KCAA: The Uncommon Sense Democrat with Eric Bauman (Wed, 26 Mar, 2025)

KCAA: The Uncommon Sense Democrat with Eric Bauman on Wed, 26 Mar, 2025

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Speaker 13 (06:06):
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen on a cloudy Wednesday afternoon.
I hope where you are there's no rain, and I
don't know what all is going on, but there's more

(06:29):
chaos going on in Washington than anywhere. I'm calling from
Gwen's lunchenette, and if you want to know where there's
really big business going on, it's a Gwen's luncheanette. But
I'm sure my guest, John Bauman, the President of Social
Security works pack. I can tell you about it later

(06:54):
when we have time. We're going to have skipp and
healthcare for right now, although there's a lot to be
said about it because of the measles and a few
other things. But right now, I'm more concerned about what

(07:18):
these fools are doing with Social Security, with Medicare, with Medicaid,
which we call medical in California, and I think we're
you know, we're in a dangerous situation. So, John, you

(07:38):
have a leadership role in one of the top social
security organizations in the country, tell us what you think.

Speaker 14 (07:51):
I think we are grouping for a bruther in this
country with regards to social security, and you know, I
think there's a strategy behind this. The strategy is one
that we're familiar with that leads to an attempt to
at the end of the day to privatize the program,

(08:14):
which is a terrible idea and always has been a
terrible idea, but which is something that the Republican Party
has frankly been trying to do since nineteen thirty five.
And this new strategy the wage.

Speaker 13 (08:29):
Wait wait wait wait wait wait since nineteen thirty five.

Speaker 14 (08:34):
Yeah, yeah, because when FDR and Francis Berkins, his Secretary
of Labor, created this idea of wage insurance, which is
really what Social Security fundamentally is. It's insurance against your
loss of wages when you can no longer work anymore.

(08:55):
So this was a very progressive, brilliant idea before which
over fifty percent of American senior's head incomes below the
poverty line, which was entirely not acceptable. And you may
even remember your grandpa, Charlie by father using an expression

(09:17):
when we were very young where you'd say like, oh, yeah,
you know, Sam Gordon's going to the poorhouse, you know,
And at that time it was just an expression like
they're going to the poorhouse. Well where that came from
was it wasn't just an expression they or just a
figure of speech at all. Before Social Security, there were

(09:40):
poor houses everywhere in America and if your kids didn't
take you in when you ran out of money, you
went to the poorhouse. That's where you went. So when
FDR and Francis Perkins, you know, got this legislation passed
at the in the middle of the depression, you know,

(10:01):
when everybody realized, okay, we're all in in it deep
now we better do something to try to rescue this
country and to try to make life better for people.
So in a way, you know, it was a great
opportunity to be able to pass really progressive, smart legislation

(10:21):
like social security. But the Republican Party fought it from
the very beginning and said the same things that they
say all the time. Now, you know, socialism, oh socialism.
You know, this was the human crime the entire time.
That's why there's a cap, which we can discuss later,
because that was part of a compromise with Republican legislators

(10:47):
that FDR and Francis Perkins had to make to get
the legislation passed in the first place.

Speaker 13 (10:52):
Oh, I thought that was more recent that.

Speaker 14 (10:55):
No, there's always been a cap always, yes, never not
been a cap. The cap, you know, is adjusted for inflation,
so the cap is much higher is higher now than
it was when it began, you know, for obvious reasons.
The cap right now is one hundred and seventy six thousand,
one hundred dollars. And what that means for your listening

(11:20):
audience is that nobody pays in one more cent on
one more cent of their income. That's over one hundred
and seventy six thousand, one hundred dollars for the year.
So therefore, the average person who makes one hundred and
seventy six thousand, one hundred dollars or less pays in
six point two percent of their income in the form

(11:43):
of payroll tax that goes to Social Security.

Speaker 13 (11:47):
What what are what is? What? What is the average
income for an American? Right now?

Speaker 14 (11:57):
We probably have to look it up, but this probably
pretty easy to find average income here. I'll look for
it right now and let's see what we actually come
up with. But you know, this stuff is all germane like.
For instance, if we wanted to get into the laws
that there are a household is seventy eight by thirty

(12:21):
eight and the average income is about forty thousand dollars
a year. Apparently, if this information is correct and up
to date, it's twenty that's twenty twenty three, so it's
probably a little higher than that now because we had
an inflationary year in between, but it's about forty thousand
dollars average income. So obviously, you know, the average American

(12:45):
makes one hundred and seventy six thousand, one hundred dollars
or less. And my point is, if you're in that
those income brackets, the normal income brackets for people, you're
paying six point two in six point two percent. If
you're Elon Musk, Let's say he stopped paying on January first,
he finished paying his Social Security for the year on

(13:09):
January first, because he only paid one hundred and seventy
six thousand, one hundred dollars worth of income. So there's
a very big question out there, which is called how
is that fair?

Speaker 7 (13:23):
Like?

Speaker 14 (13:23):
Why is that fair? And obviously any financial issues that
the Social Security program has or is going to have
in ten years, as is projected by actuaries, could easily
be solved by getting Elon Musk and everybody liked him
to actually pay in their fair share into this program,

(13:45):
because they all stopped paying one hundred and seventy six
one hundred dollars, but.

Speaker 13 (13:49):
They get the full amount of security.

Speaker 14 (13:52):
They get their same amount back, They get their same
amount back, and if they paid in more, you know,
for instance, Social Security twenty one one hundred, the very
moderate law that John Larson from Connecticut sponsored in the
House of Representatives, and we had a pretty good chance
of getting passed in twenty twenty one, twenty twenty, and

(14:14):
twenty twenty one, but we were twenty one and twenty two.
But we you know, had too much trouble with Kirsten
Cinema and Joe Mansion unfortunately, and it was unimportant.

Speaker 13 (14:27):
The same to have been a pain in the assd
the all time since.

Speaker 14 (14:30):
Right, who weren't really Democrats. You know, people walk around
and say and say, and now they're gone by the way,
you know, they're out of Congress. But people often said, well,
you had control of both chambers and the presidency in
twenty twenty one and twenty two. Yeah, really, because not really,
because Kristen Cinnamon and Joe Mansion were not Democrats. They

(14:53):
weren't kidding anybody. But the Larson bill going back to
that put a donut hole in the cap and have
people start paying in again at four hundred thousand dollars
worth of annual link cup, which was the There was
no accident with that. That was the number that President
Joe Biden had said, I'm not going to raise taxes

(15:18):
on anybody making under four hundred thousand dollars a year.
And the Larsonville would have kept Social Security solvent for decades,
longer than is projected so far. It would have made
an enormous difference in the future of the program. And

(15:38):
it was called Social Security twenty one hundred because the
objective was to make the program solvent without any further
problems until the year twenty one hundred. Yeah, these are
simple fixes, and what's going on right now. I try
to keep these things, this messaging as simple as I
can and try to give you stuff to take away

(16:02):
and remember. So please, everything I just said to you
is a little bit, you know, it's the detail that
I think is good to know. But please take away
this message. This message is the important message, is that
social Security. There is nothing else that has to be

(16:26):
done to Social Security other than to pass this kind
of a bill. And Republicans are stopping us from doing
this because they are actually only interested in not making
their rich donors like Elon Musk pay one more scent

(16:47):
of tax. That's all they care about. In fact, they
want to give Elon Musk a tax cut, which is insane.
And that's all that's going on in here. There is
no complicated to Social Security, Medicare, none at all. The all,
the very simple solution is for millionaires and billionaires to

(17:10):
pay in their fair share to these programs.

Speaker 13 (17:15):
No, you're you're supposed to sound like Bernie Sands millionaires
and billionaires.

Speaker 14 (17:23):
Well, I could do that too, because he sounds a
little bit like thousands sometimes and I can't see the
finger like Bernie Sanders. I'm doing it right now. I'm
doing it right now because that way I can sound
more like Bernie Sanders because he's from You're from the Bronx.

Speaker 13 (17:40):
I'm from the Bronx.

Speaker 14 (17:46):
Not so much, but yes, Eric, social security is like
when's luncheonette. It's a big time operation. What they're running
in the in the Republican Party is not a big
time operation right now. It's a small time operation. It's
the stlely designed for olive arks whatever whoever they are,

(18:09):
to make a lot of money, and it's disgusting.

Speaker 13 (18:13):
Well, I have to tell you I know a lot
more about Medicare than I do about social and related
as you know, of course, right, unrelated at all. But
you know, money goes to medicare. You were talking about

(18:37):
you were talking about people going to the poorhouse, and.

Speaker 14 (18:42):
What happened before both Social Security and Medicare because social
Security took care of a big portion of the problem.
But after social Security, thirty five percent of American senior's
still heading comes below the poverty line until Medicare came
along in nineteen six fight and then that lowered that
number a lot further.

Speaker 13 (19:04):
Yeah, So I'm just thinking getting a second here. There
used to be poor hospitals and the poor hospitals, which
from what I've read and what I know, are disgusting

(19:28):
or we're disgusting. Yeah.

Speaker 14 (19:31):
Yes, if.

Speaker 13 (19:36):
If you didn't have insurance, you were screwed. They gave
you little. But at least you could get a bed,

(19:58):
right follow what I'm I'm saying. Least you could get
to bed and see a doctor and have a nurse
taken care of you.

Speaker 14 (20:06):
There was some degree better than nothing, was I think
what the reality of this was.

Speaker 13 (20:13):
Yeah, back in the old days.

Speaker 14 (20:16):
So we I mean, you know, this is what progress is.
We've done better than this, and now we've got bozos
that are trying to take us back to that. We've
already been through all this. This is not you know
what they're proposing to do. We've already been through all this.
It doesn't work.

Speaker 13 (20:34):
Yeah, Well, and you don't even get a nice hero
from lunch, from Gwen's lunch and it.

Speaker 6 (20:42):
To eat.

Speaker 14 (20:43):
Yeah, because this is a small time operation. Look what
they're running. I mean, I don't mean to change the
subject at all.

Speaker 4 (20:51):
But.

Speaker 14 (20:53):
You know, we got to deal with the stuff that's
right in front of us. We got a bunch of
go They don't care about your national security or your
social security. We had a bunch of bozo's on signal.
I mean, I'm on signal every day for various people.
You know this app, this encrypted app that everybody uses.

(21:14):
You can't be discussing national security secrets over signals. That's psychotic.
They are running a small time operation in this Trump administration.
I don't know what they think they're running, but it's not.

Speaker 13 (21:31):
It's and and now Trump is saying, oh pete, see
second segue, and the other oh yeah, Hanks and the
other guy have nothing to do with uh sweating information.

Speaker 14 (21:54):
Realistically interesting since he's the Secretary of Defense. This dui hire.
You know, they've done a lot of talk about DEEI
hire as well. This was a dui hire. You know,
the guy was completely unqualified and had a drinking problem,
you know, which I don't know. Maybe he's beaten his

(22:15):
drinking problem, but you know, not a good background for
the guy who has literally has the nuclear codes. This
is crazy stuff.

Speaker 13 (22:25):
And now.

Speaker 14 (22:28):
This is the guy who's giving operational details over signal
to the entire rest of the national security team. So
what the hell they're doing on there, nobody can figure out.
And then somehow Jeffrey Goldberg is on there for the Atlantic,
and you know, I don't know if you ever use signal.
He cannot get on there by accident. Somebody had to

(22:50):
invite Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of the Atlantic magazine,
into this chat. So I don't want anybody thinks they're
doing over there. But it's a small time operation, taller
than Gwen's Lunchenet. They don't know what they're doing.

Speaker 13 (23:08):
Well, at least Gwen's Lunchenet had a German Bert.

Speaker 14 (23:13):
That's true. They have better security than these people have,
because that German shepherd was scary. It certainly was, and
he was pretty efficient or she. I can't remember whether
it was a male or a female.

Speaker 13 (23:28):
I can't. I can't either, but it was. But it
was a beauty of the dog, because.

Speaker 14 (23:35):
Very beautiful, du was it was. I think it was
a male. I think it was large, you know, it
was the large German shepherd. But but Gwen's Gwen's lunchenet.
The threeal question was, was Gwenn's lunchenet as big time
in operation as her predecessor Murray and Al's lunchonet in

(23:55):
the same building or not? And that's a very hard
question to answer, you see.

Speaker 13 (24:03):
Yeah, all right, so we know that Social Security, Medicare,
and Medicaid or medical as we call it, Yes, are
all in trouble. They're all in trouble.

Speaker 14 (24:19):
They're all under assault from the Trump administration. Otherwise they
wouldn't particularly be in trouble, any of them.

Speaker 13 (24:26):
Oh, President President Biden or President Harris would never have
done this.

Speaker 14 (24:37):
No, of course, not because because whatever issues these programs
have that have kept more people out of poverty, as
they keep saying, than any other programs in American history.
Whatever problems they have are really easily solvable and dealable
with by a decent Congress and a decent administration.

Speaker 13 (24:58):
But that's where you get into the the next problem.

Speaker 14 (25:01):
John. You have a decent.

Speaker 13 (25:05):
Administration, right, you have a Republican House and a Republican Senate.
And these are people who were ready to bring the
country down. I mean, let's be real.

Speaker 14 (25:20):
So why are people voting for Ken Calvert in within
the sound of our voices where this radio show goes?

Speaker 13 (25:30):
You know, why?

Speaker 14 (25:31):
What?

Speaker 4 (25:31):
What?

Speaker 14 (25:32):
Because of Ken Calvert ever taken that actually ends up
doing anybody any good?

Speaker 13 (25:40):
You know, I'm going to put it this way. Ken
Calvert was caught in a car with a prostitute. Fact
police reported it. It was in the Riverside newspaper and

(26:05):
it prevented. I can't remember his name now, the the
the Asian guy who became a congressman. You know who's
so good?

Speaker 14 (26:24):
Oh you mean Dave Dave Man?

Speaker 13 (26:26):
No, in the in the in the Inland Empire, oh
the Illan Empire. Mark is only marked Kanoo. So so
he went after Mark Takano because he's gay, right, and

(26:51):
particularly at that time, Mark t'cano had no real defense
because he went after him because he was gay, and
people were worried about that. Then they're worried about then

(27:11):
idiot being in a car with a prostitute.

Speaker 14 (27:15):
Right, But times have changed, and you know, I would
argue that people should be less worried about any of
those things and more worried about that. Ken Calvert has
never taken a vote that will actually help any of
them with regard to anything, so far as any of
us can tell. You know, this guy is consistently voting

(27:38):
for stuff that if you are not a fat cat,
if you are not a you know, Elon has obviously
become the symbol of this everywhere now. But if you're
if you're not one of the billionaire donors of the
Republican Party, I don't do not understand what good any

(27:59):
of these votes are doing you. Yeah, just don't get it.
I don't know. And a lot of these boats are based,
like you say, on cultural stuff. And you know, I
don't like this. I don't like gay people.

Speaker 13 (28:15):
I don't like but.

Speaker 14 (28:17):
You know, I don't like whatever they don't like. But
people end up locking their own best interest in the
best injerous of the country over nonsense.

Speaker 13 (28:28):
Okay. Number one number one. Many of them are looking
to get jobs, right, think about this, okay, and and
the jobs that they're looking to get are big bucks.
What is this breaking news?

Speaker 14 (28:47):
Wait a minute, everything's breaking news. This could be somebody
has a hangnail. What's breaking news? Yeah, find me a
news story that's not breaking news.

Speaker 13 (29:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (29:07):
So, but I'm just saying, Look, social Security is under assault,
under serious assault. What they're trying to do is break
the system completely so that nobody so that ends up. Look,
Martin O'Malley, you know who's our friend as social Security works,

(29:30):
and you know he consulted us for a lot of
stuff when he was Social Security Commissioner. You know, has
predicted that checks are not there's going to be an
interruption in checks going out within thirty to ninety days.
If that were to happen, it's think about this over

(29:50):
over your commercial and news break. If that were to happen,
it would be the first time in the ninety years
almost of social securities distance. But that would ever happen,
that would be a b f D, a big kind
of deal.

Speaker 13 (30:09):
So this is a comment or a quote from former
Secretary of State. I'm sorry, former former Social Security official
Tiffany Flick. I don't have my glasses on, so I'm
having a little trouble reading. If SSA is procedures and unfollowed,

(30:34):
that could result in benefits benefit payments not being paid
out or or delays in payments. Yeah, Flicks declaration includes
an explicit warning that doges rampage through the right Social

(30:57):
Security administration could result in and if it, fame is
not being paid out or glazed in payments.

Speaker 14 (31:04):
Yeah, because they have no idea what they're doing, and
they're disrupting the entire system without having any idea what
they're doing. Now, the other problem is they're also liars.
You know, Elon himself is just a world class liar,
and as everybody knows by now. But I guess it's
worth repeating because who knows. Everybody's not paying attention. But

(31:26):
he keeps repeating this whole thing, and Trump keeps repeating
this whole thing about there's people in there one hundred
and fifty years old on this database, and there you know,
with the with the sometimes they say and they're getting checks,
and sometimes they just imply that they're getting checks, they're
not getting checked.

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Eric Bauman, the host of The Uncommon Sense Democrat right
here on NBC Radio KACAA, coming to you live from
boins Luncheonet with John Bowser Bauman. We got a lot
going on that work discussing. We've been talking about social

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security and Medicare. But John and we should god willing,
have time to come back. What's going on with these
nut jobs and war plans being made, you know, being

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released to the editor.

Speaker 14 (35:32):
Of The Atlantic, this is just petrifying. This this entire
you know, I did make reference to it early on
in this program, but this is really petrifying. There is
this every everything that's going on is petrifying in this
small time operation. But this Signal Chat with the entire

(35:57):
National Security team team on Signal you know this app
that everybody uses that I know, but it's not very secure.
You know, they encrypt your messages and then they disappear
and whatever. But it's not a terribly secure You know,
all you can do is think back to twenty sixteen,

(36:20):
In fifteen sixteen, in the good old days, when they
were crucifying Hillary Clinton for using a private server in
her house that had no It turned out one sentence
of the lowest classified information, lowest kind of classified information
on it after copious investigations, and that was that was

(36:41):
supposed to be the end of the the end of
the world. And now this guy who's the Secretary of Defense,
the Dui Hire Pete Texas, you know, is literally giving
operational plans out on signal to the entire national security cabinet.

(37:03):
And somehow somebody has invited Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in
chief of The Atlantic on there. This is you couldn't
make this stuff up. This is so crazy, but it's
really dangerous. This is every national security expert, and I'm
not one. I just listened to all of them, you know,
from John Brennan, you know, former CIA director on down.

(37:28):
Every one of them has come out and said that
they've never heard of anything as insidious and insane as this.
It's psycho So I don't know what's going to happen,
but you know, somebody's gotta and then they don't take
you know, this is this is the Donald Trump playbook,
which we're all familiar with, is like, don't ever take

(37:49):
responsibility for anything, you know, always stonewall everything and just
say just blame it on something. Their messaging is pretty
funny because they're trying to make it's like it's Jeffrey
Goldberg's fault from the Atlantic for listening to the.

Speaker 13 (38:07):
I love I love that I saw that from Trump
earlier today.

Speaker 14 (38:16):
Well, everything immediately is Joe Biden's fault as well, and
Hillary Clinton's fault, as you know, and Barack Obama's fault,
and Eric is your fault, and it's Gwenn's, Gwen's fault
from Gwen's luncheonette. It's everybody's fault, but the people whose
fault it actually.

Speaker 13 (38:32):
Is, they wouldn't dare tell that to Gwen. She would
put them on her behind.

Speaker 14 (38:40):
She would think that German shepherd on them, and between
her and the German shepherd she was. They were tough,
all right. So let's let's talk a little bit about
what they did with Pete Hagsis and this uh giving

(39:02):
a wood yeahha, no, Vin, No, that's what they did.
They they gave operational details of something that hadn't happened
yet but was about to happen. You know, that had

(39:23):
to do with the with this attack on the Huthi's
in Yemen, and they broadcast them out over a signal
to each other. And to make matters worse, you know,
another little detail about the you know, the signal app
is not secure. And one of the people out there

(39:47):
who was Steve Whitcoff, the guy that Trump sent to
pretend to negotiate with Vladimir Putin in Russia.

Speaker 13 (39:56):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 14 (39:58):
You know, which is really not a negotiation. In the
negotiation is we give Latim Vladimir Putin everything he wants
and Ukraine gets nothing that they want, and that's that's
the compromise. So it's not a real negotiation. But anyway,
the Steve Wickcoff guy is there and in Russia pretending

(40:18):
to negotiate, and he is on this signal chat from Moscow.
He's sitting in Moscow on the signal chat, which makes
it even crazier because it's obviously even easier to for
our adversaries to unencrypt and intercept this this message. But

(40:45):
one of the people is sitting in Russia getting it
is this is psychopathic. I don't know, it's it's it's
been such a close race, you know, as you know,
you know, my primary focus is senior issues, and it's
been such a close race every day and every week
between what's the craziest thing that actually happened today or yesterday?

(41:09):
This one is certainly right up there. But previously, a
couple of days ago, probably the most psychopathic comment that
maybe has ever been made with regard to Social Security
was made by the Commerce Secretary who we haven't even discussed.

(41:30):
This guy, This is Howard Lutnick, who sat down like
a three thousand dollars suit being interviewed by two people.
I have no idea who they were. They were in
fancy suits too, And Howard Lutnick actually said that the
most grievously disgusting, out of touch thing that anyone has

(41:52):
ever said with regard to Social Security. But he said,
is his ninety four year old mother in law. Yeah,
if she didn't get get her check, you know, wouldn't
bother her? She would you know, she figured she would
just figure she got it next month. Well she'd get
it next month. Well, you know, Howard, I hate to

(42:15):
break it to you, but most people don't have a
son in law who's got three point four billion dollars
like you, Howard Lutnick, to have for money to get
through the month. You know, like your mother in law,
she's not exactly typical forty percent of people who are

(42:37):
on Social Security. For forty percent of them, it is
their main source of income. And if the check don't come,
the rent don't get paid, or the food don't get bought,
or the or the med don't get don't get picked
up at the drug store.

Speaker 13 (42:57):
You know, I have friends who have I don't know
about five small apartment houses. And when I stay small,
I mean five six apartment houses, four or five apartments
each and between what is being between, but what is

(43:21):
being forced upon them by the city of La. You know,
they can't stay in business. It's hard if you're a
renter and you can't. They're not allowed to give you

(43:46):
a race. Excuse me, I have the hiccups. They're not.

Speaker 14 (43:55):
You're about have eaten a glenns.

Speaker 13 (43:59):
Yes, I did it, and I didn't have my wife.
I didn't have my wonderful meatball sandwich that she used
to make.

Speaker 14 (44:08):
Not good for the digestion, you know it was. It
was tasty, but not the best for the digestive system,
but certain.

Speaker 16 (44:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (44:17):
Anyway, well she knew how to make me a special
meat love sandwich meatball sound.

Speaker 14 (44:29):
Oh you're you're making me hungry now, Yeah, because my wife,
your your aunt, your aunt Cary, my aunt. Yes, she's
making the best meat love right now that there has
ever been. I don't know how she's doing this. I
asked her, like, what did you put in this thing?

(44:51):
It's like unbelievable. And you know what the secret is? Actually,
this is a bigger, big time operation than than even
Glenn's lunchonette. The secret is a touch of Peter Luger's
steak sauce from Brooklyn.

Speaker 13 (45:12):
I don't know anything about it. But so I married,
I'm married smart, I'm I'm married another rn who happens
to be a four star chef.

Speaker 14 (45:24):
Yeah, definitely qualified, excellent cook, without a doubt, chef, that's
the chef. Yeah.

Speaker 13 (45:36):
So we're doing what we've been doing the last four
or five years for Passover. We're bringing Passover dinner for
the first night to where our godson is MM. And

(45:58):
that was a whole bit to do about what we
were going to have and this and that, and Michael said,
Brenda said, bagels and locks. Well, we can't have bagels
and locks on passover, you know, so, long story short.

(46:27):
If we're gonna have locks, there will be some bagels
there if you prefer bagels, otherwise they'll be mazza. You
can have it on. Let us, let us tomato. You know,
it's gonna be a lovely dinner.

Speaker 14 (46:47):
Sounds wonderful, and it all sounds much better than that
terrible hard boiled egg in the salt water that you know,
and your great antide he used to present.

Speaker 13 (47:01):
Are we still of course, we're still doing this part
of part of the I know it's part of the thing.
And you know what sator means, right.

Speaker 14 (47:14):
Sad was another great anthet. Oh no, that was statie. Sorry,
the w stater actually translated.

Speaker 7 (47:20):
To order.

Speaker 14 (47:24):
Order order, like order.

Speaker 13 (47:29):
In the court, like the order of what you're going
to have. Okay, think about it this way. What is
the prayer book called a sitter?

Speaker 14 (47:44):
Yeah, that's called the sitter, much like much like your babysitter.

Speaker 13 (47:52):
Please don't remind me, Okay.

Speaker 14 (47:56):
I think we're digressing from politics here. What wasn't this
about the uncommon sense Democrat or something.

Speaker 13 (48:04):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
So.

Speaker 13 (48:09):
Now the latest is Trump has decided he's putting twenty
five terrorff on anybody who's bringing cars into the United States.

Speaker 14 (48:20):
Oh that makes good a lot of good sense. That's
going to be great for the economy, don't you think.

Speaker 13 (48:26):
Yeah, I think it's going to be great for the
economy because all these all these American cars, you're going
to sell one.

Speaker 14 (48:35):
To three, right. You know, all these people who voted
for him because because they he said he was going
to fix he was going to fix high prices. On
day one, you know, they were all walking around that
going like.

Speaker 13 (48:50):
Why what happened?

Speaker 14 (48:52):
I didn't vote for this. I didn't vote for any
of this. What is this guy doing? What are these
people doing?

Speaker 4 (49:00):
Well?

Speaker 13 (49:00):
I got news here I don't know. And guess what
they don't know either.

Speaker 14 (49:06):
And you know what, people really hate, you know what
I'm really not, you know, just to get you know,
elemental about this kind of stuff. People really hate that
Canada is now our enemy, Like we're making an enemy
of Canada. It's like a bad comedy routine. It's like
South Park had had had a thinking, you know, you

(49:29):
had to blame Canada, you know, like twenty years ago
or something like that, because it was such a joke.
Now now we actually hate Canada, they hate us.

Speaker 13 (49:39):
What blame Canada? Blame can Why why are we.

Speaker 14 (49:48):
Why are we picking a fight with Canada? And you know,
this stuff gets through to people who aren't even paying attention,
like why are they blaming Canada? So we liked Canada?
What's the green one?

Speaker 13 (50:00):
This Potts thinks he's going to make them the fifty
first state.

Speaker 14 (50:06):
Yes, there's a real problem with that. They don't want
to be the fifty first state. They're a country. They
have their own national anthem. They like it.

Speaker 4 (50:15):
You know, the.

Speaker 13 (50:17):
Fifty first state is Puerto Rico for God's State.

Speaker 14 (50:21):
But that's true too. Hey, look, I'm in favor of
making all these places of states, not that it's never
going to happen because Canada we get two more senators
because they would vote the right way. You know, Washington,
d C. Let's get two more senators. Puerto Rico we
get two more senators. They mostly vote the right way. Greenlands,

(50:41):
you know, they're into the environment, we get two more senators.
You know, it would really help us to if all
these places wanted to actually be states. But they don't.

Speaker 13 (50:56):
Right well, and also, oh, come on, let's be real.
These countries never said they wanted to be subsumed by
the United States. No, correct, there are a few that have,
Like Puerto Rico wants to become the fifty first state.

Speaker 14 (51:21):
Some people in Puerto Rico do and some people don't.
That's a constant struggle within Puerto Rico. But I do
agree that it should at least be up to them
whether they would like to become the fifty first state,
and then they could you know, petition to become the
fifty first state if they actually decide that they want to.

(51:44):
If they don't want to become the fifty first state
and they still are a US territory, I don't really
think that Donald J. Trump should force them to.

Speaker 13 (51:56):
You donald Trump should force anybody to do anything.

Speaker 14 (52:04):
Yeah, that's all he does, though, is try to force
people to do things.

Speaker 13 (52:08):
Well, that's because it's the only thing he knows. John,
I've noticed, you know, we had.

Speaker 14 (52:17):
An elected billionaire running around breaking everything on purpose. Look, Eric,
if this election were held today, we would win by
a lot.

Speaker 13 (52:32):
Ah. So that brings me to a point that I
don't want to lose before we run the time which
is about to happen Pennsylvania.

Speaker 14 (52:43):
Oh, that was big.

Speaker 13 (52:46):
Talk about that.

Speaker 14 (52:48):
That was pretty crazy because I you know, what was
the margin there? We want a seat that we have
never won. Basically, really are indications there, really are indications
that the political climate has turned dramatically. I mean, watch
watch out for April first. April first is really an

(53:12):
interest is going to be really an interesting a series
of events, and you know, nobody wants to overpromise it
or or you know, get too over optimistic. We have
one thing on April first that we must defend, which

(53:32):
is the Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. That Judge Janet you know,
held it four gave us a four to three edge,
gave Rational America four to three edge on the Wisconsin
Supreme Court, and a lot of good stuff has gotten
done since then. But now another seats coming up, and
it could go back for three the other way. If

(53:54):
if somehow this turns out wrong.

Speaker 13 (54:00):
Well you got you got, you got, you got Musku
giving them one hundred dollars.

Speaker 14 (54:06):
Per person, right and and overall having spent fourteen million
dollars already on that race, because he knows how important
this is, so that one's scary. But then there's also
the two in Florida, you know, because we're where Trump
and his infinite lack of wisdom nabbed two people for

(54:31):
his cabinet out of the House of Representatives in Florida
nabbed two of them thereby creating open seats. So then,
you know, gave himself two people who couldn't vote for
his stupid agenda during the past few months. So that
was dumb to begin with, But at any rate, in
April first, finally, the special elections for those seats are

(54:52):
going to happen. Now, nobody should rationally expect that much
out of this for the simple reason that the first district,
which was Matt Gates's seat, Donald Ronald Trump Donald Trump
won by sixty eight percent in the or what got

(55:12):
sixty eight percent? You know, these are basically two thirds
one third seats. He got sixty eight percent of the
vote in twenty twenty four in the in Florida's first district,
which was Matt Gates, and he got sixty five percent
of the vote in the other one, which was Waltz's district.

(55:35):
The guy who you know was on the signal chat
who's the so called National Security Advisor? So sis know
what to expect from these seats. If we were to
win one of these seats, it will be an earthquake

(55:56):
in Florida. But you know, I wouldn't hold my breath.
You know, there were actual they're going to win something
that's was sixty eight percent and sixty five percent. That's
by crazy, but at least maybe we'll make a big
dent in it. There is no question. This was a
very deep red Senate seat in Pennsylvania that flipped this

(56:18):
and it's the second one of these that has happened.
The other one was in Iowa about a month ago
or so. And again it was the twenty five point
swing I believe from the general election results in that
exact Senate district. You know that Donald Trump won that

(56:39):
district by twenty one points and the Democrat I believe
won the state Senate race by four, So it was
a twenty five swing. I mean, this is this is
These are good indications that the electorate has already changed
its mind about things. And we'll see on April first.

(57:01):
You know, I would urge people to pay attention to
two things coming up. One is those special elections on
April first, the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Do some work in there,
phone bank if you can. And also these two special
elections in Florida which are longer shots, but let's see

(57:22):
what happens. And then another thing is April fifth, which
is going to be a national day of action sponsored
by people like Indivisible, Move on us as source Security works.
There's a national day of action which is the theme
of it is hands off. So hands off our source security,

(57:44):
hands off our medicare, hands off our reproductive rights. You know,
the fight that women in this country have been waiting
that for years. You know, we are under assault, and
these people better keep their hands off are hard earned
right and our harder and gains and our harder and benefits.

Speaker 13 (58:05):
Well as we exit. I think it's important for people
to remember that this is not some kind of a
This is not some kind of a giveaway that the
federal government gives us. This is this is this stuff

(58:29):
we pay. We pay our social security, we pay our
social security, we pay our medicare. That's right, and they
try to deny that fact. You know, when you look,
if you take your pay stub and you see, you'll

(58:55):
see you can see what we're paying right anyway, This
is Eric Common, host of the Inconsistence Democrat right here
on nb SERI of CACAA from Gwendolin Chenette, joined by
John Bouser Bollen President. So security Works. Now, that didn't

(59:23):
sound right, but okay.

Speaker 14 (59:24):
Whatever's the dirty works packet. We're a big time operation,
including your show.

Speaker 13 (59:32):
Right all right, we'll see you all next week and
God willing, we'll have another good conversation free for pet.

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