Jorge Santos this week narrowly escaped being expelled from Congress. And he should just sit happy with that, right? Right. No, he's feeling petty because it's Santos and he's going to feel petty [00:00:15] because when Representative Steve Womack tweeted this out, he tweeted last night, the House saw its shadow. Unfortunately, this means there will be two more weeks of Santos. Very cute, very clever. They're waiting to see what happens with Santos. 23 charges [00:00:31] related to fraud, money laundering. There's an ethics investigation into Jorge Santos. So they're going to sort of let everything play out. A couple Democrats agreed with that as well, saying this would set a bad precedent. But Santos was like, oh, and he said, hold my beer. [00:00:46] And he tweeted, your son is a felon. He has been in and out of the prison system for years. He's a drug dealer, poisoning people on the streets with meth and unlawful possession of a gun instead of being home taking care of your son, you're sitting pretty in the swamp. And then he said, listen, I've been respectful of my colleagues through this [00:01:04] process, but I am sick and tired of people with glass houses casting stones at me. And then he attached an article about a federal drug case against James Womack's son. So that was real, who pled guilty to distributing five grams of meth [00:01:20] and faces up to 40 years in prison. And the article had this very heartfelt comment from Steve Womack from the representative. And he said, there's nothing more helpless than feeling that your adult children struggle with addiction and its horrific consequences. [00:01:36] This is our cross to bear. We will never give up on a solution. We love him unconditionally and believe in our hearts. He will redeem himself. We regret he is at the mercy of this justice system and we will respect the judgment. I'm sure he'll be fine, but hey, what do I know? He's only the son of a congressman. But anyway, Jorge Santos, you know what? [00:01:57] He took a breather. He did a little hot yoga, and he came back to it and he tweeted, okay. I have the maturity and humility to acknowledge and accept when I'm wrong. Today I had a misguided moment of rage and lashed out against a colleague's family and family member after he was critical of me. [00:02:12] I've always held that our families are off limits and I crossed that line. This apology is the correct thing to do. And with that, said Steve Womack, I am deeply and truly sorry for my actions. I am praying for your family in this difficult time. So that's just a big old reversal. [00:02:31] And this is fun to me, guys, because at the same time that we're being very, very cautious to go after people's families, we are trying to make sure that Hunter Biden, truly you can never utter his name anywhere and you can. [00:02:47] No one can name their kid Hunter ever. And no one can go hunting because it feels like Hunter Biden. We're going to drag Hunter Biden's history of addiction out and drag that out for the public to see. But maybe Joe Santos is learning, guys. He needs all the support he can get. [00:03:04] What do you think of, first of all, what do you think of the fact that he narrowly escaped being expelled from Congress? Frustrating, by the way, I was going to wear a hunter green hat today, but I tossed it because it's against the rules now. So this is the approach now. This is this is the thought process, if nothing else, Jorge Santos, [00:03:22] we know he's been getting swarmed by reporters every time. Even Republican colleagues have finally started coming out against him. You know, his best friend McCarthy, who found a way to still support him by not supporting him and supporting him. He's gone at least out from that particular leadership position. And all this is surrounding him. So he's frustrated. [00:03:38] And when you're frustrated and you're stressed and man, you damn near just made it out alive. Your thought is to attack the person who made a joke about you by going after his son. His son was, I assume, drug addict, but they said drug dealer and all this stuff too. If nothing else, this illustrates what we think is a good burn moment. [00:03:56] Yo, you insulted me. I'm mad that you came after me during my time of stress over my position here. So you go after the guy's son for his issues, society wise, drug wise. That's to say that the way we approach our drug addicted or mentally ill folks, [00:04:14] folks that are out on the streets, homelessness, the reason we can't get to the end and bottom of this is because we don't care enough about them as humans to see them as anything else, except for some kind of a stain on someone else on that person's family. Why don't we see them as someone that needs help instead? That is an insult. This person is an insult, and I'm gonna use him as an insult. [00:04:31] And instead of me seeing this as something we can maybe solve because we don't see ourselves as a society, that that feeds off of each other, that doesn't affect each other. Instead, it's yo, that's your kid. Well, that your kid deals people drugs, potentially breaks in people's houses, other things that we complain about. And we'll never solve those issues because instead we need them, as I guess, [00:04:50] punchlines for when you're mad at someone. This is why we can't get anywhere. Yeah, you took a much more compassionate route than I did to this story. Like this story. When I first read it, it just made me laugh so hard. He's like, oh yeah, well, your son's a felon, you know? And like, like, the voice in my head was not complimentary to Jorge Santos. [00:05:07] It was a pretty hilarious response. And like, not to mention it was like incredibly insensitive, especially coming from a member of Congress. It's like, well, fix it. Like make it better, you know, why is this guy going through these? Why is he having these issues? Why are you treating him like a second class citizen and you're in Congress? [00:05:27] You're supposed to serve these people, all of the American people. But then also his apology. I don't know why he apologized, but I guess good that he did. We should always encourage apologies, but I think he overcorrected a little bit when he was like, I'm praying for for Womack and his family. [00:05:42] - It's like, no, you're not. - He's lying. Like you could have just reversed and we would have said, good. I think Womack did later respond and say, yeah, well, he did apologize. And he said, what? He said. He apologized, but it's still very hurtful, which is very understandable. [00:05:57] And I think it is sad. And, you know, maybe we could also go back to the Hunter Biden thing that with all these, these families and things like that, you really have to keep it separate and understand that you have, you know, these people are serving the public and their families or their families.