 Greetings everyone, greetings and welcome to progressive discussions. I'm your host James P. Madonna of Megalife 21 and I am here with my co-host and mentor and the very founder of Newsletter Sensor 1977, the one and only, the Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman. How are you feeling this November to remember, sir? A little breathless. Yes, a little breathless. My favorite time of year just passed and I hope everyone had a pleasant, all hallows-y, all souls-y and to all Mexicans and Mexican-Americans the day of the dead, November 2nd. I hope everyone had a good, safe, pleasant time. Mine was not rip-roaring, but it was good. It was good. I did a show with Mr. J. Tirio of the New Orleans region of Louisiana and it's on YouTube. It's all hallows-y, you know, special. Wearing my wizard hat and having the right decor in the background. So I do enjoy, I did enjoy very much doing the show and so I want to say greetings to Mr. J. Tirio of Southern Louisiana for doing the show with me and also to my near dear friend Natalia Rodriguez of San Diego, California. Greetings. Yes, it is, what the hell is it? November 3rd? No. Fourth? What is it? What is it? One, two, three, four. Four. I'm telling you, every time I do the show I get distracted. I get distracted and now we have to prematurely take our break, maybe go 25 minutes instead of 29 minutes and 53 seconds. Yeah, about three minutes. Yeah, how much bullshit did I do by the time? About three minutes he was up. So, you know, let's roll around it off. 20, 20, 20, 26. I don't want to push it. 26. I don't want to push my luck too much. 26. Okay, seven lucky bells for this week's progressive discussions and God only knows we need the luck. I don't like the sounds of that six bell. You know what? Fuck it, I'm doing it again. Seven more lucky bells. You know why? Because my antioxidant rich tea, that's right, no craft beer this week because I forgot to buy it thanks to distractions from the smaller minded people in my life that are not deep like myself and the Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman that distracted me at home to make me forget to get craft beer. But it's supposed to be 58 degrees Fahrenheit here in northeastern New Jersey. So, you know, the tea was kind of jiggling around while I was hitting the bell. So let me take a sip of this. That is quite pleasant. It is antioxidant rich and very medicinal. Let me put the tea here where no accidents will happen. We already had one accident. I accidentally hit my black thorn chilele to knock the tea cup off the desk and went on the floor. Among other things, like someone at home causing me to forget my notebook. So I have to kind of really add lib the monologue. I'm telling you, Beelzebub is at work. Everything we discussed politically is part of our series. Crapitalism in a conch shell. There's the conch. Soak in that conch energy from Davy Jones' locker. Yes, King Neptune. Davy Jones' locker needs to be expanded, extended, remodeled. It is way too small for the amount of people that deserve to be in Davy Jones' locker. Yeah. What are you going to do? We need a friggin warehouse instead of Davy Jones' locker. There should be a warehouse with the amount of people that should be there. Okay. Yeah, yeah. I'll mention it. All right. Here we have our official End of Days prophecy skeleton. Okay. Which represents where the planet Earth and mankind is going. If people continue to elect right wing politicians. See this? There you go. End time prophecy skeleton. Welcome. His name is Billy Bones. Hey. Captain Billy Bones. Captain. Yeah, okay. Oh, then I'm going to get the Boson's whistle back. Holy shit. Yeah, Captain Billy Bones. You know, like Johnny Depp and the Pirates of the Caribbean. Captain Black. Yeah, they did a whole bunch of those moves. Yes, they did. But he's an extremely talented actor, Johnny Depp. And he doesn't want any part of the perverted, crazy Hollywood life. He lives in France with his wife. You know, there are certain actors that have had a clean reputation and decided not to be part of that perverted, holly weird world, so to speak. Yeah, well, now they got spacey. Oh, the pedophile ring? Well, you know. Well, the kingpin is... He admitted to trying. Epstein? Epstein? What the hell is his name? Oh, Weinstein. Oh, Weinstein. Yeah, he's approached about over 50 women in his casting couch. Look, the casting couch is nothing new. No. It's not the casting couch that bothers me because usually the person who is asked to lie in the casting couch is an adult who can make their own decisions. What bothers me is pedophile, human trafficking involving pedophiles. Rich, very wealthy pedophiles. That's disturbing. That's part of the underground satanic cult that the elitists tend to belong to. You know, so on and so forth. If you're up on your documentaries, you will learn all about it. But then again, it shouldn't surprise you, Reverend Bill, because we're in the end times. Yeah, but you don't have to be in the end times because we've been in this... That stuff for a long time. Wherever you got differences in power. Cult. I'm talking about cults, the existence of cults. Well, what did Macaulay used to be? In the world, the flesh. What the hell was his name? I'll forget his name. Macaulay the 40s, for crying out loud. He was a devil worshipper. Oh, that guy. He had a shaved head. And he had a black cape with a kind of a bellow-legosi collar sticking up. I remember him. He started the first. He would bend over and shit, you know, here and there. That was one of his trademarks. Well, he wanted to offend. Exactly. Like all those had a so-called, quote-unquote artist in New York City. What was his name? Megal Thorpe. The one that put a crucifix in a jar of urine. Maple. Maple Thorpe to try to get a shock effect. Yeah. And now... I think he's dead, though. No. And then there's... Maybe wrong, but, you know... Kate Perry, who says that human flesh is the best-tasting meat. Oh, shit! And Miley Cyrus, who says Satan is actually a nice guy. She probably wants to get banged by Satan. He was once a nice guy? No, she didn't say once. She said is. They should move in together. Kate Perry and Miley Cyrus... Oh, incidentally, Kate Perry's father is what is or was, or still is, a zealot evangelical minister. And Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus is supposedly one of those evangelical born-again dudes. So that stuff is just a rebellion against the growing up. Well, Kate Perry's father forbid any of both Kate Perry and her siblings to celebrate Halloween. He forbid them to take part in Halloween in any way, shape, or form. So what I'm trying to say is it's right-wing fanaticism. Well, any fanaticism. There could be left-wing fanaticism. I'm sure the same thing happened with Paul Ryan and his father. Listen. There's all forms of fanaticism. Left-wing fanaticism are the militant vegans that tell you that you should not consume not even dairy products or wear leather. I mean, you got them. Oh, by the way, I have something very important to say involving the very next holiday. Which is? Which is supposedly Thanksgiving. Not for the Native Americans, by the way. What about Veterans Day? Yeah, what about doing something positive for veterans instead of just saying, Yippee, it's Veterans Day. I mean, actually do something to help veterans. Money. Don't just pray for veterans. There's this program called the American Pickers on Cable. I hate them. But I have my own reasons. They were visiting a guy who was English. Yes. And he would import all kinds of invalid chairs. Yeah. Because in England after World War II and World War I, et cetera, they made these invalid chairs for their veterans who lost legs. They were like motor scooters with three wheels, but like a chair. Okay. But they were a motor rat. Uh-huh. And, you know, they could get around. The veterans could get around. Now, what the hell did they have to do over here to get a friggin' leg or an arm? They jumped through rings of fire. Exactly. Well, Bernie Sanders on Twitter, you said Trump's account was closed, but Bernie Sanders had said probably prior to that, you know, hey, President Trump, do your job. You're just trying to distract Americans away from your connection with the Russians by giving billionaires more tax breaks and taking millions of Americans off of healthcare, et cetera, et cetera, as a distraction to what's going on with you, you know, how you were able to win over Hillary Clinton by having less votes. So, Trump said, read Donna Brazil's new book about the collusion of how Hillary Clinton bought the DNC and stole the Democratic primary from you crazy Bernie. No, he said crooked Hillary. Okay. He used the words crooked. How crooked Hillary bought the DNC and stole the Democratic primary from you crazy Bernie. And that was his answer. But the truth is, it is an attempt to distract Americans away from the whole Russia. Well, hey, the tax cut for the middle class. I'll tell you that right now. And it never is when the Republicans do this. Well, when they run, they promise to help the middle class, don't they? Of course. You've got right here in New Jersey. Now, we have Phil Murphy against Kim Gwadana. Well, Phil Murphy. Now, Kim Doug, you know, Gwadana. Is a thin female Chris Christie, basically. Is yapping about the fact that she wants to give us a break in our property taxes. Well, I got news for her. We used to have one. Disabled people, elderly, used to get $900 a year from the party. The homestead rebate until Christie got rid of it. Hey, didn't Republican Christine Todd Whitman promise to lower property taxes? And that really did not happen. Christie got rid of as many social services as he possibly could. You know, I mean, he passed the law where if you're a low income person and you only pay room and board, you don't pay for utilities, then you don't deserve food stamps. And of course, he defunded Planned Parenthood. Whitman's the health thing he did. Yeah, welfare is a joke anyway. $140 a month cash assistance in New Jersey. That's less than chump change. That doesn't even qualify as chump change. And a list goes on and on and on. What the hell does paying utilities have to do with your need for food, for sustenance? Yeah, what if you're a single man and you're in a boarding house? And you're not paying utilities. Well, naturally you're a low income if you live in a damn boarding house. You're not paying utilities. But they don't care. They want to pour it to either drop dead or become a slave to a corporation. If you're homeless, they want to throw you into a corporate privatized prison for vagrancy and have you work as free slave labor. Incidentally, do listen to me. It is the beginning of November 2017. Do not shop on Thanksgiving Day and during Black Friday weekend. Listen carefully. You are just feeding into right wing corporate American greed in the sleazy corporate American retail industry by shopping on those days because you are only enabling them to continue to force their employees to work on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday weekend. Not just Black Friday because it's not just Black Friday, it's the whole weekend. Black Friday weekend. Do not work on those days. I want to bring up the subject of... I want to call out and bash airport security. You remember the movie? It was pretty funny. It was called Paul Blart Mall Cop as in shopping mall. And mall cops are like... The reason why they say mall cop is because they're like wannabe state troopers. They walk around. They strut around like the real macho. And they're only security officers that work in a mall. They act like big shots. These security people, they abuse their authority, some of them because of ego. In the case of airport security, they are wannabe FBI agents that will never be. And what happened was, when I was in San Diego airport getting ready to fly back to Newark Liberty Airport, New Jersey, I had this affirmative action hirie or this black guy that was talking down to me for no reason at all. Talking to me like I was a little child misbehaving. Believe me, the only reason why I bit my tongue real hard is because I did not want to miss my flight. Because if I were to have a confrontation with him, I would have missed my flight. Now on the same token, when my girlfriend Natalia flew back to San Diego from Newark Liberty Airport, she wasn't walking fast enough so this airport security black female called her a bitch. Yeah, I could report that. I don't know where and how, but it can be reported. I was furious. That's why I'm saying incompetent affirmative action hirie of FBI agent wannabes that are incompetent fucking security officers, you know what I mean? You don't have to abuse your power, there's no reason to call somebody a bitch. For any reason, you behave professionally, you do your job and that's it. And this is what we have. I mean, if you did your job that well, then those young men would not have gotten on that plane with box cutters to prove a point. The young men that were arrested right after 9-11, they wanted to prove how incompetent airport security is and they got away with it. You know, do your job, don't abuse your power. There's no reason to call somebody a name and there's no reason to talk down to me because listen, I didn't want to miss my flight, but I would have knocked that guy out cold, believe me. You know, we don't, us Sicilian Caucasian guys, we don't necessarily practice political correctness. We'll fucking break both your legs and your scope. But I don't want to miss my flight. Oh, Huckabee, I just remembered another great topic, Huckabee Sanders, you are wrong, Huckabee, you are wrong. Not everyone is trying to come to the United States of America. She made a statement this past week about, I don't know if it was a statement based on immigration or based on what happened in New York. Yeah, it was based on what happened in New York, which we will have a moment of silence for the six victims, I think. Eight. Eight victims. Eight dead. Eight dead. Fifty-some hearse or whatever. So she made a statement, she was talking about the Homeland Security approach, what they should do about this increase in terrorism, which happens to be targeting the larger major New York, I mean, the major cities in the United States are targeted. And of course, New York City, Manhattan, is one of the largest targets. And she says, oh yeah, everyone wants to come to the United States. Hey, Huckabee, not Northern Europe and Scandinavia, that's for sure. They have no logical reason to want to come here. And so you're wrong, you're completely wrong. And unfortunately, I believe it was six of the dead that came from Argentina. Most of them were tourists, and that's what I feel bad about, because they're visiting New York and they were near the World Trade Center, the new World Trade Center. Now, that's going to hurt tourism, without a doubt. People are going to think twice than to decide to come to New York City, especially that area. And he lived in Paterson, like the 9-11 perpetrators lived in this Middle Eastern community in Paterson, which is a part of Main Avenue. And yeah, people, you know, I don't blame tourists for thinking twice about that. So, you know, we'll have a brief moment of silence for these victims. And I think that New York City is the only exception to the rule about electing a Republican. Yeah, Republicans are much tougher. You need someone tough on crime and high on security. Like you need a Republican mayor of New York, because Mayor Bill de Blasio reminds me of David Dinkins, you know, when you had all the aggressive panhandlers bothering everybody and you had more crime and all the sleaze was all over the place, you know, Times Square, 42nd Street, and you had more crime in the subways, you know, and then Rudy Giuliani and his police commissioners, Clean House. I think New York has to be run with an iron hand. I don't think liberalism is the answer to running New York City or Chicago. Oh, forget it, Chicago. They should send in the National Guard and the U.S. Marshals and the troops. You know, some cities you cannot have a, what's the word, a pandering, bleeding heart, a liberal mayor. It just doesn't work. So, a moment of silence for the eight victims. Actually, eight victims deserves eight bells. Let's do that again. Okay, about a few minutes, a couple minutes at least. Don't ask me why. Ask the Sony Corporation why our video segments are broken down into 29 minutes and 53 seconds. I haven't the foggy side yet. So, anyway, I'm going to take a short pause and then we will begin with our first reading for this week's show, Progressive Discussions. I think the YouTube Google company has been censoring our shows. I know it. I do. I study the activity of our shows. And I think you corporate scumbags at Google are censoring us just like people. Progressive warriors are getting censored on Facebook. Okay, and we all know why. They say Bella, Bella, go see, can never see a reflection. Let me see my reflection. Well, you're not a vampire. Well, let me see myself. Hold on, hold on, man. Hold on, man. You know. Hold on, man. Okay, I guess that's pretty much okay, I hope. We were just discussing how things are forced upon you in general, whether it be the child safety feature where we're all for all of the doors of your car lock as soon as you go into drive, Windows 10 forcing things on you that you never choose, voluntarily choose. Now, other online companies are pushing their software on people. Retail, online retail companies that want you to enroll in the automatic renewal program where they charge your debit card every month for a new supply. Delivery. Automatically, without you manually doing it. You know, in other words, capitalism is getting more pushy and obnoxious by the year where they're intrusively pushing things on you. It's not good. I like to voluntarily and manually decide what I want. I don't want an automatic energy shut off feature, you know, where the device shuts off automatically. I don't want a trickled down water saving shower head. I don't want, I want to be able to choose things, you know, to my liking. It's like a lot of people don't like to drive an automatic transmission. They like the manual. Well, make it available. Well, jeez, it ain't today. But it's not, but it's not. I mean, if you, if you really, I mean, personally, all the extra work that you have to do when you're in traffic, especially on a hill with the manual transmission, you're not really saving that much gasoline to go through all that trouble. But some people like the feel of a stick shift. To be in control. Make it available to them. Hey, if you don't have children, don't put the child safety feature in the car where all the doors lock on you automatically, you know. If a kid is that stupid to open the door of a moving car, it's just like crossing guards. It's your ring. Yeah, I know. Hold on. It's just like crossing guards. Excuse me. I haven't. I haven't. The foggy is fricking idea. Now that got there, unless I didn't put it on to begin with. My medieval copper ring, medieval style. Maybe I didn't have it to begin with. Maybe since it was sitting here, maybe the chalele knocked it in the floor over there. Our Skeletor gun. Yeah, like the commercial. Yeah. Anyway, what was I saying? Yeah, don't force things on people. That's all. If they don't need it. I don't remember if I had my medieval copper ring on at the beginning of the show. It must have because it was new on the floor. So many things have happened. You remember all the shit that happened during the All Hallows Eve special show? It was that. That was last week, right? Yeah. Anyway, let us begin with the first reading of our show. We are coming to you from the newsletter-sensitive research center in northeastern New Jersey. And remember, if you do not vote, you have no right to complain. That's my motto. That solves a lot of problems in the United States. Chris Christie's wife has been ticketed. Oh, really? In a statewide distracted driving crackdown. Uh-oh, was she texting? That was ordered by her husband's attorney general. But she got caught. New Jersey Advanced Media reports Mary Pat Christie was stopped while driving with a cell phone in her hand. Uh-oh. In her hand? So I guess, well, the law doesn't apply to rich Republicans, I guess. On April 10th in Bernardsville by a police officer assigned to the grant-funded program that targeted texting and other distracted drives. You know, that's a big ticket in New York State. Yeah? Over $800. Word! Someone on my Facebook friends list posted it. You know, a close-up photograph. Oh, the ticket. They're not messing around. I think around here it's $250. Yeah, well, New York State has lots of very nice... Lots of ways of grabbing money from you. No, no, they have lots of social programs under Andrew Cuomo that New Jersey does not have. Also, insurance companies have to cover people, whereas in New Jersey they can fuck with you. She did not identify herself as Republican Governor Christie's wife. But she did tell the officer she was not making a call. The officer told her she could not have the phone in her hand while driving. Well, that's the law. She should have known that, being that she was the governor's wife. The officer told her she was getting a ticket because he was on the distracting driving grant detail. The first lady pleaded guilty to driving with a cell phone and paid the $250 fine. Well, I want to salute that police officer for doing his job and not sucking up to the woman, because she just happened to be Governor Christie's wife. So I salute him for doing his job. The law is the law. No one is above the law. Good work, officer. She's Donald Trump. Unless you're Donald Trump. Unless you're Donald Trump, if you accuse him of something he's doing that is bad, he will distract you by mentioning the words Crooked Hillary and Crazy Burning. And the DNC. Yes, he will do that. They stayed. What? They damaged crops and wildlife. And they are extending their range in the United States. What's that? Imported fire ants. Oh, I had a personal experience with them. Years ago I was standing on a fire ant mound in South Florida, in the Fort Lauderdale area. And I didn't know it until I felt my leg burning to high heavens or to hell. Yes. They were crawling up, man. Oh, they don't mess around, man. But they're not indigenous to the Southern United States. I think they are an invasive tropical species. Well, they are unwelcome guests here. And careless plant shipping helps them spread. A colony was discovered this spring in palm trees sent from Florida to Delaware. That's how they do it in palm trees. They should be in the ground in the colony. They don't colonize trees unless there's something to eat up there. Two fire ant species were introduced a century or so ago into Mobile, Alabama. You mean initially? See, I was right. Invasive. Hidden in soil ballast on cargo ships from South America. There you go. Right again. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said since then they've infested 14 mostly Southern states and Puerto Rico. Hey, those Burmese pythons in South Florida are invasive. You know, it happens. Didn't the Japanese send the Japanese beetle to the United States to destroy our crops? Well, they had no good job, too. They had other sneaky plans. The Japanese through espionage of sneaking things here. Actually, they had some kind of a biological man-made bubonic plague They wanted to drop on California coastal cities. They wanted to drop the plague or some biological weapon during World War II. There's a lot of things that Americans did not hear about in their history books. Read about in their history books or through the media. I mean, the media doesn't say shit. Where they have had a huge and detrimental impact on agriculture and natural resources. They continue their advance with the USDA predicting they eventually could reach from the Pacific Northwest to parts of the mid-Atlantic. Well, over five billion is spent every year on medical treatment, prevention and control. In fire and ridden areas, the agency says, agricultural damage alone is estimated to cost more than $750 million annually. Primarily for equipment and crop damage and livestock losses. Well, ants are venomous like hornets and wasps, which I believe are in the same family. Well, these are, you know, they do bite. No, there are ants that have stronger venom than other ants. You know, hornetose, horn lizards, that is their food of choice, is the very venomous harvester ant. They love ants. That's what they eat in the wild. This is what they eat, and supposedly they, it's good for their health if you have one in captivity. Only a couple of ant eaters. No, no, well, well, I mean, the horn lizards are a easier, more efficient way to do it. Right. Because it is the food of choice. So, I mean, there must be different species of them that you could, you know, introduce out of necessity. They're kind of cute looking. They have a round chubby face, a round body, spines, you know. I mean, they're not, they're not bad to have around. I think the praying mantis was introduced to the United States by the agricultural industry. As an urban pest, imported fire ants are a nuisance pest and can cause allergic reactions, including rare instances of an awful lack of shock in humans. Well, this can happen to any allergy to a venom. It happens to people that are allergic to bee stings, so on and so forth. And anything venomous can cause that if you happen to be allergic. Fire ants are particularly hazardous when encountered at nursing homes, daycare centers, schools, and playgrounds. A federal quarantine requires that state inspection certifies, certificate, excuse me, bee displayed showing that flora and potting soil from the invaded areas are fire and free before they are sold. Imported fire ants hitch rides in sod, hay veils, and nursery stock. Mated queens fly into new areas. Raps of flooded colonies like those displaced recently by Hurricane Harvey in Texas also claim fresh terrain. The two fire ant species, black and red, are similar, said Blake Layton, an extension entomologist with Mississippi State University. Controls are the same. Stings feel the same. Yeah, they make it go ouch, or scream, or worse. Fire ants are venomous. Okay. Their stings typically cause a burning sensation and fluid filled blisters, lasting several weeks. Mine didn't last more than an hour, but I imagine the allergic would have a hard time of it over a course of time. Fire ants also destroy a wide variety of wildlife, especially ground dwelling birds. Nothing stands in the way of a rampaging colony of ants. Fire ants can be controlled, but not eliminated by using granular baits and broadcast insecticides. I don't know how true this is, but I read an article where if you see fire ants to throw dry hominy grits on the mound because when they ingest it and then drink water the corn grit swells up and kills them. I don't know how true this is, but it's worth a try. How many grits are very inexpensive. Poisonous baits are pretty efficient. Ants carry them back to their mound and kill the queen. That's what we use every spring for those tiny little black ants. It works, but we had so much rain this year that the ant season was extended greatly. But it has to be a long term effort. Prevention is the most common deterrent. Do not buy anything that has been inspected, has not been inspected. The real risk is having somebody come down here on a trip taking part of plants home. Those plants have not been inspected. Climate limits the ants' range. They do not like dryness and low temperatures, said Mike Merchant, an extension entomologist with Texas A&M University. Any burrowing invertebrate insect normally lives in very moist burrows when they tunnel. All of them. Even desert invertebrates and insects and such reptiles live in very moist burrows. So when a person who thinks they know it all on a forum online says that, oh, desert creatures get all the moisture they need from their prey, from their food source. No, no, no. They're in the heat of day. They live in deep, very moist burrows. They need access to soil moisture. And they cannot survive for long temperatures in the teens or below that reach deep into their underground burrows. So freezing them sounds good to me. You ever see that freeze thing that they use for bed bugs? What is that? Like a liquid nitrogen? Like a dryness? Yeah, yeah. And they spray it on your... I saw the doctor remove this mole-like growth on my face. Cryogenics, yeah. He used the cryogenics. It was a form of liquid nitrogen, dry ice. So what happens is it causes frostbite to the object you want to destroy. It falls off. Why is sprint management is necessary to stop them from moving into new territories? Well, pest control is an ongoing thing. It's like when we used to have the Cold War with the Soviet Union, or fighting crime, or fighting terrorism, or fighting... I mean, they get one up on you, and then you get one up on them, and it goes back and forth and back and forth. Medical science, like antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria and viruses, build up an immunity, then you've got to find something stronger or better to kill them, and then they develop an immunity and come back and, you know... There are some things in life that are ongoing, unfortunately. Well, the beginning and no end. Yeah, like stupid Americans. Like maybe Afghanistan. Like stupid Americans, yeah, the poppy fields. Protect those poppy fields in Afghanistan. Like stupid Americans who keep on re-electing Republicans to cut their nose off despite their faces, you know? Yeah. Trump is being pulled in different directions as he heads to Asia on a grueling 12-day trip. Grueling? Yeah, but isn't he living high on the hog in Air Force One? Yeah, he was down at... How grueling could it be? Where the hell is he? He's down at one of his... They have the best chefs on that plane out here. Yeah, they do. He's down at one of his golf clubs or something. And he was getting ready to take off. Mylar, mylar, whatever? I don't know which one it was, but he was getting ready to take off. Oh, real grueling. He went down there and said hello to... No, I think it was something new that he had down there. He went down there and said hello, and then he was going to be taken off on the airplane. You know what's grueling? The millions of Americans and children that... They're going to be screwed with the tax. That do not have adequate health care. And the middle class that are going to be even further screwed, worse than before, by taxation, by the burden of taxation. Because remember, the true backbone of the United States economy and the true consumer has always been the middle class. The president's loyal supporters are eager to hear him take a hard line on the Chinese trade and economic practices he railed against as a candidate. Of course, that's a priority, China. Of course, they make everything cheap. But many in his administration are pushing Trump to sweep those concerns aside as he works to pressure the Chinese Xi Jinping to tighten the screws on North Korea. Yeah, and give Tibet their freedom, by the way, mainland China. At the same time, much of the president's attention has been occupied by urgent matters at home, including indictments. Oh, yeah. Against two top campaign aides, the deepening Russian investigation and a high-stakes fight over his tax plan. By the admission of his own chief of staff, Trump has been distracted, has also demonstrated by the flurry of tweets he unleashed Friday before departing Washington and continued from aboard Air Force One. Fourteen tweets over six hours. I'm sure that he was redundant in a lot of the things he said. The president dug deep into intrigue surrounding Hillary Clinton and the 2016 presidential race. And other issues with just one tweet devoted to his trip. If you mention Putin and Russia helping him get elected, he mentions Crooked Hillary and the DNC, the collusion and Barbara Bobo Brazil's book, the collusion, the collusion. Even before the latest news, concerns abounded over how the president, a homebody who dislikes long stretches on the road, would fare during a marathon trip that will take him to five countries in twelve days. He's not a homebody, he's an officebody because I hear he used to work long hours. And that was his excuse probably not to go home to his wife. He used to be in the office in Manhattan all the time, I heard, from what I heard. There were always questions as to what the end of the trip would look like. Would he become distracted? Said Maria Solis, a senior fellow at the Brookings Center for East Asia Policy Studies. Now I think the question has shifted. Is he going to be distracted from the get-go? Are the domestic political problems going to be first and foremost on his mind? The administration projected confidence as it scrambled to lock down Trump's itinerary, describing the president as well-versed in the region and familiar with its leaders. National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster told reporters Thursday that Trump had placed 43 calls to Indo-Pacific leaders as president and met with the heads of Japan and South Korea, China and Vietnam. That man. Trump has also worked to develop close personal relationships with Jai and Shinsu, Abe of Japan. Kaisi hopes will pay off dividends. Oh, that's why. Pay off. Pay off. Money. Profit. You know, before we go to lunch, I want to bring up the holiday season. Of course, pagan Christmas is coming. The winter solstice yule and my favorite day, Krampus Day. I want to bash the United States Postal Service. Yeah, United States Postal Service. I shipped something recently, two-day priority shipping. I paid extra money for it. And guess what? It reached its destination, shattered. And I told them to put a big fragile sticker on it on the parcel. Didn't do any good. I asked me if it was any liquid inside. They don't know anything fragile inside. I said, absolutely. Make sure you put a big fragile sticker on it. Well, guess what? Me paying for two-day priority shipping was a waste because both items were shattered. Thank you very much. Privatize United States Postal Service. That's what they're calling themselves now, right? United States Postal Service? Oh, yeah. If it is the United States Postal Service. Well, I hear some of it, or a lot of it is privatized. Which means it probably accounts for the high costs of my shipping fee and the fact that they did not handle it with tender loving care. It came out of the Little Ferry, New Jersey Post Office. You're in a chiseless hall of shame. Also, Costco is in a chiseless hall of shame because Natalia, who was a member, did not choose to cancel something in the print department. They say, oh, it's too late. She says, yeah, but I didn't pay. Oh, it's too late. The order has got to go through. What do you mean it's got to go through? It only goes through when you pay. It's a big joke. Anyway, it's right wing corporatism is what it is. We're going to go to lunch and you will see. This is James P. Madonna of Megalife 21 Hard Hitting Podcasts, Holistic Health Talk, and Progressive Discussions. I want to talk about the very foundation of our entire organization, the newsletter that was founded by my cohost and mentor, the Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman in 1977. 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I hope you learned something with how to defeat a conservative Bible verses by simply hitting the pause button reading and learning. Oops. Yeah. This should help. Uh-oh. Why not? It's Beelzebub. It's Beelzebub trying to mess with us. Look at this. Hey, Bezelbub. That ain't very nice. Why is this still working? Look, it doesn't even want to... I'll be dead. Look at this. It won't even... Oh, you got to be kidding me. You seriously got to be kidding me. You can't even close. What? They won't even close. What the hell's... What in tarnage? Closing? Closing, frozen, whatever you want to call it. It's froze. Try restarting it. Yeah, but it's wasting more time. Yes, it is, but... Or bring up the order a lot. Well, you know, remember I told you? This is always some shit happening. Well, this is unexpected perils. Control alt-delete. More time wasted. There you go now. Task manager. That's who I'm looking for. You son of a bitch. All right. It was frozen. That never happened before. More time wasted. All right. I was going to say, for those of you that are taking Lasix prescription water pills, the safest natural water pill is the amino acid taurine and mega-B6. What is it? One to two grams of taurine and what is it, 100 milligrams of vitamin B6 or higher? I used to have it 100 and then 500. Not at the same time. No, no, no. But yeah, you got to take enough, of course. The late great Dr. Robert C. Atkins who probably learned it from Carlton Frederick's, which was his mentor. He used to recommend it to pre-contest professional bodybuilders. It works. Just like probiotics are extremely important for the immune system and for overall health in many ways. And there's new articles that have been out. On the benefits of probiotics. If you eat a lot of fermented foods that will supply probiotics. Kefir. Sauerkraut. Yogurt. Yeah, sauerkraut would be an example. Fermented bean paste. Asian cooking. Tempeh. I don't know. I think the fermented bean paste has more probiotics. Tempeh is like tofu except they use, in Indonesia, they use the entire whole soybean and it's fermented into a cake by the same mold that causes bread to become moldy. Isn't that how penicillin was discovered? Penicillin. Was that Louis? Louis Pasteur? I think that was Lister. Well, mold, which happens to be a terrible allergen, if it's the wrong mold, mold is a fungi. Yeast is a fungi, as in Brewer's yeast. Now, people are not aware that a fungi is neither all plant or all animal. It's actually a plant. It's like a hybrid between a plant and an animal. So this is something, you know, a little tidbit. We give you educational tidbits here on progressive discussions. They're kind of scattered about. But, yeah, I couldn't get over that. United States Postal Service puts a big sticker that says, you know, and they deliver my items totally shattered after making me pay top dollar for shipping. And I think, I don't know. I don't know if I should blame privatization, which never really works. You know, of course it works for Republicans because they get paid off to privatize everything. Or people who just don't care how they get paid off. I don't know. Or people who just don't care how they handle the packages. Yeah, incompetence, which is very common. Hey, you call customer service nowadays. You're lucky to get a human being. And when you do get a human being, it's an outsourced call center. Yep. You know, anyway. Trump wants the Justice Department and FBI to investigate Hillary Clinton's campaign. Of course. In response to an excerpt from a forthcoming book by former acting Democratic National Committee chair, Donna Brazil. Donna Bobo Brazil. That says the Clinton campaign was improperly running the party during the 2016 primaries. Oh, without a doubt. I mean, I believe Donna Brazil. I think Donna Brazil wrote the book because you think it might have something to do with Hillary Clinton calling her names? She got pissed at her at one point in time in 2016. I don't know about that. But I do know that... I mean, she really did. Hillary actually lent or gave money to the DNC, who was on their back at that time. Yeah. So control? Yes. Maybe George Soros was perhaps behind the whole thing. Who knows? Who knows? Who knows? That no matter is Bernie got cheated. Oh, without a doubt. Okay. Oh, without a doubt, the Democratic primary was stolen from Bernie Sanders. I mean, just look at the legions that showed up at Bernie Sanders' rallies compared to who showed up at Hillary Clinton's rallies. Only gay people showed up at Hillary Clinton's rallies. In a series of morning tweets. Maybe that's why gays like Cher, because of Chaz Bono. Trump seized on Brazil's article that said the DNC became financially dependent on Clinton during the 2016 primary to the detriment of the challenger Bernie Sanders. Oh, yeah. Bonova, she really did verbally put down severely Donna Bobo, Brazil. We're using language. I mean, maybe that was when she goes... when she jumped ship, you know? Well, remember, shields had to be fired. So, Brazil could take over. Oh, yeah. Wasserman, she started the whole... Yeah. the crooked DNC thing. Everybody is asking why the Justice Department and FBI is not looking into all of the dishonesty going on with crooked Hillary and the Dems. Trump tweeted. Well, nobody has been brought to justice that happens to be rich and higher up. The fat cats. Nobody on top has been brought to justice. At some point, the Justice Department and the FBI must do what is right and proper. Yeah, but nobody should be above the law. Nobody in the public deserves it. I think the last one who was brought to justice was Tricky Dick, right? When he was forced to resign. Richard Nixon as President of the United States. I think that's the last time. Has anyone else really been brought to justice? That's on the high end of the spectrum here? Trump's call. I don't think so. Trump's call to investigate his former election rival violates a longstanding US tradition of law enforcement agencies independence from interference by the executive branch. There also appears to be a little basis for an investigation. While Brazil's accusations fuel a narrative that Clinton sought to elbow Sanders out of the nomination, the fundraising agreement is not illegal. An excerpt of Brazil's book was published in Political. In it, Brazil says that before Clinton became the 2016 Democratic political presidential nominee, her campaign signed a joint fundraising agreement with the Democratic National Yacht Committee in which her campaign would finance the DNC in exchange for oversight from the Clinton campaign. Oh boy. Where's Jesse Ventura say all the money trail? That's it. It had become dependent on her campaign for survival for which she expected the wheeled control of its operations. Brazil wrote. DNC communications director Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh shit. Let's just say shit for short. I call them shit for short. Said that there were fundraising agreements with both campaigns. The DNC must remain neutral in the primary process. And there should not be even a perception that the DNC is interfering in that process. Joint fundraising committees were created between the DNC and both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders to raise the general election funds needed to win in 2016. Clinton was the only candidate who raised money for the party through her joint fundraising committee with the DNC which would benefit any candidate coming out of the presidential primary process. Trump has been pushing investigations of the Clintons since the campaign. Yet, after winning the presidency Trump backed off for a little while. Trump's Twitter account disappeared for just 11 minutes this week. Oh but it's back. Of course he loves Twitter. Far shorter than past outoutages that have affected users of the social media service. Isn't that strange? But, as Trump's critics cheered his brief moment of forced silence and Twitter struggled to explain who was responsible for deactivating his account. Oh really? The outage underscored how important Twitter has been to his presidency. Well, I'm sure Donald Trump will tweet about him losing 11 minutes. He was probably on there for 20 minutes wondering what the hell was going on. Believe me, you'll hear from Donald Trump. I mean, he lost 11 minutes of tweeting. My Twitter account has been taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. I told you. I told you. A rogue employee. Trump wrote. Conspiring against him. Yes. I guess the word must finally be getting out and having an impact. Twitter blamed a customer support worker. Oh really? Or her last day on the job for deactivating Trump's account on the way out. Trump should have the boy's visitor. The San Francisco based company added Friday that it is still investigating. They're all in California. Google, Facebook. They're all out there. And has implemented safeguards to prevent this from happening again. Oh boy, oh boy. The New York Times reported on Friday citing two unnamed sources that it was an outside contractor, not a Twitter staff member who made the account go dark. Well, whoever it is, you get punched in the face a dozen times. You know, like the hecklers at Trump's political rally. Get punched in the face. Get him out of here. Twitter would not say if it was a contractor and declined further explanation. Ah, you see, they're dodging it. Raising questions not only about its own security measures but on Trump's heavy reliance on a single platform to broadcast his views. It's not surprising that even the brief shutdown of the president's Twitter account has provoked debate. Said Jamil Jaffer, executive director of Columbia University's Night First Amendment Institute, which has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Trump's practice of blocking Twitter users who criticize him. Well, that's part of fascism, isn't it? Well, yeah. He wants to hear what he says but he doesn't want to hear what anybody else says. Yeah, if you criticize him, you're part of fake news. Well, there you go. If you compliment him, he likes you. Yeah. Well, it's like any other dictator when you think about it. You know, but don't forget now just because he feels that the DNC and Hillary Clinton should be investigated for 2016, that doesn't mean that the Donald Trump-Russia connection should go to the back burner. That should also be investigated. I don't think anyone should be above the law. Of course. We're not above the law. They would lock us up and throw away the key. Absolutely. Unless you're part of the top 2% elitist. That's it. You know. You see nobody from Wall Street ever went to jail. Except a little guy. Oh, yeah, the Goldman Sachs and was the Bear Stern Company part of Wall Street? Bear Stern, remember them? Oh, yeah. The Goldman Sachs. No, nobody saw. K.P. Morgan Wells Fargo. Bernard Madoff who made off with a lot of people's money. He only saw the inside of a jail cell because he ripped off the top 2%. They were a part of his victimization. Yeah. That's why he saw a jail. Of course, if you rip off the little guy, you never see jail. Your password can ruin your life. Well, it's good to... Don't ever choose your birth date as a password, by the way. I know that sounds dramatic, but it's true. If someone figures out the password to your email, you are in trouble. Social media even worse. Once hackers access your online bank account, they can wreck your finances. And you may feel the repercussions of that break-in for years. This is why my sister refuses to do online banking and pay her bills online. She does not trust their wonderful, as they will tell you, encryption system to protect you. She will not do online banking. I don't blame her. My Facebook account was hacked into. Facebook told me only two things. It was someone from this Middle Eastern country using a Samsung Galaxy smartphone. And that's all they really knew. But I had to change my password, which was so annoying because it took at least a week for Facebook to accept. You got to go through a whole process of protecting your password from future hacks. You have to go through a whole process. It was annoying. I don't, you know, I'm not like, I'm not a celebrity. I have anything that really that a hacker would want. We have the great progressive discussions Facebook page, which you don't have to be a hacker to look at. We have some great groups which you don't have to be a hacker to look at either. So pizza shit out of me. Most of us have the wrong idea about passwords. We think they have to be convoluted messes. You'll never remember them. In any case. F dollar sign what you call it percent sign. Ampersand. 51 2 K exclamation ampersand. Funny name. Hey, you know what? They say hashtag all the time. I'm still unaware of why Twitter says put a hashtag in front of things. Back in the old days that's a tic-tac-toe symbol. The only hash that I'm concerned with is corn beef hash. Got that? What does it do when you put the tic-tac-toe symbol in front of a a Twitter statement? It gets online and it goes to Twitter. But doesn't it normally yes it does. If I tweeted something Let's say you tweeted instagate. Just the word instagate. Right, and you put it online. Or I'm here to instagate. Ain't nothing going to happen. But I see it on my Twitter account and it appears. When you're writing something? Like if I tweet something. Yeah, but the hashtag brings you to the thing or the person that you want to comment to. Oh, I get it. In other words, if you have a message to go on someone else's profile or channel hashtag. It's like the at on Facebook you put the at symbol if you want to get the attention of the person, but I have also not used the at symbol I just put the person's name that you know automatically highlights. If they're on your friends list, it highlights. Well the at signal puts you toward to your ISP. It points you to earthlink in my case. My da-ba-ba at earthlink.net Yeah, no, I'm just talking about statements on social media. Like they'll a lot of people will use hashtag on Twitter they'll say hashtag um um so Donald Trump has not kept any of his campaign promises yet hashtag and that supposedly does something it's supposedly but if you just put you know you go on Trump's page which is called real Donald Trump something like that it works anyway because I've seen people not use the hashtag you know it's like well if you're on his page and you're making a statement on his page I guess you don't need it if you're on his page you're already directed to there like on the website if you do it on your page maybe the hashtag sends you send your comment to his page you know what let's Google it this theory reigned for years that passwords which should be nonsensical and hard to remember it started in 23 with guidelines from the National Institute of Standards and Technology which insisted on random combinations of numbers and letters and symbols which are easy to forget as manager Bill Burr Bill Burr spread this gospel for years but in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal he admitted that this wasn't nearly as effective as he had thought thanks to a new round of research cyber security experts have changed their tune yes you should still avoid guessable passwords like password one or let me in or your birthday which means but a strong password also can be logical fluid easy to remember I cannot overemphasize those words easy to remember passwords should withstand 100 guesses this is the most important part she's 100 guesses no matter what your password is it should withstand 100 guesses which means it shouldn't be tied to any public information about you or your family hackers often turn to their social media profiles to find information about you and a little data goes a long way such as your birthday name of your pet experts believe that criminals can guess the average person's password in 73% of the time did you know that Facebook constantly asked me for personal everyday run-of-the-mill information every time I logged in they want to know my hobbies my interests, my this, my cell phone number and they always push the all-new Facebook messenger app which supposedly can spy on everything you do don't forget that and they can often access your accounts by using slight variations on the same password use a phrase instead of thinking of your password as a secret code think of it as a passphrase these are strings of words that are easy to memorize but hard for anyone else to craft suppose you wanted to be an astronaut and your far and favorite color is deutia you have never mentioned these facts online and only your mommy knows such trivia about you you could compose a passphrase like I like fuchsia astronauts yeah and you're not gay you'll never forget it and the passphrase will confound hackers for centuries my god you should have seen all the security questions I had to ask for my new iPhone that's Steve what's his name Steve Wozniak of Apple he's anal about security big time go long you might want to sit down for this one the new NIST guidelines suggest allowing users to create passwords up to 64 characters long I have an itch in the middle of my forehead you gotta be a freakin Watson computer to memorize that as if that isn't weird enough the guidelines also allow spaces between the words spaces between their ears while many people just try to meet the bare minimum requirement of using 8 characters you will get a much stronger password by stretching things out you could theoretically create a complex list or sentence which still makes perfect sense to you you could list all your pet's names you can't see that light from the front go ahead finish up I'm pissed I'm pissed that it's shutting down prematurely if you created a strong password then don't worry about changing it all the time stick with it unless you've been notified of a security breach choose something memorable remember each password should be unique but they don't have to be cumbersome the NIST calls passwords memorized secrets you want to avoid the temptation to write down passwords so pick a password that has enough meaning to you to stay in your mind not the one that's like 100 characters long get creative that's when you're going to forget your password when you get creative it may take websites some time to catch up to the latest guidelines but you can still create a memorable password that meets current restrictions go back to Burr's advice on passwords you might choose something like Arizona Cardinals football is number one it's a long password or I give my job 1000% every day 1000% hahaha those meet the requirements of having at least 8 characters a special character an upper and lower case letters use two factor identification upper and lower case that's when you really forget your password while passwords help protect you or information hackers are more sophisticated than ever if they break into your account you may not recognize the damage until it's too late months pass before the public learned about the Equifax breach and it's hard to assess how much information has been leaked or how it will be used that is why two factor identification is so important using text messages emails or special apps an account holder will receive a notification every time a password is changed or entered on a new device or at a new location you will have to verify that it is you attempting to gain access yeah, you get an email stating was that really you that logged in to Facebook or whatever is that really you well I apologize if any parts of the reading were cut out of the show we're experiencing some technical difficulties that really pissed me off all I have to say is when you are given something as a gift this is words of wisdom when you're given something for free there is always a reason unless it's brand new if it's not brand new if you are given something as a gift it is because the person that is giving it does not want it for some reason always be aware of that and you know what as far as looking a gift horse in the mouth I rather pay some money and get a brand new gift horse to myself and not have issues that is those are the words of wisdom I will leave with so therefore thank you for joining us for this week's progressive discussions this is James P. Madonna of Megalife21 and the Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman Research Center in Northeastern New Jersey saying so long and I still think Google is trying to censor us just like they just like social media is constantly trying to censor a progressive talk show host Evelyn Pringle they are really messing with her on Facebook that's for sure anybody who is a progressive warrior is fucked with because the companies that offer the free social media okay that by the way bombard you put advertisements galore on whatever you upload okay these are corporations these are evil corporations wicked corporations run by evil wicked corporate American CEOs who are tools of Satan in my opinion in the end times isn't that right Dr. Billy Bones our official skeleton of end time prophecy alright Billy Bones was dancing that means Billy Bones agrees I'm telling the truth I'm freaking getting something that ain't brand new and somebody fucking gives you something motherfuckers I can't stand humanity I hate this I hate this stinking guts