When you look at is can you compete? Can you do it better
than the other competitor? And with that, can you create
a PNL statement that works? And the tax rate? That's after the PNL. It's never ever once been a consideration. So this Republican jigaboo that,
you know, it's a tax rate that's stopping business investment. It's just completely faulty
by people who've never run a business. They've never been there. They have not a clue
what they're talking about. Sir. Did you know what you just said
? You just kept going.
Like you didn't say it. Put up the picture. Full mass. All right. Democratic Maryland Representative David
Trone used a derogatory and offensive terms for a black person
during a Thursday House budget meeting. This was a hearing last week while trying
to, according to, you know, the other narrative, he was trying to say bugaboo. Bugaboo best.
That's the word he was looking for. Bugaboo. Which, by the way, in the context
doesn't fit what he was saying at all. Okay. The repr
esentative
is considered the front runner. In the Democratic primary for the Senate. I know some people say, doc,
why you talking about a Democrat? I don't give a damn
if they're Democrat or Republican. I'm an equal opportunity. Put my foot up the ass individual.
This was racist. What he said, and it tells me
that he talks like this in his, you know, normative private conversations. And it slipped out. So the representative apologized in
a Friday statement to the Washington Post. Let me read the
apology, he says. All right while attempting
to use the word bugaboo. In a hearing. I misspoke and mistakenly used
a phrase that is offensive. What bugaboo is offensive too? But it's offensive for different reasons,
he said upon learning the meaning of the word. I was deeply disappointed. To have accidentally used it.
And I apologize. Okay. Then he said the word again
is a derogatory and offensive terms for a black person. So, the Oxford English Dictionary
says the word is of unknown origin. It
was first documented
to be used in a song from 1909. Merriam-Webster defines bugaboo
as an imaginary object of fear. Shalanda young, the director
of the Office of Management and Budget, to whom the representative was speaking
was speaking on Thursday is black. She declined to comment to the post.
She wanted no part of it. Now, five black House Democrats
are endorsing, Democrat Alyssa Brooks in her Maryland Senate bid,
days after the representative apologized for using the racial slur, per Axios
. Allison Brooks said of the endorsements,
quote, the enthusiasm. And support behind our grassroots campaign
is growing as we continue our fight for Marylanders across the state. End quote. The reps were Barbara Lee,
Democrat, California Gregory Meeks, Democrat, New York.
You have Joyce Beatty, Democrat, Ohio. Yvette Clark, New York Democrat.
Jasmine Crockett. Democrat out of Texas. They also endorsed. Alsobrooks Tyrone and Miss Alsobrooks are seeking to face Republican Governor Larry
Hogan, a p
opular former Maryland governor, for the Senate seat in November. Hogan leads, both in a hypothetical
general election matchup, according to a Washington Post
University of Maryland poll. Let's put up the representative
that made the comment again, because his explanation is quite ironic. So he says the terminology. That's clearly a word that if you've
never heard the word or said the word, you don't just make that word up. It's kind of like news anchors
on Doctor Martin Luther King Day when the
y're saying, Doctor Martin Luther King. You can find it on YouTube right now
instead of saying King. They have said the word coon on air.
They call it a Freudian slip. Now, what that means is that's how you
talk about him when you're not on TV. And it slipped out in that same way. Well, I think this is exactly
what happened with the representative. And the reason why it's a policy issue
is because people who create policy are led by their biases and agenda. If you believe black folk are less
tha
n human, if you believe they are worthy of your derogatory comments publicly or
privately, your policy will expose that. And this is the reason it becomes
important for public officials to be 100. All right, Rick, thoughts here? Yeah. It's bad. I think he apologized
because he got caught, but it really put a lot of people in a bad. Predicament because what's on the line is,
the Democrats losing the Senate. You already got a tough Senate race
up in Ohio with, I think Sherrod Brown. And then now t
his incident or whatever in
Democrats is running all over the country need, need the black vote, in order to,
you know, to to, be in office. And, you're absolutely right about,
people say how they how they really feel. And then it comes out when they're
doing public speaking things that they say behind the scenes or whatever. And, and there's some Democrats out here
that's racist also. You know, they might they might vote
Democrat, but some of them just got that, racism in them. And, it's really
bad. And it really put the party, the
Democratic Party, in a very tough position because we need all of those Senate seats,
because if we don't win the Senate, if Biden wins, gets reelected or Trump
get elected, we still need the Democrats, to be in the majority in the Senate. And, that's bad. That's really bad. Yeah, I agree, it is a political quagmire.
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