1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:04,520 Speaker 1: Musk meltdown. They're calling it. Tesla is now down fifty 2 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:10,560 Speaker 1: five percent for the year. Yeah, CNN Don Lemon decided 3 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: it was a good idea after his own show had 4 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: been canceled to mock Elon Musk for sharing a sexualized photo. 5 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 1: He says of Jesus and Twitter to Lerp, to lure 6 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: is the correct way to say the word. But apparently 7 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: he screwed up the first time. Don't worry, they fixed 8 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:35,159 Speaker 1: online to lure, he said, Lerp Trump. Yes, he actually 9 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: said it. We're trying to get the original audio, but 10 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 1: that apparently has been fixed in the online version. They're 11 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: mocking him because they think that Elon Musk is an idiot. 12 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:49,480 Speaker 1: Why because he actually allowed for free speech on a platform. 13 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 1: And this is what the media is going to continue 14 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 1: to do. They're going to mock anybody that gets in 15 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: their way. This is what happened Elon Musk restoring President's 16 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: Twitter account. He has been banned from the platform since 17 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,040 Speaker 1: the capital attack. Trump has previously said that he does 18 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: not plan to return to Twitter and instead will continue 19 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 1: to use his truth social platform. So let's discuss seeing 20 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:19,479 Speaker 1: an anchor and correspondent arty. This is he's being intentionally provocative. 21 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 1: I mean that's obvious, right, because he needs eyes, he 22 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:26,320 Speaker 1: needs attention. I mean Elon Musk to Twitter, and part 23 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 1: of this whole thing about restoring the former president doing 24 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:31,319 Speaker 1: a poll about it is to sort of a look 25 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: at me, look at me, look at me. I'm glad 26 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:36,040 Speaker 1: you're saying this, because there's a business reason for that. 27 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 1: The context here is Elon Musk doesn't really believe in advertising. 28 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:43,400 Speaker 1: Tesla never really did advertising because he thinks good products 29 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: would just sell on their own. Problem is you just 30 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: bought a company that runs on ninety percent advertising and 31 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: doesn't sell anything, and so brand safety and how advertisers 32 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 1: feel about what is on the site along with their 33 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: ads is meaningful. And lots of the said they were 34 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: going to hit pause when he first bought it and 35 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: when he first started talking about travel. And I can't 36 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 1: believe advertisers are fleeting given what he's tweeted in the 37 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: last twenty four hours. There's provocative images talking about Trump 38 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: basically wanting to get back on Twitter, like being able 39 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 1: to resist the temptation. But what I was confused about 40 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:19,519 Speaker 1: Saturday night is that when this all happened, Elon Musk said, 41 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 1: he was going to form a content Moderation council, no 42 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 1: major reinstatements of Twitter accounts would happen before then. Then 43 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: he conducts a Twitter poll on Saturday, says Trump should 44 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 1: be reinstated. Who knows who participated in this poll, and 45 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: now he says Trump's account is active again. Yeah. I mean, 46 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 1: I think no one's going to be teaching any of 47 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: this technique in any like business school case studies going 48 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: forward like this has been very messy public and you know, 49 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: one piece of context that I think is worth mentioning 50 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:50,799 Speaker 1: is people were treating Twitter like public infrastructure. It was 51 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: a space where lots of people came to speak and 52 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 1: play and interact, but it's not public infrastructure. And this 53 00:02:56,919 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: is what happens when a private person, a billionaire, takes 54 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: over and kind of dithers around with it. That's kind 55 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: of by the way, I was on Twitter this weekend 56 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:08,920 Speaker 1: and you pointed that out, Kaitlin, to everyone, reupping what 57 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: Elon Musk had tweeted about this council, and they sort 58 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 1: of guarantees that he did, I think as he was 59 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: looking to acquire the company and sort of checks that 60 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: people thought might be in place, but but to your 61 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: point about a billionaire taking over and taking it private, 62 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: so there are none of these a mayor like you know, 63 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 1: I mean, I think we've gotten used to CEOs in 64 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: Silicon Valley, maybe kind of nodding towards like appeasing the 65 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: public when they think the eye is on them and 66 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: that's not his game. He doesn't care. There's no board, 67 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: there's no board to check him. No, there's no share 68 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: price to check him. There's a there's a desperation aspect 69 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: of it. Seems really desperate or as we say in 70 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 1: the vernacular, now thirsty, because as Kaitlin mentioned, this provocative 71 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 1: image that he tweeted about, I think it was a 72 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 1: Jesus and you know there's someone tempting Jesus a man 73 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: and you know that I can hear you guys talking around. 74 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 1: This is a sexualized image, right that he's posting. And 75 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 1: I think it's a really good example of the thirst 76 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: thing you're talking about, which is, look at me, look 77 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: at me, eyes on this, advertisers, look, eyes are still 78 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 1: on this. Stay with it by any means necessary. You're 79 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: noticed by the way what they're doing here and seen it. 80 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: The same people that did these stories over and over 81 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 1: and over and over again about Donald Trump lying about 82 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, Russian collusion, Russia collusion, Russian coclusion for four 83 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: or five six years. The same people that have run, 84 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: you know, the live raids of Roger Stone, right, they 85 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: got tipped off that Roger Stone was going to be 86 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: rated by the FBI, these types of thing, the same 87 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 1: the same early morning raids of his former campaign manager, 88 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 1: all of these different types of things. Okay, to be clear, 89 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: is exactly I've seen and had their good ratings back 90 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 1: in the day. Then they became psychopaths hating Donald Trump. 91 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 1: They're still obsessed with Donald Trump, as you can hear 92 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: in this conversation. But what's even more interesting than this 93 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: is the fact that they just said, you know these 94 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: you know, Elon Musk is desperate for attention. They just 95 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: gave him four minutes of attention because they know that 96 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:21,600 Speaker 1: it would be probably pretty good for their ratings. Like 97 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: they're not stupid. They know that this is going to 98 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: rate for them, or they hope that it rates for them, 99 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,559 Speaker 1: because their ratings are literally in the toilet. Don Lemon 100 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: got demoted, he had his own TV show at night. 101 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: He has been demoted. He's now in a morning show 102 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 1: that desperate Lee needs help. Their ratings terrible in the morning, 103 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,720 Speaker 1: going nowhere, And now I'm going to say whether they're 104 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 1: mocking Elon Musk is a businessman. Well, I don't think 105 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,599 Speaker 1: any case study, right is going to be used in 106 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: a business school over what he just did. That's where 107 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: you're going with this like that, that's that's literally where 108 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,719 Speaker 1: you're going with this. Really, I love how Don Lemon, 109 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:11,599 Speaker 1: who you know, ridicules must for posting a meme of 110 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 1: you know, some christlike figure on Twitter right being you know, 111 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 1: fleeing evil and him having it as Twitter like it's 112 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:23,479 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, right, it's humor. A lot of people thought 113 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: it was funny. They're like, let's not let's be quick. 114 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 1: This is a sexualized image. This is a sexualized image 115 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: of X, Y and Z. Trust me, if you saw 116 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: the picture, it's not sexualized. It's called humor. If you 117 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: think this is a sexualized image, you like, I mean, 118 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: go look at it, there's no it's a joke, y'all. 119 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: It's humor. That's what it is. It is humor. There 120 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: was something I didn't get to play for you last 121 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: week because we had so much breaking news and it 122 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 1: was about the elections, and it was about how long 123 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 1: it's taking account based votes in this country, which is 124 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 1: totally insane. Yes, it's insane that it takes days and 125 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: weeks and sometimes even months to count a vote. That's stupid. 126 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 1: Tiger Carlson had an interesting commentary in his show before 127 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: he went on vacation about this, and I didn't have 128 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 1: time to play it for you last week because we, again, 129 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 1: we had so much breaking news. But I want to 130 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: play it for you because I still think it's extremely relevant. 131 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: What Tucker was saying is that this is third world country. 132 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 1: He was talking about we still have no idea who 133 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 1: won in Arizona. How is that even possible? Right? How 134 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 1: is it possible that it was taking this long and 135 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: this was obviously last week to count votes. Are we 136 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 1: a third world country? Take a listen. State of Arizona 137 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 1: lives in Maricopa County. The cities of Mesa, Tempe, Scottsdale, 138 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: and largest of all, Phoenix are all within the county's borders. 139 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 1: If you want to win statewide in Arizona, you have 140 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: to win Maricopa County. Unfortunately, tonight, we still don't know 141 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: who has won Maricopa County, either in the US Senate 142 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 1: race there or in the governor's race in Arizona. Because 143 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: officials are not even close to finishing the count forty 144 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: eight hours after the voting stop, there are still six 145 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three thousand ballots still uncounted in Arizona. 146 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 1: More than four hundred thousand of those are in Maricopa Counting. 147 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: You're seeing it on your screen right now. When will 148 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: we know the results? Last night, election officials claim they'd 149 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: have a new tally for us by eight pm Eastern 150 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: the beginning of our show, but the deadline came and went. 151 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: By the end of the night they had finished counting 152 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: fewer than seventy thousand more votes. Then they said they'd 153 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: have final totals by Friday tomorrow, but no Today, the 154 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: county officials said they don't expect to announce the results 155 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 1: of the elections until next week at the earliest. When 156 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:52,559 Speaker 1: do you anticipate the votes will be counted in total? 157 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 1: Those four hundred thousand plus votes, Well, we will be 158 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 1: going into next week. There's some Onesie two zis again 159 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:02,959 Speaker 1: pursue it to Arizona law. But I think that we'll 160 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 1: see the Lion's share here, wrap up by early next week, 161 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: early next week. Can you give me a day We're 162 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 1: talking Monday. Maybe, as long as you won't hold it 163 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: to hold me to it. Can you tell us, mister official, 164 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 1: mister election official, when we might learn who won the election? Maybe, 165 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 1: as long as you don't hold me to it. That 166 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,559 Speaker 1: was the chairman of the Maricopa County Supervisors. Notice what 167 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 1: you did not hear in that exchange. You did not 168 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 1: hear an apology. The guy in charge of election results 169 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 1: never said sorry for not providing those results. It's hard 170 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 1: to understand this. It's not a resource problem. Certainly, the 171 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 1: budget of Maricopa County is about four and a half 172 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: billion dollars a year. For perspective, the entire Hoover Dam 173 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:51,080 Speaker 1: cost eight hundred and ninety million dollars to build, and 174 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:54,440 Speaker 1: yes that is in adjusted dollars. So for the price 175 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:58,960 Speaker 1: of five Hoover dams, Maricopa County can't even count the 176 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 1: ballots in a single statewide election. In a country that 177 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: claims to care about democracy, they can't even manage to 178 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:07,560 Speaker 1: let people vote on election day. On election day, according 179 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:10,679 Speaker 1: to the county seventy of two hundred and twenty three 180 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 1: polling places suffered major problems with voting machines. Machines the 181 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 1: county paid millions for it just recently, and their failure 182 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: disenfranchised mostly Republican voters who wanted to cast their ballots 183 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 1: in person when poll worker reported that twenty five percent 184 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 1: of ballots were being rejected. Now you would call that 185 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: third world, but actually it's beneath third World. Most third 186 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 1: world countries have serious elections. They require voter ID. They 187 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 1: don't wait days for election results. In Ghana, in Venezuela, 188 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 1: whatever you think of it, they tally their ballots within hours. 189 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: But suddenly we can't manage to do that. Clark County, Nevada, 190 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 1: the home of Las Vegas, says there are still tens 191 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:51,599 Speaker 1: of thousands of ballots left to count. Therefore, we're not 192 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 1: going to know what happened in the election until Monday. 193 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: We hope. We're gonna talk to Adam Laxalt about that 194 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 1: in a minute. He's running for Senate. Therefials in Clark 195 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 1: County are clearly overwhelmed. They're too busy to finish the 196 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 1: one job they are paid to do, and yet strangely, 197 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 1: they still have time to attack Donald Trump on social media, 198 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 1: which they've been doing all day. First things first, but 199 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:15,080 Speaker 1: it's not just Nevada. In Arizona, key house races all 200 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:18,320 Speaker 1: along the west coast of the country, in California, Oregon, 201 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 1: and Washington State are still unsettled tonight. They're saying they 202 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: haven't counted the votes. Really, what is this? Is this fraud? 203 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 1: We're not sure and on some level it doesn't matter 204 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: what it is. What we know is that the mechanics 205 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,319 Speaker 1: of our elections are not working, almost exclusively in states 206 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 1: and cities run by Democrats. Are they cheating? Are they disorganized? Again? 207 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: Not relevant. The system is obviously out of control. It's flaky, 208 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: and systems like that cannot be, by definition reliable. Would 209 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:54,440 Speaker 1: you let Americopa County elections official flyer aircraft? Probably not. 210 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 1: That's a disaster. Democracy is a faith based system. You 211 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: have to believe in it in order for it to work. 212 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 1: But who could believe in this? So our news media, 213 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 1: in case you haven't noticed, it's went the last several years. 214 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:11,719 Speaker 1: Quote defending democracy in sir trademark here. So you'd think 215 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: the democracy defenders would care about the collapse of democracy, 216 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:17,480 Speaker 1: but just the opposite. They're telling you it's all completely normal. 217 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:20,560 Speaker 1: It's always been this way. If you disagree, you'll be 218 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: censored on social media. As we found out today, Twitter 219 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 1: has slapped a warning label on videos from this show 220 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 1: because we reported verifiable facts from election officials about election 221 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 1: screw ups. So it's thinking weeks to count the ballots 222 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:37,960 Speaker 1: in your democracy, but you're not allowed to notice it. 223 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:45,839 Speaker 1: I mean, think about this. Weeks. We want you to 224 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 1: hurry up and vote. You got to vote on time. 225 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:51,560 Speaker 1: We want to make sure that you guys, vote, vote, vote, vote, 226 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:53,680 Speaker 1: and then it may take weeks or months for you 227 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 1: to actually know what happened. That's now where we are. 228 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:02,199 Speaker 1: That's what we're doing. This is the ball game, right, 229 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: This is it, folks, This is the whole thing. This 230 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 1: is all of it. Is it frustrating? You? Bet? You should? 231 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: You be furious that this is happening, of course, But 232 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 1: if we don't have faith in our election process, then 233 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 1: what are we doing here? Right? That's the question that's 234 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 1: being asked. Why are we sitting here having this conversation 235 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 1: right now? We shouldn't be I do like the measured 236 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 1: way honestly that he just said this, right, the measured 237 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:37,959 Speaker 1: way that he described it as saying, Hey, we don't 238 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: know if there's election fraud or not. We don't know, 239 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 1: right but what we do know is that you have 240 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 1: to have faith in system, and if we live in 241 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 1: the greatest country the world, you should be able to 242 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 1: count the damn votes on the night of the election. 243 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 1: The idea that we don't have enough technology or enough 244 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: money to do this the right way is absurd. It's 245 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:58,200 Speaker 1: totally absurd. How is it that every time we have 246 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 1: a chance to be successful, and I'm talking about the 247 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: Republican Party, we end up screwing it up by listening 248 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 1: to incompetent idiots in the Republican Party that have a 249 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 1: history of screwing things up. I'm referencing Paul Ryan coming 250 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 1: out and saying that Donald Trump should not run for president, 251 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 1: and him saying he has no chance of winning, and 252 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 1: him saying everybody else, anybody else that runs the Republicans, 253 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 1: I will win, but Donald Trump. He also came out 254 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: and said that Nancy Pelosi has an amazing career and 255 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: an incredible legacy, while then going out and trashing Donald Trump. 256 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 1: If there's any time we should be united and focused 257 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: right now, it should be on the issues that we 258 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 1: have there was no message from Paul Ryan about the 259 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: Biden crime family in his interview. There was no message 260 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: from Paul Ryan reminding the American people while he's giving 261 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: accolades to Nancy Pelosi that, oh, yeah, now there's some 262 00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 1: other things about Nancy you might want to remember, right, 263 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: there's some other things about Nancy Pelosi. You might want 264 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: to just remind people that, you know, she's kind of 265 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 1: an elitist, and when she shut down the country, she 266 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 1: was still getting her hair done. Like, those are things 267 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 1: that that are valid points that should people should remember. 268 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: You might want to remind people that Nancy Pelosi was 269 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: the one who literally helped create what an illegitimate person 270 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: is in politics. Every time someone wants she didn't like, 271 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 1: she said it was illegitimate president or illegitimate election. She 272 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 1: said that about Donald Trump over and over and over again. 273 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 1: Where is all that when Nancy Pelosi, can someone remind me, 274 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 1: you know, not me, Paul Ryan and the other Democrats 275 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 1: on those issues? It would be really nice, wouldn't it 276 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 1: be pretty awesome if somebody would remind him of those things. 277 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi also said that there's not anything corrupt about 278 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 1: the Biden crime family and that Joe Biden's perfect and 279 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with him and everything is fine. She 280 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 1: will defend him no matter what. Right. Well, we know 281 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 1: that he lied to the American people, Joe and lie 282 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: when he said he never talked about his business dealings 283 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: with us, you know, with his son. We know that's 284 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: a lie. We have evidence that shows that that is 285 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 1: a lie. But I would caution everybody right now when 286 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 1: you see these useful idiots coming out, never forget who 287 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 1: they gave you. They gave you Jeff Bush, they gave 288 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 1: you John McCain, they gave you Mitt Romney. Okay, look 289 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: at what Paul Ryan did to this country because he 290 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: refused to organize the Republican Party and fight with Barack 291 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 1: Obama and fight with Nancy Pelosi. When you come out 292 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 1: on national TV and you start giving accolades to Pelosi 293 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 1: but attacking Donald Trump, and you forget all of the 294 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 1: amazing things that Donald Trump did while saying it's impossible 295 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 1: for him to be elected, that anyone else but him 296 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 1: could get elected, that's a person you shouldn't be listening to. 297 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 1: I'm all in favor of constructive criticism, but I'm not 298 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 1: going to take a lecture from Paul Ryan, a guy 299 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 1: that claimed he his for fiscal responsibility when he was 300 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 1: in charge, that ran up the national debt. I'm not 301 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:07,119 Speaker 1: going to listen to him. I'm certainly not going to 302 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 1: listen to a guy that says an anti Pelosi is 303 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 1: an incredible legacy that she should look back on, when 304 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 1: part of her legacy is the burning down of American 305 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: citizens cities. I should say, excuse me not backing the 306 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: police and having an open border policy. Kevin McCarthy has 307 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 1: now come out and look, this is because of conservatives 308 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,200 Speaker 1: holding his feet to the fire. He wons so desperately 309 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 1: to be the Speaker of the House. He wants to 310 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 1: be the next Paul Ryan. That hardcore conservatives are holding 311 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,119 Speaker 1: his feet to the fire, and he has finally come 312 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 1: out today saying he will not allow Eric Swallwell and 313 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 1: Adam Shift on the Intel Committee and will remove Omar 314 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:46,200 Speaker 1: Alamamar from the Foreign Affairs Committee because of the threat 315 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 1: that they are to America. Listen to this. Let me 316 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,440 Speaker 1: ask you about your decisions should you become the Speaker 317 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 1: of the House in January. What are you going to 318 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:57,360 Speaker 1: do in terms of these Democrats that you have on 319 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: such important committees. You've talked in the past about removing 320 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:05,639 Speaker 1: Elon Omar, you've talked about removing Adam Shift, about Eric Swalwell. 321 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 1: Will you deliver Yes, I will. I'll keep that promise. 322 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 1: And one thing I said from the very beginning, Eric 323 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:14,920 Speaker 1: Swalwell cannot get a security clearance in the public sector. 324 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 1: Why would we ever give him a security clearance in 325 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: the secrets to America? So I will not allow him 326 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:23,479 Speaker 1: to be on Intel. You have Adam Shift, who had 327 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: lied to the American public time and again. We will 328 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 1: not allow him to be on the Intel Committee either. 329 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 1: And you give Congresswoman Omar her anti Semitic comments that 330 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:34,119 Speaker 1: have gone forward, We're not going to allow her to 331 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 1: be on foreign affairs. But we're also going to stand 332 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:39,480 Speaker 1: up to what's happening, not just in the halls in Congress, 333 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 1: but what's happening into our higher education institutions, the anti 334 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 1: Semitism that's going on on these campuses and others. We 335 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 1: will investigate that as well and stop this to make 336 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 1: sure that America does have the freedoms that we've said 337 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 1: we would keep, and we will stand up to it 338 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:56,920 Speaker 1: as we move forward. You want to know why he's 339 00:18:56,960 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 1: saying that Kevin McCarthy's saying that because he's our desk 340 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 1: really wants to become the speak of the House that 341 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:05,360 Speaker 1: he promised and made deals with hardcore conservatives to get 342 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 1: rid of those people. 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The Republican Party right now 365 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 1: should not be focused on getting rid of Donald Trump. 366 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,159 Speaker 1: The Republican Party should be focused on what Jim Jordan 367 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:31,119 Speaker 1: and on what Congressman not only Jordan, but also what 368 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:35,440 Speaker 1: Congressman Comer have been focused on, and that is talking 369 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:40,119 Speaker 1: about the Biden crime family represent of Jim Jordan today. 370 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:45,439 Speaker 1: So the IRS complied when Obama's Department of Justice asked 371 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 1: for confidential taxpayer information, and he said, these are the 372 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: whistleblowers coming forward and we're going to investigate. This is 373 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 1: what we should be focused on, not on attacking Donald Trump. 374 00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 1: Jim Jordan. How did this happen? How did the dog 375 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 1: Day and the FBI becomes so politicized. We know what 376 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:07,400 Speaker 1: they did around the Russia collusion story. They had no 377 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 1: evidence of any collusion with Trump, and yet they pursued 378 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 1: FISA warrants to spy and survail people within the Trump world. Aggressively. 379 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 1: I don't know how it happened, but I know it 380 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,479 Speaker 1: has to change because America is the greatest country in history, 381 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 1: but we're not America. America is not America. If you 382 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: have a Justice Department that treats people differently under the law, 383 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 1: it's not supposed to work that way. And it's why 384 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 1: fourteen agents have come talked to us as whistleblowers. And 385 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 1: what they have said is at the highest levels, not 386 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:35,879 Speaker 1: the rank and file, but at the Washington Field office 387 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 1: of the FBI, at the highest levels of the Justice Department. 388 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 1: That's where the politics is. One of these agents said, 389 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,959 Speaker 1: it's rotted at its core. That's how bad it is. 390 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: So look, I remember this too. If you need any more, 391 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:50,399 Speaker 1: go back to mister Smith again. Jack Smith, there was 392 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 1: back in twenty thirteen, his section that he ran at 393 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 1: the Justice Department not only was looking for ways to 394 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:59,640 Speaker 1: prosecute the very people who were targeted by Obama's IRS, 395 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: that they also ask the IRS to give them confidential 396 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:08,119 Speaker 1: taxpayer information and the IRS complied. Think about that. We 397 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 1: had the Justice Department saying we want information we're not 398 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,400 Speaker 1: supposed to get give it to us, and the IRS 399 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:16,119 Speaker 1: gave it to him. So this is a seems to 400 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 1: me a pattern. It has to change, because if it doesn't, 401 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 1: we don't have this great thing that we call America 402 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 1: where people are treated equally under our law. He's right, 403 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 1: Jim Jordan is right. Where's Paul Ryan talking about all 404 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,919 Speaker 1: of those points there? These are all things that the 405 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,199 Speaker 1: Republicans need to not lose focus on, and these are 406 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 1: the issues that Republicans need to be laser focused on. 407 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 1: I'm not worried right now. I'm not gonna lie to 408 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 1: you about the presidential election. It's going to take care 409 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 1: of itself. There's plenty of time to talk about that 410 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:51,840 Speaker 1: down the road. 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There's a lot of 448 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 1: cranberries out there, even though everything else has gone up. 449 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,280 Speaker 1: And now people are looking at alternatives to having a 450 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:17,639 Speaker 1: turkey because of the price. Alternatives to turkey, take a listen, 451 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 1: flee very judiciously, and aren't going to do anything stupid. 452 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,200 Speaker 1: It's the story of media right now. It's so interesting. 453 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:25,480 Speaker 1: Let's turn to your charts. In the story of Thanksgiving, 454 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: inflation is hitting people. We're going to go out shopping 455 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 1: to buy their turkey and their mashed potatoes and everything else. 456 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:33,920 Speaker 1: Price is up twenty percent for a dinner this year. 457 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: It sounds like almost yeah, yeah, it's pretty amazing. They're 458 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 1: up eighteen percent, up to eighty one dollars and thirty 459 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: one cents, which you can see in the chart in 460 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,959 Speaker 1: the bar chart in the middle there, and was just 461 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,200 Speaker 1: a year ago of sixteen seventy two. This is to 462 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,280 Speaker 1: feet a family of ten. And on the right you 463 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 1: can see some of the main items that coin of 464 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:57,159 Speaker 1: your Thanksgiving dinner. Stuffing up sixteen. We'll talk about the 465 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:00,919 Speaker 1: reasons in a second. Stuffing up sixty nine percent, rolls 466 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:04,400 Speaker 1: of twenty two percent, pumpkin pie of twenty two percent, Turkey, 467 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,879 Speaker 1: which is the biggest item on your Thanksgiving plate, not 468 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 1: surprisingly twenty one percent, also up five dollars, fully a 469 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 1: third of that increase. And the only one that's down 470 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: is cranberries, which are down four percent, sorry, thirteen percent. 471 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 1: And I know somebody's going to ask me why are 472 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 1: kranberis down thirteen percent? And the answer is because, unlike 473 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,200 Speaker 1: a lot of the wrestler, I'm going to tell you, 474 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,200 Speaker 1: cranberry crops are up four percent. So there's a lot 475 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,199 Speaker 1: of cranberrys out there, all right, put a lot of 476 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,879 Speaker 1: Kranbrais on it. We look. The reasons are interesting, and 477 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,919 Speaker 1: they cut across a whole bunch of different factors, and 478 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,159 Speaker 1: in fairness, this is not one you can pin on 479 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,919 Speaker 1: the Biden administration or the Federal Reserve. You've got a 480 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: bunch of stuff going on out there, and so if 481 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 1: you want to talk about that, I love this right 482 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 1: like the prices are through the roof. And he immediately says, oh, well, 483 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 1: there's a bunch of other factors out there that you 484 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: can't just pin this on the Biden administrations. You don't 485 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 1: even try it. And he's ready, by the way, he's 486 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,760 Speaker 1: ready to tell you every other reason why your Thanksgiving 487 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 1: is going to cost you more and why you shouldn't 488 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,480 Speaker 1: be upset that it's going to cost you more. It's 489 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 1: other issues that we can't control. He's going to blame 490 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 1: the flu for this. He's gonna blame droughts for this. 491 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 1: Take a listen at the price of turkey. What happened 492 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: to turkey is Avian flu, which some of you may 493 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,440 Speaker 1: have followed. But Avian flu killed eight million turkeys out 494 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 1: of our forty six million turkeys, and so turkey prices 495 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,880 Speaker 1: go up. The other factor that affects all the things 496 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,400 Speaker 1: things like bread and stuffing and pumpkin pie and all 497 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:41,199 Speaker 1: that is the drought. There's a huge trought going on 498 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 1: out there, almost at record levels. Certainly the highest in 499 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,640 Speaker 1: many years. We can debate, and this is the one 500 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:50,479 Speaker 1: sort of policy area here we can debate whether global 501 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,680 Speaker 1: warming has something to do with this, Climate change has 502 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,919 Speaker 1: something to do with this or not. But it's but 503 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 1: drought has been a big factor because it means less wheat, 504 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,439 Speaker 1: pure potatoes and so forth, and that has also driven 505 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:05,440 Speaker 1: up prices enormously for wheat. The war in Ukraine also 506 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,479 Speaker 1: helped drive up prices enormously for wheat, and all that 507 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,400 Speaker 1: contributes to higher prices for your dinner roles and your 508 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 1: pumpkin pie and so forth, as I said, and then 509 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 1: then you put it all together, and what's happened so 510 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: on the left is kind of interesting because what it 511 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:24,399 Speaker 1: shows is how many hours somebody has to work to 512 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,119 Speaker 1: pay for their Thanksgiving dinner. And you can see that 513 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 1: the red line at the top is for people who 514 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 1: earn just a minimum wage, and the amount of time 515 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 1: they have to work for a Thanksgiving dinner is actually 516 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 1: now higher than it was in nineteen eighty six, partly 517 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 1: because we haven't raised the minimum wage that much, but 518 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 1: eight hours and forty five minutes to pay for that. Again, 519 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 1: that to lie, minimum wage has gone up significantly since 520 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six you were in three dour range. And 521 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: look at where we are now. They're just making it 522 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,760 Speaker 1: up as they go. If you look at the federal 523 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 1: minimum wage right now in twenty twenty two, okay, federal 524 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 1: minimum wage, and you compare it to where it was 525 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighties, to say it hasn't gone up is 526 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 1: just stupid. It's gone up a lot, and I think 527 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 1: they know that. They just don't care. Seven twenty five 528 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 1: federal minimum wage right now? Where was it back when 529 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 1: he was saying? And by the way, there's a lot 530 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 1: of places that have gone above that right Alaska's ten 531 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 1: thirty four air zone as twelve eighty hour consalls eleven 532 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:37,560 Speaker 1: dollars an hour. California is fifteen dollars an hour, Colorado 533 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 1: twelvef efty six, Connecticut fourteen, Delaware ten fifty, Washington, DC 534 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 1: fifteen twenty, Florida eleven dollars. Georgia, all right, is the 535 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 1: only place where it's actually, you know, still pretty low, 536 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 1: Idaho still Hawaii ten ten, Illinois twelve dollars. There's a 537 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 1: lot of states, Maine twelve seventy five, Maryland twelve fifty, 538 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 1: mass chuses fourteen twenty five. Is there minimum wage there 539 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:01,680 Speaker 1: in that state? They've at above the minimum federal level. 540 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,800 Speaker 1: New Jersey thirteen dollars an hour. In New York thirteen 541 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 1: twenty fast food is now fifteen dollars an hour. You 542 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 1: look at these numbers, Rhode Island twelve twenty five, Virginia eleven, 543 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:17,320 Speaker 1: Vermont twelve fifty five, Washington fourteen forty nine, West Virginia 544 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 1: eight seventy five, Wisconsin seven twenty five, Wyoming still low. 545 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 1: You look at the number, and you look at all 546 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 1: of these places that I just mentioned, and they sit 547 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:28,800 Speaker 1: there and they tell you on TV, oh, well, it's 548 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 1: because midium wage hasn't come up. A minimum wage has 549 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 1: come up. It's way higher than it was when you're 550 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,880 Speaker 1: putting it back in the nineteen eighties for a reference point. 551 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,320 Speaker 1: The reason why people can't buy as much as year 552 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,720 Speaker 1: is because of inflation, the policies of the Biden administration. 553 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 1: You know it. It's not Avian flu. Okay, it's not drought. 554 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,000 Speaker 1: It's inflation. And last Thanksgiving, by the way, was a 555 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 1: record high for what it costs to go do Thanksgiving. 556 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: So we're up twenty percent from a record high last year. 557 00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 1: If a Republican was in office, they would remind jew 558 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 1: of that. But they're not going to today. Why would they, Right, 559 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 1: you can't remind somebody of that today, Right, That's something 560 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 1: that's something you just you can't tell people about. Absolutely not. 561 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 1: All right. Lastly, please make sure you hit that subscribe 562 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:20,680 Speaker 1: button or auto download button wherever you were listening to 563 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,360 Speaker 1: this podcast right now and take a moment to write 564 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 1: us a five star review. 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