Jesse Ventura Pt1

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Uh-huh. It's all s**t. It's all just dumb gay politics. America's gotten kinda white, but we're not gonna let it go down like that because we got a dumb gay podcast, a dumb gay political podcast. We probably don't have all the facts, but we got opinions and we'll probably backtrack. That's why it's a dumb gay podcast, a dumb gay political podcast. Oh, it's all s**t. It's all s**t. Oh, it's all s**t. It's all s**t. I mean, are we gonna die? I don't know. I you're extreme. I am extreme. It's all s**t. Uh-uh. This s**t is bananas. B a a a s. This s**t is Trump a*s. T r u m p a n a n e s. What? I don't know. I don't even know. Hey, everybody. Welcome to our dumb gay podcast. I'm Julie. And I'm Brandy. And this is the podcast at Costa Rica where we talk about all the dumb gay s**t happening in the world like we're talking about reality TV. Grr. It wasn't technically a State of the Union. Okay? It was an address to Congress. And what an address it was. What an address. Now we're two days late. Everyone's like, b***h, the f**king news the news moves fast with Trump, and that's just the way it is. And I have to just let it go because there's so much that happens in the news that we don't talk about at all ever on this podcast because he first of all, what if we had said he paused a to Ukraine, and then we made that the whole show about that, But then the next day, a judge blocked it. Right. So Yeah. But now the new news in Ukraine is that he's gonna deport 250, thousand, refugees from Ukraine. He's gonna deport 250,000 refugees who are here from Ukraine back to Ukraine. Yep. I mean, what a f**king piece of s**t. He just is such a piece of s**t. What a piece of s**t. You're gonna that is you know, I don't wanna give anything away because we're going to we have a f**king amazing conversation coming up in the next segment. But, that is directly going to be, your that is directly involved with some of the conversation that we have. But the funny thing is we spoke believable. We spoke to her yesterday. Right. And here's the news. It's like we there's we wouldn't even be even She you're gonna hear that, basically, she's gonna bait like, call Trump out just on his bulls**t. And what we're hearing now is that I'm Doug gonna go ahead and double down and be like, you know what? He is a full on crime boss. He's a full on mafiosa f**king, like, ran the people I worked with out of town, who worked at the restaurant because they couldn't pay for protection. That's him. He's if I don't you don't pay me to protect you, I'm gonna kill you and your family. I'm gonna get rid of the refugees. Oh oh, I'm sorry. Is my friend, f**king tootie two tots, going to take over your country? Uh-oh. Well, you better do what he says, or I'm gonna f**king deport 250,000 of your people. Back to a war zone. War zone. Back to a war zone of a country that's an ally. I I I honestly, like, I can't even I'm still in my pajamas. I cannot believe he's he's he's he's doing that. Meanwhile, $5,000,000, the oligarchs can come in here and get American citizenship, but we're gonna go ahead and deport 250,000 people back to an actual war zone. He should be literally, he should be tried for treason, and he should be he should be executed. How about that? Come and get me, FBI. I think this guy should be executed. The I'm I it just goes back. We've got eight years of discussing the this nightmare, but it just it I I always goes back. These f**king Republicans and their bulls**t with the deficit and the debt, and I don't even know the f**king difference. It's so annoying. Yeah. And it's just like there I don't know why it deeply, deeply disturbed me on during the address of to congress that he, is gonna give people, immigration status for $5,000,000. That's just think you know I deeply disturbed you. I just It's unjust. It's unequal. It's not fair. It's illegal. It's buying your way into he literally is about to set the precedent to buy your way into anything. I mean, in a way And then say we're gonna get we're gonna make the country rich again. Make the country rich. It's like because we're gonna pay that. Dollars. Right. Because Okay. And how many people are gonna pay $5,000,000? 10? The 10 Russians? Yeah. And then you're gonna and then they're gonna pay taxes on what? They don't have to pay taxes. They'll be corporations just like you. Why don't you pay taxes? Exactly. Why doesn't Apple Why doesn't exactly. Why doesn't Jeff Bezos Why don't you start why don't you take tax exemption away from churches and religions? Yeah. Jeff Bezos, ma'am, you know what his salary is? It's, like, 10 oh, it's oh, what is it? What is it? It's a hundred thousand dollars. Oh, it's his salary a hundred thousand dollars. Taxes on. I mean, they're not gonna pay f**king taxes, and the deficit is, like, literally a hundred trillion dollars. It's they're not that's what is that? That's a deck chair off the Titanic. The Republican Party is done. The Republican Party is done. What I what I what I really am feeling and I'm leaning into and what I probably have to go into therapy for, I was literally thinking yesterday I have to go back to therapy. Yeah. I'm really rage. The rage, and I'm I have I'm I'm unable to manage my state currently. I need to go back to therapy and sit and pay someone to be able to pick apart the reasons, not just for my own personal issues in my own personal life, but I need to be able to sit and pay someone to pick apart what's wrong with everybody. Yep. And not have someone look at me glossy eyed and be like, come on, or we're not all bad, or everyone's trying. We're all people. No. We're not all people. Do they not do that in therapy? I'm not sure. I didn't have that conversation with my last doctor about, like, I mean, because he agree kind of agreed with me, so he was on board. Yeah. I mean, that's the new thing. So now the new thing when choosing a therapist. It's like, let's make sure we got the same politics because I don't even want you f**king in my ear. Yeah. I guess I just gotta go back to him so he can just yes. I had Yeah. And he can sit and tell me how he's has his his his, practice is blowing up because everyone needs to sit there and talk s**t about Trump. But it's not just Trump now. It's for me. It's All I think can't look at the world and not feel And all I think of is weapons of mass destruction. Like, this guy could lie about weapons of mass destruction every day, all day Yeah. And they wouldn't care. No. They wouldn't care. He's bringing up World War three. He's brought it up more than once. He he said it to Zelensky. The fact that he's even bringing it up makes me feel that he's got something planned. And Russia I mean, it's really scary. I think I'm also starting to feel a little fear. Okay. And I don't want to live through a war like that. I don't want us to see it. I don't we are the Gaza Israel, conflict, if you will, that war should be teaching us all something, and it isn't. It's making people more angry. It's making them more violent. The the the people who are and I'm sorry if you're, like, really pro Palestinian, kinda, like, in yet that intensity, that is un that's toxic. It's toxic, and it's gonna create, in my opinion, it's creating and it creates it in me. I have a violent feeling inside, and it's not healthy. It's not good. And I'm not going to act on it, but there are people who are. And more and more and more and more and more people are. And, you know, now granted, I could get pushed or blown on the wrong way outside, and I can't tell you what's gonna happen. But look what look how people are protesting and how there's something going on, and it's even worse now, and it's because of Trump, in my opinion. Oh, well, yeah. I think that's fact. Not just an opinion, but fact. Just raging out. Well, let's Raging out. Some Positive things then. Excuse me, Maverick. Let's go back. We're going back now to the Christmas cards. I did wanna thank she's boxwood and feather on our Patreon. Oh my god. These patreons are forever. Oh my god. And she her name is Gina. She brought Gina. She brought you an apron. Yes. That was so nice. We didn't know we were at the Heather Heather Show. Heather was like, hey. Somebody has a gift for you. And I was like, just for me, not for us. That's weird. But it turned out there was a gift for us. What was it? She sent also Oh, that she sent the card? Like a part of a whole package, but she had brought that. Brought the card. And it was it's an industrial type of apron. It's black, and it gives you the feeling. I love the kind of feeling that it's like the kind that's, you know, like, I'm also an ironworker. Oh. You know what I mean? She said, yeah, she said that I like how because we got an apron too from Lauren, and it's black too. I'm glad people know the assignment. You know what I mean? You mem you might remember that when we talked about it and I we said the black was the gonna be the color. Yeah. We said it's not gonna be like, kiss the cook. Daddy's home. Daddy's BBQ set. Whatever. I just think those are cute, though. My Yeah. My friend Chris, his dad has, like, a Selena. I mean, that's pretty. Yeah. It's, like, really cute that he's wearing a Selena Yeah. Apron. I'm gonna say it's the cutest for a large man to wear something cute, like when a large, large man has a tiny dog outside. Yes. Love that. Yeah. So, like, I think if I saw a large man A dad. Kitchen, a dad, or even if I was at a restaurant and I saw some huge guy in a an apron that was Selena apron or something that was, like, or had, like, you know, minions on it or Disney, I'd be like, that's cute. So thank you to her. Her name is Gina. I love it. She gave us those Gina. Beautiful glass jars Yes. And cough drops, and we can fill whatever we want with the glass jars. So we also put one feeling in it a day. We exactly. So Megan Weinstock, the mom, the matriarch of the family, she is a member of our Patreon. Her daughters, you may remember Memau Yes. Did Patreon Idol. So Oh, okay. Yeah. The or Patreon's Got Talent. So her daughter sang Mhmm. And then her older daughter sang, who's at Berkeley School of Music Yes. Which I thought was in Berkeley, and it's in Boston. It's in Boston. K. That's when I learned that. And then her her youngest daughter, Zoe, did the dancing, and I thought it was so cute. I love, like, dance dance Yeah. Yeah. Especially dance. Groups. So Yep. So she has a really talented, beautiful family, and I did read so I think you should read the Christmas card. They are also rich. Okay. Here's the card. Liv is a sophomore at Berkeley and living her best life in Boston. She's busy with classes performing with her a capella group, Treble Threat. Oh my god. Summit. And releasing her original music under Olivia Helen, available to stream on all platforms. We will miss her lots. We still miss her lots. Jack is a senior at LPHS. He learned how to surf, caught a shark, and we did it. Know they had a son. Oh, yeah. There's a tall drink of water sun. Alright. Look. The perfect f**king family. Three two girls, a boy, husband, wife. They're so attractive. They're all very attractive. I thought that I I I thought they were all children. I didn't even realize that the the the She just sent a photo of five children? Yes. Yeah. They're they're so they're giving the youth the vitality They all look like they're siblings. The wealth. He she caught a shark and released it and ran a 5.784 mile during track and cross country season. He's currently applying to lots of colleges, so stay tuned. Zoe is in second grade and the captain of her dance team, according to Zoe. She's very into fashion and styled this family photo shoot. How cute. And they're and they're all, like, in, like They look like the f**king Von Trapp family. They're all in, like aren't they in little Hawaiian shirts? They're in the girls are in Hawaiian Hawaiian, you know, like, leaves, dresses, and then two guys are in, button down tops. The the highlight of her year was taking a plane to meet her very cute cousin, Cody. Michael and Megan purchased a home just outside of Charleston and plan to flee the Chicago winters in 02/21. See? Oh. And we love Charleston. Wow. Charleston. So they're gonna be, like, up that same coast, but, like, Chicago down to Oh my god. Are we gonna turn into having, like, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil? Like, are we gonna or is that Savannah? That's Savannah. Oh, well, Charleston gives me similar vibes. Yeah. And that's why it's it's so I love that they chose they they did not go to Florida. I mean, you know, with all due to everyone who lives in Florida, that's, like, the classic thing people do. And they're just like, no. I mean, not that f**king South Carolina is not a red state, but I just I like that choice for, like I just think that sounds so beautiful. It does sound beautiful. And by the way, they have three dogs. The dogs love They just keep getting better and better. I do wish you were a sibling in the family. I know. I was gonna say, will you adopt two old ladies? So what are the dogs? The dogs are three, like they look like three mixed cute, very cute, like Does it say their name? No. Oh. But look at how cute those dogs are. And it's so oh my god. They are cute. They're like little they're like little midget terriers. But there's that one that's normal size, regular size. They're almost giving, like, thinner, hairy corgi. There's something about their body, which, of course, we're partial to because that's how Lulu and Goose's Goose's legs are. We have two short legs in Yes. Yes. In our family of dogs. So now I love seeing them. Oh my god. It's like a special gene we learned. Okay. So then thank you to Megan Weinstock for paying us money on our Patreon. Yeah. That would if I if somebody sent a Christmas card over here and we're like, we just bought a second home, I'm like, you best get on that Patreon, b***h, even if you're not interested. Even if you're not interested. Oh, s**t. Okay. So, I mean, I make my mom pay $20. That's hilarious. My parents don't pay any I know my dad that's right. Yeah. They joined, but they joined at the lowest tier. $4. That sounds about right. That sounds about right. I'm sure my dad is secret listening. So hey, dad. Hey, doctor Guac. Okay. And then Alexis Pumphrey, who we love, sent us a note. And you know what? I don't think that we had the wine stocks on our drug den bulletin board. That's why Oh. I'm, like, stoked this is a perfect picture of them to have, on the drug den bulletin board. Okay. So this is a oh my god. I haven't updated the board in a long time, though. I have a stack of photos I need to add up there, so she may have sent one. Oh my god. How cool. Like, I've never seen What is it? Someone add a picture of their fish before for their family of pets. She's a koi fish on here. Oh, that's cool. Very cool. We love when fish are like Like people. Pets. Yeah. Merry Christmas, Brandy, and happy Hanukkah, Julie. Hope this arrives in time for the holidays. Got delayed because I needed to print. It's March, so, obviously, you can continue sending Christmas cards well into the year. Oh, pics. So Brandy was, like, gonna yell at me. One photo with Julie in mind, the other with Brandy. I'm sure you know which is which. Thankfully, our little household has survived the elections. This mostly thanks to me finally getting HRT for the menopause. So I did not kill my husband for voting libertarian. And there was finally an end to the to the tears. So glad we continue to have you two to get us through yet another dark time. Couldn't survive without you. Lots of love to you and all the critters. Believe me, Alexis Pumphrey. So What is HRT? That's a good question. I don't know. Oh. Oh, hormonal replacement therapy. Okay. Okay. So she sent I'm assuming what she means is So there's a couple pics. There's a pic of her with a black cat, her cat. Perfect. And and I can see her face. Yeah. That cat. That's can you I cannot believe that the cat is doing that. It's like the it's posing for a picture. So cute. And she's so cute. And it's a black cat. Shout out, Levi. Then this picture in front of a neon leopard sweater. That's for me. And then, of course, we've got the Christmas card, which is her in the pool. I love that too. With the With her son, I believe. Alexis, rich rich, big plus little, and the coy. I love that. Know that's not her husband that she kills because he voted libertarian. That's the husband. Why am I think everyone's a kid right now. All I'm seeing are teenagers everywhere I go. She's her too. She got a t Yeah. Like I love so her her Christmas card is perfect because it's a big picture of her, and then he's in the background, like On his iPad with his feet in the pool. Apparently, about to vote libertarian. Yeah. So maybe we didn't have Alexis, but I definitely know her. She's on the Patreon, and we f**king love her. Yeah. So we're gonna get some new kicks when I get around to doing my damn job. Alright. Trade coffee subscription. You are having some coffee from Trade right now, Ma'amelle. Let's do it. Wonderful. You can just hear the delicious of it. I'm waking up. Now you guys, we f**king love trade because the thing that I'm just saying, the the one thing that you now I'm probably not my mom, but I'm gonna assume everyone else runs out of damn coffee, and it's always seconds. Yeah. And it's and and then it's just gone. And you're like, g*****n it. Yep. I mean, literally. 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And now it's time for us to get the inside scoop from a real life person in government in our new segment called Congress Time. And now a fact of Congress. You may wonder sometimes, who are all these people in Washington and what are they doing? Well, 535 of them are in Congress representing you and everyone else in the country. Members of Congress are there to listen to us and to speak for us as they make new laws or legislate. Legislators work in either the House of Representatives or the Senate. The House is more about representing people based on how many live in each state. It has a large number of members to stay in close touch with what people back home want. The Senate is more about representing every state equally, taking a broader national view and making sure that our government doesn't rush into any bad law. Working together, they play the most important role in our system of representative democracy. Do you know who's representing you? It's me. This fact of congress is a journey. Okay. Welcome segment called congress time, where we hang out with people who work in the government and talk s**t about all the dumb gay stuff going on in the world. That's right. And today, we are talking to a literal congressperson. Like, she is a literal woman Oh. Who is a literal member of the United States House of Representatives, and we are literally going to talk to her right now on this dumb gay podcast. Correct. This b***h is in the literal federal government, and we cannot believe that she agreed to do our stupid a*s podcast. So without further ado, it's time to get all the United States government tea from the beautiful, from the talented congresswoman Sarah Jacobs. Hello, congresswoman. Well, hello. It is great to be with you. Oh my god. It's great that you're here. I mean, we don't love talking to people more successful than us much younger than us. Is it strange being a a a non genieux Oh, yeah. If you will? Yes. It's pretty it's pretty great because in my normal life, 36 feels, pretty old. But, in congress world, I'm like a preteen seeded, so it's great. I literally had to explain to my colleague what a podcast was. So, you know, it feels great. Oh my god. Are you the youngest person? We were looking last night. Like, are you the youngest person there? You have to be. So, actually, I'm not. When I was first elected, at 31, I got sworn in. I was the third youngest. Alexandria, Ocasio Cortez and I are the same age. And now there are actually 10 people younger than me, which is actually really cool, and we need more young people in office. Wow. That's unreal. We're so old at this point that But 36. Honestly, come hang out in congress. You'll feel you'll feel very young. What is the thing you always say, my mouth? What? What is the guy he says, like, politics is like the Oh, it's oh, he say the the politics is the ugly Hollywood. Hollywood for ugly people. No. I literally tell I literally tell my friends that I'm, like, a San Diego Four, but a Congress 9. Oh. Now let's let's get to it. So you are the 50 First District Of San Diego. Now I was born in San Diego Yes. Which I love to clout Jace because I am of a poor descent. You are now currently representing the district I was born in, but you originally, you were 50 Third. Right? Yep. After redistricting, they, they changed my district. But I'm basically Central San Diego, also the district I was born in. Oh, amazing. So is San Diego, while giving a a an Orange County energy, all the reps are Democrats? Well, I re I reject the idea that we give Orange County energy for one. Okay. Good. But for two, we have five reps from San Diego, and we have four Democrats, one Republican, but we also only have one Republican left in Orange County. Oh, wow. That's amazing. That's interesting. That's good to hear. That's so weird because every time we met love being Republicans. Yeah. Like, we've met so many Republicans from Orange County. It's Yeah. Well, we watched this Okay. My I wanna say my first question is, why was it called, like, an address to Congress? I thought that it would normally be the State of the Union. Was that a move, or is that normal? No. It's, it's normal. Basically, the first year of a presidential joint address to congress because you haven't been in office for a year, and therefore, you can't give the State of the Union. Okay. Well, Julie's ready to get into it. Okay. There's I don't even know where to begin. Like, there's you and all the work you're doing, which I know is important. But right now, that speech, you in that room, I I think the first thing we just need to get into is just what's the vibes, what what were you feeling, what was it like being in that room? Like, I I I from from from watching it on TV, I have so many feelings when I see Trump, Vance, Johnson, NTT, Nancy May. Like, how do you do it? How do you survive it? What tell us tell us tell us your feelings, please. A lot of therapy and alcohol. Yeah. Like, I mean Same. Honestly, though, like, what like, Some SSRIs? I don't know. Yeah. I mean, you so you're sitting there listening to to Trump's speech. Where were you sitting, first of all? Tell us. Yeah. So I I was sitting, like, two rows behind, Hakim Jeffries, and the leadership team. I was in the the group of women wearing pink, and I will say it was a hundred minutes of absolute bulls**t. Yeah. Also, just for your awareness, they keep the room real cold. So it was a hundred minutes of very cold bulls**t. Oh, interesting. I like that. Did you wear pink? Yes. I did wear pink. I actually wore I mean, I don't wanna, you know, tout my own horn, but it was like a pretty great light pink suit. Then what's the what's the meaning of the pink? It was, like, to show solidarity and protest and just, like, women's power because so many of the things Trump is doing are disproportionately hurting women. Yeah. And why did we choose what I I know that there was one State of the Union where we were wearing white, where the Democratic women were wearing white. This time, we're doing pink. But I did notice this time, Nancy Mace was wearing white because she's a A dumb b***h. A dumb b***h. So, Okay. And also also for the record Yes. A boob job is gender affirming care. Good. And this is the hill I will die on. That is that is I'm writing that down. Write it down. I have to write it down. Because that is so true. That is so true. I love that you said that. I mean, alright. Well, let's just get into that. Why do they what do you think their problem is with trans? What is their problem with what is their f**king problem? What is it? Okay. So look. I think that they use all of these social issues to distract from the fact that they have no actual plan to address the real things people are facing, like the high cost of living. You know, we talk about San Diego. It is so expensive to live in San Diego, whether it's housing or health care or child care, and they don't actually have any plans to address that. In fact, everything they're doing is the opposite, whether it's the tariffs or firing the people who track avian flu so that egg prices actually aren't gonna pinch you going up. Right. So instead, they wanna blame trans people and immigrants to deflect from the fact that they don't actually have a plan to fix the problem. Okay. Speaking of, Trump literally looked us all in the eye and said and blamed Biden for the egg prices Mhmm. While he did exactly what you said, and egg prices are higher. At this point, it's March. How long are we gonna blame Biden Yeah. For everything that's going on? Oh, the other day, I went to the store, and it was $11. I think the average price of eggs in California right now is $9. Yeah. Yep. Correct. The the amount of lies in that speech like, I wish I could tell you all the lies, but it was so many, it would have taken the whole time of this podcast, and your viewers would get very, very bored. But, like Why are the other Republicans standing and clapping? They know he's lying. They know he's lying. They they know that what he's doing is wrong. They will tell us that in private, but they're they're sick of fans. Like, they are so afraid of him that they're unwilling to stand up for the things they know are wrong. What are they afraid of? Honestly, a lot of them tell me they're afraid of physical violence against themselves and their family, but they're also afraid of being primaried. Yeah. Interesting. Anything So is he is he blackmailing people, do you think, and and basically crime bossing it? Is he saying, hey. If you do this x y z, you know, I don't know what's gonna happen to your family? Yes. So when he's lying grow up in, like, the world of New York City politics. Okay. Yeah. No. Well, he's Roy Cohn. He's Roy Cohn all day twenty four seven. Well, whose idea was the paddles? Do you know? The congressional progressive caucus. I'm interested. Did you like them? I I I did. I did. I did because particularly, like It's funny. We didn't we didn't we didn't check-in. We didn't check-in. With each other. We didn't check-in. I could have used more paddles. Now for this this is me, Julie, speaking. I'm so Enraged. Enraged that I felt for the for Al Green who got kicked out right at the beginning. I mean, he was five minutes in. He lost his s**t, and he got kicked out. I felt from I don't know how he didn't physically lunge at JD Vance alone will have me will have me feeling violence. But, I I feel those paddles. I like them. I like that they I like the color scheme. I like that you held them up. I like that they were up the whole time. I could have used even more. I could have I could have used more, like, intensity in the language on the paddles. Yep. Listen. I hear you. I hear you. I will say the frustrating thing to me, frustrating, angering, whatever word you wanna use, is that, like, MTG, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Lauren Boebert were way more out of line to Joe Biden than Al Greene was, and we never kicked them out. Yeah. Again, write that down. Yes. That's absolutely right. Yelling and, like, you're right. Well, speaking of Marjorie Taylor Greene Point of order. Point of order. Point of order. Now he came down and gave her, like, a big hug, and I'm pretty sure she said I love you. I think I believe that. I think she said I love you, mister president. So you okay. You are you're a young girl. You got in you got in with Biden. Right? Yep. I got elected in 2020. So that is beautiful and amazing for you. Yeah. So this is your first Trump, but you are in yeah. You're already in you're already in politics, so tell us your story. Well, so so I this is the first elected office I've ever held. I worked at the state department and the UN on international conflict resolution and worked on the Clinton campaign in 2016 on her foreign policy team. So this is really my first time in, like, the real rough and tumble. But I did have a three week overlap with Trump when I first got to Congress, and that means that my fourth day was, January 6, and I was trapped in the House Gallery. Oh my god. You were in there. Oh my god. And so what was that? Okay. So here you are. You're in the House, January sixth. You you experienced it. How does it feel when you when you hear people say and this is really half of the people you work with, oh, it was nothing. It's don't worry. It was we were they were just you know, what about Antifa? Black Lives Matter was worse. You know? They were just peaceful. That didn't happen. Just gaslighting you every second. I mean Yeah. I mean, the craziest part is that I saw many of them fearing for their lives and running out of the house chamber, and now they're pretending like nothing happened. I mean, I worked in I worked in international conflict resolution. That's my background. And my my parents literally thought that once I was done going to, like, Somalia and all these places that they could breathe easily, only for the house capital, the capital of The United States, to be the most dangerous place I've ever been in. Why do you do that? I was curious when we were reading your bio. Okay. So this is I'm gonna get a little nerdy. I'm sorry. Yeah. Do it. But I I sort of set a mission for myself when I was, like, a young idealistic 18 year old that I wanted to work on the toughest problems impacting the most vulnerable people that we didn't know the answer to. And so for a long time, that was international conflict. Right? Even when we wanna get involved and fix things, we don't really know how to do that. And it was really once Trump got elected that I realized that if I was gonna stay true to that mission, it was time to come home and and work on the issue here, and that's why I ran for Congress. And, you know, for me, it's really about figuring out how we get you know, how we address these really challenging problems. My youngest sibling is trans. My middle sibling is gender nonconforming. So you know, a lot of your rhetoric yeah. We're a real millennial family like that. But I'm I'm super cishet as they tell me. Although I like to remind them that everything is a spectrum, but they don't appreciate that answer. They will eventually. They will. You know? They will. You but you gotta get I feel like the the gender nonconforms, the gay, the trans. You know? You get you're intense. You're intense for a while. Yeah. Then you you know what I mean? I get it. Totally. But then you just get into it. So how many siblings do you have? I have three siblings. I'm the second of four. So you're middle kid, which we love here. Okay. So interestingly, this is, like, more than you wanna know about my family, but I was the, growing up, I it was three girl one boy and then three girls. And so I was the first girl. So my middle my middle middle sibling, the middle of the girls, does not accept that I'm the middle child because they think that I was the, you know, more like the first child. And I think I had more of the responsibility of the first child, and my older brother got, like, the glory of the first child. So I like to say that even though I'm literally a member of Congress, I'm still not the favorite child. Well, don't get Julie started Yes. On the older brother or the brother of I got the older please. The older brother. He's also the first one to give them grandkids. Like, I got nothing. Plus, you're Jewish. It's always about the g*****n sun. Yeah. Yeah. Now are you Jewish? I am Jewish. Yes. 99% Ashkenazi according to my 23 and ancestry.com. I did it too, and it was the same. It was the same. Guess what you are, Jewish. Yeah. Okay. So your your siblings are not in politics? No. Not at all. My middle sibling's like a social justice activist. My youngest sibling is a ninth grade teacher. Wow. You all do, like, important work. And you're you just you just found your calling. Yeah. One time, my siblings sent me down, and I was like, I don't wanna talk about your story because it should be yours. And they're like, no, b***h. It's your job to talk about our story. We don't always have to be the ones to talk about it. That's that's cool. And that actually is a representative's job kind of in a way. I mean Yeah. All those stories. You must have to be you must hear a lot you must meet a lot of people from you, and you're doing international foreign relations plus now here. Like, do you feel like sometimes being a representative is also a little bit of being a therapist and a Oh, I literally, last week, was in therapy with my therapist, and I think everyone should have a therapist. And I literally told her at the end, I was like, you're my therapist, and I'm everyone else's therapist. And Yeah. That's great. Okay. You're very active in all of, like, San Diego, but you are in your let's say, in your resume, you're pretty active in, like, raising funds, let's say. So now the big thing with Doge and Elon Musk and this whole to do is, like, cutting down on government spending. Uh-huh. Do you think Democrats spend too much money? So, look, I will be the first one to tell you that the systems as they exist don't actually work. Right? Like, I'm a millennial. We grew up with the September 11 and then the Iraq And Afghanistan Wars and the forever wars. Like, we graduated college during the height of the great recession. Once we were finally getting our feet under us, it was COVID. Like, the systems don't work for too many people, and the way Doge is going about cutting everything is not the way to fix them. And I think we need real reforms and real changes to how things work, but that's different than just getting rid of everything, especially getting rid of everything so that we can give bigger tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations. And to me, it's about, like, thinking about what actually makes sense. Right? You ask any business owner, If they make if they'll take out a loan to make a big CapEx investment that will grow their business, they'll take that 90% of the time. So how do we think about the investments we can make that will actually grow our economy? Investments like in childcare, where for every $1 we invest from the federal government, we actually save $6. Right? Those are the kinds of investments we should be making. And so to me, it's not about, like, how much money. It's about what we're spending the money on. Well, one, how do we get that word out? Because it's not out. And two, what was this this in this speech, there was this whole thing about the $5,000,000 Oh, the gold card. Yes. Hey. Oh, hey. Any oligarch that wants to spend 5 mil can now become a citizen of America, apparently Yeah, so look He also talked about supposedly transgender mice that were actually transgenic mice meeting like mice We're doing scientific research on that is very important for our own knowledge of things. Anyways, yes, a lot of misinformation and lies in that speech. Look, I think a few things. The first is that I think at least so for me, I'm 36. All my friends are having babies, wanna have babies, don't wanna have babies. Right? Like, this is what we talk about. I don't know a single person, whether they're Democrat, Republican, Independent, who, if they have kids, don't know that we have a childcare crisis. I I don't know a single person who, if they're trying to buy a house, don't know we have a housing crisis. Right? So part of it is just talking about our own lived experiences and connecting what the government does to those lived experiences. And then the second part is really making sure people understand. Yeah. I understand you. You you might agree with cutting some of these government things. Like, they seem like just a bunch of workers in DC in big, great buildings, but these are actually things that impact real people. And, like, I had a round table with folks who rely on Medicaid for their health care. In California, we call it Medi Cal. Like, a woman would not be able to pay for one week of her special needs son medicine without Medicaid. This is what we're talking about. We're not talking about nameless, faceless, big, great buildings. We're talking about real people and the things that they need to be able to survive. From the outside, it seems that everything Elon Musk is doing is just ridiculous. But I understand what you're saying. You know? Okay. Fine. We spend too much. We shouldn't gut everything starting. So so specifically speaking, what are the things that they're ruining that you would do differently? USAID and Medicaid and social security and the things that they're cutting and getting rid of and pretending that it's excess fat, but those are things that are actually hurting people. So I would love to hear from you, like, what you would do specifically differently than what they're doing and how that would benefit us. Yeah. Absolutely. So let's let's take USAID, which I feel like in some ways is the most esoteric of what they're cutting and the thing that feels farthest away from Americans. So far away that I use the word esoteric to describe it. The things USAID does around the world actually like are important to keep Americans safe, whether it's the work they do to prevent terrorism or the fact that there is literally an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda right now. And USAID was helping to fund the containment of that. And instead now there's no screening of passengers coming to The US from Uganda, so we don't know if there's gonna be a spread of Ebola. And, like, I have introduced bipartisan legislation on how we should do foreign assistance differently. I am the first person to tell you that we need to do foreign policy foreign assistance differently. Like, I think we need to work more directly with local partners. I think we need to make sure that we are, you know, not recreating the colonial structure and how we do foreign assistance, Mhmm. But getting rid of all foreign assistance does not fix that problem. Can you also just in addition to that, will you expound on why it's important that we give foreign assistance the relationship of America with, oh, I don't know, the world, and that sort of interconnectedness that I feel the Republicans are gaslighting all of us to make it that it's America First, which is America alone, which is this idea that we're just gonna be isolated, which is, you know, I would love for you to speak to that, especially since you're an expert in foreign relations. Look. I understand. Look. I I grew up in the shadow of the forever wars. Like, I understand that we don't challenges we're facing, whether they are infectious diseases, whether they're climate change, whether they're transnational terrorism, whether they're new technologies, they don't care about national borders and they require international cooperation. And the more that we can make sure that international cooperation is being led, aligned with America's values and therefore America's interests, the better we are. Like our power actually stems from our ability to build coalitions. And we erode that ability when we don't actually live up to or stand up for our values. And especially as we're getting into, a world that's more competitive where you have Russia and you have China, it's not like the cold war ended and The US is the only player left. The more we can build those international coalitions, the more we can work with other countries and show them that we're a good partner and show them that they want to be part of this system that The US leads and therefore works towards The US benefit Yeah. The more power we actually have. So and I want you to be able to speak to the other things of of the Doge and everything. But since we're on international, Ukraine, this whole thing with Ukraine, which I think speaks to this international coalition and how it benefits America, Can you would you mind speaking to why it's so important that we need to aid Ukraine? Absolutely. So since since the end since the end of World War two, basically, we've created this international structure that says that you can't change territorial boundaries by aggression, that we have norms and ways of doing things. And that has largely kept the peace in Europe and in other places. Yes. It has kept us safe since longer than all of us have been alive. Okay. And Russia is trying to change the territory of Ukraine by aggression. And instead of standing up for that, Donald Trump is choosing the side of Putin over the side of democracy. And that doesn't just matter for what the territorial boundaries of Ukraine are. It matters for, like, what Xi Jinping in China thinks he can do regarding Taiwan. It matters for dictators and authoritarians all over the world who now think, like, okay, great. If I don't like something, I can use military to change what to change what's happening on the ground. Why? Why? Yeah. Why is he doing that? There are there are a lot of theories. And to be honest, we don't know what Putin has on Trump. We also know that Trump just has an affinity towards authoritarian governments and the way he talks about Panama and Greenland shows that actually he wants to be able to change territorial lines based on aggression. And so to me, may maybe it's because they have blackmail or compromise on him. They probably do. But, like, also, maybe it's that he just doesn't believe in that system that has kept us safe and wants to go back to a world where it really is, like, a free for all and might makes right. Do you put yourself at risk to say s**t like this? I mean, maybe. Will you come visit me in one second? I mean, no one listens to this podcast, so that's a good thing. I wonder if, like, we we see dumb s**t on, like, MSNBC, CNN of just idiots just being like, well, they're corrupt, and it's like it's like his followers, Trump, any MAGA person, it's like they believe Oh, yeah. They believe that Zelensky is Yeah. Is evil. Yes. That they believe that any war doing is good. Yeah. And they don't see I mean, just a simple thing of since whatever, the nineteen thirties that we don't take territories by aggression. Like, we just don't know this s**t, and I include myself in that. Uh-huh. I get it. Like, honestly, I feel like so many in our generation I'm gonna put us in the same generation. In our generation Right. But we are. Okay. Great. Just I'm the older part of it. Yeah. That's the elder millennials. Yeah. Listen. We all had embarrassing a I am screenings, and that to me is the definition of a millennial. But we we all grew up with these forever wars. Right? Like, I think all of our instinct is like, oh, we shouldn't be doing these things around the world maybe. Like, let's think twice about these. And I think, also, it's incumbent on those of us in leadership positions to make the case on why it's important. In this case, like, is Zelensky perfect? No. Is any leader of any country perfect? No. I've met most of them. They all have flaws. But, like, we do not have to put any American boots on the ground, and we are able to stand up for this system that has actually provided us so much security. And I know that feels very far off, but it means we're not sending our folks to the battleground, and that matters. Right? Like, the foreign assistance we give, what we're doing with our partners and allies, all of that is so much cheaper, so much more efficient and effective than sending our folks into, you know, what would become World War three. Right. I I I I have to say, I feel like it's also a matter of and for whatever happened to half this country and whatever happened to the Republicans who are standing up and cheering for Trump, and I guess it's that they're being blackmailed and crimed on and whatever. I don't I look at I look at I can just look at Putin and Zelensky and go, I'm not for Putin. I'm for the other guy. Like, something has been sorely lost, in my opinion, in this country with people's ability to suss out, it, like Right from wrong. A right from wrong. Right? Just straight up. Just straight up. Like Look. There's a lot of disinformation and misinformation and malinformation. And, like, I yes. It's true. There is right and wrong, and, like, it should be easy to say Vladimir Putin is wrong. And, like, if you feel like you've been screwed by the system so much and you feel like all politicians are corrupt and lie to you, like, I can see why you're like, hey. At least he's honest about being corrupt and lying to me. Right? Like Yeah. I'm trying I'm trying to meet people where they are. And to me, what that means is, like, we need I'm with you. We need a new way of doing things Yeah. On on all fronts. I that that to me takes a lot of control and will power. And then Brandon Well, let me do let me ask you some quick questions. Okay. Okay. So you're young and attractive. What's doing with, like, the Republican, like, rapey vibes? Oh, no. They they say really creepy things to me all the time. Okay. So they're, like, lurking. Who and what do they say? Okay. Listen, I've decided that anyone anything my colleagues say to me, I'm taking as a compliment. So if they tell me I'm hot, I'm like, yeah. I am hot. Thanks so much. But, like, yeah. They tell me s**t like that all the time. Are any of them sexy? Like, are we attracted to anyone? No. Mm-mm. Have you seen my colleagues? I have. And I'm wondering, yeah, if we're democrat or republican. Look. John Thune? Not bad for an old dude. Who? John Thune, the new leader of the silent republic. Oh, okay. Uh-huh. I need to know though who's lurking, creeping, and purposed. You don't have to say. So what's doing with, Marjorie Taylor Greene? Yeah. Please. So Point of order. You know what, Sarah? I don't know. I don't want these Jews hanging around my area. Okay? Take your trans sister brother and your nonbinary and your gender nonconform and your Jewish whole family and just you gotta get your lasers. Okay. Point of order. That's okay. That's very good. But, also, where is my effing space laser, and why did I not get it from my office? I have questions. Seriously. There's 500 more than 500 people in the House of Representatives. So do we really interact with Marge, with AOC, with Nance Pelosi? So so, Nancy and Alexandria and I are actually are very close. I I talked to all of them. Good. Marjorie, I try and avoid. I will say we used to work out at the same I can. I am. One time let me borrow her iron and I still have strong feelings about it, but yeah. I cannot. I have it. You don't understand the level. So we have talked to Eric Swalwell. Yes. Are we dealing with him? Yeah. I like him. We're buds. I mean, I do wanna know what what the scenario is for, like, The States. Do like this because California is obviously super cool, very good looking, and except for, like, well, what's his name is gone? The guy who has the cow, Devin Devin. Devin. Yeah. He's gone. But do we hang out with our states? Like, is Kentucky kicking it? Okay. Yeah. So the thing you need to know about congress is that it's high school. Oh. So, like, you get here. There's a new member orientation. You make friends with the people who are on your floor. You join clubs. There's no official assigned seating on the house floor, but, like, there are seating. You know? Yeah. There are cliques. Like, as soon as I accepted that it was high school, literally everything I needed to know about being successful in congress, I learned being a girl in high school. It's Ed, are you what's your So just like in high school, I'm a floater. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'm friends with everyone, but, you know, clickish with no one. Oh. Is it because you what are you you're you are you are an attractive person. So are you is that working against you? I mean, look. Sometimes Yeah. It means I have to work harder to get taken seriously. I literally had a colleague of mine call me a silly little girl in a briefing once when we disagreed. This is where I lose my mind. This is where I lose my mind. This is where I would hulk out and dyke around and explode and throw things. I don't know how you keep keep it together. Yeah. That one was tough. I I wouldn't say I kept cool too well in that one. Yeah. You shouldn't have to, and you shouldn't have to. That is so gross. Okay. Yeah. Go on. Sorry. But but what I will say is, like, what I have found is that, like, everyone is a person, and you can find something to agree with with everyone, even if 99% of it you don't. So, like, Anna, Paulina, Luna, and I, for instance, are working on getting proxy voting for parental leave for members of congress who give birth, or if their partners give birth. Right? Like, it doesn't mean watering down your values. Like, if someone says a bunch of s**t about trans people, I will call them out because I think people need to see that it's not okay to do that. Yeah. But then later I will still have a private conversation with them about, like, what we can do together or if they wanna meet my brother. Honestly, I my poor brother. I make him come to things and I'm like, really this guy? This is who you're afraid of? He's wearing Mickey Mouse socks. Well, what about Lauren Boebert? Do we have to deal with her? No. She's she's as crazy as she seems. I really try and avoid her at all costs. Oh, god. And where is your office? My office is in the Rayburn Building. So the way that we pick our offices, much like a college dorm situation, is that it's a lottery by your seniority. Oh, okay. So, yeah, so, actually, luckily, Maya Holloway is almost all Democrats, but that's kinda just by chance. Alright. So okay. Before we let you go, I'm curious what your, goals are. Being in the House of Representatives, you're in Congress. I have a a just in general, I have a thing of, like, what are your relationships with senators? Do you talk to Adam Schiff? Did you talk to f**king, you know, Dianne Feinstein? You know? What what's it like? So, so I'm very close with our senators and with a number of senators and, you know, a lot of house members from both sides of the aisle. In terms of my goals, I'll be honest. Being in congress was not part of my five year plan, and so now I do not have a five year plan. So for all of you type a kids out there, don't worry. It's gonna be okay. Make all the plans you want. They won't come true. But for me, it's like, where can I make the most impact and help make sure that we're building systems that actually work for people and rebuilding faith and trust in government? And, you know, I feel like I can do that from here right now. And if other opportunities open up, that's great. And, you know, if not, I applaud my job getting to represent my community. I do wanna just really quick. I wanna know, do you think your success hinges on, like, your ability to fundraise? Look, fundraising is a huge part of this job. And, unfortunately, winning elections takes money. And our ability to fundraise and make sure our candidates and our frontliners have the resources they need matters, and that's part of how you build leadership inside the house. But I actually think, like, part of why I'm successful here is because I truly believe that I would rather have people trust me than always think I agree with them. And so, like, I don't bulls**t people. Like, what you see is what you get. I will tell you what I can and cannot do, what I do and don't think. I will always listen, but I'm not gonna, like, give you that mealy mouthed politician answer because, like, no one wants that s**t. That sounds good. That sounds good. Sarah Jacobs. Wow. Congresswoman. Soon to be president. I mean Tell our 14 listeners where they can find you. It was really, really, wonderful to talk to you. Absolutely. Yeah. For real. Thank you so much. Like, I feel like we learned a lot, and I have a 5,000,000 more questions I could ask you. But tell us Okay. Well Tell everyone where they can find you. Yeah. I'm on every, every social media, literally everyone at rep Sarah Jacobs. There's no agent Sarah. So rep, s a r a, Jacobs. Alright. Well, thank you again. Alright. So that's it for this episode of our dumb gay podcast. Thank you guys for listening to our stupid podcast. We love and appreciate all 14 of you so much. 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