Hour 3 - The strange irrationality of politics justifies withholding congressional pay during shutdowns, a sentiment echoed by Fort Mill’s "No Kings" rallies targeting an unreasonable Democrat philosophy.

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00:00 Politics is a weird thing. 00:04 because I have found by and large, not in every scenario, but by and large, politicians are strange people. They really are. So somebody raised a question over on the Common Sense Retirement Planning text line. It says, Charlie, the only way Lindsey Graham can get re-elected in South Carolina is if he would take out John Thune. 00:32 So let me ask you that question. 00:36 If Lindsey Graham came out um this afternoon, I mean, he gets back from Disney World, wherever he is, and he goes on television and he says, listen, we have got to do what this president 00:55 wants to do. We've got to get this president's agenda passed because John Thune is standing in the way of President Trump's agenda. I'm going to vote or I'm going to recommend that we do away with John Thune. We vacate the chair and we get a new Senate Majority Leader. I recommend Mike Lee. He's just, he's been the most vocal. 01:27 Would that be something that Lindsey could do to maybe go, all right, well, he did that. He did that. I will see. But Lindsey's got these things out there talking about doing away with sanctuary cities. That's not gonna happen, Lindsey. It's not gonna happen. Number one, it's not gonna happen. With John Thune as the Senate Majority Leader, because you're still gonna have those 60 votes, and you know the Democrats are gonna vote to do away with sanctuary cities. 01:58 So... 02:02 Why aren't you putting up that legislation now? Are you expecting to win big coming up in November in the Senate? Because I don't think that's going to happen either. I hope it does. Hope I'm completely wrong about that, but I don't think it's going to happen. 02:21 But if we do win the Senate and maybe increase a little bit, you've still got the House to deal with and they're in trouble. We could lose seats in the House and the Democrats could take over. That means we're going to have impeachments. That means we're going to have all these investigations, all these hearings. You know how that's going to go. 02:43 So the best thing, and again, the Senate right now has nothing to run on. They've only sent 34 bills to the president's desk. Lindsey Graham's out there campaigning on a bill that he hasn't even sent to the president yet. 03:01 The only campaign or talking points that he has is they passed the one big beautiful bill. That's it. 03:12 They've been working their tails off getting this legislation to you and nothing is passing. So if Lindsey Graham came out and said, know what? 03:21 Charlie, Lindsey Graham kicks out John Thune, he will nominate Tim Scott. You might be right. You might be right. 03:30 would Tim Scott would be any better than I don't know. Let's go to Byron in Boiling Springs. Byron, welcome. Thank you for taking my call, Yes, sir. I have a suggestion for you on your idea of replacing John Thune. Okay. It's a little bit radical, but I think it would shake up that Senate people. I would put in J.D. Vance as the leader of the Republicans. 03:59 As a Senate Majority Leader. Yeah. Yeah. a Majority Leader. He is the President of the Senate. They can't say he's not eligible. And obviously he's going to support Trump and he's probably going to kick some butt up there for those old guys that won't do what they got to do. That, mean, if you continue to put in these same people, they're not going to change. 04:30 You might be right. You might be. I think it's a good idea. um So I appreciate it. Now, I've heard two different things. I've heard two different things. I've heard that you do not need to be 04:49 a member of the Senate to be the Senate Majority Leader. 04:55 And then I've heard that you do. Now I know with Speaker of the House, Speaker of the House does not have to be an elected member of the House of Representatives. Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution states that the House must choose a speaker. doesn't require them to be a representative. Although, all throu ...

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