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News Lightening Round: Dumpster Fire Edition
This week Cathy and Royal take a crack at the wild list of news stories that dominated the air waves ... preceding the news that took over the week.
Listen to the news from before the shot heard round the world ... and tune in next week for our reactions and thoughts on the latest developments.
Welcome back to the Royal Canon Podcast. I am Kathy Cannon here again with Royal Webster. And today we are doing something a little different because the news cycle is moving at warp speed. And instead of one deep dive episode about something important, we are going to fly through rapid fire style, five minute segments, all of the major news stories that are making both Royal and I want to say lots of bad words. I'm the only one that actually says the bad words, but that is fine. Royal has self-control.
SPEAKER_00:I said some bad words last time.
SPEAKER_01:That's fair. That's fair. I called this episode the dumpster fire and just like going through that little list. I was like, yep, that's an accurate reading of what we are dealing with here. And
SPEAKER_00:that's not even the whole list.
SPEAKER_01:That's not even the whole list. That's what we managed to settle on. There's like so much bullshit happening. But we will open with the ice and the political theater that is the masked immigration raids that are now completely allowed to racially profile. Well,
SPEAKER_00:not only are they allowed to racially profile, but the whole time they don't identify themselves. They're kidnapping people.
SPEAKER_01:They're kidnapping. I saw a video of like, I want to say, no, it was in Chicago because he just literally sent like new agents into Chicago this past weekend. Right. And like an American citizen who was just like yelling at them, like Boston, Massachusetts, 1776 style, like yelling at them. yelling at the Redcoats, just literally heckling the guardsmen. And these masked ICE agents wearing flannel shirts and skinny jeans, like nothing says federal officer like a flannel shirt and skinny jeans, right? These are not federal agents. These are people. And I'm convinced of it that these are just civilians dressing up like cosplaying as government officials and literally kidnapping people off the street. Four of them grab this guy, handcuff him, and they keep saying, civilian arrest, civilian arrest. Throw him in a truck and take him God knows where. This is a fucking nightmare.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Well, some of them are bounty hunters because from what I hear that, uh, the administration's paying bounties for collecting illegal immigrants.
SPEAKER_01:Really? I hadn't heard that. I'd heard about the$40,000 signing bonus if you get a job with ICE and the six-figure salary to work the job. But on top of that, they're paying bounties? To
SPEAKER_00:the bounty hunters, yes.
SPEAKER_01:Jesus Christ. It's sick. At what point is it just straight-up human trafficking?
SPEAKER_00:Pretty close to right now. Like there was one, I forgot the city that they took a woman and they left her 12 year old daughter standing there.
SPEAKER_01:jesus fucking christ and this is the this is the party of christian values and like and the thing is and it's all political theater like they're they're not vetting the people they're not really arresting people who are overstate like literally anybody that looks brown or speaks spanish now according to the supreme court you can just round up and throw in a van and for what purpose like how is it how is this making us safer is what i want to know he keeps saying it's to tackle crime how
SPEAKER_00:yeah and you know i'm all for if they have information that there's somebody that's committed violent crimes I don't care if they're illegal immigrants or they're naturalized Americans or if they're born American, put them in jail, right? But 70% of the people that they're picking up have no criminal record.
SPEAKER_01:None. And they're like, and like the Supreme Court ruling is the part that's driving me crazy because not very long ago, like last week we were talking about Rudy Giuliani's like fall from grace and a big part of his fall from grace was his stop and frisk program in New York City, where it was basically, if they're brown enough, stop them, frisk them, see if you can catch them committing a crime, even if they don't look like they're committing a crime. And back when the Supreme Court had a little bit of an integrity left, they ruled that unconstitutional. They basically said that is racial profiling. That is a violation of the 14th Amendment. That is a violation of due process. That is a violation of equal protection. And now, like the fucking Roberts Court, like, can you imagine like how bad history is going? going to be in talking about the Roberts Court.
SPEAKER_00:I know what my opinion is. Yeah. And here's the other thing. Nobody even knows, or they're not letting anybody know where they're taking these people, right? Oh, they're going to detention center. Where are they being put in detention?
SPEAKER_01:Exactly. Where's their day in court? Where do they get like, where's the habeas corpus? Where's the, you have been charged with overseeing your visa. How do you plead? There's none of that. And to your point, the little girl on the street, like there's no consideration put into the aftermath of what happens when they snatch these kids up. Like somebody leaves to go to work. They get snatched up in a Home Depot parking lot. They're literally gone. There's no recourse. You can't call and find them. You can't like locate like... What concerns me about it, and I think the horrifying thing for me, and maybe it's because I listen to too much true crime, I don't know, but this is ripe for abuse. If people are just dressing up and playing police officer, what's to stop them from just rounding up people off the street and taking them back to one of these sick, twisted torture prisons that you hear about in horror movies and doing depraved things to people and then just disposing of the bodies and nobody will look for them because where would they be in a detention center somewhere? Are we going to find another Gilgo Beach killer in 20 years that had dressed up like an ICE agent and killed a bunch of people.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. It wouldn't surprise me if that's hopefully not, hopefully not, but it wouldn't surprise me if it went that way.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I mean, I remember learning in world war two, like there were part of like a lot of the people who got swept up in like Gestapo raids, never made it to any of the camps because they were abused, beaten, killed, or assaulted, like sexually assaulted on their way there. And then just killed and disposed of on the side of the road.
SPEAKER_00:Right. And then here's the other thing. If, if, The estimates are anywhere between 7 and 23 million illegal immigrants in this country right now, right? At least that's, nobody has a firm figure, but it's between 7 and 23 million, somewhere in there. So let's take the average. Let's say 15 million, 16 million. Okay. It'll take 20 years without anybody else coming in. It'll take 20 years. And not everybody that is illegal is brown.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. 600,000, I think in California or like when they were in California, it's probably not in California alone, but like total, but about 600,000 of the expired visas that they know about are from Canada. Just Canadians that came over on a visa and just hung out because they could, and nobody's looking for them in a Home Depot parking lot.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, and I just rated because of a tip from somebody running for Congress. The, the Kia fact, factory in Georgia from 300 South Koreans we're
SPEAKER_01:taking here Hyundai either way it's a Korean company
SPEAKER_00:I think yeah I think it was Hyundai you're right uh but 300 and those people were there I don't know if it was legal I don't know how they got there but I know what they were doing they were going to train the Americans on how to do their job why because it's coming from South Korea Everything's an ally of
SPEAKER_01:ours. Exactly. And they are not just a political, but they are an economic ally of ours. And I know that the South Koreans are pissed about it. Like that's the part of the story I heard. Cause can you imagine, can you imagine making a deal with the country to build a factory in another country to supply your product to that country, just to have the employees at your factory disappeared by a secret police? Like,
SPEAKER_00:and the last thing we need
SPEAKER_01:is to be losing allies in Asia right now.
SPEAKER_00:I lived there for 14 months in Korea. I was stationed there for 14 months. And what just happened to those 300 or 400, whatever it was, and to the entire country, they're going to look at it as a lost face. They were arrested and kicked out of the country. No matter if they were right, wrong, or indifferent, they're going to be shamed to go back to
SPEAKER_01:Korea.
SPEAKER_00:Yes.
SPEAKER_01:To the point with Putin's little dictator parade that he had with China and North Korea this past week, South Korea is one of our longest and strongest allies, especially in East Asia. Why in the fuck would we treat an allied country and their company and that company's representatives in this way in a time of increasing political and geopolitical tension in East Asia? Like what the actual fuck are we doing?
SPEAKER_00:And then ice is ramping up and there's a lot of celebrations being canceled right now because there's two things. And this will lead right into the other thing. One of the other things we're talking about, there's two things happening September 15th. Number one, September 15th is like Independence Day between 15th and 16th for like five or six countries and their independence from Spain. That's why Hispanic Heritage Month is from September 15 to October 15th, because the majority of Spanish at the time colonies got their independence from Spain in that one month bulk. And so ICE is getting ramped up. To crash these festivals. In Chicago. No. Chicago and LA. They're canceling festivals. Because it's going to be. A place where I can just come in. And raid. And just take people. Get their
SPEAKER_01:quota in 12 minutes.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah exactly. Because I know for a fact. That they're considering canceling it in Chicago. Because Chicago has a huge. Mexican population. And then. If the Fed decreases the interest rate on the 15th, does the ice rate take... the news from the drop of the interest rate. Right.
SPEAKER_01:So I think it would, just because most people don't understand the interest rate one way or the other. And I don't know, 3000 people getting picked up from a fucking independence day parade, I think would make the news. Yeah. I'm saying a lot of bad words. I'm apologizing. I, sorry, but this is like a human rights violations make me curse guys. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And, and with the interest rates, Both you and I talked before, right before we went on air, we both feel that it's going to go down.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And I'm pretty sure I agree with you. It's going to be a quarter
SPEAKER_01:point. Quarter point is my guess. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. And that's so big in so many ways, but it's not going to help the economy.
SPEAKER_01:No, because it's going to help hedge fund managers who are borrowing at like 0.025%, right? Because now they can borrow at 0.01%. Ooh, go you. Like good for fucking you. That is not helping the economy at large, right? And all it's really doing is shining a glaring light on the fact that our economy runs on margin and that is dangerous. But that's an episode all its own.
SPEAKER_00:It will help. If it goes down a quarter point on Monday or Tuesday, because it can be either the 15th or 16th, you will see a huge bump in the stock market.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, obviously. And that's the only thing Donald Trump cares about when it comes to the economy. So since we're already talking about it, we'll go straight into this one, right? The economy and its shitty vibes, the Fed interest rates. But like I heard on, I want to think it was NPR either today or yesterday, but they're basically talking about how like it's not the 1970s yet, but we are like flirting with the 1970s. era kind of stagflation because well get all nerdy econ teacher for you for a minute monetary like the federal reserve is given like two main tasks they manage like the labor market and they manage um inflation okay but the thing is is that these two things sort of have like um uh opposite like relationships to each other i taught all day guys my brain's a little dead so like how you control for inflation is usually with policies that could trigger unemployment And how you manage unemployment, like bringing unemployment down, is usually going to cause inflation to rise. And if you think about it pretty logically, it just has to do with prices increase when people spend a lot of money. So the more people that are working, the more money is being spent. Therefore, that's going to push prices up, right? Makes sense. And when people don't have jobs, they're not spending money. So less money is spent, less money circulates. So prices either stay the same or come down. So low interest rates, are usually designed to encourage like businesses and people to borrow. So you buy more like long-term things. So houses and cars and durable goods like appliances and furniture and stuff like that on the consumer side. But on the producer side, those low interest rates are usually where they would open up new locations or hire new staff or expand or research and development for like big companies, right? But none of that is going to work right now because the things that are wrong with the economy are not going to be fixed with increased borrowing because the problem with the economy is uncertainty. And the uncertainty is coming from a lunatic running the country. And that's not going to get better just because interest rates go down. The tariff war is not going to end just because interest rates come down. And part of the reason businesses are slowing their hiring and slowing their expansion is because they don't know what the impact of tariffs is going to be. And they don't know if the geopolitical conflicts that the president is getting into is going to cause them damage to their economic partnerships with other countries or other companies in other countries. A lower interest rate is not going to fix that. He seems to think lowering the interest rates is going to make it all better. No, because none of that removes the uncertainty that is coming from the chaos of your administration. So I'm glad he's going to get his interest rate cut, but what's he going to do when it does not? Like, who's he going to blame when cutting interest rates does nothing?
SPEAKER_00:Well, here's the interesting part about everything that you were talking about is basically for the nation. But everybody's economy is within a household. Yes, like their personal. So everybody has a household economy. And what you're talking about doesn't– and I– I cringe when I say this, doesn't trickle down to the household. But it doesn't, honestly, it doesn't trickle down for three to four months. Or 40 years. Yeah, right. But at the earliest, right? Because an interest rate going down might help you buy a car, but it's not going to affect your income. groceries for a few months until everything else plays itself out. And then the other thing that these tariffs are going to do is because corporations are greedy, they're going to create a false supply and demand.
SPEAKER_01:I'm glad you said that because I literally just wrote it on my notebook.
SPEAKER_00:It's going to create a false supply and demand. They're going to say, oh, we can't afford to buy this stuff. So the American-made products that the administration claims to what they're doing the tariffs for, they're going to raise the prices on the American-made products too.
SPEAKER_01:Yep.
SPEAKER_00:Because that's what they don't
SPEAKER_01:realize.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's competition. Capitalism is based 100% on competition, right?
UNKNOWN:Yep.
SPEAKER_01:Yep. And its fatal flaw is the exact same fatal flaw of communism. And this is how I teach the kids, right? There are two polar opposites in ideology. One is like complete government control of the economy. Like everything's regulated. The government has its hands in every single industry. That's communism, right? Whereas capitalism is like, and we don't have a capitalism. We have a mixed economic model, which I can explain if we need me to. But a pure capitalist model is laissez-faire, let the market, the invisible hand, Adam Smith, his whole thing, right? We had that. It only led to the Great Depression. So it worked really well for us, right? And how did we fix it? We sprinkled some socialism on it. Just like when the USSR collapsed, how did they fix their collapsed communist economy? They sprinkled in some free enterprise, right? Go open some businesses. Go do something. Mixed economic models work for a reason, right? But the same thing that creates the inevitable downfall of a purely capitalist model is the same thing that leads to the fall of a purely communist model, and that is that neither one account for the very, very obvious reality that human beings are great And they will do anything they can to benefit themselves. So a communist country, well, that country is going to get greedy. It's going to hoard its resources for the benefit of the state at the people's dismay. Just like in a capitalist system, the big business titans will hold on to their profits. They will cut costs. They will exploit their workers so they can keep the money. So the titans of industry and capitalism are basically the state bureaucrats of communism, fueled by greed with a complete disregard for anybody they hurt as long as their bottom line is perfect. And that is what's going to happen. So you can try to encourage American-made products and have the market decide. But unless you put provisions and policy in place to incentivize those American purchases, it's not going to happen. They're just going to match prices and that'd be it, right? Makes me crazy. But that's your point. I wrote it down here. And before I forget, like to the interest rate, like you said, it would help people buy a car. No, it won't. Because the baseline interest rate that the Fed hits, that's the federal funds rate. That's the rate that banks use to lend money to themselves. That's not going to do anything for your debt to income ratio at home and what the bank is willing to give you on an interest rate in your car. And your debt to income ratio is going to be impacted by rising prices more than any lower interest rate. Because if your rent goes from 30% to 40% of your paycheck because of rising costs. Well, just like that, I don't care how low the interest rate is at the federal level, you're not getting a car loan because you're a risky investment.
SPEAKER_00:Correct. And the other thing that people won't be buying cars for and they're not buying houses for, at least in Florida, is the insurance rate.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, we can do a whole episode on the insurance market, especially just in
SPEAKER_00:Florida. But it all plays into the economy because as the insurance goes up, And I mean, it's going up. You have less money to spend on everyday products. And the less money you have, the worse the economy goes because the economy in your house goes down. So that means collectively everybody's economy goes down.
SPEAKER_01:Yep. Like I teach this to the kids because economics is basically magic. Like I teach them that basically in our system with a fiat currency, money is essentially fair. Right. Like pixie dust. OK, like why does it have power? Because we believe it has power. Why does it have value? Because people believe it has power. If you stop believing in the power of the American dollar, what will happen? It will collapse. Right. So this is actually measured in economics with something called consumer confidence. It's an index, like how confident people feel about the economy. Right. So when people are feeling confident about the economy, the economy does well. When people are feeling bad about the economy, the economy does poorly. And markets are And people like stability. Looking around, do things seem stable to you?
SPEAKER_00:Of course not.
SPEAKER_01:Nope. So it doesn't matter how low your interest rates go. None of that matters because if people are feeling uneasy about the state of their political system or their country in any way, they're not going to be making purchases. And all of those things are going to impact all of the other things.
UNKNOWN:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:And then this is what Trump doesn't understand because he equates that people, and for some point, his people, and I said his name, I can't believe I said his name. I'm sorry. Yeah. Are stupid. And they base the economy on three things. The price of gas, the price of eggs, and the price of milk. Because that's the complaints that you hear from the MAGA people. Oh, but look at the price of gas. It's going down. I went in and I started looking at why the price of gas is going down. I don't know that it
SPEAKER_01:has yet, but...
SPEAKER_00:Oh, it's going down. It's going down quite a bit. It's below$3 here locally.
SPEAKER_01:Is it really? I haven't filled up in like a week or two.
SPEAKER_00:It's going to continue to go down because OPEC is flooding the market. Oh, yeah. They are. OPEC is flooding the market And how do I know it's OPEC? Well, first of all, because you just look and see where the oil is coming from, and it's OPEC. And how else do I know that it's affecting negatively the American companies because, you know, drill, baby, drill? No. Look at Chevron. Look at Chevron. Look at Philips. They merged. ConocoPhillips.
SPEAKER_01:ConocoPhillips.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. ConocoPhillips. They're laying off thousands of people. I saw that, yeah. Like 20% of their people they're laying off. 25%. Wow. We're not dumping oil into the market. OPEC is. You know how long they're going to do it for? Until Donald Trump is dead? No. Probably for about another year. And then what are they going to do after that? They're going to raise the price. Yeah, shut it down and raise the prices. And by that time, they will have led the American companies to where they can't catch up. Or they've shut down. Or they've shut down. But you're going to have a huge spike in the price of gas in about a year, right before the midterms.
UNKNOWN:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Well, actually, and remember, the oil market is so geopolitically laced. It's one of the... I don't want to say one of the only, but it's probably the primary industry that is tied to geopolitics the most. And the OPEC nations know this. And honestly... Call me a tinfoil hat wearing weirdo for this one, but I think they're doing this intentionally to hurt Donald Trump because they recognize he's a threat to the world.
SPEAKER_00:I believe they are also. I really do. But the administration has seen this, and that's why we're getting closer to Venezuela.
SPEAKER_01:But the administration doesn't realize. Or getting closer to invading Venezuela.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, because they have such a huge oil pocket. But what they don't realize, and I'm sure that somebody in their administration does, is that that's not the oil that you want. You want the oil from Guyana, which is right next door.
SPEAKER_01:Because Venezuela has like, it's like the crappy kind of oil like Canada has. Yeah, like it takes a lot to refine.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, heavy oil. It's very expensive to refine.
SPEAKER_01:To refine.
SPEAKER_00:And actually- Venezuela is heavy, extra heavy oil.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, so it's even worse than the Canadian oil. Yes. So, but also tell me if I'm wrong, isn't Venezuela and this, I could be wrong. I'm wrong about things a lot, but isn't like Russia, like think World War I weird alliances. Like is Venezuela the new Serbia to Russia in this?
SPEAKER_00:I don't know if they still are, but they were.
SPEAKER_01:They were. Okay. So I knew there was a connection
SPEAKER_00:there. Nobody likes the president. or dictator in Venezuela. Nobody worldwide likes him. He's impossible to deal with and he's harmful in a lot of different ways to different countries. His name is Maduro, which means right. They like Chavez and Russia had, and so did Cuba, had really close ties with Chavez when he was in Venezuela.
SPEAKER_01:But am I correct? Like, this might be me conflating things in my head, but didn't he, like, orchestrate a coup to stay in power as well? Like, didn't he get voted out and then, like, January 6th himself into power, Venezuela edition?
SPEAKER_00:Twice.
SPEAKER_01:Twice, okay.
SPEAKER_00:Exactly twice.
SPEAKER_01:So the parallels I'm seeing here, like, oh, so nobody likes Maduro because he's a crazy person. So basically Donald Trump is the American Nicolas Maduro?
SPEAKER_00:Uh... yeah and the only reason maduro's in power is the only people he pays is the military
SPEAKER_01:Well, Donnie doesn't even pay them, because remember, the 29-day contracts for National Guardsmen so they don't get their benefits, that is going to bite him in the ass when it comes time for his little next attempt at a coup. All I can say is that there are going to be some pissed-off Guardsmen not playing games with him.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah, 29 days, and... His
SPEAKER_01:Mussolini moment is going to be so good, Roy.
SPEAKER_00:It's hard to imagine how poorly they plan everything. because everything they plan is just like, for instance, Mike Johnson. Well, he was an informant for the FBI.
SPEAKER_01:That was so funny. I was laughing my ass
SPEAKER_00:off. Well, first of all, to be an informant, usually FBI and police officers turn criminals into into informants.
SPEAKER_01:I was going to say, I'm glad you mentioned that because I think there's a point to that that you don't know, Mikey.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Confidential informants are getting time off their sentence.
SPEAKER_00:Right. And if he's an informant for the FBI, that means the FBI thought he was involved.
SPEAKER_01:Yep. Funny, funny, funny. Or that he got caught for like some of his bribery extortion tax fraud charges and he was working it off by catching a pedophile. But also you don't write birthday cards the way he writes birthday cards to people you're informing on just to guess. Right. And usually when you're informing, you're pretending to be somebody else, too.
SPEAKER_00:I saw somewhere, I think it was on TikTok today, where they put up like five different birthday cards he had written and he had signed them. A
SPEAKER_01:special little secret.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Well, he hadn't signed them that way, but that was to Epstein. Did you hear that?
SPEAKER_01:I did, but just a little bit. I'll get it out, though. 28, 30, and then... Okay, keep going.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, so, no, they compared five different things. One of them was to Giuliani, by the way, but the signatures are exact.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's 1,000% him. 1,000% him. He's not going to be able to... keep this out of the news for long, especially with the discharge petition coming. So let's, let's go, let's go to that one next. Cause that'll be fine. Right. Well, and it's not leaving the news. Oh no. Like no matter how hard he tries and like the harder he tries to make it disappear, the louder it gets. And this is what happened with Nixon. If you remember, right. Had he just stopped being a little bitch about it, it probably wouldn't know. Cause he had Woodward and Bernstein who weren't going to let it go. Where are Woodward and Bernstein when you need them right now? That is what I need. I need some scrappy 20, four-year-olds digging through some sex files right now. But I just think it's really funny. So I actually taught this to my kids today because what they're doing with the Epstein files is so fucking gold to me because they are using a discharge petition to force the vote. Now, do you know what a discharge petition is? I forgot,
SPEAKER_00:but I used to know it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, once upon a time. It's one of those things that you learn once in school and you never remember because in all of the 150 Yeah. Speaker of the House with a discharge petition. So essentially how it works is it requires 218 members of the House of Representatives to sign on to bypass the Speaker's gavel to force a floor vote on a bill that hasn't been assigned to commit or no, that's been stuck in committee. So you can only file a discharge petition if a bill has been stuck sitting in committee going nowhere for 30 plus days. So essentially what Mike Johnson did was he sent it to committee and told Republicans who are like, you know, controlling all the committees because they're the majority. to leave it, don't get a vote, like let it stay there, let it die in committee. It stayed in committee long enough that Ro Khanna and Ed Massey, I think is his name, the guy
SPEAKER_00:from- Massey, yeah. Massey. It's Massey.
SPEAKER_01:They issued a discharge petition and all 211 Democrats plus Ro Khanna for 212 have signed onto the discharge petition, but you need 218. So they need some Republicans to make it happen. But they have Massey, so that's 213. They have Marjorie Taylor Greene, 214. Which is shocking, but yes. I know, 215. and then Nancy Mace, 216. They need two more. And they're stuck because Donald Trump came out and basically told all of the Republicans that if you vote in favor of this, it is a, quote, direct attack at the White House, which, what clearer language is there for, I did it, guys, don't tattle on me, than it would be a clear attack on me to vote on this. But whatever, that's an issue for another day. But here's the fun fact, Royal, okay? There are two empty seats in Congress right now because remember how Donald Trump handed picked a bunch of people from the House, put in his cabinet, and it left their seats vacant, which left special elections. Well, Democrats won both of those special elections, which means that as soon as those two Democrats are seated, they have two more signatures they can add to the discharge petition, which would hit the magic number of 218. So now the only move they have is to refuse to seat these Democrats so they can't add their names to the petition. And that is going to look like a glaring cover up that is going to get a lot of tension. So either the discharge petition is going to effectively bypass and get a floor vote, or it's going to force Mike Johnson to let it come to the vote and he can whip his votes to have Republicans kill it from the floor. But it's going to hit the floor. And once it hits the floor, it hits public record, at least to
SPEAKER_00:a certain extent. That's the big thing. It's public record once it hits the floor.
SPEAKER_01:They are losing the plot on this. They are losing this one so bad, and I love it. so much.
SPEAKER_00:It's going to take a little bit of time still.
SPEAKER_01:We were talking about it with the kids today, and I was telling them, I'm like, look, one of the kids asked, should they release the Epstein files? To be fair, there are reasons to keep some of it redacted. There are names of victims that deserve to be private, right? The point I made to them, it was like, is Donald Trump in the files? Almost without question, but that's not what I care about anymore, because I know he's in the fucking files. I want to know who else is in the files. I want to know the money that protected to Jeffrey Epstein because you don't have an island and mansions and private jets and an international human sex trafficking ring without help. Okay. He did not do this by himself and he didn't do it just with Donald Trump either.
SPEAKER_00:And he didn't win the lottery that two people just split the other day because he came into money quick.
SPEAKER_01:Yep. And like this, like there are going to be hedge fund managers, corporate heiresses and everything like, like Prince Andrew, like the King of England's brother was on the Epstein list. So you tell me there's not other powerful people on there. Like they're not only keeping the Epstein files secret to protect Donald Trump is my point. And everybody who's got a lot of energy put forth into hiding the Epstein files is connected to somebody in there. And you want to know my crazy conspiracy theory right now? I think of the Supreme Court. I think some of them are on the list.
SPEAKER_00:That wouldn't surprise me.
SPEAKER_01:It wouldn't surprise me at all. Cause why else are they hiding this? Like there's no reason, there's no constitutional grounds for them not letting Congress do their job unless Clarence Thomas is on the list.
SPEAKER_00:And that's who, when you said that, that's who first came to my mind.
SPEAKER_01:Or Brett Kavanaugh is on the list. Yeah. Or John Roberts on the list.
SPEAKER_00:He's creepy enough.
SPEAKER_01:He's creepy enough. Or Sam Alito.
SPEAKER_00:That would surprise me, actually.
SPEAKER_01:Really? Neil Gorsuch?
SPEAKER_00:No, that wouldn't surprise me. Alito is probably the one that I, and I could be 100% wrong on this, but he's probably the one that would surprise me the most.
SPEAKER_01:Really? Yeah, that's fair. He's creepy in a different way.
SPEAKER_00:Yes. But
SPEAKER_01:Kavanaugh? Thomas?
UNKNOWN:Yes.
SPEAKER_00:No, actually Thomas would be with his wife there.
SPEAKER_01:Probably. And but Kavanaugh, I would be convinced of, too, because remember when he got appointed to the Supreme Court, how like the FBI investigation into him wasn't real, but also like all his credit card debt magically went away and somebody paid off his mortgage and all of these things really quick before they put him on the Supreme Court. That's very suspicious because immediately thereafter, he also helped shut down the Epstein
SPEAKER_00:investigation. He had a woman come and testify that he had sexually assaulted her.
SPEAKER_01:Christine Blasey Ford. Yep. And thank
SPEAKER_00:you, Eckhart. I don't remember her name.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And that's what I'm saying. Like, I would bet like at least, at least four of the six conservatives on the Supreme court are on there. I would say there's probably easy 10 members sitting in Congress right now. I don't care which party easy 10 members of Congress right now that are probably on that list. Probably a lot of high ranking.
SPEAKER_00:I think that's a conservative number.
SPEAKER_01:It's definitely a conservative number, but I'm saying at least.
SPEAKER_00:And I'm with you. I don't care what, what side of the fence, what side of the, uh, of the bird
SPEAKER_01:you're on. Like, it's time to clean house, right? But what is also going to be true on there, a lot of, like, Fortune 500 CEOs, a lot of, like, high-ranking philanthropists, right? Because you and I both know, like, a lot, like, people give away a lot of money or doing so to assuage the guilt of their fuckery, and we all know that. Like, you don't build an opera hall unless you raped a 12-year-old at some point. That's probably mean to say.
SPEAKER_00:I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_01:Enron
SPEAKER_00:proved that.
SPEAKER_01:Mm-hmm. There you go. Ooh, God. Do you think the Cheneys could be on there? No, Dick Cheney's a different kind of evil. He's not pedophile evil. He's just evil evil.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. There's certain people that I don't like in life or don't agree with, but I don't think they'd go down that route. Yeah, because it's a specific type of creepy. Yes.
SPEAKER_01:But you know who I could see being on there? Ted Cruz. It would be gross for everybody involved, but I could see it. Who else could I see on there? Joseph Kennedy, that fucker from Louisiana with the high-pitched little squealy voice. I hate
SPEAKER_00:him. The fact that Ted Cruz claims that he's Hispanic drives me insane.
SPEAKER_01:Fucking born in Alberta, Canada. I hate him so much. In class today, a quick aside, I was going through structures and powers of Congress, and I was explaining how there's unlimited debate in the Senate because they have the filibuster and explaining what the filibuster was. I told them about Cory Booker breaking the record and the previous record of Strom Thurmond. I was like, but do you want to see my favorite filibuster? And I pulled up the clip of Ted Cruz reading Green Eggs and Ham on the Senate floor in an attempt to kill the Obamacare legislation. I was like, with no sense of irony, kids. He read a children's book while trying to defeat a healthcare law that expanded healthcare coverage to
SPEAKER_00:children. Poor kids. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:With absolutely no sense of irony. And the way he read it, like he was auditioning for a Broadway play is the best part about it. He's like, I do not like Green Eggs and Ham. I do
SPEAKER_00:not.
SPEAKER_01:Well,
SPEAKER_00:if anybody spoke... about my wife. The way that Trump spoke about his wife. We would have probably thrown hands, but if you're going to be above that, I get it. But I'm not working for the guy.
SPEAKER_01:The feckless piece of shit that Ted Cruz, like the way he like kissed the ass of the man who told him like to his face his wife was ugly. But you want to know what I love seeing is like how grossed out Ted Cruz's daughters are by him. Have you ever seen scenes where he goes to try to hug his daughter and she pulls away? No. Don't touch me. So funny. I'll find some and I'll send them to you, but you can tell his daughter is creeped out by him, which is what makes me think he's on the Epstein list. Full circle.
SPEAKER_00:Could be. How old are his daughters? I don't even know.
SPEAKER_01:Well, now they're older. But these are pictures from 10 years ago when he was running for president back in 2016. And he tried to do the politician thing where you cuddle your daughter and kiss her on the cheek. And she goes like this. And she even was caught on the hot mic saying, ew, no. Every father's dream. Apple of his daughter's eye, obviously. All right, so let's go down the list. We've talked Fed and job cuts and gas prices. We've talked green lighting, racism, Epstein, ICE. What else have we got on the list? Oh, the Florida Surgeon General.
SPEAKER_00:Talk about harm to kids.
SPEAKER_01:Did you see how he, like, admitted that he, like, oh, no science involved, just vibes?
SPEAKER_00:It was to Jake Tapper.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, it was Jake Tapper he was talking to?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Jake Tapper said, was there any data collected? And then he first says, absolutely. And then he goes, absolutely not. And I was like, listening to this guy. And he said, no, because I'm going on the fact that it's, how did he frame it? I can't even think of how he framed it. But he was talking, oh, it's intrusional to the body.
SPEAKER_01:So is food. So
SPEAKER_00:here's the irony. Not the irony. The hypocrisy. They don't want to mandate vaccines because everybody should be able to control their body.
SPEAKER_01:Isn't that funny?
SPEAKER_00:Yet abortions are illegal. Unless you're a congresswoman And you can call the
SPEAKER_01:governor yourself.
SPEAKER_00:And then as soon as she has the abortion, she goes right back and says, oh, but I'm against abortion.
SPEAKER_01:course she is because when it's convenient right and like somebody like mentioned this to me too and they tried to say that it was different because a vaccine is only affecting your body but if you're pregnant it's another person's body and i was like it's not though because am i allowed to keep somebody alive on life support to harvest their organs against their will no then why can you hold my body hostage to keep another person's body alive against my will it's the same thing you can't force me to donate blood you can't force me to donate my organs you can't do any of those things. So like a dead body has more rights than a living woman in the state of Florida. But I heard today again on NPR, I think on my way to work, Ron DeSantis is defending his surgeon general right now. He says, I'm not anti-vaccine. I'm anti-vaccine mandate. I just want parents to have the final say. And I'm sitting here like in the car line to get to school, watching parents drive and drop their kids off in the middle of traffic. And I'm sitting here, I'm like looking at parents make objectively stupid decisions, dropping their children off in the active traffic. I'm like, you want them to have the final say on their kid's safety. They literally just opened their car door and sent their kid into traffic.
SPEAKER_00:81% of the United States believes in vaccines. It's 19%. And those are the 19% that are opening their door in the
SPEAKER_01:middle of traffic.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. And so to go to school and, I don't know when the rule is going to be in effect, right? I don't know if it's immediate. Is it 90 days? Okay. So in 90 days, you can send your child to kindergarten without vaccines, but you can't board your dog in a kennel without
SPEAKER_01:vaccines. I can't get his nails cut at Petco unless his vaccines are up to date, but I can send my kids to school without polio defense or measles.
SPEAKER_00:Correct.
SPEAKER_01:And like right now, like I was like the polio and the measles vaccine are not actually on the list, right? So it's a To be fair, the MMR and polio are still required as of now. But what they've pulled back the requirements for are the chickenpox vaccine, meningitis, and the flu vaccine. But not like the normal flu, but like the scary flu that like turns to like liquid on the lungs like overnight. But meningitis, Royal, they're not, they're going to let kids go to school without being treated for meningitis. Do you know how fast meningitis spreads and how
SPEAKER_00:deadly it is if you get it? I was about to say it's one of the, it's one of the most contagious diseases you can get in a populated area. It spreads like crazy. Like it happens on a college campus. Yes. It happens on a college campus every three or four years. And then a whole bunch of people get infected and at least a few of them die.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And it's like, and if, even if you don't die, like the, the side effects and the long-term like health problems, consequences of meningitis. People lose their vision, people lose their hearing. Helen Keller, okay? She was blind and deaf, but not because she was born that way. It was because she had meningitis as a child and lost her hearing and her sight.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:When I heard it, I about crashed the car. I was like, you're fucking kidding me. Meningitis. They're just... And what's going to happen? We already have a teacher shortage, right? People are going to leave the profession because they don't want to go to school with meningitis running wild, right? Parents are going to pull their kids out of schools. Or they're going to leave the state. Can you imagine young families being willing to move to Florida knowing that to put their kids in school, they're risking them getting infected with meningitis?
SPEAKER_00:But I even see a darker reasoning for DeSantis on doing this. For whatever reason, maybe he got beat up in public school when he was a
SPEAKER_01:kid.
SPEAKER_00:I believe that. It can still be mandatory in private school.
SPEAKER_01:And
SPEAKER_00:he's a big voucher guy and he's been trying to do whatever the whole administration is against public education. Right. And it's another stab at the department of education in the state of Florida of where you can't mandate for public school, but the private schools can mandate it. But if you have people leaving and, taking their kids, oh, apply for vouchers because you can get vouchers. And the way that the vouchers were set up by Jeb Bush were not for the people that are using them now.
SPEAKER_01:Even with Jeb Bush, it was a license to grift, but it's even worse now. Right. It
SPEAKER_00:was. But at least then, they went under the thought. They pretended to care. They pretended to care and they pretended to make it about choice for underprivileged kids and stuff like that. But now they just open it up. Do you know how many schools in Central Florida do not take vouchers now?
SPEAKER_01:Probably none.
SPEAKER_00:Two.
SPEAKER_01:Two? Two.
SPEAKER_00:Two. Yeah. That's
SPEAKER_01:ridiculous.
SPEAKER_00:They're two of the academically strongest schools in Central Florida, and they're the
SPEAKER_01:only two.
SPEAKER_00:Trinity
SPEAKER_01:Prep?
SPEAKER_00:No. No. And Lake
SPEAKER_01:Island. I was going to say Lake Island's the other one.
SPEAKER_00:Those are the two that do not take vouchers. Every other private school takes vouchers.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, because they're like the uppity uppity schools and they don't want any voucher kids in their schools.
SPEAKER_00:Well, no, because once you take stuff from the federal government, you open up a whole bunch of different things too.
SPEAKER_01:That is actually also true. That is there. It's just fucking obscene. There, I said another bad word. I didn't even mean to. But actually, to the point about Jeb Bush, just because I never like to miss an opportunity to trash the Bush family when there's one presented to me. Because do you know that after he started his charter school program and the voucher program, do you know who owns 60% of the schools that received those vouchers?
SPEAKER_00:Don't tell me the Bush family.
SPEAKER_01:The Bush family. So he created the school choice program to create vouchers for underprivileged kids to attend schools his family owned.
SPEAKER_00:I did not know that. Seems about right, though.
SPEAKER_01:Seems about right, right? Never an opportunity. I never missed a chance to trash the Bushes, man, because I thought they were the worst criminals in history, in American history, until the Trump family came along.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, they said, hold my beer.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Like, the Bushes and Nixon look so wholesome now. I'm like, oh, he broke into the DNC. How adorable. Oh, he grifted a state of their tax dollar. That's so cute. Even Rick Scott. You stole$700 billion. You're so cute. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:We talked about this two weeks ago or whenever we talked about it. All the contracts for the alligator Alcatraz and$400 million. All those were DeSantis' cronies.
SPEAKER_01:Yep. Oh, and that was another point I made today. Like I was talking to the art teacher across the hall from me and we were talking about how the alligator Alcatraz place got shut down because of the native American sued for environmental impact. Like go them. They're they're awesome. But like, she just made like a passing comment. I just, I still can't believe that we actually had a concentration camp in the state. I was like, you should. I was like, Ron DeSantis cut his political teeth at Gitmo. Okay. So he was a JAG attorney and he was sent down to Gitmo and his job was to be the civil rights defense lawyer. for the Bush administration defending enhanced interrogation. So he cut his political teeth trying to figure out a constitutional grounds to legally torture people. So of course he built his very own torture camp, right? He's been waiting 20 years to build his own torture camp.
SPEAKER_00:You know who did the interrogations in Gitmo, right?
SPEAKER_01:Well,
SPEAKER_00:a few people, but who are you thinking? It wasn't the Marines. That's who's stationed there. It's my favorite. It's It's my favorite organization.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, the CIA. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course, of course, of course, of course. Yeah, because, I mean, if you need somebody to do something disgusting and criminal, who do you call? Republicans or
SPEAKER_00:the CIA? The Army and the Marines and the Navy. The Air Force doesn't interrogate anybody. They have too much integrity to do that? Well, no, they don't interrogate anybody. But the Army, Marines, and Navy do not torture people. They don't.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, because, you know, war crimes and whatnot. CIA. They
SPEAKER_00:do.
SPEAKER_01:All day, every day, baby. All day, every day. It's half their job. That's so gross. But speaking of crazy surgeon generals and people who don't care about science, did you see RFK's congressional hearing?
SPEAKER_00:Was that a train wreck?
SPEAKER_01:It was
SPEAKER_00:either a train wreck or a dumpster fire, as you referred to earlier.
SPEAKER_01:It's somewhere in between. It was like if a train of dumpsters crashed and caught fire. That's what I would call it. It was embarrassing. The shame he has brought to his father's name is like... uncalculable i don't even know if that's a word incalculable incalculable
SPEAKER_00:bernie did you see when bernie sanders was questioning him
SPEAKER_01:bro i love bernie sanders so much he has not missed it he's a thousand years old and he still has no bucks to give you
SPEAKER_00:robert kennedy said we're giving we're providing 50 billion dollars or whatever to something and i can't remember what it was because i couldn't stop laughing because i knew where bernie Bernie was going to go next. He said, you took 150 billion from them and you gave them back$50 billion. That's not giving them$50 billion. That's taking a hundred billion dollars from them.
SPEAKER_01:I know. And Kennedy really thought he had done something there. He's like, but we gave them 50 million. That's like me taking like your allowance away and giving you a dollar for a soda.
SPEAKER_00:And it might've been millions. I'm not sure. Cause I couldn't hear because I was laughing so hard because Bernie Sanders is ate him for lunch.
SPEAKER_01:Without even trying. They all did, though, right? And, like, there was a woman that was questioning him, too, where he, like, I can't remember who it was or what he said, but he was like, we're the, where she said, she told him he was a threat to the American people. Like, you're a threat to the health of Americans. He's like, we're the sickest country in the world. How am I a threat? Like, oh, I have an idea. Yeah, we're the sickest country in the world. You know why? Because we don't have healthcare. It has nothing to do with vaccines, right? Like, Europe has all the same vaccines we do. They have all the same video games we do, right? You know what they also have? Universal healthcare. So they don't have to wait until they have cancer to get their cancer treated. They get to go for preventative screenings. without having to talk to an insurance company about why a preventative screening is necessary. They don't have to have stage three cancer before they get treated. They get a precancerous cell and a biopsy and get it handled.
SPEAKER_00:And nowadays insurance companies won't even pay for MRIs.
SPEAKER_01:I know. I know. Like how fucking bad is that? Like, like I, one of my friends was trying to, to get the Ozempic shot. Right. And the reason they wanted it, I know everybody wants it because like they want to lose weight and stuff, but her concern was that she does not have diabetes but like her blood work over the last year or so has been like walking her that way right and she was freaking out like her last a1c came back technically normal but i think it was like one point below like what would be calculated as pre-diabetes but still technically normal right so she's like hey i want to get ahead of this can i get on this medicine because it's designed to like help regulate blood sugar like that's the point of it it's it's to treat diabetes so like can we get ahead of it now and treat my pre-diabetes but before it becomes full-blown diabetes and the insurance won't cover the medicine because they'll only cover it for diabetes. So like literally she has to get sicker and develop a potentially irreversible condition to get the medicine that could prevent her from having this like thing because rather than pay for Ozempic for three months to make her healthy, they'd rather her be sick enough that she has to pay for Ozempic for the rest of her life.
SPEAKER_00:Yes.
SPEAKER_01:And that is like the most infuriating thing in the world. But Robert Kennedy thinks it's the measles shot that's making us sick I think the story I just gave is a far more damning condemnation of the American healthcare system than we make kids get measles shots. I know.
SPEAKER_00:I can't listen to him speak, and it's not because of– and I don't make fun of his voice because that's something medical that happened to him. But I can't listen to him. It's hard for me to listen to him speak because the nonsensical stuff that comes out of his mouth.
SPEAKER_01:He's so stupid. I'm like, I'm sorry, why did we put a heroin addict in charge of America's healthcare? A heroin addict with a brain worm, might I add.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Didn't he kill an animal and throw it in the park or something?
SPEAKER_01:A couple times. There was the incident where he had killed a baby bear and then staged it in Central Park, right? There was another story about how he was fishing and he caught a giant shark or something, so he cut the head off of it and strapped it to the hood of his car and drove it home. And then there's another story about how he was like for funsies eating roadkill. I'm like, and this is the guy we put in charge of American healthcare. God, I hope nothing terrible happens.
SPEAKER_00:Well, what is it with this administration and killing animals?
SPEAKER_01:You know what? I don't know. But Don jr. And his like, what is it? Eric Trump? Like they love it too. They love killing endangered animals for some reason.
SPEAKER_00:It's. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Like I, I swear to God, it's, it's gotta be a form of mental illness. And I'm not saying that like people who hunt for their food, like that is not what I'm saying. I'm saying this like hard on for killing things that you shouldn't kill. Like they're, they know it's not like, like they know it's illegal to kill humans. So they kill endangered animals instead. Cause it's the closest they can get, I guess.
SPEAKER_00:Is it really illegal to kill humans? Because they just killed 11 people on a boat.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, that's true. That is, that is true. I guess as long as you call it a military strike, it's completely legal.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. And J.D. Vance went off on that's what the militaries do is their finest hour and all this stuff. And that's so disgusting. So
SPEAKER_01:disgusting. And then like Donald Trump with like, I'm changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War. I was like, didn't you run on No New Wars? I'm sorry, I'm confused. I thought you said that we would be in World War III within months if Kamala Harris won. But here you are literally declaring war on Chicago and renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. And I know we're going to a little long right now but there was one other thing I wanted to bring up today because I it was a comedian that actually said it but first of all I want to say this before and give myself an excuse yes no it's because it's I don't agree with the joke, all right?
SPEAKER_01:Disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer.
SPEAKER_00:Right, but we got to understand that we are a sexist country. Oh, yeah, that's fair.
SPEAKER_01:That's fair, that's fair.
SPEAKER_00:And the comedian asked, and I wish I could give him his name because I can't remember what it is. The comedian asked if any reporter would ever point out the fact that the guy in the Oval Office never beat a man.
SPEAKER_01:That
SPEAKER_00:he only beat two women. And how that would drive him insane. It would. It
SPEAKER_01:would. The only elections he's won, and barely, was by beating two women. Just because America is more sexist than they are anything else. I'll see if I can find the name of it, but I don't know who it is. But on that note, speaking of beating women, did you see how he was underplaying domestic violence? How he was basically bragging about how he got rid of all crime in Washington, D.C.?
UNKNOWN:?
SPEAKER_01:except for a little fight with the wife and they call that a crime. That is domestic violence, sir. He's referring to domestic violence incidents as a little fight with the wife that shouldn't be counted as a crime. And women voted for this man. He totally threw Ivana down the stairs. I'm convinced he killed his wife now.
SPEAKER_00:royals like yeah probably no i i i wouldn't put it past the guy but i i'm not gonna put that that hat on but i'm i'm sure he doesn't find a problem with it
SPEAKER_01:oh no well because devon trump like if you recall back in like the 80s before they got divorced like accused him of domestic battery accused him of marital rape right
SPEAKER_00:so that's the one i remember the marital rape one
SPEAKER_01:so we know he's like he's not above it then i heard a story about how when he was married to Marla Maples and she got pregnant with Tiffany, it was a conversation between him and Jeffrey Epstein where Epstein like suggested he throw her down the stairs or like she'll divorce you and take you for everything. And then Ivana Trump just happens to fall down the stairs and die a week before she's supposed to testify against him about the Jeffrey Epstein thing. I don't know. It just seems suspicious to me, Royal. Yeah. It's just me though. Yeah. But I just like to, you know, think he's as evil as possible because it helps me cope.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but, and you mentioned it, and women voted for him, but so did Hispanics, so did African Americans, so did military members. It's obscene. I don't get it. I just don't get it.
SPEAKER_01:Well, it comes to the same thing. It's a lack of education. Why did they do it? Because they don't know any different, right? Like, he lies to them, but they don't know enough about how systems work to know he's lying to them, and they don't If you're working 80 hours a week and taking care of kids and doing everything, you don't have time to fact check everything he says. They've created a society where it's increasingly easy to lie and manipulate to people without being held accountable. And he has exploited that because that is who he is. He's good at exploiting things.
SPEAKER_00:You know who else voted for him?
SPEAKER_01:Oh God, I'm scared.
SPEAKER_00:No. Farmers in Nebraska.
SPEAKER_01:Bro, I have no sympathy for fucking farmers in Nebraska right now. Do you
SPEAKER_00:hear him crying all over TV and everything?
SPEAKER_01:I did. I got up early for work yesterday and I was scrolling through TikTok before I got in the shower and I saw two videos. I saw one of a farmer guy who was like, I need everybody to help me, blah, blah, blah. I'm going to lose my farm. He's a soybean farmer. I'm like, oh, gee, I can't imagine why nobody's buying your soybeans. Maybe because your largest purchaser is China and fuck you guys because you voted against your own interests. Then three videos later was a mom and in North Carolina who relies on Medicaid to take care of her son. But between the federal cuts to Medicaid and the state cuts to Medicaid because of the gerrymandered state legislature in North Carolina, she's losing her Medicaid funding and can't take care of her son. So she was asking people to find it in their Christian hearts to help her and her son. And I'm like, I'm sorry. And like, I made a video on it and I was like, basically you voted and God heard your prayer and you said people don't deserve subsidized medicine. So he took your subsidized medicine from you.
SPEAKER_00:Or hear our prayer. And even the farmers that didn't sell to China, but were subsidized. Weren't they subsidized by USAID?
SPEAKER_01:Every farm was subsidized by USAID, right? And that's because part of the school lunches that we all pay for are bought with that USAID money because that is a federal program. So school lunches that we all have in our states are federally funded through USAID. And that program is gone, which means the school lunch program is gone so he basically you all voted to make your kids hungry at school
SPEAKER_00:and they subsidize farmers
SPEAKER_01:and subsidize farmers yeah so like oh the milk is going to get so expensive without those subsidies holy shit man oh god i just realized that like regular milk is going to cost what almond milk costs soon
SPEAKER_00:milk gas
SPEAKER_01:eggs and eggs
SPEAKER_00:yeah
SPEAKER_01:And on that uplifting note.
SPEAKER_00:Well, but that's what a lot of people based how the economy is doing. And the only one going down is going to be gas. And I already said, or we talked about why the gas is going to go down. Because of OPEC flooding the market.
SPEAKER_01:And then we'll see$4 gas in the summer leading up to the midterms. And you know what? It's the only time in my life I'll be glad to see$4 gas because it'll destroy the Republican Party and good.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And
SPEAKER_00:it's going to destroy a lot of homes because as OPEC, as they just flood the market, there's going to be less and less people working for Exxon and ConocoPhillips.
SPEAKER_01:And unemployment's already creeping up. It's 4.3, but that's still low, but it's up 4.3, up from 3.6 when he took office.
UNKNOWN:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:yes and the job the jobs report that came out was not what he wanted either
SPEAKER_01:abysmal and that's before it gets revised and they're going to revise like the whole year report too and he's going to try and blame that on joe biden but you're going to be able to look at the data and be like really because the job losses started around november of last year i wonder what else happened in november of last year
SPEAKER_00:well it should get revised right before the uh the october 1st is to be oh and we didn't get to that but we're going to shut down
SPEAKER_01:Oh, no. We're going to do a whole episode on the shutdown next week. Don't worry. I already have that one queued up and ready to go because I have my kids doing a budget simulation this week and it's going to be grand.
SPEAKER_00:I didn't understand, and I just want to get this out. I didn't understand when Schumer compromised back in March and he played the long game and he played it well.
SPEAKER_01:Actually, I should go digging through my TikTok because when everyone was yelling at Chuck Schumer about it, I said, I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. Let him be. He's basically playing nice. He's like, fine, I'll let Donald Trump have his thing? He played it perfectly. I'm like, for an old man who I don't like, I have to give it to him on this one. Way to go, Chuckie
SPEAKER_00:boy. He played the long game because if he would have closed down the market, or not the market, but the country back in March, somehow Biden would have gotten blamed for it.
SPEAKER_01:Well, not only that, it would have looked petulant and vindictive for Democrats to just be like, no, we don't want to play with the president. He's like, fine, we'll try and play nice. We'll play nice with Donald Trump. We'll respect the new administration And we'll give them the rope they need to hang themselves. And here we are. The gallows is built.
SPEAKER_00:Yep.
SPEAKER_01:So tune in next week, guys. And we're going to talk government shutdown.
SPEAKER_00:And it's happening.
SPEAKER_01:And it's happening. And it's going to be great. And I can't wait. It's going to be fun. Because every time the government shuts down, who's in charge of Congress every single time? Republicans. Every time they control the House of Representatives, the government shuts down. Has
SPEAKER_00:it been every single time?
SPEAKER_01:Every time for the last 10 years. Every time they are in charge of the House of Representatives. the government shuts down
SPEAKER_00:okay
SPEAKER_01:It's been fun. It's been great. Basically, ever since the contract for America, ever since Newt Gingrich, right? Back in 94.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that I remember.
SPEAKER_01:Yep. Oh, that was fun. That was one hell of a lightning round of a week, right? A full tour of America's ongoing dumpster fire in just over an hour, right? Not bad. Yeah. So don't forget, guys, to like, subscribe, download the episode so we get ranked on the podcast. Make sure you're following this show, not the old show, this show, because this is the Cool show now. Any last thoughts, Royal?
SPEAKER_00:Nah, I'm looking forward. I'm going to do a lot of research before next week.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I'm excited about next week. So yes, tune in next week for a deep dive on government shutdowns with me and Royal. And this week, we're also celebrating the anniversary of 9-11 that we talked about on the show last week. So once again, never forget. Never forget. Never forget. Have a good week and thanks for tuning in.