ICE Arrests, G7 Iran Deal & Social Security Fixes

[00:00:11]Welcome back to History's Burn Book.

[00:00:12]Crack open History's Year Book and remind historical figures that if they didn't want to be roasted, they should have made better choices.

[00:00:22]>> As Lady Bird.

[00:00:26]>> I'M A BIRD NOW. WOO.

[00:00:29]>> WELL, when I listened to your podcast yesterday, which I really enjoyed, I think you do a wonderful job of, you know, just covering the basics and for people that really need to learn these things and anyway, I just thought your voice just sounds like a songbird.

[00:00:46]>> Well, thank you.

[00:00:47]>> I got up this morning and I got up this morning and I said, I'm going to turn Katie into a robin in colonial garb.

[00:00:54]So, here it is. Here it is again. Here it is again.

[00:00:57]>> Welcome back to History's Burn Book.

[00:00:58]Crack open History's Year Book and remind historical figures that if they didn't want to be roasted, they should have made better choices.

[00:01:13]>> That's a good line, too. If they didn't want to be roasted, they should have made better choices. I like that.

[00:01:17]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:01:20]>> But yeah, I I the podcasts is I've got them all set up over on uh Oh, Agri's already here.

[00:01:27]>> Hi Agri.

[00:01:27]>> Hey Agri, did you Did you get Did you get it Did you get her in time, Agri, to see uh Katie as a >> as a bird >> as a bird in colonial garb?

[00:01:40]>> Oh, goodness.

[00:01:41]>> Yeah.

[00:01:42]>> No, it was fun recording those and it took me a while to to to um write them up and everything because um I wanted to make sure I had certain pieces, but other things that were more minuscule that didn't make sense to mention kind of things out. So, it was kind of picky choosy.

[00:02:02]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:02:04]You know, tell me about when I when I do these history videos that and and hold them to 60 seconds, uh the job is the main challenge is what to leave out.

[00:02:16]>> Yeah.

[00:02:17]>> There's so much you got to leave out when you do just that.

[00:02:20]>> Right. So, it was funny.

[00:02:22]>> your podcast all over here on this page, trailmix.cc/katie.

[00:02:29]>> And >> where they all are.

[00:02:30]>> I um it's funny cuz when I was talking about the constitutional the constitutional convention, I automatically thought of your video that you did of the the AI video you did of the other day of Ben Franklin just sitting there and sighing. That's my picture in my head the entire time I was recording that.

[00:02:47]>> Yeah. Cuz he was that particular day, you know, thanks to his diaries and everything, you can almost you can you can find out what what he was going through on a particular day, you know. And on that particular day, his foot was driving him crazy um with pain, his gout. And >> So, that's 1776, he has that line where he says, "I just wish King George felt like my big toe."

[00:03:17]>> Yeah.

[00:03:18]>> Yeah.

[00:03:19]>> Well, that's what King George was saying and you know, we know what happened from there.

[00:03:24]>> Yeah.

[00:03:25]He writes a whole lot about his foot.

[00:03:26]>> information about the EU site on today's trailmix. So, it's down at the bottom if you want to look at it cuz it won't let me post links over here on under comments.

[00:03:38]>> All right.

[00:03:40]Um I'm just getting our tech So, we're we're over on TikTok today. We'll see if we get any uh any activity. I'm setting up the comment page over there now. See if we get any Tic Tac Tic Tac Tic Tac Tic Tac.

[00:03:56]>> Tic Tac Tic Tac people.

[00:03:58]>> Tac people coming in. Yeah, we'll see.

[00:04:01]We'll see and um um Well, yeah, that's it there. We're That's our Tic Tac page right there.

[00:04:10]Well, yeah, that's it there. We're We get any chatters over there.

[00:04:14]And then of course we got G7 going on.

[00:04:16]We'll see what I'm going to dip into what the European >> still in the air and it remains is this a good deal? That is a question that I put to to the former National Security Advisor to Donald Trump, John Bolton, yesterday on Special Report on Euronews.

[00:04:30]Let's take a look.

[00:04:33]>> They interview him a lot here.

[00:04:34]>> deal for the United States. Uh Trump isn't thinking about the geo-strategic implications of the deal. He's thinking of one thing.

[00:04:43]He wants the straight open. He wants Gulf oil on international market.

[00:04:48]>> Europeans interview John Bolton a lot.

[00:04:50]He's He's almost like a I think he's as well-known there as he is here.

[00:04:56]Maybe more so.

[00:05:03]>> He just looks like a grouchy old man that yells at people to get off his lawn.

[00:05:08]>> Well, you know, Trump originally wouldn't hire him in the first term because he didn't like his mustache.

[00:05:14]>> Wilford Brimley on Ozempic.

[00:05:16]>> Yeah. Yes.

[00:05:18]>> Yeah.

[00:05:20]>> Poor Wilford Brimley.

[00:05:21]>> Yeah, you you you you needed to add the the Ozempic part. That's right.

[00:05:26]>> Did you see where they signed the agreement with Iran electronically?

[00:05:32]That it won't have a pen signature until Friday. Does that mean we can accuse him of using an auto pen?

[00:05:40]>> Right. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:05:42]>> Well, based on what based on what Israel says, I don't think it means human beings. anything.

[00:05:48]Cuz Israel is just going for it.

[00:05:52]They've basically said it means nothing to us. We This doesn't It's not good for Israeli security. Therefore, we don't agree.

[00:06:01]>> Well, I you know, I dug up after our show yesterday, I realized I had gotten the the word wrong is that Israeli ally of Netanyahu had not used the C-word about Vance. He called him scum. So, I had that I had that I needed to correct the record on there.

[00:06:18]>> That was in your head.

[00:06:22]>> I guess so.

[00:06:26]I I turned scum into the C-word. But anyway, it was a top ally of Netanyahu's who who I mean, he didn't do it. He wrote it in an actual tweet um calling um Vance scum and and then referred to Whitcoff and Kushner as the little Jew boys.

[00:06:45]>> Oh, which I thought was weird. I mean, I I don't understand why he would >> Because >> the guy's Jewish.

[00:06:53]>> And because because if is if Israelis don't like what somebody if somebody Jewish isn't doing something that is pro-Israeli, pro-Zionist, then they basically call they basically call them scum. They call them little they call they demean them.

[00:07:11]Because they're not Yeah. So, so um they didn't like what Kushner and Whitcoff could do that didn't help them. So, then they demeaned them.

[00:07:23]>> Mhm.

[00:07:25]>> Yeah.

[00:07:26]>> Well, there you go. Full screen comment page.

[00:07:29]Um and um Oh, yeah. I was going to like talk about this article that somebody sent this just before we got started.

[00:07:39]Looked pretty interesting here that Iran is saying that they actually hired senior psychologists uh to deal with Trump.

[00:07:50]Um because I guess because I think he's just so damn crazy they they needed psych Anyway, this is the actual quote from the Iranian official. We added two senior psychologists to the negotiations advisory circle so that we could shape message intended for for Trump from the perspective of managing what we regard as psychopathic behavior patterns.

[00:08:17]You know, it's pretty bad when people just when people who just who just slaughtered 30,000 of their own people uh call you a psychopath.

[00:08:29]>> Yeah.

[00:08:29]>> That's pretty bad when mass murderers call you a psychopath.

[00:08:38]But I I that makes sense.

[00:08:41]And then he and then he goes on to say Trump's reactions have improved noticeably since we began we began incorporating the recommendations of these advisors in written communication.

[00:08:51]Now, I think they're also using psychologists to get under his skin with those videos they those Lego videos, too. Cuz those are very well designed to go right after his vulnerabilities.

[00:09:04]>> Well, and then all the copycats, Persian boy and and brick something I don't remember. I mean, there's a lot of copycats out there.

[00:09:13]>> Yeah. Yeah, I noticed it that there are now and >> Yeah.

[00:09:19]But Okay, did you say something about ICE in Minnesota?

[00:09:22]>> Yeah.

[00:09:23]Um well as of this morning they have arrested 15 legal observers and raided their homes, took their uh elec um all their um, digital equipment, computers, tablets, everything and arrested them and took them out.

[00:09:44]>> Huh.

[00:09:46]>> So, it's up to 15 as of as of 9:00 a.m.

[00:09:51]And so, my guess is that during metro surge, they took captures of people like they said they were doing and now they're going after those people.

[00:10:00]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:10:03]Yeah, cuz and now the I guess the flat cameras now they've got something called signal track with them so that if you've got Bluetooth on in your car, um, they can track that. And you know, your your watch, your phone, if you've got it like a little one of those little GPS things from the insurance company to get your rates down, they're they're going to track it all and then they use whatever they use to find out about the rest of your life.

[00:10:32]>> Huh.

[00:10:33]>> So, and all of your contacts, all of your contacts. It's not just you.

[00:10:38]Um, and I think that's what the big concentration camps are going to be for is for for people that they can't deport because they're American.

[00:10:46]>> the World Cup and >> Yeah.

[00:10:49]Um, >> Yeah, I got um, Sunday Mallon was on >> Oh god.

[00:10:53]>> Let's see, I will move up here. It was right around 11.

[00:10:57]>> hit with a brick. Sorry.

[00:10:59]>> She generally was she was real softball with him I thought in general, but at this point right here, I think it was right here at about 11 minutes in.

[00:11:09]She bears in on the use of ice at the polling places and he does not give a straight answer here.

[00:11:14]>> be there if a threat is arise. Uh, but >> not ruling it out.

[00:11:17]>> No, keep in mind, why would I be there?

[00:11:20]>> Yeah, a little bit back okay here.

[00:11:22]>> it was me. We go in and I still have to show my ID, she has to show her ID. You know what? Perfect.

[00:11:27]>> He he sitting here talking about how, you know, illegals can vote. He he she left him alone on that, but she does press him on this ICE agent.

[00:11:35]>> I'm glad that I didn't make sure that we were registered to vote. Wonderful. What is wrong with that? Nothing >> The Department of Justice issued a statement.

[00:11:43]>> Regardless if you're Republican or Democrat, we should all agree that we want to have a very secure election and only American citizens, regardless of your party, but only American citizens >> Now, here's where she goes into >> Briefly, at your hearing recently, you didn't rule out sending ICE agents to the polls in the midterms. Are you willing to rule out sending ICE agents to >> What I said is that we would only be there if a threat is arise.

[00:12:05]>> So, you're not ruling out you're claiming these people >> So, he's not ruling what What what what he's saying I mean well, this was right where he he he does not I mean he is saying they are going to send ICE agents to the polls.

[00:12:18]>> Regardless if you're Republican or Democrat, we should all agree that we want to have a very secure election and only American citizens, regardless of your party, but only >> We have elections all the time that are just fine, dude.

[00:12:30]>> Briefly, at your hearing recently, you didn't rule out sending ICE agents to the polls in the midterms. Are you willing to rule out sending ICE agents >> What I said is that we would only be there if a threat is arise.

[00:12:40]>> So, you're not ruling it out.

[00:12:41]>> Keep in mind, why would ICE be there?

[00:12:43]The only people who should be voting is American citizens. There shouldn't be any immigration enforcement, so this should be a mute deal >> So, why why would there be a circumstance where you would need ICE agents?

[00:12:53]>> Keep in mind, ICE agents are there to flex if we need to. So, you saw >> I love that phrase. ICE agents are there to flex. What the hell is that?

[00:13:02]Oh god, oh well.

[00:13:03]>> Oh, so so >> Anyway, he never answers the question.

[00:13:07]Which means they're going to use ICE agents at the polls. I mean, we got to prepare for that. That's what they're going to do.

[00:13:13]>> Mhm.

[00:13:14]But notice every time a Republican wins, there's no problem with it with the integrity of the election, but every time a Democrat wins, there's a problem with the integrity of the election.

[00:13:25]Yeah.

[00:13:27]>> So, >> now back to what's going on today there in uh in the >> So in Minneapolis this morning, so US attorney for the District of Minnesota and special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations will announce charges against multiple defendants for conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers and related charges pertaining to the efforts of a group compromised of members from two Minneapolis-based Antifa groups >> Oh, yeah.

[00:13:56]>> oppose immigration law enforcement.

[00:14:00]>> God, the Antifa.

[00:14:03]>> Antifa groups. Apparently, there's there's more >> Are we now carrying cards reading I belong to Antifa?

[00:14:11]>> I think we need to.

[00:14:13]>> Yeah. Yeah. I mean Yeah, I I dug into that when they went on a big Antifa kick earlier on in the administration and I I did a deep deep research. There we could not find there was not a single case identifying anyone in a criminal charge as a member of Antifa anywhere. I mean, despite their efforts, they could never find anyone to charge and identify. There was a group in Portland that were kind of outliers. I mean, they were very in effect they showed up at some rallies and they called themselves Antifa. But there's no organization, there's no leadership, there's no headquarter. It just doesn't exist. I mean, It just doesn't work.

[00:14:56]>> that fought I all the US guys in World War II that fought are mostly, you know, >> Antifa?

[00:15:02]>> Antifa is >> Yeah.

[00:15:05]Yeah.

[00:15:06]>> Antifa is in Arlington Cemetery.

[00:15:12]>> Now that it's it's done now. All right.

[00:15:15]Now did you guys file your comments with the National Park Service cuz it last night was the deadline.

[00:15:20]>> did.

[00:15:22]>> Yep, did it.

[00:15:25]Yeah, David did and but uh and I'm anxious to see now if we get any cover any reports on what kind of numbers they got in terms of the response, but it'll be helpful to if they get a big overwhelming opposition to it, it'll help the the the cause for in the future cuz there's several more steps now in the protocol to to for this thing and if they have a good number in that, it'll be useful.

[00:15:57]Cuz that thing's got to get stopped. I I just see God, after what after And the thing is that the other thing is they're talking about a rush job. You know, it's just like the the reflecting pool. They want to do no big contracts. They want to do two 12-hour shifts. They want to work 24 hours a day building this arc.

[00:16:15]They've got it all planned out.

[00:16:18]>> And because they want to build it, of course, as fast as they can and who knows what Maybe maybe if they do get away with building it, maybe the upside is they'll do such a lousy job, it'll fall down.

[00:16:31]Maybe that'll Maybe that's the ticket.

[00:16:33]>> where was it We talked about one time somebody put up like a like a fake scaffolding with the just a sheet of what it looked what stuff they could look like over the top of it.

[00:16:44]>> Oh, right. Yeah.

[00:16:46]>> Remember? And so, it's like can't they just do that and make him happy before he >> Yeah.

[00:16:51]>> kicks off because >> Just make it a >> I'm surprised he got cleared to fly, honestly. He's had a stroke.

[00:16:59]>> Mhm.

[00:17:00]>> Huh.

[00:17:01]Huh.

[00:17:02]Huh.

[00:17:06]Well, how many have they ICE agents have they ended up with in Minneapolis that because they >> I think we're I think we're at like 200.

[00:17:19]>> So, it is down and then way down. But, that's If I remember right, they >> they just said >> Before all this, they That's about what it >> that now come in to arrest people and stuff.

[00:17:31]>> Yeah.

[00:17:32]>> So, but I found a I found a graph for ICE arrests per state from January 20th of 2025 to May 21st of 2026.

[00:17:41]Texas is in the lead with 118,269.

[00:17:47]Minnesota >> Yeah.

[00:17:50]>> Uh 8,423.

[00:17:55]>> Yeah, doesn't surprise me.

[00:17:57]>> Huh.

[00:17:57]>> I mean, it's it's the it's the the states where you know because it used to be Mexico.

[00:18:04]It's it's Texas and somewhat Florida and California. So, and then everything else is just like drops precipitously.

[00:18:14]>> Huh.

[00:18:14]>> Yeah.

[00:18:15]And of course, Minnesota has Somali, we have Mong, we have we have Mexicans up here, believe it or not.

[00:18:22]>> Mhm.

[00:18:22]>> We've got Russians, we've got Swedes, we've got Norwegians.

[00:18:27]>> state's got got the the lowest one was Guam with 113 arrests.

[00:18:34]>> Guam, really?

[00:18:36]>> Mhm.

[00:18:38]Yep.

[00:18:38]>> It's a military base.

[00:18:40]>> Mhm.

[00:18:41]>> Literally. They managed They still arrested 113 in Guam then.

[00:18:44]>> Yeah, right.

[00:18:47]And what's crazy now is Tennessee is going to be reporting disabled children to ICE.

[00:18:56]>> I saw >> who have dis- that kids are disabled or they're dying or they have terminal they have whatever, they're going to report them to ICE.

[00:19:07]And the thing is St. Jude's is in Memphis, Tennessee.

[00:19:11]>> Yeah.

[00:19:13]>> And people from all over the world come to St. Jude's for their children to be treated for cancer.

[00:19:20]It's heartbreaking.

[00:19:21]>> So, they they're they don't care about children, they don't care about families, they care about eugenics.

[00:19:26]They're a bunch of white supremacists dweebs, and I don't have a nicer word, and um yeah.

[00:19:33]They're just Nazis, they're just effing Nazis.

[00:19:36]>> Oh, that's a trigger word.

[00:19:38]Uh trigger. You triggered me. THERE WE GO.

[00:19:46]>> NO.

[00:20:05]>> OVER NATIONAL SECURITY the national security guy from Israel, Ben Gvir, he is the equivalent of a Stephen Miller, except he's been uh more out outwardly violent, not just just talking it up.

[00:20:21]So, those two are those two are on the same page, right there. And he got They won't let Ben Gvir into the United States.

[00:20:29]>> Yeah, I saw that stuff you posted about him last night.

[00:20:32]>> went into a rabbit hole, of course.

[00:20:34]>> He was scary.

[00:20:36]>> Yeah.

[00:20:37]>> Well, they've they've changed the application for infants to Medicare requiring medical emergency medical treatment cannot be claimed for 6 months after cannot collect for 6 months after they made the claim to eliminate fraud.

[00:20:57]>> Not to eliminate children.

[00:21:00]>> fraud.

[00:21:02]>> Hey, Jack.

[00:21:08]>> Dweebs blues getting salty.

[00:21:12]Yeah, you all were you all were so into arguing there talking about the stuff that you didn't even notice I'd showed up, so.

[00:21:21]>> Hello.

[00:21:22]>> I had to I had to reboot and come back >> Oh, really?

[00:21:26]>> So, yeah.

[00:21:27]>> I'm so angry but I cannot get StreamYard to give me a a tool a better tool for knowing people have showed up. It It don't They don't They have this little ding in the background that if there's any other noise going on you don't hear it. I mean >> Yeah, well I had it really loud. I I started understanding >> a louder doorbell.

[00:21:48]>> I paid for it and then I then I I rebooted >> Oh, shoot.

[00:21:54]Um Yeah, I thought Pat when he had a couple of fan I noticed Pogo noted that these today's cartoons were especially great.

[00:22:05]I thought uh this one was just this big old fat turd sitting there at the G7 table and uh uh with his peace deal breaking in through the walls. But actually the one down here of course that one yesterday I really loved that one.

[00:22:21]>> That was yesterday. Yeah.

[00:22:23]>> That was yesterday but uh then she had another one today that uh right down here that that that one was great with Trump. Cuz this is kind of what Trump with his little little boat dragging That's why I I picked up on Venter said that in Europe they were calling this the G6 plus one which is so that's what I've made her thumbnail for today was G6 plus one.

[00:22:52]>> Yeah, they're they're getting downright independent there in Europe, aren't they?

[00:22:57]>> Oh.

[00:22:58]They're dumping hydrogen peroxide into the reflecting pool this morning, it says.

[00:23:03]>> Oh, are they really?

[00:23:04]>> Yeah.

[00:23:06]So, the owls here are all going to have white teeth. Yeah.

[00:23:12]>> Oh my god.

[00:23:14]That would That would do well That would do well against the uh scum algae.

[00:23:22]But, didn't it work there you were showing stuff where there were plants growing.

[00:23:30]>> Well, they they spent who knows what on this big machine that I was telling you about yesterday that I saw that they they said was supposed to deoxidize the water. But, the thing I couldn't figure out it was a little it didn't look a whole lot bigger than than a residential pool you know, filter machine and it didn't look very big and they had this tiny little machine sitting in the middle of this huge reflecting pool and I'm looking at it and thinking that little thing supposed to deoxidize all this water? I don't think so. And apparently it's not.

[00:24:03]>> Some uh some salesman walked in and convinced somebody in the Trump And you know, there there not a lot of brain cells going on in the Trump administration.

[00:24:16]>> No.

[00:24:17]>> Well, they're pretty easy suckers.

[00:24:21]But, yeah I I was thinking about that oxygen deoxidizing is there's got to be that's almost has to be a losing proposition.

[00:24:32]Because with that wide flat surface you've got a lot of uh contact with the air, so there's a lot of chance to absorb oxygen.

[00:24:42]>> Yeah.

[00:24:43]>> And the more oxygen you take out, the more the water wants the water is to absorb it.

[00:24:49]>> That makes sense, yeah.

[00:24:51]Yeah.

[00:24:52]Jamie's uh solved social security while while we were all asleep. Uh she's got it all figured out here.

[00:25:00]So, Jamie, you you want to walk us through this? You got the $400,000 donut hole plan.

[00:25:07]>> You know how it currently has a cap on it? Leave that donut hole, right? Yeah.

[00:25:12]Leave that cap there, but then at 400,000 kicks in again. So, you know, focus on the really high wage earners for it. And then a penny per stock share trade.

[00:25:28]>> So, raising the taxes on high wage earners >> covers 63%.

[00:25:35]of the shortfall.

[00:25:38]>> Now, I didn't fully understand this one, your penny per stock share trade.

[00:25:42]>> Oh, every time a share is traded, a penny a penny is added to the share, and it goes to Social Security.

[00:25:51]>> Oh.

[00:25:52]>> So, if if a share is trading for a dollar ninety-one a share, instead it'll trade for a dollar ninety-two, and Social Security will get the penny.

[00:26:03]>> Oh, okay.

[00:26:05]And then a wealth start surcharge.

[00:26:08]>> And then investment income capital gains, the money that currently is not taxed could go for at 15% to what between 15 and 28%. You know, it's all negotiable, but the whole merging those three in some form makes Social Security fully solvent.

[00:26:34]>> You need to copy that, send it to Pritzker, send it to Shapiro, send it to Beshear, send it to Ossoff, send it to Newsom, send it to everyone.

[00:26:44]>> Oh, they all know how those things >> They all know.

[00:26:48]>> Yeah, I mean >> But they don't know that we know. The thing is that >> the key. That's the key. If they if they under- If the people get to understand what some of the real solutions are, then they're going to have to react.

[00:27:05]>> Exactly.

[00:27:06]>> I was watching a guy I went down a rabbit hole with a guy last night on the on the Epstein stuff, too. I'll have to put He's really interesting, that man.

[00:27:12]He can tie stuff together better than I can. Anyway, um he uh he was say- explaining how you know, the wealth tax used to be much higher. So, rather than get taxed, people would they would put that money into their company and invest it in there. So, their employees would get better wages, they would put it in new equipment. So, it just it just drove it drove everything in a in a better way for everyone.

[00:27:40]Because that way they wouldn't just be giving the tax to the government, they would get So, that's why people were people were making more money.

[00:27:48]So, yeah. So, it's like, "Well, that would be a good thing. They could actually say, invest in your employees and not in your C-suite. Don't just give it all to six people."

[00:28:05]>> Well, and and you and you do Well, you don't even touch the thing we talked about the other day, Jamie, which would real- also help, which is the whole idea of raising the threshold where you start paying taxes in the I mean, paying into the social security.

[00:28:19]You know, what is it? 100 We figured out 185,000. Above 185,000 income, you pay nothing into the social security. If you change that, you that also helps.

[00:28:29]>> the donut hole.

[00:28:31]>> Is that what you meant by the donut hole?

[00:28:33]>> Yeah. It You leave the low and middle income alone, cuz you know, why why tax them on wages any higher, and you and you start re-taxing at 400k.

[00:28:49]>> Okay, then.

[00:28:50]>> All right. So, the thing that people don't understand about Social Security is it is every dollar you earn is taxed at 14%.

[00:29:03]Right in there.

[00:29:04]>> Right.

[00:29:05]>> I mean, and so that means if you only earned $5, it's taxed at five at 14%.

[00:29:17]And it's For Social Security.

[00:29:20]For Social Just for Social Security.

[00:29:25]We got under Reagan, the working class people got a tremendous tax increase.

[00:29:34]>> Oh, yeah. He and Tip O'Neill did that deal.

[00:29:38]>> Yeah.

[00:29:39]Well, it was to save Social Security.

[00:29:42]>> Yeah.

[00:29:44]>> All they needed to do is a simple fix to get to wait for people like me to die.

[00:29:54]>> But and the way they kept people from realizing that they had raised that tax so much is they changed the name of it on your on your paycheck.

[00:30:03]>> Like a Yeah.

[00:30:05]>> to be It used to say FICA and everybody knew what that was. So, when they raised, you know, dramatically raised the FICA tax, they changed the name.

[00:30:16]They really I mean, that was on purpose.

[00:30:18]>> Yeah. Most people don't realize that half of their that they pay half and so they don't think it's that big.

[00:30:26]I was self-employed, so I had to pay the whole thing and I noticed it.

[00:30:31]>> Yeah.

[00:30:33]>> I always tell people like keep receipts or I I pick up a receipt off the ground that I could use in my business.

[00:30:42]And people go, "Why Why do you keep the receipts like that?" I said, "Well, every dollar for every dollar I can I can call an expense, I get a quarter back."

[00:30:56]So.

[00:30:58]>> I'm just catching up to Winter. Uh Winter was asking us about why he want oxygen in the water. Why we want Why Well, they want to get the oxygen out cuz that's what's feeding the algae.

[00:31:11]>> We We want to kill everything in the water.

[00:31:17]We want it cuz that's what we do.

[00:31:19]>> That's our thing.

[00:31:22]That's what we do.

[00:31:24]>> But I was going to say they painted it blue, you know, and MAGA are saying, "There's no algae in there. That's blue."

[00:31:34]>> Well, it looks even worse.

[00:31:36]>> have painted it green. That's American flag blue.

[00:31:41]>> I just think it's funny that, you know, it's now the it's now green. I mean, that's They hate green. They're against the green party.

[00:31:49]>> Oh, Winter, I I saw that like the people that are coming that are managing to to actually get in for World Cup, they're loving the food here.

[00:32:01]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:32:02]>> The food review The food The food reviews are amazing. They're like, "How much food is Like the portion The They're like, "It's not just the portions. It's like everything is so good. Even like the fast food is so much better than That's cuz it's got chemicals and preservatives and stuff in it that you're not supposed TO BE EATING."

[00:32:20]>> OH, I SEE. YEAH.

[00:32:23]OH, I got you. Yeah.

[00:32:24]>> Well, it's different.

[00:32:27]>> Yeah, but the it's out in the open, Winter. So, it's I mean, it's a big open reflecting pool. So, there's plenty of light all day long.

[00:32:34]>> days, federal agents have knocked on the doors of >> Gavin Newsom started talking on my phone. Not trying to get him to.

[00:32:41]>> Oh, he had a Yeah, he he he got a lot of coverage yesterday going after Trump.

[00:32:48]Going after his wife. That was pretty funny.

[00:32:52]Saying his line was the most corrupt president in history is investigating my wife.

[00:33:00]>> Yeah, which it's like, okay, tell me you're not going to investigate your political opponents.

[00:33:08]So.

[00:33:09]Yeah.

[00:33:10]>> Well, I'm going to I've got to reply to Wendeline here and kind of kind of you know, support my local world here.

[00:33:19]Those folks Those folks of blues talking about they ate Kansas City barbecue for the first time in their life. Of course they are.

[00:33:30]>> Um sorry to say this, I don't like Kansas City barbecue. Sorry.

[00:33:35]I prefer Texas.

[00:33:36]>> Cuz I don't eat meat, but >> You been to Gates on 12th in Brooklyn?

[00:33:42]>> No, I don't eat barbecue. I don't eat meat.

[00:33:45]>> Oh, that's right.

[00:33:46]>> I've been a vegetarian since 2010.

[00:33:48]>> I'm I'm telling you they'll they'll convert you.

[00:33:52]And does that include Do you also not eat fish or >> I don't eat fish. I don't eat chicken.

[00:33:59]Um there was a big chunk of time where I didn't eat eggs or cheese, but I cheese is like the gateway drug back. And I do not I have not found a a vegan cheese that I like, so >> I love that concept. Cheese is a gateway drug.

[00:34:17]You haven't found a vegan product that you don't that you like?

[00:34:20]>> I haven't found a vegan vegan cheese that all tastes like shower curtain.

[00:34:24]>> Oh, oh, I yeah. I I I don't know why you would want to eat by stuff.

[00:34:34]>> Yeah. My son and my son was stationed in Germany and he loves German food.

[00:34:45]>> Oh, you're talking to Winter?

[00:34:47]>> Yeah, he He still he there's a couple of German restaurants here in Tacoma that he still loves to go to.

[00:34:59]>> Yeah, my sister when she was in the army in Germany, she she has loved the German sausages.

[00:35:07]>> Uh-huh.

[00:35:09]>> Well, you know, I just got a nice little Hatfield pork roast that I and I'm determined to try to sneak in side dish that David has never wanted to try and I got some sauerkraut cuz I just love pork with some sauerkraut, you know.

[00:35:27]I'm going to try to I'm going to try to sneak that in and see what happens.

[00:35:30]Maybe >> I can't stand the smell of it, but I love I love making spaetzle from scratch.

[00:35:37]>> Yeah, that's what I was just going to say was spaetzle.

[00:35:39]>> Mhm.

[00:35:40]I make it from scratch.

[00:35:42]>> I love sauerkraut.

[00:35:44]>> And it's fun.

[00:35:46]Oh, not sauerkraut, spaetzle.

[00:35:49]>> Huh.

[00:35:51]>> I love sauerkraut, but I cannot handle kimchi.

[00:35:57]>> Now, what's kimchi?

[00:35:59]>> Korean.

[00:36:01]It's Korean. It's fermented cabbage.

[00:36:04]>> Yeah, it's >> Yeah, well, it's it's more than just cabbage. It's loaded with garlic and hot peppers and >> It varies. It depends on the recipe actually. I've seen a lot of them without peppers in it.

[00:36:17]>> They bury it in the ground.

[00:36:19]>> Yeah.

[00:36:20]>> Hey, Dexter.

[00:36:21]>> Hey, Dexter.

[00:36:22]>> Good morning, everybody.

[00:36:23]>> Dexter's here. Hey, Dexter.

[00:36:25]>> No.

[00:36:27]Spaetzle, you know spätzle, Venter?

[00:36:32]>> Spätzle?

[00:36:36]>> No, it's like a little tiny dumplings and you press it through like a >> dumplings.

[00:36:40]>> And you like press it through a spoon and >> Yep.

[00:36:43]>> And then after it's done, you like fry it up in some nice something fatty and >> Like with some butter or bacon grease?

[00:36:50]>> Mhm, butter, yeah.

[00:36:55]>> Oh, speaking of of uh vegan um Look at what Look at here what I got from Blue.

[00:37:07]You see that?

[00:37:09]And then you can see what Put it You can see the fat.

[00:37:14]You can see that?

[00:37:16]Talarico You see that?

[00:37:19]>> Yeah.

[00:37:20]>> Huh?

[00:37:21]>> Yeah.

[00:37:22]>> see Talarico?

[00:37:24]>> He He wants to flip tables against the tax collectors.

[00:37:29]>> Yeah.

[00:37:31]That's I mean, the thing Blue sent me this shirt. That's my favorite Jesus story, actually.

[00:37:36]When I first When I first learned that as a kid in Bible school, I thought, "Now, I like this guy."

[00:37:46]That was the first time I really And you know what? I think that was the only time he actually in in the in the Bible, anyway, in the stories, displayed any anger.

[00:37:57]>> The money changers, yeah.

[00:37:59]>> Yeah.

[00:38:00]But >> Yeah, he was he was mad at the money changers.

[00:38:03]>> So, you can Yeah, it's like speak truth to power and and fight authority They are stepping on your toes.

[00:38:14]They're impeding >> Yeah.

[00:38:16]Hey, done gone, done gone.

[00:38:19]Done gone, been gone too long.

[00:38:21]Done gone back.

[00:38:22]>> How are things in Texas?

[00:38:26]How's Paxton?

[00:38:28]In fact, I've been hanging I've been This has been sitting on the shelf here for 2-3 days. This This Paxton former Paxton impeachment lawyer has really made the round. I've been tracking local coverage of local news in deep Texas cuz he's pretty well known in Texas.

[00:38:45]So, he's been getting a lot of airtime in local Texas TV and here's one example here. Although, I think I think this was national, but this guy's been great.

[00:38:56]>> I wasn't going to be near as public about about my >> I got to put him back up here. There There he is. Okay.

[00:39:02]>> endorsing Talarico until I saw the way that the >> Now, this was Paxton's impeachment lawyer who who got him off in the impeachment case and now he's completely flipped to He's He's He's not trashing Paxton so much as he says a lot of really positive things about Talarico and he's all over local news in Texas.

[00:39:25]>> Paxton campaign is going after him.

[00:39:27]They're coming out with these AI where where they got Talarico dressed in in in some on any Sunday deal or some some some as singing and transvestite kids and you you see Paxton and Lieutenant Dan and Trump in the in the in the Oval Office holding up pictures of Talarico dressed as or or drawn as Alfred E.

[00:39:54]Newman in the Mad Magazine. It's like really is is that what it's come to in our country? We have a war going on and and you're you're likening your opponent to Alfred E. Newman. So, you know, I don't I don't think I'm going to fight fire with fire. I don't think my voice is going to matter at the end of the day, but I've got again, I have an obligation uh, vote my conscience and endorse through my conscience, and that's what I'm doing.

[00:40:21]>> Rick Clinton all over the internet.

[00:40:24]But more importantly, that was a local news station in Texas. He's all over local news in Texas cuz he's a big, big name.

[00:40:32]>> Hi. That's Liam.

[00:40:34]>> Hello, Liam.

[00:40:35]>> Hi, Liam.

[00:40:36]They're saying, "Hi." Auntie Blue says, "Hi."

[00:40:41]No, he came asking for 7-Up cuz he saw I got a big bottle of 7-Up.

[00:40:46]So.

[00:40:48]>> Well, I think that that's that's been a good hit, this guy.

[00:40:52]He's made the rounds quite a bit.

[00:40:53]>> Good.

[00:40:54]>> Well, that's I like I like what you're doing there.

[00:40:58]>> Uh-huh.

[00:40:58]>> He's basically giving Republicans permission.

[00:41:03]>> Mhm.

[00:41:03]>> Huh?

[00:41:04]>> Especially, you know, the the the suburban Republicans.

[00:41:11]They're getting just a little nervous about Paxton.

[00:41:15]>> Well, here here's how I'm looking at Texas. I I compare it to Arizona and Kari Lake. Is Kari Lake her big mistake was she blew off the McCain Republicans.

[00:41:26]That at one event, she even threw them out of her meet out of her rally.

[00:41:30]And um and and so she just completely campaigned on the basis of MAGA the MAGA vote, which she was an icon and a darling and everything. So, she got all that, but she lost both two statewide elections because she blew off uh, the McCain Republicans and they blew off her. And I see this happening with Paxton with the Bush Republicans in Texas. Um and with Paxton going out of his way to alienate them and not appealing to them.

[00:42:02]Uh, and that's kind of what the Cornyn represents too. So, I think that's a big opening for that's one big reason I I such optimism for Talarico as those Cornyn would have gotten the Bush Republicans and probably beaten Talarico. Paxton's not going to get that vote.

[00:42:21]>> Well, I think what the Bush Republicans and and well, let's just say the big oil Republicans is they'll put they'll find that they can work with Talarico. They decide they can work with Talarico easier than they can work with Paxton.

[00:42:35]>> Yeah.

[00:42:36]>> And that's you know, that's what it sometimes it just doesn't matter.

[00:42:41]It's kind of like Kansas City. You know, they've got a liberal mayor.

[00:42:45]But I think the development people are just loving him.

[00:42:48]>> What about that new jail, Jack? I hear there's a lot of controversy and demonstrations against that new jail that's not going to be ready for the World Cup.

[00:42:57]>> I don't know.

[00:42:59]I I don't follow I don't follow the local politics that much. I do know I was look reading some of the stuff I was reading on the development is that they have been bringing a lot of money in on the river front down there and developing.

[00:43:14]And so the developers Kansas City sometimes you can sit there and say, "Okay, this developer owns this politician and this developer owns that politician."

[00:43:26]>> Yeah.

[00:43:27]>> And it's been that way for I forever all the time I was up there.

[00:43:31]>> Are they building a giant jail?

[00:43:34]>> Katie, did you tell Liam he got a shout-out from Germany here?

[00:43:38]>> I did.

[00:43:40]>> Okay.

[00:43:41]>> No offense, but he asked where is Germany. He's still getting used to the United States map.

[00:43:47]So eventually we'll get to the globe.

[00:43:52]He's got two of them.

[00:43:53]>> Oh, Biden's Oh, that's interesting.

[00:43:57]Are really Jamie aka Jesse, you're saying Biden's not going to the Obamas thing?

[00:44:05]>> No.

[00:44:06]All four were invited, but only three are attending. So, I don't know what's going on.

[00:44:12]>> Well, maybe maybe is does Biden not feel well? He's Is he still going through cancer treatments or >> Yeah, yeah, that could be.

[00:44:21]>> Yeah. Or was he asked not to go cuz he doesn't want Biden next to him because I don't know.

[00:44:26]>> terrible mistake. He made a terrible mistake.

[00:44:28]>> I would say that he's not well enough to go.

[00:44:32]>> That's I wonder. That's what I That's what I >> And and let's not discount that he ended up pretty angry at Obama blaming Obama and Nancy Pelosi for pushing him out of the race. I don't know that they've even spoken since then.

[00:44:49]That was a pretty big rift.

[00:44:52]Uh now, I pulled this from Hillary.

[00:44:55]This might be tough to hear, but I and I really question whether we really need her out saying this.

[00:45:01]Uh this opening part here, spoiler alert, she ain't talking about Trump.

[00:45:05]She's talking about Biden.

[00:45:06]>> He made a terrible mistake. He made a terrible mistake for himself, his legacy, and for the country.

[00:45:11]>> Let's turn to some domestic concerns. A few weeks ago, the Democratic National Committee released an autopsy report on the 2024 election.

[00:45:22]It satisfied nobody.

[00:45:25]Not one person did it satisfy except for maybe the Bidens because it didn't mention Joe Biden's decision to run.

[00:45:35]When you look back on his decision to run, did he make a terrible mistake?

[00:45:40]>> He made a terrible mistake. He made a terrible mistake for himself, his legacy, and for the country.

[00:45:46]Um he had said that he would not run again.

[00:45:49]And, you know, counterfactual narratives are always a bit tricky, but >> Now, he didn't exactly say he wouldn't run again. He he said What he said was that he wanted to be a transitional president >> Right.

[00:46:07]>> to the next generation. He never actually said he wouldn't run again.

[00:46:11]>> Jim Clyburn and those guys were backing him, you know. Jim Clyburn and those guys wanted him to run.

[00:46:16]And you know, he's powerful. So, he had a lot of backing to run again.

[00:46:21]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:46:22]But I don't know about it. Her out here saying this I'm I'm kind of like I don't disagree with her, but I don't know we need to be talking about it.

[00:46:29]>> Well, that >> I believe if he had talked to me about it too because it did not mention Gaza at all.

[00:46:35]>> Oh, it didn't.

[00:46:36]>> And there were a lot of people that that didn't vote because of Gaza. And then there were a lot of people like up in Detroit, I think um who were um um Arab and they thought that that Trump said that they thought that Trump would help their cause.

[00:46:54]And foolishly.

[00:46:56]And that that he was going to be like pro-Palestinian for some reason.

[00:47:01]>> Well, I think that may have in there in Michigan which has a strong Arab vote would have made a difference.

[00:47:08]And I do think I do think with the liberal part of the party it made a difference.

[00:47:16]>> But I also think that Biden >> what here's what I'm going to say with Biden's support of Israel is the United States naturally supports Israel.

[00:47:27]Biden didn't put any brakes on.

[00:47:31]And almost every president would put some kind of brakes on Israel's enthusiasm on that stuff.

[00:47:40]>> Well, >> And he didn't do it at all.

[00:47:42]>> So many people in Congress now it's so heavily pro-Israel in in embedded in our government and they're trying to do even more with a couple of uh additions to law. Um >> Well, I'll give Netanyahu credit for one thing. He's driven a wedge right down the middle of the Democratic Party and it could hurt us. I mean, we could lose the midterms over this crap and it makes me crazy. I mean, that Netanyahu is getting away with this. I mean >> Yeah.

[00:48:11]>> Yeah, it doesn't look good at all.

[00:48:12]Georgia looks good.

[00:48:15]And uh >> We have to talk about Oklahoma.

[00:48:17]>> I mean, we're falling into Netanyahu's trap turning the party into pro and and against Israel.

[00:48:23]>> Actually, the world is turning against Israel.

[00:48:27]>> I agree, but but not enough of the Democratic Party's on board and and uh >> It'll hap- it's happening though because they're seeing more and more things come out and they're they're under starting to understand, oh, it's not about Judaism, it's about Zionism and Zionism is like white supremacy and it's bad.

[00:48:47]They're like they're understanding now.

[00:48:50]>> But the thing is, part of me wishes we could just take Israel off the table for the Democratic primaries for the rest of the year cuz I don't see anything good coming from it. Um >> Well, we can't because they can't can't because AIPAC donates so much money and whatever that other network they've started because they when they found out >> But I I I only have one I only have one goal in mind, win the House and maybe the Senate and and then we'll talk about policy.

[00:49:20]>> Well, we can't talk about policy if they take AIPAC >> I got a good point. I think your fault Here's what I'm saying and I'm saying it with you all is too many people are getting way too enthusiastic about anti-Israel stuff.

[00:49:36]And that really gets you you know, all of a sudden you're going to find yourself hanging out with people that are going to hurt you.

[00:49:45]>> I'm not anti- I'm not anti-Israel. I'm anti-Zionist.

[00:49:50]>> And then it doesn't matter.

[00:49:53]>> No, it does.

[00:49:54]>> It doesn't matter. absolutely does.

[00:49:56]>> Absolutely, Jack.

[00:49:57]>> Well, I I prefer to say anti-Netanyahu.

[00:50:01]I like to personalize it.

[00:50:04]>> It's Netanyahu and a bunch of them.

[00:50:07]>> Yeah, I mean I think you can I think you can safely attack Netanyahu.

[00:50:13]Yeah, you've got to be very careful there.

[00:50:17]Yeah, I'm sorry.

[00:50:19]>> Enough with the care, the gloves are off.

[00:50:22]>> The next thing you know, you know, you're out there you you're out there with a bunch of people around you burning tiki torches.

[00:50:30]>> Nobody's burning a tiki torch, Jack. My God.

[00:50:34]>> gosh.

[00:50:34]>> I I'm sorry, but >> We're progressives. We're not We're not proud boys.

[00:50:41]>> You got them on your side.

[00:50:44]And all of a >> I mean, I'm worried I mean, a good example is we were talking about Michigan is I'm worried you know, Republicans can flip that seat because Democrats are so divided over Israel. And and I mean, that that is just not what we want to see happen.

[00:51:00]>> It looks worse today than it has for a long time in Michigan.

[00:51:04]I hope >> Why don't they just say say instead of instead of saying anti-Israel, why don't you say America first, Israel second, and we're not going to go with anybody who who um who is Israel first? How about that?

[00:51:20]That works.

[00:51:21]>> peace in the Middle East?

[00:51:23]>> That's never going to happen. I'm sorry.

[00:51:25]>> You got to remember the Zionists and you know, what they're doing over there with the Zionists.

[00:51:29]>> The Zionists are what is the problem over there.

[00:51:32]>> I mean, they're killing that they're killing the the the Palestinians and they're taking they're establishing illegal settlements. It's been going on forever.

[00:51:41]It's not stopping. So, I'm totally anti-Zionist uh myself. But I'm I'm not a You know, years ago Tiptoe wanted to know why I was anti-Semitic because I was uh against Israel bombing the hell out of Lebanon in 2006. I tried to explain to Ted, you know, like there's a difference between being anti-Zionist and being anti-Semitic because I am not anti-Semitic. I support the people in Israel. Uh the Zionist movement though, however, that's pretty shaky, you know, if you look at it.

[00:52:15]>> Yeah.

[00:52:16]>> I agree. I like that. I agree. We'll call him Nut and a Yahoo. Nut and a Yahoo. That's pretty good. I like that.

[00:52:23]>> Hey, did you guys see where the Iranian uh soccer football team was sent back to Mexico because they couldn't stand Los Angeles after their match yesterday?

[00:52:33]They >> Oh, yeah.

[00:52:35]>> They wouldn't allow them to stay overnight. They had to kick them back out of the country.

[00:52:38]>> Yeah, that that was set up before they ever got ever got in there was that they decided that they would and uh Shine Down said yes, they could they should stay here. It's safe for both of them.

[00:52:50]So.

[00:52:53]But um But the whole maga thing as far as Iran goes, it's all Well, they they say death to America. It's like, yeah, they've been saying that for 40 years. What have they done?

[00:53:03]>> Yeah.

[00:53:04]>> What have they done?

[00:53:05]>> What have we done to them?

[00:53:06]>> Uh-uh, they've done stuff to their own people, but they haven't done [ __ ] to us.

[00:53:09]>> No.

[00:53:11]>> I mean, everything with I mean, everything they're doing is just reverse back up, you know, to give to find some excuse for Trump making such a horrible mistake with this war.

[00:53:21]Trying to find reverse back up rationale for it.

[00:53:25]>> I guess Trump sat at the G7 and went off and talked about how great his UFC fight thing was and kept on going and going and going.

[00:53:36]>> What's the only thing he has going for him.

[00:53:39]>> Well, Cra- Craig, are they just mad that the about it in a round deal? Are they just battling that that damn thing in the White House backyard there?

[00:53:50]>> I'm waiting to see. I'm waiting to see cuz at one point he hinted, "You know, it's so great. Maybe we'll just leave it there." And I thought >> That's what I'm talking about.

[00:53:59]Yeah.

[00:53:59]>> That is exactly what I fear he's up to is he wants to just leave it there.

[00:54:04]>> Maybe he wants to lie in state in the the octagon.

[00:54:09]>> Yeah.

[00:54:10]>> Maybe.

[00:54:12]>> Hey, that's an idea.

[00:54:13]I leave it up. Let Let leave it up just for that.

[00:54:17]I'd like to see that.

[00:54:18]>> Leave it up for the funeral.

[00:54:20]>> Yeah.

[00:54:20]>> But you know, I I back to back to the Israel thing. You You know Dan Goldman, the I love him. I mean and I I he is in a difficult shape for his primary uh Brooklyn uh and I want him in the house because he's a great prosecutor and we're going to need him when for the house investigation. But um he's in difficult and he did a dumb thing. I I don't understand it. It Well, first of all, the mayor has endorsed He's got a a progressive opponent uh challenge primarying him.

[00:54:54]Um and the mayor has endorsed his opponent and what and their big case that they're making against him is he took $335,000 from AIPAC.

[00:55:04]>> Yeah.

[00:55:04]>> And and and I'm thinking, you know, he's he's he's a you know, he's rich. Uh he he inherited the Levi's you know, jeans money and and he's spending a million dollars of his own money on this re-election. He spent a million of his own money on his election to begin with. And I'm thinking, you didn't need to take $335,000 from AIPAC and and expose yourself in this primary challenge.

[00:55:33]>> Especially when what he really needed to do was tell them I enjoy your support, but why don't you do it independently?

[00:55:43]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:55:44]>> You know, he could have It's It's like he could he could It It's like have your cake and eat it, too.

[00:55:51]There.

[00:55:52]>> Yeah.

[00:55:54]But I think he's in big trouble. I mean, the mayor's endorsed his opponent and and and his opponent last poll that polls in these kind of races are really tricky. I don't know, but he was not He was not ahead. He was maybe even a little behind.

[00:56:07]>> think >> And And I just don't want to lose him because we need him in the house going after the Trump corruption and cuz he's a fantastic prosecutor.

[00:56:18]>> Yeah, he's an attorney, so we need him in there.

[00:56:21]>> I mean, and he did such a great job in the hearings tearing those Trump crime criminals apart. He's right in there with Raskin and a few others that I really want him in the house when if we get control of the house, but I think he's in trouble.

[00:56:35]>> I didn't know he had Levi's Strauss money.

[00:56:37]>> Uh-uh.

[00:56:38]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:56:40]>> Well, I think it comes right down to what we're talking about with is the Arab vote used to be nonexistent.

[00:56:49]>> Yeah.

[00:56:50]>> And it's not anymore. So, they're gaining some political power.

[00:56:54]And the Democratic parties having trouble adjusting to that concept.

[00:57:00]>> You betcha. It I think it's going to be It's going to be with us It's It's with us right now in the midterms in places like Michigan and Golden's race, and it's going to be with us in the presidential campaign. I mean, it's it's a problem.

[00:57:13]>> The problem is dividing the party.

[00:57:15]There's some guy I don't remember who it was, and he called He called it the uniparty.

[00:57:21]Because it's all the There's a lot of Democrats all most of all the Republicans and a lot of the Democrats now are all basically owned by >> their daughter >> AIPAC >> by AIPAC >> I don't want to piss off Jack, but they but by AIPAC. And so >> Mhm.

[00:57:41]>> And then you get the And then you get the same thing then you get the same thing that you they can't where people can't even say free Palestine. Did you see Jerry Seinfeld after the next game? Somebody said say free Palestine and he said it doesn't exist.

[00:57:57]>> Oh, really?

[00:57:58]>> Yeah.

[00:57:59]>> Mhm.

[00:58:00]>> So then they went after him because he was like 40 years old dating a teenager.

[00:58:05]>> Yeah, but >> Well, he's he's married. He's married.

[00:58:08]>> before he before he MARRIED HER >> OH, OH, OH.

[00:58:12]>> HE WAS DATING >> YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. I remember I remember that. I thought you were saying it was current. Good lord, that's a lot of years ago.

[00:58:19]>> Yeah, but he was he was dating he was a 40-year-old man dating a high school kid.

[00:58:24]>> I remember that, yeah. That's true, yeah. That was in the news, yeah.

[00:58:28]>> Yeah, so I mean I But I think I think they asked Dan Goldman the same thing, can you say free free Palestine and he wouldn't say it.

[00:58:36]>> Now, what were you saying Zach about comparing it to NRA? That sounded interesting.

[00:58:41]>> The The NRA and AIPAC are very similar.

[00:58:47]They have a large core of dedicated supporters.

[00:58:53]And those dedicated supporters are single-issue voters.

[00:59:00]And that's where their political power comes from.

[00:59:04]>> And it complicates the party in the in the general elections. It complicates their chances.

[00:59:09]>> I mean I I don't know how you take on I a single-issue voter.

[00:59:19]And you know, it's all about the votes.

[00:59:21]And can you get the votes or not? And AIPAC can deliver. and RA can deliver.

[00:59:30]And uh >> Well, it's not going We're not going to solve it today, but I think that it's got to be addressed because the Democratic Party cannot let >> Well, I think it's destroy them.

[00:59:42]I think at some point Yeah, I think you're going You're going to have to walk down the middle road somewhere.

[00:59:51]on the whole issue. You can't You can't get out there >> I've said this many times, the middle of the road is where you get run over. You need to move on.

[00:59:59]>> Yeah, the middle of the road is where you make You go down the highway.

[01:00:03]>> No, that's why we have a unit party that is corporate. That's why we have a corporate Congress and that screws the people over.

[01:00:11]That's why it's important for these people to do a grassroots campaign that are raising their own funds and, you know, like my mom was saying the other day, I see advertising for Angie Craig all the time, but nothing for Peggy Flanagan. That's because Peggy Flanagan isn't submitting to AIPAC money. She's doing everything from donations from from people who want her to run.

[01:00:34]>> Well, I'm going to end up with Plat- Platner. I'm going to end up with Platner here because he I think he's lead- He and some others are leading the way.

[01:00:42]>> You know, they are.

[01:00:44]>> on on how to talk about this stuff.

[01:00:47]You know, he he's really got great ideas. He's articulate. He's like kind of like Buttigieg. He's very articulate in expressing his ideas.

[01:00:58]>> I just think his message this message of the little guy against the big guy, let's stay focused on that and and solve our Israel problems later on. That's That's what I like how he's keeping this stuff.

[01:01:11]Anyway, that's our hour and that was that was good discussion. We'll have to keep it keep it going. Back on trailblazers.cc and back here tomorrow. All right, here's Platner.

[01:01:21]>> In 1990, there were fewer than 80 billionaires in the United States.

[01:01:27]Today, there are over 900.

[01:01:31]When I look around, I do not see a state of Maine that is 10 times wealthier than 1990.

[01:01:38]We don't have 10 times the schools, 10 times the hospitals.

[01:01:43]Our paychecks don't go 10 times as far.

[01:01:46]Mainers don't have 10 times the free time. In fact, we have less.