Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Libraries Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Sharon McMahon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
964 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

What about the rights of children to not be shot in their schools? It's not in the Constitution. Most people agree with that. That's the thing. Exactly.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

To your point, if Congress is supposed to reflect, generally speaking, the will of the people and they are absolutely shirking that duty, it makes people feel like the government is not legitimate. It makes people feel like I'm not going to listen to what they have to say. I'm just going to violate whatever rules they come up with because they're not a legitimate lawmaking group.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

To your point, if Congress is supposed to reflect, generally speaking, the will of the people and they are absolutely shirking that duty, it makes people feel like the government is not legitimate. It makes people feel like I'm not going to listen to what they have to say. I'm just going to violate whatever rules they come up with because they're not a legitimate lawmaking group.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

To your point, if Congress is supposed to reflect, generally speaking, the will of the people and they are absolutely shirking that duty, it makes people feel like the government is not legitimate. It makes people feel like I'm not going to listen to what they have to say. I'm just going to violate whatever rules they come up with because they're not a legitimate lawmaking group.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

This has been the least productive Congress in United States history. That's not my opinion. I mean, like the number of laws that have been passed, the least productive Congress in U.S. history. Again, that doesn't play well in Peoria.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

This has been the least productive Congress in United States history. That's not my opinion. I mean, like the number of laws that have been passed, the least productive Congress in U.S. history. Again, that doesn't play well in Peoria.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

This has been the least productive Congress in United States history. That's not my opinion. I mean, like the number of laws that have been passed, the least productive Congress in U.S. history. Again, that doesn't play well in Peoria.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

If you're from a blue collar area like I am, where people literally work on ore ships or they mine iron ore or they work in health care, like they are working hard for their money. It seems really frustrating. that I should pay you $170,000 plus a year plus great benefits to sit around and just do press conferences about how stupid your opponents are.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

If you're from a blue collar area like I am, where people literally work on ore ships or they mine iron ore or they work in health care, like they are working hard for their money. It seems really frustrating. that I should pay you $170,000 plus a year plus great benefits to sit around and just do press conferences about how stupid your opponents are.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

If you're from a blue collar area like I am, where people literally work on ore ships or they mine iron ore or they work in health care, like they are working hard for their money. It seems really frustrating. that I should pay you $170,000 plus a year plus great benefits to sit around and just do press conferences about how stupid your opponents are.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

That really sticks in people's craw where they're like, I'm working two jobs to put food on the table and y'all are sitting around being shitty on television. That's not how it's supposed to work. Meanwhile, it's fine that the kids keep getting shot in the schools and we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to go on TV and say, well, it's just an unfortunate reality is how it is.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

That really sticks in people's craw where they're like, I'm working two jobs to put food on the table and y'all are sitting around being shitty on television. That's not how it's supposed to work. Meanwhile, it's fine that the kids keep getting shot in the schools and we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to go on TV and say, well, it's just an unfortunate reality is how it is.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

That really sticks in people's craw where they're like, I'm working two jobs to put food on the table and y'all are sitting around being shitty on television. That's not how it's supposed to work. Meanwhile, it's fine that the kids keep getting shot in the schools and we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to go on TV and say, well, it's just an unfortunate reality is how it is.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

We're not going to do anything to fix it. That doesn't fly in any other line of work. If you just straight up refuse to do the job that you were hired to do, you would soon find yourself out of a job. Yes.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

We're not going to do anything to fix it. That doesn't fly in any other line of work. If you just straight up refuse to do the job that you were hired to do, you would soon find yourself out of a job. Yes.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

We're not going to do anything to fix it. That doesn't fly in any other line of work. If you just straight up refuse to do the job that you were hired to do, you would soon find yourself out of a job. Yes.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

The problem with it'd be great if everybody could do it is that they can also wield that power to do bad things, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. If that person has too much power, that's how we get dictatorships.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

The problem with it'd be great if everybody could do it is that they can also wield that power to do bad things, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. If that person has too much power, that's how we get dictatorships.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

The problem with it'd be great if everybody could do it is that they can also wield that power to do bad things, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. If that person has too much power, that's how we get dictatorships.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

They intentionally restrain the power of the president significantly on purpose because the framers of the Constitution were all coming from monarchies where the governments were saying, here's the religion you have to belong to. The idea that whatever I say, whatever whim that's at the top of my head, we're just going to go with that thing.