Latest / The Sense and Senseless Podcast / EP: 86 Selling the Seat: Billions, Blind Loyalty, and Why the Center Shrinks
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- Bryan: When billions get spent on elections, a lot of people are calling in favors. These major donations aren't there so you have a better life. They're there to put someone in position to help the major donors make more money. Your small donations help, but they aren't buying the access to the person you should already have access to. Your representative. Not a corporate one, not an Israeli one. Your fucking representative, period. It's gonna be a bumpy ride, but stick with us. All right. Welcome back to the Sense and Senseless Podcast. I am Bryan.. Jason: No, I'm Jason. Bryan: Yes, they though. If it's your first time joining us, welcome to the family. We're just two guys discussing shit in a way that everyone can understand. Tonight we will talk about why I think the U.S. government still supports BB Netanyahu. And we'll discuss why both political parties seem to be always moving further from center. We'll end with a rant about safety in the workplace. But we're going to start tonight by talking about money in the midterms. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: J So, got anything before we get going? Jason: More fraud and misappropriation of money. Bryan: No, just midterm money. Jason: okay. No. Bryan: So we all see these political ads right now. I mean, I I'm getting them on my damn phone. And it's, you know, why do these politicians always have to try to sell themselves, you know, so hard? They they work so hard on selling themselves. Why why do they have to try and make themselves out to be something they're not? A lot of political ads I see focus on how bad the other guy is while portraying. the guy that they having a commercial for, that person's always the saint. And how about these people just tell us what they're gonna do about stopping the corruption in the government? You know, tell us about what you're gonna do in to help the average person achieve the American dream. You know, most of us don't want handouts. We already know that politicians are scum. What we want is someone that is going to the DC to fight for us, the people, the people they representing. Not the people that are paying for their fucking campaign. When billions are spent on elections, you know there are a lot of people that be calling in favors. This kind of money isn't donated to these politicians because these people want you to have a better life. These major donations are there to put someone in position to help the major donors get more money. Yes, your small donations do help, don't get me wrong. But isn't buying you access to the fucking person you should already have access to. Your representative. He's not a corporate representative. He's not an Israeli representative. He is your representative. Period. And if our politicians could run on truth and support of the American people, they would. However, you can't get elected that way. You have to have major money to compete in elections. And to get that money, you have to sell a small piece of yourself, or if not your whole self. You have to sell your morals. You have to give up what you believe is right for the people you represent. Because if you don't, do as you're told, no more money for you, and your political career is over. The amount of money in politics today is a fucking. We the American people are being shut out of having caring candidates run for office because they aren't for sale. They say everyone has a price, and that may be true. And I can see how some people would just sell themselves out, or more correctly, whore themselves out for the money, access, and power. But where are the people that still have morals? Where are the people that still tell the truth? Where are the people that still believe that their pride is worth keeping? I believe we still have a lot of those people, but they're being shut out of politics by all the sellouts. It's sad when it's more favorable to sell out to the establishment than to stand on your own morals. It takes a lot of strength to be the man you were meant to be. We have a lot of weak people with power, and that is a scary combination. You think about that, Jason? You agree with that? Jason: Yeah, I do. That's why I said there should be campaigning and shit should be like sports. There should be a cap, a salary cap. Bryan: They should be 'cause it's ridiculous. I mean, what we have now is ridiculous. Let's talk about the money that he just got on just the midterms. So the overall total spending of the advertisement for the midterms, the last time I checked, which was a couple of days ago, was 10 to 11.6 billion. And that's for both parties. That's what's estimated. This is up from 8.9 billion in 2022 midterms and right around 11.2 billion that was spent on the 2024 presidential election. But who is donating or spending all this money? Here's some of the industries that are donating the most. We got cryptocurrency, AI and big tech, online betting, finance and investment, of course, the APAC crowd. And it's also stated that Elon Musk himself has donated over 300 million. And Trump, they say, is putting his money where his mouth is. hearing this true social. It talks about Trump himself stepping up in the midterms and spending four hundred million. So far he spent over three hundred million and he's expecting to spend four hundred million. I mean, everything's paid for. Every seat is purchased. Nothing in this country seems to be organic or driven by the taxpayer. We live in an illusion of freedom and choice. Our reality is distorted by all this spending on elections and attack ads. And then there's all that clipping that we discussed in the last episode. Add in all the misinformation from bots, AI, from other countries like China, Iran, and Russia. And you have no idea what to fucking believe anymore. This is how we run in elections. You have no choice. You you work it off of illusion and it just feeding you garbage to fuck with your mind. How are you supposed to make a choice? Jason: It's hard. Well, you don't like I said, you don't It's like if your wife asked you to choose between two outfits that you had no buy in for and you don't give a shit about, you're like, that one I guess. Does that make sense? Bryan: Makes a lot of sense. Jason: If you want me to pick, then I'll go buy the damn thing. Let me go to the store and pick it out. Stop pulling it out of the closet. I don't have no buy into that. I don't wanna go to the store and p pick my wife's Bryan: No, I just yeah, I just Jason: clothes out. I mean, damn. But I'm still saying you're you they throw two people in front of you and that's who you get to choose from. Bryan: And then they throw all kind of money behind them. Jason: Yeah. And you get these Bryan: It's ridiculous. Jason: dinners that they have at like ten thousand dollars a plate or something like that. Bryan: Yeah, and they still ask for donations after that. Jason: Yeah, and we'll never get invited to those things. I no, I ain't got the money for that. Don't get me wrong. I'm just saying that y these these fuckers are making hand over fist off of us. Bryan: You think Elon Musk donating three hundred million dollars to whatever he donated it to, that's not giving him some access to somebody? Jason: yeah. It's giving him more he's making what do we say, Bryan., these these companies that donate to shit, they're making way more than they're donating. You're not going Bryan: yeah. Jason: back they're not gonna go backwards. Bryan: No, their return on investment is huge. Jason: Yes. GE donated five hundred million to this. they're not gonna lose money. What are they getting out of that? Well, we're not gonna talk about Bryan: No. Jason: Did you see the dowel? Bryan: Did you see the Dow? That's right. We're gonna talk about Dow tonight too. Jason: Sweet. I'm down with the dowel. Bryan: So that's the money in the midterms. It it it's a it's a lot. I I Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: don't know what it would take to take homeless people off the streets in the United States or maybe help with the hunger, but I'm sure eleven billion dollars would go a long fucking way. And we're spending that to fight each other in in the midterms. Jason: Gavin Newsom, he's taking the care of the homeless, so leave that alone, Bryan.. Bryan: All right. So I I've told you this story before about my argument with a Trump supporter at a Trump rally. And we discussed how a lot of people attending that rally were huge Trump supporters. Like Trump walked on fucking water supporters. These guys, you know, really thought Trump was Jesus. And and Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: tonight I want to go over how that instance and one other time should have made me realize that there are people that look at politics as religion. And how this should have prepared me for the comments that I see in our comment sections today. Jason: Yeah, no kidding. Bryan: So we went over my thinking in the last episode, and this plays into that. The first instance was we went to see a conservative comedian, and and while standing in line waiting to get a drink, I I started to feel uncomfortable as fuck. You know, like like I could feel tension between everyone. And it it's not like they were mad at each other, it's it's like they were mad. Just was just mad. They were just uptight. Like they were just mad at the world. And the whole theater was just filled with motherfuckers that just had like a chip on their shoulder, which was extremely Jason: Right. Bryan: odd to me. Cause I I've been to a few comedy shows. Everyone's normally happy. You had a comedy show. Well, that's what was normal to me. But being at this show, I mean, it just had me on fucking edge. And I remember standing in that line, getting a drink, and and looking at Jennifer and telling us, you know. I know I'm white, but I ain't this kind of white. I mean, these motherfuckers. I mean, they just had attitudes like they owned everything. And back then I just started following politics, so I didn't really know what to expect. And the show itself, it was okay. The guy that opened, he was really funny. The main guy, he had mostly political jokes, which was a little too much for me. And I don't I don't even think we stayed to the end. But That show right there, that should have been my first warning about about that. Yeah, I I'm not did I support MAGA? Yeah. But I w I wasn't part of that crowd. I mean, that was a that was a different crowd. Have you ever been around a group of people like that that they were all the same color as you? They you and you just felt like, yeah, I don't belong with this. Yeah. Jason: You didn't belong there? Yeah. Yeah. Bryan: It's weird, ain't it? Jason: Yeah. I've been in some churches like that. Bryan: Really? Jason: Yeah, visiting church and was like, I'm a Christian and I don't even feel welcome Bryan: How could a church not be welcoming? Jason: here, huh? Bryan: How could a church not feel welcoming? Jason: It's just the way people are, man. I told ya a lot of churches are like country clubs, dude. Bryan: I I know that was not my tribe. And if it is your tribe, you do you. It just it wasn't me. I I'm I'm I try not to be that uptight all the time. That was a little Jason: yeah, definitely. Bryan: that was a little too much tension for me. And and the second time, of course, that was the Trump rally in Dallas where I got an argument with a Trump supporter. And the recap of this story is when we were in Dallas at an NRA convention, Trump was a speaker for his 2024 campaign. And he he was at least three or four hours late for the event. And and we had been waiting all day to see him. And while waiting, people started to get restless. And one man started booing. And this man behind me started hollering at the man that was booing. So I simply asked the man, why can't he boo? I mean, what is wrong with him expressing his opinion of not being happy that, you know, Trump's been missing for the last three or four hours when he's supposed to be there? And this guy lost his fucking mind, talking about how Trump was doing this for free and we should be honored to be there to see Trump. Which I replied that Trump needs our vote, you know. That's why he is here. And in my opinion, my time is just as important as his, you know. And this guy kept telling me how lucky we were to see Trump, and basically, Trump was the Messiah. And I was just asking him why he thought that way, which he couldn't explain. And he just kept repeating the same shit. Therefore, Jason: shit. Bryan: I kept asking him why he thought that way, which made me mad, which resulted in me getting mad even more because he was trying to convince me that my time was not as important as Trump's time, but he couldn't tell me why. He couldn't explain to me why Trump's time on Earth was more important than everyone else's time in that room. Jason: 'Cause he was running for president, you're not, Bryan.. Bryan: But we all have a finite time to live, right? Jason: Yes. Bryan: So why is his time more important than others? And the guy couldn't explain that to me. And it was making me mad because he kept telling me, you know, and it was a simple question. And and yes, we could have just left and and but I I couldn't understand why somebody couldn't express themselves among people that I thought believed in free speech. In my mind, he was trying to change my reality by telling me how I should believe, but had no substance on why I should feel that way. You know, and and I should have realized then that I'm not the same as these people. We we might support the same candidate, but we're very different levels of support. You know, I'm on the level of support that if you do good, I will continue to support you. But if you ain't doing shit, I'm not supporting you. Yeah, this is not me following you blindly. Fuck that, you know. Just like they say Trump is transactional, all right. So I'm transactional too. You know? I have no problem with that. The voters should be transactional. If if you aren't doing what you said you were gonna do. Fuck you. You need to earn my vote. And and and it's too Jason: Yeah. He's like that with his cabinet people, right? Bryan: exactly transactional. You should earn my vote. You don't have to feel like you have to be married to your political party. Or that your even worse, that your political party is your religion now? And I think it's kind of like some of the comments we get, you know, they they they want to tell you that you're wrong and that Trump is great, but they can't tell you why. And I'm not saying that Trump may not have done some good things for us, you know, but those things should speak for themselves. You didn't need Trump telling you every day that shit was good back in 2018 and 2019. You fucking could see it, right? You just felt better. Currently he's trying hard to sell himself as doing good things, always reiterating how great the economy is and how great the war in Iran's gone. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: But if this shit was going so good, you wouldn't have to steadily gaslight people into believing this shit. You well, it's got me fucked up because you're not supposed to believe what you see or feel. And that that is wrong. They they tell us the economy isn't bad because the stock market is good. And have you seen the dial? Jason: It's Dallin. Bryan: But people like me and you know we are spending way more on essentials than we did in our lives just two years ago. The war is going great because we're only eight months into a three-day excursion and we only lost like 20 service members. When you compare that to how long we was in Afghanistan and amount of lives lost in Vietnam, everything in Iran's going great. And that that's some of the stupid shit that we hear that they want you to think about. And then now Trump's on the campaign trail. And I was thinking, do you think he's on the campaign trail because these politicians need his help? And without Trump, they won't get elected. Or he's on the campaign trail because these politicians need his help because he made everything so fucked up that people's looking bad on the Republicans. And so he has to go back in and clean it up. So they can get elected. Jason: Yeah. I mean they're his numbers are way down from what I hear, so Bryan: yeah, Trump's numbers? Jason: Yeah. Bryan: They they are very way down, yeah. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: And I'm not I think he Jason: I've been I've never been polled and asked what I think. Have you? So I don't know where Bryan: Get a Jason: these numbers come from. Bryan: I get a lot of text messages and shit for polls, but I've never been called. I don't reply to any of Jason: No, I probably wouldn't either. I'm just saying I don't get asked, so Bryan: it's probably the CIA just trying to see what the fuck I think, you know. Jason: Mm. Yeah, no kidding. Cut that dude off. Bryan: yeah, they keep saying that the Republicans are gonna get steamrolled in the midterms. Jason: That's what I hear. Bryan: That's why you're not supposed to talk bad about shit. You know Jason: Wha what who Sean Ryan had that chick on there that now his podcast is struggl or supposedly a bunch of people quit his a bunch of his staff quit because he wouldn't Bryan: I saw Jason: release that woman. Bryan: Yeah, I saw he had a the Leophiles. The lady from the Leophiles. Jason: Yeah, the Leophiles or whatever and she's saying that the Republicans are gonna get smoked. Bryan: And I I haven't seen everything with Sean Ron yet. I've watched the Leah Jason: No, I haven't either. Bryan: Files before. You know, I watched her and she's good. She got a lot of good information. I like how deep she goes because she nerds out too. So I like all the details. But I don't know any of these people. I can't tell you if Sean Ron's right or the Leah right. I don't know any of these fucking people. Jason: I know. I don't know. It's just kind of, man, everything's blowing up. Bryan: Well yeah. Well just looked up we looked at in the last episode. They pay people just to say shit. Yeah. Jason: Get in your head. Yeah. Bryan: So we getting fed so much garbage. How the fuck you supposed to know what to believe? You know, look over here. shit, look over here now. Look over here. Jason: Yeah. Yeah. Bryan: Look over here. Don't don't look at the Epstein files though. Jason: Yeah. Well, according to us though, if somebody's on there we're pedophiles too 'cause we voted Bryan: Yeah. Jason: for him. Bryan: I ain't worried about them people. Jason: Jesus. Bryan: Those people are gonna die just like us one day. We're just gonna be happier for it. Jason: Yeah. And more than likely people you voted for throughout your life are on there too. I mean, there's probably a lot of that's the reason why nobody is putting them out there. Bryan: Yeah, that there's there's there's some shit out there. So a while back I remember you telling me examples of people seeing their groceries and they had like receipts from years ago and they compared them. And every time we go to Sam's, I notice how much the rice goes up. You know, because rice used to be a cheap staple. We it's a staple in our household in the south. y'all keep a lot of rice in your house? Jason: Nip No Bryan: No. We we have a fuck ton of rice. And I I'm not saying that rice rice is like overly expensive now. It's still cheap compared to other things to purchase today. But for this discussion and, you know, how rise in the price, I'm gonna use just rice. And like I said, we go to Sam's just about every week and always see those the rice going up. Not every week, but you know, as over time you see the rice going up. So a few weeks ago I decided I was gonna pull up the cost of rice in our purchase history just to see what I can find. That's what I come up with. All right. So those of y'all listening, in 2022, I could purchase a 20-pound bag of rice from Sam's for eight dollars and ninety-eight cents. That was roughly 45 cents per pound. In 2024, that same bag of rice cost me $9.98, which is roughly 50 cents per pound. Also was roughly 11% increase in two years. In August of this year, that same bag of rice was $11.98. which is roughly sixty cents per pound, which is roughly twenty percent increase over those two years and a thirty three percent increase from twenty twenty two. Now, those numbers at the store, but I want to give you a deeper perspective because we're always told how great everything is. The price of rice is outpaced. It's an inflation. The cumulative inflation based off of CPI from 2022 to now is roughly 20%. The rice increased 33.4% over the same period. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And you wage here in South Louisiana, an area that I live, typically yearly wage growth is one to four percent, with the statewide figures coming in around three to four percent. So even if you got a five percent raise each year since twenty twenty two, the price of rice still outpaced your wages. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And rice isn't the only staple like this. And you know, I'm sure there's a lot of other things that you noticed on your groceries that are steadily going up. Jason: Right. Bryan: Hey, you noticed anything in particular? Jason: I don't I don't do that, but no, I mean I do know when we go to Walmart and we buy normal meals, now all of a sudden it's over a hundred dollars for a couple of meals when I knew it was like fifty or sixty bucks before. It just feels like I mean, we all know beef has shot way up. And they wanna my buddy's a cattle farmer, the one whose whose boy passed away in that car wreck I was telling you about. and he was just I was asking him like, dude, what what's behind this? Which he's telling me it's because the younger generation don't want to get into it. You see what I'm saying? So a lot of farms are dying off because the kids don't want to run So as soon as the the the original farmer is done or can't do it no more Bryan: So there's less cows because of that? Jason: Yeah, there's less people to take care of because you got less farmers wanting to do it. And I I don't know. I I don't know all that stuff. I mean, he's not gonna lie to me about that. He's not gonna take some political road. He's not getting paid to do that. You know, if he thought that the government was trying to run them out. I know pig farms, like there used to be a bunch of pig farms around here. They're not anymore. Bryan: Now, is it because of the work or does the work to profit ratio just ain't worth it? Jason: No, because of the work. It's hard work. I mean, you're talking seven days a week, you gotta get up at r you know, four four thirty every morning, get out there and feed them cows. You gotta work You gotta, you know, check You gotta give shots. You gotta you you know what I'm saying? You g there's a lot of stuff you gotta do. And you gotta do that in the in the evening too. You gotta feed at night. You gotta feed in the morning. You gotta when at wintertime you gotta get out there and bust the ice and their water troughs or you know, the ponds or whatever. You gotta make sure that they can get water. And you gotta just make sure a lot of stuff. Bryan: I can see that. I could I mean I've never lived on a farm but I can assume based off yeah, it's hard work. I mean I Jason: That's hard. Yeah. Bryan: I can see that. I can see why people wouldn't want to do it, but I I I can't understand if your family has a farm why you would let the legacy go. Jason: Because the kids don't want that no more. They don't give Bryan: That Jason: a shit about a legacy. They don't want that kind of manual labor. Bryan: And maybe they already have a a f a way to make money or something? Jason: Yeah. They're gonna go to college and do something else. Bryan: 'Cause most big farms, I mean, they're not in a in a big city area. So they it's not a whole well, guess what I'm getting at? It's not a whole lot of work. So they have to actually leave the farm area, the kids, I would assume. Jason: Right. Right. And and my buddy, he's not he's not a big he's got some cattle. I mean he mows lawns and I shoot, I forget. He he used to be a bricklayer, but his grand or his grandpa started the that's called Kentuckiana livestock facilities and there was like three or four of in the tri state area. Like Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky. I know it says well, Kentucky Anna. So they kind of combine Kentucky and Indiana. And I but I think there was one or two in Illinois or whatever. But his grandpa owned all those. And basically people came and sold cattle. Like you would bring cattle in a cattle trailer up there, put them in a lot, and they doction them off. So they would make money off of that. His family made money, you know, by taking care of those lots and all that stuff and and hosting those auctions. And that's kind of how he got into the trade of cattle and It's you know, a lot of it, you're not people just don't well, these OF girls do, because you'll see that too on TikTok. They make all this money, they'll go out and buy a damn farm, like horses and shit like that. You know what I'm saying? but most people that have that stuff are in like crop ro you know, row crops like corn and beans and wheat, and they're that's generation after generation. You can't just get into that. I couldn't quit my job today and go buy some ground and a tractor and combine and all you you're not doing that. Bryan: Yeah, that's a huge investment. I mean, that's a lot of money. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: Yeah, I get that. Jason: And even the little farmers that were farming for a long time, if they couldn't keep up, the big farmers put out of business. 'Cause the big farmers went out and got all the ground. Not buying it, they're rent. Bryan: I I I get I just can't see I I guess I can when you you look at younger people, but if my family had something like that, I wouldn't want to walk away from it, you know. I just Jason: No, that well, here's the problem. Them little kids are getting them younger kids are getting the trucks and the and all the cool stuff from their dad or their family farming, but they're not doing it. They want all the rewards, they want all the inheritance and all that stuff, but they ain't gonna do it. They're gonna go do something else. Bryan: I can see that. All right, did you see Trump and B B Netanyahu's phone call this week? Jason: No, but I'm sure it was interesting. Bryan: it it well, let's check this out. When I seen that, I I had to check it multiple times to see if it was AI and there's multiple outlets that had released it. And like, could they just suck each other's dick any worse on a fucking phone call? You Jason: Mm. Who released that? Bryan: Yeah, you you're the greatest and well, I think what happened is BB, from what I read, is probably gonna have problems in his election next week. So he probably needed this phone call or some kind of puff piece to show his people in Israel that, you know, Trump loves him, you know, because the people of Israel, I don't know if they still do, but they love Trump. You know, Trump was more popular in Israel than he was in the US at one time. Probably still is. I don't fucking know. But did they use this puff piece for BB? Was it used to help Trump? I don't know. It was just weird. It was weird. Hey, you you're the greatest. You're the great you know you're the greatest. No, you're the greatest. No, you're the greatest. Jason: You're a warrior. Mm. No, you're the greatest, Bryan.. No, you are. Bryan: You're the greatest. And why would we even still support BB, knowing that he you know, allegedly had prior knowledge to the attacks on October 7th? You know, if he could have stopped those attacks or at least maybe minimize the l losses, yet he didn't do either. Then it was what, like four hours before he got those people any help. It it's almost like he wanted that attack and that to be a massacre. Jason: Right. Well, 'cause it would enrage the people and allow them to continue doing what they're doing to Palestinians. Bryan: But us why I understand his point, you know, why he did that. But why are we still supporting that? No with these new allegations. I mean, why we not even talking about any of this? Jason: Because we're like this. Bryan: It's weird to me. Jason: Did you see something? I didn't see nothing. Bryan: Well, here's a few things. He's a few questions or a few Jason: All right. Bryan: reasons why I think. Is it because as a country, we have also considered killing our own to justify a war, like in the Operation Northwood and quite possibly nine eleven. Operation Northwood was where our government thought it'd be a good idea to have planned terrorist attacks in our own country against our own citizens to drum up support. against Cuba. Luckily JFK didn't agree with that. I found no reliable proof that our government knew about that 9-11 was going to happen on that day, but there is proof that our government agencies knew there were Al-Qaeda operatives in the U.S. learning how to fly planes. And there are also reports as early as 1998 that the presidential daily briefing included warnings that bin Laden's preferred option was to strike inside the U.S. with an explosive-packed airplane. Right. So there's that. How about the U.S. Liberty? Yeah. Jason: Yeah, I remember that one. Bryan: Bring us to war with Egypt. Just letting Israel kill our own service members. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: Or just our government straight up lying to American taxpayers, like with the Gulf of Tonkin to get us into the Vietnam War. Or how about the W WMDs to get us in the Iraq War? This is one I found that I wasn't I I had to look at this one a couple times. Have you heard about the government lying to us about babies and incubators? Jason: Mm-mm. Bryan: Where we were told babies were just tossed out of incubators and left to die. According to Wikipedia, in 1990, testimony of a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl identified only as Naraya testified before the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus, claiming that she had volunteered as a nurse. at a Kuwaiti hospital and personally saw Iraqi soldiers remove premature babies from incubators, steal the equipment, and leave the infants on the floor to die. This story was widely publicized by media and repeatedly cited by U.S. politicians, including President George H.W. Bush, to justify military actions against Iraq. It contributed to shifting public and congressional opinion. Several senators referenced it During the close vote authorizing the force against Iraq. Also, according to Wikipedia, it was all a lie. Come to find out, Naraya, or have you said her name, wasn't working as a nurse in Kuwait during the invasion. Not only that, she was the daughter of the Kuwait ambassador to the United States and a member of the ruling family. It was later revealed that her testimony was staged As part of a PR campaign. Kuwait's government hired a PR firm for roughly $10 to $12 million through a front group called Citizens for a Free Kuwait. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: The firm organized the witnesses, prepared the materials, and pushed the story. Now don't get me wrong, the Iraqi forces committed some real abuses and crimes against two in Kuwait. But from what I found, the incubator, the incubator baby story. was completely fabricated or at least heavily exaggerated. Just another example of how they mind fuck us with propaganda. Jason: Mm. With no Vaseline, as Ice Cube said. Bryan: Just to start, just to justify starting a fucking war that may likely get your child killed for some other fucking country. You know? And and all these fucking people do is lie to us and fuck Jason: Mm. Bryan: with your mind. Jason: Yeah, old Halliburton made a ton of money over there, didn't they? Dick Cheney's. Bryan: yeah. Jane in the Jason: Yeah. Bryan: This is something I found. Give me a second. If you listening, I'ma show a picture that I seen this week. It says it's it's a little Tom and Jerry thing. It says if Tom kills Jerry, the show is over. Same reason the other party never fixes anything when they're in power. Jason: Cause if they Bryan: Night. Jason: did completely we keep voting in. Bryan: Yeah. How about that shit? Jason: Yeah, it's it's like ping pong, dude. It's just like doing doing doing doing doing Bryan: Well, I'm I'm gonna give you a a a deep a deep thought I had about this. All right. Cause I was thinking we keep getting on the fringe, right? So is is this the reason that the left keeps moving further to the left? And not not just the left. Is this the reason that both sides keep moving further away from center? All right. I want you to stay with me. I'm I'm as always I'm going somewhere. But if if at any time I lose you, just say stop, okay? Jason: Stop. Bryan: Let me break I've going somewhere with this shit. All right. So let me break Jason: All right. Bryan: down what I mean. And this is what I I wish. This is what Jason: Will there be pictures and color crayons involved with this? Bryan: I consider logical sense. All right. So let's first agree that when we talk about people being in the middle of the center, when referring to politics, that the center we're calling that common ground. All Jason: Okay. Bryan: right. The center just meaning this is a place where we can all get along. Jason: Yes. Bryan: All right. And then from that position, if you have liberal views, you would move to the left. And if you Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: have conservative views, views, you would move to the right. This Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: would be the compl the political world in the simplest form. Can we agree on that? Jason: Mm-hmm. Yes. Bryan: Okay. So I want everyone to keep in mind what I'm about to go over that the center is common ground, where we can Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: either agree or at the very least. Tolerate what we don't agree with. All right. So at some point, at some point in time, the center was the majority of the people. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And honestly, I still believe it is the majority of the people today, but they kind of don't want you to think that way. What they want you to believe is you can't be center. You have to pick a fucking team. Now, this only works if there's a reason to make you pick a team. Because if the majority of the people can agree to disagree and just get along with each other for the sake of humanity, then the game is over. So they force you to pick a side. Some are saying they can't force me to do anything. I'm a free man. And yeah, okay, you're correct. You're a free man. And you can believe as you like. But that doesn't mean you aren't being controlled by what you hear. So what do I mean by what I say you got to pick a team? The they thems make the fringe of both parties the loudest. And that brings new problems that we need to fight over. The fringe of both parties bring animosity to all people. They them can't stand the fact that you enjoy life. They need you fighting with your fucking neighbor. They them need you focused on shit that only matters to 1% of our population. All right. Think about it. Why else would any sane society Spend so much energy on convincing people that men can mend straight and have fucking children. Jason: Pizza hell out of me. Bryan: They need it to find a new fight. Because the more we normalize these issues, the bigger the majority gets, which means the center becomes larger. When that happens, just like Tom catching Jerry, the show is over. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: So instead of allowing us to find common ground and agree, they create another issue to continue the show, to continue this illusion. They can't allow us to agree with each other. Agreeing with each other takes away their power. They are only powerful because you support them. Jason: Right. Bryan: Their position doesn't make them powerful. The people that support them make them powerful. Think about it. How many former politicians do you know that are still powerful when they left office? Minus maybe a president. Jason: I couldn't name Bryan: Well, I can't either might have been some, you know, but I bet they're the exception and not the rule. They need you. Jason: Yeah. If we can't name off hand, they weren't that good, right? Bryan: No, but when they in office they got power and they only have power because you support them. And they need you fighting and that is why they this shit keeps getting pushed further and further. Jason: Well, real quick, look at Massey. He got voted in, the people liked him, and the people Bryan: Yep, and we c yep. Jason: still liked him, but he wasn't playing by the rules and they got his ass out of there. Bryan: Exactly. Exactly. Ga that's Jason: And what they got, a lot of people that they that voted him in and probably still liked him and didn't regret their vote, they made them people feel bad. You know what I'm saying? Bryan: yeah. Jason: If y if you really love your party, you're not gonna stand for that. We need to teach him a lesson and we need to teach other people a lesson that try to do the same shit. Bryan: Yeah, they if they could Jason: Well Bryan: just be honest, you know, i Jason: Yeah, I don't think the people voted him out though. Bryan: Massey? Jason: Yeah, because I don't even know who that fool is they voted for. Bryan: No, I don't think they voted them out. They they again they spent way too much money against them and that money came from another country and it it it if Like Massey. If you can be honest, support the people and not swear allegiance to another country or company, I think people would follow you. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: You know? You know, but they all gotta be fucking liars. Cause they only care about enriching themselves. You know? And they don't they they just want you to look over there, you know. Mind your own fucking business. Don't look at what we're doing Jason: Well, Bryan: wrong. Jason: even the Democrats didn't vote Kamala to be the presidential nominee. They just realized Biden wasn't gonna be able to I mean, he just felt I mean, he fell off the cliff. Poor dude. I'm being honest, poor dude. What they did to that Bryan: no, yeah. Jason: man was my God, it was horrible. And and Trump wiped him in that first debate. Remember? Bryan: Yeah, the one they had to have in June, which was one of the earliest debates they ever had. Jason: Yeah. And he smoked his ass so bad that they pulled him and they had all that money for him, and the rule is it has to stay in the administration. So if they if if another person was nominated, all that money's gone. But if Kamala moves into that position because she's the VP, she can get she can keep the money. They basically told you what they were doing. And we were like The the democrats were like the people that support Well at least at least I didn't vote for a pedophile. Bryan: Yep. Jason: But you allowed your party to just put somebody in there without asking you what what's your vote. You might you might as well go one step further and then we just don't vote no more and they just put in there whoever the hell they want for president, right? That's what happened. Bryan: But what did but what did that do? That that keeps you fighting with somebody and maybe not you, but somebody fighting with you, you know, it keeps it keeps us divided. Jason: At least I ain't racist. Bryan: Yeah, I'm racist. I'm a bigot. Jason: I mean come on, man. I'm d you're I if Bryan: Yeah. Jason: if okay, if if I was Democrat I would have been irate, like, what the hell? Well, we don't want to lose all I don't give a f about your buddy. You took away my constitutional right to vote. You took that out of the people's hands and y'all picked your own damn nominee. Bryan: They don't think like that anymore. All they think like is Jason: Dude, they just do what they want to anymore. They don't give a shit what you think any r you agree? it's so out of control. They don't Bryan: I I agree. Yeah. They they they they Jason: even care. Bryan: they all up in your face like yeah, okay, what you gonna do about it? What you gonna do about it? Nothing. We're not gonna do anything about it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, y'all Jason: Yeah, what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? Nothing. Keep paying them taxes, bitch, and shut up. Yep. Bryan: sit down, y'all podcast, talk shit. What you gonna do? Jason: Nothing. We know what we d wanna do, but we can't. So shut up. That's why I don't Bryan: Yeah, but you ain't gonna do nothing. 'Cause they they they watch Jason: hear them noises in my headphone no more. They done gave up on th these bastards ain't doing shit. They're just running their mouth. Flapping gums. Bryan: They're just flapping gums, pissing people off. Just trying to wake people up, you know, and just explain the shit that I see that I've learned, and we we all on a journey together. If you watched the first episode, and I don't recommend you do that. But in our first episode, we talked about look, we we don't know what the fuck we're doing, but we're gonna do it and we hope y'all follow us along the way. You know, and That's all I'm asking. You know, I don't know what the fuck I'm doing. I don't even you know, I'm I'm looking up shit every week. I'm digging shit and I'm enjoying this shit. It you know, and is it gonna help us in the long run? Fuck, I don't know. But Jason: If enough people of us wise up and start questioning what our government's doing. And don't boycott voting either, I guess, 'cause I've done that too. Well shit, I just won't vote. Well then you're making it worse too. Bryan: You know, I was thinking about that the other day because I didn't I didn't vote now. We talked about this before I didn't vote in 2016. And that election made me realize that your vote counts. And in 2020, I voted and they stole my vote in 2020. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And then 2024 I voted and I didn't get who I voted for in. So I don't know if voting works or not. You know what I'm saying? Jason: Yeah. Bryan: I might might have lost. I mean, I've I've had three different things happen in the three times I've well in the last three presidential elections. So I I don't, I don't. Jason: It's your fault. Bryan: It's my fault. Yeah. You need to go out and vote. Well, it don't matter if I vote. I ain't even if I get who I want, I don't get the person I voted for. What's that? Jason: You know what it you know what that sounds like? Like, do you see the hat I'm wearing? Bryan: Yeah. Jason: Okay, I I swear there's been times that I thought that I rushed home from church and didn't stay to do this and do that to get and watch a Bears game and then the bears get smoked. And I'm like, It's my fault. I Bryan: Yeah. Jason: caused that. Bryan: I can see that. Jason: And how bad is that to sit there and think that you like your your voting caused a bunch of problems? Bryan: Well Jason: Well, I didn't vote the year it was really good, then the next year they stole it, and then the the year I finally got a vote and he won. He ain't the motherfucker I voted for. You know what I'm saying? Bryan: It's fucked Yeah, it's fucked up. Jason: I can see that. I can see how you'd be like, yeah, I'm done. That's like playing at the casino, right? After a while you just got, yeah, I'm done. I ain't doing this no more. Bryan: I don't know what to do. I was telling because we were looking at the local elections and I'm like, that was the that was the other thing. Our mayor, it just has some affair or some shit, and there's all kind of shit just going on. It's like, why were we even voting these fucking people in? I mean, who are these fucking people? Jason: Right. Right. Bryan: Do we have the best? Jason: Right. That's all we have to offer. Bryan: Exactly. That that there you there you go. Jason: The dude snorting heroin off the girl the hooker's crack butt crack, you know? Bryan: It's like, what the fuck? Or like you you pre like you saying the priest earlier, all on porn. Is is that where we're at? I God. And both parties want you to believe that the other's gonna destroy the country. When the truth is they are likely working together to keep you fighting so they can enrich themselves while you build hate for your neighbor. They need Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: you to believe that every election is the most important election of your lifetime. The other party wins, the world is over as you know it. And we feed into that shit. And I really believe that's why they have midterms. They can't let the fire get too low. So they have to have a constant fight for political power and keep the people, you know, rooting for their team. Having the midterms. Huh? Yeah. Jason: Yeah, you gotta keep it churned up, right? You gotta keep it churned up. Bryan: So yeah, so you can't let it go every four years. You have the midterms and You constantly have a fucking political cycle. Jason: Dude, it's like it's like you brought up soap operas that we I need a hero, the dude from Days of Our Lives or whatever. Yeah, Bowen Hope. Remember, hey, you Bryan: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Boeing Hope. Bo and Hope, boy. Bo and Hope. If y'all round eye head, you know Boeing Hope from days of wildlife. Jason: remember in the Marine Corps, guys used to watch soap operas at lunch every day. I forget who what certain guys were watching it every day. But you could go like six months without watching it and go back and watch it and never miss a beat. Bryan: Yeah. Jason: You ever notice that? Bryan: You could probably go now and haven't watched it since I was a kid and not miss some pee. It probably the same fucking people on it. Jason: I know. And you would pick like no shit. So that's what I'm getting at. That's what politics are like. It's just constant. Bryan: Yep. They can't have an off season. Jason: It's a hamster wheel, dude. It's just constant in circles. Bryan: And if if they have an off season, the people are gonna lose focus on what they're supposed Jason: Yeah. Bryan: to fight over. Jason: Focus both us? I'm sorry. Bryan: Got gotta focus. Jason: You gon' focus both us? Bryan: So if you if you all right, say you have an off season, Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: people you you don't so you're not even talking about an election for at least two years. So you you Jason: Right. Bryan: have the presidential election, you're not gonna have another election for four years. So at least be two years that you're probably not talking talking about an election. That might allow people to come back to center. And you can't have that. Jason: No. Bryan: You see my point? That's where I Jason: Yeah. Bryan: was going with all that. Is Jason: I'll say where you're going, that's a good one. Bryan: they have to keep you fighting because they can't allow you to go to center. And I think we can all get to center if we just quit listening to these fucking politicians telling us we got to fight over shit. We all suffering from the same shit. We all Jason: Yeah. Bryan: are. Jason: Right. Bryan: All right, quick break. If this is making you think, or even if you disagree with us, help a brother out. Like the video, share it with someone who needs to hear it. Follow us so you don't miss the next episode and subscribe. It helps more than you know to keep the conversation going. All right. Now we're gonna shift gears. Jason: and by the way, we're not making any money. So we're not talking about that. We both got full time jobs and Bryan: no, it yeah, we can't we ain't ever gonna make money on this. Jason: No, we just we just like to see you guys interact and all that and it's not about the views and the numbers. It's just we want the interaction to make you make it feel like we're doing something worthwhile is all we're after. So Bryan: Yeah, and the other thing is is that that we just not talk into space. Jason: Yeah. But if it makes you feel good, Bryan., like I said, I feel like I'm going to class every every week. You're welcome. All right. Bryan: I appreciate it. Well, this one I think you might enjoy. We're gonna talk about safety in the workplace. Jason: I read this. This is pretty funny. Yeah. Bryan: All right, so we're always told safety is the company's number one focus. They want all their employees to go home the same way they came to work. And Jason: If you were screwed up when you got here, we want you to go home screwed up to Bryan: That's right. And honestly, this might be true for some people in your company. Some may really care about your well-being. But let's be honest. Safety isn't their number one priority. It can't be. Safety costs your company money. And if you know anything about major corporations today, it is this the shareholders come before anything else, Jason: Yeah. Bryan: including some of our customers. Jason: Yep. Bryan: The company's first priority is making money for its shareholders. Period. Jason: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Bryan: Now, if companies want to be truthful, they can easily tell you that they care about you. And safety is an important part of our culture. Being safe also helps us stay profitable as accidents, cost the company large amounts of money in medical, workmen comp claims, lawsuits, higher insurance premiums, higher insurance premiums, lost time, replacement training of workers, and so on. And that might go over better for most. Instead of always pushing the safety narratives as if they care about every one of you as if you were their child. OSHA cites that every dollar invested in safety returns roughly two to six dollars in unavoided costs. Again, it's not about your safety. It's about the bottom line. All right, so why am I bringing this up? I had a little little epiphany this week when we was going through our safety shit and at work. And this is what it comes down to. When when you have a bunch of people in these high-rise offices making safety decisions for people that actually work for a fucking living, Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: not only do these decisions create unnecessary work on most of their workers, it will create a rise in reported accidents. And here's why. Let's say your company wants to report everything. Even if you have a fucking paper cut, they want you to report it. Gotta report the paper cut because if it comes, if it gets infected, it can become an issue. At first, most workers aren't going, they ain't gonna take this shit serious. They're gonna put a band-aid on, they're gonna move along. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: But let's say it gets infected and the worker needs to take a day off or goes to the hospital and gets a shot, and now you got a recordable incident. That employee might get reprimanded for not reporting it earlier before it became a recordable. Or maybe both the employee and the supervisor get reprimanded for not reporting it. So what does that do? Now you create an environment that punishes people for taking care of minor issues on their own. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: You add in the fact that you might be punished monetarily by either getting a bad review. Which may lower your yearly raise or suspend it without pay for not reporting an incident. When the company does this shit, they create an environment that they want, well, at least what they think they want. An environment that everyone reports everything so they aren't punished. The problem with that is these people making the decisions don't understand that most of us work in dangerous environments and get some type of injury almost daily. Therefore, when you report every little fucking issue, recorded incidents are gonna go up. So how does the company handle this? Well, from what I see, the answer is more ridicule for the workers. Now they have to be safer and still bring the same results. They have to fill out more paperwork, wear more PPE, tend more safety classes, and hear almost daily how they need to be safer. Corporate office wants to micromanage so much of your day that they don't realize that they are the ones creating issues for themselves. If you punish me for trying to just work through a small injury, then the next time I'm following the injury rules to the T, I will become by the book Bob. And we're going to report Jason: Mm. Bryan: every ailment I get while I'm at work. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And yet they can't understand why safety incidents are on the rise. Does this make sense? Jason: Man, you're gonna get me in trouble. Bryan: Ain't it the truth though? It's like, Jason: Yeah, it is. Bryan: man, we we got a problem. we we had twenty incidents in the last month. Well didn't you tell us to report all of Yeah, but you Jason: Yeah. Bryan: y you getting hurt. We we'll always get hurt. It's just we wasn't reporting it. Jason: Yeah. I mean if geez. Bryan: It's like, what the fuck? What do you want me to do? You want me to go out there and armor? You know? Jason: Yeah. Wonder if they got safety stuff for like UFC fighters. Bryan: Yeah, I think. Man, I was sitting through that thing and they were talking about it and they're like, they were bitching about safety incidents. Like, well, just a couple months ago, y'all wrote some people up for not reporting some some incidents. Jason: Right. Bryan: Well, now everybody's reporting incidents. So not, I mean, this is not fucking And then you mad. Jason: Yeah. You're creating that. Yeah, you're creating that. And now you're upset about it. Bryan: Yeah. It's like, what the fuck's wrong with you people? Well you Jason: Yeah. Bryan: I don't. You gotta be safer, Jason. You gotta be Jason: Yeah, it's like your wife saying, Bryan., you're touching me too much. Bryan., you're touching me. And then you stop t why'd you stop touching me? Do you not love me? Bryan: Why'd you start touching me? Jason: Do you not love me? I'm Bryan: Doing exactly what you told me to do. But that's not what I wanted. It's like, Jason: Damn. Yeah. Bryan: you know, are we being run by everybody's wife? And I'm not saying everybody in the corporate office is a DEI hire, but what when we talked about the what is the the secretary, the press secretary, and how bad she was, Jason: yeah. yeah. Bryan: that was a DEI hire. You Jason: yeah. Bryan: know, i I don't care how you look at it, she was hired because she was a pretty blonde woman. That's Jason: Well Bryan: just what it was. I I don't know any other qualifications she had 'cause yeah, no. Jason: this last one, yeah. Yeah, but I was talking about that black the black girl from Biden. Bryan: Well, see, that was the problem I had is everybody talked about her being a DEI hire. And I'll be honest with you, I didn't like Kree Kareen John Pierre. It it wasn't even because you know, she everybody said she was DEI. She was she just wasn't that smart as a press secretary. And when Caroline Jason: No, it's yeah, she's Bryan: Levitt come in, that showed, I mean, Caroline Levitt was great, you know, she was Jason: No, she handled herself well. Bryan: really good. Jason: Why'd she leave? Bryan: I don't know if she was pregnant. don't know, maybe 'cause Trump left her on a plane that might have got blown up in Iran or something. I don't know. Jason: Time. Bryan: No, you don't remember whenever Trump took the the Yeah, and Jason: They had to sneak him off in the yeah. Bryan: she was still on the plane. Maybe she was like, that motherfucker will let me die. I don't know. Jason: Yeah. He was the de the the decoy. Bryan: I don't know exactly why, honestly. But yeah, so she left when this other blonde comes in, and man, she reads worse than me. It's like, what the fuck? It's Jason: When I can't understand ya, we got problems, woman. Bryan: like, good lord. Yeah shit. Jason: Like if we went out on a date and I was trying to get frizzy I ain't giving you something to read, I'll tell you that right now. Cause you turn me off. You might be hot, but woo you struggle. Bryan: Well, she was she was bad. She was that was really bad. Yeah if you if you haven't watched it yet, you ought to watch it. I'm serious. It is something to watch. Jason: All right, I'll have to. Bryan: It's it's like I think it was like 17 minutes long because I showed some of it Jason: Holy shit. They they tore up for seventeen minutes, huh? Bryan: No, it didn't like tear her up. She was just you need to watch that. Jason: Did Douchey get her? Bryan: Yeah. But you need to watch that, and they got a couple of spoofs of it. And the spoofs are really fucking funny. I didn't see any from Sunday live, but there's one of them that's really fucking good. It's fucking hilarious. But you gotta watch the the press conference first. Yeah, so Jason: Yeah, so you get the smooth. Bryan: you understand the jokes that are. All right. Jason: Yeah, I mean. Bryan: So if any of this hits Or you want to push back or just share your own story, reach out to us and email us at the Sens and Senseless Podcast at Outlook.com. Keep the conversation real. We enjoy it. All right. Jason, you got anything before we close this out? Jason: No, close her out there, bud. Bryan: All right, so billions of dollars in our country buy the rich influence, Jason: Mm. Bryan: not representation. You're told you get. Politicians sell pieces of themselves to stay in the game. Blind loyalty turns politics into religion. While the some of us stay transactional. The propaganda and the constant fights, left, right, center shrinking, are how the show stays on. Tom never quite catches Jerry because that would be the end of the show. And people running our country won't let the sittern get too big because it would end their show as well. All right, Jason. Hope y'all enjoyed tonight. I enjoyed myself. if y'all still Jason: I enjoyed it. Bryan: with us, drop a comment. You know, let us know one thing that stood out. What you see in the midterms, where you are. And don't forget, like, share, follow, subscribe. It matters until next time. This is Since the Sisters Podcast. I'm Bryan.. He's Jason. Peace. Jason: I'm Jason. Peace.