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Refried Beans | Where We’re At (feat. John Fugelsang) | Nov 8, 2024
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Friday, November 8th, 2024 Republicans admit they intend to implement Project 2025; Gavin Newsom calls a special session to protect liberal policies from the Trump Presidency; the Fed cut interest rates by another quarter percent; Republican Eric Hovde blames a third party candidate for his loss and refuses to concede; Wyoming moves ahead with selling land in the Grand Tetons to the federal government; and fish biologists collaborate to track the pioneering Klamath River salmon; and Allison delivers your Good News.
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MSW Media. Hey everybody, it's Ag. And welcome to Refried Beans where we play an episode of the Daily Beans podcast from the same week either one, two or three years ago so we can see how far we've come. So please enjoy this episode from days gone by and note the date in the intro.
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Daily Beans. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Friday, November 8, 2024. Today, Republicans admit they intended to implement Project 2025 all along. Governor Gavin Newsom calls a special session to protect liberal policies from a Trump presidency. The feds cut interest rates by another quarter percent. Republican Eric Hovdi blames a third party candidate for his loss and refuses to concede. Wyoming moves ahead with selling land in the Grand Tetons to the federal government. And fish biologists collaborate to track the pioneering Klamath river salmon. I'm your host, Alison Gill. Hi everybody. Hi Laguminati, it's A.G. dana's out today. She's working. She's doing that work we talked about on the patron call that we had last night. Thank you so much for everybody who attended. It was a record breaking night. We had hundreds and hundreds of people there. It was just so good to see you all and be around you. So thank you very much. We'll have more of these so that we can talk more about, you know, what just happened. And you know, please feel free to become a patron or a subscriber to the premium feed. You can join these calls with us. You can do that by going to dailybeans.supercast.com or patreon.com MullerShiprote I hope everyone is feeling a little bit better today. I am. I've been working, I've been talking with Pete about cleanup on aisle 45, which is going to continue. I've been talking with Andy about what we're going to do with the Jack podcast and we have some plans. And so it's just been helpful to put, just put my head down and work. So I hope everyone has gotten out, gone for a walk, done something self care, like to, you know, take care of yourself and your mental health. And again, I appreciate everybody for joining that call. It really helped me. So thanks for being there with us. Now we're back to the kitchen table days again, right? 2017. And we'll be here to bring you the news in a digestible way with appropriate profanity, trying to keep everybody sane, making sure everybody knows they're not alone. I wish we weren't here. I wish we were going on to report on the successes of the Harris administration instead of the failures of the Trump administration. But we will be here for you, keeping you abreast of all of it in the most gentle way possible. Which means we're going to need your good news more than ever. So send it to us@dailybeanspod.com and click on contact. It's also Friday on the beans, which means it's Fuglsang Friday. So I'll be joined by John Fugalsang later in the show. And it looks like Bob Casey might not be out of the running, even though the race was called by the Associated Press for the Republican. And according to the secretary of State, they said we have at least 100,000 ballots outstanding to count, including overseas military, provisional ballots, some same day ballots, and the margin is only like 32,000. So I don't think that race is quite over yet. Even though it's been called. We're going to keep our eyes on the Pennsylvania secretary of State. Also, the FBI is investigating text messages sent to black college students in multiple states and the District of Columbia telling them to get into a van and report for duty at a plantation to pick cotton. And the it signed the Trump administration. Although I don't, you know, there's obviously not a Trump administration yet. But those texts are going out, gosh, Virginia, Alabama, Ohio, Tennessee, like D.C. everywhere. And that's Pennsylvania. I know Josh Stein has commented on this. Absolutely unacceptable. FBI is investigating the source of those texts. All right, we have a lot of news to get to today before we talk to John Fugal saying and before we get to your good news. But first, we have a couple of quick hits. And to make a long story short, all right, from Rolling Stone, Trump feigned ignorance of the plan despite his close ties to those involved in crafting it, while Democrats did all they could to warn about the conservative blueprint for a second Trump term. Sure enough, less than 24 hours after the election was called for Donald Trump, his allies, advisors and prominent supporters were celebrating the now open road to Project 2025's implementation. On Wednesday, former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, recent releaseee from prison, just weeks ago completed a four month prison sentence for contempt of Congress. He lauded Christian nationalist Matt Walsh, a commentator at the Daily Wire, on his war room podcast. Walsh had written on Twitter, quote, now that the election is over, I think we can finally say that, yeah, actually Project 25 is the agenda. LOL. Well, here's hoping they're too incompetent and chaotic to pull much of it off with any success. And next up from the Associated Press, the Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate Thursday by a quarter point in response to the steady decline in the once high inflation that had angered Americans and helped drive Donald Trump's presidential election victory last week. The rate cut follows a larger half point reduction this past September which we told you about. And it reflects the Fed's renewed focus on supporting the job market as well as fighting inflation, which now barely exceeds the central bank's 2% target. Thursday's move reduces the Fed's benchmark rate to about 4.6%, down from a four decade high of 5.3. Before September's meeting, the Fed had kept its rate high for more than a year to fight the worst inflation streak in four decades. Annual inflation has since fallen from a 9.1 peak in mid 2022 to a 3 1/2 year low of 2.4 in September. All right, those are the quick hits. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first up, and this is how we fight, y', all from the Associated Press. California's Democratic governor Gavin Newsom, a fierce critic of former President Donald Trump, on Thursday called for lawmakers to convene a special session later this year to safeguard the state's progressive policies on climate change, reproductive rights and and immigration ahead of another Trump presidency. The move a day after the former president resoundingly defeated. I'm going to take resoundingly out of there because it's really about 110,000 votes across three states. The day after Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris effectively reignited California's resistance campaign against conservative policies that state Democratic leaders started during the first Trump administration. Quote, the freedoms we hold dear in California are under attack and we won't sit idle. That's what Newsom said, who reportedly has his ambitions on the national stage. He said California has faced this challenge before and we know how to respond. We're prepared to fight in the courts and we will do everything necessary to ensure Californians have the support and resources they need to thrive now. Newsom's office told the Associated Press that the governor and his lawmakers are ready to Trump proof California state laws. His announcement Thursday called for the Legislature to give the attorney general's office more funding to fight federal challenges when they meet in December. State Attorney General Rob Bonta said his office spent the past year, reviewing more than 120 lawsuits the state filed during Trump's first term in preparation for new federal actions. Bonta said the governor has called the special session to line up the resources that will be needed for the state to fight any Trump encroachments on its policies without giving more details on exactly what the plans would entail. He said his office has been working with Democratic attorney generals across the nation. That should say attorneys general, but okay in anticipation of Trump winning, quote, we reject him, we reject his values, we reject his agenda. That's what Bonta said, speaking about California. California's move is part of a growing discussion among Democratic state officials across the country seeking to protect policies that face threats under Trump's leadership. Other blue states are moving quickly to prepare game plans and expect a more robust battle this time around with a Republican dominated Senate and possibly the House. In New York, Governor Kathy Hochul said she, Attorney General Letitia James and their senior staffers plan to meet regularly to discuss legal strategies to protect, quote, key areas that are most likely to face threats from the Trump administration, such as reproductive rights, civil rights, immigration, gun safety, labor rights, LGBTQ rights, and environmental justice. Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, who as state attorney general filed dozens of lawsuits against Trump during his first term, said they will, quote, have to see if he makes good on what he promised and ran on terms of Project 2025 or other things. Now, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell said she and other attorneys general are, quote, absolutely clear eyed that President Elect Trump has told us exactly what he intends to do as president. Now in Chicago, Illinois Governor J.B. pritzker announced similar preparations, quote, chaos, retribution and disarray radiated from the White House the last time Donald Trump occupied it. That's what Pritzker said Thursday at a news conference, went on to say, perhaps this time may be different, but if it isn't, Illinois will remain a place of stability and competent governance. In some states, including Connecticut, officials are hoping to codify progressive policies into law, quote, but there are limits to what our ability is to do that. That's Connecticut Comptroller Sean Scanlon. Now, California Republican lawmakers called Newsom's announcement a political stunt. Quote, the only problem it will solve is Gavin Newsom's insecurity that not enough people are paying attention to him. That's what Republican Leader of the State Assembly James Gallagher said in a statement about the special session. Now next up from Travis Geddes at Raw Story, Wisconsin Senate candidate Eric Hovdi is still refusing to concede his loss to Senator Tammy Baldwin and blaming a third party candidate for siphoning off the votes he needed to win in Wisconsin. America first candidate Thomas Lieger netted almost the exact vote total as Hovdi's loss margin and the Republican accused Democrats of propping up a former gun rights lobbyist long shot campaign and that's according to notice. Quote, we're certainly disappointed. The Democrats effort to siphon votes with a fraudulent candidate has had a significant impact on the race with those votes making up more than the entire margin of the race right now. That's what Hovdi said Wednesday morning in a press release. He went on to say we will continue to monitor returns and make sure every vote is counted. Lieger, the other candidate who claims he was an unindicted co conspirator in the 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, says he was recruited by operatives with the Patriots Run Project. But the Associated Press found that Democrats were donating campaign funds to Leaguer and others to, quote, siphon votes from Republicans. Baldwin was ahead of Hovdi by 8,958 votes Thursday morning while Lieger had received 28,717. State Assembly Majority Leader Robin Vose also blamed the third party candidate for Hovdi's loss, as did GOP State assembly candidate Jim let's see Piwa Warzik write in a correction if I've got that wrong. But Democrats deny these allegations. Quote, that's absurd, said a Democratic strategist. There are millions of reasons why Wisconsinites didn't vote for Eric Hovdi. Hovdy should stop being a whiny baby and admit he lost the election. Democrats didn't recruit a man who tried to kidnap Governor Whitmer. Unquote. All right, next up from the Associated Press, Wyoming officials voted Thursday to proceed with selling a spectacular pristine piece of state property within Grand Teton national park to the federal government for $100 million and end decades of threats to sell it to the highest bidding private developer. The 3 to 2 vote by the state Board of Land Commissioners made up of Governor Mark Gordon and the other top four state elected officials, all Republicans, puts the square mile, which is about 2.6 square kilometers, puts that parcel with an unobstructed view of the Teton Range a step closer to becoming part of the park. The land that has been a bone of contention between Wyoming and federal officials for decades may finally be on track to sell by the end of this year. Quote, there's this clearly a right decision to be made. This is a very rare opportunity for you to do the right thing for education in Wyoming. That's Wyoming Senate President Ogden Driscoll, a Republican who urged the board before the vote. Conservation and sportsman's groups have made similar appeals to keep the property out of private hands, even though selling to developers could net the state the highest dollar return. The state land, surrounded by national parkland on all sides, has belonged to Wyoming since statehood. However, leasing it for grazing has brought in only a few thousand dollars a year, far below what the state could get from a modest return on investing the proceeds of a sale. As in other states, particularly in the west, revenue from state lands funds public education. The two officials voting no said they hope to strike a better deal under President elect Donald Trump's incoming administration, poss possibly involving a swap for fossil fuel rich federal lands elsewhere in the state. For decades, Wyoming governors have threatened to sell the land with Grand Teton to the highest bidder if the federal government didn't want to buy it. The threats led to on and off negotiations and three previous sales of other state land within the park to the federal government, totaling 62 million. And last, from Juliet Grable at OPB and this is some good news. We've been covering this story for a while. The largest dam removal project in the US ever was completed October 2nd on the Klamath river in southern Oregon and Northern California. Thanks to President Biden and Deb Haaland, four dams were taken out, allowing adult salmon to swim all the way up the Klamath river from the Pacific Ocean and into more than 400 miles of newly reopened habitat last month. Adult fall chinook. I hope I'm saying that right. Chinook salmon made it all the way to Oregon's stretch of the Klamath Basin for the first time in more than a century. Swimming more than 200 miles from the ocean, salmon were also seen spawning in a tributary above the former Iron Gate Dam site for the first time in more than 60 years. And now chinook salmon are spawning in streams above four former dam sites on the Klamath river in numbers that are astounding. Biologists now a network of tribes, agencies, university researchers and conservation groups, they're all working together to track the fish as they explore the newly opened habitat. The speed of the salmon's return has caused the partners to scramble to get their teams and protocols in place. Quote, we don't have a few years to collect these data. That's Morgan Nechtel, environmentalist, scientists at California's Department of Fish and Wildlife Says we need it now. The CDFW has boots on the ground conducting spawning surveys in the river and several tributaries in California. They've also installed video weirs in key tributaries that capture images 24 hours a day. Crews have spotted over 100 Chinook in Jenny Creek. 27 female fish have also spawned at the hatchery at Fall Creek. This facility was relocated from the base of Irongate Dam to a new location about seven miles above the dam earlier this year. Returns to the hatchery have been low so far, but the spawning season is not over. Quote, fish are still swimming into the facility. That's what the nectal says. Andy also went on to say the fish appear to be in very good condition. They're very bright for this time of year, very silver. The conservation group California Trout has installed a sonar monitoring station just upstream of the former Iron Gate Dam. The station acts like a quote, fancy fish finder. That's what Damon Goodman, Mount Shasta Klamath regional director at California Trout, said. The station generates radio waves that can pass through even the very turbid water, detecting any fish that passes by a certain point in the stream. California Trout is also leading a crew to live capture the fish just above the former Iron Gate Dam. By tagging them with radio tags and passive integrated transponders, or pit tags, they'll be able to track them as they explore their new habitat upstream. ODFW is conducting spawning surveys in the Klamath river and tributaries in Oregon, and they have counted over a hundred fish and 42 nests, also called reds, in Spencer Creek and dozens of fish and reds at the Klamath river above and below the former J.C. boyle Dam. So they're coming. They took out the dams and there are now chinook salmon in the rivers for, gosh, the first time in a century. Very good news. All right, everybody, we're going to be right back with John Fugal saying. And then we're going to follow that up with the good news. So stick around. We'll be right back after these messages. We'll be right back. Hey, everybody. Welcome back. It is Friday on the Daily Beans, which means it's Fugal Sang Friday. Always excited to talk to my good friend, host of Tell me everything on SiriusXM progress channel 127. That's weeknights at 9pm Eastern, 6 Pacific. And of course, the John Fugal Sang show podcast is free. Wherever you get your pods. Please welcome John Fugelsang. Hello, my friend Alison.
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I just want to congratulate the entire Confederacy. You know, they waited Such a long time. Really, really well done this week. How you holding up, Ms. Gill?
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Well, I haven't eaten since Tuesday and I'm still in my jammies, but I've been getting some work done, doing some appearances. I did put on a blazer for a minute so I could appear on a couple of different things. Television hits on, you know, local news stations and stuff. And then doing the podcasts and going to be curing some ballots for a judge race that needs ballots cured here very shortly in North Carolina. So doing that work has been getting me through putting my head down and working. Doing what I've been doing since 2017 has been helping, but I feel like I'm just very tired because now we have to go all the way back to the kitchen table days. We have to go all the way back to Mueller and start again with a brand new four years of extremely corrupt administration.
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Yes, and it will be corrupt. And that's not going to change. Donald Trump did not just become moral. He did not just become intelligent. He did not just become right about things. His crimes and scandals and corruption and racism have not been washed away. I keep thinking about this election. Millionaire at birth, child of privilege with no appreciation of his privilege. A failed businessman but used his fame to start a career in politics. Became a president. Lied to everyone. His lies got Americans killed. And then the American people decided the lies and incompetence were okay and reelected him. 20 years ago this week, this was George W. Bush. After There were no WMDs in Iraq and we knew he had lied to us and the body bags were coming home. The American people elected him anyway, knowing he was a corrupt, dishonest liar who had slaughtered Americans because they had found, found a scapegoat. The entire 2004 campaign was Karl Rove pushing that traditional marriage was in danger of the gays marrying. So it's the same playbook once again. They have this corrupt, aristocratic, petulant liar and they have to get people terrified of powerless minorities. And this year it was trans people and the undocumented immigrants that Donald Trump has hired since the 80s. But again, this doesn't make his racism less racist. It doesn't make his policies Christian, doesn't make him a good man. It doesn't change that he's a twice impeached sexual predator and 34 times felon. Millions of people thought this country was heading in the wrong direction because they believed the economy was tanking and crime was going up. And that wasn't true. You know, I keep thinking how the Germans needed to see Berlin turned to rubble before they could realize they'd been suckered by an authoritarian nationalist con man. And I just want to remind everybody, this is not going to go well for Trump. His crappy policies are not suddenly going to help because of winning the popular vote. It's going to be bad, it's going to be scandalous. He's going to be stupid, he's going to be racist, he's going to be incompetent. All that's going to happen again. Everyone who is dejected now, and I understand all the finger pointing, I get it, we'll talk about the finger pointing. But reality is going to smack everyone back onto being on the same side in less than six months. So all the despair that all the decent people are feeling right now, I understand it. Please feel what you need to feel. Turn off the news for a while. Heal any way you got to heal. I know what it's like to feel so wounded. But in a few months, reality is going to get everyone back in the game because he's going to be awful and the 2026 midterms are going to be insane. And you will see the most progressive field of presidential candidates in Democratic party history in 2028. You know, look, we, we can blame the Democrats for making Biden drop out, or blame Biden for dropping out, or blame Biden for not dropping out before the primaries, or blame Pelosi, or blame George Clooney, or blame Hillary for not having Bernie as a vp, or blame Merrick Garland for not stopping them, or blame the Mueller report for not stopping them, or blame the post Civil War Union for not stopping the Confederates. Whatever you need to do. But in a couple of months, you'll be back and everyone's going to be back engaged, because it's going to be all hands again. He's going to be awful. And as we all know, he's not.
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Well, no, no, he's not. But he also has now a brand new shiny criminal immunity and he's already in discussions about who to bring into his cabinet, which are all the same old, you know, Stanley Woodwards and Roger Stones and Mike Flynn's and that Mike Davis guy who wants to be the Attorney General. He's going to, you know, seemingly the, the wives of Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito were really excited because they somehow knew Trump was going to win and that their husbands would get to retire and be replaced by probably, I don't know, Judge Cannon and Judge Kazmarek, the Mifepress Stone guy, you know, The North Texas guy that goes every, you know, that's absolutely insane and is 31 years old or something now the Supreme Court is going to be even more entrenched than it ever was. And that's something we'll have to deal with for decades to come. My hope right now is that we have a free and fair election in 2026 and 2028. That's my hope of. That's like my, that's my North Star, is that we have free and fair elections in those years. And I'm going to do everything I can to work toward that. But I don't know what that plan to work toward that looks like yet. I'm just putting my head down and doing the work until we get there. How are you holding up?
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Well, I just want to remind everybody, yes to everything you've said and it's going to be bad, but remember the Civil War where 600,000 of us died over keeping black people as slaves was actually worse than this. And it's the same sides. It's the Union and the Confederates. And we have to reckon with the fact that a bunch of seniors voted for their Medicare to get gutted and Latinos voted to have their families mass deported and men voted for their wives and daughters to lose body autonomy. Social Security is compromised. NATO can no longer depend on the United States. Europe is now alone in confronting the greatest threat to stability since you know who people are gonna die from? More school shootings. It's open season on black people with qualified immunity for cops. They're gonna bulldoze and ethnically cleanse Gaza. But you know what hasn't changed? The only consistent political narrative of my lifetime in terms of the presidency. The Republican Party is gonna get greedy and they're gonna burn it all down. This whole country is like a mob restaurant being burned down for the insurance money. The Republicans are gonna burn, loot it, they're going to crash it and then they're going to bring in a Democrat to clean up the mess. That's been the only narrative I've known my whole lifetime. Watergate and Nixon are why we got the most moral guy of Jimmy Carter. And then 12 years of trickle down not working is exactly why we got Bill Clinton, who balanced the budget and had a surplus. Eight years of Bush, the aristocrat puppet gave us Barack Obama, who reduced the deficit and brought us the lowest number of uninsured Americans in history and cleaned.
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Up the Great Recession.
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Cleaned up the Great Recession and then four years of combover Caligula gave us Joe Biden, who saved the Teamsters pensions, who walked a picket line, who brought back American manufacturing, who passed infrastructure, who loaded it up with Buy American provisions. And the same with the Inflation Reduction Act. The labor market's the best we've had in 55 years. Weed is decriminalized on the federal level and you can buy hearing aids, you know, over the counter. And Medicare is negotiating for lower drug prices. This is it. The Republicans come in and trash everything and then they bring in a Democrat to clean up the mess. And we always witness, while the Democrats in office, the arsonists, are consistently heckling the fire department, cleaning up their own smoldering ash. So we know this is not going to end well because we know it's gonna be a feeding frenzy. So, you know, despair all you need. But what if Peter Thiel paid Donald Trump a bunch of money to take on J.D. vance? What if Peter Thiel pays Donald Trump to leave office so J.D. vance can be president? They're already talking about 25th amending him. Can you imagine if Trump doesn't finish the term and J.D. vance, that loathsome empty suit, tries to control MAGA, which is ready to hate him. Either Trump or Vance will leave this White House so insanely unpopular, just as Trump did before, just as Bush did before. At the end of the day, this comes down to, you know, crappy white people. I mean, they chose the oldest man over the first woman. They chose the worst man over the first woman, the guy who killed the immigration law over the candidate who backed it. They chose the rapist and the felon over the prosecutor. They chose the guy who says Russia can do whatever the hell they want to our allies. Instead of the one who stands up to Putin, they chose the one who hates unions and won't raise the minimum wage over the Vice President who cast the tie breaking vote to save teachers pensions. Look, I mean, this is, this is American stupidity. This is crappy white people. This is what we've come to be very used to. And yeah, if it had been a white guy, if it had been a white guy on the Democratic ticket, I think it might have turned out differently. This is where we're at. And you know what? I'm proud that I'll be able to tell my grandkids I voted against Donald Trump three times and I will look great years from now for having done so.
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I think the thing that breaks my heart the most is going to be watching him unwind everything that Joe Biden got done.
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And it's. It's Going, the chickens will come home to roost with people who didn't realize it or were low information voters. I think I read something, I was talking with Pete Strzok about this on the cleanup on a 45 bonus episode. I read something on Twitter where a guy went into work and most of everybody who works where he works is a Trump voter. And the owner came out and said, hey, no Christmas bonuses this year. I gotta stock up on all the supplies that I can right now before the tariffs get put into place.
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Yeah, I heard the same story. Yeah.
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And everybody was like, I'm sorry, what? And I think things like that, millions of little things like that are gonna be happening all across the country.
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And, oh, wait till gas prices go up. Gas prices go up. And again, you know, you're going to really trust food prices. And I mean, and we could talk about the fact that Waitley deports 11 million people, which will be like a quarter of the agricultural workforce and meat and veggies. The price of everything goes up substantially. Except for the fact he's not going to do it. He was selling racism. These people all along, I never believed that he was gonna build a giant medieval wall spanning thousands of miles across desert and forest and private and commercial property, taking land away from Americans with eminent domain. It was always ridiculous. He was never gonna do it. And we think he's actually gonna load 11 million people onto trains, dragging them out of their workplaces, out of their homes, separating families and throwing people into concentration camps because he promised he would. All this man does is lie to his base and they love him for it because he gets away with it and he reminds them of the preciousness of their white privilege. But he's not going to deport 11 million people. There's no system in how would they do it? Where's the money? And how would they know who needs to be deported? They'd have to play a jar pio and say, oh, he's brown and speaks espanol, so let's load him on the train, too. They're never going to do it. And it's going to be his followers realizing the bill of goods they've been sold now for two years. And you know this better than me, Ms. Gilbert, for the next two years, he will have Joe Biden's economy, right? I mean, he.
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Oh, yeah, he'll take credit for it. And then if anything goes wrong, yeah, Trump Biden for it.
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Trump rode the Obama recovery expansion for years. Trump was just watching Fox and eating Big Macs. I say to my MAGA friends all the time, tell me, tell me the Barack Obama economic trend that Donald Trump reversed and made better rather than continued and took credit for. So you're right, prices are going to go up and inflation's going to go up and unemployment's going to go up. There'll be more mass shootings. We know everything that's going to happen. We already know. The question is, will the tribalist crappy white people care? Will they care? Because the difference to me between progressives and conservatives at its most pure is progressives are capable of caring about people they don't know. Conservatives. It has to happen to someone they know first. It's that 11 degree of empathy when their kid comes out as gay, then they awaken and realize how wrong they've been. When their loved one dies from an AR15 mass shooting, then they realize that these shouldn't be in the it's gotta happen to someone they know first. That's the curse of conservative folks. And it's gonna happen to a lot of people. They all know there's gonna be a lot of suffering from this. And all I can say is get ready for 2026. Don't lose heart. Check out a politics for a while if you need to, but not this excellent show and not mine. But, but feel free to be wounded. This really hurts. This is the country we love and the crappy white people have once again done it. Just take time. Recognize that this country is going to need you and you will be back and take a moment and say, well, for all the things the Democrats screwed up, maybe it's good that they didn't kill the Cineba. They didn't kill the filibuster. Maybe we'll be grateful for that.
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Yeah. And please continue to support people yes, speak truth to power. Like my good friend here, John Fugle saying.
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And you can more than ever, I love the Americans who voted against this. I'm sorry man, it's and I still believe we're the majority that, you know, apathy is fascism's lube. But I love the half of America that voted against this creeping fascism. And I will continue to work for all of America and try to entertain the the sane half. Don't let the Nazis. Don't let the Nazis see you cry and don't let the racist see you sweat 100%.
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Thank you my friend. And you can do support our good friend John Fugelsang by listening to him every night. Weeknights, 9pm Eastern, 6 Pacific on Sirius XM progress channel 127 or by downloading his podcast, the John Fugelsang Show. I appreciate you, my friend, and thank you for all the work you did and all the work you're going to be doing. It's going to be a slog, but we just got to do the good work and cause the good trouble.
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On behalf of all the good people you have talked off of ledges, thank you. Just remember, folks, it's not going to go well for Trump.
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Thank you so much. And everybody, we do have some good news that we can share with you, but we have to take a quick break, so stick around. We'll be right back. Everybody. Welcome back. It's time for the good news. Who likes good news?
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Everyone?
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Then good news, everyone. Good news, good news. And if you have any good news, confessions, corrections, anything at all you want to send to us, send it, please send it in. We need the good news now more than ever, obviously. So all you have to do to get your good news is pay your pod pet tax, attach a photo of your pet, and if you don't have pod pet tax to pay, send us an adoptable pet in your area. If you don't have that, send us a picture of any animal we play. What the mutt? Find the cat opine on the bovine. What the heck wine? What's the model of your axolotl? Any animal will do. And if you don't have any of those either, you can always send us your baby pictures. So send it to us. And also along with any shout outs that you might have, whether it's to your spouse, a loved one, a family member, somebody in your community doing great work, some activism, something you've been doing. Shout out to yourself for, for the kind of work that you that I know everybody is maybe taking a little bit of a break from right now, but might get back into send that to us as well as shout outs to government programs, whether it's Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, $35, insulin, the Affordable Care act, great VA health care you you've received and of course student debt forgiveness. Send it all to us dailybeanspod.com and click on contact. Our first submission is from Becky H. Pronoun she and her love you ladies. I live in Center County, Pennsylvania. It's pronounced Center. I also wanted to let you know that on my mail in ballot we did not have a Democratic candidate running against our incumbent jackass state representative Carrie Benninghoff. I just wrote in Bruce Springsteen as a fuck you to him. Felt good. They better fucking count My vote, this is also a blue leaning county due to PSU being here. Keep up the good fight. Including a picture of my puppy Bonnie from yesterday when we were both sad. Oh, look at Bonnie. What a beautiful baby. Was that a little terrier? Becky, thank you for this. I appreciate it. Next up from Melody. I'm in Tucson and I recently agreed to foster a 13 year old girl cat named Leroy. Leroy's human had to move into assisted living. I've now decided to move near my family and need to find a new forever home for Leroy. Leroy is loving, sometimes sleeps with me, knows how to open cupboard doors and has taken up residence under my bathroom sink. Please share my email with folks who might want to give Leroy Leroy a forever home that's in the Tucson area. Melody, thank you so much and P S I have no idea how Leroy got her name. Oh but she's beautiful. So if anybody's interested in adopting Leroy, please let us know and we'll put you in touch with Melody. Next up from Joe H. Pronoun she and her all this photo. Hey guys. Sending such massive love from Scotland where I live with my American style husband for 24 years. He introduced me to the beans and I listened to you because you make me smarter. My good news is that I'm giving away free hugs to people at work because so many people are sad. And you know what? Hugs really help. Here's a pic of me advertising hugs and I'm also including a pic of our golden retriever retriever Murphy eating my latest parking ticket from the office. Hang in there you guys. Joe, thank you. Murphy's adorable. And thank you for the free hugs. I'm accepting a virtual free hug from you right now. Joe H. So, so many thank yous. Oh my gosh, this last one. This picture is amazing. Tammy in Texas pronouns she and her Allison. I was so happy to hear you beautiful ladies voices this morning on my commute to work. I feel a little better today than I did on November 6th and I just wanted to thank you Dana, Andy, Pete, Fugal sang and all the gang that helps me get through this thing called life that is sometimes beautiful and sometimes very hard. I have no doubt we will persevere and I encourage everyone to stay involved in their communities and never give up hope for my pod pet tax. Here's our goofy golden retriever Lucy showing her pretty teeth. Oh, Lucy's adorable couple of golden retrievers today. And a kitty named Leroy who needs a home. And then of course Centre County Bonnie. What a beautiful baby. Everybody. Thank you for your good news. And please, I can't implore you enough to send in some good news, even if it's just a photo letting us know how you're doing and how you're holding up. This community is really important, and we need to make sure that we don't feel isolated and that we don't feel alone. Thank you so much, everybody. We're gonna have an episode of the Jack podcast this weekend. We'll tell you about more details about the future of that show soon. And then, of course, Dane and I will be back in your ears on Monday. And there will be a cleanup bonus for the patrons who clean up on aisle 45 this weekend, as well as a beans wrap up, which I don't know how I'm going to wrap this week up, but I'll do it because that's what I do. I go to work anyway. We'll see you next time. Until then, please take care of yourselves, take care of each other, take care of the the planet, take care of your mental health and take care of your family. I've been ag and them's the beans.
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Refried beans.
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I like refried beans.