large spending 2023 .passed that s why earlier this year weg passed a twenty twenty two level budget, not a 2023 level budget, because it was just way too much pork . and i wish we could claw back more than the twenty eight billion dollars that s being clawed back out of that spending that long at went on lg after covid. it really passed. listen, you wear that you wear that lapel pin from time to time, initial success or total failure. i hope that congress gets more leeway than a bomb techs in the military do. congressmacongressn darrell issn u for joining us . we ll disarm this one .m this. we really will . joeylly well. all right. have we gotten to a point where society is just void ofnd accou consequence and accountability? shopt whens run rampannt the employees that try to stop them, well, they re the onesthea being punishedre. plus, a shocking mob of teens te viciously beat up a group of marines out on liberty for memorial day. we re going to sho thi w you thisstart ma disgus
can t go away when we re not okay. correct. like, i wear a pin. that phrase. i must have heard it somewhere, but even subconsciously, it s okay not to be okay. i got a lapel pin, not this one, but that s what it is. we out to make it normal to not be okay. like i said, it could be, like i said, something as big as the 6th or as small as that and the connection is the empathy that we need to have towards each other. i think mara said something about empathy. why is it hard just to care about the person next to you? or if you don t, just don t say anything. don t say anything. to you, to fix your mouth to say something negative or put a person down or not help them, it s a lot easier not to say anything at all. do you remain optimistic?
the one thing i really if you can help us wrap your head around this. over the, years you ve noted the gun industry has embraced this military style weapon. selling into the public. how did that happen. how did we get on this track where an ar-15 now people wearing lapel pins of the gun on their clothing in congress. remember, this is the totemic issue for many in the republican party. because nothing conveys power and authoritarian-ism like a loaded gun. nothing. that s where people that s why armed men marched to the mission capital caring ar-15s. they don t have ice cream sunday, they have ar-15s. because that s what conveys the authoritarian power. responsible gun owners are not for that. what happened was 15 1820 years ago, the nra figured out that the singular symbol that thing that lapel pin. that would be the totemic thing for them to own the libs with. here we are.
that is not a democracy. you can t walk around with you lapel pin [applause - and you are not representing the values that we hold dear a americans. you can t walk around and talk about protocol protocol and procedures were devised to require and allow and encourage debate and discussion and yes, dissension. [applause - that these so-called leaders tried to shut it down instead. but we are not having that [applause
let s remove them, not only fo that moment, but remove thes people who have been elected t represent the people and let us decide who should represent the people what is that that is not a democracy. that is not a democracy. you can t walk around with you lapel pin [applause - and you are not representing the values that we hold dear a americans. you can t walk around and talk about protocol protocol and procedures were devised to require and allow and encourage debate and