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Sven Goli over there they were all set tis the season 2017 is ahead of us because it is about mid-october 2017 you wouldn't think it from the unseasonably warm and humid weather we got sugar skull the gargoyles well these are called sugar skulls in Latin America the custom dates back to the Mayans and the Aztecs they started it in Mexico sugar pumpkins no you're thinking of all pleasant things now they you know they have parades and they were masks mass bob would appreciate that well speaking of ancient Mexican holiday of the day of the dead which is November 2nd which follows all souls day which is November 1st which was my grandfather's birthday God rest his soul and of course all Halos Eve is October 31st right we are drinking dos eckies and bar that's right the very first beer dos eckies ever came out with back in the mid-1800s dos dos eckies and bar I am going to taste it for the very first time I am familiar with dos eckies lager which I happen to think is the best-tasting Mexican beer of all but this is supposed to be a darker and stronger it is a brown beer and I will try it for the very first time have you tasted Georgia yes okay seven lucky bells for this week's progressive discussions everything we discussed politically is part of our series crappitalism in a conch shell here's the conch soak in that conch energy yes king Neptune yes it will be a yeah I'll do it I'll do it I have them here the political mumbo jumbo that I received in the mail this week and I'll and I'll mention that woman who thank you yeah the woman who was arrested for refusing to get her child vaccinated oh here's since for you it's a menu you know mom's meal menu okay now there's no sense of me showing you the the mail from the Democratic candidate so I might as well you know show you this here now you let me know if this is coming from a Republican or not because I generally do not pay too much attention to local politics because they're a bunch of corrupt sleaze bags here in the tri-state area especially New Jersey okay here you got a man holding a bag of loot all right and a trophy probably a participation participation trophy like Donald Trump after he plays golf that he that he he said this what did he say this trophy is in this trophy is an honor of hurricane Harvey victims met no Mexico Mexico City in Puerto Rico he say he like yeah I read an article where he like dedicated his participation participation trophy and golf to the victims of Hurricane Maria they don't need a participation trophy salute what they need is help help clean water food medical attention clean dry housing proper housing and money not you know honoring them with some stupid ridiculous participation trophies anyway are you tired of paying more in property taxes and getting less in return then stop rewarding career politicians like Senator Bob Gordon with your votes now this is an anti Bob Gordon Bob Gordon is Democrat Phil Murphy is a Democrat okay like okay so this is coming from the Republicans right fact yeah right Republicans and facts you know they don't go hand-in-hand we can only change Trenton if we change the people we send their dirt dirt incumbent senator Bob Gordon you know I'm reading the opposite side okay incumbent senator Bob Gordon equals higher taxes on New Jersey's middle class no the lack of taxation of the rich the rich being on a tax vacation equals higher taxes on New Jersey's middle class which probably includes property taxes too okay here we go New Jersey had highest property taxes in the nation in 2016 again study fines well because the rich are not paying their fair share in taxes thanks to eight years of Chris Christie property taxes increased by six point six billion well sure they put the burden when the rich don't pay their taxes their fair share in taxes the burden goes on the middle class okay New Jersey that was from the New Jersey comm yeah I wonder if these are establishment organizations kissing kissing corporate and right-wing ass New Jersey Herald news drivers fume as gas tax hike passes in Trenton gas taxes increased 23 cents a gallon overnight well Republicans have to get the money the revenue from somewhere and I guess it's a little guy again because how much gasoline does the top 2% use right New Jersey Transit Board ignores last-ditch pleads approves fair hike and service cuts New Jersey Transit increased fares and tolls on commuters sure we're most of the commuters who are the predominantly the commuters of the lower 98% of the population aren't there okay here we go that was New Jersey comm again I don't even know if they're accurately quoting these publications the these media local media publications New Jersey radio station New Jersey 101.5 quote Phil Murphy this was August 18 2017 Phil Murphy I'll raise New Jersey taxes by 1.3 billion yeah maybe he's gonna raise tax these taxes on the rich like he should state bring back some that Christie you know gave away state taxes corporations and etc. state taxes poised to increase again next year okay finally some good news we can change Trenton on November 7th vote for a business owner mom coach public servant an independent voice independent voice Kelly a lying shulks for a state senator I would say I don't know who this person is but I would say according to this advertisement she might be a Republican blaming you know with the same tired bullshit talking about the tax the so-called tax and spend liberals you know and talking about the big lie trickle-down economics which is nothing but prosperity that pulls at the top and then they just replace the pool or larger pool before it overflows so you know but anyway these other quotes what was July 15 2015 October 9th 2016 and April 6th 2017 so we don't even know if these quotes are true but we definitely do not need for additional years of people like Chris Christie okay here we go the Christie this sequel just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water and here you could see Chris Christie looking like a beached whale hogging what is it Island Beach State Park yes sir hogging it by closing it near the 4th of July holiday weekend so him and his family can hog it but his his excuse was they already made plans to go there and they were on on a private beach well then why did you have to close the entire State Park if you were on a private beach all right that's that's what Kim what why a dog know what I know why don't know what that's what Kim Guaidano would be four more years of the worst movie New Jersey has ever seen so this this is a this is a right-wing chick usually women have a tendency to be very compassionate and empathic I mean empathetic if that were exists and nurturing you know and and progressive but not not with right-wing women I mean I was gonna say Fox News chicks but I think they're there for ratings because they all have certain traits in common and they probably just they're told what to say read off teleprompters here we go the critics agree Christiane Christie and Guaidano are terrible for women vetoing equal pay that's true worst on the economy credit rating lowered 11 times horrific on education underfunding by two billion dollars enough is enough no third term no Guaidano and there's a picture of them holding hands so this is this is obviously from you know the Democratic opposition now listen in New Jersey we're stuck voting for the lesser of two evils like going from the frying pan into the furnace or receiving a handful of crumbs versus receiving nothing because the Democrats in New Jersey many of them are wealthy and some of them have Wall Street ties some of them are former Wall Street people Phil Murphy the former governor John Corzine Burton County state congressman assemblyman senator yeah yeah what's his name the one I plucked his with on his on his telephone town hall meeting yeah what some Wall Street ties Bob Phil Murphy by far has the most but he's the lesser of the two evils what can you do I listen to his ads they sound good I'm definitely not gonna vote for a Republican ever so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to vote straight down the line since there are no progressive our revolution Bernie Sanders people running nor would they make the polls nor would they be invited to the debates you don't have you don't need a crystal ball to predict what's gonna happen it's always gonna be the establishment two major parties there is a debate coming up or it's gonna be very close I'm I don't know what you take might even be today tomorrow I don't know but it's right here it's coming it's coming up with Guadano and Phil and Phil yeah well I think Phil's gonna do a hell of a good job and that's my prediction so I mean I don't really have any chiseless all the shame that is considered so well sizable I mean I could I don't know if I mentioned this last time but I might as well do it again I I want to induct a health insurance company well care into the chiseless hole of shame because I found out that well care only pays for one meal per day for for the elderly like my mother who receives food from a company called mom's meals one meal per day well care is paying for one eight ounce packet of nonfat dry milk cool so according to well care that's all the senior citizen is entitled to is one modestly size I wouldn't call it tiny like an airline food but moderately sized meal per day and a cup of milk I mean why don't you just like get dig up Charles Dickens at Christmas Carol and you know and just dump mush dump a scoop of mush into rule into something he did their bowl and say well you better roll that around your mouth several times before you swallow it because that's the only meal you're gonna get so but I hear great things about United Health Care no wonder the AA the AARP deals with United Health Care I hear great things about it that they pay all the bills compared to other companies like Horizon for car insurance the AARP provided me with the lowest rates in New Jersey they deal with the Hartford company there's now a car so I salute the AARP all right there's now a car insurance where you pay by the miles you drive oh is that similar to the classic car owners they pay a lower fee a lower rates because they're basically they're either taking the car to the to the mechanic the auto body or the car shows right and then back home again right or in a parade and they cover it up or you know where they were to tarp or they put it in the garage and they baby it so therefore the miles are minimal yep so they pay less that isn't that is not a bad idea so I imagine you have to prove what's on your odometer that's another one another one is for those that have a Medicaid card you qualify for something called dollar a day auto insurance but it's only for Medicaid recipients don't ask me why it's not for everyone living on a fixed income like retired senior citizens people living on social security disability I think and everyone that's living on a fixed income should get dollar a day auto insurance in New Jersey and should also be able to apply for Medicaid with PA AD and of course silver script is a great Medicare Part D company because you don't pay a premium I mean it's bad enough you have to pay a Medicare premium if you're living on a fixed income and that that's over a hundred bucks I think 130 some odd dollars Medicare premium and well what we really need of course is health care is the right universal single payer health care which due to Bernie Sanders hard work and persistence he is getting more and more Democrats on board with him including which includes Elizabeth Warren and maybe even Chuck Schumer and Hilda Brand I think he's got 11 people he'll he's got 11 Democrats 11 that are that are backing up oh by the way I was in I went to the Royal Hibachi Grill buffet in South of New Jersey on Route 46 in the West in the Saddlebook Mall I had outstanding food and outstanding sushi and seafood seafood salad the video is on the internet it's on Facebook now and I went to the dollar zone and lo and behold my Wilkinson sword razor blades came in so I bought several of them you know usually they cost five dollars each for five blades you know Wilkinson sword but these were a buck each for five blades you gotta take advantage of it because they do not come in on a consistent basis but you never know what you're gonna find in those special independently owned dollar stores the Dollar Tree is great don't get me wrong but you just never know what you're gonna find in this particular one so let's banter a bit because we are getting close to we got about maybe 10 more minutes before we have to take a short break unless you have a short reading unless you have a short reading that you think you can knock off if not we can just banter about stuff you know what don't read it I have reading all right you know what we're gonna last no nine minutes no but read it but but when I when I say finish the paragraph or the sentence where I'll be finished all right go ahead good Americans overwhelmingly disagree with President Donald Trump no shit I'm just about everything from his military threats to North Korea to his combative stance toward NFL players who won't stand for the national and what about his insane tweets that never stop but a USA today Suffolk University poll I like that word Suffolk finds an unusual disconnect Suffolk Americans are increasingly optimistic about the nation's economy what he's just really intent on keeping the nation divided stupid tea bagger idiots no empathy no compassion just all about him manned to end tweeting Trump's defenders counter that he has faced tough problems forget that that roll a paper towel that Donald Trump wants to toss Puerto Rico that's right and on re-lending opposition from his political foes it's not a good climate out there here and he's navigating through it for the first time during Trump's presidency majority Americans 53% say in the USA today poll that the economy is in recovery what that typically would lift the views that the nation is headed in the right direction but this time nearly two-thirds 64% also say the country is on the wrong track as Trump approaches the one-year anniversary of his election next month already a year wow time sure flies when you're when you're suffering his underwater approval ratings and the public's anxiety hold perils for his presidency they emboldened his critics and make it harder for him to push legislative proposals such as a tax bill through Congress historically sagging presidential approval ratings also signal trouble for the party in power in midterm elections those surveyed say by 57 to 33% that they want to elect a Congress in 2018 that stands up to Trump not one that cooperates with him and at almost all one in five Republicans as well as a predictable partisan divide with nine out ten Democrats calling for an opposition Congress independence by two to one just hold that view Americans just about everybody in politics in low esteem not to mention the news media Congress gets a whopping unfavorable rating of 64 to 17% the Democratic Party is viewed unfavorably by double digits 48 to 37% the GOP fairs worse 62 to 23% vice president Mike Pence is on unfavorable rating is better than Trump's 57 to 34 but it's still in negative territory at 44 to 36% those second and bar 1897 not not mid 1800s 1897 but when it comes to North Korea Americans are more likely to agree with the embattled secretary of state Rex Tillerson than with his boss yeah by a three-to-one margin 61 to 20% Americans say the United States should pursue diplomacy to try to curtail North Korea's nuclear program not undertake military action by an even wider margin 69 to 15% they say the US should launch military strikes only in response to a North Korea attack not as a preemptive so um yeah he oh I want to say greetings to my dear friend very near and dear from San Diego California and a fine progressive warrior and Natalia Rodriguez of San Diego California you know the the evidence is in that Donald Trump is not the he has some cars missing from the deck he had definitely has some cars missing from the deck Tom Petty died yes Tom Petty let's have a moment of silence for Tom Petty um Donald Trump no compassion no empathy sociopathic which is common with Republicans especially the rich especially those that were born with a silver spoon in their mouth that were coddled and spoiled you know I there's an article before I came here that stated that he mocked the lat Latino accent recently I have to read that article okay we are going take a break continue one of us is the inventor of the personal computer the other a former member of the Federal Communications Commission we come from different walks of life but we both recognize that the FCC is considering action that could end the internet as we know it yeah you mean fascism a dynamic platform for entrepreneurship freedom of speech jobs education and free expression will consumers and citizens control their online experiences or will a few gigantic gatekeepers take this technology down the road of centralized control tollboots and constantly rising prices for consumers at stake is the nature of the internet and its capacity to transform our lives even more than it already has the Senate is expected to approve another term for FCC chairman I get pie and the FCC may vote this month on his plan to wipe away the open internet if pie's majority permits fast lanes for the biggest internet service providers such as Comcast and Verizon AT&T companies could speed up or slow down the sites and services as they prefer that'll be great for their business affiliates and corporate friends but whoa to the startup that wants to build the next great web service it could find itself in the slow lane unable to compete with established firms and pity the booger the local blogger who criticizes her ISPs crummy service the broadband gatekeeper would be free to slow or to silence net neutrality can be highly technical but there's a simple principle underneath the jargon broad banned consumer should have access to lawful content without ISP interference that means no censorship or fast lanes well in a in a military dictatorship like in North Korea you have you don't have a free open worldwide web you haven't you have a government control it intra nests yeah so in China too yes yes unless you're in Hong Kong yeah which is not really part of China yeah I'm a little but I'll go they did I think the I'm confused English sold it back to them or something what about no Shanghai has embraced capitalism quite a bit this is what confuses the hell yeah Shanghai very Japanese embrace capitalism yeah Shanghai as well as the Chinese government with some very wealthy businessmen like the gentleman that owns Alibaba Alibaba who's the witches like eBay and Amazon he's the wealthiest man in China's then this Foxconn you know with their slave labor at 32 cents an hour no benefits have to wear adult diapers because they can't take breaks and whatever they embrace capitalism to the fullest but then again the people are not allowed freedom the most basic freedom all the all the basic freedoms yeah though pie thinks paid prioritization would somehow benefit consumers allowing the ISPs to make such arrangements would stifle innovation online and make it harder for the next generation streaming service or social network to reach the market a fast lane for some is a slow lane for all others even more troubling than the threat to consumers is the impact this could have on a democracy ending net neutrality would take freedom and choice from the less powerful this is a core issue for our civil society so this is the term that is used for right wing conservative fascist wanting to take our internet freedom away right is that the term that they generally use is net neutrality yes is it net neutrality a lot of removal of net neutrality or it's one of those Republican things like clear skies a minute net neutrality neutrality has kind of a positive ring to it exactly but it's not it's not Americans of every political persuasion depend on the internet to educate themselves speak their minds and organize for change mass mobilizations on all sides of the climate health care and immigration debates illustrate the point even as our political discourse reaches unprecedented levels of polarization 77% of Americans including overwhelmingly majorities of both Republican Democrats support maintaining net neutrality the FCC must abandon its ill-conceived plan to end net neutrality instead of creating fast lanes for the few it should be moving all of us to the fast lane by encouraging competition in local broadband connectivity and pushing companies to deliver higher speeds at more affordable prices it's the right thing for us as consumers and as citizens and that was written by Steve Wozniak personal computer guy with mr. yeah job apple guy jobs the late Steve Jobs Steve Wozniak is the head honcho then right anyway this is written by him and Michael cops a member of the federal communications which was in the act is he he seems a bit progressive when he talks I've heard him on 60 minutes and other programs president Donald Trump response that anyone but especially blacks who verbalizes or displays any form of protest should be fired protests against him no like the kneeling and standing oh oh protests meaning Donald Trump doesn't want anyone to have freedom of speech you might as well just come clean and say that that's no obeying the Constitution is disgraceful and a sad reminder of the days when the company line was America love it or leave it Trump and those who think like him cannot understand that number one protest is a protected right of every American and to protest has been a vehicle of the most important civil and social improvements and changes in this great nation and that they would not have been possible without those brave people who sacrifice their careers even their lives to take that makes the country that they love better those morons those flag-waving morons that's that's a America love it or leave it if it's not based on our founding fathers Constitution United States no we have a right to air our grievances to the government without a doubt the right to protest right I mean peacefully protest well yes of course is protect part of the car is protected by the Constitution all right finish up and I want to make a comment about Las Vegas from where Trump stands far above the fray socially morally and intellectually removed from the turbulent regulations of generational discontent and maltreatment everything is binary seen from the perspective of privilege his view is that of a person isn't who isn't happy with the status quo they should leave or be punished threats to fire and punish people for doing what is constitutionally protected are obscene and a travesty to our way of life they are antithetical to what the country stands for coming from the mouth of a president they are unamerican they reflect an ignorant impulsive vindictive mentality a divisive gesture that plays to an audience rather than one that echoes the principles upon which this nation was founded Trump should follow the advice of the esteemed Keizer kind father of an American hero and we read the Constitution yeah just like right wing conservatives should actually read the Bible also and not cherry pick from the Bible but only what they like yeah and by the way I found a great banner about that that I put on posted I uploaded in the God project album on the progressive discussions of Facebook page and I put your name under it because it was well made it has to do with conservatives zealots cherry picking only what they like from the Bible and the fact that they have to be hypocrites they they do not walk-to-walk they only talk to talk and I just want to have a moment of silence for the 58 some are people that innocent people that lost their lives in Las Vegas and then I'll make a comment first of all when the Second Amendment was created people only had muskets that fired one lead ball at a time one projectile at a time not hundreds of rounds per minute with a bump stock now whether it be bump stock whether bump stocks are legally attainable and available or whether it be automatic weapons anything that would convert a gun to into an automatic weapon or automatic weapons in themselves should be illegal for civilians to acquire they these are military weapons these are not weapons that a civilian should have or needs to have a deer right hunters have their hunting rifles and compound bows and whatever for hunting and shot shotguns they do not require a military killing machine like an automatic weapon yes the Second Amendment was created when we only have muskets also I don't care what the NRA has to say even in regards to regulations there there should be very it's the word very detailed stringent background investigations for everyone that purchases a firearm any firearm there should be a background check and it should not be a frivolous background check okay it should be a thorough one no psychiatric no pay an old person with psychiatric background of any kind should be allowed to purchase a firearm enough said okay continue what do you think about what I just said you is it pretty accurate I mean is that acceptable to you also back when the Second Amendment was right founding fathers there were malicious yes much like the National Guard but not really well to protect against a rogue government right a possible well to protect the state that you lived in say Rhode Island their old island had a militia right they weren't Rhode Island red chickens eat and actually people you kept your musket at the Armory yeah but they didn't they hunt back then too yeah you might have had a hunting gun at home or something like that the Appalachian people had they all had their rifles yeah but your let's say your main weapon was at the Armory and if there was a problem and they called you out you went to the Armory and got your gun that's why it was called an Armory yeah so all of a sudden the Supreme Court changes all of this and it becomes individual the individual is allowed to own whatever the hell he wants and why because if you if you look at all of these reasons there's one big reason that stands out that these people want guns they're afraid of their government is going to come after them and take their guns right wing teabaggers right wing people that are not part of the top two richest percentile of the population they have one thing in common they're extremely paranoid about government right controlling their lives taken away their rights right and everything is the conspiracy theories that they discuss online on social media is always directed towards government and never towards the private sector towards corporations and most of these governments that they are afraid of are Republican controlled well they're the fashion what the hell are they afraid of they're the fascist ones right but they don't think so because they were Republicans are allowing them to have all kinds of guns that they want well they sure as hell want the right to bear any arms they want but they don't want to give people the right to health care and education they all their privileges their health care and decent health care and education are not supposed to be rights but the rights to having you know a stockpile of automatic weapons yeah that's right you know and these and these I seen documentaries were these same paranoid right wing people they're building bunkers and yeah and storing food and getting ready to shoot anybody who tries to escape the atomic blasts and get their food to take my food are gonna come nobody's allowed on my bunker I'm not gonna everything is me me me me me that's right that's right you know they're there they're very self-motivated everything is about self right not about sharing who they bear no resemblance to the world tomorrow and God's economics was put it that way no but neither do Republicans bear any resemblance to that so yes they're extremely paranoid everything's a conspiracy coming from the government right they never say anything like corporate CEOs are paying off our politicians to control our lives and to intrude on us and it's always the government may be spying back at you through your cell phone through your iPhone and your your Android and your television and your computer monitor the government is spying on you right you know and most times never blame corporate CEOs and most times the government that they're bitching about is a Republican one right but they're always demonizing the so-called liberal media that really doesn't exist per say and and and the Democrats well they're putting a blame on them exactly because these idiots they believe these evangelical zealot cultists religious freaks believe that a mere fertilized egg is a human baby I have news for you your fertilized egg that you're trying to allow to exist by attacking Planned Parenthood and everything and birth control laws which by the way is in the news recently a woman's right to contraception there's articles out there now yeah okay you believe look your fertilized human egg is no more a human baby than an acorn is an oak tree it is a potential human baby even if it's a if it's an embryo that breeds like a fish it's still not a human baby yet now it's in the news I'm not sure if you have a reading but it's definitely in the news concerning the women's contraception and their right to yeah contraception companies have been given the right if they are to fire well if they morally or if they religiously do not agree with health insurance providing birth control for their workers they will be able to opt out now so they want they wanted they want to do like the old popes of the Catholic Church you know demanding that no contraception is ever used and just banging our babies even if you don't have a pot to piss in of course yes but they don't think long-term about who's who's gonna support all these extra children no real smart patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel he is the man who talks the loudest Mark Twain said in 1908 playing the loud scoundrel rule today is president Donald J fire this son of a bitch is a Trump stallywag instead of unifying us Trump may have just divided and inflamed at least one social racial issue 100 fold well he has the capability not only to infuriate the bottom 98% and including poor people minorities women people of color immigrants of color but he has the capability of pissing off his own political party wrapping wrapping oneself in the American flag and in our national anthem can easily become a cover for deception greed on bridal nationalism and dog whistle racism it's a front meanwhile the scoundrel on stage distracts us from his own shortcomings by mocking the sufferings of others and then shockingly punching a man in the face to please his face those football and basketball professionals who recently expressed themselves non-violently from what they see as a hurtful moment in American history are not disrespecting our flag or our national anthem more importantly they are not disrespecting our values and what we stand for their expressions are the exceptions to the rule that makes me proud to be who I am as an American and thankful to them for helping me to realize this all the more I delight in being one from many protected by our Constitution including his first amendment without which our quest for justice becomes impossible I may not feel called to take a knee but I do feel called to respect those players right to do so and their right to seek and protect the truth that will enable justice to take root I'd lock arms with anyone for working for that end including those in law enforcement who might also have reason to respect well I think any professional athlete of color has a right to protest the national anthem because they are living in a racist and fascist society under Republican rule and which includes police brutality and discrimination against immigrants of color and people of color in general so I don't blame them I would I would not you know honor the national anthem if I was a person of color either because I would have no justifiable reason to do so unless you have a short one we could banter all right let's banter closing in on the bewitching hour known as lunch yes we will break for lunch very soon and you will be joined by how to defeat a conservative Bible verses simply hit the pause button read and learn followed by promo and then we will return with the balance second half of progressive discussions we are coming to you from the newsletter censored research Center in northeastern New Jersey it happens to be mid-october 2017 my favorite month of the year but I'm not getting my favorite month of the year whether and I want to induct staples into the chisels hall of shame because I couldn't get the new pen to work now I have to light a match I have the light of flame on the on the ballpoint to get the ink to come out gotta love it man corporate America everything made in probably most likely in China subpar of course subpar but anyway we're gonna break for lunch and we'll be back naturally God willing this is James P. 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all when I was in a Baja dos eckies and bar which is a stronger and darker than dos eckies logger which happens to be pretty damn good in itself so we're taking a break from yinling all right believe it or not yinling is cheaper than this up here in New Jersey down in in Baja Mexico at the local Walmart it's about five bucks it's actually 50% cheaper believe it or not in Mexico okay go ahead I find it amazing that the actions of a has been NFL quarterback and the words of our president that most people have fought but never had the guts to actually say has caused so much turmoil in this country we are truly living in an upside-down world there are so many things that we all took for granted and now after many years of brainwashing by liberals in this country here we go here we go we can't say that anymore teabagger you know good-sticking idiotic imbecilic num skull teabagger we grew up knowing that the definition of marriage was and we knew that a baby should stay in its mother's womb for nine months and not be murdered murdered yeah a fertilized egg is a murdered child sure we knew what our flag and what this country stood for and last but not least we knew who God was oh that's right a right-wing conservative zealot evangelicals all have a bat phone to God even even the TV evangelists have a bat phone to God they got the click light to go to God remember what Archie Bunker says when the meathead was anxious to have Thanksgiving dinner he says don't he says don't worry Gord will keep your turkey warm Gord will keep the food warm because yeah he wanted to read from the Bible like he really knew what the hell he was talking about if you notice anything about all in a family when they were going to eat they never ate and the food got cold yeah they're too busy arguing yeah exactly yeah oh by the way you're familiar with Jeff Sessions new law called religious liberty sounds positive but it's not religious liberty where a company can fire anyone who they feel is is gay discrimination against gay people for just being gay and fire you even though you're probably the best damn employee the company ever saw well guess what they they're playing God being judgmental there and they I guess religious liberty means their liberty to force their views and opinions on everyone else that's right that's right their version of their re rewritten Holy Bible I love a certain Bible verse and it is so appropriate in this case Isaiah 5 verse 20 quote world to those who call evil good and good evil who put darkness for light and light for darkness right wingers how about that well that could apply to them too couldn't it don't throw stones in the glass house receipt is a is the number one primary trait of conservative Republicans the new GOP tax plan delivers a big tax cut to the wealthiest American of course while some in lower tax brackets would end up paying more according to analysis is Friday from prominent nonpartisan researchers the plan being touted by Donald Trump as the biggest tax cut ever delivers 50% of its total tax benefit to taxpayers in the top 1% what else is new right yeah with incomes above $730,000 a year according to the tax policy center of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution for those wealthy tax payers there after tax incomes would increase 8.5% next year for other taxpayers though the benefits are far more modest or non-existent taxpayers in the bottom 95% would see tax cuts averaging 1.2% of after tax income or less next year and about 12% of taxpayers would face a tax increase here of $1800 that includes more than a third of taxpayers making between about 150,000 and 300 mostly because of the elimination of many itemized deductions by 2027 taxes would increase for about a quarter of Americans including nearly 30% of those earning about 50,000 to 150,000 a year the number of taxpayers with the tax increase rises over time that's because the Republican plan would replace personal exemptions which are tied to inflation with some tax credits that are not the findings were certain to fuel the Democrats main attack line against the GOP plan that it is a giveaway to the rich at the expense of the middle class oh always the case Republicans immediately disputed that analysis they they they want to attack Social Security and Medicare which really doesn't belong to them it's paid for by we the people it's stealing taxpayers money and all social programs actually but but Medicare and Medicaid I mean Medicare and Social Security are not social programs they're not welfare they're paid for but anything acid anything that benefits the bottom 98% Republicans want to cut do away with that's how they make up for it the so-called study is misleading unfounded and biased said House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady Republican of Texas state thirsty my friends state thirsty TPC makes a variety of overreaching and unrealistic assumptions about policy decisions members of Congress still have to make as we draft pro-growth tax legislation Republicans are unified in delivering tax reform that will lower taxes on middle-class Americans and ensure they are able to keep more of their hard-earned money and grow our economy the tax policy center noted that its analysis was preliminary based on a proposal that itself lacked key information such as the proposed income brackets that would correspond to the new three tax rates Republicans envision replacing the current seven with three the findings came as Senate Republicans unveiled a budget plan that lays the groundwork for their effort to overhaul the nation's tax system provisions in the budget would allow Senate Republicans to pass the tax tax package with a simple majority of votes preventing Democrats from being able to block the legislation and rendering democratic votes on nexus interesting the tax policy centers analysis was based on an ambitious framework released on Wednesday by the Trump administration and congressional Republicans that aims to reform the loophole written code and dramatically cut corporate rates from 35% to 20% mm-hmm it's the GOP's marquee legislative project this year following the embarrassing failure on healthcare Trump described the tax plan Friday as a giant beautiful massive the biggest ever in our country tax cut the tax legislation can advance only after-house and Senate passage of the budget blueprint the Senate budget committee intends to vote on its plan next week a companion measure is headed for the house vote next week as well the new budget plan would permit the upcoming tax measure to add one point five trillion dollars over the coming decade to the 20 trillion national debt the tax policy center finds the GOP tax plan would reduce federal revenues by 2.4 trillion dollars over the next decade see how much could the middle class be strangled until the middle class is no more possibly possibly you have nothing but the desperate poor left and then where would they get their consumers they believe like I guess that they can buy them but how many refrigerators can the rich buy there's not enough rich people to buy to stimulate the economy yeah I mean the little guy has always been the backbone of the I mean yeah I say it's economy the rich gen goes buying a yacht once in a while you know and that's about it listen the more the more surplus cash that means extra loot to you lay people out there you imbecile you imbecilic Trump hands ease that means extra cash in your pocket the more surplus cash you put in the pocket of the little guy the more he or she spends and puts back into the United States economy absolutely and Main Street not Wall Street is the backbone of the US economy 70% they provide all the jobs small business provides all 70% of the jobs and what else is Main Street I'll tell you what else they're the middle class also they're also part of the middle class maybe the the the moderate to upper middle class but they're still part of the middle class the small emerging growth companies the entrepreneurs the professionals that hang their shingle in a storefront on Main Street and all the other Main Street small businesses Republicans face a big problem after the collapse of their latest push to repeal the Obama Healthcare Plan their own voters are angry and don't trust them right now they don't know what to do about it that's trouble for a party preparing to defend its house and Senate majorities in 2018 midterm elections oh boy are people gonna be pissed off in 2018 November of 2018 yeah if the people get out and vote see this is the problem with it with Americans they they talk to talk but will they walk to walk at least Europeans when they get that pissed off they they riot they turn vehicles over they set things on fire they beat people up do Americans don't do shit they go on social media and show how brilliant they are Donald Trump and top congressional Republicans say they will take another run next year at dismantling president Barack Obama's Healthcare Plan but they've made doing just that a core promise in four consecutive national elections with nothing to show for it if I'm a voter in wherever and somebody says we're going to come back to healthcare would I be skeptical sure said senator Bob Corker of Republican of Tennessee who's retiring rather than seek a third term next year when something has been committed to and it doesn't happen and then it doesn't happen again I think it's self-evident it isn't a good thing this year's failure was especially stinging because it was the first time since Obama's 2010 overhaul law was enacted that Republicans control the White House and the Congress the latest debacle came on Tuesday when the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Republican of Kentucky the old turtle face averted a guaranteed defeat by not holding a vote on a last resort bill transforming much of Obama's law into block grants that states would control he'll he would throw the entire 98% of the US population including low income people right under the bus in favor of his the the fat cats that Greece's palm and contribute to his campaign yeah the setbacks are causing strains among the Senate Republicans it's obvious we don't have the kind of leadership we need to pass this piece of legislation said Senator Ron Johnson and he told a reporter Friday after an appearance in Fitchburg, Wisconsin Johnson who has clashed with McConnell before declined to say whether the leader should step down it would be nice if McConnell and Paul Ryan would step down but replaced by a more moderate Republican maybe not the broken promises are an epic fail that puts less trust in the minds of conservative voters said Tim Phillips president of Americans for prosperity the conservative group backed by the activist brothers David and Charles Koch prosperity for who for them the top 2% and what it already worked over 85 billion dollars the prosperity for the Walton family for the Koch brothers and the Waltons are second right bastards the GOP health care implosion has poisoned the attitude of GOP primary voters toward congressional Republicans in general Stephen law wrote in a memo this week law McConnell's former chief of staff heads the Senate leadership fund a political group allied with the Kentucky Republic the memo was released on Tuesday hours before the GOP primary defeat of Senator Luther Strange Republican of Alabama Lex Luther is very strange oh yeah that's a politician you really trust that race with Ray Moore the idiot the one of the 10 Commandments in his courtroom hey I heard one of the Bernie Sanders our revolution men won was it mayor of a large Alabama city I think I know you read African-American man slim slender I don't know if it was Montgomery Alabama might have been but he he's a progressive and he he won mayor mayor mayor election law warned that the ouster of strange would make him the first casualty and probably not the last of the Obamacare repeal fiasco in an ABC News Washington Post poll more Republicans disapproved than approved of the job the congressional GOP is doing by a dismal 21% just eight Senate Republicans face reelection in 2018 and only two have seemed to face serious GOP primary challenges senator Jeff flake of Arizona and Nevada Dean Helen but fed by Republican voters anti establishment mood and disillusionment over the party's health care failures that number could grow Democrats and their independent allies must defend 25 Senate seats next year far more than the GOP eight well we hope they all the demons get voted out in November 2018 that's what we're really hoping for but that can only happen if more Americans get out and vote but they see this year's GOP health care bills which budget analysts said would have stripped coverage from millions of Americans as feeding their narrative that Republicans are eroding people's economic security or Republicans either have made the attempt or did make the attempt to take health care away from almost 10 million American children of course they they they want to abide by corporate CEOs of American insurance companies to eliminate the pre-existing law Obama's pre-existing illness law so if you have a pre-existed existing illness you basically drop dead exactly won't be insured or you'll be paying out the why who hey listen Republican voters you honestly think the private sector is going to do the right thing by you come on be honest no lie to yourself the private sector is not going to do the right things by you I'm not sure how we can do this one here and you see you see a short one or you just want to know I don't see her for a few minutes and call it a day I will do one or two from here and we'll pick up the rest yeah but you might forget to because I don't never forget no because it's on one it's on one sheet of paper well yes you know what I mean you might consider it old hat next week because it's on one sheet of paper so let's just call it unless you see a little one or change of pace let's just call it a week all right we'll call it a week okay because I don't know what the situation is I would be very happy if technically our new camera setup is operating adequately as as pre-planned I will be I will be very happy about that so um yeah I don't know what what these Americans that don't have a pot to piss in or are living week to week or month to month I don't know what they expect from the private sector they actually want to they're in favor of privatizing absolutely everything because they they're spellbound by their Republican Party they think that the American way they think that the corporate American CEO is gonna do the right thing by them well who invented that the to me the American way that thing was our founding fathers and the Constitution that's the American way that American way was founded by the industrial who had the Industrial Revolution yes the big wigs but what were there were there greedy selfish scumbag big wigs in the 1800s absolutely how do you know how do you think I started out all the companies people that have a small guy had the money people are the wherewithal to start big companies companies that became big so families that own plantations as opposed to a family-owned farm plantations wealthy of plantation owners they problem they're probably the ones that moved to the big cities to join the industrial revolution like JP Morgan his dad his grandfather what did they do they open companies so so they so Jake the the evil scumbag JP Morgan started like Donald Trump did hey with with family cash family family cash obviously well from the family yeah he didn't get it from Santa Claus no but I'm trying to the thing that keeps those people believing in that private system is the big wigs the same way they took over our government is they make those small people believe that they can't fight City Hall that they are too small to do stand up to the guy that owns the country store brainwashing yeah conservative propaganda and then they go around believing that well my grandmother used to say you can't fight City Hall she got brainwashed yeah they used to think that the Christian religion was pretty much the Catholic Church well Simon Magnus did and they believe that Jesus was born December 25th and this is what they believe and you can't fight City Hall and when I asked them well why is that they didn't have an answer no that's what I'm trying to do I just I'm trying to give you that there's this deferential respect for the rich for instance Trump had these these words with the mayor of Puerto Rico there was San Juan mayor of San Juan San Juan the woman right yes and she was speaking good stuff against him he goes down there and what does she do she defers to him I mean kisses up to him kisses his ass well then she's a she's a died in a wool politician but but that's what the that's what the small people do to the rich people because they feel that oh you're in it your you must be in an ivory tower you must have done the right things to become there you go to become that wealthy and that's successful you must have done something right right okay that's it take care everyone have a safe and pleasant