#33 - Sen. Ron Johnson Gives Jackasses a Bad Name

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Lewis Black

Comedy, Leisure, Stand-up

4.8 • 803 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Congress managed to actually pass a law, the American Rescue Plan, but not before Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) used valuable legislative time to have the full text read on the Senate floor, rather than discuss why he’s opposed to it. The House also passed the For The People Act, and Lewis, a voting rights ambassador for the ACLU, has some choice words for those who act to restrict the franchise. Also, something happened with Meghan and Harry and Oprah. This rants this week include an interesting perspective on the pandemic lifestyle; a 10-point diatribe about how the Netflix interface operates; a plea to let the pharmacists on the front lines of Covid testing and vaccines do their jobs, without corporate interference; a trilogy of takes on the Dr. Seuss publishing controversy; a rumination in wonderment on where the class consciousness is; and finally, a combustible and epic tale of chasing an insurance payout check through the labyrinthine complexities of the American banking, insurance, and mail systems. In a nice reminder of why voting matters, the live rants come from Iowa City, IA, where Lewis performed just before the 2020 caucuses. Lewis’ new special, Thanks For Risking Your Life is available now! https://tlbrecords.lnk.to/LewisWE New episodes arrive every Wednesday. SUBMIT RANTS TO LEWIS www.lewisblack.com/live SUBSCRIBE TO THE RANTCAST www.lewisblacksrantcast.com FOLLOW LEWIS www.lewisblack.com www.youtube.com/officiallewisblack www.instagram.com/thelewisblack www.facebook.com/thelewisblack www.twitter.com/thelewisblack www.tiktok.com/@thelewisblack For advertising opportunities/contact email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the rubber and the rubber chicken says March 4th came and went and Donald Trump wasn't inaugurated.
0:31.4	I knew it was bullshit.
0:33.5	And I'm a rubber chicken.
0:35.9	Yes, you are.
0:37.2	All right, that's enough for now because welcome everyone. And I'm a rubber chicken. Yes, you are.
0:45.3	All right, that's enough for now, because welcome everyone to Lewis Black's Randcast number 33.
0:52.1	Entitled, Senator Ron Johnson gives jackasses a bad name.
0:59.3	In case you missed it, this past week, we recently passed the American Rescue Plan, as it's called, the $1.9 trillion that was the Senate-approved plan for helping
1:10.3	Americans get back on their feet, the getting COVID dealt
1:14.5	with, getting the vaccines out there, getting kids back into school, getting a lot of stuff
1:20.0	started, you know, getting folks like my friend Steve Olson to get their restaurant restored
1:26.2	and ready to go again and, you know, hopefully doing all
1:30.5	the things that need to be done.
1:32.5	You know, Senator Ron Johnson, a genius in his own right, really, from Wisconsin, where
1:40.6	apparently things are just going great because he was against this bill.
1:44.6	Oh, boy, was he against.
1:46.5	He was so against it that he had all 628 pages of the bill read aloud.
1:54.3	Even though everyone knew that this thing was going to pass, it was read aloud by Senate
1:59.6	staffers, and that slowed up the process,
2:02.8	so he really showed him, rather than discussing it, okay? What I really don't comprehend
2:08.9	is, boy, we don't like it. It's not really target. Well, you know what? Have a discussion.
2:14.4	Because as far as I know, you just voted against it and you just slowed it down.
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