to join any political conversation you
need to know what you’re talking about
it’s very very important right of course
coulis I don’t know if you’ve heard
about Donald Trump at all he’s our new
president but um you might want to talk
to somebody about Donald Trump you might
want to have a conversation and here are
a bunch of peculiar words we have to
talk about what’s going on before we
begin I’m gonna make a deal with you I’m
not gonna make any Trump jokes and I’m
not gonna make any English food jokes
deal deal deal okay I shifted perfect
one that will change one change so first
what is filibuster Senator Rand Paul
began a filibuster at the filibuster
filibuster oh the filibuster we have to
get rid of the filibuster rule I never
thought I’d see the day when the whole
country was talking about the filibuster
what exactly is a filibuster turn to
camera one so what is a filibuster
filibuster is a word that describes a
process that happens during the debating
of legislation in the United States
Senate there are a hundred senators
let’s say your side only has 48 votes
the other side has 52 votes
theoretically you should lose right yeah
because 52 is more than 48 however if
you were to filibuster it means you
would debate the issue for so long that
you wouldn’t be able to get to any other
legislation and theoretically if you’re
really good at filibustering you’d be
able to fill our Buster it for so long
that the other side even though they
have 52 will just throw their hands up
in the air and say I quit I give up it’s
done we have to get to all of our other
business that being said you can’t
always filibuster if you have 60 votes
you are able to override a filibuster it
takes 50 votes to pass legislation but
it takes 60 to end debate okay so the
general concept is um okay you’ve got
almost half maybe I can convince you to
vote the other way if I speak long
enough yes theoretically it is but it’s
not what it does it’s a stall tactic so
I think I get it I think we need to show
people an example all right so what is
some legislation that you have 55 votes
on ally so I want to introduce a new
rule that means bold men have handsome
men status
ooh that’s excite and there are a lot of
bald men in fact 55 percent of men are
bald and everybody agrees they’re not
handsome yet so seemingly I should win
well yes that being said as a man with
luscious luscious luscious locks
I don’t want ball to be handsome I think
we can all agree it won’t be handsome so
we’re all ready to vote right it’s time
to vote are you ready to vote I’m ready
to vote
it’s a fight are you ready to fight wait
wait we have to have a little more
debate okay fine
we are here today to debate senator
alley Williams is bald is beautiful bill
bald is beautiful is it is it not
do we need to legislate this before we
go any further I would like to bring to
attention this this piece um is titled
green eggs and ham by dr. Seuss um let
me read this to make sure we are all
aware of the issue at stake I am Sam Sam
I am I do not like them sam-i-am I do
not like green eggs and ham them in a
box and I will eat them with a fox when
I will eat them in a house and I will
eat them with a mouse and I will eat
them here or there
I do so like green eggs and ham Thank
you Thank You sam-i-am well look at the
time I guess there’s no more time for
debate today but maybe tomorrow we’ll
get to vote on the baldest beautiful
bill oh come on
thank you and I rest my case filibuster
pseudo shouldn’t have ideal world
filibuster yes personally I belong Pro
filibuster I personally am a huge fan of
these systems in the United States
Senate that cool democracy that can kind
of slow things down I believe this was a
phrase than the English might enjoy um
when you drink tea there’s a saucer
right there’s a saucer thing so it’s the
Senate is the saucer that cools the tea
of democracy the idea is for the entire
American system the idea is that it runs
slowly that things can happen fast
because when fast things happen bad
things can happen too the idea is if we
are inherently slow our slowness will
prevent any bad things from happening I
feel smarter already so I hear the terms
partisan in bipartisan and your
organization is nonpartisan precisely
what’s the difference what is partisan
so essentially in America we have two
major parties the Democrats the
Republicans bipartisan means it’s
something that brings both parties
together partisan means benefiting one
of the parties so I don’t know a policy
that says Republicans get free pizza and
Democrats have to be there footstools
that would be a very partisan policy and
then nonpartisan means you’re not
working with either of the parties what
is a partisan Democrat issue in 2017 a
partisan Democratic is you might be
fighting global warming
what would a partisan Republican issue
things um making sure that to vote you
need to bring a state-issued ID and what
would a bipartisan issue which is
something they both agree on or
bipartisan issue
might be the NSA or the National
Security Agency it seems like both
parties are big fans of listening to our
phones I want to know what you’re saying
late at night
this new McCarthyism and this reminds me
of the McCarthy hearings reminiscent of
Senator Joe McCarthy’s abusive tactics
have you no decency sir have you no
sense of decency sir McCarthyism so I’m
assuming it’s something bad yes
McCarthyism refers to kind of an
unwarranted witch-hunt
so it’s named after former Senator
Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and what he
was known for was making these crazy
allegations that communists had
infiltrated the entire United States
government and this is him holding a
piece of paper that may or may not be
evidence of 115 communists in the State
Department as it turned out there were
not
115 secret communists working in the
State Department shockingly shockingly
there were not communists didn’t
infiltrate our government um so he goes
after somebody in the military the
lawyer that was defending the person
accused of communism um at one point got
up and said and very famously a
nationally televised TV have you no
decency sir to McCarthy and it turns out
he may or may not have had any decency
no he when people are saying that Trump
is colluding with Russia would that be
McCarthyism so what would be more
McCarthyism is if a Democrat were to get
up and say there are 38 Russian agents
in the Trump administration um we need
to get every Russian agent out of the
Trump administration the Supreme Court
announcing they will take up a major
case on political gerrymandering system
gerrymandering what the hell is a
gerrymandered why do we what one so
essentially gerrymandering refers to the
process of dividing of the districts so
the people who are going to vote the
idea is that we all want representation
in Congress and our Congress people
represent small local areas so the state
of Iowa has four different congressmen
that go to Washington DC in addition to
two senators so these numbers represent
individual congressional districts every
two years district one gets together and
decides do we want to theoretically they
could send whoever they want but it’s
probably going to be between a Democrat
and Republican this is how theoretically
it should be as you can see this this
makes sense Iowa is a state where
computers drop the district’s literally
they have a software a quote-unquote
nonpartisan software that um decides
okay this is however many people fit
here this many people fit here and as
you see they’re not perfect squares
they’re not perfect rectangles but it
all kind of makes sense so this would
not be quote-unquote gerrymandered these
are properly drawn districts it’s
visually appealing
I’m excited do you want to see how a
gerrymandered state might look like I
would love to see how a Jeff you would
love all right so let’s move over to our
in Maryland so obviously six over here
and one over here are gonna be weird
shaped because the states weird shaped
however if you look very very closely
district four kind of is a hat on top of
district 5 and then one has this weird
thing over here and seven looks like
it’s eating two and three if acaso we’re
at a district estate create
congressional districts this might be
what we end up with but why would you
want to change the lines from a square
so this squiggly mess so in the state of
Maryland Democrats control the state
house so when they draw up these
districts they’re gonna cut up the pie
in a way to make sure that as many of
these districts are gonna lean to the
Democrats as possible but then if you’ll
send a serious Republican mm-hmm they
could redraw these lines exactly so
these lines are drawn every 10 years um
after the census we have a census we
count everybody and then we redraw all
the lines every 10 years um and it’s not
like one party does gerrymander both
parties do this and in fact actually
sometimes both parties partner together
to gerrymander to kind of screw other
people over so they do this to stay in
power you will cut these up and you will
have these perversions of democracy so
to speak because look at these these are
gross only only a pervert could enjoy
them okay but this is allowed right it’s
not like a secret thingy is it’s an
American tradition
theoretically our elected officials vote
of their conscience but in practice they
do what we all do and they just do
whatever the they can to not lose
their job so really what would have to
happen is
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need to know what you’re talking about
it’s very very important right of course
coulis I don’t know if you’ve heard
about Donald Trump at all he’s our new
president but um you might want to talk
to somebody about Donald Trump you might
want to have a conversation and here are
a bunch of peculiar words we have to
talk about what’s going on before we
begin I’m gonna make a deal with you I’m
not gonna make any Trump jokes and I’m
not gonna make any English food jokes
deal deal deal okay I shifted perfect
one that will change one change so first
what is filibuster Senator Rand Paul
began a filibuster at the filibuster
filibuster oh the filibuster we have to
get rid of the filibuster rule I never
thought I’d see the day when the whole
country was talking about the filibuster
what exactly is a filibuster turn to
camera one so what is a filibuster
filibuster is a word that describes a
process that happens during the debating
of legislation in the United States
Senate there are a hundred senators
let’s say your side only has 48 votes
the other side has 52 votes
theoretically you should lose right yeah
because 52 is more than 48 however if
you were to filibuster it means you
would debate the issue for so long that
you wouldn’t be able to get to any other
legislation and theoretically if you’re
really good at filibustering you’d be
able to fill our Buster it for so long
that the other side even though they
have 52 will just throw their hands up
in the air and say I quit I give up it’s
done we have to get to all of our other
business that being said you can’t
always filibuster if you have 60 votes
you are able to override a filibuster it
takes 50 votes to pass legislation but
it takes 60 to end debate okay so the
general concept is um okay you’ve got
almost half maybe I can convince you to
vote the other way if I speak long
enough yes theoretically it is but it’s
not what it does it’s a stall tactic so
I think I get it I think we need to show
people an example all right so what is
some legislation that you have 55 votes
on ally so I want to introduce a new
rule that means bold men have handsome
men status
ooh that’s excite and there are a lot of
bald men in fact 55 percent of men are
bald and everybody agrees they’re not
handsome yet so seemingly I should win
well yes that being said as a man with
luscious luscious luscious locks
I don’t want ball to be handsome I think
we can all agree it won’t be handsome so
we’re all ready to vote right it’s time
to vote are you ready to vote I’m ready
to vote
it’s a fight are you ready to fight wait
wait we have to have a little more
debate okay fine
we are here today to debate senator
alley Williams is bald is beautiful bill
bald is beautiful is it is it not
do we need to legislate this before we
go any further I would like to bring to
attention this this piece um is titled
green eggs and ham by dr. Seuss um let
me read this to make sure we are all
aware of the issue at stake I am Sam Sam
I am I do not like them sam-i-am I do
not like green eggs and ham them in a
box and I will eat them with a fox when
I will eat them in a house and I will
eat them with a mouse and I will eat
them here or there
I do so like green eggs and ham Thank
you Thank You sam-i-am well look at the
time I guess there’s no more time for
debate today but maybe tomorrow we’ll
get to vote on the baldest beautiful
bill oh come on
thank you and I rest my case filibuster
pseudo shouldn’t have ideal world
filibuster yes personally I belong Pro
filibuster I personally am a huge fan of
these systems in the United States
Senate that cool democracy that can kind
of slow things down I believe this was a
phrase than the English might enjoy um
when you drink tea there’s a saucer
right there’s a saucer thing so it’s the
Senate is the saucer that cools the tea
of democracy the idea is for the entire
American system the idea is that it runs
slowly that things can happen fast
because when fast things happen bad
things can happen too the idea is if we
are inherently slow our slowness will
prevent any bad things from happening I
feel smarter already so I hear the terms
partisan in bipartisan and your
organization is nonpartisan precisely
what’s the difference what is partisan
so essentially in America we have two
major parties the Democrats the
Republicans bipartisan means it’s
something that brings both parties
together partisan means benefiting one
of the parties so I don’t know a policy
that says Republicans get free pizza and
Democrats have to be there footstools
that would be a very partisan policy and
then nonpartisan means you’re not
working with either of the parties what
is a partisan Democrat issue in 2017 a
partisan Democratic is you might be
fighting global warming
what would a partisan Republican issue
things um making sure that to vote you
need to bring a state-issued ID and what
would a bipartisan issue which is
something they both agree on or
bipartisan issue
might be the NSA or the National
Security Agency it seems like both
parties are big fans of listening to our
phones I want to know what you’re saying
late at night
this new McCarthyism and this reminds me
of the McCarthy hearings reminiscent of
Senator Joe McCarthy’s abusive tactics
have you no decency sir have you no
sense of decency sir McCarthyism so I’m
assuming it’s something bad yes
McCarthyism refers to kind of an
unwarranted witch-hunt
so it’s named after former Senator
Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and what he
was known for was making these crazy
allegations that communists had
infiltrated the entire United States
government and this is him holding a
piece of paper that may or may not be
evidence of 115 communists in the State
Department as it turned out there were
not
115 secret communists working in the
State Department shockingly shockingly
there were not communists didn’t
infiltrate our government um so he goes
after somebody in the military the
lawyer that was defending the person
accused of communism um at one point got
up and said and very famously a
nationally televised TV have you no
decency sir to McCarthy and it turns out
he may or may not have had any decency
no he when people are saying that Trump
is colluding with Russia would that be
McCarthyism so what would be more
McCarthyism is if a Democrat were to get
up and say there are 38 Russian agents
in the Trump administration um we need
to get every Russian agent out of the
Trump administration the Supreme Court
announcing they will take up a major
case on political gerrymandering system
gerrymandering what the hell is a
gerrymandered why do we what one so
essentially gerrymandering refers to the
process of dividing of the districts so
the people who are going to vote the
idea is that we all want representation
in Congress and our Congress people
represent small local areas so the state
of Iowa has four different congressmen
that go to Washington DC in addition to
two senators so these numbers represent
individual congressional districts every
two years district one gets together and
decides do we want to theoretically they
could send whoever they want but it’s
probably going to be between a Democrat
and Republican this is how theoretically
it should be as you can see this this
makes sense Iowa is a state where
computers drop the district’s literally
they have a software a quote-unquote
nonpartisan software that um decides
okay this is however many people fit
here this many people fit here and as
you see they’re not perfect squares
they’re not perfect rectangles but it
all kind of makes sense so this would
not be quote-unquote gerrymandered these
are properly drawn districts it’s
visually appealing
I’m excited do you want to see how a
gerrymandered state might look like I
would love to see how a Jeff you would
love all right so let’s move over to our
in Maryland so obviously six over here
and one over here are gonna be weird
shaped because the states weird shaped
however if you look very very closely
district four kind of is a hat on top of
district 5 and then one has this weird
thing over here and seven looks like
it’s eating two and three if acaso we’re
at a district estate create
congressional districts this might be
what we end up with but why would you
want to change the lines from a square
so this squiggly mess so in the state of
Maryland Democrats control the state
house so when they draw up these
districts they’re gonna cut up the pie
in a way to make sure that as many of
these districts are gonna lean to the
Democrats as possible but then if you’ll
send a serious Republican mm-hmm they
could redraw these lines exactly so
these lines are drawn every 10 years um
after the census we have a census we
count everybody and then we redraw all
the lines every 10 years um and it’s not
like one party does gerrymander both
parties do this and in fact actually
sometimes both parties partner together
to gerrymander to kind of screw other
people over so they do this to stay in
power you will cut these up and you will
have these perversions of democracy so
to speak because look at these these are
gross only only a pervert could enjoy
them okay but this is allowed right it’s
not like a secret thingy is it’s an
American tradition
theoretically our elected officials vote
of their conscience but in practice they
do what we all do and they just do
whatever the they can to not lose
their job so really what would have to
happen is
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