Punchbowl Town Square

It was a soul-natured. I heard the roar of the crowd. It could spread down the sea. What is it to the wall? I could tell the fence, three. You heard my guitar. So, how many people in the back of their mind are saying that nothing's going to happen to Ilano Mar? How much internal battle do we have with the lack of action? Right? Or, as Margo, I think me and Margo are on the same page on this one, is that there's actual actions happening, but you just can't jump in it and just put handcuffs on anybody and I have a case, right? As soon as the disgusting system we live in, you've got a guy who goes up and shoots a CEO, United Health Care. It's fingerprints. It's got everything there, and it's still going. You've got the little fella down in Houston that couldn't control his anger and got previous social media posts and holding a gun and I even got text messages of him going to stab or kill his girlfriend at the time. And then you got blatantly, you got, I witnessed after I witnessed, and here we are. Just dragging it out. Who's getting rich here? And the way I feel about Iran, right? We are literally kicking their ass with a pin. It's a pretty fast action. It's not getting that. Now everybody celebrating 180 days, I mean, today or tomorrow, be like six months with this conflict. People would be shocked if they found out how many in-garrison training exercises, how many soldiers are lost on a daily, on a daily, by the way. Fort, forthoods, 40,000 soldiers. So 60,000 dependents. Okay, this is a stat when I was there, 04. I think around the oven. Nope, no, 04. Yeah, probably 04. It was the standing was 40,000 soldiers, 60,000 dependents. And the 60,000 number could be way off. Even when I was in a, I was in an out-and-the-field when I was a scout medic. Oh, at the time, no, actually, I was, uh, I was logistics. Yeah, I was logistics. But I only used as a medic when needed. And, and I lost one of my good friends from a equipment malfunction. And it was a MRS multiple-launcher rocket system. And they had a heavy object stowed. And when they go to, to raise a rocket pod or lower to load it, they had to put, put in high idle. It was, it was a Bradley platform. And this object from vibration fell off and then disengaged the, the PTO and then put it into gear and it ran over. That's in garrison. So kind of what I'm saying here is, I still, I, I, I still can't consider this a war. I don't know how else, how you know, interpret it. I don't consider a war. The Trump administration should have never allowed them to continue using the word war. And I think they ended up using it. And then, of course, the administration's using it now. Right? They've been using it. So anyways, what else, oh, there's no else, they, they're ruling. I'm kind of, I'm still kind of cloudy on the 6-3. If, if Margo's got a better grasp on it or TAS or anybody on the executive order on mail-in ballots, I'm supposed to serve to only deliver mail-in ballots to eligible voters. Maybe that's, that's the kicker, right? Well, and Bishop, my whole take on it. So, you know, the ruling was, while this continues to go through the system, so it's not even a, it's not even a final decision. It's just a decision of, oh, you can do it until the case is fully heard. So I'm kind of like, well, if you're going to rule, just rule on it and be done with it. Yeah, it makes me scratch my head. I think I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, Good morning. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. The court, I mean, Trump last night in the middle of the night just sent that very order, saying he looked, we're already here. Let's just get this done. So that went in late last night. I can't remember what it's, what time it went in, but it went in last night just so you know it has. Sorry, you guys. I'm losing my voice. Margot, so you're, you're the guru. You've been more intuned in this at a different level for decades and like, like I've just said it. You've even liked to use general Flynn because general Flynn's voted out, because more people are listening to him. And he said he was a political in the military. I wasn't either. I've always said this. If you didn't vote for a public and you didn't get a pay raise, that's as far as I went. I knew there were three branches, right? I knew Mike Mander was the president. Now, how it's astonishing to me that we allow a state to control such an important election, you know, the presidential, the federal election, we allow a state to handle it. And that appears to be all the corruption, right? The Constitution says that the state's control elections. If you don't like it, you got to change the Constitution. When it clearly says that. It says the time in place. It does not say all the manner. Well, no, no, no, no, no, no. What I'm saying is, it's, listen, listen, Patrick, Patty, I'm saying my ignorance, right? You're saying the Constitution, but we, it's, there's obviously room for corruption, right? I mean, we can't rule that out, right? And then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then listen, but here's my other problem. When I'm saying this is if you've got two counties, or a CES, Oak, Wayne, Kent, so there's like three to four major counties in Michigan that literally call, you know, that literally almost make the entire vote for an entire red state, right? It's, yeah, but it does need to be revamped. That's where all the people live. You think, look, the reason that I, that I think that that's a bad argument is that I believe that people vote and land doesn't, right? So if nobody lives in a county, if you've got a county of, you know, 10,000 people, and then next to it, you've got another county of 100,000 people, it just should better, the people better, not the, the, the, the arbitrary lines that we draw, because the county is just wherever you decide it is, right? And how big it might be. It's not, it's not like this, like our congressional districts are based on like 700,000 people, right? So pretty much every congressional district in the country, whether you're in New York or Idaho, is the same amount of people, and that makes it fair, right? But I don't give a shit. If there's a county of 10,000 people and they all voted for one candidate, and then a county next to it, of a million people voted for a different candidate, well, it should be the amount of people, not the damn county. Who gives a shit? Again, county is a arbitrary, but listen Patrick, I agree that you, in some respects, what you're saying, but the challenge is, the county has the electoral, what's the word I want to eat, board, the election board, which sets and coordinates for the precincts in that county. You know what I mean? Like there's got to be a gathering point, and here's where you and I may have a rub. I don't like centralized voting facilities, where you have to pit, where everybody sends it into a stadium, and a million people are doing it. That really isn't what the spirit of elections is supposed to be about. It's supposed to be about a precinct, the closest place to you, that you go to vote to, they tabulate the votes, and send them to the election board. Hey, this precinct has 25 votes for Ralph Norman and 10 for Darling Lindsey Graham, whatever her name is. That, to me, we've gotten so far away from the spirit of what we intended elections to be like in your community. Look, I hear what you're saying, but I'm more and more convinced every day, and I know this is going to probably pissing people off, but I really believe this. There will never be another major election in this country where the right wing admits that they lost. They just never will. It'll always be this crybaby it was stolen from me, both. Henry said she could do it. It was a rigged. Hillary said it was rigged. Just so you know, look, you know, you know me well enough at this point to know I don't give a damn about Hillary Clinton, but I'm saying I don't believe in the left as it to. I'm saying, no, not the way the right does it. Hillary said, the left was the one that originally said of voting machines, electronic voting machines were bad. Look, hey, look, I agree with you. I would rather do paper ballots, and Amy Klobuchar had a bill, you know, like five years ago, that said that exact same thing, and it got cut down in Congress. Right? So the point is, I'm all with you on paper ballots, and let's not mess with the machines, because I want to stop this crybaby. I didn't get my way, so I'm taking my ball and go home stuff. But I'm convinced that even if we did have paper ballots, and we hand counted everything, that you guys would still piss them on and cry and whine every single time that it wasn't fair. You're going to screw me up. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. But it's true. Well, listen, listen. Well, Mr. B, let me take this one for a second. I haven't interrupt you, but let me just say. Another guy. I don't believe that all elections are rigged. I don't believe that, because I participate in the process. I go become a poll worker, watch what happens, but I will tell you, I was at a poll when I watched a machine malfunction, and I was counting how many people's ballots were going in that machine, and what the tally on the machine said, and my tally didn't match the machine tally. And I reported it back to the election board. I'm like, hey, that machine has a problem. And guess what? If the end of the night, that machine was the problem in the election. So if you don't participate in the process, and actually see it happen and help it through the process, then you're sitting on the sidelines just making stuff up. But if you're a part of the process, which you are open to be a part of the process, as a matter of fact, anybody will take volunteers. What I hate about the election laws is, we've got to the point now that like, I can't go to another county that really needs an election person at a poll like me. They won't let me go across county lines. I think that's dumb. I'm with you on that, Patrick. If I want to go observe in another county that we know has bigger issues than mine, because clearly one voting machine in a county of 28,000 people is not going to make a big difference. But it did in that instance. It took longer. That's all. And my count was right, and there's a strong in that figure out why. But there are counties like, like a capital where a state capital is, where they can't get enough poll workers. And if I want to volunteer from Cherokee County to drive eight hours to go watch a poll, why shouldn't I be able to if I'm a citizen of that state? Well, I'll tell you what, I don't know why you would want to be a poll worker at this point when you've got people accusing everybody of falsifying votes and all this other stuff. Because I want to. Why the hell would you want? That narrative. Like you said. Yeah, but I look, I can't blame somebody who's saying, yeah, I would like to be a poll worker, but I don't want the abuse. I don't want to be accused of cheating constantly, which is what will happen in every single election for the rest of our natural lives. But that's not what happened. This didn't use to happen. It's going to happen. It's going to happen. It's going to happen. But listen, it's one thing to have visual footage of them putting up paper on the windows for observers not to be able to see. It's a completely different thing. And say that observers can't stand behind as people are counting. Because that's part of the rules that were created and agreed to by both parties. All I can say is that. But when when you know, when Trump won in 2024, I didn't like it. I was pissed off, but I accepted it because it's I know it's legit. He won't. I can. Don't you think only American citizens should vote? Of course, of course. Of course. Of course. I don't want anybody who's here illegally voting. Well, so now that we know that over 24,000 people just in one in one state, illegal. We don't know that that's nonsense. We do know that since this is already. Yes, it's already been confirmed. 100%. This is what it's called confirmation bias, right? It's not confirmation bias. No, it is. It is. Web site Patrick. Go to the US. Go to the US. Go to the US. Web site when Biden was president. It says it on there. Look, that's not true. And but it wouldn't matter. It wouldn't matter. Because I'm just saying there is never going to be a lot of people. It's not true. But it wouldn't matter. It wouldn't matter. Because I'm just saying there is never going to be another election in which Republicans lose. And you guys don't cry the same. Why any bullshit? Like it's just always going to be this way. It's always. We just have to accept the reality that you're never going to accept anything you don't like. You know, during 2020, do you know what I did? I went to the nursing homes in PPE and helped them vote. I didn't ask them what they were voting for. But if they were blind, I helped them fill out their ballot. If they couldn't hear what we were asking them to do, we had to have an interpreter. But if you're not part of the process, don't complain. Look, because everyone in the room, I'm not complaining really. I'm just saying. I'm not talking about you. I'm not talking about you. Just calm down. I'm not talking about you. I'm saying everybody has equal rights to go participate in the process. And to be a poll observed. I'm saying to be a poll observed.