WEBVTT - The Jay Weber Podcast #0018 6-5-26 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:05.120 That Jane Weber Podcast is presented by Creative Planning, helping 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:09.799 clients simplify their journey to financial wellness, one personalized plan 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:13.560 at a time. That Jane Weber Podcast is a production 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:15.320 of iHeartRadio Podcasts. 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:19.160 Hello, and welcome to the j Weber Podcast. Today we'll 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.520 talk about how the economy has improved by nearly every 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:24.119 measure over the last fourteen months, and I'm finding it 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:27.280 harder and harder to believe that most Americans aren't noticing, 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:30.240 which is of course the claim from the left wing media. Also, 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.720 the military action against Iran was never going to end 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:35.480 cleanly and we shouldn't expect it to. And some thoughts 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:38.680 on Scott Pelley, a pompous pretender who I believe really 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:41.120 just wanted to retire but decided to make himself the 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:45.239 story and pretend that he's the last honestalist in America 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:49.160 as he goes out. But first producer, extraordinary, Gregory John. 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:50.880 I want to ask you to give me a ratio, 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:52.560 you know, one in five, one and ten, one in 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.880 twenty roughly, how many Americans do you think carry a 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:59.960 concealed weapon for protection pretty much every day or base 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:01.360 sickly whenever they leave the house. 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:05.160 It got to be a low like one two percent. 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:08.360 One two percent, Yeah, it's more like A new survey 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:11.240 of a thousand Americans says it's more like thirteen percent. 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:14.480 It's about one in ten. Wow, they say one in 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.319 ten Americans, about thirteen percent say they routinely are packing 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.760 heat as they go about their daily lives. I thought, 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:21.480 you know, one to two percent would be low, but 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.320 I would have thought maybe seven eight. So it's a 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.479 double that that number doesn't really surprise me all that much. 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.520 This one does. According to the same survey, nearly one 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.279 in three people, nearly one in three say they carry 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.520 sometimes or somewhat regularly. Thirty percent of the people in 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.240 this country, or at least in this survey conducted last month, 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.560 it was one thousand people say they carry a fire 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:43.080 firearm at times. 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:44.800 I have a I have a nephew that lives in 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:48.280 San Antonio, Texas, and he carries all the time. We 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.840 were down there a couple of summers ago, and yeah, 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:52.360 he's packing. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:53.240 We go to the. 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.200 Restaurant and everywhere we went, we went, we saw that, 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.200 we went in the caves, he's still packing. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.560 Is he carrying openly? Can you see the guy, Yeah, 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:02.200 you can see it openly. Yeah, well, I have a 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.360 few people that carry concealed and do it regularly. They 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:07.320 won't leave the house without their wallet, their keys, their gun. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.799 But this kind of these stats make it. I think 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:11.880 it's safe to say that basically, anytime you're in a 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:13.960 crowd or at a larger event, it means there are 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.200 at least a few people around you who are carrying guns. 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.040 With the normalization of carry laws as they are, I mean, 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.440 this is something now that the vast majority of us 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.920 simply never think about. But presumably at church, at the mall, 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.320 out for dinner, at that kid's soccer game, in the 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.120 public park, whatever, you're sitting near and around people who 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.520 are packing some heat. So does that make you feel 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:34.480 more or less safe? 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.880 It makes me feel more safe because I know that 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:40.440 these people most likely have gone through training and don't 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:43.120 have the mindset a lot of these these thugs do. 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.240 And be with you. These stats, I think prove that 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:48.400 it's not about the gun, it's about the people who 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:51.120 are carrying them or and or using them. These are 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.440 people who are concerned about their own safety and you know, 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:57.840 public safety in general. There, I'm with you. It kind 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.400 of is good for me, reassuring to me that, well, 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:04.400 if something really goes down in this venue or whatever, 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.640 and the off chance that it would, you might have 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.680 some people able to respond with like force. But you 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.519 know what the average lefty Karen or Kevin's response would be, 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:13.880 They just be mortified at this. 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:16.560 Yeah, so you don't carry. 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:17.600 Now. 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:19.959 I haven't had a gun since we moved down here 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.079 from up north, and that's like nineteen ninety. I left 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.600 all my guns up north because Dorothy didn't want him 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.120 around the kids, and then just never never got round 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:30.079 to It's funny that you bring this up, because we 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:32.120 were just talking about this about a month ago. It'saying, 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.080 you know, maybe we should buy a gun just to 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:34.920 keep in the house. 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:35.800 I don't know if i'd. 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:39.080 Carry, though i'd carry occasionally. I don't carry all the time, 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.119 but I do carry occasionally, and I will and I'll 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:44.880 do something that people say you shouldn't do when I'll 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:46.320 just sort of put one in the car if I'm 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:47.720 going in a place where I think that I think 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.440 might be sketchy. But John Lott is this famous name 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:52.240 when it comes to guns and crime research, and he's 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:55.080 linking this tower to the lower crime rates that we're seeing. 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.880 I'd really question that. Though crime seems to have dip 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.280 since Trump got back into office and voter and some 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:02.600 of these cities replace their woke DA's and demand that 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.680 they do better. But there's no obvious correlation between people 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.560 carrying guns for protection and lower crime rates. I think 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:12.200 these same people were probably carrying in the Biden era too, right, 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.520 So it's not like Trump got back into office in 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.440 the third of the country said Okay, strap them up, 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.279 I'm a regular gun carrier now. In fact, this pollster 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.280 says thirty percent. That thirty percent figure is only up 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.719 about six percent since the last survey, So I don't 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.640 see the race and connection connection to dip in crime. 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:30.440 But it is interesting to know that more than one 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:32.479 in ten Americans now say they don't leave the house 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.760 without their wallet, their keys, and their side arm. Also, 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:36.960 they say about a third of the geographic area of 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.920 the country is now working under constitutional carry, which means 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:41.839 they don't even need a license or a permit to carry. 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:43.200 You know, I was going to ask you, and I 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.920 never did ask you this, what would be an appropriate 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:46.920 gun for me to buy? 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:50.360 Boy, that's a complicated question. It really kind of depends 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:54.520 what you want, just small for protection. I like glocks myself, Okay, 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.880 I like something with better than revolvers. Some people carry 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.680 revolvers well that depending on the size, either five or 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.640 six bullets. I would rather have a few more than 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:05.920 that if something, if I really need them. But you 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:07.159 should look at the smaller clocks. 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:10.040 Okay, Dorothy, the Father's Day just around the corner. 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:13.760 I would also point out before we move on here, 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.920 none of the anti gun crowds predictions have come true. Remember, 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.400 it's going to be like the Wild West in America 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:24.159 if we start to legalize concealed carry or open carry. 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.000 These are Americans who've decided they're carrying concealed just for 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:30.360 some peace of mind, and the Wild West has not 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.120 been the result. So i'd point that out. But now 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.840 the big transition to the sponsor. Do you have peace 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:38.800 of mind when it comes to your retirement? Yea, I 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.200 do that every week. 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The speaker's statements are 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.760 not an endorsement of the firm. My segment about how 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.320 Pride events have crumbled over the last few years was 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.320 a popular one, and I was explaining that the members 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.760 of the Alphabet Army finally overplayed their hand with all 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:28.160 the multiple genders transgender stuff, a movement that started out 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.680 as gays and lesbians demanding equal rights or to be 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:34.200 included in political conversations, has turned into a militant and 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.560 socially poisonous freak show. This is a few decades later, 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.880 most reasonable people are rejecting it. Coming after our kids 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.599 with drag shows and trying to twist their adolescent minds 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.880 with gender treatments and gender reassignment surgeries was simply too 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:50.200 much for most reasonable people to find reasonable or continue 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.039 to support it has a lesbian on Acts named Cynthia 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.039 Holt posting something that I will clean up a bit 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.440 as a lesbian woman, I bleeping hate Pride Month with 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.200 every fiber of my being. He says, it makes us 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:05.600 look like absolute crap. The entire LGB has been hijacked 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:09.280 by groomers, men in cheap wigs with toilet paper tits, freaks, 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.920 duct taping their peanuts to their butts, pedophiles, fetish weirdos, 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.760 and every other kind of gross filth parading down the street. 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.920 She says, real gay, lesbian and bisexual people want nothing 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.080 to do with the circus. We just want to be 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.640 left alone. The LGB community condemns these degenerates and every 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:28.200 organization pandering to them. These sentiments stood out to me 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.200 because it's the sort of thing that gay and lesbian 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.720 listeners to my radio show would share with me or 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.000 email me every June or nearly every Pride month. I 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.800 did a conservative talk show for decades, and over those decades, 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.120 I had gay and lesbian listeners tell me this exact 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.560 same sort of thing that the Alphabet movement does not represent. 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.600 Most gays and lesbians. Most gays and lesbians want to 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.080 be seen as regular people who have all the same 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.680 sorts of interests and feelings and hopes as the rest 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:54.840 of us, and simply don't want to be vilified or 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.440 shut out of society because of who they find sexually 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.440 attractive or choose to love. And yet this group of 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.760 people are never quoted or given any media attention because 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.640 their comments on the movement don't fit the left wing narrative. 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:10.040 So I thought i'd pass that along. As another follow up, 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.200 I'd point you to a Gallup pole that seems to 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.000 verify the points that I was making on the last podcast. 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.840 This year's Gallup poll finds support for the so called 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:22.160 LGBTQ plus issues sliding backward. Polsters are calling this a 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:25.200 cultural shift, the average gay or lesbian would probably call 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:27.480 it proof that the perverts and the trans bullies have 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.840 ruined their brand. But Gallup found while a majority of 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:34.440 Americans still support legal same sex marriage that's about sixty 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.719 five percent, that figures dropped six percentage points from its 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:41.160 peak in twenty twenty two and twenty three. Meanwhile, moral 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.840 acceptance of gay and lesbian relationships has dipped to sixty 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.559 two percent, which Gallup says is the lowest point since 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:51.640 twenty sixteen. Public acceptance of gender transition has experienced an 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:53.640 even steeper decline over the last five years. 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:54.280 They say. 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.920 As of today, just thirty eight percent of Americans believe 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.640 changing one's gender is morally acceptable, down eight points since 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.920 twenty twenty one, and a fifty seven percent majority view 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:07.720 it as morally wrong. Wow. This cultural shift is largely 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:11.080 driven by Republicans and in Independence, they say, while Democrats 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.760 views on these issues have remained steady. Also interesting, on 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:18.480 attitudes towards same sex marriage among Republicans, support for legal 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.560 same sex marriage has plummeted to thirty seven percent, down 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:25.040 from fifty five percent majorities recorded in twenty twenty one 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:29.040 and twenty two. That is a significant decline. Independent attitudes 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.800 on gay marriage also saw a six point drop to 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:35.680 sixty seven percent. Gallup says. Another stark contrast is seen 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.360 on the issue of gender transition. Just five percent of 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:42.120 Republicans view changing one's gender as morally acceptable, compared to 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.360 forty two percent of Independence and sixty percent of Democrats. 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:47.720 I'd point to those stats as some of the most 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.720 revealing out of the entire batch. Let's step back when 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:54.640 asked whether changing genders is quote morally acceptable. Now we're 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.400 dealing on the morality plane here, not whether it should 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:00.640 be legal or normalized or encouraged, or do you support 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.800 gender transitioning. This is on the question of is changing 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.599 your gender moral? A whopping fifty eight percent of independence 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.199 say no, and even forty percent of Democrats say no. 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.560 That is interesting and is so called enlightened age. When 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.320 it comes to how society should treat alphabet people and 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.560 gender issues, sixty percent of moderates and forty percent of 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:25.680 Democrats considered gender transitioning immoral. Now that's interesting, and it 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.120 might explain why there's such a backlash to the trans 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:31.440 bullying and the they them wars and the pronoun bullying 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.440 when the leftists who launched the effort clearly thought they'd 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.640 have most Americans on their side. In short, this helps 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.600 explain the backlash to so called Pride Month and Pride 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.720 events over the last several years. The trans and gender 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.680 rights bullies absolutely co opted the movement and turned it 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:50.240 into an unappealing campaign that was nearly impossible for any 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:54.240 well meaning American to support. This poll also suggests that 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.280 our poster on AXSS correct the entire gay movement has 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.160 been hijacked by freaks and groomers that most decent people 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:04.960 can't support even when they're asked to. Interesting next topic 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:08.439 the American economy, which by every measure really does seem 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.080 to be roaring now, even if the average American is 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:13.440 telling polsters they don't really feel it or see it. 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:17.480 I'm finding this increasingly interesting and increasingly hard to believe, 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:21.120 because by nearly every measure, and certainly based on every 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.760 monthly governmental report, this Trump economy is really humming along. 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.680 And yes, gas prices have lifted the overall measure of 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:30.640 inflation higher. Some prices of some items at the grocery 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.480 store continue to creep up, but wages are starting to 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.760 outpace the cost of living again. Paychecks are growing, the 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:40.960 markets are on an incredible run. Layoffs are now rare. Heck, 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.040 this week we learn that the number of job openings 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.080 the country has is soaring again. There are suddenly around 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.679 seven point six million job openings in America, folks. That's 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.280 the highest number of job openings in nearly three years, 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.280 and it's evidence that companies are starting to hire again 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:59.120 and the demand for workers has intensified. Moreover, the biggest 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.240 chunk of new jobs available is in the manufacturing sector, 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.240 meaning they're likely better paying jobs that actually add to 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.400 a productive economy instead of jobs in government that only 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.240 drain tax payers and drain the economy, or even in 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:15.200 lower paying sector jobs like hospitality or retail. Folks, there 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.280 are nearly half a million job openings and manufacturing as 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.920 of now. That's great, this is good stuff. This is 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:24.600 all good news. It had economic guru Larry Cudlow talking 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.760 about this with his panel members, which included Stephen Moore. 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.840 Both Cudlow and Moore have been advisors to President Trump 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:34.680 and they helped create Trump's fantastic first term economy. They're 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.520 now beside themselves that according to the rest of the 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:41.000 news media, no one can see the incredible improvement in 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:42.920 this economy over the last year or so. 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:46.920 I think the policy outlook is yes, it's very very positive. Yes, 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:50.000 But I just think it's interesting to me, as Steve Moore, 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:55.600 that rampant pessimism which is promoted by the media, promoted 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:59.960 by Democrats maybe some Republicans, because all prices have jumped up, 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:04.720 they bumped up temperate, but the numbers don't bear that out. 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:10.520 And you know, business is in very good profitable shape 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:13.880 with lower taxes and deregulation. But look at the numbers, 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.840 Steve Moore, that's the point. People don't take the time 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:18.280 to look at the numbers. 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.200 Yeah, well we're blowing away the rest of the world too, Larry. 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.560 We're growing faster than everybody else. And look at our 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:27.120 stock market compared to China. We are winning because of Trump, 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.839 andoviis no question about it. I would just add two 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.320 points to what Arthur Laffer just said, and that you 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.760 just said. The investment numbers. I just love those, Larry. 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:37.680 I mean, we've never seen such an investment boom in 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:41.280 this country maybe ever going on. And the's sircond one 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:45.040 is is you know, at unleashed posterity. We're monitoring each 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:49.680 month the Census Bureau numbers on what's happened to family income. 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:50.520 I'm going to give you. 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:51.200 The scoop on this. 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.960 So we just did the April numbers. Since Trump came 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:58.000 into office in the second term, above inflation, the average 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.360 family has three dollars more of income. So even this 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:06.520 affordability crisis is kind of overrated. People have more disposable 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:08.440 income today than ever yeap. 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.480 People have more disposal income now than they did under 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.840 Joe Biden, certainly, and every governmental and private sector measure 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.960 is proving it. And yet in today's media, everything's got 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:19.880 to be terrible news, even if they have to lie 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.360 about it. In fact, Larry Kudlow went on to make 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.640 a point that today's news media is just an arm 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.640 of today's America hating left. It's one thing to have 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.400 me saying these same things as a regional influencer. They're 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.200 going to sound familiar, But to hear Cudlow say them 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.920 this bluntly at a national media level is fun to see. 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.400 Cudlow said, everything's got always got to be terrible for 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:43.360 today's liberal and they have their priorities really out of whack. 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:47.760 Today's Democrats don't mind Nazi tattoos. They want the southern 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:51.680 border to be open. Everything's always about racism or DEI 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:58.440 cashless bail, biological men and women's sports, arrest violent fouons 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.440 and then put them back out on This reads radical 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:05.720 abortion on demand and virtually no place for God in religion. 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:11.080 For some reason, these left wing Democratic Jacobins have completely 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:15.280 lost touch with working class folks, working class folks of 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:19.240 all colors, of all shapes, of all sizes, which is 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.880 why Donald Trump has whooped them two out of the 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:26.560 last three elections, maybe three out of the last three elections. 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.400 I love that last suggestion by Cudlough that Trump might 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:31.800 have actually won in twenty twenty. That's what he's referring to. 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.840 But when it comes to the economy, any honest examination 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.320 of the question are you voters better off than you 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.520 were four years ago? Has got to conclude yeah, you are. 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.280 Clay Travis posted some stats from twenty twenty two, which was, 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.000 of course, Joe Biden's midterm. In June of twenty two, 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.240 gas prices averaged over five dollars a gallon. Inflation was 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.240 nine point one percent, the murder rate was six people 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:56.080 per one hundred thousand. The S and P five hundred 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:59.000 was at thirty six seventy five. Four years later, you 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:01.680 have gas cheaper, inflation is roughly three three and a 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.440 half percent, the murder rate is down to four people 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:06.720 per one hundred thousand, and the S and P five 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.360 hundred is at seventy six hundred. That's more than double 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:13.880 four years ago. Those stats represent real progress. The editors 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.480 of Issues and Insights also looked back and say, let's 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.240 turn the dial back to June of twenty twenty two. 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.000 Joe Biden had been occupying the White House for a year. 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:21.320 And a half. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.720 Democrats controlled Congress. They handed him his two trillion dollar 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:28.240 bill back better spending extravaganza, and the economy had more 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.080 than recovered the ground it lost from COVID lockdowns. The 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.760 country should have been booming instead nine point one percent 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.040 inflation and stagnation, they say. In twenty twenty two, real 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.440 hourly wages were falling. Four years later, workers' incomes have 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:43.920 climbed out of that Biden hole, and wages are up 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:47.320 two percent, and unlike twenty twenty two, they're going up, 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.800 not down, so they're continuing to go up, they say. 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.320 The latest jobs data shows that there are six million 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:54.960 more private sector jobs today than there were a year ago. 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.600 That's the good news. The better news is that there 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:00.360 are one hundred and ninety thousand fewer federal workers than 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.480 there were in twenty twenty two. In April twenty twenty two, 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.480 the border patrol quote encountered two hundred and thirty four 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.560 thousand illegal border crossers, and of course they released almost 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.840 all of them into the US. In April of twenty 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:17.080 twenty six. Four years later, now they encountered about thirteen thousand, 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.600 and none were led into the country under Trump's administration. 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.639 These editors say the Dow Jones Industrial Average was at 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:25.919 about thirty three thousand at the end of May of 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:29.000 twenty twenty two and was moving sideways. This year, it's 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:32.400 at fifty one thousand. That's an increase of fifty six percent, 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:35.080 and it's been climbing for most of Trump's second term. 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:37.600 And they say, despite all the hue and cry over 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:39.960 gas prices, they're almost identical to where they were in 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:43.560 twenty twenty two, and I would note trending downward. Yeah, 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.240 gas prices are something the Democrats are glombed on too, 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.000 and they're going to try to flog right through the 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.679 elections because they're one of the few negatives that they 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.680 can actually spin and make sound terrible to the average voter. 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.119 They're also, frankly one of the few negatives when it 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.800 comes to the Trump economy. Over the last fourteen months, 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.439 Trump had gas price down to about two dollars and 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.520 forty cents a gallon until he decided we needed to 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:07.560 deal with Iran. We couldn't delay anymore because they're so 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.159 close to creating a nuclear bomb. And so it was 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.399 the Iran war that had gas prices skyrocketing back up 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:16.040 to about four to sixty a gallon on average before 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.840 they've started to slide back down again now, So the 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.080 honest caveat on gas prices has got to be Trump 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.840 and his team new gas prices were going to jump again, 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:26.960 but they had to do the hard work of eliminating 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.959 the Iranian nuclear threat. Now they have, and prices are 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.640 already coming down again. And so if voters really want 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:34.840 to hold a grudge against Trump and Republicans for that, 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:38.240 it's kind of silly. But of course the Democrats will 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:40.359 spin and lie as much as they can on that 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:42.959 one because it's the one economic attack they think they 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:46.240 can get voters to believe and get angry about. And yes, 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:49.080 as these editors continue, there are still soft spots in 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:52.199 the labor market, sure, but the economic turnaround that was 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.800 so desperately needed after Biden trashed up things has begun, 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:59.000 In fact, just fourteen months later. It's well under way. 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:02.479 If you're upset about that, you're really being foolish. I 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.080 agree with these editors at Issues and Insights as they 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.480 conclude we have always maintained that climbing out of the 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:10.600 Biden hole would be an arduous journey. And while we'd 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:12.480 argue that Trump could be doing a better job of 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:15.399 communicating as wins and staying focused on issues that every 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:18.200 day Americans care about, who's willing to claim that they're 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:20.560 better off in twenty twenty two than they are now. 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.600 So the question voters need to start asking themselves is 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:26.160 do they really want to hand control of anything back 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:30.000 to the Democrats, knowing the misery they caused four years ago. 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.879 The answer to that should obviously be no. And if 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.919 we had an honest media, one that was both cataloging 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:38.000 the economic wins that we've been seeing in this new 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:41.360 era of Trump as they've occurred, and as also honestly 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:44.400