October 8, 2025 • 30 mins
In this edition of I'm Five Foot Trend, Jack and Miles discuss JB Pritzker vs Donald Trump, a "broken clock is right twice a day" update, some consequences of the gov't shutdown and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of I'm
five foot trend. That one courtesy of Snarfula on the
Discord and teenage mutant Ninja girl y Yeah, who's he's
five foot ten? AOC did clarify she was talking about
in spirit he seems.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Smaller, look AOC, We know you know, we knew what
you were getting at. You weren't trying you weren't trying
to shame people who were under five feet tall or
the short gangs. And I appreciate your political response, but
we knew you were poking fun at somebody's fragile masculinity,
as they do untold horrors to the rest of the country.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
But now, how would how would the guy who's fucking
Tom Brady's wife say.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
What you just said?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
We say, God, I'll bring Brazilian guy out at some point,
you know, Brazilian jiu jitsu, Uh, Brasilian master, Yeah, motica
for Brazilian jiu jitsu. Yeah, trum Brady all my one
of my great stoolgents says, say, we don't have a
hotchy doggy.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Later after the class, way to pronounce.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Anybody who knows somebody who has that Brazilian Portuguese accent.
Hotchie Doggie is one of the first ones. You're like,
I'm sorry dog, and you're like, hell, yeah, fucking adorable.
I'm gonna have a hotche Yeah, you know what, I'll
take a hotchy doggie.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
All right. My name is Jack. That over there is
Miles Gray.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
These are some of the stories that are trending on
this Wednesday, October eighth.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Uh. J D.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Pritzker has come through and and said, uh that the
reason Trump is deploying troops to Chicago is because he
is suffering from dementia.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I mean, it's like the only reason too, you know
what I mean. Yeah, yeah sucks. But yeah, there's that
that's been going around a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
We talked about how it was caught on a hot
mic a Democrat saying like what he is unwell and unhinged,
and the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson being like,
well you are you too, And it seems like they've
taken that that that was not just a hot mic moment,
and they've they've taken this opportunity to be like, yeah,
(02:15):
this seems too. They don't seem to have a defense
for this, not not even attack, just pointing out of
what we are seeing in reality.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Like even like you see like a lot of more
you're hearing from more people who have expertise in that area,
and they're like, well, based on just you know, certain
things like his motor skills, his impulse control, his diminished
vocabulary and ability to keep a thought together, I would
say something. I would say, it's setting in something, something's
up something.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Though.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
They just need to look at the cool way he
walks downstairs.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
He's not bopping around slow like the big bopper himself.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Obama's right, doesn't cool and slow and seductive like uh
Catherine Zada Jones and Chicago coming downstairs. That's that's what
he's actually going for. And in case you thought it
was because he was scared of falling down the stairs.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
You are wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
How do we feel about Pritzker, because I know he
definitely has presidential ambitions before before we get into this
particular story, a bit of a bundle of contradictions, like
he's a billionaire, NEPO baby.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Just qualifying for me, just a billionaire. Just yeah, you're
not quite there. But here's the thing. Somehow, in this
twisted upside down of a reality of twenty twenty, Get Baby,
the billionaire hotelier NEPO Baby is the guy who's speaking
somewhat forcefully. I guess it takes a rich guy to
not be afraid of another rich guy or something. He's like,
(03:44):
but I mean again, also looks like a bad guy
from a Dick Tracy.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Oh yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
In the background, he's not even prune face or one
of like the real the guys who get the real
flat top, you know, the sort of big time Dick
Tracy goons. He's like always like he's a tertiary Dick Tracy.
You going, yeah, he doesn't. He does not look like
a president. But so we've seen plenty.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Of candidates who don't look like president do fine, Like
I don't know, Donald.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Trump doesn't look like Yeah. People are like that is it?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
You know, Pritzker's overweight, and it's like, well, okay, yeah,
and and the fuck are you saying about our current president.
He does seem to be one of the handful of
people who are associated with the Democratic Party, like doesn't
seem to melt down when you ask them a straightforward
question that they haven't seen the latest focus group testing on,
(04:37):
you know, like he just will will shoot from the
hip a little bit.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I mean I remember, like in the build up to
thinking there would be a primary, you know, people were
trying like JB.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Pritzker, you know, back.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
When you know, before twenty twenty four, because he was
saying things that were more like you know, he's has
a little bit more of that economic populist in him
that seems to resonate.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, he's like the economically populous things, which yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Think people would like.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
In practice, though, would he betray his own class?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
That's the question. Class traders, R level class trades trader.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
No, yeah, maybe, but otherwise most most anecdotal evidence would
I will just.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Say, like at a gut level, I'm more confident in
his ability to navigate the next few years than a
Gavin Newsom, you know, like Gavin Newsom seems like very
very much uh, focus group based.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, but he's also just so transparently in it for himself.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I think it's.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Different too, and I'm sure people in Illinois probably have
a different Like I think living in California, we have
a very very clear idea of who Gavin Newsom is
outside of like when he's making waves to be.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Like he's being he's acting as a foil to Trump.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And I'm like, he also was scooping up like unhoused encampments,
acting like a tough guy, like that was a fucking
net benefit for people, right, So, I mean, at the
look when we're dealing with like who in the party,
you know it will will help us a fucking a
slim bit.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Bar is the bar is on the ground.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
But yeah, so he is currently in the spotlight of
the administrative because of the administration's invasion of its own
country and specifically his state, Chicago. And this is what
he had to say when asked about it, said, this
is a man who's suffering dementia. Pritsker said in a
televione interview with The Tribune. This is a man who
has something stuck in his head. He can't get it
(06:32):
out of his head. He doesn't read.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
That's a good point. He doesn't know anything that's up
to date.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's just something in the recesses of his brain that
is effectuating to have him call out these cities. And
then unfortunately, he has the power of the military, the
power of the federal government to do his bidding. And
that's what he's doing, which you know, say what you
will about infantilizing a dangerous president. Did seem to get
under Trump's skin because this morning, you know, Pritzker said
(07:02):
that yesterday, and this morning, after Pritzker pointed out his
brain don't work good, Trump called for the arrest of
both the mayor of Chicago and then like through in Pritzker,
like he was like adding.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Mushroom to a pizza order, and he actually put put
Pritskoll on there for good measure. Yeah, I said yesterday
at another meeting where he was sat next to Tim
Waltz and was asked like like why is Trump you know, like,
what's would these you know, this use of the military,
and he gave the same answer again.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
From the fact that he's out of his mind and
has dementia. I I yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It's it's it's clear to me that he is targeting
democratic cities.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
What goes on?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I mean, this is part like every I mean, look,
Gavin Newsom said it back in September. This is a
thing we're seeing people say increasingly more and more. Even
Senator Reuben Diego has given Trump that d as I
say by saying he has dementia, because he was asked
by a journalist that because Trump was claiming that he
was like talking to Democrats and like then the Senate
(08:04):
to like, you know, try and end this or whatever.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
He's like, they don't want to, they don't want to
work with me.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And so Diego was asked about that, he said, quote,
the president clearly has some kind of dementia. So I
think there's he's probably talking to himself or thinking he's
talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that he's
actually physically talking to a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You know what in that recording of the Pritzker quote,
I couldn't help but hear the sound of laughter, which
I know Donald Trump does not, since his primary driving factor,
his primary motivation for his entire life, is the title
of the Adam Sandler album They're All Gonna.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Laugh at You.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
He's like, they're all laughing at us.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
They think we're fools. Exactly, they do. We do, We
all do.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
But I mean, I think the other part of it, too,
for people who can kind of sort of look holistically
at the situation, is also that to have someone that
asleep at the wheel like Donald Trump, like we've said
in the beginning, it allows for all these nefarious goons
to use his position as president to enact their own
fucked up fantasies, like whether it's Russ Vatt with Project
(09:11):
twenty twenty five or Stephen Miller's like xenophobic ethno state
cleansing campaign. They're all able to do this also because
I'm sure just as easy as it is to get
his attention elsewhere, you can get away with being like, yeah,
let's do this, and he's got he's not thinking anything
beyond well, the people that I agree with say, yeah, sure,
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah I'm sleepy, but.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I mean him calling for the arrest of like the
mayor and Pritzker like so I definitely saw some headlines
from like mainstream media outlets being like, uh, you know,
constitutional alarm bells going off, which if you weren't hearing
them before, I think you're medically dead.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
But uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Is, you know, a thing that people are recognizing as
it like it Like I don't know, there's a thing
in sports I talk about every once in a while
where like when you're rooting for one side and like
you you want your team to do the thing that
the fans of the opponent, like don't want you to do,
you know, and like I feel like getting him more
(10:18):
and more extreme on this feels like what Republicans don't
want to happen.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Like I feel like they're like, this is generally unpopular
right now, like the invasion of US cities is unpopular.
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about what
mainstream Republicans want because it's usually just like polite version
of whatever Trump is saying out loud, right, but it
does seem like pulling, and sources inside Congress are like
(10:48):
wishing Trump would like cut it the fuck out.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, you know, I mean they need a win, you know,
because I think that's really how they look at it,
because at the end of the day, it's these senators
in Congress, people that have to go back and face people,
and they're the ones that are somewhat held to account
like what's going on, And they're like, but I'm also
scared of the maga mob mentality, so I'm gonna have
to just kind of lay low. But I don't know, man,
(11:13):
this is the fucking bed they made, whether or not
that actually leads to, you know, some kind of maneuvering
to actually oust him or have some kind of you know,
show of defiance.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I mean, like, I think it's probably going to be
someone who's thinking opportunistically enough to be like I can
maybe keep this audience, but I just need to click
it a few clicks this way right to get people
to be like, oh yeah, yeah, like let's we're off Trump.
This other version that's trump be still feels familiar, but
a little more articulate. Is maybe like how I see
(11:47):
someone feeling like they can rise to those ranks, because again,
I don't believe for a second there aren't people thinking that,
because that's how politics will always work, That's how power
always works. There's always someone who says I can do
it better than this fucking dude is doing it right
now and waiting and rubbing their myths and trying to
figure out when that moment is.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
So they've been wrong up to this point, like you know,
the Ronda Santis, but Trump definitely seems diminished in many ways.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, and you also need to something, You need to
offer something that feels different, like you know, I'm I'm
not giving them pointers, but like Ron DeSantis was just
trying to do a version of Trump.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah, exactly, you need something that to people.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Again, I think for it to click, for the base
to even think they're like, oh, maybe we'll move on
to something. Not to say that this is going to
save the country or change the direction, but merely who
the figurehead becomes. It's someone who's like it's like the
you know, Jesus, for lack of a better comparison, like
a Drake Kendrick thing where they're just sort of like, well,
we've been used to Trump this whole time. If someone
just kind of comes out and is like, dude, this
(12:48):
guy for real, right, then I can see a group
of people being like, yeah, actually kind of sucks having
an act like this guy's cool.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Still Yeah, yeah, I think Kendrick should run for a
Republican prior Trump.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yeah, I think that's our takeaway.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
So he's not like during that Pam Bondi hearing, which
was like mainly Democrats asking straightforward questions and her being
like you're lawyer and sit like that. But there was
even like Tom Tillis was even like pushing back on
the sending of troops and like National Guard to New
York and California and Oregon and Washington, state. He was saying,
(13:26):
I think it's bad President, because like you know, mainstream
Republicans like that are are similar to the Democrats where
where they're just looking at polling and it is first
of all, historically it's been a bad look and unpopular
to deploy troops on your own people who aren't doing
anything wrong. And then there is like specific polling that
(13:46):
has come out in the past days, like thirty seven
percent of Pole respondents say they agree with a statement
that the president of either party should have the power
to deploy troops into states even when state governors object,
compared to forty eight percent who disagreed.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
So it's unpopular.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah, eighty three percent of respondence said the military should
remain politically neutral and not take a side in domestic
policy debates. So it's I mean, even Ted Cruz like
is turning into that uh broken clock he's doing on
the Broken Clock game. He is trying to pass a
bill that would make it easier to sue the government
(14:27):
for censorship, like indirect response to the Kimmel suspension, right
because he fucking loves I bet Cruz loves Kimmel.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Oh gosh, watch that ship every night. You know he
doesn't remember that epic one on one game they played,
and it was the first game.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Of basketball we've ever fucking witnessed in our life, and
Cruse won, right, I think so. I just remember watching
them both ribble.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I was like, God, what is going on? Why? Why
is this a thing? We're we're slipping into darkness.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
It's like when they just have an actor start playing
basketball out of the blue before before inserting the body
double and oh.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, like those first like they catch you get the
ball up tophet the ball one two two, but the
first shot down behind did somebody drive into the hoop?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yet?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Uh MTG keeps clocking, Yeah, keeps broken clocking, broken, broken clocking.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
She contains multitudes, doesn't She fucks rabid, xenophobe, homophobe, all
the phobes, and every now and then you get a
reasonable take on something. Earlier this week, like we said,
she was open to working with the Democrats, but then
also was sure to call Obamacare bullshit, despite her saying
like this is going to harm my children in my constituents,
(15:47):
This bullshit.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Is going to harm people. But it's bullshit. I hate it.
That's where we are today.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
She continues her campaign again This is where I'm like,
is emptg.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Does she think there's an opening or some shit?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I don't no, but either way, she's trying to be
like suddenly not even reasonable. I think she's just maybe
just trying to get to the Epstein files.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I don't know what the deal is.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
But she is basically said, yeah, you know, like we
talked about earlier this week, the Republicans could end the shutdown.
One of their talking points is like, well, the Senate Democrats,
this is a Schumer shutdown because it's like, you know,
you can nuke the filibuster and blow up the sixty
vote threshold and just get it over with a simple majority.
You know, that is an option to you, the Senate
(16:30):
Republicans who love the rule fuckery in the Senate. And
she basically like kicked that defense out. Well, I mean
not that I don't know how many people are actually
going to listen to what she actually said, but she
was pointing out quote the Republican controlled Senate used the
nuclear option today to override the sixty vote rule in
order to confirm over one hundred Trump nominees, yet continues
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to claim Democrats are causing the shutdown. Spoiler alert the
Republicans in the Senate can also use the nuclear option
to reopen the government and override the Democrats, just like
they literally did today to confirm Trump nominees.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Damn hmm huh.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
But again, before you think she's going an MSNBC talking that,
I mean, before before you think she's gone mad ow
on us, she's also melting down over the Bad Bunny
super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Shows one for one for me, one for them.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, because you know, I think he posted something of
like America's got four months to learn Spanish before the
super Bowl halftime show.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
She said.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Quote Bad Bunny says America has four months to learn
Spanish before his perverse, unwanted performance at the super Bowl halftime.
It would be a good time to pass my bill
to make English the official language of America.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
And the NFL needs to stop having.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Demonic sexual performances during its halftime show.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
So she still sucks, don't Yeah, she bad.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back
to look at some of the consequences of the shutdown.
And we're back and yeah, so one thing that is
(18:12):
hitting the front pages all over. Oh, by the way,
the shutdown very unpopular and is being blamed on Trump
in polling, and again we generally ignore polling, but it
is the thing that it's worth paying attention to in
the sense that you know that the you know, lawmakers
are paying attention to it because.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
They don't know any real Americans, so they rely on
polling because they have your numbers. They don't these regular
Americans that do not interact with them ever, and they
have no chance to interact with them.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
So yeah, polling is their god. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
So I think that explains a lot of the is
Trump losing his party stuff is just I mean, you know,
I don't know, I'm not seeing any Republicans revolt. I
guarantee he's going to try and overturn like any ability
to have elections. But it doesn't seem like these Republican
lawmakers have a clear plan before them that's like, oh, yeah,
(19:07):
we don't have to fuck with public opinion anymore because
they are at least responding to it in theory. But
what one of the outcomes of the shutdown is the
massive flight delays that we're seeing across the country. A
big chunk of the workforce that keeps planes in the
air are now being asked to work without a paycheck,
(19:30):
and the FA says they're seeing a rise in air
traffic controllers. Calling in sick may not be a don't
pay me, I sit on my ass situation. Like Sean
d'aufe pointed out that they're probably calling in sick to
like drive uber or like do something else that.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Will allow them to pay their rent.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah, I think you said pay their mortgages. But I
think that's probably wishful thinking.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Well depends on how old you are, you know, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
But yeah, I mean they It also makes it extra
clear how bad the politics were for Trump to like,
I think he recently made a statement that implied there
was no promise they will ever get back pay.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, he's like, there's also people like poking holes in
the in the bill Trump passed in twenty nineteen that
allowed workers to get back pay.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
He's there, like, there're people who've.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Been like I don't even know even we interpreted as
we don't even know if we even have to do it.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
But he's trying to poke holes in the thing that
he passed to make it so that you.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Don't have to.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
So like these people who he's asking to work without
a paycheck on the promise that they'll eventually be paid
for the work that they do, because otherwise the fucking government,
you know, the civilization that is based on like air
travel can't function. He's like, I can't think of a
(20:50):
more direct like I just I know, it's kind of
feels like ten years ago to be like if a
Democrat did this, people would be freaking out.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
But it's like it's such a direct fuck.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Up for him to, you know, like a direct fuck
up that people are feeling like that is impacting people's
lives and safety on a very real, like today basis.
This was a quote from him that I was referring to.
For the most part, we're going to take care of
our people. There are some people that really don't deserve
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to be taken care of, and we will take care
of them in a different way. Okay, yeah, you're shitting yourself, guy,
But like he just threatened to kill them exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
This is what I mean. This is the other part
of it.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
It's like, well, even though they even talk about like
the shutdown and things like that, they're other really important
things like he's sending the military into US cities. That's
also we're they're paying ice goons to kidnap American citizens
and separate children from their parents, sometimes being like stripped,
half naked and zip tied like fucking kids.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
And the thing, I mean, like there's so much the
problem is so huge, Like even to talk about this too,
like you're talking about a president saying he's not gonna
pay workers that are that are doing a function that
keep everyone safe. It's it's it's completely separated from political
ideology when it comes to air traffic controllers or.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Oh they'll get paid all right, miles in a different
kind of way, in a different sense of the word.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I mean, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Did you hear Like at Burbank there was a there
was like a few hours where the pilots there was
no air traffic control. Yeah, and like they're just like
they were having to like organize on their own. They're like,
all right, I'm next, Okay, great, because a lot of
people are like when you learn how to fly, like
you're kind of doing that sort of little bit of
you know, coordinating like on the ground yourself. Yeah, but
(22:47):
this is this is only gonna I mean, I don't
know how this gets better. The one thing is, you know,
the last the shut down, the one thirty five days
in his last administration. It only got really, he only
really felt the pressure when they air traffic started fucking
up and people were like, dude, we can't even fucking fly,
Like what is this? And that was one of the
things that kind of brought him back. But who knows
(23:09):
this go around.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, and we got news for you. It was already
fucked up. They were already being asked to work in
human hours for bad pay because the federal government has
so weakened the ability of the union to work on
the behalf of the people who actually do the work
to keep people from dying in the worst way possible.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, and even Sean Duffy even like the way he
first described the like the TSA air traffic controllers, like
you know, calling in sick or whatever. He was sort
of like, you know, hopefully the Democrats can end the
shutdown before things get worse, Like what's the what are
you trying to imply there?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Yeah, he's a Trump sick of fan too. He's like
everyone's situational Trump.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Sick e fan.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
But yeah, everybody, everybody works for the same guy, and
uh god, oh you'll get paid, all right? The other
big issue that came up in the BONDI hearing. MTG
keeps referencing it is Epstein, Epstein files.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Epstein Empstein files, and I could't rhyme it with MTV,
but yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Yeah, So that's another consequence is that they're still not
bringing in the deciding vote that would release the Epstein files.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah, at A leader Grijalva, like we said, she won
a special election last month to take over her deceased
father's congressional seat and was saying like the second I'm
sworn in, i am Signatory two eighteen to the discharge petition,
which can then force a floor.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Vote on releasing the Epstein files.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Okay, And since then, Mike Johnson has done everything in
his power to not actually gavel in the House for
a session. They've only been doing like pro forma sessions
where it's just like really quick, it's like we're in,
we're out.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
It's just just normal. There's no real votes are being taken.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
But the thing is he's confirmed Republicans in similar pro
forma sessions this year, so there's not even an argument
to be like, well you did it for these Well, no,
this is this is a red Herring obviously, and just
don't don't don't look into the fact that I don't
maybe don't have that many bank accounts or bank records.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
That people can look into.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Just just a very I'm a very up and up
kind of guy totally, So yeah, like, I don't know this,
This is just a very I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
It satisfies multiple things.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
You allow for Project twenty twenty five to have a
further grip in like just gutting the federal government while
also keeping the Epstein files under wrap.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Two Now, I don't know, Like you know, I think
there's a.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Lot of like magical thinking on in both the left
and the right about what exactly will happen as a result.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Of the Epstein files being released, right.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Because I think a lot of people are like, oh
my god, it's going to see Trump all over that
it's going to review these term things he did. We
already know a bunch of terrible things he's done, right, Yeah,
that's not moving the needle. So I don't think that
these files being released will suddenly and I could be wrong,
but I just don't. I don't think any revelation about
his conduct is going to lead to the you know,
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the the resignation that people think is going.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
To know they're going to release on purpose. It seems
like they'll they'll find a way to redact and cover
sh it up. Yeah, but yeah, we we do have
him in a book writing a weird, sexually suggestive love
letters to famed pedophile and sex trafficker.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
And there's already all kinds of allegations against him.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, that he's conviction, you know what I mean, like convictions, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
This is that's I'm like, oh yeah, trust me, I
don't I don't need the Epstein files to know this
guy is a is a like a Leccherius predator. Yeah,
I don't need to know that. But again maybe and
in the same way I think like for Republicans or
people in the right, like oh man, and then Bill
Clinton's gonna go in like the Clinton like yeah, fuck.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Them, devastation.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I don't know if we'll be able to publish that
day if we find out that Bill Clinton was in
the Epstein files.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
That.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Surprising ship to ever have. I would be more surprised
if Clinton wasn't in it than if Trump, I know exactly.
I do wonder because like on Tuesday, you pointed out
in the doc that uh he was asked about a
potential pardon for Geelane Maxwell and was just like, hey.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
We'll look at it. I'll speak to the d J.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
It's like everything you hear about him with regards to
the Epstein files behind the scenes, him being baffled by
people continuing to just bring it up to him, like
he doesn't get it at all, which, like I I
talk a lot about this historical anecdote that I think
is so interesting that like one of the main reasons
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the D Day invasion was so successful was because Hitler
slept in that day and everyone was so scared of
waking Hitler up because he was like on math and
really cranky when he woke up in the morning and
he was like, you let me sleep in tomorrow, and
so like he slept till noon. As like this invasion
was happening because it was just it's the downside of
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like having this like cult of personality dictator at the
head of your entire shit is like people are just
telling them what they want to hear and like kind
of walking on eggshells around them, And like I wonder
if we're kind of seeing that with regards to the
scene files that like, nobody is being like, dude, you're
all over these and this is people are fucking freaked
(28:46):
out and will despise you if like, I don't think
that has reached him.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
No, No, And I think also too, he's he's he doesn't.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
I think he's never really been in that kind of
legal jeopardy, so in his mind, he's like, who's going
to give a shit? Yeah, He's like, I'm fucking I
just get out of everything, So why won't they just
accept that? I think in his mind he's like, because
I'm never brought to justice. Yeah, no, one could possibly
think ill of me because I'm not formally being brought
to justice. Even if some revelation comes out that would
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completely not even completely change people's perception of him at
this point.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
But I think he just thinks he's impervious. So it's
just it just the.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Difference between this and the other ones where he's just
been able to like move it along. Yeah, all right,
those are some of the things that are trending on
this Wednesday, October eighth. We are back tomorrow with a
whole last episode of the show. Until then, be Kind
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Smaller, look AOC, We know you know, we knew what
you were getting at. You weren't trying you weren't trying
to shame people who were under five feet tall or
the short gangs. And I appreciate your political response, but
we knew you were poking fun at somebody's fragile masculinity,
as they do untold horrors to the rest of the country.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
But now, how would how would the guy who's fucking
Tom Brady's wife say.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
What you just said?
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We say, God, I'll bring Brazilian guy out at some point,
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for Brazilian jiu jitsu. Yeah, trum Brady all my one
of my great stoolgents says, say, we don't have a
hotchy doggy.
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Later after the class, way to pronounce.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Anybody who knows somebody who has that Brazilian Portuguese accent.
Hotchie Doggie is one of the first ones. You're like,
I'm sorry dog, and you're like, hell, yeah, fucking adorable.
I'm gonna have a hotche Yeah, you know what, I'll
take a hotchy doggie.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
All right. My name is Jack. That over there is
Miles Gray.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
These are some of the stories that are trending on
this Wednesday, October eighth.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Uh. J D.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Pritzker has come through and and said, uh that the
reason Trump is deploying troops to Chicago is because he
is suffering from dementia.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I mean, it's like the only reason too, you know
what I mean. Yeah, yeah sucks. But yeah, there's that
that's been going around a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
We talked about how it was caught on a hot
mic a Democrat saying like what he is unwell and unhinged,
and the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson being like,
well you are you too, And it seems like they've
taken that that that was not just a hot mic moment,
and they've they've taken this opportunity to be like, yeah,
(02:15):
this seems too. They don't seem to have a defense
for this, not not even attack, just pointing out of
what we are seeing in reality.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Like even like you see like a lot of more
you're hearing from more people who have expertise in that area,
and they're like, well, based on just you know, certain
things like his motor skills, his impulse control, his diminished
vocabulary and ability to keep a thought together, I would
say something. I would say, it's setting in something, something's
up something.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Though.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
They just need to look at the cool way he
walks downstairs.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
He's not bopping around slow like the big bopper himself.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Obama's right, doesn't cool and slow and seductive like uh
Catherine Zada Jones and Chicago coming downstairs. That's that's what
he's actually going for. And in case you thought it
was because he was scared of falling down the stairs.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
You are wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
How do we feel about Pritzker, because I know he
definitely has presidential ambitions before before we get into this
particular story, a bit of a bundle of contradictions, like
he's a billionaire, NEPO baby.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Just qualifying for me, just a billionaire. Just yeah, you're
not quite there. But here's the thing. Somehow, in this
twisted upside down of a reality of twenty twenty, Get Baby,
the billionaire hotelier NEPO Baby is the guy who's speaking
somewhat forcefully. I guess it takes a rich guy to
not be afraid of another rich guy or something. He's like,
(03:44):
but I mean again, also looks like a bad guy
from a Dick Tracy.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Oh yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
In the background, he's not even prune face or one
of like the real the guys who get the real
flat top, you know, the sort of big time Dick
Tracy goons. He's like always like he's a tertiary Dick Tracy.
You going, yeah, he doesn't. He does not look like
a president. But so we've seen plenty.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Of candidates who don't look like president do fine, Like
I don't know, Donald.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Trump doesn't look like Yeah. People are like that is it?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
You know, Pritzker's overweight, and it's like, well, okay, yeah,
and and the fuck are you saying about our current president.
He does seem to be one of the handful of
people who are associated with the Democratic Party, like doesn't
seem to melt down when you ask them a straightforward
question that they haven't seen the latest focus group testing on,
(04:37):
you know, like he just will will shoot from the
hip a little bit.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I mean I remember, like in the build up to
thinking there would be a primary, you know, people were
trying like JB.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Pritzker, you know, back.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
When you know, before twenty twenty four, because he was
saying things that were more like you know, he's has
a little bit more of that economic populist in him
that seems to resonate.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, he's like the economically populous things, which yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Think people would like.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
In practice, though, would he betray his own class?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
That's the question. Class traders, R level class trades trader.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
No, yeah, maybe, but otherwise most most anecdotal evidence would
I will just.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Say, like at a gut level, I'm more confident in
his ability to navigate the next few years than a
Gavin Newsom, you know, like Gavin Newsom seems like very
very much uh, focus group based.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, but he's also just so transparently in it for himself.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I think it's.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Different too, and I'm sure people in Illinois probably have
a different Like I think living in California, we have
a very very clear idea of who Gavin Newsom is
outside of like when he's making waves to be.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Like he's being he's acting as a foil to Trump.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And I'm like, he also was scooping up like unhoused encampments,
acting like a tough guy, like that was a fucking
net benefit for people, right, So, I mean, at the
look when we're dealing with like who in the party,
you know it will will help us a fucking a
slim bit.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Bar is the bar is on the ground.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
But yeah, so he is currently in the spotlight of
the administrative because of the administration's invasion of its own
country and specifically his state, Chicago. And this is what
he had to say when asked about it, said, this
is a man who's suffering dementia. Pritsker said in a
televione interview with The Tribune. This is a man who
has something stuck in his head. He can't get it
(06:32):
out of his head. He doesn't read.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
That's a good point. He doesn't know anything that's up
to date.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's just something in the recesses of his brain that
is effectuating to have him call out these cities. And
then unfortunately, he has the power of the military, the
power of the federal government to do his bidding. And
that's what he's doing, which you know, say what you
will about infantilizing a dangerous president. Did seem to get
under Trump's skin because this morning, you know, Pritzker said
(07:02):
that yesterday, and this morning, after Pritzker pointed out his
brain don't work good, Trump called for the arrest of
both the mayor of Chicago and then like through in Pritzker,
like he was like adding.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Mushroom to a pizza order, and he actually put put
Pritskoll on there for good measure. Yeah, I said yesterday
at another meeting where he was sat next to Tim
Waltz and was asked like like why is Trump you know, like,
what's would these you know, this use of the military,
and he gave the same answer again.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
From the fact that he's out of his mind and
has dementia. I I yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It's it's it's clear to me that he is targeting
democratic cities.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
What goes on?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I mean, this is part like every I mean, look,
Gavin Newsom said it back in September. This is a
thing we're seeing people say increasingly more and more. Even
Senator Reuben Diego has given Trump that d as I
say by saying he has dementia, because he was asked
by a journalist that because Trump was claiming that he
was like talking to Democrats and like then the Senate
(08:04):
to like, you know, try and end this or whatever.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
He's like, they don't want to, they don't want to
work with me.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And so Diego was asked about that, he said, quote,
the president clearly has some kind of dementia. So I
think there's he's probably talking to himself or thinking he's
talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that he's
actually physically talking to a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You know what in that recording of the Pritzker quote,
I couldn't help but hear the sound of laughter, which
I know Donald Trump does not, since his primary driving factor,
his primary motivation for his entire life, is the title
of the Adam Sandler album They're All Gonna.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Laugh at You.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
He's like, they're all laughing at us.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
They think we're fools. Exactly, they do. We do, We
all do.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
But I mean, I think the other part of it, too,
for people who can kind of sort of look holistically
at the situation, is also that to have someone that
asleep at the wheel like Donald Trump, like we've said
in the beginning, it allows for all these nefarious goons
to use his position as president to enact their own
fucked up fantasies, like whether it's Russ Vatt with Project
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twenty twenty five or Stephen Miller's like xenophobic ethno state
cleansing campaign. They're all able to do this also because
I'm sure just as easy as it is to get
his attention elsewhere, you can get away with being like, yeah,
let's do this, and he's got he's not thinking anything
beyond well, the people that I agree with say, yeah, sure,
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah I'm sleepy, but.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I mean him calling for the arrest of like the
mayor and Pritzker like so I definitely saw some headlines
from like mainstream media outlets being like, uh, you know,
constitutional alarm bells going off, which if you weren't hearing
them before, I think you're medically dead.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
But uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Is, you know, a thing that people are recognizing as
it like it Like I don't know, there's a thing
in sports I talk about every once in a while
where like when you're rooting for one side and like
you you want your team to do the thing that
the fans of the opponent, like don't want you to do,
you know, and like I feel like getting him more
(10:18):
and more extreme on this feels like what Republicans don't
want to happen.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Like I feel like they're like, this is generally unpopular
right now, like the invasion of US cities is unpopular.
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about what
mainstream Republicans want because it's usually just like polite version
of whatever Trump is saying out loud, right, but it
does seem like pulling, and sources inside Congress are like
(10:48):
wishing Trump would like cut it the fuck out.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, you know, I mean they need a win, you know,
because I think that's really how they look at it,
because at the end of the day, it's these senators
in Congress, people that have to go back and face people,
and they're the ones that are somewhat held to account
like what's going on, And they're like, but I'm also
scared of the maga mob mentality, so I'm gonna have
to just kind of lay low. But I don't know, man,
(11:13):
this is the fucking bed they made, whether or not
that actually leads to, you know, some kind of maneuvering
to actually oust him or have some kind of you know,
show of defiance.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I mean, like, I think it's probably going to be
someone who's thinking opportunistically enough to be like I can
maybe keep this audience, but I just need to click
it a few clicks this way right to get people
to be like, oh yeah, yeah, like let's we're off Trump.
This other version that's trump be still feels familiar, but
a little more articulate. Is maybe like how I see
(11:47):
someone feeling like they can rise to those ranks, because again,
I don't believe for a second there aren't people thinking that,
because that's how politics will always work, That's how power
always works. There's always someone who says I can do
it better than this fucking dude is doing it right
now and waiting and rubbing their myths and trying to
figure out when that moment is.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
So they've been wrong up to this point, like you know,
the Ronda Santis, but Trump definitely seems diminished in many ways.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, and you also need to something, You need to
offer something that feels different, like you know, I'm I'm
not giving them pointers, but like Ron DeSantis was just
trying to do a version of Trump.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah, exactly, you need something that to people.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Again, I think for it to click, for the base
to even think they're like, oh, maybe we'll move on
to something. Not to say that this is going to
save the country or change the direction, but merely who
the figurehead becomes. It's someone who's like it's like the
you know, Jesus, for lack of a better comparison, like
a Drake Kendrick thing where they're just sort of like, well,
we've been used to Trump this whole time. If someone
just kind of comes out and is like, dude, this
(12:48):
guy for real, right, then I can see a group
of people being like, yeah, actually kind of sucks having
an act like this guy's cool.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Still Yeah, yeah, I think Kendrick should run for a
Republican prior Trump.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yeah, I think that's our takeaway.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
So he's not like during that Pam Bondi hearing, which
was like mainly Democrats asking straightforward questions and her being
like you're lawyer and sit like that. But there was
even like Tom Tillis was even like pushing back on
the sending of troops and like National Guard to New
York and California and Oregon and Washington, state. He was saying,
(13:26):
I think it's bad President, because like you know, mainstream
Republicans like that are are similar to the Democrats where
where they're just looking at polling and it is first
of all, historically it's been a bad look and unpopular
to deploy troops on your own people who aren't doing
anything wrong. And then there is like specific polling that
(13:46):
has come out in the past days, like thirty seven
percent of Pole respondents say they agree with a statement
that the president of either party should have the power
to deploy troops into states even when state governors object,
compared to forty eight percent who disagreed.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
So it's unpopular.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah, eighty three percent of respondence said the military should
remain politically neutral and not take a side in domestic
policy debates. So it's I mean, even Ted Cruz like
is turning into that uh broken clock he's doing on
the Broken Clock game. He is trying to pass a
bill that would make it easier to sue the government
(14:27):
for censorship, like indirect response to the Kimmel suspension, right
because he fucking loves I bet Cruz loves Kimmel.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Oh gosh, watch that ship every night. You know he
doesn't remember that epic one on one game they played,
and it was the first game.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Of basketball we've ever fucking witnessed in our life, and
Cruse won, right, I think so. I just remember watching
them both ribble.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I was like, God, what is going on? Why? Why
is this a thing? We're we're slipping into darkness.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
It's like when they just have an actor start playing
basketball out of the blue before before inserting the body
double and oh.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, like those first like they catch you get the
ball up tophet the ball one two two, but the
first shot down behind did somebody drive into the hoop?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yet?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Uh MTG keeps clocking, Yeah, keeps broken clocking, broken, broken clocking.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
She contains multitudes, doesn't She fucks rabid, xenophobe, homophobe, all
the phobes, and every now and then you get a
reasonable take on something. Earlier this week, like we said,
she was open to working with the Democrats, but then
also was sure to call Obamacare bullshit, despite her saying
like this is going to harm my children in my constituents,
(15:47):
This bullshit.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Is going to harm people. But it's bullshit. I hate it.
That's where we are today.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
She continues her campaign again This is where I'm like,
is emptg.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Does she think there's an opening or some shit?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I don't no, but either way, she's trying to be
like suddenly not even reasonable. I think she's just maybe
just trying to get to the Epstein files.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I don't know what the deal is.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
But she is basically said, yeah, you know, like we
talked about earlier this week, the Republicans could end the shutdown.
One of their talking points is like, well, the Senate Democrats,
this is a Schumer shutdown because it's like, you know,
you can nuke the filibuster and blow up the sixty
vote threshold and just get it over with a simple majority.
You know, that is an option to you, the Senate
(16:30):
Republicans who love the rule fuckery in the Senate. And
she basically like kicked that defense out. Well, I mean
not that I don't know how many people are actually
going to listen to what she actually said, but she
was pointing out quote the Republican controlled Senate used the
nuclear option today to override the sixty vote rule in
order to confirm over one hundred Trump nominees, yet continues
(16:52):
to claim Democrats are causing the shutdown. Spoiler alert the
Republicans in the Senate can also use the nuclear option
to reopen the government and override the Democrats, just like
they literally did today to confirm Trump nominees.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Damn hmm huh.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
But again, before you think she's going an MSNBC talking that,
I mean, before before you think she's gone mad ow
on us, she's also melting down over the Bad Bunny
super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Shows one for one for me, one for them.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, because you know, I think he posted something of
like America's got four months to learn Spanish before the
super Bowl halftime show.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
She said.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Quote Bad Bunny says America has four months to learn
Spanish before his perverse, unwanted performance at the super Bowl halftime.
It would be a good time to pass my bill
to make English the official language of America.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
And the NFL needs to stop having.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Demonic sexual performances during its halftime show.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
So she still sucks, don't Yeah, she bad.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back
to look at some of the consequences of the shutdown.
And we're back and yeah, so one thing that is
(18:12):
hitting the front pages all over. Oh, by the way,
the shutdown very unpopular and is being blamed on Trump
in polling, and again we generally ignore polling, but it
is the thing that it's worth paying attention to in
the sense that you know that the you know, lawmakers
are paying attention to it because.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
They don't know any real Americans, so they rely on
polling because they have your numbers. They don't these regular
Americans that do not interact with them ever, and they
have no chance to interact with them.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
So yeah, polling is their god. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
So I think that explains a lot of the is
Trump losing his party stuff is just I mean, you know,
I don't know, I'm not seeing any Republicans revolt. I
guarantee he's going to try and overturn like any ability
to have elections. But it doesn't seem like these Republican
lawmakers have a clear plan before them that's like, oh, yeah,
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we don't have to fuck with public opinion anymore because
they are at least responding to it in theory. But
what one of the outcomes of the shutdown is the
massive flight delays that we're seeing across the country. A
big chunk of the workforce that keeps planes in the
air are now being asked to work without a paycheck,
(19:30):
and the FA says they're seeing a rise in air
traffic controllers. Calling in sick may not be a don't
pay me, I sit on my ass situation. Like Sean
d'aufe pointed out that they're probably calling in sick to
like drive uber or like do something else that.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Will allow them to pay their rent.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah, I think you said pay their mortgages. But I
think that's probably wishful thinking.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Well depends on how old you are, you know, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
But yeah, I mean they It also makes it extra
clear how bad the politics were for Trump to like,
I think he recently made a statement that implied there
was no promise they will ever get back pay.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, he's like, there's also people like poking holes in
the in the bill Trump passed in twenty nineteen that
allowed workers to get back pay.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
He's there, like, there're people who've.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Been like I don't even know even we interpreted as
we don't even know if we even have to do it.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
But he's trying to poke holes in the thing that
he passed to make it so that you.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Don't have to.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
So like these people who he's asking to work without
a paycheck on the promise that they'll eventually be paid
for the work that they do, because otherwise the fucking government,
you know, the civilization that is based on like air
travel can't function. He's like, I can't think of a
(20:50):
more direct like I just I know, it's kind of
feels like ten years ago to be like if a
Democrat did this, people would be freaking out.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
But it's like it's such a direct fuck.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Up for him to, you know, like a direct fuck
up that people are feeling like that is impacting people's
lives and safety on a very real, like today basis.
This was a quote from him that I was referring to.
For the most part, we're going to take care of
our people. There are some people that really don't deserve
(21:22):
to be taken care of, and we will take care
of them in a different way. Okay, yeah, you're shitting yourself, guy,
But like he just threatened to kill them exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
This is what I mean. This is the other part
of it.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
It's like, well, even though they even talk about like
the shutdown and things like that, they're other really important
things like he's sending the military into US cities. That's
also we're they're paying ice goons to kidnap American citizens
and separate children from their parents, sometimes being like stripped,
half naked and zip tied like fucking kids.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
And the thing, I mean, like there's so much the
problem is so huge, Like even to talk about this too,
like you're talking about a president saying he's not gonna
pay workers that are that are doing a function that
keep everyone safe. It's it's it's completely separated from political
ideology when it comes to air traffic controllers or.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Oh they'll get paid all right, miles in a different
kind of way, in a different sense of the word.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I mean, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Did you hear Like at Burbank there was a there
was like a few hours where the pilots there was
no air traffic control. Yeah, and like they're just like
they were having to like organize on their own. They're like,
all right, I'm next, Okay, great, because a lot of
people are like when you learn how to fly, like
you're kind of doing that sort of little bit of
you know, coordinating like on the ground yourself. Yeah, but
(22:47):
this is this is only gonna I mean, I don't
know how this gets better. The one thing is, you know,
the last the shut down, the one thirty five days
in his last administration. It only got really, he only
really felt the pressure when they air traffic started fucking
up and people were like, dude, we can't even fucking fly,
Like what is this? And that was one of the
things that kind of brought him back. But who knows
(23:09):
this go around.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, and we got news for you. It was already
fucked up. They were already being asked to work in
human hours for bad pay because the federal government has
so weakened the ability of the union to work on
the behalf of the people who actually do the work
to keep people from dying in the worst way possible.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, and even Sean Duffy even like the way he
first described the like the TSA air traffic controllers, like
you know, calling in sick or whatever. He was sort
of like, you know, hopefully the Democrats can end the
shutdown before things get worse, Like what's the what are
you trying to imply there?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Yeah, he's a Trump sick of fan too. He's like
everyone's situational Trump.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Sick e fan.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
But yeah, everybody, everybody works for the same guy, and
uh god, oh you'll get paid, all right? The other
big issue that came up in the BONDI hearing. MTG
keeps referencing it is Epstein, Epstein files.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Epstein Empstein files, and I could't rhyme it with MTV,
but yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Yeah, So that's another consequence is that they're still not
bringing in the deciding vote that would release the Epstein files.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah, at A leader Grijalva, like we said, she won
a special election last month to take over her deceased
father's congressional seat and was saying like the second I'm
sworn in, i am Signatory two eighteen to the discharge petition,
which can then force a floor.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Vote on releasing the Epstein files.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Okay, And since then, Mike Johnson has done everything in
his power to not actually gavel in the House for
a session. They've only been doing like pro forma sessions
where it's just like really quick, it's like we're in,
we're out.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
It's just just normal. There's no real votes are being taken.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
But the thing is he's confirmed Republicans in similar pro
forma sessions this year, so there's not even an argument
to be like, well you did it for these Well, no,
this is this is a red Herring obviously, and just
don't don't don't look into the fact that I don't
maybe don't have that many bank accounts or bank records.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
That people can look into.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Just just a very I'm a very up and up
kind of guy totally, So yeah, like, I don't know this,
This is just a very I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
It satisfies multiple things.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
You allow for Project twenty twenty five to have a
further grip in like just gutting the federal government while
also keeping the Epstein files under wrap.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Two Now, I don't know, Like you know, I think
there's a.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Lot of like magical thinking on in both the left
and the right about what exactly will happen as a result.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Of the Epstein files being released, right.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Because I think a lot of people are like, oh
my god, it's going to see Trump all over that
it's going to review these term things he did. We
already know a bunch of terrible things he's done, right, Yeah,
that's not moving the needle. So I don't think that
these files being released will suddenly and I could be wrong,
but I just don't. I don't think any revelation about
his conduct is going to lead to the you know,
(26:16):
the the resignation that people think is going.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
To know they're going to release on purpose. It seems
like they'll they'll find a way to redact and cover
sh it up. Yeah, but yeah, we we do have
him in a book writing a weird, sexually suggestive love
letters to famed pedophile and sex trafficker.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
And there's already all kinds of allegations against him.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, that he's conviction, you know what I mean, like convictions, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
This is that's I'm like, oh yeah, trust me, I
don't I don't need the Epstein files to know this
guy is a is a like a Leccherius predator. Yeah,
I don't need to know that. But again maybe and
in the same way I think like for Republicans or
people in the right, like oh man, and then Bill
Clinton's gonna go in like the Clinton like yeah, fuck.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Them, devastation.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I don't know if we'll be able to publish that
day if we find out that Bill Clinton was in
the Epstein files.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
That.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Surprising ship to ever have. I would be more surprised
if Clinton wasn't in it than if Trump, I know exactly.
I do wonder because like on Tuesday, you pointed out
in the doc that uh he was asked about a
potential pardon for Geelane Maxwell and was just like, hey.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
We'll look at it. I'll speak to the d J.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
It's like everything you hear about him with regards to
the Epstein files behind the scenes, him being baffled by
people continuing to just bring it up to him, like
he doesn't get it at all, which, like I I
talk a lot about this historical anecdote that I think
is so interesting that like one of the main reasons
(27:58):
the D Day invasion was so successful was because Hitler
slept in that day and everyone was so scared of
waking Hitler up because he was like on math and
really cranky when he woke up in the morning and
he was like, you let me sleep in tomorrow, and
so like he slept till noon. As like this invasion
was happening because it was just it's the downside of
(28:22):
like having this like cult of personality dictator at the
head of your entire shit is like people are just
telling them what they want to hear and like kind
of walking on eggshells around them, And like I wonder
if we're kind of seeing that with regards to the
scene files that like, nobody is being like, dude, you're
all over these and this is people are fucking freaked
(28:46):
out and will despise you if like, I don't think
that has reached him.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
No, No, And I think also too, he's he's he doesn't.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
I think he's never really been in that kind of
legal jeopardy, so in his mind, he's like, who's going
to give a shit? Yeah, He's like, I'm fucking I
just get out of everything, So why won't they just
accept that? I think in his mind he's like, because
I'm never brought to justice. Yeah, no, one could possibly
think ill of me because I'm not formally being brought
to justice. Even if some revelation comes out that would
(29:20):
completely not even completely change people's perception of him at
this point.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
But I think he just thinks he's impervious. So it's
just it just the.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Difference between this and the other ones where he's just
been able to like move it along. Yeah, all right,
those are some of the things that are trending on
this Wednesday, October eighth. We are back tomorrow with a
whole last episode of the show. Until then, be Kind
to each Other be kind to yourselves, get your vaccines
where he still can't, get your flu shots, don't do
nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to you
(29:50):
all tomorrow.
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