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Speaker 5: Hi, everybody, this is episode forty two of Laugh and Learn.
Speaker 5: I'm here with my beautiful friend Flame and Roe and
Speaker 5: obviously me Bobby Clifford, ready to talk about all the
Speaker 5: craziness that's.
Speaker 4: Been going on in DC. Are you ready claim.
Speaker 6: I'm ready about it? Will Bobby take the lead this
Speaker 6: week y'all because y'all know it's a very hard week
Speaker 6: for me. But I'm here, as you know if you
Speaker 6: follow me on it's on social media. I lost timmy
Speaker 6: last week and it has really devastated me. Then my
Speaker 6: kids are really acting crazy. It's just been a trying,
Speaker 6: trying week, but not as trying as what's happening in
Speaker 6: our America, in this government and in this crisis in
Speaker 6: time that we're living in. It is barbaria to the
Speaker 6: situations that we are. And I'm loving the fact that
Speaker 6: I'm not loving that we have to realize this. I
Speaker 6: think that God put Trump in our lives for a
Speaker 6: reason to make us understand what's most important. Y'all kept
Speaker 6: looking at people cause of their color or cause of
Speaker 6: their stature, when you didn't put all of us in
Speaker 6: the same damn ship again on the Titanic, when the
Speaker 6: ship sank, rich poor in between sank, they sank too.
Speaker 6: We are fucking sinking. And I'm a little passionate today
Speaker 6: because I'm hurt and I'm angry, but I am very
Speaker 6: happy to see that on today, on this day, on Saturday,
Speaker 6: April the fifth, the protests, our fucking hands off is everywhere.
Speaker 6: Every city has rallied together. Bobby said they had one
Speaker 6: hundred thousand in the rain in the You know, they're
Speaker 6: everywhere there in Wisconsin, they are in Minnesota, they are
Speaker 6: in West Virginia. They are everywhere saying enough is enough.
Speaker 6: And this has only been two months. We don't want
Speaker 6: this no more, America. We got to push racism to
Speaker 6: the back burner because it's bullshit. But what y'all do
Speaker 6: right now is helping. I don't know how much help
Speaker 6: it's going to do at the moment because they still
Speaker 6: run all branches of government, but our voices will be
Speaker 6: heard and they are being heard. So thank you, guys
Speaker 6: for the protests everywhere. The protests look like what he
Speaker 6: wanted his inauguration took like right.
Speaker 4: It's true.
Speaker 5: A lot of people, I mean, you just said it.
Speaker 5: In Boston alone, where I'm at, we have driving rain.
Speaker 5: We're having like a real spring rainstorm. And there were
Speaker 5: one hundred thousand large with all of our all of
Speaker 5: our big wigs, Ayana Presley, our congresswoman, Senator Marquee, the mayor,
Speaker 5: the lieutenant governor, a big showing and the driving rain
Speaker 5: of from the drop kick Murphy's flamed. They were rolling
Speaker 5: them out in wheelchairs. There were elderly people rolating themselves
Speaker 5: and they're there. The hands are off rallies. Leave our
Speaker 5: social security, our medicare, and our medicaid the f alone.
Speaker 5: And that was the that was the biggest message. It
Speaker 5: was pro worker, pro constitution, and pro Democrat. And this
Speaker 5: is one of the only ways this and our and
Speaker 5: our power of our purse are two of the only
Speaker 5: ways until this next election in a year and a
Speaker 5: half come up that we can actually.
Speaker 4: Say something we also had.
Speaker 5: Let's not forget and you can feel any sort of way,
Speaker 5: but at least he was trying to do something. Hory
Speaker 5: Booker twenty five hours and five minutes railing against what
Speaker 5: he feels is potentially going to be wrong with what
Speaker 5: Trump is doing and what this new administration is doing.
Speaker 5: He outbeat Strong Sermon, who was against civil rights. So
Speaker 5: I love to see that racist put into his place,
Speaker 5: and especially by a black man. So people are trying
Speaker 5: to do stuff, but we have to we have to
Speaker 5: hold strong. We have to get a message, you know,
Speaker 5: the Democrats have to get a message, and.
Speaker 4: You're going to keep moving. But this, I thought this
Speaker 4: was impressive. D C's was huge. The mall was filled.
Speaker 5: As you said, there were twelve hundred cities that did this,
Speaker 5: so it wasn't just like each state, you know, what
Speaker 5: happened in the capitals.
Speaker 4: They were all over. I found this pretty impressive.
Speaker 6: So do I, Bobby, and only I can't. I know,
Speaker 6: we can't go back, but we needed this passion. We
Speaker 6: needed this aggression. We needed this fire November the fourth,
Speaker 6: This is what we need. And the people were warning you, guys,
Speaker 6: but you were so held that on this thing to
Speaker 6: the foodighes. So again, when you're empty, it's easy to
Speaker 6: be poured into It's what you allow to be poured
Speaker 6: into you. Pete Boutage is I want to give a
Speaker 6: quote from Pete boutagets. He says, even the greatest country,
Speaker 6: He says, even the greatest country, if it loses the
Speaker 6: rule of law, will not have much left. We are
Speaker 6: losing our rule of law. But I think that we
Speaker 6: are deep enough in and have realized that they don't
Speaker 6: care about our seniors, our veterans, our working class enough
Speaker 6: to say, goddamn it, enough is enough. Because America we
Speaker 6: some disgruntle bastards. Let me say that I'm an American.
Speaker 6: I am a disgruntle bastard. And when you push me
Speaker 6: to the wall, the discruntal bastard stands up, push my
Speaker 6: dukes up, and we gonna swing back. I love that
Speaker 6: we are swinging back. I love that we are swinging back.
Speaker 6: I just hope it's not too late by me. I
Speaker 6: hope it's not too late to turn it around.
Speaker 5: I don't think it is. I really believe that, but
Speaker 5: we have to keep this momentum up.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 5: It's not just Democrats, it's independence and even which we'll
Speaker 5: talk about in a second. There are there are especially
Speaker 5: against the tariffs some Canada, there are members staunch members
Speaker 5: of the GOP that are voting with the Dems to
Speaker 5: get stuff done. No, I mean people are just they've
Speaker 5: had it. You know, Musk, his sales have plunged thirteen percent.
Speaker 5: One because people.
Speaker 4: Don't like Musk, I'm sure or you know what he's doing,
Speaker 4: what he's trying to do. Two is they're all against
Speaker 4: ev cars. That's what his car is.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: Biden probably had his numbers soaring because he was pushing,
Speaker 5: you know, alternative methods for energy. But is what we're
Speaker 5: going to have to do. Sometimes you have to break
Speaker 5: everything to the ground to actually fix it. And I
Speaker 5: think we've become, to be quite honest, too complacent. We've
Speaker 5: talked about this before. We just kind of sailed along
Speaker 5: and didn't really we weren't really worried about what was happening. Now,
Speaker 5: all of a sudden, we have you got Greenland and
Speaker 5: Denmark or anger with you. We've got all sorts of
Speaker 5: travel warnings about going out as Americans, be careful where
Speaker 5: you're headed.
Speaker 4: We never had anything like that.
Speaker 6: My God.
Speaker 5: I used to go out, go to different countries and
Speaker 5: hold my head high. You know, we're stripping down stuff
Speaker 5: at the Smithsonian and telling them to put back up.
Speaker 5: Since twenty twenty we had all that Confederate statues and
Speaker 5: stuff removed. He's having those put back in. He's throwing
Speaker 5: everything against the wall. I don't know why. I think
Speaker 5: he likes to see things broken, and it's up to
Speaker 5: us to do exactly what we did today.
Speaker 6: Meanwhile, trying to dismantle anything of black and brown descent.
Speaker 6: They want to do away with the African American just
Speaker 6: sum and the Museum in DC. They want to do
Speaker 6: away with all the indigenous stuff. They want to do
Speaker 6: away with anything of history. It's ridiculous. But I do
Speaker 6: agree with what you said, Bobby. I think that God
Speaker 6: is going to have us completely dismantle because what America
Speaker 6: is is not what America is right now. What America's
Speaker 6: standing point on was people cared about each other, people
Speaker 6: took care of each other in some kind of way.
Speaker 6: He allowed them to take everything away to what and
Speaker 6: we got, like you said, we got a place and
Speaker 6: I got this. I'm cool. If you don't get it,
Speaker 6: I don't know what to tell you. I'll give you
Speaker 6: a little bit, but not more than me. I don't
Speaker 6: want you to be as quell as me. Maybe maybe
Speaker 6: we needed to be humbled as a country.
Speaker 4: You just said.
Speaker 6: I hate that it had to come to this, but
Speaker 6: maybe we needed to be humbled as a country, to
Speaker 6: be reminded that we are of our humanity. So from humbled,
Speaker 6: from from humble to humanity, the title might be exactly
Speaker 6: what we are, because this is what has happened to us. Bobby,
Speaker 6: let me tell you something. I worked in the club
Speaker 6: last night with them with Tiffy had it in the
Speaker 6: most diverse artist. It had to be six hundred people
Speaker 6: in there, and this was a comedy club, so I
Speaker 6: was able to interact with the people. It's not like
Speaker 6: we were at a theatre arena where they couldn't you know,
Speaker 6: I couldn't treat you. And I hosted the show and
Speaker 6: I talked to the people, and I made fine of
Speaker 6: all the races and woo woo, and after the show,
Speaker 6: I announced at the end of the night. Now, this
Speaker 6: is what I want you to take away from this
Speaker 6: comedy show. You have heard this word, you've heard that word.
Speaker 6: You heard me made fun about Mega, about Democrats, about Republicans,
Speaker 6: about black and white and Latino and Asian, and you've
Speaker 6: heard me say all. And guess what we all did tonight.
Speaker 6: We all laughed together. We all laughed together. If laughing
Speaker 6: is what is going to be the healer, then I'm
Speaker 6: the damn bandaid because I bandiated it last night. It
Speaker 6: just I don't know where we allowed it, this hate
Speaker 6: and its bitterness to come from the top and just
Speaker 6: trickle down over America. And it's got us going. And
Speaker 6: if y'all think that these protests are something, you wait
Speaker 6: to these tariffs kicking in and he just dropped, because
Speaker 6: I'm telling you right now, you was worried about a
Speaker 6: dozen of eggs being ten dollars. A low for bread
Speaker 6: will be a fucking thousand. It will be a luxury
Speaker 6: to have a loaf for breathing. It will be a
Speaker 6: luxury to have gas in your car.
Speaker 5: Yep, even if it's an American, because that's the part
Speaker 5: that everybody is. I was listening to a gentleman that
Speaker 5: has a dealership. I guess he's a big wig. Bobby
Speaker 5: owns a gazillion dealerships. And he was talking about and
Speaker 5: he's a Republican, and he's talking about the most popular car,
Speaker 5: a truck of Ford F one fifty. And he said,
Speaker 5: fifty three percent of the of the parts are here
Speaker 5: in the United States. The other forty seven come from
Speaker 5: different countries. He said, his car is there exponentially going
Speaker 5: to go up by four to five thousand dollars at least,
Speaker 5: he said. The thought that people are going to eat
Speaker 5: those costs is ridiculous. Of course, it's going to be
Speaker 5: passed on to the consumer. So you're just even talking
Speaker 5: about bread. There might be flowers we don't have, or
Speaker 5: it just it's crazy. He wants to promote me on
Speaker 5: your face. It takes three to five years to get
Speaker 5: a to get a building erected for the manufacturing, never
Speaker 5: mind to train the people.
Speaker 4: That are in it.
Speaker 5: So we're all for three to five years going to
Speaker 5: drive the same cars. Hope your car is not on
Speaker 5: its last leg or whatever it is, whatever item that
Speaker 5: you think you are. And now we're Americans, let's not
Speaker 5: forget that. We're not going to work for fifteen dollars
Speaker 5: a week like they are in China. So an iPhone
Speaker 5: that costs one thousand dollars because it comes from China
Speaker 5: will be thirty five hundred dollars here in the United
Speaker 5: States to manufacture because we pay a certain.
Speaker 6: Wage might be cheap. And if China to go over
Speaker 6: you the phone, huh.
Speaker 5: You absolutely and stay that you could have a little
Speaker 5: vacation and go pick up all year whatever. But that's
Speaker 5: exactly it makes no sense. It's not financially or economically
Speaker 5: smart to get everything and to make everything here. We
Speaker 5: want more money, you know, we want a minimum wage.
Speaker 5: They don't have minimum wage there. And unfortunately people you
Speaker 5: can live cheaper, but you can't hear, so nobody will
Speaker 5: be able to afford anything. It's absolutely crazy the way
Speaker 5: that it's going. We have the thirty four percent. China
Speaker 5: did that retaliation tarraff this week. We're in big trouble
Speaker 5: with the tariffs. He better peel it back.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So I think who's in the most trouble here?
Speaker 6: And I think people are missing a point Because I
Speaker 6: was listening to Bill Maher and I forget who the
Speaker 6: man name was on there, So he was talking about
Speaker 6: and I think the millionaires are probably the people who
Speaker 6: are going to be the most in trouble in this country,
Speaker 6: because what is going to happen is, y'all hear me,
Speaker 6: hear me, well, the billionaires. Once the tear they raised,
Speaker 6: the tears, people will will stress out and they will
Speaker 6: sell everything. The billionaires will buy everything, They will buy everything.
Speaker 6: Then they will drop the terars on other countries. But
Speaker 6: what has happened is other countries are now doing business
Speaker 6: with each businesses with each other, excluding America, which will
Speaker 6: lower the value of the American dollar. So even once
Speaker 6: we drop the terriffs, after they have already set an institution,
Speaker 6: the billionaires will own everything. We will have to do
Speaker 6: business with our own American counterparts, the billionaires who have
Speaker 6: bought everything, which means they can set the price whatever
Speaker 6: they want. So the rich will get wealthy and the
Speaker 6: poor will get destitute. This is what we are and
Speaker 6: this is what we allow, and this is who we
Speaker 6: voted for. It will be different if he was born
Speaker 6: into royalty. This was his bloodline. Unfortunately, y'all failed for
Speaker 6: the Okie dock, and y'all voted for this man because
Speaker 6: y'all was so filled with hate and rage and oh,
Speaker 6: we're going to be the minority that you allowed this
Speaker 6: to happen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was listening to somebody to build on what
Speaker 5: you just said. His name is Dave Portnoy. He was
Speaker 5: the founder of barstool Sports. It's a online barning betting site.
Speaker 5: I guess he is a millionaire, not a billionaire, and
Speaker 5: he was He's Republican and he was outraged.
Speaker 4: The other day he took to social media.
Speaker 5: He lost seven million dollars in that one day and
Speaker 5: he was absolutely furious. So you're exactly right. The billionaires
Speaker 5: are going to be the safe ones. The millionaires who
Speaker 5: think that they're all that in a bag of chips.
Speaker 4: They're not going to have as much as they actually
Speaker 4: thought they were going to that they actually have.
Speaker 5: Sometimes I'm almost happy to be poor right now.
Speaker 4: How the mighty have fallen, But I don't have that
Speaker 4: fire to fall myself.
Speaker 6: The billionaires will crazy, The billionaires will consume everything.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and the same faces that we keep seeing, the
Speaker 5: same faces. The only thing I thought I found funny
Speaker 5: this week, And I was thinking to you, because I
Speaker 5: love when you say, well, use your expression.
Speaker 4: This is about Elon Musk and.
Speaker 5: Trump has said twice publicly about how oh he thinks
Speaker 5: that he's going to go back soon, he'll be he'll
Speaker 5: be out of Doshun because he's going to want to
Speaker 5: go and run his companies. You know, we're so lucky
Speaker 5: to have him, but I'm thinking you're about to lose
Speaker 5: your job.
Speaker 4: And he will be blaming. Everything will be your fault.
Speaker 4: You're going to see that.
Speaker 6: Excuse me. That was always set in stone because as
Speaker 6: soon as Trump partnered with Musk, it was a big thing.
Speaker 6: But when must started getting more limelight, more shine, more
Speaker 6: stage time, it really got up under Trump's skin. You
Speaker 6: have to know where you stay with him. You have
Speaker 6: to stay in his shadow, close enough to his life,
Speaker 6: but always in his shadow. That's not Elon Musk's role.
Speaker 6: So it's going to play out in public and it's
Speaker 6: going to be very it's going to be very ugly. Bobby. Honestly,
Speaker 6: I think.
Speaker 5: It is true, and I think part of that is
Speaker 5: they keep saying that Mosque has Asperger's and so part
Speaker 5: of me feels badly for him because he doesn't know enough,
Speaker 5: like he doesn't have the social cues when you have
Speaker 5: Assburgers to know enough.
Speaker 4: He thinks he's rocking it.
Speaker 5: And you know, Trump is sitting behind that the resolute desk,
Speaker 5: and he's happy. He's not happy with his kids sitting there, musks,
Speaker 5: kids sitting there picking his nose and him giving the
Speaker 5: big speech. He's only happy if he can blame something.
Speaker 5: You know, like, what do you use.
Speaker 4: The expression as an overplay for the underplay?
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's just Trump is thinking about, Okay, if we
Speaker 5: do this and it doesn't work, at least it's not
Speaker 5: going to fall on me, that's all.
Speaker 4: He's not loving them.
Speaker 6: And with Corey Brooker what he did, I'll tell you,
Speaker 6: I want to get excited that you know he did it.
Speaker 6: He may history whatever, but I have to remember who
Speaker 6: Corey Brooker is. You know, I have to remember the
Speaker 6: Tita today. This is the problem everybody. Fear is is
Speaker 6: is what's the word? Fear is almost key, It's almost
Speaker 6: intoxicating sometimes because you're afraid. Then you make me afraid
Speaker 6: watching you be afraid. It'll make me afraid. If you
Speaker 6: don't know who you are and you are empty, fear
Speaker 6: will win. We lost this election off of fear. Body,
Speaker 6: We lost this election off of fear and promises that
Speaker 6: he said, I'm gonna get you back. I'm gonna pay
Speaker 6: you back. I'm gonna pay you back. Hell, you don't
Speaker 6: even pay your damn bills back the way he was
Speaker 6: talking about here, gonna pay you back. But y'all fail
Speaker 6: for y'all fail for it, and we are in such
Speaker 6: a bad place and such a crisis. I do not
Speaker 6: want us to go into a war. No promises that
Speaker 6: he made. You remember, this was the same guy who
Speaker 6: said he had no idea what Project twenty twenty five is.
Speaker 6: And we're not even three months in and probably eight
Speaker 6: hundred of those nine hundred pages are being executed as
Speaker 6: we speak.
Speaker 4: Oh, he's trying. He's trying something.
Speaker 5: I mean, the other thing we have to do everybody
Speaker 5: is you have to hold regardless of who I don't
Speaker 5: care what party they are, you have to hold people
Speaker 5: accountable when they screw up. I am so disappointed. We
Speaker 5: started to talk about signal Gate last time. It didn't
Speaker 5: even have a name with you know, Haig Seth and
Speaker 5: Walls giving out. They say that they weren't plans to plans,
Speaker 5: war plans, but they were something they told the time,
Speaker 5: They told what would happen, what was used. But just
Speaker 5: to say we screwed up. We're never going to use
Speaker 5: this signal system again, and we're sorry. There are like
Speaker 5: doubling down And I don't care who you are. That
Speaker 5: was wrong, so wrong, and why they can't just own anything.
Speaker 5: That's the other thing I don't like about this administration.
Speaker 5: We all make mistakes, just own it.
Speaker 6: That wasn't a mistake, that was idiotic incompetence and unqualified opportunity. Well,
Speaker 6: y'all ave to holid You put people who that's like
Speaker 6: you put me in a rockety science class and tell
Speaker 6: me I think I need to make a spaceshift to
Speaker 6: go out of space. Ar I'm sorry. That would be
Speaker 6: Eli Musk after eight attempts. But that would be like
Speaker 6: I would be a fish out of water. I wouldn't
Speaker 6: know what is what and I would say, because I know, listen,
Speaker 6: I can't do this job. I'm not qualified for this job.
Speaker 6: But they're there, their power, they're there. I have to
Speaker 6: be in control or you can't tell me what. We'll
Speaker 6: have superseded everything and they go in like a shark,
Speaker 6: even if it's wrong with the collateral damage. Unfortunately, it's
Speaker 6: the American people and we are losing Bobby. We are losing.
Speaker 6: And if America with these tariffs going up like this,
Speaker 6: if the value of the American dollar drops, oh my god,
Speaker 6: we're going to be If people say they don't need
Speaker 6: American dollars anymore, we will be in a way more
Speaker 6: trouble than we know. I don't think people have really
Speaker 6: come to the whole full realization of that, the impact
Speaker 6: of that.
Speaker 4: They should be watching.
Speaker 5: I mean all the doll the doll plunged I think
Speaker 5: it was twenty two hundred points the other day and
Speaker 5: then went down another six hundred the next day. And
Speaker 5: I remember Trump saying, I think it was during Biden
Speaker 5: during the COVID period, the beginning COVID, when the when
Speaker 5: the doll was dropping that you know, people should be
Speaker 5: fighting from their job, take thrown out of office or whatever.
Speaker 5: If you had two days in a row that were bad,
Speaker 5: that went under five, what about the Oh that's not
Speaker 5: a problem. They're estimating now that the tariffs, the more
Speaker 5: that they're seeing them and the more realistic it is,
Speaker 5: they're going to cost the average households. Now the newest
Speaker 5: the newest number is fifty five hundred a year. That
Speaker 5: that I can't I don't make a ton of money.
Speaker 5: Fifty five hundred a year is huge. That could go
Speaker 5: on my student loan, for the love of God. And
Speaker 5: that's gross money, people, that's not net like after your
Speaker 5: taxes and everything. That's right off the top. So God
Speaker 5: knows in net money what that is.
Speaker 4: It's probably double.
Speaker 6: I was watching President Obama, former President Obama speak the
Speaker 6: other day. He was like, could you imagine if I
Speaker 6: had on a midgeon of this, just a little part
Speaker 6: of this? And he was so right, because sometimes you
Speaker 6: don't want to face it, they don't want to hear it.
Speaker 6: But I love that he called it out because we
Speaker 6: got on him for wearing a tan suit. Could you
Speaker 6: imagine had he done some of these Atlantis states with
Speaker 6: this new administration and stuff, they would have crucified this man.
Speaker 4: They absolutely well, and I saw that. I loved that.
Speaker 5: When he was speaking, he said, the same people who
Speaker 5: are completely silent about what's happening right now would have
Speaker 5: eaten me alive.
Speaker 4: You know, it's just it's important, Hey.
Speaker 6: You know what happened. Unfortunately, you know what happened by me.
Speaker 6: I had to go back to the Bible. They didn't
Speaker 6: believe Jesus either, until after they crucified him.
Speaker 5: I know, I keep thinking, Joe Biden's probably sitting going
Speaker 5: that you're loving me now, everybody. He had the strongest
Speaker 5: economy in the world walking out. Of course, they're still
Speaker 5: blaming him. The real crazy mega people like that. And
Speaker 5: I say crazy because they really don't do any of
Speaker 5: the work, and they don't look at any other channel
Speaker 5: but Fox, you know, like I watch five and six
Speaker 5: channels every week because I don't want to be biased
Speaker 5: by anybody. I just want to have the most fair news.
Speaker 5: They don't believe any of it, but they're blaming Biden.
Speaker 5: He and Kamalas screwed the country up so bad, so
Speaker 5: bad that it went three months into the net when
Speaker 5: it was the strongest economy. They had such talents that
Speaker 5: they could flip it around and make this happen. This
Speaker 5: is a direct relation to what he's doing. It's all
Speaker 5: his plan. He's not shocked that it's happening. He's golfing.
Speaker 5: For Christ's sake, we're paying for him to golf.
Speaker 6: Well, we've been discussed that, but this is what's going
Speaker 6: to flip the last few Republicans that we have in
Speaker 6: this country that don't want to bully they may have
Speaker 6: went along with the bullshit, but when this Dow jones
Speaker 6: them lose the money in the stock market so rapidly
Speaker 6: and so heavily, this is what's gonna make them pay attention,
Speaker 6: because you, like you said, Bobby, when you hit people
Speaker 6: in their pockets and make them pay attention. Target has
Speaker 6: taken an ass whooping. Walmart has taken an ass whooping,
Speaker 6: and now some of you billionaires a millionaires from the
Speaker 6: stock market from him making these incompetent decisions in the
Speaker 6: White House taking an ass whooping, losing tons of money
Speaker 6: a day. You said seven million, they said Elon Muslow
Speaker 6: twenty nine, like twenty nine billion in a day or
Speaker 6: something like that. That is that is money that we
Speaker 6: will not probably never see in two lifetimes. But for
Speaker 6: them to lose something like that and one day, that
Speaker 6: is one that is going to make the last few
Speaker 6: of the good Mohicans stand up and be like, you're
Speaker 6: done it, We're done. We can't we cannot afford this,
Speaker 6: We cannot take this in competence. No matter how white
Speaker 6: we want this country to be, or how no matter
Speaker 6: how Christian we claim we want this country to be,
Speaker 6: this is not working for us. That's what's gonna take.
Speaker 6: I'm telling you, Bobby, they gonna get their ass kicked,
Speaker 6: and then they gonna kick his ass out, and then
Speaker 6: they're gonna kick his ass out.
Speaker 5: I want safe, so I always I have never gone
Speaker 5: to bed, thanks to our military and thanks to strong
Speaker 5: leadership both Republican and Democrat. I've never gone to sleep
Speaker 5: prior to this, and worried. Even in Trump's first term,
Speaker 5: I wasn't happy with it, but I don't feel the
Speaker 5: sense of I'm worried because you know so many people.
Speaker 5: He's irritating everybody, and you just spoke about the good
Speaker 5: Republicans that are voting, So I don't know anything anything's
Speaker 5: going to happen with this about the the tariffs for
Speaker 5: Canada because they're saying it's fentanyls related, so they're they're
Speaker 5: hitting Canada with the twenty five percent tariffs, and we
Speaker 5: the obviously what party line. Pretty much all the Democrats
Speaker 5: voted no because it's not about the fentanyl that that's
Speaker 5: not why he's trying to hit them. And Susan Collins,
Speaker 5: Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, and I'd like to have a
Speaker 5: drum world, please, Rand Paul All voted against it. All Republicans,
Speaker 5: staunch Republicans, and I think, you know, and stuff like this,
Speaker 5: you're gonna you're gonna start things. Things are gonna start
Speaker 5: hitting differently. And I think I don't know how much
Speaker 5: he pays attention, President Trump, but I'm hoping that his
Speaker 5: cabinet does that. They pay attention to win their own
Speaker 5: people and people that have you know, our live or
Speaker 5: die Republicans are voting against them. I hope they take
Speaker 5: a step back and say, you know, our trading partners,
Speaker 5: Mexico and Canada, maybe maybe we shouldn't be hitting them.
Speaker 5: I do think that Mexico should have a little bit
Speaker 5: more responsibility for the fentanyl. But she's been stepping it up.
Speaker 5: She's put you know, more bodies on it, more money
Speaker 5: to it. I don't know how much, you know, more
Speaker 5: she could do. And we have a lot of goods
Speaker 5: that come from from Mexico, so besides the people that
Speaker 5: are coming over the border.
Speaker 4: So I think that we got to figure it out.
Speaker 6: By the tears have already hit me. You know, I
Speaker 6: sell fans on the road. I sell my fans from China.
Speaker 5: I thought of that, I said, her fans are going
Speaker 5: to be fifty bucks, you know with the could you
Speaker 5: he paid twelve for the shipping?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Yeah, the shipping cops used to be like a
Speaker 6: little bit over one thousand bucks for air. Now with
Speaker 6: this new thirty four percent height on the on the
Speaker 6: tails body, it's going to cost me at least three
Speaker 6: to four thousand dollars just to ship. Not this is
Speaker 6: not the product.
Speaker 5: This is just no exactly, just to get it here. Yeah,
Speaker 5: just to get it here. And I always say to
Speaker 5: people when you're when you're seeing Flame and you see
Speaker 5: her all the time, the best place to get your
Speaker 5: fan is when you when you're actually with her, because
Speaker 5: you don't have to you know, there's an additional shipping cost.
Speaker 5: Her fans are reasonable, it's the shipping that kills her
Speaker 5: when she's getting them out to you. God, I hope
Speaker 5: that doesn't go up. It'll be they'll be prohibitive.
Speaker 6: Listen, Yeah, be collective's items because I'm not going to
Speaker 6: spend out my money on there, and I'm not going
Speaker 6: to charge to consume. I'm not going to charge my
Speaker 6: fans forty and fifty bucks for a damn fan. I'm
Speaker 6: not going to do that. I just don't think that
Speaker 6: that's right. And people are living at hard times. A
Speaker 6: low for bridge, this is not damn bread. A low
Speaker 6: for bread is going to be bananas. How are you
Speaker 6: going to feed your family? I'm telling you, But y'all,
Speaker 6: I don't know if people thought that long term. They
Speaker 6: believed the foolishness that he was shoveling down their throat, Bobby,
Speaker 6: and they fell for it, hook line and sinker, and
Speaker 6: some would threat some was just being threatened. But like
Speaker 6: for the Latinos and for even for the black people
Speaker 6: who voted for him, and even for the poor whites
Speaker 6: in Virginia whose parents were on oxygen and on installin,
Speaker 6: and well, he's not gonna you guys are really filling
Speaker 6: the country right now. I don't want to say, like,
Speaker 6: like Kamala Harris said the other day, I told you so,
Speaker 6: and she fell out laughing, but she did tell you.
Speaker 6: She did.
Speaker 4: They just didn't believe it. They didn't think it would
Speaker 4: hit them.
Speaker 5: We have federal employees that are Republican who really believed
Speaker 5: it wouldn't come down, and it wouldn't.
Speaker 4: He didn't. Here's the saying.
Speaker 5: And I'm going to give President Trump credit. He told
Speaker 5: you exactly what he was going to do.
Speaker 4: He didn't lie that.
Speaker 5: The only thing he lied about was were more of
Speaker 5: the positive things like he was going to bring He
Speaker 5: was going to get rid of the wars on day one.
Speaker 5: That's not doable. You know, you can't do that. He
Speaker 5: was going to bring down prices. That's foolish because it's
Speaker 5: a global market. If people you know that that are
Speaker 5: sending stuff from India, so we can you know ingredients ober,
Speaker 5: unless their product goes down, our product's not going to
Speaker 5: go down.
Speaker 4: But he didn't. He didn't deliver on any of that.
Speaker 4: But he told you all the other miserable stuff he
Speaker 4: was going to do, and he's doing it. And you
Speaker 4: know what, does Maya Angelo saying you should have believed him.
Speaker 6: So let's break down the terroifs again, Bobby, because I
Speaker 6: think people were misunderstood standing that. You guys thought that
Speaker 6: the terror price raises, what's going to happen to the
Speaker 6: to the people who were sending him over. He's going
Speaker 6: to affect you, the consoler that buy. It's the tacks,
Speaker 6: your eyeglasses, your your some of your prescription medication, uh,
Speaker 6: things that you rely on day to day that you
Speaker 6: probably don't even think about you see that made in China,
Speaker 6: made in China, you'd be thinking that's cheap. That made
Speaker 6: in China about to be real expensive. It's about to
Speaker 6: be real expensive to see that made in China on
Speaker 6: your ship.
Speaker 5: And you just said something that was so important that
Speaker 5: I don't think then people think of you said medications.
Speaker 5: Do you know where a ton of our medications come from?
Speaker 4: Canada?
Speaker 6: Canada? Exactly exactly.
Speaker 5: So now you're if you were having a tough time. No,
Speaker 5: So there are things that are great. If there are
Speaker 5: things that we actually have here, we should always My
Speaker 5: father came from He was a teamster, and so we
Speaker 5: always believed that if it was made in America, if
Speaker 5: we could buy it here and the product was was
Speaker 5: just as good, and usually it was better, and it
Speaker 5: was affordable within you know, all percentage, we always bought here.
Speaker 4: And so that is true.
Speaker 5: We still want to do that, but but there are
Speaker 5: some things we just can't. We just talked about iPhones.
Speaker 5: You just can't get here, and by the time they
Speaker 5: get it, they get it up and running, and even
Speaker 5: when they do, it's going to be so much more expensive.
Speaker 5: It doesn't make sense to have it here. We've just
Speaker 5: it's a tariffs are attacks people. I don't know what
Speaker 5: they think it is. It's a tax to the consumer.
Speaker 5: The consumer is the person who purchases it to make
Speaker 5: our products, and it's going to be passed on to
Speaker 5: the end user US. So yeah, it's we're in trouble
Speaker 5: with the tariffs.
Speaker 6: They don't.
Speaker 5: I'm hoping, just like he kept postponing them in the beginning,
Speaker 5: I'm hoping that he's seeing that he's plumbing and it's
Speaker 5: not just our dow everybody. This is the world, you know,
Speaker 5: the economy is all over the place for the entire world.
Speaker 5: People are going to resent us like you can't believe,
Speaker 5: because we're effing up there their economies as well.
Speaker 4: But I'm hoping that he after I'm going to give
Speaker 4: them a week, he pulls this crap down before too
Speaker 4: much damage is done.
Speaker 6: And then when you said, Bobby, you used to do
Speaker 6: I love what you said. You traveled, but you held
Speaker 6: your high hell high as an American in foreign countries.
Speaker 6: That is almost possibly scary to do now because foreigners
Speaker 6: blame Americans right now, not for the situation they're in,
Speaker 6: but for putting Trump in office. Again. He didn't he
Speaker 6: was not born into this. He wasn't born royal. We
Speaker 6: elected this fool to be in office who said to
Speaker 6: us publicly, I can shoot somebody in middle of Central
Speaker 6: Park and get away with it years ago and didn't
Speaker 6: say it as a joke and got away with it.
Speaker 6: Who said that if I ever run, I'm going to
Speaker 6: run as a Republican because they're the dumbest voters ever.
Speaker 5: Yeah no, and he did, and yeah, absolutely, And it's
Speaker 5: it's the people know one off, and they understand it's
Speaker 5: not just that people vote because everybody thinks our country,
Speaker 5: they're like, well, more people voted, yes, the people who
Speaker 5: voted fifty two voted for them. It's more people are
Speaker 5: angry about the ninety million that stayed home why And
Speaker 5: that's what allowed him to get in. So in other
Speaker 5: countries are well aware of it.
Speaker 7: I wanted to have many of that ninety I wanted
Speaker 7: to have many of that ninety million as out of
Speaker 7: these protests right now, when all you had to do
Speaker 7: is go vote, vote, then you would have to be
Speaker 7: out in the rain and the cold.
Speaker 6: Protesting because of you would have just voted correctly. You know,
Speaker 6: even though even though allegedly these swing state machines, got
Speaker 6: got a jar, get fixed to get tinkered with. But
Speaker 6: had you came out in the droves with the popular vote,
Speaker 6: you wouldn't be in this situation you are now. But
Speaker 6: you wanted to sit back and be like, Oh, it
Speaker 6: doesn't matter me, it's not going to affect me. It's
Speaker 6: affecting the shit out of you right now.
Speaker 4: It's going to affect all of us.
Speaker 5: I think the other thing that I definitely want us
Speaker 5: to mention today is we had the special elections in
Speaker 5: both Florida as well as Wisconsin. In Florida, they had
Speaker 5: two seats, two congressional seats up. Now I didn't think
Speaker 5: that I didn't think that we would flip those seats,
Speaker 5: but I wanted to see what the margins will be.
Speaker 5: And let me tell you, they're saying the margins were
Speaker 5: way closer than than the GOP that that was helping
Speaker 5: to run the seats in Florida ever anticipated. And then,
Speaker 5: as we know, there was a Supreme Court seat up
Speaker 5: in Wisconsin and that seat did flip to a Democrat.
Speaker 5: And that one, that one was a that's a high
Speaker 5: stake seat because uh Tesla has a uh A case.
Speaker 5: That's it that's in in Wisconsin. So I am sure
Speaker 5: that the cabinet, uh, that this administration wanted to flip
Speaker 5: that seat, but they didn't.
Speaker 4: People.
Speaker 5: People are having enough. So UH, we've got to get
Speaker 5: a message though people. If we want to flip every
Speaker 5: other seat that's coming our way or you know the
Speaker 5: bulk of them and in it's a little over a
Speaker 5: year and a half, a year and nine months, then
Speaker 5: we better get at it.
Speaker 6: And the protests are large, Lady, The hands off protests
Speaker 6: all over the country are magnanimous. They are huge. This
Speaker 6: is people crying out in pain and anguish and despair
Speaker 6: and hurt. And I don't know what else to do
Speaker 6: because you didn't do it when you were supposed to
Speaker 6: do first, Lady Michelle Obama said do something. I wish
Speaker 6: we had done something November fourth. Unfortunately we didn't. But
Speaker 6: now we are flipping this I'm telling you about. The
Speaker 6: telltale sign was just what you said when Wisconsin flipped.
Speaker 6: So the place in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Yeah, they flipped. But
Speaker 6: the dal Jones because this is for people who are
Speaker 6: invest in in UH and and who have big investments
Speaker 6: that are losing their money. It's quick for one case,
Speaker 6: gone money, just that you knew that you had for
Speaker 6: a lifetime to fall back on gone. This is what
Speaker 6: is going to make people say, I'm not doing this shit.
Speaker 6: He got to go. They're going to I think he's
Speaker 6: going to get ousted. I don't know how, but I
Speaker 6: think they're going.
Speaker 4: To oust him in jobs forget. So you're you are right.
Speaker 4: People have who had a lifetime. But there are a
Speaker 4: lot of federal employees. We have had the highest.
Speaker 5: Unemployment that we've had and I think they said six
Speaker 5: years other thay, no, not six since COVID, since the
Speaker 5: beginning COVID, So that's going to be five years. And
Speaker 5: it's in what with the bulk of the positions federal
Speaker 5: These are people that work their entire lives waiting for
Speaker 5: their pension, making less money, and and to the way
Speaker 5: that they're doing it. It's not that what they're doing
Speaker 5: is wrong. Every single administration has said that going to
Speaker 5: get rid of fraud and abuse, and but it's so
Speaker 5: complicated that people it kind of dies on the vine.
Speaker 5: You know, a little bit gets done, but not a
Speaker 5: ton of it. But you don't go in and literally
Speaker 5: eviscerate whole whole departments without seeing exactly and then having
Speaker 5: to put people back in.
Speaker 4: RFK just did that.
Speaker 5: They let they let oh bunch of people up, and
Speaker 5: now he's saying, well, some of those people are going
Speaker 5: to come back because we didn't realize what programs they ran,
Speaker 5: and those programs said.
Speaker 4: How about this do it for sasshole, Look and see
Speaker 4: what they actually do.
Speaker 5: You might not be might not know it, but get
Speaker 5: one of your directors who can tell you what each
Speaker 5: one of those jobs does, and then figure it out
Speaker 5: that's what's supposed to happen, and audit lame. It might
Speaker 5: have taken the full four years to even get to
Speaker 5: a point where you could have gotten some of these
Speaker 5: get rid of some of these positions, but it would
Speaker 5: have been just just and done well, rather than just
Speaker 5: go in and then cut it all and and not
Speaker 5: let these people easily get unemployment, make it so that
Speaker 5: it looks like they were they were let go for cause,
Speaker 5: and they weren't let go for cause at all, other
Speaker 5: than a.
Speaker 4: Fool is doing it.
Speaker 5: Did you see that the correspondence Diinner, I love the
Speaker 5: correspondence Stinner that they have they've gotten rid of the comedian.
Speaker 6: I saw that Bobby and people saying, Oh, they got
Speaker 6: rid of her cause she's black. I'm like that. That
Speaker 6: may have been a very tiny percentage of it. But
Speaker 6: she said something that the Orange Man was not pleased with,
Speaker 6: and they went back to research their history and that's
Speaker 6: why they got rid of her. I personally thought they
Speaker 6: were going to use Hackler or Heckley, whatever his name was,
Speaker 6: the guy who did the speech, the comedian that he
Speaker 6: used at the New York rally. I thought he was
Speaker 6: the shoe in for that job and that petition. Anyway,
Speaker 6: after how disgrupted he was at the rally, but it
Speaker 6: caused so much ruckus and it seemed to have we
Speaker 6: thought it was going to hurt his campaign. It seemed
Speaker 6: to have helped it. But yeah, I saw that they
Speaker 6: got her. I think she found out too. I think
Speaker 6: she fucked around and found out too.
Speaker 5: Yeah she Well, it's it's they loved their like little
Speaker 5: kids and sour grapes, do you know, like it just
Speaker 5: it's the Other thing that I thought was shocking this
Speaker 5: week was.
Speaker 4: Adams.
Speaker 5: Adams charges have been dropped the un York mayor and
Speaker 5: he is not running as a Democrat at longer. He's
Speaker 5: now going to run as an independent, and I thought, wow,
Speaker 5: that's quite interesting. I see for some reason, I think
Speaker 5: Foremost is going to end up with that seat, and
Speaker 5: I think he'll do a hell of a job. To
Speaker 5: be quite honest with you, Adam's he's too slippery for me.
Speaker 5: So I saw that picture with you with him, and
Speaker 5: he's a very little guy.
Speaker 4: He didn't even look like he came up to your shoulder.
Speaker 6: He came to my nipple. That works for me. But
Speaker 6: he was a very pleasant man, and I knew he
Speaker 6: was under a lot of fire for New York. New
Speaker 6: York was furious with him for some of the antics
Speaker 6: that they said that he pulled. I don't know all
Speaker 6: the details of it, but he was kind to me
Speaker 6: when I met him, and I knew he was face
Speaker 6: in prison time. He was facing jail time. So when
Speaker 6: Trump got appointed an office, he just jumped ship like
Speaker 6: most people do when they don't want to go to jail.
Speaker 6: I don't follow him for that, because sometimes you have
Speaker 6: to save your own ass. But I'm not a New Yorker.
Speaker 6: I can't tell you how new Yorker is steel because
Speaker 6: New Yorkers don't hold shit back how they feel. They
Speaker 6: tell you right there spot on. You ain't got to
Speaker 6: wait for it. It's coming right there, like a training
Speaker 6: with no breaks. So he jumped shifted so for Trump
Speaker 6: to save his ass. So now he's running as an independent.
Speaker 6: You have to ask yourself how many how many candidates
Speaker 6: or how many people officials have done that exact same thing.
Speaker 6: I know I'm in hot water. I know I'm in
Speaker 6: trouble under the Democratic Party. So I'll jump ship to
Speaker 6: go up under Trump because he'll save me.
Speaker 4: He flips so that he could run.
Speaker 5: So and his kids infected one of the kids for
Speaker 5: the first for the first time his first term. Couldn't
Speaker 5: vote for him because they forgot to. It was one
Speaker 5: of the boys. They forgot to check their box. They
Speaker 5: forgot to go in and change from Democrats too.
Speaker 6: Don't do that. They didn't forget you just said it
Speaker 6: was one of his sons. They ain't forget you already know.
Speaker 6: You already know the fruit. The fruit don't fall far
Speaker 6: from the tree. But with Mayor Adams, you know, I
Speaker 6: don't know all that deliver with him. But he was
Speaker 6: kind to me when I met him in Chicago, saying
Speaker 6: much and when I was at the DNC. But Bobby,
Speaker 6: you know this has been a trying week, ladyes Jim,
Speaker 6: I know this is not my regular perky laugh a learned,
Speaker 6: but we were glad to be able to transfer the
Speaker 6: information to you guys. We are a little delayed this
Speaker 6: week because it's just been a week for me. Aaron
Speaker 6: was traveling, I was dealing with last Bobby is my girl.
Speaker 6: Bobby's trying to find a gain for employment. So anybody
Speaker 6: is hiring that needs a great research analyst, somebody that
Speaker 6: you might have to be like, Okay, Bobby, that's enough
Speaker 6: information just this month, No, no, all this Bobby is your girl,
Speaker 6: and until we found out what is happening with our podcast.
Speaker 6: But again, we thank you for downloading us, for sharing us,
Speaker 6: for liking us, for listening to us, for telling people
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Speaker 6: push our podcast. So we are getting a diverse crowd
Speaker 6: to come in and listen to us, to share with
Speaker 6: us how you feel as Americans. Because no matter what
Speaker 6: we look like, no matter who we pray to you,
Speaker 6: no matter how we spend our money, we steal all Americas.
Speaker 6: We got to live in this shit together and right
Speaker 6: now we're living in some shit. He called the other
Speaker 6: countries third world country shitholds. He has turned us single
Speaker 6: handedly or he's trying to into a shithold and as
Speaker 6: American citizens were not fucking having it. So to all
Speaker 6: the people out there in the world that are protesting
Speaker 6: for the hands off protests all over the country, well done.
Speaker 6: Yes we make We are thanking you. You are making
Speaker 6: America what America's supposed to be because that slogan they
Speaker 6: got is bullshit. Uh. My neighbor is Flavor. Will follow
Speaker 6: me on all social media platforms. That is my co
Speaker 6: host Bobby Clifford, who carried the wheel this week for me,
Speaker 6: and I appreciate her by holding the weight down because
Speaker 6: I'm in a place. You can follow her on Clifford
Speaker 6: Bobby on Instagram, Bobby Clifford on Facebook, and you can
Speaker 6: also reach her at the Laugh of Learned podcast page
Speaker 6: on Instagram. Ladies and gentlemen, we've been doing this for
Speaker 6: four years. The model ain't changed. It's not going to
Speaker 6: change because right now we needed to understand that the
Speaker 6: decisions that you make about you for you are done
Speaker 6: by you here are laugh alarone. We are not trying
Speaker 6: to get you to change your mind. We are only
Speaker 6: trying to get you to use your mind, because why Bobby.
Speaker 4: As a mind and a vote are a terrible thing
Speaker 4: to waste.
Speaker 6: So Dad Davin, don't use your vote and get out
Speaker 6: there in protest. See if you the voter vices wouldn't
Speaker 6: be out there, You wouldn't be out there in the
Speaker 6: cold and the rain. Right now, good god, Okay, ladies, jum,
Speaker 6: thank you guys so much. Thank you to our producer Aaron.
Speaker 6: We will catch you guys on time next week. It's
Speaker 6: just been a trying week, but we know that we
Speaker 6: appreciate your patience. And again, in the world of politics,
Speaker 6: especially in America, there's never a dull moment. Thank you,
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