1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,760 Speaker 1: I am told that there's a whole flock of Democrat 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 1: governors who would make perfect presidential material. They're all running, 3 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 1: but when you actually see what they had to say 4 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: over the last forty eight hours, you may be running yourself, 5 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 1: running for the hills. And we will get to that 6 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: story in just sixty seconds. But first, some important information 7 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: from our sponsor. Because we talk about big government programs 8 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 1: a lot here, they get so complicated that they stop 9 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: serving you the people. And for Medicare enrolies, it's a 10 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: textbook case. 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Okay, 28 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: now back to the video and take a look first though, 29 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: at what a real presidential contender looks like. Here is 30 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 1: the Vice President of the United States, JD. Vance, and 31 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 1: you tell me if you have any quarrel with anything 32 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: this man says here, What did. 33 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 2: You advise the president initially as he considered his actions 34 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,559 Speaker 2: in Iran? And what are you urging him to do now, 35 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 2: especially with American seeing higher prices at the pomp and 36 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 2: some of the fallout from that across the economy. Do 37 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 2: you express any concerns like those you've expressed in the 38 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 2: past on the possibility of these extended wars? 39 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 1: All right, so let me jump in here before the 40 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 1: Vice president gives his answer, because I want to give 41 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:14,799 Speaker 1: you some background. You see, it's a little parlor game 42 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,640 Speaker 1: here in DC everybody in the media has a certain 43 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:20,359 Speaker 1: little narrative that they're all repeating to themselves. And when 44 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,799 Speaker 1: they tell each other this narrative, well, it's got to 45 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:25,519 Speaker 1: be true. And that is this man, the vice president 46 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 1: of the United States, opposes our current military effort in Iran. 47 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 1: If he were president, he would have never gone ahead 48 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: and done it. And he is trying his best to 49 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: distance himself from Donald Trump because of this military excursion. 50 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: He's an isolationist. He doesn't want to use our military 51 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: for anything. He hates it, and he warned against it. 52 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:49,920 Speaker 1: That's why that question was asked, because the reporter is 53 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 1: trying to create a rift of fight, a separation. He's 54 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: trying to get Trump advanced doing this, and then Ruby 55 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: will come in from the top rope, and then Pete 56 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: Heggsath and tie everybody's shoelaces together whether this is what 57 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:05,920 Speaker 1: they want, because for the most part, this administration has 58 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 1: been pretty lock solid in support of each other and 59 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: there hasn't been that kind of internal fighting. So that 60 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,919 Speaker 1: was the question. Let's see how Jdvans handles it. 61 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 3: Well, Bill, I appreciate the question. I know you guys 62 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 3: have to ask it, but imagine the situation. We're in 63 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 3: the situation room where you can't even take your iPod 64 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 3: in there, or your air pods, I guess what they're called. 65 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 3: You can't take your iPhone in there, you can't take 66 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 3: anything in there, because it is the most classified space 67 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 3: anywhere in the world. And I sit there with Pete 68 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 3: hag Seth and General Kine and Marco Rubio and the 69 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 3: entire White House team and the President and I and 70 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 3: the entire senior team are talking about the options and 71 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 3: about what we need to do, and about how we 72 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 3: must best protect the American people. I hate to disappoint you, 73 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 3: but I'm not going to show up here in front 74 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 3: of God and everybody else tell you exactly what I 75 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 3: said in that classified room, partially because I don't want 76 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 3: to go to prison, and partially because I think it's 77 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 3: important for the President of the United States to be 78 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 3: able to talk to his advisors without those advisors running 79 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 3: their mouth to the American media. 80 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 1: Now, that's a great answer to a question that was 81 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: set up to be a gotcha, and that's why a 82 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: lot of us like how he handles himself. Don't get 83 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:17,919 Speaker 1: me wrong, I'm not taking sides at all in the 84 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: twenty eight presidential election sweepstakes. I like Rubio, I like Cruz, 85 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 1: I like DeSantis, Hell, I like Kevin McMahon. Is probably 86 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: too young to run for president, but I vote for him. 87 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,720 Speaker 1: So I'm just saying that was really, really, really well done. 88 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 1: And that's why a lot of us like jd. Vance 89 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: because he's so good at handling the media. If he's 90 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: learned one thing from Donald Trump, it's handling the media 91 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: and pushing right back. Let's compare how he just did 92 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: at that moment with how Democrats handle a very very 93 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: very friendly media, and let's see how sane and rational 94 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 1: and logical and presidential they come across. Here's Andy Basher. 95 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: I'm told that he's a shoe in for president. He's 96 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: a Democrat, but he won in a blue state. Everybody, 97 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:09,160 Speaker 1: North Carolina, all right, go ahead, Andy bscher. 98 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 4: Hey, no one would work harder against jd Vance than me, 99 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 4: a guy who made his money talking down about people 100 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 4: in Kentucky that he doesn't fully understand. He called us lazy, 101 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 4: He said addiction was our fault. He is wrong and 102 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 4: he should not be judging us or anyone else. He 103 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 4: is the most conceited elected official that I've ever heard speak. 104 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:36,040 Speaker 4: And that's incredibly dangerous because if you think you know 105 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,159 Speaker 4: it all, you're gonna make some really bad decisions because 106 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,480 Speaker 4: you're not listening to some smart people you should put 107 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 4: around you. 108 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: Sorry, Kentucky, not in North Carolina. I do that with 109 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 1: Andy B. Share all the time. I don't know why 110 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: I've got a mental block there? Did you hear? 111 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 3: So? 112 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: He's referring to JD. Vance's seminal Oh magnum Opus Hillbilly Elegy, 113 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: which you know, of course, got incredible reviews and positive 114 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:02,039 Speaker 1: lauded Terry. You know, they wanted him to win the 115 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,039 Speaker 1: Pulitzer for it. They made a movie out of it. 116 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:09,039 Speaker 1: Everybody loved it. Everybody loved the story. Everybody loved Vance 117 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: right up until the moment he declared that he was 118 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:14,039 Speaker 1: a Republican. Now they hate him. And do you hear 119 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 1: how he characterized he'll bili elogy. 120 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 4: Hey, no one would work harder against JD. Vance than me, 121 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 4: a guy who made his money talking down about people 122 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 4: in Kentucky that he doesn't fully understand. He called us lazy. 123 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:32,720 Speaker 4: He said addiction was our fault. He is wrong and he. 124 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: If anybody has read the book, he'll bilology or even 125 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 1: seen the Netflix film directed by Ron Howard. You know 126 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 1: that that's just an outright lie. And he's hoping that 127 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: his interviewers, which it's probably a safe bet, are ignorant 128 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:47,919 Speaker 1: and don't know anything about the story and don't know 129 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 1: anything about what jd Vance has ever said. And by 130 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: the way, he doesn't know anything about the people who 131 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:58,159 Speaker 1: live in Appalachia. He came from Appalachia. He literally was, 132 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, mister Basher to Governor. You didn't live the 133 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: life that Jade Vance lived, not even close to it. 134 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 1: But that's who mister Bsher is. But he was actually 135 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: the most sane and rational one over the week. And 136 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: here's Josh Shapiro. I keep hearing he's normal and he's 137 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: a moderate. Here he was on that pod Save America 138 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: podcast hosted by all these Obama bros. Right. 139 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 5: I also have a problem with the fact that the 140 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 5: guy who is supposed to be in charge of this 141 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 5: pete Hegseth, is wildly incompetent. He's like an eight year 142 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 5: old playing with toy soldiers every day. His language is 143 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 5: so fucking offensive. They talk about this in a way 144 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 5: that doesn't respect the humanity in the region, and certainly 145 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 5: is disrespectful to our soldiers, of which there are Pennsylvanians 146 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 5: who are engaged in this fight on behalf of a 147 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 5: commander in chief who doesn't have a clue what he's doing. 148 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 1: Okay, so a couple of things here about Trump not 149 00:07:56,960 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 1: having a clue for what he's doing. How many successful 150 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 1: military missions and campaigns does he have to oversee as 151 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: commander in chief for people to just shut up about 152 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 1: him and his ability to manage these things? Oh, it's 153 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:15,679 Speaker 1: gonna be a forever war. Yes, Venezuela took about twelve hours. 154 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: Sometimes that can seem forever, especially if you're driving through 155 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 1: a god forsaken place like Ohio. But no, otherwise, twelve 156 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: hours is not a forever war. Did you see over 157 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 1: the weekend that they raised the American flag at the 158 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 1: US Embassy in Venezuela. Oh, it's a nightmare and a quagmire. 159 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:40,959 Speaker 1: A military decision after military decision after military decision. Can 160 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: you show me one bad military decision Trump is made 161 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: in the five plus years he's been president. I tried, 162 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,199 Speaker 1: you know, Biden had one decision to make the pull 163 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,839 Speaker 1: out of Afghanistan, and we saw how that went. Oh, 164 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 1: and then he had a secondary decision, which to send 165 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:03,440 Speaker 1: military back to Afghanistan to help clean up the mess. 166 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: And that's when Abbygate happened. In that one day, we'd 167 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: had more casualties in Afghanistan. Then we now have total 168 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: in two plus weeks in Iran. And now that we're 169 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: comparing military missions and operations by the number of casualties 170 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 1: you have. But if you look at the first two 171 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: weeks of the Iraq War under George W. Bush back 172 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: in two thousand and three, I mean, our casualties at 173 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: this point would be in the hundreds. Every life lost 174 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,960 Speaker 1: is a tragedy. But why do they keep throwing this 175 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: out there? Because I know why, because they've got a 176 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,719 Speaker 1: narrative that the people they're talking to on these podcasts 177 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 1: and these TV shows, and I guess the audience for it, 178 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:55,559 Speaker 1: just wants to convince themselves that Trump is a stupid, 179 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: ignorant maniac who doesn't know what the hell he's doing, 180 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 1: with no evidence to support such claims. But it's what 181 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: they have to do. And this is the reasonable one, right. 182 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 1: Jos Shapiro's he's a moderate man, he's great, he's one 183 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: of the normal ones in the room. Really. I don't 184 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:15,560 Speaker 1: know if you caught this or not, but this may 185 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 1: be one of the most unronic statements I've ever heard 186 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: from a politician. 187 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:24,320 Speaker 5: Playing with toy soldiers every day. His language is so 188 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 5: fucking offensive. 189 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 1: Where do you begin with a statement like that? Stop 190 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 1: you being offending? Language meant you're being offend somebody with 191 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 1: thing that you're saying. Do they hear themselves? Oh? And 192 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:56,000 Speaker 1: then he said that they're so disrespectful to the military. 193 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:59,199 Speaker 1: You tell me, who do you think is going to 194 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:03,320 Speaker 1: get more recruit roots for the military? Pete hegseeth Marco Rubio, 195 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: jd Vance and Donald Trump or Josh Shapiro and the 196 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 1: clown car he puts together for a cabinet. Oh, they're 197 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:12,960 Speaker 1: going to be running for the hills of This guy 198 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:17,079 Speaker 1: becomes commander in chief, but he has no respect for 199 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 1: the military and the military doesn't have any respect for him. Offensive, unbelievable. 200 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 1: But then that brings us to this guy there he is, 201 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: You're governor of California, who doesn't spend a whole lot 202 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 1: of time in California. I don't know if you've noticed that. 203 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: And since he doesn't have an active campaign, I'm pretty 204 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: sure that all of his travel pretending like he's not 205 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: running for president is paid for about the taxpayers of California. 206 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:44,679 Speaker 1: But the good news is California is doing so well 207 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: he doesn't really have to stay there. There's not much 208 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:50,559 Speaker 1: to do. Everything's great. If you've been to California recently, 209 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: sure you've seen what I've seen. It's just couldn't be better. 210 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 1: So here he is sitting in his trademark style like 211 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: a two legged giraffe who doesn't know what to do 212 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 1: with his legs except he has a very very small 213 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: and overflowing bladder. But he's got to keep it in 214 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 1: because he forgot to put his adult diapers on, so 215 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 1: that's why he crosses his legs like that. And then 216 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 1: he said, our real whopper. And I know we've got 217 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:21,560 Speaker 1: a huge audience in California. So when you hear this one, 218 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 1: I need you to let me know in the comments 219 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 1: section your reaction to your governor saying this about your taxes. 220 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:35,200 Speaker 6: We have the most progressive tax rates in America. Texas 221 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 6: the most regressive. Texas taxes poor folks more than we 222 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:46,200 Speaker 6: tax our riches. The question for you is who's the 223 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 6: higher tax state, California or Texas, Who are you for? 224 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 6: Are you just for the one percent? 225 00:12:58,080 --> 00:12:59,040 Speaker 7: Or are you for the ninety nine? 226 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 6: And so oh roach, That's that's one of progressive texts. 227 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 6: Florida is the other aggressive text. Date, your middle class 228 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:11,319 Speaker 6: paid more taxes in Texas than our middle class in California. 229 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 6: It's a great mythology. It's just the richest and the 230 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 6: rich coming here because they can avoid pain. 231 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: And damn Penny. Now, it's one of those moments where 232 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: I wish I were conducting the interview or maybe moderating 233 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 1: the panel, or whatever the hell he was doing in 234 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 1: the barn he appears to have been in. But you 235 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:30,319 Speaker 1: heard the statement, you heard the claim. The fact is uh. 236 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 1: And by the way, I do love it that he 237 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:35,560 Speaker 1: always targets Fox News. Fox News won't tell you the truth, man, 238 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 1: Fox News won't report the truth. But Texas and Florida 239 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:45,439 Speaker 1: are the real high tech states. They have higher taxes 240 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 1: in Florida and Texas than we do in California. And 241 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: now's where you come in California's I'd love for you 242 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: to react to that down below in the comments section. 243 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: And while you're doing that, our friend Tom Bevan, who 244 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: publishes Real Clear Politics, well, it didn't take him long 245 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 1: to dispel this absolute whopper of a lie, as he 246 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 1: put it, a blatant, verifiable falsehood. Will would have twenty 247 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: twenty five analysis of the overall tax burden. So this 248 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:17,200 Speaker 1: isn't just income tax. This is income tax plus sales 249 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 1: tax plus property tax combined. Number one is Hawaii total 250 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: tax burden fourteen percent. That includes two point five seven 251 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 1: property four point one point eight individual income and total 252 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 1: sales and excise tax seven point one point seven percent. 253 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:37,800 Speaker 1: California there number four at eleven percent. That's two point 254 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 1: seven eight property tax, four point eight to seven individual income, 255 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 1: which is the second highest in the land, and then 256 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 1: sales and excise tax burden three point three five Because 257 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 1: of course that's averaged over many municipalities that Gavin Newsom 258 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: doesn't have complete control over. But there you have it. 259 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 1: California is actually the fourth most expensive state. Also top 260 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 1: five Hawaii, New York, Vermont, calif Flifornia, Maine. Only looking 261 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 1: at the top five there don't see Texas or Florida 262 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: in there at all. And I also don't see any 263 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 1: state with a Republican governor in there at all. I know, 264 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 1: it's shocking isn't it not shocking at all in any 265 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 1: way whatsoever? And of course, needless to say, people are 266 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: voting with their feet on a regular basis when it 267 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: comes to going to California, Texas or Florida, and well, 268 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 1: if you're voting with your feet, California is losing. The 269 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: only feet making their way across the border into California 270 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: are well feat on illegal immigrants that Gavin Newsom's giving 271 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 1: free benefits to that you're paying for with federal tax dollars. 272 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 1: These are insane people and they all want to be president, 273 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 1: from Bashir to Shapiro to Newsom. They're the best of 274 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 1: the lot. And they're nuts and they lie and they grandstand. 275 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 1: But you know what, here on this program, we believe 276 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: that we should open up the scale a little bit 277 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 1: and look at some other up and coming Democrats who 278 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 1: were also insane, that could make their way into higher office. Here, 279 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: take a look at this video dug up by our 280 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 1: buddy Mays on x I subscribe to his account, you 281 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:24,800 Speaker 1: should too. Mays found a video from Marco Rubio's twenty 282 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: sixteen run for president. This is a town hall in 283 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 1: Iowa back then. Take a look. If you see something odd. 284 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 8: And that means we have to go out to people 285 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 8: that haven't voted for a conservative or a Republican in 286 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 8: a long time and convince them of the truth that 287 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 8: they would be better off and our country would be 288 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 8: better off with us instead of with the other side. 289 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 8: And I look forward with passion to making that argument. 290 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 8: I look forward to reaching out to Americans, for example, 291 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 8: that are living paycheck to paycheck. We will expand the 292 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 8: conservative movement, and we will defeat Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, 293 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 8: and then we will turn this country around. And here's 294 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 8: how I want to talk about a few of the 295 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 8: things we'll do when I'm president. 296 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 1: You deserve it, all, right, Well, you can talk about 297 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 1: it another time, Marco. You still have an opportunity. I 298 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:08,880 Speaker 1: promise things are looking good. But did you see who 299 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 1: that is? Well, the Mays has labeled him there. It's true, Yes, 300 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 1: that's right. It's a shre Fanandier, the congressman from Michigan, 301 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 1: rabid wild eye Democrat. He's the guy who's already proposed 302 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 1: impeachment proceedings for Trump. He hasn't met a Democrat cause 303 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:28,440 Speaker 1: that he hasn't embraced. Whether it's taking guns away from 304 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:31,880 Speaker 1: you or removing Ice completely. He doesn't want any immigration 305 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 1: laws to be in forced, which I guess makes sense 306 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:35,679 Speaker 1: for him. But there he is. I mean, if you 307 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 1: have any doubt, look at him. That's him, that's the hair. 308 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:44,120 Speaker 1: He was a big Marco Rubio Republican supporter in Iowa 309 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:47,960 Speaker 1: because he'll just go anywhere he can attain power. Maybe 310 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,360 Speaker 1: he thought he was gonna weasel his way into the 311 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:55,399 Speaker 1: Rubio administration or something. I don't know. He's just a nut. 312 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:58,719 Speaker 1: He's just a political animal who's willing to go wherever 313 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 1: he can go to attain power, which makes them pretty 314 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:04,120 Speaker 1: similar to a lot of the Democrats on Capitol Hill. 315 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: I guess he's just a little more shameless. But it's 316 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:09,720 Speaker 1: that kind of behavior that makes us think that he's 317 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 1: got a real possibility for higher office. Now. Sadly, he 318 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 1: can't run for vice president or president because he's not 319 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:18,400 Speaker 1: a natural born citizen. But you know what, they're Democrats. 320 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,680 Speaker 1: They'll figure out their way around that. And by the way, 321 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 1: while we're widening our scope here and expanding the idea 322 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 1: of how many ridiculous, lying, insane Democrats might have a 323 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:35,439 Speaker 1: political future, why limit ourselves to elected officials. Why not 324 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 1: you know, just get any prominent Democrat who's worked in 325 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 1: the government, who is you know, bizarre, weird, insane, cringey. 326 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:48,440 Speaker 1: You know who I'm talking about. Yeah, this guy James Kobe. 327 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:51,919 Speaker 1: James Kobe, of course, has started a substack, and he 328 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 1: likes to put out videos telling all of his followers 329 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 1: about cute little anecdotes about his time as the director 330 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 1: of the FBI when he harnessed our government's most powerful 331 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 1: law enforcement agency to spy on a sitting president and 332 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:11,440 Speaker 1: his entire cabinet there under the fake premise that there 333 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 1: was Russian collusion. You know the story. Well, here's James Comy, 334 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:17,880 Speaker 1: hero of the Democrats and the political left in the media, 335 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: telling a fascinating story about a time when he was 336 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:21,360 Speaker 1: Director of the FBI. 337 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 7: As FBI Director, I would get briefed all the time 338 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 7: on serious stuff, including operations or cases that always seemed 339 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:33,840 Speaker 7: to have these strange code names that nobody could explain 340 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 7: the origin of, at least not to the director, and 341 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:39,600 Speaker 7: so the names became a little bit of an obsession 342 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:42,200 Speaker 7: of mine. One morning, I was sitting at the head 343 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:44,880 Speaker 7: of a big table in a crowded room to get 344 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,160 Speaker 7: briefed on a particular piece of work. The briefers started 345 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:52,440 Speaker 7: by saying the operation was code named sand Castles. Now 346 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 7: this was twenty sixteen, and you may know that Beyonce's 347 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 7: album Lemonade had come out then with a track called 348 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 7: sand Castles. So I said, oh, like the Beyonce song. 349 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 7: Blank stares all around the FBI conference room. So I 350 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:11,679 Speaker 7: did the natural thing, I think. I sang, we built 351 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 7: some castles that washed away. Nope, nothing dead, silence, never mind, 352 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 7: I said, continue. Only when I got home and told 353 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:26,479 Speaker 7: my family the story did I get the reaction I 354 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:31,120 Speaker 7: was looking for. When I write, I listened to classical 355 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,719 Speaker 7: or jazz, because in ways I can't explain, the music 356 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:36,439 Speaker 7: unlocks something. It frees me. 357 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 1: He was the director of the FBI. He oversaw counterintelligence operations, 358 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:50,880 Speaker 1: encounter terrorism operations, used his power to subpoena and pull 359 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 1: Feisa Warrens to spy on American citizens because he claims 360 00:20:54,600 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 1: he was protecting our nation, and Director coming, I believe 361 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:03,160 Speaker 1: your story one hundred I have no doubt that that's 362 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 1: what happened. But just you know, everybody in the room 363 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:09,439 Speaker 1: was not staring at you like that because they didn't 364 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:14,199 Speaker 1: know the Beyonce song they were staring at you like 365 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 1: that because you're a really strange man. Let's just leave 366 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 1: it at that.