KCAA: The Uncommon Sense Democrat with Eric Bauman (Wed, 2 Apr, 2025)

KCAA: The Uncommon Sense Democrat with Eric Bauman on Wed, 2 Apr, 2025

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And now it's time for a brand new show on KCAA,
The Uncommon Sense Democrats with your host, Eric Bauman, a
show about politics and contemporary issues. And now here's Eric Bauman.

Speaker 9 (06:57):
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

(07:21):
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 lunchanet. But
I'm sure my guest, John Bauman, the President of Social Security,

(07:42):
works pack I can tell you about it later when
we have time we're going to have. I'm skipping 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 these fools

(08:11):
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 have a

(08:32):
leadership role in one of the top social security organizations
in the country, tell us what you think.

Speaker 10 (08:43):
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,

(09:06):
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 wayge.

Speaker 9 (09:21):
Wait wait wait, wait, wait wait since nineteen thirty five.

Speaker 10 (09:25):
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.

(09:47):
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

(10:09):
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 or just a figure
of speech at all. Before its sarce security, there were

(10:32):
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,

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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

(11:13):
like social security. But the Republican Party fought it from
the very beginning and said the same things that they
say all the time.

Speaker 9 (11:22):
Now.

Speaker 10 (11:22):
You know, socialism, oh socialism, you know, this is 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 that FDR and Francis Brikins
had to make to get the legislation passed in the
first place.

Speaker 9 (11:44):
Oh, I thought that was more recent that.

Speaker 10 (11:47):
No, there's always been a cap always. Yes, there's 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

(12:11):
for your listening 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

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in the form of payroll tax that goes to Social Security.

Speaker 9 (12:39):
What what are what is? What? What is the average
income for an American right now.

Speaker 10 (12:49):
We probably have to look it up, but it's probably
pretty easy to find average income here. I look, 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

(13:12):
eight by thirty eight and the average income is about
forty thousand dollars a year apparently, if this information is
correct and up to date, it's 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

(13:36):
average American 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 two in six point two percent. If
you're Elon Musk, let's say he stopped paying on January first,

(13:57):
He finished paying his Social Security for the year on
January first, because he only paid one hundred and seventy
six one hundred dollars worth of income so there's a
very big question out there, which is called how is
that fair? Like why is that fair? And obviously any

(14:19):
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
like him to actually pay in their fair share into
this program. Because they all stop paying one hundred and
seventy six one hundred dollars, but.

Speaker 9 (14:41):
They get the full amount of security, they.

Speaker 10 (14:44):
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 hundred, the very moderate law that
John Larson from Connecticut sponsored in the House of Representatives,
and we we had a pretty good chance of getting
passed in twenty twenty one, twenty twenty and twenty twenty one,

(15:06):
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.

Speaker 9 (15:17):
Important the same to have been a pain. And he
asked all time since.

Speaker 10 (15:22):
Right, who weren't really democrats? You know, people walk around
and say and say 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

(15:45):
weren't kidding anybody. But the Larson Bill going back to
that put a doughnut hole in the cap and had
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

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on anybody making under four hundred thousand dollars a year.
And the Larson Bill 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.

(16:30):
And 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 people stuff to take

(16:53):
away 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

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be 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

(17:38):
scent 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 solution to Social Security, Medicare, none
at all. The very simple solution is for millionaires and

(18:01):
billionaires to pay in their fair share to these programs.

Speaker 9 (18:07):
No, you're you're supposed to sound like Bernie sand Is
millionaires and billionaires just well.

Speaker 10 (18:15):
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 9 (18:32):
I'm from the Bronx, not so much, but yes.

Speaker 10 (18:40):
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 only designed for oligarchs
whatever whoever they are, to make a lot of money,

(19:02):
and it's disgusting.

Speaker 9 (19:05):
Well, I have to tell you, I know a lot
more about Medicare than I do about social.

Speaker 10 (19:15):
And related as you know, of course right, unrelated at all,
but you know money goes to Medicare.

Speaker 9 (19:25):
You were talking about you were talking about people going
to the poorhouse.

Speaker 10 (19:33):
And 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 Americans senior's
still heading comes below the poverty line until Medicare came
along in nineteen sixty five, and then that lowered that
number a lot further.

Speaker 9 (19:56):
Yeah, so I'm just thinking, giving me a second here,
there used to be poor hospitals, and the poor hospitals,
which from what I've read and what I know, are

(20:18):
disgusting or we're disgusting. Yes, if if you didn't have insurance,
you were screwed. They gave you little, but at least

(20:47):
you could get a bed, right follow what I'm saying.
At least you could get a bed and see a
doctor and have a nurse taken care of you.

Speaker 10 (20:58):
There was some degree better than nothing was I think
what the reality of this was. Yeah, back in the
old days. So we 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

(21:20):
know what they're proposing to do. We've already been through
all this. It doesn't work.

Speaker 9 (21:26):
Yeah, well, and you don't even get a nice hero
from lunch, from Gwen's lunch and it.

Speaker 10 (21:35):
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, but 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 bozos on signal. I mean I'm on signal every

(21:58):
day for various people. You know this app, this encrypted
app that everybody uses. 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 9 (22:22):
It's and and and now Trump is saying, oh Pete
se segate, segue and the other and oh yeah, hanksious
and the other guy have nothing to do with uh

(22:43):
spreading information.

Speaker 10 (22:46):
Realistically interesting since he's the Secretary of Defense. This DUI higher.
You know, they've done a lot of talk about Dee
I hire as well. This was a DUI higher. You know,
the guy was completely unqualified and had a drinking problem,
you know, which I don't know. Maybe he's beaten his

(23:07):
drinking problem, but you know, not a good background for
the guy who has literally has the nuclear codes. This
is crazy stuff. And now this is the guy who's
giving operational details over signal to the entire rest of

(23:27):
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 invite Jeffrey Goldberg,
the editor in chief of The Atlantic magazine, into this chat.

(23:50):
So I don't know what anybody thinks they're doing over there,
but it is a small time operation. Other than Glenn Blunchonett,
they don't know what they're doing.

Speaker 9 (24:00):
Well, at least Gwen's lunchenet had a German Bert.

Speaker 10 (24:05):
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 9 (24:19):
I can't. I can't either, but it was. But it
was a beauty of the dog.

Speaker 10 (24:26):
Because very beautiful dug 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 Gwenn's lunchenet.
The three old question was was Gwenn's lunchenet as big
time in operation as her predecessor Murray and Al's luncheon

(24:46):
at in the same building or not? And that's a
very hard question to.

Speaker 9 (24:52):
Answer, you see, 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 10 (25:11):
They're all under assault from the Trump administration. Otherwise they
wouldn't particularly be in trouble, any of them.

Speaker 9 (25:18):
Oh, President, President Biden or President Harris would never have
done this.

Speaker 10 (25:28):
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 9 (25:50):
But that's where you get into the next problem.

Speaker 10 (25:52):
John.

Speaker 9 (25:55):
You have a decent 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 10 (26:12):
So why are people voting for Ken Calvert in within
the sound of our voices, we're this radio show goes
you know, why what because of Ken Calvert ever taken
that actually ends up doing anybody any good?

Speaker 9 (26:31):
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

(26:57):
it prevented. I can't remember his name now, the the
the Asian guy who became a congressman. You know who's
so good, Oh you mean Dave Dave Man No, in

(27:20):
the in the in the Inland.

Speaker 10 (27:24):
Empire, oh, the illand Empire. Mark his only Mark Tkanokano.
So so he went after Mark Takano because he's gay, right,
And particularly at that time, Mark Takano had no real

(27:48):
defense because he went after him because he was gay,
and people were worried about that. Then they're worried about
then idiot being in a car with a prostitute. Right.
But times have changed, and you know, I would argue

(28:10):
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 for
stuff that if you are not a fat cat, if

(28:34):
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 of these
votes are doing.

Speaker 6 (28:52):
You.

Speaker 10 (28:55):
Yeah, just don't get it. I don't know. And a
lot of these votes are based, like you say, on
cultural stuff. And you know, I don't like this. I
don't like gay people.

Speaker 9 (29:06):
I don't like but.

Speaker 10 (29:09):
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 9 (29:20):
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 10 (29:39):
Wait a minute, everything's breaking news. This could be somebody
has a hangnail. What's breaking news? Yeah, buy me a
news story that's not breaking news.

Speaker 9 (29:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (29:59):
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,

(30:21):
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

(30:42):
over your commercial and news break. If that were to happen,
it would be the first time in the ninety years
almost of Social Security's existence, that that would ever happen.
That would be a b f D, A big kind
of deal.

Speaker 9 (31:00):
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,

(31:26):
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

(31:49):
Security administration could result in benefit payments not being paid out.

Speaker 10 (31:53):
Or delays in payments. Yeah, because they have no idea
what they're doing, and they're disrupting the entire thing them
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

(32:15):
not paying attention. But 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 you know, with the with the sometimes they say
and they're getting checks, and sometimes they just imply that

(32:35):
they're getting checks, they're not getting checks.

Speaker 9 (32:40):
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KDCAA coming to you live from bwins Luncheonet with John
Bowser Bauman. We got a lot going on that we're discusting.
We've been talking about social security and Medicare. But John

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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 released to the editor.

Speaker 10 (36:24):
Of the Atlantic, this is just petrifying this entire you know,
I did make reference to it early on in this program,
but this is really petrifying. There is this everything that's
going on is petrifying in this small time operation. But
this signal chat with the entire National Security tea team

(36:52):
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, in fifteen sixteen,

(37:14):
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 investigation, and that was that was supposed to be

(37:34):
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. And

(37:55):
somehow somebody has invited Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor and from
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. Every

(38:20):
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

(38:41):
responsibility for anything, you know, always stone wall everything and
just say just blame it on something. Their messaging is
pretty funny because they're trying to make it like it's
Jeffrey Goldberg's fault from the Atlantic for listening to the.

Speaker 9 (38:59):
I love love that. I saw that from Trump earlier today.

Speaker 10 (39:07):
So 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 who's
fault it actually is.

Speaker 9 (39:24):
They wouldn't dare tell that to Gwenny. She would put
them on her behind.

Speaker 10 (39:32):
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 Hagsas and this uh giving

(39:54):
a wid yeah, go ahead, no, go ahead. 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,

(40:15):
that had 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

(40:38):
out there who was Steve Whitcoff, the guy that Trump
sends to pretend to negotiate with Vladimir Putin in Russia.
Mm hmm, you know, which is really not a negotiation.
The negotiation is we give Vladimir Putin everything he wants
and Ukraine gets nothing that they want. That's that's the compromise,

(41:03):
so it's not a real negotiation. But anyway, the Steve
Wickcoff guy is there and in Russia pretending 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

(41:27):
adversaries to unencrypt and intercept this this messaging even but
one of the people is sitting in Russia getting it.
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

(41:50):
a close race every day and every week between what's
the craziest thing that actually happened today or yesterday. This
one is certainly right up there. But previously, a couple
of days ago, probably the most psychopathic comment that maybe

(42:14):
has ever been made with regard to social security was
made by the Commerce Secretary who we haven't even discussed.
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

(42:38):
most grievously disgusting, out of touch thing that anyone has
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 her check, you know, wouldn't bother her.
She was, you know, she figures she would just figure

(43:01):
she got it next month. Well she'd get it next month. Well,
you know, Howard, I hate to break it be 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,

(43:23):
like your mother in law. She's not exactly typical forty
percent of people who are 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
meds don't get don't get picked up at the drug store.

Speaker 9 (43:48):
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. This four or five
apartments speech and between what is being between but what

(44:13):
is 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

(44:37):
give you a race. Excuse me, I have the hiccups.

Speaker 10 (44:45):
They're not You're about to have eaten ack gwnn.

Speaker 9 (44:50):
Uh, Yes, I did, and I didn't have my wi.
I didn't have my wonderful meatball sandwich that you used
to make for me.

Speaker 10 (45:00):
Not good for the digestion, you know it was. It
was tasty, but not the best for the digestive system,
but certain. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (45:09):
Anyway, well she knew how to make me a special
meat love sandwich meatballs.

Speaker 10 (45:21):
Uh, you're you're making me hungry now, Yeah, because my wife,
your your aunt, your aunt Mary, 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?

(45:43):
It's like unbelievable. And you know what the secret is. Actually,
this is a bigger, big time operation than than even
Gwenn's luncheonette. The secret is a touch of Peter Luger's
steak sauce from Brooklyn.

Speaker 9 (46:04):
I don't know anything about it, but I'm married. I'm
married smart, I'm I'm married another RN who happens to
be a four star chef.

Speaker 10 (46:16):
Yeah, definitely qualified, excellent cook without a doubt, chef. Yeah,
the chef. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (46:28):
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 mhm. And

(46:50):
it was a whole big 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,

(47:18):
if we're gonna have locks, there will be some bagels there.
If you prefer bagels, otherwise they'll be manza. You can
have it on. Let us, let us tomato. You know,
it's going to be a lovely dinner.

Speaker 10 (47:39):
Sounds wonderful, and it all sounds much better than that
terrible hard boiled egg in the salt water that you know,
and your great ant ideas to present are we still of.

Speaker 9 (47:56):
Course, we're still doing this part of the part to
the thing. And you know what sator means, right.

Speaker 10 (48:05):
Stater was another great anthet. Oh no, that was stati. Sorry,
the w Stater actually translated.

Speaker 9 (48:12):
To order.

Speaker 10 (48:16):
Order order, like order in.

Speaker 9 (48:21):
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 10 (48:36):
Yeah, that's called the sitter, much like much like your babysitter.

Speaker 9 (48:43):
Please don't remind me.

Speaker 10 (48:48):
I think we're digressing from politics here. What wasn't the
show about the uncommon sense Democrat or something? It was?

Speaker 9 (48:59):
So Now the latest is Trump has decided he's putting
twenty five terrorf on anybody who's bringing cars into the
United States.

Speaker 10 (49:12):
Oh that makes good a lot of good sense. That's
gonna be great for the economy, don't you think.

Speaker 9 (49:18):
Yeah, I think it's going to be great for the
economy because all these all these American cars are going
to sell one to three.

Speaker 10 (49:29):
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 walking around that going like, why
what happened? I didn't vote for this, I didn't vote
for any of this. What is this guy doing? What
are these people doing? Well?

Speaker 9 (49:52):
I got news for you. I don't know and guess what,
they don't know either.

Speaker 10 (49:58):
And you know what, people really hate. You know, 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. There's like South Park
had had a thinking he had a blame Canada, you know,

(50:23):
like twenty years ago or something like that, because it
was such a joke. Now now we actually hate Canada.
They hate us.

Speaker 9 (50:31):
What blame Canada?

Speaker 10 (50:36):
Blame can Why why are we 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 Greenland?

Speaker 9 (50:52):
This Potts thinks he's going to make them the fifty
first stage.

Speaker 10 (50:58):
Yes, there's a real problem with that. They don't want
to be the fifty first stake. They're a country, they
have their own national anthem. They like it. You know, the.

Speaker 9 (51:09):
Fifty first state is Puerto Rico for God's State.

Speaker 10 (51:12):
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 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,

(51:33):
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 9 (51:47):
All right, well, and also, 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 10 (52:12):
Period. 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

(52:33):
fifty first state if they actually decide that they want to.
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 you.

Speaker 9 (52:50):
I don't think Donald Trump should force anybody to do anything.

Speaker 10 (52:56):
Yeah, that's only does those try to force people to
do things.

Speaker 9 (53:00):
Well, that's because it's the only thing he knows.

Speaker 10 (53:03):
John, I've noticed, I've noticed, you know that we can
hate an elected billionaire running around breaking everything on purpose. Look, Eric,
if this election we're held today, we would win by
a lot.

Speaker 9 (53:23):
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 10 (53:35):
Oh, that was big.

Speaker 9 (53:37):
Talk about that.

Speaker 10 (53:40):
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

(54:03):
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

(54:23):
is the Wisconsin Supreme Court seat that that judge Janet
you know, held a 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 seat is
coming up, and it could go back for three the

(54:43):
other way if if somehow this turns out wrong.

Speaker 9 (54:51):
What you got, you got, you you've got, You've got
musk giving them one hundred dollars.

Speaker 10 (54:58):
Per person, right 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 where Trump and his infinite

(55:18):
lack of wisdom nabbed two people for 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

(55:39):
begin with, But at any rate, on April first, finally
the special elections for those seats are 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

(56:00):
eight percent in the or what got 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

(56:21):
vote in the other one, which was Waltz's district. The
guy who you know was on the signal chat, who's
the so called national security advisor.

Speaker 9 (56:36):
The curios know what.

Speaker 10 (56:39):
To expect from these seats. If we were to win
one of these seats, it will be an earthquake in Florida.
But you know, I wouldn't hold my breast, you know
that we're actually going to win something that's was sixty
eight percent and sixty five percent. That's like crazy. But
at least maybe we'll make a big dead And there

(57:00):
is no question. This was a very deep red Senate
seat in Pennsylvania that flipped this 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

(57:23):
the general election results in that exact Senate district. You
know that Donald Trump won that district by twenty one
point and the Democrat I believe won the state Senate
race by four, so it was twenty five point swing.
I mean this is these are good indications that the
electorate has already changed its mind about things. And we'll

(57:50):
see on April first. 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

(58:11):
longer shots, but let's see 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 social Security works. There's a national day
of action which is the theme of it is hands off.

(58:33):
So hands off our social security, hands off our medicare,
hands off our reproductive rights. You know, the fight that
women in this country have been waging that for years.
You know, we are under assault and these people better
keep their hands off. Are hard earned rights and are
hard earned gains and our hard earned benefits well.

Speaker 9 (58:58):
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 we pay.

(59:22):
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.

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