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Speaker 1: Freedom Hunt Monday, August eighth edition to the program. The
Speaker 1: Senate Democrats party line vote of course past the Inflation
Speaker 1: Reduction Act. It heads to the House where it will
Speaker 1: clearly go through. And now the Biden Agenda on a
Speaker 1: scale down version is going to become law. It's going
Speaker 1: to sick the irs on people, It's going to spend
Speaker 1: a lot of money on green new deal boondoggles. We
Speaker 1: will discuss all of that. Plus Chef Gordon Ramsey gets
Speaker 1: in a bit of trouble because he picked a lamb
Speaker 1: that he said looked yummy for his meal, and Bill
Speaker 1: Maher slams people for the fat acceptance movement. We're going
Speaker 1: to be discussing these things in just a moment, my friends.
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Speaker 1: pass the Inflation Act, which doesn't actually do anything about inflation,
Speaker 1: but does the world we live in now? On this vote,
Speaker 1: the Ya's a fifty the nas of fifty, the Senate
Speaker 1: being equally divided, the Vice President votes in the affirmative,
Speaker 1: and the bill as amended is passed. I'm just gonna say,
Speaker 1: and I know it's not what people on the right
Speaker 1: want to hear. First and foremost, how the heck did
Speaker 1: we lose those two Georgia Senate seats? I said it
Speaker 1: at the time. It was two years ago now, or
Speaker 1: well a little less than two years ago. Is after
Speaker 1: the November election. I said, look, as long as we
Speaker 1: can get one of those Georgia Senate seats. The twenty
Speaker 1: twenty election was not a total total disaster, but we didn't.
Speaker 1: We dropped two Senate seats. And it's just a complete
Speaker 1: own goal, I mean, an unforced error of the worst
Speaker 1: kind for the GOP. There and a lot of blame
Speaker 1: to go around. All right, now let's look at what's
Speaker 1: in this. You've got to pay very close attention to
Speaker 1: the language, Okay, the language that they use, because they're
Speaker 1: not trying to inform you, they're trying to program you.
Speaker 1: They're trying to tell you to think certain things. So
Speaker 1: they initially wanted a three point five trillion dollar reconciliation
Speaker 1: package to go through. That was the build back Better agenda.
Speaker 1: But everyone realized if it's that big, people can put
Speaker 1: two and two together and understand that at a time
Speaker 1: of high inflation, this is that's just insane. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's even for the most dim witted voter, who isn't
Speaker 1: a pure commy ideal log of the Democrats spending another
Speaker 1: three point five it really was five trillion dollars. Actually,
Speaker 1: when you added the non mandatory spending into it that
Speaker 1: would have become mandatory. The deal is far slimmer than
Speaker 1: the one point seven five trillion dollar version of the
Speaker 1: House passed in October. That's how CNN is pushing It's
Speaker 1: not that much longer, but it's it's smaller than that too.
Speaker 1: So now they're supposed to be all acting like this
Speaker 1: is a middle path, but it's just bad. It's not
Speaker 1: going to help. So they are selling this to you
Speaker 1: with a minimum tax only on corporations and bringing down
Speaker 1: prescription drug prices and then green green energy investments. What
Speaker 1: are those investments supposed to be? Does anyone really think
Speaker 1: that government is a good venture capitalist when it comes
Speaker 1: to energy production? Nobody who is paying attention. But the
Speaker 1: bill allows for Medicare drug price negotiation to occur, so
Speaker 1: we'll see how effective they are at this. I would
Speaker 1: also note that this will likely result in pharma companies
Speaker 1: jacking up the prices of drugs for other people in
Speaker 1: other places. And this is just the nature of how
Speaker 1: this stuff works. Right. They tell us, Oh, isn't this
Speaker 1: so great. We've got this one area where you're going
Speaker 1: to see a reduction, But it's like squeezing the balloon.
Speaker 1: There'll be other places. But anyway, limit on Medicare out
Speaker 1: of pocket drug costs. So they're trying to buy off seniors.
Speaker 1: That's their lead here, trying to buy off seniors who,
Speaker 1: let's be honest, worry less about the long term structural
Speaker 1: economic reality of spending trillions and trillions of dollars here
Speaker 1: in general, not all seniors, but a lot of them
Speaker 1: do because it is much less likely to affect them
Speaker 1: in let's say fifteen or twenty years in a meaningful way.
Speaker 1: But the Affordable Care Act subsidies are in here as well,
Speaker 1: so more more subsidies for that they're bringing down. They're
Speaker 1: they're making insulin capped at thirty five dollars a month.
Speaker 1: Climate provisions. The deal would be the biggest climate investment
Speaker 1: in US history. This is what they're really excited about.
Speaker 1: Greenhouse gas emissions slash forty percent by twenty thirty equipment,
Speaker 1: by the way, they're not going to hit that, not
Speaker 1: even close. But they just say that because they said,
Speaker 1: we're going to do all this and spend hundreds of
Speaker 1: billions of dollars and it's going to reduce CO two
Speaker 1: emissions by one percent or two percent, which is probably
Speaker 1: what will happen, maybe four or five percent. Everyone say, well,
Speaker 1: that's just stupid. Why are we doing this? Whole thing
Speaker 1: is stupid. They're extending tax credits for electric vehicles, so
Speaker 1: you know, you can get a few grand off the
Speaker 1: cost of the seventy thousand dollars Tesla they want you
Speaker 1: to buy now, although they don't want you to buy
Speaker 1: Tesla because that's Elon Musk company. They want, you know,
Speaker 1: one of those other other electric vehicles out there. Let's
Speaker 1: see what else we have. Sixty billion towards domestic clean
Speaker 1: energy manufacturing. Sixty billion dollars just giveaway to wind mills.
Speaker 1: This is what it's really about, folks. Your tax dollars
Speaker 1: going to inefficient, pointless green energy programs. Tens of billions
Speaker 1: of sixty billion dollars, thirty billion dollar production tax credit
Speaker 1: for wind, solar, and battery storage. So basically they're throwing
Speaker 1: here at least one hundred billion dollars to the green
Speaker 1: energy interests. So yeah, there you go. So when you're
Speaker 1: writing your or not even writing your check because a
Speaker 1: lot of people just have it taken out of their
Speaker 1: bank account. When you're having money taken out of your
Speaker 1: bank account every year, just know that this is what's
Speaker 1: or every pay period. I mean, this is what's going on.
Speaker 1: Fifteen percent minimum tax on large corporations. And this is
Speaker 1: the part of it that really drives me nuts. The
Speaker 1: massive expansion of the Pentagon. Ted Cruise spoke about this
Speaker 1: the Pentagon. I'm sorry that I said the Pentagon. I'm
Speaker 1: at the irs. Ted Cruz says they want to make
Speaker 1: it larger than the Pentagon. Listen, there are a lot
Speaker 1: of bad things in this bill, but fewer worse than
Speaker 1: the proposal by Democrats in this bill to double the
Speaker 1: size of the IRS and create eighty seven thousand new
Speaker 1: IRS agents. I guarantee you citizens in every one of
Speaker 1: our states, if you ask them what do they want,
Speaker 1: they don't want eighty seven thousand new IRS agents. And
Speaker 1: they're not being created to audit billionaires or giant corporations.
Speaker 1: They're being created to audit you. I believe personally we
Speaker 1: should abolish the IRS, but at a minimum, we shouldn't
Speaker 1: make the IRS larger than the Pentagon, the State Department,
Speaker 1: the FBI, and the Border Patrol all combined. That's what
Speaker 1: the Democrats are proposing here. It is a terrible idea.
Speaker 1: It is an awful idea. But you see, the Libs
Speaker 1: always believe that their people run the system and therefore
Speaker 1: they will never actually suffer the consequence of this. And
Speaker 1: to an extent that's true because they tend to be
Speaker 1: wealthy enough along the coast, along the enclaves, or they're
Speaker 1: in a protected group that they don't think the government
Speaker 1: will target. But the reality is that actually a lot
Speaker 1: of people who are in the middle income bracket, even
Speaker 1: the lower middle income bracket, end up getting audited. The
Speaker 1: reality here is that the IRS is enforcing an absurd
Speaker 1: tax code. Okay, this is not hiring a whole lot
Speaker 1: of detectives to serve homicides, which is one very important
Speaker 1: and two very clear, don't kill people, Okay, that we
Speaker 1: can all be We should all be able to be
Speaker 1: held to that standard. Right by the way, we don't
Speaker 1: have enough detectives just to be right up to speed
Speaker 1: with where the situation is. We don't have enough cops,
Speaker 1: but they want plenty of IRS agents to enforce a
Speaker 1: tax code that is by design and by definition as
Speaker 1: they set it up. By the actual text, it doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense. You can go to different account so you
Speaker 1: can go to different tax specialists and they can give
Speaker 1: you their best assessment of whether something is legal or not,
Speaker 1: and it will be an opposition to each other. Ask
Speaker 1: any good tax attorney you know, are there gray areas?
Speaker 1: Are there places where a judgment call has to be made?
Speaker 1: And now you're going to have government stooges who are
Speaker 1: being pressured to just take as much revenue out of
Speaker 1: your hands as possible, and the whole point is to
Speaker 1: scare you, so you just send them a check right away,
Speaker 1: right away, send them a check. I've got to say,
Speaker 1: it's appalling to me, and everybody else should see it
Speaker 1: the same way. But this bill is terrible. There's a
Speaker 1: lot in this bill that is going to make the
Speaker 1: economy contract. There's a lot in this bill that is
Speaker 1: a waste of money. It's a payoff for ideological buddies
Speaker 1: of the Democrats. The whole thing is an abject mess,
Speaker 1: and it just goes to show you, friends, elections have consequences.
Speaker 1: We need to win this upcoming midterm or they're going
Speaker 1: to do more of this. And you can't trust anybody
Speaker 1: with a D by their name. Joe Manchin totally when
Speaker 1: I say he's a sell out, I know he's a Democrat,
Speaker 1: but he sold out himself as and he sold out
Speaker 1: what he said he wouldn't do. Just a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Let's turn up the heat on him and he caved.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what happened here. Gordon Ramsey is one of
Speaker 1: my favorite chefs. I think he's really one of the best.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, he's entertaining he also makes really
Speaker 1: good I'm not an excellent chef, but I can competently
Speaker 1: make a menu of about ten different things well. And
Speaker 1: I do make the best scrambled eggs in the world.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you I know how to make scrambled
Speaker 1: eggs really, really well. It is based on Gordon Ramsey's technique,
Speaker 1: so I give him full credit, but I've gotten you.
Speaker 1: I've added a little bit here, and they're a little
Speaker 1: bit of a little bit of penash, little pizzazz, little razzle,
Speaker 1: dazzle to the buck eggs. That's right, a little bit
Speaker 1: of bam from the Emerald days. But now Gordon Ramsey's
Speaker 1: in trouble, which it's remarked to me that he doesn't
Speaker 1: get in more trouble with the Wokester. It's just because
Speaker 1: he seems, you know, he played he played soccer, grow
Speaker 1: football soccer growing up and was professional I think for
Speaker 1: a while. You know, my sense is he's a bit
Speaker 1: of an alpha male and they usually hate that, but
Speaker 1: here he is. Uh he There was a video post
Speaker 1: on TikTok where he said that those lambs look so yummy.
Speaker 1: He saw little baby lambs because he was making lamb
Speaker 1: chops that Night Watch Joey Young Young Young Young yung
Speaker 1: yummy yum yum, yum, yum yum yum. Which one's going
Speaker 1: to the oven first? Open time? Now, look, it's a
Speaker 1: little weird, like I don't I don't know that you
Speaker 1: gotta take like that approach to it. Which one of you,
Speaker 1: you know, talking to him, he's just a little weird.
Speaker 1: It's kind of funny because I think a lot of
Speaker 1: Libs who aren't vegans, a lot of Libs who do
Speaker 1: eat meat are deeply opposed to the idea that you
Speaker 1: actually kill animals to eat meat, which doesn't really add up,
Speaker 1: does it. There's a bit of a disconnect there. And
Speaker 1: then speaking of eating, Bill Moore, who is upsetting the
Speaker 1: Libs more and more these days because he knows it's
Speaker 1: impossible to be funny and to play by their rules,
Speaker 1: so he does occasionally have to break out and say
Speaker 1: things that are going to upset the wokesters. Here he
Speaker 1: is talking about the fat acceptance movement in America. There's
Speaker 1: a disturbing trend going on in America these days, rewriting
Speaker 1: science to fit ideology or just to fit what you
Speaker 1: want reality to be. We've gone from fat acceptance to
Speaker 1: fat celebration. That's new. That is new to view letting
Speaker 1: yourself go as a point of pride. We used to
Speaker 1: at least try and be fit and healthy, and society
Speaker 1: praised those who succeeded. Now the term body positivity is
Speaker 1: used to mean I'm perfect the way I am because
Speaker 1: I'm me. It's our weell Ian How often positivity is
Speaker 1: used to describe what's not healthy at a certain point
Speaker 1: the science hashtag the science. You'll notice not a lot
Speaker 1: of doctors want to speak about this. At a certain
Speaker 1: point BMI body mass index, it is deeply unhealthy, and
Speaker 1: it also affects for men, it affects testosterone levels, that
Speaker 1: affects levels of depression, obviously cardiovascular health. I mean your
Speaker 1: health at a certain point of excess, at a post
Speaker 1: tissue of body fat is in a state of its plummeting.
Speaker 1: And that's just the fact that's a reality. And the
Speaker 1: men or women, I'm sorry, no, men cannot be women
Speaker 1: and women cannot be men. Whoops. See the propaganda steeps
Speaker 1: in At a certain level. Fatness or being fat is
Speaker 1: just truly unhealthy. And so it's one thing to say, look,
Speaker 1: not everyone at the genetics does play a role this stuff.
Speaker 1: You won't often hear that. I mean, I'm telling you
Speaker 1: I had a remitting college who ate like Blushi an
Speaker 1: animal house. I mean, he just was I've never he
Speaker 1: would just eat like a wheel of bree, you know,
Speaker 1: as if it was a rice cracker. I mean, and
Speaker 1: a guy had like an eight pack. Genetics do play
Speaker 1: a role in this, which people don't often. Everyone everyone's
Speaker 1: genetics play a role in their and their body fat levels,
Speaker 1: in their physique. But you got to operate with what
Speaker 1: you got right, and everyone can be healthy. Not everyone,
Speaker 1: you know, much to my chagrin, sadly for me, Not
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna be, you know, an Abercrombie model, no matter honestly,
Speaker 1: no matter how much work you put it in the gym,
Speaker 1: unless you're gonna really change your diet radically too. But
Speaker 1: we got to be healthy, or at least aspire to
Speaker 1: be healthy. You know, I've gained a lot of LB's,
Speaker 1: I've lost a lot of LB's. I know the struggle.
Speaker 1: But this idea that the left has that we should
Speaker 1: elevate I'm not talking about elevating Curvey. I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about elevating you know, healthy looking maybe a few extra pounds.
Speaker 1: Clinical obesity is now in fitness clothing ads. Clinical obesity
Speaker 1: is now being praised. Now, you don't shame people. Shouldn't
Speaker 1: be mean to people about it. Should be encouraging and helping.
Speaker 1: I could use all the encouragement I can get these
Speaker 1: days when it comes to get into the gym. But
Speaker 1: to pretend something is true that is not true, that's
Speaker 1: where we gotta draw the line. Bill Maher's right on
Speaker 1: this one, and the left is freaking out of him.
Speaker 1: All right, everybody more. Tomorrow she'll tie