We Did It For You!!!

[00:00:00] I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible. Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another.

[00:00:22] In this world, there's room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind.

[00:00:50] We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all.

[00:01:12] Even now, my voice is reaching millions throughout the world. Millions of despairing men, women and little children. Victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

[00:01:34] The hate of men will pass and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

[00:02:15] Greetings. This is the Long in the Boot podcast, the podcast coming to you from the heel of the boot of southwest Louisiana. I'm your host, G Long, and sitting across the way, as always, is Deb. Hello, all. Hey, Deb. Still alive. Barely. I know. Man, we've been sick. It's been a rough go again. It has. I got sick first, and Deb then picked up the baton and ran with it. I didn't run. I barely moved. But here I am, coming out on the other side. Seemed like just a small little cold, and then boom. Boom. No.

[00:02:46] Within, literally, I coughed twice at school and went, that last cough sure didn't feel right. Yeah. And by the time I got home, I was full-on sick. Yeah. And like had to sleep. There was no... And we left school in a frenzy. Yeah. It was Thursday. It was weird. I felt so bad for leaving my coworkers, my students. But I... I was worried for you. It was the middle of the day. And then... And I was like, I have to go home. I have to go home now.

[00:03:11] Yeah. I can't sit here. And then I was scared because I saw you, and I thought, oh, dear God. Oh, this is horrible. And then Monday, when it hit me, I understood why you had to leave now. Yeah. It was... Yeah. It was rough. It was really weird. And Friday, we were already scheduled to be off because we were going to get stuff done. We had things to do, and I had to do all that on my own. None of it done. And Saturday, I did that on my own. I went outside and used heavy equipment and... Well, not heavy equipment, but I used equipment and cut things down.

[00:03:39] And Sunday morning, I said, oh, I'm going to go out and clean up what I did yesterday. And by noon, I was... Oh, yeah. When we went home on that Thursday, I went to bed and... Oh, you slept for 15 hours. 15 hours straight. Yeah. Which I don't ever do. And my bed hadn't been made since Thursday morning. Today was the first morning I made our bed. A true sick bed. I will say, if you need any sense of control in your life, and I know I've said this before when we did the podcast about routines and habits, because humans need that.

[00:04:07] We need regularity. We need... We need all kinds of things. It helps our sense of control. Well, making your bed, because getting into a bed that is unmade for me is just... Last night, I was done. Yeah. Like, I don't even want to get in there. Yeah. Anyhow. Oh, well. Well, I'll survive that. So, it's late. We're recording this right now. It's about 10 till 10. And I hope to get this thing out by noon. Yeah. It's Wednesday. Last night, of course, was the big speech. But first, a little business.

[00:04:37] If you'd like to email the Long in the Boot podcast, obviously, you can do that at longintheboot at gmail.com. Give us a call at 337-502-9011. And the podcast page is longintheboot at... No, it's just longintheboot.com. And pardon me while I cough. There we go. Okay. So, anyway, we decided to wait to do the podcast just in case something exciting happened last night. It really didn't. It was expected. It was a snoozer. Yeah.

[00:05:07] I'm sorry. There was nothing... What did you call it? A masturbatory... It was a masturbatory, self-congratulatory speech. In a masturbatorium. Yeah. In a giant masturbatorium where only one side participated in the H.J. Well, the side that didn't participate, that was the disposal of the Kleenex side. Now, I will say a couple of things. One, I've seen people already complaining that there was a congressman.

[00:05:34] His name is Al Green, not to be confused with the singer. Yeah, but I would like to think that Al Green would have stood up and shouted out. Yeah, he might have done that. But I saw a bunch of people already today going, this is the most... This is the rudest thing I've ever seen. There's no... Nobody's ever done this before. No precedent for it. Oh, stop it. Go back and look at Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bo Bart last... First of all, Marjorie Taylor Greene's face being in the room is offensive. But anyway, she yelled at Biden numerous times.

[00:06:02] So did Bo Bart, who, by the way, likely had relations with Kid Rock, according to... No, I don't care who they sleep with. Ew, God. Ew, Kid Rock? Well, there's a lot that disgusts me, but I don't care. I don't care. I don't care that you don't care. Okay. Anyway, and then Obama, when he was president, there was the Republican who called him a liar really loudly. Yeah, yeah. So this has precedence. Tit for tat. Now, I've never seen one escorted out by the sergeant at arms.

[00:06:32] Well, I think that was the point. I think he wanted to be escorted out. I think he wanted to be escorted out so that, yeah. And he's so old it doesn't matter. He had a cane, though. I was kind of hoping he'd go across the aisle and beat the crap out of somebody with his cane. Well, it wasn't the Serbian parliament. There's precedence for beating another congressman with a cane. I mean, I've seen the Japanese people in their political realms come to blows. But in Serbia, what, two days ago, they threw grenades and smoke bombs? And overall...

[00:07:01] And they were all in suits. It doesn't matter the suit you wear. Right. Okay. Well, yeah. Marjorie Taylor Greene was wearing a stupid baseball cap at the speech last night. You know, it made me think of, though, she's one of those moms at a game. I don't know. Yes. Does she have kids? I have no idea. Yeah. Oh, I... But she'd be one of those moms out there. She'd be in a referee's face in a second. You know, if she has kids, I feel bad for them. I'm going to go do it. Does Marjorie...

[00:07:27] By the way, speaking of her, the bloated-faced reporter who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, that's her boyfriend. And if you'd like to know what a person who drinks way too much looks like, go look at him. His name is Brian Glenn. He used to work for Fox News until he got fired for sexually harassing a co-worker. More than once, huh? Yeah, he's done it more than once. You know what... Perfect for Marjorie Taylor Greene.

[00:07:56] When you search, does Marjorie Taylor Greene... The first search was smoke. Second, have tattoos. Third, have children. Does she smoke? I didn't click on that. I don't. She has three children. Does she? Yes, she does. Do they speak to her? I'm not going to go. I don't care that much. Okay. They're probably embarrassed. But really, the whole point of our podcast today, and I think really what I'd like to say is that we need to take a step back. I mean, we're not seeing the big picture.

[00:08:26] We're not seeing the forest. For all the individual trees, it's this back and forth, tit for tat. And I'll be the first to say at the speech last night, there were several points that Trump made that I tend to agree with. I may not agree with how he's doing it, but look, as far as letting men play in women's sports. Yeah, you don't need to have a... I don't know why the Democrats have decided to plant that flag on that hill, but that's the dumbest. And we've said that more than once on this podcast. That's right. Those are the kinds of things that made them lose. And I think they knew they were going to lose.

[00:08:56] Who puts Kamala up? Right. That's my point. Who puts Biden up? That's my point about the bigger picture. It's like, there are things going on here. But speaking of Biden, the four years of Biden, the presidency, they were not the worst four years in our nation's history. Trump says that kind of crap, and it's just irritating, because I've heard it so many times. And if there's something bad, Biden's responsible. That's nonsense. That's easy. Every administration does that.

[00:09:25] This is not a new tactic as far as that goes. But he pounds it relentlessly. Well, that's because he's an elderly man with an elderly brain who gets stuck in a narrative, and that's all he hears. Well, it's all he spills or says. But I agree with that 100%. Boys, men should not be participating in women's sports. Should not be allowed to get scholarships that belong to women. Women have worked way too hard for too long to get those things. And so, again, 100% agreement there.

[00:09:54] The border needed to be put back under control. Yes, we do need. Letting in millions of people. We do need new laws. We need new rules. There needs to be a better, more efficient system. I don't think we should be letting criminals into this country, obviously. And certainly if a person is here illegally, commits a crime. They need to go back. You don't put them back out on the street. Yeah. I mean, that was ridiculous. So, yeah, there's room for agreement. That's the thing that kind of pisses me off about all this. And stop using the term woke as an insult to somebody.

[00:10:24] I'm not woke. I'm awake. Well, my thing is if I say anything that's anti-Trump or anti-Musk, I get called a liberal or that I'm woke. Or your panties are in a lot. Or panties. Because, again, they love to bring that up. And, look, if you say to me on Facebook, I didn't mean to get your panties in a twist, I'm blocking you. You're done. Well, I've known you for 40 years. If you wore panties prior to me meeting you when you were in high school or whatever, I don't know about it. But community, he's never worn panties.

[00:10:54] Thank you. I did wear them on my head one time. Hmm. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, well. That was a joke. That was probably. And it was right after pulling them out of the dryer. It was probably a tequila. No? You don't think it was a tequila thing? No, no, no. Not at all. No, because once tequila's involved, panties fall off. Oh, yeah. Everybody knows that. Okay, man. Uh-huh. Liquid panty remover. Yay! See, now you sound like an old man who's just got the same joke in his head. I know. All right. Besides, I haven't had any tequila in ages. Oh, God, no. I know. I miss it.

[00:11:24] Do you? I do. Do you miss it? I love tequila. All right. Well, you know, we've all gone Lord of the Flies here. It's true. Which is better, to have laws and agree or to hunt and kill? Well, I think we're at the hunt and kill phase. I don't think we want laws. We don't want to agree. We just want to hunt and kill. Hunt and kill. No. Marjorie Taylor Greene says about our civil servants that are getting fired, that federal employees do not deserve their jobs.

[00:11:54] They do not deserve their paychecks. And these are jobs that can be fired at will, she claimed, during a House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. People were protesting Elon Musk and his Doge people. She says, you're protecting the bureaucracy. The bureaucracy is not a business. Those are not real jobs producing federal revenue. Representative, of course, Elon Omar made a quick point about those people are paying taxes.

[00:12:24] They are earning real income. And let's speak for that for a moment. The average federal salary is $73,900. That's correct. Most people within the government earn between $50,000 and $90,000. And I assume that's considering their benefits packages. Which is not their benefit packages for the low-level employees in the federal government are not as cream of the crop as elected officials.

[00:12:54] While we're on that topic, I'm so fed up with this. If they made a check working for the government, somehow they're just, they use that money. It's not welfare. No, and they use that money in the community to do all the things we all do with our private sector dollars, which benefit everyone. Businesses have already closed down in those communities. That's right. And the fact is that it's not a zero-sum game.

[00:13:21] This idea that somehow if this guy has a dollar, then that means I don't, is just ridiculous. That dollar goes back into the community, creates more dollars, creates jobs. And I love this thing. Well, if everybody was a government worker, then there'd be no productivity whatsoever. Well, maybe so, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about a small percentage of people and of the entire workforce. The vast majority are private sector jobs.

[00:13:51] But many of these government jobs are necessary. The parks are going to be disgusting by the time this is done. Oh, yeah. And everybody I've seen now, well, Bill Clinton cut $300,000 or $3 million or whatever. I don't even know how many jobs. I'm so tired of it all. But he didn't do it in a month. Doge and Elon Musk have just whacked jobs.

[00:14:19] They're not doing it with any rhyme or reason. They don't know anything. And, oh, by the way, speaking of which, last night Trump messed up. He said that Elon Musk was headed up, or Doge was headed up by Elon Musk. In court, in an affidavit, the Trump attorney, the Trump administration attorney, Joshua Fisher,

[00:14:44] said in the court case, quote, Musk is not an employee of the U.S. Doge, he is not an employee of the U.S. Doge service or a temporary employee of Doge. In other words, he said that Musk did not work for Doge. And last night, Trump said he was in charge of Doge. Well, and he also said that we were ending the time of the unelected bureaucrat.

[00:15:12] Ironically, what is Elon? An unelected bureaucrat. Russell Voight, of course, has also said similar things about Vought. Vought, I'm sorry. Like Homelander. I got Homelander in my head, and that's all I see when I see his name and his face. Christian National is head of the Office of Management and Budget. Of course, you know, central to the 2025 project, which we've talked about him and all of his people numerous times on this podcast.

[00:15:40] He, of course, said that we want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. So public servants, when you wake up in the morning, we want them to not go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down. We want to put them in trauma. I know I've said this before, but this is a man who's think tank.

[00:16:00] These are think tank people who have sat around and decided our future in their little roundtables for, well, probably for a decade or more. I really feel like they felt empowered come COVID. Like around COVID time, I think the world, people in the background, the shadowy figures behind this curtain, sat around in their think tanks, came up with all of this. How do we control the masses? What are we going to do? The plans are out there.

[00:16:30] The polarization is out there. Well, Project 2025, which Donald Trump said he didn't know anything about. Well, we know now that's just not true because Vought, who also worked for Trump in the first administration, first term, is one of the main architects of Project 2025. And what is being implemented is, in fact, what Project 2025. With elements of other little projects thrown in. Yes. Yeah, we've got the question now. We've got a little battle. The big thing is they don't want any public employees.

[00:17:00] Yes. They want everything to be privatized. Everything. And it's all going to be digital. Well. We're going to have technology do the bulk of everything. And that'll benefit Elon and the PayPal. The tech bros. The tech bros, yeah. Peter Thiel. If you don't know who Peter Thiel is, just look him up. He's part of this. Well, you know, and I think that's the problem is our audience gets their algorithm feeds that come into their social media platforms.

[00:17:26] And you get fed your little bubble bias and you feel good about that because you're right, you're right. But really, we need to take a step back and stop dwelling on all these little tiny things. What suit did he wear? Did he not wear a suit? Who disrespected who? And start to focus on the big picture, which is really what's going on. And Americans, I think, well, I think the world sees it. They're back. They're standing back watching.

[00:17:52] I think today we're probably going to get some kind of reprieve in the tariffs. They're going to calm down with Mexico and Canada. I feel like they set that up. But again, another place where people don't understand how they work. Just like last night. He said numerous times that other countries will be paying these tariffs. No, they won't. No, we will. Tariffs are attached to goods coming in by the country that receives the goods. Oh, come on. Most Americans understand that.

[00:18:22] They don't. Donald told us last night that we're going to hurt for a bit. He said that. He said we're going to hurt. Well, first of all, does he get a mouse in his pocket? Because he's not going to hurt at all. Neither are any of his friends. None of those people in that room last night were going to hurt. The average person. Yeah. And the price of everything going up doesn't help anyone, especially now. Well, no. And in this area, if our farmers. OK, so if the tariffs on farm goods are. Well, China's doing it. It's done.

[00:18:51] I think China is a whole different animal. He didn't mention that last night. No, he didn't. But I think Canada and Mexico, we're going to come to some sort of agreement with. China's a whole different dragon. Yeah. But he said last night, we love our farmers. Yeah. You love them so much that the last time you implemented tariffs on China and they stopped buying our soy beans. You had to subsidize farmers. And our rice. You had to give farmers money because you wrecked their trade deals. So really, he's just redirecting all of this savings.

[00:19:20] And here in Louisiana, this is a big deal. Well, yeah. It's not going to just affect our farmers. It's going to. It's a trickle down. Our dock workers. What's going to happen to the Lake Charles Port? That they're going to lose so much business and all they've been doing. And everybody's like, well, we can do it ourselves. America. Buy American. Yeah. Good luck. Do you know the number of grapes that you would have to grow in America over what we grow now just to satisfy the American diet? Much of the produce we get from Mexico, we get for a reason.

[00:19:46] Well, our agricultural guy said we just need to all get chickens. And we live in an area where most people have chickens. Yeah. So, but city folk. And when it comes to products themselves, again, I just want to alert everyone to this simple phrase, comparative advantage. Yes. There is a reason that we buy goods from other countries, primarily to benefit ourselves.

[00:20:10] We cannot afford to make TVs in America because the wage we would have to pay would make the TVs prohibitably expensive. And therefore, people wouldn't be able to purchase them, which actually shrinks the economy, doesn't grow the economy. Comparative advantage says that you move your labor where it is cheapest. Okay. But, but another plus, another win besides the win of the border, which he referenced numerous times last night. Oh, yeah.

[00:20:37] Oh, and he's, he's helping with that too, by giving the, uh, the gold, the gold card to wealthy individuals who are going to come into our country and bring money. Why would they? I guess to make money. They're going to benefit here. They won't have to pay those tariffs. They're going to come here. They're going to open plants and they're going to produce jobs. That, that's the thinking of that. Um, we're going to have a new apple plant. They're going to spend $5 billion. Which was announced previously. Now they've been reannounced.

[00:21:06] So they're just announcing it again so that we all think it's him, not anybody else. Um, also the chips, we're going to make, uh, the chips here. Uh, even, even though he canceled the chips act, which was going to give, was going to give subsidies to companies to build plants here in America. This was signed under Biden, but because it was signed under Biden, he canceled it. Oh, so now he'll have to do a new one. Exactly. And then it'll look like it'll be just like his trade deal with Mexico and Canada that

[00:21:34] he himself said was the greatest deal ever in 2020. Wow. And now says it's the worst deal ever, which is why he has to punish our two friends and neighbors, Mexico and Canada. Yeah. Or, or you can take the other argument, which is I'm just trying to stop fentanyl. Yeah. Which is nonsense. Well, very little fentanyl comes across the Canadian border for sure. And, and you're creating a need for it in this country. People are doing more drugs than ever. Um, less alcohol consumption and more drug intake.

[00:22:03] That's what's happening in America. And just read about it. And that is the point. Go read about everything. Yes. Do some research. There, there are more than two sides. And just when you find one thing that it'll contradict another thing and the social security thing just was everywhere. He spouted that last night, like he was reading the damn me. And it's not true. None of it's true. That's all a lie. He spent like what? Five minutes going through the list. 200 year old, a 200 year old.

[00:22:30] But on Facebook right now, there's this thing going around about taxing social security. It's this long diatribe. And all you have to do is go to the social security site and look at the history. Yeah. It tells you exactly everything that's ever happened with social security. Who signed what? Who did what? You know, the Democrats, the Democrats. It was Reagan. Not a Democrat. It was a Republican Congress, not a Democratic Congress. See that? That's the thing. Yeah. Everybody's going Democrat this or Republican that. Again, I cannot stress this enough.

[00:22:59] It is the belief and policy of the Long in the Boot podcast that there is in fact not two parties. There is simply one all encompassing party of power. Power. Yes. That's it. And they're the shadowy figures in the background. You know, polarization of politics. And we have two main parties in the 90s. These two parties had more similar policy agendas than they do today. And there was more diversity of opinion within those parties.

[00:23:26] But over the last 30 years, the Democrats have moved more to the left. The Republicans have moved more to the right. And I think that's by design. I think that they want that kind of drama. I mean, it's a WWE show. Anybody that watches soap operas or pro wrestling knows that it's all about the script. It's all about the script. It's all about the heel. If John Cena can become the bad guy, if Hulk Hogan can become the heel, then anybody can change on a dime. That's right. Anybody. Anybody.

[00:23:56] So. Anybody. And, you know, when you think of the liberals or the woke people, and again, stop using that as an insult. It's an insult to say you actually care that we have an increase in minimum wage, that we think that we should have more health care for citizens, that we should feed our children. I don't. The LGBTQ thing. They went too far. As always. I don't. You know what? I don't care who's. Oh, I won't say that.

[00:24:25] I don't care who you sleep with. Well, I don't either. As long as it's not me. And it's not a child. You know, that's common sense kind of stuff. It is the policy of the Long in the Boot podcast that adults should not bang children. Okay? That's just, hey, I know it's out there, but that's, we're going to stand on that. We're going to stand on that. I will plant my flag on that role. All right. We've already said common sense. Damn. And then you've got the right, right? The conservative. Lower taxes on the wealthy. Because we're going to create that trickle down theory.

[00:24:54] Which hasn't ever worked since Reagan. We're still going with Reagan on that one. Limited government regulation of the economy. Just let it all go. What I think, I guess for me. Immigration restrictions, social policies, limited access to abortion. You don't need to get vaccines. We're not going to push that shit on you. But don't you dare have your rights to your own body. No. Stop with the moral shit. Well, it's cultural. Yeah. Well, and that's the whole point about the LGBTQ.

[00:25:24] Stop trying to legislate that kind of stuff. The Democrats pushing all of that. That's a moral agenda. Stop it. There aren't so many people. Well, that's what makes this fun. Because you've got the Republicans bitching about all that stuff, right? Yes. Stop it. But meanwhile, on the right, Republicans want to put Ten Commandments in every classroom. They want to control everything about access to abortions or whatever. Who you can marry. They want women to be prosecuted for murder for an abortion.

[00:25:52] They want to basically have a government built on God's law. Well, that's the same thing in the other direction. Yes. Yes. It's too extreme. It's too extreme. It's too extreme. And again, I still go back to it. Even though last night you would have thought that he was in charge, we are in charge. The people are supposed to be in charge. They work for us. Vance looks so menacing back there.

[00:26:21] Staring off into space like he's planning his takeover. Oh, JV Dunst. Yeah. Oh, that looked... Speaking of which... He's scary to me. Yeah. Hillbilly Elegy. I've seen now like three people going, it's the most amazing man. It's not amazing. He grew up out of poverty and did well. Okay. Like that's never been done before. Well, that's the American dream. Here's the thing though about people like that. They come from poverty and either one of two things happens.

[00:26:47] Because of the poverty they come out of and then they succeed, they realize that it can happen. And they want to give back. And they want to give back and they want to bring other people up like that. Sports figures do that quite often. They turn into raging buttholes who hate the very people they came from. Yeah. That's Vance. I think so. He despises... He's the proverbial self-hating Jew. He converted to Catholicism. What? So? I don't care. No, no. But why?

[00:27:17] I don't know. What's the point? Was it his wife? I have no idea. From India? Oh, yeah. Okay. We'll see. He's all about equality. And when they were trashing people from India not too long ago, did he defend her at all? No. That's weird. Okay. Well, this deep divide between political parties because it creates a hatred of your fellow human beings.

[00:27:36] Once you discuss politics, in 2022, 62% of Republicans and 54% of Democrats had a very unfavorable view of the other party. And that was up in just five years. So I don't know what it is today, but I can imagine it is much higher today. Probably so.

[00:27:57] So, you know, that in-group bias, the psychological factors that play a role in reinforcing this partisanship, you know, people's opinions are group driven. And that should not be. You should make your own decisions. I can have different views from Republicans and from Democrats on different issues. Make some damn decisions. Oh, you were talking about the gold card a while ago? Oh, yes, yes.

[00:28:22] He said the gold card will allow very high-level people to apply to become lawful permanent residents. Yes, yes. High-level people. High-level people. We're going to have good people, not murderers, not cartel people. And he did say that at one point last night, that nearly all of the people who came across the border were criminals. Yeah. Well, anytime you use that kind of language, all, most, everybody, you're running into trouble. The media doesn't help all of this, and we know who controls all of that because we get partisan news.

[00:28:52] And I'm guilty of it. I'm not going to see your side if you think that Donald Trump and Elon Musk are all right. If they're your people, then you probably should stop listening and you hate us already. Oh, yeah, that's fine. That's not okay for me. Oh, and by the way, if you're the other way around and you think that Trump and Vance are like Satan incarnate, well, I'm not going to go there either. I'm not there either, no.

[00:29:21] I think Trump is being exactly who he's been for, well, 50 years. Yeah. I don't think he's changed. Focus on the issues, not the parties. Focus on the issues. This is not about picking a guy and following him. Yeah. Because little simple things like the lies that are so obvious, like we produced more oil under Biden in 2023, 12.9 million barrels a day. That was the record.

[00:29:48] Yet, if you had listened last night, you would have thought we'd almost shut off oil production in this country. It's just not true. Well, he told you what he's started the new agency, Drill Baby. Yeah, Drill Baby Drill. They love their little phrases. They love those little phrases. Drill Baby Drill. Because that's what they think of us as Americans. We need those little jingles. We need those little, you know, quick little bites. Oh, yeah. To show you who we are. This is how you side with them. Oh, yeah. I'm on your side.

[00:30:16] Look, I have an American flag shirt and I'm afraid to wear it. Are you? Yeah. I don't want to get lumped in. I've got this muck fusk shirt, but I'm kind of afraid to wear it to school. You know, you know, 78% of Americans are in favor of encouraging highly skilled immigrants to come to the U.S. No way. And that was that was like in 2019. We agree on that. I think we still agree on that.

[00:30:40] 60% of voters would like to have money from the government to help weatherize their homes to make them more efficient. Now, I am. You know, that's not a good deal. I am upset about the fact that Trump won't let me indoctrinate children anymore at school. Oh, at school. You had to get rid of the. Well, yeah, apparently I'm not going to be able to do the whole, you know, goose stepping and the armbands. That's not going to be allowed. Can I not show them how to measure a nose to tell if it's a Jew? Well, you can use calipers to measure the head size. Oh, OK.

[00:31:10] And and they're going to bring back phrenology. So the bumps on the head will tell you whether they might actually have Jewish blood. I thought we were getting away from science. We were moving in the other direction. We're moving in a direction in many areas that I am scared of. I would like to be able to teach real civics. And I've looked at what they're testing on. And it's still a problem.

[00:31:35] Because that is cited as one of the problems here is that we haven't been teaching civics or that or economics or economics. And therefore, the citizens who are now parents don't actually understand how it's supposed to work. Many people don't even know that there are three branches of government and they're supposed to share the balance of power. Yeah. And they're trying to basically reduce it to one, which is which is Project 2025, by the way, which is to create what's known as a Unitarian style government.

[00:32:01] And then the Christian nationals are back there trying to push their agenda. So you have several parties going on here in the background trying to all push an agenda. Correct. So that's what we really need to focus on, the bigger picture. We need to stop. But the supports of the republic are being gradually whittled away in this process, which is the part that scares me to death. I don't blame Trump for this either. No, no. I think this is a group of people that have been actively at this for several administrations. Yes, I think so too.

[00:32:31] And their whole goal is to create this polarization and to create the Unitarian style of government where most of the power is vested in the executive. Because Trump's not getting rid of the bureaucracy, you know, this whole thing about cleaning out the swamp. No, no. He's just replacing the swamp with his own people. The loyalty tests. The Doge people are getting six figures a year. Yes. So that's just bureaucracy. There's two or three of the Doge guys who are making more money than a congressman.

[00:33:00] And what about the conflict of interest within these? The number of subsidies, the amount of money that Tesla and SpaceX and pharmaceutical... Oil companies, fossil fuel companies. And pharmaceutical... We need to save money. We gave, again, in one year, we gave $700 billion in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. But I don't hear any... To the fossil fuel industry. I hear nothing about Doge saying anything about subsidies. And they made $2.7 trillion in profits. That means that if we cut off all subsidies to fossil fuel companies, their profits would still be $2 trillion a year.

[00:33:30] Why didn't we start with subsidies before we start with low-level employees? Exactly. Any economist would know that you start at the high end. That's where you're going to save the most money. We don't need to subsidize the profit-based company. And even if you're getting rid of employees, you don't start at the bottom. No, you start with the higher wage earners. Usually you start with middle management. Well, but they earn more money than the low-level. Administrators. What do we say about school education all the time? What's the problem with education? There's too many administrators. And they may... Yeah. There's too many middle administrators.

[00:34:00] You've got the people you deal with. You've got their bosses. But why is there three or four layers in between? Why are so many jobs redundant? Why do I have so many books in the closet that have never been used or opened ever? And yet we spent the money. And yet, yeah, they were... You know, that's the waste. We're not allowed to talk about it. But we can't have textbooks. Actual real textbooks. Well, we're not allowed to use it. And if I got a civics textbook today... What would it say? It would probably be full of lies because that's not what's happening right now. Yeah.

[00:34:30] Well, can you tell the truth, though? I do. Yeah. I know you do, baby. That's why you're here, G. Yeah. That's why we have no sponsors. Well, it's not like I'm looking for sponsors either. And we can tell our truth. That's right. And again, this is all what we see. Yeah. And if you think I'm wrong, that's cool. Yeah. Don't listen. Send an email. Send an email. Gripe at them. Say, hey, G. Yeah. Or say something... See something hurtful on Facebook so I can block you. Bella's not barking. Well, because we're talking truth.

[00:35:01] Okay. Truth to power, man. Truth to power. That's it. So I do see that there could be hope. I absolutely know. Well, I know that the system is going to be different. Speaking of which, that speech at the beginning of the show. That was Charlie Chaplin. Oh, yeah. He said that a long time ago in a movie called The Great Dictator. When all we had were airplanes and radio. Yeah. When he wrote those words, Nazi Germany wasn't at war with Great Britain yet. Yeah.

[00:35:30] And by the time the movie came out, guess what? They were bombing London. He was a prophet. And this cozying up to Putin. Mm-hmm. See? Bigger picture. Bigger picture. You need to step back and look at what the hell is happening. He's a murderer. He's killed plane loads of people. He's a KGB. He poisoned people. We're not even bringing up the conspiracy that Trump in the 80s. Oh, was vetted by Russia. Yeah. Now, if you want to get deep into that, go do that research. Oh, man.

[00:35:59] That's a wild thing. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to get bogged down in all of it. But, man, it's out there. It's... There's some interesting coincidences. Where there's smoke, there's fire. Yeah. Yeah. So, would he sell out the country? You know what? He's 78. Vance is going to be in charge. I don't know. You know, people who say you can't eat McDonald's and have healthy... I mean, Trump eats McDonald's like every freaking day. And he's still kicking away. He loves his sodas. He doesn't sleep.

[00:36:29] Well, but has that man ever wanted for medical care? No. Has he ever worried about not going to the doctor? No, but he's not really ever been sick. Well, he's got... No, they said his health has been impeccable for years. Okay. Even if he's overweight, McDonald's eating, Coke drinking, but he's never touched illegal drugs, cigarettes, or alcohol. Ah, okay. Well, now they're pushing those little... He's dragging his leg. I watched the video. He's old. He's old.

[00:36:58] Hey, I drag my leg. I'm 60. I get up. I drag my leg. It hurts. My hip hurts. Yeah. So, you know, I'm not... In fact, as old as I am, occasionally I have to, you know, well, never mind, but... You know what? I have to pause when I stand up before I walk now. Well, I was going to say I don't want to step on my own balls, but they haven't descended quite that far. And I exercise. You've got the biggest balls in the world. The biggest balls of anybody of any time. No, no, no. All time.

[00:37:27] ACDC has the biggest balls of all. I thought the little doge boy had the biggest balls. That's his name. Well, he's baptizing. He's branded himself. We've got big balls. The other aspect of the whole, oh, he's dragging his leg. Look at this video. Well, I watched two videos and I didn't really notice it all that much. I didn't either. Look, he's got a bruise on his hand. And then they made some reference to the queen a week before she died, had a bruise on her hand. Yeah, you get it when... You know what?

[00:37:55] I get one when I go to the doctor, too. When Putin started the war, they started trying to tell us, look at him. He was going to die. He's swollen. He's sick. He's going to die. He's going to die. And then nothing. Yeah. And the bruise on the back of Trump's hand. Maybe he got an IV for some reason. Maybe he got some saline. Maybe he was dehydrated. Maybe he played taco goat cheese. Oh, and got his hand smacked? Yeah, and got his hand smacked. That's a possibility. Hit it on the table. Actually, that's probably more like it because he talks with his hands. He probably did.

[00:38:27] Probably so. And then fired somebody for it. You hurt me. Who put this microphone here? You're fired. All right. I just want our audience to kind of settle down, step back from all... If you're bickering every day with somebody or you're fighting on the Internet, I've been guilty of it, too. Although I feel better when I take away a few people who have never commented, never liked a garden picture, never liked a picture of me and my grandkids, all the years they've

[00:38:56] been friends on Facebook, and never said a word, and then all of a sudden start challenging me. You supported Fauci. What the hell? Yeah. You're trying to tell me something I did four years ago? I did not support Fauci. When I was trashing Biden and Obama, well, you guys were all for it. I know. And then all of a sudden now, it's like you come to the defense of Musk. And you want to attack me? I'm putting my opinion out there. Don't tell me to provide facts to you. Go find your own.

[00:39:24] If you start a comment to me, prove me wrong, all I'm going to do is block you. Yeah. And I can't believe I've come to say that. I really can't. Because I really am. I want to hear all sides. I do. Well, the people I graduated with that I had on my friends list that I've blocked, I wasn't really friends with them anyway. Even when I was in school, I wasn't friends with them. In fact, my circle of friends was actually pretty small when I was in high school.

[00:39:52] But I've learned to really like a lot of people that I didn't get to talk to in high school. But the people that... But over time, you watch them and you like their kids and their grandkids and their happies and their sads. But if somebody else posts something that I disagree with, I'm not going to be personal. I'm not going to attack them personally. I'm certainly not going to start my comment with, prove me wrong. Yeah. Well... No, I wouldn't do that. Come on. Stop it.

[00:40:22] All right. Just quit it. Polarization. Step back. You know, recognize what's going on and that we're... They're playing us all. Oh, yeah. Realize that we have no power whatsoever. And that we really don't have... You know what you have power of? Me. You can make your damn bed. So that at night when you come home, if you survive your day in the jungle of the world out there, you got a nice fresh bed to get into. There's your control. You got your people closest to you. Kiss them because... Well, there's a dog in it though. Yeah. There's always a dog in it.

[00:40:52] You know what? I read the other day that that's healthy for us. What's that? Sleeping with a dog? Yeah. Lower blood pressure. You know, just... Well, it certainly keeps my feet warm. Yeah, she does. I had to scooch her down there by my feet. I know how sometimes with waking up in the middle of the night and she decides it's time to get up and play. Yeah. And wants to make you rather... Hey, but when you need to sleep for 15 hours... She's there. She's right there with you, helping you out, sleeping. That's how she was with me too. Please let me up there. Please let me up there. I need to sleep with you. Yes. Yeah, she was very... And she stayed for 15 hours. She did. She didn't ask to go to the bathroom, nothing.

[00:41:21] She just laid right there. She knew it was bad. Oh, yeah. It was a bad go-around. She got me. Getting sick after 60 is no joke. No. No, it's definitely true. That scares me because I've been sick quite a bit this winter. And now I don't know what I had because at first it was, oh, gastroenteritis. No. So maybe it's flu or COVID. Flu or COVID. One of the two. We got those COVID tests. We never use them. Can we wrap it up with a little tribalism? Sure. Let's wrap it up. I'm exhausted. I'm tired. This was a lot.

[00:41:50] And we stayed up late last night because that speech was... I kept trying to wait for him. I wanted to hear the rebuttal lady and he just kept talking. He repeated the same things over and over. Yeah. And all the people standing up and sitting down. Sitting up. Yeah. Oh, the show was, like he said with the Zelensky thing, makes for good TV. I was terrified every time they picked up that poor little kid, the cancer kid. Oh, yeah. I was worried. Every time his dad lifted him. Yeah. I was like, oh, God, don't drop him. Don't drop him. All right.

[00:42:18] So, Mar-a-Lago face. Mar-a-Lago face. Yes, yes. I'm going to go there because, well, it's part of... It's everywhere. Well, we've talked about the trends in beauty and fashion and eyebrows. Sure. And lips. And, you know, it's just, it's a common topic. Pointy bras, round bras. Yes, yes. It's styles. You know, we go through trends. Well, Trump is such a polarizing person that in his first term, you know, he was living in New York when all that came down.

[00:42:47] He had his place in, let's see, where is it? He got Mar-a-Lago in 1985. Correct. Right. That's when he moved down there. He left New York, according to the professor here. Donald left New York because there he was seen as a tacky millionaire. But in Florida, his aesthetic made much more sense. Um, yeah, cocaine, cocaine, rich. Well, you know, the tan, the tan. Well, I know lots of gold.

[00:43:12] All I thought was, uh, you know, housewives of wherever, New Jersey, all that. So when he moved his residence to Trump Tower from, from Trump Tower to Mar-a-Lago, he abandoned the state because at that time they were a fixed democratic majority. Um, so there were political reasons for him leaving too. He just, he just didn't feel as welcome there. So today now, and you can go see these people and it's not just women. That's what I found was really interesting.

[00:43:39] This Mar-a-Lago face that we've undergone is exaggerated Botox, visible facial fillers and extreme tanning is, is part of the, because now they're not trying to hide the fact that they're getting it done. Used to be like Hollywood people and even Hollywood people. Now their trend has gone more towards the natural, uh, Taylor Swift. I've seen a lot of, of feminine, of women in Hollywood recently, just not out in with no makeup on. And that if they have work done, they want it to look natural.

[00:44:09] But now we've got the likes of Laura Loomer, uh, Laura Trump, Kimberly, what's her last name? Guilf, Guilfoyle, Guilfoyle. Um, she's the ambassador for Greece, uh, Laura Loomer, governor, the country, not oil. Yeah. Christie Noem all featured in this lineup. And if you look at their faces and what's happened over time since his first go round to now, they have this, this they've morphed. They've, they've become, and you know what?

[00:44:38] I really, when I look at them now in this caricatures, well, and I, uh, Melania last night, did she, but her lips are absolutely thin. She never got her lips, but her face looked, it looks chiseled. It looked unnatural and that's part of it. And the men are doing it too. It's this, this angular cheekbone, um, makeup that's the eyebrows, everything looks exaggerated. Uh, gets was one of the first men to do it. Now, of course he did not get his, uh, appointment.

[00:45:08] So, you know, but he had that elfin arch to his eyebrows, George Santos. He had this horrible Botox have a habit and really she says, this is a lot about this tribalism that, that it shows them as part of this group. If they have a face they don't like, they change it and they don't care if it looks natural or not because reality doesn't matter in Trump ism. Uh, traditionally the right has a more, um, well, they're more flagrant, I guess is, is kind of the idea.

[00:45:37] And it's, you can see it with a lot of those women. Oh yeah. It's, it's crazy. Christy Gnome right there. She just, some of them just look freakish to me. Dog killer Christy Gnome. Um, the need to belong. Amanda Till, a Palm beach based tech entrepreneur said to New York posts that she spent between 50 and 60,000 on Botox, uh, facial fillers, thread lifts, and I guess thread, I think that's eyebrows. I don't know. I think so. Different laser treatments and hydrofacial rejuvenation treatment offered by this Dr.

[00:46:06] Norman Rowe, a plastic surgeon who is now open to clinic in Florida, close to Mar-a-Lago, uh, because he's doing the Trump, you know, the, the Trump people, a lot of us who support the president want to look our best. Uh, she says that it, she is increasingly a regular visitor to Mar-a-Lago. Now that she has the look, it makes you feel like you're a part of something. A cult. Everyone here is someone and it's here too, where everyone has to have a certain aesthetic

[00:46:34] that sets them apart from the rest of the world. Um, eugenics, Trump eugenics. No, eugenics is trying to make something better. This is not better. No, I know, but the, the aimed at making the human species better. Trump has accused migrants of poisoning the blood of his country. Um, what if Mar-a-Lago? You know who else accused people of poisoning the blood of his country? Yeah. Yeah.

[00:47:00] So it really is this kind of surgical beauty, um, is causing this aesthetic. And I bet you did not see that coming. She thinks it's kind of amusing because his base are really not the rich. No. Says the paradox lies in the fact that although mass access to cosmetic and cosmetic surgery would allow for a homogenous look leading to, you know, one, one type, um, social class still persists.

[00:47:30] They are the ones who write the social grammar. Therefore, they appear in the script as the best, the legitimate, the chosen, and they have this certain lifestyle. I don't find it strange that a Mar-a-Lago face is presented as royalty. Um, they're all part of his court. That is to say Trump and his kind need to brand themselves flaunting their class. And that is provided by surgery. And the fact that you can see that they've had the surgery is, is the point.

[00:47:59] Right? Yeah. So I, I found it quite interesting. So just kind of pay attention to that and look at those, those women. And that is presented as the, as the norm and the desired look today for that group. But, uh, if we go to that, who is this woman? Oh, that's Laura Loomer. Um, man, I don't know. I, I, I'm not seeing it, but I'm old. So, you know, I don't see that as beautiful.

[00:48:29] So really it says Trump circle is very clear. Barbie and Ken are their references. Barbie and Ken. Barbie and Ken. You got to look like that. And then we got poor, uh, Marco Rubio there on the peripheral. He's, he's almost in, but he's, they're taking bets on how long he's going to hang out. Like he clearly isn't on board with all of the things, but he's got the position right now.

[00:48:58] And, and well, he's just the last to know if he was in Stalin's court, should he be worried? Rubio? Oh yeah, absolutely. Oh yeah. Don't go to sleep. Well, don't go. Actually, Rubio's best bet would be to probably run. Just disappear. But the problem is if you run, where are you going to run? Yeah. Yeah. There are people, but he's out of the loop. He's, he's certainly not brought in. I don't know.

[00:49:25] I don't really know why he accepted the position because he has been maybe anti-Russia and anti-Trump for so long. And maybe it's not. He's the one that made fun of Trump's hands being tiny. Maybe it's not in his soul to flip that, that blatantly. Cause so many of them have. I don't know. I mean, they have, they flip, they've gone from saying horrible things about Trump before to now kissing the, kissing the ring. So.

[00:49:51] But, but all of this that's happening right now is not making the world safer. Oh no. That's my, that's my biggest complaint. Making it more unstable because we're not the only players in the game. You know, we got China now saying, Hey, we're ready for war. They have boosted their defense spending by 7%. And. I tried to end on a positive. Oh, I'm sorry. And, and then you're going to take it to nuclear war. Well, no, I'm being positive. It's not nuclear war. It's just war war.

[00:50:17] Well, no, it's everybody nuking up because they, they know they need to. Everybody's going to. If we're not going to support anybody in Europe, if we're not going to be there for Taiwan and we're not. Yeah. Nobody's really saying anything about that, but Taiwan is like, we're getting a weapon and, uh, yeah, and they should. But anyway, so I don't know. Yeah. We're, we're at a crossroads for sure. We are. And, uh, there's, there's talk that we're going to pull out of NATO. Yeah.

[00:50:45] And the UN must says we should do both. So if, well, if Musk says it, that's it. He's the smartest man on the planet. Just ask him. He'll tell you. Yeah. And, uh, by then he probably will have what? 15, 16 kids. For such a smart guy, he's really incapable of like putting on a condom. Apparently. Well, he doesn't want to. This is by design. He wants all of these little Musk babies out there, but he doesn't want to pay for them. I will tell women, look, if you're going to have sex with Musk, don't live in Texas.

[00:51:16] Texas actually has a cap on child support. Oh, is that why she only got three? That is the reason. Oh. But other states don't have a cap. So it's important. To be a resident of another state. Be a resident of another state. If you're going to let Musk impregnate you. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. He can't even grow a beard. Think about this. At any time right now, there could be Musk babies growing everywhere. Yes. We don't even know. And he could be an alien.

[00:51:44] His oldest child is like, look, I find out on the internet. I find out on Reddit when I have another sibling out there, half sibling. Hey, you got another half kid, half sibling. She's like, she's, no, she doesn't talk to him. No. He doesn't talk to her because that's not the purpose. Right. He just wants the DNA out there. Yeah. It's because it's such vital. It's part of it. See? Vital DNA. And he's already, I don't know. I'm going to stop because it's just so bizarre. We're living in bizarro world. All right.

[00:52:14] Take a step back, folks. Muck fusk. That's what I say. Muck fusk. Take a step back. It is going to change. And every time we make those big changes, it does get messy. And then I clean it up and then it looks beautiful. I don't know that that's going to happen in this, I don't know. Is it a craft? It's a project. I don't know if it's. I don't know what's going on. It's a project. Yeah. Project 2021. And our joy is portable, so we may have to leave with it. Yeah. And hopefully in two weeks. We'll be back. Normal. Healthy. Healthy.

[00:52:44] Healthy would be good. I would like that. I got to get this. I got to get this weight off my soul, though. Like I maybe that's part of. Actually, I think that's probably just phlegm in your chest. You hear it, isn't it? Yeah. It's kind of musky in there. The sound of illness. There you go. Okay. All right, people try to have a day. Yeah. Have a good day. We'll be back in two weeks.

[00:53:13] I have a good day every now and then. Lord knows what's going to happen in the next two weeks. Hey, South Park's coming back, though. That's right. That's all I need. They're going to be our Charlie Chaplin sages of this time. You give me South Park and I'm going to be a happy camper. And by the way, show coming up on Apple. Murderbot. Oh, yeah. Alexander Skarsgård. I think it's going to be a winner. Our favorite. Oh, God. I love that guy. The books are amazing. Read the books. The books are phenomenal. Murderbot. Murderbot. Get it.

[00:53:42] We love our crime. Love it. Live it. We'll see you in two, people. I've got to hurry up and get this thing out. Bye. Ta-ta. Ta-ta.