Dixie Dems-Sleepy Don, Hush Money & More

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Sleepy Don, Hush Money & More

[00:00:00] 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. Arthur's vice chair of the Brunswick County North Carolina Democratic Party and Robert's based in Atlanta and he founded Peach News Now and it's opinion podcast Got Damn liberals. That's G O T. Damn liberals. Me, I live in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and spend my time hosting this podcast and producing the Lean to the Left blog site. Now, we're living in turbulent times, guys. Donald Trump's New York City hush money trial is underway. Even as Sleepy This cracks me up.

[00:00:52] Even as Sleepy Don nods off in the courtroom, where his future and fortune, and even his freedom, could be decided. At least now, Sleepy Don the Con, and other variations , are far out distancing Sleepy Joe on social media. The Republicans? They're an absolute shitshow.

[00:01:17] With their fearless leader tied up in court, there's a revolt against House Speaker Mike Johnson underway, led by none other than Robert Thompson's favorite lawmaker, Georgia Republican, Marjorie Taylor Greene. 

[00:01:32] Robert Thompson: You know what I'm going to have to do, Bob? I'm going to interrupt you. I'm going to have to bring the wig back.

[00:01:38] Bob Gatty: Bring the wig back. You should, why don't you go get it anyways. Anyway, Greene wants to get rid of Johnson because of his effort to devise foreign aid legislation aimed at helping both Ukraine and Israel in their respective wars. Nothing like trying to do something responsible. Oh no. Anyway, insiders say the vote to oust Johnson will be called, but nobody has any idea who would replace him.

[00:02:09] And that's just the tip of the iceberg. So guys, what's going on in your areas? Hey, Robert, since I brought up your favorite Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, why don't you lead us off? 

[00:02:22] Robert Thompson: So I've forgotten to share this with you guys, but now that our former president is in a, hot mess of a trial, I think this is a quote from the lady that he paid off and I'm just going to read it and maybe you have to read it twice to let it all.

[00:02:38] Bob Gatty: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Did you just say from the lady he just paid off? 

[00:02:43] Robert Thompson: Yeah that he previously paid off that 

[00:02:45] Bob Gatty: you're talking about, you're talking about what's her name? Stormy Daniels, Miss Daniels. Okay. You're from Georgia. You're a southerner. So you would call her Miss Daniels. You would. Okay. 

[00:02:58] Robert Thompson: She has insurance too. All right. So I'm going to, I'm going to read this and try to get all the way through it without laughing. Go ahead. All right. I had no idea if he penetrated me, and I'm a professional. He just kept yelling, I'm huge. I'm the greatest. And then he made a gurgling sound, and I said, I can't do it.

[00:03:19] I cannot make it through this. So he said, I'm huge. I'm the greatest. And then he made a gurgling sound, and he fell asleep. But hey, it was a job, and the check cleared. I may have to repeat that because obviously I could not get through that in a single sentence. But did you get the gist of what she said?

[00:03:41] Arthur Hill: Oh yeah, we definitely got the gist. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! 

[00:03:45] Robert Thompson: No wonder the guy is wore out. He's old. He's also, I hear, passing gas in court. Just bless his heart. 

[00:03:55] Bob Gatty: Ha! Ha! Bless his, did you say bless his fart? Is that what you said?

[00:03:59] Robert Thompson: No, but that'll work too.

[00:04:01] I guess you got to follow him around with Fabreze. 

[00:04:03] Arthur Hill: But Did she make a statement under oath by any chance? 

[00:04:09] Robert Thompson: I'm not sure. So this is a meme going around and it's so specific that it's hard to counter that it's not true. 

[00:04:16] Arthur Hill: Okay, maybe it's a question or something. She's under oath. 

[00:04:21] Robert Thompson: Maybe it's from her deposition because I think they deposed her for this.

[00:04:25] Anyhow but back to, serious politics and, I would like to focus on, some candidates. We have a primary coming up. We have a lot of really good quality candidates, unlike the clown car. That we just talked about on the other side I'll just say up front. I'm working with Miss Keisha Waites. She's running for Fulton County clerk and just note that Fulton County clerk is, the office there that, stamps all the documents and it's quite a responsibility for the Fulton County clerk here in Georgia.

[00:04:58] Also, my friend Robin Biro is running for a state senate seat. Just remember that you may not have the same elected officials because there is some redistricting that happened and there's many others here across our state that are coming up there. But you know what Republicans are worried about? They want to impeach the Homeland Security Secretary.

[00:05:19] That they, and they can't even get enough votes together to actually push that through effectively. And, I told Bob, I had to tune to Fox news and risk my blood pressure going out of control watching Fox news, they basically have drones just flying around the Southern border and that's all they can talk about, but I, and this may be a, but I teetered on possibly sharing this or not, but.

[00:05:45] This whole border wall bullshit that the other side wants to put up. 

[00:05:49] Bob Gatty: Remember your language. Watch your language 

[00:05:53] Robert Thompson: This is blood pressure coming through but you know the southern border and this wall and everything I live in a pretty, meshed area and there are a lot of day laborers And they're white vans that you know pass my home.

[00:06:07] These guys can stack a dozen ladders on top of a white van And go highway speeds and Trump and his people somehow think that's going to keep the people out of the U. S. with some sort of wall. And I can see how that could maybe, come across as a bit, racist or what have you, but it's reality.

[00:06:28] You're not going to keep these people out. 

[00:06:30] Bob Gatty: Do they have these ladders so they can get over the wall? Is that what you're saying? 

[00:06:35] Robert Thompson: No, these guys are actually here doing a job. 

[00:06:39] Bob Gatty: Oh, they're already here. They're already here working. Okay. 

[00:06:43] Robert Thompson: These guys will fill up all the gas pumps at the station at 7 a. m. to go and do their job for the day and then they come back home late at night. They're actually here. They're actually doing the jobs that these other lazy ass Republicans just want to sit and bitch about. Yes, but they can stack a dozen ladders on top of a van and they think that somehow a wall is going to deter people from coming through the southern border.

[00:07:09] Good luck with that.

[00:07:12] Bob Gatty: Oh, man. That's pretty funny. You said that that they're going to gas stations because I haven't been to a gas station in over a month because I got a new electric Mustang. And I'm just real proud of it and it's an incredible thing. But I go to this grocery store where you get discounts on gasoline.

[00:07:32] I'm going to tell them I want something else because I can't use their gasoline discount anymore because I, Don't buy gasoline. Just that's I'm sorry. I'm going off on a tangent here I'm sorry, 

[00:07:43] Robert Thompson: but no all these things that we are talking about here Have they don't have anything to do with taxes.

[00:07:49] They have nothing to do with inflation you know that yes gas prices are up But if you're the one out there driving a truck that gets nine or ten miles to the gallon Bless your heart. It's not sustainable. Gas is not going to go down. Gas is not going to go down to what it cost in 1990. I'm sorry.

[00:08:08] It's not going to happen. That's right. But meanwhile, I can go to Kroger right now and go to the meat section at Kroger and buy meats for 5 to 10 dollars. And, okay, gas is up, you've got other things that have gone up, but it relatively, these things are not going to go down and you've got these other things out there.

[00:08:27] Also, Georgians, if you're a Republican, guess what? If you want to go to college, it's going to cost you at least two to three percent more to stay in state and pay in state tuition, thanks to Georgia Republicans who are caring less about that. And my blood pressure. 

[00:08:45] Arthur Hill: That's going up too. 

[00:08:47] Bob Gatty: Yeah. Okay. All right. Do you got happening there in North Carolina there, Arthur? 

[00:08:53] Arthur Hill: We we got a lot of, we have a lot of fear and loathing going on in the state right now we had of course we have the guy who's running as a Republican for Governor Mark Robinson who you can Google him online and you'll come up with With a long laundry list of scatological comments that he's made about various minorities in the past few years.

[00:09:14] And and the Democrats at the state level, and I'm probably also somewhere in the nation are going to be, are going to be reminding voters of that as we get closer to election day. And then we have added to that list is the woman who is running for Superintendent of Education, which is a statewide office as a Republican named Michelle Morrow, who appeared on CNN recently is saying that one of the things she's accused of saying is that she thinks that Obama and Biden ought to be publicly executed.

[00:09:44] She's also running for the Superintendent of Education, who having homeschooled her children and and also vowing to get rid of all public schools in North Carolina. Difficult to see how she's going to be number one, elected, but number two, how she's going to be an effective leader of public education in the state.

[00:10:03] And then we have the Bobby Kennedy Jr. effect. Apparently he has accumulated enough signatures to be placed on the North Carolina ballot, although the State Board of Elections hasn't finished counting them yet. You have to have, 50, 000 signatures, so it's probably going to take a while to go through them all, but assuming that he gets on the ballot there's been some polls that are, that have come out that show at the moment he's got about let me see, I think it's about yeah, he's got about 7%.

[00:10:30] In the polls right now. And the interesting thing is who is that hurt Biden or Trump? And and the way it's working out according to the pollsters is it's about the same for both. Race between Biden and Trump is already in the margin of error in the state. This is gonna be an interesting race to follow. Just one more reason it's going to be an interesting race to follow in North Carolina. But Biden is not without his resources. He was in Raleigh a few days ago, and he had a private fundraiser after appearing at A public event here and raised 2.

[00:11:02] 5 million bucks and in one short one short meeting with donors in the state. That's very encouraging. And and we have a couple of folks who are running for statewide office that that are very appealing. We have the form of current Attorney General Josh Stein and except he's neck and neck with Adamson.

[00:11:19] So we'll see how that goes as time goes by and the race for to replace Stein as Attorney General. Is between two members of Congress one of the Democrat, who's very appealing and the other one, a Republican, who's a a member of the of the fringe minority or fringe Republican party in the House of Representatives.

[00:11:41] Interesting things going on in, in statewide politics. 

[00:11:45] Bob Gatty: Okay. What the hell are you doing there, Robert? You're making this. Clicking noise. I see you with some kind of stamp. What's that all about? 

[00:11:54] Robert Thompson: I think we talked about this before. You've got an ability to literally. As long as this 10 Hamilton bill is going to be in circulation, that's going to save both Biden and Harris and save America.

[00:12:06] Arthur Hill: And this is legal. So if it is for political reasons, I'm not a lawyer, but several lawyers have given an opinion. This is legal. And you can circulate and get that in front of more people. I was reminded to to stamp them. 

[00:12:20] Bob Gatty: Okay. I just wanted to have you point that out because people are going to wonder what that noise was.

[00:12:26] And that's what it was. 

[00:12:28] Arthur Hill: What does it say? 

[00:12:31] Robert Thompson: Save America, vote Biden and Harris. 

[00:12:33] Bob Gatty: Oh, can you show that? Can you show that? Put it on the camera. That's a great idea, actually. Oh, I see it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. All right. Yeah, you did talk about it last month, but it's a good thing to reprise that.

[00:12:51] Robert Thompson: Because, and the reason why, before you get back to that, the 7 percent thing that Arthur is scaring us about, remember we all thought that Hillary was going to win? Yeah. You cannot underestimate what is going to happen between now and November. Yeah. And, the more, just for this example, having all those in circulation, around the U. S., can remind people to do the right thing. 

[00:13:14] Arthur Hill: That's great. And if somebody was really offended by that message, they could take it to the bank and get them swapped. They could get another 10 bill. A clean one. 

[00:13:21] Robert Thompson: Yeah. And give it to somebody that actually cares. 

[00:13:24] Arthur Hill: Yeah. Yeah. No, no harm, no foul.

[00:13:27] Why not? First amendment. Benjamin Franklin was a great believer in the first amendment. Does it have to be a 10 bill? 

[00:13:34] Robert Thompson: No, this is marking money and actually I had another elder of mine here and near me that used to do this and they would mark money with rainbows because of the the queer money going into the community to remind, if there was any sort of queer issue on the ballot that okay, you can do this, but look at all the money you're going to lose if you So that's another breed or example of what has happened with this before.

[00:13:58] Bob Gatty: Oh, that's cool. Andrew? I've got to talk about some serious stuff here in South Carolina, because they gerrymandered the shit out of the congressional districts. And the case went before the U. S. Supreme Court. The U. S. Supreme Court has dragged their feet and not done anything. So the primary elections, which are June 11 with early voting starting in May 28th the locals here decided that we don't have time for the Supreme Court to act and actually the federal court, which had had originally determined that the district lines were unconstitutional, that they discriminate against black voters that same federal court ruled that the election would go ahead with the existing lines. That case all hinges on the first congressional district, which is held by Republican Representative Nancy Mace. And there are two Democrats running in the primary to challenge Mace businessman Michael Moore, who is an African American and whose great grandfather held that seat 150 years ago as well as attorney Mac DeFord, who is a pretty forward looking guy.

[00:15:17] And both candidates are excellent candidates. I've had 'em on the Lean to the Left podcast and their episodes are now streaming. So you guys want to check 'em out. Go to podcast, do lean to the left.net and you can find 'em there. But the upcoming primary isn't the only date of political importance in South Carolina.

[00:15:40] Because Senator Tim Scott, who desperately wants to be Trump's VP pick, has planned an early August wedding to his fiancée, Mindy Nose. And that's just weeks after the GOP National Convention. I guess he's hoping that, he'll be anointed the VP running mate at the convention. And then he'll go into his wedding as such, and it'll be a big deal.

[00:16:08] But I don't know. I think there's a better chance that he'll just be newly married, and that'll be that. 

[00:16:17] Arthur Hill: Are you going to go to the wedding? Have you been invited? 

[00:16:20] Bob Gatty: I haven't been invited. I don't know why. Because 

[00:16:24] Arthur Hill: I do, 

[00:16:25] Bob Gatty: why do you think it is? 

[00:16:28] I 

[00:16:28] Arthur Hill: just think that you probably have a couple of differences of opinion that have forever for your relationship.

[00:16:34] Robert Thompson: I wonder if they're getting married in Mar a Lago. 

[00:16:37] Bob Gatty: I know, but I know it's going to be married and I'm sure he'll be married in a church in South Carolina. He's very religious. He wears that on a sleeve, and I'm sure that's one reason why maybe he figures that he'd be he'd have a good shot at getting the VP nod with Trump because Trump needs somebody to balance his evil, misogynistic reputation.

[00:17:02] I think on the ticket. So anyway, 

[00:17:05] Robert Thompson: Apparently it's smelly too. 

[00:17:06] Bob Gatty: Yeah. Oh, yeah, you were talking about farting before, what is this show going to be serious today or not? 

[00:17:15] Arthur Hill: No, of course not. 

[00:17:16] Robert Thompson: We're trying. There's so much, stuff here coming from ClownCon. 

[00:17:20] Bob Gatty: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, did you know that Nikki Haley got a new job?

[00:17:26] Arthur Hill: She's got a new job. State coordinator for the Republican National Committee, right? 

[00:17:32] Bob Gatty: No, not Nikki Haley. No. Nikki Haley. No, she dropped, after she dropped her presidential nomination challenge against Trump, she's she just announced that she's taken a new job with the Hudson Institute, which is a conservative foreign policy think tank.

[00:17:51] And that kind of surprised me. I thought she was angling for something on Fox News or something, but. Apparently not.

[00:17:57] Arthur Hill: I've been paid for money by the Hudson Institute. 

[00:18:02] Bob Gatty: Yeah, exactly. Now that's the important news here, but it's not all that's happening in South Carolina, which is known for its dog eat dog politics.

[00:18:13] In fact, That's what's going on as Charity Fowler was arrested on March 31st for alleged animal abuse after one of her dogs was seen eating another dog. 

[00:18:27] Robert Thompson: I'm conscious of the dog was not being fed. 

[00:18:31] Bob Gatty: I don't know. I don't know. Don't know the article in the newspaper was only about four paragraphs long and it didn't give any of those gory details.

[00:18:42] It just said that a neighbor saw her dog eating another dog and so she was arrested and she was put in the hoosegow for about a day and then she was released. Anyway, that's that's all I know about that. But I just thought it was important enough to bring up. I love this dog eat dog politics thing, huh?

[00:19:07] Arthur Hill: Thank you for that. 

[00:19:08] Bob Gatty: Yeah, okay, I thought so. I thought you'd like that. All right, now, hey, there's some other stuff we need to talk about. Abortion and immigration. What do you guys think about how those issues are playing out and how they'll affect the election? What do you think? 

[00:19:25] Robert Thompson: Just look at Alabama. You have a very decently red district that was flipped recently by a democratic lady who mostly was talking about abortion. . You have a minority stance that the Republican party is taking on abortion and it is not popular. You have their candidates, on paper, they're going to vote a certain way about it, but they don't want to discuss it because they know they cannot win these arguments when it comes to abortion and 

[00:19:57] Arthur Hill: Republicans have yet to win in a in an election that features abortion is a major issue. They have yet to win. They've lost every time. And and I think they know it's a bad issue for them. And just to make just to compound their problem, you've got Donald Trump declaring finally his position on the abortion question, excuse me, and then the next day, Arizona, the Arizona Supreme Court comes out with its decision that reverts the state back to a law that was passed before it was a state.

[00:20:33] And and so all of a sudden you have a the Republican standard bearer who said, let's leave it up to the states having effectively to backtrack what he said 24 hours earlier by saying that the Arizona Supreme court decision went too far. And he didn't think that was a good idea.

[00:20:49] It's a terrible issue for the Republicans. And and I think that it reminds me of of the dog who finally caught the car. What do we do now? They won on the Roe versus Wade Supreme Court decision. And now they don't know what to do about it or what they can do with it.

[00:21:04] And they're incurring the wrath of the vast majority of American voters. So I think it's I think it's a great issue for Democrats to run on and it's a terrible issue for Republicans. As far as immigration is concerned, I think that some of that's gonna be offset. It hasn't been a good issue for Biden.

[00:21:20] But some of that is gonna be offset by the clown show that's going on in the Senate right now with this impeachment thing. The, obviously, we're recording this before the actual trial, but it's pretty obvious that that there's going to be no conviction in this impeachment trial and and the Republicans are going to look like fools for bringing it up at all.

[00:21:39] So I think that's going to offset a little bit some of the unwarranted criticism that Biden has received on the immigration issue. He could have been more aggressive. He could have done more. But but he didn't. And and the situation is not under good control, and it needs to be, and he needs to do something about it, but I think that I think over the long term he will, and and we'll all be better for it.

[00:22:02] We'll have a better solution under a Democratic administration than we ever would under under a Trump presidency. 

[00:22:09] Bob Gatty: Yeah, I think that we can see the, that there's movement already that these issues are playing against Trump. I saw something that came across my email today, the, something to the effect that that Biden has closed the gap in the polls with Trump.

[00:22:28] I was looking for it here, but I can't find it, but basically that's what it said. Have you guys seen that? Do you think that's what? You think that's really happening?

[00:22:35] Arthur Hill: I've seen reports that he's he's either winning or within a percentage point in a number of different polls, not just one.

[00:22:43] Bob Gatty: Yeah. Yeah. A lot of different polls. Yeah. 

[00:22:46] Robert Thompson: I think it's happening. And it's happening because we're not seeing news stories to the contrary, because how many of the stories were clickbait, honestly, over the past couple of months where, Trump was leading and then this happens. And, of course, nobody's talking to the public right now that I've seen.

[00:23:06] Bob Gatty: Yeah Trump's a little preoccupied, having trouble staying awake, though. 

[00:23:13] Robert Thompson: There's so much on this plate for such an old man. 

[00:23:17] Bob Gatty: You keep talking about how old he is. 

[00:23:18] Robert Thompson: Oh, and including, we forgot to mention, because his cult is calling this out, that he is not able to make his son Barron's graduation because he's having to deal You know who else, doesn't make it to that is criminals that are in jail.

[00:23:35] You have to actually face up to what you've been doing over the past several decades. Yep, I've been. I've been. Boo hoo. Yeah. Barron probably doesn't even want him there. Probably his mother doesn't want him there either. Turned it into a frickin circus. 

[00:23:49] Bob Gatty: Yeah. Now, you guys mentioned Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a minute ago. He's continuing his run, even though the No Labels Party has called it quits because they couldn't find a credible candidate, which, You know, cracked me up. At any rate, what are your thoughts about the Kennedy factor? Do you think that that's going to take away from we mentioned, you mentioned a little while ago as to whether it would benefit or hurt Biden or Trump?

[00:24:18] Arthur Hill: In North Carolina, yeah. He's only on the ballot in what? One state, two states? Is Utah and anywhere else? He's trying to get on the ballot in other states, but, Right now, I think he's only on the ballot and one. 

[00:24:30] Bob Gatty: Yeah, I don't understand it. I think this is just another ego thing that's going on with him.

[00:24:35] I, why else would he be doing this? There's no chance in, in the world that he could pull this off. I don't think. 

[00:24:41] Arthur Hill: Of course there isn't, of course there isn't. And and he's gonna have to share the third party vote with the Green Party and with the Libertarian Party. And and they're all gonna fight for the, they're all gonna fight for the crumbs from the table.

[00:24:56] But the history of it is Yeah, you're sure in North Carolina, the RFK junior is polling at about 7 percent now, but that's going to shrink. That's going to shrink as as the Biden and Trump marketing and branding and advertising campaigns gin up later this summer.

[00:25:14] And I just think that by the time we get to election day people aren't going to want to waste their vote. They're going to want to, they're going to want to vote for somebody that and feel that they're honestly making a difference. And I think that Kennedy will probably disappear into the shadows just like any other third party candidate in the history of this country has.

[00:25:30] Bob Gatty: Yeah, I think you're right. 

[00:25:32] Arthur Hill: With the possible exception of the Bull Moose Party. 

[00:25:35] Bob Gatty: Hey, you know what? If you guys would like to have a job at the Republican National Committee, you know what you got to do? 

[00:25:42] Robert Thompson: Go to jail 

[00:25:43] Arthur Hill: get out of jail. 

[00:25:44] Bob Gatty: Applicants there are being asked if they believe the 2020 election was stolen. And that apparently is a standard that they've got to meet if they want a job at the RNC. Which just goes to show how Trump is solidifying his, his hold on the Republican Party, right? 

[00:26:06] Arthur Hill: Why would you, why would the first thing that you do when you take over the national party would be to fire all your state coordinators?

[00:26:14] Robert Thompson: And on top of that, if maybe that's the strategy is going to put everything in that Tim Scott guy from South Carolina, but they've also abandoned on minority outreach. If you are trying to win a presidential race on your dwindling base, and you don't give a damn about anybody else, that's a great campaign strategy.

[00:26:35] Arthur Hill: Or, 

[00:26:36] Robert Thompson: if we read between the lines, maybe all those legal bills just are adding up, and they can't afford to really put any effort anywhere else. 

[00:26:45] Bob Gatty: Yeah. Robert, I see you have that fancy looking shirt that says American Family In American Family Insurance, right? Insurance. Insurance. Insurance. Is it insurance or insurance?

[00:27:01] Arthur Hill: We live in the South. You got to say, 

[00:27:02] Bob Gatty: I know. I don't understand why they do that, but they do. Okay. Anybody else got anything to bring to the table today? 

[00:27:16] Arthur Hill: Yeah, I forgot to mention one thing about about that happened in North Carolina in the last few days. We just had this state visit by the Prime Minister of Japan, and there was a big hoo-ha at the White House.

[00:27:25] And he got a free meal there and it was wonderful. But but he had the option to visit one state while he was on his trip and he picked North Carolina. And the reason he picked North Carolina was because Japan has invested in the last six years, $6.6 billion. In the North Carolina economy.

[00:27:45] They got a huge Toyota plant. They got a huge Honda plant. And now they're now they're going to put in a huge Fuji plant. Japan and North Carolina are really hitting it off these days. I forgot to mention that earlier. Sorry. 

[00:27:57] Robert Thompson: I actually have a good friend of mine that travels back and forth every week to work on the Fuji plant.

[00:28:04] Arthur Hill: Oh, is that right? Yeah. 

[00:28:07] Robert Thompson: And, but I believe they're also hedging their bets because one other thing that Trump claims he wants to do, which there was an article out there somewhere to dig it back out, but all of the extra money that we have spent on Trump's trade tariffs.

[00:28:21] And, you've got these foreign companies looking at that risk of, okay, I can make something cheaper here. The other thing in the middle of it, too, like I said, gas is not getting any cheaper. So if you make it in another country, you got to get it here somehow. Why not just go ahead and make it here?

[00:28:38] That's another worry with all the other. Yeah. Yeah. Here in Georgia is also what we have a huge Korean investments and Kia, Hyundai and the batteries. That's a few of those electric cars here in Georgia. 

[00:28:55] Bob Gatty: That's a, that's all positive. Hopefully the move to the, to EVs won't slow. I've been reading that in Europe it's slowed down in that manufacturing of Tesla's has been 

[00:29:07] Robert Thompson: And another point I was going to make about that, that these people that are claiming that, gas prices are too high and they won't make any other changes in their life, but they want to just continue the status quo, burn through all the gas, to tell DC to control prices, that sounds a lot like socialism. Yeah. Sure doesn't it? Which way you want to have it. You want to have it, America, we're capitalistic, right? Shit's going to go up in price, sorry. Because everybody's chasing their next dollar.

[00:29:37] If you want to control prices, again, that does socialism. 

[00:29:40] Arthur Hill: We tried wage and price controls back in the when it was under the Ford administration, but by a Republican, no less and it didn't work. It did not work. 

[00:29:50] Robert Thompson: But you know that these are complex matters. It's hard to reason with some of these people.

[00:29:56] Arthur Hill: There is a conspiracy theory going around that the Saudis are cutting back on oil production to hurt Biden in the election. I don't know whether there's any truth to that. I know that there have been reports that they're cutting back on production, but I don't know what their motives are. 

[00:30:09] Bob Gatty: I just want to bring to the floor a very important piece of news, and that is that the Baltimore Orioles They just defeated the Minnesota Twins by a score of 4-2 on a walk off home run by Cedric Mullins. So that's a sweep. It's a sweep. It's a sweep. It's a sweet sweep. That's great news. That's right. . 

[00:30:38] Robert Thompson: So that's the reason I, the Braves. So my, my, and I'll also, I'll say my Braves are tied rightnow.

[00:30:44] Bob Gatty: So your Braves, we still got several more hangs to go. Your Braves are tied with Houston? Yeah. Okay. I guess Arthur, are we supposed to care that the Braves are tied with Houston? 

[00:30:54] Arthur Hill: Houston's last in their division, so the Braves losing to Houston is probably not a good sign for the Braves.

[00:31:03] Bob Gatty: Yeah. A lot of them are out here. All right. All right. So much for that. Anything else anybody has that actually touches on politics, which is what we're here to talk about. 

[00:31:16] Robert Thompson: That's plenty for today, I'm all blood pressure shot. 

[00:31:19] Bob Gatty: Alright my remedy for that is to turn off Fox News. Just don't watch it. And that's what I do at night. I stop watching the news at night. I watch music in bed now. And I don't even watch the 11 o'clock news anymore. It just pisses me off. Besides, there's plenty of other ways to get the news without watching the local yokels talk about, dogs eating dogs and things like that.

[00:31:47] Arthur Hill: But that's where you pick up stuff like this. 

[00:31:49] Bob Gatty: That's true. That's true. Exactly. All right, guys. Listen, thanks so much. Great talking to you again. And another episode of The Dixie Dems is now finished and in the books.