February 25, 2025 • 35 mins
The Left still doesn't get it. They lost an election, getting wiped out across the board in the races for President and Congress because of fringe positions on issues which Americans overwhelmingly agree with Republicans. Pete Buttigieg seems to have figured it out, complete with a 'Portlandia' reference that Ryan appreciates.
Also, federal employee MT Snyder complains to CNN about Elon Musk sending out an e-mail on behalf of DOGE asking her and others in the public sector working for government bureaucracies to list five accomplishments over the previous week. Why should government workers feel entitled to be above accountability regularly enforced in the private sector?
Did a Trump impersonator go too far in confronting Alec Baldwin about him fatally shooting a production assistant on the set of the film 'Rust,' or was it fair game for comedy?
Also, federal employee MT Snyder complains to CNN about Elon Musk sending out an e-mail on behalf of DOGE asking her and others in the public sector working for government bureaucracies to list five accomplishments over the previous week. Why should government workers feel entitled to be above accountability regularly enforced in the private sector?
Did a Trump impersonator go too far in confronting Alec Baldwin about him fatally shooting a production assistant on the set of the film 'Rust,' or was it fair game for comedy?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah little ex ACDC. Can't heard a thing on this Tuesday.
Happy to be along with you, winding down this month
of February and no shortage of topics to cover. Five
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those texts, Ryan, I am a one man band here today.
I mean literally just a flying solo singing acappella. No
supporting singers. Usually have my sidekit Kelly Cacherra she had
to go to some finance meeting or something or other,
and we have a lot of other people doing a
lot of other things. So I need your contributions and
support and friendship. I'm reaching out my hand to you
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and joining us. A little bit later on at three
point thirty three, per the promoted interview that I put
out there. Greg Lopez the former interim congressman who finished
out the term for Ken Buck and the fourth Congressional District,
the gap between Buck and Representative Lauren Bolbert moving over
from the third to the fourth, and he was in
Ohio yesterday for the announcement by vivike Rama Swami that
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the former presidential candidate would be running for governor of Ohio.
We'll talk to Greg about that, why he chose to
attend that event, and why he supports Faveke in such
strong manner, as I know a lot of you do too.
I had that conversation with Dan Kaplis during the presidential primary,
which was basically the equivalent of a.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
JV debate club.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Because Donald Trump was not really taking part in any
of the debates. Ron De Santis, Nikki Hayley, vivike Rama
Swami got on the list of those who were pretenders
to the throne. As it would turn out now, I
strongly support Ron De Santis, the governor of Florida, and
believe he'll be a strong candidate next time around come
twenty twenty eight. But all the while recognizing that there
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is a special momentum of support for the president number
forty five and forty seven that I've never seen befo
foreign American politics.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Whether it was Ronald Reagan, who was my favorite president,
and I think over the eight years that he served consecutively,
the best president of my lifetime. The eighties were a
time of unparalleled success. They were quite the contrast to
the decade that preceded it, the seventies, which were moribund
and dark, and you had Vietnam and Watergate and economic
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inflation depression. And only when Lake Placid happened the nineteen
eighty US Olympic hockey team coming out of nowhere, college
kids binding together and defeating the Red Army Soviet Union team.
That was a spark. And then Ronald Reagan defeating Jimmy
Carter that was another. And then the hostages were released
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that would be another. In the first couple of years
of Ronald Reagan's presidency were very difficult still with regard
to inflation in the economy.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
But anybody that lived.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Through the eighties, a gen xer who can remember or older,
knows that there was a lot of productivity, innovation, invention,
soaring investment in the tech sector. Apple and Microsoft took
off in the eighties, and you would think it would
have launched a lot of Reagan Revolution Republicans. It did,
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myself included, at least for a time. Brush Limbaugh was
a product of that age of nineteen eighty eight when
he launched his show nationally. But all of this to
say that when Donald Trump hit the landscape of American
politics in twenty fifteen. It was a sensation unlike anything
that preceded it. He was unconventional. He was a brawler.
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He made that known when in one of the debates
he called out George W. Bush, a member of his
own party. But Donald Trump was not like a lifelong Republican.
He did not necessarily subscribe to Ronald Reagan's thou shalt
not speak ill of a fellow Republican.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
He was not about that business.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And he went right in on Jeb Bush and basically
destroyed him in not only but in the polls and
then ultimately as it played out in the primaries. So
you watch and you observe Donald Trump, and those who
underestimate him have always done so at their own peril,
and they're still doing it. And by still doing it,
they are setting him up for one of the most
successful four year runs that any president has ever had.
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And with the exception of Grover Cleveland in the eighteen nineties,
we have not had a president who served four years,
then was out of office for four years, and then
came back with all that he could accumulate in terms
of knowledge, experience, expertise.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Watching his successor fail.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
As Grover Cleveland did way back when, and then have
that knowledge and be armed with it going into a second,
non consecutive term, and how you might do things differently
the second time around. The Democrats, simply put, are not
learning their lessons, and I hope that this continues. It
all starts today with Representative Ilhan Omar and she explaining
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to Mehdi Hassan, a disgraced former quote unquote journalist's show
host at MSNBC who has departed and did.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So before Joy Reid was let go over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
He was with Al Jazeera, and he's a notorious pro
Hama supporter, etcetera, etcetera. But here's Representative Ilhan Omar describing
why Trump has enjoyed such support and success.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
These people are just idiots.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I really, you know, I'm at the point where it's
become really hard to have an intellectual debate with any
of these people because the level of stupidity that they
are displaying every single day is frankly embarrassing, not just
in Congress but as Americans. And the fact that these
people are allowed to say just the most ridiculous things
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tells you that the dumbing of the United States has arrived,
because how else do we get Trump presidency again?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
This portion was all the more concerning.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
See just the most ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Things that would be allowed to say, the most ridiculous
things the right, they're anti First Amendment, but that we
non the right who support Donald Trump, who advanced conservative principles,
that we're dumbing down, that we're stupid, Americans are stupid,
and only stupid Americans could elect Donald Trump a second time.
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This is their tactic, this is their shtick, this is
their line of attack. These apparently are their talking points.
It's not limited only to Omar, But I simply like
to hold up a mirror and reflect what those who
are projecting their own stupidity onto us or attempting to
are really all about. And you might recall this from
I think it was about six years ago now, twenty nineteen,
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Representative Ilhan Omar at the time talking about nine to eleven.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Who's stupid now?
Speaker 4 (06:56):
CARE was founded after nine to eleven because they recognized
that some people did something and that all of us
were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
She's talking about CARE, CIRE, the Council on American Islamic
relations and tries to make the point that just because
some people did something that not all Muslim Americans should
have their civil liberties attack taken away questioned. And I
would agree somewhat with that last part. You shouldn't blame
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all Muslim Americans for what happened on nine to eleven.
A select group of Saudi nationals who were loyal to
al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
They acted in a very unique way, in a very
evil way, on that day.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And having lived through nine to eleven, I know a
lot of you did and remember it well, and unfortunately
it's a scar in your memories for all these years since.
But I have to admit that a lot of people,
myself included, were looking around this even occupied space in
the pop culture on episodes of The Sopranos where Tony
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Soprano was actually helping out the FBI on some Arab
Americans that he thought were suspicious. And it's sad that
it came to that, but that's where we were, if
we're being honest about ourselves in our society. But to
minimize nine to eleven by saying that some people did something, no,
some very evil people did something absolutely demonic and catastrophic
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on nine to eleven. But gilhan Omar tried to dismiss
that out of hand. If we're talking about collective intellect
for either political side. Bank Johnson's getting in on the act,
and he's trying to get it so that the US
Marshals might turn against Donald Trump. Follow me here at
the behest of the DOJ, which you would assume would
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be at the command of Attorney General Pam Bondi, appointed
by Donald Trump and confirmed through the Senate, that US
Marshals would need to arrest Donald Trump if he defied
court order. He takes two stabs at this with Judge
Tim Tinkvish in a hearing yesterday.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
For President willfully failed or refused to comply with the
court ruling. They could be held in contempt of court theoretically,
but it would be up to the US Marshals Service,
which is a part of the Justice Department, to be
the enforcement arm for the federal courts.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Is that correct? Your hypothetical would have to play itself out.
Tim Kovich is not there to talk about that topic,
by the way. He reveals why he's there at the
end of this second clip.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Because Representative Hank Johnson, Democrat, Georgia. He's not done on
this obsessed topic of arresting Donald Trump and having the
US Marshals do it.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
It would be the US Marshals, who fall under the
Department of Justice, who would have to carry out the
contempt order. And so what would happen is if the
US Marshall Service, under the command of the Justice Department,
at the direction of the President, refused to carry out
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a court order of contempt, what would then be the
state of our democracy?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Again, I'm here on behalf of the Judicial Conference to
talk about the shortage of judges that we have, and
I would comment on those needs in particular, total non sequitur,
But that's never stopped Hank Johnson before. He lives in
infamy to this day, dating back almost fifteen years now
to this gem. And I will play it out in
its entirety because you really need to hear the context,
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the setup. Where is he going with this? Hank Johnson
at one time was concerned that if there were too
many residents on the Isle of Guam and they all
went to one side of the island, it may in
fact capsize and turnover.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I'm not joking.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
This the island that at its the widest level is
what twelve miles.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
From shore to shore, and at the smallest level, the
smallest location, it's seven miles.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Between one shore and the other. Is that correct?
Speaker 8 (11:29):
I don't have the exact dimensions, but to your point, sir,
I think Guam is a small island.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Very small island, and about twenty four miles if I
recall long, what so twenty four miles long, about seven
miles wide at the least widest place on the island
in about twenty about twelve miles wide.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
On the widest part of island.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
And Okay, I don't know how many square miles that is.
Do you happen to know?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I don't have that figure with me, sir, I can
certainly supply it to.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
You if you'd like.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
Yeah, my fear is that the whole island will become
so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
We don't anticipate that.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
The answer just seals it, like he's playing the straight
man in SNL sketch. The member of the military there
that didn't break character, didn't crack, didn't laugh, And I.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Just said, well, we don't anticipate that.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I mean, that's an honest answer that you don't anticipate
that an island which then extends into the ocean for
however many miles, and it crests above the water, and
that's the island that that would tip over as if
it were a floating dock or something with people on it.
So I reasked the question that ilon Omer poses, who
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are the stupid ones here? And I'm not just saying
that just merely as a pejorative, although it certainly serves
they're not sending their best, They're not sending their brightest
and rising star Democrat Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett, let's give
her a chance. Perhaps she'll say something illuminating and elucidating
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and something that will raise the spirits of the American people,
inspire hope and faith that the Democrats have things under control.
This is what she had to say. If she had
one thing, one thing that she could say to Elon Musk,
what would that be? What effective message could she send?
Could it be concise? Brevity is the soul of wit.
Would it be something that Elon Musk would remember? Let's
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find out if.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
You could speak directly to Elon Musk, what would you
say that's it?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Eh tho off, Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Keep buddhaj Jedge.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
This is a guy that during the twenty twenty Democratic primary.
It's not that I had high hopes for him, It's that, Hey,
this guy's young, he's sharp, he's impressive. He served in
the military. He was the mayor of South Bend, Pothole Pete.
Later he would become the Secretary of Transportation. But what
I think Buddhajedge did poorly was he abandoned whatever pretense
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he had of being a moderate, which is really the
lane he was occupying in that primary. He was trying
to out maneuver Joe Biden, who at the time was
viewed to be as a moderate, but then we found
out would simply be a puppet of the far left.
Buddhajedge kind of vacillated and stuck to the woke stuff.
But then he realized what happened in the twenty twenty
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four election.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
And he gets it.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
He gets it, and hopefully other Democrats won't listen to him.
But he says the quiet part out loud. Here he
tells the truth. He tells on himself, he tells on Democrats.
It shows that they don't really necessarily believe.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Leave this bunk when it.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Comes to DEI and all the programs therein Listen to
what he refers to DEI diversity training as in this
clip from last week.
Speaker 8 (15:11):
A little bit of that avenue described and it was
the caricature of everything that is wrong with our ability
both to cohere as a party and to reach to
those who don't always agree with us.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
And we cannot go on like that. We cannot.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
I also think that we believe in the values that
we care about for a reason, and this is not
about abandoning those values. It's about making sure we're in
touch with the first principles that animate What do we
mean when we talk about diversity. Is it caring for
people's different experiences and making sure no one's mistreated because
of them, which I will always fight for. Or is
it making people sit through a training that looks like
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something out of Portlandia, which I have also experienced. And
it is how it is how Trump Republicans are made.
If that comes to your workplace with the best of
intentions but doesn't actually get it what we're what actually
matters here, what's actually at stake?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
He is exactly right, and I'm so glad that he
brought up port Landia. This is my one of my
favorite shows, dates back now what ten years, I think
just before Trump think about this, Fred Armiston, Kerry Brownstein.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
They collaborate on this.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Idea, keep Portland weird, but what's weird about Portland?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
What makes it unique and special?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
And had this kind of you know, affable charm the
way that maybe Boulder does that, Austin, Texas does that, Missoula,
Montana has, but might be uniquely.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Portland because that's where it all started.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
All this weird stuff, the Hers and Hers bookstore, all
the sketches, all the skits, Amy Man as a cleaning lady,
which was hilarious in and of itself. Roseanne Barr was
featured on that show as the mayor of the town.
At one point. It was funny, it was tongue in cheek,
it was self aware.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
It was putting down these radical, far.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Left, insane concepts, constructs and ideas that were right for comedy.
My sister Liz and I and she's no conservative. She
does not like Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Love that show.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I love that show. I go back and watch that
sho show now. And Buddha Judge is right, real life
is imitating art or comedy now and is wanting to
be taken seriously. Importantly, we saw that post BLM with
the George Floyd riots, chas and Chop to the North
in Seattle and everything that was burning down in Portland
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around it. But these are now serious concepts that the
Democrats have chosen to adhere themselves too and try to
inculcate middle of the road Americans with, and they don't
want it. Buddha Judge had a comment on this too.
He's right on the mark, but is he going to
stick to it? This is where I would say no,
he just doesn't have the guts, I think.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
And this might sound counterintuitive if we were more serious
about the actual values and not caught up in vocabularies
and trying to cater to everybody only in terms of
their particular slice of combinations of identities versus the shared project. Actually,
if we thought about it a little bit differently, things
like diversity would be actually an example of how we
reach out beyond our traditional coalition. True, and what I
mean by that is the opposite of they is uniformity.
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And if there's one thing I really respect about principled conservatives,
even if I don't always agree with them, is that
they have a horror of anything that has a whiff
of being pressed into conformity by government or by society.
So I would like to appeal to people who, whether
it's because of a conservative or libertarian instinct, or a
more progresive instinct, or I would say, just an American
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belief that part of the point of living in a
country like this is you don't have to conform to
what other people demand of you. That we're not only
on board with that, we're champions of the.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I really hope that the Democrats don't listen to Pete
Buddha Jedge and that he doesn't gain traction in the
Democratic primary for twenty twenty eight, because he's right on
the mark.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
This is the road back for Democrats.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Is appealing in a very sane way, in a very
literal way, about diversity. If you truly embrace diversity, then
that means let's just say, for instance, a guy like
me might be hired by CU Boulder to teach a
criticizing media course where I would not fit in on
that campus. They might not like what I have to say,
but because they embrace diversity, true diversity of thought. They
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would want somebody like me on that campus. Good like
finding anyone on that campus like me.
Speaker 9 (19:13):
Tell us about this email and what it was like
receiving it, and what you all have talked about after
getting it.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Sure, I got.
Speaker 10 (19:22):
This email Saturday afternoon about three pm, and I felt
absolutely infuriated getting this email with a demand within forty
eight hours to provide a response in what I did
within the last week or face termination. This is clearly
an attempt from Elon Musk to harass and bully and
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intimidate the federal workforce, which is part of his broader
plan to gut the federal workforce and privatize public sector
services to ensure that corporation's like his own can get
more profit. And that makes me really angry and my
coworkers as well.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Mt Snyder coming out claws out for Elon Musk on
CNN there put her at the top of the list
of those we can fire. They don't realize, or maybe
they don't want to realize, maybe they cannot realize on
the short end of the stick where they reside, how
much we the American people and taxpayers who pay their salaries,
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despise and loathe them, their sense of entitlement. They've been
living high on the hog in these government jobs for
however many years. Not saying that all of them are
like this, but Mt. Snyder certainly put a voice to it.
How dare Elon musk Doge come in ask you to
write an email listing five things that you accomplished last week.
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If iHeart presented that to me in an email, and
believe me, it might be something that they do. Could
be my direct boss, Dave Tepper, could be Jojo Turnbo that, yeah,
I would feel obligated to make a list of the
things that I did to justify my existence in this building.
Anybody who's worked any job for any length of time
for any employer, especially in the private sector, is going
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to tell you that there's accountability in their job. What
they do, the products they create, the services they provide.
You're going to be evaluated. That could be on a
yearly basis, that could be on a monthly basis, or
a quarterly basis, that could be on a weekly basis.
If you're a new employee, they want to make sure
that you're pulling your weight, that you're worth the investment.
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But these government employees, for these government agencies that have
had no accountability for the longest time, be it Republican
or Democrat, uniparty oversite, it's out of sight, out of mind.
They're not even going into the office. And that is
part of what Elon Musk Visa v. President Trump is
attempting to sift through. If you don't respond to the
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email at all, well that might call in a question,
are you even checking your email? Are you even doing
your job? Are you just collecting a paid check at home.
We've seen this too, where workers have been taking baths
during the day, allegedly on the clock, on the government dime.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
They work from home scenario.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I'm not seeing everybody does this because my own fiance, Kelsey,
works from home and very diligently. She's got our own office,
she does her own thing. But when you're working for
the government and nobody's checking in on you, and you
don't have to check in with anyone, and all's just
going according to plan, and nobody's thinking to look behind
the curtain and wait a minute, are these people actually
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doing something? How dare we hold them accountable?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Mt.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Snyder should be at the top of the list for
those that are just unnecessary. How did they put it
during COVID non essential employees?
Speaker 9 (22:48):
Yeah, let's go with the agency heads will determine the
best practices for their employees at their specific agencies. Again,
this was an idea that Elon come up with. DOGE
work with OPM to act implement the idea. And the
secretaries are responsible for their specific workforce. And this is
true of the hirings and the firings that have taken place.
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And we advise federal workers unless your agency has dictated
you not to respond to this email.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
It doesn't take that much effort. And thou Doff protests
too much.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Mt.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Snyder by getting righteously indignant about whether or not the
government which employs you has a right to know?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
What do you say you do here?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Quoting one of the bobs from Office Space. Then yet
you should have to tell what your job is, what
you're doing, what your daily schedule is, who you report to,
and where those results are stored. It shouldn't take that
long either. In fact, Caroline Levitt says she did it
herself this week.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
In fact, I can announce that we've had more than
one million workers who have chosen to participate and this
very simple task of again sending five bullet points to
your direct supervisor or manager cceing OPM. I actually participated
it in myself. It took me about a minute and
a half to think of five things I did last week.
I do five things in about ten minutes. And all
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federal workers should be working at the same pace that
President Trump is working and moving. We have a country
to save, and we want this federal government to be
responsive to the needs of the American people who re
elected this president to have historic, massive reform. And that's
what the intention of this idea is.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Something she touched on there, in my view, is very important.
That is how hard does the boss work. I know
a lot of you may have worked at a lot
of jobs. I know I have over the years, and
I've had bosses that work so hard, knows to the
grindstone that when they set that example, they set a bar.
And you, as a worker, know, Hey, the guy or
the gal I'm working for is, you know, working as
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hard as I've ever seen anybody with a work ethic
that's off the charts. I better match that mirror that,
I better follow that, or I might not be around
for very long. On the other hand, if you have
a boss like Joe Biden who is incontinent and incompetent
and non compassmentus and not functional, then yeah, I think
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everybody kind of slacks off. Figure Nah, you know, this
guy's out to lunch. Literally maybe in a lot of cases,
and I don't really have to work as hard. President
Trump sets the tone with an unequaled work ethic for
somebody that's seventy eight years old. This guy is powered
entirely by nuclear energy. I think his own son's Marvel
Addeds and Don Junior was on a golf course. I
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think with his own daughter, Donald Trump's granddaughter say, I don't.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Know how my dad does it.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
I don't have that kind of energy, But the Orange
Man does, and he's setting the tone for everyone from
the White House on down to every government agency and bureaucracy.
Americans feel, by and large, this is probably a seventy
thirty seventy five to twenty five eighty twenty issue that
there is bloat, waste, fraud, abuse, too many employees on
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the government dime, too many agencies across the board.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Should we cut government spending? Yes?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Should we cut government agencies buy and large. Yes, it
should be leaner, it should be meaner, it should be
less expensive. We are running deficits, and the American taxpayers,
the American people, the American voters, we are sick of it.
We're sick of our money being wasted. And we've seen
this time and again. It's a running joke how inefficient
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government agencies are. Not all of them, but a lot
of them, too many of them. And all that Elon
Musk is doing is holding them to account. Finally, there's
been so much campaigning on this over the years, going
back to Bill Clinton with L Gore, even George W.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Bush made promises did not deliver.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Barack Obama talked about being more financially responsible with government
and cutting spending and eliminating waste. They all talk about it,
but they don't deliver on it. And now that Donald
Trump is everybody's freaking out. We'll take this break, we'll
come back with your texts, and speaking of Donald Trump,
a pretty good Donald Trump impersonator confronts Alec Baldwin, who
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fancies himself to be a Trump impersonator.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
How did that go? Well?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
There were some fireworks. I want to make sure I
phrase that correctly. It had to do with the set
of the film Rust and the aftermath of that. We'll
have that for you when we come back, along with
your text at five seven seven, three nine, rounding out
our number one of Ryan Schuling live after this.
Speaker 11 (27:42):
Allick, it's your favorite president.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Look, Alick, I will offer you a total pardon because.
Speaker 12 (27:48):
I want to be friends, right, I want to be friends.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
I will give you.
Speaker 12 (27:51):
A total pardon for murdering that woman if you kiss
the ring, Kiss the ring, Alex, kiss the big beautiful ring.
Speaker 11 (27:58):
Come on, Alec, come on, Look at Alec Baldin.
Speaker 12 (28:01):
Right, he did that impersonation to me.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
It was not too hot, not too good. But look
we're back in office. You lost, Kamala lost.
Speaker 12 (28:10):
He's somewhere getting intoxicated.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Look at that suitcase. Unbelievable.
Speaker 12 (28:15):
Well, Alec, if you don't want that pardon for murdering
that woman in cold blood, you can call it first degree,
you can call it whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
But it was not good.
Speaker 12 (28:24):
She's looking down on me right now, smiling happy. Thank
you for confronting the man who took me out, who
killed me.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
And that's okay. Let me ask you question. Sure now
you realize no, look at me. I want you to yeah, sure, sure,
you know you get a camera on me here?
Speaker 7 (28:40):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Right, no, it's the rig. You realize my kids live
in this building, right, but I want you to know.
We love the children. We're doing great deals for the children. Okay,
this Camon was here. I snapped your phone, break your
You know that, don't you know?
Speaker 11 (28:53):
Okay, all right, Alec Bolden, Alec Baldwin.
Speaker 12 (28:55):
Ladies and gentlemen, class act.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Believe me. I want you to believe me.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Won't you get out of here?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Okay?
Speaker 12 (29:00):
I want you to get on you.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Oh he's yelling at me.
Speaker 12 (29:03):
Look, your favorite president's leaving. I want you your favorite
I'm a city senator.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I was born and raised in New York City. I
love you, Alec.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Alex.
Speaker 12 (29:11):
Look, Alex, you know you don't want.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
To attack your favorite president. Alex. Look, I love you.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
I love you, Alex.
Speaker 12 (29:17):
He's got more balls than the Niro that I can
tell you.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
DeNiro ran away. Alec confronted. That's good.
Speaker 12 (29:23):
He's strong, but also he's weak because he murdered a woman.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Said that's okay, Ray, look at this guy. No chill whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
A pretty good trumpetpersonator. He was also in costumes, so
you didn't see the video portion of that. The mannerisms,
the phrasing. I thought it went a little far at
the expense of a murdered woman. I mean, that did
take place, but I'm not one to put constraints on comedy,
and I thought he committed to the bit. Alec Baldwin,
for his part, couldn't resist the bait, could not resist
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the temptation a threatened violence. Not that idn't necessarily blame
him that And since he didn't do anything, don't think
that would make this impersonator feel intimidated or fearful of
his safety. Then the impersonator didn't act like it anyway.
So well, what do you think was that a little
too far in pressing on this issue and invading Alec
(30:17):
Baldwin's spaced You know, Alec Baldwin kind of have it
coming five seven, seven, three nine. I want to hear
from you. Let's go to some of those Texas A
lot coming in.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Ryan, you got this, We're here for you.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Viveke Ramaswami as governor of Ohio, Let's go.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I love the vek.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
That's another issue where Dan and I diverged during the campaign,
and when it started good Dan credit he evolved on
this issue, at least on the Nicki Haley part.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
He was a big hate fan of Nicki Haley like
many of you.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I never was, never will be in especially not now,
but certainly wasn't before during and not now. And when
she tried to go in on Ron DeSantis is like, please, okay, now,
not great.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
But Vivik was the one that just took the debate.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
To her, and he wasn't necessarily gentle about it, and
I think that bothered Dan. It did not bother me.
You get into the arena, don't care what gender you are.
I mean, the example I will always use is the
Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher. I mean, she took more slings
and arrows and a time when having a woman on
that stage as a leader of that magnitude was not
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a common thing at in nineteen seventy nine, nineteen eighty,
but she earned her way to that post and she
earned that nickname the Iron Lady. She became one of
President Reagan's favorite contemporaries, if not the favorite, And I
think she's a tremendous woman to be admired.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
She just happens to be a woman.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
And we'll talk to Greg Lopez coming up the bottom
of the hour number two. He was there at Ohio
for theveke announcing his run vike Ramaswami for governor of Ohio,
and we'll talk to Greg Lopez about that, maybe his
political future. I have a couple questions along those lines. Ryan,
let's get there. Your previous English and history teachers must
be so proud you articulate all of these things, along
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with such relevant contexts, including pop culture references, so thoroughly
and thoughtfully.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Such a joy to listen to. Well, thank you very much,
text her.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
And no I did not pay that text her, at
least not yet, but that is definitely worthy of such
I appreciate those kind words very much. And my English
and history teachers were very stern with me, but I
responded and I tried to anyway. Steven Littleton, retired law
enforcement officer, always appreciate his service and contributions. Sadly, it
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seems we have elected representatives in Colorado that periodically mimic
the low performance bar of Omar and Johnson o Ilan, Omar, Minneapolis,
Haint Johnson, suburban Atlanta, somewhere in there. Not great I
think our representatives, even the Democratic ones.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Let me just go through the list. Joe no Goose.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Now I gotta say he's an impressive guy. I think
he's got a very high ceiling potentially politically down the road,
should he choose to run for Senate, should he.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Choose to run for governor.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
I'm not saying I agree with a lot of the
stuff that he says, but I think he's a very
skilled politician, unlike my Congressman Jason Crowe in the sixth
who is a sophomoric intellect and would like to have
you know that he's more than that, but he's not.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
And he's just weird.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
He's off the wall and won't brand a debate to
Steve Monaghan or John Fabricatory. I think that's weak sauce.
He's just not a very impressive guy. Outside of his service.
He was an Army ranger. Always want to respect that.
But outside of that, his performance in Congress mediocre at best.
He doesn't really have to work for it, and so
he doesn't. Britney Peterson don't know a lot about her.
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I know that that's a district. It's a very key district,
and if we're going to flip Colorado. There are two
extremely difficult counties where that's going to have to happen.
The tide is going to have to turn in a
jeff Co, where District seven largely is and where Britney
Petterson represents that contingency. This Jeffcoe Public Schools controversy, scandal, tragedies,
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they are not going away. And it's the very thing
that flipped Virginia red for Glenn Youngkin. So the Jeffco
Public Schools, they might still be in an FA phase
right now and not worrying about whether they'll ever be
held accountable, but the voters could very mill make sure
that they fo So we'll follow that as it goes.
(34:23):
Jeff Go's big and it's blue. Unfortunately, same thing in
the county. I live in a rapa Hole. If you
look in context of history for a Rapahole County, which
is very densely populated now and it's the primary southeast
suburb of Denver, and it's blue. It's quite blue. It's
at least sixty forty blue. But it wasn't always that way.
(34:45):
During the w years of the two thousands, when George W.
Bush won Colorado, a Rapa Hole is red?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
What changed? Why is a rapa hole blue?
Speaker 7 (34:53):
Now?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Why is jeff Coast so blue? Now?
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I mean, these are the two counties, those collar counties
around Denver that Republicans really have to work hard to
change win hearts and minds, and an issue like schools
and how they treat our children that could be a
pivotal one for those that are in the middle. You know,
Denver Boulder Corridor. We're never going to win that one,
you can chalk up. But I think we can do
better in jeff Coo or Appaho and even Larimer County
(35:17):
where Colorado State University is. But until or unless Republicans do,
the state is going to be out of reach to
turning red.
Ah little ex ACDC. Can't heard a thing on this Tuesday.
Happy to be along with you, winding down this month
of February and no shortage of topics to cover. Five
seven seven three nine. You can join in the fun,
you can join in the conversation, you can reply, you
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those texts, Ryan, I am a one man band here today.
I mean literally just a flying solo singing acappella. No
supporting singers. Usually have my sidekit Kelly Cacherra she had
to go to some finance meeting or something or other,
and we have a lot of other people doing a
lot of other things. So I need your contributions and
support and friendship. I'm reaching out my hand to you
(00:45):
and joining us. A little bit later on at three
point thirty three, per the promoted interview that I put
out there. Greg Lopez the former interim congressman who finished
out the term for Ken Buck and the fourth Congressional District,
the gap between Buck and Representative Lauren Bolbert moving over
from the third to the fourth, and he was in
Ohio yesterday for the announcement by vivike Rama Swami that
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the former presidential candidate would be running for governor of Ohio.
We'll talk to Greg about that, why he chose to
attend that event, and why he supports Faveke in such
strong manner, as I know a lot of you do too.
I had that conversation with Dan Kaplis during the presidential primary,
which was basically the equivalent of a.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
JV debate club.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Because Donald Trump was not really taking part in any
of the debates. Ron De Santis, Nikki Hayley, vivike Rama
Swami got on the list of those who were pretenders
to the throne. As it would turn out now, I
strongly support Ron De Santis, the governor of Florida, and
believe he'll be a strong candidate next time around come
twenty twenty eight. But all the while recognizing that there
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is a special momentum of support for the president number
forty five and forty seven that I've never seen befo
foreign American politics.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Whether it was Ronald Reagan, who was my favorite president,
and I think over the eight years that he served consecutively,
the best president of my lifetime. The eighties were a
time of unparalleled success. They were quite the contrast to
the decade that preceded it, the seventies, which were moribund
and dark, and you had Vietnam and Watergate and economic
(02:23):
inflation depression. And only when Lake Placid happened the nineteen
eighty US Olympic hockey team coming out of nowhere, college
kids binding together and defeating the Red Army Soviet Union team.
That was a spark. And then Ronald Reagan defeating Jimmy
Carter that was another. And then the hostages were released
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that would be another. In the first couple of years
of Ronald Reagan's presidency were very difficult still with regard
to inflation in the economy.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
But anybody that lived.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Through the eighties, a gen xer who can remember or older,
knows that there was a lot of productivity, innovation, invention,
soaring investment in the tech sector. Apple and Microsoft took
off in the eighties, and you would think it would
have launched a lot of Reagan Revolution Republicans. It did,
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myself included, at least for a time. Brush Limbaugh was
a product of that age of nineteen eighty eight when
he launched his show nationally. But all of this to
say that when Donald Trump hit the landscape of American
politics in twenty fifteen. It was a sensation unlike anything
that preceded it. He was unconventional. He was a brawler.
(03:37):
He made that known when in one of the debates
he called out George W. Bush, a member of his
own party. But Donald Trump was not like a lifelong Republican.
He did not necessarily subscribe to Ronald Reagan's thou shalt
not speak ill of a fellow Republican.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
He was not about that business.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And he went right in on Jeb Bush and basically
destroyed him in not only but in the polls and
then ultimately as it played out in the primaries. So
you watch and you observe Donald Trump, and those who
underestimate him have always done so at their own peril,
and they're still doing it. And by still doing it,
they are setting him up for one of the most
successful four year runs that any president has ever had.
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And with the exception of Grover Cleveland in the eighteen nineties,
we have not had a president who served four years,
then was out of office for four years, and then
came back with all that he could accumulate in terms
of knowledge, experience, expertise.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Watching his successor fail.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
As Grover Cleveland did way back when, and then have
that knowledge and be armed with it going into a second,
non consecutive term, and how you might do things differently
the second time around. The Democrats, simply put, are not
learning their lessons, and I hope that this continues. It
all starts today with Representative Ilhan Omar and she explaining
(05:00):
to Mehdi Hassan, a disgraced former quote unquote journalist's show
host at MSNBC who has departed and did.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So before Joy Reid was let go over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
He was with Al Jazeera, and he's a notorious pro
Hama supporter, etcetera, etcetera. But here's Representative Ilhan Omar describing
why Trump has enjoyed such support and success.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
These people are just idiots.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I really, you know, I'm at the point where it's
become really hard to have an intellectual debate with any
of these people because the level of stupidity that they
are displaying every single day is frankly embarrassing, not just
in Congress but as Americans. And the fact that these
people are allowed to say just the most ridiculous things
(05:50):
tells you that the dumbing of the United States has arrived,
because how else do we get Trump presidency again?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
This portion was all the more concerning.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
See just the most ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Things that would be allowed to say, the most ridiculous
things the right, they're anti First Amendment, but that we
non the right who support Donald Trump, who advanced conservative principles,
that we're dumbing down, that we're stupid, Americans are stupid,
and only stupid Americans could elect Donald Trump a second time.
(06:27):
This is their tactic, this is their shtick, this is
their line of attack. These apparently are their talking points.
It's not limited only to Omar, But I simply like
to hold up a mirror and reflect what those who
are projecting their own stupidity onto us or attempting to
are really all about. And you might recall this from
I think it was about six years ago now, twenty nineteen,
(06:49):
Representative Ilhan Omar at the time talking about nine to eleven.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Who's stupid now?
Speaker 4 (06:56):
CARE was founded after nine to eleven because they recognized
that some people did something and that all of us
were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
She's talking about CARE, CIRE, the Council on American Islamic
relations and tries to make the point that just because
some people did something that not all Muslim Americans should
have their civil liberties attack taken away questioned. And I
would agree somewhat with that last part. You shouldn't blame
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all Muslim Americans for what happened on nine to eleven.
A select group of Saudi nationals who were loyal to
al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
They acted in a very unique way, in a very
evil way, on that day.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And having lived through nine to eleven, I know a
lot of you did and remember it well, and unfortunately
it's a scar in your memories for all these years since.
But I have to admit that a lot of people,
myself included, were looking around this even occupied space in
the pop culture on episodes of The Sopranos where Tony
(08:04):
Soprano was actually helping out the FBI on some Arab
Americans that he thought were suspicious. And it's sad that
it came to that, but that's where we were, if
we're being honest about ourselves in our society. But to
minimize nine to eleven by saying that some people did something, no,
some very evil people did something absolutely demonic and catastrophic
(08:25):
on nine to eleven. But gilhan Omar tried to dismiss
that out of hand. If we're talking about collective intellect
for either political side. Bank Johnson's getting in on the act,
and he's trying to get it so that the US
Marshals might turn against Donald Trump. Follow me here at
the behest of the DOJ, which you would assume would
(08:47):
be at the command of Attorney General Pam Bondi, appointed
by Donald Trump and confirmed through the Senate, that US
Marshals would need to arrest Donald Trump if he defied
court order. He takes two stabs at this with Judge
Tim Tinkvish in a hearing yesterday.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
For President willfully failed or refused to comply with the
court ruling. They could be held in contempt of court theoretically,
but it would be up to the US Marshals Service,
which is a part of the Justice Department, to be
the enforcement arm for the federal courts.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Is that correct? Your hypothetical would have to play itself out.
Tim Kovich is not there to talk about that topic,
by the way. He reveals why he's there at the
end of this second clip.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Because Representative Hank Johnson, Democrat, Georgia. He's not done on
this obsessed topic of arresting Donald Trump and having the
US Marshals do it.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
It would be the US Marshals, who fall under the
Department of Justice, who would have to carry out the
contempt order. And so what would happen is if the
US Marshall Service, under the command of the Justice Department,
at the direction of the President, refused to carry out
(10:10):
a court order of contempt, what would then be the
state of our democracy?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Again, I'm here on behalf of the Judicial Conference to
talk about the shortage of judges that we have, and
I would comment on those needs in particular, total non sequitur,
But that's never stopped Hank Johnson before. He lives in
infamy to this day, dating back almost fifteen years now
to this gem. And I will play it out in
its entirety because you really need to hear the context,
(10:40):
the setup. Where is he going with this? Hank Johnson
at one time was concerned that if there were too
many residents on the Isle of Guam and they all
went to one side of the island, it may in
fact capsize and turnover.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I'm not joking.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
This the island that at its the widest level is
what twelve miles.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
From shore to shore, and at the smallest level, the
smallest location, it's seven miles.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Between one shore and the other. Is that correct?
Speaker 8 (11:29):
I don't have the exact dimensions, but to your point, sir,
I think Guam is a small island.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Very small island, and about twenty four miles if I
recall long, what so twenty four miles long, about seven
miles wide at the least widest place on the island
in about twenty about twelve miles wide.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
On the widest part of island.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
And Okay, I don't know how many square miles that is.
Do you happen to know?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I don't have that figure with me, sir, I can
certainly supply it to.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
You if you'd like.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
Yeah, my fear is that the whole island will become
so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
We don't anticipate that.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
The answer just seals it, like he's playing the straight
man in SNL sketch. The member of the military there
that didn't break character, didn't crack, didn't laugh, And I.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Just said, well, we don't anticipate that.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I mean, that's an honest answer that you don't anticipate
that an island which then extends into the ocean for
however many miles, and it crests above the water, and
that's the island that that would tip over as if
it were a floating dock or something with people on it.
So I reasked the question that ilon Omer poses, who
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are the stupid ones here? And I'm not just saying
that just merely as a pejorative, although it certainly serves
they're not sending their best, They're not sending their brightest
and rising star Democrat Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett, let's give
her a chance. Perhaps she'll say something illuminating and elucidating
(13:28):
and something that will raise the spirits of the American people,
inspire hope and faith that the Democrats have things under control.
This is what she had to say. If she had
one thing, one thing that she could say to Elon Musk,
what would that be? What effective message could she send?
Could it be concise? Brevity is the soul of wit.
Would it be something that Elon Musk would remember? Let's
(13:48):
find out if.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
You could speak directly to Elon Musk, what would you
say that's it?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Eh tho off, Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Keep buddhaj Jedge.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
This is a guy that during the twenty twenty Democratic primary.
It's not that I had high hopes for him, It's that, Hey,
this guy's young, he's sharp, he's impressive. He served in
the military. He was the mayor of South Bend, Pothole Pete.
Later he would become the Secretary of Transportation. But what
I think Buddhajedge did poorly was he abandoned whatever pretense
(14:22):
he had of being a moderate, which is really the
lane he was occupying in that primary. He was trying
to out maneuver Joe Biden, who at the time was
viewed to be as a moderate, but then we found
out would simply be a puppet of the far left.
Buddhajedge kind of vacillated and stuck to the woke stuff.
But then he realized what happened in the twenty twenty
(14:43):
four election.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
And he gets it.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
He gets it, and hopefully other Democrats won't listen to him.
But he says the quiet part out loud. Here he
tells the truth. He tells on himself, he tells on Democrats.
It shows that they don't really necessarily believe.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Leave this bunk when it.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Comes to DEI and all the programs therein Listen to
what he refers to DEI diversity training as in this
clip from last week.
Speaker 8 (15:11):
A little bit of that avenue described and it was
the caricature of everything that is wrong with our ability
both to cohere as a party and to reach to
those who don't always agree with us.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
And we cannot go on like that. We cannot.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
I also think that we believe in the values that
we care about for a reason, and this is not
about abandoning those values. It's about making sure we're in
touch with the first principles that animate What do we
mean when we talk about diversity. Is it caring for
people's different experiences and making sure no one's mistreated because
of them, which I will always fight for. Or is
it making people sit through a training that looks like
(15:41):
something out of Portlandia, which I have also experienced. And
it is how it is how Trump Republicans are made.
If that comes to your workplace with the best of
intentions but doesn't actually get it what we're what actually
matters here, what's actually at stake?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
He is exactly right, and I'm so glad that he
brought up port Landia. This is my one of my
favorite shows, dates back now what ten years, I think
just before Trump think about this, Fred Armiston, Kerry Brownstein.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
They collaborate on this.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Idea, keep Portland weird, but what's weird about Portland?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
What makes it unique and special?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
And had this kind of you know, affable charm the
way that maybe Boulder does that, Austin, Texas does that, Missoula,
Montana has, but might be uniquely.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Portland because that's where it all started.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
All this weird stuff, the Hers and Hers bookstore, all
the sketches, all the skits, Amy Man as a cleaning lady,
which was hilarious in and of itself. Roseanne Barr was
featured on that show as the mayor of the town.
At one point. It was funny, it was tongue in cheek,
it was self aware.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
It was putting down these radical, far.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Left, insane concepts, constructs and ideas that were right for comedy.
My sister Liz and I and she's no conservative. She
does not like Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Love that show.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I love that show. I go back and watch that
sho show now. And Buddha Judge is right, real life
is imitating art or comedy now and is wanting to
be taken seriously. Importantly, we saw that post BLM with
the George Floyd riots, chas and Chop to the North
in Seattle and everything that was burning down in Portland
(17:18):
around it. But these are now serious concepts that the
Democrats have chosen to adhere themselves too and try to
inculcate middle of the road Americans with, and they don't
want it. Buddha Judge had a comment on this too.
He's right on the mark, but is he going to
stick to it? This is where I would say no,
he just doesn't have the guts, I think.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
And this might sound counterintuitive if we were more serious
about the actual values and not caught up in vocabularies
and trying to cater to everybody only in terms of
their particular slice of combinations of identities versus the shared project. Actually,
if we thought about it a little bit differently, things
like diversity would be actually an example of how we
reach out beyond our traditional coalition. True, and what I
mean by that is the opposite of they is uniformity.
(18:02):
And if there's one thing I really respect about principled conservatives,
even if I don't always agree with them, is that
they have a horror of anything that has a whiff
of being pressed into conformity by government or by society.
So I would like to appeal to people who, whether
it's because of a conservative or libertarian instinct, or a
more progresive instinct, or I would say, just an American
(18:23):
belief that part of the point of living in a
country like this is you don't have to conform to
what other people demand of you. That we're not only
on board with that, we're champions of the.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I really hope that the Democrats don't listen to Pete
Buddha Jedge and that he doesn't gain traction in the
Democratic primary for twenty twenty eight, because he's right on
the mark.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
This is the road back for Democrats.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Is appealing in a very sane way, in a very
literal way, about diversity. If you truly embrace diversity, then
that means let's just say, for instance, a guy like
me might be hired by CU Boulder to teach a
criticizing media course where I would not fit in on
that campus. They might not like what I have to say,
but because they embrace diversity, true diversity of thought. They
(19:03):
would want somebody like me on that campus. Good like
finding anyone on that campus like me.
Speaker 9 (19:13):
Tell us about this email and what it was like
receiving it, and what you all have talked about after
getting it.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Sure, I got.
Speaker 10 (19:22):
This email Saturday afternoon about three pm, and I felt
absolutely infuriated getting this email with a demand within forty
eight hours to provide a response in what I did
within the last week or face termination. This is clearly
an attempt from Elon Musk to harass and bully and
(19:46):
intimidate the federal workforce, which is part of his broader
plan to gut the federal workforce and privatize public sector
services to ensure that corporation's like his own can get
more profit. And that makes me really angry and my
coworkers as well.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Mt Snyder coming out claws out for Elon Musk on
CNN there put her at the top of the list
of those we can fire. They don't realize, or maybe
they don't want to realize, maybe they cannot realize on
the short end of the stick where they reside, how
much we the American people and taxpayers who pay their salaries,
(20:27):
despise and loathe them, their sense of entitlement. They've been
living high on the hog in these government jobs for
however many years. Not saying that all of them are
like this, but Mt. Snyder certainly put a voice to it.
How dare Elon musk Doge come in ask you to
write an email listing five things that you accomplished last week.
(20:49):
If iHeart presented that to me in an email, and
believe me, it might be something that they do. Could
be my direct boss, Dave Tepper, could be Jojo Turnbo that, yeah,
I would feel obligated to make a list of the
things that I did to justify my existence in this building.
Anybody who's worked any job for any length of time
for any employer, especially in the private sector, is going
(21:11):
to tell you that there's accountability in their job. What
they do, the products they create, the services they provide.
You're going to be evaluated. That could be on a
yearly basis, that could be on a monthly basis, or
a quarterly basis, that could be on a weekly basis.
If you're a new employee, they want to make sure
that you're pulling your weight, that you're worth the investment.
(21:32):
But these government employees, for these government agencies that have
had no accountability for the longest time, be it Republican
or Democrat, uniparty oversite, it's out of sight, out of mind.
They're not even going into the office. And that is
part of what Elon Musk Visa v. President Trump is
attempting to sift through. If you don't respond to the
(21:52):
email at all, well that might call in a question,
are you even checking your email? Are you even doing
your job? Are you just collecting a paid check at home.
We've seen this too, where workers have been taking baths
during the day, allegedly on the clock, on the government dime.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
They work from home scenario.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I'm not seeing everybody does this because my own fiance, Kelsey,
works from home and very diligently. She's got our own office,
she does her own thing. But when you're working for
the government and nobody's checking in on you, and you
don't have to check in with anyone, and all's just
going according to plan, and nobody's thinking to look behind
the curtain and wait a minute, are these people actually
(22:31):
doing something? How dare we hold them accountable?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Mt.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Snyder should be at the top of the list for
those that are just unnecessary. How did they put it
during COVID non essential employees?
Speaker 9 (22:48):
Yeah, let's go with the agency heads will determine the
best practices for their employees at their specific agencies. Again,
this was an idea that Elon come up with. DOGE
work with OPM to act implement the idea. And the
secretaries are responsible for their specific workforce. And this is
true of the hirings and the firings that have taken place.
(23:08):
And we advise federal workers unless your agency has dictated
you not to respond to this email.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
It doesn't take that much effort. And thou Doff protests
too much.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Mt.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Snyder by getting righteously indignant about whether or not the
government which employs you has a right to know?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
What do you say you do here?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Quoting one of the bobs from Office Space. Then yet
you should have to tell what your job is, what
you're doing, what your daily schedule is, who you report to,
and where those results are stored. It shouldn't take that
long either. In fact, Caroline Levitt says she did it
herself this week.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
In fact, I can announce that we've had more than
one million workers who have chosen to participate and this
very simple task of again sending five bullet points to
your direct supervisor or manager cceing OPM. I actually participated
it in myself. It took me about a minute and
a half to think of five things I did last week.
I do five things in about ten minutes. And all
(24:15):
federal workers should be working at the same pace that
President Trump is working and moving. We have a country
to save, and we want this federal government to be
responsive to the needs of the American people who re
elected this president to have historic, massive reform. And that's
what the intention of this idea is.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Something she touched on there, in my view, is very important.
That is how hard does the boss work. I know
a lot of you may have worked at a lot
of jobs. I know I have over the years, and
I've had bosses that work so hard, knows to the
grindstone that when they set that example, they set a bar.
And you, as a worker, know, Hey, the guy or
the gal I'm working for is, you know, working as
(24:54):
hard as I've ever seen anybody with a work ethic
that's off the charts. I better match that mirror that,
I better follow that, or I might not be around
for very long. On the other hand, if you have
a boss like Joe Biden who is incontinent and incompetent
and non compassmentus and not functional, then yeah, I think
(25:16):
everybody kind of slacks off. Figure Nah, you know, this
guy's out to lunch. Literally maybe in a lot of cases,
and I don't really have to work as hard. President
Trump sets the tone with an unequaled work ethic for
somebody that's seventy eight years old. This guy is powered
entirely by nuclear energy. I think his own son's Marvel
Addeds and Don Junior was on a golf course. I
(25:38):
think with his own daughter, Donald Trump's granddaughter say, I don't.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Know how my dad does it.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
I don't have that kind of energy, But the Orange
Man does, and he's setting the tone for everyone from
the White House on down to every government agency and bureaucracy.
Americans feel, by and large, this is probably a seventy
thirty seventy five to twenty five eighty twenty issue that
there is bloat, waste, fraud, abuse, too many employees on
(26:08):
the government dime, too many agencies across the board.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Should we cut government spending? Yes?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Should we cut government agencies buy and large. Yes, it
should be leaner, it should be meaner, it should be
less expensive. We are running deficits, and the American taxpayers,
the American people, the American voters, we are sick of it.
We're sick of our money being wasted. And we've seen
this time and again. It's a running joke how inefficient
(26:34):
government agencies are. Not all of them, but a lot
of them, too many of them. And all that Elon
Musk is doing is holding them to account. Finally, there's
been so much campaigning on this over the years, going
back to Bill Clinton with L Gore, even George W.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Bush made promises did not deliver.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Barack Obama talked about being more financially responsible with government
and cutting spending and eliminating waste. They all talk about it,
but they don't deliver on it. And now that Donald
Trump is everybody's freaking out. We'll take this break, we'll
come back with your texts, and speaking of Donald Trump,
a pretty good Donald Trump impersonator confronts Alec Baldwin, who
(27:11):
fancies himself to be a Trump impersonator.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
How did that go? Well?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
There were some fireworks. I want to make sure I
phrase that correctly. It had to do with the set
of the film Rust and the aftermath of that. We'll
have that for you when we come back, along with
your text at five seven seven, three nine, rounding out
our number one of Ryan Schuling live after this.
Speaker 11 (27:42):
Allick, it's your favorite president.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Look, Alick, I will offer you a total pardon because.
Speaker 12 (27:48):
I want to be friends, right, I want to be friends.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
I will give you.
Speaker 12 (27:51):
A total pardon for murdering that woman if you kiss
the ring, Kiss the ring, Alex, kiss the big beautiful ring.
Speaker 11 (27:58):
Come on, Alec, come on, Look at Alec Baldin.
Speaker 12 (28:01):
Right, he did that impersonation to me.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
It was not too hot, not too good. But look
we're back in office. You lost, Kamala lost.
Speaker 12 (28:10):
He's somewhere getting intoxicated.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Look at that suitcase. Unbelievable.
Speaker 12 (28:15):
Well, Alec, if you don't want that pardon for murdering
that woman in cold blood, you can call it first degree,
you can call it whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
But it was not good.
Speaker 12 (28:24):
She's looking down on me right now, smiling happy. Thank
you for confronting the man who took me out, who
killed me.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
And that's okay. Let me ask you question. Sure now
you realize no, look at me. I want you to yeah, sure, sure,
you know you get a camera on me here?
Speaker 7 (28:40):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Right, no, it's the rig. You realize my kids live
in this building, right, but I want you to know.
We love the children. We're doing great deals for the children. Okay,
this Camon was here. I snapped your phone, break your
You know that, don't you know?
Speaker 11 (28:53):
Okay, all right, Alec Bolden, Alec Baldwin.
Speaker 12 (28:55):
Ladies and gentlemen, class act.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Believe me. I want you to believe me.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Won't you get out of here?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Okay?
Speaker 12 (29:00):
I want you to get on you.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Oh he's yelling at me.
Speaker 12 (29:03):
Look, your favorite president's leaving. I want you your favorite
I'm a city senator.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I was born and raised in New York City. I
love you, Alec.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Alex.
Speaker 12 (29:11):
Look, Alex, you know you don't want.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
To attack your favorite president. Alex. Look, I love you.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
I love you, Alex.
Speaker 12 (29:17):
He's got more balls than the Niro that I can
tell you.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
DeNiro ran away. Alec confronted. That's good.
Speaker 12 (29:23):
He's strong, but also he's weak because he murdered a woman.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Said that's okay, Ray, look at this guy. No chill whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
A pretty good trumpetpersonator. He was also in costumes, so
you didn't see the video portion of that. The mannerisms,
the phrasing. I thought it went a little far at
the expense of a murdered woman. I mean, that did
take place, but I'm not one to put constraints on comedy,
and I thought he committed to the bit. Alec Baldwin,
for his part, couldn't resist the bait, could not resist
(29:54):
the temptation a threatened violence. Not that idn't necessarily blame
him that And since he didn't do anything, don't think
that would make this impersonator feel intimidated or fearful of
his safety. Then the impersonator didn't act like it anyway.
So well, what do you think was that a little
too far in pressing on this issue and invading Alec
(30:17):
Baldwin's spaced You know, Alec Baldwin kind of have it
coming five seven, seven, three nine. I want to hear
from you. Let's go to some of those Texas A
lot coming in.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Ryan, you got this, We're here for you.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Viveke Ramaswami as governor of Ohio, Let's go.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I love the vek.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
That's another issue where Dan and I diverged during the campaign,
and when it started good Dan credit he evolved on
this issue, at least on the Nicki Haley part.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
He was a big hate fan of Nicki Haley like
many of you.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I never was, never will be in especially not now,
but certainly wasn't before during and not now. And when
she tried to go in on Ron DeSantis is like, please, okay, now,
not great.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
But Vivik was the one that just took the debate.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
To her, and he wasn't necessarily gentle about it, and
I think that bothered Dan. It did not bother me.
You get into the arena, don't care what gender you are.
I mean, the example I will always use is the
Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher. I mean, she took more slings
and arrows and a time when having a woman on
that stage as a leader of that magnitude was not
(31:24):
a common thing at in nineteen seventy nine, nineteen eighty,
but she earned her way to that post and she
earned that nickname the Iron Lady. She became one of
President Reagan's favorite contemporaries, if not the favorite, And I
think she's a tremendous woman to be admired.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
She just happens to be a woman.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
And we'll talk to Greg Lopez coming up the bottom
of the hour number two. He was there at Ohio
for theveke announcing his run vike Ramaswami for governor of Ohio,
and we'll talk to Greg Lopez about that, maybe his
political future. I have a couple questions along those lines. Ryan,
let's get there. Your previous English and history teachers must
be so proud you articulate all of these things, along
(32:06):
with such relevant contexts, including pop culture references, so thoroughly
and thoughtfully.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Such a joy to listen to. Well, thank you very much,
text her.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
And no I did not pay that text her, at
least not yet, but that is definitely worthy of such
I appreciate those kind words very much. And my English
and history teachers were very stern with me, but I
responded and I tried to anyway. Steven Littleton, retired law
enforcement officer, always appreciate his service and contributions. Sadly, it
(32:35):
seems we have elected representatives in Colorado that periodically mimic
the low performance bar of Omar and Johnson o Ilan, Omar, Minneapolis,
Haint Johnson, suburban Atlanta, somewhere in there. Not great I
think our representatives, even the Democratic ones.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Let me just go through the list. Joe no Goose.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Now I gotta say he's an impressive guy. I think
he's got a very high ceiling potentially politically down the road,
should he choose to run for Senate, should he.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Choose to run for governor.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
I'm not saying I agree with a lot of the
stuff that he says, but I think he's a very
skilled politician, unlike my Congressman Jason Crowe in the sixth
who is a sophomoric intellect and would like to have
you know that he's more than that, but he's not.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
And he's just weird.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
He's off the wall and won't brand a debate to
Steve Monaghan or John Fabricatory. I think that's weak sauce.
He's just not a very impressive guy. Outside of his service.
He was an Army ranger. Always want to respect that.
But outside of that, his performance in Congress mediocre at best.
He doesn't really have to work for it, and so
he doesn't. Britney Peterson don't know a lot about her.
(33:41):
I know that that's a district. It's a very key district,
and if we're going to flip Colorado. There are two
extremely difficult counties where that's going to have to happen.
The tide is going to have to turn in a
jeff Co, where District seven largely is and where Britney
Petterson represents that contingency. This Jeffcoe Public Schools controversy, scandal, tragedies,
(34:03):
they are not going away. And it's the very thing
that flipped Virginia red for Glenn Youngkin. So the Jeffco
Public Schools, they might still be in an FA phase
right now and not worrying about whether they'll ever be
held accountable, but the voters could very mill make sure
that they fo So we'll follow that as it goes.
(34:23):
Jeff Go's big and it's blue. Unfortunately, same thing in
the county. I live in a rapa Hole. If you
look in context of history for a Rapahole County, which
is very densely populated now and it's the primary southeast
suburb of Denver, and it's blue. It's quite blue. It's
at least sixty forty blue. But it wasn't always that way.
(34:45):
During the w years of the two thousands, when George W.
Bush won Colorado, a Rapa Hole is red?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
What changed? Why is a rapa hole blue?
Speaker 7 (34:53):
Now?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Why is jeff Coast so blue? Now?
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I mean, these are the two counties, those collar counties
around Denver that Republicans really have to work hard to
change win hearts and minds, and an issue like schools
and how they treat our children that could be a
pivotal one for those that are in the middle. You know,
Denver Boulder Corridor. We're never going to win that one,
you can chalk up. But I think we can do
better in jeff Coo or Appaho and even Larimer County
(35:17):
where Colorado State University is. But until or unless Republicans do,
the state is going to be out of reach to
turning red.
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