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The Dixie Dems -- Mar 24

[00:00:00] Bob Gatty: Hey guys, welcome to the Lean to the Left podcast. Today we're talking politics, and with me are Arthur Hill from North Carolina and Robert Thompson from Georgia. I'm a Marylander transplanted into South Carolina, and together we're the Dixie Dems, which really is remarkable because only one of us is really from the South, and that's Thompson.

[00:00:24] Anyway, There's a lot to talk about today, including the fact that Nikki Haley is slowly sinking as the only Trump challenger remaining, and much, much more. In Georgia, they're still trying to discredit prosecutor Fannie T. Willis and the Trump election tampering case. And nationally, Republicans are jumping all over none other than entertainer Taylor Swift with some crazy conspiracy theories. And you know what, locally here in South Carolina, the 22 year old political director for the South Carolina Republican Party and her mother had been arrested by the local cops for assaulting somebody in a bar and it's a bar owned by the mother, Michelle Estep, which 

[00:01:18] Robert Thompson: Bob, where's my drink.

[00:01:21] I need a drink in the middle of all this. 

[00:01:22] Bob Gatty: I'm telling you what, you can't make this stuff up. These Republicans are really something, man. So anyway where was I? Arthur Hill is vice chair of the Brunswick County North Carolina Democratic Party, and Robert Thompson is based in Atlanta, and he founded Peach News Now, and its opinion podcast Got G O T, Damn Liberals.

[00:01:50] Now, me, I live in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and spend my time hosting this podcast and producing the Lean to the Left blog site. So welcome guys to the Dixie Dems on the Lean to the Left podcast. Hey Robert, tell us what's going on with Fannie T. Willis and her effort to kick her, and the effort to kick her out of the Trump election tampering case.

[00:02:14] What's happening there? 

[00:02:15] Robert Thompson: I'm sure you guys heard the song " don't trust no backwoods southern lawyer". 

[00:02:20] Okay. Did you see that just line of these old white man judges? Just lining up to ask her those questions, because I don't think we had a episode since, they drug her onto the stand. 

[00:02:35] Bob Gatty: You mean Fanny? Yes. Yeah. No, we haven't had an episode. We actually, we delayed it because we wanted to, we didn't want it to Take over our timing.

[00:02:47] But now I read that today they're in Georgia. They're actually the judges is going to come down with a ruling any time now. 

[00:02:57] Robert Thompson: So and I don't think he's going to. I do appreciate the judges and, People are going to say, if you're not on our side of the political spectrum, that this is, it's all fixed or whatever, but, that's, Fulton County is Fannie Willis's, that's where she works every day.

[00:03:15] She works with all the court reporter, you've got the judge in there, she works with all these people. And he gave those backwoods southern lawyers, as I use that line out of that song, so many chances to come around and come up with something new, and they would just rotate like a revolving door, asking the same questions, and he's is this something new?

[00:03:39] No. Sit down. Next. It doesn't change a damn thing. And I'll call her Mama Fani. She's right up on the picture right behind me. And as we've been doing on all these episodes here, she said, who's on trial here? What does this have to do with, so I keep a lot of cash in my house. So you're going to question some vacations that I took.

[00:04:03] What overturning an election? Not a damn thing. 

[00:04:09] Bob Gatty: Do you really keep a lot of cash in your house? 

[00:04:11] Robert Thompson: No, but guess who doesn't have a lot of cash in his house right now. Trump, the dude is bankrupt. He had to get a bail bondsman to even post his bail in Georgia, let's recall, and he can't come up with the money he's having to just find another attorney to stand up and, appeal these other things that the dude is. And you want to talk about your former governor there in South Carolina. She's got probably a whole lot more money than Trump does right now. Yeah. It is just.

[00:04:46] It's embarrassing that this is the best they can come up with. 

[00:04:51] Bob Gatty: I know, it's incredible. And you know what? It looks like Mark Meadows is in deep doodoo because the federal court there turned down his federal court there in Georgia, turned down his request for a new hearing on whether to move the Georgia election interference case against him from the state to a federal court.

[00:05:12] What's the importance of that, Robert? 

[00:05:14] Robert Thompson: So let's rewind a little bit because I remember a political friend years ago when I lived on the other side of Atlanta, he was actually up in that area and was asking about Mark Meadows because he was the congressman, not the senator in North Carolina, over in Western North Carolina.

[00:05:31] And it was near the district that crazy Madison Cawthorn was from, right? Okay, I'm right in my, political remembering all this going on. And Mark Meadows actually resigned from Congress to go work for this crook. Yeah. 

[00:05:46] Bob Gatty: Really? 

[00:05:47] Robert Thompson: You're gonna resign from Congress and go work for this crook?

[00:05:53] You got everything coming to you, buddy. 

[00:05:55] Arthur Hill: Isn't it amazing? Isn't it amazing that I'm not a Mark Meadows fan by a long shot, but isn't it amazing that everybody that that goes to work for Trump, supports Trump gives him money is owed money by Trump, just gets incredibly stained Just they it's like he's got the reverse Midas touch.

[00:06:15] Anybody who works for him or has anything to do with him, allies themselves with him, winds up in some sort of legal or financial trouble. Every damn time. 

[00:06:25] Bob Gatty: It's amazing. And the reputations go into the toilet. That's right. Incredible. Wow. 

[00:06:31] Arthur Hill: And it inspires all this loyalty. It's hard to, it's hard to understand.

[00:06:35] Bob Gatty: Yeah, that's right. Okay. So let's see. We're in the hell. Oh yeah. Now Trump during, and we had the primary in South Carolina, the Republican primary in South Carolina here. Last week, I guess it was. And yeah, last Saturday. And Trump rolled over Haley who, had been the governor two, two times, two terms of South Carolina.

[00:07:00] And she was pretty popular when she was the governor, but man, she got just smashed. She spent a ton of money on TV. Her ads were increasingly sharp. Some of them were really funny. There was one ad, I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but there was one ad where they just showed a chicken going across the screen.

[00:07:27] This chicken. It was a white screen with this chicken and The voiceover said that Trump was a chicken because he wouldn't debate Haley and that was the ad. That's rich. And then she did, and then she did another ad, a couple of series of ads, in which she kept saying that Trump was losing it. And that he was talk about Biden with mental issues.

[00:07:59] He was the one with the mental issues and she kept harping on that and harping on it. And I was thinking, first of all, I thought the ads were really good. But the problem is that here in, in this county in South Carolina. Which is called Ori, H O R R Y. And don't ever say Hori, it's Ori. Yeah, the locals don't like it if you call it Hori.

[00:08:27] Robert Thompson: Hori, I was about to say, yeah. With a W. Yeah. Okay. 

[00:08:32] Arthur Hill: I've got a, I've got a theory. I've got a theory. I think she's, I think Nikki Haley still has a shot. This is how it could work. 

[00:08:41] Bob Gatty: Okay. 

[00:08:42] Arthur Hill: Let's say that let's say that pick a trial, pick a case, and let's say that Trump loses. So now he's a convicted felon, and let's say it takes place before the Republican National Convention.

[00:08:55] I had this theory before the Supreme Court decided to hear the appeals case, but so maybe it doesn't apply anymore but anyway let's say that Trump goes into the convention as a convicted felon enough Republicans who there at the convention say, I can't support a convicted felon, right?

[00:09:13] So switching my vote to Nikki Haley and Haley comes out of the convention as the as the candidate. And I think that's bad news for Democrats because I think Nikki Haley has a much better shot at beating Biden than Trump does. 

[00:09:26] Bob Gatty: Yeah, I agree with that 100%, and I think that scenario could play out, you just don't know.

[00:09:32] I interviewed a guy the other day, a lawyer who wrote a book about the Trump the Trump cases, and the guy thinks that Trump may cop a plea. He may actually cop a plea, which would include a prohibition against him ever running for public office. And man, if that happens, the Republicans are, they're just thrown into total disarray.

[00:10:01] And Haley would look like, would look really good at that point. 

[00:10:05] Arthur Hill: And what, and the comments she's been making in the last since New Hampshire when she finally turned against Trump or I think a setup for just that kind of eventuality. 

[00:10:14] Bob Gatty: Yeah. How about this quote, speaking of Trump from Haley.

[00:10:20] He is unhinged. He is more diminished than he was, just like Joe Biden's more diminished than what he was. Now that just puts it right into context of what her approach is these days. 

[00:10:35] Arthur Hill: I'm more diminished than I was. 

[00:10:37] Bob Gatty: Yeah, everybody me too, especially. Hell, I can't even But what 

[00:10:42] Robert Thompson: else has she got to do?

[00:10:45] Yeah. But just be a thorn in her, in his side. 

[00:10:48] Bob Gatty: Yeah. The question is how much money does she have and how much money can she continue to raise? There's speculation here locally that she's going to have trouble raising more money, the more she loses in these primaries, and she got crushed again in Michigan.

[00:11:07] You just don't know. But like you say, if all this, if Trump is convicted of at least one felony, and there's 91 charges against him. 91 felony charges against him. So if he gets convicted of one, then he no longer can even vote for himself. So here we would have a president or a presidential candidate for a major party, if you can call the Republican Party a major party anymore.

[00:11:40] Yeah, but you would have the candidate of the party in such a position that he's been convicted of a felony, at least one, and can't even vote. Now, you tell me that the Republicans, that any sane per are Republicans sane? That's another issue, but are, would any sane person vote for the guy? under those circumstances.

[00:12:07] Arthur Hill: I think there's a significant percentage of Republicans that would not. 

[00:12:10] Bob Gatty: I do too. I really do. Matter of fact, there was a exit poll done here in South Carolina, and it showed that 31 percent of the voters questioned in that poll said Trump would not be fit to serve as president if he's convicted of a crime.

[00:12:29] 31%. So you take 31% of those voters away from what, the 35 or 40% that support Trump hardcore. And the guy's done, right?

[00:12:46] Arthur Hill: Because he's got, he's still got a number of unaffiliateds out there. In North Carolina, 30 percent of the electorate is unaffiliated. Yeah. And probably a majority of that would turn away from the Republican Party altogether in the general election. Yeah. 

[00:13:04] Robert Thompson: It's also in my background right next to Mama Fami, Let's Make a Deal.

[00:13:09] Because Mama Fani has made deals with several people that she put up against him. So that is an interesting thing. If he's going to give up and, but that's typically not his M.O.. Yeah. He typically does not give up as we know. 

[00:13:26] Arthur Hill: If the deal was, he didn't have to go to jail. That might change his mind.

[00:13:30] Bob Gatty: Yeah, it might. The other thing, too, that this guy, his name was David Moskowitz that I interviewed the other day he said that he pointed out that he's got this, Trump has this potential big payday coming of four billion dollars having to do with the I guess a sale of his 

[00:13:49] Arthur Hill: He's selling his, he's selling his social media platform. With with a larger company that's going public. 

[00:13:57] That's it. So he'll be 

[00:13:59] worth, but it's all funny money and it's all on paper. It's not it's, he can't. 

[00:14:04] Bob Gatty: That's true. And it's down the road. It isn't anything now and he needs the money now. He's got 454. million dollars worth of penalties that he's got to pay, he's got to come up with a way to pay it.

[00:14:18] And if he and for every day that goes by, it gets bigger because of interest. And, 

[00:14:26] Arthur Hill: there's a rumor going around that Melania is going to head up the Trump company. 

[00:14:32] Bob Gatty: Oh, is that right? Yeah. 

[00:14:34] Robert Thompson: Yeah, we haven't heard from her lately. I guess she ain't got anything better to do. 

[00:14:37] Bob Gatty: Yeah, all right. So what's going on in North Carolina there, Arthur? Enough of this jokes. 

[00:14:42] Arthur Hill: I mentioned it earlier. I want to talk about our state chair as a way of providing a another point of view to to your political director down there in South Carolina.

[00:14:54] Our state chair is is 26 years old. Supposedly she's the youngest. State chair in the country. Her name is Anderson Clayton, and she's a dynamo. She's incredible. And what she's been doing since she got elected just about a year ago is she's convinced that she can get the the youth vote to come out for Democrats.

[00:15:13] And she's convinced that she can get more of the rural vote to come out for Democrats in North Carolina. And she's got a, she's got a big group of people to work with. There are 9 million young folks in North Carolina that and a large percentage of them, the polls say, are going to vote and she's, so she's been at college campuses and everywhere else where young folks hang out and she's been talking to them, and she's been persuading them, and she's been pushing them, and she had a great quote.

[00:15:40] I want to read it to you because A lot of people say why should I vote for either one of them? And here's our answer. "We can push Joe Biden if he's not as progressive as we want him to be, but we cannot push Donald Trump. We can't push a Donald Trump who doesn't want young people to have a right to vote. We can't push a Donald Trump. Who doesn't want young people to have a right to abortion. We can push a president who cares about and believes in young people." And she's full of those kinds of quotes. She's a tremendous orator and and she's she's creating a lot of excitement up here. And I think it's going to bode well for the Democrats in North Carolina in November.

[00:16:16] I think she's doing a great job. 

[00:16:18] Bob Gatty: That's freaking incredible. She's 26. 

[00:16:21] Arthur Hill: Yeah, yeah, she's 26. Yeah, and I know. I think it would be wonderful to get her together with with your state chair in South Carolina, just to just listen to them go back and forth with each other. We're going to make that happen.

[00:16:33] But I hope we can. It's both of them were very dynamic and excited, I think. 

[00:16:38] Bob Gatty: Yeah, I hope we can. 

[00:16:39] Robert Thompson: This almost echoes, some sentiment that a friend of mine has been sending this. This friend is in North Carolina about my same age, and he's been griping, directly at me about our democratic leadership.

[00:16:51] And I'm like, dude, show me somebody better, but nobody's out there. Do you really want four more years of this maniac that do you, that there's no other option right now, either get on the train or and this is March and it's leading up to the November election. And there's going to be all these, it's going to be a wild ride.

[00:17:17] For, every other month, every other week, something's going to come out, but it is what it is at this point. And you're going to have to get on the trainer or just get off at this point. I don't know what else to tell you. 

[00:17:30] Bob Gatty: What else you got going on in Georgia there, Robert? 

[00:17:34] Robert Thompson: Yeah. You did publish and thanks for your skills because I you did a bit of wordsmithing for me, this guy, Barry Loudermilk and the other Republicans here in Georgia, we have what 13 or 14 in our delegation and most of them are Republican that gets sent up to DC.

[00:17:50] And this guy, Barry Loudermilk is a career politician, Republican, and he, gerrymandered me into his district and we moved out of his district. And the, the Georgia district's just got rewritten one more time and for whatever reason, they made his district a little bit easier for him to win for whatever reason, and maybe that's for some of the reasons that we're going to talk about.

[00:18:12] But I was curious before we went to record today, I'm going to list out some of his corporate donors that are still giving him money. Walmart, Visa, Cox Communications, TD Bank, Coca Cola, Toyota, Home Depot, State Farm, and more. These companies shell out thousands and thousands of dollars to these Republican congressmen, but guess what Barry Loudermilk has done.

[00:18:35] He gave people a tour of the Capitol the day before January 6th. This is not some sort of, he's going to stand up and say I just happened to be there. No, come on, Barry. It was January 5th. And you were taking them through the basement of the Capitol. Now, if you guys go to D. C., do you want to see the basement of the Capitol?

[00:18:58] Arthur Hill: No. I've seen it, and you don't. 

[00:19:00] Robert Thompson: Nobody gives a shit about the basement of the Capitol, Barry Loudermilk. Come up with something different. But these companies, after, these donations are marked. 2023, in the fall of 2023, these multinational companies are giving these traitors like Barry Loudermilk money, thousands and thousands of dollars.

[00:19:23] The guy doesn't vaccinate his kids, the, one of the town halls that he gave, it's so embarrassing. This is one of the reasons why he doesn't do town halls. He got up on stage and said I don't vaccinate my kids. Cause that's a great idea. And this was before COVID. Oh man. He campaigned with Josh Duggar.

[00:19:43] You remember Josh Duggar, the guy that, was the child molester? Okay. These are the reasons, there was also he tried to claim, I was one of his constituents for years, he tried to claim that his constituents were berating his office so much that he could not actually respond to constituents that needed help.

[00:20:05] So he used that as an excuse to remove phone numbers from his website. 

[00:20:11] Bob Gatty: Oh man, what a schmuck. 

[00:20:13] Arthur Hill: What the hell? That's constituent service. One O one, right? 

[00:20:16] Bob Gatty: Yeah, absolutely. 

[00:20:17] Robert Thompson: This is the kind of crap and the guy just hides now, but they had Georgia Republicans. Have made his district even safer to wear this Georgia District 11 it used to go into Fulton County.

[00:20:32] They know that is, all blue now. So now he's been pushed up to part of Cobb County is safer to win now. Antonio Daza, unfortunately, was going to try to run again. I did see that he pulled out. It looks like nobody is going to even run against Barry at this point. Mr. Daza raised 5%. So if you take the total pot of money that Barry raised and still has in his coffers, I guess to run against nobody now, Mr.

[00:20:59] Daza raised 5 percent of that Antonio Daza. He was like an immigrant. He was from Venezuela. So 

[00:21:05] Bob Gatty: in other words if louder milk had raised. 100, 000. Barry Gaza raised 5, 

[00:21:13] Robert Thompson: 000 of that. But yet he, the Democrat, he got 37 percent of the vote. Wow. In that gerrymandered district. Wow. Imagine if he was able to get half of the money or 60 or 70 percent of the money that Barry had to just simply go out like those ads you were talking about earlier.

[00:21:33] You got Nikki Haley in South. Carolina going after Trump because he wouldn't even debate very loud. I'm out. Doesn't even do town halls because he's so embarrassing every time he opens his mouth. If you had somebody with, all of these kinds of ads and say, are you really going to vote for this guy?

[00:21:49] And on top of that, going back to all these corporate donors and just. We're on repeat calling these corporate donors. You're really giving money to this dumbass. Yeah. 

[00:21:59] Bob Gatty: Hey, Arthur, what do you think? Don't you think maybe this guy, Robert Thompson, would be a great candidate against? 

[00:22:06] Arthur Hill: I think he would, but he's got to move.

[00:22:08] Yeah, 

[00:22:08] Bob Gatty: he would have to move. Yeah. 

[00:22:11] Robert Thompson: I, I think my blood pressure is too high at the moment. Because I think the day that I moved out of his district, Barry was glad to see me go. And there was another friend of mine I was talking about earlier. He actually moved out of the district too.

[00:22:22] But that 

[00:22:22] Arthur Hill: Here's another thing, we talk about media and ads and so on. Loudermilk District is not an urban district. It's it's a small TV market, right? Where's he going to put the ads? 

[00:22:34] Robert Thompson: Bus stops on the side of cars. There are other ways to get the word out. Oh, video broadcasts.

[00:22:40] Billboards. 

[00:22:42] Bob Gatty: Probably want to do some podcasts, 

[00:22:44] Arthur Hill: I guess. Yeah, 

[00:22:46] Robert Thompson: but I, I, the reason that I know so much about him, I was cause constituent for so long, but all pretty much all the other delegation, including that crazy Marjorie Taylor Greene, they're all just like him, but it's because they're in these safe Ruby red districts.

[00:23:02] They don't have to do anything. But just rinse and repeat every two years. And it's just, it's disgusting. Honestly, I 

[00:23:13] Arthur Hill: hear the Bo bears in trouble. 

[00:23:16] Robert Thompson: Oh yeah. The son. Yeah. Yeah. She might not get elected. Bless her heart. 

[00:23:24] Bob Gatty: You got something else going on there. Don't you Robert, you sent me an email about something you wanted to bring up.

[00:23:30] What was that? 

[00:23:30] Robert Thompson: Yes. So let's talk about some good news for a second. So I do want to give a shout out because Georgia's legislative session I assumed that South Carolina may work the same. But we just had a, I think crossover day actually is today, which is a Friday, March 1st. So in Georgia, that's when the bills in the house and the Senate in Georgia That are viable, get chucked over to the other side and they get debated.

[00:23:56] But one of them, which was actually started by Georgia Democrats. So in Georgia, it was started by a democratic governor Zell Miller years ago, and I was one of the kids at the time that benefited from this. I went to, Georgia public schools on the Hope grant powered by the lottery here.

[00:24:12] But the way it was put together is that if you have extra credits at the end of your undergrad degree you would forfeit them. What the Democrats here want to do is actually let you use those in the grad school if you end up continuing your degree that's a great idea, right? I Josh McLaurin is one of our representatives.

[00:24:31] I'm glad that wanted to share that good news, because you don't hear that often. And we will see what happens with that. 

[00:24:38] Arthur Hill: Does the rest of the legislature think about it? Do you have any idea? 

[00:24:42] Robert Thompson: They said it was co sponsored. We shall see what the Republican friends do with it. If they bury it under something else, or if they actually let it go through, we shall see.

[00:24:50] Because, our governor is so busy. He's out in Texas at the border. Because I guess he can't run for governor here in Georgia again. So I guess he's busy, tending to the border in Texas for whatever crazy reason. 

[00:25:02] Bob Gatty: Yeah, okay. All right. At the top of the show, I mentioned that Republicans are buying into some of the rather insane Taylor Swift conspiracy theories. And it just cracks me up that this pop star, she's cute as can be rich as hell from all what she's doing. And now she's, she she's getting married to this football player. Friend of yours, right? Robert, the one you wanted to be on your calendar.

[00:25:30] What's his 

[00:25:30] Robert Thompson: name? That's his brother. Don't get it. I, Travis is more than welcome to be in the calendar too, but I, my friends typically go for Jason for whatever reason. 

[00:25:39] Bob Gatty: Oh, I don't know. Travis is better looking than Jason, I think. Yeah, I, but anyway, let me get back to the Taylor Swift thing.

[00:25:48] So we get off on this tangent, but anyway, a new Monmouth university poll shows that Americans as a whole overwhelmingly reject the idea that SWIFT is part of a covert government effort to reelect President Biden in 2024, 73% to 18%. Now 18% of the people believe that Taylor Swift is part of a covert government effort to reelect Biden.

[00:26:27] Now, within the GOP, there's a remarkable level of support for that proposition. The poll shows that about one third of Republicans, 32%, believe SWIFT is indeed part of that covert government effort. And another 57 percent says such an effort doesn't exist. And I presume that those 57 percent that believes that effort doesn't exist. They have to be Democrats. They can't be Republicans. 

[00:26:58] Arthur Hill: You know why I know that's not true. The conspiracy theories are not true. It's because I just saw that movie Elvis a couple of weeks ago. Yeah. I learned things about Colonel Parker that I never knew but I can tell you this, Taylor Swift does not have Colonel Parker on her side telling her what to do, and because of that, I think that she's going to do the right thing and she'll come out and support a Biden and everything will be fine, but there's no conspiracy because there's no Colonel Parker.

[00:27:31] Robert Thompson: I was going to call her comrade Swift. I'm on board with her, bring it on Taylor. I w we need the help.

[00:27:38] Bob Gatty: What I thought? I thought it was just silly. I'm not much for pop stars. I don't understand how it is that people in their twenties can get to be so rich. 

[00:27:47] Robert Thompson: Even before we started recording today, it's all the more reason that you need those aviator sunglasses for your Mustang.

[00:27:53] You just basically got to play along that. Yep. Yeah. You're crazy as a bed bug. Here's your tinfoil hat and dark Brandon's still at work. 

[00:28:04] Bob Gatty: What he's referring to, what he's referring to is that I just purchased a new Mustang Mach E, which is a fully electric. Mustang, and it is freaking beautiful, and I'm loving it.

[00:28:20] And and I also am having solar put on my house, so that way I'll be riding around for free. Pretty good. 

[00:28:29] Robert Thompson: Bob, it's all the 5G. You've been in, it was all the COVID vaccination. It's all flowing through your blood. It's all coming full circle, yeah, that's 

[00:28:37] Bob Gatty: true. 

[00:28:38] Okay, and you know what? I forgot one thing, and that is that Mitch McConnell has just announced that he's stepping down in November as Republican leader in the Senate after serving there for, I don't know how many centuries.

[00:28:52] So what do you guys think about that? I see that Senator John Thune of South Dakota. Now the minority whip is considered to have the inside track, but a bunch of other people are throwing their hats in the ring, so to speak. And 

[00:29:07] Robert Thompson: What was also around the same time was Miss Ronna McDaniel.

[00:29:12] She's bailing after Super Tuesday as well. So what else do they 

[00:29:16] Bob Gatty: know? Yeah, but it's going to be run by the Trumpers, right? I 

[00:29:20] Robert Thompson: guess, but I think that they're just shaking their heads and they're seeing all these people getting indicted and they're like, I'm out folks that this is not for me. I don't feel like spending because Ronna McDaniel, she's maybe slightly older than me.

[00:29:35] She's got a lot more years and all on her. She's no, I, it ain't worth it with you crazy people. I'm out of here 

[00:29:45] Bob Gatty: Just to clarify things for Robert. I think he told me he's 45. 

[00:29:50] Robert Thompson: 44 this month. 

[00:29:53] Bob Gatty: 44 this month. Matter of fact, he's going on a fancy cruise to celebrate his birthday, which I think is very nice.

[00:30:02] Yes. So anyway, I think we need to wish Robert a happy birthday. I don't know. You want to break into song, Arthur? No, 

[00:30:11] Arthur Hill: no, I don't, 

[00:30:13] Robert Thompson: But I don't have to, you know what I would prefer though, usually when it's somebody's birthday, there is a YouTube video of Dolly Parton singing happy birthday. So we'll just insert that here.

[00:30:24] So I can do 

[00:30:25] Bob Gatty: that. I could, or maybe we could 

[00:30:27] Arthur Hill: get the Marilyn Monroe version of singing Happy Birthday to JFK. How about 

[00:30:31] Robert Thompson: that? 

[00:30:31] That even works out better. Yeah. That way Arthur doesn't have to sing karaoke. 

[00:30:34] Bob Gatty: If I can find one that's not encumbered with copyright issues, I'll use it.

[00:30:41] But 

[00:30:41] Arthur Hill: yeah but can I have a second, a little bit 

[00:30:44] Bob Gatty: of time? Do it. Do it, man. We're sure. 

[00:30:47] Arthur Hill: I want to talk a little bit about McConnell's counterpart in the house. Mike Johnson. I got a letter from the speaker this week. You want to close the Republican National Committee for some reason thinks I'm a Republican.

[00:31:04] Robert Thompson: They're scraping the bottom of the barrels. 

[00:31:07] I

[00:31:07] Arthur Hill: got a letter from the speaker of the house and it says your name was forwarded to me as a truly loyal and dedicated Republican. Someone who understands we must stop Biden's socialism before it's too late. And it's a long letter.

[00:31:22] It's four pages long, but it's a lot of money. And he has a lot, he says a lot of things. He wants to restore the God given rights of Americans in all 50 cent states. And he says that he doesn't want to stand back and watch our country be sabotaged by politicians who hate our founding principles.

[00:31:39] Too many people have failed to realize that our rights come from God, not government. That's a good one. And let's see talking about the Democrats being the corrupt and the most corrupt political party in the history of the United States that coming from the leader of a party who has a candidate who's up for who's a convicted rapist and up for 91 counts, and so on.

[00:32:02] I don't know. But I think it's important that that people who listen to us and people who would normally not get a letter from the Speaker of the House understand the kind of things that the Republicans are saying about Democrats and and not only is none of it good, but also none of it is true.

[00:32:19] He does say one thing, though, that at the end of the letter, he says and I agree with him on this. He says, every vote counts. And he sure is right about that, and I think that it's going to be up to, it's going to be up to people who are involved and speak for the party, the Democratic Party, to get the vote out and make sure that folks show up on Election Day, because if that happens, Democrats will win.

[00:32:44] And the reason they will is because there's more Democrats out there than there are Republicans. 

[00:32:48] Bob Gatty: So that's a, that's an incredible thing. It really is. It's really 

[00:32:52] Robert Thompson: important. And, it's ironic that you do that. And this goes back to years ago when I finally got hold of a staffer that worked for Barry Loudermilk at the time that would give me the time of day.

[00:33:02] And he actually was giving me the whole flow book. Cause I think you guys have worked with some of these elected officials on the past. He goes, oh, that comes from the campaign side of the was going to call it the business or whatever, like really. It, so that, that letter literally said from the speaker of the house, right?

[00:33:18] Yeah. He signed it. Yep. Yeah, his signature. Come on Now that, that is a bunch of bullshit. They try to dance this line. That came from the campaign side. That's not official bullshit. 

[00:33:30] Arthur Hill: But the thing that the, these elected office holders, particularly the ones in dc, they don't write anything.

[00:33:36] No. They don't write their campaign material. They don't write their speeches. They don't write statements on the floor. They don't write their press release. They don't write anything. 

[00:33:45] Bob Gatty: I worked on the Hill. I used to do it. Even 

[00:33:48] Robert Thompson: Bob helps me, right? Thank God.

[00:33:52] Bob Gatty: That's right. 

[00:33:53] Arthur Hill: We had a rule. We had a rule when I was working in the Senate. We had a rule that, a constituent letter comes in, particularly if it was somebody from his state, it comes in, you got to respond in 24 hours. And and then there was a machine that signed the letter. He Senator never saw him, but they came from him.

[00:34:10] Robert Thompson: And also he said, this is a republic, not a democracy. 

[00:34:13] Bob Gatty: The two congressmen that I worked for, they were too cheap to get the machine. So I had to forge their names. I cannot tell you how many hundreds of constituent letters that I signed for two different members of Congress. 

[00:34:27] Arthur Hill: As long as you didn't sign any of his checks, I think you're 

[00:34:29] Bob Gatty: okay.

[00:34:33] And I'm sure people, some of those people, Probably framed those letters because it was signed by the congressman

[00:34:40] before they knew.

[00:34:42] Oh, man, life is good, isn't it? Must be nice. You guys got anything else going on you want to talk about? That's plenty. 

[00:34:51] Robert Thompson: I'm ready for happy hour. I know that. All 

[00:34:52] Bob Gatty: Yeah, me too. I have to take my sweetie out for dinner. That's what I'm going to do. There you go. Drive the new car. Yeah, I got to. Yeah, I got to.

[00:35:03] Matter of fact, for you folks that are in the least bit interested, I'll throw a picture of my car up in the middle of this, in the middle of this video so you can see it because I know you'll like 

[00:35:14] Arthur Hill: it. You're going to be in it. You got to 

[00:35:17] Bob Gatty: be in it. Oh, I can be in it. You know what, though? You know what happened?

[00:35:22] Oh, my God, I was so upset. I backed my car out of my new car. It has a. That the roof is all glass, it's not a sunroof, the whole roof is glass and the garage door came down and smashed the top of my, now I have to have it, I have to have it replaced. Fortunately, there won't be a cost to me because it's all glass and you don't.

[00:35:50] On my policy, I'm covered for glass 100%. I already have a what do you call it? Something I have to pay but yeah, but man, I was upset. I'm still upset, 

[00:36:01] Arthur Hill: but so what I meant, you mean the insurance will pay for the glass. That's the glass roof I know they'll pay for the windshield, but they'll also pay for the glass roof.

[00:36:10] Bob Gatty: Oh, great. Good. Matter of fact, it was really cool because I did a bunch of calling around to find somebody that could fix it. And I ended up finding this glass company that that's all they do is they do automobile glass. And I know that's all they do, but they do automobile glass. So I went over and talked to them and the lady, and I showed the lady the the estimate that I had received from Allstate and she said you know what?

[00:36:44] There's no body damage to this car. You should just go under their glass policy and you won't have a deductible. So I called Allstate up and I said, Hey, how about that? And they said, sure, we can switch it. So they switched it from auto body repair to a glass claim. And I won't have to pay anything, which, that's good because the deductible's 250 bucks.

[00:37:12] Now, this thing is going to cost 2, 000 in the end with labor and the parts. So that's a lot. Yep. Yeah. So anyway, such as that. So having said all that thanks for coming on and I've been a lot of fun and we'll do it again. Thanks. See you guys soon. All right. Take care.