Political Analyst (5:11)

And you certainly don't hear anything, I mean, nothing from the Republican except pro life, pro life. And then when children come into the world and need snap, Medicaid, all of these things, they're not willing to give it. They're trying to cut that. And not increasing the minimum wage for this long is an absolute crime. And I think that this is an opportunity, just like you said, for people to stand up and say, this is wrong. We have to earn more. We have to go in. The Republicans in Congress need to go after Trump and these tariffs because they know, I hear them on Fox News, they know this is going to bankrupt small businesses. People are not going to be able to afford things, but they're too big of pussies and two, cowardly cowardice to stand up for their constituents.

Political Commentator (5:55)

And I think that the point that Democrats and progressives need to make right now is there are two things going on. Number one, Trump is pointing out corporate greed only because it behooves him, right? Because he wants them to eat the tariff, because he knows how incredibly wealthy walmart is. And at the same time, we could point out, oh, welcome, welcome to the world of pointing out corporate greed. But also Walmart needs to pay its employees more. And this is just an opportunity for the message of Bernie Sanders and AOC to step in. And the problem that the Democrats have right now, in my opinion, is that there is the Democratic establishment, which is owned by the same corporations and lobbied by the same corporations that lobby the Republicans. And if you think back to why Trump really took off in 2016, he came out and he started calling Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush liars. He said, they lie, they're beholden, they lie all the time. And finally somebody kind of called out what we all kind of see these staged scripts that both parties go by. And he called it out. And people liked that, right? People liked that he was calling politicians liars. Now, did he turn in and was he the biggest liar on the planet? Yes, but I'm talking about a political strategy at the inception of his campaign back then that really got momentum behind him. And if the Democrats could take a play from that playbook and start calling out even people within their own party that are upholding this same bullshit narratives and are so into electoral optics and will not call a spade a spade and say ye, we're kind of bought by corporations too. And Donald Trump's going to take us all down. He's going to take down the whole system. So we're going to have to separate ourselves from that and corporations. If you want to play the long game instead of the short game, then you can join us. But you know, in the middle of all of this, we have a person who is actively dismantling democracy. Okay, please support our show by supporting our sponsor. Today. We are sponsored by Prolon. Prolon is the next gen in incorporates a subtly updated meal plan and formulations while maintaining the same science backed core technology as the original Prolon five day program. Pumps and I are so into our health right now. We're aging. We're not spring chickens, as you know. And I'm just telling you, it's such a great meal. Reset. What do you think about it? Pumps?

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Political Analyst (9:51)

Well, it's so interesting to me that the military is supposed to take a pay cut to be patriotic. And he is calling up 6,000, I've heard some reports, 75, 500 military office officers to walk in his birthday parade that's going to cost $100 million. He is running around getting personal gifts for his family and himself from the Middle east and he has tanked the economy and he is sitting there telling military members which we all knew he had no respect for from jump but to ask them to take a pay cut because it's patriotic while he runs around $100 million parade accepting bribes from the Middle East. The hypocrisy was just too much. I had to point it out.

Political Commentator (10:41)

I just think that it's not just Trump that doesn't support the military. I think that the progressive messaging or the pro democracy messaging has got to go to calling out the lies that these people have gotten away with forever. We're good with the economy lie. We love the military lie. You never support these troops when they come back home sick. VA hospitals should be the of the art and to the contrary, they are not. It is. You support the bomb making, you support the military industrial complex. You act like with all this, you know, puffery and I'm going to sing the national anthem and even have a tear coming down my eye. You see it in Oklahoma. You see these people when it comes to vote for the soldiers. They are just thrown. It's just exact same way they say they're pro family. You're so pro family and you run around thinking Elon Musk is a genius. He has a a trillion kids and tries to find potential baby mamas on Twitter. Donald Trump is a total piece of shit, dad. And you can see how damaged his kids are. Three wives, five kids. It is all a lie. This entire MAGA movement in the Republican Party. They have lied to you. They've used your faith, your Christianity. They've used all this shit to make you think they care. They've built this huge media echo chamber to propagandize you day in and day out. And they are ripping the country up because this administration hired liars, expert liars to help propagandize the American public. They hired billionaires to make sure that their special interest was actively protected. The wealth inequality under this administration is going to going to skyrocket. The erosion of civil rights is is already too much and private citizens are standing up and doing everything they can do. But one thing America is known for is our economy. Private sector CEOs have been missing from this conversation. Kudos to the Walmart guy that spoke out. But get real, it's not just about your profits. Let's talk about your employees and let's talk about how much the government has subsidized people that work at Walmart to make sure they can live in dignity. Let's have a real conversation about the whole thing. And this is an opportunity for Democrats to arrive at the table and fight for everybody. But instead there a lot of them are still playing this corporate thing. And I think until we get honest about all of that, these problems will continue and continue until it's the complete decline of American democracy. All right, that's all we have for this episode. Subscribe and we'll see you all later.

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