April 19, 2024 • 33 mins
Susanne Posel, host of This Week Again, joins us to discuss setting one's self on fire as an act of protest, FART (the acronym), and Trump... stinks. Literally.
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I gotta take a sip of coffeethere origle Facebam America. I'm Baywolf Rocklin.
Even though the weather is nicer andthe sunshine, at least in my
part of the world, I canalways use a little bit of an energy
boost. It's true. I mean, this world takes it out of you
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to encourage and enliven one another.As always. You know I mentioned this,
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that happens as each week we do. Suzanne Posele of this week again is
here to speak with us. Suzanne, how's it going. It's going?
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Oh my gosh. Have you heardthe news? What's the news? I
am? I am, I'm sorry. Normally I'm like, yeah, let's
let's do the pleasantry. Somebody.This was just reported. I don't know
much details. I will be digginginto this for my show on Sunday,
but someone set themselves on fire outsidethe Manhattan Court. Oh, right after
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jury selection was finalized for the Trumptrial for the hush money case. Oh
wow, Well it happened live ontelevision. There was a who stood up.
She was talking to one of hercolleagues and interviewing outside the courthouse,
and she saw the smoke she smelled. She initially thought it was a shooter,
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and then course directed and this gentlemanset himself on fire in an area
that was designated for Trump supporters.We don't know who it is, we
don't know their gender, we don'tknow if they were a Trump supporter at
the time of this recording. Sowow, that just I'm sorry, my
brain is just like, oh myoh wow. Somebody Yeah, like I
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can't I'm sorry, I can't focus. Yeah, no, no, I
completely understand. And I think thesame thing happened a few weeks ago at
the weight in front of the IsraeliEmbassy in Washington, d C. Where
somebody set themselves on fire in orderto protest the invasion of guz if I
remember correctly, Yes, you arecorrect, because I was trying to wrack
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my brain and the last time Iremember hearing about this was what in the
sixties or the seventies. Yeah,yeah, well like monks in uh yes,
in Vietnam. We're doing it toprotest to in Vietnam War. I
don't know what would possess someone todo that, or why it happened,
or what side of the political aislethat they're on. But if if this
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was a Trump supporter, you guys, you guys need help. Yeah,
I'm very concerned about you guys.Yeah, for nothing. And I'm not
trying to be mean or rude.And this isn't about politics. Something's wrong.
Yeah, yeah, I mean,I mean, if that was I
don't know. I wonder if Ialmost wonder that like maybe someone And again
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I'm just completely speculating at this point. If it was a Trump supporter that
was supporting Trump, yeah, that'sthat's nuts. It's it's a it's just
my bigling thing to do one wayor another. I wonder if somebody was
like, you know, taking tryingto take advantage of the publicity for some
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other purpose or something like that.I'm not sure, but yeah, I'm
scanning the news as we speak,and I don't see details yet. Maybe
by the time we finished speaking somethingwill will happen. But yeah, a
witness told pix eleven News that theywere standing next to a man when he
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poured a flammable liquid on himself,told her to stand back, and then
let himself on fire. The witnessthat he made statements of a political nature
before the incidents. It doesn't saywhat those statements are about. So yeah,
I know that they were taken tothe hospital. I don't know if
they've survived or if they will survive. Wow. So I know that we
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had kind of discussed a couple ofthings to talk about, and you know,
I thought, inappropriately making a jokeabout the flatulence that's been happening and
the co room, maybe that hadsomething to do with the flames. But
seriously, somebody is hurt and thatjust breaks my heart. You know.
Yeah. I know that we're arguingpolitic politics and blah blah blah and this
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and the other, but people arehurting themselves over politics, hurting others as
well. But we I think weneed to take a step back. Everyone,
just take a step back and thinkabout what we're doing and maybe think
about the final fracas. You know, follow this all the way because at
the moment, thoughts seem so goodand so salient and you. You just
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need maybe a plausible connection to getyou from point A to point B.
But this, this may be alot more serious than we is just you
know, battling over politics and theright wing and left wing. This this,
you know, is we need topreserve our country and we need to
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preserve our lives, our sanity.Yeah, our saliens are are our ability
to be with each other and andbe I'm sorry, I am no.
Presumably, presumably our government and ourpolitics is about, you know, keeping
us healthy and safe. I mean, otherwise, what is the government for.
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It is not, presumably like justa bunch of powerful people who are
exerting power for the sake of exertingpower because they can do so and they
can benefit themselves. Although increasingly itseems like some sectors of the American body
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politics believe that that is a case. I mean, I was just I
was just watching an adaptation of Shakespeareon television, Coriolanus, with Raye Fines
and Gerard Butler, and that isit's as far as Shakespeare goes, it's
a it's a very good adaptation,but it's very bloody, and it's very
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violent, and it really doesn't haveany it's it's all about these these powerful
men who are contending, you know, violently with one another for power,
without any consideration for the massive people, without any consideration for uh, for
for the little guy whatsoever. Andit really seems to me that we we
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have to keep that in mind withwith regard to what the purpose of politics
is. It's not just titans likecontending with one another. There's there's no
reason to to set yourself on fireor hurt anyone because of of Trump or
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because of Biden. The whole purpose, supposedly of either of those characters being
around, supposedly is to benefit us, to do work, to help put
us the people in a better position. That's the that's the that's the point,
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to to do good for your community, to do good for your country,
to to further the prospects of citizensof the country, and and and
do good ultimately for the world.And we we we shouldn't be hurting ourselves
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and we shouldn't be hurting other peopleas as a part of the process.
That's that's antithetical to what this issupposed to be about. Absolutely so succinct.
I cannot even come on the cotailsof that. So I am going
to take the low road. Well, I mean, you know, I
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got a few articles here that thatreally did take the low road. That's
kind of what I was gearying upfor. But that's okay. Things things
change. Lauren Bobert is definitely oneof the women about in that song when
the girls going around the trailer park. Absolutely chef Boyardy kissed. But you
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know her is she part of theFloor Action Response Team. She is,
She is a member. She appreciatesthe acronym because she is the mother of
four boys. Her words not mine, regardless, Guys come on about this.
So this is a group of peoplewho these are Republicans watching Republicans,
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yes, and in that they comeup with an acronym that does so if
you smell something in the Hall ofcons there's a strange air coming from Capitol
Hill these days, and it's allbecause of the actions of the Floor Action
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Response Team. Yes, the fartladies and gentlemen, the Floor Action Response
Team. This is this is actuallyan organization, a team of conservative lawmakers
from the from the House Freedom Caucus. Their objective to take shifts monitoring the
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chamber floor to prevent their own partyleaders from making unilateral moves that could curb
their powder. So the the fartteam is watching carefully, ever vigilant,
to make sure that, I don'tknow, the the less vigilant, less
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free Caucus is not getting up towhat they they don't want, the the
insufficiently you know, Trump imbued membersof the Republican Carcass. The Republican carcass.
It probably smells like that, Itprobably does it. Probably these are
not people who come from you.I don't know, like, I don't
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think that hygiene is high on MarjorieTaylor Greens, do you you know that's
just me. There was there wasa character there's one of these commentators on
Fox News. I forget his name, I can envision his face, but
he was talking. And this wasa couple of years ago during COVID about
the fact, proudly in fact thathe did not wash his hands, that
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he never washed his hands, andthis this was a point of pride,
practically a point of honor for him, that that he was he was so
tough that he could defeat the germssingle handedly and and didn't need to take
any other precautions against them. Andapparently this this extends throughout the Freedom Caucus
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because that that that odor uh isapparently lingering on the right side of the
chamber. I don't know for afact that their tagline is something is rotten
in the halls of Congress. Ijust know it's true because maybe I don't
know the stench it's it's like thebog of eternal stench, right, Yes,
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they get this idea from Jim Henson. Well, I don't know.
I mean it's it really seems tohave that that level of puerile or inventile.
Yeah, it's I don't know.Well, first of all, they're
not thinking. We know that becauseof their their their policies, and and
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so they either just won didn't putthe thought into it at all, or
two did it deliberately, which iswhich is even worse because it clearly demarcates
their level of maturity. And numberone, these guys asked for a raise
recently. Number two, just becauseyour main dude is farting up a storm
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in his hush money case, youknow, in the courtroom, doesn't mean
that you need to come out withan official fart document or Adam Adam Kinsinger,
Adam Kinsinger like within the last fewmonths. Yeah, and he was
being considered during the Trump administration atone point to be Air Force Secretary because
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and you know, he's since completelyturned away from Trump. Was on the
the January sixth Commission. Has hasresigned from from Congress and IS and has
has joined the the Never Trump wingof the Republican Party. He has said
he has been on the record assaying that Trump smells really bad, like
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in person, that he that hethat he smells like a combination of like
like ketchup, like fast food andass. I think roughly was thing.
I think that's the I think Iplayed that on my show. I do
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remember, you know, and thisthis might be, you know, just
my forty seven year old dementia showingitself. But I do remember after he
left, and there was multiple peoplewho worked in the White House talking and
going on talk shows on ABC andFace the Nation and things like that,
commenting on how he would relieve himselfthat someone was assigned to change his diaper.
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Oh god, clean him up,Oh god. And I do have
to dig that out. I doremember that distinctly. But you know,
then again, you know, Mandela, I'm going that's one that I haven't
even heard of. I didn't,you know, I had. At the
same time that Kinzinger came out withthat comment, they were digging up,
you know, other people talking aboutit, apparently people in his inner circle.
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This is common knowledge. I soso I had heard, I like
rumors to the effect that, okay, like looking at his his bodyline and
how his his clothes fell on hisbody. There were rumors about him wearing
adult diapers. I had not heardthe level of detail that you're you're filling
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it in with now, if you'llyou'll pardon the expression. I did not
know that. But but as wehave mentioned before in our interactions, I
know the whole process, whether it'slike like getting Trump in the morning or
cleaning and disposing of whatever needs tobe cleaned and disposed of, that must
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just be at all points a horrificprocess. Being the the literal body man
for Donald Trump just must be.I think something that I don't have a
lot of respect for Mike Rowe interms of especially what he's revealed about his
politics. But I will say ifhe ever decided to go back into his
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his dirty jobs routine and took thatone up, I would have a certain
level of respect for him, becausethat has got to be the worst,
the dirtiest, the most horrific,most abominable job that I can imagine.
Okay, I am going to editoriallycorrect myself. It was not in the
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White House, Okay, because I'man honest liar, you know about will
I will correct, we can do. It was on the Apprentice, Okay,
celebrity Apprentice. Noel Castler was interviewedand he explained how there was someone
on set. Trump did not cleanhimself when changing out depends. He wears
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hard plastic girdle and doesn't have freedomof movement girdle like Elmer Fudd. This
is why he when he turns,he turns his entire body instead of just
his neck, which I have noticedhe does. Yeah, he does that
old man sort of thing that makesthat so makes sense. Yes, I
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can, I can, and andand speaking of the Apprentice, I was
scanning articles. It wasn't one ofthe ones that that I was specifically bringing
up today or thinking of bringing up. But it does kind of tie into
things because Oma Rosa said that theywould constantly plan things and structure things in
a way on the Apprentice because hehad such a short attention span have to
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like change things up quickly and structuremeetings so that things were shifting all the
time so that he wouldn't fall asleep. And as you know, this is
what he's doing exactly three times now, three times he has fallen asleep in
court and this and this is justthe first week. He has to he
has to show up like like everyweekday until this this thing is over.
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This is this is just the preliminaryso they've just seated the jury at this
point. I love what Chris Hayessaid. You know, the one thing
if you're going to go on andon about sleepy Joe this and sleepy Joe,
no, what shit you have todo throughout this entire twenty twenty four
election season is not fall asleep.Listen, Johnny, Donny two scoops.
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He had one job, one jobhe blew it. But no, he
he had. I mean, Iwould think like for for a man who
has who has as many like audiblesinus issues as as Donald Trump does,
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that that that he would have accessto a few things in one form or
another to you know, keep himawake, even if he didn't go in
for the very hardcore uh stuff,which I'm sure he has at some point
in his career, Like there areinnumerable caffeinated beverages. I mean, like
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this is a man who on hisdesk had a button in the oval office,
a specific button where he could bebrought a carbonated beverage at any time.
Now, there's got to be someway, I mean, like they
they take breaks from time to time. This isn't a continuous like process you
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need Do you take a break fora couple of hours, you can get
a big load of caffeine in thattime. You have got to be like
way down the scale in order tolike have one of those, which he
clearly must have had at some pointand then still like like thirty minutes later
just completely zonk out. Is Thatis amazing to me that that is something
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that people should be paying attention toif they are even anywhere near seriously considering
voting for Donald Trump, because likeyou know, if the Joint chiefs of
Staff are telling you about a militarycontingency, you probably don't want to not
offer that. Well, look,you're forgetting this man is up at three
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o'clock in the morning on the toiletlook at at classified documents. Socially,
truthing is truth, and by thetime it comes to nine am on a
you know, on a Thursday court. Here he is exhausted. He's been
up for six or seven hours already, He's already had his eight hour day.
This is this is probably the usualtime for his nap I guess,
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I mean, this is interfering withDonny napteim And and remember there were stories
from when he was in the Ovaloffice where he would like to have all
this unscheduled, like ten or elevenyeah. Yeah, And it's not like
he has to go very far.It's literally the closest commute. It's down
a flight of fucking stairs. Yeahyeah, and it lives above. And
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let's talk about this man's diet.This is this is this man has the
kind of diet that is obviously youknow, if indulged in in the way
he clearly does, it is goingto set him on a path to somnolus.
I mean, it's he can hecan have a lot of energy drinks.
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But but these two, the BigMax and the red Bulls, are
fighting a battle in this inside thisman and and the and the red bulls
are going to lose. There arenot enough red bulls on the face of
the earth that could like contend withthis man's history, his his his physiology
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and and his diet. And soI I think why I am convinced it's
the adderall and maybe his sniffing isthe fact that you know, he just
sniffed a bunch of adderall, youknow, And sometimes he's fighting his dentures
like remember Reunited God brashed, folks, this is what happens. Like you
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sent me this this article about Bidensaying that an uncle of his was shut
down where the cannibals live. Yes, yes, his uncle was by cannibals
running a country. This is whatwe have, Yes, okay. And
there was a little and and andthat's a little silly and your sleepy Joe
gets sleepy from time to time.But you know, I haven't I don't
think I've seen like Joe Biden likefall asleep, you know, in front
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of the cameras. And now wehave seen Donald Trump fall asleep in the
canvas. Yeah, he probably doesit from time to time. And you
know he's the sched artist from thecourt drew him slack jawed sleeping in his
chair. So now that's cannon,folks. That's in the history books with
little scene coming out. Do yousee? That's one of the neat things
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about having a court, you know, sketch artist, you know you can
you can embellish things because you're notsupposed to make everything look exactly that way
in order to prevent people from knowingthe identity. He looks like the orange
Grinch in this picture, a lotmore gone than he actually is. Yes,
and it shows inside of him thathis hat is three sizes too small.
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Thank you Floor Action Response Team.But yes, running around with fabreeze
or something. The purpose of whatare they doing? I think, well,
you see Judge Marshaan is gonna ishaving now going to have to do
that inside the court too. Ithink they're going to need to get a
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couple of cases of whatever Marjors creamyis using in the halls of Congress and
carry it up to the Southern ManhattanDistrict Court and uh and use it there
as well. Because it just itjust there seems to be something there seems
about about about the right wing thatthat produces flatulence. I mean there's something
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chemically. I think that we couldprobably do studies and find out exactly what
that. I think it's because they'refull of ship. But talking about Marjorie
Tiller Green, you know how shegets really upset when you call her like
a Jewish space laser expert. Wellrecently, you know, because she's complain
she's gonna throw Mike under the busand out of the speakership over some aid
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packages. And you know, she'sreally upset about how Israel has space lasers
and America should have space lasers.In fact, we should have space lasers
on the border and we should justbe the people who are coming across the
border, like Israel has space lasers, and they're going shoo to all the
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missiles and drones that Iran is sendingover their way. By the way,
these are not space lasers. Thisis the iron domes. It's round to
air missiles that they're shooting. They'renot lasers. The reason why they look
like that at night is because thereare lights and it's dark and light they
take a picture. And when youtake a picture, kind of like how
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ghost hunters take pictures of lights moving, it looks like a tube. It
looks like a laser. Listen thirdDistrict in Georgia. If you are listening,
please stop voting whenever you are thatand I know there's a lot of
you that put this woman into office. Please just stop. You're hurting the
rest of the country because she isthe reason why everything is wrong with the
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country. It's not just you know, the maggots in office. It's not
just the the maggot leader, theorange grinch that's sitting there farting and snoring
during a hush money case, duringa real criminal trial, Folks, it
is the Marjorie Taylor Greens of thiscountry who are in positions of power to
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be so stupid as to say theyhave lasers. I want lasers. Listen,
Paris Hilton. They don't. Andby the way, you're just reiterating
and rehashing the you are the Jewishspace lasers expert. Yes, the moniker
that you want so badly to getrid of. You're just giving us more
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reason to call you that she's justshe's still I mean, these are the
people that keep Donald Trump in powerbecause they are hoping that they can use
him to get even more power andmore funding for themselves. And that's the
reason they're doing it. It's becausebecause they're they're selfish and and they they
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want to gather as much you know, power and resource to themselves as they
as they possibly can, and theywill sell their own voters down the river
at the at the first opportunity.And they have no conception of reality,
and that extends to the scientifics.So when I mean, I just can't
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wait for the day when Marjorie TaylorGreen is talking to someone at the Pentagon
in a hearing on Capitol Hill andshe demands to know the status of the
space laers in and some you knowguy in the uniforms, ma'am, we
have a congresswoman grain we currently haveno mechanisms like that at this point in
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time, and and she like refusesto, you know, believe him.
And and it's you see, Ithink this is what needs to be focused
on. The ignorance of the MAGA, right they're there there, complete rejection
and ignorance of any thing science basedwhatsoever. And I think this is this
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is a much more serious problem thanthat other representative in Georgia who was worried
about the guam tipping up on itson its end, because I know,
you know, Democrats are capable ofthat from from time to time. But
clearly this is this the Republicans andthe Freedom Caucus they own this, This
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is their thing, this this,this is their deal. I understand,
you know, Democrats had fifty yearsto candifiro and so form. I understand
how government works. I paid attentionin Civics class. I know what you
need, and I know it's beendifficult between you know, the presidencies and
the houses and all of that goingon the Congress. But I also understand
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that one party is actively trying totake away women's rights. Yep, starting
with whether or not they are ableto pro create when they choose to,
and then moving on to going backto we can't have credit cards, we
can't have banknotes, we can't havecar notes, we can't have shortages,
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rentals without our father's permission or ourhusband's permission. Yeah, all that stuff.
There is There is a very youknow, clear and distinct difference between
Democrats and Republicans. And my firstI mean, I mean you need to
look into it. Even beyond thatif you are a voter and you and
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you must you must, you mustbe a voter. But know that the
Republicans where they are, you canyou can just discount them up front and
then start, you know, lookingat the Democratic side and take it from
there, and you know, youprobably want to do some additional research on
them to make sure it fits dependingon where the state where you are,
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because you know, some Democrats areare are more equal than others. But
but clearly, like if you havea choice between a Democrat and a Republican,
your first instinct should be to votefor the Democrats, I mean ultimately.
And we also need to get intothis idea that just because we voted
you in, we can't forget aboutit. Okay, that's because we can
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vote you out too. And ifyou and if you're just following the corporate
line, then then we have thepower to We have the power to go
the other way too. It's it'snot it's to them, yes, yeah,
but we also during their tenure,we have the power to talk to
them. We have the power toemail them and write to them, and
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organize protests outside of their offices ifwe want to. We have the right
to redress our representatives at any time, as long as it's peaceful. So
we need to get out of themindset that we vote them in and we're
done with them for six years orhowever long their tenure is. We need
to be on their butt. Yeah, making sure that they're doing it.
You know, this is a relationship. If you get into a marriage and
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you just say, hey, i'mmarried now, I don't have to do
anything, your marriage is going tofail. You constantly have to date that
other person and fall back in lovewith them over and over forever. That's
how it goes. In order tokeep things good between the two of you.
The same thing with every other relationship. You need to make sure that
that person is doing their job.And when you hear what they're doing and
what they're voting for, write tothem and tell them that's not why I
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hired you. Yeah, stop that. Yeah, you have to tell them
what you want and you have toadd the cap for that, and you
have to you have to be engaged, and you have to be communicative.
You're right, You're right. It'sjust like a it's just like a relationship.
And you see with Democrats at thispoint in time, with Democrats,
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there's a chance for that. WithRepublicans, there's not a chance for that.
And that's the pretty much the differencebetween the parties we have today,
and that's what you have to keepin mind when November comes around. Susan
posel. You are coming out withyet another brilliant episode of This Week again.
It's going to drop Sunday. It'sgoing to be on podcasting platforms around
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the internet, So please folks checkthat out, download it, listen,
be ready, get up early onSunday morning and listen for that because it's
going to be there. It's goingto be waiting for you. And you
don't necessarily have to like check inthe whole week and figure out every little
thing, every little detail, becauseSusanne will have organized do it for you
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in a humorous and progressive way.And so I urge you to go out
there and listen to this Week againSuzanne. As always, it is a
huge pleasure speaking with you. Thankyou so much for being with us on
Face Palm America. Absolutely, thankyou for the laughs. Thank you so
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I gotta take a sip of coffeethere origle Facebam America. I'm Baywolf Rocklin.
Even though the weather is nicer andthe sunshine, at least in my
part of the world, I canalways use a little bit of an energy
boost. It's true. I mean, this world takes it out of you
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sometimes, and I hope that weare here together in such a way as
to encourage and enliven one another.As always. You know I mentioned this,
and I know you know it,but you can go online to Facepalmamerica
dot com or to facepalm USA onTwitter at face Paul USA or search face
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that happens as each week we do. Suzanne Posele of this week again is
here to speak with us. Suzanne, how's it going. It's going?
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Oh my gosh. Have you heardthe news? What's the news? I
am? I am, I'm sorry. Normally I'm like, yeah, let's
let's do the pleasantry. Somebody.This was just reported. I don't know
much details. I will be digginginto this for my show on Sunday,
but someone set themselves on fire outsidethe Manhattan Court. Oh, right after
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jury selection was finalized for the Trumptrial for the hush money case. Oh
wow, Well it happened live ontelevision. There was a who stood up.
She was talking to one of hercolleagues and interviewing outside the courthouse,
and she saw the smoke she smelled. She initially thought it was a shooter,
(02:12):
and then course directed and this gentlemanset himself on fire in an area
that was designated for Trump supporters.We don't know who it is, we
don't know their gender, we don'tknow if they were a Trump supporter at
the time of this recording. Sowow, that just I'm sorry, my
brain is just like, oh myoh wow. Somebody Yeah, like I
(02:35):
can't I'm sorry, I can't focus. Yeah, no, no, I
completely understand. And I think thesame thing happened a few weeks ago at
the weight in front of the IsraeliEmbassy in Washington, d C. Where
somebody set themselves on fire in orderto protest the invasion of guz if I
remember correctly, Yes, you arecorrect, because I was trying to wrack
(02:59):
my brain and the last time Iremember hearing about this was what in the
sixties or the seventies. Yeah,yeah, well like monks in uh yes,
in Vietnam. We're doing it toprotest to in Vietnam War. I
don't know what would possess someone todo that, or why it happened,
or what side of the political aislethat they're on. But if if this
(03:23):
was a Trump supporter, you guys, you guys need help. Yeah,
I'm very concerned about you guys.Yeah, for nothing. And I'm not
trying to be mean or rude.And this isn't about politics. Something's wrong.
Yeah, yeah, I mean,I mean, if that was I
don't know. I wonder if Ialmost wonder that like maybe someone And again
(03:46):
I'm just completely speculating at this point. If it was a Trump supporter that
was supporting Trump, yeah, that'sthat's nuts. It's it's a it's just
my bigling thing to do one wayor another. I wonder if somebody was
like, you know, taking tryingto take advantage of the publicity for some
(04:08):
other purpose or something like that.I'm not sure, but yeah, I'm
scanning the news as we speak,and I don't see details yet. Maybe
by the time we finished speaking somethingwill will happen. But yeah, a
witness told pix eleven News that theywere standing next to a man when he
(04:29):
poured a flammable liquid on himself,told her to stand back, and then
let himself on fire. The witnessthat he made statements of a political nature
before the incidents. It doesn't saywhat those statements are about. So yeah,
I know that they were taken tothe hospital. I don't know if
they've survived or if they will survive. Wow. So I know that we
(04:51):
had kind of discussed a couple ofthings to talk about, and you know,
I thought, inappropriately making a jokeabout the flatulence that's been happening and
the co room, maybe that hadsomething to do with the flames. But
seriously, somebody is hurt and thatjust breaks my heart. You know.
Yeah. I know that we're arguingpolitic politics and blah blah blah and this
(05:12):
and the other, but people arehurting themselves over politics, hurting others as
well. But we I think weneed to take a step back. Everyone,
just take a step back and thinkabout what we're doing and maybe think
about the final fracas. You know, follow this all the way because at
the moment, thoughts seem so goodand so salient and you. You just
(05:35):
need maybe a plausible connection to getyou from point A to point B.
But this, this may be alot more serious than we is just you
know, battling over politics and theright wing and left wing. This this,
you know, is we need topreserve our country and we need to
(05:56):
preserve our lives, our sanity.Yeah, our saliens are are our ability
to be with each other and andbe I'm sorry, I am no.
Presumably, presumably our government and ourpolitics is about, you know, keeping
us healthy and safe. I mean, otherwise, what is the government for.
(06:21):
It is not, presumably like justa bunch of powerful people who are
exerting power for the sake of exertingpower because they can do so and they
can benefit themselves. Although increasingly itseems like some sectors of the American body
(06:42):
politics believe that that is a case. I mean, I was just I
was just watching an adaptation of Shakespeareon television, Coriolanus, with Raye Fines
and Gerard Butler, and that isit's as far as Shakespeare goes, it's
a it's a very good adaptation,but it's very bloody, and it's very
(07:03):
violent, and it really doesn't haveany it's it's all about these these powerful
men who are contending, you know, violently with one another for power,
without any consideration for the massive people, without any consideration for uh, for
for the little guy whatsoever. Andit really seems to me that we we
(07:30):
have to keep that in mind withwith regard to what the purpose of politics
is. It's not just titans likecontending with one another. There's there's no
reason to to set yourself on fireor hurt anyone because of of Trump or
(07:51):
because of Biden. The whole purpose, supposedly of either of those characters being
around, supposedly is to benefit us, to do work, to help put
us the people in a better position. That's the that's the that's the point,
(08:13):
to to do good for your community, to do good for your country,
to to further the prospects of citizensof the country, and and and
do good ultimately for the world.And we we we shouldn't be hurting ourselves
(08:33):
and we shouldn't be hurting other peopleas as a part of the process.
That's that's antithetical to what this issupposed to be about. Absolutely so succinct.
I cannot even come on the cotailsof that. So I am going
to take the low road. Well, I mean, you know, I
(09:00):
got a few articles here that thatreally did take the low road. That's
kind of what I was gearying upfor. But that's okay. Things things
change. Lauren Bobert is definitely oneof the women about in that song when
the girls going around the trailer park. Absolutely chef Boyardy kissed. But you
(09:24):
know her is she part of theFloor Action Response Team. She is,
She is a member. She appreciatesthe acronym because she is the mother of
four boys. Her words not mine, regardless, Guys come on about this.
So this is a group of peoplewho these are Republicans watching Republicans,
(09:48):
yes, and in that they comeup with an acronym that does so if
you smell something in the Hall ofcons there's a strange air coming from Capitol
Hill these days, and it's allbecause of the actions of the Floor Action
(10:09):
Response Team. Yes, the fartladies and gentlemen, the Floor Action Response
Team. This is this is actuallyan organization, a team of conservative lawmakers
from the from the House Freedom Caucus. Their objective to take shifts monitoring the
(10:30):
chamber floor to prevent their own partyleaders from making unilateral moves that could curb
their powder. So the the fartteam is watching carefully, ever vigilant,
to make sure that, I don'tknow, the the less vigilant, less
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free Caucus is not getting up towhat they they don't want, the the
insufficiently you know, Trump imbued membersof the Republican Carcass. The Republican carcass.
It probably smells like that, Itprobably does it. Probably these are
not people who come from you.I don't know, like, I don't
(11:13):
think that hygiene is high on MarjorieTaylor Greens, do you you know that's
just me. There was there wasa character there's one of these commentators on
Fox News. I forget his name, I can envision his face, but
he was talking. And this wasa couple of years ago during COVID about
the fact, proudly in fact thathe did not wash his hands, that
(11:35):
he never washed his hands, andthis this was a point of pride,
practically a point of honor for him, that that he was he was so
tough that he could defeat the germssingle handedly and and didn't need to take
any other precautions against them. Andapparently this this extends throughout the Freedom Caucus
(12:01):
because that that that odor uh isapparently lingering on the right side of the
chamber. I don't know for afact that their tagline is something is rotten
in the halls of Congress. Ijust know it's true because maybe I don't
know the stench it's it's like thebog of eternal stench, right, Yes,
(12:26):
they get this idea from Jim Henson. Well, I don't know.
I mean it's it really seems tohave that that level of puerile or inventile.
Yeah, it's I don't know.Well, first of all, they're
not thinking. We know that becauseof their their their policies, and and
(12:50):
so they either just won didn't putthe thought into it at all, or
two did it deliberately, which iswhich is even worse because it clearly demarcates
their level of maturity. And numberone, these guys asked for a raise
recently. Number two, just becauseyour main dude is farting up a storm
(13:11):
in his hush money case, youknow, in the courtroom, doesn't mean
that you need to come out withan official fart document or Adam Adam Kinsinger,
Adam Kinsinger like within the last fewmonths. Yeah, and he was
being considered during the Trump administration atone point to be Air Force Secretary because
(13:33):
and you know, he's since completelyturned away from Trump. Was on the
the January sixth Commission. Has hasresigned from from Congress and IS and has
has joined the the Never Trump wingof the Republican Party. He has said
he has been on the record assaying that Trump smells really bad, like
(13:58):
in person, that he that hethat he smells like a combination of like
like ketchup, like fast food andass. I think roughly was thing.
I think that's the I think Iplayed that on my show. I do
(14:26):
remember, you know, and thisthis might be, you know, just
my forty seven year old dementia showingitself. But I do remember after he
left, and there was multiple peoplewho worked in the White House talking and
going on talk shows on ABC andFace the Nation and things like that,
commenting on how he would relieve himselfthat someone was assigned to change his diaper.
(14:58):
Oh god, clean him up,Oh god. And I do have
to dig that out. I doremember that distinctly. But you know,
then again, you know, Mandela, I'm going that's one that I haven't
even heard of. I didn't,you know, I had. At the
same time that Kinzinger came out withthat comment, they were digging up,
you know, other people talking aboutit, apparently people in his inner circle.
(15:22):
This is common knowledge. I soso I had heard, I like
rumors to the effect that, okay, like looking at his his bodyline and
how his his clothes fell on hisbody. There were rumors about him wearing
adult diapers. I had not heardthe level of detail that you're you're filling
(15:46):
it in with now, if you'llyou'll pardon the expression. I did not
know that. But but as wehave mentioned before in our interactions, I
know the whole process, whether it'slike like getting Trump in the morning or
cleaning and disposing of whatever needs tobe cleaned and disposed of, that must
(16:07):
just be at all points a horrificprocess. Being the the literal body man
for Donald Trump just must be.I think something that I don't have a
lot of respect for Mike Rowe interms of especially what he's revealed about his
politics. But I will say ifhe ever decided to go back into his
(16:34):
his dirty jobs routine and took thatone up, I would have a certain
level of respect for him, becausethat has got to be the worst,
the dirtiest, the most horrific,most abominable job that I can imagine.
Okay, I am going to editoriallycorrect myself. It was not in the
(16:55):
White House, Okay, because I'man honest liar, you know about will
I will correct, we can do. It was on the Apprentice, Okay,
celebrity Apprentice. Noel Castler was interviewedand he explained how there was someone
on set. Trump did not cleanhimself when changing out depends. He wears
(17:19):
hard plastic girdle and doesn't have freedomof movement girdle like Elmer Fudd. This
is why he when he turns,he turns his entire body instead of just
his neck, which I have noticedhe does. Yeah, he does that
old man sort of thing that makesthat so makes sense. Yes, I
(17:40):
can, I can, and andand speaking of the Apprentice, I was
scanning articles. It wasn't one ofthe ones that that I was specifically bringing
up today or thinking of bringing up. But it does kind of tie into
things because Oma Rosa said that theywould constantly plan things and structure things in
a way on the Apprentice because hehad such a short attention span have to
(18:07):
like change things up quickly and structuremeetings so that things were shifting all the
time so that he wouldn't fall asleep. And as you know, this is
what he's doing exactly three times now, three times he has fallen asleep in
court and this and this is justthe first week. He has to he
has to show up like like everyweekday until this this thing is over.
(18:32):
This is this is just the preliminaryso they've just seated the jury at this
point. I love what Chris Hayessaid. You know, the one thing
if you're going to go on andon about sleepy Joe this and sleepy Joe,
no, what shit you have todo throughout this entire twenty twenty four
election season is not fall asleep.Listen, Johnny, Donny two scoops.
(18:53):
He had one job, one jobhe blew it. But no, he
he had. I mean, Iwould think like for for a man who
has who has as many like audiblesinus issues as as Donald Trump does,
(19:15):
that that that he would have accessto a few things in one form or
another to you know, keep himawake, even if he didn't go in
for the very hardcore uh stuff,which I'm sure he has at some point
in his career, Like there areinnumerable caffeinated beverages. I mean, like
(19:37):
this is a man who on hisdesk had a button in the oval office,
a specific button where he could bebrought a carbonated beverage at any time.
Now, there's got to be someway, I mean, like they
they take breaks from time to time. This isn't a continuous like process you
(19:59):
need Do you take a break fora couple of hours, you can get
a big load of caffeine in thattime. You have got to be like
way down the scale in order tolike have one of those, which he
clearly must have had at some pointand then still like like thirty minutes later
just completely zonk out. Is Thatis amazing to me that that is something
(20:22):
that people should be paying attention toif they are even anywhere near seriously considering
voting for Donald Trump, because likeyou know, if the Joint chiefs of
Staff are telling you about a militarycontingency, you probably don't want to not
offer that. Well, look,you're forgetting this man is up at three
(20:42):
o'clock in the morning on the toiletlook at at classified documents. Socially,
truthing is truth, and by thetime it comes to nine am on a
you know, on a Thursday court. Here he is exhausted. He's been
up for six or seven hours already, He's already had his eight hour day.
This is this is probably the usualtime for his nap I guess,
(21:04):
I mean, this is interfering withDonny napteim And and remember there were stories
from when he was in the Ovaloffice where he would like to have all
this unscheduled, like ten or elevenyeah. Yeah, And it's not like
he has to go very far.It's literally the closest commute. It's down
a flight of fucking stairs. Yeahyeah, and it lives above. And
(21:26):
let's talk about this man's diet.This is this is this man has the
kind of diet that is obviously youknow, if indulged in in the way
he clearly does, it is goingto set him on a path to somnolus.
I mean, it's he can hecan have a lot of energy drinks.
(21:49):
But but these two, the BigMax and the red Bulls, are
fighting a battle in this inside thisman and and the and the red bulls
are going to lose. There arenot enough red bulls on the face of
the earth that could like contend withthis man's history, his his his physiology
(22:12):
and and his diet. And soI I think why I am convinced it's
the adderall and maybe his sniffing isthe fact that you know, he just
sniffed a bunch of adderall, youknow, And sometimes he's fighting his dentures
like remember Reunited God brashed, folks, this is what happens. Like you
(22:44):
sent me this this article about Bidensaying that an uncle of his was shut
down where the cannibals live. Yes, yes, his uncle was by cannibals
running a country. This is whatwe have, Yes, okay. And
there was a little and and andthat's a little silly and your sleepy Joe
gets sleepy from time to time.But you know, I haven't I don't
think I've seen like Joe Biden likefall asleep, you know, in front
(23:08):
of the cameras. And now wehave seen Donald Trump fall asleep in the
canvas. Yeah, he probably doesit from time to time. And you
know he's the sched artist from thecourt drew him slack jawed sleeping in his
chair. So now that's cannon,folks. That's in the history books with
little scene coming out. Do yousee? That's one of the neat things
(23:30):
about having a court, you know, sketch artist, you know you can
you can embellish things because you're notsupposed to make everything look exactly that way
in order to prevent people from knowingthe identity. He looks like the orange
Grinch in this picture, a lotmore gone than he actually is. Yes,
and it shows inside of him thathis hat is three sizes too small.
(23:56):
Thank you Floor Action Response Team.But yes, running around with fabreeze
or something. The purpose of whatare they doing? I think, well,
you see Judge Marshaan is gonna ishaving now going to have to do
that inside the court too. Ithink they're going to need to get a
(24:17):
couple of cases of whatever Marjors creamyis using in the halls of Congress and
carry it up to the Southern ManhattanDistrict Court and uh and use it there
as well. Because it just itjust there seems to be something there seems
about about about the right wing thatthat produces flatulence. I mean there's something
(24:42):
chemically. I think that we couldprobably do studies and find out exactly what
that. I think it's because they'refull of ship. But talking about Marjorie
Tiller Green, you know how shegets really upset when you call her like
a Jewish space laser expert. Wellrecently, you know, because she's complain
she's gonna throw Mike under the busand out of the speakership over some aid
(25:04):
packages. And you know, she'sreally upset about how Israel has space lasers
and America should have space lasers.In fact, we should have space lasers
on the border and we should justbe the people who are coming across the
border, like Israel has space lasers, and they're going shoo to all the
(25:25):
missiles and drones that Iran is sendingover their way. By the way,
these are not space lasers. Thisis the iron domes. It's round to
air missiles that they're shooting. They'renot lasers. The reason why they look
like that at night is because thereare lights and it's dark and light they
take a picture. And when youtake a picture, kind of like how
(25:48):
ghost hunters take pictures of lights moving, it looks like a tube. It
looks like a laser. Listen thirdDistrict in Georgia. If you are listening,
please stop voting whenever you are thatand I know there's a lot of
you that put this woman into office. Please just stop. You're hurting the
rest of the country because she isthe reason why everything is wrong with the
(26:11):
country. It's not just you know, the maggots in office. It's not
just the the maggot leader, theorange grinch that's sitting there farting and snoring
during a hush money case, duringa real criminal trial, Folks, it
is the Marjorie Taylor Greens of thiscountry who are in positions of power to
(26:33):
be so stupid as to say theyhave lasers. I want lasers. Listen,
Paris Hilton. They don't. Andby the way, you're just reiterating
and rehashing the you are the Jewishspace lasers expert. Yes, the moniker
that you want so badly to getrid of. You're just giving us more
(26:55):
reason to call you that she's justshe's still I mean, these are the
people that keep Donald Trump in powerbecause they are hoping that they can use
him to get even more power andmore funding for themselves. And that's the
reason they're doing it. It's becausebecause they're they're selfish and and they they
(27:19):
want to gather as much you know, power and resource to themselves as they
as they possibly can, and theywill sell their own voters down the river
at the at the first opportunity.And they have no conception of reality,
and that extends to the scientifics.So when I mean, I just can't
(27:41):
wait for the day when Marjorie TaylorGreen is talking to someone at the Pentagon
in a hearing on Capitol Hill andshe demands to know the status of the
space laers in and some you knowguy in the uniforms, ma'am, we
have a congresswoman grain we currently haveno mechanisms like that at this point in
(28:03):
time, and and she like refusesto, you know, believe him.
And and it's you see, Ithink this is what needs to be focused
on. The ignorance of the MAGA, right they're there there, complete rejection
and ignorance of any thing science basedwhatsoever. And I think this is this
(28:30):
is a much more serious problem thanthat other representative in Georgia who was worried
about the guam tipping up on itson its end, because I know,
you know, Democrats are capable ofthat from from time to time. But
clearly this is this the Republicans andthe Freedom Caucus they own this, This
(28:52):
is their thing, this this,this is their deal. I understand,
you know, Democrats had fifty yearsto candifiro and so form. I understand
how government works. I paid attentionin Civics class. I know what you
need, and I know it's beendifficult between you know, the presidencies and
the houses and all of that goingon the Congress. But I also understand
(29:14):
that one party is actively trying totake away women's rights. Yep, starting
with whether or not they are ableto pro create when they choose to,
and then moving on to going backto we can't have credit cards, we
can't have banknotes, we can't havecar notes, we can't have shortages,
(29:38):
rentals without our father's permission or ourhusband's permission. Yeah, all that stuff.
There is There is a very youknow, clear and distinct difference between
Democrats and Republicans. And my firstI mean, I mean you need to
look into it. Even beyond thatif you are a voter and you and
(30:02):
you must you must, you mustbe a voter. But know that the
Republicans where they are, you canyou can just discount them up front and
then start, you know, lookingat the Democratic side and take it from
there, and you know, youprobably want to do some additional research on
them to make sure it fits dependingon where the state where you are,
(30:23):
because you know, some Democrats areare are more equal than others. But
but clearly, like if you havea choice between a Democrat and a Republican,
your first instinct should be to votefor the Democrats, I mean ultimately.
And we also need to get intothis idea that just because we voted
you in, we can't forget aboutit. Okay, that's because we can
(30:45):
vote you out too. And ifyou and if you're just following the corporate
line, then then we have thepower to We have the power to go
the other way too. It's it'snot it's to them, yes, yeah,
but we also during their tenure,we have the power to talk to
them. We have the power toemail them and write to them, and
(31:07):
organize protests outside of their offices ifwe want to. We have the right
to redress our representatives at any time, as long as it's peaceful. So
we need to get out of themindset that we vote them in and we're
done with them for six years orhowever long their tenure is. We need
to be on their butt. Yeah, making sure that they're doing it.
You know, this is a relationship. If you get into a marriage and
(31:30):
you just say, hey, i'mmarried now, I don't have to do
anything, your marriage is going tofail. You constantly have to date that
other person and fall back in lovewith them over and over forever. That's
how it goes. In order tokeep things good between the two of you.
The same thing with every other relationship. You need to make sure that
that person is doing their job.And when you hear what they're doing and
what they're voting for, write tothem and tell them that's not why I
(31:52):
hired you. Yeah, stop that. Yeah, you have to tell them
what you want and you have toadd the cap for that, and you
have to you have to be engaged, and you have to be communicative.
You're right, You're right. It'sjust like a it's just like a relationship.
And you see with Democrats at thispoint in time, with Democrats,
(32:14):
there's a chance for that. WithRepublicans, there's not a chance for that.
And that's the pretty much the differencebetween the parties we have today,
and that's what you have to keepin mind when November comes around. Susan
posel. You are coming out withyet another brilliant episode of This Week again.
It's going to drop Sunday. It'sgoing to be on podcasting platforms around
(32:38):
the internet, So please folks checkthat out, download it, listen,
be ready, get up early onSunday morning and listen for that because it's
going to be there. It's goingto be waiting for you. And you
don't necessarily have to like check inthe whole week and figure out every little
thing, every little detail, becauseSusanne will have organized do it for you
(33:01):
in a humorous and progressive way.And so I urge you to go out
there and listen to this Week againSuzanne. As always, it is a
huge pleasure speaking with you. Thankyou so much for being with us on
Face Palm America. Absolutely, thankyou for the laughs. Thank you so
much for listening to Face Palm America. Two squared Media Productions produces this show.
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