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Speaker 2: Good Day, Welcome to the j Weber Podcast. We have
Speaker 2: so so much to talk about today. I want to
Speaker 2: talk about how, frankly, Americans deserved better than Barack Obama
Speaker 2: as their first black president. And what I mean by
Speaker 2: that is, you know, for all the trappings that the
Speaker 2: people and the media have built around this guy, and
Speaker 2: about the historical event, he's turned out to be a
Speaker 2: rather run of the mill Washington d Bag Anthony producer
Speaker 2: Gregory John here, Gregor, have you heard that? Have you
Speaker 2: heard Obama admit that Michelle can't get him to shut
Speaker 2: up in the politics their marriage?
Speaker 3: I have, But I always thought that Bill Clinton was
Speaker 3: the first black president. That's what you told me.
Speaker 2: Well, that is true, that's what he told us. I
Speaker 2: think it's true, but correct me if I'm wrong. In general,
Speaker 2: if spouse tells you to sit down and shut up,
Speaker 2: you're making an ass of yourself, aren't you. Isn't your
Speaker 2: spouse the best barometer on your behavior?
Speaker 3: I totally agree with you. I've been told that many
Speaker 3: many times, and I've heated that warning, so I'd sit
Speaker 3: down and shut up.
Speaker 2: There you go, Well that's what Michelle wants me to do.
Speaker 2: I also got a kick out of Rock's public invite
Speaker 2: now that his presidential center has completed and opened in Chicago.
Speaker 2: He said on Twitter, Michelle and I invite you to visit. Now,
Speaker 2: come on, Michelle doesn't give a tinker's damn about Yeah.
Speaker 3: And be sure to bring your ID because that's the
Speaker 3: only way you're going to get in there. It'll cost
Speaker 3: you thirty bucks.
Speaker 2: Wow, So you need an ID to get into that
Speaker 2: presidential center. Interesting. But other than feeling obligated to show
Speaker 2: up for some sort of ribbon cutting, I don't think
Speaker 2: Michelle will ever set foot in that place or have
Speaker 2: any interest in it.
Speaker 1: No, no, no.
Speaker 2: Hitting aside, though it's a topic for later in the podcast.
Speaker 2: How disappointing is it that America's first black president turned
Speaker 2: out to be a rather slick, liar and hypocrite, just
Speaker 2: like so many other presidents we've had. In fact, one
Speaker 2: way Obama will go down in history I think is
Speaker 2: worse than normal, is that, unlike every other president in history.
Speaker 2: He doesn't have the decency or the discipline is simp
Speaker 2: go silent and enjoy his retirement instead of sticking around
Speaker 2: and still engaging in cheap politics. So we'll talk about that.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about why Donald Trump's power is
Speaker 2: increasing over the Republican Party at a time that he's
Speaker 2: supposed to be becoming a lame duck. I find it
Speaker 2: really interesting and historically unique. Normally, you would start out
Speaker 2: with the full support of your party, or like ninety
Speaker 2: five percent or so, and then as you do the job,
Speaker 2: you can sort of tank or trail off from there.
Speaker 2: Trump it's different because in twenty twenty six he came
Speaker 2: in with whatever it was, eighty eighty five percent of
Speaker 2: Republican support, because you had a chunk of Republicans who
Speaker 2: really didn't trust him, didn't like him. Over time, he
Speaker 2: has earned their trust. So it's interesting that he's gotten
Speaker 2: a firmer grip on this party as he's supposed to
Speaker 2: becoming a lame duck. We'll talk about the Democrats socialist
Speaker 2: ruining of big cities. More on that, and how the
Speaker 2: CEOs of major retailers need to stop being nice and
Speaker 2: start blasting local officials. They needed to just start making
Speaker 2: it clear we cannot operate a business in high crime neighborhoods.
Speaker 2: You just have to deal with the all that and
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Speaker 2: I see that Walgreens Corporate has confirmed it's shutting down
Speaker 2: another Walgreens in Milwaukee's Inner City. This one's at twenty
Speaker 2: seven to the north, and you could have guessed it.
Speaker 2: Walgreens is closing the store due to shoplifting and crime.
Speaker 2: Quote persistent safety problems is how the company tried to
Speaker 2: delicately put it. Walgreens put out a statement saying that
Speaker 2: protecting our customers and team members remains our top priority,
Speaker 2: and despite our actions and investments in private security, persistent
Speaker 2: safety challenges that our North Avenue store do not allow
Speaker 2: us to operate sustainably. We continue to operate other Walgreen
Speaker 2: stores in the city blah blah blah. So as of
Speaker 2: June twenty third, that location will be closed. The Milwaukee
Speaker 2: Journal Sentinel and other left wing news outlets tried to
Speaker 2: blame this on declining profits, But it's really about crime
Speaker 2: after all, what is causing their profits to decline?
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 2: And yes, as part of the wider and slow rolling
Speaker 2: move toward home delivery and ordering off of the internet. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the Walgreens company has been dealing with declining profits at
Speaker 2: its brick and mortar stores. In twenty twenty four, Walgreen
Speaker 2: said that it was going to close down and phase
Speaker 2: out about twelve hundred stores across the country over the
Speaker 2: next several years. We're in the midst of that, and
Speaker 2: of course you would start closing the least profitable stores
Speaker 2: as well as the high crime stores, because gee, there's
Speaker 2: an awful lot of crossover on that list, isn't there.
Speaker 2: What locations are going to bring in the least amount
Speaker 2: of money, Well, it's the ones in the scariest neighborhoods
Speaker 2: and those seeing the most amount of theft. Right. But
Speaker 2: you can't blame the closure of this twenty seventh and
Speaker 2: No location on declining profits without explaining what's keeping the
Speaker 2: location from being more profitable for Walgreens. Nor can you
Speaker 2: point to the profit as a sole motive. The company
Speaker 2: itself cites the inability to keep its employees and its
Speaker 2: customers safe. Translation, crime is literally driving us out of
Speaker 2: this location. The leftists who run these cities and refuse
Speaker 2: to deal with the high crime always want to pivot
Speaker 2: and blame the company's leaders for being racist, for being uncaring,
Speaker 2: and they never want to acknowledge that this business is
Speaker 2: literally being driven out by high crime. And it's not
Speaker 2: just Walgreens or Pick and Saves around here. It's every
Speaker 2: major retailer in the country. Their CEOs and board members
Speaker 2: have been forced to close locations in Chicago's, Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland, Portland,
Speaker 2: and the story is always the same, high crime is
Speaker 2: driving us out. But the leaders of those communities can't
Speaker 2: admit that they and their feckless policies are responsible for
Speaker 2: the high crime, so they always deflect. They always try
Speaker 2: to blame the company and vilify its CEO as the
Speaker 2: greedy bad guy. In fact, we're seeing that play out
Speaker 2: again in Chicago over a separate Walgreens location that's closing.
Speaker 2: There's a Democrat alderman in Chicago who wants to criminally
Speaker 2: charge Walgreens. Get this, he wants to criminally charge Walgreens
Speaker 2: for closing one of its failing stores in his district.
Speaker 2: What a tool. As the lead line in the story
Speaker 2: puts it, another pharmacy is leaving Chicago because of theft,
Speaker 2: and somehow the villain of the story is not the
Speaker 2: people stealing from it. The villain is apparently the business itself,
Speaker 2: which finally decided it had had enough and decided to
Speaker 2: cut its losses. That not only sums it up, but
Speaker 2: it's a good illustration of what and who today's leftists are.
Speaker 2: They want to blame the company being victimized, not the criminals.
Speaker 2: The Chicago Sun Times says Democratic alderman William Hall joined
Speaker 2: residents outside the store Monday, where signs read Senior Lives
Speaker 2: Matter and n corporate abandonment. Walgreens should be charged with
Speaker 2: first degree corporate abandonment. Paul said, it should be a
Speaker 2: crime the way they're treating our elders, It should be
Speaker 2: a crime the way they're treating our families. This is
Speaker 2: even after Walgreens made its reasoning clear. The company said
Speaker 2: the stores experienced quote significantly higher levels of theft and
Speaker 2: violent incidents than our other locations, and they said ongoing
Speaker 2: safety issues have made it difficult to protect their workers
Speaker 2: and customers, a very similar story to twenty seventh the
Speaker 2: North here in Milwaukee. The same Chicago Times report said
Speaker 2: that at least seven Walgreen stores on the South Side
Speaker 2: of Chicago have closed or are set to close since
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Theft and crime are making it impossible
Speaker 2: to do business in those neighborhoods, and the so called
Speaker 2: leaders in that community want to deny reality and ignore
Speaker 2: the criminal hellhole that is their neighborhood. And the Democrats
Speaker 2: and ridiculous Democrats socialists who are running all of these cities,
Speaker 2: they all sound the same. Not a single one of
Speaker 2: them wants to deal with the high crime that is
Speaker 2: the big, fat common denominator when it comes to America's
Speaker 2: largest cities. They're all run by Democrats who long ago
Speaker 2: decided to side with the criminals and the thugs and
Speaker 2: pretend as if there's nothing they can do to improve
Speaker 2: their neighborhood or make it safer. And it is that
Speaker 2: attitude that should be criminal. This nit wit of an alderman,
Speaker 2: William Hall, isn't standing up for his community. He's not
Speaker 2: leading anything or doing any good whatsoever for that neighborhood,
Speaker 2: and everyone knows it, just as everyone knows that no
Speaker 2: amount of protesting or racial accusations are actually going to
Speaker 2: save these businesses. If these democrats want to quote help
Speaker 2: their communities and help the poor and the elderly who
Speaker 2: live in them, they need to start with helping the
Speaker 2: business community and dealing with the high crime. They need
Speaker 2: to make it a livable area. But William Hall is
Speaker 2: just a cookie cutter Democrat these days. He sounds like
Speaker 2: too much of a lazy coward in an empty suit
Speaker 2: to do anything, and he exemplifies your average inner city,
Speaker 2: your big city democrat. But hey, I've been watching these
Speaker 2: same dramas for so long that I can no longer
Speaker 2: feel sorry for the people in those neighborhoods. So long
Speaker 2: as they keep voting for idiots and frauds like William Hall,
Speaker 2: stop electing the same people and expecting a different result.
Speaker 2: The old cliche that you get the government you vote
Speaker 2: for couldn't be any more true than it is in
Speaker 2: this era. The residents of these big cities have been
Speaker 2: voting almost exclusively Democrat for six or seven decades, in
Speaker 2: some cases over one hundred years, for the same Democrat party,
Speaker 2: the same types of Democrat lawmakers. And they've been doing
Speaker 2: it as their situations have only ever gotten worse and
Speaker 2: worse and worse. The majority of the voters in Chicago
Speaker 2: were dumb enough to vote for Brandon Johnson, after they
Speaker 2: were dumb enough to vote for Lori Lightfoot, after they
Speaker 2: were dumb enough to vote for Ram Emmanuel, etc. Look
Speaker 2: at what's going on in New York. After those voters
Speaker 2: were dumb enough to vote for Bil de Blasio and
Speaker 2: Eric Adams, they tripled down on Zoran Mamdani, a socialist
Speaker 2: who's now getting his giggles out of driving billionaires in
Speaker 2: the New York's most productive citizens and job creators out
Speaker 2: of New York City folks. This war, Mom Donnie is
Speaker 2: in with Ken Griffin and Citadel is so stupid. It's
Speaker 2: so stupid. Even Mayor Eric Adams set it on ACX
Speaker 2: this week he posted Mayor Mom Donnie's video targeting Ken
Speaker 2: Griffin and using his home as a prop traded thousands
Speaker 2: of real, good paying jobs in our city for social
Speaker 2: media likes. The video was irresponsible and the mayor should
Speaker 2: do the right thing and apologize. Mom Donnie won't. Instead,
Speaker 2: he's only doubling and tripling down. And this was no surprise.
Speaker 2: New York's Governor Kathy Holkel, who's basically a socialist her self,
Speaker 2: is too spineless to push back or reign in Mom
Speaker 2: Donnie either. This attack on Griffin and quote rich people
Speaker 2: in New York by Mom Donnie had Ken Griffin immediately saying,
Speaker 2: I guess we at Citadel are going to have to
Speaker 2: reevaluate our relationship with New York City and take another
Speaker 2: look at an expansion of our headquarters here that's underway.
Speaker 2: After all, New York City and State are the most
Speaker 2: expensive place in which to do business in America, and
Speaker 2: he said they're feeling less and less like they need
Speaker 2: to be there. Does the average America know that Dallas
Speaker 2: is basically becoming the new New York. I don't think
Speaker 2: the average person knows just how much New York and
Speaker 2: LA big business has already shifted to Dallas and Houston,
Speaker 2: as the CEOs and corporate boards are smart enough to
Speaker 2: flee the highly time blue areas whose Democrat leaders now
Speaker 2: just effing hate them, on top of all of the
Speaker 2: taxes they've been paying for decades. And if you thought
Speaker 2: billionaires and businesses were fleeing the blue state areas before,
Speaker 2: as they've slowly been for about two decades, now, just
Speaker 2: watch what happens as socialists fully take over the Democrat
Speaker 2: Party and they share their open disdain for these businesses.
Speaker 2: You know, traditional Democrats have played both sides of the
Speaker 2: situation forever. Traditionally, Democrats have constantly criticized the rich and
Speaker 2: bashed big business, even as they realized they needed them
Speaker 2: for jobs and for economic prosperity. And actually most of
Speaker 2: those Democrats wanted to be among them. So Democrats over
Speaker 2: the last century at least have realized the importance of
Speaker 2: job creators and the economic drivers of their communities. But
Speaker 2: not this batch of true socialists who've taken over the
Speaker 2: Democrat Party in most blue states and blue communities, and
Speaker 2: who are very close to taking over control of the
Speaker 2: national Party. Ken Griffin was sitting on a business panel
Speaker 2: this week and he shocked the lefty moderator and the
Speaker 2: members the crowd by saying, I'm serious the work on
Speaker 2: our New York expansion may be halted because our board
Speaker 2: members have already decided our shift from Chicago to Miami
Speaker 2: was brilliant. You'll hear the moderator ask about the New
Speaker 2: York address.
Speaker 4: Where does that leave us at three to fifty?
Speaker 5: Part that leaves us with the fact that we went
Speaker 5: to Miami and revised our building, planned to make it
Speaker 5: a bigger office building.
Speaker 2: You're bailing.
Speaker 5: So what do we do with three fifties is still
Speaker 5: a point of discussion internally. But what is no longer
Speaker 5: a point of discussion is that Miami is now. You know,
Speaker 5: when we moved from Chicago, there was a debate between
Speaker 5: New York and Miami. It's unquestionably true that we made
Speaker 5: the right choice. I'll leave it at that. It's unquestionably
Speaker 5: true that we made the right choice. And now and now,
Speaker 5: what the Mayor of New York has made clear to
Speaker 5: my partners, and principally my New York partners, my New
Speaker 5: York Partners is that we need to double down on
Speaker 5: our bet in Miami because we want to be in
Speaker 5: a state that embraces that embraces business, that embraces education,
Speaker 5: that embraces personal freedom and liberty, and that embraces people
Speaker 5: having an opportunity to live the American dream.
Speaker 2: I wish there were a thousand Ken Griffins in corporate America.
Speaker 2: I wish every other CEO and board member of a
Speaker 2: major company would finally stop trying to be diplomatic when
Speaker 2: it comes to this situation. Walgreen should admit high crime
Speaker 2: is driving us out of this neighborhood. Don't put out
Speaker 2: in melium mouthed r cryptic statements. Don't leave room for
Speaker 2: lefty spin or misinterpretation. Come out and say it. Until
Speaker 2: Chicago's South Side deals with its crime problem and has
Speaker 2: safe neighborhoods, we cannot have stores in these neighborhoods. And
Speaker 2: I would say cannot not, will not. Don't leave any
Speaker 2: suggestion that doing business in these hell whole neighborhoods is
Speaker 2: really a choice. Make it clear to lawmakers and the public.
Speaker 2: Until you deal with the crime and make this neighborhood safe,
Speaker 2: businesses cannot operate here. That burdens on you, not corporate America.
Speaker 2: Ken Griffin is right about Mam Donnie's attack on the
Speaker 2: productive business class, and job creators and others like him
Speaker 2: in Manhattan should be rushing to side with him and
Speaker 2: amplify that message. Even most Democrats know how stupid it
Speaker 2: is to start a war like this. We're told that
Speaker 2: the pathetic Kathy Hokel asked for a private meeting with
Speaker 2: Ken Griffin so she could grovel and beg and try
Speaker 2: to calm him down and keep Citadel's location in New York.
Speaker 2: But publicly, this dingbat has been agreeing with Zoorn Mamdani
Speaker 2: and his calls for even higher taxes and echoing his
Speaker 2: attacks on billionaires. What a dangerous waste of skin Kathy
Speaker 2: Holkel is. But hey, you know what, hold no illusions.
Speaker 2: Hokel is the favorite to win a second term, which
Speaker 2: gets us right back to the people get the government
Speaker 2: they vote for. If after several years of terrible, awful
Speaker 2: decisions by Kathy Hokel, the people of New York simply
Speaker 2: vote to give her another term, then that's on them.
Speaker 2: Democrats in these blue areas just keep voting for their
Speaker 2: own decay, their own abuse, their own destruction. At some point,
Speaker 2: the rest of us need to stop feeling sorry for them.
Speaker 2: As Griffin said this week, Mom Donnie is making it
Speaker 2: really clear New York doesn't welcome success. Griffin offered to
Speaker 2: purchase a copy of Animal Farm for every ninth grader
Speaker 2: in New York and challenged Mom Donnie to let it happen.
Speaker 2: He said, give me a shipping address. I'll ship them
Speaker 2: out right away. Animal Farm is an allegory written by
Speaker 2: George Orwell that warns against the dangers of socialism and communism.
Speaker 2: And no, it's not coming out as a movie soon.
Speaker 2: This is a good aside to just note for all
Speaker 2: sorts of parents and grandparents in the audience. The maker
Speaker 2: of that film apparently destroyed George Orwell's work and message
Speaker 2: and intention, and they make it more of a children's cartoon.
Speaker 2: They give it an anti capitalist message instead of an
Speaker 2: anti communist message. So don't be tricked into taking your
Speaker 2: kids or grandkids to see that movie thinking it's an
Speaker 2: accurate adaptation of the book. Once again, Hollywood has ruined it.
Speaker 2: But the number and level of new taxes that Zorn
Speaker 2: Mamdanni wants to impose on every middle and upper class
Speaker 2: New Yorker is staggering, simply staggering, and so far, the
Speaker 2: only question is whether Kathy Hulka will be dumb enough
Speaker 2: and weak enough to go along with most of them.
Speaker 2: Mam Donnie inherited a five billion dollar budget shortfall from
Speaker 2: Eric Adams, basically, and he wants to spend tens of
Speaker 2: billions more on socialist freebies like free buses, free childcare,
Speaker 2: So he spent the last month rolling out all sorts
Speaker 2: of new taxes that he and the New York socialists
Speaker 2: find reasonable. His ideas make it clear he's not just
Speaker 2: going to slam the rich with new taxes. He also
Speaker 2: fully intends to slam the middle class and basically slam
Speaker 2: any New Yorker who actually works. Mam Donnie wants to
Speaker 2: nearly double New York State's corporate tax. He wants to
Speaker 2: impose a two percent wealth tax and steal a chunk
Speaker 2: of everyone's wealth every year if he thinks they're rich.
Speaker 2: He wants to increase the overall property tax rate on
Speaker 2: New York property, which by the way, is taxing everyone
Speaker 2: everyone right down to the renters in small businesses. He
Speaker 2: wants to lower the bar on who is subject to
Speaker 2: the estate tax, making it apply to virtually anyone who
Speaker 2: dies with virtually any amount of accumulated wealth, and he
Speaker 2: wants to raise the highest level of a state tax
Speaker 2: to fifty percent, as in, if you die what he
Speaker 2: thinks is rich in New York, the government will immediately
Speaker 2: take half of your estate half. And as one summary
Speaker 2: put it, of course, Mamdani and his new government aren't
Speaker 2: even considering reforms or cutting nakedly wasteful spending.
Speaker 4: Quote.
Speaker 2: New York City could cut costs by eliminating wasteful social programs,
Speaker 2: removing ineffective initiatives such as DEI, restricting benefits for illegal immigrants,
Speaker 2: and reducing fraud in Medicaid, childcare and food stamp programs.
Speaker 2: These common sense objectives would save the Big Apple billions
Speaker 2: and balance the budget without painfully hiking taxes, because when
Speaker 2: taxes go up, the city's tax base goes down. But
Speaker 2: you can't expect lazy, clueless Democrats and their new socialist
Speaker 2: masters to do that. No, no, no, I mean, come on,
Speaker 2: be real. Consider that just over the last three years
Speaker 2: or so, nearly a million people have fled New York
Speaker 2: State for lower taxt red states. This is a Heritage
Speaker 2: Foundation stat Just over the last three years or so,
Speaker 2: eight hundred and eighty thousand people have left New York
Speaker 2: State in disgust. Now, consider that the real socialism and
Speaker 2: the really bad new taxes and tax increases haven't even
Speaker 2: happened yet. Just consider that now that New York City
Speaker 2: has a true socialist as a mayor and a city
Speaker 2: council who's willing to go along with them, thrilled to
Speaker 2: go along with them, Consider how that's going to turn out.
Speaker 2: Consider how many of New York State and New York
Speaker 2: City's major businesses and productive citizens are going to start leaving. Now,
Speaker 2: it's clear that this mass exodus of people from the
Speaker 2: blue states to the red is only going to continue,
Speaker 2: and it is very likely going to speed up as
Speaker 2: the loony lefties who remain in those blue states and
Speaker 2: cities just further consolidate their power and impose their socialism
Speaker 2: onto the idiots who keep voting for them. This is
Speaker 2: at least temporarily going to get a lot worse in
Speaker 2: the blue states and cities before it gets better. We've
Speaker 2: talked about how the left wing media has been relentless
Speaker 2: in this notion. Donald Trump is losing support. The American
Speaker 2: people have given up on him, even eight and ten
Speaker 2: people who voted for him in twenty twenty four now
Speaker 2: regret it, etc. I'm sure you've seen this nonsense, and
Speaker 2: it's been relentless. Meanwhile, the polls have consistently shown that
Speaker 2: the president's approval rating within his own party has only increased,
Speaker 2: as in, you know, if eighty five percent of Republicans
Speaker 2: said they supported Trump in his first term, well ninety
Speaker 2: three percent say they support him now. As the left
Speaker 2: wing pundits have blathered incessantly and spread false information around,
Speaker 2: the grip that President Trump has had on his own
Speaker 2: party has only gotten stronger, especially in term two. And
Speaker 2: I have a theory as to why this is, and
Speaker 2: I know I'm right. The reason support for Trump has
Speaker 2: only grown steadily within his own party is that he
Speaker 2: has now had years to prove A he's the real
Speaker 2: deal and he will try hard to keep his campaign promises,
Speaker 2: and B he really is the plate spinner. He's moving
Speaker 2: forward on all sorts of issues that are important to
Speaker 2: Republicans and conservatives and trying to get them accomplished. The
Speaker 2: accomplished news media outlets don't want to report on numerous
Speaker 2: reforms and wins that the Trump administration is racking up
Speaker 2: in term two, but that doesn't mean they aren't happening.
Speaker 2: Examples like strengthening are all of the above energy policy, finally,
Speaker 2: rooting out fraud within the governmental machine across all sorts
Speaker 2: of federal agencies and social service programs, protecting our children
Speaker 2: from the trans bullying, restoring norms and education and science,
Speaker 2: and trying to snuff out DEI and critical race theory.
Speaker 2: The list goes on. My theory on why President Trump
Speaker 2: has probably the highest level of support within the Republican
Speaker 2: Party that he's ever had is that he has proven
Speaker 2: he's someone worthy of their approval. He really has turned
Speaker 2: out to be something different. The man is redefining the
Speaker 2: presidency for future Republican presidents, and just as importantly, he's
Speaker 2: doing it at a time in which the Democrat Party,
Speaker 2: in his political opposition, looks particularly extreme and foolish. Trust me,
Speaker 2: this is helping Donald Trump. The Democrat Party has been
Speaker 2: taken over by socialists and social and political extremists. Trump
Speaker 2: and his pro America, pro common sense stances look rate
Speaker 2: when contrasted with the radical crap Today's Democrats are pushing,
Speaker 2: So it isn't a surprise to me to see Tuesday's
Speaker 2: results out of the Republican strongholds like Indiana and Ohio.
Speaker 2: The same leftist media whose members keep insisting Donald Trump
Speaker 2: has lost the support of the American people, had to
Speaker 2: do an about face after five of the seven Indiana
Speaker 2: state senators who Trump had targeted for defeat were defeated.
Speaker 2: The Indiana results sent a strong signal to every other
Speaker 2: Republican in America, and it was this, ignore or angered
Speaker 2: Donald Trump at your own risk. This man not only
Speaker 2: still controls the Republican Party, but he has a stronger
Speaker 2: grip on it than he ever did in term one.
Speaker 2: And here's the thing. I mean, here's the analysis that
Speaker 2: you aren't likely to get elsewhere. Donald Trump is bucking
Speaker 2: history and historical patterns yet again here because he's in
Speaker 2: his second year of his second term. And now is
Speaker 2: the time in which any normal president would start to
Speaker 2: be a lame duck and his own party members would
Speaker 2: start to feel like it's okay to break with him.
Speaker 2: Now is the time in any two term presidency that
Speaker 2: the person in the White House becomes more vulnerable to
Speaker 2: criticism and attacks from his own side of the aisle.
Speaker 2: Now's the time that a president's own party members can
Speaker 2: start to feel good about bucking their own president and
Speaker 2: or criticizing their own president to try to set up
Speaker 2: their next run for office. Donald Trump can't run for
Speaker 2: a third term. He's not going to be around much longer, right.
Speaker 2: I know most of you savvy listeners know this, but
Speaker 2: some of the younger listeners and those who are newer
Speaker 2: to politics might not. Once it's clear that any president
Speaker 2: is on his way out and will no longer be
Speaker 2: able to be the head of the party, the jockeying
Speaker 2: to replace him starts, and the criticism from his own
Speaker 2: party members who are running in other elected positions around
Speaker 2: the country, they start to spill into the open. Those
Speaker 2: elected officials who want to remain in office beyond that
Speaker 2: president start to form their own political excuses. They feel
Speaker 2: freer to tell the media and the voters why didn't
Speaker 2: agree with the president's decision on that. So this is
Speaker 2: the time in President Trump's second term that all of
Speaker 2: the so called smart pundits and smart political insiders are
Speaker 2: expecting to see disappointed Republican voters and elected gopf faws
Speaker 2: turn against Trump and start to openly criticize him. This
Speaker 2: is the time when House and Senate Republicans who want
Speaker 2: to keep their jobs beyond twenty twenty eight would start
Speaker 2: to feel like they can break with the president, start
Speaker 2: to openly disagree with him or criticize him on controversial
Speaker 2: issues to elevate themselves. But this isn't a normal presidency.
Speaker 2: Look at where we are with Donald Trump. He's a
Speaker 2: guy who is so controversial coming into office that he
Speaker 2: managed to win the votes of all sorts of non
Speaker 2: traditional voters in twenty sixteen, as a sizeable chunk of
Speaker 2: Republican voters refuse to vote for him. So now ten
Speaker 2: years later, and after they've seen President Trump try hard
Speaker 2: to keep his promises and clean up the swamp, etc.
Speaker 2: Now a sizeable number of that chunk of voters who
Speaker 2: refuse to vote for him in twenty sixteen are on
Speaker 2: board and say they support the job he's doing. The
Speaker 2: net effect has been Donald Trump has only grown stronger
Speaker 2: within his party over time. Donald Trump has a firmer
Speaker 2: grip on his party at the end of his eight
Speaker 2: year tenure than he did when he started. This is unique.
Speaker 2: What the heck does that mean? It's another historical anomaly
Speaker 2: when it comes to Trump. Just as Donald Trump's endorsement
Speaker 2: shouldn't mean as much as it once did, the results
Speaker 2: in Indiana and Ohio have just shown us that Trump's
Speaker 2: endorsement actually means more than it has for Republican voters.
Speaker 2: Not less, five of these state senators in Indiana got
Speaker 2: simply smoked in their primaries after they refuse to go
Speaker 2: along with the president's redistricting plan for that state. And
Speaker 2: I'm certain that most assumed that they would survive the
Speaker 2: Trump criticism no problem, because they were longtime electeds in
Speaker 2: their own districts. My district loves me, and because quote,
Speaker 2: you know, Donald Trump and his endorsement have lost their power.
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 2: Do you still think so as you suddenly find yourself
Speaker 2: on the unemployment line? Folks, this is a flashing warning
Speaker 2: to any Republican at any level of government as we
Speaker 2: approach the fall elections and in twenty twenty eight. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Donald Trump is entering the back half of his second term.
Speaker 2: But you're a dimwit if you can't see that He's
Speaker 2: a rare president whose power and influence have grown stronger
Speaker 2: as his presidency has. Tuesday's results are a strong sign
Speaker 2: that the party's voters are now more willing than ever
Speaker 2: to trust President Trump's opinion and very importantly, trust President
Speaker 2: Trump's vision for the future of the party and the country.
Speaker 2: I'm a person who famously says, after a normal off
Speaker 2: your election or regional primary, you can't read too much
Speaker 2: into these results. Don't make the mistake of thinking this
Speaker 2: win or that win has a larger meeting for the party, etc.
Speaker 2: But in the instance of Tuesday's election results, it does.
Speaker 2: The message was loud and clear. The voters in the
Speaker 2: Red States are ready to see younger, louder, more mavericky
Speaker 2: leaders atop the Republican Party. Reagan was our last great president,
Speaker 2: and Trump is turning out to be our next great president.
Speaker 2: The bulk of the American people can already see it.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you. I'm telling you they see it. Even
Speaker 2: if this a noise, any liberals listening trust me, Even
Speaker 2: on the Democrat side of the aisle and the insider left,
Speaker 2: they know that Trump is going to be remembered as
Speaker 2: a great and consequential president. A controversial one too, yes,
Speaker 2: but so was so was JFK. You can't have great
Speaker 2: presidents who do great things without having them also be
Speaker 2: controversial and hated by other groups of people during their time.
Speaker 2: Part of the greatness is overcoming the adversarial nature of
Speaker 2: the job. But trust me, today's Democrats, from Bill and
Speaker 2: Hillary to Chuck Schumer, to James Carville to Rachel Maddow
Speaker 2: to the DC and political insiders whose names you'll never know,
Speaker 2: they understand that Trump is going to be remembered as
Speaker 2: an historical and influential president, a great president. I'm thinking
Speaker 2: he'll be viewed as a great president when the American
Speaker 2: people have a better view of his greatness in retrospect.
Speaker 2: That's what's feeling so much of their anger in Trump
Speaker 2: arrangement syndrome. On the left. The young activists might just
Speaker 2: be haters to hate. They have no sense of history
Speaker 2: and no sense of what makes for a great and
Speaker 2: consequential president. But trust me, the older Democrat leaders and
Speaker 2: those party insiders do. It's driving them crazy that Trump
Speaker 2: is finding all the fraud and ending all their fraudulent schemes.
Speaker 2: That's infuriatingly unfair to them. But then think that he's
Speaker 2: going to get historical core credit for doing it. He'll
Speaker 2: have monuments built to him for doing it. It really
Speaker 2: makes their brains swell, and the Kaffer for me will
Speaker 2: be can we follow up the second term of Trump
Speaker 2: with another Republican who simply looks like more of the
Speaker 2: same pro America government instead of what the insane socialist
Speaker 2: left is selling. These Democrats are so convinced they're going
Speaker 2: to win in twenty twenty eight as a reaction by
Speaker 2: the country to Trump that if they don't, it is
Speaker 2: going to be crushing, just devastating to them. If we
Speaker 2: can get a Rubio or a Vans in office to
Speaker 2: act as a verification that yes, the American people really
Speaker 2: liked Trump and they want to keep his vision of
Speaker 2: America going, well, that'd be stellar. That would cement Donald
Speaker 2: Trump's position in history as a great president, and in
Speaker 2: combined with the new census and the redrawn voter apportionment
Speaker 2: for the twenty thirties, it would lead to a great
Speaker 2: new era of Republican control. Not necessarily conservative control, at
Speaker 2: least not consistently conservative, but it would lead to a
Speaker 2: great new era of Republican control. But getting back to
Speaker 2: Tuesday's results, when it comes to the seven squishy Indiana
Speaker 2: Republicans who stood in the way of their leaders, redrawing
Speaker 2: their maps this year. What did they accomplish? They find
Speaker 2: themselves unemployed. These men thought they were taking the moral
Speaker 2: high ground and refusing to play hardball politics. They in
Speaker 2: good conscience couldn't help their own party gain an advantage
Speaker 2: in Indiana, so they bucked and infuriated Trump, only to
Speaker 2: watch the Democrats turn around and cheat like mad in
Speaker 2: Virginia and prove that the other side of the aisle
Speaker 2: is playing for keeps. The Democrats are playing hardball and
Speaker 2: they will destroy everyone who doesn't agree with them, and you,
Speaker 2: squishy Republicans are too afraid or too clueless to fight back.
Speaker 2: These Indiana Republicans learned a hard lesson this week. And
Speaker 2: by the way, none of this that I've been talking
Speaker 2: about necessarily affects the fall elections. I want to make
Speaker 2: that clear. This doesn't necessarily affect whether the Republicans retain
Speaker 2: control of the House and the Senate this year. This
Speaker 2: is all sort of a larger snapshot of today's Republican
Speaker 2: party that I've been talking about. When it comes to
Speaker 2: this falls races. Yeah, Trump and Republicans have a hill
Speaker 2: to climb. I doubt they keep control of the House,
Speaker 2: but maybe maybe I'd point out that despite the relentless
Speaker 2: drumming from the lefty media insisting that this is going
Speaker 2: to be a Republican wife out, most of the voter
Speaker 2: polls I'm seeing show that Republicans are actually in a
Speaker 2: dead heat on the electoral question for Fall, as in,
Speaker 2: if the election was held today, which party would you
Speaker 2: vote for? A small flurry of new polling this week
Speaker 2: shows a virtual dead heat on that question, which has
Speaker 2: some people on the right excited and seeing it as
Speaker 2: evidence that the pundits have it all wrong. They're prevailing
Speaker 2: narrative that Democrats are headed toward big wins is wrong. Well,
Speaker 2: my take has been I'm not convinced it's going to
Speaker 2: be a blue wave election in Fall, even if it
Speaker 2: follows the historical pattern of being a better year for
Speaker 2: Democrats than it is for Republicans. That would be the
Speaker 2: historical expectation, and it would mimic the historical pattern that
Speaker 2: after any flip in the White House, that president's party
Speaker 2: loses big in Congress in the next election. I do
Speaker 2: think that Democrats will probably retake the House and fall
Speaker 2: but keep the Senate. If I had to make a
Speaker 2: prediction today, that would be it yeah, I think the
Speaker 2: Democrats regain some seats in the House, but I don't
Speaker 2: think we're headed for any sort of genuine blue wave
Speaker 2: or blue tsunami election. After all, the Democrats only need
Speaker 2: to flip how many seats in order to retake control
Speaker 2: of the House. Is it three or four? It's not
Speaker 2: a high bar to clear. But I think there's at
Speaker 2: least a chance that Republicans shock the country and actually
Speaker 2: retain control after this fall's elections. And if they do,
Speaker 2: it will be because of two things. First, because the
Speaker 2: Democrat Party genuinely is a mess right now. They continue
Speaker 2: to make the mistake of pushing extreme agenda items like
Speaker 2: defunding the police, vilifying ice, demanding open borders, calling for
Speaker 2: more and higher taxes. So the first reason the Republicans
Speaker 2: may pull off a shok or this fall is because
Speaker 2: they aren't the party of crazy. They aren't the party
Speaker 2: of rabidly anti America ideas the Democrats are. The second
Speaker 2: reason would be the economy. The biggest worry for President
Speaker 2: Trump and Republicans obviously is the economy. If they can
Speaker 2: point to an improving economy, even after taking on Iran
Speaker 2: and ending that forty year threat to the West. I
Speaker 2: think republic Ablicans can survive this fall and maybe even
Speaker 2: pick up a few seats in the House. But that's
Speaker 2: a big if because while there's zero doubt that the
Speaker 2: economy has improved significantly from the Biden era, the front
Speaker 2: line or line of sight measures that so many people
Speaker 2: use to make their own personal evaluation still doesn't look good.
Speaker 2: Four or five dollars gasoline and still high grocery prices
Speaker 2: don't look like progress to the average American. It matters
Speaker 2: that most Americans don't really pay attention to politics or
Speaker 2: the daily news, because that means most of us are
Speaker 2: making our choices at the ballot box based on feelings
Speaker 2: rather than facts. And it matters that most Americans are
Speaker 2: still struggling after years of higher inflation and higher interest
Speaker 2: rates and now higher gas prices. It matters that on
Speaker 2: the line of site stuff, Trump and the Republicans haven't
Speaker 2: kept their promises as the average American now sees it.
Speaker 2: Gallup is still a largely reputable polling organization, and they
Speaker 2: just found that more Americans feel worse off financially than
Speaker 2: at any point in the last twenty five years. You
Speaker 2: can point to all all the official government stats. When
Speaker 2: it comes to how we measure an economy, and you
Speaker 2: can say, yeah, nearly all of those measures proved that
Speaker 2: Trump's economy is far healthier than the Biden economy was,
Speaker 2: and it is. But when it comes to the people's
Speaker 2: personal perceptions, Gallup says, fifty five percent of respondents say
Speaker 2: their financial situation is getting worse, and that's up from
Speaker 2: fifty three percent last year. That number is higher than
Speaker 2: at any point since two thousand and one, they say,
Speaker 2: and yes, we've changed presidents, but Gallup says this is
Speaker 2: the fifth consecutive year that more Americans say their finances
Speaker 2: are worsening rather than improving. When asked to identify their
Speaker 2: most important financial problems, thirty one cited the cost of living,
Speaker 2: and yes, inflation is far lower than where it was
Speaker 2: under Biden, but it's still inflated. A recent surgeon gas
Speaker 2: prices has increased people's pessimism as well, Gallop finds. Remember
Speaker 2: gas prices were under three dollars a gallon again before
Speaker 2: the Iran War started. We were finally passed the three
Speaker 2: point fifty to four dollars a gallon gas of the
Speaker 2: Biden era, and most Americans were feeling pretty good about
Speaker 2: that kept by President Trump and then the Iran war.
Speaker 2: Is there still time to show progress on these line
Speaker 2: of site economic issues before the voting starts in fall. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: but there's not much time. And unless Iran really does
Speaker 2: fold and agree to terms to end this war, we
Speaker 2: aren't likely to see gas prices drop significantly between now
Speaker 2: and September, when the early voting starts. I don't see
Speaker 2: a blue tsunami year forming for the Democrats, regardless of
Speaker 2: what they're sick of, fans and the media are saying.
Speaker 2: But a lot of it depends on how the average
Speaker 2: voter is feeling about their own situation at the end
Speaker 2: of this summer. I've been focusing on some of the
Speaker 2: genuine reformers and fraud hunters on this Trump team because
Speaker 2: the establishment media members refuse to and because the administration
Speaker 2: represents such a historical anomaly. I mean, we have a
Speaker 2: president and a group of people whom he's appointed that,
Speaker 2: for what maybe the first time in Washington DC's history,
Speaker 2: really wants to drain the swamp, eliminate the fraud, put
Speaker 2: the grifters out of business, and do better for the
Speaker 2: American people. It's like any other reform effort that any
Speaker 2: presidential administration in my lifetime has ever undertaken. Nearly all
Speaker 2: presidential administrations promised to end the fraud or find the cheaters,
Speaker 2: and yet they never do because, in truth, and this
Speaker 2: is probably the truth, neither that president nor his political
Speaker 2: appointees really ever wanted to find the fraud or the
Speaker 2: theft in the first place, most certainly because they and
Speaker 2: their parties have been benefiting from it. So in this regard,
Speaker 2: Donald Trump and his team really are different. As starting
Speaker 2: with the Doge effort, this administration has continued to identify
Speaker 2: and root out, and most often shut down all sorts
Speaker 2: of fraud in our social services and government programs. And
Speaker 2: as they do, it becomes apparent that most of these
Speaker 2: schemes stealing from the American people have been going on
Speaker 2: for decades and decade. A good example of this is
Speaker 2: how Democrat leaders have never ever ever wanted to root
Speaker 2: out the fraud in our food stamp program. And so
Speaker 2: Trump's team is the first administration that's really taking a
Speaker 2: hard look at that program. And JD. Vance said this week,
Speaker 2: every day he's donned by something else that his fraud
Speaker 2: team is finding. Vance is in charge of this task force,
Speaker 2: and he said in an event this week, finding fraud
Speaker 2: in the federal government is kind of like fishing in
Speaker 2: a barrel with dynamite. And yet, he said he shocked
Speaker 2: every single day by the things the task force is uncovering.
Speaker 2: So far, they found about three hundred and fifty five
Speaker 2: thousand people on food stamp benefits that are receiving double benefits,
Speaker 2: and he said, we have one hundred and eighty six
Speaker 2: thousand dead people getting food stamps. He said, one hundred
Speaker 2: and eighty six thousand dead Americans are getting foodstamps right now.
Speaker 2: He also said the fake news media will now misrepresent
Speaker 2: these remarks as wanting me wanting to take away food stamps.
Speaker 2: He says, that's what they're going to say. I actually
Speaker 2: think that they should take food stamps away from dead people,
Speaker 2: he said, I'm guilty of that. I do think that's
Speaker 2: a reasonable thing. This comes after last week's news that
Speaker 2: just in one Red state alone, the audit found over
Speaker 2: fourteen thousand foodstamp recipients driving luxury cars that included even
Speaker 2: some Lamborghinis and Bentley's. And that's just in one state.
Speaker 2: Why are they making such outrageous discoveries because they're finally looking. Right,
Speaker 2: Why are JD. Vans and Brooks Rollins shocked at the
Speaker 2: types of fraud and the level of fraud that their
Speaker 2: task force is uncovering every day? Because Trump's team is
Speaker 2: the first administration that's actually looked for it. And don't
Speaker 2: tell me otherwise. Don't tell me that these same sorts
Speaker 2: of schemes and crimes weren't being committed during the Clinton
Speaker 2: and Bush and Obama or Biden eras, because of course
Speaker 2: they were. None of them ever bothered to look. And
Speaker 2: it's almost certainly because they knew what they'd find. I'm
Speaker 2: talking about these things because so few others are. But
Speaker 2: the editors of The Washington Examiner this week, to their credit,
Speaker 2: have also noticed that Trump's effort to reform these welfare
Speaker 2: agencies is impressive. They give credit to Trump's food stamp
Speaker 2: reform already paying dividends. Quote. After former Presidents Barack Obama
Speaker 2: and Joe Biden massively increased access to food stamps, President
Speaker 2: Donald Trump's reforms are working to cut back the bloat. Yeah,
Speaker 2: four point three million people have been cut from the
Speaker 2: SNAP program since Trump retook office. Most never should have
Speaker 2: been eligible, as we've learned from Rook Rollins recently. They
Speaker 2: say before Obama, participation in food stamps fluctuated with the economy,
Speaker 2: rising during recessions and falling during expansions, obviously, but never
Speaker 2: exceeding ten percent of the population. They say that changed
Speaker 2: with Obama's two thousand and nine American Recovery and Investment Act,
Speaker 2: which increased food stamp benefit levels and expanded eligibility. Obama
Speaker 2: ballooned the food stamp recipients to forty eight million people,
Speaker 2: or fifteen percent of the population. That is amazing. The
Speaker 2: first Trump administration, they say, cracked down on state waivers
Speaker 2: that allowed able bodied adults to stay on food stamps,
Speaker 2: and partician patient fell to thirty six million people in
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, but the federal courts eventually blocked those reforms
Speaker 2: and Biden abandoned them. The Biden administration then ballooned the
Speaker 2: number back up to forty three million Americans on food stamps.
Speaker 2: Now Trump has it back down to about thirty eight
Speaker 2: million and dropping. And as these editors say, for Democrats,
Speaker 2: these numbers are a catastrophe. The Democrat Party exists to
Speaker 2: get as much of the public hooked on government benefits
Speaker 2: as possible and keep them there forever. But they say
Speaker 2: Trump's food stamp reforms are proving that dependency is a
Speaker 2: policy choice, not an economic inevitability. Work requirements and eligibility
Speaker 2: rules rules protect taxpayers, encourage employment, and reserve aid for
Speaker 2: the truly needy. Future administrations should build on this success,
Speaker 2: not revive the Obama Biden dependency machine. Yeah, changes in
Speaker 2: the Big Beautiful Bill have at least started to dismantle
Speaker 2: the welfare machine that Obama, Biden and today's Democrats have
Speaker 2: built over the last twenty years. But more can be done, obviously,
Speaker 2: and thank god for Trump and the people that he's
Speaker 2: chosen to run these agencies and enact these reforms for him.
Speaker 2: But then there's this realization this too, is becoming more
Speaker 2: apparent due to the fact that for the first time,
Speaker 2: and administration is taking stealing from the American people. Seriously,
Speaker 2: the Washington Times is reporting that the level of fraud
Speaker 2: that's being found that's being committed by our own federal
Speaker 2: employees is shocking to auditors. This shouldn't really surprise anyone either,
Speaker 2: I suppose if you've been paying attention to Washington dec
Speaker 2: and the federal government rot. But Trump's team is finding
Speaker 2: that it's not a small number of federal workers who
Speaker 2: are using their access to our government programs to steal
Speaker 2: from taxpayers too. This time story gives us some examples,
Speaker 2: like a woman who was working for the Department of
Speaker 2: Social Services and stole from the SNAP program by approving
Speaker 2: benefit claims for the elderly or dead people or illegals
Speaker 2: and then keeping them for herself. This woman went so
Speaker 2: far as to call illegal aliens on the program and
Speaker 2: threaten them into silence and then grab their benefits for herself.
Speaker 2: This is happening basically in every government program that provides
Speaker 2: handouts to people. They're finding, of course welfare program fraud,
Speaker 2: food stamp fraud, but also Social Security and medicaid fraud,
Speaker 2: fraud at the IRS, the Defense Department, I mean, you
Speaker 2: name it. If an agency is dealing with public funds,
Speaker 2: there's a good chance that some of its employees are
Speaker 2: abusing their access and stealing from the taxpayers and the
Speaker 2: people who are supposed to be getting that benefit. The
Speaker 2: story says it also includes state and local workers who
Speaker 2: end up doling out hundreds of billions of dollars that
Speaker 2: Uncle Sam sends to the states to provide housing, food, medical,
Speaker 2: and cash assistance. And this would also make sense. You know,
Speaker 2: the federal government routine ship's big chunks of federal money
Speaker 2: to state and local governments and they're used as pass
Speaker 2: throughs or to dole out or run the program for
Speaker 2: the citizenry. So of course the workers for the state
Speaker 2: and local governments who are downstream and that funding are
Speaker 2: going to try to steal chunks of it. Two And
Speaker 2: for decade after decade after decade, no one at any
Speaker 2: level of government has been doing serious audits or even
Speaker 2: looking for this stuff. Senator Jony Ernst of Iowa has
Speaker 2: looked into a lot of this, and she estimates that
Speaker 2: one point four billion dollars a day worth of federal
Speaker 2: taxpayer money is being stolen from US. One point four
Speaker 2: billion dollars a day stolen and wasted. And she says
Speaker 2: we need accountability at all levels. Any bureaucrat busted for
Speaker 2: treating government benefits like a self service buffet should be
Speaker 2: served their next taxpayer funded meal behind bars, she says.
Speaker 2: James Comer is that Kentucky Republican who's the chair of
Speaker 2: the House Oversight Committee. Of course, he says, every single
Speaker 2: member of Congress should find this ramp and fraud unacceptable.
Speaker 2: Any federal employee who engages in fraud should be fired
Speaker 2: and prosecuted to the flot extent of the law. So
Speaker 2: I'd say, federal, state or local, Yeah, we should take
Speaker 2: this criminality seriously. The story sites a National Parks employee
Speaker 2: who was caught on video in twenty twenty three pocketing
Speaker 2: the money she was collecting for parks fees and guided tours.
Speaker 2: And since she'd been doing it for years and years
Speaker 2: and years, she admitted to stealing at least a quarter
Speaker 2: of a million dollars that way. So was she put
Speaker 2: in prison? Now, She was ordered to pay back the
Speaker 2: money and given five years probation on a prison sentence
Speaker 2: that she never received. It was just a probation sentence.
Speaker 2: There were literally zero consequences for a federal employee who
Speaker 2: had been caught stealing a quarter of a million dollars
Speaker 2: from taxpayers. And that story is representative of how the
Speaker 2: vast majority of our state and federal workers who are
Speaker 2: caught stealing from taxpayers are dealt with. Normally, it's just
Speaker 2: a shrug and a wink from prosecutors or judges. Some
Speaker 2: Republicans in DC, like like Comer and Ernst here want
Speaker 2: to change that, and they've written up legislation for much
Speaker 2: harsher penalties for public employees who steal from us. But
Speaker 2: let's face it, even now, most of Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: And certainly most of today's Democrats don't care. I'm skeptical
Speaker 2: that bill will ever pass, and it won't because too
Speaker 2: many of these elected officials and insiders are guilty little
Speaker 2: grifters themselves. I'm convinced of this. We have so many
Speaker 2: longtime bureaucrats and elected officials who are running their own
Speaker 2: little sorts of grifts and scams. They're reluctant told anyone
Speaker 2: accountable in case they might be the ones ultimately held
Speaker 2: accountable someday they might get caught. Understand, if these congressmen
Speaker 2: deal out harsh penalties to federal employees who steal from taxpayers,
Speaker 2: well how are they going to be treated if and
Speaker 2: when they get caught basically stealing from federal taxpayers? You know,
Speaker 2: for example, the Democrats in Congress were caught funneling tens
Speaker 2: of billions of dollars a year into that US Aid organization,
Speaker 2: and then they'd funnel that to their family and friends
Speaker 2: and ultimately back to their own campaigns. If we pass
Speaker 2: laws that put thieves and fraudsters in prison, what happens
Speaker 2: to them when they get caught in that grift? And
Speaker 2: there can be zero doubt that the vast majority of
Speaker 2: the fraud and the grifting and the dishonesty is going
Speaker 2: on in the Democrat side of the aisle. It's not exclusively,
Speaker 2: but it's heavily tilted that way. That's my way of
Speaker 2: transitioning to a different but related topic. You know, this
Speaker 2: is also classic DC duplicity. President Obama acting as if
Speaker 2: he's the conscience of the nation and the keeper of
Speaker 2: the Constitution when he spent the last twenty years being
Speaker 2: the destroyer of those things. Obama told Stephen Colbert, to
Speaker 2: the canned applause from his audience, that presidents shouldn't be
Speaker 2: using their attorney generals as consiglieries as their mob enforcers. Listen, Yeah,
Speaker 2: now that you're.
Speaker 4: No longer in office, what powers do you believe the
Speaker 4: president should not have? Well, there are a couple that
Speaker 4: I followed even though they weren't law, and I want
Speaker 4: us we're going to have to do some work to
Speaker 4: return to this basic norm and we probably now have
Speaker 4: to codify them. The White House shouldn't be able to
Speaker 4: direct the Attorney General to go around prosecuting whoever. If
Speaker 4: everyone has right, it's technically it's under the executive branch.
Speaker 2: I think the norm is that it's independent.
Speaker 4: The norm, the idea is that the attorney general is
Speaker 4: the people's lawyer. It's not the president's consiglieri. Right, even
Speaker 4: when it's Bobby Kennedy, that's Bobby Kennedy. And so two
Speaker 4: of the core principles of a democracy. We can survive
Speaker 4: a lot bad policy, funky elections. There's a bunch of
Speaker 4: stuff that you know, we can overcome. We can't overcome
Speaker 4: the politicization of the criminal justice system, the awesome power
Speaker 4: of the state. You can't have a situation in which
Speaker 4: whoever's in charge of the government starts using that to
Speaker 4: go after their political enemies.
Speaker 2: It's obviously a shot at Trump, whose critics and sist
Speaker 2: He's using Pambondi and now Todd Blanche as his own
Speaker 2: personal attack dogs, sending them after Trump's personal and political enemies. Folks,
Speaker 2: more than any other president of our era, Barack Obama
Speaker 2: and Joe Biden are the two presidents who have abused
Speaker 2: the Department of Justice and their attorney generals and used
Speaker 2: them for their own gain. And if you had to
Speaker 2: pick one attorney general who absolutely did the bidding of
Speaker 2: his president anytime that president asked, it would absolutely have
Speaker 2: to be Eric Holder, acting as Barack Obama's personal henchmen.
Speaker 2: As bad as Merrick Garland was in doing the bidding
Speaker 2: of Joe Biden and going after anyone Biden instructed him too,
Speaker 2: from Trump to parents, to nuns to the Catholic Church,
Speaker 2: to covering up for Hunter and the Biden foreign money scandals.
Speaker 2: As bad as Garland was when it came to being
Speaker 2: Joe Biden's consigliary and cheating in favor of the Bidens,
Speaker 2: Eric Holder was even worse when it came to cheating
Speaker 2: four In colluding with Obama and his White House team,
Speaker 2: Holder did everything from launching an undercover gun running scheme,
Speaker 2: to spying on journalists, to covering up IRS scandals to
Speaker 2: protecting Lewis Learner helping launch the Russia collusion smears. Is
Speaker 2: a legitimate scumbag. And if any attorney general of the
Speaker 2: last one hundred years can be accurately described as a consigliary.
Speaker 2: It's eric holder continguliarity to Barack Obama, who is now
Speaker 2: pretending as if he and his administration were something different
Speaker 2: and were above board. Not hardly, not even remotely. Obama
Speaker 2: can say the idea is that the attorney general is
Speaker 2: the people's lawyer and not the president's consigliari, and he
Speaker 2: can achieve applause for it, but in doing so, he's
Speaker 2: displaying once again that he is one of the of
Speaker 2: America's biggest hypocrites and slime balls, and post presidency, Barack
Speaker 2: Obama has really only reinforced that he's the duplicitous pretender
Speaker 2: and slime ball that most of us on the right
Speaker 2: have always known him to be from the first moments
Speaker 2: that he ran for president. This guy has always been
Speaker 2: an infuriating and infuriatingly dishonest fraud. He once taught constitutional law,
Speaker 2: and instead of using that knowledge to inform him about
Speaker 2: what is right and proper, as it did for say,
Speaker 2: Alan Dershowitzer, Jonathan Turley, or John Ywe, Barack Obama appears
Speaker 2: to have studied the constitution and constitutional law in order
Speaker 2: to find ways around it, in order to find ways
Speaker 2: to use it to his own advantage. Obama's eight year
Speaker 2: presidency in his longtime associations with people like Eric Holder
Speaker 2: and Valerie Jarrett and Susan Rice prove that and now
Speaker 2: post presidency, were supposed to view him as being on
Speaker 2: some sort of higher plane of wisdom. Screw that. This
Speaker 2: man is a dirt bag's dirt bag very slick. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's fooled a lot of people, But Barack Obama, in
Speaker 2: the end is just another dirt bags dirt bag, very
Speaker 2: par for the course in Washington, DC. And by the way,
Speaker 2: I love to hear Obama now admitting that his continued
Speaker 2: participation in politics is what's harming his marriage. I hope
Speaker 2: some of you saw this. This week, Obama admitted that
Speaker 2: Michelle wants him to withdraw from public life and simply
Speaker 2: live the good life with Oprah and Richard Branson and
Speaker 2: the other global elites. Nearly all presidents do, after all,
Speaker 2: once they leave office. You withdraw so that you aren't
Speaker 2: criticizing the current president, making his job leading harder, and
Speaker 2: so that you aren't sending conflicting messages to the American
Speaker 2: people that undermine the effectiveness of our government. You're supposed
Speaker 2: to sort of withdraw quietly and with some dignity and
Speaker 2: become a larger than life figure. And so the truth
Speaker 2: is Obama should withdraw from politics and public life simply
Speaker 2: because it's the smart and right thing to do if
Speaker 2: you want to have a status of revered former president.
Speaker 2: But aside from that, I love to hear this news
Speaker 2: because it confirmed something that I've been saying ever since
Speaker 2: the Obama's left office. Every two years we get a
Speaker 2: flurry of activity and idiotic talk. Yeah, Michelle's going to
Speaker 2: run for president. Michelle's going to run for president. I'm
Speaker 2: the only one, I swear over the years who has
Speaker 2: never bought into that and has been honest about it
Speaker 2: all along. Michelle never had an interest in politics in
Speaker 2: the first place. She hated her time at the White
Speaker 2: House unless she was doing photoshoots and having her Heini kissed.
Speaker 2: She liked the trappings of the presidency, but didn't care
Speaker 2: about the presidency. She has zero interest in actual politics
Speaker 2: are in the job, and she's made that clear forever.
Speaker 2: Michelle Obama will never run for president and never intended to.
Speaker 2: She doesn't even want Barack blathering about it anymore. But
Speaker 2: a year from now, we're going to hear from the
Speaker 2: same group of idiots on both the left and the right.
Speaker 2: They're on both sides of the aisle. You know, Michelle's
Speaker 2: running this time. It's serious. She's running. So let's agree today.
Speaker 2: Anyone who says that or tweets that is an idiot.
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