SIO98: Republicans Don't Care About You

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Thomas Smith

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🗓️ 30 November 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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...unless you're a bazillionaire or a bank or some other corporation. I talk about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - the brainchild of one future president Elizabeth Warren - and that the only reason you could possibly be against it is if you hate people and prefer banks. So, naturally the Republicans are against it. Then I'm onto another rousing voicemail segment that takes up most of the show because I love hearing from you and engaging your arguments and criticisms! Leave Thomas a voicemail! (916) 750-4746, remember short and to the point! Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/seriouspod Follow us on Twitter: @seriouspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seriouspod For comments, email [email protected]

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0:00.0	You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only only. This is episode 98.
0:33.1	I'm your host Thomas Smith.
0:34.6	Okay, well, actually I had planned to talk about something today
0:38.5	and then also do voicemails.
0:40.3	But then when I went and looked at voicemails,
0:42.4	they were really compelling. I started recording, and you know me, I got carried away.
0:45.5	So it's going to be mainly voicemail, but that's only because my callers and my listeners are so intelligent and I really, really love interacting with your thoughts with your opinions with
0:56.8	your calls it's fun it's engaging and I like it so I'm going to do that but I
1:01.1	just wanted to say a couple things first.
1:03.7	First off, as regards Monday's episode, there are some voicemails about it, and I will use those
1:10.9	to make some commentary on that. so look forward to that later on.
1:14.8	It was an interesting episode.
1:17.4	Got a lot of reaction.
1:18.4	I think most people liked that I did it, but some people didn't and I want to be fair to those people.
1:25.1	I respect where they're coming from, but I'm going to talk a little bit about that later.
1:29.5	But before that, I just wanted to talk for a few minutes about the fact that Republicans really just don't care about you.
1:36.0	I mean, they really, this is something, you know, someone asked me and I don't think I ended up using it as a question or anything because I don't want to talk about myself too much in general. I want to talk about issues and stuff. But someone did ask me. They said, oh, hey, I think it was on Twitter. They're like, well, I'm interested to hear that you used to be a Republican and now you're liberal
1:56.4	It'd be interesting to hear more about that and I thank you for that question. I didn't want to talk about it, but I think this is actually a good example of part of it.
2:07.0	One aspect of it is having realized that the Republicans are not about you. They don't care about you.
2:15.1	They have found ways to make people agree with what they want to do, which won't benefit them.
2:24.4	They make people vote against their self-interest.
2:28.4	And a really good microcosm of that is this Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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