The Adam Mockler Show - GET THIS OUT of our POLITICS!

Episode Date: May 20, 2026

Adam Mockler and Mike Nellis break down how billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos increasingly shape American politics through campaign cash, media influence, and backroom relationships with Dona...ld Trump and both political parties. From Elon Musk’s massive election spending and dismantling of government agencies to AIPAC’s role in Republican primaries and Bezos openly praising Trump, critics say America’s democracy now looks dangerously distorted by money, corruption, and elite influence. Click below for premium Adam Mockler content 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@adammockler/join 👉 https://adammockler.com/subscribe JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AdamMockler/ Discord: https://discord.gg/y9yzMU3Gff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adammockler/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/adammockler.com/ Twitter: https://x.com/adammocklerr/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@adammockler Contact: contact@mocklermedia.com Business inquiries: adammocklerteam@unitedtalent.com Adam Mockler - Mockler Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Behind every F-35 jet is a Canadian company, horizontal tails built in Winnipeg, engine sensors from Ottawa, and stealth composite panels crafted in Loonenburg to name just a few. Thanks to thousands of skilled Canadian workers, the F-35 aircraft is delivering unmatched capabilities for 20 Allied nations around the world, and will generate more than $15.5 billion in industrial value for Canada. This ad is sponsored by the F-35 partner team, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, and RTX. Learn more at www.f35.com slash Canada. The best possible example of money in politics, in my opinion, is Elon Musk in the 2024 election. Let me just paint this picture for you.
Starting point is 00:00:38 The richest man on the planet at the time at least. Dedicated hundreds of millions of dollars, $200,300 million towards a campaign in a surgical manner because he understood that he would get power if that campaign won. Well, Trump did win, and what did Elon Musk do? He was walking around the White House as a special advisor. but it goes deeper than that. Elon also leveraged about $44 billion in order to buy Twitter and rebrand it into X.
Starting point is 00:01:09 So just by pointing out Elon Musk, before we even enter the A-PAC, the Jeff Bezos, the Citizens United of it all, Elon Musk himself, as the richest man on the planet, is single-handedly distorting our system and swaying elections through mass disinformation campaigns. He was literally buying off voters in Pennsylvania
Starting point is 00:01:28 through some fake lottery, if you remember that. Illegal. Illegal lottery, yeah. He ended up getting sued for it. He, like, lied to people. And then he ended up getting, and I remember in the discovery part, they ended up admitting it wasn't even a raffle anyways.
Starting point is 00:01:41 They had pre-chosen the winners. So he got sued for it, and they ended up free choosing the winners, all despicable coming from Elon Musk. And the DOJ was investigating him for it, and Trump's DOJ dropped it at the beginning of the term. I just think, for that builds into my point so perfectly because the money that is being spent by people like Elon Musk,
Starting point is 00:01:58 directly leads to them getting off and not being investigated and being able to have power. He was a special advisor for 120 days who gutted USAID, gutted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which protects people like us from fraudulent corporations and fraudulent banks. Wells Fargo just a few years ago was literally making up interest rates and then not even enacting them for their credit card users. So the CFPB got $4 billion out of Wells Fargo. You can look it up. it all happened. So Elon Musk gutted that because he wants us to be more vulnerable. And he gutted that because he bought his way into it. It's ROI for these people, the return on investment. So I want to, I want to paint it off to you if you want to talk a little bit about Thomas Massey last night, talk a little bit about APAC. And there's also other races recently that APAC has, you know, delved his hands into. But what are your overall thoughts on this, Mike? And by the way, take it. Very quickly, by the way, if you appreciate the work that Mike and I do in calling out these types of special interest groups, in pushing back against the centralized power, make sure you become a subscriber
Starting point is 00:03:01 either on YouTube or Substack. Wherever you are, we are fighting for democracy, fighting against a centralized power. The beauty of independent media is that we are decentralized. You're recording from a hotel room. I'm recording in my own merch,
Starting point is 00:03:14 in my bedroom, basically. My bedroom is right over there. We literally are pushing our own version of the failed media that has been out there for years. We have created our own version, so make sure you subscribe. Love you all. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:30 And listen, if you are like Adam and I frustrated about the corporate media and their lack of covering these issues, particularly money and politics and what the billionaire in the Epstein class is doing, you've got to support independent media. Even if it's not the two of us, go find people that you think are doing a good job that represent the type of world you want to live in because we need people who are out there doing it. We need to not be owned by a handful of billionaires who own fucking everything right now. Listen, we are living through what I call the age of fraud, because a lot of people call the Second Gilded Age, but we're living through a time where money has corrupted everything at a level that we've never seen before. Our campaign finance laws are an absolute joke. We have a billionaire in an Epstein class that are just manipulating our politics
Starting point is 00:04:11 and deciding who wins on the Republican Party side and the Democratic Party side, guys. This thing is rigged a high heaven right now, and we have opportunities to win it back. We have some wins here in Illinois that I think we're going to talk about in a second. but if you look at what happened in Kentucky yesterday, Thomas Massey votes with Donald Trump 95% of the time, give or take. He is as MAGA as they come. He is a libertarian.
Starting point is 00:04:35 If he joined this show right now, it would be hard for us to find common ground on any issue, like health care or the economy or anything like that, LGBTQ rights. But you know, we should be able to find three points of common ground, which is where 70% of the American people are, but the Republican base isn't.
Starting point is 00:04:52 That's the stupid war in Iran. that's the United States government covering up for Pito's in the Epstein files, and that's the ballooning debt and deficit in this country. And by the way, they're ballooning the debt and the deficit right now, not to help you or create jobs or do anything that might make a meaningful impact in your life. They're doing it so they can build the ballroom and blow shit off for BB Netanyahu in Iran. That's what they're doing right now. And Thomas Massey said, those things are not right, and I campaigned against them,
Starting point is 00:05:18 and I'm going to stick with that. And Massey met with the Epstein survivors. Epstein, Massey, has done this work, and his punishment is to be, is to lose his job. And he's going to lose his job. It's done. It's over. Ed Gowleran is going to, is going to be the next member of Congress from Kentucky's third district. He's a nobody, guys.
Starting point is 00:05:37 He's not, it's not even like they found a guy who was accomplished. He's basically like a deep state hat. He's not a real person. He didn't campaign. He didn't show up to events. He's not from the district. He only had 50 total donors from the state of Kentucky. That's insane to me.
Starting point is 00:05:51 Yep. Like, I just, it's crazy to me that this is how it works and how that dovetails into what we saw in Illinois is that Massey was in this primary. They spent $35 million. Much of it came from Mirri and Adelson and Paul Singer who spent all of that money through APEC to create shell organizations to go after him. Because one, Mary Madeline and Paul Singer don't want people to know about their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. They are very mad that Massey opposes the war in Iran. And Donald Trump is doing everything that they want because they're pulling the strings from behind the scenes. And they want to hide behind anti-Semitism to say,
Starting point is 00:06:24 you can't critique BB Netanyahu and you can't critique Miriam Edelsohn. Yes, I absolutely can't. And I can do it without being an anti-Semite either because there is real anti-Semitism in this country. And we should call that out. And I don't know if folks saw there was a candidate in Texas, who's on the Democratic Party side, who said an awful disgusting thing about the Jewish community
Starting point is 00:06:42 and calling for interming camps for Zionists. It was totally gross. Every member of the Democratic Party has called that out. We've got to be able to walk and chew gun. We should call that out. And we should be able to criticize. what BB Netanyahu and A PAC are doing in this country to manipulate our government, to manipulate the president of the United States.
Starting point is 00:06:57 13 American servicemen and women are dead because of the war in Iran, and nobody seems to care about that in Washington. The global economy is a disaster. Don't hide behind anti-Semitism to justify your bad policy positions. I'm absolutely done and sick and tired of that shit. We have to take our government back. And in Illinois, they spent an insane amount of money, $20 million, to try to make sure that Julian Estrada did not become the next United States Senator.
Starting point is 00:07:21 They spent a ton of money trying to stop Daniel Biss from becoming the new congressman in Illinois 9 when he wins in November. We can beat these people, guys. We beat them in Illinois, and we beat it by speaking truth to power by running really good candidates who have ties to the district, who knew what they were doing, who told the truth about what's going on in our government right now. We can beat these guys. And the truth is, we have a really interesting opportunity. And then I'm going to hand it back to you, Adam. I know I've been going for a while.
Starting point is 00:07:43 No, no, you're good. We have a really interesting opportunity here to build a coalition similar to what we saw in Hungary. where 70% of Hungarians came out to oppose Victor Orban's regime, this autocratic regime that was propped up by Russia that was the most problematic government in all of Europe, they got wiped out by 70% of the country to the point where they are redoing their constitution and fixing the way that their government works
Starting point is 00:08:06 and fixing the way their political system works, so it doesn't happen again. We can do that now. Now, if there's a conversation of who we let into that tent and who we don't and who we trust, I know that, like, AOC and some people are fighting about Marjorie Taylor Green on the internet right now. I'm not saying we have to trust Marjorie Taylor Green,
Starting point is 00:08:21 or even Thomas Massey on that case, because I'm very skeptical of these guys. Or like, if you watch my YouTube channel, I talk about Nick Fuentes a lot, because Fuentes hates Trump for a lot of the same reasons that I hate Trump. Now, Fuentes and I diverge on literally everything else because he's a racist, anti-Semitic, sexist piece of shit.
Starting point is 00:08:35 But there's a massive coalition that we could build to wipe these people out, and then we can go back to fighting about everything else. And I think we could be approaching that as Trump continues to wage war inside his own party and remove people. And I'm sorry, one more thought, Adam. I don't know it's on it.
Starting point is 00:08:50 But like, let's not forget, Massey lost his job. But, like, also Bill Cassidy, Senator from Louisiana, lost his job on Saturday. And yesterday Trump also endorsed Ken Paxton, which means that John Cornyn is going to lose his job in Texas, which puts that Texas race in play for the Democrats. We can triage this stuff. We can massage this. We can treat this as the moment in time to save our democracy to bring decency back to American politics. And then we can get back to fighting about health care policy again.
Starting point is 00:09:15 Even with Republicans insane redistricting trying to rig the midterms, it seems. like we still can triage, as you said, because they keep repeatedly stepping on the rake and shooting themselves in the foot. So when it comes to Thomas Massey, I'm rather nuanced out about it, I'm nuanced about it on my show as well. What I always say is that he votes with Republicans
Starting point is 00:09:35 91% of the time. Like through and through, he is a Republican, who is a vote for Republicans, and who supports Republican policies. So I disagree with him on just about everything. But on the three issues that you name, like the Debt, the Epstein files, and the war, he does seem to be taking a principled stance, and for that, the Republican Party kicked him out.
Starting point is 00:09:55 They need 100% allegiance to even their worst, most harmful ideas, and they kicked them out. But he said something else that I want to expand on, that this type of insidious money in politics goes beyond just either party. Now, of course, we talk about how Republicans are 100 times more corrupt than Democrats, especially under this Trump era. I mean, he's making billions, tens of billions of dollars on illegal stock trading and crypto. and just because, you know, there's corruption on the Democrat side does not mean it's either, it's anywhere near and scale. But there's a systemic problem in the United States with incentives that are created by our institutions in the way that money feeds into those incentives. We oftentimes like to think that politicians are people who have the best interest of their constituents
Starting point is 00:10:41 in mind and they're always voting to represent their constituents. But it's not that simple. There is a distortionary effect of money in politics where politicians, their main goal is not to help people, but to get reelected, to get over that threshold, to get the next race and the next race every two years. In order to get reelected, you need massive sums of money. You can't just be doing the right thing, doing the principled thing. We just learned that. Thomas Massey did the principal thing, and he was wiped out by $35 million. Back in my home state of Indiana, we film in Chicago now and live in Chicago, but back in my home state of Indiana, there were about a dozen Republican state senators who refused to redraw the map and refused to redistrict, and about half of them just got wiped out in a primary because Donald Trump poured tens of millions of dollars into what are generally small state races in Indiana that are contained to the Indiana population. People like, you know, the people in the community I grew up back in Balparaiso, but no, there is a distortionary effect of money in politics that can rewire the incentives of politicians and that has to do with our system, the institutions that we inhabit, which I like our institutions, actually.
Starting point is 00:11:52 I think that there is something there worth defending. I think that there is something to the idea of social harmony created in the United States among my Muslim grandfather, who drives to the mosque every Friday. He passes a synagogue. He passes two churches, and then he goes to work with the business he owns
Starting point is 00:12:10 with a multitude of different religions, sexes and orientations. It's a beautiful society. It could be. but our institutions are broken at a fundamental level. My generation is coming of age in a country shaped by decades of like accumulated mistakes in the form of debt and wars and weakening health care, weakening social safety nets. And it's because these powerful special interest groups have been repeatedly placed ahead of ordinary Americans. And this brings me all the way back to like the money and politics problem.
Starting point is 00:12:39 Money in politics means that the money is placed above the interests of people like you and I. costs continue to be super high for health care, even though for the past two decades, insulin has only cost $12 to make. Administration to administration, Democrat and Republican, the cost of insulin has stayed high because there is a pharmaceutical lobby
Starting point is 00:12:58 that is dumping money in to keep it that way, and we need to make sure that neither side is captured by that. This also brings me to an interesting interview that happened this morning with Jeff Bezos. Before we go to Bezos, could I add something here? I would love it. I know that we spend a ton of
Starting point is 00:13:14 a time on all the things that we disagree with with MAGA voters and all of that. And I, all that stuff is important. I'm not saying that it isn't, especially when it comes to people's individual personal rights and ability to live their life. This is me, a white man lecturing for a second, so I apologize in advance. But the biggest single issue in this country is breaking the Epstein class and removing foreign interference from American elections, period. We will not accomplish anything until we handle that. I don't think we'll ever get back to some stability. I don't think will ever reduce the distance between your elected official and their constituents if the only thing they care about when they wake up in the morning is who's paying the money.
Starting point is 00:13:50 It's just a huge problem and we have to fix it. And on the foreign interference part of this, I talk about this all the time because it is so important. One, we talk about APEC a lot. APEC gets singled out deservedly so because they are manipulating our campaign finance laws. Russia and China are spending unknown sums of money to buy off influencers in both the Democratic and Republican parties. We know that Benny Johnson's taking money. We know that Tim Poole spending money. Donald Trump ended the DOJ investigation into those two to get to the bottom of what was happening.
Starting point is 00:14:19 We know that it's happening. We know that CPAC was being propped up by the Hungarian government under Victor Orban, which I have to imagine was coming from Russia at the direction because Orban was a Russian puppet. So there is a massive problem here where even some of the biggest voices in our politics today are no longer even representing anything that remotely looks like America First. And to me, I think we have to reclaim America first. It's an absolute racist dog whistle that the Republicans created to shit on immigrants and people of color. It's disgusting.
Starting point is 00:14:46 But the core of it is correct. We have influence from outside this country from China, Russia, Israel, elsewhere that is making it harder for the American people to succeed. Adam, you're 23 years old. You're entering a world where you've got to pay for all the shitty decisions that have been made from generations before you. I'm a millennial. Okay, I'm pushing 40. This is the millennials time to take over this government. And we're going to do it in cooperation and in a partnership with.
Starting point is 00:15:10 Gen Z to fix this fucking problem so that our kids don't have to deal with this shit. And I think we can do it. I think we can do it. But we got to open ourselves up to new paradigms. And I'm sitting around every day thinking about the ethical ramifications of what it looks like to be in a coalition with. Can Marjorie Taylor Green, who is a crazy person and an anti-Semite and not a good human being? But I don't know what it looks like to solve this. But to get to 70 percent, we're going to have to really think about who we stand with and who we fight with and who gets into that attempt. But I think it can be done because it's the only way we're going to break the Epstein class.
Starting point is 00:15:40 We're talking about 100 people, and you're about talking about Bezos, which is important, but we're talking about like 100 people who control an unbelievable amount of money, wealth, power connections, who will look you in the eye and say, if we raise their taxes, that nobody's life would get improved in that, which is fucking absurd. If we're going to beat these people, it's going to take a lot of us, and I don't know that 51% is enough because that's how rigged this system is against the rest of us. Yeah, so when it comes to the Jeff Bezos interview, now there's a lot to cover here. He talked about how he's very bullish on space exploration over the next few decades,
Starting point is 00:16:13 and he thinks that'll take over. So I thought that was cool when I saw that headline before the part of the interview started to come out. We're like, cool, Bezos was talking about space. What else did he say? Well, yeah, no, exactly. Like, I got a headline that was like, Bezos very bullish that will absolutely break ground in space. That's always interested in me, right? So I was like, oh, that's pretty...
Starting point is 00:16:30 All men under 40 are interested in space. Space, right? But then I begin to see the clips, and I begin to see what he's talking about, and I begin to see his glazing of Donald Trump, and then it's no longer as fun. Let me pull up this article right here that is summarizing part of the interview. And I'll play some clips on my show later.
Starting point is 00:16:46 But Jeff Bezos said on Donald Trump, well, I think he is a more mature, more disciplined version of himself than he was in his first term. He said during the interview with Squawk Box. That's just, that's a type of special interest group. Like this guy is very rich and he wants to placate the president,
Starting point is 00:17:05 so the president placates him. It's that simple. Jeff Bezos says, has given Melania Trump movies, one movie in a backdoor deal, and they lost a shit ton on it. Jeff Bezos has been cutting deals with the Trump administration.
Starting point is 00:17:18 Wasn't he going to make an apprentice reboot as well? Is that... With Don Jr. as the host. Oh, my God. I'm telling you what, though, the way that Bezos talks in this interview, he sounds like a Republican running for Congress in the South. Like, were he just like, I got to say this.
Starting point is 00:17:33 Otherwise, I won't win. Yeah, he, like, passed me, basically. He called, he also said he calls former president. President Obama for advice, adding Obama is a very smart guy. I mean, he's just a billionaire who's playing the system. He's playing. I mean, but if you were this rich, why do you have to kiss up to Donald Trump? Shouldn't Donald Trump have to kiss up to you? I feel like it should be the other way around. I like, I don't understand this. I mean, the beauty of our system is- you have to do money. Shouldn't you say go fuck yourself every half-y-a-old-you-
Starting point is 00:17:56 is that there's supposed to be like checks and balances between the richest of the rich and monetary policy and the presidency and tariffs and all of this. But right now, it's also, you know, jumbled together that Donald Trump is bringing Jeff Bezos on the trips and had him in his inauguration. Ross Sorkin asked Bezos why he fired hundreds of employees at the Washington Post, which he purchased in 2013 and then slowly took over and changed the way their editorial board looks, quote, because the Post needs to be a profitable enterprise that stands on its own two feet. He was also then asked about tax policy, and while he said that he's okay with lowering the taxes for lower-income
Starting point is 00:18:31 Americans, he then went on to say that he doesn't think his tax rate affects the average worker, the average mother. Let me find his exact wording here. He said something about like the average mother working at a restaurant in Arkansas or something. He says, I don't think me being tax more will affect that. Which is just, he said like a school teacher in Georgia.
Starting point is 00:18:49 He gave some like specific example and said, I don't think I can affect them. I don't know what political consultant he hired, but it was the most like, if you ever just watched somebody being like, and I met this woman and her name was Maria. And she was a dishworker at this restaurant. And every time I've ever heard a politician tell that story,
Starting point is 00:19:04 and I've heard it a lot, guys, because I work for a lot of them, and I've been like, never fucking happy. Never fucking. It's so unconvincing because our tax system is incredibly, incredibly broken. Because it's so complex and full of all of these loopholes for people like Jeff Bezos to take advantage of. I'm not somebody who wants Jeff Bezos's wealth to be completely evaporated, like he's Jack Ma in China, who disappeared for eight months to the Chinese government.
Starting point is 00:19:28 What I do want is for people like Jeff Bezos to pay their fair share and not be able to take advantage of these tax loopholes that save them billions and billions of dollars. I mean, I'm pretty sure if we ended these tax write-offs and loopholes like billionaires being able to write off their helicopters and jets, we would save the U.S. government, I believe we would open up about $500 billion to $1 trillion in revenue, which could very much so help the problem with our debt, it could very much so help a lot of our long-term problems. But again, money in politics, people like Elon Musk are incentivized to pour money into campaigns because that $200 million that he's pouring into campaigns is basically nothing compared to the billions of dollars that you'll make in return
Starting point is 00:20:11 after Trump is elected. It's all return on investment. It's business. And it shouldn't operate like that. There should be limitations on money in politics. And there were before Citizens United. There are why is off the charts. It's just absolutely off the charts. And like for Musk in particular, like the musk i mean i think we forget this but like it was like within the first couple of weeks sold a bunch of fucking cyber trucks to the pentagon you know i mean and that was crazy and i remember dick derbin like losing his mind off then you guys know how hard it is to get dick durbin fired up and anchor at you like it is a lot it's just it's it's crazy i i just there's so many different points that i that i can make here and i'm going to go a little bit more philosophical on this one
Starting point is 00:20:50 um because i'm watching netflix as a new documentary on uh on uh on those no no no no i tell you Roosevelt. And he was talking about Teddy Roosevelt's father, very wealthy man in New York City, right? He was just known as a philanthropist. Like, that's what he was. I'm sure he owned, God knows how he made his money. I don't want to think about it. But like, basically, Teddy Roosevelt's father spent most of his adult life, probably inheriting that wealth and distributing it and building opportunities to help people, which then inspired Teddy Roosevelt to become the type of president, a Republican president who dedicated his life to lifting people out of poverty and creating the middle class, which was then built upon by FDR later, right?
Starting point is 00:21:24 And so where the fuck are my philanthropists in the billionaire class? Like, where are they? Because Bezos today was like, in this interview, he says, I think my contributions to society will be much greater through the business community and the work I'm doing at Amazon than anything else. And I'm like, can I find out? Why don't you do both? Why don't you just do both because it's better for your PR than just going on CNBC and
Starting point is 00:21:45 being like, I'm going to keep hoarding money as if the world is about to end at some point? Like, I just, I'm so tired of this shit. I'm tired. Like, how much money do you need? The truth of the matter is, I don't really care how much money Jeff Bezos has. I don't. I don't care if he's worth $100 million or $100 billion.
Starting point is 00:22:02 I don't care. Provided that he pays his people a living wage, provided that he gives them good benefits, make sure that truck drivers all across the country, they don't have to piss in bottles because they have a bathroom break. Provided that they don't invest in an AI that's going to wipe out the job market and destroy your generation, Adam, is graduating into the worst job market,
Starting point is 00:22:19 probably in human history. It's a real problem because they're optimizing to remove all human work while not providing any of the infrastructure that's needed for human beings to be able to survive like a universal basic income or healthcare or any of that stuff. Or God forbid, the federal or state governments invest in like some recreational opportunities for people. Right now, community and opportunity in sports leagues are all highly optimized towards profit. And it's completely ridiculous. So they're removing your ability to be in community with the exception of like going to church on Sunday is about the only thing that's like still free in this country. and at least for Catholics, I can't speak for the rest of you, I apologize. But I feel like it's going to just get worse and worse and worse.
Starting point is 00:22:56 And people are going to get so disconnected. They're basically plugging us into this bullshit version of the Matrix and I'm tired of it. And it's going to, Peter, there's this email that leaked from Peter Thiel once where he seemed to understand this problem. And he was like, if we accumulate too much wealth and we don't trickle enough account, we're going to have like heads on spikes. And like it does feel like we're moving towards head on spikes moment.
Starting point is 00:23:17 And Kara in our comments just said we need a new, new deal. Like, I agree with that. And we've got a big presidential election coming up at the start of next year, a jump ball for the future of the Republican Party, a jump ball for the future of the Democratic Party. Who's going to grab that brass ring and articulate the new vision of what this country can look like? Because we're not going to stop AI from taking away menial jobs and trying, you know,
Starting point is 00:23:41 and all these AI. It's going to happen. I know that. I don't think it has to be inevitable, though, that it removes humans from the process or it's, takes away our agency, but we're going to have to be on top of it. And we have not done a good job dealing with social media. We have not done a good job on any of this stuff relative to it. And it's just the task is daunting right now to break the Epstein class, to break the billionaire class,
Starting point is 00:24:03 to bring accountability back to America on our criminal justice system. There are people out there who abuse little kids that should be in prison. There are people from the Wall Street crisis to 2008 that should be in prison, from the insurrection now. We're all going to be made millionaires thanks to the slush fund. And I know I'm just ranting at this point, but like, No, no, no. Very, very valid. This is such a fucking mess. And Democrats are going to have to do three things when we win. It's going to have to bring accountability back for all these crooks.
Starting point is 00:24:27 We're going to have to reformat our democracy so that it actually works for people from getting money out of politics to empowering people in D.C. and Guam and Puerto Rico to be able to vote and have representation in Congress. Because, like, if fucking Wyoming can have two senators, I think the people of Puerto Rico deserve having two senators, too. Nothing against the people of Wyoming. Y'all are great. I love your state. It's beautiful. Same with Montana, Idaho. Great. But like, and then by the way, we've got to completely fix the economy because the economy is just fundamentally broken. And we're told, and this is where I'll end it and hand it back to you, Adam, we're told that we don't have enough money for paid sick leave and to make sure people don't go bankrupt when they get sick or to help support kids that are drowning in student loan debt that are your age at them. And we can't do anything about that. But God damn it, we got money for the ballroom.
Starting point is 00:25:07 We got money for the art to Trump. We got money for this war. We got money to pay off the January 6th insurrectionist. Like, fuck that. And just a reminder that I have a hard stop in two minutes. So I'll give you the final word because I've been talking about. I'll wrap it up very quickly here. And if you appreciate Mike's beautiful rants, that was very well said, very passionate.
Starting point is 00:25:22 And if you appreciate the news that we bring, make sure you subscribe to us. So where I'd end it is, you know, you reminded me where are the philanthropists here of an interview I did with Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry? He taught me his term ethical capitalism over unfettered capitalism. He said when he was building his business, time and time again, he was faced with a decision to maximize profit or to help the people that worked beneath him, help the people that worked around him and helped the community that raised him. Every single time he chose to help the people around him and help the community while also making sure the business was making enough profit to keep going because you can't just completely seed all the profits.
Starting point is 00:25:57 So he taught me in this 20-minute interview we did his framework for building an ethical business and ethical framework, and that's something that I've carried with me since then. So we want to restore this type of duty. The word is duty to people in America. capitalism is the late yeah well like young people have lost sometimes their sense of duty and purpose and i think that's because the people at the very top these rich famous billionaires have also lost their sense of duty to give back so we're going to leave it there i love the substack family
Starting point is 00:26:27 love the youtube family we do this wednesdays and saturdays see you on saturday peace out thanks everybody adam appreciate you buddy talk soon peace out

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