Mitch McConnell Found Unconscious - 911 Call Released ! Senate Majority At Risk ?

Bobby Bonita Day is supposed to be a fun sports meme, but we use it to highlight a darker kind of deferred payment: the long-term cost of a political system run by leaders who are well past the point of accountability. We start with the newly released 911 audio tied to Mitch McConnell’s medical emergency and ask the blunt question that everyone dances around: what happens when the people shaping U.S. policy can’t reliably do the job, yet keep holding power anyway?

From there, we zoom out into generational politics and economic reality. We walk through why younger voters are turning hard against the status quo, from homeownership collapsing for Gen Z to the way wealth concentrates in equities older Americans already own. We talk CEO-to-worker pay ratios, why “the Dow is up” doesn’t land when people are scraping by, and how that mix of inequality and blocked opportunity makes Democratic Socialists and DSA-backed candidates more appealing than many pundits want to admit.

We also take aim at the Republican strategy problem: a populist brand paired with endorsements that protect incumbents and punish the few voices challenging foreign lobbies or entrenched power. Then we pivot to foreign policy, reacting to Netanyahu’s comments on phasing out U.S. aid, what leverage actually looks like in practice, and why the JCPOA and Iran nuclear deal debate still matters after years of whiplash decisions and regional blowback.

If you want politics framed around incentives, lived experience, and what voters feel in their bank accounts, hit play. Subscribe, share the show with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find it.

Chapter Markers

• 0:00 Bobby Bonita Day And Breaking News
• 4:44 How Old Leadership Warps Policy
• 11:26 Pocketbook Politics And Economic Anger
• 17:44 Why Socialism Sounds Attractive Again
• 23:24 DSA Primary Wins And New Faces
• 28:22 Trump Endorsements And GOP Drift
• 33:10 Netanyahu On Aid And US Leverage
• 38:01 Obama On JCPOA And Aftershocks
• 43:52 Bobby Bonita Day Story And Wrap

[SPEAKER_01]: Happy Baba Beneaded A to all those who celebrate.

[SPEAKER_01]: I know I do because the Metz are the only team in Major League baseball that somehow make my O's look like a well-run, well-oiled winning machine, more on that later.

[SPEAKER_01]: But in case you missed it, the ancient Mitch McConnell 84 years old is back in the hospital and we have a recent 911 tape that was released.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's been there since June 14th.

[SPEAKER_01]: In the interim.

[SPEAKER_01]: Young Democratic Socialists continue to win primaries across the country, as this is a youth movement, we'll find out.

[SPEAKER_01]: But overall, it is a message to Republicans that Americans want to move younger.

[SPEAKER_01]: And those of us in younger demographics think a whole lot differently, while Trump continues to undermine his own party going into the midterms.

[SPEAKER_01]: We get into the how and the why next.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right, everybody, welcome back.

[SPEAKER_01]: Wednesday, July the first June is gone.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I am here rolling solo with you today.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to do it once again, a little bit differently.

[SPEAKER_01]: Try and have a bit of a discussion here about different things.

[SPEAKER_01]: So if you want to ask a question or participate, hop over into the comments, which are actually over there on my screen.

[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, maybe drop me a book with Super Chat, something?

[SPEAKER_01]: Ask a question.

[SPEAKER_01]: But, um,

[SPEAKER_01]: of pressing importance to your, I guess, is that, um,

[SPEAKER_01]: They released the 911 video of Mitch McConnell having a life threatening event, I believe it was yesterday.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's been in the hospital since June 14th, and this is a representative of a lot of the things that are going on in politics that are, I guess, rubbing people the wrong way.

[SPEAKER_01]: You have a much older generation sitting on top, both financially and politically, and make it things pretty difficult for those of us underneath, and we're going to get into that.

[SPEAKER_01]: or you're real quick.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, that's uh, you know, there's not a whole heck of a lot to work with in there, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: But at the same time, one of the things you should try to pay attention to is ALS that is advanced life support is needed.

[SPEAKER_01]: That means I got man.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's only conscious.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's having a problem.

[SPEAKER_01]: And they are rushing him to the hospital because this is quite possibly the end.

[SPEAKER_01]: And this is not for me to sound, you know, and a discriminatory against older folks.

[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody's time does come.

[SPEAKER_01]: But this guy is also supposedly, you know, deciding the future of the country up there.

[SPEAKER_01]: And this is not the first time that he has had an issue, um, can run this back.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's, uh, 2019, you know, a pretty serious fault, excuse me here, which required hip surgery, uh, 20, 23.

[SPEAKER_01]: He had a concussion and that, you know, precipitated the pretty famous videos of him, like glitching.

[SPEAKER_01]: for like 10 or 15 seconds on camera, when asked some questions, and then he had medical events again in 2024, 2025, and he is retiring, but he's still up there responsible for making decisions on behalf of the country and being a leadership figure within his own party.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, and until he, he actually goes, you know, that mindset, the control from the special interest, which have kept him there for quite some time, and if you remember back, like I do back to Trump's first term in the Senate, uh, McConnell was, uh, like kind of a one-man wrecking crew.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, he was the majority leader.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, he wouldn't, it was the minority leader.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was the leader of the Republican Party in the Senate, and he did everything he could to really obstruct the agenda at the time, which was much, much different than what it is today.

[SPEAKER_01]: And if he's gone, that creates a bit of a gap in who controls a sentence that throws it up for basically grabs.

[SPEAKER_01]: Then again, on the flip side, it's not like they're doing a whole heck of a lot that is productive right now, up on Capitol Hill.

[SPEAKER_01]: But back to the age point, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: I ran some data on this yesterday, you know, just trying to figure out exactly where to take this episode.

[SPEAKER_01]: But one thing that really stands out is in the US Senate, the average age of a US Senator is 65 years old.

[SPEAKER_01]: And once again, not trying to throw shade on boomers, but the majority of the country is not that old.

[SPEAKER_01]: And if you look at all the data that we're going to get into from housing to the economy, to foreign policy, to who we should align with, I mean, just on an international level, all these different bits and pieces.

[SPEAKER_01]: don't mesh from the top to the bottom here and or from the senior to the junior.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it represents a massive detachment from the voters.

[SPEAKER_01]: And as this has gone on, really, I'd say probably over the last 10 years or so.

[SPEAKER_01]: What you've seen is, you know, the great awakening as it were in terms of how much special interests actually control the direction of our domestic and foreign policy, the direction of our legislature, and it's been on massive display here in really the last two to three years, and I would say,

[SPEAKER_01]: There's a gigantic exclamation point on that as Trump has gotten into his second term because you have a bunch of older folks up there also within his administration.

[SPEAKER_01]: Trump himself is

[SPEAKER_01]: is a believe it's 80.

[SPEAKER_01]: And what he ran on is not what we're getting at all.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's pretty clear.

[SPEAKER_01]: So if you've got it, we've got a pretty interesting graphic here that shows the the decades of life going into the 119th Congress here.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I just want to use this as a reference point, but you have in the US Senate, you have one Senator who's in their 90s,

[SPEAKER_01]: five in their 80s and 27 in their 70s.

[SPEAKER_01]: That represents one third of the entire voting block is, you know, they're retirement age, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: They should be out, sipping a my tie on a beach somewhere.

[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing against them.

[SPEAKER_01]: They probably work pretty hard their entire life.

[SPEAKER_01]: I might not agree with them, but hey, time to go, man.

[SPEAKER_01]: Time to go do something else because the majority of Americans want something totally different.

[SPEAKER_01]: And

[SPEAKER_01]: you start breaking this down a little bit further.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's another one third is in their 60s, you know, and this is all out of a hundred.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's 33 people.

[SPEAKER_01]: You have 21 in their 50s and only 12 are in their 40s and 30s, which most people would

[SPEAKER_01]: I guess recognize that is kind of your peak years, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like I'm in my 40s.

[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like I got spit out of a woodchip or some mornings when I wake up, but that's because of how I abused myself in my 20s, both as an athlete and then as a Marine, and then with a bunch of really questionable decisions outside of work, like to take risks and have fun.

[SPEAKER_01]: But at the same time,

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, mentally understanding how the world works to rest of this, like those of us in our 40s are absolutely, you know, we're starting to peek and into our 50s at the same time, um, and.

[SPEAKER_01]: You'd start to recognize where the different barriers to entry are, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I've always taken a lot of advice from my parents, their wise people, they've succeeded.

[SPEAKER_01]: Neither one of them came from tremendous amount of means.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're very blue collar and have made it work.

[SPEAKER_01]: But they're also importantly, as I've learned to recognize here, from a different generation.

[SPEAKER_01]: The opportunities for boomers were vastly different.

[SPEAKER_01]: The economy was vastly different.

[SPEAKER_01]: They grab the system, you know, basically by the horns and tailored it to their designs for better or worse and what continues to be an attitude here that keeps percolating up.

[SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to see this and how democratic socialists are winning a bunch of primaries right now a little bit further down is that.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we're being prevented from doing the same thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're being given lip service, particularly on the Republican side, about, you know, liberty, low taxes, non intervention, you know, the people coming into their prime right now they're always in the 50s or the same men and women who fought these dirty wars in the Middle East for everybody.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, yet hey, where is everybody?

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, are we in power?

[SPEAKER_01]: Are we are we doing anything productive with that experience?

[SPEAKER_01]: No, we're being borrowed from entry largely except those who are also savvy enough, but I think the probably the word is a little bit is more like corrupt to echo the establishment line and find a way in to I guess milk this cow one more time.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, and that was actually a bitty boxer interesting comment there.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, yes, we did, we did, we did witness how they kept Biden alive.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I won't go so so far to say that they're keeping Trump alive.

[SPEAKER_01]: But it's the same deal, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, there is a means of control that is restricting, any kind of agility from the system to represent the views of us who are really, really participating in it.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that is wrong.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, so,

[SPEAKER_01]: to see, echo a sentiment, I brought this tistic up before with a couple of different guests.

[SPEAKER_01]: But if you take a look at Trump's approval between the ages of 18 and 29, it does not get much better when you go between 30 and say 45.

[SPEAKER_01]: But only 12% approve of this guy right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: 76% disapprove.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that net approval rating,

[SPEAKER_01]: was only underwater by about 13 points back in February of 2025, but by May of this year, this is a little bit dated and don't run this all the time.

[SPEAKER_01]: It had moved 64 points in the opposite direction, meaning that people are very, very dissatisfied and why are they dissatisfied?

[SPEAKER_01]: It's because we listen to a guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: who said he was going to correct all the different pieces of the by-demonstration was going to seize on the initiative of his first term.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was going to come into office and effectively open those doors and pull those levers for us, the things that we in this age bracket, I would say, you know, millennial and below, really want.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll keep, I'll throw Gen X in there too because, you know, they've had a rough row of it along the way, and then I think.

[SPEAKER_01]: that generation and my generation in particular, you know, see I and a lot of things if nothing else we were like the last generation to exclusively play outside and be home by six o'clock, you know, no cell phones just lived in the moment.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was great.

[SPEAKER_01]: I do miss it.

[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, so that's that's pretty much where we're headed.

[SPEAKER_01]: And a key piece of this is, you know, I'm going to zoom away from

[SPEAKER_01]: that although important kind of gets, it gets beat over the head incessantly.

[SPEAKER_01]: And when you take a look at midterms and American Pollux generally,

[SPEAKER_01]: People vote with their pocketbooks.

[SPEAKER_01]: They vote for someone who's going to represent the best economic opportunity for them and their family.

[SPEAKER_01]: And you can actually go back to a great example of this would be the first George Bush in the early 90s.

[SPEAKER_01]: And this is almost two generations back and it pains me to say that.

[SPEAKER_01]: But it's 30 some odd years ago

[SPEAKER_01]: I guess it was Quay, they didn't really get into a rack, but go for one man that guys that guy's approval rating was up in the 80s to 90s and he ran on a platform of no new taxes, read my lips even, no new taxes and then he went and he raised taxes and boom he was gone, like absolutely gone.

[SPEAKER_01]: And we're seeing something very, very, very similar now, where it's not so much the explicit that, hey, I'm going to raise your taxes, but we're seeing the economic pressure on this on the working generation here, so much called the working class, but because they're getting absolutely pummeled.

[SPEAKER_01]: But those of us really in the workforce, white-collar blue collar, whatever it is, you know, through different pieces, it's a lot of its regressive taxation.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then things you don't see like the inflation problem that is being caused by decisions overseas tariffs.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you name it.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's nickel and diamond everybody to death.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, and as a result, 81% of young Americans now view the economic condition in this country as bad or horrible.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, 81%, 81% off terrible.

[SPEAKER_01]: I like the word horrible, but, uh, you know, that comes from the hill, that's new.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's a reputable, you know, a reputable publication here.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um,

[SPEAKER_01]: So, in there, you have a 20, 25 age range, 52% said it was bad and 3 in 10 said it was terrible to get to that 81%.

[SPEAKER_01]: And these are people who, like, I have a younger sister who's in that age bracket, and...

[SPEAKER_01]: They see no hope.

[SPEAKER_01]: She has done everything right the entire time and she sees our money going overseas.

[SPEAKER_01]: She doesn't see an economic opportunity domestically.

[SPEAKER_01]: They are convinced as a whole that they're never going to own a home and I take a look at my generation, the millennials, where it was beaten to our head over and over and over again.

[SPEAKER_01]: to the way to equity and security and stability was to buy a house, and they're effectively being cheated out of that.

[SPEAKER_01]: It goes, it gets into a whole different level like where I ran some numbers on the stock market, like who owns the stock, or the different pieces in the stock market.

[SPEAKER_01]: And once again, it goes back to boomers.

[SPEAKER_01]: They hold 54% of all US equities worth almost $30 trillion.

[SPEAKER_01]: Gen X has 22%

[SPEAKER_01]: Millennials, we've got nine percent, nine percent of equities on the stock market, and the number of people who have been investing in it as fall and from in the last couple of years from 62 percent to 58 percent.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, why is this relevant?

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure you guys have all heard the buzzwords about, you know, the, well, the Dow is a 50,000.

[SPEAKER_01]: The Dow is a 50,000.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, well, that's great, but the majority of us aren't, you know, making a ton of money off it.

[SPEAKER_01]: We haven't been in it that long,

[SPEAKER_01]: more and more people like year to year to year are scraping by and you don't have that expendable income to dump in there.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean it's it's really it's really not good quite frankly and I don't want to seem like super doomer here.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, because it's not, I don't think it's actually a doom and gloom situation.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's just the fact that we have people writing these policies like Mitch McConnell, um, and the Senate and the House to a large degree who are so out of touch with everybody else.

[SPEAKER_01]: You have this massive group underneath the voting, the voting age people who are just getting absolutely screwed left right in center.

[SPEAKER_01]: And.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is leading to some interesting political developments, but also, hey, let's take a look at home ownership, right, baby boomers, they own 80% or they, sorry, they would 41% of the total share of real estate, 80% of boomers,

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, people between 62 and 80 own a house.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then this just drops precipitously.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I mean, look at the numbers yourself here.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's only 30% of Jen Xers.

[SPEAKER_01]: 30% of Jen Xers own, they own 30% of the share that's 72% down to 54, 55% of millennials, down to 27% of Gen Z and it's getting worse and worse and worse and worse and worse.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I've played in this market a little bit over the last couple years.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's absurd to take a look at, it's not so much the interest rates and that's one thing that boomers love to hit us over the head with is like, well, back in my day, it was 18% or whatever it was for a house, it's the fact that, you know, it's something that I mean, I can eyeball and take a look at, be like, that's a couple hundred grand, you know, or maybe someone, like in the boomer generation paid 50 or 60 grand for that back in the day, you

[SPEAKER_01]: But I snow worth $4,500,000.

[SPEAKER_01]: And you just never get there.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then by the time you don't pay an insurance on that and paying the interest rate and everything else, it's way out of your ballpark.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, but that's right.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, can't win a war, fighting it by a spreadsheet and Wall Street.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then I'll interesting, interesting comment.

[SPEAKER_01]: Appreciate that, troll.

[SPEAKER_01]: But so, all this is context, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: How does this influence thinking and, you know, it makes somebody like the Democratic Socialist very attractive.

[SPEAKER_01]: We are taught that socialism, at least if you come from conservative upbringing, is a bad word.

[SPEAKER_01]: But,

[SPEAKER_01]: They're running candidates who are our age and younger.

[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, they're talking about, you know, the workers having more of us say, you know, it gets into some of the stuff we talked about last week with Darrell Cooper, like the rise of socials in America and Eugene Debs,

[SPEAKER_01]: who thought that the major industries should be owned by the workers.

[SPEAKER_01]: This isn't state ownership.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's that the individuals should have more of, you know, the individuals making the product or doing the work should have more of a cut of what's going on.

[SPEAKER_01]: And to illustrate this, like how we fallen off the ledge so bad.

[SPEAKER_01]: In 1965,

[SPEAKER_01]: CEOs in America made roughly 20 times the pay of a typical worker.

[SPEAKER_01]: 1978, um, when my parents were, you know, getting together and settling down, um, getting ready to pop out some kids of which I was one of them.

[SPEAKER_01]: The ratio was 31 times.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, you flash forward to today, you're upwards of 400 times the average worker.

[SPEAKER_01]: And these companies

[SPEAKER_01]: just numbers that blow your mind that companies back in that time period couldn't even dream of like pick out anything run by Elon Musk Facebook Amazon Google I mean you name it

[SPEAKER_01]: And what are the two things that stand out?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, well, one, I'll pick Amazon out, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: It's, the first thing that comes to mind is Jeff Bezos with his, you know, is smoking hot life on the mega yacht of the day of his choice.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's image number one.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was number two, are the reports coming from your average workers out of an Amazon distribution center?

[SPEAKER_01]: Basically saying they're being worked to death and can't make ends meet.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that is a problem, that is a big, big, big problem when the average worker understands that the person on top is disproportionately benefiting from the product which is being produced.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's not to say that, you know, you can't take anything away from these guys for a start and such a good idea, but at the same time, the people who get you there are the people who do the work.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's much like when Eugene Debs was coming up,

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you had the railroad companies who provided, you know, mass advancements the United States in terms of communications and commerce and the investors took great risks to get them out there.

[SPEAKER_01]: But guess what?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like if that locomotive doesn't run,

[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody makes money, just like if my package doesn't get here, you know, from, you know, from the warehouse, because, you know, there's some nice young lady, just absolutely getting smashed in the freaking heat out here in Florida.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a one ten and heat index again today and they're out there running around.

[SPEAKER_01]: If that package is going to show up, then nobody uses Amazon and what does she be in compensated probably pennies on the, not even probably, but pennies on the dollar compared to a guy like Bayzos.

[SPEAKER_01]: So how does this even compare to overseas, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: So I took a look at Germany.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're always a great indicator.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're very heavily unionized.

[SPEAKER_01]: But at the same time, they have the number one economy in Europe.

[SPEAKER_01]: And today, it ranges from 70 to 110 to 1 between the CEO and average workers pay in the company.

[SPEAKER_01]: that's quite the disparity when you compare it to here in the United States, yet somehow they still make it work, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: So, where does this go?

[SPEAKER_01]: How does this, how does this, I guess, paying out electorally, and I keep coming back to populism?

[SPEAKER_01]: which is what Cooper and I talk about once a week.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're not known at this week, but he'll be back.

[SPEAKER_01]: But it's the pure and ordinary people against a corrupt self-serving elite.

[SPEAKER_01]: And man, who, boy, like you read that straight-up definitions and you get the exact situation that we've got here right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the corrupt self-serving elite, I mean, I saw on Drudge today that

[SPEAKER_01]: a couple hundred million more are going into the president's bank account based on his his crypto currency that he started and he's exponentially increases own personal wealth since being in the White House and then that corruption doesn't just end there.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean,

[SPEAKER_01]: Take a look at the lawsuits, he's both Dodge, the accountability, he's Dodge, the lawsuits, he's filed.

[SPEAKER_01]: The Epstein files come to mind straight up.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like we can't even get a look under the hood about what that even means.

[SPEAKER_01]: And the current attorney general is doing everything that they can to make sure this does not see the light a day through obfuscation.

[SPEAKER_01]: And one could even make a pretty coherent argument that the entire Iran.

[SPEAKER_01]: to buckle, may have been started to keep that whole story off the front page.

[SPEAKER_01]: However, at the end of the day, whatever is done in the dark comes the light to quote a great book.

[SPEAKER_01]: But, dams are tapping into voter needs and wants in a way that Republicans are not.

[SPEAKER_01]: candidates across the country who are younger, who are tapped into the themes I just spoke about, economic fairness, raining in foreign policy, and quite interestingly enough, these are democratic socialists who run along the same lane, as a guy like Eugene Debs, and Debs was very much against foreign intervention.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was a guy who went to jail for protesting the draft during World War I.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, and he spoke about the need for workers to have more of a a financial kick out or or cut from the stuff that they were doing.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, specifically with the situation right now, these candidates to a T are anti Israel.

[SPEAKER_01]: And they recognize these economic challenges and they want to do something about it.

[SPEAKER_01]: How they go about it, you know, left unchecked could be a little sketchy for the United States here.

[SPEAKER_01]: But, I mean, they're tapping into a vein because, quite frankly, the Republicans are not they're staying away from this.

[SPEAKER_01]: One of particular I found interesting was, uh,

[SPEAKER_01]: Who is it?

[SPEAKER_01]: DSA backed Malat Kyros, she's 29, she just won and she lost her job in New York as a lawyer because she wrote an essay critical of Israel and that's interesting and now she just primary, one primary over someone far more senior to her and is part and parcel to AOCs,

[SPEAKER_01]: group.

[SPEAKER_01]: AOC I believe has backed some 14 different candidates and every single one of them has won.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that's fascinating to me.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's everyone wants to write AOC office abroad.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't particularly care for her or her politics, but she continues to bang the drum on these younger candidates and may end up building a consensus for herself in the house.

[SPEAKER_01]: Another one is

[SPEAKER_01]: This, uh, Darliesa Avelia Shiva Yee, it's a 32-year-old progressive community organizer, um, she took out Democratic rap, Adriano Espiliat, who is the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, um, that's fascinating too, um, but one of my favorites actually is a gentleman that I got to know in another life named Graham Platner, uh, running for Senate in Maine.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's 41, he's taking on Susan Collins, who is 73, and this is just a very interesting

[SPEAKER_01]: Like I don't know personal juxtaposition here, so I knew Graham back before he did anything political.

[SPEAKER_01]: He is here's some infantry Marine who served a third baton eight Marines in Ramadi by unit replaced his unit.

[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know him at the time, but I got to know him while he was going to college in Washington DC.

[SPEAKER_01]: We all ran together in a bit of a veteran's group.

[SPEAKER_01]: then they're Susan Collins.

[SPEAKER_01]: I worked alongside her staff in the US Senate, you know, eight, seven, eight years ago.

[SPEAKER_01]: And Susan Collins at the time was totally

[SPEAKER_01]: Totally out of touch with both the Republican Party was very, and what appeared to be her voter, she's very liberal, as a Republican, but not in the sense that like she's, you know, pro social program, anything like that, I would say she is a, you know, a part of the establishment neoliberal elite, if you will.

[SPEAKER_01]: But Platner is a 41-year-old oyster farmer.

[SPEAKER_01]: Who lives up in Maine and decided to throw his hat in the ring and the fact that he's anti-intervention Excuse me and once economic fairness is gives him a couple point lead on Susan Collins right now and quite frankly

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I'm not a guy who's, I guess, a fan of socialism generally, but I'd rather have a great and platinum up there than a Susan Collins.

[SPEAKER_01]: Because platinum has, you know, he is from our age group.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's spent time in the same mud that I have overseas.

[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't like it.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he wants to prevent the next generation of veterans from enduring the same mess, which seems to be just

[SPEAKER_01]: the economic imbalance between, you know, between shall we say CEOs and the working people of this country.

[SPEAKER_01]: But what you're seeing with the Dems is that they are continuously identifying people who echo this and they're tapping into something.

[SPEAKER_01]: If you look at the drug report this morning, one of the lead articles was that voters are angry.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're showing up at the polls angry about the way things are going.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I have to throw a little bit of shade on,

[SPEAKER_01]: Donald Trump and the MAGA movement here, particularly Trump himself, because the response has been the exact opposite of both what would be politically agile and what they want, or what they need to do in order to maintain power, but also it contradicts his message exclusively.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's he ran on a populist message that

[SPEAKER_01]: is, you know, if you take the economics out of it, would be almost identical to what the DSA is doing right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he is completely abandoned it.

[SPEAKER_01]: And if you look at this chart of his endorsements, it's fascinating.

[SPEAKER_01]: So you go back to 2017.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he only endorsed, you know, a tiny bit of incumbents.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then he waited on some open seats.

[SPEAKER_01]: But if you look at this over time,

[SPEAKER_01]: he's continuously backing incumbents who maintain the status quo.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then he's also primary in guys, like Thomas Massey, who represent,

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, America first, and it's purest form.

[SPEAKER_01]: Massey, you can say he's a libertarian, he's this to that, but hey, man, he takes care of his constituents and he wants the best for America and he is not influenced by any overseas lobby.

[SPEAKER_01]: But so you have this runaway,

[SPEAKER_01]: towards maintaining a status quo from the guy in office who ran on a platform of changing the status quo.

[SPEAKER_01]: And this is quite problematic for him.

[SPEAKER_01]: I believe going into November, and I'll pull Ken Paxton out, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: out in Texas, and it's one thing to have your loyalists win the primary, and having participated in primary elections, you get a very special voting block that comes out for that.

[SPEAKER_01]: These are your most committed and die-hard individuals who are going to put somebody in office or put somebody through the primary process because they're a part of like that my new little fraction of people who follows every move of the primary, and then

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, so the, uh, the, uh, there's my mom grew up in strong and family support unions.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, mother.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're in San Diego, I'm surprised you're listening, but awesome, but, um, but yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: So where is this going?

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's, uh, it's hard to tell, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but at the same time,

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, as somebody who wants the best for this country, I am, you know, I am, I consider myself to be generally pretty conservative, libertarian leaning on a lot of things, but I would say like a classical conservative, you know, who wants to maintain the constitution, but at the same time.

[SPEAKER_01]: You need to have ways to protect the workers and you need to have people in power who put the American worker and Americans generally as their number one priority.

[SPEAKER_01]: And we are not getting it right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: And the message coming out of the DSA, it could be cloaked quite frankly.

[SPEAKER_01]: They could be using economic type of language to cloaked their more social radicalism, let's put it that way, and that would be bad.

[SPEAKER_01]: The problem is, is that you don't have a counterweight on the other side.

[SPEAKER_01]: You don't have people on their public inside who are engaging in any kind of messaging operation that's

[SPEAKER_01]: that echoes the sentiments and needs of the people who are keeping them in power and who put them in power.

[SPEAKER_01]: Instead, we say, hey, everything is great.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, look at the dial.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a dial of 50,000 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[SPEAKER_01]: So keep an eye on that.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's just kind of my two cents.

[SPEAKER_01]: And if I was going to give a big bag of the finger this week, it would be at Republicans for just frickin' blowing it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, geez, they've had

[SPEAKER_01]: They've had the house, they've had the Senate, and they've had the presidency, and all they've done is run people's lives into the dirt, whether it's gas, war, commodity prices.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you name it, and they've had no major legislation, and it's just been a total bust.

[SPEAKER_01]: So they're gonna pay for it in the fall.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just hope we don't get a bunch of like,

[SPEAKER_01]: basically communists up there, who want to change the social fabric of society as opposed to fixing the economic issues which are really haunting us and are only going to get worse until somebody fixes them or we have a serious recession or depression in this country.

[SPEAKER_01]: So from there, want to move on, just a little bit here, a little bit of a pivot here, back to the Middle East,

[SPEAKER_01]: This is a, it continues and there was a clip from BBI just wanted to give a little reaction to about stopping aid.

[SPEAKER_01]: Because you makes it seem a whole lot easier than it actually is.

[SPEAKER_03]: Praise them and be part of the new world.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do you want to stop American aid?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_04]: When will it stop?

[SPEAKER_04]: Listen, I want to do a 10 year phase out.

[SPEAKER_03]: I really appreciate the support we've received.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sure you all appreciate it too.

[SPEAKER_04]: With financial support.

[SPEAKER_03]: The financial support first of all, I already stopped it.

[SPEAKER_03]: You just don't remember it.

[SPEAKER_03]: When I was first elected 400 years ago, a lot.

[SPEAKER_04]: Nice.

[SPEAKER_03]: But who's counting going?

[SPEAKER_04]: I know you're not counting because you're enjoying yourself, and that's fine.

[SPEAKER_04]: When did the process start?

[SPEAKER_03]: When I was first elected in 1996, I came to Congress.

[SPEAKER_03]: I was invited there to speak a few times.

[SPEAKER_03]: And the first time I said at that time, Israel had a per capita GDP of $17,000.

[SPEAKER_03]: Today, we are at about $67,000, just to give you an idea, because of the economic policy.

[SPEAKER_03]: Because of Benets, yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: 100%.

[SPEAKER_04]: I said, good jokes.

[SPEAKER_03]: I said that we were going to make a free market revolution, and as a result, we would be able to give up the economic aid, which at the time was $1.2 billion.

[SPEAKER_03]: That was a lot of money back then.

[SPEAKER_03]: And everyone opened their mouths and said, look at this crime minister, just to get a headline, he's giving up the aid.

[SPEAKER_03]: I said, I'm not giving up the aid.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm increasing Israel's output because we don't need it.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's like welfare.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't want it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now I'm saying we can also, since our economy will soon reach a trillion dollars, it's no longer a small economy, not gigantic, but already a medium-sized economy.

[SPEAKER_03]: We can fund by ourselves that fraction of a percent of our GDP that we receive from the US.

[SPEAKER_03]: So, when will this process begin?

[SPEAKER_03]: I wanted to start this year.

[SPEAKER_03]: This year.

[SPEAKER_01]: So in retrospect, I'm not sure why I did that to myself.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's my role in solo today, and I force myself to listen to BB that, yeah, here for 90 seconds.

[SPEAKER_01]: And man, I didn't want to do that.

[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, a little bit of Qdota to him for having a fantastic slight ahead.

[SPEAKER_01]: So what he's talking about right there real quick is, you know, the catalyst that he wants is written in, so both the Intel authorization and action section 622, and the National Defense Authorization Act, which is section 224.

[SPEAKER_01]: He wants the military and the intelligence apparatus of Israel just woven right into the US defense industrial base so they can make a ton of money.

[SPEAKER_01]: on the weapon side, but also have access to all of our intel, um, probably sell a bunch of our secrets and whatnot.

[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, I would just, little comment here, um, kiss this one as it goes by, is that I hope that everybody in Washington was listening to that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I know, if I was in Washington, I'd be listening to it and would drop a bill today.

[SPEAKER_01]: to terminate all aid to him, you know, and there's a lot of reasons for this.

[SPEAKER_01]: You look no further than Gaza, and the 70,000 people that have been killed using our weapons largely.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a complete stain on our national honor, and then how they drug us into the Iran war and continue to undermine our ability to get out of it by not leaving Lebanon.

[SPEAKER_01]: There doesn't seem to be any type of political will within the executive branch to just pull the rug out from under these guys.

[SPEAKER_01]: And even even tell them publicly, hey, man, you've got to go like you've got to walk out of there.

[SPEAKER_01]: So the natural thing would be to honor his request and just cut their ability to make war, you know, stop set of bombs, stop setting ammunition.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's really hard to fight a war, but you can't shoot.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a classic lesson from Warfare.

[SPEAKER_01]: If you don't have ammo, you can't fight boom, done logistics or everything.

[SPEAKER_01]: But so yeah, there's also the other side of that, which I mean, it's not as easy as it looks.

[SPEAKER_01]: And this is a long discussion probably with an expert for another time, but how you would unwind that with a place like Egypt because part of a big part of the aid that we give to Israel,

[SPEAKER_01]: And the rationale behind it is also giving aid to Egypt to keep the two of them from attacking each other.

[SPEAKER_01]: And

[SPEAKER_01]: you know it's a it's a it's basically we're just paying these guys off to not go to war and you stop doing that who knows will happen um and the Egyptians have a ton of our weaponry and i don't know how good they're using it but it's significant and they have more people than the Israelis do and that would be one more headache that they probably don't want so we'll see how all that goes um but you know it's a the final thing i want to get into before really

[SPEAKER_01]: is something we talked about with Larry Johnson yesterday, which is how the Middle East is being reshaped in Barack Obama actually had something pretty interesting to say about this.

[SPEAKER_02]: In terms of what was the original rationale for this war, which was, and there was a deal in place in which Iran had agreed not to develop nuclear weapons.

[SPEAKER_02]: that the entire international community, including Israeli intelligence, our own intelligence agencies assessed, was working.

[SPEAKER_02]: This administration, for a prior version of this administration, pulled out of it, which caused then Iran to develop more nuclear capacity.

[SPEAKER_02]: a lot of people have died and it feels like we're back where we were before we start the war except maybe a little bit worse off and my understanding is that the ceasefire says we've now got sixty days to develop a plan.

[SPEAKER_02]: to deal with the nuclear issue, but we don't know yet what that plan is, so until I see until there's some public document that indicates exactly what the agreement is, I have no way to compare it to the plan that we had put in place.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am not the biggest Barack Obama fan of all time, but I got to say, man, he's right on the money right there.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's, uh, we completely unwound a pretty decent deal with the Iranians.

[SPEAKER_01]: The best deal we were probably going to get that had international buy-in, the Russians and the Chinese were on board, Europe was on board, um, for something that is completely undefined.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it is replacing in 60 days ish, I mean, I don't know if they're actually talking in

[SPEAKER_01]: because last time we checked, they were wick off and Kushner had been stood up by the Iranians and they were talking through an intermediary in cutter.

[SPEAKER_01]: But 60 days to have some kind of deal if they're serious about the nuclear question this time.

[SPEAKER_01]: To replace something, it took two issues to put together and would have opened Iran up for inspections for a decade and really blunted their nuclear ambitions.

[SPEAKER_01]: and also to build on top of this.

[SPEAKER_01]: They, one of the things that he mentions, I think a little bit passively, is about how our entire posture in the region has been destroyed.

[SPEAKER_01]: We have, you know, every single one of our bases over there has been hit, many of them destroyed.

[SPEAKER_01]: to a point which they are now uninhabitable.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I will give, as long as what Larry said yesterday on our show, and I advised you to go check it out, holds true, which is all these transports going over to the Middle East are actually exfilling our troops on the ground.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am 100% for that.

[SPEAKER_01]: but I still would not give the administration a pat on the back for getting this done because it was obviously not part of the plan.

[SPEAKER_01]: This would be, if we are leaving, this is going to make Afghanistan look like, um,

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, practice if you will.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we're not going to have people flying, you know, holding on to aircraft as we leave, but we would literally been driven from the region in a way that we've never really seen.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, if you take a look at Vietnam, or Afghanistan, the the opposition, if you will, the people we were fighting a Taliban or the North Vietnamese came down on us.

[SPEAKER_01]: In the middle of a retrograde, we had decided to leave and they decided to amp up the volume to provide some optics for consumers at home, if you will, and to make their point.

[SPEAKER_01]: But this was quite different.

[SPEAKER_01]: This was a fight in effect that we picked.

[SPEAKER_01]: And if you want to use a bar analogy, we picked a fight in a bar and they got our job broken and are now trying to find a way to get to the hospital.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's not good for American prestige, that's not good for, you know, any other aspect of this country, quite frankly.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, a little bit of a bag of finger there, I guess, not the biggest one, but it's because I am a fan of leaving the region, just not under the terms like this.

[SPEAKER_01]: When you have a sanction regime and you have something like the JCPOA in place, the objective is to change the behavior of the country that's being sanctioned, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: Over 10 years, you can do a lot of behavior changing.

[SPEAKER_01]: You can work with them.

[SPEAKER_01]: You can start giving them economic incentives to move a certain direction.

[SPEAKER_01]: And there's no guarantee that it's going to be some kind of caricature, like the more hawkish elements in DC want to point out that like ha ha, at the end of 10 years, they're going to jump into accelerating the amount of uranium

[SPEAKER_01]: that they are putting through centrifuges and weaponizing.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's no guarantee and it's actually counterintuitive when you really think about it because if you enable them to open their economy back up and work with you and you become intertwined, then the odds of war go way, way, way, way down.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, Maggie, yes, I'll stop using the words.

[SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate that.

[SPEAKER_01]: But, so, in closing, I

[SPEAKER_01]: would like to celebrate Bobby Benea Day.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is one of the greatest days in sports history.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is the day where Bobby Benea ends up getting his paycheck of 1.1.

[SPEAKER_01]: $9 million of an annual deferral from the New York Metz, and this goes through what is it?

[SPEAKER_01]: I believe it's 2037, and the beauty of this is that, so if anybody who doesn't understand or know about Bobby Venea Saga, so he was playing for the O's, he went to the Metz, and the O's have agreed to pay him about $500,000 a year through

[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's like 2027, 208, however, the Metz have to pay him 1.193 million a year all the way through 2035, for not doing anything.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was bought out by the Metz, he had a $5 million salary, they owed him right out, they wanted him to go away and somehow he got a deal where he wasn't paid $5 million.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, and I need this guy to negotiate for me at some point, like he just sounds like he's just an absolute genius.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, he is at a 5.9 million for the 2000 season, which he was a, he gets 1.193 million a year from 2011 through 2035.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, so yeah, do the math on that, that's about 30 million dollars.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, just because he didn't want the immediate payout, and that gets to like, you know, he's, that's a, that's pretty impressive.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, so, you know,

[SPEAKER_01]: Big tip of the has a biobinia, big, big, big tip of the hat to New York Matt's because as I said, the beginning of the show, they make the O's look like a well-oiled machine.

[SPEAKER_01]: The O's are still paying Chris Davis.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, I may remember his hand, but nothing like biobinia.

[SPEAKER_01]: nothing at all.

[SPEAKER_01]: But all right, everybody.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's that's show today.

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