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Florida’s New Dem Senate Nominee Goes Off the Rails · 3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch.
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Speaker 2: Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America
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Speaker 2: and Jim Garrity of National Review.
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Speaker 1: Free martinis coming up, So.
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Speaker 3: Glad you're with us for the Friday edition of The
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Speaker 3: Three Martini Lunch and Jim. One of the first things
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Speaker 3: that Mike Rodgers did after abdul Lsayed won the Michigan
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Speaker 3: US Senate primary for the Democrats was say to the
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Speaker 3: nearly fifty percent of the Democrats who showed up for
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Speaker 3: that primary who voted for Haley Stevens, hey, if you've
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Speaker 3: got problems with abdul Lsayed, there's a place for you
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Speaker 3: in this campaign. And yesterday the Democrats for Mike Rogers
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Speaker 3: held an event, and the Democrats don't like it very much.
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Speaker 3: They're complaining that everybody who showed up asn't a real
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Speaker 3: Democrat and things like that, but many of them either
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Speaker 3: are or were very recently. Rabbi Asher Lapatin is from Michigan.
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Speaker 3: He's also Rom Emmanuel's rabbi, which is not insignificant given
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Speaker 3: the plans we think Rob Emmanuel has for twenty twenty eight.
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Speaker 3: But here is what Lapatin reminded everyone about abdul Lsayed.
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Speaker 4: When Amdela Saide was asked about the terrorist who attempted
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Speaker 4: to blow up a synagogue right here in Michigan with
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Speaker 4: hundreds of children like sailor, hundreds of children only said
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Speaker 4: he said, hurt people, hurt people. Sadly it has shown
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Speaker 4: only contempt for Jews as a people and called my
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Speaker 4: people blood thirsty and the reason Michigan, our great state
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Speaker 4: of Michigan, doesn't have the funds it needs.
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Speaker 3: So then there was Karen Whitsit. She is a member
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Speaker 3: of the Michigan House of Representatives elected multiple times as
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Speaker 3: a Democrat, announced that relatively recently months maybe last year,
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Speaker 3: that because of her faith, she can no longer in
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Speaker 3: good conscience, you know, run again as a Democrat. Then
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Speaker 3: she eventually left the party. I don't believe she has
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Speaker 3: become a Republican yet, but she was taking aim at
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Speaker 3: the signature issue of the Lsayed campaign, which is Medicare
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Speaker 3: for All.
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Speaker 5: I did not want to lose my Blue Cross Blue shield.
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Speaker 5: My husband is operating engineers, and I want my health insurance.
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Speaker 5: I do not think people really realize what is on
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Speaker 5: the line. You will lose your health insurance if the
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Speaker 5: other candidate gets in office. There's no if answer butts
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Speaker 5: about it. That is what Medicare for all means. So
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Speaker 5: if you enjoy going to er now and sitting for
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Speaker 5: six hours, get ready to enjoy that a whole lot
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Speaker 5: longer because you may be sitting there for six weeks.
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Speaker 5: That means you will be in a clinic, in a hospital,
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Speaker 5: wherever they say that you go. Once again, you say
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Speaker 5: you don't want government in your business, Well, the government
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Speaker 5: will be controlling your health care. They would control your doctors,
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Speaker 5: they would control your medication, they would control your visits,
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Speaker 5: they would control everything. So, for no other reason, common
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Speaker 5: sense prevails that Mike Rodgers is the candidate for you, j.
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Speaker 3: This is a smart strategy for a number of reasons.
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Speaker 3: First of all, I don't think there's a lot of
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Speaker 3: Republicans tempted to vote for abdul L's site, the Democrats
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Speaker 3: who voted for Haley Stevens, who are skittish at best
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Speaker 3: when it comes to abdul Lsayed. And also because the
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Speaker 3: Senate race is probably going to come down to whether
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Speaker 3: abdul Lsayed can make it about Trump or whether Mike
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Speaker 3: Rodgers can make it about l Saied.
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Speaker 1: This is exactly what the Rogers campaign should be doing
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Speaker 1: is doing. I contrast this with l Saied speaking at
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Speaker 1: the Islamic Society of North America conference on Labor Day.
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Speaker 1: Some rather unsavory characters are speaking at that conference. And
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Speaker 1: as I said earlier this week, if your name is
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Speaker 1: Abdul al Sayed and you're going to be the first
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Speaker 1: Muslim US senator, you're going to do fine amongst the
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Speaker 1: Muslim voters of the state of Michigan. You're probably going
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Speaker 1: to do more than fine. You're going to do terrific. Probably.
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Speaker 1: So an interesting question is, of all, look, there's a
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Speaker 1: limited amount of time between now and when early voting starts.
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Speaker 1: Why are you allocating your time to an event that
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Speaker 1: it's going to have some political costs, It's going to
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Speaker 1: associate you with some controversial figures instead of focusing on
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Speaker 1: any other group. You possibly could go to the apple
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Speaker 1: picking festival, go to any other event, do anything else
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Speaker 1: other than this, And yet Abdul los a Ed is
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Speaker 1: choosing this. You know, traditionally the general election is a
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Speaker 1: race to the middle. I think the lesson of this
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Speaker 1: is that a los Aed doesn't really want to do this.
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Speaker 1: It's not surprising that some of the Democrats who look
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Speaker 1: at Abdul Alsayed look at them and say, I can't
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Speaker 1: support this guy. That would be Jewish. It's not surprising
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Speaker 1: that some of them are strong supporters of the state
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Speaker 1: of Israel. In the primary, A Dulas Sayed said, a
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Speaker 1: vote for l Sayed is a vote for America. A
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Speaker 1: vote for Stevens is a vote for Israel. Now that's
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Speaker 1: you know. I'll leave it to you to decide whether
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Speaker 1: that's anti Semitic. I don't you know Stevens is Protestant
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Speaker 1: but describes herself as a Zionist. But I do think
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Speaker 1: that there's also a chunk of voters out there. Maybe
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Speaker 1: there's strong supportive of real but there are publish people
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Speaker 1: who are probably like very casual supportive of Israel. I
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Speaker 1: don't really think about the Middle East that much at all.
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Speaker 1: There's an argument to be said, doesn't abdulasa Ed seem
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Speaker 1: kind of obsessed on the issue you of Israel on
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Speaker 1: your list of concerns cost of living, inflation, grocery bills,
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Speaker 1: gas bills, taxes, illegal immigrants, all these kinds of issues,
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Speaker 1: aren't you like, doesn't focus on Israel seem a little
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Speaker 1: monomaniacal When Abdulasid talks about it. I mentioned illegal immigration
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Speaker 1: in a moment ago while on Hassan Piker's podcast. He
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Speaker 1: agreed with the host that illegal immigrant crime is not
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Speaker 1: an issue and that's so low no one should be
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Speaker 1: worrying about it. Again, ready made attack at flodder.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 1: So if you are if you are Mike Rodgers, this
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Speaker 1: is a target rich environment. You need to broaden your
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Speaker 1: appeal as much as possible. There's a lot of Democrats
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Speaker 1: out there who are probably looking at this guy and saying,
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Speaker 1: I know this was a very divided primary. This is
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Speaker 1: exactly what he needs to do. We will probably see
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Speaker 1: how this is working in the next round of pulling.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and kind of like James Tallerico down in Texas.
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Speaker 3: You know, he's not doing that well with black voters,
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Speaker 3: or at least not as well as most Democrats because
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Speaker 3: of the primary against Jasmin Crockett and that sort of thing,
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Speaker 3: And so he's pandering about.
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Speaker 6: School choice and voter idea and that sort of thing. Else.
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Speaker 3: I ed'sline this week was, Hey, you know, I have
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Speaker 3: African ancestry too. He's from Egypt, which is slightly different
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Speaker 3: type of Yeah, I think.
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Speaker 1: African Americans traditionally don't buy into that argument very much
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Speaker 1: at all.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think so either.
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Speaker 1: They also don't think that Elon Musk or Sherry's they're
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Speaker 1: on are Africans either, because they were born in the
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Speaker 1: continent of Africa that they count as African Americans. They
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Speaker 1: know exactly what that term means. They don't like it
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Speaker 1: when people get cute with it, and I don't think that, Like,
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Speaker 1: if I'm the Rogers campaign, I'm putting that in as
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Speaker 1: many African American radio stations as possible.
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Speaker 6: It's not a bad idea at all. So again, going
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Speaker 6: to be tight.
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Speaker 3: Again, Republicans have only won one Senate race there, I
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Speaker 3: think in the last fifty years, so it's not going
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Speaker 3: to be a layup.
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Speaker 1: But Spencer Abraham.
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Speaker 3: Nineteen ninety four, Yeah, the only time in our conscious lifetime,
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Speaker 3: and then he was defeated after one term. So it's
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Speaker 3: slash three m L. All right, Jim, Well, Abdulsi ed
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Speaker 3: was certainly not a surprise on election night, but certainly
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Speaker 3: one of the more radical candidates to get through the primary,
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Speaker 3: especially now that cran Platner's not on the ballot up
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Speaker 3: there in Maine. But of course we got the big
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Speaker 3: shock this week. No one shocked more than Alexander Vinman,
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Speaker 3: much to the delight of so many people on the right.
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Speaker 3: But the nominee for US Senate in Florida is Angie Nixon.
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Speaker 3: And Angie Nixon, as we said on Wednesday, a recent,
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Speaker 3: recently new member of the Democratic Socialists of America. And
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Speaker 3: now she's trying to backtrack, Well doesn't mean I believe everything.
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Speaker 3: And they're asking her, well, do you believe what Bernie believes? Well, yeah,
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Speaker 3: we'll we live a lot.
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Speaker 6: Of what Bernie believes. What do you differ?
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Speaker 3: It's kind of a tough answer to give, but we've
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Speaker 3: got evidence of previous conversations here.
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Speaker 6: Jim.
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Speaker 3: You know you would expect someone in a red leaning
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Speaker 3: state like Florida to say, you know, you can vote
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Speaker 3: for me as a Democrat and all work with Republicans
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Speaker 3: to get what needs to be done for Florida. Is
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Speaker 3: that what Angie Nixon would do not even close.
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Speaker 2: And folks often say like, oh, are you going to
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Speaker 2: be able to work across the aisle with the Republicans.
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Speaker 6: They're not trying to work across the eye.
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Speaker 2: They're literally trying to kill it and they are doing
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Speaker 2: it one camera, yeah, and not being held accountable like
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Speaker 2: actually state sanctioned violence. They've been doing it in a
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Speaker 2: black community, and they're doing it even more so now
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Speaker 2: with Ice. Ice is now a weaponized pair military force
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Speaker 2: that is designed to terrorize us.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 6: And then of course there's Medicare for all.
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Speaker 3: We just talked about that in the previous Martini and Karen,
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Speaker 3: what's it explaining why you really don't want that? Because
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Speaker 3: it's not really free and it's gonna be much worse healthcare.
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Speaker 3: But here's angie next prescription on healthcare.
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Speaker 2: So healthcare is something that we need to push for.
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Speaker 2: We need to extend the subsidies, reopen up enrollment, and
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Speaker 2: demand that these healthcare company, these health insurance companies drive
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Speaker 2: down their premiums, and then we need to reform ACA
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Speaker 2: and then go to the draw board to figure out
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Speaker 2: what we need to do to pass you Medicare for
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Speaker 2: all like period like it could be done. They have
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Speaker 2: the money for it, they just don't have the wheel
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Speaker 2: and the value that the backball for it. So that's
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Speaker 2: number two.
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Speaker 6: Have the money for it. We just talked yesterday.
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Speaker 3: We're forty trillion dollars in and racking up more than
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Speaker 3: two trillion dollars a year. So I'm not sure where
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Speaker 3: she thinks this magical pile of money is, Jim, but
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Speaker 3: you're getting what you are seeing right there, Florida.
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Speaker 6: Beware, Ashley Moody. I think is looking pretty good right now.
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Speaker 1: Nixon was born in Jacksonville, greg So why would Ice
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Speaker 1: be terrorizing her? Does she fear to being deported? Does
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Speaker 1: she like you know, there's just this assumption that literally
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Speaker 1: trying to kill us. Once again, people have followed into
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Speaker 1: the habit of saying literally when they mean figuratively, unless like,
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Speaker 1: if some Republican has literally tried to kill her, I
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Speaker 1: would like to know how so that person can be
11:14
Speaker 1: pressed come up on charges of attempted murder. I don't
11:18
Speaker 1: think serving a double bacon cheeseburger would count, even if
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Speaker 1: that's bad for your cholesterol. Serving alcohol, serving tobacco, yes,
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Speaker 1: all these things are very bad for you, but they
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Speaker 1: really don't make the qualifies literally trying to kill us.
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Speaker 1: They have the money for it. Again, I wish every
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Speaker 1: Democrat who's calling for medicare for all would look at
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Speaker 1: the experience of Vermont. I say, probably about fifteen years ago.
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Speaker 1: It was a democratic governor at the time, democratic state legislature.
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Speaker 1: It's Vermont. There are very few Republicans, although they do
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Speaker 1: have a Republican governor right now, but basically at that
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Speaker 1: point it was an all democratic state government. They said,
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Speaker 1: we are going to do single payer. We're going to
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Speaker 1: have the state pay for everyone's self insurance. We're going
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Speaker 1: to make the change. And then they realized that just
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Speaker 1: in the first year, culvering all the people in the
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Speaker 1: state of Vermont was going to require roughly three times
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Speaker 1: two to three times the current level of income from
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Speaker 1: the state from all sources everywhere. So effectively, all state
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Speaker 1: taxes would have to double in order to cover that.
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Speaker 6: That is the.
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Speaker 1: That's the you know, so like it's one of those
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Speaker 1: things where they scraped the plan. Now again, there were
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Speaker 1: no Republicans out there, There were no sinister powerful corporations.
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Speaker 1: This was entirely Democrats who looked at the numbers, had
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Speaker 1: promised to do it, had pledged to do it, and
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Speaker 1: talked about how great it was going to be, looked
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Speaker 1: at it and realized, oh my god, we can't do this.
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Speaker 1: We just don't have enough money in the state to
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Speaker 1: do this. If we did this, we would effectively double
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Speaker 1: everyone's tax rate. And know people would not love it
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Speaker 1: because they weren't paying for the health insurance anymore, and
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Speaker 1: they abandoned the plants. If Vermont can't do it, why
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Speaker 1: are they convinced? The state of Florida, which is much larger,
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Speaker 1: has a much larger population, Say Craig, do any old
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Speaker 1: people live in Florida?
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Speaker 6: A lot? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say. Central Florida has been jokingly
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Speaker 1: referred to as God's waiting room. By the way, I
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Speaker 1: did that once on the stage of the Heritage Foundation
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Speaker 1: while interviewing then Governor Rick Scott, and I have to admit,
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Speaker 1: don't play poker with this man. He does not crack like,
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Speaker 1: he didn't roll his eyes. He didn't crack a grin.
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Speaker 1: He just had zero reaction whatsoever. What I suggested that
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Speaker 1: a portion of his constituents were just sitting around waiting
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Speaker 1: to die. If you're in central Florida, I love you.
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Speaker 1: You're wonderful. Less of a fan of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Finally,
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Speaker 1: if I am Ashley Moody and I'm running for this,
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Speaker 1: do you know who I want to come campaign with
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Speaker 1: me on the trail as I'm running against Nixon Greg
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Speaker 1: Senator John Kennedy. We know that turned out that's true.
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Speaker 1: I could be honest this time.
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Speaker 3: Yes, they don't have to rely on votes in Illinois
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Speaker 3: this time. So it's fascinating to watch. But yeah, you know,
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Speaker 3: you know I'm not a socialist. You elect a socialist.
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Speaker 3: Don't be surprised with the views you get. We kind
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Speaker 3: of know from not only the DSA platform, but all
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Speaker 3: these other figures out there who just spout what they spout,
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Speaker 3: you know, reality like you said in Vermont, kind of
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Speaker 3: smacks him in the face sometimes. But considering how strident
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Speaker 3: she and lsay ed and some of these others that
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Speaker 3: were elected to the House or basically elected the House
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Speaker 3: in New York City still have to win in November,
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Speaker 3: but if they get enough people who think like them.
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Speaker 6: This could be a serious, serious situation.
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Speaker 1: Once again, let's just point out that, like, if you're
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Speaker 1: in Flora, if you're the Moody campaign, or for that matter,
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Speaker 1: the Donalds campaign, I think you should have as many
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Speaker 1: you know, Nixon colon the socialist candidate for Florida. It
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Speaker 1: is all over South Florida, all over Little Havana, all
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Speaker 1: over Miami. Just like everyone know this is the socialist candidate.
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Speaker 1: Just do your little part to help them out, to
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Speaker 1: make sure everybody knows exactly who which candidate is and
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Speaker 1: what they stand for.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and don't forget that the DSA, which she is
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Speaker 3: a member of, had a press release was it last
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Speaker 3: week celebrating what would have been the one hundredth anniversary
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Speaker 3: of Castro's birth. I mean, that's just Taylor May campaign
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Speaker 3: material for you. If you're Ashley Moody, you really can't
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Speaker 3: screw this up, and if you do, you got your
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Speaker 3: problems than an election. But anyway, good to know exactly
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Speaker 3: what we would be getting with Angie Nixon. But thankfully
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Speaker 3: it's Florida and it probably won't happen, but we will
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Speaker 3: to get injured people to safety and off the ship,
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Speaker 3: and then he, with no training whatsoever, grabbed one of
17:12
Speaker 3: the anti aircraft guns and started firing at Japanese ships.
17:14
Speaker 3: Navy says he shot down one. He and other people
17:16
Speaker 3: said he probably shot down four or five, maybe even
17:19
Speaker 3: six planes that day. Sadly, he died later in the war.
17:22
Speaker 3: He was awarded the Navy Cross that day and as
17:25
Speaker 3: a result, the Trump administration actually a while ago, I
17:29
Speaker 3: think maybe this in the first Trump administration. Yeah, CNN
17:32
Speaker 3: reporting that they decided to name an aircraft carrier after
17:35
Speaker 3: Dory Miller, and now that naming of that aircraft carrier
17:40
Speaker 3: is apparently under reconsideration. CNN and NBC with slightly different
17:43
Speaker 3: versions of this story. CNN saying they're working to rename
17:47
Speaker 3: an aircraft carrier under construction, and in the third paragraph
17:50
Speaker 3: it says there have been internal conversations about renaming it
17:54
Speaker 3: to honor President Trump. NBC says pretty much at the
17:57
Speaker 3: top that they want to swap out name, so don't
18:01
Speaker 3: know what's happening here. As you point out in the
18:02
Speaker 3: Morning Jolt today, Jim, this seems to be bubbling up
18:05
Speaker 3: from the Navy as a way to honor Trump, not
18:07
Speaker 3: necessarily something that he has asked for. I think it's
18:12
Speaker 3: right to push back on this, given the heroism of
18:14
Speaker 3: Dorian Miller, and as you point out that presidents normally
18:17
Speaker 3: anyway get their own aircraft carrier eventually.
18:20
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, first of all, for those of you who
18:23
Speaker 1: saw that very uneven Michael Bay movie from a couple
18:27
Speaker 1: of years ago, Doris Miller was the person played by
18:30
Speaker 1: Cuba Gooding Junior in the scene that made you say, wow,
18:33
Speaker 1: why is this whole movie not about this guy? Why
18:36
Speaker 1: am I following Ben Affleck movie Team America World Police
18:40
Speaker 1: as a whole song about that movie and the choice
18:43
Speaker 1: is made in it. But either way, like indistriputably a
18:46
Speaker 1: major American hero. Now, I've heard some people saying, well, look,
18:49
Speaker 1: you don't usually name aircraft carriers after enlisted men. Yes,
18:54
Speaker 1: we have, like starting after Franklin Roosevelt passed away, an
18:57
Speaker 1: aircraft carrier was named the Franklin d Ruse Belt, you know.
19:01
Speaker 1: But also in the interim We've named them after admirals
19:05
Speaker 1: like Chester Nimitz. We've named them after lawmakers like Carl
19:09
Speaker 1: Vinson and John Stennis. Sometimes it's named like the enterprise
19:12
Speaker 1: like concept rather than some also battles, famous battles in
19:16
Speaker 1: American history. So we like the idea of naming a
19:20
Speaker 1: aircraft carrier after Trump by itself is not you know, uh,
19:24
Speaker 1: it's not inherently a terrible thing or or a deviation
19:28
Speaker 1: from that. We do have the USS William J. Clinton
19:31
Speaker 1: is supposed to be has not to start a bid
19:33
Speaker 1: building up, but it's on the drawing board, Greg, I'm
19:36
Speaker 1: understanding is that it will penetrate enemy defenses without warning,
19:40
Speaker 1: whereas the USS George W. Bush, also on the drawing
19:43
Speaker 1: board but not having been construction, will be known for short,
19:46
Speaker 1: direct attacks. It's not going to be known for long, elaborate,
19:50
Speaker 1: you know, fancy dancy attacks. Be very direct also can existent.
19:54
Speaker 1: For those wondering, you know, there is no plans. It's
19:57
Speaker 1: at this point for a USS Barack Obama insert jokes here.
20:00
Speaker 1: There is a USSGM Carter, but it's not an aircraft carrier.
20:03
Speaker 1: It is a submarine that descends rapidly, much like Carter's
20:07
Speaker 1: approval ratings. Now, now I've gotten all the jokes out
20:09
Speaker 1: of the way, this is a terrible idea. This is
20:12
Speaker 1: an Asdine idea. It is so spectacularly wrongheaded. I almost
20:19
Speaker 1: can't believe how that this ever got any serious consideration.
20:23
Speaker 1: Doris Miller is absolutely an American hero. I certainly have
20:26
Speaker 1: no objection to the idea of saying, oh, we're gonna
20:28
Speaker 1: name this after an enlisted guy. That seems like a
20:30
Speaker 1: weird criteria to get tripped up on. There is apparently
20:33
Speaker 1: another ship that has been named after him. But like,
20:36
Speaker 1: once you've announced we're naming this ship after this figure,
20:41
Speaker 1: six years go by to suddenly say, oops, waite, never mind,
20:45
Speaker 1: we're not gonna name it. That that does not strike
20:47
Speaker 1: me as a good idea. That strikes me as like
20:49
Speaker 1: it would be very hard for people not to see
20:51
Speaker 1: it as some sort of insult to the memory of
20:53
Speaker 1: Doris Miller. The second thing is, as I mentioned, you
20:57
Speaker 1: could name something after Trump someday if you started an
21:01
Speaker 1: announcement of a new one today. I kind of did
21:03
Speaker 1: my back of the envelope math. It probably would be
21:06
Speaker 1: ready somewhere in the mid twenty thirties. That obviously build
21:10
Speaker 1: long ways up. But Trump would be ninety two years
21:12
Speaker 1: old with that. By the way, for those wondering building
21:16
Speaker 1: the first ship of a line can take up like
21:18
Speaker 1: building the newest gerald Ford carrier that took twelve years.
21:22
Speaker 1: Now you're like, oh my god, why if it takes
21:23
Speaker 1: a look, well, this is the new kind. This is
21:25
Speaker 1: you know, it's not like they have an existing blueprint.
21:27
Speaker 1: You're learning as you go. It's the first time you've
21:29
Speaker 1: built some of these systems. And that's one of the
21:31
Speaker 1: reason it takes so long. The George HW. Bush aircraft carrier,
21:35
Speaker 1: that one got built in six years. That was the
21:36
Speaker 1: last one of that kind. And it's one of those
21:38
Speaker 1: things where like the more you build aircraft carriers, the
21:41
Speaker 1: easier it gets. Usually over time you become more familiar
21:43
Speaker 1: with how to do things quickly and efficiently. Anyway, as
21:47
Speaker 1: of this point, it doesn't sound like these talks have
21:49
Speaker 1: gotten off the ground. I think naming it after Donald
21:51
Speaker 1: Trump is a terrible naming this. Renaming this ship after
21:54
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is not a good idea. You could argue
21:57
Speaker 1: we should not be naming things after like I believe Eve.
22:00
Speaker 1: The Jimmy Carter submarine was the first ship named after
22:02
Speaker 1: a living president. But of course, you know, Carter had
22:05
Speaker 1: been getting up in years at that point. I think
22:08
Speaker 1: the idea of naming a ship after a sitting president
22:10
Speaker 1: is an astonishingly bad idea. I figure this is just
22:14
Speaker 1: some you know, idiotic sycophant in the you know, somewhere
22:18
Speaker 1: in the Department of Defense, somewhere in the Pentagon and saying, oh,
22:21
Speaker 1: how can we ingratiate ourselves with Trump more or something
22:23
Speaker 1: like that. But I also point out Greg because I
22:26
Speaker 1: start this off. Look, when you're a president, should you
22:29
Speaker 1: have some things named after you? Indisputably, we have the
22:32
Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, the Trump Accounts for
22:35
Speaker 1: your Children, the Trump RX prescription drug program, the forthcoming
22:38
Speaker 1: Trump IRA, the forthcoming Trump Class of US battleships. By
22:42
Speaker 1: the way, one of the interesting ideas I've heard floated
22:44
Speaker 1: is that they want to get rid of the Trump
22:45
Speaker 1: class of battleships because naval warfare is evolving away from battleships.
22:50
Speaker 1: So the idea is, well, we'll take away the Trump
22:52
Speaker 1: class battleships, but will name the aircraft carrier after him,
22:55
Speaker 1: and that'll balance it out in his mind or something.
22:57
Speaker 1: The Trump branded you know, National Park, past the Trump
23:00
Speaker 1: branded US passports, Donald J. Trump International Airport, and Palm Beach,
23:05
Speaker 1: all his personal properties. They're trying to put his name
23:07
Speaker 1: back onto the Kennedy Center, and of course his face
23:10
Speaker 1: is on giant banners across a bunch of at least
23:12
Speaker 1: four Federal Department buildings. Greg, doesn't that seem like enough?
23:16
Speaker 6: It would be enough for me.
23:17
Speaker 3: I don't love naming anything after people who are still alive. Maybe,
23:20
Speaker 3: you know, after a coach has long retired and they
23:23
Speaker 3: named the field or something after him, That's about as
23:25
Speaker 3: far as I'd be willing to go, because you just
23:27
Speaker 3: never know what's going to happen. What if you name
23:28
Speaker 3: something after Bill Cosby and then all of a sudden.
23:30
Speaker 6: Oh well, we got to redo that.
23:32
Speaker 3: So it's always better to name stuff for people after
23:36
Speaker 3: they die, you can still honor them.
23:37
Speaker 6: I just don't like naming things after living people.
23:39
Speaker 1: There's a ton of things all across this country named
23:42
Speaker 1: after Scissars Chavez, and they're all going to get renamed
23:45
Speaker 1: the next year or so.
23:47
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm glad you brought up the horrific movie Pearl
23:50
Speaker 3: Harbor after a masterpiece like saving Private Ryan Couple leaders earlier,
23:54
Speaker 3: and then it's almost like the Japanese attack on Pearl
23:57
Speaker 3: Harbor was a distraction from this love Trianglevlving Affleck and
24:01
Speaker 3: Josh Hartnett and Kate Beckinsdale, and it just it just
24:04
Speaker 3: like that.
24:04
Speaker 1: Look, if we're gonna if you're gonna cast a World
24:06
Speaker 1: War Two hero, Greg, don't you isn't your first thought
24:09
Speaker 1: always Alec Baldwin.
24:12
Speaker 3: Alec Baldwin as Jimmy Doolittle, even though that's like the
24:15
Speaker 3: inspiring end to the story that we you know, we
24:17
Speaker 3: got another and we.
24:18
Speaker 1: Love him as Jack Ryan at the start of his career,
24:20
Speaker 1: you know, we didn't always hat Alec Baldwin. He just
24:22
Speaker 1: turned himself into this, you know, lightning rod of a figure.
24:25
Speaker 6: So yeah, yeah, that was not well executed at all,
24:29
Speaker 6: but they did.
24:30
Speaker 1: My favorite Greg, My favorite Baldwin brother is Adam who
24:35
Speaker 1: but for those who don't get the joke out of
24:37
Speaker 1: Baldwin is not related to the Baldwin brothers of Hollywood.
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Speaker 3: All Right, Jim, good news, bad news out of California yesterday.
25:54
Speaker 3: We kind of made fun that they got nothing accomplished
25:56
Speaker 3: in terms of updating the vote total send that special
25:58
Speaker 3: House selection to replace Eric Swallwell, well, it turns out
26:01
Speaker 3: they got a lot done after we talked yesterday. In fact,
26:04
Speaker 3: they're up to ninety five percent of the vote and now,
26:06
Speaker 3: which is I think record speed for California, and by
26:10
Speaker 3: about six percent. The new member of Congress is Aisha Wahab,
26:14
Speaker 3: who is currently a state lawmaker, will be a member
26:16
Speaker 3: of Congress immediately. She defeated a more moderate woman named
26:21
Speaker 3: Melissa Hernandez, who had had backing from Apak. The two
26:24
Speaker 3: will face off again in November for the.
26:26
Speaker 6: Next full term.
26:27
Speaker 3: So, Jim, I guess, good job only taking three days
26:31
Speaker 3: to get this done for California, which is pretty good
26:34
Speaker 3: for them, But it also looks like we might have
26:36
Speaker 3: another radical on our hands here.
26:38
Speaker 1: So Greg, just a review. From Tuesday to Wednesday, zero
26:42
Speaker 1: percent of the vote was counted, But from Wednesday to Thursday,
26:47
Speaker 1: like let's say, thirty three percent of the vote was counted. Yeah, okay,
26:51
Speaker 1: so one possibility they actually weren't counting votes and they
26:54
Speaker 1: just didn't update the website, which is you know, like
26:56
Speaker 1: you know, it could be a glitch or something like that.
26:58
Speaker 1: But either way, work Wednesday. You chose not to. That's
27:01
Speaker 1: the other explanation there is just like, look, we who
27:04
Speaker 1: run the elections in California, we just don't think it's
27:08
Speaker 1: important enough to count votes on the Wednesday after an election. Yeah.
27:12
Speaker 3: I like living in states where you know the eleven
27:14
Speaker 3: o'clock news can tell you who won. That's that's not
27:17
Speaker 3: a lot to ask, And I think it's true for
27:18
Speaker 3: most of the time here in Virginia.
27:19
Speaker 6: It's true in Florence.
27:20
Speaker 3: Drew in a lot of states, but never California unless
27:23
Speaker 3: it's an absolute blowout. If it's a competitive race, it's
27:25
Speaker 3: going to linger on. But I guess forty eight hours
27:28
Speaker 3: for California is probably good. If that's good, you've got
27:33
Speaker 3: a long way to go anyway, Jim, have a great weekend.
27:35
Speaker 3: I'll see them Monday.
27:36
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