
[00:15:16] Speaker B: This is zero structure.
[00:15:17] Speaker A: Oh, Lord.
[00:15:18] Speaker B: So, yeah, they want to publicly support that to educational model tool and homeschooling and every other form of schooling out there.
[00:15:27] Speaker A: So they want to empower, believe families should be empowered to choose the best education for the children. So to support universal school choice in every state in the airbrush and. Oh, God. And they'll expand the 529 educational savings.
Savings count, which they don't bother to tell you the fine print, if you.
[00:15:48] Speaker B: Don'T use it for education, it goes.
[00:15:51] Speaker A: Through, it goes away.
You basically have just contributed. Thank you for your contribution to the overall fund that you will not have access to. Yep. Because you moved out of state or because your kid is not going to certain schools or the kid isn't going to college. Yep. Don't go to a 529 plan, folks.
[00:16:15] Speaker B: Unless you know your kid's going to college. We are using it with eldest, and it's working.
[00:16:19] Speaker A: Exactly. However, put the money in a bank account instead.
[00:16:23] Speaker B: Yeah. And be ready and willing if you're using the 529 to keep all of our parking receipts.
[00:16:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:29] Speaker B: Because if you don't, and if you can't prove it was for the educational purpose, then you don't get to have the money. They also want universal school. They want preparing students for jobs and careers. They're going to emphasize education to prepare students for great jobs and careers. Supporting project based learning, which is not a bad thing, and schools that offer meaningful work experience, which I can give an example in just a moment and expose politicized education models and fund proven career training programs. So, example of the project based learning and offer meaningful work experience. The state of Indiana is leading the.
[00:17:05] Speaker A: Edge on this one.
[00:17:06] Speaker B: They have added a new diploma. Said new diploma gives you high school credit towards a diploma for doing things like attending job fairs and actually working at a job. You get class credit for these towards your diploma not learning anything other than how to do that job or how to sell yourself at a job fair.
[00:17:31] Speaker A: Which is great until you lose that job and can't get another one in that field. Yep.
[00:17:36] Speaker B: So that is. That is the new diploma. Those are some of the factors of the new diploma that they're releasing in Indiana. And here's the thing with this new diploma. It's at the cost of some of the history and some of the liberal arts.
[00:17:54] Speaker A: Sorry, I read ahead.
[00:17:55] Speaker B: You read ahead. Go ahead.
[00:17:56] Speaker A: I'm laughing.
[00:17:57] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:17:57] Speaker A: Anyway, so there's the whole safe, secure, and drug free schools, of course, because you know they're going to immediately suspend violence, hardening schools to keep violence away from our places of learning.
[00:18:07] Speaker B: Now, if you look at agenda 47, that includes arming teachers, bringing guns into the school.
[00:18:12] Speaker A: And I know a lot of teachers.
[00:18:13] Speaker B: Who are like, fucking bad job. That's a fucking bad idea. And it will. And hardening their schools is just going to. Just going to increase the school to prison pipeline.
[00:18:23] Speaker A: Precisely. Exactly. Then I'm sorry I started laughing at.
[00:18:28] Speaker B: Restore parental rental rights. Yes, I know, because republicans will restore.
[00:18:32] Speaker A: Parental rights in education and enforce our civil rights laws to stop schools from discriminating on the basis of race. We trust parents. Okay, that sounds like a great idea, but I feel like it's not gonna.
[00:18:44] Speaker B: Be what it sounds like. Oh, no. It's going to destroy title ix because title ix is gonna go away.
[00:18:50] Speaker A: Oh, that's right. They're not allowed to discriminate on race. Yes, they're absolutely allowed to discriminate based on disability, based on religion. Based on learning disability. Based on.
[00:19:04] Speaker B: It's going to destroy title ix.
[00:19:05] Speaker A: Yeah, it would destroy title ix, but.
[00:19:08] Speaker B: Then that's kind of their point. They've never liked title ix either.
[00:19:11] Speaker A: No, because then that allows us.
[00:19:13] Speaker B: Because then they have to be nice to people of color and can't be their racist selves.
[00:19:17] Speaker A: No, no, no. They're going to protect racism. They're going to protect race. They're not going to protect anything else. So it's perfectly okay to go back to calling people who are developmentally delayed. Intellectually delayed.
[00:19:30] Speaker B: Retarded.
[00:19:31] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:19:32] Speaker B: And calling people who might be queer faggots. Yeah, I know that's the n word for the queer community. And I said it because it's the point I'm trying to make.
[00:19:43] Speaker A: And calling kids with ADHD lazy or kids with learning disabilities stupid or just.
[00:19:49] Speaker B: Really making weird, nasty faces and body movements to get the kids that are. Oh, and we can't have the ramps for the kids with wheelchairs because why? Why would they need a place to go to education and.
[00:20:02] Speaker A: Exactly. It's going to kill title nine. It's going to kill title nine. Knowledge and skills, not CRT and gender indoctrination. Oh, fuck.
[00:20:13] Speaker B: Well, I do love to say the thing that they wanted their top fundamentals, like reading, history, science and math. I hate to tell them this, but you can't teach history without teaching civil rights and teaching racism and teaching all of the things that they think are.
[00:20:28] Speaker A: CRT because they plan to defund schools that engage in, quote unquote, inappropriate political indoctrination. It's so nice to know that my gender identification is political.
[00:20:40] Speaker B: It's so nice to know that history is political indoctrination.
[00:20:44] Speaker A: It's so nice to know that my sexual orientation is political or my religion is political.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: It's so nice to know it's one of their goddamn businesses. Political, to be honest.
[00:20:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:54] Speaker B: Again, we're back to that whole their noses are up in everybody's crotch. I'm being crude about it because I'm kind of fucking sick of it.
[00:21:01] Speaker A: Or in their bedrooms.
[00:21:02] Speaker B: And guess what, folks? Sex ed goes away. Anatomy and physiology goes away, else goes away. Health goes away. Oh, art is screwed. You can't talk. You can't do nudes and art anymore. You can't do ap psychology, which my eldest took, which shut her up for something that she's. That they're probably going to go with continuing on it. Gone. Because they talk about sex and sexuality and gender identity because it's part of psychology.
[00:21:31] Speaker A: Because the fundamental and original fundamental theories in psychology were completely based in sexuality.
[00:21:37] Speaker B: Sexuality.
[00:21:37] Speaker A: Because Freud was Freud.
[00:21:39] Speaker B: Freud was Freud. Yes. That's easy.
[00:21:40] Speaker A: So we're going to promote love of country with authentic civics education by reinstating the 1776 commission, promote fair and patriotic civics education, and veto efforts to nationalize civics education.
[00:21:55] Speaker B: But we're going to promote 1776 project, which is a national statement on civics education. But we're going to veto national. Wait, what?
[00:22:05] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
Now we're here at the political devil speak.
[00:22:11] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
We're gonna promote the whitewashed version of american history that says America was great no matter what, and we didn't do it have anything to do with those nasty little slave trades and the civil war was all about economics and not slavery. And, yeah, we're gonna. We're gonna deal with all of that.
[00:22:27] Speaker A: And Jim Crow didn't exist.
[00:22:28] Speaker B: Jim Crow didn't exist. And, yeah, none of that happened.
[00:22:31] Speaker A: And the lavender scare didn't exist.
[00:22:33] Speaker B: No. No.
[00:22:34] Speaker A: And what will they talk about?
[00:22:36] Speaker B: Communism is they are communism. They might actually talk about.
[00:22:39] Speaker A: They might actually talk about the lavender scare, too, because. Because queers are bad, too. Yeah.
[00:22:44] Speaker B: And of course they would talk about the red scare because McCarthy would have been a hero.
[00:22:48] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that's right. McCarthy will be a hero.
[00:22:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:51] Speaker A: Yeah. Instead of the paranoid douchebag. Return education to the states.
[00:22:58] Speaker B: Well, they're gonna teach. They're gonna teach America's founding principles in western civilization. That's where I actually know what they're gonna teach. And while it can be taught well and it can lead to an open mind, it doesn't usually.
[00:23:09] Speaker A: Heather, impressed. This chapter actually takes up a full page.
[00:23:11] Speaker B: I know. Because educate.
[00:23:13] Speaker A: Because return education to the states. What the hell does that mean?
[00:23:17] Speaker B: Means they'll dump. It'll mean exactly what they're going to do. They're going to close the Department of Education. They say that. They say that in the next one. Return education. Oh, no. They say that. Return education to the states. We're going to close the Department of Education in Washington, DC and send it back to the states. They're going to get rid of the Department of Education. They're going to get rid of Pell Grants. They're going to get rid of anything that the Department of Education helps pay for with higher ed, but they're going.
[00:23:39] Speaker A: To make college more affordable.
How do they plan on doing that? So we're on to chapter eight because we're. Okay. This might end up being a two hour episode.
[00:23:49] Speaker B: It can be a slightly longer episode.
[00:23:51] Speaker A: Yeah. They happen. It's okay. I mean, hopefully our fans can stand the test of time.
[00:23:57] Speaker B: We're almost done. I swear. Yeah, we're on page 14. Two more. This page and one more and we're almost done. And a page and a half more. We're almost done. Wrong.
[00:24:06] Speaker A: Luke ten, chapter five.
[00:24:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:24:08] Speaker A: So eight is bring common sense to government and renew the pillars of american civilization.
[00:24:14] Speaker B: I would love to know what the pillars of american civilization are. And common sense to government. Yeah, that hasn't been there since day one.
[00:24:22] Speaker A: Anyway, considering the fact that we based our. We based our laws on english common law. Common really should have been in the quotations on that.
[00:24:31] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:24:31] Speaker A: And since was absolutely not in there.
[00:24:34] Speaker B: This is all about the trappings. This is all about what Republicans are really good at surface level crap.
[00:24:40] Speaker A: So the Republicans offer a plan. I'm going to have to read this commitment because otherwise it doesn't make sense. Actually, it doesn't make any sense.
[00:24:47] Speaker B: It doesn't even make any sense anyways. Trust me.
[00:24:49] Speaker A: Republicans offer a plan to renew american civilization with common sense policies that support families, restores law and order, cares for veterans, promote beauty, and honors american history. We commit to strengthening the founding. The foundations of our society will strike our future. That was a lot of words.
[00:25:08] Speaker B: That was a lot of bullshit.
[00:25:10] Speaker A: That's word salad.
[00:25:11] Speaker B: That's a lot of bullshit. I'll just call it what it is.
[00:25:14] Speaker A: That's word salad. That, quite frankly, is going bad.
[00:25:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:19] Speaker A: The bag is bloated.
[00:25:20] Speaker B: It's rancid. Yeah.
[00:25:22] Speaker A: Just don't open it.
[00:25:23] Speaker B: Put it in the trash and hope it doesn't explode.
[00:25:25] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And things are starting to look a little slimy.
[00:25:33] Speaker B: Well, the first one is very slimy. Promote a culture that values the sanctity of marriage, the blessings of childhood, the foundational role of families, and supports working parents.
[00:25:41] Speaker A: We will end policies that punish family. What provinces punish families?
[00:25:45] Speaker B: None that I'm aware of.
[00:25:46] Speaker A: I don't know of any.
[00:25:47] Speaker B: None that I'm aware of. I mean, I have a family and I don't know that of any policies, because the only policies that punish families are the policies that aren't being enacted. Like paid family leave act and letting men have time for. With their babies, not just women. And. Yeah, that. No, it's the values of sanctity of marriage that gets me. Forget gay marriage. That'll get rolled back. Homosexual marriage will not be a thing anymore. Blessings of childhood.
Exactly. What are those again? Oh, right. I grew up in an abusive home. There are children that actually live happy lives.
[00:26:23] Speaker A: Precisely. Exactly.
[00:26:26] Speaker B: Oh, but they're going to value the parents, which means those children that grow up in abusive.
Those children that grow up in an abusive home are just sol. Because the parents are more important. So what are we considering punishing families?
[00:26:43] Speaker A: I could see a lot of the anti abuse laws being rolled back because it technically punishes families.
[00:26:50] Speaker B: Well, yeah, the mandated reporter where the. Where the teacher sees that the kid's being abused. Where I was asked by my guidance counselor in high school, do we need to get you out of there?
[00:27:00] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly.
[00:27:01] Speaker B: And so, yeah, that's okay.
[00:27:06] Speaker A: I feel like I was wrong about the whole. I don't think that my research actually found the right thing for.
[00:27:12] Speaker B: I did find another option on that.
[00:27:14] Speaker A: For the whole punishing families.
[00:27:16] Speaker B: I did find another option that I think might be a little bit more likely. So I don't know if you remember, but there was a school shooting in Michigan a while ago.
[00:27:26] Speaker A: Only one.
[00:27:28] Speaker B: Well, this one made the national news because of the situation.
It was Oakland county, which is Detroit area, and it was a 15 year old attacker, and his parents provided him with the guns. And there was a whole lot of they should have seen it coming conversation. And there was a whole lot of they could have seen it coming information.
[00:27:55] Speaker A: Oh, that's right. And they were.
[00:27:56] Speaker B: They got convicted for manslaughter.
[00:28:00] Speaker A: I couldn't remember. Manslaughter or involuntary? Oh, no, it's manslaughter.
[00:28:04] Speaker B: It's manslaughter, but I think it's involuntary manslaughter. They purchased the gun for their son, left it unlocked. You know, they did a lot. They. They were essentially accessories to murder. That's not what they were charged with. That was not what they were caught or what they got dealt with. They got charged with the first parents that were convicted in a mass us school shooting. They were sentenced to at least ten years in prison on April 9, 2024. So this was recent. This was insanely recent. And they didn't know the kid had the gun in his backpack that day, but because they bought the gun for him, because they saw his deteriorating mental health, when they were confronted with his classroom drawings that were so violent and terrible, the jury found them guilty and sentenced them to ten years above and beyond the two and a half years they'd already served.
[00:29:04] Speaker A: That's right. And if I remember correctly, some people were outraged.
[00:29:09] Speaker B: Yeah. And the thing is, Michigan is a swing state.
[00:29:13] Speaker A: Mm hmm.
[00:29:14] Speaker B: Which means we want to court the Michigan voters, and it's a gun issue, which is, again, what the Republicans all about, where they only read half of the second amendment.
[00:29:25] Speaker A: So. Two birds, 1 st. Two birds, 1.
[00:29:28] Speaker B: St. And what it boils down to is parental responsibility laws. Now the original article that I found for this is from 1994 to 96, but I found a more recent one that is from criminaldefenselawyer.com.
talking about parental rights and parental responsibilities, the US Supreme Court recently ruled, or I'm sorry, in 1925 they ruled that there's a. That parents have a fundamental right to raise their children without undue interference by the government. But in that same decision, the court upheld the power of states to force parents to ensure their kids attend school. So they said, we still have a say. Your kids gotta go to school, so.
[00:30:07] Speaker A: Your kid has to go to school. You should have more fine with that.
[00:30:09] Speaker B: Yeah. And it has been that way for a while.
[00:30:12] Speaker A: Thanks.
[00:30:13] Speaker B: Thank you, sunshine.
[00:30:14] Speaker A: Appreciate it.
[00:30:16] Speaker B: Are you done?
[00:30:16] Speaker A: Sabrina has made her presence known, but.
[00:30:19] Speaker B: It'S been that way for at least 100 years. So we've had parental responsibility statutes that have been in effect for at least 100 years. And many of them apparently arose out of supplemented laws that prohibit contributing to the delinquency of a minor, which in this case they were contributing to the fucking delinquency of a minor. I mean, I don't see that it gets much more clear than that, but.
[00:30:39] Speaker A: Part of me wonders what laws that would punish american families are trying to take away, trying to get rid of.
[00:30:46] Speaker B: But the not.
[00:30:46] Speaker A: Not allowed to abuse your child laws or the not required to send your kids to school laws or the. No, you can't be held accountable if your kid decides to do a school shooting.
[00:30:57] Speaker B: Well, and then in the late eighties, California. Well, so we have the Columbine shootings and other incidents have inspired state and local lawmakers to enact parental responsibility laws. And then in the late eighties, California and other states passed laws that aimed at reducing what the state saw as an epidemic of gang related crime by youths.
[00:31:15] Speaker A: Okay. There were big problems with it. You have one?
[00:31:17] Speaker B: Yep. And so most parental responsibility statutes punish parents for what they haven't done rather than what they have done. So the laws make parents criminally liable because they have not fulfilled their parental duty to keep their kids from breaking the law.
[00:31:31] Speaker A: Interesting.
[00:31:32] Speaker B: Okay, so the parent of the. They give an example at the beginning of this article about a juvenile garage thief. The parents of the juvenile garage thief is not charged for the staff, but for letting his child commit it by failing to exercise proper parental control.
Some parental responsibility laws hold parents legally accountable for allowing their children to engage in status crimes like skipping school, truancy or breaking curfew laws. They penalize conduct that's only illegal based on the status. So those are status crimes. But the US supreme and the US Supreme Court has upheld the power of states to compel school attendance so that status crime has been held in the Supreme Court. But we all know how this Supreme Court thinks anyway. So they also have what are affirmative duties, which is a parent's responsibility to make sure children attend school, meaning parent has to actively ensure attendance. Exception can be made for homeschooling that meets state standards. And when you have a state like Indiana, there are no standards to meet. So, you know, go for it.
[00:32:28] Speaker A: And there are not.
[00:32:30] Speaker B: And courts have also held parental responsibility under curfew laws applied to minors based on vulnerability of children, public interest in protecting their welfare, and then there's contributory crimes. Any adult may be prosecuted for contributing to the delinquency of a minor if the adult encourages or induces the minor to engage in criminal activity. For an example, an adult, whether a parent of a child or not, who furnishes a minor with alcohol, will be prosecuted under state law penalizing contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
[00:32:59] Speaker A: Right.
[00:32:59] Speaker B: Unlike parental responsibility for status crimes generally based on negligent parenting, parental liability under contributing crimes is based on the parent or another adult having actually enabled or induced minor's illegal conduct. And that's where the Michigan case comes in.
[00:33:14] Speaker A: I see.
[00:33:15] Speaker B: Which means you're punishing the family, the mom and the dad for the crime of the child. So holding parents accountable for what their children do while they're still children is apparently not going to be a thing either. Out of that is where they're aiming. I don't 100% know that that's what the case is. Because again, this is one that wasn't in agenda 47. Yeah, this is something somebody added in, I think, at the conference. This is a different Republicans piece, I think.
[00:33:42] Speaker A: And I don't understand why.
[00:33:44] Speaker B: Because the NRA rules the republican party and the NRA likes their guns and the NRA doesn't like it when anybody is held accountable for kids having guns. Oh, was that out loud? Anyway, so. And they also want to be able to challenge the constitutionality of anything California passes and they have a reasonable parent standard and it's been, been ruled constitutional. However, that was in 1993. And we know how the Supreme Court likes to reimagine how everything that they've ruled before is not how it is.
[00:34:17] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I've noticed that. So where do we pick up? Let's see.
[00:34:22] Speaker B: So I suspect that's what that might be about. And then rebuilding our cities and restoring law and order. We're looking, they're looking at restoring safety in our neighborhoods by replenishing police departments. I think we did touch on this one, but we circled back to deal with parental responsibility or punishing families.
[00:34:42] Speaker A: And we go over pretty extensively, a lot of what's wrong with police departments.
[00:34:47] Speaker B: In our policies in America episode. That's its own policing in America series. Yep. Yep. However, we don't go over the marxist.
[00:34:54] Speaker A: Prosecutors or what the hell is common sense policing?
[00:34:58] Speaker B: Oh, like I said, I'm pretty sure it's stop and frisk, because he seems to think that. He seems to think that's common sense because. Because visual profiling of someone based off of how they look.
Also, racism is common sense.
[00:35:16] Speaker A: You know what? Not just racism fair.
[00:35:19] Speaker B: It's actually apparel choices.
[00:35:21] Speaker A: It's discrimination against the poor as well.
[00:35:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:24] Speaker A: It's also discrimination against the homeless.
[00:35:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, but we're going to get to that about how much we're going to help the homeless. We will compassionately address homelessness to restore order to our streets.
That's part of rebuilding our cities and restoring law and order, too.
[00:35:38] Speaker A: Compassionately address homelessness. So they're not going to make it illegal to be homeless.
[00:35:43] Speaker B: Toilet green.
[00:35:44] Speaker A: It's people. Oh, God. You went there?
[00:35:48] Speaker B: Yes, I went there. Yes, I went there. Do I think they're going to. No. Do I think that that should be said?
[00:35:54] Speaker A: Yes. Would I not put it past them?
[00:35:59] Speaker B: They're the ones obsessed with death camps, so why not?
[00:36:01] Speaker A: Precisely.
[00:36:02] Speaker B: Hello, little miss death camps and death.
[00:36:04] Speaker A: Panels don't already exist.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:36:09] Speaker B: The right of every american to live in peace. Every American who has money. Yeah.
[00:36:15] Speaker A: Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
[00:36:16] Speaker B: It's not happening. The ones in luxury housing that I found were the ones that were coming were paying their own money as tourists to America to come have a baby in America. And that is a thing. And they have tons of money. So they're staying in the luxury resort areas.
[00:36:33] Speaker A: Right. But you're not talking about swim across the. Talking about people, the real grun who.
[00:36:40] Speaker B: Braved razor wire and people shooting at them to try and survive anyway. They're not in luxury. So, yeah, whatever money that we don't have, we're going to turn around and use to shelter and treat homeless vets.
[00:36:56] Speaker A: We will restore Trump administration reforms to expand veterans health care choices, protect whistleblowers, and hold accountable poorly performing employees.
Not giving our veterans the care they deserve. You know, what if you would actually not cut funding for veterans administration and actually give them the funding they need to employ the people that they need? Maybe they would give them better care.
[00:37:20] Speaker B: Fancy that. And protect whistleblowers. This would be the same man that wanted to actually prosecute the people, people who were whistleblowers on anything he did. Wait, what?
[00:37:32] Speaker A: Uh huh. Exactly.
[00:37:36] Speaker B: The hypocrisy is rampant with this crowd.
[00:37:38] Speaker A: Between the child and the grandchild of veterans.
[00:37:42] Speaker B: This is just.
We ended up really off course and under bridges somewhere near federal, near the FBI buildings, and it was empty, safe, comfortable. It was not. It was. There was no rampant crime. We were looking at the monuments and they were in absolute perfect order. So I don't understand what they're looking at that they're seeing, that it's. Unless they're looking back at January 6 and the fact that their own people destroyed windows and crap in the Capitol.
[00:38:12] Speaker A: Buildings, I mean, those probably might still need to be fixed. But I have the feeling starting in November, security around DC is going to be quadrupled compared to four years ago.
[00:38:24] Speaker B: I hope so.
[00:38:25] Speaker A: Me, too.
[00:38:26] Speaker B: I sincerely hope so. It shouldn't have to be.
[00:38:28] Speaker A: I really don't like the idea. I mean, yeah, I'm not really thrilled with Congress, but I really don't like the idea of an angry mob going in and basically trying to kill them. I was looking at point number four.
[00:38:40] Speaker B: Taking care of our best.
[00:38:41] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Just the first line we. Well, Republicans will end luxury housing and taxpayer benefits for illegal immigrants. I love how they call them illegal immigrants and illegal aliens. What the hell? Illegal immigrants. And use those savings to shelter and treat homeless veterans. Again, you don't get taxpayer benefits unless you are a legal resident.
[00:39:06] Speaker B: And they're not in luxury housing. They're not?
[00:39:11] Speaker A: No.
The biggest problem with our veteran healthcare is the fact that they keep cutting the funds.
[00:39:17] Speaker B: In the entire state of Kentucky, there were two VA homes.
[00:39:22] Speaker A: Two.
[00:39:23] Speaker B: One of them was in Lexington, and it was a hospital.
It was not a home. And this was for Alzheimer dementia related care. This is not necessarily a retirement home, but it's a medical home for elderly veterans on VA. It's going through veterans affairs. My dad was there. It was a fucking hospital.
Then they had a different home in a different area up in the hills in Kentucky. That was much nicer. That was less a hospital and more of a home, but that was two in the entire fucking state.
[00:40:03] Speaker A: Uh huh.
[00:40:04] Speaker B: For the veterans.
[00:40:05] Speaker A: I couldn't even tell you how many there are in Indiana.
[00:40:07] Speaker B: Well, there's at least a couple locally because I did know a veteran who was definitely getting plenty of care locally. But. Yeah, she was.
[00:40:15] Speaker A: But we live in. But we live in or around Indianapolis, right? The biggest city in the state.
If you're outside of Indy, there's probably nothing. Do you have.
[00:40:25] Speaker B: Probably not much.
[00:40:26] Speaker A: I don't even know if there are.
[00:40:27] Speaker B: Being services up in Kokomo that's easily checkable. They are well represented in Indianapolis, so. Yeah, but, yeah, giving them the health care they deserve is. Is give them. Stop cutting benefits. Stop cutting. Stop cutting the money to the VA.
[00:40:44] Speaker A: Precisely.
[00:40:45] Speaker B: To use it for your fucking border wall anyway.
[00:40:47] Speaker A: No shit. Or to give to the military industrial complex, which is creating more disabled veterans.
[00:40:54] Speaker B: They want to make colleges and universities.
[00:40:56] Speaker A: Sane and affordable by firing radical left accreditors. Oh, my God.
[00:41:03] Speaker B: They don't even know what a fucking accreditor does.
[00:41:06] Speaker A: Drive down tuition costs, restore due process protections, and pursue civil rights cases against schools that discriminate.
[00:41:15] Speaker B: Okay. I've been on an accreditation team.
[00:41:18] Speaker A: I would not call you. I would not call that liberal.
[00:41:20] Speaker B: Oh, no. God's note. I've done accreditation. I've been on an accreditation team. They come in.
It's a weird thing. I was actually there for this at Illinois Central College when I used to work in Illinois as a librarian and I was on an accreditation team. They have. They have teams that go. It's all about paperwork and documentation.
There are certain criteria you have to meet, period.
That's just the way it goes. So if you don't meet the criteria, then you get time to address yourself to meet the criteria.
[00:41:53] Speaker A: And if you still don't meet the.
[00:41:54] Speaker B: Criteria, and if you still don't, then they yank your accreditation and say, doesn't mean you can't keep giving them a degree. It doesn't mean you can't keep doing it. Just your degree is no longer considered as valuable because you don't have all the infrastructure and underpinning that you give for about more valuable degree.
[00:42:13] Speaker A: That's simple.
[00:42:14] Speaker B: So they don't know what accreditation. They have no idea. Accreditation is a boast, boring, pencil pushing, pencil pushing, conservative thing you can possibly have.
[00:42:25] Speaker A: Hell, are the due process protection that have been.
[00:42:28] Speaker B: No.
[00:42:29] Speaker A: Fuck.
No idea what they're talking about.
[00:42:32] Speaker B: No fucking clue.
[00:42:33] Speaker A: They pursue civil rights cases against schools that discriminate.
I know what that is.
[00:42:41] Speaker B: Which one?
[00:42:42] Speaker A: The discrimination thing. I know what that is. I wonder if this is actually addressing affirmative action.
[00:42:49] Speaker B: Probably because they want to get rid of affirmative action, too.
[00:42:52] Speaker A: Because God forbid we not allow white male students into a place that they've.
[00:42:57] Speaker B: Always had access do and that they're obviously unqualified for. But, you know, we got to let them in over the black and hispanic.
[00:43:05] Speaker A: And.
[00:43:08] Speaker B: Female and probably queer. Queer.
[00:43:11] Speaker A: And because I know they're gunning for us.
[00:43:14] Speaker B: Well, they're gunning for anybody that isn't cis hat, white male.
[00:43:18] Speaker A: True.
Combat antisemitism.
Republicans condemn anti semitism and support revoking visas of foreign nationals who support terrorism or jihadism. We will hold accountable those who perpetuate violence against jewish people. Okay. I am absolutely against anti semitism.
[00:43:40] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:43:41] Speaker A: I am absolutely against perpetuating violence against really any people, including jewish people. However, what is happening in Gaza right.
[00:43:52] Speaker B: Now, they're not even in Gaza anymore. They've gone past the Gaza because they pushed them all up into Raha in.
[00:44:00] Speaker A: The israeli palestinian area.
[00:44:02] Speaker B: In the israeli Palestinian. Current israeli palestinian conflict is happening.
[00:44:07] Speaker A: Is wrong, and it needs to stop.
[00:44:13] Speaker B: It's not anti semitic to say, I don't support Netanyahu's governmental choices. That is not anti semitic.
[00:44:21] Speaker A: It's not. And it's not prop Hamas to say, I don't fuck. No, I don't support Netanyahu's governmental decisions. It is not pro hamas. It is not anti semitic.
[00:44:34] Speaker B: It is a commentary on one governmental representational moment.
[00:44:40] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:44:41] Speaker B: It has nothing to do with the belief structures or systems. It has nothing to do with what this has blown up as to neither or situation for Republicans.
[00:44:52] Speaker A: And saying I. And saying, I don't think it's right that Israel is bombing Palestine does not mean that I think it's okay for Hamas to bomb Israel. I don't want anybody bombing anyone else.
[00:45:05] Speaker B: Exactly. The bombing needs to stop. It's kind of like. It just needs to stop. It's kind of like I'm nothing. Okay. I am anti russian at the moment, but that's mostly because I'm anti Putin. I'm anti Putin's Russia. But we were raised to be anti russian.
[00:45:20] Speaker A: Mm hmm.
[00:45:21] Speaker B: That I did. That didn't take either. The russian people are wonderful. I have no problem with Russians. I have a problem with the oligarchs and Putin who are running Russia.
[00:45:32] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:45:33] Speaker B: I have a problem with the fact that they bombed the crap out of Ukraine.
[00:45:38] Speaker A: You can dislike a politician, you can dislike a governmental administration and not hate the people living there.
[00:45:48] Speaker B: But that's too.
[00:45:49] Speaker A: That's.
[00:45:50] Speaker B: That's too ishy lashy for either or thinking. We know from. This is from. This is from scientific studies showing that conservative minds tend toward either or thinking. They tend to be very black and white.
[00:46:06] Speaker A: Very binary. Black and white thinking, exactly, by the way, is not a healthy way to think.
[00:46:12] Speaker B: No, it's not. But that's what they tend to.
[00:46:14] Speaker A: And it's because our world is not black and white. Our world is extremely varied, and there are multiple sides to things.
[00:46:24] Speaker B: Unfortunately, our government, half of our government has decided there's the right way and the wrong way and we're the right way, and everything's binary. And that is. He's got a toy.
[00:46:35] Speaker A: Sorry, guys. Leo has a toy.
[00:46:37] Speaker B: And it's a really kind of a creepy sound that he does when he has a toy.
[00:46:40] Speaker A: He does. First time he did it, I'm wandering around the house trying to find him, like, oh, my God, what's wrong? Oh, my God, what's wrong?
[00:46:46] Speaker B: He sounds like he's dying. But no, he just has a toy.
[00:46:48] Speaker A: And is enjoying it. He wanders into the room and there is a toy mouse hanging in his mouth and he's making that noise. You get to hear the wonderful background annoyance of my cats and their weird behavior.
[00:46:59] Speaker B: So after dealing with the binary thinking, with anti semitism, then we have the overcome the crisis in liberal arts education, which I'm not really, given what they're saying. I understand what they think the crisis is.
[00:47:11] Speaker A: Republicans support the restoration of classic liberal arts education. What the fuck is that?
[00:47:17] Speaker B: That is western civilization.
[00:47:21] Speaker A: Civilization.
[00:47:22] Speaker B: That is anti. The fact that there's anything fucking older than western civilization, like, I don't know, a lot of chinese civilizations.
That is ignoring the fact that, I don't know, classic. That is ignoring the fact that the broadening of the liberal arts education includes broadening our minds and thinking, God forbid.
[00:47:46] Speaker A: We think, restore american beauty, promote beauty in public architecture, and preserve our national treasures.
We will build cherished symbols of our nation and restore genuine conservation efforts. Oh, my God, they're gonna put those damn statues back up.
[00:48:03] Speaker B: As opposed to fake conservation efforts like this one.
[00:48:07] Speaker A: Anyway, like what they're proposing, because they're gonna open up, you know, unused. Unused federal land and build houses on.
[00:48:16] Speaker B: Who defines beauty? I know what Trump wants for beauty and public architecture.
[00:48:20] Speaker A: Do I slip him all over the place?
[00:48:22] Speaker B: No, but if you look in architecture, if you look at Trump Plaza, the Trump Plaza Hotel, he is very much a federalist in his design preferences. He wants the federalist design brought back.
[00:48:33] Speaker A: He wants colonialism.
[00:48:34] Speaker B: Yes, he does.
[00:48:34] Speaker A: Colonialist style.
[00:48:35] Speaker B: Yes, he does.
[00:48:36] Speaker A: Oh, my God, that's so boring.
[00:48:38] Speaker B: It's so boring. And it's kind of ugly.
If you like it, you like it, but neoclassical was all well and good, but it had its day. It's done. It's overdeveloped. And there's a reason we passed on from it. Because it's boring.
[00:48:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:48:52] Speaker B: Especially since Americans can't do anything but a derivative of neoclassical. Because, you know, we aren't from Greece or Rome.
Promote beauty. Whose definition of beauty precisely.
[00:49:05] Speaker A: Cherished symbols of our nation.
I am almost afraid to ask.
[00:49:10] Speaker B: Lots and lots of bald eagle statues.
You know, he's gonna shop. He's gonna shop all of those lovely little. All those lovely little mom and pop junkyard things throughout the country. You see where they have all of the bald eagle statues?
[00:49:29] Speaker A: He's gonna hit all of these.
He's gonna hit all of the flea markets in hobby lobby. Right.
[00:49:34] Speaker B: Yes, exactly.
Precisely. That's my thought. You know?
[00:49:40] Speaker A: Cause, marca, we warned you about the.
[00:49:43] Speaker B: Snarkasm, and then we're gonna honor american history and celebrate our great american heroes proud that the story of America makes everyone free. We will organize a national celebration to mark the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America. Guess what? Anybody who's in office during the 250th anniversary is gonna have a massive celebration. Everybody everywhere in America is going to have a massive celebration because it's 250 years.
[00:50:12] Speaker A: They're proud that the story of America makes everyone free. But that's the 13th and 14th Amendment that they want to repeal.
[00:50:19] Speaker B: That they want to repeal.
[00:50:21] Speaker A: Or.
[00:50:21] Speaker B: And all of the. All of the legislation that they want to walk back with title IX and affirmative action and all of that. Yeah. Yeah. And reproductive rights and bodily autonomy and reproductive rights.
[00:50:33] Speaker A: We haven't seen that yet. Have one?
[00:50:35] Speaker B: Nope. They very. It's actually been a commentary that they have very much hidden a lot of that.
[00:50:44] Speaker A: Oh, really? I'm not surprised, considering the backlash with the abortion laws.
[00:50:48] Speaker B: And they actually do go flat out to say they're going to protect. We talked about that. That they're going to protect access to birth control. And I. Which I call bullshit, because the Supreme Court has said they want to roll those. They want to roll back birth control.
[00:51:05] Speaker A: Not with. Not when they have who they will. For the president of the Senate. The man who wants to make all of it illegal.
[00:51:14] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:51:14] Speaker A: Because kindly remember, folks, one of the duties of the vice president is to be the president of the Senate.
[00:51:21] Speaker B: Yep. And to the end, to make sure they vote in all of those tiebreakers.
[00:51:27] Speaker A: Mm hmm.
So we're on to chapter nine.
[00:51:31] Speaker B: We are almost done. We are so close.
[00:51:33] Speaker A: So close. We have one more after this, which is chapter nine is government of, by, and for the people.
Oh God, I'm scared.
[00:51:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:51:43] Speaker A: So their commitment is Republicans will offer a clear, precise, and USA oriented plan to stop the radical left Democrats weaponization of government and its assault on american liberty.
[00:51:58] Speaker B: Bullshit. Oh, sorry. There's nothing clear and precise about anything they say. So I'm calling bullshit right there.
[00:52:05] Speaker A: We will restore government of, by and for the people, ensuring accountability, protecting individual liberties, and fixing our once very corrupt elections, basically by encouraging the ability so that people of color can't vote on. I'm sorry, that was commentary and not what they wrote.
[00:52:21] Speaker B: And honestly, the elections have been proven repeatedly that they weren't very corrupt. But you know, why go there?
[00:52:26] Speaker A: We commit to upholding the Constitution of the United States, appointing judges who respect the rule of law, and defending the rights of all Americans to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
[00:52:38] Speaker B: Not all.
[00:52:39] Speaker A: We will maintain the Supreme Court as it always, as it was always meant to be. That nine justices will not allow the democratic party to increase this number as they would like to, by four.
[00:52:53] Speaker B: 6810 and even twelve justices, which is a massive bullshit.
[00:52:57] Speaker A: We will block them at every turn. What they're gonna do anyway, they're gonna do that.
[00:53:03] Speaker B: They're the party. They're the party of foot dragging and blocks and all sorts of. Even when they have the majority, they can't get anything done. So, you know, true, you're right. I mean, they've had, they've had the majority in the house for a really long time now, and they got nothing done.
And it's not because the Democrats stopped them, because they didn't allow the Democrats to stop them. So, you know, they just got nothing done.
[00:53:26] Speaker A: They get nothing done. Oh, and then they get nothing done except screw things up, which the drawing heads have to go in and say.
[00:53:33] Speaker B: Yeah, now there is no such thing as the Supreme Court as it was always meant to be. There are no numbers listed anywhere in the documentation discussing the Supreme Court. So this, as it was always meant to be, is, which is absolutely bullshit. No such creature. The Supreme Court, at its maximum, I think, had twelve members at one point. I think that was when it was at its maximum. I think I remember learning that trivia at some point, I think. So that's what Google's for.
[00:54:02] Speaker A: What Google is for. Let's see who finds it first.
[00:54:06] Speaker B: Since 1869, we've had a maximum of nine justices, including one chief justice, eight associate justices. But in 1866, Congress passed legislation to reduce the number of justices from ten to seven, so that Andrew Johnson couldn't appoint a new judge. So it looks like it might have been ten.
[00:54:23] Speaker A: Okay, interesting. So Republicans will stop woke and weaponized government anytime they say woke. I stopped listening to them. We will hold accountable those who have misused the power of government to unjustly prosecute their political opponents.
[00:54:37] Speaker B: Oh, you mean like the Republicans under Trump? Got it.
[00:54:40] Speaker A: We will declassify government records, root out wrongdoers, and fire corrupt employees. Declassified documents.
[00:54:49] Speaker B: That should be fine.
[00:54:51] Speaker A: Let's just hand the missile codes to Russia. Why don't we.
[00:54:53] Speaker B: Let's just. Let's just out.
[00:54:55] Speaker A: Oh, wait.
[00:54:56] Speaker B: They did out all of our. Our undercover operatives?
[00:54:59] Speaker A: Yes, they did.
[00:55:00] Speaker B: So, yeah, they did that already. Huh. I guess they missed a few.
[00:55:04] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:55:06] Speaker B: And who's defining corrupt employees? Because I'm certain that. In wrongdoers. Because I'm certain that. Let's see, there's one fucking convicted felon that's getting anywhere near the White House at this point, and he's a fucking Republican.
[00:55:19] Speaker A: And I will tell you right now, here's. Here's a big problem I have with this idea of firing corrupt him. I also have a problem with this from project 2025, and we saw it in agenda 47, the idea that they will basically take.
I don't remember what the note. It was. Hundreds of federal jobs and turn them into political appointments. Problem is, those jobs are currently not. They are federal jobs, and they are being done by people who, if they get rid of those people, those people will take all that knowledge of how to do that job with them out the door, and you will put in a bunch of people who have no fucking clue what they're doing. And if you think that there are actually training materials to tell everybody how to do these jobs.
I've worked for Indiana state government. Trust me, they don't.
[00:56:13] Speaker B: So this was part. This is from agenda 47. It was his plan to dismantle the deep state and return power to the american people. Yes, that's where you were finding it. And on day one, reissue the executive order.
[00:56:26] Speaker A: Come back here.
[00:56:28] Speaker B: Restoring presidential authority to fire rogue, quote, rogue bureaucrats. Overhaul federal departments and agencies, firing all of the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus. Fundamentally reform the FISA courts, ensuring that corruption is rooted out. Establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to declassify and publish all documents on deep state state spying, censorship, and abuses of power. Launch a major crackdown on government leakers who collude with the media to create false narratives, pressing criminal charges when appropriate. Make every inspector general's office independent from the department they oversee so they do not become protectors of the deep state. Establish an independent auditing system to continually monitor our intelligence agencies to ensure that they're not spying on our citizens or running disinformation campaigns against the american people. Continue Trump administration efforts to move parts of federal bureaucracy outside of the Washington swamp, just like Trump moved the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado. And that means up to 100,000 government positions could be moved out of Washington. Ban federal bureaucrats from taking jobs at the companies they deal with and regulate, such as big pharma, and push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress. That is the only one, I, only thing he has ever had his name associated with that I agree with, is.
[00:57:45] Speaker A: Term limits on Congress, on SCOTUS. Not gonna lie.
[00:57:48] Speaker B: Not gonna lie.
[00:57:50] Speaker A: So the next one kind of cracks me up.
[00:57:52] Speaker B: So that's. That's from agenda, agenda 47, folks. And that is literally what Trump said he wanted to do.
[00:57:58] Speaker A: So the next one is Republicans will dismantle censorship and protect.
[00:58:05] Speaker B: That's.
[00:58:06] Speaker A: Does that mean the banned book lists are finally gonna go away?
[00:58:10] Speaker B: Does that mean the ban books to.
[00:58:11] Speaker A: Come back even more so, which is an important question to ask since there are quite a few queer characters in my first novel.
[00:58:18] Speaker B: And to be honest, one of the most republican states in America, Utah, is getting some really bad press right now.
[00:58:25] Speaker A: For all of the books that they.
[00:58:26] Speaker B: Are yanking off library shelves in both schools and public libraries.
[00:58:31] Speaker A: So let's see.
[00:58:32] Speaker B: They're going to, they're going to stop censorship by censoring. Now, wait a minute. What?
[00:58:36] Speaker A: They're going to band federal government from colluding with anyone to censor lawful fees, defund institutions engaged in. Engaged in censorship. There goes moms for liberty.
[00:58:47] Speaker B: Oh, please.
[00:58:48] Speaker A: And hold accountable all bureaucrats involved with illegal censoring. Oh, there's the caveat, illegal sensory.
[00:58:57] Speaker B: I see. So there's loophole right there, but there's the. Involved with the censors lawful speech. What happened to First Amendment right to peaceably assemble?
[00:59:07] Speaker A: Precisely.
[00:59:08] Speaker B: Florida put. Florida's got laws on law on the books now. DeSantis signed a law that made it so that you can't peaceably assemble depending on what you want to assemble about.
[00:59:18] Speaker A: Yeah, I love the fact that they're also.
[00:59:20] Speaker B: Does that mean DeSantis going to jail?
[00:59:21] Speaker A: God, we can only hope.
Most Floridians can only hope. And they're going to protect free speech online?
[00:59:29] Speaker B: No, they're going to protect Elon Musk and all the trolls and cyber bullies. I got it. I get that. That's their definition of protecting free speech online.
[00:59:37] Speaker A: They're also going to defend religious liberty. I don't buy it.
[00:59:42] Speaker B: Yes, my wicker man rituals will come back.
[00:59:45] Speaker A: Yes, and we're back to a wicker man ritual.
[00:59:49] Speaker B: By the time they're in office, it will be perfectly appropriate timing, even.
[00:59:54] Speaker A: It'll be about the right time of the year.
[00:59:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:59:56] Speaker A: Well, wait, no, isn't the wicker man usually. No, the wicker man is usually done around August 1.
[01:00:02] Speaker B: Oh.
So bummers.
[01:00:07] Speaker A: You. You look so disappointed.
[01:00:11] Speaker B: I'm a good actress, you must say.
[01:00:13] Speaker A: Really? Disappointment there. Oh, I'm a very good actress. According to them, they're gonna defend the First Amendment right to religiously. Liberty protects the right not only to worship according to the dictates of conscience, but also to act in accordance with those beliefs, not just in places of worship, but in everyday life. Our ranks include men and women from every faith and tradition.
[01:00:37] Speaker B: Doubt that.
[01:00:38] Speaker A: God damn will I hold their feet to bodies.
[01:00:39] Speaker B: God damn do I doubt that.
[01:00:41] Speaker A: And we respect the right of every american to follow his or her deeply held beliefs.
[01:00:46] Speaker B: I don't know too many witches that are actually Republicans.
[01:00:51] Speaker A: To protect religious liberty. Republican support. A new federal task force on fighting anti christian bias that will investigate all forms of illegal discrimination, harassment, and persecution against christians in America.
[01:01:07] Speaker B: And they just unveiled themselves very quickly. They opened it right up there.
[01:01:12] Speaker A: So much for all religions. Exactly. They're also going to protect and defend a vote of the people from within the states on the issue of life. Fuck you. We proudly stand for families and life. We believe that the 14th amendment that we want to get rid of, of the Constitution of the United States, guarantees that no person can be denied life or liberty without due process, and that the states are therefore free to pass laws protecting those rights. After 51 years, because of us, that power has been given to the states into a vote. The people. We will oppose late term abortion while supporting mothers.
[01:01:50] Speaker B: Yeah, that's a good joke.
[01:01:52] Speaker A: And policies that advance parental care, prenatal care, access to birth control, and ivf.
[01:01:59] Speaker B: Okay, they'll help with prenatal care. They just won't help after the fucking baby's born.
[01:02:03] Speaker A: They won't help her with. They'll help with prenatal care so long as, you know, the fetus has not gone non viable and the mother is now going.
[01:02:12] Speaker B: Exactly. They'll help with prenatal care as long as it only includes folic acid, vitamins.
Just saying. Just saying.
We did warn snarkasm, folks, and there's a reason that the term snark and sarcasm came out of my mouth. At the same time, at one point.
[01:02:30] Speaker A: And I'm gonna be honest with you, seriously, I just, I've been hearing the horror stories. Actually heard. Oh, I heard this morning. Was it this morning, this morning or yesterday morning about a woman in Texas, of course, who pregnancy became non viable.
It was not bad enough for her to qualify for the late term care that she needed, and they had to wait until she went septic. And now she is no longer fertile.
It caused her uterus to collapse and it caused one of her fallopian tubes to completely. Oh, can we completely burn up?
[01:03:09] Speaker B: Can we then go circle back to this whole. We're going to look into the causes of chronic disease and chronic illness.
[01:03:16] Speaker A: I really hate to tell you folks, but a lot of the chronic illnesses out there are genetic.
[01:03:20] Speaker B: But if we look at the chronic, the cause of chronic illness, wouldn't that qualify?
[01:03:25] Speaker A: I would say that would qualify.
[01:03:27] Speaker B: And how was that caused, again, by republican loss that removed bodily autonomy from the woman to work with her doctor for her healthcare. Okay, just, just clarifying that we run into ourselves at some point with these policies and that. Yeah.
[01:03:49] Speaker A: So apparently they're also going to end the left wing gender insanity. Fuck you.
[01:03:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:03:55] Speaker A: Sideways.
[01:03:57] Speaker B: Yeah. Keep men out of women's sports. Men are not in women's sports.
[01:04:02] Speaker A: Ban taxpayer funding for sex change surgeries and stop taxpayer funded schools from promoting gender transition.
[01:04:10] Speaker B: They don't.
[01:04:10] Speaker A: They don't now reverse Biden's radical rewrite of title ix education regulations that they're going to get rid of anyway and restore protections for women and girls.
[01:04:21] Speaker B: Now here's the thing. The taxpayer funding for sex change surgeries, they're referring to one small substat, and that is military people who are going, who have gone. Have undergone a gender change surgery.
[01:04:38] Speaker A: What I think a lot of people don't realize is sex change surgeries also include gender reassignment surgeries for intersex infants.
[01:04:48] Speaker B: Yep. Not to mention all of the surgeries for all of those boys that have been. I don't know the word. So that's why I say it.
[01:04:55] Speaker A: Gynecomastia. It basically increased breast tissue growth in cisgender boys.
[01:05:01] Speaker B: And that's why they phrased it the way they did.
[01:05:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Because they don't want to say gender reaffirming.
[01:05:06] Speaker B: Most sex change or most gender reaffirming surgeries are that.
[01:05:11] Speaker A: Yeah. For minors. Absolutely. Are basically dealing with gynecomastia in citron or boys. And there's some gender reassignment surgery for intersex.
[01:05:23] Speaker B: And there's some that happen pretty much at birth.
[01:05:26] Speaker A: Yes, they do happen at birth.
[01:05:27] Speaker B: But you realize also what that would mean too for gender assignment surgery. Gender assignment surgery stuff at birth.
There goes circumcisions.
[01:05:36] Speaker A: Does it, though?
It doesn't do anything to change the assignment.
[01:05:41] Speaker B: No, but it is an unnecessary sex related surgery.
[01:05:47] Speaker A: It is very much an unnecessary sex related surgery.
[01:05:49] Speaker B: So that should qualify as a problem for them too, right?
[01:05:53] Speaker A: Republicans will ensure election integrity. So what the hell was the. Oh, this was the government of informed black people.
[01:06:00] Speaker B: Okay. Yes, this is the everything else category, pretty much.
[01:06:03] Speaker A: This is the miscellaneous.
[01:06:04] Speaker B: This is the. We can't fit it under any other obvious choices, so let's just dump it all together.
[01:06:09] Speaker A: So they're going to ensure election integrity by including voter id. Highly sophisticated paper ballot.
[01:06:16] Speaker B: Because the paper ballot is so sophisticated.
[01:06:18] Speaker A: We learned nothing from 2000. Proof of citizenship and same day voting.
[01:06:23] Speaker B: Because voter id isn't proof of citizenship. How about that?
[01:06:27] Speaker A: Your driver's license or passport is no longer considered proof of citizenship. Citizenship.
[01:06:32] Speaker B: I don't know what the hell is. And same day voting. I'm sorry, military members overseas and students that aren't living at home. You don't get to vote. Sorry.
[01:06:41] Speaker A: Exactly. Gotta luck. Sorry, sorry. Military, you don't get to vote if you are overseas. Doesn't that fist suck to be you?
[01:06:49] Speaker B: Oh, you don't even get to vote.
[01:06:50] Speaker A: Thank you for your service to our country.
[01:06:54] Speaker B: It's not even overset overseas. That's if you're not at where your driver's license and home is at. If you're not where your license says, then you're out of luck.
[01:07:03] Speaker A: That's true. That is true. Oh, God. How do they deal with that now on college campuses? Because back in ye olden times, when I was in college.
[01:07:14] Speaker B: I didn't vote.
[01:07:15] Speaker A: Also known as the early nineties.
If you were a college student, you were able to vote on campus.
[01:07:23] Speaker B: I was an independent student by that time, and I was an Indiana resident by that time, so I was no longer, but I was no longer eligible to be a Michigan resident to vote. I was an Indiana resident at that time, so it wasn't a big deal for me one way or the other. For youngest this or for eldest, this will be the first time they will be voting. And they will be voting from Japan.
[01:07:44] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Because they weren't old enough yet. Nope.
[01:07:47] Speaker B: This will be their first time voting. And they will. They have looked into it. They already have all the information of where they need to go to look. I will make sure they remember to vote because they understand no, they want the help remembering because they understand exactly how important this.
[01:08:03] Speaker A: They are aware. Yes. And they also understand how important the votes are down ballot as well.
[01:08:10] Speaker B: Yep.
[01:08:11] Speaker A: Kindly remember, we're not just voting for a president. There are a lot of other state and local elections that are happening at the same time, and those are equally important.
[01:08:22] Speaker B: But I love the highly sophisticated paper ballots. There's only so sophisticated a paper gap ballot can be. I mean, I'm sorry, how do you get it? It's paper. It's pencil and paper. There's no sophisticated to it. It's like a scantron test. There's no sophistication to it.
[01:08:37] Speaker A: Which, honestly, to some degree, is kind of what it is now.
[01:08:41] Speaker B: Yeah, pretty much.
I mean, it's just we've gotten rid of the paper portion of the scantron sheet.
[01:08:48] Speaker A: Well, no, technically. Actually, we still do have them. Because you get that. You get that piece of paper, you pop it in the voting machine, you make your choices. Actually, I think apprentices out now, thinking back to the primaries that we had not too long ago, and then you go and you put it in the voting counting machine and it says, yes, you. Yes, your vote was accepted.
[01:09:07] Speaker B: Oh, no, I do everything digital. Everything that we had is purely digital.
[01:09:11] Speaker A: Oh, Hendricks county does that. Yeah. Marion county does not yet.
[01:09:14] Speaker B: Hendricks county is purely digital. You go up to the machine, you enter your thing, you press your done button that you're done. You don't press that you're done until you're really done. But you press your button, you're done, and congratulations, you're done.
[01:09:23] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[01:09:25] Speaker B: Yeah. We don't have paper ballots anymore.
[01:09:27] Speaker A: That's scary. That's really scary. So they're also going to protect the Americans and the territories because, of course.
[01:09:34] Speaker B: We have to throw a bone out to Guam and northern Mariana islands, American Samoa, US Virgin islands, and Puerto Rico. Because how many Americans actually realize that they're all.
[01:09:46] Speaker A: That?
[01:09:46] Speaker B: Those are all Americans, too. Yeah. Especially since he had so much bad press with the paper towel incident.
[01:09:53] Speaker A: In Puerto Rico.
[01:09:54] Speaker B: In Puerto Rico. Yeah. Yeah. This is the bone to say. I remember you.
[01:10:01] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness.
[01:10:04] Speaker B: And they've mentioned that so many times. Really?
[01:10:06] Speaker A: So we are finally at the end to chapter ten. The end is nighdeende. I see the light in the distance. They're going to return to peace through strength, because that's worked so well for the last.
[01:10:21] Speaker B: Any. You know the last place I remember hearing that.
1984. Oh, I'm sorry. That was peace through war.
Anyway, anyway, I don't mean the year 1984.
[01:10:33] Speaker A: You mean the book?
Their commitment is keeping the american people safe requires a strong America. The Biden administration's weak foreign policy has made us less safe and a laughing stock all over the world.
[01:10:48] Speaker B: Oh, no, that was Trump. That was absolutely Trump.
[01:10:51] Speaker A: The republican plan is to return peace through strength. Rebuilding our military and alliances. Countering China, defending terrorism. Building an Iron Dome missile defense shield.
[01:11:05] Speaker B: Defeating terrorism. Folks, not defending it. Who not defending. Who are not defending the terrorism, defeating.
[01:11:10] Speaker A: It's getting hard to read. Sorry, it's hard. It's getting hard to read through all of the bullshit.
[01:11:15] Speaker B: Yeah. An Iron Dome missile defense shield.
[01:11:18] Speaker A: Defeating terrorism. Building an iron Dome defense missile defense. Missile defense shield. Okay. Promoting american values, securing our homeland and borders under reviving our defense industrial base. We will. Building military bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.
[01:11:40] Speaker B: Why do I hear the $6 million man?
We can make him stronger, we can make him faster, we can rebuild him.
Anyway.
[01:11:49] Speaker A: Our full commitment is protecting America and ensuring a safe and prosperous future. I can't get through it. I'm so sorry.
We already have the biggest fucking military on the goddamn planet.
[01:12:03] Speaker B: And the biggest, baddest, most badass military. Yes. With the best material.
[01:12:09] Speaker A: You're already there.
[01:12:10] Speaker B: We're already there. Yes.
[01:12:12] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[01:12:13] Speaker B: But they want to make it bigger, better, and stronger than before.
They want a $6 million man and. Are you kidding?
[01:12:19] Speaker A: What? The $6 million army is what I'm hearing.
[01:12:22] Speaker B: No, they want the $6 trillion army, not million. At this point, I still think your.
[01:12:27] Speaker A: Assessment might be a little low.
[01:12:29] Speaker B: Probably so.
[01:12:31] Speaker A: They're going to.
[01:12:32] Speaker B: They're going to. They're going to be the exact opposite of Trump when he was in office. Got it?
I most certainly did say it because I was paying fucking attention.
[01:12:45] Speaker A: National interests are going to promote foreign policy centered on the most essential american.
[01:12:50] Speaker B: Interests, starting with protecting the american homeland, our people, our borders, our great american.
[01:12:57] Speaker A: Flag, and our right under.
[01:13:00] Speaker B: Under God.
[01:13:01] Speaker A: Because which one?
[01:13:03] Speaker B: I know, right?
[01:13:05] Speaker A: There are so many to choose.
[01:13:07] Speaker B: I vote for either Baphomet or Cthulhu.
[01:13:11] Speaker A: I was going with this fun spaghetti monster, but okay.
We can all be touched by his newly offenders.
Modernize the military because it's not modern enough yet.
[01:13:23] Speaker B: The most modern, lethal and powerful force in the world.
[01:13:26] Speaker A: Invest in cutting edge research and advanced technology, including an Iron Dome missile defense shield. Order troops with higher pay and get woke. Left wing Democrats fired as soon as possible.
[01:13:40] Speaker B: No, you're not allowed to serve because you have too many woke ideologies. Sorry. You can't die for us.
[01:13:46] Speaker A: I'm not even a Democrat.
And I got to tell you, every time I see. Every time I see radical leftist Democrat, I start laughing.
[01:13:55] Speaker B: Or woke left wing.
[01:13:56] Speaker A: Yeah, or woke left wing Democrats because I laugh in actual radical left wing. Okay.
[01:14:05] Speaker B: Because Democrats are not radical.
[01:14:08] Speaker A: Are not radical or left wing anymore. Sorry. They're right up center at this point.
[01:14:14] Speaker B: The Republicans have moved so far right that the Democrats had to move right to keep up with them. And the most radical left wing of Democrats are now center.
[01:14:23] Speaker A: Uh huh. We don't have a truthful new established left in.
[01:14:29] Speaker B: Not anymore. But, yeah, I love the, I love the. The Iron Dome missile defense shield.
[01:14:35] Speaker A: What the hell? How are they going to, how are they going to get that over Hawaii.
[01:14:40] Speaker B: Or Alaska without covering Canada, too, or all of the territories or the entire us, for that matter? I suspect iron. I suspect they realize that Disney now owns Star wars and that they would get really deep shit if they tried to say Star wars missile defense system. So they had to come up with something different, because when it comes to Disney, don't.
[01:15:03] Speaker A: Don't mess with the mouse.
So they're gonna strengthen alliances because that definitely did not happen between 2016 and 2020, ensuring our allies must meet their obligations to invest in our common defense. And by restoring peace to Europe.
[01:15:23] Speaker B: I think our allies are doing a damn good job investing in restoring peace to Europe. But that's just me. Knowing that Poland has taken all the refugees, knowing that Great Britain, France, Greece, Germany, just about everybody else in Europe has actually been sending a lot of support to the Ukraine to stop Putin's march into the Ukraine. Yeah. Oh, wait, I forgot. They want Putin to win.
[01:15:52] Speaker A: Oh, I'm on the wrong side.
[01:15:54] Speaker B: I'm sorry.
[01:15:55] Speaker A: I'm seriously waiting on Europe to tell us to get bit.
I'm also waiting on the Middle east to tell us to get bit of. Seriously?
[01:16:05] Speaker B: Well, yeah, we also want to stand with Israel and seek peace in the Middle east. You know?
[01:16:09] Speaker A: If you want to seek peace in the Middle east, stop fucking bombing.
[01:16:12] Speaker B: If you want to seek peace in the Middle east, get the fuck out. Stop messing with it. It's their world, their lives. Stop messing with it.
[01:16:19] Speaker A: And here's a crazy ass idea. Let them draw their own borders. Because the borders we drew after world war two caused 90% of the modern fucking problems. Yep. Because it just exacerbated what already existed. Yep. The conflict in the Middle east is. Is not. Has not been around since just the 1970s.
[01:16:40] Speaker B: No. This goes back to pre biblical times, folks.
[01:16:43] Speaker A: This goes back to quite frightening. This goes back to Isaac and Ishmael, not gonna lie.
[01:16:48] Speaker B: Well, that's only if you accept biblical. That's only if you accept biblical history as anything other than metaphysical mythology. Pretty much.
[01:16:59] Speaker A: I just think of that line from dogma. It's like, you know, christians get a little upset if you refer to their.
[01:17:04] Speaker B: Beliefs as mythology, but that's what it is.
Rebuild our alliance network in the region.
Okay, what is the alliance network in the region? And what region are we talking about at this point? Because we've talked about Europe and we've talked about. Talked about Israel.
[01:17:22] Speaker A: Exactly.
[01:17:23] Speaker B: Technically, if you're going strictly linguistically, they mean Middle east, but I don't think they understand how to form correct concepts since they keep calling lists, brief lists of things, chapters.
[01:17:34] Speaker A: Okay, this one is. I'm wondering if the last line is what I think it is. Likewise, we will champion strong sovereign and independent nations in the Indo Pacific, thriving in peace and commerce with others. Are they talking about, like, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, or. What the fuck is the Indo Pacific?
[01:17:54] Speaker B: I don't know if they're talking about Hong Kong or Taiwan or what there or North Korea or the Koreas.
[01:18:02] Speaker A: I don't know.
[01:18:03] Speaker B: I don't either.
[01:18:04] Speaker A: They stumped us, folks. Holy crap. Actually, I don't think it's the first time they've stumped us.
[01:18:09] Speaker B: The circular logic and the political double speak bullshit tends to get stumpy after a while.
[01:18:15] Speaker A: So they're going to strengthen economic, military, and diplomatic capabilities to protect the american way of life from the malign influences of countries that stand against us around the world.
[01:18:26] Speaker B: They're going to protect us against Russia.
[01:18:27] Speaker A: I thought they liked Russia and they.
[01:18:29] Speaker B: Want to put Putin in charge of things in, like, the Ukraine.
[01:18:33] Speaker A: I know they don't. What happens when New York tells us to get bit?
[01:18:36] Speaker B: And I know. I know they told. I know they think that. I know they think Iran is wrong and they're really unhappy with are on right now since they. Since he successfully used Stone to hack Trump's accounts. But, you know, that's the thing. Sorry I'm laughing, but I find it.
[01:18:52] Speaker A: Actually kind of really amusing.
[01:18:54] Speaker B: They're talking about how much they're going to help us, how much good they're going to do with our cybersecurity, etcetera. And they just got hacked by iranian hackers. Ranks, right? Ranks right up there with our tech mogul who can't run a live stream. So, you know, dear God.
[01:19:10] Speaker A: Okay, so I was laughing so hard. When was it Trump that made the comment?
Not many people could carry on a long conversation like you and I can, and I'm sitting.
[01:19:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:19:24] Speaker A: For 2 hours, like you and I can. And I'm thinking, you know, sure.
Unlike all of the podcasts that are out there.
[01:19:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Because you don't think they just record an hour and then walk away.
[01:19:39] Speaker A: It's called editing.
It's called editing and breaking things into three parts.
This is gonna be a one parter, we swear. You know, our episodes are planned to.
[01:19:51] Speaker B: Be one parters, and then they get away from us.
[01:19:54] Speaker A: Really? Seriously, we plan for them to be.
[01:19:56] Speaker B: One parter, and then they get away from us.
[01:19:59] Speaker A: So we're going to revive our industrial day.
[01:20:03] Speaker B: Oh, no. Defend our borders. Oh, okay. Again, against all odds, President Trump has completed hundreds of miles of all bullshit.
[01:20:14] Speaker A: And he will quickly finish the job.
[01:20:16] Speaker B: Bullshit. Republicans will mobilize military personnel and assets as necessary to crack down hard on the cartels that traffic drugs and people in our interaction country.
[01:20:25] Speaker A: And continue to ignore the northern border.
[01:20:27] Speaker B: And continuing to ignore the fact that all the people on the terrorist watch list are coming, trying to come through the northern border. And let's see. Can't really go after the cartels because the core for the cartels are not on american soil. And the hundreds of miles of wall that come to maybe 20 miles, tops, I think it was. And it's already falling to pieces because it was such a crap job done to begin with because you can't put a wall down there that's going to last without spending a fortune and a half to put it there and maintain it. And, oh, by the way, people are coming through on boats and planes.
I believe we've said that, dumbass.
[01:21:09] Speaker A: So we're going to revive our industrial base.
[01:21:13] Speaker B: It's critical to ensuring good jobs for our people, but also the reliable production of vital defense platforms and supplies. Our policy must be to revive our industrial base with priority on defense. Critical industries, equipment, and parts critical to american security must be made in the USA.
[01:21:29] Speaker A: We're back to that hole. We don't have all the resources.
[01:21:32] Speaker B: Yep.
[01:21:32] Speaker A: And the final one.
[01:21:34] Speaker B: This one cracks me up.
[01:21:35] Speaker A: We finally got to the final thing.
[01:21:37] Speaker B: The very last thing.
[01:21:38] Speaker A: Protect critical infrastructure.
Republicans will use all tools of national power to protect our nation's critical infrastructure and industrial base from malicious cyber attackers.
Because they succeeded so well with Iran recently.
[01:21:57] Speaker B: Exactly.
[01:21:58] Speaker A: There will be a national priority, and we will both raise the security standards for our critical systems and networks and defend them against bad actors because that works so well with protecting Trump's private data. Got it.
[01:22:13] Speaker B: Here's the thing, folks. The Democrats said they got hacked too. But they didn't actually succeed with the.
[01:22:20] Speaker A: Hack, unlike with Trump, because they actually had a decent enough firewall.
[01:22:24] Speaker B: Because they not just decent firewall. They had active people paying attention to whether there was someone trying to hack.
[01:22:31] Speaker A: So, yeah, it's just like, it's just like Elon Musk trying to blame on blame. The 42 minutes it took them to actually get the stream going on a. Was it a DDoD or something like that? DDos attack. The Ddos attack. And quite a few people are like, well, you know, had you not fired all the people who know how to take care of that, we wouldn't have this problem.
[01:22:54] Speaker B: But it wasn't a ddos attack. It was just his ignorance.
[01:22:56] Speaker A: It was just, he doesn't know what the hell he's doing.
[01:22:58] Speaker B: So that is the GOP platform to make America great again, folks.
[01:23:02] Speaker A: I don't know about you, but I'm a little scared, not gonna lie, a little scared on this.
[01:23:06] Speaker B: And the worst part is, this is the GOP platform, which means even if they don't, it's like Project 2025, even if they don't win this election cycle, they'll try it again.
[01:23:18] Speaker A: They'll just kick it down.
[01:23:19] Speaker B: They'll just keep kicking the can down the road. The best comic I ever saw, speaking of kicking the can down the road, best comic I ever saw was a single frame comic, and it was a little can with a toupee that was getting kicked. It was fucking hysterical. It was so damn funny.
[01:23:39] Speaker A: I love political cartoons.
[01:23:41] Speaker B: They're all, yeah, so do I. So, yeah, I got a laughing note. So. But as it's the mindset, in a lot of ways, of the conservatives, of the. Of a large portion of the baby boomer, it's my own mom. She's actually one of the more liberal baby boomers. Believe it or not.
Believe it or not, my mom. My mom's at least more socially liberal, and their mindset is, it's not my problem. I won't have to live through it. So I'm going to dump this problem elsewhere.
[01:24:13] Speaker A: Yeah, I can totally see.
[01:24:15] Speaker B: So this whole kick the can down the road thing is partly related to the fact that a lot of the people leading this are all of the mindset of we kick the can down the road. That's how we resolve problems.
[01:24:27] Speaker A: Precisely. Exactly.
[01:24:28] Speaker B: We don't actually do anything to fix it. We either get what we want, or we just wait until we can get.
[01:24:35] Speaker A: What we want, and we're gonna cause all these problems that have to be dealt with further down the road and then. Well, what do you mean? Our kids and grandkids don't want to support us. Well, yeah, because they're the one who are gonna have to clean up your frickin mess down the road. I'm tired of cleaning up after my parents.
[01:24:51] Speaker B: Oh, I'm fed up with cleaning up with. After my parents. I've had it.
[01:24:55] Speaker A: So it's kind of sad to say that, because they're still in fucking power.
[01:24:58] Speaker B: And we're in our fifties, we're nearing retirement age, and they're still in power.
Think about that, folks. We are staring down the barrel of retirement age, and yet they're the ones who are still running the show.
[01:25:14] Speaker A: Well, half of our generations staring down retirement age, the other half is still in their forties.
[01:25:21] Speaker B: There's that. So up to you to decide whether you think that what we've described will make America great again or not. I'm generally of the opinion not, but again, and I know we.
And again, we added a lot of opinion in this and we ripped it to shreds. But don't worry, we will give the same treatment to the Democrats, I promise.
[01:25:41] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, because I have the bad feeling there's gonna be stuff in there we don't agree with.
[01:25:46] Speaker B: Because, again, politician is a four letter word as far as I'm concerned. And is a politician lying? Are they breathing? If the answer is yes, then yes.
[01:25:55] Speaker A: Well, you know, this is the frustrating thing I have with platform documents and with the platform in general. One of the biggest. One of the biggest reasons why in 2016 in the primaries, I voted for Elizabeth Warren was because not only did she have a platform, she had a plan of how to work with Congress to make it happen.
[01:26:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:26:17] Speaker A: It wasn't just a bunch of empty promises she was actually offering, not just the what, but the how.
[01:26:26] Speaker B: Oh, they've said how they're going to break all sorts of constitutional laws.
They've even said they've. Even if you look at agenda 47, he even says that he will, very early on, if not day one, empower the us military to act on american soil. Okay, so they've said the how. They just don't have it in their full policy document as a whole. GOP. It is in agenda 47.
[01:26:52] Speaker A: Yeah, but the problem is, this is the piece that they're going to go by now because that's the official document.
[01:26:58] Speaker B: That's their mission statements.
[01:27:00] Speaker A: Yeah. And that's all they're going to share.
[01:27:03] Speaker B: How will they accomplish? But with, this is why we've shared. This is why we're sharing the agenda 47 notes. I already had two.
[01:27:09] Speaker A: And historically, that's the problem with platforms.
[01:27:13] Speaker B: They give you the what, but not.
[01:27:15] Speaker A: That they kind of give you maybe a little bit of a how. They don't go into any kind of details of they don't give you. They give you the maybe the what and a little bit of the how, but they don't give you the plan.
[01:27:26] Speaker B: Right.
[01:27:26] Speaker A: Of how. Right. Remember, one of the things I had liked about Elizabeth Warren in 2016 was the fact that she had the how. She had that plan because she knew.
[01:27:37] Speaker B: What the hell she was doing. Exactly.
[01:27:39] Speaker A: So I think we are at the end of the road. Yay. Yay.
[01:27:48] Speaker B: And there is a lot more to be seen about this. And we are happily making some of the resources that I looked up for things searching today while we were recording. I will clean that up and make sure that it's clear what refers to what. That'll be part of extra content, though, because it's not actually that necessary. Unlike Agenda 47, the table of contents for Agenda 47 and the 2024 GOP platform statement, those are absolutely critical documents that everybody should be taking a look at.
[01:28:18] Speaker A: Absolutely. And they'll be in the episode notes.
[01:28:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
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