WEBVTT - The Jay Weber Podcast #0004 4-17-26 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:05.360 That Jay Webber Podcast is presented by Creative Planet, helping 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:10.040 clients simplify their journey to financial wellness, one personalized plan 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:13.800 at a time. That j Weber Podcast is a production 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:15.960 of iHeartRadio Podcasts. 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:20.840 Good day everyone, it is Friday. Welcome to the j 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:23.320 Webber Podcast. It feels like it was a quick week, 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:25.439 a tough week, at least for those of us in 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:28.880 the Upper Midwest. You're dealing with mending rounds of thunderstorms 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:31.920 and tornadoes. My producer, Gregory John is here, of course. 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:33.840 Did you and yours make it through without any damage? 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:34.400 Donal Creek? 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.480 We the basement was fine, but you know, Oak Creek 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:39.919 is a low lying area, so all the roads are 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:42.440 the waters right up to the roads on Pute, So. 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:45.920 You just got to manage that. The little rivers and 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:49.080 creeks that are normally pretty sedentary around here are all 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.440 flowing like crazy too. You know, I had a few trees, 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:54.080 I lose branches. I had one pine that snapped in half. 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:57.200 But I feel lucky. Many of my neighbors got hit 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.720 much worse. We had some sheds down, and you know, 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.920 they the National Weather Service looks for straight line wins 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.520 if the trees all fall one way, and everything falls 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:07.440 one way. It's kind of straight line wins as well. 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:10.920 My neighbors also have their trees fall in every which way. 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:12.760 So I think we might have had a little bit 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:16.240 of a tornadic activity over us here. But yeah, I'm 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.120 glad everyone got shot up, everyone listening got through it, okay. 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:20.560 And this is of course the sort of thing that 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.479 we see every spring, you know, these unsettled weather patterns, 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:27.080 heavy rains, high winds, hail. Here in Wisconsin, we have 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:29.240 a good trail primary going on and one of the 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.559 Democrat candidates is she's a useless pretender of women anyway. 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.160 Her name is Sarah Godluski. She's the secretary of State 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.200 running for governor now, but she's got national attention for 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:42.039 a meltdown she had on social media over Hale. Here's 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:45.440 what it sounded like. Republicans say, we don't have climate change, 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:49.040 but this is all guys, hail in my front yard. 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:53.520 This is not normal, and we can't keep ignoring our environment. 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.520 Greg is she blaming Republicans for Hale. 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:01.240 I had to have a roof redownieing redone just two 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:05.640 years ago because of Gulf sized hail. The deep water system. 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:09.560 What was that thirty forty years ago. Yeah, it's not 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:10.919 climate change. 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.520 Well no, and the content of her rent is wrong, 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.440 of course, and that's one of the reasons that went viral. 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:17.040 She's stand out on her porch and you can hear 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.760 the sirens going off and the hail is falling. But 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.840 the weather isn't unique for April, so she gets that wrong. 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:27.160 Even golf ball sized hail isn't unique. It does happen occasionally. 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.639 I mean, we all remember as kids instances in which 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.840 the adults in the news reports were talking about golf 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.280 ball sized hail. We all probably know at least one 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.000 or two people who's actually lost a car to gulf 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.359 ball sized hail. It was all digged up. So this 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.119 isn't something we're only seeing now in the twenty first 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.600 century due to climate change. But Greg, what tickled me 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.320 the most about this video of Sarah Godluski melting down 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.720 and blaming the right for Mother Nature was that she 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:52.680 was standing on her porch and we could see the 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:54.920 hail behind her. It's lying on the grass and it's 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.440 on her portrail. You can see it's about rock salt 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:00.520 sized hail, which is not out of the ordinary. So 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.640 she's even lying about the size of the hail. 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.440 And did you notice that she was wearing a Wisconsin sweatshirt. 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:10.919 I mean it was it was obviously promotional video for. 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.400 Her, right right. You know, she thought it was obviously 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:17.120 going to launch her to her campaign. I'm wondering if 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.880 god Lusky's little meltdown here didn't put the final dagger 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:23.520 into her primary campaign. So you know, she wasn't gonna 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.400 win it anyway, But if this were a big move 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.400 to go from one percent support to the top of 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:31.040 the Democrat heap, I think it failed. So we can 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:32.880 put that aside. That's about all I have to say 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.000 on that. On the podcast today, we'll talk about the 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.920 polpe's class with President Trump, zororon Mamdannie's government run grocery 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:43.320 stores are incredibly unfair income tax system, Kamala getting shived 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.480 by her own side of the eye on now, and 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:49.320 Columbia's finally moving to deal do something with their cocaine hippos. 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:50.880 I mean, how's that for a tease. 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.280 Before you go into your commercial, I just want to 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.720 congratulate you. You debuted at number thirty nine on the 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:03.520 top one hundred of not bill Board but of iHeartRadio podcast. Congratulations, 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:05.480 Thank you so much. It's a very good start to 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:08.400 the podcast. This is the fourth episode for a verse 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.000 four episodes in hope to grow that. 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That's Creative Planning dot Com. Your 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:50.240 team awaits paid for by Creative Planning and SEC registered 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.359 investment advisor. The speaker's statements are not an endorsement of 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.800 the firm, So my take on this little verbal war 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.200 between Pope Leo and President Trump is quite frankly a 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.480 big yawn in the grand scheme of things. Who cares? 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.719 And I say that because it isn't surprising that a 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:07.840 pope feels like he needs to weigh in on a 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.960 war or on a moral question, especially after the President 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:12.960 of the United States has put out an all advised 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:14.840 tweet that seemed to have him threatening to wipe out 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.760 an entire country. I understand why Leo felt he needed 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:21.040 to pipe in here. I also understand why President Trump 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.600 would be frustrated that, yet again, we have another pope 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:25.920 who only seems to be interested in defending the most 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.120 backward and evil regimes on the planet under the guise 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:33.440 of mercy and peace and understanding. If I was President Trump, 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.919 I'd be frustrated too that I'm taking care of a 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.600 fifty year threat to the enlightened Western world. I'm standing 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.400 against tyranny and brutality that's been so extreme over the 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.680 decades that it can be categorized as evil. The evils 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.080 that the Iranian Mullas have committed against their fellow man 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.000 over the last forty five years are immeasurable and horrific 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:55.200 and abhorrened. Hell. Right before the pope chimed in to 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.520 defend the Iranian side of this equation, Iran's Mullah's had 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.120 just concluded an effort to cat kill forty thousand of 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.000 their own people in an effort to keep control of 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:07.240 their brutal regime. For those not following along, the evil 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.919 Mullahs who run Iran are engaged in a campaign of 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:13.800 extermination currently this is ongoing. They're trying to imprison or 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.920 kill any Iranian who might oppose them or publicly voice 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:20.279 dissent or threaten in any way their hold on power. 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.839 They had just gotten done with the extermination of about 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.840 forty thousand of their own countrymen when Leo chimed in 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:28.880 here and felt the need to speak for the regime 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.600 and happen on the wrong side of the moral equation. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:34.880 And that's the thing, you know. Pope Leo has chimed 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.400 in on the wrong side of a much larger moral 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.800 argument here. And Trump never should have sent the tweet 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:44.400 that suggested he'd wipe out an higher country. That was dumb, dumb, dumb. 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.360 But Pope Leo seemed to be favoring the evil Muslims 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.440 in this equation even before that moment, and he used 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.840 the tweet as a chance to speak in favor of 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:56.400 some moral clarity or some such thing. When he and 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.120 the Catholic Church have largely refused to speak up for 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.560 or get involved with all sorts of other moral arguments, 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.760 especially those related to the evils of the Islamist extremists. 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.480 What Aronzmulas have done to their own people over forty 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.880 years has been a moral abomin nation. Have we ever 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:16.800 seen a pope so morally exercised about that that he 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.920 puts out global declarations of peace and denounces the evil 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.680 and keeps it up for a week or so. No, 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:27.280 not that I can recall, is the Catholic Church waging 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.320 a moral war against the organized and horrific slaughter of 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.400 Christians and Jews and any non Muslim in any of 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:37.080 these African and Middle Eastern countries where it's occurring. No, 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:41.920 and that violence against Christians has been ongoing. Apparently Leo 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.000 doesn't really have much of a say to say about that. Instead, 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.760 it's a social media post from the president who's leading 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.160 a military effort to bring about a larger global peace 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:55.280 that really sets him off. Good grief. I'm a Catholic myself, 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.280 and I have no particular problem with Pope Leo. I 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.880 think he's younger and more energetic and more willing to 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:02.920 do the outreach work to grow the church than the 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.880 last three tired and sickly old popes were. I think 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:07.600 Leo's been a real breath of fresh air for the 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.480 Catholic Church. And it's a bonus that he's an American, certainly, 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.040 but that also means he's going to chime in on 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:17.560 America's issues more often. And it could also mean that 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.640 Pope Leo, when he was just a cardinal there living 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:23.080 in Chicago, was a liberal cardinal living in Chicago with 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:27.200 maybe a touch of TDS. When he was a liberal 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.040 living in Chicago and elevated to pope, I and some 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.920 others said, don't think this guy is a conservative. Don't 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:34.840 think he's going to be a more moderate or conservative 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.400 pope than Francis was. And so far, every time the 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.960 Pope has shown us his political side, he's been supporting 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:44.440 the activist left. I'm not shocked at this, and you 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.840 shouldn't be either. But in this latest dust up with Trump, 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.640 Leo the man seems to have gone too far in 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:54.160 his attempt to announce any war as unjust and any 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:56.800 warrior is unjust, and he's even gone so far as 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.400 to misinterpret scripture. And hey, I'm certainly no Theolo but 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.080 those who are say that the pope quoting Isaiah one 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.640 point fifteen is a real stretch. Pope Leo suggested that basically, 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.000 no war is just and no one fighting a war 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:12.600 can be heard by God. God doesn't hear their prayers. 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.440 This is basically what the Pope said in response to 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:19.160 Trump and his war quote. Even though you make many prayers, 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.000 I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood. 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.040 That's from Isaiah. But Isaiah's context was in reference to 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:28.240 the corruption and injustices of the Judeans, and it makes 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.760 no sense when applied to Trump and the Iranian war. 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:35.079 According to these theologians, Leo is claiming God doesn't listen 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.600 to the prayers of those who fight or wage war 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.960 because Jesus preached his love and mercy. But Jesus didn't 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:45.080 preach pacifism, nor did he suggest that there was no 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.679 such thing as a just war, or a just cause 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:51.679 or a just reaction that might include violence. Leo made 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:53.400 it sound as if no war can be a just 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.920 war or a just cause against evil, when they certainly 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:00.760 can be. Trump says it's not so prising that President 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.400 Trump thinks Pope Leo should be preaching against the evils 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.679 of Iran's leaders and those evils that they'd done to 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.600 their fellow man over the last forty five years. Instead 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.600 of being worried about Trump saying, LEO should be denouncing 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.839 the recent slaughter of forty thousand Iranian people. You'd think 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:18.120 Trump's reaction doesn't surprise me, But it is surprising that 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.160 a new PULP doesn't think there's such a thing as 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.840 a just war, or that God won't listen to anyone 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:26.080 resorting to violence. Trump and the US military here are 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.160 resorting to violence in an effort to deal with a 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:32.880 longtime evil and bring about a more peaceful globe. LEO 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:36.520 really can't see that. Well, here's a good litmus test 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.320 for the PULP. When the Iranian Mullahs are rushing to 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.600 praise you, you're probably on the wrong side. When you've 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.720 got radical Islam all excited about your comments and your reaction, 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.760 you might be standing on the wrong side of the cloud. 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.240 Iran's radical president ran I mean, he rushed to praise 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.200 Poplo after he denounced President Trump and this war action. 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.000 The same POLP that's been absolutely silent on the atrocities 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:03.120 committed by the radical imams, and that Iranian regime can 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.520 suddenly find his voice when it comes to criticizing Trump 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:09.680 for not being gentle enough or diplomatic enough. It really 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:14.720 is farcical this new evil fan of Leo's. The Iranian 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:18.400 president said, his holiness, Pope Leo, I condemned the insult 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.959 of your excellency on behalf of the great nation of Iran, 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.960 and declare that the desecration of Jesus, the prophet of 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.760 peace and brotherhood, is not acceptable to any free person. 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.719 I wish you glory by a law. I love the 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.160 reference to the free person. But this is the same 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:35.280 man who would crucify Christ all over again if Christ 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.640 was walking the earth today. As one pundit put it, 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:40.880 this is the same regime that has driven thousands of 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:44.319 Christians out of Iran, persecuted them, imprisoned them, denying them 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:47.360 the ability to worship freely, and in some cases subjecting 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.440 them to torture or death. Now that same regime wants 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.000 to posture as a defender of Christianity and weigh in 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.520 on church matters. Yeah, and Pope Leo's apparently okay with 0:11:56.600 --> 0:12:00.000 being used by them as they do it. These attacks 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.880 on Trump had been morally confused at best, and for 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:06.040 the record, anyone insisting that we Catholics have got to 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:09.040 agree with the Pope on this are incorrect. Catholics are 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.200 not required to agree with the Pope at all times. 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:14.839 The Second Vatican Council even made this clear quote. The 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:19.120 Church claims no special divine competence in reaching political conclusions, 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.679 and so no, you don't have to feel guilty about this. 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:24.880 You do not, as a Catholic, have to agree with 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.400 Pope Leo on this or feel guilty that you don't. 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:30.840 In fact, here's a shocker. According to a new poll, 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:34.120 six and ten Catholics are with Trump on the Iranian question, 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.200 with only four and ten being more like Leo. I guess. 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.320 The poll found that church going Catholics found a fifty 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.600 eight percent job appropriating for Trump and fifty percent approve 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.160 of Trump taking the military action against Iran that he 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:50.000 is so among Catholics who actually practice the faith, six 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.280 and ten approve of Trump's presidency and at least a 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:56.199 slight majority of them approve of how he's handling Iran. Look, 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.960 if a pope didn't chime in on the morality of war, 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.160 et cetera, he wouldn't be doing his job. 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:01.640 Right. 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.400 But Pope Leo's need to chime in on the wrong 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.440 side of the moral equation is what's interesting, and it's 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.560 somewhere between interesting and indefensible when you consider how much 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.000 both he and the Church have been ignoring the ongoing 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.600 slaughter of Christians and Catholics in the Middle East and 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:20.240 certain African nations for a long long time. Now it's 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.480 as if our new Pope doesn't see the genuine evil 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:25.400 and inhumanity that's playing out around the globe and instead 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:29.240 just wants to nitpick on political matters, which brings us 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.199 to why Leo is choosing to take on Trump. Several 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.319 voices at the Vatican are now explaining it this way. 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.840 They say Leo sees the global disorder of the day 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.520 as an opportunity to boost the profile of the Catholic 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:43.560 Church and repair its global standing after the sexual abuse scandals, etc. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:47.520 Which were also global. By the way, this wasn't just 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.400 an American priest thing, if you don't know, but this 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.680 is the claim. Leo is seeing the global disorder as 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.600 a blessing and an opportunity. Quote, this is just a 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.079 huge blessing. It's wonderful for the church all over the 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:00.280 world that he's the guy who can stand up to Trump. 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.400 They point out Leo is also considerably more popular in 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:05.760 the US than Trump, so that works to their advantage. 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.120 They point out that Leo is considerably more popular in 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.360 the US than Trump. They like this. He enjoys a 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:14.360 thirty four percentage point net positive rating compared with a 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:19.120 twelve percentage point net negative rating for Trump. They're also 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.280 still annoyed that six and ten Catholics supported Trump in 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.880 twenty twenty four, and they hope Leo's scolding gets them 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:28.120 back in line. Catholics make up about one fifth of 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.800 all US voters, by the way, and historically they split 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:34.000 almost evenly between the parties. It's almost fifty to fifty. 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.400 So even that slight bump in Catholic support for Trump 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.360 was definitive in twenty twenty four, and the lefty Catholics 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:44.320 are still stewing over it. But the conservative Catholics remain 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.920 loyal to Trump, and if that CBS poll is correct, 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.000 fifty eight percent of Catholics overall approve of the President 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.440 and nearly that many approve of his actions in Iran. 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.280 I don't see how Leo's really helping himself or the 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:59.040 church out here. If that's the case. Vice President Vance 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.280 is a Catholic, and he was asked about polpe Leo 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:04.280 injecting himself into the morality of this war. Here. Here's 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:05.080 what he had to say. 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:10.840 So, Number one, when the Pope says that God is 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:12.880 never on the side of those who willed the sword, 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.160 there is a thousand year, more than a thousand year 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.080 tradition of just war theory. 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:18.920 Okay. 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.440 Now, we can, of course have disagreements about whether this 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.640 or that conflict is just. But I think that it's important. 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:26.240 In the same way that it's important for the Vice 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.600 President of the United States to be careful when I 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.480 talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.200 very important for the Pope to be careful when he 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.680 talks about matters of theology. But I think one of 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.320 the issues here is that if you're going to opine 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:43.560 on matters of theology, you've got to be careful. You've 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.480 got to make sure it's anchored in the truth. And 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.440 that's one of the things that I try to do, 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:49.600 and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:51.080 whether they're Catholic or Protestant. 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.920 Yeah, Van's concluded that by saying, I certainly think that 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.000 in some cases it would be best for the Vatican 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.520 to stick to matters of morality, stick to matters of 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:00.600 what's going on in the Catholic Church, and let the 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.720 President of the United States stick to dictating public policy. 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.280 In general, that's good advice, but if you are Catholic, 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.320 you know that the tenets of our faith often have 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:14.240 implications for public policy. Our stances against abortion, the death penalty, 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.800 our stances on poverty and charity, etc. They all intersect 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.280 in the political plane. Obviously, I don't think a pope 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.800 needs to quote stay out of politics, but I do 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.520 think that when a pope chimes in, it should be 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:30.200 only after careful thought and with moral clarity. In our 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:33.360 rather new pope failed to do that in this instance. 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:38.480 I did a segment on the last podcast related to 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.160 Kamala Harris and how the left wing accomplices in the 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.440 mainstream media are going to spend the next three years 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:45.680 trying to force her onto the voters of this country 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.800 as a lost opportunity in twenty twenty four. They are 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.720 trying hard to convince voters that not electing Kamala in 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.080 twenty twenty four was a mistake, and I was saying, 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:56.680 the American people can believe they made a mistake with 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.120 Donald Trump if they do and still not believe that 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.360 Kamala Harris would have been the answer, And that, of 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.240 course is the case. We know it wasn't a mistake. 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.840 Kamala Harris ran in twenty twenty and was so thoroughly 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.600 rejected as the answer for her party she was forced 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.080 to drop out before the voting even started in Iowa 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.320 in twenty twenty four. Of course, after four years as veep, 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.520 the Bidens forced her onto the party leadership because they 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:21.960 were forcing Joe Biden out. If you remember, Nancy Pelosi, 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:24.680 Barack Obama and others wanted to have a quickie mini 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:27.920 primary because they didn't want Kamala to be the standard 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:31.560 bearer in twenty twenty four, the Bidens, as punishment for 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:35.240 daring to push Joe out, turned around and forced Kamala 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:39.080 onto the ticket. They engineered her candidacy, and of course 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:42.480 she lost terribly. We saw how that ended. More importantly, though, 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:45.280 we saw in technicolor during that stretch that the American 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:48.479 people simply don't want or like Kamala Harris in public 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:51.480 office and so it isn't terribly surprising that at least 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.000 some segment of the Democrat base doesn't want to make 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.240 this mistake again in twenty twenty eight, and they're going 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:59.360 to push back against this mainstream media attempt to make 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:03.280 her the nominee. I'm not surprised that some factions of 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:04.960 the left side of the aisle are reacting to this 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:09.880 latest attempt to relaunch Kamala negatively. But the Huffington Post, Okay, 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.360 that's interesting. The Huffington Post published a piece this week 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.320 from one of their columnists named Kevin Robillard, and it 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.639 was brutal. And this is another reason that this is noteworthy. 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:23.439 The tone of this piece easily could have been softer, 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:28.360 more subtle, less direct, not so harsh, not so mocking. 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:31.800 Realized they made a choice here over at the Huffington Post. 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.800 The socialist progressive editors at the Huffington Post could have 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.520 chosen to take a far less harsh tone and still 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.040 gotten their point across if they wanted to criticize a 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:45.359 fellow Democrat. Instead, they chose to go heavy. This is 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:47.760 evidence of what I was saying on Tuesday, Kamala Harris 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.080 will not be the Democrat nominee in twenty twenty eight, 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:53.399 and try as they might, the mainstream leftist news media 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:55.600 is not going to be able to successfully force her 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.720 onto the voters of this country or that party. Huff 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:03.760 Post headline, Kamala Harris twenty twenty eight, question mark Democratic 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:07.080 operatives and donors hope not. Here's just a sample of 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:09.040 what this guy wrote, and I think you'll agree it's 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.720 kind of dead on, he says. Harris is like this 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.040 drunk buddy of mine from way back when, and not 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.080 because of the drunk part, well not entirely because of 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:19.639 the drunk part. So he even hints Kamala as a 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:21.800 quiet drunk, as some of us on the right have, 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:26.280 because sometimes she appears or sounds drunk. He continues, this 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:28.760 friend of his would have exactly one cocktail too many. 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.159 He wouldn't be stumbling drunk or slurring drunk, but just 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:34.560 drunk enough to make things embarrassingly awkward. He'd approach a woman, 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.600 or even an entire table full of women, completely unaware 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.200 that nobody was interested. He had zero ability to take 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:44.000 a not so subtle hint, read body language, detect, tone, nothing, 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.280 The author says, somebody, usually me, would have to ride 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:49.640 to the rescue. It's not going to happen, buddy, Come 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.680 on back to the table. We got another picture. That 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.760 gentle reader is Kamala Harrison the White House. This guy says, 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.760 He continues, the only reason Joe Biden picked Harris as 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:01.080 his running mate is that he'd public talked himself into 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:04.199 promising a black female running mate, and the only choices 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:07.280 were Harris or Stacy Abrams, and Abrams was busy costplaying 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:09.840 as governor of Georgia. He says. Harris, not to put 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:11.960 too fine a point on it was the highest ranking 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:14.439 diversity higher of all time. If she succeeded at a 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:17.520 single job that Biden gave her, yeah, there is no 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:21.000 If he reconsiders, he says she failed all of them, 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.560 from Borders R to National Security point person. By all appearances, 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:26.800 Harris seems to think she earned the nomination in twenty 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.359 twenty four, even though the big names like Barack Obama 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:32.639 and Nancy Pelosi wanted to hold a mini primary. Precisely 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:36.080 to Kneecapper, diversity hires always think they earned it. But 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:38.800 even a cursory glance at Harris's performance as VEEP and 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:42.359 every cringe inducing day of her comically inept but mercifully 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:46.439 brief presidential campaign showed a woman with no qualifications aside 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:50.080 from a blive persistence. The job requires so much more 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:54.440 than word salads and boxed wines. This is just brutal. 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:57.439 And it's not some evil conservative or right wing pundit 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:00.280 trashing er. It's a staff columnist at the Huffington Post. 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.399 Kamala will not be the Democrats twenty twenty eight nominee. 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:06.080 I've been flat out guaranteeing that since she lost in 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:11.480 twenty twenty four. All right, next item on Tuesday's podcast, 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:13.960 I asked our Americans even going to know that their 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:16.960 tax refund is larger this year because President Trump and 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:19.560 the Republican Congress helped them out with some tax breaks 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:22.680 in the Big Beautiful Bill. This is the filing deadline 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:25.600 now in which no taxes on tips are overtime and 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:28.520 no income tax on Social Security, new tax breaks for 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:31.800 car buyers all kick in. The IRS says just based 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:34.359 on the early returns that they've handled, the average tax 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:36.439 return is three hundred and fifty dollars larger than it 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:39.240 otherwise would have been. This as the Trump White House 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:41.720 predicts that the overall average return could turn out to 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:44.040 be about one thousand dollars more than expected. And so 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:46.800 we've got all this great news related to our overall 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:49.440 level of federal taxation and our tax returns this year, 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:53.000 and is anyone going to hear about it? I've been asking. 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:56.199 I am firmly blaming the mainstream news media for refusing 0:21:56.280 --> 0:21:58.960 to report on any story that might reflect positively on 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:02.240 President Trump and the publican party. Here, these major news 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:05.600 outlets have turned into genuine left wing propaganda machines rather 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:08.880 than news operations. And if you know anything about propaganda, 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:11.400 you know that it's not just about hyping and spinning 0:22:11.440 --> 0:22:13.560 and lying in order to make yourself and your side 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:16.040 of the aisle look great. It's also about taking every 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:19.159 opportunity to trash, malign, and step on your opponents and 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:22.159 your enemies. And given that our major media outlets are 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:24.600 now enemies of the truth and the American right, well 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:27.639 there is no way in their minds that they can 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:29.840 be expected to honestly report on the merits of the 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:32.240 big beautiful Bill or the wins that it's bringing to 0:22:32.280 --> 0:22:35.680 the American people. It is therefore not surprising to run 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:38.880 across this headline from the left wing political website. Tax 0:22:38.960 --> 0:22:42.600 Day arrives with Republicans struggling to sell their cuts. So 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:45.440 we finally do find a so called news outlet that's 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:48.639 going to report on this blackout of coverage on tax relief, 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:51.000 and they spin it as though it's the Republican's fault. 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:54.439 And I hope you noticed they portrayed the tax relief 0:22:54.480 --> 0:22:58.040 as cuts, as in, this isn't a win for taxpayers, 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:01.200 it's cuts that took something away from somebody. I mean, 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:05.240 it's just despicable political claims. Republicans hope that last year's 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:08.359 tax cuts would offer giant political benefits with taxpayers receiving 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:11.240 supersized refunds and then rewarding them at the ballot box. 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:14.000 That doesn't look like it's going to happen. Refunds haven't 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:16.679 jumped as much as Republicans had hoped. See how they 0:23:16.760 --> 0:23:19.640 choose to spin it. Already, with only the first waves 0:23:19.760 --> 0:23:22.560 of tax returns being processed, the average refund is saving 0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:25.600 American workers three hundred and fifty dollars. But you know, 0:23:25.960 --> 0:23:28.760 we get this spin. It's a failure. It's a failure, 0:23:28.800 --> 0:23:32.120 not as much as expected. It's just pathetic. Then they 0:23:32.160 --> 0:23:34.359 go on to pretend as if it's the Republican's fault 0:23:34.359 --> 0:23:37.520 that their win isn't getting any attention. It's the Republicans 0:23:37.600 --> 0:23:40.040 quote struggling to get their message out, and it is not. 0:23:40.200 --> 0:23:42.879 I tell you, it's just it's not the refusal of 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:46.320 the major meat news outlets to report the story. But 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:48.960 this is the typical sort of ingrained and overt media 0:23:49.000 --> 0:23:51.320 bias we've come to simply expect in the country. I 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:55.240 guess they say. That's one reason why Republicans are still 0:23:55.240 --> 0:23:57.600 doing everything they can to keep last year's tax cuts 0:23:57.640 --> 0:23:59.760 top of mind this tax Day, even as they also 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:03.440 be guilty of over promising on the refunds. Republican officials 0:24:03.640 --> 0:24:06.320 also have another problem. Any benefits they might get from 0:24:06.480 --> 0:24:08.680 talking up the tax cuts are running headlong into the 0:24:08.760 --> 0:24:11.600 war in Iran and surging gas prices associated with it, 0:24:11.720 --> 0:24:15.400 making their goal of holding Congress more daunting. Meanwhile, they report, 0:24:15.600 --> 0:24:18.160 the Bipartisan Policy Center found in a poll of its 0:24:18.160 --> 0:24:21.040 own last week that barely a quarter of taxpayers who 0:24:21.040 --> 0:24:23.640 filed their returns believed the tax law had helped them. 0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:25.800 Only a third of those who'd taken advantage of the 0:24:25.840 --> 0:24:28.560 no tax on tips or no tax on income provisions 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:32.000 thought they'd gotten a boost, potentially even more troublesome sign 0:24:32.080 --> 0:24:35.280 for the Republicans. Well, the result of this poll is 0:24:35.320 --> 0:24:37.720 because the news media hasn't done its job or reported 0:24:37.720 --> 0:24:40.919 on the facts of these tax cuts to the American people. 0:24:41.560 --> 0:24:45.439 The folks at political cannot possibly be this subtuse. The 0:24:45.520 --> 0:24:48.040 left wing media has put a blackout on any positive 0:24:48.040 --> 0:24:50.719 news related to these tax breaks, and then Politico pretends 0:24:50.720 --> 0:24:53.359 it's surprising that most Americans haven't heard about the tax 0:24:53.400 --> 0:24:56.960 breaks and don't think they were helped by them. Folks. 0:24:57.000 --> 0:25:00.240 According to the IRS, twenty million Americans took advantage of 0:25:00.280 --> 0:25:03.359 the no taxes on tips or overtime provision, twenty million 0:25:03.400 --> 0:25:06.240 working people. Please ask them if they don't think it 0:25:06.359 --> 0:25:08.320 helped them, or if they'd like to go back to 0:25:08.359 --> 0:25:11.480 having their tips and they're overtime taxed. What do you 0:25:11.480 --> 0:25:15.719 think they'd say? Fifty one million seniors are benefiting from 0:25:15.760 --> 0:25:19.120 the no taxes on Social Security provision. Please ask those 0:25:19.160 --> 0:25:21.439 seniors if they've noticed the change, and if they haven't, 0:25:21.720 --> 0:25:23.600 asked them if we should just go back to taxing 0:25:23.640 --> 0:25:26.800 those Social Security benefits. Hey, I mean, if you don't 0:25:26.800 --> 0:25:28.840 notice the difference, why not just go back to taxing 0:25:28.840 --> 0:25:31.360 your tips and your overtime and your social security. Right, 0:25:32.520 --> 0:25:34.600 I'd love to see the political and the mainstream outlets 0:25:34.600 --> 0:25:38.399 try to square those circles. Fifty one million seniors just 0:25:38.440 --> 0:25:39.960 got to keep more of their own money due to 0:25:39.960 --> 0:25:43.080 the Trump GOP tax cuts, and the accomplished news media 0:25:43.440 --> 0:25:45.919 refuses to tell them about it or admit that it's 0:25:45.960 --> 0:25:49.480 a win for them. It's just abhorrent how far our 0:25:49.600 --> 0:25:51.800 so called news media has fallen over the last twenty 0:25:51.800 --> 0:25:54.960 five years. But hey, in twenty twenty eight, when these 0:25:55.000 --> 0:25:58.080 tax changes are set to expire, watch how loudly these 0:25:58.240 --> 0:26:01.439 same media outlet's howl if the next Congress doesn't renew them. 0:26:02.280 --> 0:26:05.040 They don't exist today if you're a lefty activist pretending 0:26:05.040 --> 0:26:07.320 to be a reporter. But they'll be the most important 0:26:07.359 --> 0:26:10.120 taxpayers ever given to the American people if the next 0:26:10.200 --> 0:26:13.480 Congress doesn't renew them, or if this is if Republicans 0:26:13.520 --> 0:26:15.639 are in control of Congress. Of course, I mean fast 0:26:15.680 --> 0:26:18.480 forward two years. If these accomplice leftists in the media 0:26:18.520 --> 0:26:21.840 can portray the Republicans as wanting to punish seniors, you 0:26:21.920 --> 0:26:25.159 know they will. That then will be the spin and 0:26:25.200 --> 0:26:26.879 the news media will have done a complete one to 0:26:26.880 --> 0:26:29.520 eighty on the importance of these tax provisions. But you 0:26:29.560 --> 0:26:32.360 know what, if they're popular and the American people want 0:26:32.400 --> 0:26:36.119 to keep them and Democrats control the Congress, well, if 0:26:36.160 --> 0:26:38.479 the Democrats control Congress in twenty twenty eight and want 0:26:38.560 --> 0:26:40.719 to let these tax cuts expire, well then you can 0:26:40.760 --> 0:26:44.200 write the alternative spin. If a Democrat con told Congress 0:26:44.200 --> 0:26:47.360 wants these to expire, well, renewing them amounts to continuing 0:26:47.400 --> 0:26:50.879 tax breaks for the rich. Right, today's left is so 0:26:50.960 --> 0:26:53.560 transparent you can predict the sort of scumbaggery that they're 0:26:53.600 --> 0:26:57.600 going to pull years from now. Past Democrat congresses and 0:26:57.640 --> 0:27:00.320 presidents have already been destroying this country with their completely 0:27:00.440 --> 0:27:03.359 unfair and one sided taxation, and it's like today's leftists 0:27:03.359 --> 0:27:07.480 are just getting started. The most major of all major 0:27:07.520 --> 0:27:10.240 themes in this Democrat Party right now is tax the rich, 0:27:10.400 --> 0:27:13.560 Tax the rich, tax the rich. Well, the truth is 0:27:13.560 --> 0:27:15.320 that the so called rich in the upper middle class 0:27:15.359 --> 0:27:18.400 are already paying virtually all the federal bills in this country. 0:27:19.359 --> 0:27:21.520 We've been through these stants before on the radio show, 0:27:21.560 --> 0:27:24.960 but they're right from the irs, and yet most Americans 0:27:24.960 --> 0:27:27.920 never hear them. This is another failure of the mainstream media. 0:27:28.040 --> 0:27:31.600 The top one percent of wage earners pay forty percent 0:27:31.680 --> 0:27:33.920 of all of our federal bills. They pay forty percent 0:27:33.960 --> 0:27:37.479 of all income taxes. The top ten percent of earners 0:27:37.480 --> 0:27:41.639 in this country pay seventy two percent of federal government's bills. 0:27:42.359 --> 0:27:45.640 The top fifty percent of earners. This is just among 0:27:45.920 --> 0:27:47.439 We know that half of the country doesn't even have 0:27:47.480 --> 0:27:49.879 a job, but of the half of the country that's working, 0:27:50.160 --> 0:27:53.639 half of those people, the top fifty percent pay ninety 0:27:53.720 --> 0:27:57.200 seven percent of our federal bills. As it is, many 0:27:57.280 --> 0:28:00.359 households in America pay no income taxes at all, and 0:28:00.400 --> 0:28:03.040 the bottom twenty percent actually get benefits from the tax 0:28:03.040 --> 0:28:06.480 system that they never paid into. That's right. It's now 0:28:06.560 --> 0:28:09.600 two in five Americans who are getting some amount of 0:28:09.680 --> 0:28:13.680 welfare through the IRS. They get a so called tax 0:28:13.720 --> 0:28:16.560 return even though they never paid into the system. And 0:28:16.640 --> 0:28:18.600 you know, some of those payments are sizable, they're many 0:28:18.640 --> 0:28:22.479 thousands of dollars. This is the true farce and screwed 0:28:22.560 --> 0:28:24.880 job that's going on as Democrats and their activists lie 0:28:24.880 --> 0:28:28.000 to the American people, and amongst those who do know 0:28:28.000 --> 0:28:30.520 how much they're getting screwed. The flight from the Democrat 0:28:30.600 --> 0:28:33.639 cities and the states has been measurable. I tell you, 0:28:33.640 --> 0:28:35.880 if Americans really knew how much they were being screwed, 0:28:36.080 --> 0:28:38.320 they would be furious with the Democrat Party and a 0:28:38.320 --> 0:28:42.920 Democrat would never win another election. Historians are going to 0:28:42.920 --> 0:28:46.160 look back at the Democrats forced and extended lockdowns during 0:28:46.240 --> 0:28:49.480 COVID as a decision that majorly backfired on the liberal 0:28:49.560 --> 0:28:52.000 left as well. It gave all sorts of CEOs and 0:28:52.040 --> 0:28:54.840 major income earners finally gave them a chance to pause 0:28:54.840 --> 0:28:57.240 and reflect and look at how much they were being 0:28:57.320 --> 0:29:00.280 robbed by the federal government. It gave them a chance 0:29:00.320 --> 0:29:02.080 to see how much they were getting screwed under blue 0:29:02.080 --> 0:29:04.640 state tax laws as well. It also gave them a 0:29:04.720 --> 0:29:07.240 chance to understand just how much today's left hates them 0:29:07.520 --> 0:29:10.680 and wants to repeatedly punish them just for being successful. 0:29:11.800 --> 0:29:14.640 The pandemic lockdowns had tens of thousands of professionals and 0:29:14.720 --> 0:29:18.000 high tax states moving to low tax states, and had hundreds, 0:29:18.000 --> 0:29:21.280 if not thousands, of CEOs and major business owners deciding 0:29:21.320 --> 0:29:24.160 to move entire companies or large portions of them from 0:29:24.240 --> 0:29:28.320 high tax states to low tax states. The Democrats and 0:29:28.360 --> 0:29:31.040 their activists and the Blue state leaders did great harm 0:29:31.080 --> 0:29:33.960 to themselves and their communities by giving the American people 0:29:33.960 --> 0:29:36.240 time to pause and reflect on how much they were 0:29:36.240 --> 0:29:40.760 getting screwed by their respective governments. And we aren't even 0:29:40.760 --> 0:29:42.680 talking about the silent attacks that have been going on 0:29:42.720 --> 0:29:45.640 against the middle class in this country as well, especially 0:29:45.640 --> 0:29:49.040 in these Democrat states. The Wall Street Journal editors correctly 0:29:49.080 --> 0:29:51.960 point out in these blue states, even as their leaders 0:29:52.040 --> 0:29:55.840 chant tax the tax the rich, they're also hammering down 0:29:55.840 --> 0:29:59.520 on the middle class with more taxation. Bernie aoc these 0:29:59.520 --> 0:30:02.080 other minds a dimwits want to insist we don't have 0:30:02.120 --> 0:30:04.080 to tax the middle class if we tax the rich. 0:30:04.640 --> 0:30:07.680 The truth is, even as these blue states have taxed 0:30:07.680 --> 0:30:12.560 the rich more, they've also been taxing the middle class more. Quote. 0:30:12.600 --> 0:30:14.760 The dirty little secret of progressive states is that they 0:30:14.800 --> 0:30:18.520 tax their rich and middle classes more. They also wallop 0:30:18.560 --> 0:30:22.400 small businesses, which typically pay tax at their state's individual rate. 0:30:22.680 --> 0:30:24.960 The more businesses pay in tax, the less they can 0:30:25.000 --> 0:30:28.520 invest in higher YEP. That's the other side effect of 0:30:28.520 --> 0:30:31.480 the pandemic that historians will see more clearly. The pandemic 0:30:31.600 --> 0:30:33.840 ended with a flurry of new taxes on the Blue states, 0:30:34.000 --> 0:30:36.040 and its suppressed a lot of new business activity and 0:30:36.040 --> 0:30:40.080 growth across the country. And to come full circle, is 0:30:40.120 --> 0:30:42.960 any of that reported or reported on honestly by the 0:30:43.000 --> 0:30:50.600 corporate news media, No, of course not. Here's a fun 0:30:50.640 --> 0:30:54.040 little story you probably won't hear elsewhere. Columbia's leaders have 0:30:54.120 --> 0:30:58.120 finally decided to do something about Pablo Escobar's hippos. Some 0:30:58.160 --> 0:30:59.880 of you are going to know the basic story here. 0:31:00.160 --> 0:31:03.280 Notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar had all sorts of exotic 0:31:03.320 --> 0:31:06.239 animals when he was atop the Colombian drug trade, and 0:31:06.280 --> 0:31:08.960 among them were four hippos that he'd apparently bought from 0:31:08.960 --> 0:31:12.240 a private breeder in Texas. Well. They grew huge, of course, 0:31:12.600 --> 0:31:14.880 and when Escobar was killed in nineteen ninety three and 0:31:14.880 --> 0:31:17.680 his drug empire was crumbling, the leaders of Colombia didn't 0:31:17.720 --> 0:31:20.280 quite know what to do with these four massive hippos, 0:31:20.560 --> 0:31:23.360 so they decided to just leave them be. They didn't 0:31:23.360 --> 0:31:25.400 want to euthanize them, and didn't really know what to 0:31:25.400 --> 0:31:28.400 do with a five thousand pound hippo, and yeah, they 0:31:28.480 --> 0:31:32.040 weigh that much. Hippos generally ranged somewhere between three thousand 0:31:32.080 --> 0:31:35.520 and seven thousand pounds, So rather than deal with them, 0:31:35.800 --> 0:31:38.680 Colombia's leaders just let the hippos roam around free and 0:31:38.760 --> 0:31:41.120 live in a stretch of river in a little area 0:31:41.720 --> 0:31:44.440 that they felt comfortable and the climate, of course was 0:31:44.480 --> 0:31:47.400 perfect for them, and so they just left them, even 0:31:47.440 --> 0:31:50.080 as they sold off and shipped off or euthanized the 0:31:50.120 --> 0:31:53.720 other exotic animals that Escobar had. Well, thirty years later 0:31:53.760 --> 0:31:57.720 and four hippos has turned into one hundred and seventy hippos. 0:31:58.920 --> 0:32:01.480 Colombia now has a hit a population of one hundred 0:32:01.520 --> 0:32:03.720 and seventy and if they're going to do anything about 0:32:03.720 --> 0:32:07.200 them as an invasive species, g now is the time, 0:32:07.440 --> 0:32:11.400 isn't it so? Colombia's environmental minister says the country's approved 0:32:11.400 --> 0:32:13.760 a plan to euthanize at least eighty of them. The 0:32:13.880 --> 0:32:17.320 Colombian government says they're an invasive species according to one story, 0:32:17.520 --> 0:32:20.240 and they're a threat to humans and they're damaging local ecosystems. 0:32:20.280 --> 0:32:25.000 Obviously they're very disruptive. This environmental minister says, if we 0:32:25.040 --> 0:32:26.760 don't do this, we will not be able to control 0:32:26.800 --> 0:32:30.600 the population. She also said that they've resorted to inbreeding 0:32:30.680 --> 0:32:34.560 and have visible genetic damage due to it. Well, there 0:32:34.600 --> 0:32:37.200 aren't any reports that the animals actually killed her seriously 0:32:37.200 --> 0:32:39.960 injured people. They are threatening people in local towns. They 0:32:39.960 --> 0:32:43.520 say they're causing traffic and boating accidents. They've killed crops 0:32:43.560 --> 0:32:46.320 and livestock. So the Colombian government has been looking for 0:32:46.320 --> 0:32:49.360 an alternative way to stop this population boom for years 0:32:49.520 --> 0:32:51.520 and they haven't been able to find it. They tried 0:32:51.560 --> 0:32:55.320 sterilization and relocation, but those things are expensive, obviously and 0:32:55.360 --> 0:32:58.680 haven't worked out. As Jeff Goldbloom's character told us in 0:32:58.760 --> 0:33:03.200 Jurassic Park, nature finds a way. I find it interesting 0:33:03.200 --> 0:33:05.800 and wrong that they're only going to cull the herd now, 0:33:06.080 --> 0:33:08.080 because it's not going to take care of the problem 0:33:08.280 --> 0:33:11.440 as harsh as it is. Those hippos need to be euthanized. 0:33:11.920 --> 0:33:14.000 If there are issues with the gene pool, you can't 0:33:14.040 --> 0:33:16.000 even move them, right, I mean you shouldn't even move 0:33:16.040 --> 0:33:18.680 them around and relocate them at this point. Why would 0:33:18.680 --> 0:33:21.640 you mix those genes with some African hippo gene pool 0:33:21.760 --> 0:33:24.480 and transfer some of the genetic problems. They just need 0:33:24.480 --> 0:33:26.960 to be euthanized, and in short order, our Colombia is 0:33:26.960 --> 0:33:29.480 going to have a runaway hippo population, just like Florida 0:33:29.480 --> 0:33:33.640 has a runaway Boa constrictor and monkey population. You can't 0:33:33.680 --> 0:33:36.360 hem in nature and expect to keep a population of 0:33:36.400 --> 0:33:39.400 wild animals contained to just a few. All right, that's 0:33:39.440 --> 0:33:41.720 a fun item. Let's get to the next item. So 0:33:41.760 --> 0:33:44.080 it's going to take at least three years and thirty 0:33:44.160 --> 0:33:47.000 or forty million dollars in order for Zoran Mamdani to 0:33:47.080 --> 0:33:50.200 prove that socialism doesn't work and that big government cannot 0:33:50.240 --> 0:33:53.760 run grocery stores more efficiently or competently than the private sector. 0:33:53.840 --> 0:33:56.240 This should be obvious by now, but this is the 0:33:56.280 --> 0:33:59.120 bottom line when it comes to this Nitwitz grand idea 0:33:59.400 --> 0:34:02.560 of government run grocery stores. Mom Donnie ran on this 0:34:02.680 --> 0:34:05.920 promise of government running stores during his campaign, if you remember, 0:34:06.120 --> 0:34:08.520 and unlike the free buses and most of the new 0:34:08.560 --> 0:34:10.839 freebe's he was promising the voters of New York, this 0:34:10.920 --> 0:34:13.279 is one he insists he can move forward with. So 0:34:13.360 --> 0:34:16.760 this week Mom Donnie announced the first government grocery store 0:34:17.120 --> 0:34:18.920 is going to cost thirty million dollars to get up 0:34:18.920 --> 0:34:20.719 and running. And you know that price is going to 0:34:20.800 --> 0:34:24.040 rise significantly before the project is completed, because it always does. 0:34:24.520 --> 0:34:27.200 That's always the case with public works projects. And come on, 0:34:27.320 --> 0:34:30.200 this is a New York public works project. They're not 0:34:30.239 --> 0:34:31.759 going to build it and get it up and running 0:34:31.760 --> 0:34:34.839 for thirty million dollars. That cost will probably double before 0:34:34.880 --> 0:34:38.200 the doors ever open. Trust me, that's a guarantee. And 0:34:38.239 --> 0:34:40.520 by the way, the experts in the grocery store industry 0:34:40.800 --> 0:34:42.920 say a private grocer could do this for about half 0:34:43.000 --> 0:34:44.760 the cost. This is just to put up the building 0:34:44.760 --> 0:34:47.440 and get it going. As things now stand, New York 0:34:47.480 --> 0:34:50.440 grocery CEOs say the project should cost about fifteen or 0:34:50.480 --> 0:34:53.760 twenty million and that's it. So Mom Donnie has already 0:34:53.800 --> 0:34:57.480 lost to the private sector on that front. One expert says, quote, 0:34:57.520 --> 0:35:00.720 thirty million dollars for one store is exceptionally high, considering 0:35:00.840 --> 0:35:03.160 land prices are a significant part of the capital costs 0:35:03.160 --> 0:35:05.560 of new construction, and the city has announced that it 0:35:05.840 --> 0:35:08.839 rents will be waived, so they're already getting a break 0:35:08.920 --> 0:35:11.360 on the land. And they're still going to run this 0:35:11.480 --> 0:35:14.760 type of cost, and that's just building it. They also say, quote, 0:35:14.800 --> 0:35:17.560 the grocery industry is low margin, so heavy subsidies will 0:35:17.560 --> 0:35:21.879 be needed to counteract these inherent inefficiencies. They say, yeah, 0:35:21.920 --> 0:35:25.560 government brings in efficiency, and that's a long time tenant 0:35:25.600 --> 0:35:28.600 of any government and any bureaucracy. They can never, ever, 0:35:28.920 --> 0:35:32.720 never do better than the private sector, and I mean anything. 0:35:32.800 --> 0:35:35.120 The Post Office can't seem to make a profit. They're 0:35:35.160 --> 0:35:38.520 eternally in debt. Yet Ups and Amazon and other private 0:35:38.520 --> 0:35:41.480 courier services can make a profit. Why is that the 0:35:41.520 --> 0:35:44.520 government's been patently unable to run a railroad for decades? 0:35:44.840 --> 0:35:48.399 Amtrak is so heavily subsidized it's crazy. But government run 0:35:48.440 --> 0:35:50.600 grocery stores are going to be the very model of 0:35:50.640 --> 0:35:53.920 efficiency and force lower grocery prices into the private sector. 0:35:53.960 --> 0:35:57.640 I mean bullplop. Government run grocery stores are only going 0:35:57.680 --> 0:36:00.600 to heap even more runaway expenses and subsidies onto the 0:36:00.640 --> 0:36:03.080 backs of the taxpayers as they try to pay for 0:36:03.120 --> 0:36:06.640 their own groceries out of their own pocket. This is 0:36:06.680 --> 0:36:09.239 a farce before it ever gets underway. This week on 0:36:09.520 --> 0:36:12.440 x zoron Mam, Donnie posted I was elected as a 0:36:12.480 --> 0:36:16.000 Democratic socialist and will continue to govern as a Democratic socialist. 0:36:16.200 --> 0:36:19.400 One hundred days in and we're just getting started. I 0:36:19.480 --> 0:36:21.600 read that, and I felt the need to respond. I said, 0:36:21.680 --> 0:36:25.160 please keep making this known, Zorn, Please keep making it 0:36:25.200 --> 0:36:27.920 known that you're a democrat socialist. Say it often so 0:36:27.960 --> 0:36:30.319 there can be no mistake. You're a democratic socialist as 0:36:30.320 --> 0:36:33.960 New York spirals downward on virtually every front under your watch. 0:36:34.880 --> 0:36:37.359 And I mean that I wasn't being snarky. I do 0:36:37.680 --> 0:36:40.040 hope that mom Donnie and his supporters spend the next 0:36:40.040 --> 0:36:43.000 four years making sure everyone knows that this is what 0:36:43.080 --> 0:36:45.759 democratic socialism looks like, because it's going to be a 0:36:45.800 --> 0:36:49.400 costly disaster at every turn. And I know that America's 0:36:49.480 --> 0:36:52.200 leftists think that they're softening the blow, they're softening the 0:36:52.200 --> 0:36:55.160 word socialism when they put democratic in front of it, 0:36:55.560 --> 0:36:58.400 and to the dim witted, I don't doubt that this works. 0:36:58.920 --> 0:37:00.680 I don't doubt that this works on the naive young 0:37:00.760 --> 0:37:05.600 idealists and the perpetual older dimwitz. But democratic socialism is socialism, 0:37:05.920 --> 0:37:08.920 and it's failed always and repeatedly around the globe, and 0:37:08.960 --> 0:37:10.319 it's not going to work here in no matter how 0:37:10.360 --> 0:37:13.520 the activists left in the Democratic Party package it. Mom 0:37:13.560 --> 0:37:16.080 Donnie wants to start with one government or grocery store 0:37:16.080 --> 0:37:18.440 in each of the New York's five boroughs. He claims 0:37:18.440 --> 0:37:20.200 the total cost to this is going to be seventy 0:37:20.239 --> 0:37:23.680 million dollars. Well, that can't possibly be true if the 0:37:23.719 --> 0:37:25.920 first one is going to cost thirty million dollars on 0:37:26.000 --> 0:37:28.480 its own. This is going to be more like one 0:37:28.520 --> 0:37:30.879 hundred and fifty or two hundred million dollars in order 0:37:30.920 --> 0:37:34.080 to realize this five borrowed dream. And I'm going to 0:37:34.080 --> 0:37:37.399 predict right now that the first store will already be 0:37:37.640 --> 0:37:41.680 deemed an expensive disaster before the fifth store ever opens 0:37:41.680 --> 0:37:44.560 and borrow number five, you know what I mean. I'm 0:37:44.560 --> 0:37:46.239 going to predict now that there will be questions as 0:37:46.280 --> 0:37:48.160 to whether New York should even move ahead with stores 0:37:48.239 --> 0:37:51.359 number four and five because stores one in two will 0:37:51.360 --> 0:37:53.839 have turned out to be such an obvious disappointment. And 0:37:53.880 --> 0:37:56.880 that's just something to watch for. And for the record, 0:37:56.920 --> 0:37:59.840 this government run grocery store concept has been tried in 0:37:59.880 --> 0:38:03.240 a few other cities, like Kansas City, and it's quickly failed. 0:38:03.840 --> 0:38:06.160 I don't see Mom Donnie or New York socialists being 0:38:06.160 --> 0:38:09.480 any more successful with it, do you. If these stores 0:38:09.560 --> 0:38:13.000 don't work in the more rural communities with smaller populations 0:38:13.440 --> 0:38:17.040 and where shoplifting isn't even an issue, how can they 0:38:17.080 --> 0:38:19.920 possibly work in New York City, where the population is 0:38:20.000 --> 0:38:24.759 massive and where shoplifting is a massive problem. I'll ask 0:38:24.800 --> 0:38:26.960 it now, how do Mom, Donnie and the leftists plan 0:38:27.040 --> 0:38:28.920 to keep food on the shelves when everyone knows that 0:38:28.960 --> 0:38:31.440 it's a store run by bleeding hearts who are accountable 0:38:31.440 --> 0:38:34.160 to no one. These are people who will view shoplifting 0:38:34.200 --> 0:38:38.799 as stealing from government. That makes it especially okay rights. 0:38:39.239 --> 0:38:40.880 It seems to be okay for most of these people 0:38:40.920 --> 0:38:43.360 to steal from the private sector grocery store. It'll be 0:38:43.560 --> 0:38:47.200 seem even more logical to steal from government to them. 0:38:47.360 --> 0:38:49.360 I'll also predict now that the theft is going to 0:38:49.360 --> 0:38:51.720 be the ultimate and never ending nightmare for these government 0:38:51.800 --> 0:38:55.040 run grocery stores. If they think bodegas and privately run 0:38:55.080 --> 0:38:58.920 stores have a problem with shoplifting in New York right now, 0:38:59.000 --> 0:39:02.680 just wait until these socialist groceries are open. The shelves 0:39:02.719 --> 0:39:04.799 are going to look as bare as the photos that 0:39:04.840 --> 0:39:08.239 we've seen of Cuba and Soviet grocery stores over the decades. 0:39:08.400 --> 0:39:11.680 There won't be any food on them. Another fun twist, 0:39:11.760 --> 0:39:14.400 the owners of the bodegas and the smaller grocery stores 0:39:14.400 --> 0:39:17.759 that do already serve these neighborhoods are certain that Mamdanie's 0:39:17.760 --> 0:39:20.200 government run operation is going to put them out of business. 0:39:21.000 --> 0:39:22.359 You know, these are the men and the women who 0:39:22.360 --> 0:39:25.400 are already grinding out a living by running a bodega 0:39:25.520 --> 0:39:28.000 or a small grocery in the crappiest parts of New 0:39:28.080 --> 0:39:30.959 York City. Now government's going to come in and add 0:39:31.000 --> 0:39:34.200 to the competition. What a gut punch to these people, 0:39:34.520 --> 0:39:38.279 right quote, It's going to affect us real hard, said 0:39:38.360 --> 0:39:41.480 Victor Vasquez, thirty three, manager at the City Fresh Market. 0:39:41.640 --> 0:39:44.879 Our prices might have to go up. I assume they will. Yes, 0:39:45.719 --> 0:39:48.360 you know. The Washington Examiner editors put the so perfectly, 0:39:48.360 --> 0:39:50.319 I'm just going to steal a few paragraphs for them. 0:39:50.560 --> 0:39:53.440 They say the supermarket business is inherently low margin and 0:39:53.480 --> 0:39:57.520 intensely competitive. Walmart and Amazon, with its whole food stores, 0:39:57.840 --> 0:40:01.319 compete aggressively on price and delivery. One key to the 0:40:01.320 --> 0:40:04.000 success of these two giants of the American economy is 0:40:04.040 --> 0:40:07.560 their laser focus on distribution costs. At their core, Walmart 0:40:07.600 --> 0:40:12.040 and Amazon are logistics companies, private sectory grocery chains succeed 0:40:12.080 --> 0:40:14.920 or fail based on their ability to manage costs, negotiate 0:40:14.920 --> 0:40:18.719 with suppliers, and respond to demand in that manner. They say, 0:40:18.719 --> 0:40:21.960 a city run market, by contrast, would operate under political 0:40:22.040 --> 0:40:26.040 rather than economic incentives. Decisions about pricing, hiring, product selection, 0:40:26.120 --> 0:40:31.000 and location would inevitably be influenced by political considerations, union pressures, 0:40:31.040 --> 0:40:34.520 and bureaucratic constraints rather than the discipline of profit and loss. 0:40:34.880 --> 0:40:39.880 It's true, they continued, that disconnect matters. Without the pressure 0:40:39.920 --> 0:40:42.600 to turn a profit, a government owned supermarket has little 0:40:42.640 --> 0:40:46.400 incentive to control costs. Over time, what begins as a 0:40:46.400 --> 0:40:50.080 pilot program could easily become a permanent fiscal burden. They 0:40:50.120 --> 0:40:53.279 conclude by saying, advocates of Mamdani's supermarkets argue that the 0:40:53.280 --> 0:40:56.799 food deserts justify government intervention, but the reality is that 0:40:56.840 --> 0:40:59.279 throughout the city a consumer can find a grocery store 0:40:59.320 --> 0:41:02.560 with an attendant of walk. If grocery access is limited 0:41:02.560 --> 0:41:07.200 in certain areas, the causes are complex, including crime, zoning restrictions, 0:41:07.320 --> 0:41:10.359 high operating costs. They say, a city on supermarket does 0:41:10.400 --> 0:41:13.120 nothing to address those underlying issues. In fact, it may 0:41:13.160 --> 0:41:17.800 exacerbate them. I agree with that the private marketplace works, 0:41:18.320 --> 0:41:21.000 and when it comes to food, groceries and feeding America, 0:41:21.040 --> 0:41:25.239 the private marketplace has worked miracles over time. It's our 0:41:25.280 --> 0:41:27.560 model in America that's responsible for the fact that there 0:41:27.600 --> 0:41:31.560 is such a high standard of living globally. Nowhere else 0:41:31.600 --> 0:41:34.440 in the world other countries quote poor people suffering from 0:41:34.719 --> 0:41:38.319 an obesity epidemic that is uniquely America. We know how 0:41:38.320 --> 0:41:40.879 to feed ourselves and our people. And so not only 0:41:40.920 --> 0:41:44.000 will Mam Donni's government run grocery stoes not work, but 0:41:44.000 --> 0:41:48.360 they're not needed. They really aren't. And let's acknowledge that 0:41:48.440 --> 0:41:50.600 Zoran thinks he has this all worked out too. I 0:41:50.640 --> 0:41:52.560 think this is going to be important as well. Let's 0:41:52.600 --> 0:41:55.200 acknowledge that Mom Donnie and his team think they finally 0:41:55.239 --> 0:41:58.560 have this figured out. Their government run grocery store is 0:41:58.600 --> 0:42:00.440 going to work because it's going to be run by 0:42:00.520 --> 0:42:04.080 people who got their experience running private sector grocery stores. 0:42:04.280 --> 0:42:07.480 This too, It just tickles me. City Hall officials said 0:42:07.560 --> 0:42:10.960 they'll identify third party expert grocery operators to run Mom 0:42:11.000 --> 0:42:14.399 Donnie's public groceries. Operators will be required to directly pass 0:42:14.440 --> 0:42:17.200 along any in kind or direct subsidies to consumers in 0:42:17.200 --> 0:42:20.480 the form of reduced prices. Those operators will also be 0:42:20.560 --> 0:42:25.160 under strict pricing, affordability, labor, operating and reporting requirements. They say, 0:42:25.719 --> 0:42:27.600 So let's step back, am in. Mom Donnie's going to 0:42:27.680 --> 0:42:32.720 prove that socialism can work if private sector experts run it. Well, 0:42:33.160 --> 0:42:35.880 If a country goes socialist, where do the private sector 0:42:35.920 --> 0:42:40.720 experts come from to run the operation? After a generation 0:42:40.880 --> 0:42:42.960 or two? You're really going to be screwed, folks. If 0:42:43.000 --> 0:42:46.239 socialism only works if private sector experts run it, how 0:42:46.280 --> 0:42:51.719 long can that last? Everything about this is farcical and fraudulent, 0:42:52.040 --> 0:42:57.120 and it just it frustrates me. There's a perpetual ignorance 0:42:57.160 --> 0:42:59.800 that comes along with socialism and with every new generation 0:42:59.800 --> 0:43:03.920 of naive, well meaning young person. For some reason, the 0:43:03.960 --> 0:43:09.480 catastrophic failures of socialism and communism over time, over generations 0:43:09.520 --> 0:43:12.480 never seems to be learned. It's never internalized and then 0:43:12.520 --> 0:43:16.359 dismissed as a false hope. Socialism and communism are full 0:43:16.360 --> 0:43:19.400 of false hopes and false promises. I mean, if we 0:43:19.440 --> 0:43:22.400 can state anything at this point about socialism and communism 0:43:22.480 --> 0:43:25.799 based on our shared human existence on this planet, we 0:43:25.880 --> 0:43:28.560 can state that socialism and communism are the path to 0:43:28.640 --> 0:43:34.400 economic and social ruin period. These are disastrous ideologies that 0:43:34.480 --> 0:43:37.399 each new generation thinks they can figure out, and they 0:43:37.440 --> 0:43:41.160 can't because it's a falsehood. The underlying premises of socialism 0:43:41.239 --> 0:43:45.200 and communism are falsehoods. The famous cliche from the left is, well, 0:43:45.239 --> 0:43:47.600 we just haven't done it right yet, but that doesn't 0:43:47.600 --> 0:43:51.160 mean we can't do it right yet. Does in part 0:43:51.200 --> 0:43:54.000 because you're all nit wits, but also in part the 0:43:54.040 --> 0:43:57.759 more serious response is, it's the ideologies that are based 0:43:57.800 --> 0:44:01.920 on false definitions of fairness and false premises related to 0:44:01.960 --> 0:44:04.360 human nature, and that's why they fail. 0:44:04.560 --> 0:44:09.480 The Jweber Podcast is a production of iHeartRadio podcasts, produced 0:44:09.480 --> 0:44:14.040 and engineered by Gregory John. The Jyweber Podcast is presented 0:44:14.040 --> 0:44:18.400 by Creative Planning, helping clients simplify their journey to financial wellness, 0:44:18.600 --> 0:44:22.360 one personalized plan at a time. Listen to all of 0:44:22.480 --> 0:44:27.719 Jayweber's podcasts, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or 0:44:27.760 --> 0:44:30.200 wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.