A lot of people take, okay. Look, the fire alarm goes off. Yeah. Right? So let's let's let's talk about what's happened here. It when the fire alarm goes off, you have to evacuate the building. Yes. Okay. So we are talking about interrupting the entire house of representatives, all the support staff, all of the you know, colleagues, all of the the interns, all of the staff, all of those things have to happen. Security is now raised to the utmost level because in many cases and within facilities, automatic locking doors now open. Right? To allow free grass in the event of an emergency for someone to get out. Obviously government buildings are a little bit different in some areas, but typically that allows open. So now security has to try to secure the entire house. Instantly in this situation, more than likely, capital police is dispatched. Alright. Of course, because they're going to then add additional security force. Local metro is gonna be dispatched. The local fire department now goes. All of these officers are gonna be rolling to the scene in full code. Right? This means lights and sirens. This means running red lights. This means putting the average citizens lives potentially in jeopardy. Right? This fire truck could have been blowing through an intersection and gotten hit. Could've hit a school bus, could've killed somebody, could've hit somebody going over here, all because this individual, this ridiculous adult, pull the fire alarm. It's the most un responsible thing. I would I would like for someone to calculate the man hours The cost. The cost of that. Yeah. Absolutely. There is a finite number. Yes. There is. There's fuel. There's all the people who were on shift that had to run there from Capitol Police from metro and from fire department. Right? In in all of those things, right, that that then turned around and caused panic caused unrest. It's taxpayer dollars, so it didn't cost anything. It absolutely cost something. Well, to them, it didn't because it's not their money. Well, that's part of the problem. Right. Nobody's thinking about taxpayer dollars as their own. I know that I sound ridiculous, but that's the way that some of these individuals think. You know, and I'm not, you know, so I'm not throwing the baby out with the bathwater. And we have some good representatives on both sides of the house. Sure. But at the end of the day, what also that I read into this report is that the media continues to drive this wedge between us as Americans by continuing to feed into this this divisive rhetoric and divisive politics. There's why didn't they get a statement from a democrat who felt the same way as speaker McCarthy or, let's see. Rep, Derek Van Orden from Wisconsin says this has to be addressed directly. And and how come? I mean, there has to be a democrat who feels the same way. How about local constituents Yeah. From where he's where he comes from? From New York. Right? Yeah. How about we talk to some of those people? Right? This is the person that you elected to go and represent you. How do you think his actions were? Right? And and so if this went to criminal, right? There were got these two charges, restitution may very well be part of that criminal case. But you and I both that'll never happen. It will never happen. It will never happen. It'll never be charged. If it were you and I or anybody else Yep. That didn't have that or representative congressman in front of their name. Right? Right. They would they would absolutely be charged to the fullest extent and restitution Okay. So we haven't gotten to the excuse, right? Because we need to talk about like what did he say? So here we go. Wait. Wait. Wait. Hold on. Back up. He's been he's been on Capitol Hill. How long? Since twenty twenty one. Okay. He was elected twenty twenty one. Let's say two years. So How many times do you think he's gone in and out of doors there at the capitol? A hundred thousands. Yes. Probably thousands over and over and over. But he gets better. Right? So his he says here, Bowman insists he pulled the alarm by mistake. In a statement, he said he was rushing to get to the vote and activated the alarm while trying to open a locked exit door. The door is typically open during weekdays, but Republicans, again, divisive media tactics. Should say, but representatives from both the Democrats and the republics. So a couple of things. Buying it. First, he's inside the building and he says he's rushing to the vote. Yes. You're already inside. You're already inside. Well, why do you need to go out of pocket? Let me let me backtrack. Let me to his credit, he's in he's in the Canon office building. Okay. Okay. That's not the capital. Alright. Right? So that's there's two different office buildings. Okay. So I'll I'll give him I'll give him that. Okay. But this is where he offs us at. He's going to make the vote. He's made this pilgrimage a ton of times. Thousands of times. Probably. I mean, yeah, at this point, he Well, but it gets even better because if you if you get and you dig a little bit deeper down into Rep Bowman's, personal life, prior to becoming a congressman, He was a middle he was an educator, then he became a middle school principal. Wait. It don't what do what do all schools have? Fire alarms. Okay. Wait. Wait. How many times do you think you pull the fire alarm to exit the door? Required in New York to do so many fire drills? I would say so. Okay. So if you're in middle school or elementary school and you're an administrator, chances are there's probably kid along the way in your career that pulled the fire alarm. Right. You may have had to go and reset it. You may even actually physically know the mechanics of it, how it works, how to reset it, what happens when you pull it. Yeah. All of these things as a grown ass adults. Should know what the consequences are. Well, do you think that when he was a middle school principal, if a kid consistently or on a regular basis, pulled the fire alarm to exit a door How would he handle that? Probably discipline matters. He thinks so. I don't know, though, because he's a big fan of restorative justice. So I'm not real sure. I think Either way. Those are probably things that he says. Not what he he did. Well, it'd be interesting to talk to some of his, students that receive discipline when he was a tear ago. Wait a minute. Why did you receive discipline? Listen, I'm not I'm not knocking restorative justice. I do believe that it has a place our society. We're just making a parallel that this is ridiculous. Yeah. It's absolutely ridiculous. I wanna be clear on that. I'm not restorative justice. I'm just making a point. These elected officials need to rise to the level of the office that they hold. They they He made he made a poor choice. Mhmm. And he did it on purpose and then even instead of owning it, he then turns around and lies. How are we the American public supposed to take you at your word and trust you? If you're in New York and this is your representative and you go to him and you have a problem and he tells you he's gonna do something How can you trust him? Well, but he goes beyond that. He went on the record. You lied? It goes beyond that. Right? Like, we know that it's bullshit. We know that it's a lie. We know that it wasn't by mistake, but it says in a previous article that I read that he had spoke to the minority leader, Akim Jeffries, the Democrat minority leader, Akim Jeffries, and explained that it was an accident. I don't know how I mean, you you physically have to pull the alarm. That's not an accident. That's deliberate. Well, in DC, I believe, has dual action. Right? So it's not even something you can do on action. It takes two steps. Right. Right. So some fire alarms have a single action where you can go in and pull it. Single dual step means that you have to lift something and then pull it down. Right. So it's not something like Very intentional. Oh, I I push the x sit button on the locked door. Right? And I accidentally pressed the fire alarm button. No. There was multiple steps that had to have happened in order for The the bigger issue I have is that leadership is just coddling and and, you know, accepting this behavior in this, articulation that it was a mistake as it was just a mistake. Listen. Hakeem Jeffrey's knows that that's bullshit. Right? So call it what it is. Yeah. Come out and say it wasn't a mistake. It was bullshit. But the problem is is that they don't wanna cause any injustice or any type of negative, look on the Democratic Party, but failing to do so makes you look like a complete moron to the American people But here's the deal. They don't care what the American people feel. The the perception from the American people is irrelevant Right? So as the minority leader, Akim Jeffrey, he should have said, come on, Bowman. You you don't pull the damn alarm to exit a building a door that you've gone out thousands of times probably, just say, just call it what it is. Yeah. You know? Don't make excuses for poor behavior. Don't we teach our kids that? We we used to. Yeah. Now you're starting to wonder if we do still. What I do? I know what you do as a parent, but are we teaching that in the schools? Did he teach it when he was, an administrator? I don't know. But we're we're getting here what we're getting at is is that lives were put at risk by a poor decision of an elected official, and they should be held accountable. And and and we as Americans should stand up and expect more from our elected officials. They need to act like the grown adults and represent us accordingly. It says here So I'm reading through this. Again, it's more divisive politics on behalf of the media. Quote, nowhere does it say pull the fire alarm to open the door rep Marjorie Taylor green, not necessarily somebody I would be seeking advice for, from, but I will have to agree with her statement. Then it follows up and says, this is someone who has a who was a school principal, same point we made, said Rett Nicole, Melatakis, Republican of New York. He knows very well what a fire alarm is. I agree. Then another quote says, if you surveyed a hundred New Yorkers, zero would believe this story rep representative Nick Liloda Republican of New York. Some lawmakers have compared Bowman's alleged delay tactic to the crimes of the January six riders. Come on. That's a little bit of a stretch. And in quotes, it says, Congressman involvement is facing thirty six years in prison, rep van orden according to the US Capitol Police, the incident remains under investigation, police would not say if they plan to charge Bowman a crime. What I'll tell you is if you don't charge Bowman with that crime, eventually what you're going to do is you're going to start waking up the American people. And the American people need to wake up and see that this is something that has been going on for decades that there are two sets of rules, and I don't care if you're a Republican or you're a Democrat and you're an average citizen like Mike and I, you don't matter. You would be arrested. You absolutely would be arrested. Your children would be arrested. So why are they any different? And I don't care if you're a Republican or you're a Democrat. If you make an excuse for this particular type of behavior, you are part of the problem. Republicans and Democrats at our level at the local level, the state level need to come together and start holding all of them accountable on both sides, that is the only way we change this bullshit. Right? Got you. Something's gotta change. Right? Because these actions don't represent it. And and the quote in that article about, you know, if you surveyed a hundred New Yorkers, they would all I mean, New York specifically is one of the strictest fire codes in the nation. Right? They're full high rise buildings they have to be on top of fire code. You know, New York absolutely is all over it. And anybody who ran a school in New York would be held to the highest standards in the nation by that fire department. They don't play around. He knew exactly what he was doing. There is no way. It doesn't matter what was going on that you could have accidentally done this. This is not something that you could accidentally do.
