The #MOSen Race Is Drunk (get it); Ben Shapiro Wants To Groom Kids; Term Limits Pop Up In Kansas; Mitt Romney Wants To Take Your Retirement Away... Again

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HOSTS: Adam Sommer, Rachel Parker, & Sean Diller

Adam's Open: The Circus, The Church, & The Pothole

Talkin' Politics:

True Or False: The Entry of Trudy Busch-Valentine actually provides a useful contrast that boost’s Kunce’s populist messaging?

https://theintercept.com/2022/03/30/missouri-senate-trudy-anheuser-busch-ball/

Fox article: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/missouri-senate-democrat-busch-beer-heiress-enters-race-trudy-busch-valentine

Kunce’s burglary and shift in his language - now he can attack the elite class directly

Does this new addition open a lane for Toder, Dr. Gena Ross, or Jewell Kelley? Sifton and Shepard are out - already endorsed

Our twitter poll - Kunce from 1st on Monday to 3rd by the end of this week https://twitter.com/TheHeartlandPOD/status/1509983025928540164?s=20&t=dkEJ2K3_I4NgWEw2vR6Auw

Yeah…No… : Ben Shapiro… that’s it, that’s the Yeah…NO.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/31/daily-wire-kids/
Counter programing! Who needs Disney when you’ve got the Daily Wire!
Let’s spit ball some funny movies/shows/characters they will develop

Daily KOS: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/30/2089175/-Why-Pizzagate-Disney-and-Why-We-Should-Care

White Plight - the story of a young boy who’s embracing difference and tolerance but spends the weekend with his uncle who teaches the young boy that his white and therefore his way of life is under attack

Buy or Sell : Kansas Senate candidates signing term limit pledge is something important

Mark Holland, a Democrat and former mayor of Unified Government of Wyandotte County, and Joan Farr, a Republican who ran previously for Kansas governor and an Oklahoma seat in the U.S. Senate, agreed to support a limitation of three terms in the U.S. House and two terms in the U.S. Senate.

https://kansasreflector.com/briefs/two-u-s-senate-candidates-from-kansas-sign-term-limit-pledge/

Average service report from 2021 https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R41545.pdf

Over time, trends have been to stay longer than 200 years ago

The Big One : Mitt Romney proposes changing social security retirement benefits - Gerontocracy strikes again

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/31/mitt-romney-cut-back-retirement-benefits-younger-americans

https://www.usa.gov/about-social-security

For anyone born 1960 or later, full retirement benefits are payable at age 67.

This is not a new thing from Romney; https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/20/social-security-reform-could-move-ahead-after-trust-act-is-introduced.html

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