The 7 Things You Should Be Talking About Today - 7-28-26

Now time for the seven things you'll be talking about today. Number seven. All right, Alabama football fans are mad. Are they right to be mad? I don't know. I think they might actually be right to be mad. They are speaking out against a proposed student government resolution or something for them to wear certain clothes to the game. I don't like this. I don't like this. The only time I've seen where this actually makes sense is at Tennessee, where they made the little checkerboard thing. I thought that was cool. But man, just leave me alone. Let me go to the game and enjoy myself. And black and white? What is this? We're black. No, we're red, guys. What are you doing? It's the University of Alabama, maybe white, but mostly crimson, right? That's what you're supposed to do it. A lot of people are calling it a gimmick. They have deleted it. And so this will be one of those instances where I'll look at a story like this and begrudgently roll tide. Number six. United States Senator Katie Britt backing the Protecting American Taxpayers Act, an anti-fraud bill that would claw back more than 65 billion in unused COVID-era funds and strengthen protections against future wasteful federal spending. Listen, if you really want to go after something I care about, can I make this suggestion? Let's start putting people in jail. Okay? That's what we need to do. We need to start putting people in jail that manipulated the COVID system. And I'm not talking about people. This person, you hear this a lot. This person received this much in COVID. Yeah, I know. The federal government said, don't fire your employees. You pay them and we'll cover that during the pandemic where we shut the country down. That's what that's about. So if you want to get mad about that, you're dumb. But people who are engaged in fraud during this? Yeah, those are the worst people in the world. Put those people in jail. Might I suggest one of those people who benefited financially? Dr. Anthony Fauci. Number five. And this is actually really great. I talked to Speaker Ledbetter on my TV show this weekend about an Alabama Career Pathways program. It's a $250 million workforce investment. And, you know, some of the highlights of this are that not all kids are going to college. So let's give them as many opportunities to go into a field where they can actually make some real money. And it's always mentioned, and I say this today as I sit here sweating, air condition repair. Yeah, that's one of the things that they talk about. And yeah, you want to make sure that people get the opportunity to take part in these things and they're going to expand the tech opportunities. And you would think there are a lot of tech opportunities out there, but there's really not in the state. And they're trying to expand this.

And there's all this economic development. There's all these jobs coming. You want to make sure there's opportunities to bring people from the state to those jobs. Number four. I may be asleep on this, but this is one of the first times I think this has worked. excuse me, has been attempted in Alabama politics in a really big way. Hampton Harris is a lawyer who has a real estate business in Montgomery, and he's running against a state representative Rhett Marquez of Enterprise, and he is using Marquez's vote for the gas tax against it. Now, I don't know what kind of legs this is going to have. But this is an interesting one. I don't know if people are mad about the gas tax or need to be reminded about the gas tax. It doesn't really appear that the 2019 vote has really cost a lot of people their jobs. But, yeah, Harris is saying this with a campaign mailers saying, every time you fill up, Brett Marquez costs you. So we'll see how much impact that happens. Number three. U.S. Representative Mike Rogers, who recently was announced would seek another term as the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee. And U.S. representative Shamari Figures, the Democrat from Mobile, are sparring. And I'll remind you that the Smackdown from Sacktown, Mike Rogers, probably not going to take any crap on this. And Shamari Figures, the irrelevant soon to be out of work, Shamari Figures, is probably not going to land many punches on this. But I got to give props to Shamari Figures for being the first Democrat that I've seen in a really long time to pretend that he's against government spending. He says the bill that has requested record defense spending is outrageous. It's outrageous. It's the largest amount we have ever seen requested by far. And that's an addition to the money, you know, at their disposal. So we have a... Significant problem with that, especially in the midst of the world of a war. It's so dumb. We're at war. We should spend less money. It's just a stupid argument. Number two. The media of their Democrats' anti-Data Center push continues. Please go look at Brian Lyman. Someone go check in on that guy. I'm a little worried about him. He looks dishevelled and crazy in his last video, but that's for another day. Doug Jay Jones, the cowardly caretaker, former junior senator and an ill-fitting student who looks like he just woke up and stole his shoes from a homeless person who will never be governor, attorney general or United States senator again, said governor-elect national championship winning coach, United States Senator Tommy Tuberville, will turn Alabama into a data center dumping ground for billionaires and called for a one-year moratorium on the project. I love this. Doug Jay Jones's entire...

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