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Speaker 9 (06:27):
Welcome back to ladies and gentlemen, sir, common hosts of
The Uncommon Sense Democrat right here on NBC Radio. Case,
the AA and I Am joined today by John Bauman,
president of the Social Security Works Political Action Committee or PACK.
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I don't know if I'm having any additional guests. Instance,
right now, I can't hear. I won't know anything for
a couple of minutes. John. The latest hour crack Potch
Food and Drum has done is to end the CDC
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recommendations for COVID vaccines for healthy kiddens, kids, and pregnant women.
What is What are your thoughts about that?
Speaker 10 (07:22):
Well, I think crackpot is a pretty good word to use.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (07:29):
Obviously we're headed down a very very dark path here
in this country in every conceivable way, including our health,
everyone's else, public health. You know, I remember, I'm I'm
truly old enough to remember, and Eric, you're not quite
old enough to remember when we all lined up for
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the polio vaccine, one of the greatest lightsabers in the
history of the world. Uh. You know, it happened in
my childhood, and it was one of the words. It
was just a complete turnaround in society. I mean, my
mother and your grandmother, as I'm sure you do remember,
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was generally paranoid about how.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
Stuff to begin with.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
So you know, I never learned to swim properly because
you couldn't go in a public pool. Because you went
in a public pool, you would get polio and then
you would be crippled for life, for you and die.
And you know the reality was that was she she
was pretty far out there, but that wasn't completely crazy.
You know, this was a scourge and ever since then,
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you know my understanding of the value of vaccines and
you know this is just pure science.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
Uh is that they they got anything else? You want
to millions and millions of life right now? You know,
Oh yeah, what you guys are saying.
Speaker 10 (09:01):
Or you can't hear me, is that well actually, or
you probably can't respond to that if you can't hear me. Yeah,
I want to talk about everything.
Speaker 9 (09:12):
You know.
Speaker 10 (09:13):
Probably the thing most on my mind is the Big
Ugly Bill. I know we were going to talk about that, Eric,
so I guess I'll just keep going. But for everybody
out there, the Big Ugly Bill is really ugly. It's
pretty much as ugly as we thought it was going
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to be. They have this missnover where they're calling it
the Big Beautiful Bill, and there's nothing beautiful about it
unless you are a billionaire. If you're a billionaire. I
suppose you don't care, you know, to get nice, some
more nice tax cuts which you don't need. But one
thing I can tell you for sure, as I'm on
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here with the uncommon sense Democrat, is that the Republican
Party on the whole only agrees on one's thing. Republican
electives only agree on one's thing, and that is to
give tax cuts to their donors. That's all this is about.
It's driven by that, not driven by anything else.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
Can you hear me? Now, it's kind of like Eric.
Speaker 10 (10:25):
Chimed in with something, but I'm not sure he could
hear me. But yeah, to continue on with about the
big ugly bill, the reality of it is that the
entire thing is driven by the tax cut, and they're
going to do whatever they need to do to make
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this process of reconciliation work.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
And you don't need to.
Speaker 10 (10:49):
Understand that that well, but you do need to understand
that in reconciliation you're supposed to pay for things.
Speaker 9 (10:58):
So that's why.
Speaker 10 (10:59):
They keep trying the his schemes to try to pay
for this tax cut. In the end result, they're not
paying for it anyway. They're exploding the deficit just like
they did in Trump one point. Oh you know. Now
there's all kinds of complaining, including Elon Musk, who has
been spurned by his by his presidential lover, Donald Busk,
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Donald Busk, Donald Trump. I don't think they got married.
They they just had a marriage of convenience.
Speaker 9 (11:29):
Whoa they just wait wait wait wait wait dada divorced today.
Oh you can hear me.
Speaker 10 (11:33):
Yeah, I said he was burned by his presidential lover
Donald Trump. But I misspoken and said Donald Musk, which
I heard.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
I heard that.
Speaker 10 (11:44):
I don't think they actually got married, Derek. I think
they were just it was just a marriage of convenience.
Speaker 9 (11:50):
I don't know. A friend of mine just wrote, Jess
wrote an article.
Speaker 10 (11:55):
About the trucks, oh the trust. Yeah, well that's the
same general idea. But that Musk is that Muscus complaining
about about the deficit and the obvious deficit in this bill.
I don't know if you could hear me before, but
you know, the main point I'm making about the big
ugly bill, and that is the proper way to message it.
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It is a big ugly bill. The main point that
I'm making about it is the entire thing is just
driven by the tax cuts for Musk and the cronies
and the donors and the billionaires, and they're going to
get get it done one way or another because that's
all they care about. So if it explodes the deficit,
they'll figure out how to explode the deficit. They don't care, uh,
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you know.
Speaker 9 (12:40):
And that's why I have I have. I have never
gone in my sixty six years, I guess of the life,
I have never seen a government that cares less about
America and the American people than this. I remember. I
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remember when your father used to walk around and he
would say, it's that Lynden Behema Johnson to him about
the way ladies and gentlemen means means beast in Yiddish.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
Yeah, my parents, my parents, your grandparents. The way I
relate to this is, you know, there were huge supporters
before you were born of Adelete Stevenson, you know, who
ran in fifty two and fifty six against against Dwight D. Eisenhower,
who by today's standards would be some sort of a
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centrist Democrat, maybe even a liberal Democrat. You know.
Speaker 9 (13:41):
So I'm like, wow, what they had a problem with Eisenhower? Wait,
what if they've lived to see this guy. You should
only rain down on them. This is the most corrupt
you know.
Speaker 10 (13:59):
Look, you're talking about your sixty sixty years of life.
I don't think there's any question that in the almost
two hundred and fifty years of this country's existence, there's
never been anything like this. The corruption is so out there, blatant, ridiculous.
Look at these pardons, that's that he's handing at just
to he just hands abut to overt criminal absolute criminals,
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because they funneled him money or they're mega, they're on
his side. I like them. They're great people. Everybody's a
great person who gives them money, and everybody's a great
person who supports them.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
According to him, Well, he never said I was a
great person. That's right, because you're not a great person
because you don't support them at all. Therefore you're not
a great person. You're a terrible person. In fact, is
at the end of the show, because they might as
well just drop the whole thing right there. You could
be prosecuted for doing this radio show. Regrettably, that's probably true. Yeah,
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I could be prosecuted for being honest. But we're not
going to stop, are we. No, No, No, there's just
we can't and we shouldn't.
Speaker 10 (15:15):
And we're not.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
No, there's a big fight here that we can't. We
can't just pass. No, this is a fight for the
for our country, and it's the biggest fight for our
country probably that there's ever been. I think this, you know,
this is that stripping the Civil War in some ways.
This is you know, look, I think about this a lot.
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In the Civil War, if the seceding states had just seceded.
Speaker 10 (15:45):
Okay, they could have a rotten, miserable country with you know,
slaves and everything that they wanted, but there would still
be a United States of America. I'm not so sure
at the end of this, if we don't fight for
it properly, that there would be a United States of America.
This is a direct assault on the constitution the country.
The entire the whole mcgilla is under assault, every part
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of it, the rule of law, everything.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
So step back for a second. Think about this. You
have you have the right to free speech first Amendment
under attack from multiple sources, absolutely, no question, no question
(16:36):
about it. M there, did you did you? Did we
lose you again? Eric, he was just talking about the
right to free speech. So maybe maybe, maybe Donald Trump
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got in and cut him off. That would be interesting
piece of timing. You're back.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
It seems like the vechnicals off the puppies dot there.
Speaker 9 (17:21):
If you guys can hear me? Bill Clinton, Oh I
hear you now. I lost you for quite a while there. Well.
So I think we're under attack from so many different directions.
And the thing is, there's so many people who never
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mind that they're not aware of it. John, They won't
let the thought into their brain that this could be
what this lunatic is doing. Yeah, I know, and look
it's it's it is human nature.
Speaker 10 (18:02):
And you and I both know it that people hate
to admit when they're wrong. But these people are going
to have to admit that they're wrong pretty fast here,
that they were wrong, that they had no idea.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
You know, these people are voted. Yeah, go ahead, what
do you want to say? Well, I think we have
to figure out how do we face this year? How
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do we face what these people are willing to do,
especially when we can't figure out, except for certain echelons,
what the hell it is they want?
Speaker 10 (18:50):
You mean, the people want or the or this this
regime wants.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
The regime No, no, no.
Speaker 10 (18:56):
The reason they're easy to figure out. We know is
it's not is what they want. They want absolute power.
They wanted to create a dictatorship. They want to squelch
all descent, They want to override all the entire constitution,
really the foundations of the country, you know, free speech,
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of rule of law, the entire essence of everything this
country was built on. They would like to destroy. So
I think that's pretty apparent. The fact that too many
Americans don't seem to see it presents a big problem.
(19:40):
But you know, he's underwater in his approval. I think
the majority of the country feels this is absolutely on
the wrong track. You know, they just got to get
more vocal about it, and people are going to ultimately
have to rise up.
Speaker 9 (19:56):
Well there in life the answer. But John, you can't
rise up if you don't know what you're rising up for. Remember,
that's what they have to come around.
Speaker 10 (20:07):
But you know, as well as I do, is that
this election was lost in the middle of the electorate.
It was lost in the wishy washy people that flop
around in the middle of the electorate and go one
way or the other depending on what they perceive is
happening to them. You know, These are the people that
don't pay attention to the news. They don't listen to
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your show or particularly any other show. They went to
the store at the end of the you know, during
the Biden administration, and the reaction was, hey, you know,
I went to the store. Everything close too much. I
don't know, you know, who's a charge guy? What the guy?
Speaker 9 (20:46):
He's old? That guy? Yeah, what's the same Biden? Yeah,
he's old. Yeah, this fault, you know, So I'm gonna
vote for the other guy. He had a TV was
that guy? He had a TV show? Yeah, he said,
you're fired. Very strong guy. Although for him, well, now
they went to the store, you know, for the past
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five months, and everything's still cost to much, so that
they're already stick of that guy, as they well should be,
and all this other garbage that he's pulling on the
country will sweep in to their brains, you know, sooner
or later. It already you know, beginning to I think,
and you know that segment of the population I think
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is already going, oh, whoops. You know, maybe this didn't
really work out that well well the magic craft. But
the problem with this is you really don't know how
to judge where people, are you follow me there?
Speaker 10 (21:45):
I mean, you can only judge anecdotally, and it's just
some extent you can judge by.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
Poles which haven't been.
Speaker 10 (21:54):
You know, sometimes we hate to admit this, but the
truth is, poles haven't.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
Been that wrong. No, they really are.
Speaker 10 (22:03):
Yeah, they're really not that long, you know, this margin
of error stuff. But you know, the polls towards the
end of the twenty twenty four election, the polling was
really pretty good. You know, we kept saying, well, yeah,
I don't believe the polls because we didn't want to
believe the polls because they were showing Trump with much
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greater strength than he had any right to have. And
that turned out to be the case. And still at all,
you know, let's also say that the polls were closed and.
Speaker 9 (22:35):
The election was closed.
Speaker 10 (22:37):
There wasn't any kind of a landslide.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
It was a point and a.
Speaker 10 (22:39):
Half in the popular vote, and there was no mandate
and certainly no mandate for this. If anything, there was
an instruction to try to bring prices down, which these
tariffs and this whole set of gambits from this with
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a thick have the effect of doing the exact opposite.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
What concerns me is we do not have a system,
particularly on the democratic side. Oh there's a there's a
democratic emergency. President Biden's not feeling well today. They got
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to take him off the field, so to speak. Okay,
we don't have a system to disseminate that. All we
know is people would see that Biden wasn't on the track,
whatever the thing was, and suddenly right away they'd start
in with that it was his dementia.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
Yeah, but it wasn't. You know, the issue wasn't that.
It wasn't his dementia. The issue was that.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
Inflation is a killer problem in elections.
Speaker 10 (24:08):
I mean, it was the same way in nineteen eighty.
You know, after the Carter administration. Jimmy Carter was obviously
one of the most decent people ever to be presidents,
but an inflationary economy killed him kill you know, his presidency.
He was the best ex president probably ever. History shows
you that price is. You know, this was worldwide and
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people got drummed out worldwide. There was a different story
in every election, but generally speaking, what happened during this
time period was that people who were in power lost
and it was largely because you know, we were in
an inflationary period that probably no one could have done
anything about. The fact was that Biden and Jerome Powell, who,
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as you know, is the you know, card carrying, lifelong
rope Republican, but the old fashioned kind of Republican, not
a Maga nutcase Nolan. Yeah, like a Rockefeller Republican or
you know, even probably a little bit to the right
of Irackefeller Republicans. But they did a good job of
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landing the plane in an environment that was going to
be inflationary because we were coming out of a period,
you know, brought on by COVID where everything gets balled,
and they actually got through the horrible you know, the
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economy could have tanked completely during COVID, and Biden got
us through it, and then they landed the plane really
rather well. You know, once again, you you and I
both know that The Economist is not a far left
you know, liberal publication, and they were the ones who
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wrote the article, so it said the Biden economy was
the best economy in the world, because it was, you know.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
But.
Speaker 10 (26:09):
We filtered down to the average.
Speaker 9 (26:12):
Voter who still go into the store and go like, hey, everything,
you know, I try to buy things that everything costs
too much. So you know, I understand the point. And
you and I also both know that that Biden world
was a very closely held world. Horrified, especially towards the end.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
Yeah, well, but it always was it mattered or towards
the end, you know, towards the end was when it
really mattered. They clearly weren't letting information out, you know,
And I think to this minute, we still don't know.
And God knows, I'm never going to read the ridiculous
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Jake Tapper and cash and book, you know, because you know,
it's just disgusting to even have written it.
Speaker 9 (27:13):
But I'll tell you right now. And there was a
copy of waiting me the morning it was released, and no,
I haven't read it yet. I just skimmed it. I
think Jake Tapper had. I thought Jake Tapper had so
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much more class.
Speaker 10 (27:40):
Apparently not, let's face it, And he's been lousy for
quite a while on this stuff, you know, the whole
press right now. Look, we're in a situation where this
is the most latantly corrupt. The level of corruption in
this administration is lappable if it weren't so pathetic. And
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when does anybody ever call this guy out on us.
Speaker 9 (28:09):
Where is the press? Where is where? Where is normal.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
Journalism? Yeah, you know, I think everybody's too petrified of
losing their access, so they just you know, bought softballs
at the guy, you know, or otherwise he's going to
throw them out of the room, which is true. He
is going to throw them out of the room. That's
that's true. But you've got to still try to do
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your job. You know, this country has never been.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Faced with with this kind of uh.
Speaker 10 (28:46):
Would be dictator of a real tyrant And what he
learned from his first term pretty obvious, not hard to
Its not hard to tell what he learned from his
first term. Yeah, I had all these people around me
to stop me from, you know, doing what I actually
want to do. Never gonna have to have that happen again.
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I'm just gonna have flunkeys who kiss my big fat
tlist and I'm gonna do whatever I want.
Speaker 9 (29:14):
All right, Let me stop, let me stop, let me
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Speaker 9 (33:08):
Welcome back, radies and gentlemen. This is Eric Fouman, your
host of The Uncommon Sense Democrat. Writer. You're an NBC
Radio kcai A. Somehow my clocks decided to skip an hour?
How that happened? I don't know, but it's probably because
(33:28):
uh John Bowser Baumann jumped up and down for so
many years.
Speaker 10 (33:33):
He's a little busy, could always get the half hour.
That's even more pecure odd.
Speaker 9 (33:43):
All right, So we have an important conversation we really
never got to, which is Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security,
and you were going to give us a bit of
an update on those things to.
Speaker 10 (34:00):
The big ugly bill that we did touch on a
little bit. Yeah, does contain hundreds of billions of dollars
in Medicaid cuts. And don't let them tell you anything different.
You know, we always knew this was going to happen
that at the end of the day, they had no
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Republicans had no way out of this. Others had declaimed
that the cuts weren't cuts. So yes, they're cutting seven
hundred billion dollars out of Medicaid, and now Trump little
Johnson Mike is running around, a speaker of the House
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is running around saying, Oh, these aren't really cuts, you know,
we're just cutting waist rudden abuse. No, that's the lie.
They're lying. Nothing new there. The cuts are cuts, and
Medicaid does a lot of things that people don't realize
that it does, including on senior issues, the stuff that
I work on twenty four to seven, things like Medicaid
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pays for over a half of long term care in America.
Speaker 9 (35:09):
What does that mean?
Speaker 10 (35:10):
That means nursing homes, home care, assisted living, Most of
those things are paid for by Medicaid. And when you
talk to independents and Republicans, I have found over this
course of time that this is an epiphany for that
They really, Oh gosh, I didn't know that. Wait a second,
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my great answers. In a nursing home, you mean that's
probably being paid for by Medicaid. Yes, sixty two percent
nationally of nursing home care is paid for by Medicaid.
And by the way, if you're relative who's in a
nursing home doesn't happen to be on Medicaid, this situation
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is not going to help them that much either, because
most of the people in that nursing home are on Medicaid.
And when Medicaid gets cut to ribbons like it is
being cut to ribbons, the nursing home is not going
to be able to afford to stay open. So if
you want to be ultimately selfish and say, well, that
doesn't apply to my relatives because my relative is not
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on Medicaid. Your relative is going to be out in
the street and you're going to have to figure out
some place else to put them because the nursing home
is going to close because Elon Musk and all the
other wealthy Republican donors want a tax cuts, which is
what this is all about, full stop. It's about nothing else,
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and that's why Medicaid is being cut to ribbons. Now,
let's okay, So.
Speaker 9 (36:45):
Let's move from nursing homes to assisted living. Yeah, I
happen to stay so it's more confusing. I happen to
believe that assisted living is a good option for people
because you can get various kinds of care at the
(37:07):
level that you need, right. You know, you get your
meals prepared for you, you know, all the things that
you need to survive, not to mention somebody to serve
your medication.
Speaker 12 (37:19):
And right.
Speaker 10 (37:22):
So you can manage the in between. Nursing homes are great.
What people really want, you know, is home care, and
home care is once again, the majority of home care
is paid for by Medicaid. Right on top of that,
there's there are other aspects of this. You know, the
caregivers who give you home care are oftentimes regarded as
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not really working. So then they are going to have trouble,
you know, because oftentimes they are getting Medicaid because their
work is not really considered work America. So it's like
a quadruple whammy on everything where the entire system of
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long term care is in danger of falling apart.
Speaker 9 (38:15):
Very scary. Yeah, it's patrick and unless you're modestly wealthy, right,
there's you know, there's no none the place to go.
But speaking of which, because we've kind of skirted this,
I think most of the show What about Must going
(38:37):
after Trump today.
Speaker 10 (38:41):
I don't know we did touch on this a little
bit earlier, but I.
Speaker 9 (38:45):
Do think it's a big deal.
Speaker 10 (38:47):
You always knew, number one, You always knew that this
marriage of convenience was not going to last very long.
I don't think there was ever a question of that
because you know, right away Busk was getting way too
much attention. You know, he did his cartoon with the
chainsaw and stuff. You know, Trump must have hated that.
(39:08):
Trump pays when anybody gets gets in the news, you know,
gets their face on television besides him, Like who's this
guy or where I enabled this guy.
Speaker 9 (39:21):
This this this is a guy who could buy you
and tell you.
Speaker 10 (39:27):
And that was the whole thing, Wasn't he gave me
the money, you know, so yeah, let him do this
because he gave me all this money. But now I
don't need this money. He gave me all the money already,
So you know, who does he think? He is the
co president of the United States. So it was obvious
that this was going to dissolve, and probably rather quickly,
which is what happened. Then on top of that, those
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was a complete failure because it must, amazingly for somebody
who somehow made all this money has literally no idea
what he's doing.
Speaker 9 (39:59):
You know.
Speaker 10 (39:59):
We you know that firsthand from all this stuff at
the Social Security Administration where they just went in there
with a chainsaw, you know, with a machete and a
chainsaw and decimated the Social Security Administration. Was absolutely no results,
no return.
Speaker 9 (40:17):
You know.
Speaker 10 (40:18):
The latest tragic comic episode was they created this, they
created a phone fraud of investigation in which they they
had a unit looking for phone fraud and they investigated
(40:38):
one hundred and ten thousand incidents cases and you don't
how many, you know, many cases of phone fraud. They
actually found out of one hundred and ten thousand, two.
Speaker 9 (40:53):
Two out of one hundred and ten thousands, So then
they this is a unit. This is classica. Every time
the Republicans get investigated.
Speaker 10 (41:07):
It's just laughable if it weren't so, if you didn't
want to cry. So you know the same thing. And look,
you know the protests all over the country and the
raising of the voices and all the stuff that's gotten done,
it has gotten through to you know, I think a
great extent.
Speaker 9 (41:25):
I was going to say to some extent. I think
it's to a great extent.
Speaker 10 (41:28):
So they were going to end POE Services Social Career
Administration on April fourteenth. They never did. They were going
to close forty seven offices that they announced. You know,
they had a whole spreadsheet of the officers that they
were going to close, and they never closed them. You know,
it might still happen, but doesn't seem like it's going
to happen because there was a lot of you and
(41:50):
cry about this stuff. They did put in a new
AI system that I don't know if you saw on Jensaki.
Actually this really well, but it was originally done by
the Washington Post who had a reporter called the AI
system and just tried to say that you wanted to
(42:12):
talk to an agent because her check hadn't come. And
the run around that the AI robot gave her, you know,
even to the to the end point where we're at
one point, the robot said said, do you want to
(42:33):
call an agent? Do you want to speak to an agent?
And the reporter said yes, and the AI went back
into its speel about it had like a whole steel about,
you know, things you could contact a scal security office about.
(42:54):
It was like ridiculous. It didn't work at all and
it just was a great big waste of time on
the phone. And you know, unfortunately they're going to institute
this in all these social security offices and it doesn't work.
This was eli's great achievement, you know, was to put
a robot on the phone to answer the phone, a
(43:15):
robot that took you around in circles.
Speaker 9 (43:19):
Well, I don't know if you saw any of the language,
and I think we may be running out of time,
but now you got fifteen minutes, so okay, we're going.
I don't know whether or not people realize that Trump
(43:47):
and his pals versus this one. Musk and his pals
really never could be compatible. Let's start with Dash totally
(44:08):
agree with that. That's that's entirely true, and why this
marriage of convenience was never going to last. It entirely
separate different, completely different groups of people.
Speaker 10 (44:20):
I don't even know who any of their pals really are.
I don't really think either of them actually have pals.
They have people who spungeoss them in various ways. You know,
Musk has this has this army of muskrats who are
like twenty six years old and work and is you know,
run around in his orbit. The Captain and Senil deserve
(44:46):
a few points.
Speaker 9 (44:47):
What are you talking about? What do they have to
do with this muskrat loves?
Speaker 10 (44:56):
Oh, yeah, that's true. Got a good point. You got
a good point there. The captain and Daniel.
Speaker 9 (45:04):
You know, I.
Speaker 10 (45:05):
Remember the time when we were working on Royal Caribbean
and they got they had to be they had to
be let go because they had too big a fight.
And the captain demanded a cabin on the ship, a
cabin on the ship with a piano in it, and
they said, we're sold out. We don't have any extra cabins.
So we don't have a piano either, and then they
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they refused to perform, and that was the end of
their tenure. So there's an interesting story for here on
the uncommon sense Democrats. But you know what else we
didn't cover that we have to get to, is they
are so incomponent since we're on senior issues, the Republican
(45:47):
Party in Congress is so incompetent that not only is
it now cutting Medicaid, but it's also cutting five hundred
billion dollars out of Medicare, which hadn't even been in
the picture to begin with, Like they were not touching Medicare.
And by the way, the dictator continues to say he's
(46:08):
not going to cut Medicaid or Medicare or Social Security
or any of these things. You know, he said that
in a campaign. He said it over and over and
over again, except he's going to sign this bill that
cuts apparently Medicaid and Medicare because now there's five hundred
billion dollars in Medicare cuts that were that are occasioned
by the creation of a budget deficit that is so
(46:33):
large it triggered something called pago, meaning you have to
pay for stuff that you're doing Congress has to pay
for stuff that it's doing, and if it doesn't, and
the budget and the deficit that it creates, the budget
deficit that creates is over a certain figure Medicare cuts
(46:54):
are triggered. So now they've triggered five hundred billion dollars
in Medicare cuts, Thank you very much. And it's another
thing to yell and scream and call your congressman about,
especially if you're a member of Congress is a Republican,
because every single one of them in the House voted
for this piece of trash except for except for three
(47:15):
who didn't think it was trashy enough.
Speaker 9 (47:19):
Well, I want to I want to say. I want
to say this. People should think about who they're voting
for and how they have voted on certain key things.
You know what. So if you don't like how they
voted on I don't know, some environmental built Okay, note it,
(47:43):
move on. But now we're talking about real business, talking about.
Speaker 10 (47:52):
Kitchen table issues for every American, whether you're a Democrat
or a Republican or an independent. Kitchen table issues, social
secure any Medicare, Medicaid drug prices, real kitchen table issues,
to say nothing of the tariffs, which are kitchen table
issues for people of all ages. I mean, honestly, the
(48:14):
first ones I cent are for people of all ages too,
because you all pay into the system regardless of what
age you are, and these retirement security issue, retirement security
has got to be there for you, that's why you're
paying into the system. So so called senior issues actually
affect everybody, But the terifts are going to affect everybody
(48:38):
in the immediacy, younger people because you know, the boys
for Christmas, they're going to cost more money because they're
all made in China. I mean, who is anybody trying
to kid here?
Speaker 9 (48:49):
You know, I thought one of their key rules underneath this,
for lack of a better word, was that it all
had to be made in America, or at least made
with American stuff. But that clearly doesn't seem to be
the case.
Speaker 10 (49:11):
The number one thing about that, I mean, that's it's
not a bad long term, very long term goal to
bring some you know, certain parts of manufacturing. I mean,
Trump is so ridiculous because he's just transactional. So if
somebody says to him, hey, that doesn't work for me,
(49:31):
but but I'll give you, I'll give you a million
dollars and please change it. Then it'll go like, oh yeah, fine,
I'll just change it. So there's no real principle behind
any of this.
Speaker 9 (49:43):
But the idea to.
Speaker 10 (49:45):
Bring some manufacturing back to America, it's a very nice idea,
but it's not going to happen overnight. And this is
exactly the wrong way to go about it. If you
wanted to do targeted terror to try to move certain
segments of the of the economy back here from China,
(50:09):
let's say that's not crazy. I mean the Biden administration
did that too, you know, and actually have some success
with manufacturing coming back to the US over a longer,
over a period of the entire administration. But you can't
do it this way with where it's just blanket terriffs
on everything and everybody and there's no reason for it,
(50:32):
and nobody knows what to expect.
Speaker 9 (50:34):
But the difference is a normal person doesn't do everything
they do by trying to prove that their cohonas are
bigger than yours. Right, that's the.
Speaker 10 (50:50):
Truest thing of all. That's what all of this is about,
is let me show you what a big dictator I am.
Let me show you what a big dick. Probably makes
the point. It's a little better pull the new delivery,
you know.
Speaker 9 (51:07):
Yeah, I think so she was, well, you know, I
mean I don't have kids. You have grandkids, yeah, Michael
Blitz said, Michael Michael Blitz says, grand kids. You know, yep,
(51:36):
So you've got to be worried about them, because while
you know, you and I we've been around enough. You know,
we could go for.
Speaker 10 (51:48):
A while, right not to break good run here the grandkids,
you know, are just starting. Look project twenty let's let's
go to the future. And what I would say is
project twenty twenty six is to flip the House of Representatives.
(52:10):
We should be laser focused on that. I do believe that.
I believe the entire time that Donald Trump had eighteen
months from January twentieth when he was inaugurated, to try
to destroy the institutions of the United States of America.
He's doing a pretty good job of it, but he's
not really succeeding. People are rising up his numbers. His
(52:34):
poll numbers are well underwater, and they're only going to
get worse. The next thing that has to happen that
we really do have control of, as the people is
to flip the House and make sure no bad legislation
gets done in his last two years. I honestly think
the only thing they're going to get done in these
(52:56):
first two years legislatively is some version of the Big
Ugly Bill. We should still try to stop that, and
people should call their reps and their senators and complain
about what's in the Big Ugly Bill. But I do
believe they're so driven to get the tax cut path
for their donors that some version of it is going
(53:19):
to get through, hopefully the worst version of it.
Speaker 9 (53:24):
So this is what I wanted. This is what I
wanted to say to people. If you get an instruction
on this show, on a podcast, on a different radio show,
and they say to you call your legislators, call your congressmen.
(53:46):
Before you call them, looks their record up, because what
ends up happening is we say, you know, go call
your congressman, and so I look up, who is my congressman,
Brad Sherman. Do you seriously think I need to annoy
(54:08):
Brad Sherman to find out how he voted on something?
Speaker 3 (54:13):
No?
Speaker 10 (54:14):
No, well you know how he voted on this anyway,
But it does it's not like it hurts for people
to call, even Democrats, just to make sure that they
know that their constituents are paying attention and that this
is what they want, and you know, call and complain
about Republicans. It doesn't It's obviously more impactful and more
(54:36):
important if you are in a Republican district. Like your
show that we're on goes out, we know, into the
Inland Empire, and you guys have Ken Calvert, and Ken
Calvert has voted voted yes on the Big Ugly Bill.
Ken Calvert has voted to cut Medicaid to ribbon, cut
(55:02):
medicare too on top of it and take away snap benefits,
you know, nutritional assistance for children. And if you believe
that this is a good thing to vote for, there's
really something wrong with you. So call Ken Calvert and
pound on his phone and tell him that we will
(55:25):
have his seat politely in twenty twenty six if he
votes for this again when it comes back to him
from the Senate, because it's going to be changed. And honestly,
I think it was pretty remarkable that none of the
so called moderate Republicans who signed a letter saying that
they could not support any Medicaid cuts. Every one of
(55:48):
them voted for all these medicaid cuts. And by the way,
Ken Calvert didn't sign that letter because he doesn't even
really pretend to be a moderate Republican, even though he's
in a very swing district. Right, You've got Riverside County.
You know it's come on, guys, this is uh pound
(56:11):
him on the phone, and it's I think it's worth saying,
pound your congressman, just to make sure that your listeners
pound on Ken Calvert's Both the phone calls are really
annoying to the staff. They have to log every one
of them with your constituent, So do it.
Speaker 12 (56:28):
Right.
Speaker 9 (56:29):
Well, So General Court has wait a second stricken down
many of the tariffs imposed by Trump.
Speaker 10 (56:46):
And ruled the relief good. But you got to see
what the Supreme Court is going to do, of course,
because he'll get it there. You know, he'll get all
these things there. The lower courts have been really quite
good on everything.
Speaker 9 (57:03):
Yep, there has.
Speaker 10 (57:04):
There hasn't been much that is that the regime has
gotten through the lower courts. But of course telope a
all the way to the to the the court that
they Mitch McConnell must be so miserable right now. I
can't even believe I'm sort of feeling sorry for Mitch
McConnell's because after Mitch McConnell's stole, you know, two seats
(57:26):
on the Spreme Court, thinking that this was the greatest
achievement of his life, and he has a conservative court,
and now that now the Court is like in the
position of being able to rubber stamp the end of
the Americans, the end of American democracy, which I do
not think Mitch McConnell was actually in favor of.
Speaker 9 (57:47):
Yeah, I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't think
so either. Yeah, I don't think so, ladies and gentlemen.
We've got a lot of work ahead of us this
next I don't know, not two years, but we have
to effected it's three and a half years. Yeah. Well, no,
(58:08):
we got to get through twenty sixth election.
Speaker 10 (58:12):
Yeah, well, it's for the twenty sixth election. Honestly, it's
another year before we're going to be in the midterms.
So when you take it, I think it's smarter for
people to take it. I take it in these smaller increments, right,
just go like, Okay, we've got to get through this
first eighteen months and we've gotten through almost six of
them already, and then we're going to be in the
(58:34):
midterms and then everything's going to be sold. You know,
he's still going to spew out executive orders, we know that,
and the courts are going to have to stop them,
stop him on that stuff. But legislatively, I think then
we're will be able to stop him by having a
twenty twenty six that's kind of like twenty eighteen was.
Speaker 9 (58:54):
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Welcome back to ladies and gentlemen, sir, common hosts of
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I don't know if I'm having any additional guests. Instance,
right now, I can't hear. I won't know anything for
a couple of minutes. John. The latest hour crack Potch
Food and Drum has done is to end the CDC
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What is What are your thoughts about that?
Speaker 10 (07:22):
Well, I think crackpot is a pretty good word to use.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (07:29):
Obviously we're headed down a very very dark path here
in this country in every conceivable way, including our health,
everyone's else, public health. You know, I remember, I'm I'm
truly old enough to remember, and Eric, you're not quite
old enough to remember when we all lined up for
(07:51):
the polio vaccine, one of the greatest lightsabers in the
history of the world. Uh. You know, it happened in
my childhood, and it was one of the words. It
was just a complete turnaround in society. I mean, my
mother and your grandmother, as I'm sure you do remember,
(08:15):
was generally paranoid about how.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
Stuff to begin with.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
So you know, I never learned to swim properly because
you couldn't go in a public pool. Because you went
in a public pool, you would get polio and then
you would be crippled for life, for you and die.
And you know the reality was that was she she
was pretty far out there, but that wasn't completely crazy.
You know, this was a scourge and ever since then,
(08:41):
you know my understanding of the value of vaccines and
you know this is just pure science.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
Uh is that they they got anything else? You want
to millions and millions of life right now? You know,
Oh yeah, what you guys are saying.
Speaker 10 (09:01):
Or you can't hear me, is that well actually, or
you probably can't respond to that if you can't hear me. Yeah,
I want to talk about everything.
Speaker 9 (09:12):
You know.
Speaker 10 (09:13):
Probably the thing most on my mind is the Big
Ugly Bill. I know we were going to talk about that, Eric,
so I guess I'll just keep going. But for everybody
out there, the Big Ugly Bill is really ugly. It's
pretty much as ugly as we thought it was going
(09:33):
to be. They have this missnover where they're calling it
the Big Beautiful Bill, and there's nothing beautiful about it
unless you are a billionaire. If you're a billionaire. I
suppose you don't care, you know, to get nice, some
more nice tax cuts which you don't need. But one
thing I can tell you for sure, as I'm on
(09:54):
here with the uncommon sense Democrat, is that the Republican
Party on the whole only agrees on one's thing. Republican
electives only agree on one's thing, and that is to
give tax cuts to their donors. That's all this is about.
It's driven by that, not driven by anything else.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
Can you hear me? Now, it's kind of like Eric.
Speaker 10 (10:25):
Chimed in with something, but I'm not sure he could
hear me. But yeah, to continue on with about the
big ugly bill, the reality of it is that the
entire thing is driven by the tax cut, and they're
going to do whatever they need to do to make
(10:45):
this process of reconciliation work.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
And you don't need to.
Speaker 10 (10:49):
Understand that that well, but you do need to understand
that in reconciliation you're supposed to pay for things.
Speaker 9 (10:58):
So that's why.
Speaker 10 (10:59):
They keep trying the his schemes to try to pay
for this tax cut. In the end result, they're not
paying for it anyway. They're exploding the deficit just like
they did in Trump one point. Oh you know. Now
there's all kinds of complaining, including Elon Musk, who has
been spurned by his by his presidential lover, Donald Busk,
(11:20):
Donald Busk, Donald Trump. I don't think they got married.
They they just had a marriage of convenience.
Speaker 9 (11:29):
Whoa they just wait wait wait wait wait dada divorced today.
Oh you can hear me.
Speaker 10 (11:33):
Yeah, I said he was burned by his presidential lover
Donald Trump. But I misspoken and said Donald Musk, which
I heard.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
I heard that.
Speaker 10 (11:44):
I don't think they actually got married, Derek. I think
they were just it was just a marriage of convenience.
Speaker 9 (11:50):
I don't know. A friend of mine just wrote, Jess
wrote an article.
Speaker 10 (11:55):
About the trucks, oh the trust. Yeah, well that's the
same general idea. But that Musk is that Muscus complaining
about about the deficit and the obvious deficit in this bill.
I don't know if you could hear me before, but
you know, the main point I'm making about the big
ugly bill, and that is the proper way to message it.
(12:16):
It is a big ugly bill. The main point that
I'm making about it is the entire thing is just
driven by the tax cuts for Musk and the cronies
and the donors and the billionaires, and they're going to
get get it done one way or another because that's
all they care about. So if it explodes the deficit,
they'll figure out how to explode the deficit. They don't care, uh,
(12:40):
you know.
Speaker 9 (12:40):
And that's why I have I have. I have never
gone in my sixty six years, I guess of the life,
I have never seen a government that cares less about
America and the American people than this. I remember. I
(13:01):
remember when your father used to walk around and he
would say, it's that Lynden Behema Johnson to him about
the way ladies and gentlemen means means beast in Yiddish.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
Yeah, my parents, my parents, your grandparents. The way I
relate to this is, you know, there were huge supporters
before you were born of Adelete Stevenson, you know, who
ran in fifty two and fifty six against against Dwight D. Eisenhower,
who by today's standards would be some sort of a
(13:37):
centrist Democrat, maybe even a liberal Democrat. You know.
Speaker 9 (13:41):
So I'm like, wow, what they had a problem with Eisenhower? Wait,
what if they've lived to see this guy. You should
only rain down on them. This is the most corrupt
you know.
Speaker 10 (13:59):
Look, you're talking about your sixty sixty years of life.
I don't think there's any question that in the almost
two hundred and fifty years of this country's existence, there's
never been anything like this. The corruption is so out there, blatant, ridiculous.
Look at these pardons, that's that he's handing at just
to he just hands abut to overt criminal absolute criminals,
(14:23):
because they funneled him money or they're mega, they're on
his side. I like them. They're great people. Everybody's a
great person who gives them money, and everybody's a great
person who supports them.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
According to him, Well, he never said I was a
great person. That's right, because you're not a great person
because you don't support them at all. Therefore you're not
a great person. You're a terrible person. In fact, is
at the end of the show, because they might as
well just drop the whole thing right there. You could
be prosecuted for doing this radio show. Regrettably, that's probably true. Yeah,
(15:02):
I could be prosecuted for being honest. But we're not
going to stop, are we. No, No, No, there's just
we can't and we shouldn't.
Speaker 10 (15:15):
And we're not.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
No, there's a big fight here that we can't. We
can't just pass. No, this is a fight for the
for our country, and it's the biggest fight for our
country probably that there's ever been. I think this, you know,
this is that stripping the Civil War in some ways.
This is you know, look, I think about this a lot.
(15:39):
In the Civil War, if the seceding states had just seceded.
Speaker 10 (15:45):
Okay, they could have a rotten, miserable country with you know,
slaves and everything that they wanted, but there would still
be a United States of America. I'm not so sure
at the end of this, if we don't fight for
it properly, that there would be a United States of America.
This is a direct assault on the constitution the country.
The entire the whole mcgilla is under assault, every part
(16:10):
of it, the rule of law, everything.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
So step back for a second. Think about this. You
have you have the right to free speech first Amendment
under attack from multiple sources, absolutely, no question, no question
(16:36):
about it. M there, did you did you? Did we
lose you again? Eric, he was just talking about the
right to free speech. So maybe maybe, maybe Donald Trump
(16:56):
got in and cut him off. That would be interesting
piece of timing. You're back.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
It seems like the vechnicals off the puppies dot there.
Speaker 9 (17:21):
If you guys can hear me? Bill Clinton, Oh I
hear you now. I lost you for quite a while there. Well.
So I think we're under attack from so many different directions.
And the thing is, there's so many people who never
(17:45):
mind that they're not aware of it. John, They won't
let the thought into their brain that this could be
what this lunatic is doing. Yeah, I know, and look
it's it's it is human nature.
Speaker 10 (18:02):
And you and I both know it that people hate
to admit when they're wrong. But these people are going
to have to admit that they're wrong pretty fast here,
that they were wrong, that they had no idea.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
You know, these people are voted. Yeah, go ahead, what
do you want to say? Well, I think we have
to figure out how do we face this year? How
(18:35):
do we face what these people are willing to do,
especially when we can't figure out, except for certain echelons,
what the hell it is they want?
Speaker 10 (18:50):
You mean, the people want or the or this this
regime wants.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
The regime No, no, no.
Speaker 10 (18:56):
The reason they're easy to figure out. We know is
it's not is what they want. They want absolute power.
They wanted to create a dictatorship. They want to squelch
all descent, They want to override all the entire constitution,
really the foundations of the country, you know, free speech,
(19:17):
of rule of law, the entire essence of everything this
country was built on. They would like to destroy. So
I think that's pretty apparent. The fact that too many
Americans don't seem to see it presents a big problem.
(19:40):
But you know, he's underwater in his approval. I think
the majority of the country feels this is absolutely on
the wrong track. You know, they just got to get
more vocal about it, and people are going to ultimately
have to rise up.
Speaker 9 (19:56):
Well there in life the answer. But John, you can't
rise up if you don't know what you're rising up for. Remember,
that's what they have to come around.
Speaker 10 (20:07):
But you know, as well as I do, is that
this election was lost in the middle of the electorate.
It was lost in the wishy washy people that flop
around in the middle of the electorate and go one
way or the other depending on what they perceive is
happening to them. You know, These are the people that
don't pay attention to the news. They don't listen to
(20:28):
your show or particularly any other show. They went to
the store at the end of the you know, during
the Biden administration, and the reaction was, hey, you know,
I went to the store. Everything close too much. I
don't know, you know, who's a charge guy? What the guy?
Speaker 9 (20:46):
He's old? That guy? Yeah, what's the same Biden? Yeah,
he's old. Yeah, this fault, you know, So I'm gonna
vote for the other guy. He had a TV was
that guy? He had a TV show? Yeah, he said,
you're fired. Very strong guy. Although for him, well, now
they went to the store, you know, for the past
(21:07):
five months, and everything's still cost to much, so that
they're already stick of that guy, as they well should be,
and all this other garbage that he's pulling on the
country will sweep in to their brains, you know, sooner
or later. It already you know, beginning to I think,
and you know that segment of the population I think
(21:30):
is already going, oh, whoops. You know, maybe this didn't
really work out that well well the magic craft. But
the problem with this is you really don't know how
to judge where people, are you follow me there?
Speaker 10 (21:45):
I mean, you can only judge anecdotally, and it's just
some extent you can judge by.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
Poles which haven't been.
Speaker 10 (21:54):
You know, sometimes we hate to admit this, but the
truth is, poles haven't.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
Been that wrong. No, they really are.
Speaker 10 (22:03):
Yeah, they're really not that long, you know, this margin
of error stuff. But you know, the polls towards the
end of the twenty twenty four election, the polling was
really pretty good. You know, we kept saying, well, yeah,
I don't believe the polls because we didn't want to
believe the polls because they were showing Trump with much
(22:24):
greater strength than he had any right to have. And
that turned out to be the case. And still at all,
you know, let's also say that the polls were closed and.
Speaker 9 (22:35):
The election was closed.
Speaker 10 (22:37):
There wasn't any kind of a landslide.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
It was a point and a.
Speaker 10 (22:39):
Half in the popular vote, and there was no mandate
and certainly no mandate for this. If anything, there was
an instruction to try to bring prices down, which these
tariffs and this whole set of gambits from this with
(23:00):
a thick have the effect of doing the exact opposite.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
What concerns me is we do not have a system,
particularly on the democratic side. Oh there's a there's a
democratic emergency. President Biden's not feeling well today. They got
(23:28):
to take him off the field, so to speak. Okay,
we don't have a system to disseminate that. All we
know is people would see that Biden wasn't on the track,
whatever the thing was, and suddenly right away they'd start
in with that it was his dementia.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
Yeah, but it wasn't. You know, the issue wasn't that.
It wasn't his dementia. The issue was that.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
Inflation is a killer problem in elections.
Speaker 10 (24:08):
I mean, it was the same way in nineteen eighty.
You know, after the Carter administration. Jimmy Carter was obviously
one of the most decent people ever to be presidents,
but an inflationary economy killed him kill you know, his presidency.
He was the best ex president probably ever. History shows
you that price is. You know, this was worldwide and
(24:32):
people got drummed out worldwide. There was a different story
in every election, but generally speaking, what happened during this
time period was that people who were in power lost
and it was largely because you know, we were in
an inflationary period that probably no one could have done
anything about. The fact was that Biden and Jerome Powell, who,
(24:56):
as you know, is the you know, card carrying, lifelong
rope Republican, but the old fashioned kind of Republican, not
a Maga nutcase Nolan. Yeah, like a Rockefeller Republican or
you know, even probably a little bit to the right
of Irackefeller Republicans. But they did a good job of
(25:16):
landing the plane in an environment that was going to
be inflationary because we were coming out of a period,
you know, brought on by COVID where everything gets balled,
and they actually got through the horrible you know, the
(25:38):
economy could have tanked completely during COVID, and Biden got
us through it, and then they landed the plane really
rather well. You know, once again, you you and I
both know that The Economist is not a far left
you know, liberal publication, and they were the ones who
(25:59):
wrote the article, so it said the Biden economy was
the best economy in the world, because it was, you know.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
But.
Speaker 10 (26:09):
We filtered down to the average.
Speaker 9 (26:12):
Voter who still go into the store and go like, hey, everything,
you know, I try to buy things that everything costs
too much. So you know, I understand the point. And
you and I also both know that that Biden world
was a very closely held world. Horrified, especially towards the end.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
Yeah, well, but it always was it mattered or towards
the end, you know, towards the end was when it
really mattered. They clearly weren't letting information out, you know,
And I think to this minute, we still don't know.
And God knows, I'm never going to read the ridiculous
(27:02):
Jake Tapper and cash and book, you know, because you know,
it's just disgusting to even have written it.
Speaker 9 (27:13):
But I'll tell you right now. And there was a
copy of waiting me the morning it was released, and no,
I haven't read it yet. I just skimmed it. I
think Jake Tapper had. I thought Jake Tapper had so
(27:36):
much more class.
Speaker 10 (27:40):
Apparently not, let's face it, And he's been lousy for
quite a while on this stuff, you know, the whole
press right now. Look, we're in a situation where this
is the most latantly corrupt. The level of corruption in
this administration is lappable if it weren't so pathetic. And
(28:03):
when does anybody ever call this guy out on us.
Speaker 9 (28:09):
Where is the press? Where is where? Where is normal.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
Journalism? Yeah, you know, I think everybody's too petrified of
losing their access, so they just you know, bought softballs
at the guy, you know, or otherwise he's going to
throw them out of the room, which is true. He
is going to throw them out of the room. That's
that's true. But you've got to still try to do
(28:37):
your job. You know, this country has never been.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Faced with with this kind of uh.
Speaker 10 (28:46):
Would be dictator of a real tyrant And what he
learned from his first term pretty obvious, not hard to
Its not hard to tell what he learned from his
first term. Yeah, I had all these people around me
to stop me from, you know, doing what I actually
want to do. Never gonna have to have that happen again.
(29:08):
I'm just gonna have flunkeys who kiss my big fat
tlist and I'm gonna do whatever I want.
Speaker 9 (29:14):
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Welcome back, radies and gentlemen. This is Eric Fouman, your
host of The Uncommon Sense Democrat. Writer. You're an NBC
Radio kcai A. Somehow my clocks decided to skip an hour?
How that happened? I don't know, but it's probably because
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many years.
Speaker 10 (33:33):
He's a little busy, could always get the half hour.
That's even more pecure odd.
Speaker 9 (33:43):
All right, So we have an important conversation we really
never got to, which is Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security,
and you were going to give us a bit of
an update on those things to.
Speaker 10 (34:00):
The big ugly bill that we did touch on a
little bit. Yeah, does contain hundreds of billions of dollars
in Medicaid cuts. And don't let them tell you anything different.
You know, we always knew this was going to happen
that at the end of the day, they had no
(34:21):
Republicans had no way out of this. Others had declaimed
that the cuts weren't cuts. So yes, they're cutting seven
hundred billion dollars out of Medicaid, and now Trump little
Johnson Mike is running around, a speaker of the House
(34:42):
is running around saying, Oh, these aren't really cuts, you know,
we're just cutting waist rudden abuse. No, that's the lie.
They're lying. Nothing new there. The cuts are cuts, and
Medicaid does a lot of things that people don't realize
that it does, including on senior issues, the stuff that
I work on twenty four to seven, things like Medicaid
(35:03):
pays for over a half of long term care in America.
Speaker 9 (35:09):
What does that mean?
Speaker 10 (35:10):
That means nursing homes, home care, assisted living, Most of
those things are paid for by Medicaid. And when you
talk to independents and Republicans, I have found over this
course of time that this is an epiphany for that
They really, Oh gosh, I didn't know that. Wait a second,
(35:32):
my great answers. In a nursing home, you mean that's
probably being paid for by Medicaid. Yes, sixty two percent
nationally of nursing home care is paid for by Medicaid.
And by the way, if you're relative who's in a
nursing home doesn't happen to be on Medicaid, this situation
(35:54):
is not going to help them that much either, because
most of the people in that nursing home are on Medicaid.
And when Medicaid gets cut to ribbons like it is
being cut to ribbons, the nursing home is not going
to be able to afford to stay open. So if
you want to be ultimately selfish and say, well, that
doesn't apply to my relatives because my relative is not
(36:17):
on Medicaid. Your relative is going to be out in
the street and you're going to have to figure out
some place else to put them because the nursing home
is going to close because Elon Musk and all the
other wealthy Republican donors want a tax cuts, which is
what this is all about, full stop. It's about nothing else,
(36:38):
and that's why Medicaid is being cut to ribbons. Now,
let's okay, So.
Speaker 9 (36:45):
Let's move from nursing homes to assisted living. Yeah, I
happen to stay so it's more confusing. I happen to
believe that assisted living is a good option for people
because you can get various kinds of care at the
(37:07):
level that you need, right. You know, you get your
meals prepared for you, you know, all the things that
you need to survive, not to mention somebody to serve
your medication.
Speaker 12 (37:19):
And right.
Speaker 10 (37:22):
So you can manage the in between. Nursing homes are great.
What people really want, you know, is home care, and
home care is once again, the majority of home care
is paid for by Medicaid. Right on top of that,
there's there are other aspects of this. You know, the
caregivers who give you home care are oftentimes regarded as
(37:46):
not really working. So then they are going to have trouble,
you know, because oftentimes they are getting Medicaid because their
work is not really considered work America. So it's like
a quadruple whammy on everything where the entire system of
(38:07):
long term care is in danger of falling apart.
Speaker 9 (38:15):
Very scary. Yeah, it's patrick and unless you're modestly wealthy, right,
there's you know, there's no none the place to go.
But speaking of which, because we've kind of skirted this,
I think most of the show What about Must going
(38:37):
after Trump today.
Speaker 10 (38:41):
I don't know we did touch on this a little
bit earlier, but I.
Speaker 9 (38:45):
Do think it's a big deal.
Speaker 10 (38:47):
You always knew, number one, You always knew that this
marriage of convenience was not going to last very long.
I don't think there was ever a question of that
because you know, right away Busk was getting way too
much attention. You know, he did his cartoon with the
chainsaw and stuff. You know, Trump must have hated that.
(39:08):
Trump pays when anybody gets gets in the news, you know,
gets their face on television besides him, Like who's this
guy or where I enabled this guy.
Speaker 9 (39:21):
This this this is a guy who could buy you
and tell you.
Speaker 10 (39:27):
And that was the whole thing, Wasn't he gave me
the money, you know, so yeah, let him do this
because he gave me all this money. But now I
don't need this money. He gave me all the money already,
So you know, who does he think? He is the
co president of the United States. So it was obvious
that this was going to dissolve, and probably rather quickly,
which is what happened. Then on top of that, those
(39:50):
was a complete failure because it must, amazingly for somebody
who somehow made all this money has literally no idea
what he's doing.
Speaker 9 (39:59):
You know.
Speaker 10 (39:59):
We you know that firsthand from all this stuff at
the Social Security Administration where they just went in there
with a chainsaw, you know, with a machete and a
chainsaw and decimated the Social Security Administration. Was absolutely no results,
no return.
Speaker 9 (40:17):
You know.
Speaker 10 (40:18):
The latest tragic comic episode was they created this, they
created a phone fraud of investigation in which they they
had a unit looking for phone fraud and they investigated
(40:38):
one hundred and ten thousand incidents cases and you don't
how many, you know, many cases of phone fraud. They
actually found out of one hundred and ten thousand, two.
Speaker 9 (40:53):
Two out of one hundred and ten thousands, So then
they this is a unit. This is classica. Every time
the Republicans get investigated.
Speaker 10 (41:07):
It's just laughable if it weren't so, if you didn't
want to cry. So you know the same thing. And look,
you know the protests all over the country and the
raising of the voices and all the stuff that's gotten done,
it has gotten through to you know, I think a
great extent.
Speaker 9 (41:25):
I was going to say to some extent. I think
it's to a great extent.
Speaker 10 (41:28):
So they were going to end POE Services Social Career
Administration on April fourteenth. They never did. They were going
to close forty seven offices that they announced. You know,
they had a whole spreadsheet of the officers that they
were going to close, and they never closed them. You know,
it might still happen, but doesn't seem like it's going
to happen because there was a lot of you and
(41:50):
cry about this stuff. They did put in a new
AI system that I don't know if you saw on Jensaki.
Actually this really well, but it was originally done by
the Washington Post who had a reporter called the AI
system and just tried to say that you wanted to
(42:12):
talk to an agent because her check hadn't come. And
the run around that the AI robot gave her, you know,
even to the to the end point where we're at
one point, the robot said said, do you want to
(42:33):
call an agent? Do you want to speak to an agent?
And the reporter said yes, and the AI went back
into its speel about it had like a whole steel about,
you know, things you could contact a scal security office about.
(42:54):
It was like ridiculous. It didn't work at all and
it just was a great big waste of time on
the phone. And you know, unfortunately they're going to institute
this in all these social security offices and it doesn't work.
This was eli's great achievement, you know, was to put
a robot on the phone to answer the phone, a
(43:15):
robot that took you around in circles.
Speaker 9 (43:19):
Well, I don't know if you saw any of the language,
and I think we may be running out of time,
but now you got fifteen minutes, so okay, we're going.
I don't know whether or not people realize that Trump
(43:47):
and his pals versus this one. Musk and his pals
really never could be compatible. Let's start with Dash totally
(44:08):
agree with that. That's that's entirely true, and why this
marriage of convenience was never going to last. It entirely
separate different, completely different groups of people.
Speaker 10 (44:20):
I don't even know who any of their pals really are.
I don't really think either of them actually have pals.
They have people who spungeoss them in various ways. You know,
Musk has this has this army of muskrats who are
like twenty six years old and work and is you know,
run around in his orbit. The Captain and Senil deserve
(44:46):
a few points.
Speaker 9 (44:47):
What are you talking about? What do they have to
do with this muskrat loves?
Speaker 10 (44:56):
Oh, yeah, that's true. Got a good point. You got
a good point there. The captain and Daniel.
Speaker 9 (45:04):
You know, I.
Speaker 10 (45:05):
Remember the time when we were working on Royal Caribbean
and they got they had to be they had to
be let go because they had too big a fight.
And the captain demanded a cabin on the ship, a
cabin on the ship with a piano in it, and
they said, we're sold out. We don't have any extra cabins.
So we don't have a piano either, and then they
(45:27):
they refused to perform, and that was the end of
their tenure. So there's an interesting story for here on
the uncommon sense Democrats. But you know what else we
didn't cover that we have to get to, is they
are so incomponent since we're on senior issues, the Republican
(45:47):
Party in Congress is so incompetent that not only is
it now cutting Medicaid, but it's also cutting five hundred
billion dollars out of Medicare, which hadn't even been in
the picture to begin with, Like they were not touching Medicare.
And by the way, the dictator continues to say he's
(46:08):
not going to cut Medicaid or Medicare or Social Security
or any of these things. You know, he said that
in a campaign. He said it over and over and
over again, except he's going to sign this bill that
cuts apparently Medicaid and Medicare because now there's five hundred
billion dollars in Medicare cuts that were that are occasioned
by the creation of a budget deficit that is so
(46:33):
large it triggered something called pago, meaning you have to
pay for stuff that you're doing Congress has to pay
for stuff that it's doing, and if it doesn't, and
the budget and the deficit that it creates, the budget
deficit that creates is over a certain figure Medicare cuts
(46:54):
are triggered. So now they've triggered five hundred billion dollars
in Medicare cuts, Thank you very much. And it's another
thing to yell and scream and call your congressman about,
especially if you're a member of Congress is a Republican,
because every single one of them in the House voted
for this piece of trash except for except for three
(47:15):
who didn't think it was trashy enough.
Speaker 9 (47:19):
Well, I want to I want to say. I want
to say this. People should think about who they're voting
for and how they have voted on certain key things.
You know what. So if you don't like how they
voted on I don't know, some environmental built Okay, note it,
(47:43):
move on. But now we're talking about real business, talking about.
Speaker 10 (47:52):
Kitchen table issues for every American, whether you're a Democrat
or a Republican or an independent. Kitchen table issues, social
secure any Medicare, Medicaid drug prices, real kitchen table issues,
to say nothing of the tariffs, which are kitchen table
issues for people of all ages. I mean, honestly, the
(48:14):
first ones I cent are for people of all ages too,
because you all pay into the system regardless of what
age you are, and these retirement security issue, retirement security
has got to be there for you, that's why you're
paying into the system. So so called senior issues actually
affect everybody, But the terifts are going to affect everybody
(48:38):
in the immediacy, younger people because you know, the boys
for Christmas, they're going to cost more money because they're
all made in China. I mean, who is anybody trying
to kid here?
Speaker 9 (48:49):
You know, I thought one of their key rules underneath this,
for lack of a better word, was that it all
had to be made in America, or at least made
with American stuff. But that clearly doesn't seem to be
the case.
Speaker 10 (49:11):
The number one thing about that, I mean, that's it's
not a bad long term, very long term goal to
bring some you know, certain parts of manufacturing. I mean,
Trump is so ridiculous because he's just transactional. So if
somebody says to him, hey, that doesn't work for me,
(49:31):
but but I'll give you, I'll give you a million
dollars and please change it. Then it'll go like, oh yeah, fine,
I'll just change it. So there's no real principle behind
any of this.
Speaker 9 (49:43):
But the idea to.
Speaker 10 (49:45):
Bring some manufacturing back to America, it's a very nice idea,
but it's not going to happen overnight. And this is
exactly the wrong way to go about it. If you
wanted to do targeted terror to try to move certain
segments of the of the economy back here from China,
(50:09):
let's say that's not crazy. I mean the Biden administration
did that too, you know, and actually have some success
with manufacturing coming back to the US over a longer,
over a period of the entire administration. But you can't
do it this way with where it's just blanket terriffs
on everything and everybody and there's no reason for it,
(50:32):
and nobody knows what to expect.
Speaker 9 (50:34):
But the difference is a normal person doesn't do everything
they do by trying to prove that their cohonas are
bigger than yours. Right, that's the.
Speaker 10 (50:50):
Truest thing of all. That's what all of this is about,
is let me show you what a big dictator I am.
Let me show you what a big dick. Probably makes
the point. It's a little better pull the new delivery,
you know.
Speaker 9 (51:07):
Yeah, I think so she was, well, you know, I
mean I don't have kids. You have grandkids, yeah, Michael
Blitz said, Michael Michael Blitz says, grand kids. You know, yep,
(51:36):
So you've got to be worried about them, because while
you know, you and I we've been around enough. You know,
we could go for.
Speaker 10 (51:48):
A while, right not to break good run here the grandkids,
you know, are just starting. Look project twenty let's let's
go to the future. And what I would say is
project twenty twenty six is to flip the House of Representatives.
(52:10):
We should be laser focused on that. I do believe that.
I believe the entire time that Donald Trump had eighteen
months from January twentieth when he was inaugurated, to try
to destroy the institutions of the United States of America.
He's doing a pretty good job of it, but he's
not really succeeding. People are rising up his numbers. His
(52:34):
poll numbers are well underwater, and they're only going to
get worse. The next thing that has to happen that
we really do have control of, as the people is
to flip the House and make sure no bad legislation
gets done in his last two years. I honestly think
the only thing they're going to get done in these
(52:56):
first two years legislatively is some version of the Big
Ugly Bill. We should still try to stop that, and
people should call their reps and their senators and complain
about what's in the Big Ugly Bill. But I do
believe they're so driven to get the tax cut path
for their donors that some version of it is going
(53:19):
to get through, hopefully the worst version of it.
Speaker 9 (53:24):
So this is what I wanted. This is what I
wanted to say to people. If you get an instruction
on this show, on a podcast, on a different radio show,
and they say to you call your legislators, call your congressmen.
(53:46):
Before you call them, looks their record up, because what
ends up happening is we say, you know, go call
your congressman, and so I look up, who is my congressman,
Brad Sherman. Do you seriously think I need to annoy
(54:08):
Brad Sherman to find out how he voted on something?
Speaker 3 (54:13):
No?
Speaker 10 (54:14):
No, well you know how he voted on this anyway,
But it does it's not like it hurts for people
to call, even Democrats, just to make sure that they
know that their constituents are paying attention and that this
is what they want, and you know, call and complain
about Republicans. It doesn't It's obviously more impactful and more
(54:36):
important if you are in a Republican district. Like your
show that we're on goes out, we know, into the
Inland Empire, and you guys have Ken Calvert, and Ken
Calvert has voted voted yes on the Big Ugly Bill.
Ken Calvert has voted to cut Medicaid to ribbon, cut
(55:02):
medicare too on top of it and take away snap benefits,
you know, nutritional assistance for children. And if you believe
that this is a good thing to vote for, there's
really something wrong with you. So call Ken Calvert and
pound on his phone and tell him that we will
(55:25):
have his seat politely in twenty twenty six if he
votes for this again when it comes back to him
from the Senate, because it's going to be changed. And honestly,
I think it was pretty remarkable that none of the
so called moderate Republicans who signed a letter saying that
they could not support any Medicaid cuts. Every one of
(55:48):
them voted for all these medicaid cuts. And by the way,
Ken Calvert didn't sign that letter because he doesn't even
really pretend to be a moderate Republican, even though he's
in a very swing district. Right, You've got Riverside County.
You know it's come on, guys, this is uh pound
(56:11):
him on the phone, and it's I think it's worth saying,
pound your congressman, just to make sure that your listeners
pound on Ken Calvert's Both the phone calls are really
annoying to the staff. They have to log every one
of them with your constituent, So do it.
Speaker 12 (56:28):
Right.
Speaker 9 (56:29):
Well, So General Court has wait a second stricken down
many of the tariffs imposed by Trump.
Speaker 10 (56:46):
And ruled the relief good. But you got to see
what the Supreme Court is going to do, of course,
because he'll get it there. You know, he'll get all
these things there. The lower courts have been really quite
good on everything.
Speaker 9 (57:03):
Yep, there has.
Speaker 10 (57:04):
There hasn't been much that is that the regime has
gotten through the lower courts. But of course telope a
all the way to the to the the court that
they Mitch McConnell must be so miserable right now. I
can't even believe I'm sort of feeling sorry for Mitch
McConnell's because after Mitch McConnell's stole, you know, two seats
(57:26):
on the Spreme Court, thinking that this was the greatest
achievement of his life, and he has a conservative court,
and now that now the Court is like in the
position of being able to rubber stamp the end of
the Americans, the end of American democracy, which I do
not think Mitch McConnell was actually in favor of.
Speaker 9 (57:47):
Yeah, I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't think
so either. Yeah, I don't think so, ladies and gentlemen.
We've got a lot of work ahead of us this
next I don't know, not two years, but we have
to effected it's three and a half years. Yeah. Well, no,
(58:08):
we got to get through twenty sixth election.
Speaker 10 (58:12):
Yeah, well, it's for the twenty sixth election. Honestly, it's
another year before we're going to be in the midterms.
So when you take it, I think it's smarter for
people to take it. I take it in these smaller increments, right,
just go like, Okay, we've got to get through this
first eighteen months and we've gotten through almost six of
them already, and then we're going to be in the
(58:34):
midterms and then everything's going to be sold. You know,
he's still going to spew out executive orders, we know that,
and the courts are going to have to stop them,
stop him on that stuff. But legislatively, I think then
we're will be able to stop him by having a
twenty twenty six that's kind of like twenty eighteen was.
Speaker 9 (58:54):
All right, let me let me stop you. Right there
is Derek fum and Hope to the Young Commons and
Democrat right here on NBC Radio KCAA. I've been joined
by John Bowser Baumann, President of Social Security Works. Now
pack and we'll be back and see you soon. I mean,
(59:20):
there's so much to keep talking about, all right, Eric,
take us away.
Speaker 12 (59:47):
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