This is a place of history and It had a beauty to it. I had a history of people They had all these things that we were used to and they were a hundred percent destroyed everything When that sort of thing happens You know that you're part of something really special and it's worth fighting for The bushfires are worsening around the ACT. There's an awful lot of smoke around the area Fighters across the ACT are facing an uphill battle. First the worst imaginable bushfire emergency is rapidly Unfolding and changing in the suburbs of Canberra. The ACT is facing It's most severe test in the face of very significant fires the most severe test in the history of the ACT It was Saturday from memory. It was 18 January 2003 was a Saturday and We had been watching the fires and talked them over that you know, this could be bad And as I started driving in, you know, the sky turned black. It was Surreal it was I mean it was black as black can be began to hear some reports on the radio that The fires had come much closer. I was terrifying if I can be honest Had a little couple of emails from some students that were on the mountain and Then suddenly nothing no communication and that's when I became very concerned it was actually two fire fronts that merged right on the mountain and At almost the same time The last people on Stromlo were fleeing down the only road out on the other side The positive thing is that no lives lost. It was close My graduate student was up here in Marlena.  It was almost like a wave of water It wasn't like what you think fire being like in that evening There was a little bit of footage from on the television That made it clear that Mount Stromlo was probably affected, but we still didn't know by how much The 50 inch telescope was the first fully robotic telescope in the world But to keep track of it it would send me messages and while I was there it sent me a message and said temperature out of bounds 73 degrees and At that point I was like 73 degrees There's I knew there was a fire up here at that point So yeah, it was the last thing I'd ever said it's like one something PM Set me that it's it's last message on my phone It's a shell of its former self. This was from a scientific point of view a huge loss This telescope has a steel dome and It acted like a giant oven. So everything inside was completely burn scorched But the dome because it was steel with stood I Got into my own car and convinced the policemen that I was Responsible as director and I needed to see what was happening. And so they let me through the police line and I went up and Everything was black and gray and the trees were frozen into a Arched position because the winds were so horrific That they bent them all over and then the trees turned to charcoal to ash Just in an instant. It's interesting, you know from from a scientist point of view The damage was the worst it could be because it was all of the telescopes All of the laboratories and the library I Haven't obviously thought about it that much for a long time The part of this building I really missed is the library because that you know It was a library that went back over a hundred and twenty years And it was just had everything in it. It's all gone and irreplaceable Stromlow was and still is a very special place the Advanced instrumentation and Technology Center, which was born in some sense out of these ashes is now world-renowned Things fade over time and that's natural and we'll remember That was a big day and it'll always be part of the The lore of Canberra in the beginning people just wanted back exactly what they lost They wanted everything just exactly the same but When you're involved in science, you're always wanting you're always thinking of the future. I think about it In many respects and you know this far down the track, you know in many respects Places nicer than it's ever been. So it is it was an end of an era, but it was an era that would have come Anyways without the fire. It just happened like that It really was a rebirth and it isn't the way you would choose to do it But given that it happened. I actually think that Mount Stromlow is now further ahead In many ways than it otherwise would have been I got a note from a schoolchild in Queensland who said she broke her piggy bank to send us what was inside so that we could help rebuild Now when that sort of thing happens You know that you're part of something really special and it's worth fighting for and I think our staff knew that and I I Have nothing but praise For the strength that they showed the way they supported each other the long hours they put in knowing That it was gonna come good and it did


so you two team keep it clean as you all know um earlier today was announced that andre smith he opted out of the 2020 nfl season um so it was suggested and it was also announced that the ravens were expected to sign parker ehinger ehinger my apologies for messing up your last name but it was announced that the ravens were expected to sign him but they hadn't done anything official yet but the ravens did just announce it that they have signed parker ehinger i messed up everybody's name i messed up my own name too but anyway they it's announced that they signed him sort of to replace andre smith and what parker can do no it's not a sexy name it's not a sexy signing or whatever um but it's a depth guy somebody who's on a team last year somebody who can move around the offensive line last year somebody who just brings in depth and that's what the ravens need that's what a lot of teams are really going to be struggling with this season because of all these players that are going to be opting out now i believe the deadline is actually saturday the deadline to opt out is actually this coming saturday i believe um so you will see a lot more names a lot more people a lot more opt outs um so there's they are players that are sitting waiting and like hey i'm ready so some of those players that you see in free agency that have been there for a while that you're surprised like wow how are they still in free agency now would be the time where i think they would really definitely they would definitely get picked up if they're still looking to play and if they're going to play in this season amidst everything uh going on um but the ravens went ahead they moved swiftly they said hey we lost one okay let's get one to replace it and they did it right away so it's been a very busy day for the ravens very busy day for the ravens and i i know that there's been other ravens news uh like the um the brie lin and the gust edwards news we did videos on both just haven't dropped them yet they're sitting there posted up but we just haven't dropped them yet so i probably dropped those later on but i know there's been like there's been a lot of videos it's been a lot of videos it's been a very busy day it's just been a lot going on in the nfl today on this tuesday um but i i appreciate y'all for watching them i appreciate y'all for supporting them i i appreciate y'all for just everything being positive man because i know some people could be like oh man why so many videos but it's just so much that's going on and i said it in another video if i could i would just do a live stream just do an all day live stream that would be the perfect way just doing all day live stream and we could literally cover everything that's going on as it happens in a live stream but anyway that's that so parker is uh sorted a new swing man he's a swing man he may be over here he may be over there but he's just a backup guy he's a just in case guy so ravens offensive linemen um they they're pretty healthy they got good track records on their health getting ronnie stanley uh bradley boseman or bradley boseman he had he had a couple of hiccups like two years ago but last year he's pretty good um mass scorer but even like we have some depth but we just need more like man we got mass scorer and um undrafted rookie free patrick mccarrie we got mass scorer and patrick mccarrie boseman there's fluker there's powers there's tyree philips there's like we we got some guys but we just needed more we need more veteran presence there at at on the offensive line because you you can never have enough and especially on a season like this man veteran presence is everything it's everything because a rookie this year is looking at the inner field like what is this what did i get myself into this is not what i signed up for and this is actually nothing that anybody signed up for but the players that are sticking around they they're gonna make a way and it feels gonna make a way and they're gonna make this thing happen and that's not a disney players that are opting out because hey again health over wealth health over everything that's the most important so again shout out to any players that are opting out and they like hey they could they could have the opportunity to make a lot more money playing but if they don't feel comfortable hey i'm i'm all for it i support it if you don't feel comfortable playing cool no harm no foul so shout out to them and shout out to y'all so anyway team keep it clean appreciate y'all thank you all and shout out to the newest raven mr parker but it's not peter all right on that note i need to get out of here so i'm out


be dismantling that budget and redirecting it into more sustainable ways for our community to come together and to feel safe. I yield my time. Thank you, John, Veronica. Good evening. I just wanna start with the good reports. And to me, it's like you have to really follow the money here and you figure who paid to have these reports prepared and investigated. So of course the preparer, the investigator is gonna make findings in favor of who hired them to do that report. So people out there, it's no surprise that two of them were pretty favorable or they were softball, I guess, softball-ish because really the city of Santa Rosa is investigating itself. And I would really wanna know how much money they paid to have these reports prepared. I mean, that's just like very broad, ex-Santa Luis office being paid $10,000 to say what he was paid to say to benefit a murderer. People were paid to say what people wanted them to say, but they were self-serving. And then when we talk about money, I was like, really, how can you put a value on someone's face or their testicle?  I mean, that's just priceless. There's no price you can put on that. And if we talk about money, again, like we are paying out millions of dollars for the police department and I expect professionalism, professional football players catch the ball, professional police officers do your job in a professional way and protect and serve your citizens that you're paid to protect and serve. And wait too much to say.  And tear gas, why are we using tear gas? Really? And then projectiles that are shooting people that are not meant to shoot people. This is, I cannot believe that this happened in our city. And I called on that day and I said, why are there helicopters? Why is Sebastopol Police Department in Qatarie and all these local other law enforcement agencies in our town, what's going on? Oh, we're protecting the citizen. Oh, it's almost citizen, but it looks like we're in a war zone. I was offended by it. If people want a peaceful protest, then we need to figure out how to make that happen. I'm not for troublemaker. I don't like people terrorizing or criminalizing, committing crimes. I'm not for that at all. But I am for people allowing people to have a voice. And I wanna know where the charges filed on the person that went to the DA's office, the crime that was referred to the DA was a case filed. And how many other agencies were all there total? Because were those all coordinated and all working in the same direction? I'm very disappointed and I hope we do better. I hope for the police department to do good. And I want the city council members, don't be shy. Speak out, speak out, because that's why we worked hard to put you there. All right, thank you so much, Veronica. Madam city clerk, that's the last live hand I see. Can we go to the prerecorded voicemail public comments? I'm sorry, Mary, I wanted to refresh my screen. We're having a problem with the audio coming through. I'm not sure if the indicator was coming through. So I'm not sure that audio is going to play, but we'll give it a shot. Okay. Hi, my name is Ari and I'm commenting on agenda item number two. Thank you for finally looking into the human rights commission report, which was released almost a year ago. When police have access to weaponry like tear gas and sting ball grenades and they show up to protests ready and willing to deploy them, that communicates that they see the people they are supposedly sworn to protect as enemies to be subdued. There can be no community between police and the people of Santa Rosa if they are so willing and equipped to brutalize anyone they get a bad feeling about. How much taxpayer money went to funding that tear gas? How many other people could that settlement money have helped if those protesters had never been hurt? I also want to talk about the city, police and press response to the cars that repeatedly drove through the crowds of protesters. That was a terrifying thing to have happen even once and the lack of action taken against any of the drivers. Some of whom even got their side of the story publicized who chose to needlessly and recklessly endanger so many people in bold and others and it became an expected occurrence. It shouldn't take a tragedy like the 2017 murder of Heather Haier who was killed by someone hateful driving through a crowd of protesters in Charlottesville to realize this is a very serious and dangerous thing to ignore. The lack of response as these incidents increased made it clear how little the city cared about people they didn't agree with. So that's us. Thanks. Bye. Hello, my name is Sophia and I've been a community member of Cinnamon County my entire life. I'm calling to comment on number two agenda item number two which is the review of city response to community protests in May and June of 2020. The first thing that I would like to say is there has been a lack of accountability on SRPD, the Sheriff's Department and all other law enforcement within the county has taken a year to publicly review these reports although the human rights commission report came out weeks after the incident. Chief Navarro has not included a response to the human rights commission report about police abuse which highlights disturbing police behavior within our county. There has been no public accountability for the police violence that seriously injured members of the community. No charges have also been filed against the driver of the white Porsche who drove into a crowd of people and no statement from SRPD on their misleading Nixle regarding that incident. I would like as a community member that SRPD needs to answer to multiple things including the use of barricade rounds against the crowd that included children, the use of tear gas and less legal projectiles against that same crowd, cuddling peaceful protesters for simply breaking curfew and arresting over 150 of them even as they were trying to leave the protest. The utter lack of concern for human wellbeing and lack of de-escalation practices which led to a 2.1 million human rights litigation for substantial human rights violations and abuse. And that is just the most recent payout. Special harassment of protesters by officers and purposeful targeting of bodies and heads with less lethal projectiles or also disturbing things that they need to answer for. There are other systemic issues at hand including the mistreatment of protesters in jail, masks were taken away, no proper PPE was given despite a global pandemic, requests for water were being refused, selective use and enforcement of curfew, curfew should never be set to prevent free speech. Protesters were arrested for curfew violation which did not happen for people violating COVID curfew and police violence has cost the city much more in lawsuits. Take the 2.1 million then protesters cost and property damage which is about 20,000. People are always more valuable than property. There are many changes that must be happened including officers who injured protesters must be identified publicly and held accountable. SRPD must have ongoing community oversight in the independent auditor position which has been vacant for over two years must be filled immediately. Santa Rosa PV must implement policies barring the use of tear gas and less lethal weapons against the community that includes children. We want to demilitarize as our. Hi, my name is Allegra Wilson and I'm a Santa Rosa resident. I'm calling to express my outrage. Mayor, I'm going to pause that comment because Ms. Wilson spoke during my public comment. Okay, we'll keep moving. Hi, my name is Cecilia. I'm a resident of Santa Rosa. I'm calling in response to the police's response to protesters in the summer of 2020. There has been such a significant lack of accountability. There was the human rights commission report that came out weeks after some of these incidents were happening and there was never a response given to us by Chief Navarro. There was a horrific incident that happened while I was there with a white Porsche running into a group of protesters. These were my friends and people who had known for much of my life and to hear what was happening and know that there was no justice and no repercussions and no accountability whatsoever for a person who literally could have turned the car around and chose instead to accelerate straight into a group of human beings. If our police force is not going to respond to that, which is a definite threat against the community and the people here during a very peaceful walk down the street, then what are you doing? We need SRP to answer for the violence that they used against the crowds, including children, tear gas and other projectiles, the general lack of concern for human well-being and no de-escalation practices. I know that y'all have paid out a lot for the lack of care that you've given to the people. Sexual harassment of the protesters and the treatment of protesters in jail during a COVID outbreak in the Santa Rosa Jails, we need change, we need change and we need it now. The officers who injured and harm protesters must be identified publicly and held accountable. There needs to be ongoing community oversight in every police department, but certainly not least the Santa Rosa Police Department. And we need to demilitarize the SRPD. So none of this happens ever again. Please consider protecting the people instead of using and abusing your power to continue to harm them. Thank you for your time. Hi, my name is Kim and I'm a resident of Santa Rosa. This comment is for the Council Special Meeting Police After Action Report. I know that the police have been under scrutiny lately, but I wanted to call and show my full support of the Santa Rosa Police Department. We have very loyal and brave men and women who faithfully serve our city and our community. Yes, they are human and they make mistakes sometimes, but our department as a whole seeks to do what is right and what is best. We need them to feel supported so that they will continue to keep the peace and help us. They actually need increased staffing to meet the high demands that we have in our city, demands from the big protests, yearly fire evacuations and other emergencies that rise up. They need our support so that more young men and women want to serve in this area. Thank you, bye. Hello, my name is Alan Worstel and I am a resident to the city of Santa Rosa. Mr. Worstel's live mayor, I'm going to move on to the next presentation or next question of the public. Okay. Hello, my name is Josh and I'm a resident of Santa Rosa and I would like to leave a comment about the Council Special Meeting Police After Action Report. And as a citizen in the community, I just wanted to say that I love and care for our community very much, respect our city council very much. I care for our community, I care for our police officers very much. And I know that in this unique time and difficult season, while it has been hard, I think this is again a great opportunity for us to come together as a community and care for one another and encourage each other. And I think our police need to be a big part of that as they continue to grow and help serve and help protect our community, especially considering all the things that they protect from whether it's helping out with the fire evacuations and all sorts of things that they do. I just want to encourage the council and I think really helping our police and giving them the resources they need to care for our community well would be a great benefit to our community. I appreciate your time. Thank you so much. Hi, my name is Angela and I'm calling in regard to agenda item D for the city council special meeting on the police protest response. During the protests in Santa Rosa last summer, I watched online as police officers mustered up great composure as they were subjected to abuse such as withstanding fireworks, rocks and bottles being pelted at them. I went to dinner downtown with my kids and we read graffiti together on a street light that said kill the cops. It is unacceptable that local law enforcement for whom most Santa Rosa residents have a great deal of respect was expected to withstand this persecution from the same public they protect and serve during fires and on a daily basis. When members of the public need protection, we want to have police officers who want to work in our city and respond to our calls for help. Since the city council has taken funding and therefore some of the ability to protect and serve away from our Santa Rosa police officers, there has been a recent uptick in crime and traffic violations. I want myself and my family to feel safe living in the community of Santa Rosa. I do not feel safe walking in my own neighborhood due to the lack of police officers to do traffic enforcement in Santa Rosa. I am asking the city council to refund the police and budget for more police officers in the city of Santa Rosa. I am also asking for these police officers to receive a much deserved raise to help keep them in our city and therefore show them that we respect and value them. These police officers have a tough job to do. They are not perfect and neither are any of us. We need them to keep law in order in our city and to be there for us. Let's support our Santa Rosa police officers and trust them to do the excellent job we know they are capable of doing. Thank you for your time. Hello, my name is Olivia and I'm speaking on behalf of the Santa Rosa police department and lack of accountability during last year's protests. There has been no public accountability for the police violence that has seriously injured community members, not only injuring community members but putting money at risk by not supplying PPE during unnecessary jail time. And I feel like I don't really, I'm not really going to trust a police department that treats its community like this. We won't stand for it and we won't continue to allow it. So this is a point where the Santa Rosa must implement policies taking away the use of tear gas and lastly pull up against the community. I'm going to say it again against children and teens. If you're not protecting everyone then you are not welcome in Santa Rosa as a police department. This is my opinion and I feel like everybody in elected position in Santa Rosa should agree with me. Demilitarize the Santa Rosa police department immediately so this never happens to any residents ever again. And also all officers who have injured protesters should be identified and I'd like to see Chief Navarro in particularly come out from hiding and address in his human rights commission report. Just anything if he was mean at all to the community or are we just selecting who we are protecting? Again, I'm demanding accountability and that's it. Thank you. That concludes based message a couple of comments received before the 5 p.m. cutoff yesterday. All right, thank you so much. I'll go ahead and bring it back. And I had a couple of notes here if the Chief is there, I've got a couple for you. Sue, I think I have a couple for you as well just based on some of the public comments that we heard. Chief, I'll start with you because this is one that we hear pretty frequently and I know the answer to it but I think the public has an interest in hearing the answer. Do we have a lack of funding to process rape kits at SRPD? No, we do not have a lack of funding. It does get more expensive every year but we do not have a backlog. Okay, and if you follow up question if you ever did need additional funding for something as important as that you would come to the council to ask for it? Yes. Okay, thank you. We also heard considerable public comment about the white Porsche incident. What I heard from you in the presentation earlier and I just wanted to confirm is that SRPD investigated put together information and sent it over to the district attorney's office and that the district attorney's office did not file charges in that case. That is correct. Okay, and then there was also an additional question about the use of sting ball grenades during the protest. Did SRPD use any sting ball grenades or to your knowledge did any of our mutual aid partners utilize that munition? Not to my knowledge. We definitely did not and I said to my knowledge, I'm not aware of mutual aid officers deploying that either. Okay, and perhaps that's something we can follow up on tomorrow as well. Sue, and there were quite a few comments particularly about discipline. So I know in the reports it was vague. We did talk about some officers were disciplined. What information can we give the public on those deliberations? I know that obviously it's a complex web between state laws and personnel laws. Is there a point where some of that information becomes public for discussion? Yes, in general, the personnel, the disciplinary investigation, disciplinary process is all confidential under state law. We are constrained by state law on that. There is a provision in state law adopted a couple of years ago for release of information if an officer in four situations, a discharge of firearms at a person, a use of force that causes death or great bodily injury, a sustained finding of sexual assault or a sustained finding of dishonesty on the part of an officer. In those cases, there will be information that can be released. The disciplinary processes are not yet to that point of having any final decision for any instances that may, may or may not, but may fall into one of those four categories, those processes have not run their course to get to that point. So if any of those four are sustained, that information then will be released, but not until that time. Again, under state law. I appreciate that answer. Thank you, Sue. It's good for us to know what the expectations are. And it's something that I know that the public will be interested in following up on as it does run its course. Come back to the rest of the council and see if there are any additional questions based on the public comment that you heard. Okay, I'm not seeing any. I also mentioned at the outset of our meeting that we would be recessing and resuming our meeting tomorrow at 10 a.m. for the next presentations, more public comment, and then council members discussion. I will open it up really fast. I know not all council members are prepared to comment yet, want to process what we've heard today, but is there any comments that council members would like to make before we recess today's meeting and come back tomorrow? Council member Tibbets. Thank you, Chris. Yeah, I wanted to, well, first of all, let me start by saying that, yes, I will be taking this information that we got today. And as we go on to tomorrow, definitely processing that. And I do think that this council is going to arrive at some meaningful policy changes that are going to prevent a lot of the things from happening that happened a year ago, from happening again. I do want to make some comments, though, in regards to my previous comments about divisiveness in response to some of the public commenters tonight. I want to just be clear, I in no way shape or form meant to lay the divisiveness that I feel in this country and sometimes in this community at your feet. I was actually more trying to lay in a defeat of our institution at City Hall, if you will, based on my frustration with the fact that we bring forward information tonight in the form of bullet points and reports from different entities. And it wasn't lost on me either that all of the people who did an independent audit of us were white males as well. And these bullet points state things like that you are naturally going to question, given your experience that night in the protests. And what I wanted to see from us was more concrete evidence to show the perspectives of our police officers as well as the perspectives of the protesters to help influence this council more in policy decisions tomorrow. So I just wanted to be very abundantly clear about that. I appreciate this dialogue. It is going to influence me going into tomorrow. And the other thing I wanted to say is just really round out my comments with what I touched on earlier. And that was just my general sense of how much of a travesty it was that this protest was cut short. Some people will point the finger at City Hall and the police department for cutting it short and silencing the voices of people who have been subjected to generations of systemic racism in this country. And then others may point the finger at the people who were among the protesters but not necessarily protesting themselves who were clearly, from my perspective, based on the video footage, I had the privilege of seeing in closed session were doing clear acts that were endangering people's lives and also property. And so when I talk about wanting to look into things like these mobile field units, that's coming from a place where I don't wanna see protests in this community get silenced again. And so I just want you all to know that. And that's it for my comments, Mayor, thank you. All right, thank you, Council Member. Are there any other comments from Council Members? Okay, seeing none, we'll stand at recess and we'll be back tomorrow at 10 a.m. to continue our meeting. Thank you, everybody.


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In an interview with Fox News Senator Tom Cotton decided to talk about the further people act and Barney Sanders and He lied through his teeth I mean, he was blatant and shameless and it's so bad that you'd think he'd be a little bit afraid of how disingenuous He would come across Nonetheless, he didn't care and the claims he made were so outrageous that I feel like even a Fox News viewer should be able to identify them as Untruthful, but I mean regardless we'll watch what he had to say and then when we come back There's a lot that I want to say in regards to the segment and the Congress must address that in any and every way I mean, that's the that's the the really idiotic argument that he's making H01 nationalizes elections, but Joe Manchin is offering a memo of a halfway point make election day a holiday requires Require all states to give absentee ballots and partisanship gerrymandering require voter ID You saw the memo you saw the HR one. Where do you stand? Yeah Yeah, the Republicans don't have a plan to nationalize our elections Brian because we don't think we should nationalize their elections We trust our states and their counties and cities to run our elections And they've done a pretty good job of it for over 200 years, but that Bernie Sanders line I mean, I just got to say it's rich for a guy who honeymoon in the Soviet Union to be criticizing Republican governors and legislatures for undermining democracy I mean, he said he said an op-ed over the weekend that Republicans like me are trying to start a new Cold War With China, I guess he's still smarting from his loss in the first Cold War with Russia But this bill just to give you one example of how bad it is Would actually take your tax dollars and send them to Bernie Sanders and any other politician running for office To run their campaign. So think about that. Our Kansans would be subsidizing Bernie Sanders campaigns Yeah, I don't think many Americans want to see their tax dollars to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars Going to support political politicians who they oppose attacking politicians They support you also mentioned gerrymandering the process of rigging electoral districts This bill would allow Democratic operatives in all 50 states to draw district lines just like they have in places like Maryland and Illinois And it's all it's all built guys It's all built on a fabrication that Republican governors and legislators are somehow Suppressing the vote when in reality states like Georgia are actually passing laws that expand voting access compared to Democratic states like New York and Delaware All these states are doing is making it easy to vote but hard to cheat So I don't even know where to begin. There's a lot to unpack there, but I'll start with their use of the word nationalize When I think about the word nationalize You know it conjures up images of a government Taking control of a privately owned and operated business or entity of some sort But the way that they use the nationalize was was very unique will say they were saying well You know this for the people act is an attempt to nationalize elections now by The traditional definition of nationalize. I think that having the government own elections Is a good thing. Do you really want to outsource elections to private corporations? But it's because they were deliberately using nationalize in a really weird way And what they were saying was basically this is going to nationalize Elections to the extent that it lays out standards at the national level that applied all 50 states That's a little bit weird Just say these national standards are gonna apply to all 50 states and states are better at running elections than the federal government They could say something like that, but they did it and There's a really specific reason for that They deliberately used the word nationalize because they want to prime individuals who are watching Fox News to think about Socialism so if they use the word nationalize Then people will think oh for the people act This is nationalization and nationalization is oftentimes linked to socialism and socialism bad So therefore for the people act must be bad as well That's exactly what they're trying to do. It is incredibly disingenuous, but this tactic is effective Now when it comes to federal standards for elections, this is not anything that's new, right? States have control over elections and usually these are run at the local level, but there are federal standards that exist States and local governments can't just do whatever they want. So federal standards already exist. It's just that there will be more federal standards To make democracy stronger, but they don't like that and they can't really say What the for the people act is an actuality because if they just explained What it was to Fox News viewers in a good faith and accurate way then they'd probably support it So what do they do? They lie and they fear longer But the claims about the for the people acts perhaps weren't as outrageous as the claims that Tom Cotton made about Bernie Sanders Which to me we're just downright bizarre and stupid. So Tom Cotton said that Bernie Sanders line. I just got to say It's rich for a guy who honeymooned in the Soviet Union to be criticizing Republican governors and legislatures for undermining democracy wait so because Bernie Sanders Honeymooned in the Soviet Union automatically that assumes that he endorsed every single element of the Soviet government and the Soviet regime and especially He supported the authoritarianism. So since Bernie Sanders honeymooned in Soviet Union he is forever tainted. Is that really the logic that you want to use? So, I mean Tom Cotton. I'm sure he's been to Israel Here's a photograph of him shaking hands with the former prime minister of Israel So it's also true that even though Israel is an apartheid regime And I'm sure that he definitely endorses that being the fascist that he is but this regime also offers Guaranteed basic health care to every single citizen. They have a universal health care system. So since Tom Cotton Has been seen with the former prime minister of Israel He is automatically endorsing every single element of Israel's regime Including universal health care and since universal health care is linked to socialism According to Republicans then that must mean that Tom Cotton is also a socialist and since socialism is associated with the Soviet Union That also means that Tom Cotton must also embrace the authoritarianism that Bernie Sanders embraces I mean I'm being intentionally hyperbolic here, but this is the logic that he's using, right? It's like saying hey I saw you eating, you know a chocolate ice cream cone and since chocolate is the same color as shit You must like to eat feces like this is the level of logic that we're operating with here And he knows that it's disingenuous But I don't think that the average Fox News viewer who sees him say that is gonna put much thought into it He adds Bernie Sanders said in an op-ed over the weekend that Republicans like me are trying to start a new Cold War with China I guess he's still snorting I think that was the word that he used from his first loss in the Cold War with China So not only is he suggesting here that Bernie Sanders Embraces the authoritarianism of the Soviet regime, but Bernie Sanders also is a traitor That's correct during the Soviet years when Bernie Sanders was a public servant He was a mayor of Burlington, Vermont. He actually was more Of a supporter of the Soviet Union than the United States of America. He was a traitor That's the actual allegation that Tom Cotton is making here.  You're saber-rattling against China in some instances So I mean Bernie Sanders isn't wrong to point that out now Let's look at what he says about HR one what HR one would do and I'm gonna read the full quote because I think it's worthwhile It would take your tax dollars and send them to Bernie Sanders and any other politician running for office to run Their campaigns so think about it. Arkansas would be subsidizing Bernie Sanders campaign I don't think many Americans want to see their tax dollars to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars going to support politicians Who they oppose attacking politicians they support This is basically a really long and roundabout way of saying I support our current system of legalized bribes Because what he's trying to do is demonize public financing of elections Now I think that if he actually presented this to Fox News's audience in a straightforward and factual way They wouldn't agree with him. So what does he do? He tries to sell it in this really bad way We'll actually think about this Do you want your tax dollars to go to Bernie Sanders? When all you have to do is think about this longer than a few seconds and you realize how this is Objectively good if you care about democracy Taxes aren't just going to subsidize the campaigns of people who Republicans don't like It's also going to subsidize the campaigns of folks like Marjorie Green and even fascists like Tom Kahn You see the way that elections work in America where you've basically commodified our democracy is You have a higher chance of getting elected if you have more money So politicians have this incentive to go to billionaires, right? Go to these giant Funders who could give them millions of dollars donate all that at once to their super PAC And then they have a greater likelihood of of winning their election But what the for the people act would do is offer matching funds So that way if you are an average citizen and you donate $25 to a politician Well, that's gonna be matched. So it would be a $50 donation So this further incentivizes politicians to actually get grassroots funding for their campaigns And if you do this corrupt fools like Tom Cotton wouldn't have to beg the Koch brothers for money I mean, there's a reason why a 2014 Princeton University study found that policy outcomes don't reflect the will of normal Americans They reflect at the will of business elites and special interests and that's because of the fundraising model It's legalized bribery effectively and what the for the people act does is even the playing field make normal Americans more Competitive with the oligarchs in America now. It's not perfect because this matching funds Claws in the for the people act does exclude third-party Candidates, but passing the for the people act wouldn't make third-party candidates any less likely to get elected than they are now We need electoral reform, but that's a different story for a different day long story short What it would do is it would incentivize grassroots donations by offering publicly matching funds Tom Cotton knows that if he just said this is what it would do Republicans would probably even support that because most Americans know that money is an issue in American politics But again, he doesn't want them to support it So he's trying to poison the well and then he tells them what it is. It's just it's such if I were a Republican and I Found out the way that they lied to me. I would be so furious, right? Just present them with the details present Fox News's audience with the details as they are objectively So give them the facts and let them make the decision But Tom Cotton knows that if he actually told folks what the for the people act was they'd likely support it So this is why he has to lie.   He also says here That gerrymandering is the process of rigging electoral politics This bill would allow Democratic Operatives in all 50 states to draw district lines just like they have in places like Maryland now this right here is a Blame lie. He's just straight-up lying So gerrymandering is a thing that happens Mostly Republicans engage in it Democrats also do but Republicans are far more egregious I mean just Google what Dan Crenshaw's district looks like and that is the perfect example of gerrymandering But it would outsource the redrawing of district lines to Independent commissions so they redraw district lines in a non-partisan way This actually would even the playing field but what he's saying is actually this is gonna give Democrats more power No, that's a lie But Tom Cotton doesn't want independent commissions to redraw district lines because he wants Republicans to actually be able to do What he said? Rig the process right redraw district lines to turn Republican seats into safe seats across the country and give them a Better chance of getting elected in the house.   He supports authoritarianism and wanting to have independent commissions redraw district lines That is tantamount to Democrats wanting to rig elections It's just he's a liar and he should be ashamed of himself But he has no shame because this individual is deeply authoritarian himself So he doesn't care about how uninformed he's making people he just cares about the outcome right the ends justify the means