Politics as Sport

We've been putting this one off for a while, only because typically you're not supposed to talk about Politics at the Table. But it's time, right? We can all be big boys/girls/non-binary folk and speak about these things in a way that can help us all to wrap our minds around what's going on.
No controversy, and no confusing terms, just keeping it simple and easy. Be a good person and take care of yourself, while being empathetic and willing to take care of others whether it directly affects you or not (here's a hint... it usually has nothing to do with you).
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SPEAKER_03 0:15

Hi babe.

SPEAKER_00 0:16

Hello.

SPEAKER_03 0:17

Um, what are we talking about today?

SPEAKER_00 0:20

It's a scary subject. It is? Yes.

SPEAKER_03 0:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 0:26

Politics.

SPEAKER_03 0:27

Oh, that's not scary. People choose to be weird about it, but I don't think it's scary. It doesn't scare me.

SPEAKER_01 0:34

I agree with you a hundred percent. Um, but I have a theory now. And that is politics is the new sports.

SPEAKER_02 0:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:45

I see people getting ramped up over politics the way that they used to get ramped up over sports and whoever the new quarterback is.

SPEAKER_03 0:55

They're treating their political parties as teams. Yeah. And and repping all the shirts and the hats and the banners and bumper stickers and all that.

SPEAKER_01 1:09

That's how it looks to me. And it's valid. And they get crazy. Like people are crazy. I grew up at a time where you didn't talk about who you voted for.

SPEAKER_03 1:19

I grew up in a time where I don't think anyone around me voted. That I know of. No one really talked about it.

SPEAKER_01 1:27

Well, I mean, maybe it's not such a bad thing that certain people don't vote, but but I think politics has become the new sport. And and politics I think is more encompassing than sports because in some way, shape, or fashion, everyone acknowledges that politics affects them on some level. It's not that way with sports. Yeah. So your fan base has grown exponentially by switching your focus from sports to politics.

SPEAKER_02 1:58

Right.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

And I feel like they use politics. Um who's they? The people who like it? Yeah, well, the people who are in government. Okay. So our representatives and and senators and Congress and such. Um, they use it to their own advantage, and they use it as a mainstream platform for distraction. So if we're paying attention to what the left hand is doing over here, we don't see what the right hand is doing over there. Case in point, like, look at how how upset everybody got over the Jeffrey Epstein case and then the Balenciaga scandal. Like people were incessed over what they saw happening. And now it's like no one ever talks about it. It's like almost like it was a fad. Balenciaga is still going strong. Like, I don't believe that they were involved in any kind of sex trafficking, a promotion of sex trafficking. I think they were being provocative and trying to open people's eyes to what's going on around the world right now. But it's just so weird. There's just again, lots of distraction going on in politics.

SPEAKER_03 3:08

So those two stories, the the whole Epstein thing and the Balenciaga thing tied in with like distracting from politically what's going on.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

Yeah. So while we're busy focused on these salacious topics that they're throwing at us in a very manipulated fashion, we're not paying attention to what's going on on Capitol Hill. We're not paying attention to what's going on when they're on the floor and they're voting on issues, making sure that they're representing their constituents properly. We're not paying attention to that because we're being spoon-fed, this easy to swallow, uh again, salacious, angering information just to keep us in chaos and enraged and fighting against each other, because as long as there's chaos amongst us, then their plan of action is clear and free for the taking.

SPEAKER_03 3:59

I see what you're saying now. I equate that to what is still going on with drag queens and the villainization of the art of drag from the right wing side of politics. Um and just creating that as a as a issue that isn't actually an issue, but like you said, as long as we as long as the people who want us to can keep us fighting will be fighting and arguing over something so ridiculous as whether or not drag is or is not appropriate while they're doing whatever the hell they want to to continue to make money or to pass the laws and they're just trying to distract attention from all of that.

SPEAKER_01 4:42

Yeah. Distract attention mostly from their nefarious um intention. You know, they're they're insider trading and they're making laws that are hurting people and that are cutting people's lives short. Like who are they to make that decision?

SPEAKER_03 5:00

Voted officials.

SPEAKER_01 5:01

But I mean, but that in 650 will get you a latte at Starbucks. Like it doesn't mean anything. There's no value to it anymore because they've just desaturated the value with their behavior and the way that they've abused the system and how the system is supposed to work.

SPEAKER_03 5:17

Yeah, it's an opportunity. That's I think that's where a lot of people are jumping into politics, is they've seen an opportunity to uh make money, but also to create influence uh in situations where they find uh the chance to kind of climb the ladder, so to speak.

SPEAKER_00 5:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:35

I feel like there are very few politicians who are actually in it to make positive change for everyone, and people are very vested in their own interests.

SPEAKER_01 5:45

100%. And I kind of think that that's just human nature, too, right? Yeah. I mean, we are all vested in our own personal interests, but after a certain point, you also have to start caring about the people around you and the people that contribute to the world around you. And when elected into a position like a representative or a senator, there's certain sacrifices that you have to make for that position. And I think that for too long now, that position has not been looked at as a position of service.

SPEAKER_03 6:16

Aaron Powell Well, you look at something like the House of Representatives. They're supposed to be representative people of the people rather than just chasing after what you think is going to help you climb politically on your way to the White House. You're actually just focused on what's good for the people of your community that you're representing.

SPEAKER_01 6:37

I think that politicians, like the people who are bred into politics and the people who are attracted to politics, I think that they see how nasty and divisive the world is. And I think they see how dangerous it is, and I think they see how little the world at large cares about any one individual. And I think in our country, the platform of politics has become the olli oliox and free from all of that. But there's only so much room as you climb the pyramid. You know, it gets smaller and smaller the higher up you go to the point until you're at the very point where there's like so few people allowed there. So they get into these positions of power because they know that this is the way that they can get the money and the power and the resources to live life above all of that. And what's I mean, I guess it's okay to a certain degree, but then they they just keep sucking all of the life out of the position, not doing anything, as you said, for the people. And I think we need, I said in a previous podcast, I think we need major reform, and I think we need major regulation because these people cannot self-regulate and they're locking the door behind them once they get to this upper echelon of the political pyramid.

SPEAKER_03 7:55

Yeah. There's a lot that can be done in different different organizations of government. When you look at something like our Supreme Court, where these justices are uh voted in, but then they have a lifetime um of service in that role. That just feels really bizarre to me.

SPEAKER_01 8:15

And they're more or less incapacitated. I mean, look at Mitch McConnell. He just like froze up for the second time.

SPEAKER_03 8:22

Yeah, talk about sucking the life out of their.

SPEAKER_01 8:24

Oh my God. That turtle is not snapping anymore.

SPEAKER_03 8:28

It's scary to watch. I mean, I know that we're we're watching and it's and we're kind of making jokes about it as we're watching, especially since you and I tend to lean more on the left side of things when it comes to like moral politics. But um yeah, it's it's weird watching that on TV and it's and knowing, like, wow, I've just watched this person have a stroke twice.

SPEAKER_01 8:52

Um and I didn't do anything. Was it a stroke? Or I mean maybe Mitch McConnell's a skinwalker and he's just separating from the form that he's chosen to do his most bastardly work.

SPEAKER_03 9:05

Ew, wait, so if Mitch McConnell was a skinwalker, what animal would he choose? Would it be a turtle? Yeah, okay. That's what I thought.

SPEAKER_01 9:13

Because he moves slow as fuck. That's he was gripping onto that podium for dear life. And look, it's not like I wish bad things to happen to anybody. I mean, we've had we did an episode of all my ailments. I have ailments like I don't wish bad things upon people as a rule. But after a certain point in time, when you've proven to be such a horrible person to so many people, yeah, I'm hard pressed to find the empathy in a situation where it seems like karmic retribution.

SPEAKER_03 9:44

Well, there's a there's a level of comeuppance when it comes to someone like Mitch McConnell because his career history has shown uh a lack of empathy for the nation, except when it has to do with his own interests and what he thinks can help his cause. So sorry, not sorry. Kinda that's how I feel about it. It's not a situation where I would read uh Mitch McConnell dead at 345 years old. I wouldn't feel sad about it. It's just like, oh well, someone's gone.

SPEAKER_01 10:20

How old is he now? Like 90 something? I don't know. Yeah. He's older than Angela Lansbury, and she's old as dirt. She is still old as dirt. She is still old as dirt. When did she pass away?

SPEAKER_03 10:32

Just a couple years ago, I think. I don't remember exactly.

SPEAKER_01 10:35

Yeah. She was of that generation that once you hit 40, you looked 75 and then you stayed that way until the way you died. Mm-hmm. People don't age the way that they used to.

SPEAKER_03 10:47

That was her aesthetic too. Like I remember watching her as a kid in like bedknobs and broomsticks. And she still, I think she was playing like a maybe 30-year-old in the movie, but yeah, yeah, she looked like she could have been in her 50s or 60s because it's just the style, right? The big updo hair and the way the makeup lays and the clothing and everything.

SPEAKER_01 11:09

Well, the women in and just like that, the characters are older than the women in Golden Girls, with the exception of Sophia.

SPEAKER_03 11:17

Oh, that's weird.

SPEAKER_01 11:18

And not in terms of the actress because Estelgetti wasn't the eldest actress.

SPEAKER_03 11:22

But like the character age. The character age.

SPEAKER_01 11:24

Like as far as the other three, I mean, I think Blanche was 48 when in the first season.

SPEAKER_03 11:29

And just like that is just a show full of Blanches.

SPEAKER_01 11:33

Well, no, she just got a cameo, unfortunately. But um, anyway, going back to politics, yeah, I think that the the whole realm, the arena of politics has become extremely corrupted and demented. And I think it's operating at an extremely high deranged level. And I think they've mastered the art of smoke screens and how to get people to vote against their best interest through, once again, nefarious means that starts with deconstructing our education system and pulling up the bits and pieces that allow us to actually be critical thinkers.

SPEAKER_03 12:10

Yeah. I wish that our country could take a page from the books of other countries who handle their uh elections and their political parties in in what I feel to be more respectful.

SPEAKER_00 12:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:23

And I say that in the way like you're respectful of other candidates, you're respectful of the position, but you're also respectful of the people, you're respectful of their time. I feel like America wastes a lot of our time and energy shoving election, election, election, election down our throats for two years leading up to the actual election date.

SPEAKER_01 12:42

Yeah. And it's it's exhausting.

SPEAKER_03 12:45

And even more so when I know how much money is being wasted for that whole campaign.

SPEAKER_01 12:49

I know, I know.

SPEAKER_03 12:50

Like I know I wish that there were rules in which the election can only take place or like the proceedings leading up to the the election are like a couple months leading up to the actual date. So that the politicians, the people, the candidates actually have to focus and really put their best foot forward for three months.

SPEAKER_02 13:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:12

So that when it's time to vote, we know exactly what we're doing, rather than dragging it out and just trying to make so much money out of it, both for entertainment, but the people who um who make money off of the political party in that way too.

SPEAKER_01 13:28

Well, I think you said it, entertainment. Along with politics being the new sports, sports is a form of entertainment. Politics is now a form of entertainment. And I think that these people, in addition to what I just said, are also extremely attracted to the celebrity that politics now brings with it. Yeah, for sure. And and I think that they it it's it's unnecessary, and I think that it's a hindrance to them doing their job. It's a distraction, and it's not why one should get into um public service.

SPEAKER_03 13:57

How do you feel about um politicians or political representatives having social media, like individual social media platforms, like uh not Twitter, what's it called?

SPEAKER_01 14:08

No, X, like X or Instagram or I don't think that it is an appropriate arena for politicians because politicians are doing the job that they've been elected to do because they can do it in a way that the layman, for lack of a better term, cannot. So when you put yourself in a position to be like every other man, then I think why are why are you doing the job that anybody else could then do?

SPEAKER_02 14:36

Right.

SPEAKER_01 14:37

I think that it also fuels the fire of what we've been talking about in terms of politics being entertainment. Yeah, you have these politicians that are acting like 12-year-olds on a secret three-way call in 1988 trying to ambush somebody, and I don't get it. These are supposed to be adults, these are supposed to be people that understand how to professionally and politically run the post of their position.

SPEAKER_02 15:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:04

And they're acting like fucking children. Even AOC, I don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. She does a lot of work, but she's so into the celebrity now. I mean, she's got fucking initials, like enough already. Like, stop. Like when she showed up at the red carpet and she was made a comment about like the privileged or the elite on her dress, and it's like you are engaging in privileged and elite activities right now. Like, how is it her age? Is it just being blinded by the limelight? Like, how do you not see the hypocrisy?

SPEAKER_03 15:38

I think a lot of her uh stardom, so to for lack of a better term, comes with her age. You said it.

SPEAKER_01 15:47

You said it. Like when you're thinking about her perception or the perception that people have in her of her in the public eye, you think stardom. Like you should not think that of a celebrity. I mean of a politician. You think that of a celebrity. Of a politician, you should think of them in their office, sitting down, looking over paperwork, going to Congress, voting on bills that are going to help the people in their district and to best represent their constituents, not people who are practicing red carpet poses and going to dress fittings to have this custom statement gown made for them. It's like, no, you I'm supposed to kick over a can of beans and see starving politicians crawl out. Like this is so, once again, corrupted and deranged and demented. And it's just it's sickening.

SPEAKER_03 16:33

Yeah, it's it's it feels out of place. It feels incorrect. And that's what I was alluding with the social media too. I I feel like Trump was a good example of why politicians should not have access to social media because they're just kind of spouting off what they think in the moment and inciting things and getting people aggravated. When if that's the case and you want to use it on it for promotion of a candidate or something leading up to an election, then I guess it would make more sense to have uh an Instagram for the office of AOC or the office of the representative of California or something like that. So it's it's more of a branded thing rather than, hey, it's me, guys, your best friend, Joe Schmoe, and I've got something to tell you. This is how I feel.

SPEAKER_01 17:22

Bottom line for me, social media dumbs down the politician. And they need to stop spending their time on social media in unprofessional capacities, and yes, let a professional team handle a professional account from the office of and just do your fucking job. Yeah. Do your fucking job. You you are an elected official. You get paid a ridiculous amount of money for the position that you hold for the lack of work that you do. Just fucking do it.

SPEAKER_03 17:52

Yeah, I hate seeing all of those like um recess threads. Like, oh, they're at recess again. They'll be back in two months. Like, wait, weren't they just on recess recently?

SPEAKER_01 18:04

Well, I guess in those moments, there's probably nothing big coming down the stock market pipeline for them to insider trade. So they're like, fuck it. And then as soon as somebody's got a hot tip, they all run back to the floor and start crisscrossing wires and you know, saying, Oh, you should go talk to that person and trying to get deals done and getting tips. And I mean, look at fucking Pelosi. Like she and her husband, I totally believe that they that they're guilty of insider trading. And then as soon as like the hammer was coming down, she just peaced out.

SPEAKER_03 18:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:36

Fuck her, fuck them, fuck them all. To quote Jack Nicholson from Batman, this town needs an enema. Like it's time to flush the shit out of Washington, D.C. It is time for a new reformed Capitol Hill, one that actually represents the people. And I think Marianne Williamson is the person to start that type of change. So if you guys haven't checked her out or heard about her yet, check her out. Her name is Marianne Williamson. She wants to make it so that uh Congress, if you're a member of Congress, you can't trade stocks. If you are on the Supreme Court, there's a term limit for that. She wants universal health care and she wants to pay for that by shutting down, like fracking and oil in Alaska sites. Like again, the Willow Project. How many people know about the Willow Project? We don't know about the Willow Project in Alaska that costs us trillions of dollars a year because we're too busy beating each other up over a fucking stupid Balenciaga ad. And that's what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_03 19:35

I was gonna say last time we were talking about Marianne Williamson, um, and we mentioned how simple her ideas are. It's not just that they're simple, it it's the fact that they actually work. They're practical. Well, she's also not making stuff up. She's taking these ideas that other countries, other like like first world countries have implemented, have done, have succeeded in. It's nothing new. She's just saying, hey, what we're doing is not working for everyone. So maybe we take a minute and look and see what everyone else is doing, because America isn't so amazing.

SPEAKER_02 20:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:14

We're not untouchable, we're not number one. Take a look and see what other countries are doing. Maybe follow suit, maybe help homeless people. Maybe help people who don't have health care because they can't get a job that gives them health care. Maybe we look and see what other countries are doing for their people rather than what can America continue to do to keep their people down.

SPEAKER_01 20:38

But how do you get a society of people to care about a group of people like the homeless when they've been trained to despise the homeless? Yeah. Because of the threat that the homeless represent, that with the exception of a very, very, very, very small percentage of people in this world, it is a struggle. And it can happen to almost anybody at any time. And most of us in this country are overextended. We know how close we are to losing things. And when you see somebody that represents the fear of you losing everything that you've worked for and everything that you've been told you need to work for as an American, well, it's an easy mark for them to say, hey, you're worried about this, this, and that. This person is your problem. Go after them.

SPEAKER_02 21:32

Right.

SPEAKER_01 21:32

And it's not just with the homeless, it can be with Mexican people, it can be with gay people, with trans people.

SPEAKER_03 21:38

Yeah. I I use homeless as an example because that's something where you don't even have to work on adjusting the mindset of the public with something like that. You as a government can say, you know what, we are going to support people who are homeless. Here is some money, here is some housing, and just do it. Yep. It doesn't matter what the people think in a situation like that because you're helping a greater good situation for the sake of your country.

SPEAKER_00 22:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:06

You're not I I think what happens is And which is the ideal. Right. And I think what happens is um narratives are created. Created by political forces to create stories about types of people so that we as the individual American believe or have this perception that we have the right to make a decision about something that has nothing to do with us but affects other people who also live within our country.

SPEAKER_02 22:35

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 22:35

So rather than promoting the fact that yes, you are American, you are individual, you have rights, you are someone who is important in this country, who serves a purpose and has a sense of uh civic pride. Um and instead it's you are an individual, you need to protect that, you're you protect yourself from other people and make sure that someone isn't getting something that you're not.

SPEAKER_01 23:00

Right.

SPEAKER_03 23:01

Right. And it's the same thing with student loans. Biden's been working so hard to eradicate student loans for s essentially his whole term. And I don't think it's gonna happen because people are so terrified, whether they had student loans or not, they're terrified that someone else is gonna get more money than they are.

SPEAKER_01 23:22

Well, here's the thing. In my eyes, if it was something that the government really wanted to do, they don't have to make a big deal about it. Once again, they've put something on the table where nothing's being done except people are now fighting over something that they don't even need to be fighting about. So if the government just decides they're gonna forgive the loans and then they start sending out letters to people to let them know that their loan has been forgiven, then it's like, oh wow, this is fantastic. Look at this, babe. Can you believe this? This is wonderful. Maybe you tell a few people in your sphere of influence. Word gets around a little bit, but it's it's nothing that is that is fight worthy because we didn't hear Congress discuss it and fight over it and give us the example to follow, which is to fight with people who have an opposing opinion. Who cares if you're getting something? Uh you're looking at an apple pie, I'm looking at a cherry pie. It's totally different. Like I don't care. And it's and it's not that everybody is gonna get their loans forgiven. People that went to private banks like Fannie Mae, Fannie Mac, or they're not gonna, they're right. They're they're the only ones that are getting it.

SPEAKER_03 24:32

None of my student loans are gonna be forgiven.

SPEAKER_01 24:34

Sally May or whatever. No, no, and and and it's like, and the only reason why I totally support them is because they're so predatory in the first place. Right. If I don't have a loan that doesn't need to be forgiven, I'm not upset that you've got a loan that gets forgiven because it's not costing me anything. It's like people getting mad when a movie has a remake. It's not taking anything away from the original, right? Like, calm the fuck down, people. Like, stop being such a lemming. Stop stop drinking the Kool-Aid. Choose to wake up, take a look around, start becoming a critical thinker. If you don't know what that is, get a book on it. You can order it on Amazon. It's super easy. And learn how to start thinking for yourself because it's the only way that we're gonna get out of this mess.

SPEAKER_03 25:19

Yeah. It it goes across the board. Student loans, homelessness, um, insurance, paying for insurance, and subsidizing for other people. Right. Just small, small amounts. Like, are you it really that five cents from your insurance payment that month is going to help someone else who maybe can't afford insurance?

SPEAKER_01 25:38

Well, and hold the people that can pay for this and that should be paying for this accountable. You have all these rich corporate people who are telling the poorest people, hey, we're not the problem. Those middle class people over there are your problem. And they give them all of this information about what it is to be middle class and why middle class is taking from the lower class. And then there's like this this like caste feudal system that they've created. And the challenge is that the people that they're selling that damaged bill of goods to don't even understand that the person that they're taking that Kool-Aid from is the person that's stealing from them while they're giving them the Kool-Aid.

SPEAKER_02 26:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:16

Like, wake up, and I know how hard it is. The human ego does not want to be wrong. So it's really hard for somebody to wake up and realize that they've been a fucking idiot. But we're all human and we're all entitled to make that mistake. But we all have a choice every morning we wake up on what kind of person we decide we're going to be. I choose to be the person that I know is right for me, not the person that my representative tells me to be, or the person that my governor tells me to be, or the person that Congress tells me to be. Not the person that anybody tells me to be, because nobody knows who I am, nobody knows what my life is like, nobody knows what it's like to walk in my shoes, and vice versa. So if we all just start focusing on ourselves and we all start focusing on our own happiness, then we won't be so focused on other people's happiness, which inadvertently always seems to make us unhappy in that process.

SPEAKER_02 27:10

Right.

SPEAKER_01 27:12

Just wake up, grow up, become a fucking adult, pull your big boy pants up or your big girl pants up, and just be a nice, considerate, self-aware human being. It's really not that hard.

SPEAKER_02 27:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:27

But you gotta make the choice to do it, and you've got to stop like jacking yourself into these churches, these political systems, these parties, these institutions that further the betterment of themselves at the cost of the people whose support they're asking of.

SPEAKER_03 27:47

Do you remember when fake news was a big term? Like it was just a couple of years ago.

SPEAKER_01 27:52

It's always been fake news.

SPEAKER_03 27:54

Yeah. Well, and it's it's definitely took a turn toward entertainment news. Yes, or news entertainment. Absolutely. So I think uh using the term fake news was a way to absolve any sort of uh accountability from it. Like, oh well that's fake news, so it's not rather than saying that's that's an entertainment source, right? And they are casting news which may or may not be uh researched or true or any of that, but it's it's there, there it is now. I feel like that has helped to fuel the sporting aspect of politics or politics as well.

SPEAKER_01 28:34

Yeah. Well, it's easy when the again, the arena of politics is such a mangled web, right? It's just it's like it's a free-for-all and it's gross and it's scary, but it's all we've got to work with right now. So my hope is that we as a collective people just get to the point where we're just like fed up. And we're not like fed up angry, we're like fed up time to do something about it, because we realize that the way we've been told to react to the information that we're receiving is counterproductive.

SPEAKER_03 29:10

Yeah, it's like we're being told to be angry at the other side rather than being angry at the people who are making these decisions on our behalf.

SPEAKER_01 29:18

Yep. That's how it looks to me. So I think that they need to do better, and I think that we need to do better so that we can hold them accountable for doing better.

SPEAKER_03 29:27

You should be a politician.

SPEAKER_01 29:29

I think you'd be good at it. I think I would be good at it too. I just don't know how successful I would be at it because, like Marianne Williamson, I would be a disturber. I would be that person that wants to be the change that I so desperately want to see in others. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:44

Well, your level of success wouldn't rely on how much money you're making. Your level of success would be how much have you actually been able to accomplish.

SPEAKER_01 29:52

Accomplish 100%. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 29:54

And I think that that's a driving force for a lot of um ill-minded politicians. How much money can I make rather than how much impact can I make?

SPEAKER_01 30:02

I agree. But I ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.

SPEAKER_02 30:13

That was very good. Who said that? JFK. Okay. And I always forget who that was.

SPEAKER_01 30:18

Yeah, having to spearhead the franchise of slave labor in this country. What can you do for your country? Well, I'm doing it because if I don't, you will throw me in jail. If I don't follow your rules, if I don't follow your laws, if I don't pay your taxes, that's it for me. So I'm already doing what I'm supposed to be doing for my country. It is the question now, what can my country do for me? And I think that this country needs a Bastille Day. Not a civil war where once again we're fighting ourselves, right? But an actual Bastille day where we as a collective people rise up to the government and say, foul, no more, you gotta go. And not in an insurrection. Nope. No, it's not storming the castle. Because it's not one group of people, it is the collective. You cannot you cannot pit us against the other side in this argument if we are in the argument together. That's what we need to fucking realize. So on that note, I'm gonna go figure out what my country can do for me. Yeah. Because I'm doing my fucking part.

SPEAKER_03 31:25

Otherwise, why bother? Why are we here? Why are we in America?

SPEAKER_01 31:29

Because we were told that we were the luckiest bastards on earth to be born in America.

SPEAKER_03 31:33

To perpetuate us to keep making money for someone else.

SPEAKER_01 31:36

Pretty much. Fun. Exactly. This is great. This is great. I love it here. Alright, let's go watch a documentary now. Fun. Fight. Okay, fight.