 Greetings, everyone. Welcome to progressive discussions. Of course, you know all about it because you saw the introduction to the show. Why be redundant? Everything we discuss politically is part of our series, Crapitalism in a Conchshell. That's right, you heard it. Crapitalism in a Conchshell. And with the Republicans in control of Washington and the insane asylum Trump administration, there is a heap in helping of crap. Not a heap in helping of hospitality like the Beverly Hillbilly song, but a heap in helping of crap. Oh, man. Anyway, I had my better late than never. Corned beef and cabbage. And I gorged myself on succulent tender brisket of corned beef. And yes, I did share some of it with family. There was that much. I got a real big, big one. And I made it full all the time. So the video is on YouTube. The video is on our Facebook group. Everything is food. Better late than never. Corned beef and cabbage followed by Bye Bye Brisket, which meant my last plate of the corned beef and cabbage. And it was a big plate, but it was the last. So I named it Bye Bye Brisket. Anyway, myself, James P. Madonna and the Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman are now sampling some Yenling India Pale Lager. Now I'm used to seeing India Pale Ale, but this is India Pale Lager by Yenling America's oldest brewery. For those that are not familiar with it, it is a craft beer established 1829. It's Potsville. Ah, Potsville, Pennsylvania. Potsville, Pennsylvania. I was calling it Pots Town. No, Potsville, Pennsylvania. I think there is a Pots Town, too. Hey, man. I'm not sure. You know where there's too much of? Springfields. There are more Springfields, I bet. How about Monroe's? There's Monroe's all over the church. Why, was he that important? President Monroe? No, not really. The only thing he really did was South America belongs to us. You know? Monroe doctrine. Actually, none of the Americas belong to any Caucasian invader when you think about it. Monroe doctrine. I'm sure it was in Maryland, Monroe, that they named the towns after, but it's not bad. India Pale Lager by Yenling. That's what I say. Seven lucky bells for this week's progressive discussion. Discussions? Well, there's no news. I mean, it's not new. It is not new that the Republican Congress and the scrawny pencil-knit geek, Paul Ryan, has been getting a lot of heat about destroying the Affordable Care Act, or trying to, at least. And I watched a few live stream videos from our revolution. You know, Jeff Weaver and Bernie Sanders, our revolution. And I was surprised to see Elizabeth Warren get up and speak during one of those live video streams. I thought she was a complete sell-out establishment Democrat, but she showed up and she gave a great speech. And it's good to have her on board. They usually do the live streaming with the Capitol Building, or should I say, the Crapital Building in the background. So, you know, yeah, well, hey, it's a no-brainer. They want the poor and low-income America to either become a desperate and enslaved, or to kill you off, a genocide of the poor, either one of the two. Now, supposedly, the Republicans are still not too fond of taking care of our veterans. Haven't heard anything about that, and guess what's going to be next now that they lost the repeal of Obamacare and put their own American Care. Oh, Trump, they call it Trumpcare. Trumpcare is really the funeral poll. Oh, yeah. Now that they lost, you know, all of that, they're going to do taxes next. Oh, let me guess. Not what you just said. Let me guess, the middle class will be hammered even more, and the rich will get more tax cuts, because they are on the take, man. They are on the take, Billy Bones. Well, the American Care Act, the Republican replacement of Obamacare, was merely a redistribution of money upward, as they always do. They call it the American Care. Yeah, American Care. Who are they caring for? Trump. And the top 1%. So, in other words, it's like the Clear Skies, right to work. They give it a positive name, so the American people cozy up to it. They give it a positive name, and then they want you to vote on it without reading it, without knowing what it's really about. Right. It's like, well, Americans are lazy as a species. That's why they don't research. Especially if you're some redneck who votes based on emotion and how hyped up you make them feel like Trump did during his rallies. You know, he touched upon subjects that were near and dear to their hearts, which is blaming everything on people of color. And emigrants of color. Don't forget them da emigrants of color, though, not the European ones. Well, now, for losing replacement of Obamacare, you blame it on Democrats. Oh, they stop blaming Obama on everything? No, you blame it on Democrats because the Democrats wouldn't vote with him. Oh, they didn't get their way. Oh, poor things, you're breaking my heart. Something like 34 Republicans were not going to vote for it. So Ryan pulled it. Didn't even let it go to a vote. So it wouldn't embarrass them more. Well, from what I've read, there's been a lot of very angry protesting in very large numbers about people freaking out about not having health care, not having a replacement for Obamacare and seniors and losing their meals on wheels, and it goes on and on and on. There's a lot of, I'm glad a lot of veterans have seen the light and stopped waving the damn flag and started getting pissed off. As well they should, because that should be the next thing. Well, actually, the first thing on Trump's agenda should have been immigration, and it was, but they didn't know how to do it. See, what is coming to light is the fact that Republicans do not know how to govern. They know how to be against things, all right? But they do not know how to govern. They got all them talking points. That's correct, yes. But once they're in the driver's seat, they veer off the road into the guardrail. Into the ditch. Into the ditch. And they wait for Democrats to pull them out of the ditch. Pull them out with the flat-back tow truck or whatever, or a crane. That's what it amounts to. They don't know how to govern. I was watching a video that Sash Boyle posted where it shows Donald Trump saying that, I have a replacement for Obamacare, and it's going to be, oh, it's going to be much better, and it's going to be much more cost-effective. And now he's denying that he ever said he had a replacement for Obamacare, and they showed the tape side-by-side of him saying he has a replacement for Obamacare. And it does no good when you catch him in lies. He does not even have the wherewithal to... I'm sorry. Is he a sociopath? I'm sorry. Yes, he is. He's a narcissist. He doesn't... Yeah, he feels no remorse. That's correct. He feels no shame. That's correct. It's like he blows it off like... Yes, yes. You know, people have said that when you talk to him about a serious matter in private, he has a very short attention span, Donald Trump. Like a child, he like... Yes, and he has no ability to walk in your moccasins. You mean empathy. Empathy. Empathizing. Correct. See, well, that's a hallmark of right-wing conservatives, is they lack compassion and empathy. Yes, they do. And they also love to rewrite the Bible. Well, that doesn't agree with them, yeah. Well, they cherry-pick what they like. The part about the rich helping and giving to the poor, that part they hate the most, I bet. Yes, they do. But anyway, the big news this week was, of course, people freaking out about losing their healthcare. And I'm glad that our revolution is really on a roll. I hope they get the asses of the masses that Bernie Sanders got during the 2016 election during the rallies. I hope they muster up enough people to convert our revolution into a new progressive non-establishment third party. Because I don't know, I highly doubt if the DNC is going to be a non-establishment by 2020. It doesn't look like they're going in that direction. No, their progressive wing has been clipped. Yeah, down there. Okay. Well, when Hillary was running, you know, she said that the affordable, I'm sorry, she said that the single-payer universal healthcare was not going to happen. Right. And she said it would relish. Yeah, well, anybody does who is, who in their heart of hearts is a Republican who does not want government to pay for anything like that. Right. Now, it's obvious they say what they say because they're paid off. And Jesse Ventura said once a long time ago that as a politician that is elected to office, you are, you are under no obligation to meet with, to meet with... Lobbyist. Lobbyist. Lobbyist. Thank you. I got a... Brain freeze. I got a brain freeze there. I don't know. It's not this. It's been a fast and furious week for me. A lobbyist. You are, you are, you are under no obligation to meet with a lobbyist. No. And it's true. And he, he didn't, I, I, I'm wondering why he, he never really seeked a second term in Minnesota, but I don't have the details of that. What he, what he said was right. You don't have to meet with and count out a lobbyist. But they do. But then again, Jesse did not take campaign contributions from the fat cats. No. No. He had a small budget. He had a small budget like Bernie Sanders. Like his father said, his father said, why are you again, why are you going into a job where you're not going to make any money? You know? It's not a public service. Unless you're a crooked politician, public service is not, is not, is public service. It's not, it's not a place to get rich quick. Right. Or to get wealthy. Yeah. Absolutely. You know. And as the Bible says, he who makes haste, makes haste to be rich shall not be innocent. But a lot of things are happening, you know? Of course, our groups and pages, web pages are improving. The Facebook page, Progressive Discussions, is an absolute juggernaut. It's humongous. It even has an album called The God Project. There's even an album called Holistic Health Talk. There's, believe me, seeing is believing. You've got to take a look at it. It's a juggernaut. And you don't have to sign into Facebook to see it. It's publicly visible. Where? On the... The group page or the profile? No. You just go to Google and you type in Facebook comma, Progressive Discussions. Or you just type in Progressive Discussions. It should come up. And the page is like, can be viewed. How about if it's like your album on your profile page? Yeah, but then that's just limited to my friends. My so-called friends list is very limited. So how do you move the album over to public? I don't know. The albums are on the Facebook page, Progressive Discussion. A page, a Facebook page is not a group. It's not a profile. A Facebook page is like having a website. Yeah. It's where like... Yeah, but... Yeah, it's like... I'm talking about my album. Like in other words, the page... The page where you click like to, that's the Facebook page. There's no joining as a member. You click like to it. Your album... Are you talking about your paintings? Yeah. They're on the profile page. They're on your profile page, I guess. Yeah. And they're in an album? Yes. Yeah. I mean, you can't... You could put the link on it, but as far as the album goes... I mean, I still have your paintings on my hard drive. No, but I'm just wondering where, you know... You have to do something special to put them public. Oh, not... It's not going to be... It's not going to be as public on your profile... Right. ...as it will be on a Facebook page. Right. Because the Facebook page is... I think the search engine spiders get to them, you know... The only time your profile will come up is by name. Like, if your profile is William J. Eisenman, and somebody typed in William J. Eisenman in Google, then it'll come up. It'll come up. But as far as content being, you know, visible to cyberspace and beyond... No. No, it would have to be on a... They'll never really put there, so... ...on a page. You know, like the creator Mario Petrus has his profile, and then he has Petrus' fitness page dedicated to what he does with clients. Okay. So, you know, create... And it's free. The beauty is you can create more than one page. That's the amazing part of it. Wow. It could be more than one page. It could be, I don't know, sexuality-hostic approach. It could be fetish 2000. It could be anything you want. You can have multiple pages, you know. But anyway, let us sink our teeth into these readings, because we have ample time, since the only thing I had to talk about was healthcare. The healthcare situation. That was foremost in the news. Well, let me put something else in there with healthcare. Yeah. Because this gentleman... This gentleman was on one of these... One of the political shows today, and he said he's on Obamacare. Obamacare. And he's paying $2,100 a month. Is he a business owner? Yeah, he's a well-to-do person. That's a pretty... You mean for his employees or for him? No, for him alone. That's a pretty top-notch plan. Yeah. I mean, Jerry's self-employed, and he's paying about $500 for like a mediocre... Yeah, I always won't do you any good, yeah. Well, not a shit, but... You end up with a catastrophic illness, and your plan is crap. You mean a mediocre plan. Catastrophic. That means your life savings is zero. It's finished. It's finished. Say goodbye to your life savings. Exactly. Maybe if you have a house, say goodbye to your house, too. But my point being... Right. The poor people on Obamacare are not paying $2,100 a month. No. They are getting a subsidy. Yes. They do pay whatever they are paying, if indeed they are paying anything. That's why it's connected to Medicaid. Right. Which the Republicans are not fond of either. Exactly. That's my whole point. That's why Obamacare, the Republicans, never did anything about those people. Their American Care Act was going to throw 24 million people off Medicaid by Obamacare. Because the Republicans want to pocket more money. Yes. They want private insurance companies to insure you. If you don't have any money to pay your premiums, then you don't get it. Then you don't get insurance. Exactly. That's what they want. And then if you have to go to the doctor or the hospital, you end up dropping dead. Well, they want you to go to the emergency room. And you'll be taken care of because they can't deny it. But they will do what they have to do to put you on the street. And then from there? Yeah, but you know in the emergency room, they have some... What's the first question they ask? Some woman comes up to you as you're lying on a gurney and says, what insurance do you have? Do you have insurance? As you're lying there going, oh! Exactly. What insurance do you have? Exactly. Do you have any other? Do you have secondary? Okay. Do you have any other? Do you have it? It's like... Motherfucker, this is when I have to salute Northern Europe and democratic socialism and Canada too. I mean, you're lying there in pain or worse and they want to know what your insurance is in the emergency room. And then if they don't know Hackensack University Medical Center, I hear if you don't tell them you have the... You know, the... What middle class people have, you know, the proper health insurance plan, if you say, well, all I have is Medicaid, they walk away from me in a huff. Like, they have an attitude. Because there's a lot of doctors don't take it even. They will not take Medicaid. Medicaid really pays chicken feed. Yes, it does. To the... I mean, the chiropractor that I have, a Chinese gentleman that uses acupressure, chiropractic reflexology, he told me that Medicaid was only paying him like six dollars a visit. That's possible. That's like your uncle giving you a couple bucks. Hey, kid! Here's a couple bucks. Don't spend it all in one place. Scratch my back. Yeah. Or some pedophile bribing a kid with a candy or a couple bucks. I mean, come on. I mean, it's an insult to a physician of any kind. Right. It's to give him six dollars per visit. No wonder they don't want to accept it anymore. They had to drop it. My chiropractor says, I had to drop it. Yeah. You know? Yup. I mean, I feel bad, but I had to drop it. You know? They always say that I feel bad. That's like when somebody says, with all due respect, before he tears you apart verbally, with all due respect, they throw it at him. That's what they do in the Congress. With all due respect, my fellow Republican colleague. Yeah. With all due respect. No, no, we're not with all due respect. You have to earn respect. Oh, my gosh. With all due respect. Oh, gosh. Anyway, the Trump administration will approve the Keystone XL Pipeline Friday, senior U.S. official set, ending years of delay for a project that has served as a flash point in the national debate about climate change. The State Department will recommend that the pipeline is in U.S. interests clearing the way for the White House to grant that presidential permit to TransCanada to build the $8 billion pipeline. Meanwhile, the Native American, the Lakota Sioux people will get piped. They'll get the pipe all right. Yeah. They'll get the pipe over their land. The Obama administration rejected the pipeline after deeming it contrary to national interests. The officials who weren't authorized to speak publicly on the matter said the State Department's recommendation and the White House's final approval would occur today. The White House declined to comment other than to say it would offer an update today. State Department spokesman Mark Toner wouldn't reveal the decision but said the agency had reexamined Keystone thoroughly after ruling against the proposed project barely two years ago. We're looking at new factors, Toner said. I don't want to speak to those until we've reached the decision. The 1,700-mile pipeline, as envisioned, would carry oil from tar sands in Alberta, Canada to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast, passing through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. The pipeline would move roughly 800,000 barrels of oil per day, more than one-fifth of the oil Canada exports to the U.S. oil industry. Advocates say the pipeline will improve U.S. energy security and create jobs, although how many is widely disputed. Calgary-based trans-Canada has promised as many as 13,000 construction jobs, 6,500 a year over two years, but the State Department previously estimated a far smaller number. The pipeline's opponents contend the jobs will be minimal and short-lived, and say the pipeline won't help the U.S. with energy needs because the oil is destined for export. President Donald Trump has championed the pipeline. Because he champions making money. And what about all the Russian ties? Oh, they're coming up, buddy. Oh, you mean you got something there? No, no, no, no, they're coming up. The ties that he has. They're being found out. Yeah, the ties that he has to Russian. Manafort, Roger Stone, others, and they're all going to be revealed. They all have business connections. And in fact, I think Donald Trump is going to be found to have business connections with the Russia. And also, there may very well, from what I read, be evidence stating that Russia played a role in the election. Well, that they already know. So Trump winning the election. Yeah, that they already know. Because they are business partners or business compadres, whatever you want to call them. Vladimir Putin has a significant oil interest. Oh, yeah. He's got. He's a corporatist pretending to be a socialist? Or does he pretend to be a socialist? No, they are not socialists over there anymore. Oh, okay. They're crappitalists. Oh, that's no good. Well, that's who they are now. Oh, the European Union is primarily socialist, for the most part. Except if you want to call the government taking care of certain people and et cetera, then that's socialism. Yeah. Yes. But socialism has a more compact definition than that. Just like capitalism does. Or communism does. Well, democratic socialism means that you're allowed to own and operate a privately owned company, business, corporation. But you pay your fair share in taxes. You don't go on a tax vacation. You pay dearly. Like you should. Yeah, dearly. Yeah. The thing that is that, again, socialism basically means that it's almost like democracy. It means the people are in charge. The people own the government. Yes. And they put it because the government is, because there's so many people and everything, they have to have representatives instead of themselves. Well, unfortunately, the representatives that we have now That's correct. Have sold out there. They sold out themselves. Sold out the people that voted them in. Yeah. Yeah. So that's what you have with these things. But instead of calling things capitalism, socialism, you call them the right thing to do. And that sums it all up. Yeah, it's kind of like. You find a right thing to do and it writes it into a certain situation and you do it. That's all. There is the right thing to do. There is the wrong thing to do. And then once you determine what the right thing to do is, then you have a better way to do the right thing and the best way to do the right thing. Or someone like the republic will just step back and not do anything. Yeah. I mean, I'm surprised Obama hasn't been on every talk show spilling the beans after eight years of obstructionism and racism and abuse. I'm surprised he's not singing like a canary right now on all the top news networks. He's not. Maybe he's just, maybe he's relaxing. Maybe he's enjoying his golfing. I think he's just trying to decompress from eight years of aggravation nonstop. Exactly. He's probably just, he'll come out and sing like a canary eventually and I have a feeling he will have a lot to say. And Michelle Obama would also be involved. Well, he should be on this, he bugged Trump's White House. He should be on that man. I mean, how much more can you allow this guy to lie about you? Yeah. I hear Melania has her own bedroom. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what they're starting to find out. Maybe Donald Trump is like sleeping with a corpse. Maybe she's sleeping with a corpse. That's why she's out of there. Yeah, she's maybe hers. Yeah, her with him. She's not the corpse. Remember that's his third. Life. Life. That's not counting all the other ones that he's grabbed by the pussy. Well, you know, he has dated a lot but he's filthy rich. So, you know, he can grab by the pussy. Yeah, that too. Just like a rock and roll star or a rock and roll legend has a cornucopia of attractive young women to have sex with as groupies. A rock and roll cornucopia group, whatever. Chuck Berry died. Yeah, poor guy. Chuck Berry, that's right. Chuck Berry died. And Chuck Barris. Chuck Barris of the Gong Show died. Yes, he was 87 or something like that. Yeah, Chuck Barris of the Gong Show. So it's too bad. Oh, there was an article posted on a holistic health talk saying that eating pussy juice, pussy vaginal secretions destroys cancer cells. Something in vaginal secretions. So that means the drug company is going to like pay women to play with themselves and then try to patent it. Hey, if it's worthwhile. You've got to have a PhD in cunning linguistics though. Well, you have to learn. You have to learn how to agitate the little man in the boat. The little man in the boat, yeah. You know? Okay. House Speaker Paul Ryan was inspired to become a politician when he read Atlas Shrugged by Iron Rand. Oh, of course. Of course he was a fan of Iron Rand. The premise is simple. There are makers and there are takers. Well, yeah, the taker would be the cocksuckers of society, the lowlives. The makers create wealth and provide jobs. The government taxes the makers and gives the money to the undeserving takers. The undeserving, yeah. Whenever government does this, the takers call it entitlements. The Republicans call it welfare. Yeah, oh, yeah. That's not counting the corporate welfare, which surpasses any other welfare. Class warfare and a redistribution of wealth. The rush to repeal and replace Obamacare is emasquerade. It is a huge tax cut for the wealthy. Disguised as health reform. Republicans cannot pass more tax cuts for the rich by a simple majority in the Senate unless they do so in a way that doesn't add to the deficit. By cutting money for Medicaid and Obamacare, they will be able to reduce the federal deficit and thus can move to tax reform, where the lion's share of tax cuts will again go to the wealthy. The wealthy, that already wealthy. Die Hard Conservatives, Ryan, Clarence Thomas, and Ben Carson are all iron-ran devotees. Really? Oh, so the Uncle Tom's, Clarence Thomas, Ben Carson, the Uncle Tom's are fans of iron-ran too. All have benefited from the government largest. Iron-ran herself was a recipient of both social security and Medicare near the end of her life. Oh, yeah, when it applies to them and when they need help, then they get all humble. Oh, they don't get humble, they deserve it. Yeah. Rush Limbaugh deserved his unemployment when he was unemployed. But other people that are not rich and famous, it's a different story, they're moochers. That is correct. Except the elitists, they're not moochers. They're deserving. And they opportunistically will take advantage of any social program if it applies to them, if they really need it. They're talking about rich right-wing conservatives. They are very parasitic, but heaven forbid, the little guys should need help. And they will rob from those programs, like doctors and hospitals and et cetera, do with Medicare and Medicaid. They're hardened criminals. You might as well say they are. I saw a banner and it shows people in the ghetto, African-Americans in the ghetto looting stores during a crisis. And it says that these are the looters the media wants you to see. And these are the real looters. And on the bottom it showed all of the establishment politicians in suits and ties. Doing the real looting. Doing the real looting. Welcome to Washington. You can have it. In a major setback to the first legislative initiative of his administration, Donald Trump agreed with House Speaker Paul Ryan on Friday to cancel a scheduled, delayed and rescheduled vote to overhaul the Affordable Care Act. After it had become clear, Republicans did not have the votes to pass it. The repercussions won't be limited to health care. The unsuccessful scramble for votes, much of it played out in public on cable TV and Twitter scars, House Speaker Paul Ryan in particular, and the GOP in general. Given that Republicans have spent seven and a half years and four elections promising to undo President Barack Obama's signature domestic initiative. Congressional Republicans had voted more than 50 times to overturn the law when they knew it didn't count because Obama was in the White House to veto it. They just don't want, they don't want the poor in the middle class to have anything to get to receive any kind of help of any kind. They have theirs and they don't care about anyone else. I'm disappointed because we could have had it. Trump told reporters at the White House after the bill repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act was pulled. Replacing it. Blaming the defeat on the refusal of Democrats to support the bill. To support throwing millions of people off of health care. So the replacement, he still uses the word replacement. I'm a little surprised to be honest with you, he said. Yeah, surprised. But Friday's vote, to be precise, the decision to avoid a vote when defeat was assured was a crucial test for a new president already suffering the rockiest start of any commander in chief in modern times. So he just doesn't care. He just acts like, all right, the poor and lower income people won't have any health care at all. And he just doesn't care about what might happen like a nationwide aggression. Or maybe it'll start a new civil war. Maybe people will have torches and pitchforks in the tens of thousands or more. Then what happens when there are protests against Republicans is that like what happened with Nixon and etc. What happens is they call the protesters today terrorists. And in the old days they didn't respect grievances against the government, which the Constitution says we are allowed to have. Right, like when you see a rally, a live stream rally from our revolution, that would be a constitutional right to protest, to disagree, and quite often to be outraged by things that are happening. By a president that is borderline impeachable. Well, what happens is that they bring out the SWAT teams, the combat teams, and they make this situation worse. Well, I got news for you. When you talk about a peaceful protest and even the protests during Occupy Wall Street, you take that and then you change it to and compare it to tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of extremely angry Americans and possible guerrilla warfare. And tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Americans turning vehicles over, burning buildings and such. Well, that's what happens. How is the big, how is the Moncho SWAT team that picked on the Native Americans in North Dakota, what the hell are they going to do against the asses of the masses in that amount, in that amount. Well, what happens in situations like that is the police make it worse. Oh, yeah. And then there's retaliation. Exactly. Then there's retaliation. And then it's no longer peaceful. And then you got, you know... Because you're fighting back. So it's like the rat who gets trapped in the corner. He gets very sad. You can only do that, you know, do a certain amount and that rat's going to fight back. It has nothing to lose. It has nothing to lose. The rat, when you get to the point where you have nothing else to lose, that is what makes it more dangerous. That's correct. If you have nothing else to lose and you have many adversaries, I mean you have many individuals that have nothing else to lose, that are that full of rage. And then it gets into the tens of thousands, the hundreds of thousands, people in inner city, in the ghettos and everything you got. Then the gang starts saying, oh, oh, really? The cops want to bump us off? They don't care about our lives? Well, guess what? It's open season on them. There you go. And then the people start fighting back, like you said. Okay, and when they fight back, it won't be like King George's red coats, an organized army. It won't be like those kids who sat down and allowed that cop to spray the pepper in their faces. No. Not I assure you. There will be a retaliation of something worse than pepper mace. That's correct. Those kids, those were just a bunch of hipster college kids. A lot of them were girls too, sitting on the lawn, just like hanging out. And the big macho tough guy cop decided to pepper mace a bunch of college girls in the face. Oh, real tough. That's like an article I read about Republicans want to pass a law that hunters can shoot bears hibernating in their dens. Oh, a real tough guy, real macho hunters, aren't they? Give the animal an even break. Can't do that, right? No. They got to cheat when they go hunting. You see, even the cheating of Republicans is now getting into the sport of hunting that they're allowing hunters to cheat. Shoot a bear in his den. Hibernating while he's asleep. Somebody was doing that to grizzly bears. I tell you one thing, if a grizzly bear is wide awake, you only have one good shot, tough guy. You better make it a good shot. On Monday, FBI Director James Comey confirmed the FBI was investigating whether Trump associates coordinated with Russians who were trying to meddle in the presidential election. Like we were talking about before. A potentially explosive inquiry that will hang over the White House for months. Or more. Trump's approval rating sank as low as 37% in the Gallup poll this week by far the worst of any president at this point in his tenure. Hey, you've got coal miners in West Virginia taking a liking to Bernie Sanders when he visited West Virginia. Cool, man. You know, because they were all starting to realize that... They should've taken a liking to him in the campaign. Republicans don't care about them. No, what they did was they fixated on Hillary because Hillary said that she wanted to do away with coal mining. Well, yeah, but Bernie Sanders brought a lot more to the table to poor states like West Virginia. And it's not time yet to take away coal as a fuel because of all those people who depend on it. Well, people of Appalachia... If you can make it cleaner now, that would be nice. But you have to... If you're going to end it, you've got to end it and you've got to have something cleaner. Yeah, well, Bernie was saying even when he grew up in Brooklyn, New York, they had a coal stove. Yeah, so did I. They had a coal stove. And from what I understand, the difference between a coal stove and a wood stove is that the coal stove is banked. You've got to bank it. I don't mean you take the coal to the bank. I mean, there's metal plates in the shape of a V. You shake out the ashes. Yeah, yeah. I had a... What the hell was his name? The guy with the electricity and everything. Thomas Edison. No, no, no, no, no, no. Nikola Tesla? Flying the kite. Oh, Ben Franklin? Ben Franklin. I had a Ben Franklin stove. Todd Belly's stove is in my living room. Now, from what Ironman Vinnie Blake had told me, and I give a shout out to Ironman Vinnie Blake, is that you still need some wood to get the coal started. Once the coals are cherry red, same thing with the wood stoves. Once you have the base of hot embers, cherry red embers, then you just keep on maintaining it. And that's it. Same thing with charcoal. Yeah. And federal judges have blocked two of Trump's executive orders aimed at tightening immigration from a group of predominantly Muslim countries. Trump had worked the health care issue in traditional presidential style. He rallied supporters at a campaign-style rally in Louisville, Kentucky. He traveled to Capitol Hill to lobby some Republican members and invited others to use the White House bowling alley. He helped negotiate revisions first to win over restive conservatives in the house, freedom caucus, and then to hold uneasy moderates. He left it all on the field. A subdued White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, told reporters before the canceled vote, the fact that Trump's all wasn't enough to carry today raises questions about his political clout and his personal brand as the closer, the best-selling author of the art of the deal, who said he could negotiate compromises that eluded ordinary politicians. Compromise means we the people get screwed. It leaves Republicans finally in unified control of Washington bitterly divided. I will not sugarcoat it, Ryan said at a news conference called to announce he was pulling the bill. This is disappointing for us to be sure. Trump and congressional Republicans could regroup over the next few months on healthcare. The president predicted Democrats would reach out to negotiate a bipartisan bill as problems with the Affordable Care Act worsened. He expressed his readiness to move on to other issues, including a tax overall. Yeah, because the rich are simply not rich enough. Right. So we're doing pretty good on time. Excellent on time. Because I shaved last night. Oh yeah, I got a new razor here in his foot. Crap. Another crap brand? Yeah, another electric one. Hey, you see the... Oh, the reason why my face might seem oily to use is because I put extra virgin organic coconut oil on it as a moisturizer. Because I read miraculous things about it. I'm sure it'll be fine. You see that new one advertised by Phillips Narroco? It's a little... It's electric. And it shows the guy going against the grain and it's like a baby's ass. I gotta take a look. I got it later. That's not the one you gave me, is it? No, it's the battery one. And it sucks. Sucks. Oh, okay. You're better off just... You know, all these had for 20 bucks, the Remington shaver that I used way back when and the thing I remember. You didn't even have to prop up your beard. You could have a dirty face. It would give you a baby baby's ass shave. Narroco sucks. I have a triple... Well, it burnt out on me. I had a triple header, Narroco. It gave me so much irritation because I had to go around and around like I was grinding my face. But the Remington, all I had to do was to go against the grain. It was a done deal. Regarding Jersey Pass' Trump tax bill, I read with great interest last Saturday's front page article about how the legislature passed the Trump tax bill, which indicates that any presidential and vice presidential candidate must submit five years of tax returns to be eligible to appear on the ballot. My goodness! Although I believe all candidates should submit their tax returns, is this the most important priority for our state? We have no answers to the problems that plague New Jersey, such as an underfunded pension system, the highest property taxes in the nation, and a school funding formula that is supposed to promote fairness but does just the opposite, and which increases the tax burden depending on where you live. There are also the matters of significantly higher gas taxes due to midnight madness. Night madness. In contrast to March madness. Deal that also places if the economists are correct due to the various giveaways set forth in agreement. Is this the best we can do? The presidency is an institution, not a person. The president is supposed to uphold the Constitution and abide by it. Donald Trump is not suitable to represent my country as president. He does not have the political experience or the persona to hold the position. He is belligerent, rude, self-centered, and not fit to run the country. And he has also become an embarrassment to us on the world stage. I am an immigrant and a U.S. citizen who served my country in the Navy during the time of the Cuban missile crisis. I am proud of my service. As a registered Democrat, I urge people to join in to start to do whatever it takes to remove Trump from office. Well, the part where he says he doesn't have the political experience, I don't like career politicians either because then it's just business as usual. Same old, same old. But I understand what he's saying. He really is quite green when it comes to holding political office. Green and also insane. Kellyanne Conway. Oh, God. States. That she does not understand why people criticize somebody so severely that they don't know. Kellyanne Conway, is it? I suppose this would include all the immigrants sought to be banned and perhaps she has no opinion of any terrorists who have done harm to this country because after all, they never met. Using this barometer, whatever one may think of the leader of North Korea is of no value because he sat down with the man for lunch. Oh, she's defending him? She's saying that we should get to know him first before we criticize him. Yeah, but he wants a nuke people at the drop of a hat. Right. He looks like the Gangman man, the music video. Gangman man. I would also have to reconsider my opinions on Charles Manson. After all, we both like the Beatles. Helta Skelter? Yeah, Helta Skelter. He was on the other night being interviewed by Charles Manson. I think it was Barbara Walton. You know that young chick wanted to screw him over big time. The one that wanted to marry him. The young chick that was... She must have been out of her mind, too. Her intentions were not to marry Admiral Bowen Sincere. I said to marry him, she must have been out of her mind, too. Well, that's like the extreme to being attracted to the bad boy image. Bad boy? He calls himself the devil. Oh, he admits to liking Satan? He says he's Satan. He says all you people tried to kill me, but you didn't succeed, and now I'm back. So he's not a poor, misunderstood soul? No, no way. I was framed. I'm misunderstood. I was framed. Those are the very common words of inmates, right? Yeah, but not of him. Partisan politics aside, Donald Trump's willful ignoring of the facts regarding Russian interference in our Democratic elections compounded by his penchant for diversion by insulting our allies without rages, accusations, and allegations of anathema to everything that America represents. Trump's basis claims and his selective silence are diminishing our standing in the world, emboldening our enemies, alarming our allies, and straining the credibility of the most powerful man on earth by disregarding the truth and spooing ridiculous claims while not challenging Russia for its transgressions. He is unwittingly amplifying the resolve of the American people to know the truth. The one common denominator that should unite us all rather than stand up to Russia and demand that they pay dearly for their interference, he is disrespecting the sacrifices made to ensure our basic freedom. Trump's silence on Russia is deafening. It speaks volumes. Interesting. Am I seeing things or is that a large jar of spaghetti sauce by where your feet are? Yes, a bit. Why is it there? Because we have no room or shelves to put cans and bottles. Oh, okay, all right, I follow you now. I just thought it was a rather interesting place for it. It's like sitting here all by itself or next to a motor oil bottle. There used to be one over there, too. I don't know where to win it. All right, no problem. It's official. Well, we might want to talk about this, so maybe we want to hold that for her. Hold on. After lunch? Yeah. We're going to break for lunch. Now you will see how to defeat a conservative Bible verses. Simply hit the pause button, read and learn, followed by promo, and we'll catch you for the balance of this show progressive discussions. We'll catch you on the flip side. We'll catch you on the flip side, exactly. And you can tell me about your lousy electric razor that you got. No, I'm going to have you monkey with it. Give it a try on my face. 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So simply go to www.newslettercensored.com and with your gift to support this work, get your free annual subscription to the newsletter that started it all in 1977. Newsletter Censored, you need Newsletter Censored. That's www.newslettercensored.com. Okay, we're back. I hope you learned something during what you saw while we were at lunch. Of course we didn't have lunch that fast. Well, I guess our next holiday is Happy Pagan Ishtar. Happy Ishtar. It really cracks me up as all these people that were so brainwashed as they were growing up by all the lies they learned. And then when they find out the truth, it bursts their bubble and they get so upset. I never got upset in that way. I just accepted it. It was like a new revelation. The truth sets you free. It's supposed to. All those textbooks were a bunch of malarkey and everything your relatives told you was a bunch of bullshit. These are the people that were brainwashed to accept society as it was, as it is. You know, like my grandma used to say all the time, can't fight city hall, can't fight city hall, can't fight... No. If you can't fight city hall, you're never going to go anywhere. Well, if... You're never going to solve problems. If the communists in the 13 colonies thought like that, there would be no Boston Tea Party revolt. There would be no Revolutionary War. And by the way, they had spies. General Washington had spies that were pretending to be on the side of King George of England. You know, like regular folk that had maybe stores and maybe different services in town. And he... They used to take care of the British officers. Wow. And they used to listen to what they said. And they had some Pony Express guy on a horse come by and get the information that was written down and get it to the forces, the colonists. I mean, General Washington's forces. So, no, that's up. But if they thought like that, just accept things the way they are, then of course the right-wing monarch King George would have taxed the hell out of the colonists. Yeah. And just like... Like they do all the colonies. All the colonies had to pay a hefty tax to the monarchy because they were the biggest blood-sucking mooches of all time, the British royal family. And then you would have like you have today, except you have the corporate oligarch and the right-wing conservatives. Same mentality. I was watching a little documentary on Captain Kidd the Private. He was more of like a privateer actually. He was the king of England, paid Captain Kidd to attack and loot French warships or possibly probably Spanish too. Anybody who was an enemy of England. Competitor, yeah. He was paid to play pirate with them, but not on the British ships. And he made a mistake of attacking a vessel that was loaded with treasure that belonged to the British monarchy in the Indian Ocean. And that's when they came after him and he was eventually hung in piracy because he pulled the Bernard maid off. When he soon as he stole from the 1%, the top 1%, that was it for him. It's official. It is? A bumblebee is now on the endangered species. Oh, not the honeybee, not yet, but the bumblebee is officially endangered. I feel bad because, you know what, I always like bumblebees. I always thought they were cute, big fuzzy things bumbling around with these little wings and wings that were really too small to allow them to fly scientifically. And big fuzzy, like teddy bears with little wings. That's a shame. The U.S. Station Wildlife Service announced on Tuesday the Trump administration reversed course and listed the rusty, patched bumblebee as an endangered species just in the nick of time. It said, Rebecca Riley, senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council. You know, bees are making a comeback, by the way. The honeybees are making a comeback thanks to countries and philanthropical rich people that have sanctuaries for them. There are countries, not the United States, but there are countries that do not allow Monsanto's round-up pesticides or any of these pesticides in their country that has been killing the honeybee population off. Federal protections may be the only thing standing between the bumblebee and extinction. In early January, the service under President Obama had directed the rusty, patched bumblebee to be added to the list and scheduled the official date for February 10. But Donald Trump issued an order temporarily freezing all new federal regulations a day before the species was set to receive its newfound protective status. Oh, so Donald Trump doesn't want to protect any creature? That's what that means? That's what it looks like. He doesn't want to protect the creature because why? Because it will cost money? Regulations. They do not like regulations. So let God's creatures become extinct. Republicans don't care. Now the wait is finally over. The NRDC had filed a lawsuit in federal court last month asking the court to stop the federal government from violating the law by freezing the bumblebee's listing. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service originally placed the bee on the list because of a dramatic population decline of 87% over the past 20 years. It's the first bee of any type in the continental United States to receive a designation and for the rust-colored marks on its back, the bee was once common and abundant across 28 states from Connecticut to South Dakota. Today the species is found only in small, scattered populations in 13 states. Well, I wish it luck. Probably need more luck with the Trumpian charge. I hear that many species become extinct every year. Oh, yes, of course. Multitudes and not counting the ones that people are aware of. Yes, exactly. Exactly. All caused by the greed of man. What is the mindset of greed? Isn't that capitalism? Capitalism is what allows greed. Well, because you have, you want more. And then crony capitalism. I want to give it to your friends. Yeah, doing favors to people that did. You favors. Yeah. Any news about what Donald Trump offered Ivanka Trump as far as the White House goes? Is this some kind of job you gave her? Nepotism-related job? The daughter, you mean. Yeah. She's got a room in the White House now. Oh, really? And her business has increased. Now, remember... Melania Trump tried to use her status as First Lady for her business also. Well, yeah, that's how they all are. You know? Yeah. That's what they're all there for. Now, remember just a couple of months ago? Right. Ivanka's business was supposedly in trouble over at Nordstrom. Yes. Remember? And she was a kind of boycott of her, right? Right. And now they increased 300 or some percent or whatever it was. So I don't know what's going on, but she is now in the White House with the old man doing something. I don't know. He's quite fond of her good looks that I know. Whatever. After eight years of hearing Republicans vowing to repeal and replace Obamacare was something so much better. Oh, really? A beautiful plan that will cover everyone. Trumpcare. As Mr. Trump promised. The big moment has arrived, and what's the solution? They're trying to rush through Congress. A tax cut masquerading as a health care plan. Yes, the old GOP standard solution to everything from the economy to male pattern baldness. Trickle down tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. That's once again come to the rescue. Yeah. Oh, and don't forget the Bullshit Clean Air Act for the environment. So the bottom line is their plan gives millionaires a tax cut while millions of regular Americans will lose affordable health care. He has dropped it. It's ironic. And somehow predictable that Trump's American Health Care Act has managed to take the affordable out of Obama's affordable care act. Take the affordable out of the affordable care act. Well, it's about it. And leave millions who gain health care without it once again. I find it ludicrous that someone in a position of power and writing for a newspaper in such a position can be out of touch with the real facts. The issue is not health insurance, but health care. Just because one has an insurance policy means nothing if there are no doctors who honor that policy. Furthermore, if we are going to go into the business of legislating people's choice for the sake of their health benefit, then we should outlaw smoking, not exercising, eating sugary foods, eating prepared foods with high-fructose corn syrup, et cetera, et cetera. There are a host of preventative measures we could enact to obviate the need for health care to a large degree. Anybody care to tackle that one? Got some good readings this week for the progressive discussions. Actually, it wasn't so bad that my little initial monologue was short. You didn't fall asleep, you mean? No, I just... I really didn't have anything to say. I really had no chiseless, whole-of-shame tirade. I pretty much did it last week. Of course, don't believe good customer service, speeches from companies. It's all bullshit. They don't really care about you. And I mentioned some names. But I guess I was so happy to gorge myself on several pounds of corned beef and cabbage and drinking good beer that... What do we got there, chief? What do we got there? Since the Trump administration took office, the Republicans have done nothing new. Their only seeming intentions are to gut and repeal everything that the Obama administration enacted. The administration's goal is to ensure that big business and the rich are not encumbered by any legislation that would cause profits to decline. Oh, heaven forbid, the good of the country should come before their profits. Regardless of the fallout to the environment or the workforce, the average American will pay the price. I feel sorry for those voters who thought Donald Trump was going to make a difference. Those imbeciles, you mean? Yeah. The biggest, this fantastic political banner I say, the Donald Trump's election and administration is the greatest bait-and-switch in the history of mankind. Comparing his campaign promises to what actually is. Unbelievable. Makes me want to have another beer, but I only brought one. A few social programs would seem to be more immune to political attack than one that provides meals to homebound senior citizens. Oh, I guess they want seniors to drop dead just like veterans' armed forces personnel overseas. They want them to come home at a body bag. They don't, you think they really care about the veterans and senior citizens? Unless it's their old man and mother of the fucking rich. But in the era of President Donald Trump, that is not necessarily the case. The president's proposed budget for the fiscal year, beginning October the 1st, includes cuts to the Federal Community Development Block Grant Program, which traditionally has underwritten a variety of local public service projects and social initiatives. Many towns and counties, including Pasea County in New Jersey, use block grants to fund a Meals on Wheels program. The Pasea program serves almost 1,400 people a day. About 2.4 million are served nationwide through about 5,000 local offices. The premise of Meals on Wheels programs across the United States is that it's not complicated, provides seniors with a hot, nutritious meal either in their home or at a central location like a community center. Well, I hear it's donated food. It's not exactly top of the line. My mom gets good food from a company called Mom's Meals. The company's out in Iowa somewhere. It's decent food. It's no soup kitchen crap. The value is not merely the food itself, but the companionship seniors get from coming together or by having someone visit them in their home. They're like the company. If anything, the need for senior services will grow in coming years as the baby boom generation ages. Yeah, they can have a Meals on Wheels party and play canasta or whatever game seniors play. This is not a program to scale back. In defending the planned cuts in community development funding, like Mulvaney, the administration's chief budget officer said, the program, which costs more than $150 billion since it began in 1974. For that crap food? It has not demonstrated enough. You okay, sir? We don't know, okay. What results Mulvaney is talking about. But it is clear that the Meals on Wheels program keeps some of the most vulnerable members of our society well fed. And that's a good result by any standard. Well, collectively, social services as a whole only makes up one to two percent of the federal U.S. budget. I mean, if you had to take everything, everything that helps the poor and low-income people. So I guess, well, they love two things, Republicans. They love it when the poor die and they also love it when the poor end up in a privatized prison working as a slave for the man, for the corporation, for the man. Moreover, by visiting the seniors daily, Meals on Wheels staff members and volunteers provide safety and health checks that are critical for seniors living alone. This is literally taking the bread out of people's stomachs, said Pasea County Freeholder Asad Akter. The proposed cuts to the program have prompted an equally strong reaction throughout the country. Meals on Wheels officials said last Friday that in the wake of last week's budget proposal, the agency received 50 times the typical amount of daily donations and experienced a 500% jump in volunteer signups. Some defenders of the cuts may see private support for such programs as Meals on Wheels to fund them. Private support is always welcome, but the sharp increase in donations to Meals on Wheels last week won't last indefinitely. That's why government funding is needed. There was a time when Republicans liked the grant program because it allowed local governments, not the Federals, to decide how money would be spent. We are encouraged that some revocers are already criticizing cutting money for block grants and the Meals on Wheels program. Are you all right? No, because you didn't... I didn't catch the last word. You slurred. You slurred some of the words at the end of the sentence. I thought you were going to pass out on me, man. You're a little more oomph. Yeah, I was concerned. I thought you were going to pass out. We are encouraged that some Republicans are already criticizing cutting money for block grants and the Meals on Wheels program. The five Republicans who represent New Jersey in the House should join them. There's nothing wrong with trying to reduce government waste, but there's a lot wrong with making homebound seniors the target. All right. That looks like a big-ass article there. Well, it was a whole page, right? Yeah, it was. It was a biggie. Just stuff it in there. There you go. There you go. We're... I guess we've got time for one more article. One more reading. Oh! The top two law makers on the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday that documents the Justice Department and FBI delivered late last week off for no evidence that the Obama administration had wiretapped Trump Tower. But the panel's ranking, Democrat says, the material offers circumstantial evidence that American citizens colluded with Russians. In Moscow's efforts to interfere in the presidential election, there was circumstantial evidence of collusion. There is no direct evidence, I think, of deception. Representative Adam Schiff, Democrat, California, said, there's certainly enough for us to conduct an investigation. The House Intelligence Committee is to begin hearings on Monday into Russia's role in cybersecurity breaches at the Democratic National Committee, as well as President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated claim that his predecessor had authorized a wiretap of Trump Tower. FBI Director James Comey and Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, are slated to testify. Intelligence officials have said Russia was behind the theft, the theft of Democratic National Committee emails last summer. I can care less about the Democratic Party. Fuck them. I don't care. The U.S. government later concluded that the Russian government directed the DNC back, excuse me, hack, in an attempt to influence the outcome of November the first time the American people and all the political parties now are paying attention to the threat that Russia poses. Committee Chairman Devin Nunez, Republican California, we know that the Russians were trying to get involved in our campaign, like they have for many decades. They're also trying to get involved in campaigns around the globe and over in Europe. Nunez said the committee will also examine whether the Russians were trying to sow doubt in the U.S. electoral system or help Trump get elected. We need to get to the bottom of that. Nunez and Schiff were among a number of lawmakers who said on Sunday's news shows that they had seen no evidence. The Obama administration ordered wiretaps on Trump during the campaign. Was there a physical wiretap of Trump Tower? No, there never was. Nunez said the information we received on Friday continues to lead us in that direction. Republican Senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Susan Collins of Maine also said on Sunday that they had seen no evidence that the Obama administration had placed Trump under surveillance at Trump Tower. The Manhattan High Rise that houses Trump's residence, business office and campaign office. Collins encouraged Trump to turn whatever evidence he has of the surveillance over to the Congressional Intelligence panels looking into the matter. The President repeatedly insisted a week ago that former President Barack Obama had Trump Tower put under surveillance last fall. Trump's claims widened to two of the United States staunchest allies. He repeated an unsubstantiated claim that Britain's Cyber Intelligence Organization conducted a surveillance at Obama's behest. They claimed the agency GBHQ flatly denied. And he mentioned during German Chancellor Angela Merkel's first visit to Trump that Obama administrations monitoring of Merkel's cell phone had bruising incident in German-U.S. relations. What the President said was just patently false. That must have been torture for Merkel when she came to meet with Trump. I saw pictures of the dirty look she was giving him. She didn't even get a handshake. The photographers told him to shake her hands so he could take a picture. You won't do it. He'd do it. Oh, because she's a politician that actually gives a shit about her people. You know what? She looked pissed in the way she was looking at him. Anyway, that's it. No, I'm sure if she goes home she will say something to somebody. I'm sure the European press and the Merkel administration will have a lot to say. And all of Europe. What the President said was just patently false. It's so embarrassing. Of the Trump power allegations. And the wrecking ball it created has now banged into our British allies our German allies and continuing to grow in terms of damage. He needs to put an end to this. You know, just for his attitude with Merkel what does she call the Prime Minister? What does she call Chancellor Merkel? Chancellor. Just for that she should throw, she should tell the United States remove your bases from Deutschland, from Germany. Remove them as soon as possible. Get the fuck out. Well, you know, really, I mean, I'm serious and I wouldn't blame her. There were a war too. Yeah, I know. Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt had the Germans sign a treaty that they would not mass an army again. Oh, they didn't have a similar treaty with Japan as far as the military goes? The United States was supposed to defend them. Maybe like 50 or 60 years into the future now? 70 I think or so. Wow. But the point is that Germany has now amassed its own military. And they're quite advanced. And we supply them. Supply them? Yeah. They don't need the United States? No, we supply them with military stuff. Oh, to hell with Germany. Germany, their high technology, their scientists, they don't need some rinky-dink frigging United States made military anything. And we supply Saudi Arabia, you know? That's different. Saudi Arabia is just a bowl of sand. How are they going to? They don't manufacture. Saudi Arabia doesn't manufacture anything. Germany has got natural resources. And technology. We didn't want them to make army after World War II, but now we let them do it. Yeah, but with the way Mirko was treated, she looked pretty pissed, man. But I'm curious to see get the European reaction to all this when she returns. Yeah, probably we won't see it though. Hey, the papers that it will appear in, we won't see it. Yeah. Trebronis. This is a grassroots style, grassroots revolution, progressive talk show. As you can see by our surroundings, we don't have the expensive state-of-the-art studios with the big video screen in the background like Jimmy Doraz or Sank of the young Turks has. But then again, we don't have to answer to anyone at all. Dig it! Sucker? Like... Right. Yeah, I'm trying to think of the rest of this name. Talk about... Talk about going off. You sound like you're going to pass out, man. You're slurring your speech. I slur, slur my speech. Booker tea. And the words of Booker tea. The MGs. One half of Harlem heat. You dig that, sucker? That's Booker tea. I had a half to give him kudos. I'm not going to take credit for his... his coins' famous sprays. Thank you. So what do you got? One more? That's it. All right. Do me a favor. Look that away. Now look this away. Oh. Yeah. Your razor? Nothing. It sucks. Thank you! I thought maybe I was seeing something like that. I was seeing, like, a smoother... a smoother... I'll tell you right now. Left cheek. You want the goddamn thing taken? No. I don't want it. No, I don't want it. That's okay. I got two. When I see that Remington back at all these for 20 bucks, I'm going to grab it. And that white box down there is small and there are two razor blades. I'm going to try using one or another. Regular razor blades. You mean with an actual blade? Yeah. You know, one time I watered... What a sucker I was. I ordered an infomercial product. It was a razor... It was the only razor blade you'll ever need for your entire life. It was supposed to last forever. Well, guess what? It wasn't even sharp enough to give me one shave. How do these companies get away with with this carnival snake oil bullshit, these lies, these products that do not work? How do they get away with all this? I have no idea. Then there's another thing. It looks like... It was a pad that looked like what women would use to smooth out their nails, like an emery board. And it's supposed to buff the hair right off your body. It didn't buff anything. It just irritated the skin. It didn't take the hair off. They get away with fucking the consumer. Well, it's called... That's no regulation. And the people just passively do fucking nothing. Americans want to peacefully protest and sing kumbaya, arm in arm, like the Jill Stein hipsters. They just want to be, oh, all this love and crap. Meanwhile, if Europe, when they get angry and they protest, they freaking revolt and set things on fire and turn cars upside down. The United States, they just want to sing kumbaya and come together and bang the tambourine or something. Give me a fucking break. You make me sick, you Americans. And you imbeciles that don't have a pot to piss in that vote Republican. You know what? You definitely need a brain transplant. Maybe a split pee would be an improvement. Anyway, thank you for joining us for this week's show, Progressive Discussions. It's time. Pagan Ishtar is not for... Far away. Is not far away? What do we have? Two more weeks? I don't know. Look on the calendar. Well, first day of spring is gone already. All right, but that's March. It's officially spring. April. Are you okay? I heard you're slurring again. You're slurring. All right, you're right. Well, when it comes down to that final week, we'll pay homage to Ishtar or something. I don't know. Whatever. Fuck them. We're bunny ears or something? Nah, I can't do that. No one will take us seriously. All right, bye-bye.