1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: Hey, Michael Steele podcast listeners, you're listening to Make Mine 2 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:07,599 a Double, a little segment I put together where I 3 00:00:07,599 --> 00:00:10,560 can share just a bit more of what I really 4 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:14,839 think about today's news and political crazy. So sit back, 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:18,960 relax enjoin me for a few SIPs of sanity, and 6 00:00:19,039 --> 00:00:20,120 make Mine a double. 7 00:00:24,399 --> 00:00:28,039 Speaker 2: Disney should be working around the clock to go and 8 00:00:28,079 --> 00:00:29,920 make amends with Ronda Saints. If you don't want to 9 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:31,480 pick a fight with this guy, well. 10 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 3: It seems like that. 11 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 4: I mean, does you know, does Bob Iger ever reach out? 12 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:37,840 Do you have any sense of what their direction is here? 13 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 2: Well, look, if I'm Bob Iger, I am work working 14 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:44,479 around the clock to try to figure out how to 15 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:47,280 make amends with Ronda Sants, just like Bud Light should 16 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,159 be working around the clock to go kiss Kid Rock's ass. 17 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:52,359 This is a problem needs to be addressed. 18 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 5: It is wide open and that ladies and gentlemen. 19 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:03,079 Speaker 3: It was Florida's chief financial officer Jimmy Petronas stating this 20 00:01:03,119 --> 00:01:08,560 week that Ron DeSantis has the advantage here, that Bob Eiger, 21 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:12,000 the head of Disney, should be shaking in his boots 22 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,719 and trying to figure out how the hell I fix 23 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:19,680 this with Ron. That is the largest bucket of bullshit 24 00:01:19,879 --> 00:01:21,959 served up this week, and there was a lot of 25 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:24,439 it served this week, folks. 26 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:27,879 Speaker 5: It just amazes me. 27 00:01:29,519 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 3: The incredible amount of arrogance it takes to think that 28 00:01:34,719 --> 00:01:39,640 Disney should be afraid of Ron de Santis, particularly given 29 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,920 that Mickey Mouse has already punked the hell out of 30 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:51,480 Rond de Santis. If anything, from my humble estimation, what 31 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:56,040 we're looking at here is a situation where Ron DeSantis, 32 00:01:56,799 --> 00:02:02,680 quite honestly, should be trying to figure out how to 33 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:10,800 avoid mister Eiger taking Mickey Mouse's other foot and shoving 34 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:16,719 it up his ass. As this battle between Disney and 35 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:25,759 DeSantis continues to roil the politics and the business community 36 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:33,479 in Florida, it just again makes me really crazy when 37 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:38,319 you have this kind of fronting by individuals. Instead of 38 00:02:38,479 --> 00:02:44,000 taking a responsible posture and basically saying, look, let's work 39 00:02:44,039 --> 00:02:48,039 this out, you get a doubling, tripling, quadrupling down on 40 00:02:48,159 --> 00:02:51,919 stupid where people are out here making claims that they 41 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:55,960 can't back up, making claims that they know make no sense, 42 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:04,000 and arguably frustrate the purposes of trying to keep businesses 43 00:03:04,439 --> 00:03:08,840 in the state of Florida grow. Those businesses in the 44 00:03:08,879 --> 00:03:13,199 state of Florida and to make sure that. 45 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:17,479 Speaker 5: You get over this so you don't have a negative. 46 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:22,199 Speaker 3: Impact on job creation and opportunities there. 47 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:25,240 Speaker 5: But then there's a. 48 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:29,159 Speaker 3: Whole other level of crazy that comes into play from 49 00:03:29,159 --> 00:03:36,360 the governor himself, who had this to say recently about oh, 50 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,919 I don't know property development near Disney. 51 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,719 Speaker 4: If you look at this whole special District, well, Disney 52 00:03:42,759 --> 00:03:45,439 Corporation obviously owns a lot of it, but the district 53 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:46,439 owns other land. 54 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 3: You know. 55 00:03:46,919 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 4: Quite frankly, I wasn't even thinking. 56 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 5: About that land. 57 00:03:50,039 --> 00:03:52,439 Speaker 4: We just wanted them to live under the same rules. 58 00:03:52,599 --> 00:03:54,840 Pay the debt, pay the taxes, all that stuff. Oh 59 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:56,240 but come to think of it, now, people are like, 60 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:58,319 what should we do with this land? People have said, 61 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,199 maybe create a state park. Maybe how to do more 62 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,719 amusement parts. Someone even said like maybe you need another 63 00:04:04,759 --> 00:04:05,439 state prison. 64 00:04:05,479 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 5: Who knows? 65 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 4: I mean, I just think that the possibilities are endless, 66 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:11,319 and so that is now going to be analyzed to 67 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,360 see what would make the most sense. 68 00:04:14,319 --> 00:04:19,199 Speaker 3: So you have the Governor of Florida proposing to place 69 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:25,759 a state prison next to a themed park Disney. 70 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,279 Speaker 5: That is attended to buy children and their families. 71 00:04:31,399 --> 00:04:37,639 Speaker 3: Again, more performative bullshit from petuant little boy who thinks 72 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:43,199 it's cool and cute to suggest that, oh, perhaps we'll 73 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:49,160 look at putting a state prison next to a park 74 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:56,240 where kids go to enjoy Mickey Mouse and Goofy. So, Governor, 75 00:04:56,439 --> 00:04:59,319 if you want to analyze putting a state prison next 76 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:08,360 to Disney, when families stop visiting Disney, and Disney's seventy 77 00:05:08,399 --> 00:05:12,879 five billion dollars worth of economic impact and it's five 78 00:05:13,879 --> 00:05:18,600 point eight billion dollars in tax revenues begin to drop 79 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:22,240 and fall off when it's seventy five. 80 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,959 Speaker 5: Thousand employees face layoffs and. 81 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 3: Four hundred and sixty three thousand other jobs that are 82 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:38,319 created and depend on the countless millions of tourists that 83 00:05:38,399 --> 00:05:43,480 go to Disney every year are also imperiled. What would 84 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:52,000 your analytics say caused that to happen? Hmmm, maybe you 85 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:59,480 should consult Dumbo because the suggestion, even joking, is a 86 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:03,800 dumb idea. And again, folks, it goes to what the 87 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:07,360 governor and patronas are doing here. They're trying to make 88 00:06:07,399 --> 00:06:12,519 an example of Disney by extending the culture wars into 89 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:17,879 the business relationship between the state and Disney. There is 90 00:06:17,959 --> 00:06:22,600 no place for that. That is not a position or 91 00:06:22,759 --> 00:06:25,360 place that Republicans especially. 92 00:06:25,439 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 5: Have ever been in. And so now we are culturally 93 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:32,639 at war with our communities. 94 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:37,199 Speaker 3: We are trying to take down businesses because those businesses 95 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:44,720 are responding because they're customers, their clients, the people who 96 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:51,360 use their services, are responding to the ham handed authoritarian 97 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:57,120 activities of Republican state legislatures and governors like Ron de 98 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,759 Santis who just want to sling their dick around that 99 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:05,120 we have the power to do whatever we want to 100 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:09,120 do to you. And so when the businesses respond, when 101 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:15,480 the community responds, this is the kind of pushback you 102 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:19,920 get from people who are not serious in governing. And 103 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,759 y'all need to wake the hell up and recognize that 104 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:26,800 you've got to stop electing people who aren't serious about governing. 105 00:07:27,319 --> 00:07:32,639 Our times require us to be serious about governing. Who 106 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:38,000 governs us, how they govern us, what policies they are 107 00:07:38,079 --> 00:07:43,879 advocating on our behalf. What Ron DeSantis and other governors 108 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:48,279 and other state legislatures, like for example, in Tennessee are 109 00:07:48,399 --> 00:07:53,920 advocating is antithetical to the fundamental principles of a free 110 00:07:54,000 --> 00:08:00,279 society right and certainly antithetical to the fundamental principles that 111 00:08:00,319 --> 00:08:04,000 have governed the Republican Party for well over one hundred 112 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:10,639 and sixty years. But because everybody now is all up 113 00:08:10,759 --> 00:08:17,040 on Trump, this maga wokeism is at play. 114 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:19,199 Speaker 5: So while they scream at the. 115 00:08:19,199 --> 00:08:23,839 Speaker 3: Left about being woke, they discount or not even pay 116 00:08:23,879 --> 00:08:26,639 attention to their own version of woke. It reminds me 117 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:29,959 of the Gospel passages for all my god fearing, good 118 00:08:29,959 --> 00:08:32,440 little Christian boys and girls who like them tell people 119 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:36,480 how to live their lives. Where the Lord remind us, 120 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:40,240 before you start criticizing the plank in your neighbor's eye, 121 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:43,120 you better get that plank out of your own. You 122 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:48,000 better recognize it's in your eye as well. 123 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:49,399 Speaker 5: And that's what you have here. 124 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 3: So as we get ready for what is going to 125 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:58,000 be a torturous campaign. If y'all think it's not going 126 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:02,080 to be, you're deluding yourself house. But what is going 127 00:09:02,159 --> 00:09:06,720 to be a torturous campaign this upcoming year. This is 128 00:09:06,759 --> 00:09:09,240 the kind of stuff you need to be aware of. 129 00:09:09,759 --> 00:09:12,519 This is the kind of actions and activities that you're 130 00:09:12,519 --> 00:09:16,600 going to see coming from Republican governors and legislators, members 131 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:21,960 of Congress and the like that will stoke and continue 132 00:09:22,039 --> 00:09:32,080 to infect us with this kind of anti democratic, anti business. 133 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,559 Speaker 5: Kind of rhetoric and behavior. It is. 134 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 3: Amazingly difficult to watch this happen and to watch people 135 00:09:44,039 --> 00:09:46,120 just very quietly. 136 00:09:48,039 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 5: Ignore it. You can't. 137 00:09:49,919 --> 00:09:52,159 Speaker 3: You just can't, because we're going to wake up one 138 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:57,440 day and you're going to see that you won't be 139 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,559 able to keep your legislators because they're going to kick 140 00:10:00,639 --> 00:10:03,080 them out for standing with their citizens. 141 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 5: They're going to kick them out of the legislatures. 142 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:08,159 Speaker 3: You're not going to Women aren't going to be able 143 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:13,200 to access their the healthcare their need because the legislature 144 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:17,240 and the governors have decided that they control your body 145 00:10:17,279 --> 00:10:20,039 and you don't. You're not going to be able to 146 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:23,120 read the books that you want your kids to read 147 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:26,320 to expose them to a broader world. Oh wait, wait, 148 00:10:27,519 --> 00:10:37,279 that shit's already happening. Hmm, I guess I'm too late. 149 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:39,039 Speaker 5: Anyway. 150 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 3: Moving on, So, Clarence Thomas apparently has for. 151 00:10:44,639 --> 00:10:45,759 Speaker 5: Some time now. 152 00:10:47,279 --> 00:10:51,159 Speaker 3: Claimed income from a defunct real estate firm. I didn't 153 00:10:51,159 --> 00:10:53,519 say it currently operating, I said defunct. 154 00:10:55,639 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 5: You can't make this shit up, people. What the hell 155 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:02,200 is going on with the Supreme Court? What is going on? 156 00:11:02,399 --> 00:11:03,799 Here and the. 157 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:08,399 Speaker 3: Collective yawn about all of this, where, oh, we can't 158 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:10,879 impeach them, Oh, we don't have the votes for this. Oh, 159 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:13,440 they you know, they have to decide whether they want 160 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:20,559 to impose ethical restraints on their activities. If you have 161 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,919 a Supreme Court justice who's reporting income from a company 162 00:11:25,039 --> 00:11:29,960 that does not exist in amounts of fifty to one 163 00:11:30,039 --> 00:11:35,120 hundred and thousand dollars a year, and there is. 164 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 5: No mention of any other firm that arguably does. 165 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:48,639 Speaker 3: Exist, You've got to scratch your head and ask yourselves 166 00:11:48,759 --> 00:11:56,000 what's happening here? And when you have individuals defending this, 167 00:11:57,399 --> 00:11:58,360 what does that say? 168 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:03,440 Speaker 5: There's no anymore? I mean you you can serve in. 169 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:08,279 Speaker 3: A job for life and and just hang out with 170 00:12:08,519 --> 00:12:12,519 whomever you want and have them pay all your expenses 171 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:16,879 and buy your mama's house and set up dumbing companies 172 00:12:16,919 --> 00:12:19,440 that will pay you or your wife an income that 173 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:27,039 and no one cares. This is a troubling pattern pattern 174 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:32,039 that's that's emerging right now on the court. Uh, and 175 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:36,200 it's certainly centered around Justice Thomas. But the Chief Justice, 176 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:40,519 in my view, has to take control of this and 177 00:12:41,039 --> 00:12:44,440 this idea of everyone rushing down to defend Clarence Tom 178 00:12:44,519 --> 00:12:48,159 defend him from what defend him from cheating the system? 179 00:12:48,159 --> 00:12:49,200 Speaker 5: Making excuses? 180 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 3: Well, you know, there were no ethical rules in place, 181 00:12:52,519 --> 00:12:56,639 and the rules and what he was told really didn't apply. 182 00:12:57,399 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 5: Why don't we Why aren't we so quick to make 183 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:01,559 excuses for such bad behavior. 184 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:06,759 Speaker 3: Instead of Thomas just standing up and saying, damn, my dad, 185 00:13:07,759 --> 00:13:10,159 let me let me fully disclose what I've been doing 186 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:15,919 over the last twenty years. Got to get a grip, 187 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:19,759 got to get a grip, got to get a grip, 188 00:13:21,799 --> 00:13:29,919 And finally you had the dominion lawsuit. Just just a 189 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,840 quick few thoughts on that. So dominion winds up settling this, uh, 190 00:13:35,039 --> 00:13:38,559 this lawsuit over over the election claims for seven hundred 191 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:45,679 and eighty seven million dollars, and a lot of. 192 00:13:45,639 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 5: Folks pretty much had their had their. 193 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,679 Speaker 3: How do you put it, had there had their their 194 00:13:54,759 --> 00:14:00,240 senses turned upside down about all of this because they 195 00:14:00,279 --> 00:14:03,679 didn't think justice was served and they didn't think that. 196 00:14:07,039 --> 00:14:09,399 Speaker 5: Dominion pursued this all the way. Well, a couple of 197 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:13,039 things on that, real quick. Dominion did do us all 198 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:16,679 one huge favor. It got out into the public space. 199 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:26,039 Speaker 3: Information and text messages and emails and conversations that we 200 00:14:26,159 --> 00:14:29,200 otherwise would not have known about. 201 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 5: We otherwise would not have been able to. 202 00:14:35,879 --> 00:14:39,799 Speaker 3: Contextualize around the events of twenty twenty or the events 203 00:14:39,879 --> 00:14:43,919 of January sixth, and how one fed into the other. 204 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:48,960 But I think you know, a number of folks are 205 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:53,000 talking about, you know, there's got to be accountability. Liars 206 00:14:53,039 --> 00:14:57,720 have to be fired. You know, we need Fox needs 207 00:14:57,759 --> 00:15:03,360 to change its orient on this. It ain't happening, folks. 208 00:15:03,639 --> 00:15:07,080 It just doesn't happen. Y'all just need to understand from 209 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:10,679 Fox's perspective, that's seven hundred and eighty seven million dollars 210 00:15:10,759 --> 00:15:11,200 was a win. 211 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 5: Was a win. 212 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 3: And here's why this victory works for them because the 213 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:25,519 very anchors Sean Hannity and Laura and Tucker who promoted 214 00:15:25,559 --> 00:15:29,519 the lies, they won't need to be held accountable by 215 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:34,759 having live testimony in front of the American people, right, 216 00:15:34,799 --> 00:15:35,799 So they're not going to that. 217 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 5: Yeah, so you got my text message, But now I 218 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,759 don't have to talk about all that went. 219 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 3: Into creating that text message, the timeline of events, and 220 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:50,200 the narratives and the follow up questions on that text 221 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:57,200 message that Tucker put out saying he absolutely hates Donald Trump. 222 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:04,200 All of that now it's not discussed in the court 223 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:09,879 of law on a stand the owner of Fox, Ruber Murdoch, 224 00:16:10,679 --> 00:16:14,279 who okayed the lies in the first place, who said 225 00:16:14,519 --> 00:16:18,200 to his host, y'all keep doing you boo, it's working. 226 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 5: They're going to pay. 227 00:16:20,279 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 3: Dominion what amounts to a rounding era for Fox seven 228 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:29,720 hundred and seventy and eighty seven million dollars when you've 229 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:33,960 got six billion dollars roughly six billion dollars in cash 230 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:41,679 in cash, okay available. Yeah, not real hardship there. But 231 00:16:41,759 --> 00:16:47,759 more importantly, the viewers who consumed the lies would never 232 00:16:47,799 --> 00:16:51,679 be told otherwise. Fox is not going to go on 233 00:16:51,799 --> 00:16:55,879 there and say we got past that one, folks, and 234 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:01,200 we are sorry. Why because it didn't have to admit anything. 235 00:17:02,279 --> 00:17:06,759 They didn't have to admit that they lied. It's enough 236 00:17:06,759 --> 00:17:09,039 to pay the seven hundred and eighty seven million dollars. 237 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,319 Speaker 5: We're done. 238 00:17:11,519 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 3: No apologies, no admittance, nothing, silence, and in fact, we'll 239 00:17:20,039 --> 00:17:22,079 barely cover it on our network. 240 00:17:24,559 --> 00:17:25,279 Speaker 5: This is what. 241 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:30,599 Speaker 3: This moment means for me at least, and for a 242 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:34,680 lot of Americans, and why it's frustrating. I get the 243 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:41,039 whole civil versus criminal suits. I forget the you know, 244 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:44,960 the way the system works. But at the end of 245 00:17:45,039 --> 00:17:51,400 the day, you have immediate enterprise that is engaged in 246 00:17:51,519 --> 00:17:56,319 a disservice to the American people and to its audience. 247 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:07,319 It has upended, in fact born up any journalistic integrity industreds. 248 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:14,599 And for them to say that we acknowledge the court's rulings, 249 00:18:15,599 --> 00:18:22,359 finding certain claims about dominion to be false, and that 250 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:26,680 the settlement reflects Fox's continue commitment, here's the part where 251 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:35,240 you're choking gag commitment to the highest journalistic standards. What 252 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:41,359 an insult, what a bold faced lie, What a big 253 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:48,839 f you America. We got away with it, and now 254 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:51,920 you know why I make minor domb