SuperTalk Media MidDays with Gerard Gibert 2026-06-05

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Get ready to go beyond the headlines and join a meaningful conversation with people from around the state. You're listening to MidDays with Gerard Gibert here on SuperTalk Mississippi.

**Dave Hughes** (1:02)
Good morning to you and welcome to MidDays here on SuperTalk Mississippi, Dave Hughes here.
I'm a little out of sorts today, for whatever reason. I feel like I'm 15 seconds behind in whatever I'm doing in any given moment. It's just been that kind of day. Have you ever had that kind of day, Rhino?

**Rhino** (1:21)
I was about to say, we can't both be like that this morning, can we?

**Dave Hughes** (1:24)
Oh, this is going to be a fun show, I can tell already. I don't know, I rolled out of bed this morning that way. For whatever reason. And there's nothing you could pin it down to. There's nothing you can point to and go, oh, that threw me off. No, it's been a normal morning, other than, you know, the point that...
Well, the fact that I couldn't come up with a way to end that sentence is a great example of what I'm talking about. Like I said, it's going to be a whale of a show. How are you doing, man?

**Rhino** (1:53)
Oh, not too terribly bad.

**Dave Hughes** (1:56)
Aside from the previously identified problem. You know, I get it. Summer vacation does that. Even when you're not in school, it's just a change in the atmosphere, I think. Everybody goes into, okay, mode, and then you move on with life. We got some fun stuff to talk about today, though, that I think might, you know, move things around. We got Mississippi State and Ole Miss. We get to talk about. We don't get to talk about USM, which I am still heartbroken over, but two out of three. Yeah, we'll take it. We're excited for State and Ole Miss. I would have personally been more excited over USM, but that ball did not bounce that way this year. So, that's all right. We'll get them next year, guys. No problem. Also got to talk about the whole thing with disclosure. I want to talk about that today because that seems to be ramping up a little bit in conversation, including some dots that we can connect, that maybe start to draw a little bit more of a picture as to what is going on.
A lot of little tiny things. But, let's start with, well, Congress is congressing all over the place.
We had four Republicans. If you're watching SuperTalk TV, you saw the air quotes. Hopefully, you heard them, if you're just listening to the audio. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, who is 172 years old, and Senate Majority Leader, Tom Tillis, all voted against the Save Act. Now, they still got 50 votes with the tiebreaker from the Vice President. It would be 51, and it would go in, except thanks to the filibuster, we got to have 60 votes. Is this the only situation, one of the few, I think, where you have to have more than a majority to get anything done?
I can't really think, but there are some initiatives that show up on the ballot sometimes, that you have to have 60% of the vote before you can pass it, but it just seems like that's a big component of why we're no longer getting anything done in Washington, I think. And this is something we can all agree needs to be done, I would think, right now.

**Rhino** (4:38)
Yeah, and that's the problem, because the Senate was always kind of meant to be the chamber of compromise, and they don't compromise on anything anymore.

**Dave Hughes** (4:51)
No one does. The art of negotiation, ironically enough, considering who's in the White House, the art of the deal has vanished in Washington, DC.
Nobody carries that duty out, and I'm sorry, that is a duty if you're in an elected office. It's not my way or the highway. You work with everybody, form a compromise of some kind, that it might not be perfect, might not be what you wanted, but it's going to move us forward, and you're going to make some progress. Instead, we have now decided that the way to do things is to just lock everything up, and we'll do nothing if we don't do exactly what I want. It's not productive at all, as we have seen over the last, I'd say what, 20 years ago, it kind of got started. Really 10 years ago, it kicked into high gear. This attitude of us versus them, my way or the highway. The whole point is everybody is supposed, as you just said, Rhino, to compromise, to come together. When you compromise, no one gets exactly what they want. That's to me one definition of a compromise. You want A, you want C, let's compromise on B in the middle. That's how you wind up with a compromise. You give and you take. We can't do that. That is no longer possible because everything is so black and white, and so polarized, and so opinionated, that compromise is failure. There's no way to get anything done. It's not the way we've gotten things done throughout the history of America. And before you criticize too much the things that have been done in the history of America, it got you here.