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This is episode 126 of the Baehr and Curadh podcast.
We're going to talk about politics.
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What are the key issues facing the country in the upcoming election?
Well.
Well, the key issues for the public in general are different than they are for gay people.
Okay.
The top issues for the public in general was, number one, the economy, which I think is
weird because the economy is better now than it's been in a long, long time.
Yeah.
So, I think that that is a made-up controversy.
It's a controversy that one of the political candidates came up with, but it's, because
he says, our economy is in ruins, people believe it.
I don't believe anything that he says, but somehow it's made number one in the polls.
Okay.
The second one is immigration.
Okay.
Once again, he says that's a big, huge problem, and it's not.
So, he has a lot of sway over the issues, which I think is unfortunate.
Very, very unfortunate.
Now, the number one issue for gays is the Supreme Court.
Yeah.
And that's something that the public really isn't talking about.
No.
Well, because they probably feel like there's nothing they can do about it.
True.
There's really nothing we can do about it.
Even when Harris, no, I didn't say if, I said when Harris becomes president, she can't
do anything until one of them dies or retires.
Yeah.
And I don't think that chances are very good at that.
No.
I don't think any of them are speculated to.
No.
By any time soon.
But when Aunt Ruth dies...
Aunt Ruth died, she was fighting up to the last day.
Nobody knew how bad she was.
Yeah, that's true.
Well, so, I mean, you covered that pretty well, so.
So, we'll go on to the next question.
Yeah.
How do the different political parties' platforms differ on these issues?
They're both feeding into the hype, in my opinion.
They're both feeding into the economy.
The one thing jumped, the other one's saying, how high?
Do you see what I'm saying?
Yeah.
I think that Kamala Harris's publicity machine is working as well as it can.
But considering she jumped into this just a few weeks ago,
it does seem like she's doing, just playing catch-up all the time.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, she has a lot of catching up to do.
It's unfortunate that he's sort of controlling the dialogue.
Yeah, that's very unfortunate, so.
And even on those things that he says are a problem, even those are lies.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, they're all made up, or they're vastly embellished.
Mm-hmm.
It had a little bit of backlash when he started talking about Latinos
and forgot that lots of Latinos are not Latinos.
Latinos are Catholic and vote Republican.
Mm-hmm.
Oh.
I hope he lost bad on that.
I hope so, too.
Well, he deserves it.
Two things that concern me.
I've heard people say, I know Trump is a horrible person,
but I don't want to vote for Harris,
so I'm just not going to vote for anybody for president.
I'm going to vote on the other things, but I'm not going to vote on president.
Mm-hmm.
And that seems stupid to me.
Yeah.
I mean, nobody's grading you on this test.
Yeah.
Well, some people just don't feel like their vote matters.
Hmm.
Yeah, it is such a complicated system.
Mm-hmm.
Just try to explain to your grandmother how the electoral college works.
It's impossible.
Hmm.
Well, you can't.
I mean, you really can't.
You can't set that in layman's terms and explain it.
So it's very unfortunate.
And I think I said in the last podcast they could fix that easily
by just changing, taking all those rules out and just say simple majority wins.
Yeah.
But it'll never come to that.
You know that.
I don't know that so many people,
especially those seven swinging states, are so vested in their power.
Mm-hmm.
Nobody wants to give that up.
No.
Not at all.
Okay.
What are some potential challenges and opportunities for the next president?
Hmm.
I think Biden missed the bet when he was elected.
When Gerald Ford became president, I believe his ticket was Richard Nixon and what's his name?
Esparo.
Was his?
running mate and he died Spiro was a Greek name yeah anyway he died and then Richard Nixon resigned
which left him as president even though he wasn't elected he was the first unelected president we
ever had and he spent most of his term trying to not make waves and I think Biden should have been
that way but he really wasn't so you think you think that's kind of the same problems if sorry
when Harris is elected she's gonna have to do a lot of things to heal
the country I think because there's gonna be a big open scab for a long time yeah and you
think that's because of Trump yeah okay no did you think it's gonna take more than one
term to do that though to fix that scam typically politics goes in eight-year cycles yeah when
somebody's elected to president they're usually liked well enough
that they get reelected and that's why we have a two-term limit people are saying that Trump is
not gonna run again whether he wins or loses he's not gonna run again but that's not to say like one
of his kids would exactly and we'd have this whole mess over again I think there are a lot of Republicans
in high positions that just cringe at Trump but know that the they can't do anything about it yeah
they they they're planning on holding their nose while they vote yes um it the whole thing is very
frustrating to me yeah very frustrating okay how has the role of social media and technology changed
in politics in recent years I think it's changed
it completely don't you think yeah it used to be your local paper would would uh write an editorial
about the things that are important to the local economy and they would suggest the candidate that
the best suited you know what was good for your city yeah you don't see that anymore you don't
you don't well like the Washington Post okay they wanted to endorse
uh Kamala Harris and the owner um what's his name isn't that Jeff Bezos that owns that yeah
said no I'm not gonna let you endorse her really and the board was outraged enough by that that they
made it publicly known that they were not allowed to endorse her because of a decision on high
and they lost
a quarter of a million subscriptions well because there was there was a petition and people signed
it who were subscribers who said that they were upset enough by that that they canceled their
subscription wow that's crazy so they lost a quarter million subscribers wow and I noticed
that a lot of papers that don't even usually endorse somebody are suddenly coming up with
endorsements because they don't want to lose a quarter of a million subscribers yeah that's crazy
so I guess the power of the people does work sometimes it's good power of the dollar yeah yeah
the power of the pocketbook exactly how has the political landscape changed in the past decade in
which trends can we expect in the future lying more of you
it used to be just the hint of a scandal just the the idea of a scandal or or being caught in one
lie would end a politician's career and Trump does it twice every minute yeah yeah completely lowered
the bar for everything yeah the bar is underground yeah that's what they were just talking about I'll
get to the press right before we sat down to do this that uh one of the commentators making a
comment then he goes if he wins he's already changed the political spectrum by the decorum
that how everyone treats how politicians are treated or how they treat politics now you know
what I mean like if the whole decorum about everything changed and he's like we're going
to see if if it's going to continue to be like this in the future if it's going to go back to
the way it should be I sure hope it does I do too
um the the people in power in the Republican Party have got to see that this can't continue
that they've lost all respectability how do they even think that they're respectable by any means
do you know what I mean like how can they put themselves in the mirror and really
believe it and call themselves the party of Abraham Lincoln and um
um
who's the other guy that they
Ronald Reagan because they're not no no not at all
how does the United States government interact with other countries in terms of politics
we pretty much don't follow anybody's lead I don't think I think we all tell them to follow toe
well it's always been that way for as long as I can remember oftentimes when there is a post on
social media
that people are it's kind of gone viral
um somebody announces that it was fake and it came from Russia it seems to be every time every
time there's something outrageous somebody's figured out that it's fake and it came from
Russia and I don't know that seems kind of convenient yeah very convenient are the Russians
really that sophisticated to and what is their interest in screwing up our political system I
don't know do they think one party's more manipulative than the others or
well you see lots of pictures of Trump and and Putin together but you don't see pictures of Joe
Biden and Putin together no not at all it's kind of like the Russians are the communists of a former
era yeah you don't want to be associated with the Russians yeah exactly probably for good reason
maybe because it's true maybe they really are trying to do all this but I don't see
what their motivation is for that I don't know bring down the world power
that's the only thing I can think of and not by declaring war but by um other means necessary by
internally yeah uh messing things up internally yeah it's a way to do it I guess
how does political polarization in the United States affect the governance and policy making
well for instance um they're locking down Washington D.C
right now
because they're afraid of um no matter how the the the vote comes out uh that there's going to
be riots and stuff yeah yeah and there probably will be I mean I know I know colonel has already
come out and stated that uh they already have things set up just in case um oh like they're
going to have the meetings underground or something to keep the keep them from getting to it yeah well
that and like if he like if if it comes out that he that she wins but he's saying no and he's going
to fight it that they already have committees set up to to neutralize the the occurrence and
really oh yeah like they're they're yeah they already have well I guess it would be
um prudent yeah to have contingency plans for things like that yeah and who
five years ago who would have thought we need anything like that no never I mean
he changed like he changed the complete political landscape of everything so
I think this is proof him and Hitler both are proof that time travel will never exist because
somebody would have gone back and changed that yeah
yeah I'm sure make sure neither one of them got born yeah that's that's a good point
hmm that's very interesting thought I've never thought of it that way I always have
interesting thoughts that's why you never sleep at night so what's your favorite joke this week
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