a year to being registered as a pauper. we had no money. all of the money and everything went on lawyers. the way he was beaten down and beaten down, coupled with his drug use is what killed him. lenny really took the blows, he was the martyr, he cleared the way for the new openness which was happening in all sorts of media in the 60s but it took guys like lenny bruce to push boundaries and go to jail for it. there s not one piece of comedy being done today that didn t come out of something lenny bruce said really. he was like the big bang. did he take the hit for all of us? i imagine he did. yeah, thank god for lenny bruce.
and a known-unknown. hillary clinton has been to every corner of the world, dealt with many of these issues and leaders before, including vladimir putin. donald trump has kind of a presented kind of a hazy shorthanded voer eversion of wh might do as president but we don t know who his advisors will be and what he has presented is perhaps, calls into question. is nato obsolete? of course it s not sdpp he know more than the general? of course he doesn t. you know, if he thinks that vladimir putin is going to construct an actor in syria, he s not going to be a constructive actor in syria. you have one person who comes into the job, you know, prepared to deal with the challenges on day one and one guy who will have to learn on the job and there are risks that go along with that. let me ask you this. when donald trump says it s ill-advised to push bashar al assad out, you could be left way power vacuum that gave us isis.
clear he is, quote, fully confident in the nation s systems. quote, our democracy relies on confidence in election results and the speaker is fully confident the state also carry out this election with integrity. america has a decentralized system. something that makes it impossible, to quote, rig a election. the secretaries of state in many swing states are republicans, who is safe to assume are not seeking to throw the election for hillary clinton. one of those republican secretaries of state, john husband ted of ohio, says it is utterly irresponsible for trump to push we have so many safeguards in place in our election system. it s bipartisan. it s transparent, and there s just no justification for concern about widespread voter fraud. some trump surrogates trying to thread the needing by insisting trump is not talking about widespread voter fraud, but voter fraud in inner cities where, you know, black people vote.
and then she goes on and makes her political point. everybody knows how to do that now, at the debates and town halls. that is so true. like you and me, greg. i believe, too, joann, i don t think there was anything really new that he s trying to push. he s just being more emotional about previous things, like background checks. i don t know if this is new, but he says he does want to make sure that there are more background checks staffers, more people doing background checks. which i m okay with. gun sales are up. you need more background checks. if they can happen in a more timely manner and make them more efficient, i m all for that. and jobs, great. but he s doing this, like you said, in climate change, because it appeals to emotions more than terror or national security i think does unfortunately. i think we re all very concerned about it. where most of the country is more tied to what the media shows, which is, you know, these awful shootings that happen.
and then she goes on and makes her political point. everybody knows how to do that now, at the debates and town halls. that is so true. like you and me, greg. i believe, too, joann, i don t think there was anything really new that he s trying to push. he s just being more emotional about previous things, like background checks. i don t know if this is new, but he says he does want to make sure that there are more background checks staffers, more people doing background checks. which i m okay with. gun sales are up. you need more background checks. if they can happen in a more timely manner and make them more efficient, i m all for that. and jobs, great. but he s doing this, like you said, in climate change, because it appeals to emotions more than terror or national security i think does unfortunately. i think we re all very concerned about it. where most of the country is more tied to what the media shows, which is, you know, these awful shootings that happen.