Vote For The Garbage Can | Negligent Discharge Friday | 8.14.2026
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The discussion centers on the growing public frustration with political systems in both the US and UK, where citizens feel that promises are unfulfilled and power is concentrated in a small, unaccountable elite. A satirical UK candidate, Count Benface, emerges as a symbol of protest, with a list of absurd and impractical policies—like nationalizing Adele or capping croissants—reflecting a broader desire to challenge political inertia. The hosts also explore real-world cases of political corruption, including Donald Trump’s alleged use of his presidential position to profit from digital assets and real estate, and former US Mayor Eileen Wang’s guilty plea for secretly promoting pro-China propaganda. These examples illustrate a pattern of accountability failures and systemic distrust. Additionally, the conversation touches on the ethical implications of prison conditions, arguing that while punishment remains essential, humane rehabilitation may improve long-term societal outcomes. The episode concludes with a critique of overreach in laws, such as harsh penalties for cannabis possession, and acknowledges that decriminalization efforts—like in Portugal—must include support systems to prevent reoffending. Throughout, the tone blends humor and serious analysis, emphasizing that public dissatisfaction often stems from a lack of trust in institutions, and that meaningful reform requires transparency, accountability, and genuine responsiveness.
Okay, I got the red smoke, come on, go to the smoke, where's the smoke, where's the smoke? Okay, copy, where's the smoke, I'm looking at danger close, now, where are they, they can't come here, they can't come here, they can't come here hot, they can't come here hot. And we're going, where though, where are we going? Well, I'm going to Mizzula. Well, let's dive into it. That's pretty much all there is to say. That's how it's. So, and you're, what's the term that we should use? Moving on to greener pastures? I mean, I guess, whatever you want to call it, one say, greener, just different. Yeah. And for clarity, although I give you a hard time on just about everything, it's because I actually care about you. And I couldn't be more stoked for you to go do whatever it is you're going to do. No, I knew you'd be, maybe excited, whatever, but I knew you'd be supportive. Yeah, all problems have solutions as long as you look hard enough for them. And we've actually found the solution, we didn't really even have to look that hard. We didn't, and I mean, this is no spoiler alert to anybody, either you and I are tech guys. No. And we're also not video production guys. I mean, the number of times that I've had to go on to YouTube and say, "How do you lens cameras all that?" So, yeah, a buddy of ours who is a black belt in Jiu-Jitsu, professional videographer and photographer who can help. He's already talking about changing a few of the settings on the cameras, a few settings on the lights for temperature type stuff, which I thought all lights were at the same temperature. But I mean, apparently they have something to do with the color. Any who I think it's a step in the right direction. I think so too. It's literally an upgrade from me and every way. Yeah, which I mean, is that hard? No, it's a very low bar. Is it above the ground or just does the bar lay on the ground? It's basically, it's like a little raised step on the sidewalk that you trip over a little bit. Or did we find a big enough crack to put the bar into it that it's just flat? Just level. Yeah, it's probably just level. How uncanny was it though? Because you had obviously been thinking about this. This goes back to the last negligent discharge Friday where we open with a set of cards. And the question that I, and you didn't tell me till afterwards, you kind of alluded to it. You said, uh, uh, kind of thinking about doing this out of the other. And afterwards it almost the instant we turned the camera off. Yeah, you said you're not going to believe. But yeah, that car back to school. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, are you joking? Because like, obviously, I wasn't going to tell you the full thing for the first time on air. You could have, my reaction would have been a different, I know, but I, I'm not saying because of that. I just wouldn't, I just, I don't know. I just wouldn't feel right to do that. Um, but yeah, I wouldn't have felt wrong either. I just kind of where you live. I don't know if it feels right or it feels wrong. You're just curious. I don't know where to go. I don't know. Speaking of curious. Speaking of curious. Why don't you highlight the educational tool that my sister provided for you? Oh, have you determined what it is? Yes, she told me it's like, let's see, make sure the audience can see this. It is like the, it's not like the, it is an anatomical representation of the, in the womb, a child before they develop either a penis or vagina. This is what it is, right? That's what she said. Am I, did I get that completely wrong? I thought that's what she said. What did I get wrong? Do you want to go alphabetically? That is what she said. She said that men and women at the biological level start with the same raw material. Yes. One turns into a penis. The other one into a vagina. Yes. That is a physical representation. I might be completely wrong. It's not actually what it looks like. Of the entire structure of the female starts with the C. Say it. I don't want to. You say it. What? Be an adult. Let's have a sex educe. So you have a treasure map now for the remainder of your life. Thanks. Yeah. Why did you feel like you needed it? Is it a better question? That's a really good question because it's easy to answer though. Yeah, obviously. It's very obvious. Totally. Go home, study. I'm five minutes a night before you go to bed. What's that? Five minutes per night before you go to bed. It's all takes. Man, we are off to the races already. It's really often done. Great stuff. We're moving some sexual education for the three people who are still with us on this episode. We want to talk about it. Not much. What do you got for today? Do we have happy day, sad day? You always seem to have a mix. Yeah. Honestly, it's mostly sad. That's some humorous things. Do you want to start with humorous or sad? Oh, I don't care. How do you decide which things to highlight on these episodes? I turn that over to you. I don't know what we're going to talk about. It's kind of whatever suits you or fancy, which is a dangerous problem. Dangerous. A mix of news, current events, and just things that all find just online. Okay. Fire? Oh, wait. What do you have for this Friday's episode? Okay. So, I think this story here goes to show that frustration in politics is not just an American thing. Have you heard of this Count Benface? Listen. When I first read that, I'm going to be honest. I saw Count Benface, and I was wondering where we were going. That means. No, Count Benface, the man in a can with a plan, seeks Parliament seat in Britain's wackiest elections. Like this is real? I wanted it running against Nigel Farage, who is the current, so I don't think he's running against him for the Prime Minister ship, but I think he's running against Nigel Farage's seat where he's currently elected. 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And then the gorilla walks through. Yes. I almost didn't see the fox on the right hand side. I know yourself. I'm assuming that's a fox with very rabid eyes that says protect British wildlife. So I have no idea. So from left count bin face, then British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, an animal welfare activist, Wigan or Wigan in England in June. What are we looking at? So I guess I didn't know Nigel Farage is not the Prime Minister anymore, but it's this guy apparently. And that's what the subtitle would go to. Yes. Yes. So this guy, the count bin face, has been- I'm not calling him that. Well, nobody knows his real name. Okay. Exploding in popularity. And I think it is mostly because of a backlash at current, the current political state in the UK, which honestly translates over to the US, a lot of people are hating our current political state. I think there are a touch ahead of us in some of the progressive policies. So I think we're getting a little bit of a sneak preview to the answer to some of the test questions. Like what do you mean? Meaning the frustration level. Oh, yes. I think there are a touch ahead of us on some of the policies that they've instituted. And a lot of people in the US want to mirror some of those policies, but you can forward, or not, I was going to say forward, look, you don't need to. You can look across the Atlantic and see what I mean is the answers to the tests. These have been applied in places. Well, he's writing his Nigel Farage, who is an ultra-right wing. Okay. Yes. He's an intergalactic space warrior. Is he though? as self-discord.
And do you have any semblance, you know, when he said he's exploding a popularity, that mean, no, that's one thing. Is it notoriety? Or is this person actually getting, he's projected to get 20% of the vote in a clacting, I think the town is called clacting? I think it's safe to say that most people, I'll put myself, I'll speak for myself only. It's more than safe to say. I look back at our political system and the political system of the UK or any at this point, people running for public office, and I'm not so sure that the system itself is survivable at its current state. I completely understand people becoming frustrated because it doesn't seem to matter if you run on the left or the right or the center. You have all the promises in the world and then you get there and almost nothing is accomplished. It's like you are, there are just three on ramps or four or five or six or whatever it is. But it all ends up in this one water slide. Yeah. You take your headed into different direction, but 50 yards down the road, they all converge. And then you're on the same water slide and I don't, I've heard other people say this, I agree with it. I'm not an expert in politics, but I do think without term limits in our ability to ferret people out of being professional politicians their entire life, we're headed for problems. And there also has to be an additional step to that. The number of people who are lifetime government service employees, and I've used the example ridiculous, yeah. Well, I've used the example many times from the officer detailer in the seal community. This, I believe it was a woman, I'll leave her name out of it. I think I've said it before, but just in case I haven't, I'll leave it a little bit neutral. She was there for decades. And every two years though, a new active duty officer would come in and technically that's the active duty officer detailer. But if you really wanted something done, you called and you asked for her because she knew all the billets and all the officers from from Ensign to Admiral and had shepherded some people's careers through that period. So on paper, yeah, the officer detailer was the active duty person that rotated through every two years. But the power broker was anything but that. And that system also exists in a lot of government institutions as well. We vote for the vast minority of people that are actually serving in government. And those people are tremendous power brokers. They can get things done quickly or they can drag their feet and prevent us from getting anything done. And their jobs fine. But I think a lot of people suffer because of that. Yeah. Well, yeah, and I feel like this is kind of a backlash to some of that where it's like we, you're not even representing us. So watch this. We're going to vote for this doofus and we don't care anymore. Yeah. I don't think it's, I don't think it's going to be meaningful, but I understand where it's coming from. Yeah. And I think it's going to be the ultimate achievement of, well, absolutely nothing else so far has worked. So you know what? Let's vote for the most ridiculous thing to even see if it makes a difference. Yeah. And here is some of the, his ridiculous policies that he has. Oh, nice. Let's go from top to bottom. Cut your taxes. Raise everyone else's. So is that, I mean, how does this work beyond the one person? Not sure. Okay. Nationalize Adele. Are we talking about. I didn't use it. I think the singer. I believe. I'm going to support that. This is not bad. Very good. Very good. Strong. Nationalize model railways. Are we talking to a little Mike? I think this is like like the miniature railways. It's a hotties. Okay. Okay. Send one trillion a week to the NHS. No. Who can't get on board with this? This should be the first one. Cap croissants at one pound ten. Do they, do they say cents? I don't think so. I don't think so either. What would that be? One pound ten. Sorry for anybody across the pond. I really don't know. I'm going to ask Google here. Yeah. Or one euro. No, they use pounds. That's a pound. Yeah. One pound. What would they call the ten? The UK claim for the cent is the penny plural pence. Ten pence. One pound ten pence. Yeah. People were screaming at their computers or whatever device. Sorry for anybody in the UK. I've not found a lot of money there. About 99 flake ice creams at 99 pence. That seems like, I can, I can, you argue against that. 99. Cap. Wiggen kebabs, which in parentheses, basically a butter pie and barm cake at two pounds. Tie all government ministers pay, including the mayors to that of nurses for the next 100 years. I also support that. You know, I, again, this is stuff I see on the internet. None of this is my idea. And just because it was a small snippet in a larger video, most of the video didn't make sense, but in this context, it essentially said, why don't we overpay teachers and underpay politicians? Yeah. And then the person said, I bet you we have a lot less stupid people. I would agree with that. I would fully support that. I fully support that. Yeah. I would argue teachers are much more important than politicians, actually. To our day-to-day life. And I think the continued ability for our civilization to exist, yes, yes, I support that for sure. MPs to lose their subsidized cheap food and drink and parliament. I don't actually know what many of those words mean. Auto renew, auto renew on all online subscriptions to be abolished immediately. I like that too. Fuck, yes. You should get an email saying, do you want to renew? And you can just click no. Have you ever gone into your Apple account and then gone into subscriptions? Yes. What'd you find? Too many. I did this and found that I was paying for the same subscription multiple times. Do you know why? No. For a time, I share it in my cloud account with my children. Oh. My oldest Riley one month put $400 on these micro transactions. I forget the game. I want to say it was Clash of Clans, but I don't think it was. Yeah. But he kept buying coins. And apparently he felt no need to ask for the $1.99 purchase 200 times. And how old was he? Probably 22, but that's how old he is. No, this is probably 13 to 16 something like that. So yeah, there were a lot of double and triple subscriptions in there. Pensions to be double locked with a little extra chain on the side. I'm not sure what that means. I mean, okay. There's a lot here. So we don't have to go through every single one. This is amazing. A Wi-Fi on trains that work. Support. Oh, followed by trains that work. Interesting that he put Wi-Fi on the trains above the trains working. So that, I can vouch for that. Because when we were in the UK, dude, the train situation was pretty bad, not going to lie. We were crammed. There were about three times the normal amount of people crammed on one train, because two of them were out of service, okay. And it was about a two hour ride standing the whole time. Train was late. One of the trains got canceled. We had to get a voucher for a taxi, because the train couldn't get us all the way to London. So then we had to take an hour taxi drive into London. It was terrible. It was horrible. I'm glad all of that happened to you. I know you're glad. But I'm glad because none of that would happen here in Montana, and if you don't have things like that happen to you in life, if that was your dark night of the soul, which if you don't know what that is, it wasn't my dark night. It was just fresh. It was just annoying. It sounds like it was. There was emotion in your voice with that. You sounded like a bitch, like a little first world bitch. You would be complaining way worse than me if that happened. Yes. You would. On the train. Do you have any idea some of the living conditions that I have spent? No, I know. They're terrible. Mine end years end. I know they're terrible. I had two times as many people in my train, but I was trying to travel through the first world. I was trying to make my way. This is exactly what somebody did. I know you'd be pissed. I don't know. You'd be pissed. Just so people know, this is me, Andy, Michael's voice, because I know I sound exactly like he just said. I was the hardest train ride of my entire. I was hardest. Yeah, whatever. That's what you sound like. Also, even I am recognizing you've worn that Mexico shirt several times for Friday episodes. I told you, I have like six shirts. Do you want the brown shoes back that you wore to Tyler's birthday party, by the way? I think they're at the house. Really? Yeah. The slip-ons? No, I'm pretty sure I took those back. Okay. They must be Tyler's. I don't know. I digress. Yeah, that's not really that bad. Well, it wasn't fun. Oh, dude. And it's a big issue. Are you going to be okay? No. It wasn't that fun. Oh, I'm going to go cry after this, actually. It was assuming you were crying during. What did you do with yourself while you were standing there? It was terrible. I almost jumped off the train. I don't think you could have figured out how to open the door. No. I was broken a window. It's probably was plexiglass. You probably had a broken your hand. Let me see. I do find it interesting that Wi-Fi on a train that works was above line item number two, which is actually trains that work. Yeah. I would probably invert those two. I think you did it for comedic effect. Yeah. Free parking for electric vehicles between Vine Street and that's all super local stuff. Housing. Go down a little bit. Though at least one affordable house. Nice. Strong. MP, I feel like that has something to do with Parliament or something to do with their electorate. Constitutionally formed. Abolish the House of Lords. Nope. I cannot get on board with that because I don't even know what it is, but it sounds really cool. Yeah. House of Lords does sound cool. It sounds cool. I don't know what they do though. So maybe there's a good reason for that. Introducing a minimum wage. A minimum voting age of 16 and a maximum of 80. That's pretty fair. I like that. I don't know if I trust my dad to vote anymore. No, I don't either. I was looking at when we went out to--
to dinner for Tyler's birthday, which by the way, thanks for being a wingman for him until 2 a.m. I was, of course, epic. Yes, make sure you got home safe. Yeah, I was looking at the menu. I think there's a reason why children's and seniors is on the same paragraph. 'Cause you start off life as a child and then you return to one. Yeah, he, yeah, I can get behind that. He is out of his mind. He's living his own life, living his best life, one could say. For sure, and I'm fully supportive of it. Yeah, but I was thinking that when we were sitting there at the table, we start off. And then all the help we can get, and we end off. Need all the help we get. Potentially even diapers on both sides. Yeah, actually that is true for a lot of people. In the diaper section, which I know you have probably never gone in. Nope. There's children's and adults. Yeah, perfect. Again, yup, yup, yup. All right, and yeah, what do you think? Well, I look, this one I think is also very good. MPs to live in the area they wish to represent for four years before standing. Yes, of course. Yeah, you should actually have some tie and live in the community that you want to represent. Yep. I mean, that's the, that's crazy, it's not crazy. It's just, again, it highlights the ridiculous nature of politics. Some of these are clearly ingest. Yes, of course. And they're funny. Yes. Some of these are so common sense that you can't tell if they're just real because that's how ridiculous this is. Because it should be this way. Yeah, that's a pretty reasonable idea. But the fact that you even have to bring this up is comedic. Yes, correct. See, London joined the European Union. I don't know, I've heard pros and cons of that. Environment and utilities, go down. Stop the sale of arms to repressive regimes, okay? Water company boss is to take a dip in the British rivers and see how they like it. Fully support that. Love it. A ballish floor in football. So I know they're talking about soccer. I don't know what that is. Corners and football to be refereed properly. Okay, this guy's obviously a soccer fan. Tries and rugby league to be increased from four to five points in line with inflation. Okay. All British citizens to be offered stilts to combat the UK's increasingly wet climate. I don't know if stilts solves that. Well, I guess won't make your feet wet anymore. I like it. National Yorkshire I'm putting day to be a bank holiday except for banks. Strong. It's amazing. But he's got a whole wholesome grommet to be knighted for services to Wensley Dell. Okay, nice golf course at Richmond swimming pool to host the open championship. Strong count been phased to represent the UK at Eurovision. I don't know what that is, but it's a music contest. Make Peer's Morgan zero emissions by 2038. Oh, that's so funny. God, see, we're not that far behind in the US, I think. We're not, but this is, I support, you know what, if I were, if I lived in Clackton, I would vote for count been phased. You know that people there are thinking to themselves, what does it matter? You have tried voting for both sides. And. So I'm gonna vote for this guy now. Yeah, that would end result was the same. Yeah. So yeah, we'll vote for a dude with a garbage can on it. It's just kind of a middle finger to the system. It was just like, yeah, dude, you guys are doing nothing. This is what this is who we're voting for. The only issue would be as if he's a candidate and draws enough votes away from somebody who would be even worse in that person. You know what I mean? He draws enough of the vote away if there's somebody who was a reasonable and somebody who was shitty. It draws enough away from the reasonable that the shitty person gets elected. But I, you know, that's probably the argument against the third party that's used the most often at not an expert in politics, but I can see that being the case. So yeah. Anyways, come in face for you. Strong opener, I appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah. Your news feed is far different than mine. I can tell you that right now. And I do support nationalizing a deal. Yeah, I think that's a good, a good strong option. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Now onto some corruption. Oh, we were just talking about politics. Yeah, exactly. Continuing our talk. Continuing, except for American politics. Trump will be selling early access to his true social tweets, which often, you know, very market-moving, essentially insider trading. Yeah. So I had just heard somebody-- I had heard this and thought nothing of it because I'm not on true social nor do I-- I don't think I know. I don't know if I actually follow any political figures on any platform. I don't think that I do. I don't follow the White House. I don't follow Trump on any of the social media platforms. I had heard somebody else talking about this being the potential for insider trading. I don't know what the legitimate criteria for that means. But yes, if it's a market mover and he's soliciting-- Yeah. --to be paid for. And I don't know if it's six seconds or 60 seconds or six minutes or six hours. I don't know. But what are we doing? I mean, that's blatantly saying, hey, this is going to move a market, whoever pays me. Dude, they're not hiding anything at this point. It's very blatant. And do you know what they paid the UFC fighter bonuses in? Trump coin. Yes. Which Trump coin is a whole other can of worms with how quickly it was ruptalled. Yeah, Trump mobile. I mean, what's going on? Directly, directly profiting off the presidency. Hold on, cost-- whoa. OK, is truth social free in general for just a normal person? Yes. I had seen these figures that I'm about to read. I thought this was a typo. Truth API service, the cost for the program cost between $60,000 and $100,000 per month. What are you talking about? Yeah. First off, who would pay that? And why? What is going on? Yeah. Who would pay that is somebody very rich, who is very active in the market, or a company, some hedge fund, or whatever? Well, look at this. Delivers top user posts, most notably from President Donald Trump, seconds or milliseconds before. Is that a no-- I mean, I'm not saying I support this. And I do know-- who? I'm right up to the edge of my skis on knowledge on this, but I have read a few articles talking about there was competition in New York near-- in and around New York to get the fastest fiber optic cable possible, because there is money to be made when it comes to milliseconds or fractions. So I think that that is real for sure. $60,000 to $100,000 a month to get a millisecond-- again, I'm not in the market, so I don't understand. And the thing is, if you-- so let's say you pay $100,000 a month for this. But if you get a tweet 30 seconds before everybody else, and you can make that market move before the market's actually move, you could potentially make millions. And so, well, it covers the cost. It's well worth it. I don't understand how this is legal. It shouldn't be. And I think probably because this is new territory. Insider trading is not new territory. No. But that's the thing. Insider trading is technically illegal, but everybody does it. Adoption. More than 10 subscribers, including trading firms, and financial outlets, have already signed on. OK, why would they do that? They, especially if they are publicly traded, are looking at their bottom line and ROI. So what return on investment, am I going to get for this? Yes, that's an informational advantage. I'm assuming here. Like I said, dude, the politicians aren't even hiding it anymore. This is like, it's blatantly out in the open. And the other thing, I mean, going off of corruption, making money off the presidency. Donald Trump generated an estimated $2.2 billion to $2.4 billion in total revenue and business income during 2025. The first year of his second president's term. This figure represents a dramatic increase from the $622 million to $760 million is enterprise brought in through 2024. Prior to his return to the White House, this massive surge in earnings was revealed in his mandatory annual financial disclosures form filed with the office of government ethics. Primary revenue drivers, according to investigations by news outlets and financial analysts. The vast majority of Trump's 2025 income came from newly launched digital assets and traditional real estate holdings. I know he's held real estate for a long time. So that's probably not a huge issue. So cryptocurrency venture, $1.4 billion. This was the largest single driver of his revenue. Is he directly involved in this or is this where his family has a cutout or not a cutout, but he is supposedly not involved even though I bet you his sons are involved in this. So I don't know if he was, but he definitely promoted it. You know, I'm not against people making money. I want people to be able to pursue the American dream. Pick whatever number you want for you, which is enough for you. Hopefully it's not more because I've watched so many people just auger themselves in the pursuit of more because what they have is never enough. And I want people to be, I believe in capitalism. I believe in competition. I am fine with all of that. I don't know.
Not being an expert in this world looking at the political system, we were just talking about how I think that the UK is ahead of us in some progressive policies and Ideas that they've implemented We might be ahead of them when it comes to something like this. Yeah, I don't know again putting the legalities of this aside just from an optic. I wouldn't want Anybody to assume the office of the president with the sole driver being their self enrichment or their family enrichment. Yeah, is it probably going to happen anyway, especially as they leave office with Opportunities that are going to come their way. Sure, and that's you know, that's the you get the ticket to the dance to do the best you can and when you like, okay, I get that. But I don't Understand again, maybe this is totally legal and I'm talking out of my ass here, which is incredibly possible. I don't like the optic. No, I don't like the optic at all. About 17 million in merchandise and publishing real estate and resorts 300 million use deeply involved. And again, yeah, that was before the president. Crypto currency ventures 1.4 billion. The big problem is the crypt because Almost all to create them backed by his family. And I'm sure that there are legalities being an arms reach and all that stuff, but at the same time You know, you've heard the term the Biden crime family and talking about how Hunter Biden was paid millions of dollars by oil companies in Russia for consulting and all this stuff and how hard into the paint. Yeah, they went on that and silence. Yeah, and it's again Balls and strikes. I want the United States to be as successful as possible, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat in office. This optic to me and I am totally open to being educated on this and somebody explaining this to me how this is completely above board and in line with what we want from our elected officials. If somebody believes that I'm please reach out and explain that to me, I'm more than happy to have Discussion about it until I can educate myself further on this, but from a looking at the things that were said about other political families and this type of behavior. I'm sorry. This is crazy to me. Yeah, absolutely. Me as well. It's a I mean, to me, it seems to be blatant corruption. And you know, like you were saying, it's not it's not because I don't like Trump and I think he's a bad guy. It's because you have a president who is directly using his position as president to profit off of the presidency. And what seems to me to be above helping the American people. Google has any American president ever increased their net worth by a billion dollars while in office. Yes, Donald Trump increases net worth by billions of dollars while office driven primarily by our adventures, blah blah blah. So then Google has any president other than Donald Trump increase. And again, his numbers were probably starting off larger than most other people. So we can, you know, take that into account. So this just a quick thing says. Bill Clinton and Obama accumulated tens of millions, but their mass of wealth increase predominantly occurred after leaving office, do you want to come talk to our group for 30 minutes, which I'm not against that. Here's half a million dollars, exactly, exactly. Like I said, that's the ticket to the dance. This job seems to aid you in dog years. It's not unlike people who I mean, I get hired to travel around the world and give speeches because of my military background. I'm not going to sit here and say it's because of. Oh, hey, Andy, you're so unique in your thought process and you're just this unique dandy lion that has all the pedals and it's not. It's like it's a combination mostly driven by my military background. I completely understand that. If I didn't have that, would any organization give two shits about what I think about leadership? I don't know, but I would assume probably not. It is the way that it is. I get it, the speaking circuit. Yeah, an ex president, you weren't getting a massive check. Yeah, as you're going to get a book deal probably right out of office, maybe double digit millions, maybe single, but it's going to be high again. That seems to be the standard. But a massing tens of millions of dollars is different than. A billion dollars, which is one thousand million dollars and this all in the first year of being a president. This is an after the presidency, speaking about your experiences as a president. This is in currently in office. It's a rough optic. It's the silence is pretty deafening. Yeah. And I again, I sit in the middle on a lot of stuff, say it for the five millionth time, probably socially pretty liberal. I want people to live their best life and live their life that they want to. Don't push your life on me. I won't push my life on you, physically very conservative, but a lot of my politics are very purple. I don't care who was in office. I wouldn't be a fan of this. Oh, yeah. No, it's it's. And that's the thing. I think people are a lot of a lot of people will say, Oh, you're just attacking this because you don't like Trump. And while it is true, I'm not particularly a fan of Trump. Something like this, no matter who's in office is not okay. So anyways, I think we're getting a little too political right now, but I don't know if it's I mean, we're talking about politics. But again, I, if a Democrat is in office, I may not like the person. I may not like the policies, but that doesn't mean I want to see America fail. Exactly. And I think you should be able, depending on whatever your team jersey is, let's just go to sports. I played Water Polo and baseball when I was growing up, I should be able to as a member of my Water Polo team provide constructive criticism on a way as a team that we could perform better without being ostracized and put into this place. Where you're considered a traitor. Right. I can have criticisms of the team that you may be aligned with, but not throw the rest of it. And you know what I mean, you're not throwing the baby out with the bathroom. You're just trying to call again balls and strikes. Yeah. Like, yeah, Hunter Biden being paid millions of dollars was a breezema the Russian organization. I'm not sure. Let me see. Yeah. I mean, it was ridiculous. Maybe he has some ungodly insight into that area of the world, but I don't think that's the case. I think what he had was access to people in the White House. Ridiculous. Shouldn't ever happen. Botrina, wire 3.5 million to the investment firm called Rosemont, Sonica, Thornton, which Hunter Biden co-founded. Okay. So yeah, there is some weird connections there. Like it's an odd connection. For sure. Yeah. I don't know. I want to as a country be better than this. That's what it comes down to for me. Yeah. Let your ride in office. I want to be better than this. It's just a bad look and quite frankly, a little embarrassing. On the world stage. Oh, man. Give me any funny. Mm hmm. Give me any funny, funny, ha ha topics. I know all the rest of them are kind of like the same way, but I'm like, man, I don't know what to talk about. These draw corruption. What do you got next? Not all corruption. Um, but some more. Here's a crazy one that I don't, I don't think we've covered yet. All right. Today's episode is brought to you by tiny health. Tiny health is an at home gut health test that gives you detail breakdown of what's actually happening inside of your body. 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Eileen Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia, California, resigned and played a guilty in May, 2026 to a federal felony charge of acting as an unregistered illegal agent for the People's Republic
of China. Wow. And elected official. Again, I don't do. What does a mayor do? I'm not exactly sure. Actually, also Google how many people are in Arcadia will do. Yeah. She admitted to using local news website to covertly publish pro Beijing propaganda. Wow. 58 took office as mayor of Arcadia in February, 2026. About 50 K. Okay. I mean, so, you know, a little bit bigger than Calisbo. Yeah. Took office as mayor in February of 2026, resigned in May of 2026. So very long tenure. Yeah. One charge of acting as an illegal agent of a foreign government under 18 USC 951 carrying a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison. Between 2020 and 2022, Wang and her former fiance operated the US News Center. A diaspora focused website. What does that mean? Diaspora. I don't know. Let me, let me, let me look it up. Well, they took where they took direct orders from Chinese officials to post articles favorable to Beijing, including essays denying human rights abuse in Hu. Xinjiang, man. The dispersion of a population from its original homeland characterized by cultural retention, ties to a central place and life across the world. So maybe a website focused on Chinese expats, maybe scroll down the aftermath. Wang formally entered her guilty plea in federal court and the Arcadia City Council appointed Councilman Paul P. Chang to succeed her as mayor. Did she go to jail? I mean, I do not know. I don't know if that's still, what was her name? I lean Wang. I lean Wang. This is relatively recent. May. Yes. A couple months ago. An American mayor accused of secretly working for China. She has not gone to jail yet, but she pleaded guilty. She remains out on bond awaiting her sentencing hearing. Why don't we get her one way ticket to Beijing? Honestly, I was like, get her out of here. Okay. I mean, what was the title unregistered for an agent? Well, now you're registered. You've been registered. You're now a foreign agent. So register. Like, if you want to do that, go do that shit in Beijing. Yeah. Well, I'm having said that. I'm sure I'm, I mean, it's probably a US citizen and I'm sure in violating some constitutional rights. And I have no idea what the law allows for. But as a spit-balling idea, I don't have a problem with that one. Yeah. Yeah, but I just crazy story. I mean, you always, like, obviously, there are movies made on like spies infiltrating into politics or whatever. What do they call the Manchurian candidate? Manchurian candidate. Yeah, but that's kind of different. Why? Because a Manchurian candidate is like somebody who doesn't know they're a spy until they're activated after they're into the highest. How do you know? Well, I think it's a fictional thing. How would you not know? Traurian candidate. No. Candidate meeting. My knowledge of the subject comes from a movie that I watched. The person who's not stuck on a politician who is secretly used as a puppet by an enemy power. Oh, I guess not. The individual may be fully aware of the betrayal or they might be an unwitting agent controlled through mind control, brainwashing, or covert manipulation. It's like a fictional thing. So say, like I just said, the understanding of a Manchurian candidate comes from a movie from 20 years ago that I watched about 10 minutes of. It's called Manchurian candidate. It is. And for a million dollars, I couldn't tell you who was in it, but I feel like it's a political movie. Of course not because you weren't born. No, it was not mind control. Yeah. I mean, obviously, this is not what happened here, but still very interesting, interesting topic. Yeah. Man, we're really just finding some, some cracks and seams today. What else you got? It's true. Let's just keep going. Kind of long same lines. Former US Marine held in Russia on the speed of charges has been released. What? Have you not seen this? No. Former US Marine held in Russia on the speed of charges. Oh, this guy was held for four years, right? Yes, I believe so. He kind of looks pretty similar to Nick who was sitting here yesterday. Oh, interesting. Do you see it? Yes, actually. Yeah. I don't think you do. I think you're just saying that. No, I do. I for some reason thought you were talking about the Friday episode, which I wasn't here for, but then I remember that we had one yesterday. So when I said, I mean, just walk the dog here on this one for a sec. I don't remember names. When I said to you, it kind of looks like Nick who was sitting here yesterday. I don't think you did you say that? I must have blocked that out. So when I said it kind of looks like Nick who was sitting here yesterday. You jumped to a Friday episode where you weren't here. Yep. Okay. We got that covered. I wish at least an American military veteran on Tuesday, allowing him to turn the U.S. air four years of what his family U.S. officials alleged was wrongful incarceration and abyss of treatment that left him near death. Well, 32-year-old Massachusetts teacher and former Marine was freed of President Trump. Said he spoke to Russian President Putin about his release, which Trump said it was very much on a humanitarian basis. What was he in there for? For apparently assaulting an officer. Oh, what the officer do? I'm not sure. I found it. Let's see if anyone's convicted. Attacking a prison inspector during a cell check, beating an. What was he doing in prison though? I believe it was because. The plane gets to the charge and apologized. I believe it was because he initially attacked an officer as well. Oh, yeah. I'm getting a police officer after being taken off a train for causing a disturbance. I'm going to say there's a good chance he was shit-faced. Yeah. Actually, probably. Unfortunately, Russia. Or really, any country, any foreign country at the very least is not the place to attack an officer. Use his caution in foreign countries. You ever have any desires to go to Russia? Not really. And not because I don't think it would be like a nice country. I just the current political climate, I think, would be inadvisable to go to Russia. But you don't want to end up on the front lines? Constricted? That, especially, but I think I'm sure there's not a very fond view of Americans at this point. If you were constricted, I think you would just be like a pleasure servant. You would be a concubine for senior officers. Okay. That's just my guess. Thank you. If I was to take a snapshot and just what do I think that the Russia military would use you for? That's. You know, it's very telling that this is where your mind goes every single time. Yeah. It's very interesting. It's telling about how you present yourself to the right. Yes, of course. Yeah. Vaska is cool. They drink heavy there. I spent about 10 days there in. Maybe 2014, 2015. Got to walk all around there, walked around the Kremlin. That's cool. The square right behind it that has all the lines painted that, you know, like here's the rocket line, here's the tank line. On the right on the other side of that is a mall. No, a super high-end store. It's awesome. Is this after you got out? Dang. That's so cool. Did you go with like Rogue or something? I mean, not Rogue. No, it was. Okay, so no, it was for Reebok because they were establishing. This is when I was working for CrossFit. So it had been 2014, 2015. They were working on establishing some gyms there. They had just signed the contract with CrossFit. Yeah, I went there solo for like 10 days. Yeah, that's so cool. Yeah, see, I would love to go. Like, I have nothing against Russia in general, but I just don't think the climate is good right now for Americans to be over there. Where are you going to get on October? And also, I have you gone for the entire month. I know that you had some specific dates, but. Not true. Yeah, I won't be on the entire month, but I'll be in Spain and Portugal. Yeah. Spain and Portugal. Yep. So, that'd be good. Yeah, good time. The toughest thing about you leaving is we have to find another wean sitter. Yeah. Plus. I don't think we've talked about it yet. Like Beans. Dash too. Yeah. We have a deposit down on another wean, and his name is Beans. And he has a dApple as well. We pick him up September 13th. Being the wean. Yep. Beans and Havi. BJ, if you will. Yep. Yeah. I love that that's the only reason you need to beans. We have to figure out the wean sitting situation. Because sometimes, you just can't take the weans with you like you're going hunting. Yeah, it is unfortunate. That's probably the part about my job I want most the most. Really? Probably. Yeah, he'll forget about you. Probably. Yeah. I mean, this sucks. Four years. I mean, at least he got out. What do you say he wanted to cheeseburger? That's fair enough. Yeah, fair enough after being in yeah, a Russian prison for man. I can't imagine. Well, not that I think American prisons are walking the park, even though, uh, God, some of these white collar crimes. I was watching the documentary get on the Theranos lady. Oh, yeah. And uh, that was like the blood testing thing. Yeah. Was it though? Yeah. Well, it tested my ass. Yeah. Yeah. You know, some of the prisons and I'm using very large air quotes with these are just ridiculous, like as far as in on which end. Good or bad? Well, there's both. You know, there's super max where, probably have the Hubble telescope up your asshole on Thursdays looking for contraband. And then other ones where you're playing, you know, croquet. And I'm not sure that's actually the case. I'm just making this up. Yeah. But it seems like you got a lot more laxity. And you can kind of just do whatever you want to do. And there's workshops and all sorts of stuff like the prison that Jolaine Maxfot was a work. She is now.
I don't know actually, but I've heard rumors that she was in a very nice luxury prison. I don't think you should be able to pair those words. Yeah, I think luxury in prison should not be able to exist in the same sentence. Although there are some, it's currently detained to the federal prison camp, Brian in Brian, Texas. Google, what's the nicest prison? I mean, this is just up fascinated now as to how nice these things can get. Nice as prison in the US are minimum security federal prison camps. Okay, so a federal prison camp where Maxwell is right now. Well, it makes him nice. Give us some details. Often nicknamed, okay, characteristics. Let me, let me pull it up here. The whole, the private prison system is a whole another can of worms too, which is terrible. Okay, dormitory living in the its typically steep and open bay bunk areas rather than traditional steel bar cells, work opportunities, events often hold campus maintenance, landscaping or clerical jobs, sometimes working around military bases, great access to hobby crafts, weight rooms, televisions, outdoor sports field, nonviolent populations restricted to strictly white collar or nonviolent offenders with relatively short sentences and clean institutional behavior records. The reality of club fed. Despite the milder conditions compared to maximum security lockups or supermaxes like the ADX and Florence, they strictly, they remain strictly controlled federal institutions with mandatory counts, rigid schedules, and monitor communications. Who fucking who? You're in prison. Over the years, the federal birth of the prisons has trimmed many of the recreational perks and tighter budgets of standardized conditions across most minimum security locations. I wonder what perks were tripped. I don't know. Although I don't think prison is supposed to be anything other than shitty. I think that's the point. It's punishment. Well, so on one hand, I do agree with you, especially if you're a violent offender or if you have done something terrible. However, there is evidence that humanely designed prisons that are not as shitty, actually help benefit rehab rates and lower incidence of them. But you're still being punished. It is a punishment. Okay, but here's my, is it better to punish somebody or to rehab them into a better citizen? Yes. So both. So what if you give up some of the punishment for a greater rate of rehab? Like, where's the tradeoff? Where's the line in the sand, I guess? But I have absolutely no idea. Because that's my thing. If the whole goal is to make sure you don't do what you did again, but is that the goal of prison? I think it can be. I think the goal of prison is to keep, what is the goal of prison? Google it. I think it's to keep, okay, yeah. My opinion is it's to keep bad people away from the general population. Yes, to restrict their freedom of movement and largely many of their rights. Yes. And not because the main thing is punishment, but the main thing is keeping this greater community safe by punishing those who would do it harm. Yes, it is a punishment, but that's not the main, okay, anyways. What is the main goal of prison? The primary person of prison is to combine individuals convicted of a serious crimes. And punish them. Say it. And punish them. Retribution. So, retribution is part of it. Punishing prisoners. To pay a proportional debt to society. Which I don't disagree with. Incapacitation, removing dangerous individuals, deterrence, discouraging both specific offender and general public from breaking the law and rehabilitation. Yeah. Yeah. So that's why I answered yes. I think it can be all of those things. Yeah. Have you done this? I don't know. Neither. And if you're a horrible, horrible person, and you do horrible, horrible things to people, I want you to be in a horrible, horrible environment. I agree with that. Because, again, it's safer for everybody else, but also you did a terrible thing, and I think you should be punished for that. But I'm not sure, like Texas recently just passed, if you have a certain amount of weed, you basically get in prison for life. What? Yeah. It's insane. The land of the free, apparently. What do you mean, the land of the free? We still have laws. Texas enforces strict ban on popular hamptor FTC alternatives and criminal penalties. Possessing banned varieties can result in a state jail felony. No, there is a. Are you spreading propaganda, Michael? No, I saw a legitimate news article about this, but here's in the meantime. I've heard some gnarly things about this Delta 8 and Delta 10 stuff. I can't say I know much about it, and the Delta 9 as well. It seems like it's synthetic, I don't know, but it seems pretty gnarly. Yeah, I've heard not great things about synthetic weed. Yeah. Yeah, what are you trying to say here? Like, I get it. We still have laws. We're a little into the free for sure, but you still have laws. Yes, I agree, but I don't even know where was I going. You were talking about a life sentence for somebody who has a certain amount of weed. Yeah, I definitely did see that, and maybe that I just got. Yeah, I saw an article once that was guy was doing an interview with Bigfoot. It doesn't mean it's real. The entire community of people on Earth can get together and talk about how the earth is flat. Yes, where I was going with this is if you are in jail for a drug offense where you were the only one affected by your drug use, that to me is like, okay, do we really need to put you in a prison, a shitty condition prison? Because, yes, it is against the law. I think we should probably re-look at what the laws are, and if they're serving the repress of the designation or design of those laws, you're always going to be able to find an outlier. It's what happens when you have something that's broad as it becomes imperfect and imprecise the more it's applied, but yeah, it's. I don't know. I mean, there's an argument for letting people do whatever. They want to decriminalizing everything. How's that going for you, Portland? You know, it worked out so well for Portland. No, and I don't know if it will work out well at a larger scale than that either, but I also, at the same time, I don't know the answer to that. Yeah. Well, I think one of the big problems with Portland is, if I remember correctly, they decriminalize it, but then had no other recourse for those people that were addicted to whatever. And so, what do you mean by recourse? Like, Portugal did a very similar thing, but they had tons of centers where people could go and wean themselves off instead of going to prison. If they wanted to? If they wanted to. Yes. But Portland basically said, okay, everything's fine, but then there was no alternative. So then no, you know, it was just like, okay, well, now it's just the Wild West over here. So yeah, I don't know. That is a very complex issue. It's very complex issue. There's no one right answer, I don't think. How long we've been out at Michael? 54. We had time for a little more corruption. We also got perfect. This one isn't corruption per say, but have you heard reports? Why did you add per say to that? Actually, not even per say, it's just not corruption. Why did you add per say? I don't know, because it seemed like a good thing to add on at the time. Okay. I didn't really think about it if I'm being honest. So I have you heard of basically USS Lincoln has been at sea for the aircraft care 250 days consecutively. I think so, yes. Without and there are stories, again, just stories that I've heard. I don't know if it's true. Okay. Of people trying to jump off of the aircraft carrier. I watched somebody jump off an aircraft carrier. I have spent very little time on a Navy vessel. We took an aircraft carrier from Guam to Australia. We had no roles in responsibilities whatsoever. It was fascinating. I've never been so goddamn lost in my life when I was down below deck reading the hieroglyphics that were on the walls and the carrier that describe exactly where you're at if you speak that language, which I don't by the way. And I was on a, it wasn't a treadmill. An elliptical. Okay. I was crushing a workout on an elliptical. And it was inside of the huge hangar bay where the aircraft are. There's like a lot of aircraft up on the deck. I was never on an aircraft carrier operationally. So I don't, this is my description of what I was seeing many, many years ago. This pre-9/11. So I'm up there. Probably a CD player at the time just crushing with over the year headphones. Nobody knows what that is at that time period. And just getting it, really getting it on the elliptical probably level eights. Not a big deal. Of course. And uh, what should I walk over pull a fire extinguisher off the wall, bear hug it, run and jump off the side. So you could sink? Yeah, but it was positively buoyant. Do you think he was doing it so he could float and swim away? I think he was doing it because it was one of a few options. He's trying to kill himself. Yeah.
an absolute cry for help and not actually trying to kill himself, but he wanted to be treated as such so he could be removed from the vessel, or the combination of all of those with a mental health crisis going on. So, that was just literally going from Guanta, Australia. There's 5,000 people sometimes on these aircrafts. That's a little city. Small town. Well, you know what you have in every little city, expressions of society. There are gnarly prostitution rings. There are gang issues. Oh, yeah. Easy. I guess so. 5,000 people. Yeah. Yeah, man. So you have all the same societal stuff. Yeah. What could exacerbate that stress and being gone much longer than you were designed to be gone for in these compressed tight environments with likely no end state? I mean, this I'll provide an example, and this is such an easy one to show people the power of your own mind as a buzz instructor. If I wanted to mess with the students, we would go out for a conditioning rung and I'd say, hey, in my mind, by the way, I knew we were going for four miles. That was it. I knew that the beach marker I was going to turn around on and we were going to come back. The difference as a student when a instructor comes out and says, hey, we're going for a run. Keep up. If you fall behind, it's going to be your ass. And we're just going to go until I say stop versus the instructor that come out and says, hey guys, it's Friday. We're going to go for a chill four-mileer. You you latch on to that four miles and it is so much easier to mentally tolerate that than the unknown. Right. These people probably have no idea when they're going to come home and that can unwind you because you focus on that uncertainty and that the run, like I said, was going to be four miles either way. Yeah. But the difference in head space in the students was astronomical. Also, sometimes you'd say, hey, we're going to go for four miles and you just keep going. But with the students, be able to tolerate that better. If you did just say, hey, we're just going for four miles. And even if they tolerate that better. Yeah. Even if you did go beyond four miles. It starts getting a little iffy there. If you just then we're back into unknown terrain. Right. They're like, is this really certainty and the unknown? It can unwind you. You have to not surrender your headspace to that and get back into, I don't know how far we're going to go, but I see that beach marker down there. I'm going to get to that beach marker and I'll go to the next one and go to the next one and go to the next one. You take that agency back control of your thoughts versus handing over that power to somebody else. This sucks. But it's also part of the job. Yeah. It's a tough life. It's a tough occupation. I have no doubt that the longer that they are gone, the more issues they are going to feel. Because again, let's just call it what it is. A small city/society societal problems in a pressure cooker in a constricted and constrained environment. We have, we could work really hard Monday through Friday and UNI Saturday Sunday. We could go up to Canada. We could go hike you. Go do whatever you want to do. That option isn't available here either. So there's also no real like steam relief valve for these people that are stuck out there as well. It's tough. It's a hard job. Yeah. So far, let's see. The longest ever deployment of an aircraft carrier is 332 days. Who was that? A Vietnam. Wow. Yeah. Dude. That's crazy. That's almost a full year without seeing land. I mean, I'm sure you saw land, but never being on land. It's a lot. It's a hard job, man. Yeah. That does not sound fun. Anyways, there's really no real point to that. I just thought it was. It's real. That's a real thing. Yeah. Yeah. It's people underestimate the size and the scale of what exists there. I mean, they're, imagine just the amount of food that is constantly being cooked for that many people. Yeah. Resupply operations, jet fuel, resupply, ordinance, all of that stuff. I mean, it is a huge wheel with spokes and cogs everywhere just to make that function. Yeah. Cool. Were you going next? You said you were volunteering at a food bank today? Yes. How'd you get up? What's going on there? Well, I want to get start getting volunteer hours. So that by the time that I want to apply to PT school, I have a shit ton, basically. Okay. So you don't actually care about people you care about yourself? Kind of, but it does feel nice to volunteer as well. What are you going to do with this food bank? I basically just make sure when people are like checking out, I make sure they have like the correct amount of everything. So you have to judge them. I really judge that too, but can of corn. You're looking like you're doing okay. That's what I say every single time. How's your shoulder doing? You're sissy shoulder. You know, it was doing good. I think I just kept like tiny like tiny re-injuries. Just small re-injuries. I forget. You're on a roll today, tiny per se per se. I think I just kept re-injuring it. Small re-injuries at Jiu Jitsu and it just wasn't healing. And so I was like, okay, I just need to take more time off, unfortunately. So that's where we're at with that bomber. It is a bomber. But if everything goes as planned, when will you begin PT school? Probably three or three years. I still got to do my undergrad. Will you be a doctor at the end of it? Not a medical doctor, but it's a doctor of physical therapy. It's like its own doctor. Will you tell people, hello, I'm Dr. Michael? No, no, I will not do that. Michael Shelton MD? No. MD Michael? No. Well, it wouldn't be an MD anyways. It'd be a DPT. Listen, if I was a doctor of anything, that's all that gets called me. Dr. Yeah. Yeah. Andy. I would say it's doctor. That's not my name. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe I will start doing that. I would. It would be fun. Demand the respect that you deserve. Yes. That worked so hard for. Let's not use those words, but you know, the title that you paid for. Exactly. Yes. Right. All right.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The host and guest discuss political frustration in both the US and UK, noting a growing public backlash against stagnant political systems and perceived corruption.
A satirical UK candidate, Count Benface, has gained popularity with outlandish policies, symbolizing a public desire to vote for absurdity as a form of protest against ineffective governance.
The conversation highlights concerns about political corruption, including Elon Musk’s alleged insider trading via Truth Social and former US Mayor Eileen Wang’s guilty plea for acting as an unregistered agent for China.
Summary:
The discussion centers on the growing public frustration with political systems in both the US and UK, where citizens feel that promises are unfulfilled and power is concentrated in a small, unaccountable elite. A satirical UK candidate, Count Benface, emerges as a symbol of protest, with a list of absurd and impractical policies—like nationalizing Adele or capping croissants—reflecting a broader desire to challenge political inertia. The hosts also explore real-world cases of political corruption, including Donald Trump’s alleged use of his presidential position to profit from digital assets and real estate, and former US Mayor Eileen Wang’s guilty plea for secretly promoting pro-China propaganda.
These examples illustrate a pattern of accountability failures and systemic distrust. Additionally, the conversation touches on the ethical implications of prison conditions, arguing that while punishment remains essential, humane rehabilitation may improve long-term societal outcomes. The episode concludes with a critique of overreach in laws, such as harsh penalties for cannabis possession, and acknowledges that decriminalization efforts—like in Portugal—must include support systems to prevent reoffending.
Throughout, the tone blends humor and serious analysis, emphasizing that public dissatisfaction often stems from a lack of trust in institutions, and that meaningful reform requires transparency, accountability, and genuine responsiveness.
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The speaker believes it is essential for personal understanding and informed decision-making, especially as a tool for lifelong learning and awareness.
The frustration with current political systems, where voters feel their voices are ignored and promises are not fulfilled, leading to a desire to vote for absurd or ridiculous candidates as a form of protest.
To cap croissants at one pound ten, which the speaker finds absurd but illustrates a broader critique of political overreach and absurdity.
That the system allows a small group of lifetime government employees to hold disproportionate power, leading to inefficiency and voter frustration.
The concern is that he generated over $2 billion in revenue during his second term, much of it from digital assets and real estate, raising questions about using his position to profit personally.
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