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<v Speaker 2>Good Day, Welcome to the j Weber Podcast. We have

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<v Speaker 2>so so much to talk about today. I want to

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<v Speaker 2>talk about how, frankly, Americans deserved better than Barack Obama

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<v Speaker 2>as their first black president. And what I mean by

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<v Speaker 2>that is, you know, for all the trappings that the

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<v Speaker 2>people and the media have built around this guy, and

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<v Speaker 2>about the historical event, he's turned out to be a

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<v Speaker 2>rather run of the mill Washington d Bag Anthony producer

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<v Speaker 2>Gregory John here, Gregor, have you heard that? Have you

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<v Speaker 2>heard Obama admit that Michelle can't get him to shut

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<v Speaker 2>up in the politics their marriage?

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<v Speaker 3>I have, But I always thought that Bill Clinton was

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<v Speaker 3>the first black president. That's what you told me.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, that is true, that's what he told us. I

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<v Speaker 2>think it's true, but correct me if I'm wrong. In general,

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<v Speaker 2>if spouse tells you to sit down and shut up,

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<v Speaker 2>you're making an ass of yourself, aren't you. Isn't your

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<v Speaker 2>spouse the best barometer on your behavior?

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<v Speaker 3>I totally agree with you. I've been told that many

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<v Speaker 3>many times, and I've heated that warning, so I'd sit

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<v Speaker 3>down and shut up.

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<v Speaker 2>There you go, Well that's what Michelle wants me to do.

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<v Speaker 2>I also got a kick out of Rock's public invite

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<v Speaker 2>now that his presidential center has completed and opened in Chicago.

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<v Speaker 2>He said on Twitter, Michelle and I invite you to visit. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>come on, Michelle doesn't give a tinker's damn about Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>And be sure to bring your ID because that's the

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<v Speaker 3>only way you're going to get in there. It'll cost

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<v Speaker 3>you thirty bucks.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow, So you need an ID to get into that

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<v Speaker 2>presidential center. Interesting. But other than feeling obligated to show

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<v Speaker 2>up for some sort of ribbon cutting, I don't think

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<v Speaker 2>Michelle will ever set foot in that place or have

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<v Speaker 2>any interest in it.

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<v Speaker 1>No, no, no.

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<v Speaker 2>Hitting aside, though it's a topic for later in the podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>How disappointing is it that America's first black president turned

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<v Speaker 2>out to be a rather slick, liar and hypocrite, just

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<v Speaker 2>like so many other presidents we've had. In fact, one

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<v Speaker 2>way Obama will go down in history I think is

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<v Speaker 2>worse than normal, is that, unlike every other president in history.

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<v Speaker 2>He doesn't have the decency or the discipline is simp

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<v Speaker 2>go silent and enjoy his retirement instead of sticking around

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<v Speaker 2>and still engaging in cheap politics. So we'll talk about that.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to talk about why Donald Trump's power is

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<v Speaker 2>increasing over the Republican Party at a time that he's

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<v Speaker 2>supposed to be becoming a lame duck. I find it

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<v Speaker 2>really interesting and historically unique. Normally, you would start out

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<v Speaker 2>with the full support of your party, or like ninety

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<v Speaker 2>five percent or so, and then as you do the job,

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<v Speaker 2>you can sort of tank or trail off from there.

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<v Speaker 2>Trump it's different because in twenty twenty six he came

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<v Speaker 2>in with whatever it was, eighty eighty five percent of

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<v Speaker 2>Republican support, because you had a chunk of Republicans who

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<v Speaker 2>really didn't trust him, didn't like him. Over time, he

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<v Speaker 2>has earned their trust. So it's interesting that he's gotten

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<v Speaker 2>a firmer grip on this party as he's supposed to

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<v Speaker 2>becoming a lame duck. We'll talk about the Democrats socialist

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<v Speaker 2>ruining of big cities. More on that, and how the

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<v Speaker 2>CEOs of major retailers need to stop being nice and

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<v Speaker 2>start blasting local officials. They needed to just start making

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<v Speaker 2>it clear we cannot operate a business in high crime neighborhoods.

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<v Speaker 2>You just have to deal with the all that and

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<v Speaker 2>I see that Walgreens Corporate has confirmed it's shutting down

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<v Speaker 2>another Walgreens in Milwaukee's Inner City. This one's at twenty

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<v Speaker 2>seven to the north, and you could have guessed it.

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<v Speaker 2>Walgreens is closing the store due to shoplifting and crime.

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<v Speaker 2>Quote persistent safety problems is how the company tried to

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<v Speaker 2>delicately put it. Walgreens put out a statement saying that

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<v Speaker 2>protecting our customers and team members remains our top priority,

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<v Speaker 2>and despite our actions and investments in private security, persistent

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<v Speaker 2>safety challenges that our North Avenue store do not allow

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<v Speaker 2>us to operate sustainably. We continue to operate other Walgreen

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<v Speaker 2>stores in the city blah blah blah. So as of

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<v Speaker 2>June twenty third, that location will be closed. The Milwaukee

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<v Speaker 2>Journal Sentinel and other left wing news outlets tried to

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<v Speaker 2>blame this on declining profits, But it's really about crime

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<v Speaker 2>after all, what is causing their profits to decline?

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<v Speaker 1>There?

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<v Speaker 2>And yes, as part of the wider and slow rolling

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<v Speaker 2>move toward home delivery and ordering off of the internet. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>the Walgreens company has been dealing with declining profits at

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<v Speaker 2>its brick and mortar stores. In twenty twenty four, Walgreen

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<v Speaker 2>said that it was going to close down and phase

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<v Speaker 2>out about twelve hundred stores across the country over the

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<v Speaker 2>next several years. We're in the midst of that, and

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<v Speaker 2>of course you would start closing the least profitable stores

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<v Speaker 2>as well as the high crime stores, because gee, there's

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<v Speaker 2>an awful lot of crossover on that list, isn't there.

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<v Speaker 2>What locations are going to bring in the least amount

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<v Speaker 2>of money, Well, it's the ones in the scariest neighborhoods

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<v Speaker 2>and those seeing the most amount of theft. Right. But

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<v Speaker 2>you can't blame the closure of this twenty seventh and

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<v Speaker 2>No location on declining profits without explaining what's keeping the

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<v Speaker 2>location from being more profitable for Walgreens. Nor can you

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<v Speaker 2>point to the profit as a sole motive. The company

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<v Speaker 2>itself cites the inability to keep its employees and its

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<v Speaker 2>customers safe. Translation, crime is literally driving us out of

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<v Speaker 2>this location. The leftists who run these cities and refuse

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<v Speaker 2>to deal with the high crime always want to pivot

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<v Speaker 2>and blame the company's leaders for being racist, for being uncaring,

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<v Speaker 2>and they never want to acknowledge that this business is

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<v Speaker 2>literally being driven out by high crime. And it's not

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<v Speaker 2>just Walgreens or Pick and Saves around here. It's every

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<v Speaker 2>major retailer in the country. Their CEOs and board members

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<v Speaker 2>have been forced to close locations in Chicago's, Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland, Portland,

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<v Speaker 2>and the story is always the same, high crime is

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<v Speaker 2>driving us out. But the leaders of those communities can't

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<v Speaker 2>admit that they and their feckless policies are responsible for

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<v Speaker 2>the high crime, so they always deflect. They always try

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<v Speaker 2>to blame the company and vilify its CEO as the

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<v Speaker 2>greedy bad guy. In fact, we're seeing that play out

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<v Speaker 2>again in Chicago over a separate Walgreens location that's closing.

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<v Speaker 2>There's a Democrat alderman in Chicago who wants to criminally

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<v Speaker 2>charge Walgreens. Get this, he wants to criminally charge Walgreens

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<v Speaker 2>for closing one of its failing stores in his district.

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<v Speaker 2>What a tool. As the lead line in the story

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<v Speaker 2>puts it, another pharmacy is leaving Chicago because of theft,

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<v Speaker 2>and somehow the villain of the story is not the

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<v Speaker 2>people stealing from it. The villain is apparently the business itself,

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<v Speaker 2>which finally decided it had had enough and decided to

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<v Speaker 2>cut its losses. That not only sums it up, but

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<v Speaker 2>it's a good illustration of what and who today's leftists are.

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<v Speaker 2>They want to blame the company being victimized, not the criminals.

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<v Speaker 2>The Chicago Sun Times says Democratic alderman William Hall joined

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<v Speaker 2>residents outside the store Monday, where signs read Senior Lives

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<v Speaker 2>Matter and n corporate abandonment. Walgreens should be charged with

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<v Speaker 2>first degree corporate abandonment. Paul said, it should be a

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<v Speaker 2>crime the way they're treating our elders, It should be

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<v Speaker 2>a crime the way they're treating our families. This is

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<v Speaker 2>even after Walgreens made its reasoning clear. The company said

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<v Speaker 2>the stores experienced quote significantly higher levels of theft and

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<v Speaker 2>violent incidents than our other locations, and they said ongoing

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<v Speaker 2>safety issues have made it difficult to protect their workers

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<v Speaker 2>and customers, a very similar story to twenty seventh the

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<v Speaker 2>North here in Milwaukee. The same Chicago Times report said

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<v Speaker 2>that at least seven Walgreen stores on the South Side

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<v Speaker 2>of Chicago have closed or are set to close since

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<v Speaker 2>twenty twenty five. Theft and crime are making it impossible

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<v Speaker 2>to do business in those neighborhoods, and the so called

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<v Speaker 2>leaders in that community want to deny reality and ignore

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<v Speaker 2>the criminal hellhole that is their neighborhood. And the Democrats

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<v Speaker 2>and ridiculous Democrats socialists who are running all of these cities,

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<v Speaker 2>they all sound the same. Not a single one of

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<v Speaker 2>them wants to deal with the high crime that is

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<v Speaker 2>the big, fat common denominator when it comes to America's

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<v Speaker 2>largest cities. They're all run by Democrats who long ago

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<v Speaker 2>decided to side with the criminals and the thugs and

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<v Speaker 2>pretend as if there's nothing they can do to improve

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<v Speaker 2>their neighborhood or make it safer. And it is that

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<v Speaker 2>attitude that should be criminal. This nit wit of an alderman,

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<v Speaker 2>William Hall, isn't standing up for his community. He's not

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<v Speaker 2>leading anything or doing any good whatsoever for that neighborhood,

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<v Speaker 2>and everyone knows it, just as everyone knows that no

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<v Speaker 2>amount of protesting or racial accusations are actually going to

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<v Speaker 2>save these businesses. If these democrats want to quote help

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<v Speaker 2>their communities and help the poor and the elderly who

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<v Speaker 2>live in them, they need to start with helping the

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<v Speaker 2>business community and dealing with the high crime. They need

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<v Speaker 2>to make it a livable area. But William Hall is

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<v Speaker 2>just a cookie cutter Democrat these days. He sounds like

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<v Speaker 2>too much of a lazy coward in an empty suit

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<v Speaker 2>to do anything, and he exemplifies your average inner city,

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<v Speaker 2>your big city democrat. But hey, I've been watching these

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<v Speaker 2>same dramas for so long that I can no longer

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<v Speaker 2>feel sorry for the people in those neighborhoods. So long

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<v Speaker 2>as they keep voting for idiots and frauds like William Hall,

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<v Speaker 2>stop electing the same people and expecting a different result.

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<v Speaker 2>The old cliche that you get the government you vote

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<v Speaker 2>for couldn't be any more true than it is in

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<v Speaker 2>this era. The residents of these big cities have been

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<v Speaker 2>voting almost exclusively Democrat for six or seven decades, in

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<v Speaker 2>some cases over one hundred years, for the same Democrat party,

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<v Speaker 2>the same types of Democrat lawmakers. And they've been doing

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<v Speaker 2>it as their situations have only ever gotten worse and

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<v Speaker 2>worse and worse. The majority of the voters in Chicago

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<v Speaker 2>were dumb enough to vote for Brandon Johnson, after they

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<v Speaker 2>were dumb enough to vote for Lori Lightfoot, after they

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<v Speaker 2>were dumb enough to vote for Ram Emmanuel, etc. Look

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<v Speaker 2>at what's going on in New York. After those voters

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<v Speaker 2>were dumb enough to vote for Bil de Blasio and

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<v Speaker 2>Eric Adams, they tripled down on Zoran Mamdani, a socialist

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<v Speaker 2>who's now getting his giggles out of driving billionaires in

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<v Speaker 2>the New York's most productive citizens and job creators out

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<v Speaker 2>of New York City folks. This war, Mom Donnie is

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<v Speaker 2>in with Ken Griffin and Citadel is so stupid. It's

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<v Speaker 2>so stupid. Even Mayor Eric Adams set it on ACX

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<v Speaker 2>this week he posted Mayor Mom Donnie's video targeting Ken

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<v Speaker 2>Griffin and using his home as a prop traded thousands

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<v Speaker 2>of real, good paying jobs in our city for social

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<v Speaker 2>media likes. The video was irresponsible and the mayor should

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<v Speaker 2>do the right thing and apologize. Mom Donnie won't. Instead,

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<v Speaker 2>he's only doubling and tripling down. And this was no surprise.

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<v Speaker 2>New York's Governor Kathy Holkel, who's basically a socialist her self,

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<v Speaker 2>is too spineless to push back or reign in Mom

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<v Speaker 2>Donnie either. This attack on Griffin and quote rich people

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<v Speaker 2>in New York by Mom Donnie had Ken Griffin immediately saying,

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<v Speaker 2>I guess we at Citadel are going to have to

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<v Speaker 2>reevaluate our relationship with New York City and take another

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<v Speaker 2>look at an expansion of our headquarters here that's underway.

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<v Speaker 2>After all, New York City and State are the most

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<v Speaker 2>expensive place in which to do business in America, and

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<v Speaker 2>he said they're feeling less and less like they need

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<v Speaker 2>to be there. Does the average America know that Dallas

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<v Speaker 2>is basically becoming the new New York. I don't think

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<v Speaker 2>the average person knows just how much New York and

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<v Speaker 2>LA big business has already shifted to Dallas and Houston,

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<v Speaker 2>as the CEOs and corporate boards are smart enough to

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<v Speaker 2>flee the highly time blue areas whose Democrat leaders now

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<v Speaker 2>just effing hate them, on top of all of the

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<v Speaker 2>taxes they've been paying for decades. And if you thought

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<v Speaker 2>billionaires and businesses were fleeing the blue state areas before,

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<v Speaker 2>as they've slowly been for about two decades, now, just

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<v Speaker 2>watch what happens as socialists fully take over the Democrat

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<v Speaker 2>Party and they share their open disdain for these businesses.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, traditional Democrats have played both sides of the

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<v Speaker 2>situation forever. Traditionally, Democrats have constantly criticized the rich and

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<v Speaker 2>bashed big business, even as they realized they needed them

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<v Speaker 2>for jobs and for economic prosperity. And actually most of

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<v Speaker 2>those Democrats wanted to be among them. So Democrats over

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<v Speaker 2>the last century at least have realized the importance of

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<v Speaker 2>job creators and the economic drivers of their communities. But

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<v Speaker 2>not this batch of true socialists who've taken over the

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<v Speaker 2>Democrat Party in most blue states and blue communities, and

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<v Speaker 2>who are very close to taking over control of the

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<v Speaker 2>national Party. Ken Griffin was sitting on a business panel

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<v Speaker 2>this week and he shocked the lefty moderator and the

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<v Speaker 2>members the crowd by saying, I'm serious the work on

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<v Speaker 2>our New York expansion may be halted because our board

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<v Speaker 2>members have already decided our shift from Chicago to Miami

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<v Speaker 2>was brilliant. You'll hear the moderator ask about the New

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<v Speaker 2>York address.

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<v Speaker 4>Where does that leave us at three to fifty?

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<v Speaker 5>Part that leaves us with the fact that we went

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<v Speaker 5>to Miami and revised our building, planned to make it

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<v Speaker 5>a bigger office building.

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<v Speaker 2>You're bailing.

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<v Speaker 5>So what do we do with three fifties is still

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<v Speaker 5>a point of discussion internally. But what is no longer

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<v Speaker 5>a point of discussion is that Miami is now. You know,

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<v Speaker 5>when we moved from Chicago, there was a debate between

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<v Speaker 5>New York and Miami. It's unquestionably true that we made

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<v Speaker 5>the right choice. I'll leave it at that. It's unquestionably

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<v Speaker 5>true that we made the right choice. And now and now,

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<v Speaker 5>what the Mayor of New York has made clear to

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<v Speaker 5>my partners, and principally my New York partners, my New

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<v Speaker 5>York Partners is that we need to double down on

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<v Speaker 5>our bet in Miami because we want to be in

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<v Speaker 5>a state that embraces that embraces business, that embraces education,

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<v Speaker 5>that embraces personal freedom and liberty, and that embraces people

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<v Speaker 5>having an opportunity to live the American dream.

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<v Speaker 2>I wish there were a thousand Ken Griffins in corporate America.

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<v Speaker 2>I wish every other CEO and board member of a

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<v Speaker 2>major company would finally stop trying to be diplomatic when

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<v Speaker 2>it comes to this situation. Walgreen should admit high crime

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<v Speaker 2>is driving us out of this neighborhood. Don't put out

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<v Speaker 2>in melium mouthed r cryptic statements. Don't leave room for

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<v Speaker 2>lefty spin or misinterpretation. Come out and say it. Until

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<v Speaker 2>Chicago's South Side deals with its crime problem and has

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<v Speaker 2>safe neighborhoods, we cannot have stores in these neighborhoods. And

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<v Speaker 2>I would say cannot not, will not. Don't leave any

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<v Speaker 2>suggestion that doing business in these hell whole neighborhoods is

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<v Speaker 2>really a choice. Make it clear to lawmakers and the public.

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<v Speaker 2>Until you deal with the crime and make this neighborhood safe,

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<v Speaker 2>businesses cannot operate here. That burdens on you, not corporate America.

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<v Speaker 2>Ken Griffin is right about Mam Donnie's attack on the

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<v Speaker 2>productive business class, and job creators and others like him

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<v Speaker 2>in Manhattan should be rushing to side with him and

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<v Speaker 2>amplify that message. Even most Democrats know how stupid it

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<v Speaker 2>is to start a war like this. We're told that

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<v Speaker 2>the pathetic Kathy Hokel asked for a private meeting with

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<v Speaker 2>Ken Griffin so she could grovel and beg and try

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<v Speaker 2>to calm him down and keep Citadel's location in New York.

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<v Speaker 2>But publicly, this dingbat has been agreeing with Zoorn Mamdani

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<v Speaker 2>and his calls for even higher taxes and echoing his

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<v Speaker 2>attacks on billionaires. What a dangerous waste of skin Kathy

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<v Speaker 2>Holkel is. But hey, you know what, hold no illusions.

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<v Speaker 2>Hokel is the favorite to win a second term, which

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<v Speaker 2>gets us right back to the people get the government

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<v Speaker 2>they vote for. If after several years of terrible, awful

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<v Speaker 2>decisions by Kathy Hokel, the people of New York simply

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<v Speaker 2>vote to give her another term, then that's on them.

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<v Speaker 2>Democrats in these blue areas just keep voting for their

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<v Speaker 2>own decay, their own abuse, their own destruction. At some point,

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<v Speaker 2>the rest of us need to stop feeling sorry for them.

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<v Speaker 2>As Griffin said this week, Mom Donnie is making it

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<v Speaker 2>really clear New York doesn't welcome success. Griffin offered to

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<v Speaker 2>purchase a copy of Animal Farm for every ninth grader

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<v Speaker 2>in New York and challenged Mom Donnie to let it happen.

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<v Speaker 2>He said, give me a shipping address. I'll ship them

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<v Speaker 2>out right away. Animal Farm is an allegory written by

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<v Speaker 2>George Orwell that warns against the dangers of socialism and communism.

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<v Speaker 2>And no, it's not coming out as a movie soon.

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<v Speaker 2>This is a good aside to just note for all

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<v Speaker 2>sorts of parents and grandparents in the audience. The maker

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<v Speaker 2>of that film apparently destroyed George Orwell's work and message

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<v Speaker 2>and intention, and they make it more of a children's cartoon.

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<v Speaker 2>They give it an anti capitalist message instead of an

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<v Speaker 2>anti communist message. So don't be tricked into taking your

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<v Speaker 2>kids or grandkids to see that movie thinking it's an

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<v Speaker 2>accurate adaptation of the book. Once again, Hollywood has ruined it.

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<v Speaker 2>But the number and level of new taxes that Zorn

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<v Speaker 2>Mamdanni wants to impose on every middle and upper class

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<v Speaker 2>New Yorker is staggering, simply staggering, and so far, the

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<v Speaker 2>only question is whether Kathy Hulka will be dumb enough

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<v Speaker 2>and weak enough to go along with most of them.

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<v Speaker 2>Mam Donnie inherited a five billion dollar budget shortfall from

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<v Speaker 2>Eric Adams, basically, and he wants to spend tens of

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<v Speaker 2>billions more on socialist freebies like free buses, free childcare,

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<v Speaker 2>So he spent the last month rolling out all sorts

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<v Speaker 2>of new taxes that he and the New York socialists

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<v Speaker 2>find reasonable. His ideas make it clear he's not just

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<v Speaker 2>going to slam the rich with new taxes. He also

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<v Speaker 2>fully intends to slam the middle class and basically slam

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<v Speaker 2>any New Yorker who actually works. Mam Donnie wants to

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<v Speaker 2>nearly double New York State's corporate tax. He wants to

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<v Speaker 2>impose a two percent wealth tax and steal a chunk

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<v Speaker 2>of everyone's wealth every year if he thinks they're rich.

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<v Speaker 2>He wants to increase the overall property tax rate on

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<v Speaker 2>New York property, which by the way, is taxing everyone

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<v Speaker 2>everyone right down to the renters in small businesses. He

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<v Speaker 2>wants to lower the bar on who is subject to

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<v Speaker 2>the estate tax, making it apply to virtually anyone who

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<v Speaker 2>dies with virtually any amount of accumulated wealth, and he

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<v Speaker 2>wants to raise the highest level of a state tax

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<v Speaker 2>to fifty percent, as in, if you die what he

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<v Speaker 2>thinks is rich in New York, the government will immediately

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<v Speaker 2>take half of your estate half. And as one summary

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<v Speaker 2>put it, of course, Mamdani and his new government aren't

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<v Speaker 2>even considering reforms or cutting nakedly wasteful spending.

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<v Speaker 4>Quote.

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<v Speaker 2>New York City could cut costs by eliminating wasteful social programs,

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<v Speaker 2>removing ineffective initiatives such as DEI, restricting benefits for illegal immigrants,

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<v Speaker 2>and reducing fraud in Medicaid, childcare and food stamp programs.

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<v Speaker 2>These common sense objectives would save the Big Apple billions

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<v Speaker 2>and balance the budget without painfully hiking taxes, because when

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<v Speaker 2>taxes go up, the city's tax base goes down. But

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<v Speaker 2>you can't expect lazy, clueless Democrats and their new socialist

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<v Speaker 2>masters to do that. No, no, no, I mean, come on,

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<v Speaker 2>be real. Consider that just over the last three years

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<v Speaker 2>or so, nearly a million people have fled New York

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<v Speaker 2>State for lower taxt red states. This is a Heritage

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<v Speaker 2>Foundation stat Just over the last three years or so,

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<v Speaker 2>eight hundred and eighty thousand people have left New York

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<v Speaker 2>State in disgust. Now, consider that the real socialism and

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<v Speaker 2>the really bad new taxes and tax increases haven't even

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<v Speaker 2>happened yet. Just consider that now that New York City

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<v Speaker 2>has a true socialist as a mayor and a city

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<v Speaker 2>council who's willing to go along with them, thrilled to

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<v Speaker 2>go along with them, Consider how that's going to turn out.

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<v Speaker 2>Consider how many of New York State and New York

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<v Speaker 2>City's major businesses and productive citizens are going to start leaving. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>it's clear that this mass exodus of people from the

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<v Speaker 2>blue states to the red is only going to continue,

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<v Speaker 2>and it is very likely going to speed up as

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<v Speaker 2>the loony lefties who remain in those blue states and

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<v Speaker 2>cities just further consolidate their power and impose their socialism

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<v Speaker 2>onto the idiots who keep voting for them. This is

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<v Speaker 2>at least temporarily going to get a lot worse in

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<v Speaker 2>the blue states and cities before it gets better. We've

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<v Speaker 2>talked about how the left wing media has been relentless

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<v Speaker 2>in this notion. Donald Trump is losing support. The American

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<v Speaker 2>people have given up on him, even eight and ten

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<v Speaker 2>people who voted for him in twenty twenty four now

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<v Speaker 2>regret it, etc. I'm sure you've seen this nonsense, and

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<v Speaker 2>it's been relentless. Meanwhile, the polls have consistently shown that

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<v Speaker 2>the president's approval rating within his own party has only increased,

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<v Speaker 2>as in, you know, if eighty five percent of Republicans

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<v Speaker 2>said they supported Trump in his first term, well ninety

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<v Speaker 2>three percent say they support him now. As the left

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<v Speaker 2>wing pundits have blathered incessantly and spread false information around,

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<v Speaker 2>the grip that President Trump has had on his own

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<v Speaker 2>party has only gotten stronger, especially in term two. And

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<v Speaker 2>I have a theory as to why this is, and

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<v Speaker 2>I know I'm right. The reason support for Trump has

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<v Speaker 2>only grown steadily within his own party is that he

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<v Speaker 2>has now had years to prove A he's the real

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<v Speaker 2>deal and he will try hard to keep his campaign promises,

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<v Speaker 2>and B he really is the plate spinner. He's moving

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<v Speaker 2>forward on all sorts of issues that are important to

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<v Speaker 2>Republicans and conservatives and trying to get them accomplished. The

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<v Speaker 2>accomplished news media outlets don't want to report on numerous

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<v Speaker 2>reforms and wins that the Trump administration is racking up

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<v Speaker 2>in term two, but that doesn't mean they aren't happening.

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<v Speaker 2>Examples like strengthening are all of the above energy policy, finally,

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<v Speaker 2>rooting out fraud within the governmental machine across all sorts

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<v Speaker 2>of federal agencies and social service programs, protecting our children

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<v Speaker 2>from the trans bullying, restoring norms and education and science,

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<v Speaker 2>and trying to snuff out DEI and critical race theory.

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<v Speaker 2>The list goes on. My theory on why President Trump

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<v Speaker 2>has probably the highest level of support within the Republican

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<v Speaker 2>Party that he's ever had is that he has proven

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<v Speaker 2>he's someone worthy of their approval. He really has turned

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<v Speaker 2>out to be something different. The man is redefining the

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<v Speaker 2>presidency for future Republican presidents, and just as importantly, he's

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<v Speaker 2>doing it at a time in which the Democrat Party,

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<v Speaker 2>in his political opposition, looks particularly extreme and foolish. Trust me,

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<v Speaker 2>this is helping Donald Trump. The Democrat Party has been

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<v Speaker 2>taken over by socialists and social and political extremists. Trump

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<v Speaker 2>and his pro America, pro common sense stances look rate

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<v Speaker 2>when contrasted with the radical crap Today's Democrats are pushing,

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<v Speaker 2>So it isn't a surprise to me to see Tuesday's

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<v Speaker 2>results out of the Republican strongholds like Indiana and Ohio.

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<v Speaker 2>The same leftist media whose members keep insisting Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 2>has lost the support of the American people, had to

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<v Speaker 2>do an about face after five of the seven Indiana

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<v Speaker 2>state senators who Trump had targeted for defeat were defeated.

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<v Speaker 2>The Indiana results sent a strong signal to every other

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<v Speaker 2>Republican in America, and it was this, ignore or angered

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<v Speaker 2>Donald Trump at your own risk. This man not only

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<v Speaker 2>still controls the Republican Party, but he has a stronger

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<v Speaker 2>grip on it than he ever did in term one.

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<v Speaker 2>And here's the thing. I mean, here's the analysis that

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<v Speaker 2>you aren't likely to get elsewhere. Donald Trump is bucking

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<v Speaker 2>history and historical patterns yet again here because he's in

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<v Speaker 2>his second year of his second term. And now is

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<v Speaker 2>the time in which any normal president would start to

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<v Speaker 2>be a lame duck and his own party members would

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<v Speaker 2>start to feel like it's okay to break with him.

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<v Speaker 2>Now is the time in any two term presidency that

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<v Speaker 2>the person in the White House becomes more vulnerable to

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<v Speaker 2>criticism and attacks from his own side of the aisle.

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<v Speaker 2>Now's the time that a president's own party members can

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<v Speaker 2>start to feel good about bucking their own president and

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<v Speaker 2>or criticizing their own president to try to set up

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<v Speaker 2>their next run for office. Donald Trump can't run for

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<v Speaker 2>a third term. He's not going to be around much longer, right.

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<v Speaker 2>I know most of you savvy listeners know this, but

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<v Speaker 2>some of the younger listeners and those who are newer

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<v Speaker 2>to politics might not. Once it's clear that any president

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<v Speaker 2>is on his way out and will no longer be

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<v Speaker 2>able to be the head of the party, the jockeying

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<v Speaker 2>to replace him starts, and the criticism from his own

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<v Speaker 2>party members who are running in other elected positions around

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<v Speaker 2>the country, they start to spill into the open. Those

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<v Speaker 2>elected officials who want to remain in office beyond that

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<v Speaker 2>president start to form their own political excuses. They feel

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<v Speaker 2>freer to tell the media and the voters why didn't

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<v Speaker 2>agree with the president's decision on that. So this is

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<v Speaker 2>the time in President Trump's second term that all of

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<v Speaker 2>the so called smart pundits and smart political insiders are

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<v Speaker 2>expecting to see disappointed Republican voters and elected gopf faws

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<v Speaker 2>turn against Trump and start to openly criticize him. This

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<v Speaker 2>is the time when House and Senate Republicans who want

0:23:06.000 --> 0:23:09.240
<v Speaker 2>to keep their jobs beyond twenty twenty eight would start

0:23:09.240 --> 0:23:11.680
<v Speaker 2>to feel like they can break with the president, start

0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:14.760
<v Speaker 2>to openly disagree with him or criticize him on controversial

0:23:14.800 --> 0:23:19.520
<v Speaker 2>issues to elevate themselves. But this isn't a normal presidency.

0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:22.399
<v Speaker 2>Look at where we are with Donald Trump. He's a

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<v Speaker 2>guy who is so controversial coming into office that he

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<v Speaker 2>managed to win the votes of all sorts of non

0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:30.159
<v Speaker 2>traditional voters in twenty sixteen, as a sizeable chunk of

0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:33.320
<v Speaker 2>Republican voters refuse to vote for him. So now ten

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<v Speaker 2>years later, and after they've seen President Trump try hard

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<v Speaker 2>to keep his promises and clean up the swamp, etc.

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<v Speaker 2>Now a sizeable number of that chunk of voters who

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<v Speaker 2>refuse to vote for him in twenty sixteen are on

0:23:44.000 --> 0:23:46.760
<v Speaker 2>board and say they support the job he's doing. The

0:23:46.800 --> 0:23:49.880
<v Speaker 2>net effect has been Donald Trump has only grown stronger

0:23:49.920 --> 0:23:53.960
<v Speaker 2>within his party over time. Donald Trump has a firmer

0:23:54.000 --> 0:23:56.280
<v Speaker 2>grip on his party at the end of his eight

0:23:56.359 --> 0:24:00.119
<v Speaker 2>year tenure than he did when he started. This is unique.

0:24:00.520 --> 0:24:03.440
<v Speaker 2>What the heck does that mean? It's another historical anomaly

0:24:03.480 --> 0:24:06.800
<v Speaker 2>when it comes to Trump. Just as Donald Trump's endorsement

0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:09.320
<v Speaker 2>shouldn't mean as much as it once did, the results

0:24:09.320 --> 0:24:11.560
<v Speaker 2>in Indiana and Ohio have just shown us that Trump's

0:24:11.600 --> 0:24:15.320
<v Speaker 2>endorsement actually means more than it has for Republican voters.

0:24:15.560 --> 0:24:19.520
<v Speaker 2>Not less, five of these state senators in Indiana got

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<v Speaker 2>simply smoked in their primaries after they refuse to go

0:24:22.680 --> 0:24:25.679
<v Speaker 2>along with the president's redistricting plan for that state. And

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<v Speaker 2>I'm certain that most assumed that they would survive the

0:24:27.760 --> 0:24:31.520
<v Speaker 2>Trump criticism no problem, because they were longtime electeds in

0:24:31.600 --> 0:24:35.400
<v Speaker 2>their own districts. My district loves me, and because quote,

0:24:35.440 --> 0:24:37.800
<v Speaker 2>you know, Donald Trump and his endorsement have lost their power.

0:24:38.200 --> 0:24:38.400
<v Speaker 3>Yep?

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<v Speaker 2>Do you still think so as you suddenly find yourself

0:24:41.040 --> 0:24:44.439
<v Speaker 2>on the unemployment line? Folks, this is a flashing warning

0:24:44.480 --> 0:24:47.040
<v Speaker 2>to any Republican at any level of government as we

0:24:47.080 --> 0:24:50.120
<v Speaker 2>approach the fall elections and in twenty twenty eight. Yeah,

0:24:50.200 --> 0:24:52.800
<v Speaker 2>Donald Trump is entering the back half of his second term.

0:24:52.960 --> 0:24:55.000
<v Speaker 2>But you're a dimwit if you can't see that He's

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<v Speaker 2>a rare president whose power and influence have grown stronger

0:24:58.680 --> 0:25:03.000
<v Speaker 2>as his presidency has. Tuesday's results are a strong sign

0:25:03.080 --> 0:25:05.280
<v Speaker 2>that the party's voters are now more willing than ever

0:25:05.359 --> 0:25:09.520
<v Speaker 2>to trust President Trump's opinion and very importantly, trust President

0:25:09.520 --> 0:25:12.120
<v Speaker 2>Trump's vision for the future of the party and the country.

0:25:13.160 --> 0:25:15.760
<v Speaker 2>I'm a person who famously says, after a normal off

0:25:15.800 --> 0:25:18.640
<v Speaker 2>your election or regional primary, you can't read too much

0:25:18.640 --> 0:25:21.440
<v Speaker 2>into these results. Don't make the mistake of thinking this

0:25:21.520 --> 0:25:24.400
<v Speaker 2>win or that win has a larger meeting for the party, etc.

0:25:25.359 --> 0:25:28.120
<v Speaker 2>But in the instance of Tuesday's election results, it does.

0:25:28.800 --> 0:25:30.919
<v Speaker 2>The message was loud and clear. The voters in the

0:25:30.960 --> 0:25:34.120
<v Speaker 2>Red States are ready to see younger, louder, more mavericky

0:25:34.200 --> 0:25:38.920
<v Speaker 2>leaders atop the Republican Party. Reagan was our last great president,

0:25:38.960 --> 0:25:41.480
<v Speaker 2>and Trump is turning out to be our next great president.

0:25:41.960 --> 0:25:43.879
<v Speaker 2>The bulk of the American people can already see it.

0:25:43.960 --> 0:25:46.560
<v Speaker 2>I'm telling you. I'm telling you they see it. Even

0:25:46.600 --> 0:25:49.880
<v Speaker 2>if this a noise, any liberals listening trust me, Even

0:25:49.880 --> 0:25:52.480
<v Speaker 2>on the Democrat side of the aisle and the insider left,

0:25:52.720 --> 0:25:54.479
<v Speaker 2>they know that Trump is going to be remembered as

0:25:54.520 --> 0:25:58.600
<v Speaker 2>a great and consequential president. A controversial one too, yes,

0:25:59.400 --> 0:26:02.920
<v Speaker 2>but so was so was JFK. You can't have great

0:26:02.960 --> 0:26:06.040
<v Speaker 2>presidents who do great things without having them also be

0:26:06.119 --> 0:26:09.400
<v Speaker 2>controversial and hated by other groups of people during their time.

0:26:10.080 --> 0:26:12.960
<v Speaker 2>Part of the greatness is overcoming the adversarial nature of

0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:16.159
<v Speaker 2>the job. But trust me, today's Democrats, from Bill and

0:26:16.240 --> 0:26:19.000
<v Speaker 2>Hillary to Chuck Schumer, to James Carville to Rachel Maddow

0:26:19.280 --> 0:26:22.560
<v Speaker 2>to the DC and political insiders whose names you'll never know,

0:26:23.720 --> 0:26:25.840
<v Speaker 2>they understand that Trump is going to be remembered as

0:26:25.880 --> 0:26:29.919
<v Speaker 2>an historical and influential president, a great president. I'm thinking

0:26:29.920 --> 0:26:32.320
<v Speaker 2>he'll be viewed as a great president when the American

0:26:32.359 --> 0:26:35.200
<v Speaker 2>people have a better view of his greatness in retrospect.

0:26:35.520 --> 0:26:37.800
<v Speaker 2>That's what's feeling so much of their anger in Trump

0:26:37.920 --> 0:26:40.679
<v Speaker 2>arrangement syndrome. On the left. The young activists might just

0:26:40.720 --> 0:26:43.280
<v Speaker 2>be haters to hate. They have no sense of history

0:26:43.280 --> 0:26:44.879
<v Speaker 2>and no sense of what makes for a great and

0:26:44.920 --> 0:26:48.159
<v Speaker 2>consequential president. But trust me, the older Democrat leaders and

0:26:48.200 --> 0:26:51.520
<v Speaker 2>those party insiders do. It's driving them crazy that Trump

0:26:51.560 --> 0:26:54.600
<v Speaker 2>is finding all the fraud and ending all their fraudulent schemes.

0:26:55.200 --> 0:26:58.800
<v Speaker 2>That's infuriatingly unfair to them. But then think that he's

0:26:58.840 --> 0:27:01.560
<v Speaker 2>going to get historical core credit for doing it. He'll

0:27:01.560 --> 0:27:04.679
<v Speaker 2>have monuments built to him for doing it. It really

0:27:04.720 --> 0:27:07.920
<v Speaker 2>makes their brains swell, and the Kaffer for me will

0:27:07.960 --> 0:27:10.240
<v Speaker 2>be can we follow up the second term of Trump

0:27:10.320 --> 0:27:12.800
<v Speaker 2>with another Republican who simply looks like more of the

0:27:12.840 --> 0:27:16.400
<v Speaker 2>same pro America government instead of what the insane socialist

0:27:16.520 --> 0:27:19.840
<v Speaker 2>left is selling. These Democrats are so convinced they're going

0:27:19.880 --> 0:27:22.240
<v Speaker 2>to win in twenty twenty eight as a reaction by

0:27:22.280 --> 0:27:25.199
<v Speaker 2>the country to Trump that if they don't, it is

0:27:25.240 --> 0:27:28.480
<v Speaker 2>going to be crushing, just devastating to them. If we

0:27:28.480 --> 0:27:30.399
<v Speaker 2>can get a Rubio or a Vans in office to

0:27:30.440 --> 0:27:33.359
<v Speaker 2>act as a verification that yes, the American people really

0:27:33.440 --> 0:27:35.200
<v Speaker 2>liked Trump and they want to keep his vision of

0:27:35.240 --> 0:27:39.760
<v Speaker 2>America going, well, that'd be stellar. That would cement Donald

0:27:39.760 --> 0:27:42.440
<v Speaker 2>Trump's position in history as a great president, and in

0:27:42.520 --> 0:27:45.600
<v Speaker 2>combined with the new census and the redrawn voter apportionment

0:27:45.680 --> 0:27:48.200
<v Speaker 2>for the twenty thirties, it would lead to a great

0:27:48.240 --> 0:27:52.159
<v Speaker 2>new era of Republican control. Not necessarily conservative control, at

0:27:52.240 --> 0:27:54.960
<v Speaker 2>least not consistently conservative, but it would lead to a

0:27:55.000 --> 0:27:59.040
<v Speaker 2>great new era of Republican control. But getting back to

0:27:59.080 --> 0:28:02.160
<v Speaker 2>Tuesday's results, when it comes to the seven squishy Indiana

0:28:02.200 --> 0:28:04.560
<v Speaker 2>Republicans who stood in the way of their leaders, redrawing

0:28:04.560 --> 0:28:07.320
<v Speaker 2>their maps this year. What did they accomplish? They find

0:28:07.359 --> 0:28:10.440
<v Speaker 2>themselves unemployed. These men thought they were taking the moral

0:28:10.520 --> 0:28:13.959
<v Speaker 2>high ground and refusing to play hardball politics. They in

0:28:14.080 --> 0:28:17.040
<v Speaker 2>good conscience couldn't help their own party gain an advantage

0:28:17.040 --> 0:28:20.200
<v Speaker 2>in Indiana, so they bucked and infuriated Trump, only to

0:28:20.240 --> 0:28:22.720
<v Speaker 2>watch the Democrats turn around and cheat like mad in

0:28:22.880 --> 0:28:25.359
<v Speaker 2>Virginia and prove that the other side of the aisle

0:28:25.440 --> 0:28:28.480
<v Speaker 2>is playing for keeps. The Democrats are playing hardball and

0:28:28.520 --> 0:28:31.399
<v Speaker 2>they will destroy everyone who doesn't agree with them, and you,

0:28:31.560 --> 0:28:34.440
<v Speaker 2>squishy Republicans are too afraid or too clueless to fight back.

0:28:34.680 --> 0:28:38.040
<v Speaker 2>These Indiana Republicans learned a hard lesson this week. And

0:28:38.080 --> 0:28:39.880
<v Speaker 2>by the way, none of this that I've been talking

0:28:39.920 --> 0:28:43.040
<v Speaker 2>about necessarily affects the fall elections. I want to make

0:28:43.080 --> 0:28:47.520
<v Speaker 2>that clear. This doesn't necessarily affect whether the Republicans retain

0:28:47.640 --> 0:28:50.000
<v Speaker 2>control of the House and the Senate this year. This

0:28:50.120 --> 0:28:52.600
<v Speaker 2>is all sort of a larger snapshot of today's Republican

0:28:52.640 --> 0:28:54.680
<v Speaker 2>party that I've been talking about. When it comes to

0:28:54.720 --> 0:28:57.560
<v Speaker 2>this falls races. Yeah, Trump and Republicans have a hill

0:28:57.600 --> 0:28:59.920
<v Speaker 2>to climb. I doubt they keep control of the House,

0:29:00.080 --> 0:29:03.800
<v Speaker 2>but maybe maybe I'd point out that despite the relentless

0:29:04.160 --> 0:29:06.719
<v Speaker 2>drumming from the lefty media insisting that this is going

0:29:06.760 --> 0:29:09.000
<v Speaker 2>to be a Republican wife out, most of the voter

0:29:09.040 --> 0:29:11.440
<v Speaker 2>polls I'm seeing show that Republicans are actually in a

0:29:11.480 --> 0:29:14.560
<v Speaker 2>dead heat on the electoral question for Fall, as in,

0:29:14.800 --> 0:29:17.000
<v Speaker 2>if the election was held today, which party would you

0:29:17.080 --> 0:29:19.840
<v Speaker 2>vote for? A small flurry of new polling this week

0:29:19.880 --> 0:29:22.400
<v Speaker 2>shows a virtual dead heat on that question, which has

0:29:22.400 --> 0:29:24.400
<v Speaker 2>some people on the right excited and seeing it as

0:29:24.440 --> 0:29:26.920
<v Speaker 2>evidence that the pundits have it all wrong. They're prevailing

0:29:26.960 --> 0:29:30.080
<v Speaker 2>narrative that Democrats are headed toward big wins is wrong. Well,

0:29:30.120 --> 0:29:32.640
<v Speaker 2>my take has been I'm not convinced it's going to

0:29:32.640 --> 0:29:35.000
<v Speaker 2>be a blue wave election in Fall, even if it

0:29:35.040 --> 0:29:37.480
<v Speaker 2>follows the historical pattern of being a better year for

0:29:37.680 --> 0:29:40.680
<v Speaker 2>Democrats than it is for Republicans. That would be the

0:29:40.800 --> 0:29:44.520
<v Speaker 2>historical expectation, and it would mimic the historical pattern that

0:29:44.600 --> 0:29:47.520
<v Speaker 2>after any flip in the White House, that president's party

0:29:47.560 --> 0:29:51.720
<v Speaker 2>loses big in Congress in the next election. I do

0:29:51.760 --> 0:29:54.240
<v Speaker 2>think that Democrats will probably retake the House and fall

0:29:54.280 --> 0:29:55.840
<v Speaker 2>but keep the Senate. If I had to make a

0:29:55.840 --> 0:29:58.280
<v Speaker 2>prediction today, that would be it yeah, I think the

0:29:58.320 --> 0:30:00.680
<v Speaker 2>Democrats regain some seats in the House, but I don't

0:30:00.720 --> 0:30:03.160
<v Speaker 2>think we're headed for any sort of genuine blue wave

0:30:03.280 --> 0:30:06.680
<v Speaker 2>or blue tsunami election. After all, the Democrats only need

0:30:06.720 --> 0:30:09.520
<v Speaker 2>to flip how many seats in order to retake control

0:30:09.560 --> 0:30:11.840
<v Speaker 2>of the House. Is it three or four? It's not

0:30:11.920 --> 0:30:14.120
<v Speaker 2>a high bar to clear. But I think there's at

0:30:14.200 --> 0:30:16.960
<v Speaker 2>least a chance that Republicans shock the country and actually

0:30:16.960 --> 0:30:20.400
<v Speaker 2>retain control after this fall's elections. And if they do,

0:30:20.680 --> 0:30:23.440
<v Speaker 2>it will be because of two things. First, because the

0:30:23.440 --> 0:30:27.560
<v Speaker 2>Democrat Party genuinely is a mess right now. They continue

0:30:27.600 --> 0:30:30.280
<v Speaker 2>to make the mistake of pushing extreme agenda items like

0:30:30.360 --> 0:30:34.800
<v Speaker 2>defunding the police, vilifying ice, demanding open borders, calling for

0:30:34.880 --> 0:30:38.080
<v Speaker 2>more and higher taxes. So the first reason the Republicans

0:30:38.120 --> 0:30:40.560
<v Speaker 2>may pull off a shok or this fall is because

0:30:40.600 --> 0:30:43.240
<v Speaker 2>they aren't the party of crazy. They aren't the party

0:30:43.280 --> 0:30:47.520
<v Speaker 2>of rabidly anti America ideas the Democrats are. The second

0:30:47.520 --> 0:30:50.760
<v Speaker 2>reason would be the economy. The biggest worry for President

0:30:50.840 --> 0:30:54.040
<v Speaker 2>Trump and Republicans obviously is the economy. If they can

0:30:54.080 --> 0:30:56.960
<v Speaker 2>point to an improving economy, even after taking on Iran

0:30:57.040 --> 0:30:59.440
<v Speaker 2>and ending that forty year threat to the West. I

0:30:59.480 --> 0:31:02.040
<v Speaker 2>think republic Ablicans can survive this fall and maybe even

0:31:02.080 --> 0:31:04.800
<v Speaker 2>pick up a few seats in the House. But that's

0:31:04.880 --> 0:31:08.200
<v Speaker 2>a big if because while there's zero doubt that the

0:31:08.240 --> 0:31:11.400
<v Speaker 2>economy has improved significantly from the Biden era, the front

0:31:11.400 --> 0:31:13.440
<v Speaker 2>line or line of sight measures that so many people

0:31:13.520 --> 0:31:17.040
<v Speaker 2>use to make their own personal evaluation still doesn't look good.

0:31:17.760 --> 0:31:21.000
<v Speaker 2>Four or five dollars gasoline and still high grocery prices

0:31:21.120 --> 0:31:24.440
<v Speaker 2>don't look like progress to the average American. It matters

0:31:24.440 --> 0:31:27.080
<v Speaker 2>that most Americans don't really pay attention to politics or

0:31:27.080 --> 0:31:29.720
<v Speaker 2>the daily news, because that means most of us are

0:31:29.720 --> 0:31:32.360
<v Speaker 2>making our choices at the ballot box based on feelings

0:31:32.440 --> 0:31:35.640
<v Speaker 2>rather than facts. And it matters that most Americans are

0:31:35.680 --> 0:31:39.080
<v Speaker 2>still struggling after years of higher inflation and higher interest

0:31:39.160 --> 0:31:43.000
<v Speaker 2>rates and now higher gas prices. It matters that on

0:31:43.040 --> 0:31:46.120
<v Speaker 2>the line of site stuff, Trump and the Republicans haven't

0:31:46.200 --> 0:31:49.320
<v Speaker 2>kept their promises as the average American now sees it.

0:31:50.280 --> 0:31:53.600
<v Speaker 2>Gallup is still a largely reputable polling organization, and they

0:31:53.680 --> 0:31:56.479
<v Speaker 2>just found that more Americans feel worse off financially than

0:31:56.520 --> 0:31:59.320
<v Speaker 2>at any point in the last twenty five years. You

0:31:59.360 --> 0:32:01.479
<v Speaker 2>can point to all all the official government stats. When

0:32:01.520 --> 0:32:04.280
<v Speaker 2>it comes to how we measure an economy, and you

0:32:04.320 --> 0:32:06.960
<v Speaker 2>can say, yeah, nearly all of those measures proved that

0:32:06.960 --> 0:32:09.680
<v Speaker 2>Trump's economy is far healthier than the Biden economy was,

0:32:10.000 --> 0:32:12.160
<v Speaker 2>and it is. But when it comes to the people's

0:32:12.200 --> 0:32:16.080
<v Speaker 2>personal perceptions, Gallup says, fifty five percent of respondents say

0:32:16.080 --> 0:32:18.840
<v Speaker 2>their financial situation is getting worse, and that's up from

0:32:18.920 --> 0:32:21.479
<v Speaker 2>fifty three percent last year. That number is higher than

0:32:21.480 --> 0:32:23.920
<v Speaker 2>at any point since two thousand and one, they say,

0:32:24.880 --> 0:32:27.960
<v Speaker 2>and yes, we've changed presidents, but Gallup says this is

0:32:27.960 --> 0:32:30.840
<v Speaker 2>the fifth consecutive year that more Americans say their finances

0:32:30.880 --> 0:32:34.000
<v Speaker 2>are worsening rather than improving. When asked to identify their

0:32:34.040 --> 0:32:37.680
<v Speaker 2>most important financial problems, thirty one cited the cost of living,

0:32:38.120 --> 0:32:40.320
<v Speaker 2>and yes, inflation is far lower than where it was

0:32:40.400 --> 0:32:44.480
<v Speaker 2>under Biden, but it's still inflated. A recent surgeon gas

0:32:44.560 --> 0:32:49.200
<v Speaker 2>prices has increased people's pessimism as well, Gallop finds. Remember

0:32:49.240 --> 0:32:51.840
<v Speaker 2>gas prices were under three dollars a gallon again before

0:32:51.880 --> 0:32:54.440
<v Speaker 2>the Iran War started. We were finally passed the three

0:32:54.440 --> 0:32:56.400
<v Speaker 2>point fifty to four dollars a gallon gas of the

0:32:56.400 --> 0:32:59.280
<v Speaker 2>Biden era, and most Americans were feeling pretty good about

0:32:59.320 --> 0:33:03.720
<v Speaker 2>that kept by President Trump and then the Iran war.

0:33:05.240 --> 0:33:07.320
<v Speaker 2>Is there still time to show progress on these line

0:33:07.360 --> 0:33:10.800
<v Speaker 2>of site economic issues before the voting starts in fall. Well, yeah,

0:33:10.840 --> 0:33:14.120
<v Speaker 2>but there's not much time. And unless Iran really does

0:33:14.160 --> 0:33:16.800
<v Speaker 2>fold and agree to terms to end this war, we

0:33:16.840 --> 0:33:19.680
<v Speaker 2>aren't likely to see gas prices drop significantly between now

0:33:19.680 --> 0:33:23.240
<v Speaker 2>and September, when the early voting starts. I don't see

0:33:23.280 --> 0:33:26.200
<v Speaker 2>a blue tsunami year forming for the Democrats, regardless of

0:33:26.200 --> 0:33:28.160
<v Speaker 2>what they're sick of, fans and the media are saying.

0:33:28.520 --> 0:33:30.040
<v Speaker 2>But a lot of it depends on how the average

0:33:30.120 --> 0:33:32.400
<v Speaker 2>voter is feeling about their own situation at the end

0:33:32.400 --> 0:33:38.360
<v Speaker 2>of this summer. I've been focusing on some of the

0:33:38.400 --> 0:33:41.880
<v Speaker 2>genuine reformers and fraud hunters on this Trump team because

0:33:41.920 --> 0:33:45.560
<v Speaker 2>the establishment media members refuse to and because the administration

0:33:45.680 --> 0:33:47.960
<v Speaker 2>represents such a historical anomaly. I mean, we have a

0:33:48.000 --> 0:33:50.520
<v Speaker 2>president and a group of people whom he's appointed that,

0:33:50.680 --> 0:33:53.479
<v Speaker 2>for what maybe the first time in Washington DC's history,

0:33:53.520 --> 0:33:57.040
<v Speaker 2>really wants to drain the swamp, eliminate the fraud, put

0:33:57.040 --> 0:33:59.240
<v Speaker 2>the grifters out of business, and do better for the

0:33:59.280 --> 0:34:02.280
<v Speaker 2>American people. It's like any other reform effort that any

0:34:02.320 --> 0:34:06.000
<v Speaker 2>presidential administration in my lifetime has ever undertaken. Nearly all

0:34:06.040 --> 0:34:09.520
<v Speaker 2>presidential administrations promised to end the fraud or find the cheaters,

0:34:09.560 --> 0:34:12.000
<v Speaker 2>and yet they never do because, in truth, and this

0:34:12.040 --> 0:34:14.960
<v Speaker 2>is probably the truth, neither that president nor his political

0:34:14.960 --> 0:34:17.480
<v Speaker 2>appointees really ever wanted to find the fraud or the

0:34:17.480 --> 0:34:20.200
<v Speaker 2>theft in the first place, most certainly because they and

0:34:20.239 --> 0:34:23.040
<v Speaker 2>their parties have been benefiting from it. So in this regard,

0:34:23.080 --> 0:34:25.720
<v Speaker 2>Donald Trump and his team really are different. As starting

0:34:25.719 --> 0:34:28.880
<v Speaker 2>with the Doge effort, this administration has continued to identify

0:34:28.920 --> 0:34:31.840
<v Speaker 2>and root out, and most often shut down all sorts

0:34:31.880 --> 0:34:35.000
<v Speaker 2>of fraud in our social services and government programs. And

0:34:35.040 --> 0:34:37.759
<v Speaker 2>as they do, it becomes apparent that most of these

0:34:37.760 --> 0:34:40.520
<v Speaker 2>schemes stealing from the American people have been going on

0:34:40.640 --> 0:34:43.600
<v Speaker 2>for decades and decade. A good example of this is

0:34:43.640 --> 0:34:46.600
<v Speaker 2>how Democrat leaders have never ever ever wanted to root

0:34:46.640 --> 0:34:48.960
<v Speaker 2>out the fraud in our food stamp program. And so

0:34:49.040 --> 0:34:51.799
<v Speaker 2>Trump's team is the first administration that's really taking a

0:34:51.880 --> 0:34:55.200
<v Speaker 2>hard look at that program. And JD. Vance said this week,

0:34:55.239 --> 0:34:57.560
<v Speaker 2>every day he's donned by something else that his fraud

0:34:57.640 --> 0:35:00.680
<v Speaker 2>team is finding. Vance is in charge of this task force,

0:35:01.200 --> 0:35:03.560
<v Speaker 2>and he said in an event this week, finding fraud

0:35:03.600 --> 0:35:05.400
<v Speaker 2>in the federal government is kind of like fishing in

0:35:05.400 --> 0:35:08.320
<v Speaker 2>a barrel with dynamite. And yet, he said he shocked

0:35:08.360 --> 0:35:11.240
<v Speaker 2>every single day by the things the task force is uncovering.

0:35:11.920 --> 0:35:14.000
<v Speaker 2>So far, they found about three hundred and fifty five

0:35:14.040 --> 0:35:18.000
<v Speaker 2>thousand people on food stamp benefits that are receiving double benefits,

0:35:18.160 --> 0:35:19.879
<v Speaker 2>and he said, we have one hundred and eighty six

0:35:19.920 --> 0:35:23.239
<v Speaker 2>thousand dead people getting food stamps. He said, one hundred

0:35:23.239 --> 0:35:25.879
<v Speaker 2>and eighty six thousand dead Americans are getting foodstamps right now.

0:35:26.360 --> 0:35:29.520
<v Speaker 2>He also said the fake news media will now misrepresent

0:35:29.600 --> 0:35:32.880
<v Speaker 2>these remarks as wanting me wanting to take away food stamps.

0:35:33.200 --> 0:35:35.000
<v Speaker 2>He says, that's what they're going to say. I actually

0:35:35.040 --> 0:35:37.520
<v Speaker 2>think that they should take food stamps away from dead people,

0:35:37.560 --> 0:35:39.439
<v Speaker 2>he said, I'm guilty of that. I do think that's

0:35:39.440 --> 0:35:42.799
<v Speaker 2>a reasonable thing. This comes after last week's news that

0:35:43.000 --> 0:35:45.799
<v Speaker 2>just in one Red state alone, the audit found over

0:35:45.840 --> 0:35:50.000
<v Speaker 2>fourteen thousand foodstamp recipients driving luxury cars that included even

0:35:50.040 --> 0:35:52.960
<v Speaker 2>some Lamborghinis and Bentley's. And that's just in one state.

0:35:53.680 --> 0:35:57.879
<v Speaker 2>Why are they making such outrageous discoveries because they're finally looking. Right,

0:35:58.640 --> 0:36:01.120
<v Speaker 2>Why are JD. Vans and Brooks Rollins shocked at the

0:36:01.160 --> 0:36:03.640
<v Speaker 2>types of fraud and the level of fraud that their

0:36:03.680 --> 0:36:06.840
<v Speaker 2>task force is uncovering every day? Because Trump's team is

0:36:06.880 --> 0:36:09.439
<v Speaker 2>the first administration that's actually looked for it. And don't

0:36:09.440 --> 0:36:12.120
<v Speaker 2>tell me otherwise. Don't tell me that these same sorts

0:36:12.120 --> 0:36:14.880
<v Speaker 2>of schemes and crimes weren't being committed during the Clinton

0:36:14.920 --> 0:36:17.880
<v Speaker 2>and Bush and Obama or Biden eras, because of course

0:36:17.920 --> 0:36:20.520
<v Speaker 2>they were. None of them ever bothered to look. And

0:36:20.560 --> 0:36:23.839
<v Speaker 2>it's almost certainly because they knew what they'd find. I'm

0:36:23.840 --> 0:36:26.239
<v Speaker 2>talking about these things because so few others are. But

0:36:26.280 --> 0:36:29.120
<v Speaker 2>the editors of The Washington Examiner this week, to their credit,

0:36:29.440 --> 0:36:32.080
<v Speaker 2>have also noticed that Trump's effort to reform these welfare

0:36:32.120 --> 0:36:35.240
<v Speaker 2>agencies is impressive. They give credit to Trump's food stamp

0:36:35.280 --> 0:36:39.440
<v Speaker 2>reform already paying dividends. Quote. After former Presidents Barack Obama

0:36:39.480 --> 0:36:43.080
<v Speaker 2>and Joe Biden massively increased access to food stamps, President

0:36:43.080 --> 0:36:46.879
<v Speaker 2>Donald Trump's reforms are working to cut back the bloat. Yeah,

0:36:46.920 --> 0:36:49.640
<v Speaker 2>four point three million people have been cut from the

0:36:49.680 --> 0:36:52.960
<v Speaker 2>SNAP program since Trump retook office. Most never should have

0:36:53.000 --> 0:36:56.440
<v Speaker 2>been eligible, as we've learned from Rook Rollins recently. They

0:36:56.440 --> 0:37:00.000
<v Speaker 2>say before Obama, participation in food stamps fluctuated with the economy,

0:37:00.480 --> 0:37:04.000
<v Speaker 2>rising during recessions and falling during expansions, obviously, but never

0:37:04.040 --> 0:37:07.200
<v Speaker 2>exceeding ten percent of the population. They say that changed

0:37:07.239 --> 0:37:10.799
<v Speaker 2>with Obama's two thousand and nine American Recovery and Investment Act,

0:37:11.000 --> 0:37:15.320
<v Speaker 2>which increased food stamp benefit levels and expanded eligibility. Obama

0:37:15.320 --> 0:37:18.400
<v Speaker 2>ballooned the food stamp recipients to forty eight million people,

0:37:18.520 --> 0:37:22.400
<v Speaker 2>or fifteen percent of the population. That is amazing. The

0:37:22.400 --> 0:37:25.280
<v Speaker 2>first Trump administration, they say, cracked down on state waivers

0:37:25.320 --> 0:37:27.920
<v Speaker 2>that allowed able bodied adults to stay on food stamps,

0:37:28.080 --> 0:37:30.799
<v Speaker 2>and partician patient fell to thirty six million people in

0:37:30.840 --> 0:37:34.520
<v Speaker 2>twenty nineteen, but the federal courts eventually blocked those reforms

0:37:34.719 --> 0:37:37.960
<v Speaker 2>and Biden abandoned them. The Biden administration then ballooned the

0:37:38.040 --> 0:37:41.160
<v Speaker 2>number back up to forty three million Americans on food stamps.

0:37:41.360 --> 0:37:43.359
<v Speaker 2>Now Trump has it back down to about thirty eight

0:37:43.400 --> 0:37:46.880
<v Speaker 2>million and dropping. And as these editors say, for Democrats,

0:37:46.920 --> 0:37:49.719
<v Speaker 2>these numbers are a catastrophe. The Democrat Party exists to

0:37:49.719 --> 0:37:51.920
<v Speaker 2>get as much of the public hooked on government benefits

0:37:51.920 --> 0:37:54.560
<v Speaker 2>as possible and keep them there forever. But they say

0:37:54.880 --> 0:37:57.560
<v Speaker 2>Trump's food stamp reforms are proving that dependency is a

0:37:57.600 --> 0:38:02.120
<v Speaker 2>policy choice, not an economic inevitability. Work requirements and eligibility

0:38:02.200 --> 0:38:06.640
<v Speaker 2>rules rules protect taxpayers, encourage employment, and reserve aid for

0:38:06.680 --> 0:38:10.080
<v Speaker 2>the truly needy. Future administrations should build on this success,

0:38:10.320 --> 0:38:14.239
<v Speaker 2>not revive the Obama Biden dependency machine. Yeah, changes in

0:38:14.280 --> 0:38:16.960
<v Speaker 2>the Big Beautiful Bill have at least started to dismantle

0:38:16.960 --> 0:38:19.920
<v Speaker 2>the welfare machine that Obama, Biden and today's Democrats have

0:38:20.000 --> 0:38:23.719
<v Speaker 2>built over the last twenty years. But more can be done, obviously,

0:38:24.280 --> 0:38:26.239
<v Speaker 2>and thank god for Trump and the people that he's

0:38:26.320 --> 0:38:29.560
<v Speaker 2>chosen to run these agencies and enact these reforms for him.

0:38:30.040 --> 0:38:32.879
<v Speaker 2>But then there's this realization this too, is becoming more

0:38:32.880 --> 0:38:35.080
<v Speaker 2>apparent due to the fact that for the first time,

0:38:35.320 --> 0:38:38.880
<v Speaker 2>and administration is taking stealing from the American people. Seriously,

0:38:39.320 --> 0:38:41.920
<v Speaker 2>the Washington Times is reporting that the level of fraud

0:38:41.920 --> 0:38:44.400
<v Speaker 2>that's being found that's being committed by our own federal

0:38:44.440 --> 0:38:49.439
<v Speaker 2>employees is shocking to auditors. This shouldn't really surprise anyone either,

0:38:49.480 --> 0:38:51.960
<v Speaker 2>I suppose if you've been paying attention to Washington dec

0:38:52.160 --> 0:38:55.400
<v Speaker 2>and the federal government rot. But Trump's team is finding

0:38:55.440 --> 0:38:57.600
<v Speaker 2>that it's not a small number of federal workers who

0:38:57.640 --> 0:38:59.959
<v Speaker 2>are using their access to our government programs to steal

0:39:00.080 --> 0:39:03.560
<v Speaker 2>from taxpayers too. This time story gives us some examples,

0:39:03.600 --> 0:39:05.560
<v Speaker 2>like a woman who was working for the Department of

0:39:05.560 --> 0:39:08.880
<v Speaker 2>Social Services and stole from the SNAP program by approving

0:39:08.920 --> 0:39:12.200
<v Speaker 2>benefit claims for the elderly or dead people or illegals

0:39:12.480 --> 0:39:15.200
<v Speaker 2>and then keeping them for herself. This woman went so

0:39:15.239 --> 0:39:17.840
<v Speaker 2>far as to call illegal aliens on the program and

0:39:17.960 --> 0:39:21.440
<v Speaker 2>threaten them into silence and then grab their benefits for herself.

0:39:22.280 --> 0:39:25.440
<v Speaker 2>This is happening basically in every government program that provides

0:39:25.480 --> 0:39:28.960
<v Speaker 2>handouts to people. They're finding, of course welfare program fraud,

0:39:29.080 --> 0:39:32.600
<v Speaker 2>food stamp fraud, but also Social Security and medicaid fraud,

0:39:33.040 --> 0:39:36.200
<v Speaker 2>fraud at the IRS, the Defense Department, I mean, you

0:39:36.320 --> 0:39:39.040
<v Speaker 2>name it. If an agency is dealing with public funds,

0:39:39.320 --> 0:39:41.359
<v Speaker 2>there's a good chance that some of its employees are

0:39:41.360 --> 0:39:44.160
<v Speaker 2>abusing their access and stealing from the taxpayers and the

0:39:44.200 --> 0:39:47.239
<v Speaker 2>people who are supposed to be getting that benefit. The

0:39:47.280 --> 0:39:49.920
<v Speaker 2>story says it also includes state and local workers who

0:39:50.000 --> 0:39:52.120
<v Speaker 2>end up doling out hundreds of billions of dollars that

0:39:52.239 --> 0:39:55.440
<v Speaker 2>Uncle Sam sends to the states to provide housing, food, medical,

0:39:55.480 --> 0:39:58.799
<v Speaker 2>and cash assistance. And this would also make sense. You know,

0:39:58.840 --> 0:40:02.160
<v Speaker 2>the federal government routine ship's big chunks of federal money

0:40:02.200 --> 0:40:05.080
<v Speaker 2>to state and local governments and they're used as pass

0:40:05.160 --> 0:40:08.080
<v Speaker 2>throughs or to dole out or run the program for

0:40:08.120 --> 0:40:10.839
<v Speaker 2>the citizenry. So of course the workers for the state

0:40:10.880 --> 0:40:14.120
<v Speaker 2>and local governments who are downstream and that funding are

0:40:14.120 --> 0:40:16.400
<v Speaker 2>going to try to steal chunks of it. Two And

0:40:16.480 --> 0:40:19.120
<v Speaker 2>for decade after decade after decade, no one at any

0:40:19.200 --> 0:40:21.759
<v Speaker 2>level of government has been doing serious audits or even

0:40:21.840 --> 0:40:25.640
<v Speaker 2>looking for this stuff. Senator Jony Ernst of Iowa has

0:40:25.680 --> 0:40:27.680
<v Speaker 2>looked into a lot of this, and she estimates that

0:40:27.719 --> 0:40:31.320
<v Speaker 2>one point four billion dollars a day worth of federal

0:40:31.360 --> 0:40:34.160
<v Speaker 2>taxpayer money is being stolen from US. One point four

0:40:34.160 --> 0:40:37.440
<v Speaker 2>billion dollars a day stolen and wasted. And she says

0:40:37.480 --> 0:40:40.840
<v Speaker 2>we need accountability at all levels. Any bureaucrat busted for

0:40:40.880 --> 0:40:43.719
<v Speaker 2>treating government benefits like a self service buffet should be

0:40:43.760 --> 0:40:47.000
<v Speaker 2>served their next taxpayer funded meal behind bars, she says.

0:40:47.560 --> 0:40:50.160
<v Speaker 2>James Comer is that Kentucky Republican who's the chair of

0:40:50.200 --> 0:40:53.000
<v Speaker 2>the House Oversight Committee. Of course, he says, every single

0:40:53.040 --> 0:40:55.839
<v Speaker 2>member of Congress should find this ramp and fraud unacceptable.

0:40:56.040 --> 0:40:58.880
<v Speaker 2>Any federal employee who engages in fraud should be fired

0:40:58.920 --> 0:41:01.600
<v Speaker 2>and prosecuted to the flot extent of the law. So

0:41:01.719 --> 0:41:04.439
<v Speaker 2>I'd say, federal, state or local, Yeah, we should take

0:41:04.520 --> 0:41:09.160
<v Speaker 2>this criminality seriously. The story sites a National Parks employee

0:41:09.280 --> 0:41:12.160
<v Speaker 2>who was caught on video in twenty twenty three pocketing

0:41:12.200 --> 0:41:15.400
<v Speaker 2>the money she was collecting for parks fees and guided tours.

0:41:15.960 --> 0:41:18.120
<v Speaker 2>And since she'd been doing it for years and years

0:41:18.120 --> 0:41:20.600
<v Speaker 2>and years, she admitted to stealing at least a quarter

0:41:20.640 --> 0:41:23.600
<v Speaker 2>of a million dollars that way. So was she put

0:41:23.640 --> 0:41:26.520
<v Speaker 2>in prison? Now, She was ordered to pay back the

0:41:26.560 --> 0:41:29.200
<v Speaker 2>money and given five years probation on a prison sentence

0:41:29.200 --> 0:41:32.480
<v Speaker 2>that she never received. It was just a probation sentence.

0:41:32.920 --> 0:41:35.920
<v Speaker 2>There were literally zero consequences for a federal employee who

0:41:35.920 --> 0:41:38.360
<v Speaker 2>had been caught stealing a quarter of a million dollars

0:41:38.360 --> 0:41:41.880
<v Speaker 2>from taxpayers. And that story is representative of how the

0:41:41.960 --> 0:41:44.520
<v Speaker 2>vast majority of our state and federal workers who are

0:41:44.520 --> 0:41:47.759
<v Speaker 2>caught stealing from taxpayers are dealt with. Normally, it's just

0:41:47.800 --> 0:41:51.399
<v Speaker 2>a shrug and a wink from prosecutors or judges. Some

0:41:51.440 --> 0:41:54.560
<v Speaker 2>Republicans in DC, like like Comer and Ernst here want

0:41:54.600 --> 0:41:56.960
<v Speaker 2>to change that, and they've written up legislation for much

0:41:57.040 --> 0:42:00.840
<v Speaker 2>harsher penalties for public employees who steal from us. But

0:42:00.960 --> 0:42:03.400
<v Speaker 2>let's face it, even now, most of Washington, d C.

0:42:03.560 --> 0:42:06.840
<v Speaker 2>And certainly most of today's Democrats don't care. I'm skeptical

0:42:06.840 --> 0:42:09.600
<v Speaker 2>that bill will ever pass, and it won't because too

0:42:09.640 --> 0:42:12.640
<v Speaker 2>many of these elected officials and insiders are guilty little

0:42:12.640 --> 0:42:16.200
<v Speaker 2>grifters themselves. I'm convinced of this. We have so many

0:42:16.239 --> 0:42:19.160
<v Speaker 2>longtime bureaucrats and elected officials who are running their own

0:42:19.200 --> 0:42:22.520
<v Speaker 2>little sorts of grifts and scams. They're reluctant told anyone

0:42:22.560 --> 0:42:26.239
<v Speaker 2>accountable in case they might be the ones ultimately held

0:42:26.239 --> 0:42:31.360
<v Speaker 2>accountable someday they might get caught. Understand, if these congressmen

0:42:31.400 --> 0:42:34.600
<v Speaker 2>deal out harsh penalties to federal employees who steal from taxpayers,

0:42:34.640 --> 0:42:36.680
<v Speaker 2>well how are they going to be treated if and

0:42:36.719 --> 0:42:40.440
<v Speaker 2>when they get caught basically stealing from federal taxpayers? You know,

0:42:40.480 --> 0:42:43.680
<v Speaker 2>for example, the Democrats in Congress were caught funneling tens

0:42:43.719 --> 0:42:46.960
<v Speaker 2>of billions of dollars a year into that US Aid organization,

0:42:47.320 --> 0:42:49.400
<v Speaker 2>and then they'd funnel that to their family and friends

0:42:49.480 --> 0:42:52.759
<v Speaker 2>and ultimately back to their own campaigns. If we pass

0:42:52.880 --> 0:42:55.720
<v Speaker 2>laws that put thieves and fraudsters in prison, what happens

0:42:55.760 --> 0:42:58.600
<v Speaker 2>to them when they get caught in that grift? And

0:42:58.640 --> 0:43:00.880
<v Speaker 2>there can be zero doubt that the vast majority of

0:43:00.920 --> 0:43:03.200
<v Speaker 2>the fraud and the grifting and the dishonesty is going

0:43:03.200 --> 0:43:05.960
<v Speaker 2>on in the Democrat side of the aisle. It's not exclusively,

0:43:06.120 --> 0:43:09.600
<v Speaker 2>but it's heavily tilted that way. That's my way of

0:43:09.640 --> 0:43:12.120
<v Speaker 2>transitioning to a different but related topic. You know, this

0:43:12.160 --> 0:43:16.359
<v Speaker 2>is also classic DC duplicity. President Obama acting as if

0:43:16.360 --> 0:43:18.600
<v Speaker 2>he's the conscience of the nation and the keeper of

0:43:18.640 --> 0:43:21.640
<v Speaker 2>the Constitution when he spent the last twenty years being

0:43:21.680 --> 0:43:25.319
<v Speaker 2>the destroyer of those things. Obama told Stephen Colbert, to

0:43:25.400 --> 0:43:28.640
<v Speaker 2>the canned applause from his audience, that presidents shouldn't be

0:43:28.760 --> 0:43:33.239
<v Speaker 2>using their attorney generals as consiglieries as their mob enforcers. Listen, Yeah,

0:43:33.400 --> 0:43:34.400
<v Speaker 2>now that you're.

0:43:34.200 --> 0:43:36.920
<v Speaker 4>No longer in office, what powers do you believe the

0:43:36.920 --> 0:43:40.400
<v Speaker 4>president should not have? Well, there are a couple that

0:43:41.480 --> 0:43:46.440
<v Speaker 4>I followed even though they weren't law, and I want

0:43:46.680 --> 0:43:48.680
<v Speaker 4>us we're going to have to do some work to

0:43:48.760 --> 0:43:51.920
<v Speaker 4>return to this basic norm and we probably now have

0:43:52.000 --> 0:43:55.600
<v Speaker 4>to codify them. The White House shouldn't be able to

0:43:55.640 --> 0:44:00.759
<v Speaker 4>direct the Attorney General to go around prosecuting whoever. If

0:44:00.800 --> 0:44:03.960
<v Speaker 4>everyone has right, it's technically it's under the executive branch.

0:44:04.239 --> 0:44:06.040
<v Speaker 2>I think the norm is that it's independent.

0:44:06.200 --> 0:44:10.040
<v Speaker 4>The norm, the idea is that the attorney general is

0:44:10.080 --> 0:44:14.000
<v Speaker 4>the people's lawyer. It's not the president's consiglieri. Right, even

0:44:14.040 --> 0:44:21.799
<v Speaker 4>when it's Bobby Kennedy, that's Bobby Kennedy. And so two

0:44:21.840 --> 0:44:26.560
<v Speaker 4>of the core principles of a democracy. We can survive

0:44:26.600 --> 0:44:31.680
<v Speaker 4>a lot bad policy, funky elections. There's a bunch of

0:44:31.719 --> 0:44:36.960
<v Speaker 4>stuff that you know, we can overcome. We can't overcome

0:44:37.520 --> 0:44:41.959
<v Speaker 4>the politicization of the criminal justice system, the awesome power

0:44:41.960 --> 0:44:45.399
<v Speaker 4>of the state. You can't have a situation in which

0:44:46.239 --> 0:44:50.400
<v Speaker 4>whoever's in charge of the government starts using that to

0:44:50.520 --> 0:44:52.040
<v Speaker 4>go after their political enemies.

0:44:52.280 --> 0:44:54.560
<v Speaker 2>It's obviously a shot at Trump, whose critics and sist

0:44:54.640 --> 0:44:57.200
<v Speaker 2>He's using Pambondi and now Todd Blanche as his own

0:44:57.239 --> 0:45:01.800
<v Speaker 2>personal attack dogs, sending them after Trump's personal and political enemies. Folks,

0:45:01.920 --> 0:45:04.880
<v Speaker 2>more than any other president of our era, Barack Obama

0:45:04.960 --> 0:45:07.440
<v Speaker 2>and Joe Biden are the two presidents who have abused

0:45:07.440 --> 0:45:09.960
<v Speaker 2>the Department of Justice and their attorney generals and used

0:45:09.960 --> 0:45:12.360
<v Speaker 2>them for their own gain. And if you had to

0:45:12.440 --> 0:45:15.400
<v Speaker 2>pick one attorney general who absolutely did the bidding of

0:45:15.440 --> 0:45:19.200
<v Speaker 2>his president anytime that president asked, it would absolutely have

0:45:19.239 --> 0:45:23.080
<v Speaker 2>to be Eric Holder, acting as Barack Obama's personal henchmen.

0:45:23.560 --> 0:45:25.760
<v Speaker 2>As bad as Merrick Garland was in doing the bidding

0:45:25.760 --> 0:45:29.120
<v Speaker 2>of Joe Biden and going after anyone Biden instructed him too,

0:45:29.320 --> 0:45:33.320
<v Speaker 2>from Trump to parents, to nuns to the Catholic Church,

0:45:33.600 --> 0:45:36.640
<v Speaker 2>to covering up for Hunter and the Biden foreign money scandals.

0:45:36.920 --> 0:45:39.319
<v Speaker 2>As bad as Garland was when it came to being

0:45:39.400 --> 0:45:42.760
<v Speaker 2>Joe Biden's consigliary and cheating in favor of the Bidens,

0:45:43.160 --> 0:45:45.480
<v Speaker 2>Eric Holder was even worse when it came to cheating

0:45:45.520 --> 0:45:48.719
<v Speaker 2>four In colluding with Obama and his White House team,

0:45:49.160 --> 0:45:52.520
<v Speaker 2>Holder did everything from launching an undercover gun running scheme,

0:45:52.600 --> 0:45:55.680
<v Speaker 2>to spying on journalists, to covering up IRS scandals to

0:45:55.719 --> 0:46:00.360
<v Speaker 2>protecting Lewis Learner helping launch the Russia collusion smears. Is

0:46:00.360 --> 0:46:03.120
<v Speaker 2>a legitimate scumbag. And if any attorney general of the

0:46:03.160 --> 0:46:06.600
<v Speaker 2>last one hundred years can be accurately described as a consigliary.

0:46:06.880 --> 0:46:10.640
<v Speaker 2>It's eric holder continguliarity to Barack Obama, who is now

0:46:10.680 --> 0:46:13.720
<v Speaker 2>pretending as if he and his administration were something different

0:46:13.760 --> 0:46:18.680
<v Speaker 2>and were above board. Not hardly, not even remotely. Obama

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<v Speaker 2>can say the idea is that the attorney general is

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<v Speaker 2>the people's lawyer and not the president's consigliari, and he

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<v Speaker 2>can achieve applause for it, but in doing so, he's

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<v Speaker 2>displaying once again that he is one of the of

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<v Speaker 2>America's biggest hypocrites and slime balls, and post presidency, Barack

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<v Speaker 2>Obama has really only reinforced that he's the duplicitous pretender

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<v Speaker 2>and slime ball that most of us on the right

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<v Speaker 2>have always known him to be from the first moments

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<v Speaker 2>that he ran for president. This guy has always been

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<v Speaker 2>an infuriating and infuriatingly dishonest fraud. He once taught constitutional law,

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<v Speaker 2>and instead of using that knowledge to inform him about

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<v Speaker 2>what is right and proper, as it did for say,

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<v Speaker 2>Alan Dershowitzer, Jonathan Turley, or John Ywe, Barack Obama appears

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<v Speaker 2>to have studied the constitution and constitutional law in order

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<v Speaker 2>to find ways around it, in order to find ways

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<v Speaker 2>to use it to his own advantage. Obama's eight year

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<v Speaker 2>presidency in his longtime associations with people like Eric Holder

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<v Speaker 2>and Valerie Jarrett and Susan Rice prove that and now

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<v Speaker 2>post presidency, were supposed to view him as being on

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<v Speaker 2>some sort of higher plane of wisdom. Screw that. This

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<v Speaker 2>man is a dirt bag's dirt bag very slick. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>he's fooled a lot of people, But Barack Obama, in

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<v Speaker 2>the end is just another dirt bags dirt bag, very

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<v Speaker 2>par for the course in Washington, DC. And by the way,

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<v Speaker 2>I love to hear Obama now admitting that his continued

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<v Speaker 2>participation in politics is what's harming his marriage. I hope

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<v Speaker 2>some of you saw this. This week, Obama admitted that

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<v Speaker 2>Michelle wants him to withdraw from public life and simply

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<v Speaker 2>live the good life with Oprah and Richard Branson and

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<v Speaker 2>the other global elites. Nearly all presidents do, after all,

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<v Speaker 2>once they leave office. You withdraw so that you aren't

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<v Speaker 2>criticizing the current president, making his job leading harder, and

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<v Speaker 2>so that you aren't sending conflicting messages to the American

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<v Speaker 2>people that undermine the effectiveness of our government. You're supposed

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<v Speaker 2>to sort of withdraw quietly and with some dignity and

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<v Speaker 2>become a larger than life figure. And so the truth

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<v Speaker 2>is Obama should withdraw from politics and public life simply

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<v Speaker 2>because it's the smart and right thing to do if

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<v Speaker 2>you want to have a status of revered former president.

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<v Speaker 2>But aside from that, I love to hear this news

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<v Speaker 2>because it confirmed something that I've been saying ever since

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<v Speaker 2>the Obama's left office. Every two years we get a

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<v Speaker 2>flurry of activity and idiotic talk. Yeah, Michelle's going to

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<v Speaker 2>run for president. Michelle's going to run for president. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>the only one, I swear over the years who has

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<v Speaker 2>never bought into that and has been honest about it

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<v Speaker 2>all along. Michelle never had an interest in politics in

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<v Speaker 2>the first place. She hated her time at the White

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<v Speaker 2>House unless she was doing photoshoots and having her Heini kissed.

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<v Speaker 2>She liked the trappings of the presidency, but didn't care

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<v Speaker 2>about the presidency. She has zero interest in actual politics

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<v Speaker 2>are in the job, and she's made that clear forever.

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<v Speaker 2>Michelle Obama will never run for president and never intended to.

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<v Speaker 2>She doesn't even want Barack blathering about it anymore. But

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<v Speaker 2>a year from now, we're going to hear from the

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<v Speaker 2>same group of idiots on both the left and the right.

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<v Speaker 2>They're on both sides of the aisle. You know, Michelle's

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<v Speaker 2>running this time. It's serious. She's running. So let's agree today.

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<v Speaker 2>Anyone who says that or tweets that is an idiot.

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