Dixie Dems: The Wacky GOP & Their Dictator

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Dixie Dems: December 23

[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. Now I'm a Marylander transplanted into South Carolina and together we're the Dixie Dems. There's a lot to talk about today, from Donald Trump's promise to use the power of the federal government against his enemies if he wins the presidency, to Nikki Haley's apparent displacement of Ron DeSantis as the leading GOP candidate to knock off Trump.

[00:00:34] And much more, so stay with us. 

[00:00:37] Arthur Hill is vice chair of the Brunswick County North Carolina Democratic Party. And Robert Thompson's based in Atlanta. He founded Peach News Now and its opinion podcast, Got Damn Liberals. That's G O T, Damn Liberals. Me I do communications work for the Horry County, South Carolina Democratic Party.

[00:00:59] In addition to hosting this podcast and producing the Lean to the Left blog site, as well as co hosting the Justice Counts podcast with thriller author and attorney Mark M. Bello. So welcome guys to the Dixie Dems on the Lean to the Left podcast. First, let's talk about Trump and his announced plans to use the Justice Department to go after those who have opposed him, including some Republicans.

[00:01:25] What do you guys think about all of that? 

[00:01:27] Robert Thompson: So I was looking at the breaking news here in Georgia. It looks like Pence, now that he has dropped out of the race. Now how that unprecedented is this that a former vice president has to drop out has to drop out of the presidential race, but now he's been added to the 2020 election case witness list here in Georgia because certain people in this RICO, again, that's why I've got Let's Go RICO, her mama Fannie behind me, this RICO case, you've got these folks that, have already said, yep, I'm guilty.

[00:01:59] Just, throw whatever book at me. Let's make a deal. But you've got certain others that are just going to, ride this, all the way through election day. It's sad that, this is, literally a former vice president that's going to be a witness unless he makes a deal in a criminal case against, president.

[00:02:22] So it's sad, 

[00:02:23] Bob Gatty: really. I'm telling you what. It's really amazing. We just talk like it's normal about the vice president being a witness in a criminal case and about the president being indicted or the former president being indicted in four different criminal cases or four different cases. And it's just normal conversation anymore.

[00:02:46] And that's amazing to me. 

[00:02:47] Arthur Hill: I found it striking that Joe Biden was credited with saying if it wasn't for the fact that Trump was running, he might not be running himself for reelection. I thought that was a stunning statement. And I hope he was saying it in jest.

[00:03:02] But I think that Trump's campaign seems not to have lessened any with all the outrageous statements that he's made about what will happen if he's elected for a second term. And it, it just looks like a growing number of Americans are willing to place their personal beliefs above the Constitution of the United States and American democracy.

[00:03:27] And it's just, I think it's appalling. And it makes me want to work even harder for Biden's election in November, as well as any other Democrat we can get our hands on. 

[00:03:38] Bob Gatty: I agree with you about that statement by Biden. That shocked me too. And I don't know if it was just jesting or not, but the fact of the matter is that, other candidates, potential candidates are not coming forward because The president is running. Now had he said it the earlier on that he would not run, then I think we'd have other candidates out there that, could be considered.

[00:04:10] But the fact of the matter is that's not the case. And it looks like we're going to be with Biden against Trump and, the Trump thing is just a, that's just a terrible, sad situation. Now, 

[00:04:24] Robert Thompson: going back to what you said a second ago about the normal thing. Yeah. Just to put my red MAGA hat on for a second, just to put myself in the shoes of The Trumpster people, they don't think this is normal.

[00:04:38] They did not think it was normal that we had a black president for eight years. They think it's not normal that we have a black woman vice president. They think it's not normal that, we're, that they think we're persecuting Trump and everything. This is, obviously we're leaning to the left here, but if you lean to the right, that's what they think.

[00:04:59] It's not normal. And I don't know how we come together and somewhere in the middle of the ball field, it's scary as hell to try to live in the heads of these Republican Trump supporters it's scary to me. 

[00:05:16] Bob Gatty: Yeah, it really is. Absolutely. Now it looks like, Arthur you've been warning, you've been warning that if Nikki Haley should win the Republican nomination, she would be the most formal candidate against Biden.

[00:05:34] It looks like she's gaining steam and certainly it's at the expense of. of DeSantis and I was really surprised to see that the Koch Network has endorsed her at the expense of Trump and DeSantis. What are your thoughts about that, Robert?

[00:05:55] Robert Thompson: I guess that's where they're going to throw their money. It's the Koch brothers and all that, campaign money, they can get behind someone that's going to continue to cut taxes to benefit them, when it comes to money. But somehow they drew the line. Once Trump, just went too far and, DeSantis is just a little man dictator down in Florida.

[00:06:19] I've said it several times, this is campaign finance, this is the result of Citizens United, and basically unlimited money that is flowing in to buy, literally, these elections. You even have other Republican candidates that have gone out there and said, give me a dollar to my campaign and I will send you back, a 20 or 25 visa debit card so that you can combat Bidenflation or whatever bullshit they're coming up with.

[00:06:49] These are the links that they have to try to go to literally pay for votes, and then they're still not winning. Yeah. 

[00:06:59] Arthur Hill: Yeah, there's some there's a lot of contradictions going on right now within the Republican ranks, it seems to me, and one of them is the Koch Empire giving money to Nikki Haley.

[00:07:10] The Koch Empire's contributions to political campaigns in the past has been remarkably unsuccessful. As far as I know, they haven't, none of the people that they've supported have have ever been elected, and the money that they're giving these folks is just is going to waste. On the other hand I saw one of Duh Santis's political ads the other day, and he's taking on, he's taking on Haley saying that she's a Hillary Clinton liberal.

[00:07:35] How can you be a Hillary Clinton liberal at the same time you're taking, getting 250, 000 bucks from from the Kochs? It's staggering. I don't, it's The disinformation that's going on within Republican ranks is amazing and it's, and apparently it's it's genuine and it isn't even AI made up.

[00:07:53] Bob Gatty: Hey, did you guys see the Lincoln Project has a new video out and it's showing all of Trump's blunderings and misstatements and stumblings and showing that he's in worse, he's in worse physical shape than Biden is. And as opposed to what the Republicans have been trying to do with Biden. And but I have to say that what they're doing is sticking because in, in a lot of cases, I was talking the other day, I did a podcast interview with somebody who typically is A Democrat and a liberal woman. And she told me that she likes Haley. She likes her position on Israel when she was in the United Nations and likes her a lot against against Biden and that just shocked me.

[00:08:47] And as she said that she talked about Biden's stumbling a little bit and. And his stammer and things like that. And it just shocked me to to see that. So I don't, I don't know if that's all sticking or not, what the Republicans are doing, trying to paint. 

[00:09:05] Arthur Hill: I'd say it Haley is very likable as a person.

[00:09:09] You can you can relate to, you can relate to her. You can think that you'd like to meet her. It's just that her philosophy and her politics is is unacceptable, but that's not going to stop people from voting for her if. If she gets the nomination because she's got a 200 percent likability factor.

[00:09:31] Bob Gatty: As opposed to Trump. Trump's got a zero likability. 

[00:09:35] Arthur Hill: Mine is 200 percent likability factor. 

[00:09:38] Robert Thompson: The other thing I was going to say I did a quick search because I had not read recently, but I think this week, Colorado is looking at the test to see if Trump is going to be able to stay on the ballot, at least in Colorado, right? And that's yet another. That's not normal. You don't have an example where a state is saying, remember the Constitution, remember that someone that has committed an insurrection against the U. S., we're not even going to put them on the ballot. That's another nail in the sinking, coffin of the Republicans and everybody that wants to get on that Trump bandwagon. 

[00:10:21] Arthur Hill: And now You've got the prosecutor, Jack Smith, the federal prosecutor adding to the list of Trump's sins the fact that he did provoke a insurrection at the Capitol on January the 6th, and he's gonna try to prove that in court and boy, I tell you, if he does Trump will be looking at a guy who's running for president who's also running toward jail.

[00:10:42] That's an amazing addition for Smith to make on his indictments that, on the federal case in Washington. We'll see how that goes. 

[00:10:50] Bob Gatty: That's not normal either, is it? 

[00:10:52] Arthur Hill: Yeah, that's not normal either. 

[00:10:54] Bob Gatty: Yeah. So what do you think about this North Dakota Governor Burgum suspending his campaign?

[00:11:02] Wasn't that a shock?

[00:11:03] Arthur Hill: I think if I'm not 

[00:11:04] Robert Thompson: mistaken, I think if I'm not mistaken, he was the one that was trying to buy votes. He sent him a dollar and he'll send me back a And we feel that did not work out. You got the other guy in Florida that tried that. They're literally buying votes. 

[00:11:17] Bob Gatty: He's a billionaire.

[00:11:20] What the hell does he need people to send him a dollar for? So you can 

[00:11:24] Arthur Hill: get there. I think it was 

[00:11:25] Robert Thompson: all a ploy. Just to, I think it was all a ploy just to try to get on the debate. So not only were they buying boats, they were also trying to buy their way onto the debate stage.  

[00:11:48] Bob Gatty: What do you think would happen if Scott endorses Haley? Anything? 

[00:11:55] Arthur Hill: Could be that Scott's running for vice president.

[00:11:58] Robert Thompson: Could be. Yeah. Congratulations. For a cabinet post.

[00:12:01] Bob Gatty: Yeah. Okay. So the other big news was Liz Cheney, when she's got a book out, Blastin Trump and warning that his election would be the end to democracy. And there are rumblings that she's planning a third party challenge. Now, what do you guys think about that?

[00:12:22] I know what you think about third party. That's not the question. What do you think about Cheney stepping up and doing that? 

[00:12:30] Arthur Hill: It's interesting. You know what, the Cheney I'd like to hear from in addition to, because I think Liz has a lot to offer, but I think she's also tainted in politics right now, but I'd like to hear, I'd like to hear from her old man.

[00:12:41] I'd like to know what he thinks, I'd like what Dick Cheney thinks about what's going on in politics these days. That's 

[00:12:48] Bob Gatty: a very good point. He's been very quiet about all of this 

[00:12:52] Arthur Hill: stuff. Yeah. And it, it would be very interesting to know what he thinks, but I, you, you can imagine I, you can imagine what some of, what he thinks and it it just would be very interesting to know what his thinking is.

[00:13:05] Because he is influential. He is he has a legacy. He can he can turn some heads. He should say 

[00:13:11] Bob Gatty: something. Yes, he should. When I saw Cheney on TV the other night, it went through my head that she sounds and acts like someone who could be president. And I'd be surprised if she doesn't do something, as we've talked about before, third party challenges are doomed to failure the way things are set up these days if she is actually doing that with the idea that she's going to damage Trump, to me, it's just the opposite.

[00:13:48] Do you agree? You think it'll damage 

[00:13:50] Arthur Hill: Biden? Yeah. Oh. I don't understand that. I don't think so. I think I don't see how Liz Cheney takes votes away from Biden. If she runs on her record, it's going to be an extremely conservative record. And I don't think that's going to be very attractive to a Democrat who's sitting on the fence.

[00:14:09] So I don't get how she takes votes away from Biden. I know people are saying that, but I don't get it. And I think she does take, I think she does take votes away from Trump though. And I think she brings a certain amount of credibility to presidential politics and and I think she would be an attractive serious candidate.

[00:14:27] I don't think she'd win but I think she'd take votes away from Trump. 

[00:14:31] Bob Gatty: I think she'd take votes away from Trump too, but I do believe that women, I think there are a lot of women that would support her. And I think that there are a lot of independents. That would support her.

[00:14:45] And people who are looking for a younger a younger candidate, more, more virile, 

[00:14:53] Robert Thompson: type of 

[00:14:54] Arthur Hill: candidate. It would probably be, if the rest of the country is like North Carolina, There's a there are a lot of independents who lean Democrat and a lot who lean Republican.

[00:15:04] And I think Liz Cheney might get the ones who lean Republican but I don't think she'd get very many of the ones who lean Democrat. That's according, that's a very unscientific survey. Based on my conversations with people who were unaffiliated, but lean Democrat in North Carolina, in southeastern North Carolina.

[00:15:20] Bob Gatty: Okay. All right. This Dean Phillips, this representative Dean Phillips from Minnesota, who's challenging Biden for the Democratic nomination. Do you feel like at age 54, I think he feels like he can attract younger voters. But then I read that that Harvard youth poll has just shown that fewer voters under age 30 are planning to vote in, in this upcoming presidential election than in 2020.

[00:15:53] And that less than a third of those who identify as independents plan to vote. So that doesn't sound like a great recipe for Phillips. What do you guys think about this Phillips guy? 

[00:16:06] Arthur Hill: I, yeah, I, I. 

[00:16:11] Robert Thompson: As you were reading that, it took me back to the days when Obama was running for office. And Obama really had a way of getting younger voters out.

[00:16:20] Even if they didn't go to the ballot box, you had a lot of excitement. And, it, just to give them a little bit of credit, I would say possibly there. But at the end of the day we it's too big of a race to try to splinter it off. And honestly I don't see Phillips, making it to the nomination.

[00:16:43] I just don't see that happening. 

[00:16:45] Bob Gatty: No, I don't either. I don't think he'll get more than a percent or two. If he states 

[00:16:52] Arthur Hill: he might have a, he might have a point. If he weren't running as a Democrat because obviously there's no way he's going to get the nomination from the Democratic Party for an election 11 months from now.

[00:17:05] If he were a Republican and he was making an appeal. Given his political philosophy to the younger vote then then that he might attract more attention, uh, for that and for being a member of the Republican Party and also for having a little bit of a chance to wind up being Biden's opponent in the general election.

[00:17:27] But since he's not getting anywhere as a Democrat, I just don't see, I just don't see how how it's going to make any difference 11 months from now on election day. Yeah. 

[00:17:38] Bob Gatty: Okay. Now we have this wonderful Southern Senator Tommy Tuberville from Alabama who was blocking hundreds of military promotions.

[00:17:52] Because he wanted to, uh, because of DOD abortion policies. Then now he finally agreed after a whole bunch of criticism from his own party to lift that hold and the Senate quickly confirmed most of those people. What do you guys think about Tuberville and what he tried to do?

[00:18:17] And all of 

[00:18:18] Robert Thompson: that, he, I think he would rewind and just replay what episode of what I think is an asshole and obviously he had a widely unpopular way that he was trying to draw a line of the sand and it didn't work. And plus just by the way, there are news reports that he lives in Florida.

[00:18:41] Oh, yeah. Maybe 

[00:18:43] Arthur Hill: he can be that. Maybe he can become the head football coach at the university of Florida or Florida state in that case. I think he ought to go back. 

[00:18:51] Bob Gatty: Yeah. Let him go back to football. 

[00:18:53] Arthur Hill: It's It's a shame, he's a menace and he's just he's a menace to national security, that's the only thing, that's the least insulting thing you can say about him, I think and I think he should be, I think he should be reprimanded by the Senate for what he did.

[00:19:11] I agree with that. Hey Robert what what's going on with this redistricting situation in Georgia?

[00:19:21] Robert Thompson: You had another example of gerrymandering that is called a rye, and you've got, they're not only state races, so you've got the state House and Senate. It's getting shaken up here in Georgia.

[00:19:33] And then also, this is going to further bubble up to the representatives and, last weekend, I've got this lady to now, I forget her last name, but she's a black woman that goes on the show the Georgia game. Every Sunday, and she wants to sit down and actually draw, down this thing, we've got this many percentage of white people, this many percentage of black people.

[00:19:57] And then on the other side, we've got existing representatives that are white and black. And I'm like, really, you're going on TV as a black woman that's allegedly a Republican and claiming that this gerrymandering is somehow fair. That's the leaps and bounds that these people do just to try to justify what this is.

[00:20:21] That's quite a stance to be a black woman and go on TV and say, I'm just fine with the way it's been gerrymandered. Even though my, my, my voice. That's just mind boggling to me, but we'll see what happens. I, there was one district they were talking about being very thin that it went like from metro Atlanta all the way to the Alabama border.

[00:20:45] I've heard. Third or fourth party before how this process goes. They've got this huge map in front of the room and they literally start, picking pins up and as they move the pins, the computer recalculates how many, white and black voters, how many red and blue votes are going to come out of that new district.

[00:21:02] It's but why don't we just, grow lines on the map of Georgia and draw them out that way. Why do we have to continue to? Oh I want that neighborhood over there because it's got more white people. I want that neighborhood over there because it's got more black people.

[00:21:19] That's literally what they are doing, what they did for gerrymandering and what they're doing now to fix it. And there are lots of busy people in Georgia trying to do this right now. 

[00:21:33] Bob Gatty: Courts let that kind of stuff stand

[00:21:35] Arthur Hill: same thing in North Carolina in in our congressional district. We've got they redrew that district and it's pretty much the same except for a little notch that goes up into new Hanover County, which is where Wilmington is.

[00:21:49] And and that little notch has got includes two precincts that are majority black, and they moved them into our district and out of the district north of us, and because they knew that the majority black districts are going to be absorbed by. Rural Brunswick County, relatively rural Brunswick County, and and opening up the district in Wilmington to to a Republican congressman.

[00:22:12] So it's you're right, Robert. They, and pretty much the same exercise. They moved the pins and got rid of all, got rid of all the black voters in one district and threw them into another district where their votes wouldn't count that much. That's exactly what happened.

[00:22:28] So there are lawsuits. We've got two lawsuits going on, one challenging the the legislative, the state legislative districts and one challenging the congressional districts. So we'll see what happens. 

[00:22:39] Robert Thompson: The other thing, and I don't know about the Carolinas, but here in Georgia, both the House and the Senate the Georgia House and Georgia Senate, those are only two year terms.

[00:22:49] And so you've got the map being redrawn as we speak. I guess it's going to get settled by the end of the year. And then you've got these folks that are just sitting on a fence because they don't know where they're supposed to be campaigning over the next couple of months, to get elected next year.

[00:23:05] Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. May the best person win, this is the result of partisan gerrymandering and being called on it and, we're not, it's just that the board of 

[00:23:20] Arthur Hill: elections. Anywhere statewide or countywide. It's just it's a tough job. And they don't know how to plan. They don't know how to plan.

[00:23:29] They don't know how to budget. It's extremely difficult. It's really difficult. I was that they, they opened up the period in North Carolina now where you registered as a candidate. And so I was up at our board of elections Office the other day, and I was talking to some of the staff people, and they're just scratching their heads.

[00:23:48] They, they don't know what to do. They literally don't know what to do. And I'm sure that the the people who, the members of the board itself are probably feeling the same way. It's and that's exactly where the Republicans want us to be. We're they want this turmoil. They they live on it.

[00:24:05] They feast on it. 

[00:24:06] Bob Gatty: Hey, speaking of turmoil and the Republicans, what do you guys think about the Florida GOP head who is Being forced to resign because of some kind of rape charge.

[00:24:18] Robert Thompson: If it were Trump, he'd still be in office. It's look at Santos stuff in New York. It took a, what's that going into the campaign fund thing that he was buying stuff on only fans and everything with his campaign funds, it took that to kick you out, but yet you got. Their leader of the whole crazy regime has done 20 times as worse, and they're still voting for him and keeping it and standing behind 

[00:24:46] Bob Gatty: him.

[00:24:47] Wow. I forgot you brought up Santos. I forgot to add Santos to our list to talk about, but that was crazy. What happened with Santos? Huh? 

[00:25:02] Robert Thompson: I guess 

[00:25:03] Arthur Hill: he's still got a, he still has his day in court. His Day of Reckoning is coming up in in in a court in New York. We'll see what happens.

[00:25:10] He'll, if he's guilty of what he's been accused of, he he'll be in jail. He'll be in jail for years. , 

[00:25:17] Robert Thompson: I guess it was the New York Republicans also that kept, cause they could smell a rat immediately and they wanted him out, but they couldn't do it alone.

[00:25:26] And imagine being a Republican in New York. That's one thing, but, um, yeah. 

[00:25:32] Bob Gatty: Yeah. I saw today that he's he's on some social media website. And Selin, I forget what it's called, but it's a site where famous people do little videos for you at, for special occasions at a fee.

[00:25:53] And he jumped on that. He's now charging 350 bucks to to do videos for people. Can you imagine? 

[00:26:02] Robert Thompson: I guess he charges extra to be in drag. The pictures came out of him being in drag years ago. I guess it's a little bit extra for an add on if you want him in drag to do the 

[00:26:10] Bob Gatty: cameo.

[00:26:11] I 

[00:26:11] guess so. I guess so. 

[00:26:13] Arthur Hill: Better put that 350 into his savings account because he's going to need it for his restitution. 

[00:26:19] Bob Gatty: He's going to need it, he's going to need it for the, I don't know what they call it, the commissary in prison where, you know, if he wants to buy snacks or whatever. He's going He's gonna need some pocket money for that, right?

[00:26:34] Robert Thompson: Trump uses his campaign money for his legal funds, 

[00:26:39] Bob Gatty: maybe they'll give him a job in prison where he'll be, sweeping the floors or something, and make a buck a day, then he can use that money. Anyway. Today we saw the news that Kevin McCarthy is not going to run for his, for reelection. And as a matter of fact, he's leaving the house at the end of December.

[00:27:03] So he just tossing it all in and saying, screw you guys. And he said that he's got other stuff that he wants to do to, I don't know to serve the people. So what do you think about 

[00:27:16] Robert Thompson: I bet you 1. I bet you 1. What he's doing is scrambling to help the campaign finance for the Republican because if you might remember all that stuff back and forth, he was telling people.

[00:27:28] Remember when I. Went on the, the podium and vouched for you and I called donors, to send you more money to your campaign and you didn't give a crap about any of that. That was probably more popular than anything else that he would be doing anytime soon. 

[00:27:45] Arthur Hill: I was thinking he was going to be Trump's choice for VP.

[00:27:51] Bob Gatty: That might have been the case at some point. He he backtracked on Trump's liability for the January 6th insurrection, went down to Mar a Lago and kissed his ring. and when he did that, I figured he had something up his sleeve that he wanted from Trump. 

[00:28:11] Arthur Hill: Yeah. And he just said that just this week he was talking about how he felt so bad for Trump because he wasn't eating after he left the White House and he was despondent and he went down there to try to cheer him up. Kevin McCarthy was also the guy, uh, during the Bush administration. bEcause W has a, an affinity for jelly beans, apparently, like Reagan did. And but he does not like licorice jelly beans. McCarthy would go down to the White House, and there'd be a big bowl of jelly beans sitting at the table where they were meeting, and he'd pull out all the 

[00:28:45] Bob Gatty: licorice ones.

[00:28:47] That was a piece of news that I didn't know. Not making this up. You can't make any of this shit up, right? 

[00:28:55] Robert Thompson: No, you can't. 

[00:28:56] Bob Gatty: It's incredible. Oh, man. So what else you guys have? Anything? 

[00:29:03] Robert Thompson: It is the holidays. Oh, God. 

[00:29:06] Arthur Hill: Yeah. Yeah. I guess it's worth noting that North Carolina on December the 1st has now is getting Medicaid funding from the federal government.

[00:29:16] That started on the 1st of this month, which means that 600, 000 North Carolinian residents are now eligible for federal the federal health insurance program which which was a remarkable achievement. And now that they're, now that North Carolina has left the ranks of the of the the offensive folks who aren't taking advantage of free money, there are only 10 states left that are not participating in the program.

[00:29:42] Yeah, one of those is South Carolina. Is that, yeah, maybe their day is coming. 

[00:29:48] Bob Gatty: mAybe but Nikki Haley keeps bragging about the fact that she blocked that in South Carolina. 

[00:29:54] Arthur Hill: yEah and that's true. And this all happens on the same week that Trump says if he's a re elected president, he's going to get rid of 

[00:30:00] Bob Gatty: Obamacare.

[00:30:02] Yeah, I was just gonna bring that up. That's crazy. What? There's no hue and cry for ending Obamacare. What's he doing? 

[00:30:10] Robert Thompson: No, it's the word Obama. Let's rewind a minute. Remember, his followers think that it was not normal. He had a black president for eight years. So it says Obama.

[00:30:24] So they're immediately going to get all riled up without nothing that's ever going to happen. He's 

[00:30:29] Bob Gatty: just dredging all that up again, all the anti Obama stuff, and he's using Obamacare to do that. Okay. Okay. yOu know what, he came to South Carolina not what, a couple weeks ago. hE visited a place that sells boats called Sportsman's Boats.

[00:30:48] And he bragged about when he was president that Things were so good in South Carolina that for the boat industry, because of him, of course, that they couldn't make enough boats fast enough. And that if he and if he wins the election it'll be just great for the boating industry, South Carolina again.

[00:31:10] But he also promised to end Biden's war on America and what he calls. War on American energy, which really,, is Biden's effort to support renewable energy, which Trump is opposed to because he's still in the pocket of the coal and oil industries. You guys got any comments about that?

[00:31:33] Arthur Hill: He is definitely in the pockets of the of that industry. And that's yet another reason why he shouldn't be allowed to become president again. Now that we're finally making a little bit of progress toward having a reasonable policy alternative energy formats and so on exactly that had to lose all that momentum with a, with Trump in the White House would be a shame.

[00:31:57] Okay. And 

[00:31:58] Robert Thompson: if I hear another person gripe and complain about gas prices, I think I'm going to scream. What is Europe paying 10, 12 a gallon for gas? And yet it's a national emergency that we pay just over 3 a gallon. And here in Georgia, Kemp actually lowered the gas tax for about a month or two.

[00:32:20] And people are suddenly getting sticker shocked again. Oh my God, we had, cheap gas and everything. It's the biggest bullshit you ever heard. So you're just going to continue to buy this expensive gas to put in your car that doesn't have that good a gas mileage and just say that the electric thing is just throw it out the window.

[00:32:37] Great. Good job with that. I, I hope I wish you well with that idea. 

[00:32:42] Bob Gatty: Hey, Robert, who are those people behind you? 

[00:32:45] Robert Thompson: Yep, so I'm going to tout it real quick. We are let's see if I can that's not going to show up right. But this is the Dads Against Deplorables. So I was on the fence about a month or two ago, whether we were actually going to pull this off.

[00:32:57] And we did. So it is a calendar project. You have 12 months of DadBots. And we are dads against deplorables. And unfortunately the Kelsey brothers, Jason and Travis Kelsey the, especially Jason is that epitomal, as I said, he was one of the sexiest dads in America.

[00:33:14] He did not return the calls, unfortunately, so we had to fill in the 12 months of 2024 with other dads that were willing to do it. Campaign project, if anybody wants to buy one glad to. So it's going to be a long one. Appreciate the support. 

[00:33:29] Bob Gatty: Is your picture in there? 

[00:33:30] Robert Thompson: Allegedly.

[00:33:32] Where? I think it's on March, because that's my birth month. , it's 

[00:33:36] Bob Gatty: on March. Okay. Do you have a shirt on or pants or ? 

[00:33:40] Robert Thompson: There are pants on, but not a shirt. Yes. Oh my 

[00:33:43] Bob Gatty: God. He showed 

[00:33:45] Arthur Hill: Robert. Robert sent, you sent it around yesterday and I flipped through it, but I didn't know you were in it.

[00:33:51] I gotta look at it again. 

[00:33:53] Robert Thompson: I didn't see it. Did you send it? Yeah, it was in the email. 

[00:33:58] Arthur Hill: It was in one of the emails that we went back and forth with yesterday. 

[00:34:01] Bob Gatty: Oh, I have to take a look. Okay. All right. I don't have anything else. You guys got anything else you want to talk about? 

[00:34:07] Robert Thompson: How can you tell me for this week?

[00:34:09] Arthur Hill: I'm going to show that calendar to my dog. 

[00:34:12] Bob Gatty: He'll like it. He's 

[00:34:14] Robert Thompson: probably gonna chew it up and put it out the back 

[00:34:17] Bob Gatty: door. , how much are you selling these calendars for Robert? 

[00:34:22] Robert Thompson: They're $29, including shipping, 29, inflation. Inflation, and shipping is not any cheaper yeah. But that includes shipping $29.

[00:34:32] That is, is 

[00:34:33] Arthur Hill: shipping.

[00:34:34] Bob Gatty: Okay, all listen, it's been great. Once again, another episode of the lean to the left version of the Dixie Dems. Closing up shop. So thank you guys. 

[00:34:46] Arthur Hill: Take care. Merry Christmas. 

[00:34:49] Bob Gatty: Yeah, same to you. Merry Christmas to all of our many thousands of viewers and listeners. 

[00:34:54] Robert Thompson: And remember that those are liberals wishing you Merry Christmas, by the way.

[00:34:59] I just want to point that out. Happy 

[00:35:01] Arthur Hill: holidays. Yeah, 

[00:35:02] Bob Gatty: Let me tell you about last month's episode of the Dixie Dams drew more than 5, 000 views on YouTube. No kidding. Yep, 

[00:35:14] Arthur Hill: that's terrific. I'm glad to hear that. That's a nice present. That's a lot better ice cream cone

[00:35:21] Bob Gatty: Yeah, the YouTube thing is going pretty well right now super yeah Let's keep going. We'll keep rocking and rolling. We'll be back at you guys in 19, in 2024. And far as I know, we're going to keep going for the balance of the year. So you guys are ready to rock and roll for next year, right?

[00:35:45] Yeah yeah, the 

[00:35:45] Robert Thompson: network picked us up. It's only it's only heating up for sure. Yeah, it's be fun. It's going to be 

[00:35:52] Bob Gatty: fun behind you with the cup, man. I'm telling you what, does he have pants on in that picture? Allegedly, no. What do you mean? 

[00:36:02] Robert Thompson: Allegedly, you have to buy the calendar to find out

[00:36:05] Bob Gatty: I don't really care, but maybe my wife would. I don't know. 

[00:36:11] Arthur Hill: Yeah.

[00:36:12] Bob Gatty: Okay. All right, guys. By the way, Robert working people since. You brought it up. How can people get a hold of that calendar if they want it? 

[00:36:22] Robert Thompson: Yeah, so hopefully you got the QR code. You can scan it, but it goes to dads. gdliberals. com. So it is a little offshoot and a way to raise awareness on what we do.

[00:36:34] Bob, you do this every day. I do about every other day, but just raising awareness for the dads. gdliberal. com or the QR code up here. 

[00:36:44] Bob Gatty: Okay, good. All right. So I hope I hope you sell thousands and thousands of those calendars based on this this video. 

[00:36:52] Robert Thompson: There's going to be a lot of dog chew toys, at least.

[00:36:54] So we've sent it to Arthur's house. 

[00:36:56] Bob Gatty: Who's the juicy looking guy with a beard above you? That's 

[00:37:01] Robert Thompson: Harlan. He's actually Canadian, so there's even Canadian support, because they don't want four years of Trump either. Yeah, that's Harlan up in Canada. 

[00:37:11] Bob Gatty: All right, and the guy with the cup that doesn't have any clothes on, who's that?

[00:37:16] He's my friend 

[00:37:17] Robert Thompson: over in Smyrna, uh, Joseph, and he's a local guy, and he actually bowls with me as well. Yeah he agreed to to go in this year. 

[00:37:26] Bob Gatty: Oh, good. Does he wear clothes when he bowls? He does. 

[00:37:29] Robert Thompson: He has to, because, people will be running away if not, but yes, he does.

[00:37:34] We don't have a nude bowling alley. I know that Atlanta is very blue and very progressive, but I have not found a nude bowling alley yet. The 

[00:37:43] Bob Gatty: guy in the upper right, I hate to say this, but it looks like he needs one of my wife's bras.

[00:37:49] Robert Thompson: I'll be sure to tell Patrick he's up in Michigan.

[00:37:52] Bob Gatty: All right. With that, we're gonna, 

[00:37:55] Arthur Hill: I'm just sitting here looking. 

[00:37:56] Robert Thompson: All 

[00:38:01] Bob Gatty: right. Like I said, I hope you sell a bunch of those calendars and what's the money being used for? I forgot. Did you say? 

[00:38:08] Robert Thompson: Advertising, promotion, just I honestly will lose money on the deal. Because I, I give more away than I actually sell.

[00:38:16] So it's just a fun little project that gets people and people will remember it. 

[00:38:21] Bob Gatty: Okay, but wait, advertising and promotion of what?

[00:38:24] Robert Thompson: Anything political, maybe that there will be a pot of money next year that we can run some ads under the name of some pack or get a contribution to a candidate that really needs some help.

[00:38:37] You never know what having that little bit of extra money and this goes back, I did some work with a super pac a couple of years ago and we ran billboards and support of Lucy McBath and Lucy McBath won that district and now she's been gerrymandered into the next district over here.

[00:38:53] This, every 5, 10, it does help it every 29. It does help. Just because you never know what, how close they. A race is going to come down to, and just having that the way to strategically, put an ad out there, you never know. 

[00:39:10] Bob Gatty: So is this something that you're doing through your through your podcast and your.

[00:39:16] Personal work or is this for some organization or what? 

[00:39:20] Robert Thompson: No, I don't think any organizations will touch it. This is a homegrown right here with the Got Damn liberals and that whole political side of the the enterprise here. 

[00:39:32] Bob Gatty: Okay. All right, guys. Listen, thanks so much. Great talking to you again.

[00:39:37] And once again, Merry Christmas and we'll be back at you in in January .