 Okay, welcome everyone to our, actually this is a very special show. This is our United States Independence Day holiday week show, holiday week because since we do the show on usually on Saturdays or Sundays. So, you know, the July 4th will be this Tuesday. My mother's birthday and the birthday of United States of America. As you can see that's why I have this, this Independence Day ornament behind you. So happy birthday United States of America and my mother Rosemary. She was born July 4th, 1932. I'm not sure, what would that make her, 85, 86? It makes her three years younger than her, 85, she's 85 years old. She just came home from having a bout with pneumonia for the second time in two years. So I'm keeping the air conditioner at a more reasonable temperature. I'm not blasting it like she was telling me to blast it, blast it, turn it up. I'm hot. I'm hot. And then she'll go, I'm cold, I'm cold, turn it on, turn it off. But you know, yeah, so it's a double birthday. Yes, she was born with a bang and after a bang, yeah, well, the bang come. Yeah, oh, yeah, eight months after the bang, actually nine months, nine months, it takes. Yeah, what a fuck knows, I just know how to prevent it from happening. I don't know how to how to create it. I know a lot of young people today decide they all decide to keep the baby. So they, so they can, they think they can hook a man that way, they can hook the father and, and also hook some child support payments so they could stay at home and watch Maury Povich and then Jerry Springer and Steve Wilkos, uh, General Hospital and no, and what's that other show? Uh, I think I, I think I cover the more Maury Povich, Jerry Springer, Steve Wilko, Steve Harvey and all those daytime programs. Thunder, Thunderdome, Steve Harvey, Thunderdome, he's in the new Thunderdome movie? Thunderdome. Oh, I think there is a new Mad Max, there is a new Mad Max movie out. Anyway, I am drinking the last of the two, uh, Great Lakes Brewery, Edmund Fitzgerald Craft Beer Porter, this is, uh, it is a Porter, Edmund Fitzgerald Porter, okay, then I will return to the, uh, less expensive, a Yenling Porter and Lagers and whatever. Hey, that's cold, man, that's good. It is cold. Did you try it? Did you try it? I got two drinks down already, very cold. Okay, Independence Day, uh, show, uh, I won't be here, um, well maybe I will be here. I'm leaving July 11th for San Diego, California and Baja, uh, on the 11th, so next Saturday will be, I don't know, next Saturday for 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th. I'll be here, I'll be here, seven lucky bells, four, before I forget, we're going live, progressive discussions is actually going live for the first time, right now, we're going live via YouTube, okay, in high definition for the holiday. We might not go high definition after that, but for the holiday we're going high definition and, uh, we're going live for the first time ever, seven lucky bells for this week's show. Everything we discuss politically, oh by the way, do you see everything, you see everything, camera man, is everything positioned properly, you see everything I'm holding, everything we discuss politically is part of our series, Crappitalism in a conch shell, there's the conch, alright, and God knows there's plenty of crappitalism with the Republicans in charge, especially with Donald Trump attempting to take away our voter rights, which to me is organized voter suppression. What do you think there, Billy Bones? Yeah, well exactly, but that is part of the Republican policies to take away rights. No matter who is president. So fascism is their goal, Corbyn Corbyn. Now is fascism automatically, by definition, a corporate oligarch? It is from Mussolini, by definition, by definition, okay, um, corporate, now I have to do something that I couldn't do last time, because we're going live, I have to introduce ourselves. I am, this is progressive discussions, I am your host James P. Madonna, and I am with my co-host and mentor, and the founder of Newsletter Sensors in 1977, the Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman. How are you feeling this week, sir? Uh, I'm a little upset today. Me too, wait until I do my chiselous hall of shame, but you go first, you go first. It's not from something outside me, per se, it's with me. Uh, personal, it's personal, all right, let's, let's keep it, let's keep it, uh, personal. Yeah, sorry. Okay, now I might as well get right into, I gotta put my chilele somewhere, it's without messing up the show, because things are a bit different, now that we're going live, in high definition, for the Independence Day special show of 2017, oh, we're doing the show live from the Newsletter Sensors Research Center in Northeastern New Jersey. See before, when the show wasn't live, I had an introduction with music and everything at the beginning, so I didn't have to do this, but now I have to do it. I have to do it all, even the promo, I have to do the promo live and fresh. Do we have a sample copy of Sensored anywhere, anywhere reachable, no, no, okay, don't worry about it, um, I'll talk about it anyway, all right, chiselous hall of shame inductee, I would like to induct, um, Walgreens Pharmacy, shame on you, I would like to induct the WellCare Health Insurance Company, shame on you, and I would like to throw in Hackensack University Medical Center, uh, not a big chiselous hall of shame for them, but partial, they're going to get a partial chiselous hall of shame, okay, now, why do I say this? I say this because, uh, it is evident without a shadow of a doubt that the, uh, the American healthcare system is the, is the greatest and the worst racket that has ever been created in the history of mankind. My mother's, uh, antibiotic prescription, very strong prescription, called Amoxi, uh, Flock's Acin, 400 milligrams each, only three, and I repeat, only three tablets in the bottle, Walgreens Pharmacy wanted almost $40, uh, because why? Because her health insurance, WellCare, uh, says that they, you know, they, they refuse to cover it, they, they refuse to pay for it because it's a very strong antibiotic. No, they refuse to pay for it because they just don't feel like paying for it. What is the purpose of having, uh, for people having, let's say Medicare Part D or any coverage that normally pays for, uh, prescription drugs? What's the point in having it if they are going to take it upon themselves, not to pay for it? Did they, uh, advise a generic? That is the generic, uh, they wanted almost $40 for the generic, only three tablets. Now, now the lady that lives upstairs, uh, uh, Julia, uh, Julie, she, the drug she has to take is four tablets per month and they charge her $112. Come on, give me a break, talk about Highway Robbery. I mean, That is, Highway Robbery is built into the pharmaceutical system. Oh yeah, without a doubt. You see what happened with that guy Scalise, the CEO guy when he got in charge of the, uh, his company or whatever and he, he upped the price of the EpiPen. Oh yeah, remember that. Oh, you mean that young, young punk cocksucker, the dude with the douchebag face and that, and that smirk, you remember that, that, that smirk he had on his face? Like the way, like the way, uh, uh, Mitch McConnell, turtle face smiles like Bella Lugosi, you ever, you ever noticed Mitch McConnell has that Bella Lugosi smile, that evil smile? Just like, look at all photos of Bella Lugosi on the internet and then hold them side by side and Mitch McConnell when, when, you know, he was like, he was like salivating over the new Republican healthcare plan. Anyway, yeah, the EpiPen, I remember it well. Isn't that like, um, part of, um, the evil part of capitalism called buying low and selling high? Or having something that other people need, you're the only one who has it. Oh, price gouging people that are desperate. Yeah, and how you saw it in Katrina. Very clearly. Oh, the bottle of water. And they were happy about it. Oh, well, yeah, G.W. Bush was, uh, president at the time. They were, they were more than happy because it was pro, all the, all the supplies for the Katrina victims were from privatized sources. It wasn't the government supplying the drinking water and the food. Oh, you didn't want the government to do that. Oh, it had to be privatized. Of course. Government can't save you. Can't save you so. Oh, yeah. Well, they demonize government. Meanwhile, if it wasn't for, if it wasn't for socialism and government, we would probably wouldn't have a fire department. That's true. Oh, gee, let me call the privatized fire department. And if you're not, if you're not up on your payments. Oh, they won't let their house. Are they want payments? Privatized. Anything privatized requires payment. Oh, so you got to pay them like the cable company? Fuck, fuck that. Wow, fun ghouls. Not for Mr. Bank, Mr. Clinton for that. Oh, a Democrat. Bill Clinton being a little too appousy-wousy with. Took away our free TV. With New Gingrich. Oh, he's the one. Oh, okay. Took away our free TV. The so-called, the so-called progressive Democrat. Well, the neo-liberal Democrats, demon crats, I'm sorry. The DNC's neo-liberal demon crats of today are using the word progressive. Yeah, they are. A little too. A little too loosely. They're trying to. Yes. Yeah. I even took all the gray out of my hair for this special show. Well, what do you do? For my trip, too. Let's see how long it lasts. Just for men. Meeting brown. Let's see how long the shit lasts. Oh boy. And if it doesn't last, it will be inducted into the chiseless pool of shame. Next week. How long is it supposed to last? It should last until the hair grow. No, it's supposed to last until the hair grows out. Wow. What's the point in putting it in if it's going to come out during the following wash? There's no point in having it. Then I might as well use the strong 45 minute woman's formula, you know? Now, I have very stubborn gray hair. I might need the mustache and beard formula. Maybe. You ever see the met guy? Yeah. Oh, he looks all bloated. Oh, Keith Hernandez. Keith Hernandez. He's too dark. And Wolf. Was that Wolf Frazier? Keith Hernandez? I don't know, but Keith Hernandez looks too dark. Too dark. Fake. Give me like Kiwi shoe polish. Yeah. Yeah. It looks fake. Like in the old days, I'll be done. Yeah. Anyway, of course, I was, well, like I said before, I was reading an article about Donald Trump and I'm sure the Republican Congress is behind it trying to reduce voter rights, which is organized voter suppression. You know, Republicans, they love gerrymandering and they love voter IDs for poor minority people. You know, and anything that would get them in power, keep them in power so they can enslave the poor or kill them off. And I've been reading more articles about all the deadly toxins that are all around And except for countries that have refused to do this, there seems to be a worldwide trend towards mandatory vaccinations. And these vaccinations contain toxins like mercury and such. So, you know, and someone in some UN cunts, bitch, United Nations or NATO individual, I'm not sure what country she's from, but she says that the depopulation is a great idea. Why don't they start? If you want to depopulate. Why don't they start with her elitist family? Yeah. Instead of, well, of course she wants to depopulate the poor. What else would a person, Rolly and Doe, want to do if they're greedy and stingy and rich? Yeah. But let's see. Yeah. Oh, Atkinsack University Medical Center. Right. And partial Schisler's Hall of Shame inductee, because when my mother passed out, when she came down with pneumonia for the second time, not too long ago, I went to the visitors section. Well, the only visitors section, the only office, the only entrance, I'm sorry, that I can walk into is the intake section for adults in the emergency room. They have one pediatric for children. They have one entry for adults. I walk in and this heavy set Latina woman is there looking all pissed off. She's not even looking up, acknowledging my presence. Actually, no one was acknowledging my presence. I had to walk around to try to get somebody's attention and say, look, I'm not a patient here. Is it a relative who was just admitted into the emergency room? I'm a visitor. Nobody would answer me. So I went and sit down. I went to take a walk. Security says, who are you? Where's your ID? You know what? I says, well, nobody's paying attention to me in the intake room. I'm a visitor. I'm not a patient. So finally, this heavy set Black Lady comes in and writes me an ID badge. And then I, you know, the funny thing is if you're a patient, they make you wait a long time unless it's a real emergency, unless the ambulance brings you in. Well, who would think that a visitor would have to wait a long time also? So the whole, my whole entire experience with all these unfriendly people was I was thinking of Jerry Seinfeld episode when Morty Seinfeld had a wait, wait, wait, and then he went into the small room with the gown on and he had to wait a second. They called it the second waiting room and then he's like, my wallet's gone. Somebody stole my wallet. You know, the episode of Seinfeld. You know, you make an appointment with a doctor, let's say your appointment is at 3 p.m. You're in the big waiting room. You don't see the doctor at 3 p.m. You might be sitting there for an hour. Then you go in the little room. The nurse comes in, takes your blood pressure and your heart rate. Then you sit in the little room, which Jerry Seinfeld calls the second waiting room and you're waiting, waiting, waiting, because, hey, our time is not valuable. Their time is more valuable than our time. Yes. Okay. I saw the Seinfeld episode when they were put in jail yesterday. Oh, that's the last one. Yeah. Oh, yeah, they wanted to, Kramer wanted to do a play in prison, live, live, birdie or something. I don't know. Yeah, you could play live, live, live. I should blow it out of your ass. She was going to say blow it out of your ass. Blow it out. He's the one that caused the plane to go down because he had, his ear was clogged and he was jumping up and down. But that was funny. Babu was there. You're very bad, buddy, you're very bad, but Babu was there. They had me deported. They deported him. Yeah. He had to come back. Well, actually, what Jerry told Babu was a great idea. He told him, why don't you turn it into an old Pakistani restaurant? Why is he, why is a Pakistani man serving American food? Yeah. Why? So I like, I like Indian and Pakistani food. Hey, I would have went there. You know, yeah, so anyway, you probably didn't advertise. Yeah, he was there. Elaine says to Patrick Warburton, putty, a boyfriend, putty. Putty, yeah. Oh, don't wait for me. Don't wait for me. I won't. And he walks away. Yeah. That was funny. And then she had that look on her face when he says, I won't. Anyway, let us sink our teeth into these readings. Oh, by the way, camera person, is everything look OK? Is everything in position? Can we tell? I hope so. Can we tell the strength of the voice? Or no? No, the voices, the voice with the new equipment for this holiday is very sensitive and very impeccable. OK, because. Better, better, better, much better than the old equipment, which is on the fritz right now. And if everything works out well with this show, we'll remain on the fritz because I took it to a computer repair. We took it to some computer technicians nearby, a bunch of Asian guys that really know their shit and got the fantastic reviews on Yelp, I think. And what did they say? Expert PC. We do not fix that type of equipment. So therefore, it will remain on the fritz. Anyway, go ahead. I've been listening to the pathetic excuses the Republicans are making on why they can't vote on their repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act. If I'm not mistaken, for seven plus years, they tried to overturn it. It seems to me, if you want to change something and you're serious about it, you should have something waiting in the wings. Their inability to do so shows how disingenuous they really are. Instead of making it better, they're just trying to ram something down our throats. Where is the great dealmaker? It was going to be cheaper and cover everyone. Too bad. Donald Trump doesn't have a clue on how to accomplish this. It is incredible that someone gets elected to the most important job in the world by using sound bites with absolutely no substance. I certainly hope the electorate has learned its lesson. We shouldn't be taken in by a con man again. Well, you had choices in 2016. Yes, you did. You had, well, the real winner, as far as numbers go, if you count every vote. I'm not talking about the votes that were tossed aside. If you really, really count every vote, the real winner was Bernie Sanders. But Bernie, it's been found that many of his votes were tossed aside. And he decided, he was so paranoid about Donald Trump being elected that he decided to endorse Hillary Clinton and settle for the lesser of two evils. But they're finding lots of not just Bernie Sanders votes, but even Hillary Clinton votes that were. In other words, some fishy went on with this 2016 election with concerning Donald Trump's victory. Something fishy went on. Whether or not any evidence is concrete enough to support Russia's involvement or not, I've been reading a lot of articles about that. What really upset me is all the articles put online by WikiLeaks and Anonymous. No one ever saw justice. Never went anywhere here? Never went anywhere. Never went anywhere. I mean, it got a lot of people going to Anonymous's WikiLeaks web page and watching the videos on YouTube, but never went anywhere. Oh, I really, really like the new cooling system you have in the newsletter-sensitive research center. It's a really, you can't beat science like George Costanz has said. Can't beat it. No way, no how. Can't beat science. Can't beat technology. For months, we democratic voters have been pretty much told that Hillary Clinton lost because of Russian interference. Hey, speak of the devil. And because of the Trump campaign's collusion with Russia, I've always believed that Russia was trying to meddle in the Clinton-Trump election. But I never believed it had any effect on the election. John Ossoff's loss in the congressional race in Georgia and other election losses by Democrats since Trump's election and his high negatives is an indication that democratic losses have nothing to do with Russia's meddling. And President Obama's non-response after being told by the CIA that Russia was trying to help Trump beat Clinton tells me that he also did not believe it was having any effect on the voting. While Democrats have thought it a good try by suggesting Clinton lost because of Russia, they don't seem to be fooling many voters with that storyline. If Democrats want to have a chance of winning again, they must come to grips with the real reason Clinton lost. And that is that democratic leaders have been talking to talk about helping average Americans. But when they get elected, they find reasons why they can't do it. If they don't nominate a progressive in 2020, is that when Trump is up for reelection? In 2020, if they don't nominate a true progressive, we're all done for. You're going to have eight years of Donald Trump. You're going to have real fascism. Clinton, who changes her opinions about important issues to match voter approval, has been a poster child for this behavior. So too is Obama, who said he would challenge Wall Street, but whose presidency increased the difference between the rich and the poor to the highest ever. I grew up under democratic president Franklin D. Roosevelt. That was a whole different ball game. Who not only talked to talk, but as president, created the most profound social revolution in our country since the Civil War. Roosevelt, Truman, JFK. And in a lot of ways, the Republican Dwight Eisenhower. And Johnson. Lyndon Baines, Johnson. But FDR made one mistake. Only one? Well, he held back on getting involved in World War II. They claimed, in other words, they blamed the attack on Pearl Harbor for FDR's pacifist attitude towards the conflict that was going on. Well, Americans at that time and after World War I did not want to get involved in European problems. Until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Right. But they gave them a new look at it. But that was a surprise. Well, there really wasn't any protection of Pearl Harbor, per se. No, who the hell expected kamikazes? You know, airplanes that only had so much gas and would run out of gas over here. They would go back. No, no, the Japanese sent a fleet, I think. They sent a fleet of aircraft carriers. No, I mean, there should be. You know how, when an aircraft carrier always has an escort of submarines and destroyers and whatnot? Yeah, you need it, because it's a huge target. But do you see what happens when I destroy it the other day? It was hit by the garbage scowl. What? Or the barge carrying containers. Oh, that's a lot of weight. Well, no shit, but it destroyed the destroyer. It rammed the destroyer? Yeah. It rammed it right where the guys were sleeping, killed a bunch of them. You remember that? I mean, how weak is the destroyer? Well, they don't have thick hulls like they did during World War II. Well, obviously, there's something wrong, you know? Yeah, they're a low budget destroyers. Whatever, but when a garbage scowl or whatever it can do. Well, that's embarrassing. No, it wasn't a garbage scowl. If you're talking about a cargo ship, I think it was a cargo ship. That's not a garbage scowl. That's a freaking cargo ship. But it was a big sucker. They're all big suckers. But the thing of it is, I mean, where was the radar guy? Yeah, look, not everybody in the military, especially like in the Navy, let's say. Not everyone is sleeping in their bunks. Yeah, exactly. There are always people on guard. There are always people. I mean, yeah, where was the radar and sonar detection? Exactly. You know what? I think they're enlisting low budget mentality. I think everything today is watered down as far as competence goes. You ever call the main office or customer service of a company and notice how many retards pick up the phone? I just had one on the other day from India. No, not even India. Well, they're either India or, in most cases, I think they're the Philippines. Could be. They pay them very cheap, very cheap. This was India. This one was India, OK. And they probably pay them very, very cheap if the man was in India. Obviously. Hey, China, Foxconn, what is it, $0.32 an hour? And they have to wear diapers. This is all due, listen, a friend of mine from Shanghai told me that, true, China's economy is astronomically big, but most of the mainstream population of China is poor. They're not, a large percentage of the people there are not enjoying the prosperity of China. Exactly. OK. I grew up under Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt who talked to talk. But as president, created the most profound social revolution in our country since the Civil War, nothing less than the creation of modern America. Average Americans are looking for leaders like if they are. Well, mean what they say, when they say they are going to work for average Americans. And because of the hypocritical performance of current Democratic leaders, they are looking elsewhere. Yeah, like Nancy Pussy Pelosi and the other demon Feinstein, people of that ilk in the Democratic Party that are always so obsessed with this bipartisanship and compromising and being, I guess, what would you call, centrists, blue dogs? Well, they ain't going to do anything. That's for damn sure. No, no. You only can do something at the ends, like being a progressive or being a conservative. Well, look what happened in the first two weeks. Conservatives block everything. Progressives try to make something. Because just to do something. Just study, just analyze the word progressive. Look it up in the damn dictionary, you idiots. Progressive. I mean, the first two years, Obama was in office. The Democrats had total control. Nothing was done. We could have had a single payer universal health care plan. You could have changed the tax system in those two years to make the rich pay their fair share in taxes. But it wasn't done. Amazing. Yeah. Absolutely amazing. Oh, by the way, the general ceiling and insulation of the new cooling system was done properly, even when the fall and winter comes around. Was it done properly? No, it would need foam or something on the wings. So in other words, a company person did not do the job. A handyman did. I know you were going to have a handyman do it. Never trust any of your handyman friends. You've got to get somebody that knows what they're doing. That's not a professional. He's a jabroni, man. He's a jabroni. When the winter comes, we'll put this stuff down. What I'm saying is, I'm looking at it and it looks like a handyman did it. It doesn't look like a corporate person did it. Well, he did a good job. You've got to get somebody who has a full set of brain cells that know is professional, that's going to seal it. That would have cost $120. Well, I thought you needed to deplete some petty cash. Not in that way. All right, go ahead. That sounds obviously stupid. You'll find out the hard way when the winds of November come early. No, because then we'll block it. All right, go ahead. It is amazing. Winds of November. How people's memories are so short. When the Affordable Care Act was introduced in July 2009, it went through three House Committees, two Senate Committees, multiple hearings, open debates, amendments before finally being passed in March of 2010. Republicans and Democrats had their input. There were no secret meetings. Very few lost their doctors and few lost their policies. The goal of Obamacare was to ensure everybody, not just the rich. It is based on Romney care in Massachusetts. Rich, they can pay for their own fucking health insurance. A Republican health care plan. That is very successful. It seems the only reason it is not liked is because it has President Obama's name attached to it. Oh, yes, the word Obama is in it. All the rednecks and red states and right-wingers, they'll say no without even analyzing what it is. Oh, I don't want no, I don't want no Obamacare. Oh, no, it's the Affordable Care Act. Yeah, that sounds better. That sounds good. Oh, by the way, you know how I could tell the audio is working, the green dots are moving. The green dots on the lower left are going, Oh, yeah. The V, the V, the V, the V, the V, the V, the V, see the green dots? Yes. Yeah, OK. OK, that's good. All right. Oh, I noticed you found your Himalayan pink salt. Yay. God, buddy boy. Oh, finally, you found it. Finally. That's valuable, man. You know how many trace minerals are in there? No, I don't know how many. I think 80, or in the 80s, over 80. Well, it's been a long time since it was pushed down there, and then it got pushed back and back and back. Well, you know what else is great about Himalayan pink salt is that it never goes bad. Oh, good. Well, it has to. It preserves itself because it's salt. Ah. Yeah, it never goes bad. It never goes bad. Never gets a non-perishable item. A crucial vote on the Republican's health plan was originally scheduled for the Senate floor this week. Senators should vote no and defeat this ill-conceived health plan. The plan will harm millions of Americans. My cousin is a polio survivor of 63-plus years. She missed the salt vaccine by a year. She was stricken with infantile paralysis, polio, at age 14. My cousin is very upset and fretting as to what will happen to her under this health plan. She has a preexisting condition. She may be excluded from coverage, just based on that. She is covered by Medicaid, which may cut severely under this legislation, which may be cut severely, which would greatly reduce the minimal services she receives. In my view, President Trump is an equal maniac whose only interest is himself. Himself and his kids. He has clearly shown that he is unable to think beyond a 140-character tweet. Oh, yeah, I heard he's back on the Twitter obsession. Yes, he has attacked Morning Joe and Mika, his wife. Well, the only thing I disagree with is what happened was he tweeted about sending federal aid to Chicago for the high crime, the high violent crime they've been having. And some popular celebrity African-American gentlemen, I'm not sure who he is, criticized him for being obsessed with being a cyberbully on Twitter. Well, being as a May, Chicago still needs a drastic, radical approach. It needs something, yeah. And it's not, you know, look, you can't negotiate with thugs, terrorists, the hardened criminals or evil people. Passage of this plan. Or sociopaths. By the Senate. Yeah. Will only stoke this man's ego and give him an additional ammunition to the little, mock, and disparage individuals who stand up to his and the Republicans' misguided plans to make America great again. Well, he did it throughout his entire campaign in 2016, didn't he? And people, you see the kind of people that showed up at his rallies, a bunch of redneck racists. In the end, there are plans. Their plans are setting back by decades and the gains made in multiple areas such as health, equal opportunity for all, and education, and the environment. The letter writer desires to have any mention of God or religion removed from government or public school. He then suggests that students expressed their subjective understanding of the meaning of life. That statement is saying the only objective truth in life is there is no objective truth. In a scary sense, we are gods. Therefore, there is no need to hold on to such antiquated, illogical belief as a creator god. After all, the theory of evolution is solid. Nobody times nothing equals everything. You just have to show me where all the gabbages. Gabbage? Wow, before, there was an object there where you threw the readings that were already read on the other side, but there was no barrier. There was nothing there. So you're going to have to show me what to discard. Wow, you know what I mean, Jelly Bean? I just read the news that President Trump unannounced that he is not in possession of any tape recordings between himself and former FBI Director James Cole, and yet he is the one who started this whole controversy in the first place. And strung everyone along for five and a half weeks just to say none exists. He is clearly a narcissistic person who craves attention. My question to all Trump supporters, do you think that his making up a false story is a normal thing for a president to do? No. Well, I mean, presidents have lied in the past, but not like this guy. I support it all past presidents, whether Democratic or Republican. But what's going on in the White House today is exhausting. I don't want to watch the news anymore. I don't. I get my news online from the underground. This is not what the president of the United States should be. All past presidents had varying degrees of integrity. His president has none. Therefore, I cannot support him. But you imbeciles elected him. This gentleman keeps on forgetting that. We keep running into that, don't we? You could have went for the lesser of the two evils. Someone who would have threw we, the people, a handful of crumbs, meaning Democrat Hillary Clinton. Oh, no, but you had to elect the person who wants to give you not one crumb, nothing. I am a little surprised over how annoying the left is about the secrecy of the health care bill after all. Obamacare was done with no input from Republicans. That legislation didn't get into Republican both. And then there was the House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi's famous statement. We have passed the bill to find out what is in it. The Democrats got the bill passed without some of them even reading it. The whole bill was a lie. It was crafted as a lie. To get it passed, including such memorial on truth, as if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. And if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. The letter writer believes that protesting against the president's policies and or personally is inconsistent with some of the values that make America great. In my opinion, such demonstrations are precisely what makes America great. We are fortunate to live in a country where displeasure with our government can be freely expressed, unlike in some countries, where such expression is forbidden. The writer also states that such demonstrations send a very bad message. I think it sends the right message, the message of resistance to President Trump's ideas and attitudes is one that expresses the hope that we can and we must do better in selecting the people to run our government. People should show Trump the same respect that has been given to past individuals serving in the position for the greater good of our country. Where was this writer when Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina shouted, you lie! At President Obama. Although this may sound an act of shame, I believe that respect must be earned, not freely given. While I have respect for the office of the president, I have little respect for its current occupant. In my eyes, Trump has done very little to earn the respect the writer believes that he warns. What was the Grover Cleveland that once said that the American people will receive the kind of government that they deserve? That's great. Exactly the kind of government that they deserve? Well, maybe you don't deserve. Maybe you imbeciles do not deserve a Bernie Sanders. Oh, by the way, I heard that the free health care for all in democratic socialist countries are not what Republicans in the United States warn against about that everybody has to wait a long time. Of course not. They got their health care. That's bullshit. That's bullshit. It's all conservative propaganda lies. Sometimes some problems over in Canada, for instance, if they can't get a guy in right away or whatever, they ship them over here and pay for them here. Yeah. Oh, by the way, for two days, I've been trying to get Bank of America's customer service on the phone. And they have me waiting so long that they're not picking up. I have to tell them that I will not be on the East Coast between the dates, July 11 to the 18th. This way, I can use my card, my Visa card. And I have to tell them this. Otherwise, I'm going to have to walk into the branch physically, walk into the branch, and tell customer services. I mean, tell the person, yeah, the customer service rep at the branch to do it for me because they're not picking up the phone. And they got a brand new ATM machine that looks like a damn slot machine from a casino. And it has more functions, which means they will staff less tellers, and they will cut down on their employees, on their scheduled staff. That's what the ATMs are all about. Well, this is a brand new big flashing light 2001 Space Odyssey freaking high-tech ATM. And you can be sure that this ATM has more functions than the old one. And that means less hours for the bank personnel. And from what I hear, fast food restaurants like McDonald's already have these self-service machines to walk up to and press buttons and place your order. So when a Republican says, hey, you lazy moocher, go get a job. Go get a job to poor people, well, there's even less jobs than there were before, thanks to this technology. And Trumpy keeps saying that Carrier and Ford and all the other ones that he speaks to are keeping jobs when, in fact, they are losing them. Losing them, that's correct. Yeah, the jobs. And then you have the H-1B visa imports, the professionals imported into this country to work cheap. And, of course, you have outsourcing of many office jobs. And there ain't no jobs. There's no job market. So when they say you lazy moocher, go get a job, go get a job, they're just like trying to sweep you under the carpet, trying to get rid of you, trying to dummy you up, so to speak. There's no jobs. And what's amazing is all the mainstream morons that believe all this bullshit, trickle-down economics and everything, doesn't work. OK, listen, never worked. It was always a big lie. Big lie. We're going to break for lunch, and then we're going to come back for lunch. And we will begin part two of this week's Independence Day 2017 Progressive Discussions Holiday Show, Independence Day Week, I'm sorry, 2017. We're going to go to lunch. And, actually, I will do, well, I have to, because we're doing this live from YouTube. I will do promo when we come back. I will do promo, all right? All right. Is that OK with you, Giovanni? Yeah.